Just not true. Apple do not make hardware, they contract out second grade hardware, based upon other companies tweaked designs. This hardware they sold at above first grade prices for massive profit margins based upon quite disingenuous fashion styled marketing, their products became a fashion accoutrement rather than a technological device. This style of marketing inevitably collapses every single time, it is a fad by definition. So Apple price collapse, basically all tied down to those massive profit margins generated by selling second grade hardware at above first grade price because to keep up sales they have to drop prices to match the reality of their hardware and whoops there go those massive profit margins. With that product price drop goes their fashion exclusivity and of course people start to realise what fools they were and how they were scammed by Apple into paying way to much for way too little. Stop the Apple lies, where did those massive profit margins come from, from selling lower grade hardware at far higher prices than the rest of the market.
Not saying anything either way but and a really big butt here, there is a universe of difference between what is capable of being proven and what we currently are capable of proving. Short hair crested cranky rock throwing apes are only capable of achieving what they are capable of achieving and that limit does not limit the nature of the universe or the planet or any particular country. For proof of that you only have to look at ignorant right wing from the gut thinkers and how they routinely deny anything they can not understand, especially when they 'believe' it might disadvantage them.
Act accordingly in this case means choosing whether or not to live in fear as a quisling cowards or take the attitude 'FUCK EM' and live brave and independent (like many Americans only pretend to do whilst doing the exact opposite) and defend yourself and especially defend others when they are attacked. Most of the crap only works when so many people only pretend to behave or like things to be acceptable, rather than public declare the things they like or prefer because of the potential of public persecution just like idiot monkeys waiting to get hosed for daring to climb a ladder for some bananas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M....
This of course greatly exacerbated purposefully by douche bag psychopaths pretending to be perfect and they single out and denigrate all others for their imperfections. So the proper defence is to start to undo some of that damage and make the appearance of normal behaviour more accurately reflect the reality. Things like personal drug use, masturbation, thinking sports repetitious boring crap that sucks and, the Olympics is a bullshit lie about amateurs when it's real focus is greed and marketing crap etc. etc. etc.. Actual religious beliefs, a very good example, as the ones to scream the loudest about being religious for political gain believe the least (not sometimes but all of the time, wake up idiot America) and they routinely attack others for not being religious enough (yet everyone can see their public behaviour does not reflect the religion they claim).
Those accepted 'normal' lies of life are doing a lot more harm than good. Take for example American Exceptionlism and what it truly is, the most empathic example of the 'Comfortable Lie' as a national institution and if Americans don't adhere to it, they will be attacked by those that do. So when it comes to other's people's private secrets, when they are made public as long as they do not pretend to behave in contrary matter and don't persecute others when they are exposed, who cares and of course if they do, well, give them a hard time, a really hard time for being part of the problem.
For reporters of course working with the secrets of others there is always boot from portable easy to hide media, you computer device built in media should contain nothing you want to keep secret, no sign or trace and when you want to work with that you should reboot your computer from that media and the data should all be there and remove it when finished, thus there is not the slightest trace of access on your computing device. Electronic messaging, don't be lazy, meet in person and keep in mind exactly how lazy the investigatory agencies are becoming.
How about an app, that automatically deletes apps that you download but never use or even better an app that warns you about the kind of advertising methods employed by a new app allowing you to cancel the install or an app that makes searching the google play store more efficient with a greater range of filters.
Pirating is copying or capturing ships on the high seas. You do not copy when downloading, someone else does that and thus makes the claim they are entitled to do so. You are just connecting to a source and downloading that copy that some one else produced, nothing illegal in that and until it is proven that the source was illegally copying content, quite legal to do, regardless of the bullshit claims of the pigopolists that some how you should be guilty of other people's actions.
Buffoon all of it applies to action of government, courts are there because they are not competent to decide for themselves, else the become murderous agencies driven by desires for greed and power. Your view is decidedly corrupt and evil to boot. Ahh the scent of American exceptionalism and narcissism as it chooses to hide behind patriotism and matters of national security but really it is all matters of ego. The US Government has proven it is not to be trusted, not with the ticking bomb bullshit scenario and mass torture nor for the comedic hunt for WMDs and the slaughter of hundreds of thousands. From gunships murdering cameramen to guards slaughtering a almost new family on the way to the hospital in a hurry because the wife was about to become a mother but instead a bunch of US chicken shits killed them all including the unborn child. NO government agency is fit to decide for itself, ever.
