Dumbass. Big organization != Government. People that make laws and are supposed to serve the public are supposed to be different than a CEO. Of course those simple facts make hurt your head. Either that or you are pro fascism.
What? Nixon was pardoned of all crimes, not much of a penalty. Clinton was not punished, so no penalty there either.
None of them had penalties outside of the politicians being embarrassed. If anything, the first two events set the precedent to ensure that politicians are not subject to the same laws as other citizens.
Most of the tools and queries have already been written, no need to keep around that many people any longer. Also it reduces the risk of other "Snowden" events. If the tools and queries are already there, a team playing agent with a twisted ego can obviously continue the work without the risks. Nothing will change for us mind you, we will still be spied on.
What? Where at any point did I bring up aliens and kidnappings? Where did I claim that the whole of human trafficking is limited to the Franklin Cover up? Neither of those things happened. The latter was brought out as an example of 1) proof that we know slavery is not just happening, but happening within Government Employees (at a minimum) and 2) Showing why we have so very little information on the subject.
The Franklin Cover up is not tin-foil hat conspiracy, it is a set of facts that was being investigated by 3 separate police agencies and the FBI. Several Government employees "resigned" but were never charged because the evidence happened to be destroyed in a plane crash.
You absolutely are living in a fantasy when you claim that a fact is not a fact. You are living further in fantasy when you claim that a part is a whole, and that it's reasonable to compare that part to a completely separate whole.
You never commented that my working example was wrong, in demonstrating that your logic is absolutely broken trying to compare African slavery to current slavery. You want immediately to a fabrication that I talked about aliens.
The thread history you are pretending does not exist is very plain to go back and read, so read it. Or don't, and remain a deranged and delusional person. For all I know, you could also be just a very lonely person willing to get their attention by argument in absurdities. No matter the reason you have for arguing false information and absurdities, your reasoning is broken. Good bye.
The reason it is harder is because if you are leading riflemen you are also a riflemen. I think you are confusing a squad leader with some brass watching from the Pentagon.
You have zero facts about the alien abductions during the african slave trade
Your defense has become based false and fabricated information (claiming I made statements that are never made). Go back and read each post, the fully history is just above this text. You have also warped the purpose of mentioning the Franklin Cover up incident into a claim that it is the whole of human slavery in recent times.
Have fun in what ever fantasy land you are currently living in. Don't bother to write, I don't care how nice the gumdrop trees in your head are. There is no point in debating with someone that refuses to live in reality. This conversation is now concluded.
Being a good programmer/engineer/admin/etc.. does not indicate that you will be a good leader. It is two separate skills, and two separate ways of thinking. The military has had "leadership" schools for a very long time for just this reason, and most private sector companies do also. It is much harder to lead a squad of riflemen than it is to be a riflemen. Driving and motivating others requires different psychology than driving and motivating yourself.
The question I think you are trying to get answered is "How do you prove leadership abilities when you have not been assigned such a job title?" In this case, play on what you have done. Lead team meetings in the managers absence, set up training courses for our level 1 people, built wiki pages for new products and worked with engineers to ensure support, etc... If you have done nothing like those, I would doubt your abilities to lead too.
I have been in the business for 25+ years, much of that being a team lead role. To the people that ask me why I have not been a manager, the answer is simple. I love the technical work more than I love the political skills required to be a good manager. I love writing the tools and pulling out numbers much more than I like to present them to the audience. It's fun for me to teach people, not fun for me to be responsible for them.
Am I to be shocked that you don't know the definition of "expect"? Naw, that's not a shock to me either. I'm willing to bet that you can go 0 for 3, and "no" I have no problem showing your intellectual failure.
Goes back further than that, but it's a bit harder to see. Slow changes at first, mostly in the education system with appointed officials in Universities and Colleges, and Government (State/Fed) agencies. You can't enslave an intelligent society.
Even on/. where "geeks" should abound, a large number of people can't see a fallacy that smacks them in the face. They argue with false information instead of checking facts and hold irrational beliefs based on false information. *shrug* so far their plans have been working, but perhaps taking a bit longer than the globalist NWO people wanted. Not everyone went to sleep, and people do wander out of the cave on occasion.
Sorry, but your point is both wrong and irrelevant. The problems we see today are not just 13 years old, but go back much further. Your ignorant claim requires only a few hours of study to resolve. Go get some books and read!
Arguing that Bush was worse than Obama, or attempting to place ownership at all, is the type of idiocy that we simply don't need currently. Not only is it wrong, but the argument distracts from what we must do to correct things.
By the way, the statements regarding trying to place blame goes to both of you.
