Ready to go find a screwdriver. But not the one that opens the original screws, the other screwdriver that opens the new screws. Congratulations on your newfound freedom.
Yeah, well, a philips head screwdriver is MUCH easier to find than a proprietary, patented screwdriver specifically made for Apple products. So it actually is liberating... not that I own an iPhone.
Risk is always a consideration in starting a new business venture, but Madison's point was that when governments go around outlawing things arbitrarily, or, worse, is unable to provide any assurances to a prospective entrepreneur as to their ability to engage in certain commerce, then business innovation will simply cease.
All I could think of was the current patent system.:(
Not saying you are right or wrong but it seems suspicious when every argument is refuted with a URL from just one domain (grist.org). Usually, when refuting numerous arguments, one cites more than one source.
Oddly, the site will not even load for me so I have no idea if this one site cites numerous sources or just meanders on without citing anything. *sigh* My sight is cloudy. (can we get a different word here please?)
Speaking as someone with ~20 years real experience and no formal education at all (HS dropout, even), I haven't had any trouble finding a good paying gig (W2 or 1099) since putting the first behind me, let alone getting an interview. So, I say, seek within for the answers.
So I say you are not being helpful. Seek within for what exactly? What is within you that has made you successful that he does not have? Honestly, it sounds like you have just been somewhat more fortunate and you have no idea what things you do to be actually be successful.
Prove me wrong by clearly and unambiguously answering the question that was asked.
It seems pretty clear that not having a Second Amendment there is really hurting their ability to resist these lawless folks who have guns. Yay for gun control! Only the Police (TM) and criminals should have guns! Hurray!
How the hell do you justify your "fuck these guys, they're annoying me, kill them all" attitude to yourself? You want them to leave you alone? It's really simple. Leave *them* the fuck alone.
While poking them with a stick is guaranteed to cause a response, leaving them "the fuck" alone does NOT guarantee that they will not attack your interests. Life is just not that simple.
Let's face it, these islamic militants are just not pleasant people no matter who you are. Their beliefs are entirely incompatible with modern notions of freedom and liberty. At some point, there will be conflict between Western beliefs and islamic beliefs.
The real question is how that conflict will play out. Will it be based purely on economic concerns as it is currently or will it be based on more ethical considerations?
Do some counting. Americans have killed a lot more innocent muslims in the middle east than muslims have killed innocent westerners. You are far more evil than those you claim to hate.
Concerning easily verifiable direct cause of death counts, muslims are far ahead of Americans on the death count. If you attribute the millions dying from malnutrition, killed by "insurgents" in their own countries, and deaths through general destruction of infrastructure, then yeah, you can say America is far ahead of the muslims.
You are also implying that death is the only proof of evil. There are numerous things you can do that are extremely evil with actually killing anyone.
Try being judgmental somewhere else... or at least with a more coherent argument.
Are there Microsoft sponsored folks here sponsoring these "articles" that question Google all the time? What the fuck? We are all able to see Google just fine and these constant stream of articles are not affecting my views other than to notice a distinct astroturfing campaign against Google. Keep it up. D'oh.
That is simply not true. I still do not buy any Sony products because of all of that. Sure, I might be in a minority, but I still exist. You can not simply say
people really dont care that much for very long.
You really should remember that there are billions of people in this world. If you think a stadium with 50 thousand people in it is a huge crowd, you are still amazingly far off from a million people. Think a million people are a lot? Oh. My God. There are 300 times that amount in the United States alone!... and that is peanuts next to even 1 billion people.
Sure, you can find a lot of people who will still buy Sony products. That does not mean that their market has not shrunk dramatically from Sony's authoritarian and disrespectful moves.
And now you see the mechanism at work on politicians and other people in charge. This is how they turn from wide-eyed idealists into jaded and corrupt senators and presidents.
I would also say that the recent revelations about the NSA are more significant than 9/11. Some people died on 9/11. America ceased following its guiding principles when the NSA started violating the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments.
Neil Bush (George's brother) stole 3 trillion dollars from ordinary normal Americans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis ; although it seems Mr Bush was mostly successful removing his name from the scandal. This was worse than 9/11. Yeah, money is just money, so it is not the missing money that is in itself the problem. The real problem is that some people did in fact die from indirect causes relating to this scandal. You can not take 3 trillion dollars out without people killing each other, committing suicide, abusing their children (who grow not respecting others), etc. This was a true national tragedy.
TL;DR, you, and others, put way too much emphasis on the events of September 11th 2001.
Putting root servers and standards and such under UN control will NOT stop any sort of mass surveillance, so again, this is a stupid idea for all the reasons previously given.
These technical limitations are the only thing keeping some semblance of practical privacy... for now.