You'll find no individuals with huge powers any more. Just like all police states, it is all about the temporary collusion of corrupt psychopaths, all seeking more of everything and each of them considering each other the greatest threat. The heads of the police in a police state always turn their power against those who gave it to them, to make sure they can no longer take it away. Be sure there is plenty of criminal stuff on the very rich to extort them with. No different to the rich in nazi germany, they were still rich but they had very little power and when it came to high powered individuals within the police in a police state those rich were always under threat and had to mind the Ps and Qs. It should be pretty obvious the NSA pretty much has become an independent from government control or corporate control agency. Perjury, no prosecution, break laws including constitutional ones, no prosecution, threaten corporations, no investigation, creation of a new off balance sheet private entity charging 'er' security fees, no investigation. It looks like the NSA can pretty much already do as it pleases for what ever reason it chooses.
It blocks pay to play, they want to old main stream media model where only the rich can broadcast their propaganda and basically legalised corporate censorship of the internet.
Much like the very small where we can still only make guesses, the very big also is something we can only guess about. What is really happening between galaxies, the place where all the solar winds from billions of suns within each galaxies goes to die and what impact does it have on light as it travels those distances. Likely things are happening between galaxies that we for quite some time will only ever be able to guess at. It is not like they are empty, after all the suns from each galaxy are pouring high energy matter into them all off the time.
Easy fix. Change taxi licensing laws, strictly one per customers. No douches bag buying as many as they can, creating completely artificial government corrupted by business cartels. Cartels that run down vehicle maintenance and pay crap wages, ensuring bad drivers. Basically a new business model, where the taxi licence holder, drives their taxi, owns their car and only pools booking via a co-op owned booking agency. Recover and auction off the licences every ten years and block direct transfers of licences. Anyone who drives a taxi must be licensed and only allow three drivers to operate per licence. This to create a new middle class of taxi drivers owner operators, rather than just a bloated few using cartels to run down every aspect of the service.
I was thinking success in the family unit and not success in exploitation of resources and people. Not all people consider that all that much of a success but more of a path to eventual over exploitation or resources and eventual extinction.
That depends upon whether you spaceship is say an inside out engine. With an energy field generated around it to gather particles from in front of the ship and accelerate them around and past the ship to move the ship in the desired direction and that field to even be used to generate an attraction and or rotation within the ship to simulate gravity. A large colony like ship where the population only leaves to visit other places rather than remain. Of course one on their own does leave them exposed in the event of critical failure so more likely a fleet, one that is capable of stopping within astronomical formations as a supply of raw materials to build additional ships. You could spread across the galaxy and only visit worlds to explore and understand them but have no desire to live primitively upon a their chaotic surface, of course their will always be a few who wish to end their time on those worlds in a more primitive wild state but not leave a permanent visible presence. If you are willing to spend a very long time on a star ship why the expectation that you would want to leave it, likely you will prefer to remain there and seriously shouldn't those kind of people be the persons chosen to participate.
Knowledge is knowledge, none of it is ever useless. Example birds get drunk, as well, just like humans. OK let's check for gene matches so that we can gain understanding about genetic patterns and finding out which do what and how they interrelate. There is also fermenting rural production wastes and the impact on bird species, so for example, your cheap ass waste processing results in a drunk bird smashing my window so who should pay. I nominate the Ig Noble prize for an Ig Noble award because it promotes the idea that ignorance is bliss because it saves money and if knowledge does not generate a profit than it should be burned, along with the rest of the books that don't generate a profit, yay the stupids http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.... No knowledge when initially generated can be used, it all has to be combined with other knowledge over time to be functional.
More accurately is should be "Back nuclear energy as an emergency interim power supply to immediately replace fossil fuels" this to be replaced over say a a five decade to one century time line while better energy methods are developed and with greater energy efficiency in it's use. Keeping in mind there is a bit of a catch 22, in modern technological use there is a balance between energy use and use of various resources.
For example, you can consume thousands of hectares of potential public parks or build an industrial multi story aquaponics facility that uses very little land and supplies food with significantly reduced transport costs and recycles it wastes but consumes quite a bit of energy in lighting, water circulation and where necessary heating. Water is not the problem it appears to be, all discussion about it is tied to corporate lies. It is not about the availability of water it is about the availability of 'CHEAP' water and water has a huge energy costs (basically it is cheaper for them to use drinkable water and pollute it rather than recycle the polluted water they create). Getting it from where ever it is and in what ever state it is in and delivering to it's required location in a potable, drinkable state. Have lots of energy and you can readily get all you need from the air, from sea level and salty to fresh and thousands of feet above sea level or even from recycled once polluted water.
