I think it's the Media that is, as usual, massaging the message here.
I don't blame people for not having a huge reaction, because everyone probably figures his is inevitable. The title shouldn't be "people don't care about security" it should be "people are resigned to Boomba, or death by Boomba." We are going to get boombad by the NSA or someone else.
Isn't it curious that the NSA seems to have more leaks now after Snowden than before?
You would think there would be more scrutiny.
I can imagine two scenarios; 1) There is some welcome internal discussion bleeding out to question what the NSA is doing to itself and if it's actually useful to collect all the data. 2) Misinformation is trying to make it look like the NSA is a goofy information hoarder drowning in it's collection of bits and bytes and was never able to track or control anything. That's right folks -- you were safe all along from our doddering old "Man from UNCLE."
The EVIDENCE we have so far is that they are indeed large and unwieldy, and that because they were corrupt and caring more about power than security, they hired contractors like Snowden, who had access to everything. If they weren't corrupt and incompetent -- we wouldn't have ever heard of Snowden.
But then again, we learn that the NSA is smart enough to pre-seed a lot of security groups and "help them" make encryption standards that the NSA can get into through the back door. They set up complex and covert pipes into Google, AT&T and all of Europe. We haven't head from leakers at that end of the organization -- just the low level data storage flunkies.
What I think is going on is that the NSA is a large Elephant -- and some people only see the end they have access to, and from there it looks harmless. The parts we don't hear from, are the dangerous end. But watch that you don't get buried in large amounts of bowel movement before it tramples you. There is no way to know anything about the organization because it is all lies -- that's what it has done very well for years now.
They've recruited some of the brightest minds on the planet. They have data collected from everywhere. If Google can route the entire internet to everyone else on the internet, then I'm sure the NSA an manage to have some way to abstract all their data collection. You are only going to get leaks from people on the edges who do not have the big picture. We need to be wary of what information accidentally comes our way from the tightly controlled, smart end of the NSA.
I have to agree with the point that there are no places to hang out. But as a Dad who is not as energetic as he should be, and who has fallen off the gravy train -- I wish my kid could be on a bit of a treadmill.
Kids are inside using social media because parents are too frightened to let them hang out -- but why should they be hanging out? Are they going to be happier learning to smoke cigarettes and shoplift by the convenience store until someone chases them off? Kids do well with down-time, but not too much down time.
I'd love my kids to be going to piano lessons.
So what is happening for MOST people? They are going through the motions. Kids are on XBox and Social media because parents have no time/money/energy. It's the new baby sitter. They might be better off "hanging out" -- but Parents are too frightened because they've been fed a diet of daily atrocities by the news media. 1 Crazy act per day in a population of 350 million is not representative, but emotionally, people feel they are living in Beirut.
1 kid will be on the treadmill to be catapulted to stardom at Yale, and the other 99 will have tattoos and asking him if they want fries with that order the rest of their life. There is nothing stopping this trend that I can see in the near future. Be thankful if you can even rent the treadmill for a while.
So in summary you are saying; Extending the PCI-E bus to peripherals is a better option for data than SATA because there is less CPU overhead? Or are you saying that Thunderbolt is like a "networked" version of PCI-E?
And what is everyone arguing about beyond which end of an egg to open first?
Then I read "ustolemyname" say; "Actually, Thunderbolt on Macs deviate from the specification a fair bit." I was under the impression that it was Apple and INTEL that worked on Thunderbolt to CREATE THE SPEC in the first place -- so does that comment have any validity?
I'm just curious -- this is a low level discussion but I can't really tell so far what it means other than that Thunderbolt and PCI-E extensions are implemented fairly well in the real world.
450W power supply? That's not a lot - it doesn't sound like you'll be getting maximum performance out of that hardware.
That's because they've got Flash Ram and not a hard drive. The most power hungry thing in the box is the graphics cards. Note that the add-ons will be via Thunderbolt? How does WATT usage translate into computing power?
IN 3 months you can make a point about it being too expensive, but by then there will be "apps for that" over-priced well designed system and not for the PCs that don't exist. Maybe Apple will upgrade their device? Who knows... maybe in 3 months you will have a useful point.
