I have not followed this trial much at all, because . . . well, I don't give a fucking shit about this over-sensationalized media frenzy distraction from more important events. However, my understanding was that Zimmerman's whole general "vigilante" sort of attitude exhibited prior to the incident is what contributed toward suspicion of what really happened. That was compounded by how the media absolutely manipulated the shit out of this and damaged the situation (fabricating/manipulating 911 calls, etc). I think that gave a lot of people the sense that maybe he was a gung-ho guy just looking for someone to go Clint Eastwood on, even if that wasn't the case.
It didn't help things, either, that it came right around the height of the whole "we gotta take everyone's guns from them" fever.
This only flies when it is something truly important and monumental. When 9/11 happened, for example. Zimmerman and Casey Anthony are hardly appropriate for a tech related/geek community. Reddit and Digg exist for the "everything on the planet that you want to comment on" thing. Erm.. Well, reddit, at least.
Additionally, the whole "IT whistleblower fired" thing is probably relevant, but the results of the trial have fuck all to do with that story.
This doesn't really have anything to do with any rights online or off, though. This is just a loud-mouthed braggy douchebag shooting a punk ass bitch in a situation where there is nothing but circumstantial evidence and speculation and the only certainty is that both people involved were probably giant douchebags.
Exactly. The idea of the second amendment is that the public can rise up and change things when their government turns against them. In reality, the government does whatever the fuck it wants and has the manpower, tanks, jets, bombs, guns, and nukes to keep doing what the fuck it wants and prevent any change. Even if half the country armed themselves and started taking things back (I don't know what the fuck that even means -- exactly who the fuck do they go after..?!), the military has the might to stamp it quickly back down.
Which means, ultimately, The Constitution is about as meaningful as wedding vows. You promise to be faithful and loving and together for the rest of your life, until one of you decides not to be.
The solution, of course, is simply not to give a fuck. We'll all be dead in a few decades and it'll be the problem of generations that exist after we're dead... and it's hard to give two shits when you no longer exist. Maybe all the little My-First-Internet-Petition-Freedom-Fighter twats on Reddit who just suddenly started giving one shit about any of this in the last two months for the first time in their lives will change things.. Or not.
Yeah . . . No. I don't think the solution is to stab everyone in the eye so we're *all* blind. What we have to do is fight the invasion of privacy and blackmail.
Also, what the fuck is up with all of these assholes talking about how we have to focus on properly balancing surveillance and privacy with the need for security? That's the most utterly bullshit line I've been hearing from people (especially the president) during the last few months. There are no concessions to be made. Yes, some times bad shit will still happen. That doesn't justify just wiping out everything that society (at least American society and government) is supposedly founded on. Sacrificing your principals to protect your principals is fucking asinine. Further, the president keeps spewing this bullshit about how his "number one job" is to "protect the american people" and "keep the country safe". The FUCK it is.
Presidential oath of office: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
His sole job is to preserve (not change) and protect and defend the Constitution. Period. Not to change it. Not to violate it. Not to push programs that spit in the face of it. . . . but to uphold it.
Yet, I have never seen or heard one reporter or one talking head anywhere under any circumstances raise this in response to the bullshit he spews.
It's incredibly useless. What is so vital about access to school buildings that a badge isn't enough and you have to obtain and verify biometric data? It's a fucking university -- not NORAD.
Also, what's up with these idiots that just walk into their paid-for schooling and say "sure, scan me up, there boss!"?!
Ugh. I've absolutely had teachers who tested on yet-to-be presented material. I was fortunate enough to have been pretty familiar with the subjects of my own accord, but that wasn't the case for the majority of students in the class. The stress level across the room spiked for those two days.:D
That likely isn't owed to your (partial) liberal arts degree. Possibly sheer luck. Probably you fell into something that was really your passion and that you were obsessed with and you found a way to succeed in the field.
I have a ninth grade education (well, an eighth grade I suppose, really) and have had a six figure salary most of my adult life. I would assert that GPAs don't matter a hell of a lot in a practical sense. I would also assert that a degree doesn't matter a hell of a lot, either. It certainly doesn't hurt (on paper, to unlock doors, if nothing else). The most important thing is the passion and ambition. If you don't have that, the degree and the grades are fucking meaningless. If you *do* have that, you *can* overcome the lack of those things in most situations (obviously, you're not going to become a lawyer or medical doctor without institutional academia).