There is also of course giving a far shake to the majority of the human population who currently suffers a major energy shortage. So nuclear is a necessary evil to solve the problem we have now and that will be phased out over time as better energy generation methods come on line, we are well and truly beyond the point of no return and must solve the current problems as a matter of emergency.
Brought to mind a funny image, if US politics were a bird, say an American Eagle it would be flying permanently sideways with it wings perpendicular to the ground (ie both wings on the same side), of course doing that, it could never stay up and will inevitably spiral into ever tightening circles and crash into to the ground. The American Eagle has become an endangered democracy.
Dude Seriously, I mean really, Dude, seriously?! Why the bloody hell do you think we have courts, exactly because when it comes to any three letter agency from any bloody where in the world or any police forces or even those police forces with insanely bloated egos calling themselves law enforcement, because "WE DON'T FUCKING BELIEVE YOU, FUCKING PROVE IT" and the court of law is our appointed place for them to prove it (yes it has to be shouted because it has become all too blatantly obvious that they are not paying attention to basic required principles of law and justice).
Although of course American Exceptionlism demands that foreigners receive no rights with regard to the US, be it justice or even their own lives but seriously guys played out on the internet that looks really really bad to the rest of the worlds politicians especially when your political leaders, no matter how minor, waffle on like that because they believe Americans like to hear that kind of talk.
Not to forget the US has very much become the boy who cried wolf in the eyes of the general global public and low very much has to publicly prove anything it claims.
'ER' Derp, Derp, there is are several centuries of content out there more than any one can consume in many lifetimes. Which is of course why the shite head arse holes in pigopolists corporations want extension of copyright. They want to bury that content so that you will buy newly created rehashes of it. They also want to make paying for it compulsory, firstly by paying at the tax office to protect it whether you hate that content or not. Paying as adults when the pigopolists criminalise your children and demand thousands of dollars or your children will go to jail. Steal ideas from the public domain and convert it into copyrighted contented, not just the lousy bits they added to it mind you but also the original ideas from the public domain. Make you pay for it as a licence fee on all recordable media basically as a fee on copyrighted content you created. Make you pay for it running in the background and accidentally added in your content. Never to forget blatantly corrupting (with cash, sex, drugs and rock and roll) the democratic process to feed their insatiable greed.
There is a little bit more to it that whether or not you see some crappy 'reboot' (seriously what the fuck you marketing asshats) of content that should have returned to the public domain exactly where the ideas come from when originally making it. You are meant to return what you borrowed and reshaped. Not deceitfully attempt to keep it for ever and don't even dream of making your blatantly and continual tax evading claims of not having been already well and truly paid for it. Only the illegal drugs industry would pay lees in taxes than them, of course the two are ever so blatantly intertwined, oh yeah, piracy supports organised crime, uh huh nudge nudge wink wink.
Unfortunately that kind of population control also tends to clip from the top reducing the number of children from the most socio-economically productive and promoting the breeding of unthinking idiots who do not care who looks after the spawn they produce, they don't even care whether they get pregnant nor at what their age children manage to achieve the same drunken action (PS alcohol during conception and earliest stages of pregnancy is a very, very bad idea). Oh yeah, 'Planned Parenthood' is the enemy of America, uh huh, the mind truly does boggle some times when it comes to the psuedo Christian right in America.
Why not just slow the crap out of various internet activities. Not so much in terms of bandwidth but the number per second of specific transmission types from specific temporary address with an accumulating total. So start actively dropping requests and only limiting a specific number per second, depreciating with an increasing total from a temporary target address. This passed on up the line to the nearest router to the initiating source. The problem is not the request but the number of requests per second, so you do not need to eliminate the request permanently as much as temporarily slow it down to manageable proportions with a view to further investigation and possible action.
So you should be searching for what ever happened to M$ Surface in a large format, perhaps in cafe environment with the western equivalent of sushi, stepford mom snack food (perfect triangular sandwiches with the crust removed, mini lasagnes, pizza toast with prime ingredients, cheese steak sandwich etc.). Pay for the booth with thrown in snack meal budget and play board games on a large flat digitised surface while enjoying perfect snacks one after another as a full meal. The ideal place for new and existing players to meet.
