Just to support your comment a bit, see this story which just happens to be on CNN's front page: here.
From that:
"The increased difficulty in protecting data comes as the value of intellectual property is skyrocketing for companies. In 2009, 81% of the value of S&P 500 companies was "intangible assets" such as patented technology, proprietary data and market plans, according to an estimate by Ocean Tomo Intellectual Capital Equity. In 1985, only 68% of the S&P 500 market value was from intangibles, according to Ocean Tomo."
So, you're not far off the mark: The USA says it's wealthy because it is counting "intangibles" as wealth, or more accurately: things that do not suffer from scarcity. If your main assets do not suffer from scarcity, you have a problem because supply, once known, is infinite: and if supply is infinite then the real cost of it is zero.
You are truly an idiot. I qualified: look yourself. Yes, some of the stories are on blogs, but quite a few are on well known but not CNN or Fox sites. And I said: if even 1% of them are true then there are systemic problems in the USA. You are lost: you are too blind to even look.
If the USA government didn't want to look bad: maybe they shouldn't do the things they do. But hey, I still can't find it in my heart to sling vitriol back your way.
In case you haven't noticed, the last decade in the US is all about a creep towards fascism. I'm not there so I don't know what it's like on main street but: just read Reddit: Politics for a week or two straight - just to see what goes by. I've hardly ever seen things there covered on mainstream national - facing the international community - sites but if 1% of the local coverage there is to be believed: Fuck.
Notice how the original post is now "Score 0: Offtopic"? Manning is central to the topic of the PBS story. I wish Slashdot had a: -1:Don't Agree moderation. It would be much more accurate in how some posts end up.
I will give you a very concrete point because you are absolutely correct in saying it: Manning's purported leaks are very much in favor for Citizens outside of the USA as the material of the leaks is all in relation to how the US government relates to other governments: they were mostly honest diplomatic cables. So, it's good for pretty well everyone - integrity wise - except the USA. Manning did a great job: just not for where his citizenship lies.
Now, here's another case of leaking: Thomas Drake. What makes this case more of a test is that he leaked very few documents and the intent behind them was that he truly believed his duty as a citizen was to point out what was happening behind closed doors. His reward for saying: "this isn't right and it must not be kept secret" is being charged under the US espionage act. What happens to him, more than Manning, will shape my opinion of how much hope the USA has in the future.
Without Manning - the accused - there would be no story and the event of PBS getting hacked wouldn't have happened. Trying to put blinders on the conversation: "Only look at this event, not it's causes" is short-sighted and disingenuous.
I agree with you. Just because Wikileaks is being disparaged does not justify vigilante behavior. But, for what Wikileaks has released: it is more truth than our governments release, and in my value-system I believe that is more important than national security: it is what really happened. I'll give you a concrete example, here in Canada - where I live - our government during the run-up to the Iraq war was telling us: We do not support the Iraq war. And meanwhile, they were telling the USA in private: we cannot support you publicly because of the "political climate" against the war here, however: we will do everything we can to support your invasion. Tell me, what is our government if it is not the expression of the people who gave it a mandate? Canadian CITIZENS, en-mass were against the Iraq war: yet our government made no case to support their actions and instead pulled a back-room deal with the hopes it would never surface in history. And without leaking: it never would have.
Now, moderators: if you are going to bother to mod this *anything*, consider: Informative.
And he's going to pay a heavy price for his actions: there is no doubt. However, what he has done is necessary for a functioning democracy. If you say: leaders should not ever be embarrassed by their actions and what really happens in back-rooms must forever remain secret, well, is that in line with the principles of a democracy? What I've seen Wikileaks expose so far, in the controlled manner they are releasing them: not a sudden flood of documents with no vetting as it has been portrayed in some news sites I won't bother to mention, really shows how two-faced governments are in how they relate to each other and then the story they feed the public of the same events. I'd rather know: my representative is really an asshole, not the smiling baby-kisser his press release tells me he is. Perhaps, just perhaps, it'll change a vote - and some days I think the USA is already too far gone for that to even matter.
Tell that to: Maher Arar, a Canadian who happened to be passing through the USA when Homeland Security kidnapped him, sent him to Syria where he was tortured for a year before he was finally sent back to Canada because he was not a terrorist and had nothing to do with them. But hey, a little collateral damage is ok in Free societies. I really hope it's you and you come back with a new tune then.
So, the PSN cloud failed for a month. It has made me rethink my enthusiasm for Google's ChromeOS. With my fat-desktop I can still do useful things with it without a network. With ChromeOS I'm not sure I can do anything if the network is disrupted. And initially, I was like: "Awesome! Want!" when Google announce ChromeOS..
..is headkase. I've been using it since 2001. Around 2005 I learned there was an Australian band called: Headkase. We have yet to cross paths and I doubt there is even interest, and besides: mine is a lower-case "h" and theirs is upper..;)
I made an attempt to classify "truthiness" with opinion coming and going but the results being placed into permanent facts.
