Why the hell are our news sources giving us anything other than news?
Uneducated man on the street opinions (I already know my opinion thanks, and don't trust your statistics on everyone else's), corporate advertising for new products billed as a science and technology item, known political chicanery and fraudulent press statements passed on without any actual scrutiny or independant research, and then a fluff piece to take our minds off it all. Oh how nice, you left some money for me on the bed, and now for sports, traffic and weather.
...for some brief entanglement and possible spooky action. Strangeness and charm a definate plus. Let's take a spin and hit the disco ball together. Must accept me for who I am - interfering observers need not apply. Will give you my specifics when you give me yours.
[The scientists couldn't send paired photons; they're too intimately entangled.]
It'll be a site where people can share information keeping tabs on their politicians and corporations around the world, and in their own region - like craigslist does with user-selectable local areas. It'll have an area where users can share tools and methods they've discovered for dealing with corruption, and ChipIn-style funding for implementing them on a per-case basis. Slashdot _should_ be a place where people can take action on the news items they see as well as read about them, but it isn't at the moment.
If enough people want something strongly enough, it will happen. I think that's practically useful, don't you?
It depends on the person. Some people do - the first part of creating change is generating awareness and interest.
When you say it's a cultural thing, I think you're partially correct. America has become an audience disguised as a culture. What an audience needs is worthwhile content. Having a community of active participants researching, keeping tabs on governments and corporations, sharing insight, accumulating funds and creating a supportive environment is a big part. People need some kind of community like that, which is why I'm currently building a website to create one. We're geeks - we just need to use our powers for good.
Agreed. For example, American corporations were originally granted charters in order to accomplish large goals for the public good, that individual citizens would never have the resources to accomplish. Like constructing the Panama Canal. But corporations could only be "incorporated" as entities when they served the public good. When they don't - or when they completely pillage the public good - they're supposed to have their corporate charter yanked, and thereby be banished screaming back into the void from whence they came.
People have forgotten that.
They have forgotten most of the important stuff. For example, how many people would sit around whining about Bush if everybody knew this? Or this? I've researched the facts in law behind this stuff and it's rock-solid. The folks at SuiJuris.net are researching more on it every day.
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Why the hell are our news sources giving us anything other than news? Uneducated man on the street opinions (I already know my opinion thanks, and don't trust your statistics on everyone else's), corporate advertising for new products billed as a science and technology item, known political chicanery and fraudulent press statements passed on without any actual scrutiny or independant research, and then a fluff piece to take our minds off it all. Oh how nice, you left some money for me on the bed, and now for sports, traffic and weather.
Whatever, Slashdot. What does all this have to do with Iraq?
Al-Qaeda is probably already looking up at the Moon with jihad in its eyes, rubbing its hands and cackling evilly.
...for some brief entanglement and possible spooky action. Strangeness and charm a definate plus. Let's take a spin and hit the disco ball together. Must accept me for who I am - interfering observers need not apply. Will give you my specifics when you give me yours.
[The scientists couldn't send paired photons; they're too intimately entangled.]
...I thought, "Oh. Halliburton must be branching out into storage media."
It'll be a site where people can share information keeping tabs on their politicians and corporations around the world, and in their own region - like craigslist does with user-selectable local areas. It'll have an area where users can share tools and methods they've discovered for dealing with corruption, and ChipIn-style funding for implementing them on a per-case basis. Slashdot _should_ be a place where people can take action on the news items they see as well as read about them, but it isn't at the moment. If enough people want something strongly enough, it will happen. I think that's practically useful, don't you?
It depends on the person. Some people do - the first part of creating change is generating awareness and interest. When you say it's a cultural thing, I think you're partially correct. America has become an audience disguised as a culture. What an audience needs is worthwhile content. Having a community of active participants researching, keeping tabs on governments and corporations, sharing insight, accumulating funds and creating a supportive environment is a big part. People need some kind of community like that, which is why I'm currently building a website to create one. We're geeks - we just need to use our powers for good.
Agreed. For example, American corporations were originally granted charters in order to accomplish large goals for the public good, that individual citizens would never have the resources to accomplish. Like constructing the Panama Canal. But corporations could only be "incorporated" as entities when they served the public good. When they don't - or when they completely pillage the public good - they're supposed to have their corporate charter yanked, and thereby be banished screaming back into the void from whence they came. People have forgotten that. They have forgotten most of the important stuff. For example, how many people would sit around whining about Bush if everybody knew this? Or this? I've researched the facts in law behind this stuff and it's rock-solid. The folks at SuiJuris.net are researching more on it every day.