What is really going on, is these 'google types' used to be called contractors and worked for private for profit corporations who contracted to the military and intelligence agencies. The problem of course is those contractors were very, very, prone to lie and completely distort intelligence gathered in order to promote profit generating activity. The military and intelligence communities are realising that private for profit contractors suck big time, and the person doing the work needs to be under tight military authority and control, even if they are 'dope fiends' as long as they are loyal, silent, productive and truthful 'dope fiends'. That elevated level of paranoia associated with consumption would also likely assist in the reinforcement of control.
So non-serving military, under a different military structure, employed for the brains and their not their brawn or more specifically their ability to very temporarily soak up the opposing militaries munitions. That focused geek mind zeroing in on what ever the military wants them to.
This discussion itself is likely what the ban is all about. A test of the public's reaction to mass banning of a range of websites. What gets by, what gets resisted, who should they target first and, how should the list grow and expand. All about how they can regain control of public communications and put it back into the box of pay millions to play main stream media. Something that is being played out in every part of the globe from Australia to Russia, from India to the UK and, from China to the US. The strangling to death of net neutrality and the institution of censorship as the norm and you only have the right to express you opinion in the silence of the political wilderness and not in any publicly accessible forum.
The are two points of view on that. Most certainly the people of North Korea are suffering under the egotistical and lust driven machinations of psychopaths but it is the people of North Korea who are ultimately responsible for their being victims. The people of North Korea are teaching the rest of us a very valuable lesson, cowardice and obedience bring horrible punishments to by far the majority far worse than the suffering of a minority, two minorities, the minority who died bringing an end to the minority who killed them and that minority who dies being a necessary part of the majority who resist.
So always choose to resist or become North Koreans living in fear and misery trapped by their own cowardice. Never ever allow your 'Political Leaders' to demand respect from the electorate, always demand that you 'Political Representatives' respect the electorate. Next time someone talks about political leaders rather than political representatives, demand they bend over and give them a swift kick up the arse for being idiots. In a democracy you never ever elect people to lead you, you elect them to represent you, otherwise you are destined to become another North Korean.
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Just not true. Apple do not make hardware, they contract out second grade hardware, based upon other companies tweaked designs. This hardware they sold at above first grade prices for massive profit margins based upon quite disingenuous fashion styled marketing, their products became a fashion accoutrement rather than a technological device. This style of marketing inevitably collapses every single time, it is a fad by definition. So Apple price collapse, basically all tied down to those massive profit margins generated by selling second grade hardware at above first grade price because to keep up sales they have to drop prices to match the reality of their hardware and whoops there go those massive profit margins. With that product price drop goes their fashion exclusivity and of course people start to realise what fools they were and how they were scammed by Apple into paying way to much for way too little. Stop the Apple lies, where did those massive profit margins come from, from selling lower grade hardware at far higher prices than the rest of the market.
Not saying anything either way but and a really big butt here, there is a universe of difference between what is capable of being proven and what we currently are capable of proving. Short hair crested cranky rock throwing apes are only capable of achieving what they are capable of achieving and that limit does not limit the nature of the universe or the planet or any particular country. For proof of that you only have to look at ignorant right wing from the gut thinkers and how they routinely deny anything they can not understand, especially when they 'believe' it might disadvantage them.
Act accordingly in this case means choosing whether or not to live in fear as a quisling cowards or take the attitude 'FUCK EM' and live brave and independent (like many Americans only pretend to do whilst doing the exact opposite) and defend yourself and especially defend others when they are attacked. Most of the crap only works when so many people only pretend to behave or like things to be acceptable, rather than public declare the things they like or prefer because of the potential of public persecution just like idiot monkeys waiting to get hosed for daring to climb a ladder for some bananas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M....
This of course greatly exacerbated purposefully by douche bag psychopaths pretending to be perfect and they single out and denigrate all others for their imperfections. So the proper defence is to start to undo some of that damage and make the appearance of normal behaviour more accurately reflect the reality. Things like personal drug use, masturbation, thinking sports repetitious boring crap that sucks and, the Olympics is a bullshit lie about amateurs when it's real focus is greed and marketing crap etc. etc. etc.. Actual religious beliefs, a very good example, as the ones to scream the loudest about being religious for political gain believe the least (not sometimes but all of the time, wake up idiot America) and they routinely attack others for not being religious enough (yet everyone can see their public behaviour does not reflect the religion they claim).
