I would agree entirely. This is why the capitalism qua religion which has emerged since Reagan+Thatcher is so dangerous (and why China is laughing so so loudly).
Control of the government is another type of control.
So powerful people will control both.
And so the modern role of signals intelligence: to watch you, to separate the majority who are of no consequence, from the minority who run a serious risk of making a difference.
The solution is a scaling back of capitalism. And not a replacement with Soviet state capitalism, either, even though their surveillance had nothing on modern UKUSA.
Yeah, never mind the people who flew the planes into the buildings.
Never mind the capitalists who saw to profit from inappropriate military responses and lobbied to high heaven. (Some of them even claimed to have a direct hotline to God.)
Never mind the government who overreacted and tore the plush rug of freedom from under American feet.
Let's blame the grunts at the bottom who need a job and who, quite sensibly, realise that the best place to kill a large group of civilians now is AT the checkpoint.
That's my point yo. Flying passengers to the next solar system isn't just about making a series of optimsations to the Wright brothers' design, but about various separate technological leaps which need to be made.
Being able to detect crude changes with EEGs or fMRIs does not necessarily take us anywhere close to Science Fiction tier mind reading/control.
Prima: Right, who's paying us? Secunda: Fotherington-Smythe Plc. Prima: And what do they want? Secunda: For HMRC to look the other way on their offshore banking; more unpaid labour via the Work Programme; an overseas meeting to drum up some business; hm, and they want to get into private healthcare work, so perhaps you could force the NHS to put some work out to tender? Prima: OK, gentlemen, let's do it. Don't forget to ask GCHQ to send them any intercepts which might be of use to them. Tertia, prepare the speech. Tertia: "Enterprise.. bla bla... hard working people.. bla bla.. austerity... bla bla... " hmm, growth.. nah, don't worry, should be easy to fudge these figures. Prima: Excellent.
We have been able to fly planes up tens of thousands of feet for nearly a century, but we're a long way from flying passengers to even to the Moon, let alone another solar system.
A small step in one direction is rarely a sign that a great leap will be made.
If students haven't learnt about theorems and proofs by the time they have gone to university then they are as far from "top" as any reasonable definition allows.
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I would agree entirely. This is why the capitalism qua religion which has emerged since Reagan+Thatcher is so dangerous (and why China is laughing so so loudly).
Aren't TSA civilians?
I lol'd.
"Capitalism" and "freedom" are not synonymous, no matter what Ayn tells you.
Capitalism is an ideal, some elements of which may promote freedom in any given society.
Capitalism promotes selfishness.
Selfishness promotes control.
Control of information is a type of control.
Control of the government is another type of control.
So powerful people will control both.
And so the modern role of signals intelligence: to watch you, to separate the majority who are of no consequence, from the minority who run a serious risk of making a difference.
The solution is a scaling back of capitalism. And not a replacement with Soviet state capitalism, either, even though their surveillance had nothing on modern UKUSA.
Yeah, never mind the people who flew the planes into the buildings.
Never mind the capitalists who saw to profit from inappropriate military responses and lobbied to high heaven. (Some of them even claimed to have a direct hotline to God.)
Never mind the government who overreacted and tore the plush rug of freedom from under American feet.
Let's blame the grunts at the bottom who need a job and who, quite sensibly, realise that the best place to kill a large group of civilians now is AT the checkpoint.
That's my point yo. Flying passengers to the next solar system isn't just about making a series of optimsations to the Wright brothers' design, but about various separate technological leaps which need to be made.
Being able to detect crude changes with EEGs or fMRIs does not necessarily take us anywhere close to Science Fiction tier mind reading/control.
Merely deciding to come to America (unless you're a citizen) will, absent further steps, eventually make you "illegal" - my statement is accurate.
It is absurd that the default outcome of deciding to come to America is being "illegal".
Quite: same old Tories, same old lies.
Prima: Right, who's paying us?
Secunda: Fotherington-Smythe Plc.
Prima: And what do they want?
Secunda: For HMRC to look the other way on their offshore banking; more unpaid labour via the Work Programme; an overseas meeting to drum up some business; hm, and they want to get into private healthcare work, so perhaps you could force the NHS to put some work out to tender?
Prima: OK, gentlemen, let's do it. Don't forget to ask GCHQ to send them any intercepts which might be of use to them. Tertia, prepare the speech.
Tertia: "Enterprise.. bla bla... hard working people.. bla bla.. austerity... bla bla... " hmm, growth.. nah, don't worry, should be easy to fudge these figures.
Prima: Excellent.
Only the second sentence carries an "only".
No.
You see, America has been spending the last 120 years pretending that it was better than the Old World in terms of respect for autonomy.
Turns out that it isn't - in fact it's rather worse.
We have been able to fly planes up tens of thousands of feet for nearly a century, but we're a long way from flying passengers to even to the Moon, let alone another solar system.
A small step in one direction is rarely a sign that a great leap will be made.
The video exhaustively presents all successful HP Superdome Windows deployments.
People who do good things look outward for inspiration.
People who do nothing much look only in the mirror.
Although Apple's done a bit of looking outward (though it'd never admit it), Microsoft, Google, &co. look mostly in the mirror.
If you don't know who the idiot in the room is, you ARE the idiot.
You're right, we should be fighting harder the notion that people are "illegal" merely for deciding to come to America.
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The idea that parents should drill an ideology into their children is horrific.
My biggest pet peeve going through school was a bunch of spotty upstart teens thinking they were smarter than all the adults.
If students haven't learnt about theorems and proofs by the time they have gone to university then they are as far from "top" as any reasonable definition allows.
...is probably Apple. But Google are getting there.
Everything's relative, man.
Clear cut case of speeding and the guy even collected his own evidence.
Only blacks and protesters mysteriously do that.
Sometimes. Got nothing on us humans, though!