More likely they would be the religious gits in the background talking other people into terrorists activities in order to empower those ignorant religious gits. They are smart enough to know they are not smart enough to earn a living from a real profession, hence the pursuit of a religious profession (not all, just the ones that demand donations for private jets and scream about fundamentalism, after all who has the most power in fundamentalist religious states). So the ones getting the religious education simply don't get caught, whilst running the whole show, sending gullible fools off to die.
The meme is China copies every thing but does a bad job. Straight off the bat they lied about outperforming Tesla vehicles in every way. Tesla released a compact SUV and the metrics for that a very different to the metrics for a sedan. So they underperformed significantly because no compact SUV (keep in mind that is becoming the leading model format globally).
You know what, whilst people might laugh, we all know now, if they could, they would and after exposing the extremely corrupt NSA, we have proof, if they can get away with it, legal or illegal they will do it. Oddly enough in many ways no different to the criminal gangs they pursue. Gang wars?!?
Computer companies being tied so closely to governments means one thing and one thing only to me. No electronic elections ever, an extraordinarily bad idea. Pencil and paper and eyeball counting only as a strict law, not to be cheated at any level, not local, not state and not federal. You get your ballet, you go to your private booth and either make and 'X', in the appropriate place or list of numbers in order of preference. You put your marked ballot in the appropriate box and under supervision that closed box is taken to the counting place, a room next door to the polling place and then volunteers from all of the people running in that election open up the boxes and start counting the votes, each count is checked by other volunteers and the whole thing is supervised by the electoral commission. Done on weekends to make access for everyone much easier.
If you miss out on voting, make a complaint and if more than 1% miss out, a new election for those locations is required (none should miss out, hence the very low 1% requirement). So if you complain and the check the polls to confirm you did not vote, that complain is counted as a requirement to redo that election process (also those officials who failed should be charged with criminal negligence, their crime is the most extreme in a democracy, the treasonous and purposeful corruption of electoral process).
US politicians do not give away free money to the rest of the world, that is a lie, just ask the typical Republican, nothing is free. What happen is they get paid in kick backs, bribes in tax havens and campaign donations, then and only then do they payback 10 to 1000 times what they have been paid, so the scam the taxpayers and spend the tax payer dollars to pay back many multiples of what the corrupt politicians were paid.
The reality is the Clinton campaign has crossed the line in accessing Bernie Sanders campaign donor list last year (check the timing) and scrubbing millions of those Bernie Sanders donors from those states with closed Democrat primary polls (it also looks like they colluded with Republicans to remove polling places from locations favouring Bernie Sanders). That is the work of corrupt autocracies, the active theft of elections, the total disregard of democracy to gain power and with the power the ability to attack those that opposed them (they are actively preventing people who do not support them from voting).
That makes them the worst of the worst, no support at any cost, they must lose, to support them after they have been caught out removing Bernie Sanders support from the polls, means under no circumstances can you support them without becoming them, corruptly perverted undemocratic imperials. To support Clinton is to support the abandonment of democracy as a principle. The Democrat party should be attacked with a class action law suit to force them to drop the word Democrat as it is false advertising and fraud.
See that message expect it to be blared out from every source, never for get Arizona, never forget New York (more states to come, when they said it was numerically impossible for Bernie Sanders to win, they knew exactly why, a required percentage of Bernie Sanders supporters have been scrubbed from the polls in every closed primary and they in the most Freudian fashion imaginable let slip on that secret), do not support the theft of democracy by an autocratic extremely corrupt minority.
I am trying to fathom what you think I would gain, why your personal greed somehow defines my opinion and seeking ways to redirect those industries focus to less harmful objectives. Don't not equate you greed to my gaining nothing but reduced risk of war.
Indications are that it is only those with genetic tendency, psychopath or narcissism that are influenced in the kind of disturbed manner in which they interact with others, the kind of abuse, rather than being abusive. For the rest, a preference for individual masturbation in versus mutual masturbation (of what ever combination) with accidental reproduction, sexually transmitted diseases as well as direct physical, emotional and economic risk and consequence, is altering reproductive patterns ensuring the rise of the idiocracy and final collapse. The out of control greed and ego of the 1% are making reproduction very undesirable for the only really productive group in society, the middle class. So it has become pron (free porn) in preference to reproductive risk and consequence. Those who seek to sexually emulate porn in an abusive fashion, would only be limited in their choice of abuse by their own sick imagination and would not avoid sexually abusing others (to control that you would need to detect them early and prevent them from harming others and of course prevent them from reproducing the problem, access to pornography has nothing to do with it).
