"New iPhones that will incentivize you and other people that have iPhones today to upgrade to new iPhones. We are going to give you things you can't live without that you just don't know you need today."
We are going to develop more "features" you do not want to further lock you into an iPhone and to force you to continue to use iPhones into the future, because profits, and you're our bitches. - love Cookie Monster
I think if something has been well written, it will hold up pretty well. I've not read Frankenstein, though I probably should. However I've read many HG Wells old science fiction, and while different was still quite good. You have to keep in mind the context of when the stuff was written however to really appreciate it. Same with HP Lovecraft.
The only ones I had real difficulty were truly terrible writing. Two of those come to mind, and both were modern books. The end of the wheel of time series and the other was something "Moon..." about a female space military type person that was so over the top in terms of cliche it was hard to stomach.
The only other two exceptions were Stand on Zanzibar which is older, but written in a very weird stylized way which made it a hard read for me and took more than a few stalled attempts before I got through it. If I recall much of it was told through news casts and advertisements... The other one which I never go though was "The Worm Ouroboros", which was written in 1927 and the main reason it is a hard read is it is written entirely in Ye Olde English, which is a real chore to try and parse...
From what I recall of the Atom it wasn't good for anything. It wasn't low power enough for embedded applications, and not powerful enough for other applications. All, they were used for was cheap netbook type things.
Not sure WTF that subject really means, but this is what they should be doing...
They should be partnering up with someone like Samsung, LG, and/or any and all of the makers of "SMART" TV's, and incorporating a hardware and software solution that can handle light gaming which has been their forte for about the last decade or so. Have a marketplace to buy game apps. Percentage of app profits goes to the TV manufactures who sold the TV.
That way you don't really need to buy any console. You just have a smart TV you would have bought anyway, which has the capabilities to buy and play Nintendo apps. Huge market. TV technology has just as much computing power as long ago consoles or modern phones, little would really need to be done, slight upgrade and a standardized framework, apply Nintendo logo, done. Most apps storage requirements are low, but you could always just use an external HD, most TV's have USB ports at this point in the game.
TV manufactures would build the hardware and sell the physical sets, Nintendo would maintain the marketplace, create (or licence) apps, and software interface. Incentive for TV manufactures to do this? Well percentage of app profits for one, and selling feature over competitors for another. Some smart TV's already have "apps" however it is something that they all really are not good at, and why bother doing it badly yourself, when you can get a recognized existing brand to do it well sharing what would be many magnitudes more money than what you could probably eek out yourself...
I think most Canadians have long since forgotten about that whole blank media affair.
What I think is starting to really wear thin is that in this technological wondrous world we live in Canadians still pay more for less than what Americans do for little or no reason. It has been around forever, and is usually blamed on "distribution" or "currency". However these are BS arguments when nothing changes even though the Canadian dollar was at par or more valuable than the US dollar for an extended period of time. "Distribution" costs in regards to digital content is ridiculous, it is't like trucks are going out of their way, or that warehouses need to be built or something. It isn't just newcomers like NETFLIX, look at the US/CAN prices on books and magazines. Digital books and magazines? Then look at anything from Amazon.com VS Amazon.ca and you can do that comparison just about anywhere. Not to mention why some products are available, while others are not... Another fine example would be the Kindle and how if a Canadian were dumb enough to buy it would find half the features disabled just because they live a couple miles outside the US?
We're constantly getting screwed by US companies all the time insistently. I mean if NETFLIX US had double the content than the Canadian version, then shouldn't we be logically paying half the price?
So yeah, when US corporations start complaining, and NETFLIX is forced to police their networks, and as a result more Canadian start looking at other avenues to get the same content, well I doubt too many Canadians will shed too many tears over the matter.
In a matter of fact, I would bet that the two new streaming options CRAVE and SHOMI owned by the already dominant Canadian telecommunications companies Bell and Rodgers, will have great big shit eating grins on their stupid duoloplistic faces...
Capitalism, like socialism, or any "ism" really doesn't work in extremes as they are simply ideology, ideas.
In reality to work well and to prevent gaming the system, or run away events, the whole thing needs to be regulated, to have the checks and balances required to keep things running like a well oiled machine.
This regulation needs to come from a government that is responsible to its citizens, and that keep their best interests at heart.
