Let's set up the Perfect Totalitarian Monitoring System. Let's just not turn it on. There's a big red button sitting there, with a label, "Enable Big Brother." If you push that button, you are Big Brother. What kind of creeps will come out of the woodwork, scheming to get to that button? How hard will they work to get there?
Every step seems like another step to that System. And one day, a crisis will happen, and the right man is there to push it, and the mobs will cheer him for it.
Not everything is a facist government conspiracy to rob you of your freedom.
Uh, almost all government activity is designed to aggregate government power. That usually means loss of our liberty. It's not a conspiracy, because it's out in the open. I mean, all government activity is open and transparent to anyone who's inclined to look. That's why Congressional investigations are a waste of time.
How would you not tie it to 9/11? When you want total control, you will do anything to achieve it. Even using a tragic event as a means to what you want.
Reichstag fire (Germany), general disintegration (Russia, 1917), 9/11, it's all the same. The opportunists strike when the iron is hot.
When you fill in a Visa-waiver form to enter the US, "Are you a terrorist, or have you ever been involved in terrorist activities?" is one of the very questions on the sheet.
Reminds me of the Gary Larson Far Side cartoon, where the alien, badly disguised as a human, replies to a human, "why yes, thank you, I _would_ like a knuckle sandwich."
Dupes are a favorite way for people to troll for mod points. Just look at the old article thread, find the "5, informative" articles, and say the same thing. Sit back and watch the mod points roll in. Oh, wait, I see you've done that already!
"look for apple and you have to troll through three pages of... before you find apple computer..."
Quick check. Searching for "apple" and you replicate the article's finding. However, my instinct would be to search for "apples", and _that_ search brings up a completely different result. The very first result is "Apples and More" and is all about _apples_, for gosh sake!
As Mark Twain said, there is a big difference between Lightning and Lightning Bug.
How nice on an impartial journalistic source to pick holes in google which are almost certainly specific areas which microsoft has chosen to optimise.
This is insightful? Is rather naive, the idea that there is an impartial journalistic source out there somewhere. The ones you certainly _can't_ rely on are the ones that claim impartiality. The ones that own up to their biases, you can easily apply filters.
There's a certain honesty you get when someone is not in the "I'm impartial" delusion, even when they're wrong about something, or you disagree with them.
Fuggedaboutit. It doesn't print smooth, beautiful color blends. Imagine a gradual white-gray transition. You can see gray dots, and they get thicker and denser. It is not even close to photo quality. The ink sticks (some kind of wax, really), go on the paper glossy, too. OK, this was for a Phaser 850DX.
RFID's are a tool. As such they can be useful or they can be abused just like any other tool. (cars, pharmaceuticals, guns, databases etc...etc...etc...).
No! No! Some tools are _moral agents_, and are able, on their own, to be evil, or to influence people to do evil!
Well, hopefully the smart guys on the Kernel team are thinking about this already, not running in circles under some dilusion that the issue will not come up.
Imagine SCO going after Bitkeeper. Message to Kernel team: "You are 0wn3d!"
Functionality. Maybe it's a stretch, but RMS is more like Patrick Henry, breathing fire for liberty, willing to go to the wall for Liberty. Linus is more like a Tory who has no particular commitment to liberty. As long as he's comfortable, it's all OK.
Nah, part of the attraction to things like Dilbert is the powerlessness of those who realize how bad things are to change them.
This is an old thread in humanity. On the religious side, it's Calvinism. On the atheism side, it's selfish genes. In psychology, it's Freud's stuff. It's all a form of demonology, and it all sells. We all would like to know it's not our fault, we can't help it.
One would think the seriousness of a crime would dictate the amount of punishment, as in, murder should rank up there at the top.
Ah, but crimes against the State have always been more serious than similar crimes against individuals. Murder someone: bad. Murder a cop: doubleplusbad. Kite a check: bad. Cheat on your taxes: doubleplusbad.
IOW, the State takes care of itself first. Now, we live in the days of the CorporatistState, where big gov't and big corporations work hand-in-glove (notice how the Repubs and Dems are good buddies so often theses days?). So you can expect big corporations and the State to take care of each other. And this law is a perfect example.
