Used the American defense system properly. Not done multiple simultaneous, resource-taxing "war drills". Put the military on notice that airliners were to be watched.
Geeze, how about follow standard procedure.
Put the whole country under martial law?
They've done that, in the meantime.
Shut down all commerical businesses and transportation and unroll millions of miles of razor wire?
the only solution is the eradication, entirely, of the notion of 'personal data'. by that, i mean: you personally should be recording everything, not just the company. both sides should have their full records, for there to be 'fairness'.
until there is such a common, accepted, standardized practice, there will always be a mis-balance of corporate-Entity(knowledge of individuals) versus indepent-Entity(knowledge of corporate state). the reason we hate big brother is because we have no control over him; we'd accept his conditions, if turnabout was enforced by the state, and we had just as much public oversight of government as 'it' does 'us'.
from now on, simply record every single thing you do, anything thats a part of an agreement made with some company, yourself. save every single thing 'they' print you, put it in your system so that you data-mine them. use your digital prowess to record as much of your 'person->corporation' interaction as possible.
do it for a year, and then see how you feel about corporate loss of data.
its an odd thing, but in fact total-awareness is the only solution to problems of individual privacy versus corporate responsibility. its a wry old universe, doing the irony thing again..
Those programmers who are talented and ambitious work in game studios. Those programmers who aren't do it for free. FOSS just happens to fall into the mix.
Blatant dialectic materialism.
Such logic is not the finest, you know.. life is not as polar as your society inclines..
Is it really that hard to find someone with an original new idea for a game?
So what? They're doing it for their own fun, not yours. Why should you judge them by market standards which are inapplicable: Its free. Therefore, it doesn't have to push the event horizon in order to lure suckers...
Honestly. What is with you "oh, this is passé" dilettantes? Must everything be fresh and new? That route leads to fascism, you know...
I'm not saying education is bad, but you put far too much importance on it. Lack of education is but one of the problems people in poor countries face.
I have a right to record everything I do, everywhere I go. If others are recording me, why not record them?
Sure, video of a video camera is banal. But if I'm under surveillance at a checkpoint into my local.. say.. grocery store.. and my interaction with the.. grocery store.. clerk is going to be recorded and archived for all eternitys' sake, then I have a right to ensure that my record of the event is as accurately recorded as theirs.
It might seem banal, but I've wanted for years to be able to take a very small, portable, efficient recording device with me, pretty much anywhere I may be recorded by such devices myself.
Turnabout is fair play. If we become an "Observer Society" (rather than the "Spectator" one we are now), then there won't be any need for "Big Brother" fascism.. we'll all be just as equally fascist as each other, and thus: no problem!
And if you've got a computer, you've got education.
I find it frustrating that you can't understand this. You may not use your computer for very educative purposes, but for sure the unwashed masses know that, with a little reading and understanding, great things can happen.
A text-file on how to dig a water well and maintain it, for example, is worth countless bytes. Cheap computers can offer information on how to treat disease, in a form that can be easily understood by many, and easily reproduced.
All those wonderful intellectual-property problems of computers are just as applicable to solving the problems of education, you know..
Do not overlook the importance of education in the role of eradicating the problems of the poor. Many times, Indian villages are so destitute simply because their membership does not know how to manage their environment; computer-based education on such matters can assist the situation immensely.
Applying your standards of computer use to the scenario would only be appropriate if in fact these Simputers were being shipped to decadant well-fed grid-dwellers who don't use their technology to enhance themselves.. whereas Indian villagers with a cheap "Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy" might use it to self-educate themselves very well indeed...
It will be interesting to see just how Authoritarian the Channels of the Masses will become, however.. perhaps we will see a death to the Authoritarian Viewpoint so many sheeple parrot in their daily lives.
I sure hope so. Sick of robo-clone didactism. Fuck you, TV!
I'll start browsing the Channels of the Masses soon enough, however. Bound to find something way more interesting than anything the current crew of mafia have to offer...
When it comes to speaking your mind about almost anything, few countries or people have it as good as the people of the United States, even in this post-September 11 world.
horse shit. citizens of the united states are programmed to abhor free expression. insta-jerks abound, ready to refute the dialectic at a moments materialism. if you're not "talking normal", you're not being listened to..
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Its only a conspiracy theory until it is proven.
Witholding evidence and obfuscating the scene works solely to prevent conspiracy theories from being proven.
Fact is, the American people are being lied to by their government.
Iron Mountain is still operating!
What should have the government done?
.. pfft...
Used the American defense system properly. Not done multiple simultaneous, resource-taxing "war drills". Put the military on notice that airliners were to be watched.
Geeze, how about follow standard procedure.
Put the whole country under martial law?
They've done that, in the meantime.
Shut down all commerical businesses and transportation and unroll millions of miles of razor wire?
They've done this too.
Oh, wait, "no they havent"
Who benefitted from 9/11?
ANSWER: BUSH AND HIS NEO-CON CRONIES. The American Military-Industrial Complex.
It was ignored, because it was advantageous for those morons to have such an activity occur in the midst of their failing, corrupt, reign of power.
The fact is, Americans were betrayed. Revolt, or change the channel!
.. but stopped in the 90's.
if you don't read DDJ, or its a 'mainstreamed business journal', what sort of programmer-tech literature/magazines do you read?
the only solution is the eradication, entirely, of the notion of 'personal data'. by that, i mean: you personally should be recording everything, not just the company. both sides should have their full records, for there to be 'fairness'.
until there is such a common, accepted, standardized practice, there will always be a mis-balance of corporate-Entity(knowledge of individuals) versus indepent-Entity(knowledge of corporate state). the reason we hate big brother is because we have no control over him; we'd accept his conditions, if turnabout was enforced by the state, and we had just as much public oversight of government as 'it' does 'us'.
from now on, simply record every single thing you do, anything thats a part of an agreement made with some company, yourself. save every single thing 'they' print you, put it in your system so that you data-mine them. use your digital prowess to record as much of your 'person->corporation' interaction as possible.
do it for a year, and then see how you feel about corporate loss of data.
its an odd thing, but in fact total-awareness is the only solution to problems of individual privacy versus corporate responsibility. its a wry old universe, doing the irony thing again..