That last one is where things have fallen apart in the last 30 years. Corporations inserted themselves into politics. They have been influencing regulation to benefit companies and corporations rather than individual citizens. Everything is rigged to be protectionist, everything is rigged to ensure the status quo, all scales tipped in their favor, and this has been going on like a snowball downhill for decades.
Is it any wonder we are where we are right now?
The solution of course, much like the debate about church and state, is to remove the corporate influence from the political systems. Doing so at this point will not be easy, as they are dug in like ticks feasting on a host. How is this to occur? No idea, the cards are certainly stacked against change.
Meh. People that feel the most strongly about something vote, the fact that twice as many people voted this time around is probably just a good thing. Left or right doesn't really matter so long as the writing is good, and it is thought provoking. I mean one persons ideology is another's parody.
Heck just look at things like the Oscars, even they have difficulties "getting it right". Odds are nothing will. There will always probably be a divide against fundamental issues of populist choices VS little heard of gems.
I've been currently been reading the Silo Series by Hugh Howey and I am enjoying it immensely. It has apparently been around for a long time now, and it didn't get any hugos or nominations for anything yet eventually through word of mouth I've heard of it. One might say it is a bit derivative to the Fallout video game series, but then again I am sure Fallout lifted ideas from elsewhere also. At any rate it's enjoyable.
4000 votes is still a pretty small sample size, which is how this can be easily manipulated by someone. If they want to have a more "centrist" voting structure they really need to open up the voting to all fans, not just the rabid ones that attend conventions. Then again, as my subject line implies having totally open internet voting has its own perils... Then again it will probably be dominated by populist vote, only because many of the options no one will have heard of. It might be interesting if the nomination process was also open (perhaps it is, I never checked)....
Well not everything... but a lot of it I would agree.
I would add Ben Bova to that list as well... Heinlein, Bova, Rand all had multiple protagonists that were "boot-strapped" hard working, common sense people, that became ultra rich, while snubbing their nose to governments and authority, being adventurous industrialists which also happened to be pretty over the top sexist. Then again it was a different time when most of those books were written also.
That said I do like some of their works...
One last thing to add, one persons "right wing ideology" is another's parody...
1) "simulation might be able to let its simulated denizens themselves run universal simulations", or turtles all the way down etc... Is basically saying that given a really large number (infinite by definition being the largest) it is unlikely (read improbable) that we are either the first or last turtle. Which from a purely conceptual point of view is true, but in reality much like a lottery, while it might be very unlikely to win, someone actually does, meaning that in real terms someone is the turtle or the simulation maker, the first the last, and all things being equal, just because it is a very low probability, doesn't make it untrue.
2) When talking about perfect simulations, and simulations making simulations, the Matrix did it right (though they probably borrowed it from someplace), in that at a certain point the difference between what is reality and what is a "simulation" grows fuzzy and may be a moot point. It all gets rather philosophical at a certain point, the whole I think therefore I am, and if a tree falls in the forest sort of idea, but basically even if a simulation that doesn't necessarily mean in the strictest sense that it is any less real...
I think it is very likely given the gravity of his crimes, and the notorious nature that they are more worried about another inmate killing him, not the other way around. There would be a variety of reasons for an inmate to do it, but regardless the state has to make a reasonable effort to safeguard their wards, and if another inmate were to kill him that would probably be very much in question.
1) Most users are low end. That is, they use the internet for browsing websites, email, and social media. All of which is easily done with a mobile device. The moderate users might also use something like Netflix, which is probably the only profitable group left, but most ISP are also TV providers so they want people to buy their own TV packages... i.e. they are their own worst enemy.
2) Terrible ISP for years. Speeds should be going up, while prices should be going down. This has not happened. While speeds have increased, cost has increased year over year, every year for the sake of more and more profit, and customers are getting weary. In addition to that, most of the low end internet packages have been done away with if favor of a much larger baseline package. Likely this is because they want you to package your internet with your cable, phone, and mobile for a "discount" because they provide all of those things as well and it is an "incentive" to customers to do so. i.e. again they are their own worst enemy.
3) Mobile Improvement. Unlike home internet, speed has increased, and costs have largely remained the same. In Canada the only exception is that the amortization of new phones are now capped at 2 years, with the difference being added to their bill packages so it seems like it is more, but it is more less the same over time.
So no, not exactly surprising really. Even with a total lack of real competition in most cases, ISP for the most part (not independents but the big telecommunication companies), have really done a horrible job by essentially competing with themselves in an effort to drive profit across their various holdings.