It is not about me and my desires it is about them and theirs and redirecting it to cause less harm. You want to crawl into a hole with your greed and self interest go ahead, don't try to drag the rest of the world there. Vote with you dollars, no that is a lie, vote with your equal right to access to all resources, that is the truth, ownership is the lie, the great theft. Becoming a galactic species is no boondoggle and only the most shallow and primitive could think so.
I like the idea of footpaths with culverts underneath housing star trek turbo lift style transport. Add an extension to the system for your dwelling or enter via a public access point and either use a private transport unit or a public one. Leaving much smaller roads for cargo and emergency services. Interesting 3D transport system with horizontal and vertical lanes at congestion locales, 1 lane, 2 lanes, 2x2 lanes, 2x3 lanes and 3x3 lanes. The whole idea to avoid all interaction between the transport units and anything uncontrolled in the transport space (people, animals and the hugely reduced number of manually controlled vehicles).
Easy solution to that. Once the manufacturing stops supporting the device, regulations would require that the manufacturer open up support of that device to the market by open sourcing the software. Never to forget mandating user replaceable batteries to ensure extended use, not necessarily for the initial user but the next user, giving more people access to more capable devices and protecting the initial users investment. The same goes for any other spare parts, provision of which must be opened to the market, the second the original manufacturer ceases that support (to reduce waste of planetary resources and reduce production of waste from wasting planetary resources).
The real problem with this case is by hacking that network, you have straight off the bat proven that in can be hacked and hence hugely weakened you evidence. Evidence obtained in this matter should only be used to further extend legal search warrants to obtain more untarnished evidence involving a direct connection between the persons being prosecuted and the evidence of their activity. This with a strong focus on those producing it, distributing it and of course funding it (not just purchasers of it but those who attach their advertisements to it). Take out the profit and you will hugely reduce it's impact and reduce the potential for future victims.
The huge difference between future game consoles and the previous millenniums versions and it is huge, is the size required for a game console for the majority of casual gamers, now no bigger than a phablet smart phone add in this http://www.lg.com/us/lg-friend..., the VR headset plugged in via USB and not for VR simple 3D immersion and the console is done (simply effectively putting a big screen TV right in your pocket). So headset not so much for VR as visually really big 3D screens (3D that actually works). Missteps to avoid, the 3D plug for the VR headset should be a double adapter allowing power into the phone whilst the phone powers the headset for extended use and virtual reality should take a back seat to display quality and 3D (reality is VR will never be comfortable for extended use, being far more useful for fitness than for relaxed game play). I personally want to game sitting back relaxed in a comfy recliner, than standing and wildly gesticulating about. The Android (many manufacturers) and Apple game console will look nothing like the Sony and M$ version (for extra processing horse power you could dock the phone into a storage and processing dock, sitting on your bedside table or next to your very comfortable rocker recliner).
Cheaper launch methods are on the drawing board for quite a few players, much cheaper than current systems. Rockets are on the way out and launch tubes are in, and not circular but elliptical to ensure the correct lifting body shape and fuel should be used for guidance and landing only (a fuel less take off, as far as the flying body is concerned, using the last bit of atmosphere to adjust vector and speed). So once you shoot that flying body in space, landing it becomes a matter of effective breaking, the high velocity makes specific engine types much more feasible so as to achieve far lower landing speeds than are currently obtainable. This hugely improves re-usability, to the point of land, service and take off again, especially in regard to a return flight from the moon (fancy runway on the moon, electromagnetic to hold the craft to the surface and decelerate it, avoiding fuel waste, even circular, think banked race track, a rather peculiar landing angle at the raised entry and then around and around you go). Plenty of hats will be required to take off for plenty of players.
Any moon base should be joint access. Sure you can have your own section as big or small as you want it to be but it should be directly and intimately linked with all others and work with all others and everyone should know what everyone is doing in that base, it is better for everyone that way (this can be ensured by forcing sharing of the launch and landing facility and proper shared control of that facility, not just governments but also public and private).
Well, then they are entitled to go wild and fight for the end of ownership of anything, to live a free and independent subsistence life style and that is a birth right of any living creature including human beings and human society collapses.
The real question in this matter is what human reproduction is desirable and to be promoted and what human reproduction is undesirable and to be prevented. So lazy drug addict that does not want to contribute to society, it is simply cheaper and safer to look after them and give them addictive substance they crave, than have countless victims suffering from crime and take steps to prevent reproducing that problem in the next generation (keep in mind the majority of that reproduction is accidental, so introduce birth control into those substance when provided free), problem solved in a few generations. Compare this to fighting it for ever, attempting to force unnecessary slave labour and riots and violent rebellious upheaval.
