the only documented bias that exist these days is against male students... and it is a bias reinforced by initiatives like this.
Bias? Why there's no bias here -- just my own individual thoughts, reinforced by friends who think as I do. Away with thee, uncouth non-PC heathen!
Here's all of the support *I* had growing up. (Me, by myself, a coupon, and $5 of my parent's money. (I suspect -- I really don't remember.) The other "support" I had was my parents letting me have time to fool with it. That, of course, led to other things.
If you're really interested, you'll learn. If not, you won't. Why would you want to coerce people into doing a job they don't like? (Just for the money -- really? You're/they're that desperate?) Now force-introducing them to different jobs is a whole different story. I presume most people wouldn't like most jobs, but that's still a good thing -- you cut down on where to look for things you DO like.
All that being said, I posit that I'm a competent programmer, even if I still don't (want to know) Java.
Last EP of Newhart:... ended with a scene in which Newhart wakes up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette, who had played Emily, his wife from The Bob Newhart Show. He realizes (in a satire of a famous plot element in the television series Dallas a few years earlier) that the entire eight-year Newhart series had been a single nightmare of Dr. Bob Hartley's, provoked by "eating too much Japanese food before going to bed."
Honest, Mr NSA Sir, I was just searching for happy kitty cats and not "How to load a nuclear bomb in a suitcase" -- it must have been those nasty cosmic rays changing up my searches!
(I WONDERED why I kept finding lead suitcases with "Hello, Kitty" emblazoned on them.)
Lately I've started going to bed about 4 in the morning. (Severed.) Assuming you go to bed about 9 or 10 at night, that must means I'm MUCH gooder than you.
So why not make every single icon just different colored blocks the like MS Paint "select a color" window and use the mouseover pop-up text to describe the function in detail? After all, you're just differing function selectors by placing a cute reminder logo on them.
Of course I'm joking. But really, I'm also kinesthetic -- I don't "DO" visuals -- so please make sure (but how?) those icons look like something.
I've used programs in decades past, and even though I *KNEW* exactly what the icon did I still couldn't figure out what it was trying to tell me. (This, and I was one of the 6 senior technical admins for servers supporting 20K people for years.) If you're not careful, you might create icons that become the new CAPTCHAs.
PS -- so does that mean we all owe Nike royalties for years for using their swoosh logo in multiple selection boxes?
PSS -- so how do you handle color-blind people? And people in different societies where colors imply different things? I had it easy; I worked on the back-end and I just *didn't*. The worst social complaint I even had was a woman complaining to my boss about me using the word "abort" in a sentence because it was offensive to her.
I nicely told my boss to send the lady over and I'd show her the difference between words that she took offense too versus words where I actually meant to be offensive. She just laughed and handled the lady instead.
Look at: Notification Toggle, by j4velin. It runs in the status bar and is configurable all to heck. There's a pay version for a few specialized functions but it's well worth the install.
It does request permissions out the wazoo, but then again it can toggle BT, WiFi, cell, camera flash, display rotation, and a bunch more directly from the status window. It probably also lets the NSA make me sterile too, but it's OOOH, SHINY.
I installed a nice parking app -- really neat. (Forgot which one it was, sorry.) Then I noticed it was running in the background. Not inactive, running. I might accept that after I've launched the app and set a timer (timer alerts, anyone?) but it was running All The Time
Emailed the developer about it, and goodbye. Hell, Google's "My Tracks" and tracks me when I want to, and Google Maps + Location History tracks me as well. (At least that's disable-able and delete-able -- as much as Google deletes anything. And here I thought *I* was a data hoarder.)
I note that global climate seems to be going through a startlingly fast, almost uniquely fast change....
The sun seems to be going through a startling, unobserved mixture of activity.
Generally, when one startling random happenstance occurs in close proximity to another, it's not unreasonable to wonder if they're connected.
So how do you think the production of greenhouse gasses on Earth is causing all of the problems on the Sun?
??? How old ARE you? (OMG: I'm only 55 -- maybe I really am older and more paranoid than I thought.)
Let me get this straight: you gave away control of your unencrypted files to someone who wasn't a known personal friend and then am surprised that something happened to them??
I treat on-line services slightly differently: I keep local copies of EVERYTHING that goes out, and I'm surprised when it's still accessible online 5 minutes later, never mind 5 years later. And controlling exactly who has access to it? That's just a fantasy -- really. It's actually binary: either it's out there and they MIGHT have it, or it's not and they DON'T.