Well deserters as in the entire army (or particular Cohorts probably), not the individual.
Considering the alternative was to destroy the entire army (which takes effort and loss), or banish them (at which point you then have a rogue army to worry about, or at the very least a banditry problem), the solution, while gruesome was a form of severe punishment, that fairly (more less with lots) acted as a deterrent for future such behavior, while at the same time preserving 90% of your fighting force for that particular legion/cohort. I'm sure having their colleagues met out the punishment themselves really drives home the point.
While many seem to be focusing on the "U" portion of the UFO, it just occurred to me that perhaps the "F" part may also not be very meaningful... It stands for flying right? Does something "fly" in space? Flight to me in the traditional sense would mean though an atmosphere using lift...
Sure you can, it happens all the time. Collecting is a bit tricky, which is why they said they would sell all their US assets, as that is really what would be targeted for damages.
Think about international corporations for example. In most cases, you aren't going to be able to collect in whatever country they are perhaps based out of, you target their domestic assets. At any point they could say, "you know what, we choose just not to do business here anymore"... which is pretty much what Google did in China.
You either A) be subject to the laws of the country you operate in, or B) don't operate within that country...
What the SA is saying, is that if you allow this to go through we will withdrawal all our US assets so you are unable to collect anything. Which on the face of it they should be allowed to do whatever they want really. It is likely an empty threat, and they would damage their own economy much worse likely. Also they would likely loose on every single asset sale, and there would be plenty of buyers in the US willing to get in on some discount assets.
Tsar Bomba is a bad example. It was a bomb in the traditional sense (hence the name) and was dropped by a bomber. It was simply a publicity stunt more than anything else, and including strategic issues had tactical ones like getting the bomber out of the blast area fast enough...
No the true example of the inaccuracy of ICBM's were the development of MIRV variants. I think it stands for Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles.
The accuracy was so poor, particularly on older ICBM's that even with large nuclear payloads, and aiming at city sized objects there was still a pretty good chance you would miss entirely, and just really annihilate some adjacent farmland and some poor cows. This is why on both sides of the cold war you had redundancy of important targets with multiple ICBM's targeted, and also why both had stockpiles so large as to be ridiculous. MIRV's fixed the issue by having many small bombs showering a much larger area, ensuring a hit. Also the larger the yield has diminishing returns... It is much more effective to user several smaller yield devices spread out over a uniform area than one big one.
Seeing things like "100%" makes me suspicious, critical, or leery of the whatever the statement is, particularly when concerning science, which generally doesn't work that way.
Just like when some tyrannical despot gets 100% of the "democratic" vote in their country, usually sparks my disbelief.
That is not to say I disagree with the assertion that climate changes exists, nor that it isn't likely influenced by humans, only that when I get that 100% of anything (that isn't some conceptual absolute mathematical proof or something), it really sets off my bullshit alarm.
Not to mention the total subsidy of all industry for lower wages on the backs of social programs. A few wealthy make more profit from a cheaper workforce where the entire tax base pays for the social programs required for all those people that can't live on the wages the receive. Pension and cleanup obligations are a drop in the bucket compared to this systemic problem.
Walmart is the poster child of this issue for not only an example of the above but apparently profiting even more from accepting the most food stamps as well. Probably expressed as a Win-Win in the exec boardroom...
Well 22k citizens of a possible total of 330k showed up to protest... 6.6% of their entire population.
That would be the equivalent of about 22 Million people showing up outside the Whitehouse (or 2.3 Million in Ottawa)... I'm pretty sure there would be no "And what you're gonna do about it, plebs?". More likely there were be a lot of awkward silence and a hasty departure.
I mean a lot of people made a big deal about the "million man march"... now do that 22 times bigger. Regardless of police or military, that would make a corrupt politician pretty damn nervous....
What is even crazier about the Iceland numbers is that 330k population includes things like babies, and the very elderly etc... Meaning that an even higher percentage of the able population showed up!
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"New iPhones that will incentivize you and other people that have iPhones today to upgrade to new iPhones. We are going to give you things you can't live without that you just don't know you need today."
We are going to develop more "features" you do not want to further lock you into an iPhone and to force you to continue to use iPhones into the future, because profits, and you're our bitches. - love Cookie Monster
I read this in a much too positive way... biggest one in 36 years?