The Facebook page is: Here. And the mechanics page is: Here. It could definitely be improved but as a basis it is a "wisdom of crowds" type harnesser. I've always thought of it as a "classifer" for "truthiness."
And I do not have multiple-personalities. I'm lucky I have medicine that let's me lead a half-way normal life. I "remember" being sick, as much as you can remember without being certain that any of what you perceived had a basis in "Reality." When I was sick there were no "voices" in my mind, rather, it was an experience that is consistent with this article. Facts. Connecting together in rapid fashion to other "facts" whether the basis that connected them was logical or not. At first, without medicine, connecting the "facts" leads to some novel interpretations that others around you might find interesting. However, as time and the disease progresses without treatment: an overwhelming web of "facts" emerges and the frequency of different interpretations of the same "facts" doubles until fully untreated I was in a full state of chaos, or as it is really called: psychosis. Stay in and be happy you have a concrete "reality" you do not have cause to question.
You obviously want to vote NDP this election but just don't know it yet. One of the things on Jack Layton's platform is election reform, specifically proportional representation which is exactly what you want. With proportional representation, issues won't be "rounded-out" by arbitrary dividing areas up into ridings. National issues say with about 10% interest will get 10% power in Parliament. Not swept under the rug as-is now because the member you want to vote for is half-way across the country and there isn't enough interest in your area to have someone on your ballot. Vote the NDP in, get the election system fixed and then vote as you will. Layton has a PhD in Political Science if you read that article by the way so he knows where the rough spots are.
Of course, voting in the NDP to fix the election system takes foresight to see that you can vote in the next election for whoever you want with a better system. Most voters don't want/can't see beyond one election so it's a difficult proposition to push.
What value are they trying to charge for? Is it out of force of habit from their previous business model? Yeah, advertising on a web-page may not seem like a viable business model profit-wise for them but the world has moved on: accept advertisements of smaller dollars because the fat subscription days are over. I will not pay for the New York Times. There is no value in it for me.
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Just to support your comment a bit, see this story which just happens to be on CNN's front page: here.
From that:
"The increased difficulty in protecting data comes as the value of intellectual property is skyrocketing for companies. In 2009, 81% of the value of S&P 500 companies was "intangible assets" such as patented technology, proprietary data and market plans, according to an estimate by Ocean Tomo Intellectual Capital Equity. In 1985, only 68% of the S&P 500 market value was from intangibles, according to Ocean Tomo."
So, you're not far off the mark: The USA says it's wealthy because it is counting "intangibles" as wealth, or more accurately: things that do not suffer from scarcity. If your main assets do not suffer from scarcity, you have a problem because supply, once known, is infinite: and if supply is infinite then the real cost of it is zero.
You are truly an idiot. I qualified: look yourself. Yes, some of the stories are on blogs, but quite a few are on well known but not CNN or Fox sites. And I said: if even 1% of them are true then there are systemic problems in the USA. You are lost: you are too blind to even look.
If the USA government didn't want to look bad: maybe they shouldn't do the things they do. But hey, I still can't find it in my heart to sling vitriol back your way.
And your politicians betraying you isn't?
In case you haven't noticed, the last decade in the US is all about a creep towards fascism. I'm not there so I don't know what it's like on main street but: just read Reddit: Politics for a week or two straight - just to see what goes by. I've hardly ever seen things there covered on mainstream national - facing the international community - sites but if 1% of the local coverage there is to be believed: Fuck.
Notice how the original post is now "Score 0: Offtopic"? Manning is central to the topic of the PBS story. I wish Slashdot had a: -1:Don't Agree moderation. It would be much more accurate in how some posts end up.
We aren't going to change each other's opinions. For what it's worth: I am not a US citizen so I see more good in his actions than you do.
I will give you a very concrete point because you are absolutely correct in saying it: Manning's purported leaks are very much in favor for Citizens outside of the USA as the material of the leaks is all in relation to how the US government relates to other governments: they were mostly honest diplomatic cables. So, it's good for pretty well everyone - integrity wise - except the USA. Manning did a great job: just not for where his citizenship lies.
Now, here's another case of leaking: Thomas Drake. What makes this case more of a test is that he leaked very few documents and the intent behind them was that he truly believed his duty as a citizen was to point out what was happening behind closed doors. His reward for saying: "this isn't right and it must not be kept secret" is being charged under the US espionage act. What happens to him, more than Manning, will shape my opinion of how much hope the USA has in the future.
Without Manning - the accused - there would be no story and the event of PBS getting hacked wouldn't have happened. Trying to put blinders on the conversation: "Only look at this event, not it's causes" is short-sighted and disingenuous.