I am more willing to give those at the bottom as long as they do not continue the problem and live peaceably, then I am willing to give to the egoistic freaks and fuckwits at the top who demand infinitely more and produce infinitely more chaos than those at the bottom and it would be better for the majority, if that problem was also not reproduced in future generations.
How insane is the US right now, Planned Parenthood is considered an anathema by conservatives, seriously WHAT THE FUCK?!?
Not only could you cut US military spending in half, you could cut that half in half. Right at this moment the US military industrial complex via the corporate control of NATO is purposefully wasting money creating enemies, in order to generate more funding. Cut funding in half and they no longer will be able to fund that. With fewer enemies the military funding can be halved again. The bulk of spending is currently horrendous waste. Replacing what does not need to be replaced. Creating new and ever more expensive ways of fighting wars, not to fight wars but to spend more money. The fomenting of and fighting those artificial and unnecessary wars, not to succeed at anything beyond spending more money. Cut the waste and you can have the same size military at a quarter of the price and of course at half of the military industrial complex profits.
Trying to shut down those corporations is extremely difficult. So, trying to focus them in on space as an alternate, same turnover, same profit, less risk for everyone else becomes extremely desirable. At the end of the day it is far easier to isolate disruptive regions than enforce cultural change.
Porn is an outlet for all people who choose to use it to alleviate hormonal drives. So as a health crisis it does impact reproduction because it represents an alternative to intended non-reproductive mutual masturbation, that does result in unintended reproduction. The health crisis is not the porn, the societal health crisis is the growing undesirability of reproduction.
The growing undesirability of reproduction is being fed by making more and more difficult for the majority to be a parent. Two factors in this difficulty, one the financial burden upon parents is crushing when combined with insane corporate politics seeking to strip mine the middle class out of existence. A smart person knows they can not afford to bring a child up on minimum wage. The second factor is one of responsibility, parents are responsible for bringing children into a world to feed the reproductive ego of the parents and that covers the state of the world in which those children will suffer, not having children saves them from that suffering, don't want your children to live in labour camps and be the slaves of corporations, don't have them.
So porn reduces hormonal drives that feed into accidental reproduction and as such is a symptom of the social crisis, the cause is of course corruption of the social structure making reproduction undesirables for anyone of intelligence. Now if you think fine, we can get by with the others reproducing, the less intellectual greed and power obsessed minority and the even less intellectual minimum wage class, well, good luck with that because it will collapse and likely at this stage of development result in extinction. There are sufficient number of aware individuals left in the establishment who are aware of this even though the majority of that establishment is now psychopathically only egoistically considered with them selves and are indifferent to the future suffering of their own grandchildren.
The most damaging protest you can do is to stop having children, to stop feeding slaves into the system, to stop giving them fuel to burn to feed their own ego and lusts. Just say no to reproduction, they are making it too hard, so stop.
It just means making the compiled code available, from other sources than the phone manufacturer. Plenty of software distribution sources to cover that. The whole idea though is FOSS can quite easily make the application of any similar government regulations quite easy to defeat.
Their whole exercise is a massive ego trip. Nothing at all to do with faith and everything to do with ego, anything that punctures that ego makes the weaker and more chaotic and affects their ability to recruit. In case exactly how much effort do you think is required to mock them, billions of dollars like bombs, hundreds of millions of dollars, in reality not even thousands of dollars and it will have a greater impact that millions of dollars worth of bombs. So on a more serious wake up to yourself, every avenue is worth it and those worth most provide the greatest return for the least capital investment.
Now would that be the money in tax havens or the money in tax discounting countries without any revenue or the money from un-employing people where the revenue is generated and employing people who can never afford to buy the product based on the wages being paid or is that money generated by using slave prison labour or is that the money generated by using criminal uncompetitive practices or the money generated by corrupting governments to ensure product sales of etc. etc. etc.. You tell a lie, that generates bad Karma, you broadcast that lie and you basically end up telling millions of lies and you repeat those tactics again and again and can you even possible dream that paying a tiny portion of that income generated to subsidise people who do good works, even comes close to balancing out the negative. Sure spend millions of PR=B$ to fabricate an illusion via mainstream media and "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." but the reality is, it doesn't ever balance out that corruption or the continuing corruption that is M$.
So the US be investing more if research and space, of course, should they tax more no but they should make sure those who should be paying taxes are paying taxes and that tax havens are basically stripped of their ability to cheat the rest of the world of their social services and of course cut the military spending budget by half, hmm, perhaps not enough by at least 80%, more than enough money to spend on better infrastructure, a new push into space, universal health care, free education and a shit bucket ton of research, funding a better future than a destructive military black hole.
