Hey, it's better than a rapist (Bill Clinton), a war crminial (Bush), or another war criminal (Obama). Remember when Obama bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, and then sent gunners in to gun down the fleeing doctors and patients? He needs to stand trial at The Hague. How many wars has Trump started? Zero so far. In fact, he tried to get us out of Afghanistan and Syria, only to be overruled by the unelected government.
The vomitorium was an old Saturday Night Live skit with Burt Reynolds. Sad that people don't know when their comedy is ripped off. I guess that's how Lena Dunham and Carlos Mencia got so famous.
When you refuse to use deceit, you leave yourself wide open to those who do. Why do you think successful people rely on deceit (and its cousin secrecy)? It's because it works really, really well. If nobody can know what your goals are, how can anyone oppose you?
The CIA did precisely this to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It's not a stupid conspiracy theory. It is absolutely believable because it really happened. Why do you think the CIA is shouting so loudly about this?
It's the developers too, they need to show on their resumes that they worked on something "innovative". They need that bullet point otherwise they won't get that next job. Who cares if it works? The users find it incomprehensible? Screw them!
Power in the hands of the people? The same people who have proven they can't be trusted with power? We need to keep it centralized and away from their hands, because they're morons. Did we forget this?
Oh look, a leftist who is in favor of more government control over our lives, and has no problem with corrupt officials as long as they advance the control agenda. How unusual.
It's a testament to how deeply repugnant the Left regards Conservatives, that they can make such an attractive idea seem like a terrible abomination. Unfortunately these schemes always serve to increase government control over our lives, because that's what the Left loves. Like here, being forced to buy something. If it was economical and made sense, you wouldn't have to force people, they'd do it with a smile on their faces. But that's not what it's about. It's about control and despising the outgroup. Read this link, it explains the situation I'm talking about.
So what's going to happen when the utility companies start losing revenue and going bankrupt? Higher taxes, as usual. So you're still supporting the utility companies and were forced to buy an expensive add-on to boot.
Have we investigated who is funding these politicians? How are they profiting from requiring homeowners to buy things? Because you know this is the case.
The security services in your country are ultimately about serving the interests of your country. Which in turn are you interests,
Wait, wait, wait, wait. No, no, no, no. The interests of the intelligence community and the military-industrial complex are NOT my interests. Invading Iraq was NOT in my interest. Bombing and invading country after country is NOT in my interest. They have spent six trillion dollars on war since 9/11. You know what's in my interest? Spending one-sixth of that on our own people, to give us better lives. Remember Bernie Sanders' free college plan that was widely mocked as unaffordable? $60 billion a year. Trump's wall? $25 billion one-time. We give the wealthy first world nations of Europe $150 billion in bribes in the form of unfair trade agreements every single year just so these assholes can keep military bases there for their adventures. You want to know what DC thinks of us?
Schweizer said, "Well, let me tell you, I would recommend everybody go out and get an academic book published last year called "What Washington Gets Wrong," and it's two scholars from Johns Hopkins University who do a massive survey of senior unelected executives in government, basically the deep state, and asks them a bunch of questions. And as the authors describe the deep state has contemptuous attitudes towards the average American."
"They think they're far less educated than they actually are," he continued. "They think they are far more dependent than they actually are. They're arrogant, they believe, and say in the surveys if the American people want one thing, and they think it's wrong, they're going to push something else. There's a massive disconnect, and the deep state is real, and it's a threat to our republic form of government."
When you give people something for free, they perceive it has no value. Thus they treat it poorly, crap on it, throw it away, etc. And then in the middle of your rant you suddenly veer off-topic and start riding a hobby horse about how evil America is And finish off with cheerleading for socialism? Dang how'd this word salad get modded up?
That's why the intelligence agencies are getting freaked out and ringing the alarm bell - they don't have back doors in Chinese equipment. Thus, using Chinese equipment is safest for me, the ordinary American. I have much more to fear from my own government than any distant one. The US government kills people left and right with no conscience problems.
They're not protecting YOU, they're protecting themselves. It's all the compassion of a farmer installing electric fences when his cattle think they might be better off not being slaughtered. This isn't some kind of loony conspiracy theory, we know for a fact they lied about spying on us. On March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress that intel officials were not collecting mass data on tens of millions of Americans. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden soon revealed material that proved Clapper's testimony false: The government had been gathering and storing data from ordinary Americans' phone records, email and Internet use.
