The U.S. government has demonstrated itself to be completely untrustworthy. The best he could hope for would be to have his lawyers arguing the validity of his amnesty in front of secret courts while he's tortured in a black site somewhere.
This is yet another straw on what should be a dead camel with a broken spine. Gen. Alexander needs to be fired (and possibly put on trial), while the public and their representatives in Congress debate whether an organization like the NSA is wanted or needed. (My answer is not just no, but Hell, No.)
That's probably going to be what causes Skynet to turn on humanity: Comcast will cut it's stream off right in the middle of the finale of B5 Season Three. After that, there's nothing for it but the extermination of the human race. (Alternatively, watching all our TV may cause it to want to exterminate us.)
I stopped listening at, "It's nice to see from a company that's mostly been riding its old IPs for the past 15 years."
You realize this is nothing else other than riding old IP, right? There's very little new and innovative here, and the Warcraft IP has been used more times than a $2 hooker on Fremont street.
Isn't it using recycled art from their (discontinued) real world trading card game? (The one the summary doesn't seem to realize existed.)
And quick review of his previous posts shows a near-universal bias towards defense of the military-industrial complex and aggressive U.S. foreign policy. How are online forums going to deal with professional, paid propagandists?
In North America, more people are killed every year by their own furniture falling on them than by terrorism. Terrorism the single most over-hyped thing I can remember hearing about in my lifetime.
Terrorists are cowardly criminals and even if they were blowing up a large government building every week they could not do any lasting and significant harm to an actual free and democratic society.
However, people are over-reacting to terrorism, and allowing the media and authoritarian types in government to fear-monger about it and use it as an excuse to help push petty tyrannies like the TSA and even serious threats to liberty like the NSA spying on all of us. AMERICANS ARE DAMAGING THEIR GREAT NATION by allowing this to happen. Your Constitution used to mean something, something incredible and empowering. It made you the envy of the developed world and created great opportunities for those who were clever and worked hard to make a better world for themselves and others. You need to wake up, reclaim your country and stop this downward slide into totalitarianism.
Yep. Osama bin Laden, for all that he's dead, basically won. And his biggest ally was the US security industry.
This is not exactly what you said, but the fact is that representatives in democracies are at least chosen by the people, and their continuing re-election is subject to the approval of those same people. The fact that those people make terrible choices (or at least ones you don't agree with) does not make democracy any less a government by, for and of "the people." You seem to think the system is rigged in some way, when it's really not. People who have a viewpoint - left, right, rich people, unions, whoever - spend money to convince others of that viewpoint, good or bad. If you don't like the way that people voted or who they elected, then maybe you should get more involved with ensuring that your viewpoint gets more votes.
Reminds me of a much more succinct quote:
"Mr. Franklin, what kind of government have you given us?" she asked. "A Republic, madam..." Franklin quickly answered, "if you can keep it."
Sadly it ever more frequently appears our Constitution is dangling by threads over a flame.
November's election our city had 24% voter turnout. It was considered a high turnout because of a bond issue. I call it a pathetically low turnout, indicative of the reason why our government is not what we want, but what we collectively are deserving.
Election turnout is low because an increasingly large proportion of potential voters realize the system is rigged - differences between Republicans and Democrats are cosmetic only when it comes to matters of import. Both parties are in favor of the corporate state, extensive and aggressive foreign involvement, increased federal government power, opposed to workers' rights, opposed to election reform, the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, the militarization of local police, etc.
"Debate" is permitted only within a narrow window that involves the continuation of the status quo. Both the Democrats and Republicans have explicit special privileges under existing election law, plus more unwritten but quite real advantages that ensure that other candidates will virtually never get elected, nor have any effect if they do. American politics is essentially an endless game of good-cop / bad-cop, with each party playing the opposite role to the other's target 'constituents'.
Ah, Chlorine Trifluoride. No other description of a hideously dangerous substance makes me giggle as much as Clark's comment's on that stuff:
"It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."
I think it's fair. If Netflix (or any other content provider) doesn't like it - they are free to create their own network and do as they wish.
Only if the incumbent ISP will get there wires and fiber out of my paid for public right of way first. Then it would be fair. I am sure Comcast would work really well with all of that coax and fiber rolled up in their own repair yard. At that point Netflix could then go about buying up right of way for a new network.
Exactly. The incumbent ISP has the benefit of privileges granted by the pubic.
The Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance (NASA) and Mars Express (ESA) orbiters are still operational, as are the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers. NASA launched the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution orbiter less than two weeks ago.
The King of Denmark figured out you can't order the tide not to come in sometime in the early part of the 11th Century. I'm sure North Carolina will get there eventually.
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Unlike the NSA's panoptic surveillance, my passwords are used for something useful.
From the viewpoint of the government, the American public appear to be enemies of the United States.
The U.S. government has demonstrated itself to be completely untrustworthy. The best he could hope for would be to have his lawyers arguing the validity of his amnesty in front of secret courts while he's tortured in a black site somewhere.
Sadly hilarious is about right. It's "good cop, bad cop" on a national scale, with each side playing the opposite role for their opponents.
This is yet another straw on what should be a dead camel with a broken spine. Gen. Alexander needs to be fired (and possibly put on trial), while the public and their representatives in Congress debate whether an organization like the NSA is wanted or needed. (My answer is not just no, but Hell, No.)
Obviously, the bots are watching Netflix.