Gates would have done much better if he had actually meaningfully committed himself by saying how it was to be funded ie by significantly cutting defence spending.
Talking about that Egyptian Goddess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., you would reckon people could have quite a bit of fun with that, poking them for being named after an Goddess, and not covered up at all. It seems like the do not understand the Goddess they are named after at all;).
What difference does it make. The writing is on the wall for Arabia and the shite House of Saud and it's fundamentalists autocratic religious ways. They will be selling those assets to pay the bill for the civil suits. Basically the tip is on, that as revenues falls and those insane egotist continue to make huge egoistic demands of their economy will end up bankrupting the place added into this a violent revolution bursting force after decades of oppression. So the idea is to, let loose with civil suits to snare those Saudi assets, before they are wasted propping up that autocracy. You can bet not only will that information be released but as the court cases kick off, so will other secrets be leaked to ensure their success (NATO has a direct wire into Arabia's communications infrastructure via member nations corporations efforts). There is not a country the Saudi's have left untouched with their promotion of what is called 'Wahhabist Death Cult' and the resulting conflicts it has produced, this will be a global mass pile on and Obama might make some noises (to ensure as many assets as possible remain accessible for a long as possible) but his backers are demanding the right to strip mine offshore Saudi family assets. Arabia will be paying the price for those Saud egoists who choose to name the country after themselves, talk about massively bloated egos. Time to pay the piper and don't they deserve it.
If any main stream internet corporation strove to defeat politicians, they would just show themselves to be as corrupt as existing dying main stream media organisation. Just like dying main stream media, so those social media sites would be committing suicide.
So what about employees that do not support particular political actions, are they fired, are they demoted, is their pay cut, do they get permanent night shift are they permanently blocked from career advancement.
Employees should be free to act as citizens in a democracy away from the work space and the work space should never undemocratically force particular political activity on it's employees (they should be penalised under electoral laws for attempting to subvert democracy).
Social media sites that present themselves as neutral need to remain so or face condemnation, the exact same condemnation main stream media now faces. No claimed neutral social media site has the right to subvert democracy to push the political egos of it's executives or board. Now if you are a politically aligned social media site, that is fine but declare yourself as such before hand and do not attempt to claim neutrality in order to present you opinions as the only possible truths.
Nah all to difficult and tiresome. Here is what we do, we all demand FOSS free open source software encryption solutions and when it get to the line of code with the back door, in capital letters type this description "THIS IS THE FUCKING STUPID LINE OF CODE WITH THE BACK DOOR PLEASE DELETE PRIOR TO COMPILATION and have a nice day;D", don't forget the smiley it counts.
See all to easy, no muss, no fuss, now how the fuck will they legislate that out of software, 'er' you must make it really difficult to discover the back door algorithm in Free Open Source Software, or if you leave it in you can not change the back door access to your own encrypted back door access. So the same solution for every stupid bit of government legislation covering software, FOSS it and wink and laugh out loud (yeah we put the back door in but those naughty end users just keep taking it out, damn, what a shame).
I would wager the stupid burns because they would need to believe that they are the only group hoarding those zero day faults or that their knowledge has not leaked or sold. That is the real problem with hoarding zero day flaws, the kind of stupid ego that pre-posits they are the only people who are smart enough to find it and all the other espionage groups are just script kiddies. In reality hoarders will find that those they are meant to be protecting end up being attacked by others and as they watch it unfold, they just sit them, thumb in bum, mind in neutral as they desperately try to pretend they had nothing to do with that attack or those victims.
This has been covered before, can never use a zero day flaw because once it is detected it is gone (so major effort little to no reward), hoard a zero day flaw only to see someone else use it whilst you are still hoarding it (those victims, your fault and you are now an accessory before the fact and guilty of criminal negligence), hoard a zero day only to find others had already found it and are working on a fix and that fix is implemented before you can claim credit and earn kudos for you efforts (major effort expended and no respect gained for your agency or the support from the public that the gained respect would earn) and of course get busted hoarding an exploit and expect resounding condemnation from every one and a desire to by the public to expose the dick heads involved and a desire to see them prosecuted for criminal negligence because they have a duty of care and a duty of law to protect the public from harm.
So what exactly are you referring to "when you die, you realise", what exactly are you meant to be realising after you are dead, how exactly would future politicians affect your deceased self and what political issues do you believe most affect the dead. So perhaps are you saying when you die you should haunt politicians who lied to you? Whilst I agree with your sentiment, some how I can no see the political worth of your concept. Lower my expectations, fuck off, more, better politicians, now and forever. Custodial sentences for politicians who substantively fail to adhere to the promises, equal to the term of office.