I think the mistake being made is people are judging this Mac Pro based on current Apps. It's like judging the iPhone as just a cell phone and MP3 player. I'm fairly sure Apple is making a new platform, and the developers who take advantage of dual GPUs will be around shortly to make a big splash. The software cannot come out that competes with a Flame until the hardware is there.
Just grabbing some hardware and trying to reproduce this Mac pro with raw specs is not getting down to the research on latency and data pipelines that likely went on with this new Mac. For the same reason that race cars don't have trailers hitched to the back. Also -- there's a very good reason they didn't make an expandable cabinet and wanted every peripheral on a Thunderbolt attachment -- because they have a closely coupled device with little margin for error at the top end.
I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that PC manufacturers are not going to make STABLE replicas of this box for some time. They also might not have the software that justifies the investment.
As for the price - for $10000 you could get a decent sized Dell PowerEdge server; or even a Sun SPARC, IBM pSeries or HP if that takes your fancy....Or you could work with the required 2K video that a professional will want to be sending in to make a movie or a TV show.
I appreciate you pointing out that its a lot of money to play video games. It's likely if you aren't processing 50 gig files and 2K streams than this Work Horse isn't for you. What a concept.
the people complaining about a lack of privacy today are people that snapchat, twitter, and facebook regularly.
How is your hypothetical about people complaining all being on FaceBook (I'm not) any different about people complaining about Snowden's revelations based on hypothetical ways he COULD HAVE (but not really) made his revelations on US soil? In addition; these are chosen public displays -- not stolen information. It's the difference between dressing up and being silly at a party, and someone taking snapshots of you sitting on the toilet. How can you not get the difference?
There is a problem, and it is impossible to have a Democracy where all data is seized and we have laws selectively enforced. It also allows for extortion if politicians and journalists with power have some peccadilloes they'd rather keep secret.
When someone is heroic and does the right thing -- and you bitch about what kind of shoes they wore, that says more about you. Sounds like you are more attuned to the gossip column than philosophy.
The shortcomings of Snowden not making his revelations within range of a sniper rifle remind me that I don't follow The Jesus because he didn't jog on the water. I mean, he just walked. What kind of example about physical fitness is that?
You've picked your nit accurately and with great force.
If I were going to pick a slightly larger nit, it would be that sunspot activity likely has a profound effect on EM activity with the earth and it likely produces more Ozone due to increased charging of the magnetosphere -- it's part of the reason I think that increases in solar output are counterbalanced by an increase in the capacity for the upper atmosphere to block radiation.
The sun is actually really, really balanced in output, because any increase in Fusion and heat causes it to expand, which causes it to cool, which reduces fusion and then heat. The entire system is a marvel of self-regulation. To think that a giant ball of burning gas can be stable within a few degrees.
Yeah, that's the way I've seen these civil forfeiture laws as well.
If you don't have money -- it's really hard living in the "home of the free."
So by taking all of someone's stuff, the justice system is denying them justice and power before proving them guilty. Loss of liberty is accomplished by putting someone in prison -- or just taking all their stuff.
Not an expert on Waco, but didn't that become a fiery death trap due to a combination of; "Stupid overbearing FBI" coupled with "Stupid zealots sitting on munitions and flammable objects"?
But while I recognize that Silk Road was illegal -- now that I've grown up a bit, I don't think it's so wrong.
What's killing us in this country is a lot of things that should be illegal, are legal. High compound interest loans. Money influencing votes. Hiring of mercenaries for war. Private contractors with tanks. FBI unaware of wrong-doing on Wall Street. I've got a LONG list of grievances.
I see a legal system that comes down hard on someone with a bag of ween but Wachovia and now HSBC got caught money laundering. Break out the kid gloves for another slap on the wrist.
Adults used bitcoins to purchase a product from Silk Road that they investigated and wanted. It'd assume to find out about this service, use bitcoins, and research the product -- we are looking at a self-selected group that would be above average in education and likely income. Not non-functioning dregs.
