When did cross-sector Corporations become so buddy-buddy to the point that these ISP's are willing to lose costumers to appease certain Industries?
Probably when The Powers That Be realized that peaceful revolution could be achieved via the internet. Seriously, when people boycott their ISP by terminating their service in protest, those very people have become disconnected with those still connected. A SOPA-style exodus from GoDaddy doesn't work the same way with ISPs because you disagree with their draconian policies.
Oh, that's ripe.. I don't know where you live, but where I do, I have access to one.. maybe two ISPs. However, as I understand it, you wouldn't be able to do that because ISPs would share a blacklist of violators, thus reducing the ability to switch to another provider.
If it's decriminalized, it usually isn't taxed because it's a legal gray-area. From what I understand, it's not legal to grow marijuana it in The Netherlands, but it is legal to sell it in specific areas, such as coffee shops. Alcohol and tobacco were legalized in the USA and taxed because so.
"The Secretary of State of the United States of America hereby requests all whom it may concern to permit the citizen/national of the United States named herein to pass without delay or hindrance and in case of need to give all lawful aid and protection."
So, I guess that clause doesn't apply to citizens within the USA, only outside.
Just like my old.Mac account? That lasted a whole two years before Apple reneged on their initial deal and started charging for the service. Back then, it wasn't easy to archive email, so I lost a lot of personal email and had to tell everyone to use a new eddress. What a pain in the ass that was.
ANd they dont need a warrant to place a GPS on your car if they do it while parked out in the open. The only place they cant do it is in your own garage. Your driveway is however fair game.
Physical textbooks lack portability, durability, accessibility, consistent quality, interactivity and searchability, and they're not environmentally friendly."
I'm not sure what school this guy went to, but we used to have backpacks (portability) when I was in college. The books all lasted really well because I didn't abuse them (durability). I was able to open the cover and read the contents (accessibility). I suppose they all had nice quality paper and printing; but really, how will being an ebook ensure more consistent quality? (consistent quality?). I'm sure some topics would have been more interesting, like Sex Ed, if there were popups that preschool books have, and I'm sure that most of them all had a Table of Contents and/or and Index (interactivity and searchability). Since when were books less environmentally friendly than various metals and other possibly-toxic substances (that are often sent to third-world countries to be discarded)?
What I like about books is they don't need a battery charge to be read and they have wonderful contrast. If you want to make the font bigger, I suggest a magnifying glass or reading glasses.
I don't mind paying for content. I just want to know that I'm not being tracked every time I read whatever book on my Kindle at any given time of the day or change my TV show or even if I rewatched or skipped over a certain commercial. It's one thing to actually pay for the content... It's another to give the providers every frackin metric you'd never even give your friend, much less some corporate monolith that can't even be trusted to properly secure the personal information you gave them to acquire their service in the first place!
Seriously.. if you're gonna track my viewing habits (and maybe my facial expressions and eye movement... someday) then give me the damn content for free... like Nielsen does.
Biometrics; great; Like in Mexico, they will take your hand if you are lucky.
That example is a tad outrageous, as I believe the end goal was an RFID implant. Besides, if you can get their fingerprint, you can make a latex copy. I'm pretty sure that the 'gummy' fingerprint technique can still fool most dermal scanners.
...so instead, there should be some kind of educational standard to vote, which doesn't discriminate based on race or sex, only educational level...
Why stop there? If education is used as a metric to qualify (or disenfranchise) voters, then require basic education limits to serve in a jury. What's next? Maybe a certain education level needs to be attained to drive. Or to use the internet. When does it stop? You have to be a college grad to own a company? Or land?
Honestly, I once pondered that having certain education levels to access certain parts of society might be a good way to solve some problems. That was a brief thought. Some college dropouts went on to be the richest and most-influential people in the world. Limiting peoples' access to parts of the Constitution is something that the 1% does to the rest --Not what the 99% suggests be done to the very same 99%. Creating new social barriers and issues within the 99%, by the 99%, is something that probably makes the top power brokers squeal in delight.
