I suspect it's just "Oh, wait, the public DOESN'T care that we ruthlessly pursue people who dare to speak out against us?
Add to that the NSA and Alexander couldn't give a rat's ass what you care about. He's going to do it whether you like it or not, Constitution be damned. You stopped the Clipper chip in the nineties, and he just went ahead and did it another way, lieing his ass off all the way to everyone who asked.
You don't live in a democratic republic any more. Caeser has spoken. Enjoy the bread and circuses.
Since yours was so well thought out and written, I'll tack onto it how they ought to do it (not having RTFA, of course).
I/we should be running a local Diaspora-ish client which stores our personal chosen configuration for all things we expect to interact with. Their whatever-thingy queries our client using a standardized protocol for the info it wants and takes what we're willing to let it take, preferably honouring our wish to delete it at a specific date or whatever other conditions we choose.
That'll be fifty bucks please. Thank you, and carry on.
If Gov has to be completely exposed all the time, then perhaps we need to as well?
You see no particular need to distinguish between the rights of individual citizens vs. those of the gov't? I do. Gov't is supposed to be mostly caged, potentially dangerous animal we've invented for some limited class of useful purposes. We shouldn't need to give a rat's ass about its so-called rights. Ditto corporations, if that helps to make it plainer.
The whole nokia board and elop included should be dragged out into the street and shot for their extreme mismanagement of the company.
Did you read TFA (yeah, I know)? It says there was a clause in his contract awarding him a bonus for making the company "saleable." It was sold to Microsoft. Success!
You can't worry about the consequences will have on the people, and ignore the fact that some how, somewhere along the line, this government has taken it upon itself to vet every communication, be party to ever conversation, and monitor every action, and watch every person. Where did that idea of government EVER come from?
If you read history, that's always been the tyrant's plan. What you ought to be asking is how did the USA succumb to tyrrany?
You got lazy, arrogant, self-assured, and lackadaisical about how your country's run.
Whatever the implementation, the point is to make it feasible for the homeless willing to work to rejoin society.
Your point is. They likely have a far more expansive view of what they would consider life. Was Thoreau homeless, or charting another course?
There are *a lot* of things that the rest of you do that I'd never consider if I had multiple lives. Your idea of what life entails could be mirror opposite to how I live.
Giving everyone 25k a year (okay, 40k a year in some places) to live, with no expectation that they will do anything other than convert oxygen to CO2 and reproduce is rather short sighted insomuch as it ignores the vast laziness of so very, very many people.
If you treat people like cattle and expect them to act like cattle, there's a pretty fair chance that a lot of them are going to end up acting like cattle. A society based on "treat me how I expect to be treated or I'll sue" or "conform to what the authorities claim are norms or go to jail" is not going anywhere anyone needs it to go. Those aren't human conditions.
The State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large. -- Murray Rothbard
The State is the worst sort of bandit gang. Other gangs don't go around insisting on reforming morals and doing damned near anything they please in herding us like cattle, because it's what's good for us.
I don't personally care that much about the NSA snooping through my e-mails. But if some criminal can read them just as easily, it's a different story.
when a company has more than $200 billion in market capitalization, there are lots of ways to spread it around.
What does this even mean? Does Timothy actually think market cap is money that IBM has on hand? How exactly would IBM "spread around" their market cap value?
Try a thought experiment. IBM walks into a bank and announces they've $200 billion in market capitalization to spread around. How many bank officers do you envision falling all over themselves trying to find a way to satisfy the request?
... sometimes the best results are not found in the free market. For example we pay more than other first world nations for healthcare and get less of it. Clearly not a good result. The same thing with cell phones, our lack of regulation is preventing a good result.
So, so wrong, hard to know where to begin. You have an FCC, FFS. Why do you think coverage is split up among vendors like fiefdoms? Why is it so many have only one (if that) choice of provider? You think the free market created this mess?
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Not only should the supreme court rule on this before any lower court can, it should invalidate the entire domestic spying apparatus.
Where can I get a pair of rose colored glasses like those you're wearing?
If it's open source, then it will be subverted in seconds.
... and if closed source, it may already be there but you'll never know.
I suspect it's just "Oh, wait, the public DOESN'T care that we ruthlessly pursue people who dare to speak out against us?
Add to that the NSA and Alexander couldn't give a rat's ass what you care about. He's going to do it whether you like it or not, Constitution be damned. You stopped the Clipper chip in the nineties, and he just went ahead and did it another way, lieing his ass off all the way to everyone who asked.
You don't live in a democratic republic any more. Caeser has spoken. Enjoy the bread and circuses.
Now, that's a good summary!
Since yours was so well thought out and written, I'll tack onto it how they ought to do it (not having RTFA, of course).
I/we should be running a local Diaspora-ish client which stores our personal chosen configuration for all things we expect to interact with. Their whatever-thingy queries our client using a standardized protocol for the info it wants and takes what we're willing to let it take, preferably honouring our wish to delete it at a specific date or whatever other conditions we choose.
That'll be fifty bucks please. Thank you, and carry on.
GCHQ would complain to NSA and NSA would have to hire Snowden to give 'em a copy.