My point is; if all these illegal drugs were so bad, why do we need drug tests and illegal searches to tell if someone is abusing them? Why stop people for drinking and driving when we can easily tell if someone is weaving in their car -- THAT person is impaired. The person who had a glass of wine at dinner, who functioned just fine until the "surprise" road block with breathalyzer -- that person's inebriation is only detectable by sniffing alcohol -- not by judging impairment.
People die all the time and get sick eating healthy food (my wife did). I don't see a lot of celebrities with excessive lifestyles dying from illegal substances -- I see them dying of sleeping pills and prescription meds.
What exactly are we protecting people from? Yes, people can get addicted and ruin their lives -- that can happen with video games or donuts which are all still legal.
The point I'm making is; at this time, these things are illegal, but we have a system that doesn't really look out for us with bad meds, bad lead painted toys, bad spinach, bad banks, crooks with nice suites, and it spies on us all the time but never stops these activities that cause us harm. It used to be I thought the Mob was the worst thing ever -- but maybe they were only allowed because the people benefited. Without guarantees of gainful employment, without unions, without some social contract -- how do you defend yourself? You can't just join a group unless it makes money, right?
So the great damage being done right now is our system itself. I can't get excited by a guy "merely breaking the law". What good is the law going to do for my kids when their options are; Prison Guard, Mercenary, or Prostitute? That's the future I see right now for my kids. It certainly isn't College with my new job getting paid 1/8th what I used to.
"Flash forward 7 years - now it's the "liberal" guy in office, and suddenly all those horrible policies aren't considered so horrible after all..."
>> Liberal voter here. Nope -- I'm still pissed. I'm surprised the "Liberal media" wasn't informing you how troubled we are with Obama doing these things as well.
I held my nose and voted for Obama. What was my option here? Gordon Gecko? You think whichever boob we put in office isn't going to have these policies?
The reason Domestic spying is so bad is that they can use it to extort politicians, leaders and the media into compliance. Not that they need that with the way politicos have to thank zero interest loans from banks for affording office, and media personalities being titillating rather than educational.
So I don't think anyone is "OK" with this, other than people who say; "I'm OK with this -- thank you for defending my freedom!" And I think those people are idiots. I happen to know quite a few Liberals and Democrats and not many idiots. I've seen more conservatives "OK" with this domestic spying from my anecdotal experience. Not that it is productive getting in a tit-for-tat spat.
If impeaching Obama would end this -- I'd be for it. But really we need what we've always needed; campaign finance reform. Most corruption starts and ends with that.
Snowden isn't the only person who took a risk, the person stuffing that jumpsuit had to put some contents under pressure -- they risked losing their face. Much less the satellite based death beams cued to their DNA that will destroy them if they ever divulge secrets about "operation cod piece."
If we need material from the Andromeda galaxy -- in that time frame. It seems to me that we will be such a widespread and dynamic race we will have built a few thousand/million new earths by then.
And to harvest a galaxy worth of resources -- we'd have to move faster than light.
I think before that, well have developed things like Force Fields. Which I'm now more certain of than ever, once you consider that Matter should be transparent and should not be blocking other matter considering how much distance there is between protons and electrons relative to their size. Force Fields are the only thing making matter solid as far as I can tell.
So once you manipulate space/time to make it solid, perhaps you can fold space or poke a hole through it, or redefine your position (that's my most likely choice).
As long as you are thinking big, you should think big.
People without much money are just going to buy crappy food. I've had more money in the past, and I cooked wholesome dishes. For some reason I had more energy, and I could choose things like "non GM foods" and chicken that is 2nd tier.
When you have to watch the account daily, worry about bills, and sometimes you choose between gas money and having hamburger in the spaghetti -- your dishes become simpler and quicker. Along with more processed. And occasionally, you are saving time and energy so you can spend time and money distracting yourself from all the other headaches.
So there might be well motivated bean counters out there, who can factor in a healthy diet based on their projection of whatever they can find that is cheap to fit the budget - -but not necessarily anything a kid is going to eat.
