Whether or not the Patriot Act is repealed, things won't change where it really matters. Just as politically correct speech codes only serve to drive non-PC speech further underground and yield fetish groups that rally around things like racial purity, a total "victory" in Congress to repeal PATRIOT will just drive the secret courts into more secretive practices.
Because the US government is no longer run by elected officials. I don't mean to sound conspiratorial, it's just that representatives come and go while an army of bureaucrats are led by people with decades-long careers. Those people are not elected, nor are they responsive to political winds. As far as Congress using the power of the purse, the feds have a printing press and they aren't afraid to use it.
Now people expect better AI, destructible environments, the focus of FPS is shifting more towards multiplayer including coop mode.
Am I the only one who actually still prefers single-player campaign to co-op/multiplayer? I mean it's ok sometimes, and there's nothing wrong with it. But when the multiplayer fad came along it always seemed like such a tween sub-culture to me.
I have to work for a living and I have a wife & kids.... which means I don't hide in my Mommy's basement every night "pwning teh n00bs" nor do I want to associate with those morons in online game play.
All you have to do is make so many idiotic laws that everyone is a criminal. Then it's just a matter of "prosecutorial discretion," a euphemism for political vendettas.
In light of what has been revealed about the NSA, it is always very suspicious to me when a seemingly powerful person or company caves in to pressure so easily. Powerful people & companies have much to lose and public images to protect, so blackmail would probably be a very effective tactic to use against them.
Our own government makes a mockery of the justice system it was sworn to uphold and yet nothing is ever done. For example the IRS claims to have lost thousands of emails due to server crashes and everyone knows it's bullshit, but still no one is prosecuted or punished in any meaningful way. Judges suddenly make rulings completely contrary to their previous positions. Every US company is so eager to climb into bed with the government.
Fuck it, call me paranoid. I think you've got to be willfully blind not to be somewhat paranoid these days.
Why? Why in the ever living fuck did they rape their applications this way?
You really have to wonder exactly what type of person the Gnome project is trying to attract with "features" like this. With all their focus on "minimizing distrations," it is safe to conclude they seek to increase market share among the retarded.
The political left (I refused to call them liberal b/c they are quite the opposite) is not intellectual. It's a pseudo-intellectual Mutual Admiration Society of undeserving privileged, self-important hypocrites sitting around in a circle jerk and patting each other on the back. Their failed ideology has been tried in every age. Mass media brought it into worldwide consciousness and coordination, with cult of personality figures like Mao and Stalin, and yet so many never seem to learn.
right and touchscreen smart phones were widely used before the iPhone? yes you had business phones. they had shitty web browsers, could barely display one email at a time, and were a joke.
I have an Android. My wife has an iPhone. So I've used the two main products and I still think they have shitty web browsers.
Although I'm generally enthusiastic about gadgets and new technology, I just still can't get into the whole smartphone/tablet craze.
With most western governments being so intimately involved in commerce, in conjunction with (and because of) their deep level of corruption, no major player in the tech industry is going to take an antagonistic stance against the spooks.
Particularly speaking of my country (US), the government's shadow agencies are going to get what they want. They hold all the levers of power, and therefore the means to determine the very existence of Apple/Google/MS as they exist today. Passing new laws, or perverting existing ones through parliamentary tricks, is already being used to put the screws to an array of "powerful" industries (healthcare, energy, insurance, financial, auto). The tech companies are no different - they will play ball or they will cease to exist.
I'm not sure if there is a viable solution unless the vast majority of people wake up and resist. As long as people are camping out for 3 days in order to get the latest i-Phone, it ain't going to happen.
f@#king die feminist moron i'm coming after u and raping u.
From personal eye-witness accounts of vile feminists and SJW's, I think this twitter comment is actually fairly tempered and reasonable.
The poster should be given a medal for his restraint.
Technical arguments being decided by the ignorant masses, versus the specific groups (which anyone from the GR can join) who have the specific job of making those decisions. At least that's one way to look at it.
As your sig says, often wrong but never in doubt.
You know only Debian developers are allowed to vote, right? That pretty much blows up your 'ignorant masses' characterization.
No, it's not groupthink.
There's an important distinction between the person who commits the act, and the person who has psycological urges that can be supressed. Do I feel sorry for an adult who has sexual urges toward children, yet suppresses them? Yes.
But once they've become a predator, I don't.
My thoughts exactly.
It goes without saying that I feel no sympathy for a child molester. BUT....... oh the abuse this could lead to.
Remember, some people classify "potential terrorist" as those who cite the Constitution in online article comments.
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The least you could do is try to goatse us.
Whether or not the Patriot Act is repealed, things won't change where it really matters. Just as politically correct speech codes only serve to drive non-PC speech further underground and yield fetish groups that rally around things like racial purity, a total "victory" in Congress to repeal PATRIOT will just drive the secret courts into more secretive practices.