Sounds like a blast, way better than those missile tests! (pun intended :)
I think if something has been well written, it will hold up pretty well. I've not read Frankenstein, though I probably should. However I've read many HG Wells old science fiction, and while different was still quite good. You have to keep in mind the context of when the stuff was written however to really appreciate it. Same with HP Lovecraft.
The only ones I had real difficulty were truly terrible writing. Two of those come to mind, and both were modern books. The end of the wheel of time series and the other was something "Moon..." about a female space military type person that was so over the top in terms of cliche it was hard to stomach.
The only other two exceptions were Stand on Zanzibar which is older, but written in a very weird stylized way which made it a hard read for me and took more than a few stalled attempts before I got through it. If I recall much of it was told through news casts and advertisements... The other one which I never go though was "The Worm Ouroboros", which was written in 1927 and the main reason it is a hard read is it is written entirely in Ye Olde English, which is a real chore to try and parse...
From what I recall of the Atom it wasn't good for anything. It wasn't low power enough for embedded applications, and not powerful enough for other applications. All, they were used for was cheap netbook type things.
iTunes is basically why I eventually moved away from Apple. The device was fine, however iTunes was terrible.
I will admit that its functionality for backup worked well, but that was about it.
Not sure WTF that subject really means, but this is what they should be doing...
They should be partnering up with someone like Samsung, LG, and/or any and all of the makers of "SMART" TV's, and incorporating a hardware and software solution that can handle light gaming which has been their forte for about the last decade or so. Have a marketplace to buy game apps. Percentage of app profits goes to the TV manufactures who sold the TV.
That way you don't really need to buy any console. You just have a smart TV you would have bought anyway, which has the capabilities to buy and play Nintendo apps. Huge market. TV technology has just as much computing power as long ago consoles or modern phones, little would really need to be done, slight upgrade and a standardized framework, apply Nintendo logo, done. Most apps storage requirements are low, but you could always just use an external HD, most TV's have USB ports at this point in the game.
TV manufactures would build the hardware and sell the physical sets, Nintendo would maintain the marketplace, create (or licence) apps, and software interface. Incentive for TV manufactures to do this? Well percentage of app profits for one, and selling feature over competitors for another. Some smart TV's already have "apps" however it is something that they all really are not good at, and why bother doing it badly yourself, when you can get a recognized existing brand to do it well sharing what would be many magnitudes more money than what you could probably eek out yourself...
I think most Canadians have long since forgotten about that whole blank media affair.
What I think is starting to really wear thin is that in this technological wondrous world we live in Canadians still pay more for less than what Americans do for little or no reason. It has been around forever, and is usually blamed on "distribution" or "currency". However these are BS arguments when nothing changes even though the Canadian dollar was at par or more valuable than the US dollar for an extended period of time. "Distribution" costs in regards to digital content is ridiculous, it is't like trucks are going out of their way, or that warehouses need to be built or something. It isn't just newcomers like NETFLIX, look at the US/CAN prices on books and magazines. Digital books and magazines? Then look at anything from Amazon.com VS Amazon.ca and you can do that comparison just about anywhere. Not to mention why some products are available, while others are not... Another fine example would be the Kindle and how if a Canadian were dumb enough to buy it would find half the features disabled just because they live a couple miles outside the US?
We're constantly getting screwed by US companies all the time insistently. I mean if NETFLIX US had double the content than the Canadian version, then shouldn't we be logically paying half the price?
So yeah, when US corporations start complaining, and NETFLIX is forced to police their networks, and as a result more Canadian start looking at other avenues to get the same content, well I doubt too many Canadians will shed too many tears over the matter.
In a matter of fact, I would bet that the two new streaming options CRAVE and SHOMI owned by the already dominant Canadian telecommunications companies Bell and Rodgers, will have great big shit eating grins on their stupid duoloplistic faces...
Capitalism, like socialism, or any "ism" really doesn't work in extremes as they are simply ideology, ideas.
In reality to work well and to prevent gaming the system, or run away events, the whole thing needs to be regulated, to have the checks and balances required to keep things running like a well oiled machine.
This regulation needs to come from a government that is responsible to its citizens, and that keep their best interests at heart.
That last one is where things have fallen apart in the last 30 years. Corporations inserted themselves into politics. They have been influencing regulation to benefit companies and corporations rather than individual citizens. Everything is rigged to be protectionist, everything is rigged to ensure the status quo, all scales tipped in their favor, and this has been going on like a snowball downhill for decades.