I can not imagine wasting all the time, money, and energy of a full education for something you weren't truly passionate about. Baffling.
I believe it has to do with electromagnetics and its ability to suss out the wheat from the chaff at alarming rates. You fail EM three times and then you're ready to change to a business major.
At least, this is the only context I've ever heard it in, so I'm kind of just guessing.
Yeah, part of me suspects it's just an issue of "well, we need to stop babying them through gradeschool and highschool so it isn't such a harsh shock when they get to college and find how ill prepared the system has made them"... the other part of me says "good, this weeks out the lazy twats who just jump into a career, because they read that it is one of the top five careers in high demand in some shitty magazine rather than actually being passionate in the field".
I don't trust that my own backups won't fail due to various issues. I also don't trust that if big brother wants to see my particular data, they can't get to it even if it is on my local hard drive.
However, Dropbox better take a long hard look at their prices before they try to sell suckers on the "we replace your hard drive" bullshit.
The government is spying on us. It's spying on itself. It's spying on other nations citizens. Cops are going fucking nuts. Spending is fucking ridiculous. But let's spend our fucking House work/time talking about a park on the fucking moon. Fuck this place.
I smell more government/industry stirred bullshit along the lines of the rest of the "we must have absolute control of the internets0rs because hax0rs will kill everyone and destroy the world" garbage we've had shoved down our throats the last five years. In exactly what reality would you have your fucking lights and power connected to the internet, exactly...?
Standing in long lines of gross half-naked families (and probably babies and toddlers with shitty diapers) in 90-105 degree weather for five seconds of streaking down a chute of water isn't exactly an exciting way to waste a day.
I don't understand this attitude. It basically comes down to "this doesn't directly impact me, so I don't give a fuck". So I guess you have an opinion on very few things, then?
I'm not a billionaire, but I don't think rich people should be capped at a certain level of income. I don't have a uterus, but I support a person's choice to do what they want with their body. I'm not gay, but I fervently support that they be treated like every other citizen as per the Constitution. I'll never be under age again, but I still think rights and liberties should apply to those who are under age.
In fact, it is kind of a sick and disgusting attitude. Less so, maybe, that you're not in the states -- but plenty in the states have exactly that opinion...
I would fucking LOVE to make regular use of, for example, PGP/GPG. Unfortunately, there is no way my family, friends, acquaintances, or colleagues would do this -- rendering it fucking useless.
Also, what does it matter? It might make retroactively gathering data on me (the new thing where a wire tap warrent doesn't just cover newly monitored communications but everything you've done -- ever), but if they really want to target you, they'll just find a way to infect your system and capture the data prior to the point of encryption.
Only a few people even give the slightest fuck about the current revelations, anyway. The distortion field of Slashdot and Reddit (ugh) give the impression that it's the biggest thing in the world and the entire population is angry, but that could not be further from the case. People didn't give a fuck about Echelon. People didn't give a fuck about the DMCA or The USA Patriot Act. They didn't give a fuck about all the signing statements that George Bush put down (basically, when a president goes through a passed bill and writes down little notes essentially saying how he will or won't abide by each part of the bill -- signing statements are how we wound up with authorized torture and claiming the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to Americans -- only to "bad guys"). People don't give a fuck about all the ones Obama has done. People didn't give a fuck about Kevin Mitnick spending many years behind bars without a trial or access to the evidence against him. People don't give a fuck about Gitmo. Whatever fuck people *do* give a damn about right now will be mitigated by the next big distraction coming down the pipe.
Slippery slope doesn't apply to civil liberties and surveillance in America -- but the thing about a slowly warming frying pan sure does.
I don't know how you can compare the two. One sells pretty new games unbelievably cheap, requires a connection once a month, and will play games on any system you have as long as the game supports it (even if it is your tenth machine and it is fifteen years later).
Also, the idea that it somehow helps the used market is ridiculous. It helps the new market. It helps Microsoft control the entire ball of wax. For example, remember when things moved to digital and all the publishers and developers reduced the price from $60 to $30?... oh, right -- they didn't.