I agree with you. Just because Wikileaks is being disparaged does not justify vigilante behavior. But, for what Wikileaks has released: it is more truth than our governments release, and in my value-system I believe that is more important than national security: it is what really happened. I'll give you a concrete example, here in Canada - where I live - our government during the run-up to the Iraq war was telling us: We do not support the Iraq war. And meanwhile, they were telling the USA in private: we cannot support you publicly because of the "political climate" against the war here, however: we will do everything we can to support your invasion. Tell me, what is our government if it is not the expression of the people who gave it a mandate? Canadian CITIZENS, en-mass were against the Iraq war: yet our government made no case to support their actions and instead pulled a back-room deal with the hopes it would never surface in history. And without leaking: it never would have.
Now, moderators: if you are going to bother to mod this *anything*, consider: Informative.
You have a point. And my premature conclusion betrays the amount of faith I have in the situation. :(
You are right. However, the trust people put in the US government is flavored with democratic principles as bread and butter.
And he's going to pay a heavy price for his actions: there is no doubt. However, what he has done is necessary for a functioning democracy. If you say: leaders should not ever be embarrassed by their actions and what really happens in back-rooms must forever remain secret, well, is that in line with the principles of a democracy? What I've seen Wikileaks expose so far, in the controlled manner they are releasing them: not a sudden flood of documents with no vetting as it has been portrayed in some news sites I won't bother to mention, really shows how two-faced governments are in how they relate to each other and then the story they feed the public of the same events. I'd rather know: my representative is really an asshole, not the smiling baby-kisser his press release tells me he is. Perhaps, just perhaps, it'll change a vote - and some days I think the USA is already too far gone for that to even matter.
Tell that to: Maher Arar, a Canadian who happened to be passing through the USA when Homeland Security kidnapped him, sent him to Syria where he was tortured for a year before he was finally sent back to Canada because he was not a terrorist and had nothing to do with them. But hey, a little collateral damage is ok in Free societies. I really hope it's you and you come back with a new tune then.
So, the PSN cloud failed for a month. It has made me rethink my enthusiasm for Google's ChromeOS. With my fat-desktop I can still do useful things with it without a network. With ChromeOS I'm not sure I can do anything if the network is disrupted. And initially, I was like: "Awesome! Want!" when Google announce ChromeOS..
..is headkase. I've been using it since 2001. Around 2005 I learned there was an Australian band called: Headkase. We have yet to cross paths and I doubt there is even interest, and besides: mine is a lower-case "h" and theirs is upper.. ;)
I made an attempt to classify "truthiness" with opinion coming and going but the results being placed into permanent facts.
The Facebook page is: Here. And the mechanics page is: Here. It could definitely be improved but as a basis it is a "wisdom of crowds" type harnesser. I've always thought of it as a "classifer" for "truthiness."
We just need more data to tease out the statistics in: Psychohistory. Now, is that a good thing?
And I do not have multiple-personalities. I'm lucky I have medicine that let's me lead a half-way normal life. I "remember" being sick, as much as you can remember without being certain that any of what you perceived had a basis in "Reality." When I was sick there were no "voices" in my mind, rather, it was an experience that is consistent with this article. Facts. Connecting together in rapid fashion to other "facts" whether the basis that connected them was logical or not. At first, without medicine, connecting the "facts" leads to some novel interpretations that others around you might find interesting. However, as time and the disease progresses without treatment: an overwhelming web of "facts" emerges and the frequency of different interpretations of the same "facts" doubles until fully untreated I was in a full state of chaos, or as it is really called: psychosis. Stay in and be happy you have a concrete "reality" you do not have cause to question.
You obviously want to vote NDP this election but just don't know it yet. One of the things on Jack Layton's platform is election reform, specifically proportional representation which is exactly what you want. With proportional representation, issues won't be "rounded-out" by arbitrary dividing areas up into ridings. National issues say with about 10% interest will get 10% power in Parliament. Not swept under the rug as-is now because the member you want to vote for is half-way across the country and there isn't enough interest in your area to have someone on your ballot. Vote the NDP in, get the election system fixed and then vote as you will. Layton has a PhD in Political Science if you read that article by the way so he knows where the rough spots are.
Of course, voting in the NDP to fix the election system takes foresight to see that you can vote in the next election for whoever you want with a better system. Most voters don't want/can't see beyond one election so it's a difficult proposition to push.
The video you linked to is about WikiLeaks. I believe you need to reexamine your thoughts to make sure you are not suffering from conflation.
Dude... Can I have a hit off your bong?
That makes me think of an ancient Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times."
I'm using IceWeasel 4.0 and also can't left-click a link but I can right-click them and open in a new tab.
What value are they trying to charge for? Is it out of force of habit from their previous business model? Yeah, advertising on a web-page may not seem like a viable business model profit-wise for them but the world has moved on: accept advertisements of smaller dollars because the fat subscription days are over. I will not pay for the New York Times. There is no value in it for me.
Wow. You really are an idiot in this case. From the examples you gave, are you still in high-school and hijacked or bought a low user id account?