Because the US government is no longer run by elected officials. I don't mean to sound conspiratorial, it's just that representatives come and go while an army of bureaucrats are led by people with decades-long careers. Those people are not elected, nor are they responsive to political winds. As far as Congress using the power of the purse, the feds have a printing press and they aren't afraid to use it.
Now people expect better AI, destructible environments, the focus of FPS is shifting more towards multiplayer including coop mode.
Am I the only one who actually still prefers single-player campaign to co-op/multiplayer? I mean it's ok sometimes, and there's nothing wrong with it. But when the multiplayer fad came along it always seemed like such a tween sub-culture to me.
I have to work for a living and I have a wife & kids.... which means I don't hide in my Mommy's basement every night "pwning teh n00bs" nor do I want to associate with those morons in online game play.
All you have to do is make so many idiotic laws that everyone is a criminal. Then it's just a matter of "prosecutorial discretion," a euphemism for political vendettas.
In light of what has been revealed about the NSA, it is always very suspicious to me when a seemingly powerful person or company caves in to pressure so easily. Powerful people & companies have much to lose and public images to protect, so blackmail would probably be a very effective tactic to use against them.
Our own government makes a mockery of the justice system it was sworn to uphold and yet nothing is ever done. For example the IRS claims to have lost thousands of emails due to server crashes and everyone knows it's bullshit, but still no one is prosecuted or punished in any meaningful way. Judges suddenly make rulings completely contrary to their previous positions. Every US company is so eager to climb into bed with the government.
Fuck it, call me paranoid. I think you've got to be willfully blind not to be somewhat paranoid these days.
Why? Why in the ever living fuck did they rape their applications this way? You really have to wonder exactly what type of person the Gnome project is trying to attract with "features" like this. With all their focus on "minimizing distrations," it is safe to conclude they seek to increase market share among the retarded.
The political left (I refused to call them liberal b/c they are quite the opposite) is not intellectual. It's a pseudo-intellectual Mutual Admiration Society of undeserving privileged, self-important hypocrites sitting around in a circle jerk and patting each other on the back. Their failed ideology has been tried in every age. Mass media brought it into worldwide consciousness and coordination, with cult of personality figures like Mao and Stalin, and yet so many never seem to learn.
right and touchscreen smart phones were widely used before the iPhone? yes you had business phones. they had shitty web browsers, could barely display one email at a time, and were a joke.
I have an Android. My wife has an iPhone. So I've used the two main products and I still think they have shitty web browsers. Although I'm generally enthusiastic about gadgets and new technology, I just still can't get into the whole smartphone/tablet craze.
I don't know if I'm left or right as defined by pop culture.
But I'm still eagerly awaiting a coherent road-map to sustainability and enlightenment via the welfare state.
Perhaps you can help?
And is he concerned that 8,000 Marines may cause the island to tip over and.... capsiiiiiiiize?
Does this mean it's official? 2015 is The Year of the Linux Desktop?
"Keep a tight perimeter"--Ron Bergundy
Are you sure that wasn't Ron Jeremy ?
Whatever it is that made Halo 4 (cloud-based or otherwise) should remain closed. Or better yet, incinerate it.
With most western governments being so intimately involved in commerce, in conjunction with (and because of) their deep level of corruption, no major player in the tech industry is going to take an antagonistic stance against the spooks. Particularly speaking of my country (US), the government's shadow agencies are going to get what they want. They hold all the levers of power, and therefore the means to determine the very existence of Apple/Google/MS as they exist today. Passing new laws, or perverting existing ones through parliamentary tricks, is already being used to put the screws to an array of "powerful" industries (healthcare, energy, insurance, financial, auto). The tech companies are no different - they will play ball or they will cease to exist. I'm not sure if there is a viable solution unless the vast majority of people wake up and resist. As long as people are camping out for 3 days in order to get the latest i-Phone, it ain't going to happen.
f@#king die feminist moron i'm coming after u and raping u.
From personal eye-witness accounts of vile feminists and SJW's, I think this twitter comment is actually fairly tempered and reasonable. The poster should be given a medal for his restraint.
Next time some AGW douche tries to play the "peer reviewed" card. Because now we know where IPCC findings are submitted.
Wait, no love for webcrawler? Ask Jeeves?
The same thing we did when all the polar ice caps melted back in 2010.....
Does one exist for ass clowns like Pat Garofalo? I certainly hope so.
Technical arguments being decided by the ignorant masses, versus the specific groups (which anyone from the GR can join) who have the specific job of making those decisions. At least that's one way to look at it.
As your sig says, often wrong but never in doubt. You know only Debian developers are allowed to vote, right? That pretty much blows up your 'ignorant masses' characterization.
No, it's not groupthink. There's an important distinction between the person who commits the act, and the person who has psycological urges that can be supressed. Do I feel sorry for an adult who has sexual urges toward children, yet suppresses them? Yes. But once they've become a predator, I don't.
My thoughts exactly. It goes without saying that I feel no sympathy for a child molester. BUT....... oh the abuse this could lead to. Remember, some people classify "potential terrorist" as those who cite the Constitution in online article comments.