I imagine as you say this, that there is froth and spittle being flecked all over the screen and keyboard you use.
I'm typing at this moment on a shiny proprietary OS based on open source core and bowser that have received huge improvements. I watch stupid anime shows at night, and likely, I've been sucked into this shiny hedonistic fly trap you so abhor.
Yet part of me notes that you forgot to mention how Android came to be slapped on top of someone else's JAVA, and I expect that Samsung will fork it, and then sue Google for copyright infringement because they didn't patent X, Y and Z in China... any day now.
The week after that, well all be getting LINUX distress in Kanji, just to have drivers that work with all the Chinese components. Nobody will hear your screams about hapless free labor hobbyists over the sounds of pre-pubescent teen bands repurposing classic British rock songs but in cuter, more colorful ways. Led Zeppelin and rap fused with pink bows and a giggle.
I'll remember that it all started here with someone on a blog, championing the efforts of rag tag free labor hobbyists who became pawns in this epic struggle. Not realizing that there were deeper, darker forces at play than Apple and it's devil-spawned walled gardens.
They "break the law" in order to follow their agenda and 'get the bad guys'. Only -- who really are the bad guys? A few hackers out there who annoy banks? More likely, mobsters who routinely extort these companies for their own databases and get paid off without the public knowing.
But who protects us from a DOJ that knows everything, but doesn't arrest bankers and Wall Street crooks -- and meanwhile, they arrest people protesting this massive corruption for loitering in parks or on trumped up charges?
Who protects us from an NSA that knows everything, and inevitably sells the data on Americans to private companies, who then sell this data to whatever foreign government or company that wants it?
So many of these agencies demand less public oversight and more access to private data -- what exactly, is this army of security obsessed people really providing? Their future energy is going to be spent merely going after anyone who threatens their own power -- the original purpose of why they were "cutting corners for justice" will be long forgotten.
However, the "modern" person has more to cope with, than just the loss of nomadic freedom.
Now we've got long forms, complex investments, licensing fees. Most of us aren't farming or doing the things that the herders turned farmers had to cope with.
So perhaps we now use ritalin and oxycontin to "cope" with the coping for our new, non-nomadic technical lifestyle.
I'm not sure however, so I'll tweet the idea to my friends and take another anti-depressant.
our survival doesn't directly depend on acceptance by those around us. Sure, I might not have a job if I'm a douche-bag, but chances are I can still find a way to survive.
Ironically, a lot of douchebags today figure dream of a future where society breaks down. In the dream, they all survive -- figuring nobody else will think to use a gun. They also don't dream about the time and energy it takes to procure and process food -- as it doesn't befit their glamorous notions of survival.
Douchebags are allowed to survive and thrive because of society, and thus society is in jeopardy if too many douchebags are allowed to survive. Truly, they are the seeds of our own undoing.
Well brewing Beer is kind of a resource intensive process if all you wanted to do was kill bacteria.
What is forgotten here is that the "earlier form of beer" was more of a Meade. It's a high protein, high carb health drink in comparison to today's beer.
So the "Meade" allowed nomadic tribes to convert grains into more available proteins -- whatever it did socially, just from the dietary basis the production of "Meade" made a lot of sense for a stationary society.
I get your point, but I think you and Slashdot have to come to terms with the fact that "nano" is now buzz-word compliant. It's like how "Sanitation Engineer" started making everyone an engineer.
"Nano" actually now means "small" to the press. I'm sorry it isn't technically correct, but you are going to have to get used to it.
Now, I've got some bad news to tell you about "quantum" as well...
I don't think you could be sure that the US isn't the #1 snoop on the planet.
They've been building a MASSIVE data center -- I believe in Colorado (after the one in Utah). It could well be "private company" run, as that would make it "legal" with a few hand washing exercises.
We learned that AT&T sought and received indemnity for copying their entire pipe to the NSA during some internal spying investigations.
So no -- the only reason they can't list where the US is on the list of "spying on citizens" is because they are way more sophisticated than Saudi Arabia.
Though they must be tone deaf because it's a major source of anger amongst internet savvy blogizens. They need more security due to the existence of their security. And they can't trust their citizens anymore because we can't trust them.
Not being in Bradley Mannings head -- I can only go from my own thoughts on the matter. And if I had information that I felt the world needed to know, but it upset the status quo, NYT or any of the leading rags wouldn't even be on my radar.
