Go back in time, if you're old enough to remember, the long history of fear-peddling in this country. We have gained a "grazing herd of farm animals" level of instinctive fear in this country and we, as a people generally buy into the narratives without question. The media has catered almost exclusively to the "lowest common [intellectual] denominators" for decades on end. You think that hasn't affected the development of the US culture over the decades?
It goes well beyond what you're trying to suggest. You're looking at a single symptom and excluding all of the rest of the data.
This has been going on for a very long time and I saw it as a kid. WAY back when there was rampant Trick or Treating, there were vague reports of "razors in apples" and stuff like that. It's just nonsense. As a child, even I saw it as nonsense, but my mother took it quite seriously every year inspect our haul piece by piece.
We have systems over-run with parasitic lawyers who live on fears which eventually becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.
And the Vietnam "domino theory"? That war on "communism"? Once again, I have seen this for the farce it was since I was a child. When I learned what communism is, I thought "hey this is a great idea for the future of man's civilization!" And when examining what existed, we saw extreme violence against the people and an elite power structure that benefited themselves while making their people miserable. That's not communism. And THAT image is what got everyone "fighting the war on communism." From that we got the Cold War, the Military Industrial Complex thrived on the fears of a whole nation.
It has been going on far longer than partisan politics in its current form. You realize that "the conservatives" were once the democrats and "the liberals" were the republicans a few decades ago? But that was before the republicans pulled "god on their side" to get the religious vote.
Before people can see past the current partisan politics, people have to be able to see a history that hasn't quite made it into the books.
The other auto manufacturers did much to interfere and even sabotage the Tucker. While the Tucker had enough of its own problems, some were suspect and other problems came from the outside when it came to resources for materials and a bit of bad press.
I acknowledge that the fires could very well be from an actual problem in this car, but with as much other crap Tesla has gone through, I wouldn't entirely rule out various forms of sabotage. We've already seen what Texas Auto Dealers Association can do.
Yes. The people who are ACTUALLY doing the dirty deeds are not responsible. The guy with the flashlight showing the world the truth is the real problem. Taking sides in an issue is not justification for military action. If you believe that then you must also believe that Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor is justified because the US was providing weapons to France which was affecting Japan's campaign during WW2 prior to the US's direct involvement. Please don't tell me those are two very different things. They aren't except for which side you are apparently on.
Here in the US, we've been watching our constitutional freedoms infringed increasingly. I don't like to say "eroded" or "removed" because the constitution doesn't guarantee our freedoms so much as it prohibits the government from infringing on them. So let's always keep in mind what the constitution was written to do. Our freedoms are declared and government is limited. They are breaking the constitution. That's the short of it. And at the moment, we're not seeing anything suggesting they are going to stop. That's one problem that's not getting solved yet.
But one that the whole world should be concerned about is what the US and others have been doing to the world lately. Thanks not to Snowden (because there are many other whistle blowers telling us the same things) but to the US government itself and all of the attention to the issue it has inexplicably drawn to itself and its activities. If there wasn't such an uproar from government charging him with high crimes, Showden and his trickle of information would be forgotten and complicit nations wouldn't have to pretend to be outraged.
Well thanks to all of this, the world is seeing what has been going on and the US and many, many US companies and allied nations of the US are all "toxic." Already whole nations are seeking to route around the damaged networks tainted by the US, its allies and business partners. We're seeing polarization of other nations which are resulting in their distancing themselves from the US and its allies. For that matter, the US allies are distancing themselves from the US.
So the world's problems with the US and its allies are being solved. The middle east can no longer rely on the US to fight for Israel's or Saudi Arabia's interests under ridiculous pretexts. And without the US banking system dragging the world down with its endless watering down of the currency, the rest of the world stands a better chance at a faster financial recovery. So all that is good.
That just leaves us poor Americans in Soviet Amerika... Please have pity on us and prepare to receive refugees from this former first-world leader? It's going to be a much longer and more difficult road to recovery for the US.
"We believe that criminal investigations using intrusive surveillance measures should be the exclusive responsibility of law enforcement agencies," spokesman Soren Pedersen told the Reuters news agency.
People in political or law enforcement power are at least as prone to this sort of activity (and often more considering the typical mental/emotional profile of such child predators) as everyone else. So of course they want to control any investigative activity so that they can filter out the protected 'elite' from those caught in the sting.