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I have not followed this trial much at all, because . . . well, I don't give a fucking shit about this over-sensationalized media frenzy distraction from more important events. However, my understanding was that Zimmerman's whole general "vigilante" sort of attitude exhibited prior to the incident is what contributed toward suspicion of what really happened. That was compounded by how the media absolutely manipulated the shit out of this and damaged the situation (fabricating/manipulating 911 calls, etc). I think that gave a lot of people the sense that maybe he was a gung-ho guy just looking for someone to go Clint Eastwood on, even if that wasn't the case.
It didn't help things, either, that it came right around the height of the whole "we gotta take everyone's guns from them" fever.
. . . . . oookay . . . .
This only flies when it is something truly important and monumental. When 9/11 happened, for example. Zimmerman and Casey Anthony are hardly appropriate for a tech related/geek community. Reddit and Digg exist for the "everything on the planet that you want to comment on" thing. Erm.. Well, reddit, at least.
Additionally, the whole "IT whistleblower fired" thing is probably relevant, but the results of the trial have fuck all to do with that story.
This doesn't really have anything to do with any rights online or off, though. This is just a loud-mouthed braggy douchebag shooting a punk ass bitch in a situation where there is nothing but circumstantial evidence and speculation and the only certainty is that both people involved were probably giant douchebags.
Exactly. The idea of the second amendment is that the public can rise up and change things when their government turns against them. In reality, the government does whatever the fuck it wants and has the manpower, tanks, jets, bombs, guns, and nukes to keep doing what the fuck it wants and prevent any change. Even if half the country armed themselves and started taking things back (I don't know what the fuck that even means -- exactly who the fuck do they go after..?!), the military has the might to stamp it quickly back down.
Which means, ultimately, The Constitution is about as meaningful as wedding vows. You promise to be faithful and loving and together for the rest of your life, until one of you decides not to be.
The solution, of course, is simply not to give a fuck. We'll all be dead in a few decades and it'll be the problem of generations that exist after we're dead... and it's hard to give two shits when you no longer exist. Maybe all the little My-First-Internet-Petition-Freedom-Fighter twats on Reddit who just suddenly started giving one shit about any of this in the last two months for the first time in their lives will change things.. Or not.
Yeah . . . No. I don't think the solution is to stab everyone in the eye so we're *all* blind. What we have to do is fight the invasion of privacy and blackmail.
Also, what the fuck is up with all of these assholes talking about how we have to focus on properly balancing surveillance and privacy with the need for security? That's the most utterly bullshit line I've been hearing from people (especially the president) during the last few months. There are no concessions to be made. Yes, some times bad shit will still happen. That doesn't justify just wiping out everything that society (at least American society and government) is supposedly founded on. Sacrificing your principals to protect your principals is fucking asinine. Further, the president keeps spewing this bullshit about how his "number one job" is to "protect the american people" and "keep the country safe". The FUCK it is.
Presidential oath of office:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
His sole job is to preserve (not change) and protect and defend the Constitution. Period. Not to change it. Not to violate it. Not to push programs that spit in the face of it. . . . but to uphold it.
Yet, I have never seen or heard one reporter or one talking head anywhere under any circumstances raise this in response to the bullshit he spews.
And that is why, to this day, Shaggy 2 Dope still doesn't understand how magnets work. :)
It's incredibly useless. What is so vital about access to school buildings that a badge isn't enough and you have to obtain and verify biometric data? It's a fucking university -- not NORAD.
Also, what's up with these idiots that just walk into their paid-for schooling and say "sure, scan me up, there boss!"?!
Ugh. I've absolutely had teachers who tested on yet-to-be presented material. I was fortunate enough to have been pretty familiar with the subjects of my own accord, but that wasn't the case for the majority of students in the class. The stress level across the room spiked for those two days. :D
That likely isn't owed to your (partial) liberal arts degree. Possibly sheer luck. Probably you fell into something that was really your passion and that you were obsessed with and you found a way to succeed in the field.
I have a ninth grade education (well, an eighth grade I suppose, really) and have had a six figure salary most of my adult life. I would assert that GPAs don't matter a hell of a lot in a practical sense. I would also assert that a degree doesn't matter a hell of a lot, either. It certainly doesn't hurt (on paper, to unlock doors, if nothing else). The most important thing is the passion and ambition. If you don't have that, the degree and the grades are fucking meaningless. If you *do* have that, you *can* overcome the lack of those things in most situations (obviously, you're not going to become a lawyer or medical doctor without institutional academia).
I can not imagine wasting all the time, money, and energy of a full education for something you weren't truly passionate about. Baffling.