It is wrong in both cases, and anyone that claims "it's okay because it's just an ISP" has difficulty understanding simple fallacy.
On detection, Comcast will pop up a helpful window that contains information about where you can obtain a legal version of whatever you're downloading.
Notice that they never mention what is actually being done, which at a minimum is invading your privacy and denying you your fourth amendment rights. Notice also that TFA uses the word "helpful" when it comes to the companies actions as a result of spying on you. Next, pay attention to them only mentioning one type of action, and one type of data stream. When enabling DPI they must look at all data types and packets, not just HTTP. Last of all and perhaps most importantly note that they don't mention who they are reporting the alleged violations to. It should be very obvious that they are reporting it to someone if they are "complimenting" the DCMA.
This rant is not against you, but the people that will claim you should not care if it's only the ISP.
Interesting points and I agree with all but one, but I need to add an item.
Comcast doing this brings a sense of normality to the current Government intrusions to privacy. Data should be protected from this, as Comcast is a service provider (utility), by the first and fourth amendment. If they are using DPI on the network, they will not just be inspecting HTTP requests but ALL packets.
The point I disagree with is where you claim it's not Comcast's fault. It absolutely is their fault. Just like it's the power companies fault when things fail, the oil companies fault when they don't upgrade refineries, etc... They have a choice (or at least I believe they have a choice) on how they dump their marketing and lobby dollars. They could lobby for improvements and alert customers to the draconian big brother rules the Government creates just as easily as they could lobby for higher profits and helping big brother. Few if any companies choose to do the former, especially when it they hit larger scale.
Of course we pay the price for the latter, and there is no penalties for these companies screwing up. Since they helped the Government, the Government helps them monopolize and uses tax dollars to keep them floating when needed. The big unfortunate issue is what happens when all the phony money runs out and everyone is broke? It can't be that far down the road.
The obvious problem is that they could script around this with a client of their own. Unless of course you are claiming that private servers are not already locked down with authenticated HTTPS, which they are.
Sure, it's an extra step for them. In today's dumb as rocks corporate culture, that happily patents ideas and believes that copyrights on creations that take a few minutes (think certain blogs) are currently too short at 2.8 decades, do you really think they won't take this extra step? I think that the RIAA and MPAA have already proven that customers and common sense are not relevant to them. The only thing that matters to these businesses is how much money they should be entitled to extort from people.
Come now, you can't really be that thick. By what you just stated I can only assume that cognitive dissonance causes you so much discomfort that absurd arguments are your only option for defense.
My comments had nothing to do with aliens, it has to do with people abusing children for sex and other purposes. These are investigations that were started and never finished due to investigators dieing and evidence being destroyed. There are several events similar to the Franklin cover upt, in fact over 150 slave runners were just arrested last week. Of course the king pins, customers, etc.. are unknown. Are you going to deny that happened? Are you going to deny that the king pins are not still free? How about the smugglers and officials that either assisted or turned a blind eye? You really can't be so daft as to deny that all of those things are needed for human slavery to exist, though you could irrationally come to such a conclusion.
To claim you can compare a well documented and legal slave trade (with manifests, written logs, journals, receipts, and reports) to human trafficking in which all evidence known was destroyed is pure idiocy. You know it is, or you would have not went off on the deep end of conspiracy theories to try and argue your point.
You can absolutely compare things when you don't know 100% of the facts, but when you have 0 facts it is impossible to make comparisons. Let us use a reasonable and real example to show the arguments, instead of what you did with the absurd fantasy.
By your reasoning, we should be able to easily know the impact of flu virus society 10,000 years ago because of how impacts people today. That is the logic you are claiming works, and any reasonable person looking at it would realize the idiocy in making such a comparison.
Compare that to where we have documentation from Egyptian's on some of the impacts of illness. In that case, we can compare at least some aspects.
I'm glad you read some guys opinion in a book, but sad that you don't realize that an opinion is not the same as facts.
NEVER have I stated that the Franklin cover up was as bad as slavery. Go back and read my comments again without your emotions being tainted. I stated that we don't know the current extent of human slavery. The Franklin cover up shows us why we don't know. If we don't know, we can not compare and claim that slavery of African's was worse than current human slavery. It's speculation, and could very easily be wrong! Read the estimated numbers provided by international organizations and the UN! The numbers are at least similar to the African slave trade, and many times much worse.
From TFA, this happens every 11 years. So if you are under the age of 11, you can be scared. If you are over the age of 11, this should be a "been there done that" moment.
My point is that we don't know the extent because of cover ups. We know that things happened, but have no details. It is irrational to compare two items and claim one is better when you have almost zero facts regarding the other.