Those accepted 'normal' lies of life are doing a lot more harm than good. Take for example American Exceptionlism and what it truly is, the most empathic example of the 'Comfortable Lie' as a national institution and if Americans don't adhere to it, they will be attacked by those that do. So when it comes to other's people's private secrets, when they are made public as long as they do not pretend to behave in contrary matter and don't persecute others when they are exposed, who cares and of course if they do, well, give them a hard time, a really hard time for being part of the problem.
For reporters of course working with the secrets of others there is always boot from portable easy to hide media, you computer device built in media should contain nothing you want to keep secret, no sign or trace and when you want to work with that you should reboot your computer from that media and the data should all be there and remove it when finished, thus there is not the slightest trace of access on your computing device. Electronic messaging, don't be lazy, meet in person and keep in mind exactly how lazy the investigatory agencies are becoming.
How about an app, that automatically deletes apps that you download but never use or even better an app that warns you about the kind of advertising methods employed by a new app allowing you to cancel the install or an app that makes searching the google play store more efficient with a greater range of filters.
Pirating is copying or capturing ships on the high seas. You do not copy when downloading, someone else does that and thus makes the claim they are entitled to do so. You are just connecting to a source and downloading that copy that some one else produced, nothing illegal in that and until it is proven that the source was illegally copying content, quite legal to do, regardless of the bullshit claims of the pigopolists that some how you should be guilty of other people's actions.
Buffoon all of it applies to action of government, courts are there because they are not competent to decide for themselves, else the become murderous agencies driven by desires for greed and power. Your view is decidedly corrupt and evil to boot. Ahh the scent of American exceptionalism and narcissism as it chooses to hide behind patriotism and matters of national security but really it is all matters of ego. The US Government has proven it is not to be trusted, not with the ticking bomb bullshit scenario and mass torture nor for the comedic hunt for WMDs and the slaughter of hundreds of thousands. From gunships murdering cameramen to guards slaughtering a almost new family on the way to the hospital in a hurry because the wife was about to become a mother but instead a bunch of US chicken shits killed them all including the unborn child. NO government agency is fit to decide for itself, ever.
You'll find no individuals with huge powers any more. Just like all police states, it is all about the temporary collusion of corrupt psychopaths, all seeking more of everything and each of them considering each other the greatest threat. The heads of the police in a police state always turn their power against those who gave it to them, to make sure they can no longer take it away. Be sure there is plenty of criminal stuff on the very rich to extort them with. No different to the rich in nazi germany, they were still rich but they had very little power and when it came to high powered individuals within the police in a police state those rich were always under threat and had to mind the Ps and Qs. It should be pretty obvious the NSA pretty much has become an independent from government control or corporate control agency. Perjury, no prosecution, break laws including constitutional ones, no prosecution, threaten corporations, no investigation, creation of a new off balance sheet private entity charging 'er' security fees, no investigation. It looks like the NSA can pretty much already do as it pleases for what ever reason it chooses.
It blocks pay to play, they want to old main stream media model where only the rich can broadcast their propaganda and basically legalised corporate censorship of the internet.
Much like the very small where we can still only make guesses, the very big also is something we can only guess about. What is really happening between galaxies, the place where all the solar winds from billions of suns within each galaxies goes to die and what impact does it have on light as it travels those distances. Likely things are happening between galaxies that we for quite some time will only ever be able to guess at. It is not like they are empty, after all the suns from each galaxy are pouring high energy matter into them all off the time.
Easy fix. Change taxi licensing laws, strictly one per customers. No douches bag buying as many as they can, creating completely artificial government corrupted by business cartels. Cartels that run down vehicle maintenance and pay crap wages, ensuring bad drivers. Basically a new business model, where the taxi licence holder, drives their taxi, owns their car and only pools booking via a co-op owned booking agency. Recover and auction off the licences every ten years and block direct transfers of licences. Anyone who drives a taxi must be licensed and only allow three drivers to operate per licence. This to create a new middle class of taxi drivers owner operators, rather than just a bloated few using cartels to run down every aspect of the service.
I was thinking success in the family unit and not success in exploitation of resources and people. Not all people consider that all that much of a success but more of a path to eventual over exploitation or resources and eventual extinction.
'ER' Patriarchy generated capitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., they changed it, oh the horror.