Nuke it from orbit, ...
If Gov has to be completely exposed all the time, then perhaps we need to as well?
You see no particular need to distinguish between the rights of individual citizens vs. those of the gov't? I do. Gov't is supposed to be mostly caged, potentially dangerous animal we've invented for some limited class of useful purposes. We shouldn't need to give a rat's ass about its so-called rights. Ditto corporations, if that helps to make it plainer.
You are too stupid to live.
The whole nokia board and elop included should be dragged out into the street and shot for their extreme mismanagement of the company.
Did you read TFA (yeah, I know)? It says there was a clause in his contract awarding him a bonus for making the company "saleable." It was sold to Microsoft. Success!
Those are Linux/Free Software users. They don't count/matter. The point is to not cause unnecessary confusion among their potential userbase.
that'd be a very curious position to take for something that's theoretically a gnu project
Yes. Perhaps they believe the ends justify the means.
1) How many "new users" did they actually talk to?
Think about it. Their potential userbase is all of Windows and Apple users. They don't need to ask them. The subject is known intimately by all.
2) How many GNOME users are there, and of those users, how many are "new"?
See answer to 1.
It sounds to me like they're removing a feature that millions of people use, on a whim.
Those are Linux/Free Software users. They don't count/matter. The point is to not cause unnecessary confusion among their potential userbase.
give them a little pop-up saying "hey, there's a faster way to do that, do you want to try?"
In other words, a context-sensitive help system like "Clippy."
I'm curious whether anyone's ever clicked yes when Clippy popped up and asked. I've always immediately dismissed it. I wonder if it actually works.
You can't worry about the consequences will have on the people, and ignore the fact that some how, somewhere along the line, this government has taken it upon itself to vet every communication, be party to ever conversation, and monitor every action, and watch every person. Where did that idea of government EVER come from?
If you read history, that's always been the tyrant's plan. What you ought to be asking is how did the USA succumb to tyrrany?
You got lazy, arrogant, self-assured, and lackadaisical about how your country's run.
Whatever the implementation, the point is to make it feasible for the homeless willing to work to rejoin society.
Your point is. They likely have a far more expansive view of what they would consider life. Was Thoreau homeless, or charting another course?
There are *a lot* of things that the rest of you do that I'd never consider if I had multiple lives. Your idea of what life entails could be mirror opposite to how I live.
...greedy, sociopathic, mendacious, morally hazardous world of perverse incentives that is the free market.
Good lord, I don't think I've ever heard a better description. :)
It's generally referred to as State of Nature.
Giving everyone 25k a year (okay, 40k a year in some places) to live, with no expectation that they will do anything other than convert oxygen to CO2 and reproduce is rather short sighted insomuch as it ignores the vast laziness of so very, very many people.
If you treat people like cattle and expect them to act like cattle, there's a pretty fair chance that a lot of them are going to end up acting like cattle. A society based on "treat me how I expect to be treated or I'll sue" or "conform to what the authorities claim are norms or go to jail" is not going anywhere anyone needs it to go. Those aren't human conditions.
young men are last on the list when shelters are overcrowded.
As a single young man I can say that single young men are last on the list for just about everything.
Wait'll you're a single old man, and we'll talk. Oh yeah, I'll be dead then.
If Windows users and Linux users wanted the same things out of their operating systems all of them would be using Linux ...
Assuming Linux provided those things at least as well as Windows, of course.
It does here. A good carpenter doesn't blame his tools. If you can't make it shine, spend money. Others will.
Apparently, the judges are only pissed enough to say they are pissed.
Can you do a citizen's arrest of Clapper?
The State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large. -- Murray Rothbard
The State is the worst sort of bandit gang. Other gangs don't go around insisting on reforming morals and doing damned near anything they please in herding us like cattle, because it's what's good for us.
I don't personally care that much about the NSA snooping through my e-mails. But if some criminal can read them just as easily, it's a different story.
How do you differentiate between the two?
I know, MS do the same thing with v1 of ...
WTF cares what they do, and why drag them into this triumph/tragedy?
when a company has more than $200 billion in market capitalization, there are lots of ways to spread it around.
What does this even mean? Does Timothy actually think market cap is money that IBM has on hand? How exactly would IBM "spread around" their market cap value?
Try a thought experiment. IBM walks into a bank and announces they've $200 billion in market capitalization to spread around. How many bank officers do you envision falling all over themselves trying to find a way to satisfy the request?
... sometimes the best results are not found in the free market. For example we pay more than other first world nations for healthcare and get less of it. Clearly not a good result. The same thing with cell phones, our lack of regulation is preventing a good result.
So, so wrong, hard to know where to begin. You have an FCC, FFS. Why do you think coverage is split up among vendors like fiefdoms? Why is it so many have only one (if that) choice of provider? You think the free market created this mess?
Without ads, there would be no internet career, and the internet as we know it would not exist.
Yeah, it'd just be a whole mass of writings, blogs, documentation, discussions, ... Wikipedia, Urban Dictionary, freemathhelp.com, ... techdirt, torrentfreak, xkcd, ...
Thank $DEITY for advertising saving us from that. I *love* spending time on vendor websites. *-)