Wikileaks is the only group, outside of a few internet blogs, who I know would get the information out.
The other PLUS is that presumably, they don't even know who sends them the information - and it's likely the Government caught Manning using techniques that would have been illegal before Bush suspended our Constitution until further notice.
LOL, they should give them ALL the IP Addresses that connected and pad it with about a terabyte of possible IP addresses.
Technically they comply -- but trolls will have to sift out all the chaff.
Too funny.
Sine a lot of connectors IP addresses are going to change as the ISPs recycle them -- they could just leave off the dates and for the most part, having the IP address would be useless.
But it would really be sad if they had to comply with such a court order, as it totally abuses the justice system to intimidate and silence free "anonymous" speech. Companies don't have right to exist, after all.
I would normally agree but the whole thing sounds preposterous. The gravitational pull of a spaceship is negligible. If you're going to send a spaceship up there and let it "hover" why not just have it actually contact the meteor and use its thrusters to push it out of the way?
The way the universe works doesn't really depend, in any way, upon you finding physics "acceptable".
And a great many people, who clearly are vastly more knowledgeable than you, have done the math and know what they're talking about
I was just assuming that the Universe preferred to favor the direct thrust of rockets rather than the gentle, baby's breathe effect of gravity what with its tiny mass. However you disparage the notion of thrusters because you heard something out of Neil deGrasse Tyson and swooned to adopt it as gospel.// Sorry, I'm forced to watch "Gone with the Wind" by my wife right now, and I do declare it has affected my sensibilities.
So for people who can be clever and manipulate their tax nexus -- doing absolutely zilch for the common man. They get to "win."
Someone else works hard, isn't clever with tax manipulation, ends up being ridiculed as a "burden on society" by Libertarians when he gets to retirement and only Social Security is available because Merrill Lynch screwed him on returns.
So from a purely citizen--oriented, non-tax manipulating perspective of a person who is more and more convinced we need to become a Socialist Democracy; go fuck yourself.
If you need a working diagram on how to accomplish this particular manipulation of your non-taxed member, I'll be happy to provide one.
Wow -- that was an impressive rant. I fail to see how "webkit" and standards-based HTML is the same as what we dealt with from Internet Explorer. I've yet to see a "safari only" website.
How are you PAYING for the tollbooth that is MPEG/LA when you visit a site? Probably the only time a fee comes up is if someone is asking you to purchase content. I'd love for there NOT to be some patent costs for video -- but can't you see why Apple went with MPEG4? The only other viable video codec at the time was WMV (Microsoft), Sorenson (more fees), and that company I can barely remember but used to be another giant fee collector.
Google had to reverse engineer their own video platform -- but you probably pay for that by constant commercials and getting all your privacy sold off. I'd much prefer paying a bit of money up front to Apple than wondering why everybody knows I've got ADHD by using Google and Facebook.
There's nothing free (really) and any company that is going to spend the money to develop something is going to want some advantage over another - not give away their IP.
Blame Capitalism first if you really don't like this battle of competing non-standards. But really -- web development is more standardized now than at any time I know of since Mozaic and Netscape first arrived.
I learned from a friend who read a book (true story), that a good portion of the USA's greenhouse gases are from raising cattle. But it doesn't HAVE to be that way -- the cows are releasing a lot of methane because they have a hard time digesting the food industrial farms give them; corn.
Since the corn tears up their stomachs, they are given antibiotics. Another factoid is that if they weren't slaughtered in 2 years, they'd probably die anyway from the ravages of their diet. But that works out conveniently, because "Mad Cow" was never eradicated -- they just started a policy of not allowing the Bulls to live beyond 18 months; mad cow doesn't develop, problem solved.
So the whole "pooping in the wrong place" problem is due to not being in a grass field -- where it isn't a problem. The Green House gases problem is due to cows not eating grass. And so is the mad cow disease (not being fed other cows). Add on the bacteria resistance, hormones and other deleterious elements of modern beef on the human diet -- and we've got a situation where almost all the problems we face with cows are due to the unnatural nature of how we raise them.
That would still leave the many gallons of water to produce one pound of beef. We're better off raising Ostriches.
If Famers had to pay a "methane" tax -- we'd solve this issue in a year.
It's another good sign that people are truly waking up to the reality of what kind of society humanity needs going forward. There's no way a "capitalist society" can manage dwindling resources on a finite planet -- or "reducing markets" which would occur if we started to deal with overpopulation.