I do run Dropbox and use KeePass as a password manager. The credential store is encrypted, but even then the stored password there just isn't "quite right". Phone camera pics get uploaded to Dropbox. At times I'll AES encrypt and email or use Dropbox and expose. For stupid pics I'll just dump 'em out there straight. But I know what's exposed and encrypted-exposed. The latter die soon after they're used.
You store important and critical (tax receipts, lawyer-enforced) notices that might cause breach of contract? And you put control of that in someone else's hands, paid for or not? What kind of an IDIOT are you? Then again, you must not think much of the breaching penalties. That's great, I'm glad you're so confident at everyone always doing the right thing everywhere and nothing bad ever happening.
Me, if I'm going to have a some contract or data leakage it'll be because *I* did it myself and have no one else to blame. Then again, it's obvious digital computer files and paid services will stay around forever: Just ask MegaUpload, GeoCities, and LavaBit. Oh, and the data center located in the Twin Towers? Onsite backups sure came in handy there. Some got thru better than others: One, Two
Really, I'm glad things are going so well for you, with the exception of a few bumps. And local storage doesn't solve everything either -- drives can be stolen, warrants can be served, computers can be hacked and data downloaded. But damn it, for 99.9% of my data, I'm 100% directly responsible for it. Offloading everything to the cloud is just offloading responsibility, never mind anything at all to do with the NSA.
Oh, one last thing. Even if all of the employees in the ISP, supporting companies, 3rd party vendors and everyone involved are all above reproach. are you sure? And even say all of the software is 100% vetted and accurate (ignoring accidental software bugs): oops.
Paranoid? Probably, but then again most things don't deserve multiple layers of defense. Only a few do, and of those only a select few get vetted, encrypted, backed up, and rotated offsite. But as for "What would you need if everything was suddenly gone (house fire) and you could only keep a couple of things?" Well there's your answer.
Yeah, but how many vans are out there running around trying to find a broadcast controlling a drone? Aren't they for the most part just trying to find signals interfering with others? You'd almost be better off with a general RF detector in the right frequency range, some binoculars, and a few warm headset-enabled friendlies mixed in with the crowd. And that's hoping he's not on a nearby hill with his own binoculars and a small parabolic antenna.
If I'm really being evil and have some remote vantage point, I just need to make sure it receives my control signals and forget about any returning status signals. THOSE are the guys to worry about -- the normal ones goofing around and cause accidental property/people damage are just annoying idiots and need to be taught to be more careful and respectful of things.
Sometimes it's self-limiting though. (Horrible accident -- "specialized in the most extreme form of flying" -- a practice just went terribly wrong. The only thing worse would have been if he'd killed more people along with himself, again not on purpose.)
That all being said, on occasion when my phone is WiFi sharing it's network access, you have to connect to broadcast access point "FBISURVELNCE0193". That's an old internet joke, but I thought it was funny enough to actually implement. I've only gotten one start out of someone -- that I've noticed, anyway. The upside here is that I think it's funny; the downside is that the FBI could get me for somehow "impersonating an official."
I'm a native and back when "Slick Willie" Bill was the gov running for president my line was: "Lets all vote for Bill -- get him out of Arkansas!" But I never thought everyone would take me seriously.:-)
The high school I went to had ~150 in the graduating class each year, so let's say a population of ~500 yearly. We had students win awards (1st prize, not just for "showing up") in different regional and state competitions. Most students did not though -- and I think a lot of that was teacher attention as well as student attitudes and "intelligence". We all had droning-on-forever lessons and classwork which we didn't like, but we also had discussions, teacher help, and would even occasionally help each other out for a few minutes in class, especially if most if everyone had similar problems. I was on both the giving and receiving end of this. (OMG: could you see the administrators and unions reactions if they knew students were teaching other students classwork? Back then, I think it would have been "That's nice" or "Well of course." Now-a-days I'm not so sure.)
As money dwindles, more and more centrally organized schools will be forced to consolidate. We're not that densely populated -- so that's not necessarily a bad thing, but the further kids have to travel the worse it is no matter what the reason. I think we need local schools with regional and state COORDINATION, not direct CONTROL.
