Honestly, it's possible that it's as simple as the way each (liar or truth-teller) defines the word 'trust', and the context in which that word arises for them.
Liars only ever trust other liars. To a liar, people that only tell the truth are a burden, and they feel that those people need to stay the fuck out of other people's business.
Likewise, people that tell the truth only ever like people that tell the truth. They feel that the others are fucking up the world for their own temporary benefit.
This is probably a fundamental reason behind 'to what degree' whistle-blowers suffer in the world.
Hey, I've never thought of this before (and sorry it's off topic), but why is paying a lady to have sex with you legal if you film it (call it a porn-making), but paying her to have sex with you without filming it is illegal (call it prostitution)?
Obligatory (from that email that circulated around a while back:
Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:
*29 have been accused of spousal abuse
*7 have been arrested for fraud
*19 have been accused of writing bad checks
*117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
*3 have done time for assault
*71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
*14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
*8 have been arrested for shoplifting
*21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
*84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year Can you guess which organization this is?
GIVE UP YET?????
IT IS THE 535 MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
I'm not trying to say that there won't be problems, but the problems won't be because of the information being leaked, rather from the information itself. Unless the information is all bullshit and the whole Snowden story is another tool used by the powers that be to control FUD.
10 years into the future something called "The Snowden Grail" or some shit, still slowly "leaking" information.
I agree. SPAM is so 2003. I run my own email server at home, and with absolutely no SPAM protection (I used to use spamassassin and mimedefang but once my server crashed, I never took the time to install it all again). I give my email address to all the basic sites in order to make purchases. I do receive SPAM, but very little. The SPAM fight seems to have erupted into craziness with no gains.
Ok, WaffleMonster, don't take this personally, as I'm just going to blert this out for anyone that cares to get this far down into this comment.
With the information being spooled out to the public, it has caused the public to:
1) Become only slightly outraged
2) Want to hear more, but can't
3) Become numb to the news
Now numbers 1 & 2 are a simple setup for the 3rd. I feel that the numbness to "spying" is the only thing that's being achieved.
Regarding the release of information, if you want the most numbers to be affected by the information, you would be smart to release the information in a very generic way. For instance, if you own a business that sells an array of stuff, and you want folks to come shop there, it's a good idea to have a sale. However if you advertise "Bowling balls on sale now!" then you'll attract only people that need bowling balls. If you simply advertise "SALE!" then folks will come brows the store looking for sale items, and hopefully, but something that they didn't know that they needed. Walmart does this with their "Watch out for falling prices!" scheme.
So the question still stands; why isn't the information available to us all? it's supposed to be information that is vital to the construction of our society(s). It's supposed to be information that reveals wrong-doing by the elected officials of our land. It's supposed to be information that could be understood and digested so to allow the citizens a method to undermine further problems like this. But, at this point, to me, it's all smoke and mirrors. It's reasoning, I have no clue. But it's certainly a battle between Snowden (surely others) and the US government, as The People are simply used like a child in a divorce.
Let's say, for an extreme example, that it is indeed facts about cover-ups like 9/11 or JFK. If Snowden knows it, and keeps it a secret, isn't he doing the same thing that the NSA is doing? It seems like it's possible that the public is being used here, by both sides.
Shit man, how is the public addressing them now? If you turn the tables, look at it from another "side"... how about if the FEDs did arrest Snowden, not detain him, but arrest him, and told the public that they've got charges on him, and they'll release them at a later date.
When he release the news that the NSA were monitoring everything, do you really think that the public understood it at all? Hell, only 15% of the people that I know, and have talked to about it, have no idea what it's all about. So I don't agree with the theory that the public cannot handle the truth.
This whole "keep the public on a string" strategy is only done when there is a need to control. I'm just sayin.
If he's a whistle-blower, then blow the fucking thing already. I understand that he is on the run, sorta, but why not just come out with it all? All the spy-vs-spy bullshit just makes me think that the whole Snowden thing is bullshit itself. I don't get it.
