well he started to get portrayed as a daemon in the press before the announcement that he had information on a bank that would make it go belly up. the international warrants and the united states government putting pressure on anyone supporting him though started after that because when he announced it he went from a annoying but manageable fly to a giant killer wasp.
you have to realize though that in it's self is just the tip of the iceberg here. either because of, or despite assange's character flaws he did what someone 'needed' to do. up until he did it many popular pundits and some company's in the information technology business have gone on record saying that there is no such thing as being anonymous anymore. that with the proper tools and time, we are talking hours here in most cases, you can trace where almost everything goes on the internet to the point where it requires way too much time to be remotely worth it to try to disguise your identity. this had such a chilling effect on people that they though even 'if' they could information about wrong doing in their company's or int he government out, that they would be able to catch them in time before anything could be done. even these organizations came to believe this to the point where they left security holes as big as trucks open, case in point leaving optical disc burners or functional usb ports on sensitive/classified systems. this has also led to the mentality of people in charge that they can do what they want and get away with it since they control the flow of information. this is far different from the days of the pentagon papers when all it took to be a anonymous source was to dump a parcel in a post office box with no return address while being addressed to your media outlet of choice.
assange and the people who gave him the information sacrificed themselves and by doing so proved that being anonymous is not dead, and that it's needed now more then ever to keep governments in check and especially for the operation of any so called democracy or Representative republic. the public outcry on him and wikileaks is not new either, it's been done before but not to the extent nor torrential downpour it is being done now. when the pentagon papers were released the government tried to do the same thing to the new york times as the government is doing to wikileaks now. the difference between now and then is that then there was a better functioning system in place. so much so that the supreme court ruled in the 1971 case "New york times co. vs. United States" they ruled in favor of the new york times that they have the right to publish such information without censure or reprisal from the government. if such a case was held today the outcome would be far different considering how much the executive branch and to some extent the legislative branch not only interferes with the judicial branch's domain. but to the extent that the public views it as 'normal' or 'needed for national security'. one only needs to look to the history of kings, despots, and dictators to know what happens when these three tasks of government are not independent along with the complacency of the populace when it comes to these matters.
if/when assange and the organization he represents is effectively neutralized, this does not mean eliminated. there are some people, far more then i think is good for a so called democracy / Representative republic, that will celebrate. you might say this doesn't matter since there are already copy cat organizations popping up like open leaks. think about it though, does this really help the right people? open leaks will not focus on a specific country or country's nor organizations, because of this they won't hold the interest that is unfortunately needed to keep the populace interested and thus dragging the dirty laundry out into the open where it needs to be. who in the first world cares about the corruption in uganda or the truth of a sex scandal in a central american country that some tin pot despot doesn't want to be known. nor wo
i am being pragmatic here. though what i am seeing is that proof of mental illness is being used as proof of a government operation that causes mental illness. this is called circular logic and it is generally not a good sign that he is telling the truth. let me explain, he is claiming A. there is a government led operation to discredit him by using tactics on him that lead to symptoms of a mental illness. then by B. showing signs of a mental illness there by proving A.
the guy you link too might actually have a mental illness, this becomes especially obvious when he 'insists' the government has nothing better to do then break into his house for the specific purpose then to put all of his musical equipment out of tune. it reminds me of tales from the middle ages and such of little demons playing tricks and such.
i would like to point out that if other intelligence agency's do it, then the cia does it as well. the tools they all use are similar, it's just who they are using it for.
he will be dead by next year. till now he has just been crushing people's egos. now he is threatening people's bank accounts, powerful people, people with connections with his latest announcement. sure the dirty laundry they are hiding needs to be taken out but he has to expect that by now wanting him alive is not a option anymore. sure it will be murder but they will make it look like a suicide or accident, especially if it's the cia. 50 years of practice of doing this sort of thing makes me think he won't last long.
is none of them have actually been taught to do math other then 'here is the problem, here is the 100 dollar calculator your parents were told to buy. sit here and do problems 1 through 30 while i surf the internet and other stuff.' ask a Japanese or well to do Chinese kid the same problem and they will be able to solve it if not in their head, on a scrap piece of paper.
if the government wants the airlines to fail so badly then why not let them? don't fly if your job doesn't demand it. drive, take a bus or a train if your lucky. let the airlines die. again there is no one holding a gun to your head telling you that you must fly.
not to fly at all. of course then the airlines will bemoan further lack of business due to the so called business climate and demand further tax payer funding..
while the items are still available through normal means in the game. 'we' as a company have decided to make the process hard enough that most of you will give up in frustration and pay the small amount to get the items. we have realized the american public's lack of basic math skill's, simply addition, and figure we will earn more money this way as the public spends more on the game then if they bought it outright using the old transaction model.
