It's still unsafe to walk down many streets at night. The rich are still above the Law. American workers wages are still depressed by an army of (fully lawful) imported guest worker scabs. The real economy is still in a state of near collapse. The 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, and 9th Amendments are still de facto repealed.
But Big Brother is always watching. Don't worry, because Big Brother loves us all.
Creepy Facebook rolls out an update that adds no-op "privacy" controls intended to fool gullible users into falsely believing it is no longer spying on them 24/7.
"those people ultimately believe that they are being lied to in one way or another"
Those people _know_ they have been lied to many times by ostensibly trustworthy authorities. Therefore they quite reasonably distrust the pronouncements of credentialed "experts". Thinking, again quite reasonably, that many "experts" given voice in the semi-official media are charlatans, who peddle injurious lies for the narrow benefit of their own class or partisan interests.
I find the outage endlessly hilarious. A bunch of obvious internet trolls making "Flat Earth" videos (herpy derp derp herp!) has _succeeded_ at trolling the herd of "but muh SCIENCE(tm)!!?!!1!" bros who believe everything an official journalist tells them.
The real issue here has nothing to do with the curvature of the Earth. Rather it's all about the collapse of media credibility. Reading a "fact" in the New York Times used to suggest it was true. Nowadays publication in the NYT suggests it's false. Especially to the masses of working and lower-middle class people who have suffered dispossession and immiseration under 40 years of disastrously failed neoliberal economic policy. While being lectured about their "privilege" by silver spoon Ivy League mountebanks.
I used to be a fairly prolific FOSS author and contributor. After many bad experiences with corporate leech asshattery and the general precariousness and impecunity of life as a Free Software developer, I said "never again".
Now I still want to write Free-like-freedom software that any human being can use and share. But I am absolutely unwilling to give anything, even a steaming bucket of my own turds, for free to the capitalist dogs and their corporate cancers.
Unfortunately there is no Free Software license that distinguishes between human persons and corporate legal fiction "persons". I've been wondering what it would take to modify the GPL or BSD licenses to support this distinction in a way that would be upheld by the courts. Maybe call them HGPL and HBSD, the H standing for "human".
Doubtless some butthurt shill is going to reply, "boohoo, corporations are just groups of people working together". No, you fool! A corporation is a legal entity, distinct from any of its slaves or owners. All software and related systems ("intellectual property") used by a company are owned (in a legally enforceable way) by the company - not by the slave who happened to build them.
He's a simple test whether the HBSD/HGPL would apply: is the owner of the "intellectual property" a human being, or a legal entity? If the owner is human - congratulations, use my software for free! If the owner is a corporation - fuck you, pay me or get sued.
Yup. This story positively reeks of parallel construction. Most likely Twatter and his ISP handed over his surveillance records, then law enforcers made up an imaginative story about "teh haxors!!" to protect their collaborators.
The kangaroo courts, having long since abandoned any pretense of fairness or proportionality, now resort to power-drunk cruelty to terrorize the plebs into compliance. As each new dramatic overreach errodes what little legitimacy the kourts still enjoy, the next outrage of justice must be even more brutal. Such is the regrettable state of the Law in our once great republic.
Corporate Progressive forced vaccination extremists note that the plebs are using Faceboot to challenge the official Narrative, and demand the iron boot of censorship stomp on the face of those uppity deplorables.
It's notorious that "10x programmers" are NEVER paid 10x the salary of their minimum competence colleagues. So tell me again, who exactly is benefitting from the current system?
My brother - defending the interests of labor against capital is not a left/right issue. Fascists, small-c communists, big-C Communists, traditionalists, distributists, nationalists, monarchists, theocrats, agrarians, anarchists, socialists, and paleo-conservatives all have a long history of opposition to parasitic capitalism.
In fairness, the so-called "blue" states _produce_ almost nothing of value. Rather, they domicile the headquarters of various lawful-fraud financial scams (Wall Street) and police state organs (Surveillance Valley) that enable extraction of wealth from the hinterlands.
Many members of the clique who like to use the phrase "blue state" in fact work for those financial scammers and police state organs. It's quite natural that they want to demonize the ordinary people they work to oppress.
I'm going to say that widespread corruption seems rather more likely than widespread idiocy. I've met lots of crooks of all different sorts. But I'm not sure I've ever once met a person face to face who was actually dumb enough to believe borrowing money to give a free handout to a billionaire oligarch is somehow going to benefit us commoners who must best the burden of paying for said largesse.
Slashdot Mirror
So much surveillance, so little benefit.
It's still unsafe to walk down many streets at night. The rich are still above the Law. American workers wages are still depressed by an army of (fully lawful) imported guest worker scabs. The real economy is still in a state of near collapse. The 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, and 9th Amendments are still de facto repealed.
But Big Brother is always watching. Don't worry, because Big Brother loves us all.
Don't you just love the smell of cybernetic totalitarianism in the morning?
Article Summarized:
Creepy Facebook rolls out an update that adds no-op "privacy" controls intended to fool gullible users into falsely believing it is no longer spying on them 24/7.