Chinese aggression against its weaker neighbors is legendary
Gimme a break. The United States is the world's leading bully. Does the United States require seventeen intelligence agencies that alone cost more than Russia spends on defense? Particularly when they have a long history of lying, incompetence and in some cases criminality (torture, murder, support of genocide, etc.). It seems to me that if Trump eradicates some (CIA), reduces some in size (NSA), merges those that overlap (NRO and NGA) and focuses on those that are any good (DIA), it'll make the United States safer and the world better. If anything, during the Cold War the KGB ran merry circles around western agencies that were all hilariously incompetent. You could have had German shepherds staff the CIA and get about the same result.
The US has repeatedly interfered in a multitude of elections, coups and power-struggles in an enormous variety of countries over the last hundred and fifty years. They're probably the worst offenders internationally. Here are a couple of highlights:
* Syria 1949: The democratically elected government of Shukri al-Quwatli was overthrown in a CIA backed coup. It installed a military dictatorship under Husni al-Za'im.
* Iran 1953: The democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a CIA and MI6 backed coup. It reinstalled the Shah and indirectly facilitated the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
* Guatamala 1954: The democratically elected government of Jacobo Ãrbenz was overthrown in a CIA backed coup. It installed a military dictatorship under Carlos Castillo Armas.
* Chile 1973: The democratically elected government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a CIA backed coup. It installed a military dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet.
* Let's not forget Iraq 2003. No WMD were ever found.
And I haven't even mentioned any of the many, many countries the US invaded during the 20th Century. Let's imagine China declaring itself an "East Pacific" power, intervening in America's back yard, installing nuclear weapons in Mexico and Venezuela and establishing a strong military presence in the Caribbean. The American will to dominate the planet with its nonsensical assertions that it's maintaining the international "order" and encouraging "democracy" is an updated version of the old colonial "White Man's Burden."
Even a foreign company doing business on Chinese soil cannot do so unless a Chinese counterpart (and thus the PRC) owns 51% of the venture.
That is a flat-out lie. You are fake news.
A wholly foreign-owned enterprise (WFOE) is a company established in China according to Chinese laws and wholly owned by one or more foreign investors.
The whole "blame the foreigners" narrative is the weapon of first resort of those who despise the working class and wish them harm. It is used frequently to dismiss their legitimate concerns by claiming they are not genuine but dirty foreigners in disguise. One can see why it's popular, no arguments need be made, it's very easy to do.
Chinese officials have defended their decision to bar three US citizens from leaving the country, saying they are suspected of "economic crimes". Victor and Cynthia Liu, children of a fugitive businessman, and their mother, Sandra Han, have been detained since June, the New York Times reported. The US Department of State confirmed to the BBC that they are in "close contact" with the adult Liu children. Their father, Liu Changming, is wanted in a $1.4bn (£1bn) fraud case in China.
FYI - Victor, 19, was born in the U.S. The Chinese are holding a US citizen hostage and then have the nerve to complain?
It's because of black market food sellers. They transport food from places of low demand and sell it in places of high demand. This is very obviously illegal in Cuba, as the smart people are in charge of the government and they do not recognize that "ability to pay" should be a determinant of who gets which food. Instead, they very smartly use a rationing system that makes sure all Cubans get the same food, no matter who they are. Social justice. Black marketeers can expect prison sentences where they are not raped, they work with their hands to make a better life for their people.
In America, the black market is known as "the market" and police stopping people to search for food sounds absurd, the kind of thing that nutbags would come up with.
You're still logged in to your account. You forgot to post anonymously as you're spamming the comment thread with the same post. See here: https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
We should take a huge hint from them. They know what goes on behind the scenes. Everything you say is archived - not because it's bad today. No, it will be stored and used against you later. It's a weapon. A new kind of weapon, and the Facebook employees know exactly what it's capable of. They're not being paranoid. Paranoia is an irrational fear.
STILL with the "blame the foreigners" narrative? Jesus, it's amazing how useful that is to brush aside the real concerns of working class people. No, nobody can possibly be getting screwed by the system that was set up to screw people, it's gotta be those dirty foreigners who are doing this to us.
It's a good thing America strongly protects the rights of minorities. If the majority ruled, can you imagine? Partisan witch hunts disguised as politics. It's a good thing America isn't a democracy otherwise they'd vote out the minorities and do everything for their own benefit.
I think this is the end of the cycle. Today's ruling class has taken 1984 to heart and is building a system that will be impregnable to change. They will have total surveillance over our lives, much like Big Brother did. Any revolts will be strangled in the crib by the Thought Police. We already have such a system at our universities. Early detection is key. All revolts are complaints that got out of hand. No longer will they be complacent and watch from the sidelines as we the people build a case against them. Brexit and Trump were our last gasps. They won't be fooled again.