A few years ago, I finally read comments on Slashdot that were against the "sainted" Libertarian culture that was so prevalent. Perhaps some young studs who could program were now older, and realized that they wouldn't always be healthy, nor that everyone they knew was always going to "win" or lose based on merit. You get some maturity and you realize "shit happens" -- we aren't always in control.
So now I'm reading someone talking about "mercantilism" and I have hope again for the future. Every knuckle-dragger who wants to promote "unfettered free markets" -- as if there is such a thing outside of a failed state -- refers to Communism (and not the "good" kind). Mercantilism, however, was something our sainted "founding fathers" supported, and it doesn't have the taint of "foreign solutions".
The next thing you know, people are going to realize that we could have the Post Office be the bank since the "Big Government" already takes all the risk for the Banks anyway. Imagine a world where every politician didn't automatically have to be in the pocket of some bank just to get elected to anything above city council.
Good thing UPTSO wasn't around when Christopher Columbus "discovered" what he thought was India.
And if they had a patent office like we have today; it's a good thing he thought he found a passage to India. He might have patented it anyway if he thought it was a "New" country.
We saw Monsanto suing farmers who ended up with their "Monsanto genes" in their crops.
However, this is UNLIKE copyrights and patents because the huge elephant in the room is that nature has all the "prior art" in the case of Genes. Nobody should get a patent on FINDING a fucking gene -- only if they build one from scratch.
If these a-holes want to patent Cancer -- they need to make it first. Though I don't see the practical use of a new cancer -- well, actually I do; it would be a lot like the "Anti Virus industry" on the Windows platform. The best way for people to be "first to catch a virus" is for those people to be the first to make it.
I can't wait for Kaspersky to start selling my monthly update of "Cancer anti-virus" since the market for owning Genes will only be outdone for the market of preventing Genetic damage.
We aren't rewarding innovation anymore -- we are rewarding ownership of things nobody should have a right to.
I think that "blowing up" an asteroid the size of a bus, or the size of an Oil Tanker would be a good idea; turns it into chunks that will burn up.
However -- once the size of that object gets larger -- the impact is probably less overall damage than the heating potential of millions of smaller objects with the same mass.
Like a shotgun versus a small calibre bullet -- you have more chance of survival if the bullet just makes the one hole (not accounting for those tumbling or soft head bullets).
So government corruption was only discovered where someone allowed a bit of "sunlight to fall on it"?
Republicans discovered deficit spending after Democrats took over during a recession, and they discovered pork that they gleefully consumed on so many other projects -- but where shocked and disgusted when it was related to solar!
And of course it's "popular to bash Fox" -- because wouldn't anyone want to hire a commentator who somehow thought Germany with less sunlight and land area than the USA would have less solar energy hitting it? When my kids turn 14, they'd better damn sure have the intellectual common sense not to make such a stupid comment.
As for direct investment into "Green" companies the government shouldn't be trusted on that ever again. Oh, but please do go ahead and keep funding the Pentagon, drone warfare and the CIA -- nothing bad can come of that.... Sorry, we need to treat corruption and energy conservation as too separate things. You don't stop trying to do the right thing because someone can screw it up.
Why don't people like you discover these "failings" when the Government is working on Evil stuff and not Green Energy? Why?
On the other hand, WikiLeaks itself was 'guilty of the same obfuscation and misinformation as those it sought to expose, while its supporters are expected to follow, unquestioningly, in blinkered, cultish devotion.'
Back in the day we used to have investigative journalists. We didn't get to know what color underwear Walter Cronkite war, or whether Dan Rather burped after a big meal -- somehow we trudged on.
I did not realize that when I went to WikiLeaks to get some INFORMATION I should know as part of a transparent Democracy (because otherwise, how am I an informed citizen?) -- that I was being "slavish". I'm surprised I'm also not part of a cult and heralding Assange as the next Jesus -- isn't that how these straw man arguments go?
I don't give a rats ass about Julian Assange -- he has no real power in this world to abuse. He is beside the point.
Al Gore can make a speech about global warming -- and the environment will change based on science in action -- not whether Al Gore has integrity, or we should worship him. He could be a crook -- it doesn't matter. He's been telling the truth AFAIK, but we don't "sink or swim" on sea level rise based on the messenger.