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More likely they would be the religious gits in the background talking other people into terrorists activities in order to empower those ignorant religious gits. They are smart enough to know they are not smart enough to earn a living from a real profession, hence the pursuit of a religious profession (not all, just the ones that demand donations for private jets and scream about fundamentalism, after all who has the most power in fundamentalist religious states). So the ones getting the religious education simply don't get caught, whilst running the whole show, sending gullible fools off to die.
The meme is China copies every thing but does a bad job. Straight off the bat they lied about outperforming Tesla vehicles in every way. Tesla released a compact SUV and the metrics for that a very different to the metrics for a sedan. So they underperformed significantly because no compact SUV (keep in mind that is becoming the leading model format globally).
You know what, whilst people might laugh, we all know now, if they could, they would and after exposing the extremely corrupt NSA, we have proof, if they can get away with it, legal or illegal they will do it. Oddly enough in many ways no different to the criminal gangs they pursue. Gang wars?!?
Computer companies being tied so closely to governments means one thing and one thing only to me. No electronic elections ever, an extraordinarily bad idea. Pencil and paper and eyeball counting only as a strict law, not to be cheated at any level, not local, not state and not federal. You get your ballet, you go to your private booth and either make and 'X', in the appropriate place or list of numbers in order of preference. You put your marked ballot in the appropriate box and under supervision that closed box is taken to the counting place, a room next door to the polling place and then volunteers from all of the people running in that election open up the boxes and start counting the votes, each count is checked by other volunteers and the whole thing is supervised by the electoral commission. Done on weekends to make access for everyone much easier.
If you miss out on voting, make a complaint and if more than 1% miss out, a new election for those locations is required (none should miss out, hence the very low 1% requirement). So if you complain and the check the polls to confirm you did not vote, that complain is counted as a requirement to redo that election process (also those officials who failed should be charged with criminal negligence, their crime is the most extreme in a democracy, the treasonous and purposeful corruption of electoral process).
US politicians do not give away free money to the rest of the world, that is a lie, just ask the typical Republican, nothing is free. What happen is they get paid in kick backs, bribes in tax havens and campaign donations, then and only then do they payback 10 to 1000 times what they have been paid, so the scam the taxpayers and spend the tax payer dollars to pay back many multiples of what the corrupt politicians were paid.
The reality is the Clinton campaign has crossed the line in accessing Bernie Sanders campaign donor list last year (check the timing) and scrubbing millions of those Bernie Sanders donors from those states with closed Democrat primary polls (it also looks like they colluded with Republicans to remove polling places from locations favouring Bernie Sanders). That is the work of corrupt autocracies, the active theft of elections, the total disregard of democracy to gain power and with the power the ability to attack those that opposed them (they are actively preventing people who do not support them from voting).
That makes them the worst of the worst, no support at any cost, they must lose, to support them after they have been caught out removing Bernie Sanders support from the polls, means under no circumstances can you support them without becoming them, corruptly perverted undemocratic imperials. To support Clinton is to support the abandonment of democracy as a principle. The Democrat party should be attacked with a class action law suit to force them to drop the word Democrat as it is false advertising and fraud.
See that message expect it to be blared out from every source, never for get Arizona, never forget New York (more states to come, when they said it was numerically impossible for Bernie Sanders to win, they knew exactly why, a required percentage of Bernie Sanders supporters have been scrubbed from the polls in every closed primary and they in the most Freudian fashion imaginable let slip on that secret), do not support the theft of democracy by an autocratic extremely corrupt minority.
I am trying to fathom what you think I would gain, why your personal greed somehow defines my opinion and seeking ways to redirect those industries focus to less harmful objectives. Don't not equate you greed to my gaining nothing but reduced risk of war.
Indications are that it is only those with genetic tendency, psychopath or narcissism that are influenced in the kind of disturbed manner in which they interact with others, the kind of abuse, rather than being abusive. For the rest, a preference for individual masturbation in versus mutual masturbation (of what ever combination) with accidental reproduction, sexually transmitted diseases as well as direct physical, emotional and economic risk and consequence, is altering reproductive patterns ensuring the rise of the idiocracy and final collapse. The out of control greed and ego of the 1% are making reproduction very undesirable for the only really productive group in society, the middle class. So it has become pron (free porn) in preference to reproductive risk and consequence. Those who seek to sexually emulate porn in an abusive fashion, would only be limited in their choice of abuse by their own sick imagination and would not avoid sexually abusing others (to control that you would need to detect them early and prevent them from harming others and of course prevent them from reproducing the problem, access to pornography has nothing to do with it).