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Hey, it's better than a rapist (Bill Clinton), a war crminial (Bush), or another war criminal (Obama). Remember when Obama bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, and then sent gunners in to gun down the fleeing doctors and patients? He needs to stand trial at The Hague. How many wars has Trump started? Zero so far. In fact, he tried to get us out of Afghanistan and Syria, only to be overruled by the unelected government.
OK, this account has been hacked. There is NO way it is defending fat, lazy, deplorable Americans. None.
The vomitorium was an old Saturday Night Live skit with Burt Reynolds. Sad that people don't know when their comedy is ripped off. I guess that's how Lena Dunham and Carlos Mencia got so famous.
When you refuse to use deceit, you leave yourself wide open to those who do. Why do you think successful people rely on deceit (and its cousin secrecy)? It's because it works really, really well. If nobody can know what your goals are, how can anyone oppose you?
The CIA did precisely this to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It's not a stupid conspiracy theory. It is absolutely believable because it really happened. Why do you think the CIA is shouting so loudly about this?
It's the developers too, they need to show on their resumes that they worked on something "innovative". They need that bullet point otherwise they won't get that next job. Who cares if it works? The users find it incomprehensible? Screw them!
Power in the hands of the people? The same people who have proven they can't be trusted with power? We need to keep it centralized and away from their hands, because they're morons. Did we forget this?
Oh look, a leftist who is in favor of more government control over our lives, and has no problem with corrupt officials as long as they advance the control agenda. How unusual.
Worker protections? You mean the deplorables? We hate them, remember?
It's a testament to how deeply repugnant the Left regards Conservatives, that they can make such an attractive idea seem like a terrible abomination. Unfortunately these schemes always serve to increase government control over our lives, because that's what the Left loves. Like here, being forced to buy something. If it was economical and made sense, you wouldn't have to force people, they'd do it with a smile on their faces. But that's not what it's about. It's about control and despising the outgroup. Read this link, it explains the situation I'm talking about.
Your general principle is false. You need to go back and re-think things from the beginning.
So what's going to happen when the utility companies start losing revenue and going bankrupt? Higher taxes, as usual. So you're still supporting the utility companies and were forced to buy an expensive add-on to boot.
Have we investigated who is funding these politicians? How are they profiting from requiring homeowners to buy things? Because you know this is the case.
The security services in your country are ultimately about serving the interests of your country. Which in turn are you interests,
Wait, wait, wait, wait. No, no, no, no. The interests of the intelligence community and the military-industrial complex are NOT my interests. Invading Iraq was NOT in my interest. Bombing and invading country after country is NOT in my interest. They have spent six trillion dollars on war since 9/11. You know what's in my interest? Spending one-sixth of that on our own people, to give us better lives. Remember Bernie Sanders' free college plan that was widely mocked as unaffordable? $60 billion a year. Trump's wall? $25 billion one-time. We give the wealthy first world nations of Europe $150 billion in bribes in the form of unfair trade agreements every single year just so these assholes can keep military bases there for their adventures. You want to know what DC thinks of us?
Schweizer said, "Well, let me tell you, I would recommend everybody go out and get an academic book published last year called "What Washington Gets Wrong," and it's two scholars from Johns Hopkins University who do a massive survey of senior unelected executives in government, basically the deep state, and asks them a bunch of questions. And as the authors describe the deep state has contemptuous attitudes towards the average American."
"They think they're far less educated than they actually are," he continued. "They think they are far more dependent than they actually are. They're arrogant, they believe, and say in the surveys if the American people want one thing, and they think it's wrong, they're going to push something else. There's a massive disconnect, and the deep state is real, and it's a threat to our republic form of government."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30027384-what-washington-gets-wrong
When you give people something for free, they perceive it has no value. Thus they treat it poorly, crap on it, throw it away, etc. And then in the middle of your rant you suddenly veer off-topic and start riding a hobby horse about how evil America is And finish off with cheerleading for socialism? Dang how'd this word salad get modded up?
That's why the intelligence agencies are getting freaked out and ringing the alarm bell - they don't have back doors in Chinese equipment. Thus, using Chinese equipment is safest for me, the ordinary American. I have much more to fear from my own government than any distant one. The US government kills people left and right with no conscience problems.
They're not protecting YOU, they're protecting themselves. It's all the compassion of a farmer installing electric fences when his cattle think they might be better off not being slaughtered. This isn't some kind of loony conspiracy theory, we know for a fact they lied about spying on us. On March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress that intel officials were not collecting mass data on tens of millions of Americans. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden soon revealed material that proved Clapper's testimony false: The government had been gathering and storing data from ordinary Americans' phone records, email and Internet use.
https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/12/1210665_obama-leak-investigations-internal-use-only-pls-do-not.html
Chinese aggression against its weaker neighbors is legendary
Gimme a break. The United States is the world's leading bully. Does the United States require seventeen intelligence agencies that alone cost more than Russia spends on defense? Particularly when they have a long history of lying, incompetence and in some cases criminality (torture, murder, support of genocide, etc.). It seems to me that if Trump eradicates some (CIA), reduces some in size (NSA), merges those that overlap (NRO and NGA) and focuses on those that are any good (DIA), it'll make the United States safer and the world better. If anything, during the Cold War the KGB ran merry circles around western agencies that were all hilariously incompetent. You could have had German shepherds staff the CIA and get about the same result.
