If there's anything I've learned about presidential politics with the current and previous POTUS: fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again.
Apart from the fact that this whole thing is a horseshit, cynical gimmick designed to drum up public support for big IT corporations - especially in light of all the recent privacy and NSA scandals - under the guise of teaching inner-city yoots (because, gosh darnit, they CARE ) , there is also the entirely unforeseen side benefit of potentially creating a massive influx of new coders into the job market who will serve to fill the ranks of existing code monkeys who provide the sort of cheap and easily fireable labor that American corporations seems to crave so much..
The government should not have allowed mergers into just 3 companies anyhow. If there were say 7 or so car companies, then one or two failing wouldn't topple the whole north.
If you let oligopolies form, then you get Too Big To Fail. We still have banks that are Too Big To Fail. Nobody has the guts to slice them up.
Will somebody please give this man some goddamn mod points?!
City of London police is like a private security firm working for a postage-stamp size borough of London. They tiny ( and they leave horse shit all over the place ).
Socialism for megacorporations (which, after all, are people too!) that have been managed into oblivion, but free-market capitalism for the rest of us slobs.
Why didn't SnowBro get a Nobel peace prize for his shenannigans? Don't answer that: I already know why - cause the world is bogus place, bros. Still, what dude has done more to stick it to the Man than SnowBro? His revelations caused some serious tremblings down in Washington, with some serious ass ripples felt all over the world. They also did some hardcore damage to the bottom line of a whole bunch of tech monsters. Now they've got all these asshole megacorpos to band together and get right in the government's grill. Could be this all a bunch of smoke and mirrors, but one things for sure: they aint happy. And if anyone still doesn't believe in the ubiquity of the golden rule, they're about to get a valuable object lesson
'Young people, rightly, are sensitive to the needs to preserve their privacy and to retain internet freedom. And by the way, so am I,' responded the President. 'That's part of not just our First Amendment rights and expectations in this country, but it's particularly something that young people care about..
This is a former constitutional lawyer saying that privacy concerns are a First Amendment concern. WT-actual-F? This is clearly Fourth amendment territory, but oh well. I mean, this is the president after all: we don't need facts when we have authority.
Also, the suggestion that this issue is all the more vital because young people care about it? What smarmy nonsense. It's a bloody constitutional crisis being characterized as an MTV award.
I wasn't judging - I was out of line. Too enamored of my own thesis I suppose. I kept imagining hordes of hipsters uploading snapshots of their half-caf soy lattes to instagram and the thought of it got the better of me.
What are laws but the playthings of the rich and powerful to be used and discarded at will? They're like a blanket in a blizzard: designed to keep you warm, but when the storm strikes, utterly useless.
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Wrong. Some of his work is pretty wild, especially the vids. Really cool stuff, this.
Try not getting amnesia in the first place! Whore!
I was thinking that the Office development team was renamed for few seconds...
That would be the Special Victims Unit.
A joke at Microsoft's expense moderated as Troll on Slashdot? Well now I've seen everything.
AKA the Windows 8 development team.
If there's anything I've learned about presidential politics with the current and previous POTUS: fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again.
So we have to become like China in order to prevent us being destroyed by China.
t brushing and flossing and having your teeth cleaned every 6 months is much less annoying than a root canal.
Is that what I should have been doing all this time? No wonder I'm always so annoyed (brushing my teeth with a piece of cheddar cheese...)
Goddamn. Now I'm gonna have this fucking tune in my head for the rest of the day.
At this rate I might have to do some work!
Yes! (I mean NOOO!)
Something tells me this is gonna be a long, long day.
Apart from the fact that this whole thing is a horseshit, cynical gimmick designed to drum up public support for big IT corporations - especially in light of all the recent privacy and NSA scandals - under the guise of teaching inner-city yoots (because, gosh darnit, they CARE ) , there is also the entirely unforeseen side benefit of potentially creating a massive influx of new coders into the job market who will serve to fill the ranks of existing code monkeys who provide the sort of cheap and easily fireable labor that American corporations seems to crave so much..
See also: "See No Evil", "Speak No Evil", and "Hear No Evil".
Goose, meet gander.
Pot, meet kettle.
Glass house, meet stone.
Turnabout, meet fair play.
Goes around, meet comes around.
Sowed wind, meet whirlwind.
Dances-with-devils, meet the piper.
The government should not have allowed mergers into just 3 companies anyhow. If there were say 7 or so car companies, then one or two failing wouldn't topple the whole north.
If you let oligopolies form, then you get Too Big To Fail. We still have banks that are Too Big To Fail. Nobody has the guts to slice them up.
Will somebody please give this man some goddamn mod points?!
City of London police is like a private security firm working for a postage-stamp size borough of London. They tiny ( and they leave horse shit all over the place ).
Socialism for megacorporations (which, after all, are people too!) that have been managed into oblivion, but free-market capitalism for the rest of us slobs.
Nobody was implying that it doesn't exist, they were simply referring to it within the Rumsfeldian epistemological category of "unknown unknown".
Why didn't SnowBro get a Nobel peace prize for his shenannigans? Don't answer that: I already know why - cause the world is bogus place, bros. Still, what dude has done more to stick it to the Man than SnowBro? His revelations caused some serious tremblings down in Washington, with some serious ass ripples felt all over the world. They also did some hardcore damage to the bottom line of a whole bunch of tech monsters. Now they've got all these asshole megacorpos to band together and get right in the government's grill. Could be this all a bunch of smoke and mirrors, but one things for sure: they aint happy. And if anyone still doesn't believe in the ubiquity of the golden rule, they're about to get a valuable object lesson
'Young people, rightly, are sensitive to the needs to preserve their privacy and to retain internet freedom. And by the way, so am I,' responded the President. 'That's part of not just our First Amendment rights and expectations in this country, but it's particularly something that young people care about..
This is a former constitutional lawyer saying that privacy concerns are a First Amendment concern. WT-actual-F? This is clearly Fourth amendment territory, but oh well. I mean, this is the president after all: we don't need facts when we have authority.
Also, the suggestion that this issue is all the more vital because young people care about it? What smarmy nonsense. It's a bloody constitutional crisis being characterized as an MTV award.
"Poor poor widdle NSA. There there. You can't play with all your toys anymore, but gold star for you!"
I wasn't judging - I was out of line. Too enamored of my own thesis I suppose. I kept imagining hordes of hipsters uploading snapshots of their half-caf soy lattes to instagram and the thought of it got the better of me.
Well with each passing year it's become less and less of a privilege. Unfortunately, this would hardly be a precedent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#False_positives_and_other_controversial_cases
And why don't you think a little before you start ranting? Think a bit, then rant.
What are laws but the playthings of the rich and powerful to be used and discarded at will? They're like a blanket in a blizzard: designed to keep you warm, but when the storm strikes, utterly useless.
Sorry what? I was staring at my belly-button.