I've come to believe that the real problem is education; specifically, the lack of a good, general education within the American populace. We need a massive reeducation project. Although, considering how school boards make it so difficult for teachers to actually teach, or the bureaucracy-riddled DOEdu and their one-size-fits-all standardization, or the ever-lowering funds actually dedicated to the act of teaching, it would appear that no one really wants an educated populace.
Which networks will air this? All those ones that don't support SOPA?
All those that would accept a big fat paycheck and run the ad for Google's dough before caring about whether or not SOPA would pass. So probably all of them.
Just because you have the money doesn't mean the network will take your ad.
e.g.
ManCrunch SuperBowl Ad REJECTED: Gay Dating Site Ad Denied By CBS (VIDEO)
Wouldn't do any good.. What it NEEDS is a 50MT Thermonuclear device detonated directly over it, of course with ALL 535 inhabitants there at the time..
A device of that size would turn DC into a glass-lined smoking crater, taking care of this out-of-control government...
This blogger does not rise to the level of journalist, because she fails to meet this list of qualifications we expect traditional journalists to have.
As I understand it (oblig IANAL), if you can pass a state bar exam, you are a lawyer in that state. You don't have to prove your education in law, or have affiliation with any recognized lawyers' associations. You just need to prove you know everything you could have learned in law school, but didn't. As it is, you can represent yourself in a court of law and it's a bonus if you actually know the protocol, so you are, for all purposes, a lawyer for yourself (Yes, I know there's a difference between representing yourself versus someone else.)
I need a new sig:
"There are Many Reasons Why I Claim that Kevin Padrick, Obsidian Finance LLC is a Thug, Thief and a Liar.." -Crystal Cox
According to headlines over a year ago, almost a trillion dollars of mineral wealth was 'discovered'. I say 'discovered' because there are some skeptics.
The Liberal Democrats are led by a leader who has said he wants to completely seal the borders, institute a police state, use nuclear weapons in the Caucasus, and reconquer Eastern Europe; the Communists are the kind of Communists that venerate Stalin and long for a return to the 1930's.
OK, I give... what's the _real_ difference between the Liberal Democrats and the Communists?
"The purpose of science fiction isn't necessarily to predict the future, but to sometimes prevent it." I tried searching for the person who (roughly) said that quote. Roughly because it's not verbatim... but you should get the gist of what it represents. I think it was Frank Herbert. After I scanned his Wikipedia page I thought that quote might be spot on. His first writing success, "The Dragon in the Sea", predicted a future of global unrest from the use and production of oil.
Honestly, with the cost of internet (I have only one choice in my city of 200K) Comcast charges me, plus the third-party applications to allow telephone calls to wi-fi devices (skype, talkatone, etc.) and free texting, I will eliminate my cellphone before most other expenses. No, I don't need to be accessible all the time and kind of loathe that aspect of modern society, as of late. If you really want to get a hold of me, you know what to do.......
Geez...who would have ever thought that moving all our manufacturing, especially of IT components offshore would have engendered these types of risks???
And you don't think that if we kept IT component fabrication here that the US government wouldn't be putting their spyware inside? At the rate our government is becoming less-transparent, I'd expect the spy agencies to do such a thing. I remember laughing at that old take-off of the Intel logo that said "Big Brother Inside". That's one reason that opensource hardware is such a cool idea.
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When did cross-sector Corporations become so buddy-buddy to the point that these ISP's are willing to lose costumers to appease certain Industries?
Probably when The Powers That Be realized that peaceful revolution could be achieved via the internet. Seriously, when people boycott their ISP by terminating their service in protest, those very people have become disconnected with those still connected. A SOPA-style exodus from GoDaddy doesn't work the same way with ISPs because you disagree with their draconian policies.
Oh, that's ripe.. I don't know where you live, but where I do, I have access to one.. maybe two ISPs. However, as I understand it, you wouldn't be able to do that because ISPs would share a blacklist of violators, thus reducing the ability to switch to another provider.
turn off Location Services. Plus, I don't like the my phone keeping tabs on my every movement giving that data to who-knows-who.
If it's decriminalized, it usually isn't taxed because it's a legal gray-area. From what I understand, it's not legal to grow marijuana it in The Netherlands, but it is legal to sell it in specific areas, such as coffee shops. Alcohol and tobacco were legalized in the USA and taxed because so.