Oh... and it did NOT shut down the city. Go back and read the original story. What it did was leave the city management in a situation they didn't know how to handle... and still don't. They wanted it easy, didn't get it and they got angry and abused their powers to seek retribution.
I said it previously and I'll say it again. If this guy died instead of being fired, they would face the EXACT same problem but without the recourse of being able to persecute. But I hold that in either situation, the response should be the same. Setting about the task or regaining control over the systems.
That's bullshit. When you leave a hotel room, they don't care that you returned the key to the room. They change the lock anyway. And when you move out of an apartment or a house, the same thing should occur. Changing the locks is normal practice. It requires work. It seems to me they were more willing to prosecute than to pay for work to be done.
I want to believe you on this, but there are some realities in this which are being overlooked. Each device is 'vulnerable' to physical access. You could say this was by design. If Childs had died instead of being fired, how would they have handled this differently? What they would do if he had died is exactly what they should have done when he was fired.
There are some realities about IT which some people are unwilling to face. First and foremost of this is that IT should be considered to be an area in which matters of trust and of character are of the highest levels of importants due in no small part by the sensitive nature of the data which is being managed by IT people. It is also recognized that corruption is not so much a problem of character than of opportunity. All of these factors must be managed. But somehow, the business and government worlds want to treat IT people as if they were service workers (not that there's anything wrong with service workers) who are somehow inferior to the leadership. That there are dozens and dozens of people out there willing and capable of performing the acts of IT work does not change the need for trust and good character.
At the end of the day, these leaders fell prey to their own hubris and ignorance. This is not the first time anyone has ever had to deal with this situation. It will not be the last time. What's different about this case are the powers of the people involved and how those powers were abused.
People are killed for their freakin' sneakers. So don't act like changing the law would inspire a bloodbath against inventors and creative types. If that were the case, we would already see a bloodbath against lawyers everywhere as they are the primary beneficiary of these ridiculous patent and copyright actions.
What really kicks me in the ass is that all of our legislators and nearly every adult in the US remembers a time when we measured ourselves by what we are not and what we will not and do not do. Now we are doing it. People are STILL saying "we live in a free country."
I always believed that the purpose of intellectual property to was to better ensure that the creator(s) of the thing had exclusive rights to their creations, ensuring their investments of blood, sweat and tears has a better chance of a return. But that's not what happens is it? No. What we have is an industry. And with any industry, we experience dehumanizing effects.
What's the solution? We can write an increasingly complex set of laws to address specific predatory behaviors such as patent trolling. That won't solve the problems of giant industry players from fighting each other like giant Japanese monsters on the streets of Tokyo. The real solution?
Disallow all intellectual property transfers. If you didn't create it, you can't own it. Then it reverts to its original purpose and intent and virtually removes all industrial activity. But what happens when the creators, authors and companies die? Does all that valuable intellectual property just vanish in a puff of smoke? Well? Yes. I would hope so.
Even if by some miracle, they bring something up, it doesn't fix the actual problems. Ridiculously increased rates, it's a new tax on everyone, lies about keeping one's old policy and a general over-all burdon on the remaining who are employed above the poverty line.
I'm sorry, but if it were a newer 4" phone with outrageous features, I'd be "okay, I'll probably get one." But a phablet? I just can't get behind it. I have my Nexus 7s. I have my Nexus 4. If my Nexus 7 needs data, I can tether from my phone. (Most of the time, it's WiFi or I don't really need it.) My eyes are still pretty good. I can still count the pixels on a 22" monitor with a 1920x1080 display. But this sub-retina display? I wonder. I think we just went beyond reason. Each of those pixels is memory which is used to display them. I can think of better uses of memory... and the power to drive such displays. It's a phone right? Power and battery life are important. Also, portability is important. A 4" phone already exceeds the size of what a person should wear on his belt and certainly exceeds what goes in my pockets. But 5"? This is be balking.
I like the new Google things. But I think I'll just spend a significant amount more with Samsung on my next device. It will be paid-for, not supplemented through carrier contracts because I enjoy a lower phone bill... a significantly lower phone bill. I hope Samsung stops playing the carrier game as well and starts selling directly at prices competitive with Google gear.
At times like this, I am reminded that the alternative to fragmentation and forking and all manner of inconsistencies is monoculture. When monoculture works, it works nicely and that's all that most people have in mind when they strive for it. But the other side of that coin? What affects one, generally affects them all.