I have a Honda Pilot. If I idle with the AC running, it's roughly (and this is purely going by factory-installed instruments built into the vehicle) 1/3 g/hr. However, things like the radio being on and any components that are connected like cell phone or whatever. So if a car idled for 24 hours it would, again - roughly, would burn like 8 gallons. My tank is 21 gallons, so that's little over a third.
IT's pro-coworker showing was only 2% less than those put-upon retail workers who may be forced to work right after they finish their plate. The top industry was Transportation and Utilities (28%) and Retail (25%), with IT, Healthcare and Finance tied at 23%.
...if/when the US takes the matter to the WTO court, it allows signatories to use the treaty to justify their unilateral trade restrictions against US companies.
You know, I thought that Google and Microsoft were among the biggest (regarding revenue) in the world. Turns out, they're not even on the list here.
No, I don't - so thanks for your perspective. I've also heard that it takes about 1 lump of burned coal to generate enough electricity to run all of the routers, switches and computers to transfer 1MB of data (this was on a Ted talk that I now cannot find). Of course this, like your example, is a loose figure, but should probably be close enough.
I guess I was more shocked to hear that the cars require so much electricity while off, that's all.
Since the Model S was introduced in 2012, this "vampire" power drain from the cars sold so far has consumed roughly 15 gigawatt-hours of electric energy, nearly a day's output for a mid-size nuclear power plant. It's enough wasted energy to drive the cars 50 million miles.
Seems odd that I've never heard this before now. That's a lot of wasted electricity that was generated, more than likely, by oil/coal burning.
Slashdot Mirror
A smart mirror would display everything in the correct right/left perspective. And how fucking awesome would that be?
Honestly, it's possible that it's as simple as the way each (liar or truth-teller) defines the word 'trust', and the context in which that word arises for them.
Yeah, because it's something that everyone should be buying, despite the fact that:
so many are struggling financially
people want to live better and feel better
Right? It's got to be because of online shopping.
Liars only ever trust other liars. To a liar, people that only tell the truth are a burden, and they feel that those people need to stay the fuck out of other people's business.
Likewise, people that tell the truth only ever like people that tell the truth. They feel that the others are fucking up the world for their own temporary benefit.
This is probably a fundamental reason behind 'to what degree' whistle-blowers suffer in the world.
chuck@chuckstevens.com
bring it
The difference between prostitution and porn:
Prostitution: Pay the girls, fuck them
Porn: Pay the girls, fuck them, and film it
Hey, I've never thought of this before (and sorry it's off topic), but why is paying a lady to have sex with you legal if you film it (call it a porn-making), but paying her to have sex with you without filming it is illegal (call it prostitution)?
Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:
*29 have been accused of spousal abuse
*7 have been arrested for fraud
*19 have been accused of writing bad checks
*117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
*3 have done time for assault
*71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
*14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
*8 have been arrested for shoplifting
*21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
*84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year Can you guess which organization this is?
GIVE UP YET?????
IT IS THE 535 MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
Yup, and if you're on AT&T, then that's how you have to do it, as all packets on port 25 outbound from AT&T's network are dropped.
You pull band-aides off really slow, don't you ;)
I'm not trying to say that there won't be problems, but the problems won't be because of the information being leaked, rather from the information itself. Unless the information is all bullshit and the whole Snowden story is another tool used by the powers that be to control FUD.
10 years into the future something called "The Snowden Grail" or some shit, still slowly "leaking" information.
I agree. SPAM is so 2003. I run my own email server at home, and with absolutely no SPAM protection (I used to use spamassassin and mimedefang but once my server crashed, I never took the time to install it all again). I give my email address to all the basic sites in order to make purchases. I do receive SPAM, but very little. The SPAM fight seems to have erupted into craziness with no gains.
Ok, WaffleMonster, don't take this personally, as I'm just going to blert this out for anyone that cares to get this far down into this comment.