Inside my passport it says,
"The Secretary of State of the United States of America hereby requests all whom it may concern to permit the citizen/national of the United States named herein to pass without delay or hindrance and in case of need to give all lawful aid and protection."
So, I guess that clause doesn't apply to citizens within the USA, only outside.
That if you have money, guns, and are white, then you have the moral high ground, or at minimal get what you want.
That if you have lawyers, guns, and money, then you have the moral high ground, or at minimal get what you want.
Fixed that for you.
and the free iCloud sharing service
Just like my old .Mac account? That lasted a whole two years before Apple reneged on their initial deal and started charging for the service. Back then, it wasn't easy to archive email, so I lost a lot of personal email and had to tell everyone to use a new eddress. What a pain in the ass that was.
ANd they dont need a warrant to place a GPS on your car if they do it while parked out in the open. The only place they cant do it is in your own garage. Your driveway is however fair game.
No, they do need a warrant. However, the recent SCOTUS ruling was a bit more convoluted than I initially understood when I first heard about it -- http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/scotus-gps-ruling/
You know what I don't mind abandoning privacy but I have to look corporations and governments in the eye and say 'YOU FUCKING FIRST'.
And they reply back, "Setec Astronomy, Force Trek Hum"
Physical textbooks lack portability, durability, accessibility, consistent quality, interactivity and searchability, and they're not environmentally friendly."
I'm not sure what school this guy went to, but we used to have backpacks (portability) when I was in college. The books all lasted really well because I didn't abuse them (durability). I was able to open the cover and read the contents (accessibility). I suppose they all had nice quality paper and printing; but really, how will being an ebook ensure more consistent quality? (consistent quality?). I'm sure some topics would have been more interesting, like Sex Ed, if there were popups that preschool books have, and I'm sure that most of them all had a Table of Contents and/or and Index (interactivity and searchability). Since when were books less environmentally friendly than various metals and other possibly-toxic substances (that are often sent to third-world countries to be discarded)?
What I like about books is they don't need a battery charge to be read and they have wonderful contrast. If you want to make the font bigger, I suggest a magnifying glass or reading glasses.
... they should be looking for localized light displacements from known stellar markers
Perhaps you may be able to divine such instances from this dataset.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/13/2140236/astronomers-release-enormous-database-of-variable-luminosity-celestial-objects
I don't mind paying for content. I just want to know that I'm not being tracked every time I read whatever book on my Kindle at any given time of the day or change my TV show or even if I rewatched or skipped over a certain commercial. It's one thing to actually pay for the content... It's another to give the providers every frackin metric you'd never even give your friend, much less some corporate monolith that can't even be trusted to properly secure the personal information you gave them to acquire their service in the first place! Seriously.. if you're gonna track my viewing habits (and maybe my facial expressions and eye movement... someday) then give me the damn content for free... like Nielsen does.
Biometrics; great; Like in Mexico, they will take your hand if you are lucky.
That example is a tad outrageous, as I believe the end goal was an RFID implant. Besides, if you can get their fingerprint, you can make a latex copy. I'm pretty sure that the 'gummy' fingerprint technique can still fool most dermal scanners.
...so instead, there should be some kind of educational standard to vote, which doesn't discriminate based on race or sex, only educational level...
Why stop there? If education is used as a metric to qualify (or disenfranchise) voters, then require basic education limits to serve in a jury. What's next? Maybe a certain education level needs to be attained to drive. Or to use the internet. When does it stop? You have to be a college grad to own a company? Or land?
Honestly, I once pondered that having certain education levels to access certain parts of society might be a good way to solve some problems. That was a brief thought. Some college dropouts went on to be the richest and most-influential people in the world. Limiting peoples' access to parts of the Constitution is something that the 1% does to the rest --Not what the 99% suggests be done to the very same 99%. Creating new social barriers and issues within the 99%, by the 99%, is something that probably makes the top power brokers squeal in delight.