Is it any wonder we are where we are right now?
The solution of course, much like the debate about church and state, is to remove the corporate influence from the political systems. Doing so at this point will not be easy, as they are dug in like ticks feasting on a host. How is this to occur? No idea, the cards are certainly stacked against change.
Meh. People that feel the most strongly about something vote, the fact that twice as many people voted this time around is probably just a good thing. Left or right doesn't really matter so long as the writing is good, and it is thought provoking. I mean one persons ideology is another's parody.
Heck just look at things like the Oscars, even they have difficulties "getting it right". Odds are nothing will. There will always probably be a divide against fundamental issues of populist choices VS little heard of gems.
I've been currently been reading the Silo Series by Hugh Howey and I am enjoying it immensely. It has apparently been around for a long time now, and it didn't get any hugos or nominations for anything yet eventually through word of mouth I've heard of it. One might say it is a bit derivative to the Fallout video game series, but then again I am sure Fallout lifted ideas from elsewhere also. At any rate it's enjoyable.
4000 votes is still a pretty small sample size, which is how this can be easily manipulated by someone. If they want to have a more "centrist" voting structure they really need to open up the voting to all fans, not just the rabid ones that attend conventions. Then again, as my subject line implies having totally open internet voting has its own perils... Then again it will probably be dominated by populist vote, only because many of the options no one will have heard of. It might be interesting if the nomination process was also open (perhaps it is, I never checked)....
Well not everything... but a lot of it I would agree.
I would add Ben Bova to that list as well... Heinlein, Bova, Rand all had multiple protagonists that were "boot-strapped" hard working, common sense people, that became ultra rich, while snubbing their nose to governments and authority, being adventurous industrialists which also happened to be pretty over the top sexist. Then again it was a different time when most of those books were written also.
That said I do like some of their works...
One last thing to add, one persons "right wing ideology" is another's parody...
Two things:
1) "simulation might be able to let its simulated denizens themselves run universal simulations", or turtles all the way down etc... Is basically saying that given a really large number (infinite by definition being the largest) it is unlikely (read improbable) that we are either the first or last turtle. Which from a purely conceptual point of view is true, but in reality much like a lottery, while it might be very unlikely to win, someone actually does, meaning that in real terms someone is the turtle or the simulation maker, the first the last, and all things being equal, just because it is a very low probability, doesn't make it untrue.
2) When talking about perfect simulations, and simulations making simulations, the Matrix did it right (though they probably borrowed it from someplace), in that at a certain point the difference between what is reality and what is a "simulation" grows fuzzy and may be a moot point. It all gets rather philosophical at a certain point, the whole I think therefore I am, and if a tree falls in the forest sort of idea, but basically even if a simulation that doesn't necessarily mean in the strictest sense that it is any less real...
"...playing around with the battery and coated it in a thin gel layer."
Exactly what was he doing with that battery anyway!
They were afraid they would vote for Donald Trump...
I think it is very likely given the gravity of his crimes, and the notorious nature that they are more worried about another inmate killing him, not the other way around. There would be a variety of reasons for an inmate to do it, but regardless the state has to make a reasonable effort to safeguard their wards, and if another inmate were to kill him that would probably be very much in question.
1) Most users are low end. That is, they use the internet for browsing websites, email, and social media. All of which is easily done with a mobile device. The moderate users might also use something like Netflix, which is probably the only profitable group left, but most ISP are also TV providers so they want people to buy their own TV packages... i.e. they are their own worst enemy.
2) Terrible ISP for years. Speeds should be going up, while prices should be going down. This has not happened. While speeds have increased, cost has increased year over year, every year for the sake of more and more profit, and customers are getting weary. In addition to that, most of the low end internet packages have been done away with if favor of a much larger baseline package. Likely this is because they want you to package your internet with your cable, phone, and mobile for a "discount" because they provide all of those things as well and it is an "incentive" to customers to do so. i.e. again they are their own worst enemy.
3) Mobile Improvement. Unlike home internet, speed has increased, and costs have largely remained the same. In Canada the only exception is that the amortization of new phones are now capped at 2 years, with the difference being added to their bill packages so it seems like it is more, but it is more less the same over time.
So no, not exactly surprising really. Even with a total lack of real competition in most cases, ISP for the most part (not independents but the big telecommunication companies), have really done a horrible job by essentially competing with themselves in an effort to drive profit across their various holdings.
