The ideal would be to ditch that bunch of toy soldiers and get the military to take over the bits that need to be done at military wages, with none of the current money siphons to contractors like the "Booz Allen Hamilton" losers that should never have had the intelligence Snowden got in the first place (even if he was correct to leak it). However it's an octopus with a lot of people making a lot of money out of it so it would be a difficult thing to fight so it has been left alone. The number of former government and military types on inflated salaries sucking on the public teat as intelligence contractors in staggering and whoever takes them on is going to lose a lot of votes, which is going to generate a lot of resistance within their own party. It's not just 55,000 jobs at stake in Virginia but a vast food chain leading from them. Whoever does anything at all about them is going to have to be strong enough to be branded as "soft on terror" for a start - and I don't see anyone strong enough to do that going anywhere near the White House any time soon.
I guess we're scraping the bottom, given our choices.
With Trump getting rich by having other people pay his bills four times over and tollbooth guy the wrecker of HP fits right in. Of course on the other side we have Hillary who asked spooks to get the credit card details of allied foreign diplomats so that they could potentially be blackmailed - and wrote such an instruction down where Manning could find it.
The thing that is making you look like an idiot is that the issue is that IBM supplied the tools knowing what they were to be used for and not the name of the tools. The issue is overblown anyway. There was so much trade with Nazi Germany that Charlie Chaplain was called a dangerous communist for being critical of them and potentially endangering the trade. It wasn't just IBM.
Not for the sake of finding the truth but It does when you want the victim to admit to whatever is in your script so that you can make a North Korean style show trial look more convincing. The spooks knew this, which is 90% of the reason why it's a problem that it came to be in use. It's a sign that any idea of investigation, justice and all the rest had gone out the window. They wanted people to pin crimes on for the sake of their own advancement instead of doing the job of actually solving the crimes. Some time in the 1980s these spooks acting against the Soviets effectively became them, and the poison has crept through the system. Under Bush+Cheney they no longer had to hide in the shadows since nobody was going to attempt to bring them to account, and they still pollute the place.
they do and they kill you if you don't follow their way
That sums up all human societies ever quite well, apart from lesser punishments in some of the more enlightened ones. If you really don't fit in with the people around you, and you can't hide it, then shit generally happens.
Being able to see everything is not the same as tight control of everything. Taking a cynical view of religion I can see the message of omniscience as "don't do evil because God can always see you and will punish you later". So omniscience has nothing at all to do with free will. It just implies an observer at all times.
Your examples really are going way beyond overblown - civil rights movement, pentagon papers - are motherhood, apple pie and all the stars of the flag going to be mentioned next? Do you expect to be taken seriously? Then maybe act as if you want to be taken seriously instead of all this overblown bullshit from ten miles beyond left field.
I see Uber as some pricks driven by greed who are going to inspire laws that will make it illegal for passengers to put in for fuel money on long trips. Ride sharing has been around for a very long time (even via the net) and has been fine, until now some leeches are getting involved, taking a cut and deliberately stirring up governments.
You can't just go into countries and ignore their rules with your service.
That is exactly what they have done and making friends with the top end of town in each place is how they have done it. It's a bit much seeing them act like everywhere is a third world shithole with easily bribed officials, and even worse when it seems to be working. It's not so much capitalism at work as medieval style oligarchy - if it were possible to have dozens of Uber clones instead of this thing bulldozing it's way through that would be actual capitalism with real competition and nothing to worry about.
I'll bet he's living on far less than you and in a crappy flat in frozen Moscow, so doing it for "rock star" status doesn't cut it. He didn't embezzle, which is what you do if you care about the money (eg. Oliver North's convertible and house air conditioning paid for by the Iran and Hezzbolla deals), he leaked evidence of wrongdoing to the public.
Just shining the spotlight on US foreign intelligence programs is damage in itself
Maybe if you want the USA to be like Soviet Russia instead of holding the government to account like George Washington and all the others wanted. It's looking a lot like you value an unquestioned King before Constitution - Snowden is the opposite.
In the cult near me quite literally - even the founders own nephew got screwed. An environment of unquestioning obedience is the sort of shit Magna Carta, George Washington etc were against and letting it in the back door (literally) via letting cults do what they like is a sign of a sickening society.
Maybe not such a stretch for an engineer since I use different fluid dynamics equations I don't believe in under different conditions since nothing tells the whole story yet. The classics are the oil guys that believe in a young earth and are told where to find it by geologists using ancient clues and evidence of change over millions of years.
Dogma rarely wanders into the realms of the sort of reality that science does. When it does it is usually driven there for some sort of expedient political reason to control followers or attack those seen as an external threat to such control. "There can be only one God" far too often gets twisted into "there can only be one leader". "Render unto Caesar" is conveniently ignored by those who pretend the rest of the book should be followed far too literally.
The bunch that sprung from that shed in L.A. screaming about how evil San Francisco was punished by an earthquake are not even the majority in the USA let alone compared with less dumbed down Christianity globally.
The idea that science and Christianity are compatible is a comfortable lie(for some)
Of course they are compatible - they have nothing at all to do with each other unless someone in charge of a flock wants to attack science as a means of getting more control of their flock. Three out of four of the proto-geologists that debunked the flood and young earth theories were ordained. Mendel was a monk FFS. It's only dumbed down religion or the political wing of religious groups that gets into conflict with science. The heliocentric fuss was 99% due to calling the Pope an idiot.
They are so special that they have a God that buggered off after 7 days never to be seen again instead of a greater one that set things in motion that are still happening today, such as perhaps evolution. Sorry Christianity-Lite losers, you have a puny God, but I suppose at least it does what it is told.
Any religion that sees a search for truth as a threat must be very weak.