SIA's new slogan:
"Singapore Airlines - fly the dystopian police state skies!"
How's that Invisible Skyhook working out for you?
+1 observant
"those people ultimately believe that they are being lied to in one way or another"
Those people _know_ they have been lied to many times by ostensibly trustworthy authorities. Therefore they quite reasonably distrust the pronouncements of credentialed "experts". Thinking, again quite reasonably, that many "experts" given voice in the semi-official media are charlatans, who peddle injurious lies for the narrow benefit of their own class or partisan interests.
I find the outage endlessly hilarious. A bunch of obvious internet trolls making "Flat Earth" videos (herpy derp derp herp!) has _succeeded_ at trolling the herd of "but muh SCIENCE(tm)!!?!!1!" bros who believe everything an official journalist tells them.
The real issue here has nothing to do with the curvature of the Earth. Rather it's all about the collapse of media credibility. Reading a "fact" in the New York Times used to suggest it was true. Nowadays publication in the NYT suggests it's false. Especially to the masses of working and lower-middle class people who have suffered dispossession and immiseration under 40 years of disastrously failed neoliberal economic policy. While being lectured about their "privilege" by silver spoon Ivy League mountebanks.
Lower profits for inbred Sandhill Road dimwits? OH NOEZ!!!1!!
"You ask the offshored wolf to guard the henhouse because the watchdog is more expensive, now you are coming back to an empty coop."
And also, the watchdog would sooner chew your leg off than guard your hens again.
I used to be a fairly prolific FOSS author and contributor. After many bad experiences with corporate leech asshattery and the general precariousness and impecunity of life as a Free Software developer, I said "never again".
Now I still want to write Free-like-freedom software that any human being can use and share. But I am absolutely unwilling to give anything, even a steaming bucket of my own turds, for free to the capitalist dogs and their corporate cancers.
Unfortunately there is no Free Software license that distinguishes between human persons and corporate legal fiction "persons". I've been wondering what it would take to modify the GPL or BSD licenses to support this distinction in a way that would be upheld by the courts. Maybe call them HGPL and HBSD, the H standing for "human".
Doubtless some butthurt shill is going to reply, "boohoo, corporations are just groups of people working together". No, you fool! A corporation is a legal entity, distinct from any of its slaves or owners. All software and related systems ("intellectual property") used by a company are owned (in a legally enforceable way) by the company - not by the slave who happened to build them.
He's a simple test whether the HBSD/HGPL would apply: is the owner of the "intellectual property" a human being, or a legal entity? If the owner is human - congratulations, use my software for free! If the owner is a corporation - fuck you, pay me or get sued.
Yup. This story positively reeks of parallel construction. Most likely Twatter and his ISP handed over his surveillance records, then law enforcers made up an imaginative story about "teh haxors!!" to protect their collaborators.
The kangaroo courts, having long since abandoned any pretense of fairness or proportionality, now resort to power-drunk cruelty to terrorize the plebs into compliance. As each new dramatic overreach errodes what little legitimacy the kourts still enjoy, the next outrage of justice must be even more brutal. Such is the regrettable state of the Law in our once great republic.
Article summarized:
Corporate Progressive forced vaccination extremists note that the plebs are using Faceboot to challenge the official Narrative, and demand the iron boot of censorship stomp on the face of those uppity deplorables.
Alas, it would not.
It's notorious that "10x programmers" are NEVER paid 10x the salary of their minimum competence colleagues. So tell me again, who exactly is benefitting from the current system?
+1 blunt
My brother - defending the interests of labor against capital is not a left/right issue. Fascists, small-c communists, big-C Communists, traditionalists, distributists, nationalists, monarchists, theocrats, agrarians, anarchists, socialists, and paleo-conservatives all have a long history of opposition to parasitic capitalism.
Solidarity means ALL of us standing together.
"Unemployment is 4%."
During Stalin's famines the Soviet statistical agency reported record harvests.
Keep on believin'!
"when you use an offshore third party that gives a thumbs up or thumbs down on employees, you skirt that law."
Details, please?
Don't you just love the smell of cybernetic totalitarianism I'm in the morning?
If deleting a record breaks your site, that's a good hint your DB schema doesn't have referential integrity.
Try this one instead:
https://github.com/M66B/NetGua...
It's open source (GPL) and appears to improve battery life on my Android, by blocking the incessant network chatter of many apps.
In fairness, the so-called "blue" states _produce_ almost nothing of value. Rather, they domicile the headquarters of various lawful-fraud financial scams (Wall Street) and police state organs (Surveillance Valley) that enable extraction of wealth from the hinterlands.
Many members of the clique who like to use the phrase "blue state" in fact work for those financial scammers and police state organs. It's quite natural that they want to demonize the ordinary people they work to oppress.
"Let them eat cake!"
I'm going to say that widespread corruption seems rather more likely than widespread idiocy. I've met lots of crooks of all different sorts. But I'm not sure I've ever once met a person face to face who was actually dumb enough to believe borrowing money to give a free handout to a billionaire oligarch is somehow going to benefit us commoners who must best the burden of paying for said largesse.