I also think "No Child Left Behind" translates to "No Child Gets Ahead." Government is at it's best when normalizing things to a crushing minimum. And because the legislators are there and feel the need to justify their continued existence, they feel they have to do more and more "for" us.
Heaven help us with our government (state and federal), and I'm an atheist in this land of Religion.
It's illegal to fly an RC model for any kind of pay.
That's what *I* thought, too. So why don't we take a page direct from the politicians: I fly for myself and take pics, and then give them to you because you ask. (Presumably I'd need to give them to all comers, but then again not Every Single Person I meet is my friend. So I don't see that saying "No" is that bad. A judge may disagree.)
You, then, contribute to my fund (charitable, PAC, LLC, something) that I just happen to control. No no -- it's not MY money at all, it's the funds' money; I just happen to be the one in control of it. Or my friend is, whatever.
Now, could the feds come in and take control and arrest me before, during, or after the fact? Yep, because the men with guns always win, especially if they have enough bullets.
By the way, I think that's great:
"I use it to troll 'real world' groups... Completely legal as I'm doing it for fun." But mightn't
fun have consequences? Just because you're having fun doesn't mean everyone else is. Aren't you responsible if you hurt someone else? And if there's not some kind of ID (owner sticker, serial number, etc) on it, how are they to know who owns it? Do you walk up and say "Sorry about that" and claim ownership and responsibility? Or do you just write it off as perhaps a bad battery and disappear?
Fun is by yourself or with friends, and perhaps with a few strangers accidentally nearby. Fun does not consist of ONLY strangers. Then again I'm an old fogie, so get off my lawn. And by the way: I'm practicing.
Adding -X to the ssh command is really freaking hard.
NO, you're actually right here -- so how DID you get those dashes to slant sideways and cross, anyway? Mine always go horizontal no matter what I do; even tilting the keyboard doesn't work.
Film is not "biased" towards people with "light skin."... I think this whole article is a trollish attempt to inject a "racial issue" where there is none.
No, no; the universe REALLY IS biased against you.....
.... that is, if you're made out of antimatter. If so, then to make us for the total unfairness of everything, I'll give you a BIG hug.
Back on topic, I agree. Some people are looking for biases and problems where none exist and keep on finding them.
Reminds me of the Face on Mars. You're looking for something that isn't there and finding it in the noise. That fine -- but you need more supporting evidence to back up your "findings" rather that just point and say, "Look -- look! There it is!"
Hmph. I hadn't seen that site before (hadn't looked.) And I don't think it's a single cohesive party but a group of people tending to mostly agree with each other.
I'm sure there's some weasel words in here, but at first glance it seems very reasonable:
1. Eliminate Excessive Taxes
2. Eliminate the National Debt
3. Eliminate Deficit Spending
4. Protect Free Markets
5. Abide by the Constitution of the United States
6. Promote Civic Responsibility
7. Reduce the Overall Size of Government
8. Believe in the People
9. Avoid the Pitfalls of Politics
10. Maintain Local Independence
There's always a gradient on "Excessive". #4 sounds like it could be easily bent. #9 is wishful thinking.
That, as opposed to: Democrats or Republicans. It all sure sounds good -- I think I'll pay attention and do s'more research here. Seems like we also somehow need a verifiable (independent?) source that describes how accurate these all are to their specified ideas (and they all need a few specific goals as well.)
You can argue over implementation details and exact meanings, but it seem shard to argue with the ideas behind of most of these. And with ALL of the parties --- dare I say it: "Trust, but verify?"
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the only documented bias that exist these days is against male students ... and it is a bias reinforced by initiatives like this.
Bias? Why there's no bias here -- just my own individual thoughts, reinforced by friends who think as I do. Away with thee, uncouth non-PC heathen!
Here's all of the support *I* had growing up. (Me, by myself, a coupon, and $5 of my parent's money. (I suspect -- I really don't remember.) The other "support" I had was my parents letting me have time to fool with it. That, of course, led to other things.
If you're really interested, you'll learn. If not, you won't. Why would you want to coerce people into doing a job they don't like? (Just for the money -- really? You're/they're that desperate?) Now force-introducing them to different jobs is a whole different story. I presume most people wouldn't like most jobs, but that's still a good thing -- you cut down on where to look for things you DO like.
All that being said, I posit that I'm a competent programmer, even if I still don't (want to know) Java.