Screw everyone who thinks that we have to hold people accountable for bringing us information. Debate the damn information -- or shut the fuck up. Anyone who wants to conflate the purpose of WikiLeaks with some bedroom gazing of it's founder or maybe the Janitor can kiss my damn ass. That goes for any subject in the future; debate the science, debate the value, debate the information. You debate the "personality" and we know you are an a-hole.
The "begging of the question" here truly pisses me off.
Did you bother to spend some time and contemplate the ramifications of such violence? We are going to have a certain percentage of the population who would have the ethics and lack of remorse that would predispose them to such self-serving evil as a patent troll or serial killer.
So scare them away from trolling -- All we need; more bankers!
You can STILL use your credit card -- you are just now realizing the cost difference between the convenience of plastic and what the CC companies charge.
More companies will enter the gap to give you convenience at less cost -- but first retailers have to be allowed to pass these fees onto you or the market will not be allowed to respond.
I can't watch Mobster movies with the same verve of "gotta get those guys" now that I know how our banking system guarantees winners.
I can't watch some show about people with bad accents and -- ooh, shudder, they are "terrorists" because these WMDs and improvised explosive devices are no match for Nukes and white phosphorous bombs.
The CIA is just corporate espionage, the FBI is after MP3s rather than CEOs who do more damage, the FDA covers for drug companies and I'm supposed to think that an obscure website could censor information about Iran when all the networks and government are doing their best to paint them as the next "bad guys with bad accents"?
The wikileaks movie will be as bad as Matt Daimon's "The Informant!" which should have been about how a mega corp bought off FBI agents to make a whistleblower look bad, but I'm supposed to eat popcorn and think some dude worked against his powerful corporation and framed it for profitable collusion so he could get attention. Obviously, TV has not had the intended effect on me.
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I imagine as you say this, that there is froth and spittle being flecked all over the screen and keyboard you use.
I'm typing at this moment on a shiny proprietary OS based on open source core and bowser that have received huge improvements. I watch stupid anime shows at night, and likely, I've been sucked into this shiny hedonistic fly trap you so abhor.
Yet part of me notes that you forgot to mention how Android came to be slapped on top of someone else's JAVA, and I expect that Samsung will fork it, and then sue Google for copyright infringement because they didn't patent X, Y and Z in China ... any day now.
The week after that, well all be getting LINUX distress in Kanji, just to have drivers that work with all the Chinese components. Nobody will hear your screams about hapless free labor hobbyists over the sounds of pre-pubescent teen bands repurposing classic British rock songs but in cuter, more colorful ways. Led Zeppelin and rap fused with pink bows and a giggle.
I'll remember that it all started here with someone on a blog, championing the efforts of rag tag free labor hobbyists who became pawns in this epic struggle. Not realizing that there were deeper, darker forces at play than Apple and it's devil-spawned walled gardens.
They "break the law" in order to follow their agenda and 'get the bad guys'. Only -- who really are the bad guys? A few hackers out there who annoy banks? More likely, mobsters who routinely extort these companies for their own databases and get paid off without the public knowing.
But who protects us from a DOJ that knows everything, but doesn't arrest bankers and Wall Street crooks -- and meanwhile, they arrest people protesting this massive corruption for loitering in parks or on trumped up charges?
Who protects us from an NSA that knows everything, and inevitably sells the data on Americans to private companies, who then sell this data to whatever foreign government or company that wants it?
So many of these agencies demand less public oversight and more access to private data -- what exactly, is this army of security obsessed people really providing? Their future energy is going to be spent merely going after anyone who threatens their own power -- the original purpose of why they were "cutting corners for justice" will be long forgotten.
I'm not sure here if the damage was based on "AT&T's reputation" -- meaning, it hurts their income for people to know you don't need to hack them.
OR
Over 100,000 people now have their reputation's damaged for being associated by email to AT&T.
You know that only 300,000 of AT&T's closest advertisers, spammers and script kiddies have these email addresses.
Is the going rate 2 pennies an email to buy as an advertiser or am I being too pricey here?
is a compelling theory.
However, the "modern" person has more to cope with, than just the loss of nomadic freedom.
Now we've got long forms, complex investments, licensing fees. Most of us aren't farming or doing the things that the herders turned farmers had to cope with.
So perhaps we now use ritalin and oxycontin to "cope" with the coping for our new, non-nomadic technical lifestyle.