Just ask Israel for a backup.
let me know how that turns out.
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Seems like it turned out pretty good to me
Mod the URL, and do a grep on it, to see more details about how 'us lame non-artistic programmers' are helping 'artists' create rich content
Snobbish pedantry aside, open-source Art software is Art.
Farking Secret Computer Knerds.
Those programmers who are talented and ambitious work in game studios. Those programmers who aren't do it for free. FOSS just happens to fall into the mix.
.. life is not as polar as your society inclines..
Blatant dialectic materialism.
Such logic is not the finest, you know
Is it really that hard to find someone with an original new idea for a game?
So what? They're doing it for their own fun, not yours. Why should you judge them by market standards which are inapplicable: Its free. Therefore, it doesn't have to push the event horizon in order to lure suckers...
Honestly. What is with you "oh, this is passé" dilettantes? Must everything be fresh and new? That route leads to fascism, you know...
.. game engine and game graphics?
Clearly, you are clueless. The engine has nothing to do with the graphics.
Godamn, I pay $3000 for a laptop, and I can't suspend it to disk?
This really irks me, even though I'm a fanboix.
.. designed to keep the raff in order.
.. except build another one, right on top of it, as quickly as we can..
"UAE Driver #4023, you are fined one credit for violation of the State Fashion Law, Article II, Clause 3, 'Turban Wrapping Instructions'"
The New World Order is upon us! There is nothing we can do about it
I'm not saying education is bad, but you put far too much importance on it. Lack of education is but one of the problems people in poor countries face.
It is the primary problem.
I suppose you've never heard of Art versus Fascism, either, eh?
.. THEY'RE STILL THINKING ABOUT IT!
Here's a clue: you use Art to call attention to something. If people think your "Art is Stupid"
Honest, just go back to your little idiot-box spoon-fed idealism. Leave the true hacking to those who hack.
Does this make sense to anyone?
.. say .. grocery store .. and my interaction with the .. grocery store .. clerk is going to be recorded and archived for all eternitys' sake, then I have a right to ensure that my record of the event is as accurately recorded as theirs.
.. we'll all be just as equally fascist as each other, and thus: no problem!
Yes, absolutely.
I have a right to record everything I do, everywhere I go. If others are recording me, why not record them?
Sure, video of a video camera is banal. But if I'm under surveillance at a checkpoint into my local
It might seem banal, but I've wanted for years to be able to take a very small, portable, efficient recording device with me, pretty much anywhere I may be recorded by such devices myself.
Turnabout is fair play. If we become an "Observer Society" (rather than the "Spectator" one we are now), then there won't be any need for "Big Brother" fascism
.. that really helps people.
..
.. whereas Indian villagers with a cheap "Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy" might use it to self-educate themselves very well indeed ...
And if you've got a computer, you've got education.
I find it frustrating that you can't understand this. You may not use your computer for very educative purposes, but for sure the unwashed masses know that, with a little reading and understanding, great things can happen.
A text-file on how to dig a water well and maintain it, for example, is worth countless bytes. Cheap computers can offer information on how to treat disease, in a form that can be easily understood by many, and easily reproduced.
All those wonderful intellectual-property problems of computers are just as applicable to solving the problems of education, you know
Do not overlook the importance of education in the role of eradicating the problems of the poor. Many times, Indian villages are so destitute simply because their membership does not know how to manage their environment; computer-based education on such matters can assist the situation immensely.
Applying your standards of computer use to the scenario would only be appropriate if in fact these Simputers were being shipped to decadant well-fed grid-dwellers who don't use their technology to enhance themselves
It will be interesting to see just how Authoritarian the Channels of the Masses will become, however .. perhaps we will see a death to the Authoritarian Viewpoint so many sheeple parrot in their daily lives.
I sure hope so. Sick of robo-clone didactism. Fuck you, TV!
I don't watch TV. Its all crap.
...
I'll start browsing the Channels of the Masses soon enough, however. Bound to find something way more interesting than anything the current crew of mafia have to offer
No more control of the air-waves by special interest groups.
No more religious-right influence on content.
No more psy-ops programs at weekday prime-time.
Girlfriend, you've got your own TV show...
I for one welcome our self-producing-TV-show overlord masters. The previous ones were crap!!
You can so turn Linux into a platform.
The way you do that is wrap hardware around it.
Enough said.
And Czech Budweiser is among the best in the world.
Seriously.
bin laden is a CIA lackey. what part of that don't you fully and completely understand?
When it comes to speaking your mind about almost anything, few countries or people have it as good as the people of the United States, even in this post-September 11 world.
..
horse shit. citizens of the united states are programmed to abhor free expression. insta-jerks abound, ready to refute the dialectic at a moments materialism. if you're not "talking normal", you're not being listened to
extremist statements such as: Osama Bin Laden was not behind 9/11, 9/11 was an "intervention",
you, sir, are an example of why 'make something sound extreme and nobody will believe it' works as a modern propaganda technique.
WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN WAS BEHIND 9/11? YOUR GOVERNMENT *IS* SUPPRESSING IT!
there is more evidence that 9/11 *was* a CIA operation, than there is evidence that a group called "Al Q'Aeda" was behind it.
slavish devotion to the 'common line' is extremism too, you know.