Throughout all of time, technical limitations were the only things guaranteeing our liberty and privacy from any/all governments.
As a rule, the only limit to the amount of control an entity will exert will be exclusively defined by technical limitations. Legal, moral, and psychological limitations will all be bypassed sooner or later.
Hard resets of government power need to be enshrined permanently in all "constitutions"... In theory, the second Amendment is the hard reset enshrined in our Constitution; however, that should only be a failsafe, not an actual reset mechanism.
You do not say what your place is in the organization. This will directly affect what the proper answer is to your query. From the hip, it sounds like you are some IT minion and that you are attempting to vastly overstep your authority.
If you are management and have the authority to make such a decision, you merely tell the network folks to set up a rule for the firewall or router to simply disallow access except at specified times. This rule could be automated easily but your network folks will know how to do that.
If you are not management, you do whatever management tells you to do. You could tell them, "I told you so", if you had warned them about this possibility previously but that lacks political/social grace. Ideally speaking, you would bring up the possibility of restricting access for the vendor to management. If you are an IT minion asking how to implement this, you are in the wrong business.
Regardless, everything that happens, occurs because management set it up that way. It is not your place to steer the business. At best, it is your place to make recommendations... but even then, management is not required to follow your recommendations. If management is doing stupid things that you know will make the company crash, your only recourse is to start looking for another job before your current one goes away due to the company failing. Correct and incorrect is defined purely by management.
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Ready to go find a screwdriver. But not the one that opens the original screws, the other screwdriver that opens the new screws. Congratulations on your newfound freedom.
Yeah, well, a philips head screwdriver is MUCH easier to find than a proprietary, patented screwdriver specifically made for Apple products. So it actually is liberating... not that I own an iPhone.
When you said this:
Risk is always a consideration in starting a new business venture, but Madison's point was that when governments go around outlawing things arbitrarily, or, worse, is unable to provide any assurances to a prospective entrepreneur as to their ability to engage in certain commerce, then business innovation will simply cease.
All I could think of was the current patent system. :(
This useless canard again. The emissions from making the panels are trivial, and get lower the more panels there are in use.
Hm. I could have sworn the manufacturing of photovoltaic panels involved a lot of pretty nasty chemicals. A quick Google search turns these up:
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/03/the-ugly-side-o.html
and
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/02/11/solar-companies-creating-millions-of-pounds-of-polluted-sludge-contaminated-water/
I did not see anything about my initial understanding to be a canard. Perhaps you could offer some links?
Not saying you are right or wrong but it seems suspicious when every argument is refuted with a URL from just one domain (grist.org). Usually, when refuting numerous arguments, one cites more than one source.
Oddly, the site will not even load for me so I have no idea if this one site cites numerous sources or just meanders on without citing anything. *sigh* My sight is cloudy. (can we get a different word here please?)
Not that much of this will matter to the increasingly Randian crowd on Slashdot.
Fuck you. Back that statement up with fact rather than your increasingly pessimistic world view. Go rag somewhere else bitch.
Nah, just kidding. Have a nice day. :)
No fair. That was not random. You biased the results by peeking. :P
Speaking as someone with ~20 years real experience and no formal education at all (HS dropout, even), I haven't had any trouble finding a good paying gig (W2 or 1099) since putting the first behind me, let alone getting an interview. So, I say, seek within for the answers.
So I say you are not being helpful. Seek within for what exactly? What is within you that has made you successful that he does not have? Honestly, it sounds like you have just been somewhat more fortunate and you have no idea what things you do to be actually be successful.
Prove me wrong by clearly and unambiguously answering the question that was asked.
It seems pretty clear that not having a Second Amendment there is really hurting their ability to resist these lawless folks who have guns. Yay for gun control! Only the Police (TM) and criminals should have guns! Hurray!
If you are not for Him, you are against Him.
*sigh* You had a pretty good argument up until this point. I have now stopped reading what you are saying. There is nothing more to discuss.
How the hell do you justify your "fuck these guys, they're annoying me, kill them all" attitude to yourself? You want them to leave you alone? It's really simple. Leave *them* the fuck alone.
While poking them with a stick is guaranteed to cause a response, leaving them "the fuck" alone does NOT guarantee that they will not attack your interests. Life is just not that simple.
Let's face it, these islamic militants are just not pleasant people no matter who you are. Their beliefs are entirely incompatible with modern notions of freedom and liberty. At some point, there will be conflict between Western beliefs and islamic beliefs.
The real question is how that conflict will play out. Will it be based purely on economic concerns as it is currently or will it be based on more ethical considerations?
Do some counting. Americans have killed a lot more innocent muslims in the middle east than muslims have killed innocent westerners. You are far more evil than those you claim to hate.