It is not about me and my desires it is about them and theirs and redirecting it to cause less harm. You want to crawl into a hole with your greed and self interest go ahead, don't try to drag the rest of the world there. Vote with you dollars, no that is a lie, vote with your equal right to access to all resources, that is the truth, ownership is the lie, the great theft. Becoming a galactic species is no boondoggle and only the most shallow and primitive could think so.
I like the idea of footpaths with culverts underneath housing star trek turbo lift style transport. Add an extension to the system for your dwelling or enter via a public access point and either use a private transport unit or a public one. Leaving much smaller roads for cargo and emergency services. Interesting 3D transport system with horizontal and vertical lanes at congestion locales, 1 lane, 2 lanes, 2x2 lanes, 2x3 lanes and 3x3 lanes. The whole idea to avoid all interaction between the transport units and anything uncontrolled in the transport space (people, animals and the hugely reduced number of manually controlled vehicles).
Easy solution to that. Once the manufacturing stops supporting the device, regulations would require that the manufacturer open up support of that device to the market by open sourcing the software. Never to forget mandating user replaceable batteries to ensure extended use, not necessarily for the initial user but the next user, giving more people access to more capable devices and protecting the initial users investment. The same goes for any other spare parts, provision of which must be opened to the market, the second the original manufacturer ceases that support (to reduce waste of planetary resources and reduce production of waste from wasting planetary resources).
The real problem with this case is by hacking that network, you have straight off the bat proven that in can be hacked and hence hugely weakened you evidence. Evidence obtained in this matter should only be used to further extend legal search warrants to obtain more untarnished evidence involving a direct connection between the persons being prosecuted and the evidence of their activity. This with a strong focus on those producing it, distributing it and of course funding it (not just purchasers of it but those who attach their advertisements to it). Take out the profit and you will hugely reduce it's impact and reduce the potential for future victims.
The huge difference between future game consoles and the previous millenniums versions and it is huge, is the size required for a game console for the majority of casual gamers, now no bigger than a phablet smart phone add in this http://www.lg.com/us/lg-friend..., the VR headset plugged in via USB and not for VR simple 3D immersion and the console is done (simply effectively putting a big screen TV right in your pocket). So headset not so much for VR as visually really big 3D screens (3D that actually works). Missteps to avoid, the 3D plug for the VR headset should be a double adapter allowing power into the phone whilst the phone powers the headset for extended use and virtual reality should take a back seat to display quality and 3D (reality is VR will never be comfortable for extended use, being far more useful for fitness than for relaxed game play). I personally want to game sitting back relaxed in a comfy recliner, than standing and wildly gesticulating about. The Android (many manufacturers) and Apple game console will look nothing like the Sony and M$ version (for extra processing horse power you could dock the phone into a storage and processing dock, sitting on your bedside table or next to your very comfortable rocker recliner).
Cheaper launch methods are on the drawing board for quite a few players, much cheaper than current systems. Rockets are on the way out and launch tubes are in, and not circular but elliptical to ensure the correct lifting body shape and fuel should be used for guidance and landing only (a fuel less take off, as far as the flying body is concerned, using the last bit of atmosphere to adjust vector and speed). So once you shoot that flying body in space, landing it becomes a matter of effective breaking, the high velocity makes specific engine types much more feasible so as to achieve far lower landing speeds than are currently obtainable. This hugely improves re-usability, to the point of land, service and take off again, especially in regard to a return flight from the moon (fancy runway on the moon, electromagnetic to hold the craft to the surface and decelerate it, avoiding fuel waste, even circular, think banked race track, a rather peculiar landing angle at the raised entry and then around and around you go). Plenty of hats will be required to take off for plenty of players.
Any moon base should be joint access. Sure you can have your own section as big or small as you want it to be but it should be directly and intimately linked with all others and work with all others and everyone should know what everyone is doing in that base, it is better for everyone that way (this can be ensured by forcing sharing of the launch and landing facility and proper shared control of that facility, not just governments but also public and private).
Well, then they are entitled to go wild and fight for the end of ownership of anything, to live a free and independent subsistence life style and that is a birth right of any living creature including human beings and human society collapses.
The real question in this matter is what human reproduction is desirable and to be promoted and what human reproduction is undesirable and to be prevented. So lazy drug addict that does not want to contribute to society, it is simply cheaper and safer to look after them and give them addictive substance they crave, than have countless victims suffering from crime and take steps to prevent reproducing that problem in the next generation (keep in mind the majority of that reproduction is accidental, so introduce birth control into those substance when provided free), problem solved in a few generations. Compare this to fighting it for ever, attempting to force unnecessary slave labour and riots and violent rebellious upheaval.