ROT-13: Tnyyvserl Oheaf.
.... damnit!
... ended with a scene in which Newhart wakes up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette, who had played Emily, his wife from The Bob Newhart Show. He realizes (in a satire of a famous plot element in the television series Dallas a few years earlier) that the entire eight-year Newhart series had been a single nightmare of Dr. Bob Hartley's, provoked by "eating too much Japanese food before going to bed."
Quit REWRITING "History"
Last EP of Newhart:
... as no one has actually been punished for this.
Punished? Of course they have -- they still work there, don't they?
(I was going to go for the "comfy Chair" line -- but, well, that just seemed as easy as shooting congressmen in a barrel. Waay too easy.)
Honest, Mr NSA Sir, I was just searching for happy kitty cats and not "How to load a nuclear bomb in a suitcase" -- it must have been those nasty cosmic rays changing up my searches!
(I WONDERED why I kept finding lead suitcases with "Hello, Kitty" emblazoned on them.)
Good people go to bed earlier.
Lately I've started going to bed about 4 in the morning. (Severed.) Assuming you go to bed about 9 or 10 at night, that must means I'm MUCH gooder than you.
Great comparison, BTW.
... and words take up more space than icons.
So why not make every single icon just different colored blocks the like MS Paint "select a color" window and use the mouseover pop-up text to describe the function in detail? After all, you're just differing function selectors by placing a cute reminder logo on them.
Of course I'm joking. But really, I'm also kinesthetic -- I don't "DO" visuals -- so please make sure (but how?) those icons look like something.
I've used programs in decades past, and even though I *KNEW* exactly what the icon did I still couldn't figure out what it was trying to tell me. (This, and I was one of the 6 senior technical admins for servers supporting 20K people for years.) If you're not careful, you might create icons that become the new CAPTCHAs.
PS -- so does that mean we all owe Nike royalties for years for using their swoosh logo in multiple selection boxes?
PSS -- so how do you handle color-blind people? And people in different societies where colors imply different things? I had it easy; I worked on the back-end and I just *didn't*. The worst social complaint I even had was a woman complaining to my boss about me using the word "abort" in a sentence because it was offensive to her.
I nicely told my boss to send the lady over and I'd show her the difference between words that she took offense too versus words where I actually meant to be offensive. She just laughed and handled the lady instead.
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
Smoking, please. I'd always intended to start, so I guess at death is a good time as any. At least I won't die of cancer from that.
I'm an atheist and just felt like responding to your tag. See here for a funny. And good luck to us all, we'll all "soon" find out the answer.
Look at: Notification Toggle, by j4velin. It runs in the status bar and is configurable all to heck. There's a pay version for a few specialized functions but it's well worth the install.
It does request permissions out the wazoo, but then again it can toggle BT, WiFi, cell, camera flash, display rotation, and a bunch more directly from the status window. It probably also lets the NSA make me sterile too, but it's OOOH, SHINY.
I installed a nice parking app -- really neat. (Forgot which one it was, sorry.) Then I noticed it was running in the background. Not inactive, running. I might accept that after I've launched the app and set a timer (timer alerts, anyone?) but it was running All The Time
Emailed the developer about it, and goodbye. Hell, Google's "My Tracks" and tracks me when I want to, and Google Maps + Location History tracks me as well. (At least that's disable-able and delete-able -- as much as Google deletes anything. And here I thought *I* was a data hoarder.)
Nice company you've got there -- it'd be a shame if something were to happen to it.
And it even fits in 140 chars!
I note that global climate seems to be going through a startlingly fast, almost uniquely fast change. ...
The sun seems to be going through a startling, unobserved mixture of activity.
Generally, when one startling random happenstance occurs in close proximity to another, it's not unreasonable to wonder if they're connected.
So how do you think the production of greenhouse gasses on Earth is causing all of the problems on the Sun?
:-), if you can't tell.
Well then, maybe you could get work to outfit them with a new uniform...
"Charlize Theron NSFW"
I keep clicking on those words, but nothing happens :(
.... that you KNOW about :)
Well DUH! Of course! So -- increase the pressure 4x and have the drives floating above the computer or shelf.
That'd also make it easy to find any busted drives -- just look for the ones now sitting on the floor.
Walk over and interact with your neighbor?