You also have to factor in transportation and Bounced Checks at the bank as well as interest costs -- all the things that are an occasional nuisance for people with some money, are a weekly gotcha for those people who live half paycheck to half paycheck. They also can't get the discounts for buying in bulk, getting 6 months of insurance rather than month-to-month, and of course everything costs more based on that "special price" because of your credit rating. My gas company decided I was a credit risk so then started charging me a higher rate. AS if they were giving me a loan, and not just implementing a policy of; "You are poor and weak and we will charge you more because we can and we like more money."
Being poor = Sucks.
So everyone needs to shut the f*ck up about problems that are not theirs, and quit deciding nobody needs help because you can find a way to shave 5%. Chances people who have the wherewithal to shave these things; A) wouldn't be poor (maybe) with your accounting skills B) have hidden costs you don't know about. C) things suck and they are just coping.
So most people who are poor are eating a highly processed diet. Still not sure if vitamins are any better than saving the money and just shoving a bag of Kale in a kids mouth -- but Gummy Bear vitamins are an easier to shove item.
I'm not kidding. This is definitely one of the more interesting bits of trivia that I've learned in a long time. It means that it's common and widespread knowledge from doctors that humans need intestinal flora "training."
It's not long now until we start getting a lot smarter about immunizations and healthy living, and stop this nonsense with using anti-bacterial poisons on everything.
I still remember sterilizing bottle nipples for my boy and my anxious wife, only to discover half a cockroach in his mouth one day when he was 6 months old. I said to my wife; "Obviously, nature thinks we are being to fastidious." His mouth wouldn't be programmed to lick everything in the house if it weren't a useful process.
The only real difference I see with today's modern immunizations is that they have "dead" viruses and adjutants to excite an immune response. This may not be appropriate or the "best" way for the immune system to be trained in all cases -- and we might be seeing the proof of this by witnessing such a huge increase in food and other allergies in children. I've been pointing out to the "pro immunization" crowd for some time now, that the body may have trouble recognizing the difference between what is injected in an antivirus and what is a first exposure to a small baby. The body can reject chicken pox and peas if the baby gets an immunization with their first dose of peas.
Humans are a "biological system" -- not just DNA that instructs stem cells. And "poop on the mouth" treatments for babies is finally recognizing that we are an amalgam. A lot of these sorts of considerations need to be used when dealing with premature babies.
I'm going to predict right now -- though this isn't the first time. That "poop transplants" will be the #1 method for dieting, immune and digestive system treatments and to modify food cravings in a few years.
Advertisers and junk apps on legitimate sites are now common vectors for these trojan horses.
I can't go to Download.com anymore because there's no real way to tell the difference between; "click here to download your file" and "click here to download your file" from an ad unless you closely examine the link -- though the only difference is usually a hashed code from the same download location. They look exactly the same, but the other will download an installer to put spam on your machine and it turn it into a botnet for all intents and purposes.
You don't have to be a fool anymore -- the main reason is economics and all these "advertiser content" areas that nobody takes responsibility for have reduced the meaning of "legitimate site."
I have to go to smaller, less commercialized websites to update applications. It does actually require real research these days to find a "safe source" for an app.
I'm just impressed by an FBI that can find an anonymous prankster via TOR and a disposable email address in two days, but can't find a perpetrator who lost trillions of dollars from amongst our banks with 5 years to do it.
The FBI does have skills and a use if they apply themselves, but it appears they are more interested in treating vinegar and baking soda as terrorism and sniffing in sock drawers for MP3 files than in going after any entity that harms the public at large.
I could rebut a lot of things you just said, but I figure if people don't see what you said as moronic, they deserve the kind of system that preserves profits for a freeloading CEO over the compensation of wages for people who have to work and raise families.
He got a LOAN -- it's not a speculative investment. He got bailed out.
No, you'd be riding horses, because no-one could run a car company profitably in America, and Americans would be so poor they couldn't afford to buy imports.
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I think it's the Media that is, as usual, massaging the message here.
I don't blame people for not having a huge reaction, because everyone probably figures his is inevitable. The title shouldn't be "people don't care about security" it should be "people are resigned to Boomba, or death by Boomba." We are going to get boombad by the NSA or someone else.