I believe it's human nature to want to believe that things are not so bad. We are happy living in delusion because the truth is often painful. This is extremely well documented human behavior dating back thousands of years. As a personal, and real life example, I have an Aunt that was a young teen living in Germany during Hitler's reign. They never saw anything wrong with him until the end of the war, because of propaganda and cover ups in media.
What most Americans should be fearing, based on the small amount of available evidence, is that we wake up tomorrow just like my Aunt from Germany. Without open and honest government and media system, we don't know how bad things really are. You can make the assumption "it's not as bad as X", but that is not a rational assumption.
The sources are every revolution in history. Take the US as the easy example. The "Founders" mostly had money but nothing like the nobles in England, and some would be considered middle class today. Look at every soldier gathered however, and you see people that come from a fed up population. A huge problem with the war was keeping people interested in the revolt and seeing that it could succeed. Washington could not make people stay and fight, nor could they even conscript people. The whole Army was voluntary.
You want to jump to Cuba and see who in Cuba was wealthy and fed up? How about Libya? Syria? Tunisia?
The obvious point is that it does not matter how many people with wealth are fed up. It matters more how much of the general population is fed up. The general population provides the soldiers.
The material you quote makes a big assumption, which is that we know everything that goes on. We don't, and it is not safe to assume that we do when evidence points to something contrary. If you assume that the Franklin cover up was real, the slave trade is not worse than human trafficking. The slave trade has moved to children which is worse in my opinion, and is something only talked about in back rooms. Is it really worse to have a trade annually pulling in tens of thousands of adults compared to hundreds of children? I'm not so easily convinced.
While the Government is hiding things, I don't believe it safe to assume humanity has become better. The fact that people can't see reality does not make humanity better. It makes humanity much worse.
The subject should have a whole lot of question marks in it. The reason so many MSM companies are flailing/failing is that they all spew the same propaganda and people started to catch on to the game.
No matter what Bezos intentions are it won't fix the Government enforcement of media outlets as propaganda centers, prosecution of whistle blowers, abuse of journalists, and criminal methods of finding sources.
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Dumbass. Big organization != Government. People that make laws and are supposed to serve the public are supposed to be different than a CEO. Of course those simple facts make hurt your head. Either that or you are pro fascism.
What? Nixon was pardoned of all crimes, not much of a penalty. Clinton was not punished, so no penalty there either.
None of them had penalties outside of the politicians being embarrassed. If anything, the first two events set the precedent to ensure that politicians are not subject to the same laws as other citizens.
Most of the tools and queries have already been written, no need to keep around that many people any longer. Also it reduces the risk of other "Snowden" events. If the tools and queries are already there, a team playing agent with a twisted ego can obviously continue the work without the risks. Nothing will change for us mind you, we will still be spied on.
What? Where at any point did I bring up aliens and kidnappings? Where did I claim that the whole of human trafficking is limited to the Franklin Cover up? Neither of those things happened. The latter was brought out as an example of 1) proof that we know slavery is not just happening, but happening within Government Employees (at a minimum) and 2) Showing why we have so very little information on the subject.
The Franklin Cover up is not tin-foil hat conspiracy, it is a set of facts that was being investigated by 3 separate police agencies and the FBI. Several Government employees "resigned" but were never charged because the evidence happened to be destroyed in a plane crash.
You absolutely are living in a fantasy when you claim that a fact is not a fact. You are living further in fantasy when you claim that a part is a whole, and that it's reasonable to compare that part to a completely separate whole.
You never commented that my working example was wrong, in demonstrating that your logic is absolutely broken trying to compare African slavery to current slavery. You want immediately to a fabrication that I talked about aliens.
The thread history you are pretending does not exist is very plain to go back and read, so read it. Or don't, and remain a deranged and delusional person. For all I know, you could also be just a very lonely person willing to get their attention by argument in absurdities. No matter the reason you have for arguing false information and absurdities, your reasoning is broken. Good bye.
The reason it is harder is because if you are leading riflemen you are also a riflemen. I think you are confusing a squad leader with some brass watching from the Pentagon.
You have zero facts about the alien abductions during the african slave trade
Your defense has become based false and fabricated information (claiming I made statements that are never made). Go back and read each post, the fully history is just above this text. You have also warped the purpose of mentioning the Franklin Cover up incident into a claim that it is the whole of human slavery in recent times.
Have fun in what ever fantasy land you are currently living in. Don't bother to write, I don't care how nice the gumdrop trees in your head are. There is no point in debating with someone that refuses to live in reality. This conversation is now concluded.
