Maybe the right to privacy we were told so much about has simply become old-fashioned, a barrier to progress.
Just maybe the generation growing up is more accepting of the intrusions, the same way manners and morals dissolved over the years, compare TV in the 1950's to TV today to see a graphic example of this.
For the record you can maintain your privacy, just learn to think like this; that everything done on the Internet is like shouting in a restaurant so don't post or discuss things you wouldn't yell in a restaurant.
That petition alleges that the Chinese government unfairly subsidizes crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar cells and modules by providing cash grants, tax rebates, cheap loans, and other benefits designed to artificially suppress Chinese export prices and drive U.S. competitors out of the market.
Maybe they knew, maybe they didn't know about this translucency method, but in the end one thing I am fairly certain of is that that "they" want all your information, it's how "they" get valid emails, make money and build profiles. If your information is obfuscated in any way the reliability of what they want to do is diminished and therefore not worth as much.
That sounds like a societal stereotype to me, women can be just as effective as men, just as brutal, and frankly can do anything a man can do.
We were raised (read indoctrinated) to see things a certain way, and if you get trapped in that indoctrination that's all the World will ever be for you.
Women tend to be given less opportunity, less education, and less encouragement to do anything other than what women are expected by men to do in a given society. This applies to the US as well as any other country in the World, as women in general are the largest oppressed group of humans on the planet.
They aren't expected to be leaders (but they are) they aren't expected to fight in the military (but they can) they aren't expected to go into science or do well at math/engineering (but they do) they aren't taken seriously in sports (but they are serious about it) in general we waste 50% of our population because of our societal indoctrination.
This article speaks of how Glass-Steagall limited the size of financial institutions and how the law does not apply in Europe, but it ignores the protection that it provided to our domestic banks and insurance companies. The biggest crisis was the collapse of our banks, not our investment bankers. Banks provide the life blood of our economy - liquidity. That liquidity is protected by the FDIC and the strict rules imposed on banking that prohibited banks from leveraging deposits with risky investments. Glass-Steagall prohibited investment bankers from accepting deposits. Gramm-Leach-Bilely Act of 1999, made significant changes to Glass-Steagall. The act repealed the Glass-Steagall Act's restrictions on bank and securities-firm affiliations. It also amended the Bank Holding Company Act to permit affiliations among financial services companies, including banks, securities firms and insurance companies. Thus the mergers of banks and financial institutions began in 1999 creating these monsters that grew too big to fail. Glass-Steagall may not have stopped a crisis, but it sure would have slowed it down and reduced the scope of damage. The article says that to prevent a future crisis financial institutions should be required keep a good chunk of loan obligations on their own books. I disagree because keeping loans on the books does not guarantee sound underwriting when non-deposit assets from non-banking services can be leveraged with riskier loans. Under Glass-Steagall, bank deposits must be protected with conservative investments which provides better assurance of good underwriting procedures. Likewise for life insurance companies that must maintain a large portfolio of investment grade debt instruments. In addition, the rating agencies themselves should be regulated and audited regularly by the SEC. The SEC should be overhauled to prevent its employees, especially its executive employees, from getting too cozy with Wall Street firms. Glass-Steagall should be re-enacted. Investment banking, banking and insurance should be segregated to adequately diversify the risks or our financial institutions.
Which makes the case for even stronger regulations and oversight.
"Bush's administration the number of regulations increased from 110,000 to 150,000 pages."
What kind of regulations? Where is your source information? Following your theory on a government caused collapse in the housing market meant they would have been complicit in removing the very regulations that prevented.
"Of course, supporters don’t describe it that way. They say the JOBS Act — for Jumpstart our Business Startups — would remove burdensome regulations that they claim have made it too difficult for companies to raise money from investors, impeding their ability to grow and hire.
Never mind that reams of Congressional testimony, market analysis and academic research have shown that regulation has not been an impediment to raising capital. In fact, too little regulation has been at the root of all recent bubbles and bursts — the dot-com crash, Enron, the mortgage meltdown. Those free-for-alls created jobs and then imploded, causing mass joblessness. " https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/washington-has-a-very-short-memory.html?_r=3&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
It never will because it doesn't benefit nation states to use it nor will the "One World Bank" allow transfer of it, in addition there will be a stigma attached to things like Bitcoin or other black market funds, "Why you using that? You doing something illegal?" When everyone used cash there was no telling what you were using it for, now every purchase will be documented, and saved for your lifetime.