Isn't it curious that the NSA seems to have more leaks now after Snowden than before?
You would think there would be more scrutiny.
I can imagine two scenarios;
1) There is some welcome internal discussion bleeding out to question what the NSA is doing to itself and if it's actually useful to collect all the data.
2) Misinformation is trying to make it look like the NSA is a goofy information hoarder drowning in it's collection of bits and bytes and was never able to track or control anything. That's right folks -- you were safe all along from our doddering old "Man from UNCLE."
The EVIDENCE we have so far is that they are indeed large and unwieldy, and that because they were corrupt and caring more about power than security, they hired contractors like Snowden, who had access to everything. If they weren't corrupt and incompetent -- we wouldn't have ever heard of Snowden.
But then again, we learn that the NSA is smart enough to pre-seed a lot of security groups and "help them" make encryption standards that the NSA can get into through the back door. They set up complex and covert pipes into Google, AT&T and all of Europe. We haven't head from leakers at that end of the organization -- just the low level data storage flunkies.
What I think is going on is that the NSA is a large Elephant -- and some people only see the end they have access to, and from there it looks harmless. The parts we don't hear from, are the dangerous end. But watch that you don't get buried in large amounts of bowel movement before it tramples you. There is no way to know anything about the organization because it is all lies -- that's what it has done very well for years now.
They've recruited some of the brightest minds on the planet. They have data collected from everywhere. If Google can route the entire internet to everyone else on the internet, then I'm sure the NSA an manage to have some way to abstract all their data collection. You are only going to get leaks from people on the edges who do not have the big picture. We need to be wary of what information accidentally comes our way from the tightly controlled, smart end of the NSA.
Oh, but you missed the best part. After everyone shouts "we are all individuals", a lone meek voice says "I'm not!".
It's the same voice that says; "but I'm not dead yet!"
In the Monte Python world, the unique individual is usually pummeled and fed to a paper lion animated by Terry Gilliam.
I have to agree with the point that there are no places to hang out. But as a Dad who is not as energetic as he should be, and who has fallen off the gravy train -- I wish my kid could be on a bit of a treadmill.
Kids are inside using social media because parents are too frightened to let them hang out -- but why should they be hanging out? Are they going to be happier learning to smoke cigarettes and shoplift by the convenience store until someone chases them off? Kids do well with down-time, but not too much down time.
I'd love my kids to be going to piano lessons.
So what is happening for MOST people? They are going through the motions. Kids are on XBox and Social media because parents have no time/money/energy. It's the new baby sitter. They might be better off "hanging out" -- but Parents are too frightened because they've been fed a diet of daily atrocities by the news media. 1 Crazy act per day in a population of 350 million is not representative, but emotionally, people feel they are living in Beirut.
1 kid will be on the treadmill to be catapulted to stardom at Yale, and the other 99 will have tattoos and asking him if they want fries with that order the rest of their life. There is nothing stopping this trend that I can see in the near future. Be thankful if you can even rent the treadmill for a while.
So in summary you are saying; Extending the PCI-E bus to peripherals is a better option for data than SATA because there is less CPU overhead? Or are you saying that Thunderbolt is like a "networked" version of PCI-E?
And what is everyone arguing about beyond which end of an egg to open first?
Then I read "ustolemyname" say; "Actually, Thunderbolt on Macs deviate from the specification a fair bit." I was under the impression that it was Apple and INTEL that worked on Thunderbolt to CREATE THE SPEC in the first place -- so does that comment have any validity?
I'm just curious -- this is a low level discussion but I can't really tell so far what it means other than that Thunderbolt and PCI-E extensions are implemented fairly well in the real world.
450W power supply? That's not a lot - it doesn't sound like you'll be getting maximum performance out of that hardware.
That's because they've got Flash Ram and not a hard drive. The most power hungry thing in the box is the graphics cards. Note that the add-ons will be via Thunderbolt? How does WATT usage translate into computing power?
IN 3 months you can make a point about it being too expensive, but by then there will be "apps for that" over-priced well designed system and not for the PCs that don't exist. Maybe Apple will upgrade their device? Who knows... maybe in 3 months you will have a useful point.