despite claims to the contrary intel does not 'just work' i owned a laptop for several years that had a intel x3100 chipset. when i got it. it was listed as supported. nope. i had to check out cvs versions of the entire xorg mesa and drm stacks to get it to work. not exactly the easiest thing to do for people. then later when support was actually added to the mainstream code it turns out intel in it's wisdom completely changed over the api's thus making anyone like me who had to do that to get it to work having to hunt down the older libs and headers on his system to remove them so they can be replaced by newer ones that work. then intel changed their minds/again/ this time completely dumping the software stack that was used up till that time for one that they/just/ made called gem forcing me to/again/ check out cvs code just to keep my hardware working. each time they dangled promises of better performance, compatibility and stability. each time they mostly failed to deliver. i have since upgraded to a acer laptop with a radeon 54xx video card. the hardest thing i had to do was type 'emerge ati-drivers' and off i went. i look forward to the day that i can just use xf86-video-ati on the laptop and not have to worry about kernel and xorg versions anymore.
the xf86-video-ati driver supports video cards all the way back to the mach64 chipset from ati to the radeonhd 4xxx series. nvidia's binary supported drivers only support the geforce 6xxx at the earliest. they have stopped support on the legacy drivers which stopped working 2 xorg versions ago due to api changes. it won't be long before nvidia drops support for anything pre-9000 and that means the desktop this is being typed on will no longer get new drivers(geforce 7900 gt/gto). i though plan on upgrading to a radeon 5770. my backup desktop is running a radeon 4xxx series card using the open source drivers and i am getting performance on par with the binary ati drivers.
kind of like how the war on terror came about after several military contractors were in decline from the enormous profits they reaped during the cold war?
marx lived long enough to see what other people tried to create using their interpretations of his work and has famously quoted as saying 'i'm no Marxist' You also have to realize that what people parade about saying what capitalism is now on tv and in political speeches also differs greatly from what adam smith wrote but these same people who hold it up like it's the bible of capitalism have never read.
They both have good points. the former's is that unfettered capitalism will always lead to a exploitation of workers and those of a class lower then the business owners and those who are rich. the latter makes a good point on how it can make country's a better place for their populations, if done correctly of course.
then they just screwed you out of your money. instead of a one time purchase of 60 dollars, they charge you 20 bucks per episode resulting in smaller game but your paying 80 dollars overall.
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of what happens when we let the foxes guard the hen house. i would think the people here would learn by now with the half dozen other examples..
well he started to get portrayed as a daemon in the press before the announcement that he had information on a bank that would make it go belly up. the international warrants and the united states government putting pressure on anyone supporting him though started after that because when he announced it he went from a annoying but manageable fly to a giant killer wasp.
you have to realize though that in it's self is just the tip of the iceberg here. either because of, or despite assange's character flaws he did what someone 'needed' to do. up until he did it many popular pundits and some company's in the information technology business have gone on record saying that there is no such thing as being anonymous anymore. that with the proper tools and time, we are talking hours here in most cases, you can trace where almost everything goes on the internet to the point where it requires way too much time to be remotely worth it to try to disguise your identity. this had such a chilling effect on people that they though even 'if' they could information about wrong doing in their company's or int he government out, that they would be able to catch them in time before anything could be done. even these organizations came to believe this to the point where they left security holes as big as trucks open, case in point leaving optical disc burners or functional usb ports on sensitive/classified systems. this has also led to the mentality of people in charge that they can do what they want and get away with it since they control the flow of information. this is far different from the days of the pentagon papers when all it took to be a anonymous source was to dump a parcel in a post office box with no return address while being addressed to your media outlet of choice.
assange and the people who gave him the information sacrificed themselves and by doing so proved that being anonymous is not dead, and that it's needed now more then ever to keep governments in check and especially for the operation of any so called democracy or Representative republic. the public outcry on him and wikileaks is not new either, it's been done before but not to the extent nor torrential downpour it is being done now. when the pentagon papers were released the government tried to do the same thing to the new york times as the government is doing to wikileaks now. the difference between now and then is that then there was a better functioning system in place. so much so that the supreme court ruled in the 1971 case "New york times co. vs. United States" they ruled in favor of the new york times that they have the right to publish such information without censure or reprisal from the government. if such a case was held today the outcome would be far different considering how much the executive branch and to some extent the legislative branch not only interferes with the judicial branch's domain. but to the extent that the public views it as 'normal' or 'needed for national security'. one only needs to look to the history of kings, despots, and dictators to know what happens when these three tasks of government are not independent along with the complacency of the populace when it comes to these matters.
if/when assange and the organization he represents is effectively neutralized, this does not mean eliminated. there are some people, far more then i think is good for a so called democracy / Representative republic, that will celebrate. you might say this doesn't matter since there are already copy cat organizations popping up like open leaks. think about it though, does this really help the right people? open leaks will not focus on a specific country or country's nor organizations, because of this they won't hold the interest that is unfortunately needed to keep the populace interested and thus dragging the dirty laundry out into the open where it needs to be. who in the first world cares about the corruption in uganda or the truth of a sex scandal in a central american country that some tin pot despot doesn't want to be known. nor wo
the router logging the activity from that workstation trying to access a unauthorized ip address from a external network?