Concerning easily verifiable direct cause of death counts, muslims are far ahead of Americans on the death count. If you attribute the millions dying from malnutrition, killed by "insurgents" in their own countries, and deaths through general destruction of infrastructure, then yeah, you can say America is far ahead of the muslims.
You are also implying that death is the only proof of evil. There are numerous things you can do that are extremely evil with actually killing anyone.
Try being judgmental somewhere else... or at least with a more coherent argument.
Are there Microsoft sponsored folks here sponsoring these "articles" that question Google all the time? What the fuck? We are all able to see Google just fine and these constant stream of articles are not affecting my views other than to notice a distinct astroturfing campaign against Google. Keep it up. D'oh.
or they themselves have been blackmailed by data from PRISM, et al.
DING DING DING DING! We have a winner here folks. Absolutely nobody is fucking completely innocent. Nobody.
That is simply not true. I still do not buy any Sony products because of all of that. Sure, I might be in a minority, but I still exist. You can not simply say
people really dont care that much for very long.
You really should remember that there are billions of people in this world. If you think a stadium with 50 thousand people in it is a huge crowd, you are still amazingly far off from a million people. Think a million people are a lot? Oh. My God. There are 300 times that amount in the United States alone! ... and that is peanuts next to even 1 billion people.
Sure, you can find a lot of people who will still buy Sony products. That does not mean that their market has not shrunk dramatically from Sony's authoritarian and disrespectful moves.
+6 Insightful
And now you see the mechanism at work on politicians and other people in charge. This is how they turn from wide-eyed idealists into jaded and corrupt senators and presidents.
how about your former manager getting pulled into a freezer and shot to death, 2 weeks after you quit a fast food joint?
Are you sure confessing on a public forum is wise? ;)
My kingdom for mod points. It is rare that an item needs to be +6 or higher and this is one of them. :(
So much for "Hope and Change".
It would seem that people who were voted for actually have no control over the beast that has been created.
It's never going to happen because too many of the people in (1) and (2) of your list are complicit.
And the FBI and NSA have files on the rest...
Not even during 9/11, the most significant event on US soil since Pearl Harbor.
I do not know about that. 9/11 was a shocker to be sure, but Kent State was a real shocker too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
I would also say that the recent revelations about the NSA are more significant than 9/11. Some people died on 9/11. America ceased following its guiding principles when the NSA started violating the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments.
Neil Bush (George's brother) stole 3 trillion dollars from ordinary normal Americans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis ; although it seems Mr Bush was mostly successful removing his name from the scandal. This was worse than 9/11. Yeah, money is just money, so it is not the missing money that is in itself the problem. The real problem is that some people did in fact die from indirect causes relating to this scandal. You can not take 3 trillion dollars out without people killing each other, committing suicide, abusing their children (who grow not respecting others), etc. This was a true national tragedy.
TL;DR, you, and others, put way too much emphasis on the events of September 11th 2001.
Putting root servers and standards and such under UN control will NOT stop any sort of mass surveillance, so again, this is a stupid idea for all the reasons previously given.
The oh-so-obvious solution is to show GMT! Maybe add in a few other clocks showing London (don't laugh), Tokyo, Berlin, etc.
These technical limitations are the only thing keeping some semblance of practical privacy... for now.
Throughout all of time, technical limitations were the only things guaranteeing our liberty and privacy from any/all governments.
As a rule, the only limit to the amount of control an entity will exert will be exclusively defined by technical limitations. Legal, moral, and psychological limitations will all be bypassed sooner or later.
Hard resets of government power need to be enshrined permanently in all "constitutions"... In theory, the second Amendment is the hard reset enshrined in our Constitution; however, that should only be a failsafe, not an actual reset mechanism.
You do not say what your place is in the organization. This will directly affect what the proper answer is to your query. From the hip, it sounds like you are some IT minion and that you are attempting to vastly overstep your authority.
If you are management and have the authority to make such a decision, you merely tell the network folks to set up a rule for the firewall or router to simply disallow access except at specified times. This rule could be automated easily but your network folks will know how to do that.
If you are not management, you do whatever management tells you to do. You could tell them, "I told you so", if you had warned them about this possibility previously but that lacks political/social grace. Ideally speaking, you would bring up the possibility of restricting access for the vendor to management. If you are an IT minion asking how to implement this, you are in the wrong business.
Regardless, everything that happens, occurs because management set it up that way. It is not your place to steer the business. At best, it is your place to make recommendations... but even then, management is not required to follow your recommendations. If management is doing stupid things that you know will make the company crash, your only recourse is to start looking for another job before your current one goes away due to the company failing. Correct and incorrect is defined purely by management.
Good luck.