Unless there is even MORE damaging things which the US and NSA have done.
More recently, as a form of damage control no doubt, were assertions by both the POTUS and the NSA that the POTUS didn't know about many things. Okay great. If it's true, then shut down the NSA as it is clearly an executive branch activity which is not within the knowledge or control of the executive. "It's not his fault! He didn't know!!" Really? You're that far out of control? And he's not in control?! Get rid of both! That's a pretty damning admission if you ask me.
As far as I can tell, Amazon is the only company which keeps Lasership going. There is a long history of Lasership problems and complaints. They use "private contractors" to deliver the last mile in the pizza delivery model. They are untrained and unqualified and when they steal things Amazon just ships another or refunds money without any issue. It's not just my experience but the experience of thousands of others. (Just google Amazon Lasership Complaints) I suspect its Lasership's minority owned status which keeps them afloat. But even then, the problem of Lasership seems excessive. After I moved and discovered that I am once again in a Lasership delivery area I have stopped ordering from Amazon and I would encourage everyone who wants to ensure a hassle-free online shopping experience to read up on Lasership, its connection with Amazon and to make the decision which is best for you based on what you learn. If you are not in a Lasership last mile delivery area, then shop with Amazon 'til you drop. But if you are, I would hope understanding what goes on there will discourage you from shopping Amazon.
The timing for 4K is just too soon and wrong. Firstly, we're in a delicate financial situation around the world and the biggest consumer nation is on the edge of collapse. It seems like only a few days ago we went to digital TV. People are STILL getting rid of the CRT TVs. And the marketers are trying to sell us 4K TVs??! I'm sorry but no. Just no.
Buying a new HP today, I agree with you. I say the same. But I still have my 4P and it's still cranking and I don't use HP's drivers anyway. It comes from HP's better days.
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Uhm. You're demonstrating yourself as being a participant of the problem itself. Look here for my comment on what you have just stated. I don't want to be too redundant.
Go back in time, if you're old enough to remember, the long history of fear-peddling in this country. We have gained a "grazing herd of farm animals" level of instinctive fear in this country and we, as a people generally buy into the narratives without question. The media has catered almost exclusively to the "lowest common [intellectual] denominators" for decades on end. You think that hasn't affected the development of the US culture over the decades?
It goes well beyond what you're trying to suggest. You're looking at a single symptom and excluding all of the rest of the data.
This has been going on for a very long time and I saw it as a kid. WAY back when there was rampant Trick or Treating, there were vague reports of "razors in apples" and stuff like that. It's just nonsense. As a child, even I saw it as nonsense, but my mother took it quite seriously every year inspect our haul piece by piece.
We have systems over-run with parasitic lawyers who live on fears which eventually becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.
And the Vietnam "domino theory"? That war on "communism"? Once again, I have seen this for the farce it was since I was a child. When I learned what communism is, I thought "hey this is a great idea for the future of man's civilization!" And when examining what existed, we saw extreme violence against the people and an elite power structure that benefited themselves while making their people miserable. That's not communism. And THAT image is what got everyone "fighting the war on communism." From that we got the Cold War, the Military Industrial Complex thrived on the fears of a whole nation.
It has been going on far longer than partisan politics in its current form. You realize that "the conservatives" were once the democrats and "the liberals" were the republicans a few decades ago? But that was before the republicans pulled "god on their side" to get the religious vote.
Before people can see past the current partisan politics, people have to be able to see a history that hasn't quite made it into the books.
That bundling of crapware really pissed me off badly. Open source things are not supposed to be doing that.
The other auto manufacturers did much to interfere and even sabotage the Tucker. While the Tucker had enough of its own problems, some were suspect and other problems came from the outside when it came to resources for materials and a bit of bad press.
I acknowledge that the fires could very well be from an actual problem in this car, but with as much other crap Tesla has gone through, I wouldn't entirely rule out various forms of sabotage. We've already seen what Texas Auto Dealers Association can do.
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Yes. The people who are ACTUALLY doing the dirty deeds are not responsible. The guy with the flashlight showing the world the truth is the real problem. Taking sides in an issue is not justification for military action. If you believe that then you must also believe that Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor is justified because the US was providing weapons to France which was affecting Japan's campaign during WW2 prior to the US's direct involvement. Please don't tell me those are two very different things. They aren't except for which side you are apparently on.