I am more willing to give those at the bottom as long as they do not continue the problem and live peaceably, then I am willing to give to the egoistic freaks and fuckwits at the top who demand infinitely more and produce infinitely more chaos than those at the bottom and it would be better for the majority, if that problem was also not reproduced in future generations.
How insane is the US right now, Planned Parenthood is considered an anathema by conservatives, seriously WHAT THE FUCK?!?
Not only could you cut US military spending in half, you could cut that half in half. Right at this moment the US military industrial complex via the corporate control of NATO is purposefully wasting money creating enemies, in order to generate more funding. Cut funding in half and they no longer will be able to fund that. With fewer enemies the military funding can be halved again. The bulk of spending is currently horrendous waste. Replacing what does not need to be replaced. Creating new and ever more expensive ways of fighting wars, not to fight wars but to spend more money. The fomenting of and fighting those artificial and unnecessary wars, not to succeed at anything beyond spending more money. Cut the waste and you can have the same size military at a quarter of the price and of course at half of the military industrial complex profits.
Trying to shut down those corporations is extremely difficult. So, trying to focus them in on space as an alternate, same turnover, same profit, less risk for everyone else becomes extremely desirable. At the end of the day it is far easier to isolate disruptive regions than enforce cultural change.
Porn is an outlet for all people who choose to use it to alleviate hormonal drives. So as a health crisis it does impact reproduction because it represents an alternative to intended non-reproductive mutual masturbation, that does result in unintended reproduction. The health crisis is not the porn, the societal health crisis is the growing undesirability of reproduction.
The growing undesirability of reproduction is being fed by making more and more difficult for the majority to be a parent. Two factors in this difficulty, one the financial burden upon parents is crushing when combined with insane corporate politics seeking to strip mine the middle class out of existence. A smart person knows they can not afford to bring a child up on minimum wage. The second factor is one of responsibility, parents are responsible for bringing children into a world to feed the reproductive ego of the parents and that covers the state of the world in which those children will suffer, not having children saves them from that suffering, don't want your children to live in labour camps and be the slaves of corporations, don't have them.
So porn reduces hormonal drives that feed into accidental reproduction and as such is a symptom of the social crisis, the cause is of course corruption of the social structure making reproduction undesirables for anyone of intelligence. Now if you think fine, we can get by with the others reproducing, the less intellectual greed and power obsessed minority and the even less intellectual minimum wage class, well, good luck with that because it will collapse and likely at this stage of development result in extinction. There are sufficient number of aware individuals left in the establishment who are aware of this even though the majority of that establishment is now psychopathically only egoistically considered with them selves and are indifferent to the future suffering of their own grandchildren.
The most damaging protest you can do is to stop having children, to stop feeding slaves into the system, to stop giving them fuel to burn to feed their own ego and lusts. Just say no to reproduction, they are making it too hard, so stop.
It just means making the compiled code available, from other sources than the phone manufacturer. Plenty of software distribution sources to cover that. The whole idea though is FOSS can quite easily make the application of any similar government regulations quite easy to defeat.
Their whole exercise is a massive ego trip. Nothing at all to do with faith and everything to do with ego, anything that punctures that ego makes the weaker and more chaotic and affects their ability to recruit. In case exactly how much effort do you think is required to mock them, billions of dollars like bombs, hundreds of millions of dollars, in reality not even thousands of dollars and it will have a greater impact that millions of dollars worth of bombs. So on a more serious wake up to yourself, every avenue is worth it and those worth most provide the greatest return for the least capital investment.
Now would that be the money in tax havens or the money in tax discounting countries without any revenue or the money from un-employing people where the revenue is generated and employing people who can never afford to buy the product based on the wages being paid or is that money generated by using slave prison labour or is that the money generated by using criminal uncompetitive practices or the money generated by corrupting governments to ensure product sales of etc. etc. etc.. You tell a lie, that generates bad Karma, you broadcast that lie and you basically end up telling millions of lies and you repeat those tactics again and again and can you even possible dream that paying a tiny portion of that income generated to subsidise people who do good works, even comes close to balancing out the negative. Sure spend millions of PR=B$ to fabricate an illusion via mainstream media and "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." but the reality is, it doesn't ever balance out that corruption or the continuing corruption that is M$.
So the US be investing more if research and space, of course, should they tax more no but they should make sure those who should be paying taxes are paying taxes and that tax havens are basically stripped of their ability to cheat the rest of the world of their social services and of course cut the military spending budget by half, hmm, perhaps not enough by at least 80%, more than enough money to spend on better infrastructure, a new push into space, universal health care, free education and a shit bucket ton of research, funding a better future than a destructive military black hole.
