Now add the fact that the US Director of National Intelligence has indicated that he wants to obtain the ability to monitor all Internet traffic data:
"[...] the government must have the ability to read all the information crossing the Internet in the United States in order to protect it from abuse."
Wouldn't that pretty much mean that every single citizen of the US would have to be employed by the CIA, just to keep on top of the workload? Hell, I can't even stay on top of all the mail I get, and I don't know anyone...
Anyone trotting out the "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" line should be forced to use toilets with security cameras installed in the cubicles. (Unless they already are, and it's Stockholm Syndrome speaking.)
(Replying to oneself sucks, but it turns out that "coruscate" is a synonym for "scintillate", not for "excoriate" - although the confusion is common. Nonetheless, I won't muddle them again.:) )
Whereas at a British university in 1993, as a fresher, I emailed a coruscating criticism of our department head (essentially, that we'd learn more just by sitting and reading the textbooks, since that was basically all he was doing) around the whole of the first year... and no action was taken. (It probably helped that I had the backing of the student rep, and probably that the guy was hugely unpopular...)
Is it me, or has something gone very wrong with higher education in the last 15 years?
in nowaday's workplace soft skills (being able to work as a team expecially) are just as important; gone are the days of the single programmer in his ivory tower producing code that only himself can understand. You need to have a team, and if I have to choose between person A who is, say, a programmer worth 100/100 but has 0 social skills, and person B who is, say, worth 80/100 but gets along with everybody, I will choose person B every time.
Why does this sound, to me, so much like "we know you guys created this field from nothing in ones and twos when people like us were telling you there was no point or market, but you can fuck off now, we're in charge and we Know What's Best"...?
As you can probably tell, both from the length of time elapsed and the fact that I'm not even going to bother replying to your comment, I had already decided to discontinue this exchange - but as I was showering this morning, I realised that the underlying assumptions of the opinion you are defending here explain perfectly why the UK's Revolutionary Communist Party was able to make such a seamless, near-instantaneous transition from the perversely unfashionable neo-Stalinism of Living Marxism to the hard-right Austrian-style economic libertarianism of LM in the mid-90s, a move I've never really been able to understand myself (having more or less always been left-anarchist in leaning). Thanks for giving me that insight, however unintentionally.
Yes, but how many machines is that? It's all very well to talk about market share, but without knowing the size of the market, it's just slivers of pie.
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...don't blame me and the other posters for responding in kind (flamebait, troll, offtopic, etc.)
I damned well will. You're entirely responsible to how you reply to someone, no matter how much of a provocation you believe they were presenting. You don't magically become less of an ass because someone else was an ass first.
It looks like they will make a list of sites which "promote violence and distribute child pornography and instruct ISP's to redirect http requests to them.
All http requests, or just those of sites critical of the Australian government? And isn't that rather like institutional goatse-ing?
I knew the Aussies were broad-minded, but really, this new initiative might be going a little bit too far...
I dunno, much the same as the risk of another Columbine if pupils were allowed (even encouraged) to bring guns into school with them...?
It's a claustrophobia-promoting tin tube with no contact with the outside world, horrid recycled air, plastic food, and a whole bunch of people anaesthetising themselves against the horror of being there with a drug noted for promoting violent behaviour. What do you think would happen if weaponry were added to that equation? Sorry, but the risk of a hijacking conspiracy is one of those things you'll have to put up with on planes... unless you think that they should also not be permitted to fly more than 20 feet up to counter the risk of falling out of the sky (which, let's face it, is a much larger risk and a much more common occurrence).
The thing about guys like Buffet is... while they support higher taxation, they, themselves, donate their monies to charities to manage.
Right, so Buffet should force the IRS to take more money than they think he owes them. How do you propose he does that, exactly?
(Not to mention that I just love the spirit of creativity that reinterprets "rich person arguing for greater redistribution, then donating large sums to charity" as "rich person says one rule for him, another for everyone else". Are the rest of your opinions as well thought through as that one?)
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I think it's more that he tends to hit people at parties.