I think the mistake being made is people are judging this Mac Pro based on current Apps. It's like judging the iPhone as just a cell phone and MP3 player. I'm fairly sure Apple is making a new platform, and the developers who take advantage of dual GPUs will be around shortly to make a big splash. The software cannot come out that competes with a Flame until the hardware is there.
Just grabbing some hardware and trying to reproduce this Mac pro with raw specs is not getting down to the research on latency and data pipelines that likely went on with this new Mac. For the same reason that race cars don't have trailers hitched to the back. Also -- there's a very good reason they didn't make an expandable cabinet and wanted every peripheral on a Thunderbolt attachment -- because they have a closely coupled device with little margin for error at the top end.
I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that PC manufacturers are not going to make STABLE replicas of this box for some time. They also might not have the software that justifies the investment.
Yeah, why actually bother read stuff, let's just judge books by their cover and then make informed comments about what you think is written in them.
You say that as a hypothetical but; "bam!" that just happened.
As for the price - for $10000 you could get a decent sized Dell PowerEdge server; or even a Sun SPARC, IBM pSeries or HP if that takes your fancy. ...Or you could work with the required 2K video that a professional will want to be sending in to make a movie or a TV show.
I appreciate you pointing out that its a lot of money to play video games. It's likely if you aren't processing 50 gig files and 2K streams than this Work Horse isn't for you. What a concept.
the people complaining about a lack of privacy today are people that snapchat, twitter, and facebook regularly.
How is your hypothetical about people complaining all being on FaceBook (I'm not) any different about people complaining about Snowden's revelations based on hypothetical ways he COULD HAVE (but not really) made his revelations on US soil? In addition; these are chosen public displays -- not stolen information. It's the difference between dressing up and being silly at a party, and someone taking snapshots of you sitting on the toilet. How can you not get the difference?
There is a problem, and it is impossible to have a Democracy where all data is seized and we have laws selectively enforced. It also allows for extortion if politicians and journalists with power have some peccadilloes they'd rather keep secret.
When someone is heroic and does the right thing -- and you bitch about what kind of shoes they wore, that says more about you. Sounds like you are more attuned to the gossip column than philosophy.
The shortcomings of Snowden not making his revelations within range of a sniper rifle remind me that I don't follow The Jesus because he didn't jog on the water. I mean, he just walked. What kind of example about physical fitness is that?
You've picked your nit accurately and with great force.
If I were going to pick a slightly larger nit, it would be that sunspot activity likely has a profound effect on EM activity with the earth and it likely produces more Ozone due to increased charging of the magnetosphere -- it's part of the reason I think that increases in solar output are counterbalanced by an increase in the capacity for the upper atmosphere to block radiation.
The sun is actually really, really balanced in output, because any increase in Fusion and heat causes it to expand, which causes it to cool, which reduces fusion and then heat. The entire system is a marvel of self-regulation. To think that a giant ball of burning gas can be stable within a few degrees.
Yeah, that's the way I've seen these civil forfeiture laws as well.
If you don't have money -- it's really hard living in the "home of the free."
So by taking all of someone's stuff, the justice system is denying them justice and power before proving them guilty. Loss of liberty is accomplished by putting someone in prison -- or just taking all their stuff.
Not an expert on Waco, but didn't that become a fiery death trap due to a combination of; "Stupid overbearing FBI" coupled with "Stupid zealots sitting on munitions and flammable objects"?
But while I recognize that Silk Road was illegal -- now that I've grown up a bit, I don't think it's so wrong.
What's killing us in this country is a lot of things that should be illegal, are legal. High compound interest loans. Money influencing votes. Hiring of mercenaries for war. Private contractors with tanks. FBI unaware of wrong-doing on Wall Street. I've got a LONG list of grievances.
I see a legal system that comes down hard on someone with a bag of ween but Wachovia and now HSBC got caught money laundering. Break out the kid gloves for another slap on the wrist.
Adults used bitcoins to purchase a product from Silk Road that they investigated and wanted. It'd assume to find out about this service, use bitcoins, and research the product -- we are looking at a self-selected group that would be above average in education and likely income. Not non-functioning dregs.