In addition once we live in a cashless society you will see the rise of "micro charges" "Oh you want water with your meal? That's 0.5 credits" literally everything will start to have micro charges of pennies/credits (or equivalent) it will become so prevalent you will go to the bathroom and a paper towel will cost 2 cents, and soon 1 cent here 4 cents there it adds up. Literally anything can and will have a micro charge device attached to it, go shopping for groceries and want a cart or bag? 0.25 credits. You see since it's a card the charging can be automated, so even charging pennies for a common item like a grocery cart can be profitable.
A cashless society is the ultimate form of control and in the end gives governments and banks full control of the planet, you don't agree?
All joking aside I do have a friend that for the most part is entirely normal and likeable, has a family, a good job and gets along with everyone. However during a recent conversation about artificial intelligence he came out as stating that he truly believes there is already an intelligence in the Net, not human intelligence but machine driven, he states we can't recognize it for a variety of reasons, one being it's too different from the way we think. It was an interesting conversation and for a while he had me thinking about it, but I don't think the hardware and software is that far along yet, but some where down the road...
You know why that is? Because people like accept what happens and turn around to say "Let's be realistic, here. This is America. The telcos can do whatever the hell they want and get away with it."
Tablets are media consumption platforms for people that don't really use their computers for serious task, oh I know someone will post how they hacked the Gibson using their iPad and a bluetooth keyboard, but for the most part it's a consumer toy for consuming consumer baubles.
Totally off topic: I saw a job post the other day for iPad support, I had to laugh as I can imagine the calls "Plug it in and restore....that didn't work? Ok plug it in and restore"
Slashdot Mirror
Was in James Cameron's pocket when he was 7 miles under the ocean.
My outrage is reserved for the likes of the Murdoch clans criminal behavior not for piracy.
Maybe the right to privacy we were told so much about has simply become old-fashioned, a barrier to progress.
Just maybe the generation growing up is more accepting of the intrusions, the same way manners and morals dissolved over the years, compare TV in the 1950's to TV today to see a graphic example of this.
For the record you can maintain your privacy, just learn to think like this; that everything done on the Internet is like shouting in a restaurant so don't post or discuss things you wouldn't yell in a restaurant.
That petition alleges that the Chinese government unfairly subsidizes crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar cells and modules by providing cash grants, tax rebates, cheap loans, and other benefits designed to artificially suppress Chinese export prices and drive U.S. competitors out of the market.
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/15/445193/us-decision-chinese-solar-panel-imports-tariffs-partial-solution/?mobile=nc
Why was the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge built in China?
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/business/global/26bridge.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Why is American infrastructure in general being built by Chinese?
http://americanmanufacturing.org/blog/why-are-chinese-firms-building-americas-bridges-and-roads
Why are these jobs subsidizing China?
Because we can't find welders,
Watch the video.
http://americanmanufacturing.org/blog/why-are-chinese-firms-building-americas-bridges-and-roads
Maybe they knew, maybe they didn't know about this translucency method, but in the end one thing I am fairly certain of is that that "they" want all your information, it's how "they" get valid emails, make money and build profiles.
If your information is obfuscated in any way the reliability of what they want to do is diminished and therefore not worth as much.
My girlfriend was watching I had to type that...
That sounds like a societal stereotype to me, women can be just as effective as men, just as brutal, and frankly can do anything a man can do.
We were raised (read indoctrinated) to see things a certain way, and if you get trapped in that indoctrination that's all the World will ever be for you.
Women tend to be given less opportunity, less education, and less encouragement to do anything other than what women are expected by men to do in a given society.
This applies to the US as well as any other country in the World, as women in general are the largest oppressed group of humans on the planet.
They aren't expected to be leaders (but they are) they aren't expected to fight in the military (but they can) they aren't expected to go into science or do well at math/engineering (but they do) they aren't taken seriously in sports (but they are serious about it) in general we waste 50% of our population because of our societal indoctrination.
No.
Being a good leader is not gender dependent.
Because it has the largest market share, if you're going to go through the trouble target the biggest pool.
Those regulations were the pure unadulterated stupidity of the Bush family genes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_George_W._Bush_legislation_and_programs
That man was and is an abject failure at everything he does.