I'm not sure however, so I'll tweet the idea to my friends and take another anti-depressant.
our survival doesn't directly depend on acceptance by those around us. Sure, I might not have a job if I'm a douche-bag, but chances are I can still find a way to survive.
Ironically, a lot of douchebags today figure dream of a future where society breaks down. In the dream, they all survive -- figuring nobody else will think to use a gun. They also don't dream about the time and energy it takes to procure and process food -- as it doesn't befit their glamorous notions of survival.
Douchebags are allowed to survive and thrive because of society, and thus society is in jeopardy if too many douchebags are allowed to survive. Truly, they are the seeds of our own undoing.
Well brewing Beer is kind of a resource intensive process if all you wanted to do was kill bacteria.
What is forgotten here is that the "earlier form of beer" was more of a Meade. It's a high protein, high carb health drink in comparison to today's beer.
So the "Meade" allowed nomadic tribes to convert grains into more available proteins -- whatever it did socially, just from the dietary basis the production of "Meade" made a lot of sense for a stationary society.
I get your point, but I think you and Slashdot have to come to terms with the fact that "nano" is now buzz-word compliant. It's like how "Sanitation Engineer" started making everyone an engineer.
"Nano" actually now means "small" to the press. I'm sorry it isn't technically correct, but you are going to have to get used to it.
Now, I've got some bad news to tell you about "quantum" as well...
I don't think you could be sure that the US isn't the #1 snoop on the planet.
They've been building a MASSIVE data center -- I believe in Colorado (after the one in Utah). It could well be "private company" run, as that would make it "legal" with a few hand washing exercises.
We learned that AT&T sought and received indemnity for copying their entire pipe to the NSA during some internal spying investigations.
So no -- the only reason they can't list where the US is on the list of "spying on citizens" is because they are way more sophisticated than Saudi Arabia.
Though they must be tone deaf because it's a major source of anger amongst internet savvy blogizens. They need more security due to the existence of their security. And they can't trust their citizens anymore because we can't trust them.
So true.
Not being in Bradley Mannings head -- I can only go from my own thoughts on the matter. And if I had information that I felt the world needed to know, but it upset the status quo, NYT or any of the leading rags wouldn't even be on my radar.
Wikileaks is the only group, outside of a few internet blogs, who I know would get the information out.
The other PLUS is that presumably, they don't even know who sends them the information - and it's likely the Government caught Manning using techniques that would have been illegal before Bush suspended our Constitution until further notice.
LOL, they should give them ALL the IP Addresses that connected and pad it with about a terabyte of possible IP addresses.
Technically they comply -- but trolls will have to sift out all the chaff.
Too funny.
Sine a lot of connectors IP addresses are going to change as the ISPs recycle them -- they could just leave off the dates and for the most part, having the IP address would be useless.
But it would really be sad if they had to comply with such a court order, as it totally abuses the justice system to intimidate and silence free "anonymous" speech. Companies don't have right to exist, after all.
I would normally agree but the whole thing sounds preposterous. The gravitational pull of a spaceship is negligible. If you're going to send a spaceship up there and let it "hover" why not just have it actually contact the meteor and use its thrusters to push it out of the way?
The way the universe works doesn't really depend, in any way, upon you finding physics "acceptable".
And a great many people, who clearly are vastly more knowledgeable than you, have done the math and know what they're talking about
I was just assuming that the Universe preferred to favor the direct thrust of rockets rather than the gentle, baby's breathe effect of gravity what with its tiny mass. However you disparage the notion of thrusters because you heard something out of Neil deGrasse Tyson and swooned to adopt it as gospel. // Sorry, I'm forced to watch "Gone with the Wind" by my wife right now, and I do declare it has affected my sensibilities.
LOL,
I read your comment three times before I realized you didn't say "gasses" -- nice quip!
So for people who can be clever and manipulate their tax nexus -- doing absolutely zilch for the common man. They get to "win."
Someone else works hard, isn't clever with tax manipulation, ends up being ridiculed as a "burden on society" by Libertarians when he gets to retirement and only Social Security is available because Merrill Lynch screwed him on returns.
So from a purely citizen--oriented, non-tax manipulating perspective of a person who is more and more convinced we need to become a Socialist Democracy; go fuck yourself.
If you need a working diagram on how to accomplish this particular manipulation of your non-taxed member, I'll be happy to provide one.