That depends upon whether you spaceship is say an inside out engine. With an energy field generated around it to gather particles from in front of the ship and accelerate them around and past the ship to move the ship in the desired direction and that field to even be used to generate an attraction and or rotation within the ship to simulate gravity. A large colony like ship where the population only leaves to visit other places rather than remain. Of course one on their own does leave them exposed in the event of critical failure so more likely a fleet, one that is capable of stopping within astronomical formations as a supply of raw materials to build additional ships. You could spread across the galaxy and only visit worlds to explore and understand them but have no desire to live primitively upon a their chaotic surface, of course their will always be a few who wish to end their time on those worlds in a more primitive wild state but not leave a permanent visible presence. If you are willing to spend a very long time on a star ship why the expectation that you would want to leave it, likely you will prefer to remain there and seriously shouldn't those kind of people be the persons chosen to participate.
Knowledge is knowledge, none of it is ever useless. Example birds get drunk, as well, just like humans. OK let's check for gene matches so that we can gain understanding about genetic patterns and finding out which do what and how they interrelate. There is also fermenting rural production wastes and the impact on bird species, so for example, your cheap ass waste processing results in a drunk bird smashing my window so who should pay. I nominate the Ig Noble prize for an Ig Noble award because it promotes the idea that ignorance is bliss because it saves money and if knowledge does not generate a profit than it should be burned, along with the rest of the books that don't generate a profit, yay the stupids http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.... No knowledge when initially generated can be used, it all has to be combined with other knowledge over time to be functional.
More accurately is should be "Back nuclear energy as an emergency interim power supply to immediately replace fossil fuels" this to be replaced over say a a five decade to one century time line while better energy methods are developed and with greater energy efficiency in it's use. Keeping in mind there is a bit of a catch 22, in modern technological use there is a balance between energy use and use of various resources.
For example, you can consume thousands of hectares of potential public parks or build an industrial multi story aquaponics facility that uses very little land and supplies food with significantly reduced transport costs and recycles it wastes but consumes quite a bit of energy in lighting, water circulation and where necessary heating. Water is not the problem it appears to be, all discussion about it is tied to corporate lies. It is not about the availability of water it is about the availability of 'CHEAP' water and water has a huge energy costs (basically it is cheaper for them to use drinkable water and pollute it rather than recycle the polluted water they create). Getting it from where ever it is and in what ever state it is in and delivering to it's required location in a potable, drinkable state. Have lots of energy and you can readily get all you need from the air, from sea level and salty to fresh and thousands of feet above sea level or even from recycled once polluted water.
There is also of course giving a far shake to the majority of the human population who currently suffers a major energy shortage. So nuclear is a necessary evil to solve the problem we have now and that will be phased out over time as better energy generation methods come on line, we are well and truly beyond the point of no return and must solve the current problems as a matter of emergency.
Brought to mind a funny image, if US politics were a bird, say an American Eagle it would be flying permanently sideways with it wings perpendicular to the ground (ie both wings on the same side), of course doing that, it could never stay up and will inevitably spiral into ever tightening circles and crash into to the ground. The American Eagle has become an endangered democracy.
Dude Seriously, I mean really, Dude, seriously?! Why the bloody hell do you think we have courts, exactly because when it comes to any three letter agency from any bloody where in the world or any police forces or even those police forces with insanely bloated egos calling themselves law enforcement, because "WE DON'T FUCKING BELIEVE YOU, FUCKING PROVE IT" and the court of law is our appointed place for them to prove it (yes it has to be shouted because it has become all too blatantly obvious that they are not paying attention to basic required principles of law and justice).
Although of course American Exceptionlism demands that foreigners receive no rights with regard to the US, be it justice or even their own lives but seriously guys played out on the internet that looks really really bad to the rest of the worlds politicians especially when your political leaders, no matter how minor, waffle on like that because they believe Americans like to hear that kind of talk.
Not to forget the US has very much become the boy who cried wolf in the eyes of the general global public and low very much has to publicly prove anything it claims.
Let me guess, a right wing government, always the best than money can buy.
'ER' Derp, Derp, there is are several centuries of content out there more than any one can consume in many lifetimes. Which is of course why the shite head arse holes in pigopolists corporations want extension of copyright. They want to bury that content so that you will buy newly created rehashes of it. They also want to make paying for it compulsory, firstly by paying at the tax office to protect it whether you hate that content or not. Paying as adults when the pigopolists criminalise your children and demand thousands of dollars or your children will go to jail. Steal ideas from the public domain and convert it into copyrighted contented, not just the lousy bits they added to it mind you but also the original ideas from the public domain. Make you pay for it as a licence fee on all recordable media basically as a fee on copyrighted content you created. Make you pay for it running in the background and accidentally added in your content. Never to forget blatantly corrupting (with cash, sex, drugs and rock and roll) the democratic process to feed their insatiable greed.