What, are you kidding? I just want to use his house and his power, I don't want to interact with the bastard!
??? WHAT!!! Is this Doctor Who's younger brother who is into politics?
OMG...can he come to meet our country's leaders? (Pick your country.)
Maybe he can treat them with his sonic scalpel. There's sure something wrong with them.
??? How old ARE you? (OMG: I'm only 55 -- maybe I really am older and more paranoid than I thought.)
Let me get this straight: you gave away control of your unencrypted files to someone who wasn't a known personal friend and then am surprised that something happened to them??
I treat on-line services slightly differently: I keep local copies of EVERYTHING that goes out, and I'm surprised when it's still accessible online 5 minutes later, never mind 5 years later. And controlling exactly who has access to it? That's just a fantasy -- really. It's actually binary: either it's out there and they MIGHT have it, or it's not and they DON'T.
I do run Dropbox and use KeePass as a password manager. The credential store is encrypted, but even then the stored password there just isn't "quite right". Phone camera pics get uploaded to Dropbox. At times I'll AES encrypt and email or use Dropbox and expose. For stupid pics I'll just dump 'em out there straight. But I know what's exposed and encrypted-exposed. The latter die soon after they're used.
You store important and critical (tax receipts, lawyer-enforced) notices that might cause breach of contract? And you put control of that in someone else's hands, paid for or not? What kind of an IDIOT are you? Then again, you must not think much of the breaching penalties. That's great, I'm glad you're so confident at everyone always doing the right thing everywhere and nothing bad ever happening.
Me, if I'm going to have a some contract or data leakage it'll be because *I* did it myself and have no one else to blame. Then again, it's obvious digital computer files and paid services will stay around forever: Just ask MegaUpload, GeoCities, and LavaBit. Oh, and the data center located in the Twin Towers? Onsite backups sure came in handy there. Some got thru better than others: One, Two
Then again, there's this brand new data center that will hold all of your data for years -- all for free! I'm sure you can retrieve all of your data from that.
Really, I'm glad things are going so well for you, with the exception of a few bumps. And local storage doesn't solve everything either -- drives can be stolen, warrants can be served, computers can be hacked and data downloaded. But damn it, for 99.9% of my data, I'm 100% directly responsible for it. Offloading everything to the cloud is just offloading responsibility, never mind anything at all to do with the NSA.
Oh, one last thing. Even if all of the employees in the ISP, supporting companies, 3rd party vendors and everyone involved are all above reproach. are you sure? And even say all of the software is 100% vetted and accurate (ignoring accidental software bugs): oops.
Paranoid? Probably, but then again most things don't deserve multiple layers of defense. Only a few do, and of those only a select few get vetted, encrypted, backed up, and rotated offsite. But as for "What would you need if everything was suddenly gone (house fire) and you could only keep a couple of things?" Well there's your answer.
Good luck with it all; hope you produce a updated
it's only in like 10% of the country where the Constitution is regularly ignored, e.g. California and New York.
Oh, but you forgot Washington, DC. (And I don't care who's in power.)
Yeah, but how many vans are out there running around trying to find a broadcast controlling a drone? Aren't they for the most part just trying to find signals interfering with others? You'd almost be better off with a general RF detector in the right frequency range, some binoculars, and a few warm headset-enabled friendlies mixed in with the crowd. And that's hoping he's not on a nearby hill with his own binoculars and a small parabolic antenna.
If I'm really being evil and have some remote vantage point, I just need to make sure it receives my control signals and forget about any returning status signals. THOSE are the guys to worry about -- the normal ones goofing around and cause accidental property/people damage are just annoying idiots and need to be taught to be more careful and respectful of things.
Sometimes it's self-limiting though. (Horrible accident -- "specialized in the most extreme form of flying" -- a practice just went terribly wrong. The only thing worse would have been if he'd killed more people along with himself, again not on purpose.)
That all being said, on occasion when my phone is WiFi sharing it's network access, you have to connect to broadcast access point "FBISURVELNCE0193". That's an old internet joke, but I thought it was funny enough to actually implement. I've only gotten one start out of someone -- that I've noticed, anyway. The upside here is that I think it's funny; the downside is that the FBI could get me for somehow "impersonating an official."
Welcome to Arkansas!
:-)
I'm a native and back when "Slick Willie" Bill was the gov running for president my line was: "Lets all vote for Bill -- get him out of Arkansas!" But I never thought everyone would take me seriously.
