I'm kind of amazed that so many people here misunderstand what the Obama data was used for. It was not used to change minds, at least not primarily. It was used to identify people who might be persuaded to actually get out and vote and then to bug them until they did.
Pay attention! The "idiots" were Republican congressmen who figured out yet another way to funnel our tax dollars to private business to do a job that the government could do much cheaper. Just like "Medicare Advantage" or the Bush prescription drug program. Republicans are currently fighting Obama's efforts to lower the costs of student loans.
When forced to sign those electronic pads, I always use my left hand and just scribble something because I figure that once my sig is digitized, I can "sign" things from any hacker's system. Am I being overly paranoid?
And what about biometric data? What prevents its storage and later user as proof that we authorized transactions?
I realize that such data is never the exact same twice, but I don't like depending on systems that have to copy all instances of this data to make sure that they aren't seeing duplicates.
The town where I live is considering municipal wi-fi. Would they be able to connect to the Internet in such a way as to bypass the filters put up by these ISPs? Or would the whole town be held hostage?
I'm glad to see that a few of us have noticed that the "local-control" Republican party is behind this attempt to remove local control. This is far from the only recent example.
Stenpas writes: "In my opinion, a well-rounded education is not a good idea. I'm currently taking math, history, science, acting, and foreign language classes."
Maybe I missed the definition of "well-rounded", but this sounds well-rounded to me. I would not drop out of this sort of education, if I were you. I would add some sort of literature and writing class, if you haven't already taken enough them, but, clearly, you write beautifully and factually already.
It really hurts to read your description of how a wonderful class was ruined. All I can suggest is to think of that as a lesson, too, not that that makes the situation any better.
Sorry, Blow Hard, but you wrong. The movie isn't even showing in many theaters in NYC, according to my son, who has seen it there. He felt that the fact that it has subtitles is keeping it out of theaters.
I've been looking for it in the Research Triangle area of NC, a place that has lots more than Die Hard, and it isn't here yet.
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I'm kind of amazed that so many people here misunderstand what the Obama data was used for. It was not used to change minds, at least not primarily. It was used to identify people who might be persuaded to actually get out and vote and then to bug them until they did.
I second the seconders. I also like that 1Password has its own version of the keychain that is easy to copy to a jump drive, etc.
Pay attention! The "idiots" were Republican congressmen who figured out yet another way to funnel our tax dollars to private business to do a job that the government could do much cheaper. Just like "Medicare Advantage" or the Bush prescription drug program. Republicans are currently fighting Obama's efforts to lower the costs of student loans.
Bada Boom! I love this one!
When forced to sign those electronic pads, I always use my left hand and just scribble something because I figure that once my sig is digitized, I can "sign" things from any hacker's system. Am I being overly paranoid?
And what about biometric data? What prevents its storage and later user as proof that we authorized transactions?
I realize that such data is never the exact same twice, but I don't like depending on systems that have to copy all instances of this data to make sure that they aren't seeing duplicates.
The town where I live is considering municipal wi-fi. Would they be able to connect to the Internet in such a way as to bypass the filters put up by these ISPs? Or would the whole town be held hostage?
Thanks!
I'm glad to see that a few of us have noticed that the "local-control" Republican party is behind this attempt to remove local control. This is far from the only recent example.
Stenpas writes: "In my opinion, a well-rounded education is not a good idea. I'm currently taking math, history, science, acting, and foreign language classes."
Maybe I missed the definition of "well-rounded", but this sounds well-rounded to me. I would not drop out of this sort of education, if I were you. I would add some sort of literature and writing class, if you haven't already taken enough them, but, clearly, you write beautifully and factually already.
It really hurts to read your description of how a wonderful class was ruined. All I can suggest is to think of that as a lesson, too, not that that makes the situation any better.
Sorry, Blow Hard, but you wrong. The movie isn't even showing in many theaters in NYC, according to my son, who has seen it there. He felt that the fact that it has subtitles is keeping it out of theaters. I've been looking for it in the Research Triangle area of NC, a place that has lots more than Die Hard, and it isn't here yet.
There are many other parts of the Internet where this kind of hatred belongs. Take it there, please.