There is a little bit more to it that whether or not you see some crappy 'reboot' (seriously what the fuck you marketing asshats) of content that should have returned to the public domain exactly where the ideas come from when originally making it. You are meant to return what you borrowed and reshaped. Not deceitfully attempt to keep it for ever and don't even dream of making your blatantly and continual tax evading claims of not having been already well and truly paid for it. Only the illegal drugs industry would pay lees in taxes than them, of course the two are ever so blatantly intertwined, oh yeah, piracy supports organised crime, uh huh nudge nudge wink wink.
Unfortunately that kind of population control also tends to clip from the top reducing the number of children from the most socio-economically productive and promoting the breeding of unthinking idiots who do not care who looks after the spawn they produce, they don't even care whether they get pregnant nor at what their age children manage to achieve the same drunken action (PS alcohol during conception and earliest stages of pregnancy is a very, very bad idea). Oh yeah, 'Planned Parenthood' is the enemy of America, uh huh, the mind truly does boggle some times when it comes to the psuedo Christian right in America.
Why not just slow the crap out of various internet activities. Not so much in terms of bandwidth but the number per second of specific transmission types from specific temporary address with an accumulating total. So start actively dropping requests and only limiting a specific number per second, depreciating with an increasing total from a temporary target address. This passed on up the line to the nearest router to the initiating source. The problem is not the request but the number of requests per second, so you do not need to eliminate the request permanently as much as temporarily slow it down to manageable proportions with a view to further investigation and possible action.
So you should be searching for what ever happened to M$ Surface in a large format, perhaps in cafe environment with the western equivalent of sushi, stepford mom snack food (perfect triangular sandwiches with the crust removed, mini lasagnes, pizza toast with prime ingredients, cheese steak sandwich etc.). Pay for the booth with thrown in snack meal budget and play board games on a large flat digitised surface while enjoying perfect snacks one after another as a full meal. The ideal place for new and existing players to meet.
What is really going on, is these 'google types' used to be called contractors and worked for private for profit corporations who contracted to the military and intelligence agencies. The problem of course is those contractors were very, very, prone to lie and completely distort intelligence gathered in order to promote profit generating activity. The military and intelligence communities are realising that private for profit contractors suck big time, and the person doing the work needs to be under tight military authority and control, even if they are 'dope fiends' as long as they are loyal, silent, productive and truthful 'dope fiends'. That elevated level of paranoia associated with consumption would also likely assist in the reinforcement of control.
So non-serving military, under a different military structure, employed for the brains and their not their brawn or more specifically their ability to very temporarily soak up the opposing militaries munitions. That focused geek mind zeroing in on what ever the military wants them to.
This discussion itself is likely what the ban is all about. A test of the public's reaction to mass banning of a range of websites. What gets by, what gets resisted, who should they target first and, how should the list grow and expand. All about how they can regain control of public communications and put it back into the box of pay millions to play main stream media. Something that is being played out in every part of the globe from Australia to Russia, from India to the UK and, from China to the US. The strangling to death of net neutrality and the institution of censorship as the norm and you only have the right to express you opinion in the silence of the political wilderness and not in any publicly accessible forum.
The are two points of view on that. Most certainly the people of North Korea are suffering under the egotistical and lust driven machinations of psychopaths but it is the people of North Korea who are ultimately responsible for their being victims. The people of North Korea are teaching the rest of us a very valuable lesson, cowardice and obedience bring horrible punishments to by far the majority far worse than the suffering of a minority, two minorities, the minority who died bringing an end to the minority who killed them and that minority who dies being a necessary part of the majority who resist.
So always choose to resist or become North Koreans living in fear and misery trapped by their own cowardice. Never ever allow your 'Political Leaders' to demand respect from the electorate, always demand that you 'Political Representatives' respect the electorate. Next time someone talks about political leaders rather than political representatives, demand they bend over and give them a swift kick up the arse for being idiots. In a democracy you never ever elect people to lead you, you elect them to represent you, otherwise you are destined to become another North Korean.