Gates would have done much better if he had actually meaningfully committed himself by saying how it was to be funded ie by significantly cutting defence spending.
Talking about that Egyptian Goddess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., you would reckon people could have quite a bit of fun with that, poking them for being named after an Goddess, and not covered up at all. It seems like the do not understand the Goddess they are named after at all ;).
What difference does it make. The writing is on the wall for Arabia and the shite House of Saud and it's fundamentalists autocratic religious ways. They will be selling those assets to pay the bill for the civil suits. Basically the tip is on, that as revenues falls and those insane egotist continue to make huge egoistic demands of their economy will end up bankrupting the place added into this a violent revolution bursting force after decades of oppression. So the idea is to, let loose with civil suits to snare those Saudi assets, before they are wasted propping up that autocracy. You can bet not only will that information be released but as the court cases kick off, so will other secrets be leaked to ensure their success (NATO has a direct wire into Arabia's communications infrastructure via member nations corporations efforts). There is not a country the Saudi's have left untouched with their promotion of what is called 'Wahhabist Death Cult' and the resulting conflicts it has produced, this will be a global mass pile on and Obama might make some noises (to ensure as many assets as possible remain accessible for a long as possible) but his backers are demanding the right to strip mine offshore Saudi family assets. Arabia will be paying the price for those Saud egoists who choose to name the country after themselves, talk about massively bloated egos. Time to pay the piper and don't they deserve it.
If any main stream internet corporation strove to defeat politicians, they would just show themselves to be as corrupt as existing dying main stream media organisation. Just like dying main stream media, so those social media sites would be committing suicide.
So what about employees that do not support particular political actions, are they fired, are they demoted, is their pay cut, do they get permanent night shift are they permanently blocked from career advancement.
Employees should be free to act as citizens in a democracy away from the work space and the work space should never undemocratically force particular political activity on it's employees (they should be penalised under electoral laws for attempting to subvert democracy).
Social media sites that present themselves as neutral need to remain so or face condemnation, the exact same condemnation main stream media now faces. No claimed neutral social media site has the right to subvert democracy to push the political egos of it's executives or board. Now if you are a politically aligned social media site, that is fine but declare yourself as such before hand and do not attempt to claim neutrality in order to present you opinions as the only possible truths.
Nah all to difficult and tiresome. Here is what we do, we all demand FOSS free open source software encryption solutions and when it get to the line of code with the back door, in capital letters type this description "THIS IS THE FUCKING STUPID LINE OF CODE WITH THE BACK DOOR PLEASE DELETE PRIOR TO COMPILATION and have a nice day ;D", don't forget the smiley it counts.
See all to easy, no muss, no fuss, now how the fuck will they legislate that out of software, 'er' you must make it really difficult to discover the back door algorithm in Free Open Source Software, or if you leave it in you can not change the back door access to your own encrypted back door access. So the same solution for every stupid bit of government legislation covering software, FOSS it and wink and laugh out loud (yeah we put the back door in but those naughty end users just keep taking it out, damn, what a shame).
I would wager the stupid burns because they would need to believe that they are the only group hoarding those zero day faults or that their knowledge has not leaked or sold. That is the real problem with hoarding zero day flaws, the kind of stupid ego that pre-posits they are the only people who are smart enough to find it and all the other espionage groups are just script kiddies. In reality hoarders will find that those they are meant to be protecting end up being attacked by others and as they watch it unfold, they just sit them, thumb in bum, mind in neutral as they desperately try to pretend they had nothing to do with that attack or those victims.
This has been covered before, can never use a zero day flaw because once it is detected it is gone (so major effort little to no reward), hoard a zero day flaw only to see someone else use it whilst you are still hoarding it (those victims, your fault and you are now an accessory before the fact and guilty of criminal negligence), hoard a zero day only to find others had already found it and are working on a fix and that fix is implemented before you can claim credit and earn kudos for you efforts (major effort expended and no respect gained for your agency or the support from the public that the gained respect would earn) and of course get busted hoarding an exploit and expect resounding condemnation from every one and a desire to by the public to expose the dick heads involved and a desire to see them prosecuted for criminal negligence because they have a duty of care and a duty of law to protect the public from harm.
So what exactly are you referring to "when you die, you realise", what exactly are you meant to be realising after you are dead, how exactly would future politicians affect your deceased self and what political issues do you believe most affect the dead. So perhaps are you saying when you die you should haunt politicians who lied to you? Whilst I agree with your sentiment, some how I can no see the political worth of your concept. Lower my expectations, fuck off, more, better politicians, now and forever. Custodial sentences for politicians who substantively fail to adhere to the promises, equal to the term of office.