Wow -- that was an impressive rant. I fail to see how "webkit" and standards-based HTML is the same as what we dealt with from Internet Explorer. I've yet to see a "safari only" website.
How are you PAYING for the tollbooth that is MPEG/LA when you visit a site? Probably the only time a fee comes up is if someone is asking you to purchase content. I'd love for there NOT to be some patent costs for video -- but can't you see why Apple went with MPEG4? The only other viable video codec at the time was WMV (Microsoft), Sorenson (more fees), and that company I can barely remember but used to be another giant fee collector.
Google had to reverse engineer their own video platform -- but you probably pay for that by constant commercials and getting all your privacy sold off. I'd much prefer paying a bit of money up front to Apple than wondering why everybody knows I've got ADHD by using Google and Facebook.
There's nothing free (really) and any company that is going to spend the money to develop something is going to want some advantage over another - not give away their IP.
Blame Capitalism first if you really don't like this battle of competing non-standards. But really -- web development is more standardized now than at any time I know of since Mozaic and Netscape first arrived.
I learned from a friend who read a book (true story), that a good portion of the USA's greenhouse gases are from raising cattle. But it doesn't HAVE to be that way -- the cows are releasing a lot of methane because they have a hard time digesting the food industrial farms give them; corn.
Since the corn tears up their stomachs, they are given antibiotics. Another factoid is that if they weren't slaughtered in 2 years, they'd probably die anyway from the ravages of their diet. But that works out conveniently, because "Mad Cow" was never eradicated -- they just started a policy of not allowing the Bulls to live beyond 18 months; mad cow doesn't develop, problem solved.
So the whole "pooping in the wrong place" problem is due to not being in a grass field -- where it isn't a problem. The Green House gases problem is due to cows not eating grass. And so is the mad cow disease (not being fed other cows). Add on the bacteria resistance, hormones and other deleterious elements of modern beef on the human diet -- and we've got a situation where almost all the problems we face with cows are due to the unnatural nature of how we raise them.
That would still leave the many gallons of water to produce one pound of beef. We're better off raising Ostriches.
If Famers had to pay a "methane" tax -- we'd solve this issue in a year.
It's another good sign that people are truly waking up to the reality of what kind of society humanity needs going forward. There's no way a "capitalist society" can manage dwindling resources on a finite planet -- or "reducing markets" which would occur if we started to deal with overpopulation.
A few years ago, I finally read comments on Slashdot that were against the "sainted" Libertarian culture that was so prevalent. Perhaps some young studs who could program were now older, and realized that they wouldn't always be healthy, nor that everyone they knew was always going to "win" or lose based on merit. You get some maturity and you realize "shit happens" -- we aren't always in control.
So now I'm reading someone talking about "mercantilism" and I have hope again for the future. Every knuckle-dragger who wants to promote "unfettered free markets" -- as if there is such a thing outside of a failed state -- refers to Communism (and not the "good" kind). Mercantilism, however, was something our sainted "founding fathers" supported, and it doesn't have the taint of "foreign solutions".
The next thing you know, people are going to realize that we could have the Post Office be the bank since the "Big Government" already takes all the risk for the Banks anyway. Imagine a world where every politician didn't automatically have to be in the pocket of some bank just to get elected to anything above city council.
Good thing UPTSO wasn't around when Christopher Columbus "discovered" what he thought was India.
And if they had a patent office like we have today; it's a good thing he thought he found a passage to India. He might have patented it anyway if he thought it was a "New" country.
We saw Monsanto suing farmers who ended up with their "Monsanto genes" in their crops.
However, this is UNLIKE copyrights and patents because the huge elephant in the room is that nature has all the "prior art" in the case of Genes. Nobody should get a patent on FINDING a fucking gene -- only if they build one from scratch.
If these a-holes want to patent Cancer -- they need to make it first. Though I don't see the practical use of a new cancer -- well, actually I do; it would be a lot like the "Anti Virus industry" on the Windows platform. The best way for people to be "first to catch a virus" is for those people to be the first to make it.
I can't wait for Kaspersky to start selling my monthly update of "Cancer anti-virus" since the market for owning Genes will only be outdone for the market of preventing Genetic damage.
We aren't rewarding innovation anymore -- we are rewarding ownership of things nobody should have a right to.
I think that "blowing up" an asteroid the size of a bus, or the size of an Oil Tanker would be a good idea; turns it into chunks that will burn up.