Being a good programmer/engineer/admin/etc.. does not indicate that you will be a good leader. It is two separate skills, and two separate ways of thinking. The military has had "leadership" schools for a very long time for just this reason, and most private sector companies do also. It is much harder to lead a squad of riflemen than it is to be a riflemen. Driving and motivating others requires different psychology than driving and motivating yourself.
The question I think you are trying to get answered is "How do you prove leadership abilities when you have not been assigned such a job title?" In this case, play on what you have done. Lead team meetings in the managers absence, set up training courses for our level 1 people, built wiki pages for new products and worked with engineers to ensure support, etc... If you have done nothing like those, I would doubt your abilities to lead too.
I have been in the business for 25+ years, much of that being a team lead role. To the people that ask me why I have not been a manager, the answer is simple. I love the technical work more than I love the political skills required to be a good manager. I love writing the tools and pulling out numbers much more than I like to present them to the audience. It's fun for me to teach people, not fun for me to be responsible for them.
Am I to be shocked that you don't know the definition of "expect"? Naw, that's not a shock to me either. I'm willing to bet that you can go 0 for 3, and "no" I have no problem showing your intellectual failure.
You let the whole world use the internet for over a decade
I think it's time to do away with the sun dial and stick markers and get a clock and calendar.
Thank you shill #21381675
Goes back further than that, but it's a bit harder to see. Slow changes at first, mostly in the education system with appointed officials in Universities and Colleges, and Government (State/Fed) agencies. You can't enslave an intelligent society.
Even on /. where "geeks" should abound, a large number of people can't see a fallacy that smacks them in the face. They argue with false information instead of checking facts and hold irrational beliefs based on false information. *shrug* so far their plans have been working, but perhaps taking a bit longer than the globalist NWO people wanted. Not everyone went to sleep, and people do wander out of the cave on occasion.
What a shock to see an anonymous person make a false claim in an ad hominem attack. No, not really...
Sorry, but your point is both wrong and irrelevant. The problems we see today are not just 13 years old, but go back much further. Your ignorant claim requires only a few hours of study to resolve. Go get some books and read!
Arguing that Bush was worse than Obama, or attempting to place ownership at all, is the type of idiocy that we simply don't need currently. Not only is it wrong, but the argument distracts from what we must do to correct things.
By the way, the statements regarding trying to place blame goes to both of you.
The fact that this makes movements unsuccessful is the reason that the government pays agent provocateurs.
It is wrong in both cases, and anyone that claims "it's okay because it's just an ISP" has difficulty understanding simple fallacy.
On detection, Comcast will pop up a helpful window that contains information about where you can obtain a legal version of whatever you're downloading.
Notice that they never mention what is actually being done, which at a minimum is invading your privacy and denying you your fourth amendment rights. Notice also that TFA uses the word "helpful" when it comes to the companies actions as a result of spying on you. Next, pay attention to them only mentioning one type of action, and one type of data stream. When enabling DPI they must look at all data types and packets, not just HTTP. Last of all and perhaps most importantly note that they don't mention who they are reporting the alleged violations to. It should be very obvious that they are reporting it to someone if they are "complimenting" the DCMA.
This rant is not against you, but the people that will claim you should not care if it's only the ISP.
Interesting points and I agree with all but one, but I need to add an item.
Comcast doing this brings a sense of normality to the current Government intrusions to privacy. Data should be protected from this, as Comcast is a service provider (utility), by the first and fourth amendment. If they are using DPI on the network, they will not just be inspecting HTTP requests but ALL packets.
The point I disagree with is where you claim it's not Comcast's fault. It absolutely is their fault. Just like it's the power companies fault when things fail, the oil companies fault when they don't upgrade refineries, etc... They have a choice (or at least I believe they have a choice) on how they dump their marketing and lobby dollars. They could lobby for improvements and alert customers to the draconian big brother rules the Government creates just as easily as they could lobby for higher profits and helping big brother. Few if any companies choose to do the former, especially when it they hit larger scale.
Of course we pay the price for the latter, and there is no penalties for these companies screwing up. Since they helped the Government, the Government helps them monopolize and uses tax dollars to keep them floating when needed. The big unfortunate issue is what happens when all the phony money runs out and everyone is broke? It can't be that far down the road.
The obvious problem is that they could script around this with a client of their own. Unless of course you are claiming that private servers are not already locked down with authenticated HTTPS, which they are.
Sure, it's an extra step for them. In today's dumb as rocks corporate culture, that happily patents ideas and believes that copyrights on creations that take a few minutes (think certain blogs) are currently too short at 2.8 decades, do you really think they won't take this extra step? I think that the RIAA and MPAA have already proven that customers and common sense are not relevant to them. The only thing that matters to these businesses is how much money they should be entitled to extort from people.