Here in the US, we've been watching our constitutional freedoms infringed increasingly. I don't like to say "eroded" or "removed" because the constitution doesn't guarantee our freedoms so much as it prohibits the government from infringing on them. So let's always keep in mind what the constitution was written to do. Our freedoms are declared and government is limited. They are breaking the constitution. That's the short of it. And at the moment, we're not seeing anything suggesting they are going to stop. That's one problem that's not getting solved yet.
But one that the whole world should be concerned about is what the US and others have been doing to the world lately. Thanks not to Snowden (because there are many other whistle blowers telling us the same things) but to the US government itself and all of the attention to the issue it has inexplicably drawn to itself and its activities. If there wasn't such an uproar from government charging him with high crimes, Showden and his trickle of information would be forgotten and complicit nations wouldn't have to pretend to be outraged.
Well thanks to all of this, the world is seeing what has been going on and the US and many, many US companies and allied nations of the US are all "toxic." Already whole nations are seeking to route around the damaged networks tainted by the US, its allies and business partners. We're seeing polarization of other nations which are resulting in their distancing themselves from the US and its allies. For that matter, the US allies are distancing themselves from the US.
So the world's problems with the US and its allies are being solved. The middle east can no longer rely on the US to fight for Israel's or Saudi Arabia's interests under ridiculous pretexts. And without the US banking system dragging the world down with its endless watering down of the currency, the rest of the world stands a better chance at a faster financial recovery. So all that is good.
That just leaves us poor Americans in Soviet Amerika... Please have pity on us and prepare to receive refugees from this former first-world leader? It's going to be a much longer and more difficult road to recovery for the US.
Nice thought, but many jurisdictions have already outlawed even fictitious depictions of children.
"We believe that criminal investigations using intrusive surveillance measures should be the exclusive responsibility of law enforcement agencies," spokesman Soren Pedersen told the Reuters news agency.
People in political or law enforcement power are at least as prone to this sort of activity (and often more considering the typical mental/emotional profile of such child predators) as everyone else. So of course they want to control any investigative activity so that they can filter out the protected 'elite' from those caught in the sting.
Oh... and it did NOT shut down the city. Go back and read the original story. What it did was leave the city management in a situation they didn't know how to handle... and still don't. They wanted it easy, didn't get it and they got angry and abused their powers to seek retribution.
I said it previously and I'll say it again. If this guy died instead of being fired, they would face the EXACT same problem but without the recourse of being able to persecute. But I hold that in either situation, the response should be the same. Setting about the task or regaining control over the systems.
That's bullshit. When you leave a hotel room, they don't care that you returned the key to the room. They change the lock anyway. And when you move out of an apartment or a house, the same thing should occur. Changing the locks is normal practice. It requires work. It seems to me they were more willing to prosecute than to pay for work to be done.
I want to believe you on this, but there are some realities in this which are being overlooked. Each device is 'vulnerable' to physical access. You could say this was by design. If Childs had died instead of being fired, how would they have handled this differently? What they would do if he had died is exactly what they should have done when he was fired.
There are some realities about IT which some people are unwilling to face. First and foremost of this is that IT should be considered to be an area in which matters of trust and of character are of the highest levels of importants due in no small part by the sensitive nature of the data which is being managed by IT people. It is also recognized that corruption is not so much a problem of character than of opportunity. All of these factors must be managed. But somehow, the business and government worlds want to treat IT people as if they were service workers (not that there's anything wrong with service workers) who are somehow inferior to the leadership. That there are dozens and dozens of people out there willing and capable of performing the acts of IT work does not change the need for trust and good character.
At the end of the day, these leaders fell prey to their own hubris and ignorance. This is not the first time anyone has ever had to deal with this situation. It will not be the last time. What's different about this case are the powers of the people involved and how those powers were abused.
It's time to bare them if they do. NYPD is pretty famous for stonewalling on certain issues. It's time that wall fell on a few of them.
People are killed for their freakin' sneakers. So don't act like changing the law would inspire a bloodbath against inventors and creative types. If that were the case, we would already see a bloodbath against lawyers everywhere as they are the primary beneficiary of these ridiculous patent and copyright actions.