I believe it has to do with electromagnetics and its ability to suss out the wheat from the chaff at alarming rates. You fail EM three times and then you're ready to change to a business major.
At least, this is the only context I've ever heard it in, so I'm kind of just guessing.
Yeah, part of me suspects it's just an issue of "well, we need to stop babying them through gradeschool and highschool so it isn't such a harsh shock when they get to college and find how ill prepared the system has made them"... the other part of me says "good, this weeks out the lazy twats who just jump into a career, because they read that it is one of the top five careers in high demand in some shitty magazine rather than actually being passionate in the field".
Can someone draw us a diagram that explains the submission?
I don't trust that my own backups won't fail due to various issues. I also don't trust that if big brother wants to see my particular data, they can't get to it even if it is on my local hard drive.
However, Dropbox better take a long hard look at their prices before they try to sell suckers on the "we replace your hard drive" bullshit.
The government is spying on us. It's spying on itself. It's spying on other nations citizens. Cops are going fucking nuts. Spending is fucking ridiculous. But let's spend our fucking House work/time talking about a park on the fucking moon. Fuck this place.
So what if it is doing "what Google's Android has been doing for years"? I'm not using "Google Android" on my desktop, am I?
I smell more government/industry stirred bullshit along the lines of the rest of the "we must have absolute control of the internets0rs because hax0rs will kill everyone and destroy the world" garbage we've had shoved down our throats the last five years. In exactly what reality would you have your fucking lights and power connected to the internet, exactly...?
Standing in long lines of gross half-naked families (and probably babies and toddlers with shitty diapers) in 90-105 degree weather for five seconds of streaking down a chute of water isn't exactly an exciting way to waste a day.
I don't understand this attitude. It basically comes down to "this doesn't directly impact me, so I don't give a fuck". So I guess you have an opinion on very few things, then?
I'm not a billionaire, but I don't think rich people should be capped at a certain level of income. I don't have a uterus, but I support a person's choice to do what they want with their body. I'm not gay, but I fervently support that they be treated like every other citizen as per the Constitution. I'll never be under age again, but I still think rights and liberties should apply to those who are under age.
In fact, it is kind of a sick and disgusting attitude. Less so, maybe, that you're not in the states -- but plenty in the states have exactly that opinion...
Almost no techies will, either.
I would fucking LOVE to make regular use of, for example, PGP/GPG. Unfortunately, there is no way my family, friends, acquaintances, or colleagues would do this -- rendering it fucking useless.
Also, what does it matter? It might make retroactively gathering data on me (the new thing where a wire tap warrent doesn't just cover newly monitored communications but everything you've done -- ever), but if they really want to target you, they'll just find a way to infect your system and capture the data prior to the point of encryption.
Only a few people even give the slightest fuck about the current revelations, anyway. The distortion field of Slashdot and Reddit (ugh) give the impression that it's the biggest thing in the world and the entire population is angry, but that could not be further from the case. People didn't give a fuck about Echelon. People didn't give a fuck about the DMCA or The USA Patriot Act. They didn't give a fuck about all the signing statements that George Bush put down (basically, when a president goes through a passed bill and writes down little notes essentially saying how he will or won't abide by each part of the bill -- signing statements are how we wound up with authorized torture and claiming the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to Americans -- only to "bad guys"). People don't give a fuck about all the ones Obama has done. People didn't give a fuck about Kevin Mitnick spending many years behind bars without a trial or access to the evidence against him. People don't give a fuck about Gitmo. Whatever fuck people *do* give a damn about right now will be mitigated by the next big distraction coming down the pipe.
Slippery slope doesn't apply to civil liberties and surveillance in America -- but the thing about a slowly warming frying pan sure does.
I don't know how you can compare the two. One sells pretty new games unbelievably cheap, requires a connection once a month, and will play games on any system you have as long as the game supports it (even if it is your tenth machine and it is fifteen years later).
Also, the idea that it somehow helps the used market is ridiculous. It helps the new market. It helps Microsoft control the entire ball of wax. For example, remember when things moved to digital and all the publishers and developers reduced the price from $60 to $30?... oh, right -- they didn't.
For $500+$60/yr +$65/game + $??? for all the peripherals over the years I DO NOT WANT MOTHER FUCKING ADVERTISING... PERIOD.
Go watch the second episode of the BBC series "Black Mirror".
That is our future.