My point is; if all these illegal drugs were so bad, why do we need drug tests and illegal searches to tell if someone is abusing them? Why stop people for drinking and driving when we can easily tell if someone is weaving in their car -- THAT person is impaired. The person who had a glass of wine at dinner, who functioned just fine until the "surprise" road block with breathalyzer -- that person's inebriation is only detectable by sniffing alcohol -- not by judging impairment.
People die all the time and get sick eating healthy food (my wife did). I don't see a lot of celebrities with excessive lifestyles dying from illegal substances -- I see them dying of sleeping pills and prescription meds.
What exactly are we protecting people from? Yes, people can get addicted and ruin their lives -- that can happen with video games or donuts which are all still legal.
The point I'm making is; at this time, these things are illegal, but we have a system that doesn't really look out for us with bad meds, bad lead painted toys, bad spinach, bad banks, crooks with nice suites, and it spies on us all the time but never stops these activities that cause us harm. It used to be I thought the Mob was the worst thing ever -- but maybe they were only allowed because the people benefited. Without guarantees of gainful employment, without unions, without some social contract -- how do you defend yourself? You can't just join a group unless it makes money, right?
So the great damage being done right now is our system itself. I can't get excited by a guy "merely breaking the law". What good is the law going to do for my kids when their options are; Prison Guard, Mercenary, or Prostitute? That's the future I see right now for my kids. It certainly isn't College with my new job getting paid 1/8th what I used to.
"Flash forward 7 years - now it's the "liberal" guy in office, and suddenly all those horrible policies aren't considered so horrible after all..."
>> Liberal voter here. Nope -- I'm still pissed. I'm surprised the "Liberal media" wasn't informing you how troubled we are with Obama doing these things as well.
I held my nose and voted for Obama. What was my option here? Gordon Gecko? You think whichever boob we put in office isn't going to have these policies?
The reason Domestic spying is so bad is that they can use it to extort politicians, leaders and the media into compliance. Not that they need that with the way politicos have to thank zero interest loans from banks for affording office, and media personalities being titillating rather than educational.
So I don't think anyone is "OK" with this, other than people who say; "I'm OK with this -- thank you for defending my freedom!" And I think those people are idiots. I happen to know quite a few Liberals and Democrats and not many idiots. I've seen more conservatives "OK" with this domestic spying from my anecdotal experience. Not that it is productive getting in a tit-for-tat spat.
If impeaching Obama would end this -- I'd be for it. But really we need what we've always needed; campaign finance reform. Most corruption starts and ends with that.
Snowden isn't the only person who took a risk, the person stuffing that jumpsuit had to put some contents under pressure -- they risked losing their face. Much less the satellite based death beams cued to their DNA that will destroy them if they ever divulge secrets about "operation cod piece."
If we need material from the Andromeda galaxy -- in that time frame. It seems to me that we will be such a widespread and dynamic race we will have built a few thousand/million new earths by then.
And to harvest a galaxy worth of resources -- we'd have to move faster than light.
I think before that, well have developed things like Force Fields. Which I'm now more certain of than ever, once you consider that Matter should be transparent and should not be blocking other matter considering how much distance there is between protons and electrons relative to their size. Force Fields are the only thing making matter solid as far as I can tell.
So once you manipulate space/time to make it solid, perhaps you can fold space or poke a hole through it, or redefine your position (that's my most likely choice).
As long as you are thinking big, you should think big.
People without much money are just going to buy crappy food. I've had more money in the past, and I cooked wholesome dishes. For some reason I had more energy, and I could choose things like "non GM foods" and chicken that is 2nd tier.
When you have to watch the account daily, worry about bills, and sometimes you choose between gas money and having hamburger in the spaghetti -- your dishes become simpler and quicker. Along with more processed. And occasionally, you are saving time and energy so you can spend time and money distracting yourself from all the other headaches.
So there might be well motivated bean counters out there, who can factor in a healthy diet based on their projection of whatever they can find that is cheap to fit the budget - -but not necessarily anything a kid is going to eat.