Come now, you can't really be that thick. By what you just stated I can only assume that cognitive dissonance causes you so much discomfort that absurd arguments are your only option for defense.
My comments had nothing to do with aliens, it has to do with people abusing children for sex and other purposes. These are investigations that were started and never finished due to investigators dieing and evidence being destroyed. There are several events similar to the Franklin cover upt, in fact over 150 slave runners were just arrested last week. Of course the king pins, customers, etc.. are unknown. Are you going to deny that happened? Are you going to deny that the king pins are not still free? How about the smugglers and officials that either assisted or turned a blind eye? You really can't be so daft as to deny that all of those things are needed for human slavery to exist, though you could irrationally come to such a conclusion.
To claim you can compare a well documented and legal slave trade (with manifests, written logs, journals, receipts, and reports) to human trafficking in which all evidence known was destroyed is pure idiocy. You know it is, or you would have not went off on the deep end of conspiracy theories to try and argue your point.
You can absolutely compare things when you don't know 100% of the facts, but when you have 0 facts it is impossible to make comparisons. Let us use a reasonable and real example to show the arguments, instead of what you did with the absurd fantasy.
By your reasoning, we should be able to easily know the impact of flu virus society 10,000 years ago because of how impacts people today. That is the logic you are claiming works, and any reasonable person looking at it would realize the idiocy in making such a comparison.
Compare that to where we have documentation from Egyptian's on some of the impacts of illness. In that case, we can compare at least some aspects.
I'm glad you read some guys opinion in a book, but sad that you don't realize that an opinion is not the same as facts.
NEVER have I stated that the Franklin cover up was as bad as slavery. Go back and read my comments again without your emotions being tainted. I stated that we don't know the current extent of human slavery. The Franklin cover up shows us why we don't know. If we don't know, we can not compare and claim that slavery of African's was worse than current human slavery. It's speculation, and could very easily be wrong! Read the estimated numbers provided by international organizations and the UN! The numbers are at least similar to the African slave trade, and many times much worse.
The portion you quoted referred to the event, not the telescope. I could have been more detailed, but most people don't require that level of detail.
"The first and funniest to yell will be the ones pointing out that the WSO telescope looks like the illuminati symbol. Many people will believe it to be impossible that it is natural.
From TFA, this happens every 11 years. So if you are under the age of 11, you can be scared. If you are over the age of 11, this should be a "been there done that" moment.
My point is that we don't know the extent because of cover ups. We know that things happened, but have no details. It is irrational to compare two items and claim one is better when you have almost zero facts regarding the other.
I believe it's human nature to want to believe that things are not so bad. We are happy living in delusion because the truth is often painful. This is extremely well documented human behavior dating back thousands of years. As a personal, and real life example, I have an Aunt that was a young teen living in Germany during Hitler's reign. They never saw anything wrong with him until the end of the war, because of propaganda and cover ups in media.
What most Americans should be fearing, based on the small amount of available evidence, is that we wake up tomorrow just like my Aunt from Germany. Without open and honest government and media system, we don't know how bad things really are. You can make the assumption "it's not as bad as X", but that is not a rational assumption.
The sources are every revolution in history. Take the US as the easy example. The "Founders" mostly had money but nothing like the nobles in England, and some would be considered middle class today. Look at every soldier gathered however, and you see people that come from a fed up population. A huge problem with the war was keeping people interested in the revolt and seeing that it could succeed. Washington could not make people stay and fight, nor could they even conscript people. The whole Army was voluntary.
You want to jump to Cuba and see who in Cuba was wealthy and fed up? How about Libya? Syria? Tunisia?
The obvious point is that it does not matter how many people with wealth are fed up. It matters more how much of the general population is fed up. The general population provides the soldiers.
The material you quote makes a big assumption, which is that we know everything that goes on. We don't, and it is not safe to assume that we do when evidence points to something contrary. If you assume that the Franklin cover up was real, the slave trade is not worse than human trafficking. The slave trade has moved to children which is worse in my opinion, and is something only talked about in back rooms. Is it really worse to have a trade annually pulling in tens of thousands of adults compared to hundreds of children? I'm not so easily convinced.
While the Government is hiding things, I don't believe it safe to assume humanity has become better. The fact that people can't see reality does not make humanity better. It makes humanity much worse.
The subject should have a whole lot of question marks in it. The reason so many MSM companies are flailing/failing is that they all spew the same propaganda and people started to catch on to the game.
No matter what Bezos intentions are it won't fix the Government enforcement of media outlets as propaganda centers, prosecution of whistle blowers, abuse of journalists, and criminal methods of finding sources.