been poisoned to near death by people who are paid by media company's to fill them with fake files and Trojans.
expect him to 'disappear' as he is taken to one of the cia's black sites.
i am being pragmatic here. though what i am seeing is that proof of mental illness is being used as proof of a government operation that causes mental illness. this is called circular logic and it is generally not a good sign that he is telling the truth.
let me explain, he is claiming A. there is a government led operation to discredit him by using tactics on him that lead to symptoms of a mental illness. then by B. showing signs of a mental illness there by proving A.
the guy you link too might actually have a mental illness, this becomes especially obvious when he 'insists' the government has nothing better to do then break into his house for the specific purpose then to put all of his musical equipment out of tune. it reminds me of tales from the middle ages and such of little demons playing tricks and such.
i would like to point out that if other intelligence agency's do it, then the cia does it as well. the tools they all use are similar, it's just who they are using it for.
he will be dead by next year. till now he has just been crushing people's egos. now he is threatening people's bank accounts, powerful people, people with connections with his latest announcement. sure the dirty laundry they are hiding needs to be taken out but he has to expect that by now wanting him alive is not a option anymore. sure it will be murder but they will make it look like a suicide or accident, especially if it's the cia. 50 years of practice of doing this sort of thing makes me think he won't last long.
is none of them have actually been taught to do math other then 'here is the problem, here is the 100 dollar calculator your parents were told to buy. sit here and do problems 1 through 30 while i surf the internet and other stuff.'
ask a Japanese or well to do Chinese kid the same problem and they will be able to solve it if not in their head, on a scrap piece of paper.
when you spend millions on getting politicians elected they tend to do what you want them to do.
if the government wants the airlines to fail so badly then why not let them?
don't fly if your job doesn't demand it. drive, take a bus or a train if your lucky. let the airlines die.
again there is no one holding a gun to your head telling you that you must fly.
not to fly at all. of course then the airlines will bemoan further lack of business due to the so called business climate and demand further tax payer funding..
i would think security.
i know your trying to be funny, but thats what some people in the riaa and mpaa want to happen. it's just that the technology is not there yet.
while the items are still available through normal means in the game. 'we' as a company have decided to make the process hard enough that most of you will give up in frustration and pay the small amount to get the items. we have realized the american public's lack of basic math skill's, simply addition, and figure we will earn more money this way as the public spends more on the game then if they bought it outright using the old transaction model.
well at least the ps3 wasn't a test bed for drm to be implemented on the desktop. *looks at the xbox line up*
yes one also needs it to do that otherwise the drive won't hand over the information.
similar to bush eh?
despite claims to the contrary intel does not 'just work' i owned a laptop for several years that had a intel x3100 chipset. when i got it. it was listed as supported. nope. i had to check out cvs versions of the entire xorg mesa and drm stacks to get it to work. not exactly the easiest thing to do for people. then later when support was actually added to the mainstream code it turns out intel in it's wisdom completely changed over the api's thus making anyone like me who had to do that to get it to work having to hunt down the older libs and headers on his system to remove them so they can be replaced by newer ones that work. then intel changed their minds /again/ this time completely dumping the software stack that was used up till that time for one that they /just/ made called gem forcing me to /again/ check out cvs code just to keep my hardware working. each time they dangled promises of better performance, compatibility and stability. each time they mostly failed to deliver. i have since upgraded to a acer laptop with a radeon 54xx video card. the hardest thing i had to do was type 'emerge ati-drivers' and off i went. i look forward to the day that i can just use xf86-video-ati on the laptop and not have to worry about kernel and xorg versions anymore.
the xf86-video-ati driver supports video cards all the way back to the mach64 chipset from ati to the radeonhd 4xxx series. nvidia's binary supported drivers only support the geforce 6xxx at the earliest. they have stopped support on the legacy drivers which stopped working 2 xorg versions ago due to api changes. it won't be long before nvidia drops support for anything pre-9000 and that means the desktop this is being typed on will no longer get new drivers(geforce 7900 gt/gto). i though plan on upgrading to a radeon 5770. my backup desktop is running a radeon 4xxx series card using the open source drivers and i am getting performance on par with the binary ati drivers.
kind of like how the war on terror came about after several military contractors were in decline from the enormous profits they reaped during the cold war?
google might just be covering their bases in case the net-neutrality stuff doesn't happen.
marx lived long enough to see what other people tried to create using their interpretations of his work and has famously quoted as saying 'i'm no Marxist'
You also have to realize that what people parade about saying what capitalism is now on tv and in political speeches also differs greatly from what adam smith wrote but these same people who hold it up like it's the bible of capitalism have never read.
They both have good points. the former's is that unfettered capitalism will always lead to a exploitation of workers and those of a class lower then the business owners and those who are rich. the latter makes a good point on how it can make country's a better place for their populations, if done correctly of course.
then they just screwed you out of your money. instead of a one time purchase of 60 dollars, they charge you 20 bucks per episode resulting in smaller game but your paying 80 dollars overall.