That's probably going to be what causes Skynet to turn on humanity: Comcast will cut it's stream off right in the middle of the finale of B5 Season Three. After that, there's nothing for it but the extermination of the human race. (Alternatively, watching all our TV may cause it to want to exterminate us.)
I stopped listening at, "It's nice to see from a company that's mostly been riding its old IPs for the past 15 years."
You realize this is nothing else other than riding old IP, right? There's very little new and innovative here, and the Warcraft IP has been used more times than a $2 hooker on Fremont street.
Isn't it using recycled art from their (discontinued) real world trading card game? (The one the summary doesn't seem to realize existed.)
Can we have a Kickstarter to get Charlie Stross to write a book about a nice utopic Singularity where nothing horrible happens to anyone?
Mod parent up. Best layman's explanation of this I've seen yet.
It wouldn't be so funny if it weren't so true.
The patent office basically can't reject patent applications. Blame the megacorporate-captured American government, not the folks manning the desk at the patent office. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/12/the_simple_fix_that_could_heal_the_patent_system.html
Anyone else wondering if 'cold fjord' is picking up a Defense Department or intelligence community paycheck? It's established that the U.S. government has a propaganda sock-puppet presence online: http://www.storyleak.com/us-military-caught-social-media-running-mass-propaganda-accounts/
And quick review of his previous posts shows a near-universal bias towards defense of the military-industrial complex and aggressive U.S. foreign policy. How are online forums going to deal with professional, paid propagandists?
In North America, more people are killed every year by their own furniture falling on them than by terrorism. Terrorism the single most over-hyped thing I can remember hearing about in my lifetime.
Terrorists are cowardly criminals and even if they were blowing up a large government building every week they could not do any lasting and significant harm to an actual free and democratic society.
However, people are over-reacting to terrorism, and allowing the media and authoritarian types in government to fear-monger about it and use it as an excuse to help push petty tyrannies like the TSA and even serious threats to liberty like the NSA spying on all of us. AMERICANS ARE DAMAGING THEIR GREAT NATION by allowing this to happen. Your Constitution used to mean something, something incredible and empowering. It made you the envy of the developed world and created great opportunities for those who were clever and worked hard to make a better world for themselves and others. You need to wake up, reclaim your country and stop this downward slide into totalitarianism.
Yep. Osama bin Laden, for all that he's dead, basically won. And his biggest ally was the US security industry.
This is not exactly what you said, but the fact is that representatives in democracies are at least chosen by the people, and their continuing re-election is subject to the approval of those same people. The fact that those people make terrible choices (or at least ones you don't agree with) does not make democracy any less a government by, for and of "the people." You seem to think the system is rigged in some way, when it's really not. People who have a viewpoint - left, right, rich people, unions, whoever - spend money to convince others of that viewpoint, good or bad. If you don't like the way that people voted or who they elected, then maybe you should get more involved with ensuring that your viewpoint gets more votes.
Reminds me of a much more succinct quote:
"Mr. Franklin, what kind of government have you given us?" she asked. "A Republic, madam..." Franklin quickly answered, "if you can keep it."
Sadly it ever more frequently appears our Constitution is dangling by threads over a flame.
November's election our city had 24% voter turnout. It was considered a high turnout because of a bond issue. I call it a pathetically low turnout, indicative of the reason why our government is not what we want, but what we collectively are deserving.
Election turnout is low because an increasingly large proportion of potential voters realize the system is rigged - differences between Republicans and Democrats are cosmetic only when it comes to matters of import. Both parties are in favor of the corporate state, extensive and aggressive foreign involvement, increased federal government power, opposed to workers' rights, opposed to election reform, the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, the militarization of local police, etc.
"Debate" is permitted only within a narrow window that involves the continuation of the status quo. Both the Democrats and Republicans have explicit special privileges under existing election law, plus more unwritten but quite real advantages that ensure that other candidates will virtually never get elected, nor have any effect if they do. American politics is essentially an endless game of good-cop / bad-cop, with each party playing the opposite role to the other's target 'constituents'.
Ah, Chlorine Trifluoride. No other description of a hideously dangerous substance makes me giggle as much as Clark's comment's on that stuff:
"It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."
Obligatory captcha: hoisted
Oh, they have it. They're just very selective about who gets to play, or even sit at the table.
You're talking like the law matters - a foreign idea in Corporate America.
Could you please explain how Netflix and its customers aren't paying?
I think it's fair. If Netflix (or any other content provider) doesn't like it - they are free to create their own network and do as they wish.
Only if the incumbent ISP will get there wires and fiber out of my paid for public right of way first. Then it would be fair. I am sure Comcast would work really well with all of that coax and fiber rolled up in their own repair yard. At that point Netflix could then go about buying up right of way for a new network.
Exactly. The incumbent ISP has the benefit of privileges granted by the pubic.
The Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance (NASA) and Mars Express (ESA) orbiters are still operational, as are the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers. NASA launched the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution orbiter less than two weeks ago.
Ignorant poster is ignorant.
You're neglecting to take into account the monetary value of being able to suspend your disbelief and imagine for a little while that your entire life won't be a miserable living hell of poverty. That's true for far more people in the United States than anyone is comfortable admitting. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/05/2890091/wage-income-data/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews
Step 1: Intercept the transmisson Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit!
Well-connected corporations don't get paid hundreds of millions for existing, functional systems.
The King of Denmark figured out you can't order the tide not to come in sometime in the early part of the 11th Century. I'm sure North Carolina will get there eventually.
Bingo. "Unlikely to be prosecuted" likely translates to "disappeared and tortured" if they ever get their hands on him.