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The ideal would be to ditch that bunch of toy soldiers and get the military to take over the bits that need to be done at military wages, with none of the current money siphons to contractors like the "Booz Allen Hamilton" losers that should never have had the intelligence Snowden got in the first place (even if he was correct to leak it). However it's an octopus with a lot of people making a lot of money out of it so it would be a difficult thing to fight so it has been left alone. The number of former government and military types on inflated salaries sucking on the public teat as intelligence contractors in staggering and whoever takes them on is going to lose a lot of votes, which is going to generate a lot of resistance within their own party. It's not just 55,000 jobs at stake in Virginia but a vast food chain leading from them. Whoever does anything at all about them is going to have to be strong enough to be branded as "soft on terror" for a start - and I don't see anyone strong enough to do that going anywhere near the White House any time soon.
With Trump getting rich by having other people pay his bills four times over and tollbooth guy the wrecker of HP fits right in. Of course on the other side we have Hillary who asked spooks to get the credit card details of allied foreign diplomats so that they could potentially be blackmailed - and wrote such an instruction down where Manning could find it.
The thing that is making you look like an idiot is that the issue is that IBM supplied the tools knowing what they were to be used for and not the name of the tools.
The issue is overblown anyway. There was so much trade with Nazi Germany that Charlie Chaplain was called a dangerous communist for being critical of them and potentially endangering the trade. It wasn't just IBM.
Not for the sake of finding the truth but It does when you want the victim to admit to whatever is in your script so that you can make a North Korean style show trial look more convincing. The spooks knew this, which is 90% of the reason why it's a problem that it came to be in use. It's a sign that any idea of investigation, justice and all the rest had gone out the window. They wanted people to pin crimes on for the sake of their own advancement instead of doing the job of actually solving the crimes. Some time in the 1980s these spooks acting against the Soviets effectively became them, and the poison has crept through the system. Under Bush+Cheney they no longer had to hide in the shadows since nobody was going to attempt to bring them to account, and they still pollute the place.
That sums up all human societies ever quite well, apart from lesser punishments in some of the more enlightened ones. If you really don't fit in with the people around you, and you can't hide it, then shit generally happens.
Being able to see everything is not the same as tight control of everything.
Taking a cynical view of religion I can see the message of omniscience as "don't do evil because God can always see you and will punish you later".
So omniscience has nothing at all to do with free will. It just implies an observer at all times.
That's jut the PR wearing off. It never was anything other than a cheapskate taxi service.
Your examples really are going way beyond overblown - civil rights movement, pentagon papers - are motherhood, apple pie and all the stars of the flag going to be mentioned next?
Do you expect to be taken seriously? Then maybe act as if you want to be taken seriously instead of all this overblown bullshit from ten miles beyond left field.
I see Uber as some pricks driven by greed who are going to inspire laws that will make it illegal for passengers to put in for fuel money on long trips.
Ride sharing has been around for a very long time (even via the net) and has been fine, until now some leeches are getting involved, taking a cut and deliberately stirring up governments.
She started something that got the law changed.
That is exactly what they have done and making friends with the top end of town in each place is how they have done it. It's a bit much seeing them act like everywhere is a third world shithole with easily bribed officials, and even worse when it seems to be working.
It's not so much capitalism at work as medieval style oligarchy - if it were possible to have dozens of Uber clones instead of this thing bulldozing it's way through that would be actual capitalism with real competition and nothing to worry about.
Maybe if you want the USA to be like Soviet Russia instead of holding the government to account like George Washington and all the others wanted. It's looking a lot like you value an unquestioned King before Constitution - Snowden is the opposite.
Thanks - sounds very harsh.
Fine, you like it a lot, I get that, but what is a "Milton"?
In the cult near me quite literally - even the founders own nephew got screwed. An environment of unquestioning obedience is the sort of shit Magna Carta, George Washington etc were against and letting it in the back door (literally) via letting cults do what they like is a sign of a sickening society.
Yet we reinterpret the related bit about bacon and oysters all the time.
Maybe not such a stretch for an engineer since I use different fluid dynamics equations I don't believe in under different conditions since nothing tells the whole story yet.
The classics are the oil guys that believe in a young earth and are told where to find it by geologists using ancient clues and evidence of change over millions of years.
Do they only worship coin instead of notes or something?
Dogma rarely wanders into the realms of the sort of reality that science does. When it does it is usually driven there for some sort of expedient political reason to control followers or attack those seen as an external threat to such control.
"There can be only one God" far too often gets twisted into "there can only be one leader". "Render unto Caesar" is conveniently ignored by those who pretend the rest of the book should be followed far too literally.
The Rastas are good that way - followers get stoned instead of heretics :)
Yet Catholics eat bacon and oysters - no absolute inflexible literal interpretation for them.
The bunch that sprung from that shed in L.A. screaming about how evil San Francisco was punished by an earthquake are not even the majority in the USA let alone compared with less dumbed down Christianity globally.
Of course they are compatible - they have nothing at all to do with each other unless someone in charge of a flock wants to attack science as a means of getting more control of their flock.
Three out of four of the proto-geologists that debunked the flood and young earth theories were ordained. Mendel was a monk FFS. It's only dumbed down religion or the political wing of religious groups that gets into conflict with science. The heliocentric fuss was 99% due to calling the Pope an idiot.
They are so special that they have a God that buggered off after 7 days never to be seen again instead of a greater one that set things in motion that are still happening today, such as perhaps evolution.
Sorry Christianity-Lite losers, you have a puny God, but I suppose at least it does what it is told.
Any religion that sees a search for truth as a threat must be very weak.
For those of us who have not seen the US remake of The Office what defines a "Milton"?