In regards to the Glass-Steagall act::
This article speaks of how Glass-Steagall limited the size of financial institutions and how the law does not apply in Europe, but it ignores the protection that it provided to our domestic banks and insurance companies. The biggest crisis was the collapse of our banks, not our investment bankers. Banks provide the life blood of our economy - liquidity. That liquidity is protected by the FDIC and the strict rules imposed on banking that prohibited banks from leveraging deposits with risky investments. Glass-Steagall prohibited investment bankers from accepting deposits. Gramm-Leach-Bilely Act of 1999, made significant changes to Glass-Steagall. The act repealed the Glass-Steagall Act's restrictions on bank and securities-firm affiliations. It also amended the Bank Holding Company Act to permit affiliations among financial services companies, including banks, securities firms and insurance companies. Thus the mergers of banks and financial institutions began in 1999 creating these monsters that grew too big to fail. Glass-Steagall may not have stopped a crisis, but it sure would have slowed it down and reduced the scope of damage. The article says that to prevent a future crisis financial institutions should be required keep a good chunk of loan obligations on their own books. I disagree because keeping loans on the books does not guarantee sound underwriting when non-deposit assets from non-banking services can be leveraged with riskier loans. Under Glass-Steagall, bank deposits must be protected with conservative investments which provides better assurance of good underwriting procedures. Likewise for life insurance companies that must maintain a large portfolio of investment grade debt instruments. In addition, the rating agencies themselves should be regulated and audited regularly by the SEC. The SEC should be overhauled to prevent its employees, especially its executive employees, from getting too cozy with Wall Street firms. Glass-Steagall should be re-enacted. Investment banking, banking and insurance should be segregated to adequately diversify the risks or our financial institutions.
Which makes the case for even stronger regulations and oversight.
Read this all the way through.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wallstreet/weill/demise.html
"Bush's administration the number of regulations increased from 110,000 to 150,000 pages."
What kind of regulations? Where is your source information? Following your theory on a government caused collapse in the housing market meant they would have been complicit in removing the very regulations that prevented.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wallstreet/weill/demise.html
Laugh... you modded down the NYT?
"Of course, supporters don’t describe it that way. They say the JOBS Act — for Jumpstart our Business Startups — would remove burdensome regulations that they claim have made it too difficult for companies to raise money from investors, impeding their ability to grow and hire.
Never mind that reams of Congressional testimony, market analysis and academic research have shown that regulation has not been an impediment to raising capital. In fact, too little regulation has been at the root of all recent bubbles and bursts — the dot-com crash, Enron, the mortgage meltdown. Those free-for-alls created jobs and then imploded, causing mass joblessness. "
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/washington-has-a-very-short-memory.html?_r=3&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
There are doctors that are going as far as to state that most ailments (heart disease, cancer, arthritis, etc) are cause to some degree by chronic inflammation:
GIFY
https://encrypted.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=inflammation+and+disease&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Aspirin reduces inflammation and so helps in all things inflammation related.
You should check out diet related inflammation as some (if not most) of us have poor dietary habits OR eat to much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammation
"That's a lot of wild ass speculation that overlooks in real world facts."
OK clue me into your real World facts please, I would like to see some detail on why control and micro-charging are "wild ass speculation".
"it doesn't have sovereign backing"
It never will because it doesn't benefit nation states to use it nor will the "One World Bank" allow transfer of it, in addition there will be a stigma attached to things like Bitcoin or other black market funds, "Why you using that? You doing something illegal?"
When everyone used cash there was no telling what you were using it for, now every purchase will be documented, and saved for your lifetime.
In addition once we live in a cashless society you will see the rise of "micro charges" "Oh you want water with your meal? That's 0.5 credits" literally everything will start to have micro charges of pennies/credits (or equivalent) it will become so prevalent you will go to the bathroom and a paper towel will cost 2 cents, and soon 1 cent here 4 cents there it adds up.
Literally anything can and will have a micro charge device attached to it, go shopping for groceries and want a cart or bag? 0.25 credits.
You see since it's a card the charging can be automated, so even charging pennies for a common item like a grocery cart can be profitable.
A cashless society is the ultimate form of control and in the end gives governments and banks full control of the planet, you don't agree?
Fuck you your card is shut off.
All joking aside I do have a friend that for the most part is entirely normal and likeable, has a family, a good job and gets along with everyone.
However during a recent conversation about artificial intelligence he came out as stating that he truly believes there is already an intelligence in the Net, not human intelligence but machine driven, he states we can't recognize it for a variety of reasons, one being it's too different from the way we think.
It was an interesting conversation and for a while he had me thinking about it, but I don't think the hardware and software is that far along yet, but some where down the road...
One morning in Sweden I downloaded a song from Bittorrent, that afternoon my moneycard stopped working
Skynet
You know why that is? Because people like accept what happens and turn around to say "Let's be realistic, here. This is America. The telcos can do whatever the hell they want and get away with it."
So in other words tablets are what you use to connect to your real computers =)
in Bitcoin and Quatloos
Tablets are media consumption platforms for people that don't really use their computers for serious task, oh I know someone will post how they hacked the Gibson using their iPad and a bluetooth keyboard, but for the most part it's a consumer toy for consuming consumer baubles.
Moooooooooooooooooo
Totally off topic:
I saw a job post the other day for iPad support, I had to laugh as I can imagine the calls "Plug it in and restore....that didn't work? Ok plug it in and restore"