With the information being spooled out to the public, it has caused the public to:
1) Become only slightly outraged
2) Want to hear more, but can't
3) Become numb to the news
Now numbers 1 & 2 are a simple setup for the 3rd. I feel that the numbness to "spying" is the only thing that's being achieved.
Regarding the release of information, if you want the most numbers to be affected by the information, you would be smart to release the information in a very generic way. For instance, if you own a business that sells an array of stuff, and you want folks to come shop there, it's a good idea to have a sale. However if you advertise "Bowling balls on sale now!" then you'll attract only people that need bowling balls. If you simply advertise "SALE!" then folks will come brows the store looking for sale items, and hopefully, but something that they didn't know that they needed. Walmart does this with their "Watch out for falling prices!" scheme.
So the question still stands; why isn't the information available to us all? it's supposed to be information that is vital to the construction of our society(s). It's supposed to be information that reveals wrong-doing by the elected officials of our land. It's supposed to be information that could be understood and digested so to allow the citizens a method to undermine further problems like this. But, at this point, to me, it's all smoke and mirrors. It's reasoning, I have no clue. But it's certainly a battle between Snowden (surely others) and the US government, as The People are simply used like a child in a divorce.
Everyone's daily schedules only align for a little while each day, in a reliable way?
Let's say, for an extreme example, that it is indeed facts about cover-ups like 9/11 or JFK. If Snowden knows it, and keeps it a secret, isn't he doing the same thing that the NSA is doing? It seems like it's possible that the public is being used here, by both sides.
Shit man, how is the public addressing them now? If you turn the tables, look at it from another "side"... how about if the FEDs did arrest Snowden, not detain him, but arrest him, and told the public that they've got charges on him, and they'll release them at a later date.
When he release the news that the NSA were monitoring everything, do you really think that the public understood it at all? Hell, only 15% of the people that I know, and have talked to about it, have no idea what it's all about. So I don't agree with the theory that the public cannot handle the truth.
This whole "keep the public on a string" strategy is only done when there is a need to control. I'm just sayin.
If he's a whistle-blower, then blow the fucking thing already. I understand that he is on the run, sorta, but why not just come out with it all? All the spy-vs-spy bullshit just makes me think that the whole Snowden thing is bullshit itself. I don't get it.
You say that and laugh, but wait until someone that manages their own DNS, and with an evil intention gets a good idea...
I have a Honda Pilot. If I idle with the AC running, it's roughly (and this is purely going by factory-installed instruments built into the vehicle) 1/3 g/hr. However, things like the radio being on and any components that are connected like cell phone or whatever. So if a car idled for 24 hours it would, again - roughly, would burn like 8 gallons. My tank is 21 gallons, so that's little over a third.
Let this be heard by everyone in IT management that's trying to sync data between multiple national locations.
...but why the FUCK would he go to America?
IT's pro-coworker showing was only 2% less than those put-upon retail workers who may be forced to work right after they finish their plate. The top industry was Transportation and Utilities (28%) and Retail (25%), with IT, Healthcare and Finance tied at 23%.
...if/when the US takes the matter to the WTO court, it allows signatories to use the treaty to justify their unilateral trade restrictions against US companies.
You know, I thought that Google and Microsoft were among the biggest (regarding revenue) in the world. Turns out, they're not even on the list here.
You like numbers without perspective?
No, I don't - so thanks for your perspective. I've also heard that it takes about 1 lump of burned coal to generate enough electricity to run all of the routers, switches and computers to transfer 1MB of data (this was on a Ted talk that I now cannot find). Of course this, like your example, is a loose figure, but should probably be close enough.
I guess I was more shocked to hear that the cars require so much electricity while off, that's all.
Since the Model S was introduced in 2012, this "vampire" power drain from the cars sold so far has consumed roughly 15 gigawatt-hours of electric energy, nearly a day's output for a mid-size nuclear power plant. It's enough wasted energy to drive the cars 50 million miles.
Seems odd that I've never heard this before now. That's a lot of wasted electricity that was generated, more than likely, by oil/coal burning.
Wait, where does the article mention that he had a prior felony?