I've come to believe that the real problem is education; specifically, the lack of a good, general education within the American populace. We need a massive reeducation project. Although, considering how school boards make it so difficult for teachers to actually teach, or the bureaucracy-riddled DOEdu and their one-size-fits-all standardization, or the ever-lowering funds actually dedicated to the act of teaching, it would appear that no one really wants an educated populace.
Which networks will air this? All those ones that don't support SOPA?
All those that would accept a big fat paycheck and run the ad for Google's dough before caring about whether or not SOPA would pass. So probably all of them.
Just because you have the money doesn't mean the network will take your ad.
e.g.
ManCrunch SuperBowl Ad REJECTED: Gay Dating Site Ad Denied By CBS (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/28/mancrunch-superbowl-ad-ga_n_440773.html
Affairs Site Ashley Madison Super Bowl Ad Rejected By Fox
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/20/ashley-madison-super-bowl-rejected-fox_n_811512.html
FOX Sports Rejects Super Bowl Ad Featuring John 3:16
http://www.christianpost.com/news/fox-sports-rejects-super-bowl-ad-featuring-john-316-48759/
There's more, but you get the idea...
Wouldn't do any good.. What it NEEDS is a 50MT Thermonuclear device detonated directly over it, of course with ALL 535 inhabitants there at the time.. A device of that size would turn DC into a glass-lined smoking crater, taking care of this out-of-control government...
Sounds like the fast road to Martial Law to me.
I can just about see the headline Fox News would use: "Hackers Develop Ways TO Defeat SOPA Legislation"
This blogger does not rise to the level of journalist, because she fails to meet this list of qualifications we expect traditional journalists to have.
As I understand it (oblig IANAL), if you can pass a state bar exam, you are a lawyer in that state. You don't have to prove your education in law, or have affiliation with any recognized lawyers' associations. You just need to prove you know everything you could have learned in law school, but didn't. As it is, you can represent yourself in a court of law and it's a bonus if you actually know the protocol, so you are, for all purposes, a lawyer for yourself (Yes, I know there's a difference between representing yourself versus someone else.)
I need a new sig:
"There are Many Reasons Why I Claim that Kevin Padrick, Obsidian Finance LLC is a Thug, Thief and a Liar.." -Crystal Cox
What is there to "win" in Afghanistan?
According to headlines over a year ago, almost a trillion dollars of mineral wealth was 'discovered'. I say 'discovered' because there are some skeptics.
The Liberal Democrats are led by a leader who has said he wants to completely seal the borders, institute a police state, use nuclear weapons in the Caucasus, and reconquer Eastern Europe; the Communists are the kind of Communists that venerate Stalin and long for a return to the 1930's.
OK, I give... what's the _real_ difference between the Liberal Democrats and the Communists?
Q: So what do you get when you put a telecommunications device in your prosthetic?
A: A phoney limb!
Really, thanks folks, I'll be here all week...
"The purpose of science fiction isn't necessarily to predict the future, but to sometimes prevent it." I tried searching for the person who (roughly) said that quote. Roughly because it's not verbatim... but you should get the gist of what it represents. I think it was Frank Herbert. After I scanned his Wikipedia page I thought that quote might be spot on. His first writing success, "The Dragon in the Sea", predicted a future of global unrest from the use and production of oil.
Honestly, with the cost of internet (I have only one choice in my city of 200K) Comcast charges me, plus the third-party applications to allow telephone calls to wi-fi devices (skype, talkatone, etc.) and free texting, I will eliminate my cellphone before most other expenses. No, I don't need to be accessible all the time and kind of loathe that aspect of modern society, as of late. If you really want to get a hold of me, you know what to do.......
Geez...who would have ever thought that moving all our manufacturing, especially of IT components offshore would have engendered these types of risks???
And you don't think that if we kept IT component fabrication here that the US government wouldn't be putting their spyware inside? At the rate our government is becoming less-transparent, I'd expect the spy agencies to do such a thing. I remember laughing at that old take-off of the Intel logo that said "Big Brother Inside". That's one reason that opensource hardware is such a cool idea.
Sex is violence... (repeat ad nauseum) - NIN
Geez, it's like no one really listens to the words anymore