However -- once the size of that object gets larger -- the impact is probably less overall damage than the heating potential of millions of smaller objects with the same mass.
Like a shotgun versus a small calibre bullet -- you have more chance of survival if the bullet just makes the one hole (not accounting for those tumbling or soft head bullets).
So government corruption was only discovered where someone allowed a bit of "sunlight to fall on it"?
Republicans discovered deficit spending after Democrats took over during a recession, and they discovered pork that they gleefully consumed on so many other projects -- but where shocked and disgusted when it was related to solar!
And of course it's "popular to bash Fox" -- because wouldn't anyone want to hire a commentator who somehow thought Germany with less sunlight and land area than the USA would have less solar energy hitting it? When my kids turn 14, they'd better damn sure have the intellectual common sense not to make such a stupid comment.
As for direct investment into "Green" companies the government shouldn't be trusted on that ever again.
Oh, but please do go ahead and keep funding the Pentagon, drone warfare and the CIA -- nothing bad can come of that....
Sorry, we need to treat corruption and energy conservation as too separate things. You don't stop trying to do the right thing because someone can screw it up.
Why don't people like you discover these "failings" when the Government is working on Evil stuff and not Green Energy? Why?
On the other hand, WikiLeaks itself was 'guilty of the same obfuscation and misinformation as those it sought to expose, while its supporters are expected to follow, unquestioningly, in blinkered, cultish devotion.'
Back in the day we used to have investigative journalists. We didn't get to know what color underwear Walter Cronkite war, or whether Dan Rather burped after a big meal -- somehow we trudged on.
I did not realize that when I went to WikiLeaks to get some INFORMATION I should know as part of a transparent Democracy (because otherwise, how am I an informed citizen?) -- that I was being "slavish". I'm surprised I'm also not part of a cult and heralding Assange as the next Jesus -- isn't that how these straw man arguments go?
I don't give a rats ass about Julian Assange -- he has no real power in this world to abuse. He is beside the point.
Al Gore can make a speech about global warming -- and the environment will change based on science in action -- not whether Al Gore has integrity, or we should worship him. He could be a crook -- it doesn't matter. He's been telling the truth AFAIK, but we don't "sink or swim" on sea level rise based on the messenger.
Screw everyone who thinks that we have to hold people accountable for bringing us information. Debate the damn information -- or shut the fuck up. Anyone who wants to conflate the purpose of WikiLeaks with some bedroom gazing of it's founder or maybe the Janitor can kiss my damn ass. That goes for any subject in the future; debate the science, debate the value, debate the information. You debate the "personality" and we know you are an a-hole.
The "begging of the question" here truly pisses me off.
Please note that the suicide bombers are more often coming from people living in the countries of our ALLIES -- like Saudi Arabia.
We've never been directly attacked by Iran. What's the point of having restraint if nobody gives you credit?
I would say that you might have offended some Iranians, but they were probably too busy laughing at you.
Did you bother to spend some time and contemplate the ramifications of such violence? We are going to have a certain percentage of the population who would have the ethics and lack of remorse that would predispose them to such self-serving evil as a patent troll or serial killer.
So scare them away from trolling -- All we need; more bankers!
You can STILL use your credit card -- you are just now realizing the cost difference between the convenience of plastic and what the CC companies charge.
More companies will enter the gap to give you convenience at less cost -- but first retailers have to be allowed to pass these fees onto you or the market will not be allowed to respond.
The above comment is more true than funny.
I can't watch Mobster movies with the same verve of "gotta get those guys" now that I know how our banking system guarantees winners.
I can't watch some show about people with bad accents and -- ooh, shudder, they are "terrorists" because these WMDs and improvised explosive devices are no match for Nukes and white phosphorous bombs.
The CIA is just corporate espionage, the FBI is after MP3s rather than CEOs who do more damage, the FDA covers for drug companies and I'm supposed to think that an obscure website could censor information about Iran when all the networks and government are doing their best to paint them as the next "bad guys with bad accents"?
The wikileaks movie will be as bad as Matt Daimon's "The Informant!" which should have been about how a mega corp bought off FBI agents to make a whistleblower look bad, but I'm supposed to eat popcorn and think some dude worked against his powerful corporation and framed it for profitable collusion so he could get attention. Obviously, TV has not had the intended effect on me.