The high school I went to had ~150 in the graduating class each year, so let's say a population of ~500 yearly. We had students win awards (1st prize, not just for "showing up") in different regional and state competitions. Most students did not though -- and I think a lot of that was teacher attention as well as student attitudes and "intelligence". We all had droning-on-forever lessons and classwork which we didn't like, but we also had discussions, teacher help, and would even occasionally help each other out for a few minutes in class, especially if most if everyone had similar problems. I was on both the giving and receiving end of this. (OMG: could you see the administrators and unions reactions if they knew students were teaching other students classwork? Back then, I think it would have been "That's nice" or "Well of course." Now-a-days I'm not so sure.)
As money dwindles, more and more centrally organized schools will be forced to consolidate. We're not that densely populated -- so that's not necessarily a bad thing, but the further kids have to travel the worse it is no matter what the reason. I think we need local schools with regional and state COORDINATION, not direct CONTROL.
I also think "No Child Left Behind" translates to "No Child Gets Ahead." Government is at it's best when normalizing things to a crushing minimum. And because the legislators are there and feel the need to justify their continued existence, they feel they have to do more and more "for" us.
Heaven help us with our government (state and federal), and I'm an atheist in this land of Religion.
It's illegal to fly an RC model for any kind of pay.
That's what *I* thought, too. So why don't we take a page direct from the politicians: I fly for myself and take pics, and then give them to you because you ask. (Presumably I'd need to give them to all comers, but then again not Every Single Person I meet is my friend. So I don't see that saying "No" is that bad. A judge may disagree.)
You, then, contribute to my fund (charitable, PAC, LLC, something) that I just happen to control. No no -- it's not MY money at all, it's the funds' money; I just happen to be the one in control of it. Or my friend is, whatever.
Now, could the feds come in and take control and arrest me before, during, or after the fact? Yep, because the men with guns always win, especially if they have enough bullets.
By the way, I think that's great: "I use it to troll 'real world' groups... Completely legal as I'm doing it for fun." But mightn't fun have consequences? Just because you're having fun doesn't mean everyone else is. Aren't you responsible if you hurt someone else? And if there's not some kind of ID (owner sticker, serial number, etc) on it, how are they to know who owns it? Do you walk up and say "Sorry about that" and claim ownership and responsibility? Or do you just write it off as perhaps a bad battery and disappear?
Fun is by yourself or with friends, and perhaps with a few strangers accidentally nearby. Fun does not consist of ONLY strangers. Then again I'm an old fogie, so get off my lawn. And by the way: I'm practicing.
Data: If you had an off switch, Doctor, would you not keep it secret?
Adding -X to the ssh command is really freaking hard.
NO, you're actually right here -- so how DID you get those dashes to slant sideways and cross, anyway? Mine always go horizontal no matter what I do; even tilting the keyboard doesn't work.
Film is not "biased" towards people with "light skin." ... I think this whole article is a trollish attempt to inject a "racial issue" where there is none.
No, no; the universe REALLY IS biased against you.....
.... that is, if you're made out of antimatter. If so, then to make us for the total unfairness of everything, I'll give you a BIG hug.
2.1.6 Sentence 4: Why does the universe prefer matter over antimatter?
Physicists have announced that more matter particles are generated than antimatter
A team working with data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider says it has discovered a particle that decays unevenly into matter and antimatter.
Back on topic, I agree. Some people are looking for biases and problems where none exist and keep on finding them.
Reminds me of the Face on Mars. You're looking for something that isn't there and finding it in the noise. That fine -- but you need more supporting evidence to back up your "findings" rather that just point and say, "Look -- look! There it is!"
I'm sure there's some weasel words in here, but at first glance it seems very reasonable:
There's always a gradient on "Excessive". #4 sounds like it could be easily bent. #9 is wishful thinking.
That, as opposed to: Democrats or Republicans. It all sure sounds good -- I think I'll pay attention and do s'more research here. Seems like we also somehow need a verifiable (independent?) source that describes how accurate these all are to their specified ideas (and they all need a few specific goals as well.)
You can argue over implementation details and exact meanings, but it seem shard to argue with the ideas behind of most of these. And with ALL of the parties --- dare I say it: "Trust, but verify?"
And as for think of the children....