Your response shows an ignorance of case law and the preeminent judicial interpretation of the constitution.
Your response shows an ignorance of the fact that the Central State (via the Judiciary) gets to interpret what the Central State can do. That is _the_ fly in the ointment, and most often, the three branches collude to extend their power.
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How can you tell the difference?
Every step seems like another step to that System. And one day, a crisis will happen, and the right man is there to push it, and the mobs will cheer him for it.
Uh, almost all government activity is designed to aggregate government power. That usually means loss of our liberty. It's not a conspiracy, because it's out in the open. I mean, all government activity is open and transparent to anyone who's inclined to look. That's why Congressional investigations are a waste of time.
Reichstag fire (Germany), general disintegration (Russia, 1917), 9/11, it's all the same. The opportunists strike when the iron is hot.
Reminds me of the Gary Larson Far Side cartoon, where the alien, badly disguised as a human, replies to a human, "why yes, thank you, I _would_ like a knuckle sandwich."
OK. The government cannot be scaled back.
I'll be waiting.
Better stock up! I recommend Gold and Guns (don't forget the ammo!).
Dupes are a favorite way for people to troll for mod points. Just look at the old article thread, find the "5, informative" articles, and say the same thing. Sit back and watch the mod points roll in. Oh, wait, I see you've done that already!
Stuff like this helps us all remember that our news sources are _businesses_, first of all, not Holy and Impartial Providers of The Truth.
Quick check. Searching for "apple" and you replicate the article's finding. However, my instinct would be to search for "apples", and _that_ search brings up a completely different result. The very first result is "Apples and More" and is all about _apples_, for gosh sake!
As Mark Twain said, there is a big difference between Lightning and Lightning Bug.
Nothing is wrong with the picture. Are the points in the article true or not true? Or will you comfort yourself with ad hominem fallacies?
This is insightful? Is rather naive, the idea that there is an impartial journalistic source out there somewhere. The ones you certainly _can't_ rely on are the ones that claim impartiality. The ones that own up to their biases, you can easily apply filters.
There's a certain honesty you get when someone is not in the "I'm impartial" delusion, even when they're wrong about something, or you disagree with them.
Fuggedaboutit. It doesn't print smooth, beautiful color blends. Imagine a gradual white-gray transition. You can see gray dots, and they get thicker and denser. It is not even close to photo quality. The ink sticks (some kind of wax, really), go on the paper glossy, too. OK, this was for a Phaser 850DX.
Don't do it, it's run by the FBI/CIA/NSA!
Thanks for the laugh, I needed one about right now.
Logical fallacy: straw man.
Prove it. You can't use yourself as an example, maybe you were born warped.
No! No! Some tools are _moral agents_, and are able, on their own, to be evil, or to influence people to do evil!
Imagine SCO going after Bitkeeper. Message to Kernel team: "You are 0wn3d!"
Functionality. Maybe it's a stretch, but RMS is more like Patrick Henry, breathing fire for liberty, willing to go to the wall for Liberty. Linus is more like a Tory who has no particular commitment to liberty. As long as he's comfortable, it's all OK.
We're boycotting DirecTV. We are, aren't we? I mean, they're an evil litigious corp, right? Somebody help me here, anybody. Bueller?
This is an old thread in humanity. On the religious side, it's Calvinism. On the atheism side, it's selfish genes. In psychology, it's Freud's stuff. It's all a form of demonology, and it all sells. We all would like to know it's not our fault, we can't help it.
Nice weather we're having up here in Redmond, aren't we? (No, _I_ don't work at MS, just nearby.)
Ah, but crimes against the State have always been more serious than similar crimes against individuals. Murder someone: bad. Murder a cop: doubleplusbad. Kite a check: bad. Cheat on your taxes: doubleplusbad.
IOW, the State takes care of itself first. Now, we live in the days of the CorporatistState, where big gov't and big corporations work hand-in-glove (notice how the Repubs and Dems are good buddies so often theses days?). So you can expect big corporations and the State to take care of each other. And this law is a perfect example.
Your response shows an ignorance of the fact that the Central State (via the Judiciary) gets to interpret what the Central State can do. That is _the_ fly in the ointment, and most often, the three branches collude to extend their power.