Well deserters as in the entire army (or particular Cohorts probably), not the individual.
Considering the alternative was to destroy the entire army (which takes effort and loss), or banish them (at which point you then have a rogue army to worry about, or at the very least a banditry problem), the solution, while gruesome was a form of severe punishment, that fairly (more less with lots) acted as a deterrent for future such behavior, while at the same time preserving 90% of your fighting force for that particular legion/cohort. I'm sure having their colleagues met out the punishment themselves really drives home the point.
While many seem to be focusing on the "U" portion of the UFO, it just occurred to me that perhaps the "F" part may also not be very meaningful... It stands for flying right? Does something "fly" in space? Flight to me in the traditional sense would mean though an atmosphere using lift...
Sure you can, it happens all the time. Collecting is a bit tricky, which is why they said they would sell all their US assets, as that is really what would be targeted for damages.
Think about international corporations for example. In most cases, you aren't going to be able to collect in whatever country they are perhaps based out of, you target their domestic assets. At any point they could say, "you know what, we choose just not to do business here anymore"... which is pretty much what Google did in China.
You either A) be subject to the laws of the country you operate in, or B) don't operate within that country...
What the SA is saying, is that if you allow this to go through we will withdrawal all our US assets so you are unable to collect anything. Which on the face of it they should be allowed to do whatever they want really. It is likely an empty threat, and they would damage their own economy much worse likely. Also they would likely loose on every single asset sale, and there would be plenty of buyers in the US willing to get in on some discount assets.
Which is why their reaction is to sell off all US assets.
While I know this is to intimidate, it actually makes them come off very guilty looking...
I hope they do that! Make it the best lifeboat on there, and give it a big smiley face paint job!
Give it it's own champagne christening and I bet there will be more photo ops with Boaty that boring old Worsley...
Tsar Bomba is a bad example. It was a bomb in the traditional sense (hence the name) and was dropped by a bomber. It was simply a publicity stunt more than anything else, and including strategic issues had tactical ones like getting the bomber out of the blast area fast enough...
No the true example of the inaccuracy of ICBM's were the development of MIRV variants. I think it stands for Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles.
The accuracy was so poor, particularly on older ICBM's that even with large nuclear payloads, and aiming at city sized objects there was still a pretty good chance you would miss entirely, and just really annihilate some adjacent farmland and some poor cows. This is why on both sides of the cold war you had redundancy of important targets with multiple ICBM's targeted, and also why both had stockpiles so large as to be ridiculous. MIRV's fixed the issue by having many small bombs showering a much larger area, ensuring a hit. Also the larger the yield has diminishing returns... It is much more effective to user several smaller yield devices spread out over a uniform area than one big one.
Seeing things like "100%" makes me suspicious, critical, or leery of the whatever the statement is, particularly when concerning science, which generally doesn't work that way.
Just like when some tyrannical despot gets 100% of the "democratic" vote in their country, usually sparks my disbelief.
That is not to say I disagree with the assertion that climate changes exists, nor that it isn't likely influenced by humans, only that when I get that 100% of anything (that isn't some conceptual absolute mathematical proof or something), it really sets off my bullshit alarm.
Not to mention the total subsidy of all industry for lower wages on the backs of social programs. A few wealthy make more profit from a cheaper workforce where the entire tax base pays for the social programs required for all those people that can't live on the wages the receive. Pension and cleanup obligations are a drop in the bucket compared to this systemic problem.
Walmart is the poster child of this issue for not only an example of the above but apparently profiting even more from accepting the most food stamps as well. Probably expressed as a Win-Win in the exec boardroom...
Well 22k citizens of a possible total of 330k showed up to protest... 6.6% of their entire population.
That would be the equivalent of about 22 Million people showing up outside the Whitehouse (or 2.3 Million in Ottawa) ... I'm pretty sure there would be no "And what you're gonna do about it, plebs?". More likely there were be a lot of awkward silence and a hasty departure.
I mean a lot of people made a big deal about the "million man march"... now do that 22 times bigger. Regardless of police or military, that would make a corrupt politician pretty damn nervous....
What is even crazier about the Iceland numbers is that 330k population includes things like babies, and the very elderly etc... Meaning that an even higher percentage of the able population showed up!
Who were quickly put to death after the encryption security was put in place so that no one can ever divulge their secrets!
Now Pharaoh level security is available to everyone!