What really kicks me in the ass is that all of our legislators and nearly every adult in the US remembers a time when we measured ourselves by what we are not and what we will not and do not do. Now we are doing it. People are STILL saying "we live in a free country."
I always believed that the purpose of intellectual property to was to better ensure that the creator(s) of the thing had exclusive rights to their creations, ensuring their investments of blood, sweat and tears has a better chance of a return. But that's not what happens is it? No. What we have is an industry. And with any industry, we experience dehumanizing effects.
What's the solution? We can write an increasingly complex set of laws to address specific predatory behaviors such as patent trolling. That won't solve the problems of giant industry players from fighting each other like giant Japanese monsters on the streets of Tokyo. The real solution?
Disallow all intellectual property transfers. If you didn't create it, you can't own it. Then it reverts to its original purpose and intent and virtually removes all industrial activity. But what happens when the creators, authors and companies die? Does all that valuable intellectual property just vanish in a puff of smoke? Well? Yes. I would hope so.
Interestingly said.
Even if by some miracle, they bring something up, it doesn't fix the actual problems. Ridiculously increased rates, it's a new tax on everyone, lies about keeping one's old policy and a general over-all burdon on the remaining who are employed above the poverty line.
There's a reason I didn't get one. It's too small for a tablet. I actually didn't know it was also a phone.
I'm sorry, but if it were a newer 4" phone with outrageous features, I'd be "okay, I'll probably get one." But a phablet? I just can't get behind it. I have my Nexus 7s. I have my Nexus 4. If my Nexus 7 needs data, I can tether from my phone. (Most of the time, it's WiFi or I don't really need it.) My eyes are still pretty good. I can still count the pixels on a 22" monitor with a 1920x1080 display. But this sub-retina display? I wonder. I think we just went beyond reason. Each of those pixels is memory which is used to display them. I can think of better uses of memory... and the power to drive such displays. It's a phone right? Power and battery life are important. Also, portability is important. A 4" phone already exceeds the size of what a person should wear on his belt and certainly exceeds what goes in my pockets. But 5"? This is be balking.
I like the new Google things. But I think I'll just spend a significant amount more with Samsung on my next device. It will be paid-for, not supplemented through carrier contracts because I enjoy a lower phone bill... a significantly lower phone bill. I hope Samsung stops playing the carrier game as well and starts selling directly at prices competitive with Google gear.
At times like this, I am reminded that the alternative to fragmentation and forking and all manner of inconsistencies is monoculture. When monoculture works, it works nicely and that's all that most people have in mind when they strive for it. But the other side of that coin? What affects one, generally affects them all.
Unless there is even MORE damaging things which the US and NSA have done.
More recently, as a form of damage control no doubt, were assertions by both the POTUS and the NSA that the POTUS didn't know about many things. Okay great. If it's true, then shut down the NSA as it is clearly an executive branch activity which is not within the knowledge or control of the executive. "It's not his fault! He didn't know!!" Really? You're that far out of control? And he's not in control?! Get rid of both! That's a pretty damning admission if you ask me.
As far as I can tell, Amazon is the only company which keeps Lasership going. There is a long history of Lasership problems and complaints. They use "private contractors" to deliver the last mile in the pizza delivery model. They are untrained and unqualified and when they steal things Amazon just ships another or refunds money without any issue. It's not just my experience but the experience of thousands of others. (Just google Amazon Lasership Complaints) I suspect its Lasership's minority owned status which keeps them afloat. But even then, the problem of Lasership seems excessive. After I moved and discovered that I am once again in a Lasership delivery area I have stopped ordering from Amazon and I would encourage everyone who wants to ensure a hassle-free online shopping experience to read up on Lasership, its connection with Amazon and to make the decision which is best for you based on what you learn. If you are not in a Lasership last mile delivery area, then shop with Amazon 'til you drop. But if you are, I would hope understanding what goes on there will discourage you from shopping Amazon.
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The timing for 4K is just too soon and wrong. Firstly, we're in a delicate financial situation around the world and the biggest consumer nation is on the edge of collapse. It seems like only a few days ago we went to digital TV. People are STILL getting rid of the CRT TVs. And the marketers are trying to sell us 4K TVs??! I'm sorry but no. Just no.
Buying a new HP today, I agree with you. I say the same. But I still have my 4P and it's still cranking and I don't use HP's drivers anyway. It comes from HP's better days.