You also have to factor in transportation and Bounced Checks at the bank as well as interest costs -- all the things that are an occasional nuisance for people with some money, are a weekly gotcha for those people who live half paycheck to half paycheck. They also can't get the discounts for buying in bulk, getting 6 months of insurance rather than month-to-month, and of course everything costs more based on that "special price" because of your credit rating. My gas company decided I was a credit risk so then started charging me a higher rate. AS if they were giving me a loan, and not just implementing a policy of; "You are poor and weak and we will charge you more because we can and we like more money."
Being poor = Sucks.
So everyone needs to shut the f*ck up about problems that are not theirs, and quit deciding nobody needs help because you can find a way to shave 5%. Chances people who have the wherewithal to shave these things;
A) wouldn't be poor (maybe) with your accounting skills
B) have hidden costs you don't know about.
C) things suck and they are just coping.
So most people who are poor are eating a highly processed diet. Still not sure if vitamins are any better than saving the money and just shoving a bag of Kale in a kids mouth -- but Gummy Bear vitamins are an easier to shove item.
Woah -- mind officially *blown*!
I'm not kidding. This is definitely one of the more interesting bits of trivia that I've learned in a long time. It means that it's common and widespread knowledge from doctors that humans need intestinal flora "training."
It's not long now until we start getting a lot smarter about immunizations and healthy living, and stop this nonsense with using anti-bacterial poisons on everything.
I still remember sterilizing bottle nipples for my boy and my anxious wife, only to discover half a cockroach in his mouth one day when he was 6 months old. I said to my wife; "Obviously, nature thinks we are being to fastidious." His mouth wouldn't be programmed to lick everything in the house if it weren't a useful process.
The only real difference I see with today's modern immunizations is that they have "dead" viruses and adjutants to excite an immune response. This may not be appropriate or the "best" way for the immune system to be trained in all cases -- and we might be seeing the proof of this by witnessing such a huge increase in food and other allergies in children. I've been pointing out to the "pro immunization" crowd for some time now, that the body may have trouble recognizing the difference between what is injected in an antivirus and what is a first exposure to a small baby. The body can reject chicken pox and peas if the baby gets an immunization with their first dose of peas.
Humans are a "biological system" -- not just DNA that instructs stem cells. And "poop on the mouth" treatments for babies is finally recognizing that we are an amalgam. A lot of these sorts of considerations need to be used when dealing with premature babies.
I'm going to predict right now -- though this isn't the first time. That "poop transplants" will be the #1 method for dieting, immune and digestive system treatments and to modify food cravings in a few years.
Advertisers and junk apps on legitimate sites are now common vectors for these trojan horses.
I can't go to Download.com anymore because there's no real way to tell the difference between; "click here to download your file" and "click here to download your file" from an ad unless you closely examine the link -- though the only difference is usually a hashed code from the same download location. They look exactly the same, but the other will download an installer to put spam on your machine and it turn it into a botnet for all intents and purposes.
You don't have to be a fool anymore -- the main reason is economics and all these "advertiser content" areas that nobody takes responsibility for have reduced the meaning of "legitimate site."
I have to go to smaller, less commercialized websites to update applications. It does actually require real research these days to find a "safe source" for an app.
I don't think this is the time or place to talk about Republican budgets that intentionally create economic emergencies.
I'm just impressed by an FBI that can find an anonymous prankster via TOR and a disposable email address in two days, but can't find a perpetrator who lost trillions of dollars from amongst our banks with 5 years to do it.
The FBI does have skills and a use if they apply themselves, but it appears they are more interested in treating vinegar and baking soda as terrorism and sniffing in sock drawers for MP3 files than in going after any entity that harms the public at large.
I could rebut a lot of things you just said, but I figure if people don't see what you said as moronic, they deserve the kind of system that preserves profits for a freeloading CEO over the compensation of wages for people who have to work and raise families.
He got a LOAN -- it's not a speculative investment. He got bailed out.
Moron.
No, you'd be riding horses, because no-one could run a car company profitably in America, and Americans would be so poor they couldn't afford to buy imports.
So you've heard of Supply-Side economics?