The US has repeatedly interfered in a multitude of elections, coups and power-struggles in an enormous variety of countries over the last hundred and fifty years. They're probably the worst offenders internationally. Here are a couple of highlights:
* Syria 1949: The democratically elected government of Shukri al-Quwatli was overthrown in a CIA backed coup. It installed a military dictatorship under Husni al-Za'im.
* Iran 1953: The democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a CIA and MI6 backed coup. It reinstalled the Shah and indirectly facilitated the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
* Guatamala 1954: The democratically elected government of Jacobo Ãrbenz was overthrown in a CIA backed coup. It installed a military dictatorship under Carlos Castillo Armas.
* Chile 1973: The democratically elected government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a CIA backed coup. It installed a military dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet.
* Let's not forget Iraq 2003. No WMD were ever found.
And I haven't even mentioned any of the many, many countries the US invaded during the 20th Century. Let's imagine China declaring itself an "East Pacific" power, intervening in America's back yard, installing nuclear weapons in Mexico and Venezuela and establishing a strong military presence in the Caribbean. The American will to dominate the planet with its nonsensical assertions that it's maintaining the international "order" and encouraging "democracy" is an updated version of the old colonial "White Man's Burden."
Even a foreign company doing business on Chinese soil cannot do so unless a Chinese counterpart (and thus the PRC) owns 51% of the venture.
That is a flat-out lie. You are fake news.
http://www.china-briefing.com/news/setting-up-a-wholly-foreign-owned-enterprise-in-china/
The whole "blame the foreigners" narrative is the weapon of first resort of those who despise the working class and wish them harm. It is used frequently to dismiss their legitimate concerns by claiming they are not genuine but dirty foreigners in disguise. One can see why it's popular, no arguments need be made, it's very easy to do.
Might have something to do with this;
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46352336
Chinese officials have defended their decision to bar three US citizens from leaving the country, saying they are suspected of "economic crimes". Victor and Cynthia Liu, children of a fugitive businessman, and their mother, Sandra Han, have been detained since June, the New York Times reported. The US Department of State confirmed to the BBC that they are in "close contact" with the adult Liu children. Their father, Liu Changming, is wanted in a $1.4bn (£1bn) fraud case in China.
FYI - Victor, 19, was born in the U.S. The Chinese are holding a US citizen hostage and then have the nerve to complain?
It's because of black market food sellers. They transport food from places of low demand and sell it in places of high demand. This is very obviously illegal in Cuba, as the smart people are in charge of the government and they do not recognize that "ability to pay" should be a determinant of who gets which food. Instead, they very smartly use a rationing system that makes sure all Cubans get the same food, no matter who they are. Social justice. Black marketeers can expect prison sentences where they are not raped, they work with their hands to make a better life for their people.
In America, the black market is known as "the market" and police stopping people to search for food sounds absurd, the kind of thing that nutbags would come up with.
You're still logged in to your account. You forgot to post anonymously as you're spamming the comment thread with the same post. See here: https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
We should take a huge hint from them. They know what goes on behind the scenes. Everything you say is archived - not because it's bad today. No, it will be stored and used against you later. It's a weapon. A new kind of weapon, and the Facebook employees know exactly what it's capable of. They're not being paranoid. Paranoia is an irrational fear.
STILL with the "blame the foreigners" narrative? Jesus, it's amazing how useful that is to brush aside the real concerns of working class people. No, nobody can possibly be getting screwed by the system that was set up to screw people, it's gotta be those dirty foreigners who are doing this to us.
It's a good thing America strongly protects the rights of minorities. If the majority ruled, can you imagine? Partisan witch hunts disguised as politics. It's a good thing America isn't a democracy otherwise they'd vote out the minorities and do everything for their own benefit.
I think this is the end of the cycle. Today's ruling class has taken 1984 to heart and is building a system that will be impregnable to change. They will have total surveillance over our lives, much like Big Brother did. Any revolts will be strangled in the crib by the Thought Police. We already have such a system at our universities. Early detection is key. All revolts are complaints that got out of hand. No longer will they be complacent and watch from the sidelines as we the people build a case against them. Brexit and Trump were our last gasps. They won't be fooled again.