Wouldn't that pretty much mean that every single citizen of the US would have to be employed by the CIA, just to keep on top of the workload? Hell, I can't even stay on top of all the mail I get, and I don't know anyone...
They do have a life. It's just lived entirely on World of Warcraft...
Remember, this is Microsoft - there's bound to be a.
Fuck it, refuse dialogue anyway, on the grounds that someone who speaks for God is clearly not someone worth debating.
He might be saying they're a bit too fond of Douglas Coupland.
Anyone trotting out the "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" line should be forced to use toilets with security cameras installed in the cubicles. (Unless they already are, and it's Stockholm Syndrome speaking.)
(Replying to oneself sucks, but it turns out that "coruscate" is a synonym for "scintillate", not for "excoriate" - although the confusion is common. Nonetheless, I won't muddle them again. :) )
Whereas at a British university in 1993, as a fresher, I emailed a coruscating criticism of our department head (essentially, that we'd learn more just by sitting and reading the textbooks, since that was basically all he was doing) around the whole of the first year... and no action was taken. (It probably helped that I had the backing of the student rep, and probably that the guy was hugely unpopular...)
Is it me, or has something gone very wrong with higher education in the last 15 years?
Why does this sound, to me, so much like "we know you guys created this field from nothing in ones and twos when people like us were telling you there was no point or market, but you can fuck off now, we're in charge and we Know What's Best"...?
That's strange; they're usually the ones wielding the stick.
Yes, 17 hours to download an album is *just so fast*.
My own preference goes rather the other way.
(For customisation, this comes in handy.)
As you can probably tell, both from the length of time elapsed and the fact that I'm not even going to bother replying to your comment, I had already decided to discontinue this exchange - but as I was showering this morning, I realised that the underlying assumptions of the opinion you are defending here explain perfectly why the UK's Revolutionary Communist Party was able to make such a seamless, near-instantaneous transition from the perversely unfashionable neo-Stalinism of Living Marxism to the hard-right Austrian-style economic libertarianism of LM in the mid-90s, a move I've never really been able to understand myself (having more or less always been left-anarchist in leaning). Thanks for giving me that insight, however unintentionally.
Yes, but how many machines is that? It's all very well to talk about market share, but without knowing the size of the market, it's just slivers of pie.
Well, if Lizzie Borden could hack her parents...
I damned well will. You're entirely responsible to how you reply to someone, no matter how much of a provocation you believe they were presenting. You don't magically become less of an ass because someone else was an ass first.
Well, at least the world is now safe from the arbitrary execution of 6502 machine code.
All http requests, or just those of sites critical of the Australian government? And isn't that rather like institutional goatse-ing?
I knew the Aussies were broad-minded, but really, this new initiative might be going a little bit too far...
Oh my god. I've just realised I'm arguing with a hydra...
I guess you thought Logic 101 beneath you?
I'm optimistic too, but the phrase "divide and conquer" keeps nagging at me.
I dunno, much the same as the risk of another Columbine if pupils were allowed (even encouraged) to bring guns into school with them...?
It's a claustrophobia-promoting tin tube with no contact with the outside world, horrid recycled air, plastic food, and a whole bunch of people anaesthetising themselves against the horror of being there with a drug noted for promoting violent behaviour. What do you think would happen if weaponry were added to that equation? Sorry, but the risk of a hijacking conspiracy is one of those things you'll have to put up with on planes... unless you think that they should also not be permitted to fly more than 20 feet up to counter the risk of falling out of the sky (which, let's face it, is a much larger risk and a much more common occurrence).
Right, so Buffet should force the IRS to take more money than they think he owes them. How do you propose he does that, exactly?
(Not to mention that I just love the spirit of creativity that reinterprets "rich person arguing for greater redistribution, then donating large sums to charity" as "rich person says one rule for him, another for everyone else". Are the rest of your opinions as well thought through as that one?)
Which is presumably why he says he should pay more tax, not that you should pay more tax. Tax doesn't have to be levied at the same rate across all income bands, you know.