One would like to hope that this incident might mean that all 3 candidates now fully understand the importance of protecting everyone's privacy, and will ensure that its kept sacrosanct.
It is a very sobering thought. There is no doubt that a present (or very near future) day Anne Frank will get the opportunity to do just that in either the UK or the US.
It's coming. These Fusion centers are just one more step. It's already too late to stop the horrific future we are headed straight for. Nobody's fighting back, nobody is doing anything but shrugging their shoulders and saying "oh look, more fascism". We are resigned to the fact that is is surely coming.
In the US elections this isn't even a topic of discussion. It's not a policy issue, it's not a manifesto issue. In the UK there are not elections for some time, but the UK is already much further on the path to totalitarianism, so who knows if there will even be any more elections there.
Titan is one of the most exciting bodies in our solar system.
Of course, what you say is technically correct. But we really need a different way of expressing it, because when I read: "most exciting bodies in our solar system," I immediately thought: "Jessica Biel".
Aren't muscles constant volume? They expand perpendicular to the direction of contraction.
Yes. "Expand" They keep using that word, but I do not think it means what they think it means. Human muscles contract and relax. Not the same thing at all.
As much as I agree that they're bastards, these guys don't kill for profit (probably because it's not worth the hassle anyways)
Not so sure that's exactly true:
Rock and roll is full of suicides and accidental deaths -- the Record companies have an indirect role in some of those.
The sweatshops where CDs are made, or where tapes were once made, or where records were once made - ill health and poverty surely killed a few in those.
Sony BMG. BMG is Bertelsmann. Bertelsmann were Nazis. They banned unGerman music, they used death camp labor in Auschwitz and other camps. BMG tried to cover this up for DECADES. It was only in the past few years or so that it came out.
The whole Godfather/Sinatra thing.
Finally, the music business is big money. They have proven time and time again to have no morals whatsoever. Do you really, honestly, doubt that a few people haven't been "disappeared" who got in their way?
Those of us who are Gen X were once described as the lost generation. It's interesting that this seems still to be true - especially of corporate culture.
The babyboomers we so rightly despised as teenagers, built the corporations based on naked greed. Yet, now it seems Gen Y -- the gimmegimme generation -- will be far more selfish and despicable than the babyboomers ever were. It's really hard to understand how Gen X, knowing the evils of their parents, didn't instill sort sort of values -- any sort of values at all -- into Gen Y. It seems not to have happened. Gen Y is mostly amoral and self-serving to the bone.
I still feel lost. Rock / hard place. I still feel I must be on the wrong damn planet.
Pray that Gen Z is a vast improvement. Assuming Gen Y doesn't nuke us all into oblivion.
The miniseries and first season of BSG was probably the best science fiction even made for television. But it has declined significantly in quality since then. I'm actually glad this is the last season of the show (since it allows them to give a definite conclusion to the series before it declines even more, and gives them a focus that they lacked in season 3). Making follow-up movies or series is a mistake, and it would only tarnish the name of a once-brilliant series.
Agreed 100%. I gave up watching after the Jimi Hendrix jumping the shark moment. It had been significantly declining since the end of the second season, but that moment was one of the most awful I've ever seen in any Sci-Fi TV show - it made Spock's Brain look plausible.
The only advantage of a prequel is that might actually give them the opportunity to address the MASSIVE plot holes. New show runners, ones who have vision and can drive a story forward with momentum, ones who understand the rhythm and cadence of a story arc, are must-hires though. The current show runners are the absolute undoubted cause of the poor quality of BSG.
Let's see the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Shouldn't we call it the Commonwealth Cyber Crime Working Group?
It's been a while since the United States was part of the Commonwealth. There was a tea party, remember? However, you could consider it an IngSoc Cyber Crime Working Group, or an Oceania one. That would be accurate on more than one level.
The only laws we really need relating to this are laws that protect us from our "protectors". Not likely to happen though. 2+2=5
instead what you do is you build proxy servers, ip obfuscators, p2p web traffic redirectors, content caching, etc., etc.: you wage war with the great firewall with china, you smuggle content around it, you render all of the technocrat's efforts to screen what chinese citizens see fruitless and pointless and a joke
Great post. And quite correct. The above quote is important, and those that have the ability need to do just that. Bear in mind that such things may be happening in your own country before long. i.e. if you live in the UK or the US this kind of firewall/censorship is not impossible, in fact it's very likely to happen sooner than you think.
Normally you'd expect companies and the people who run them to have enough of a moral backbone that they don't need external input on things like this.
You would expect it. I would expect it. However, welcome to the real Earth, where this doesn't happen. I think it may have once, perhaps the great Quaker companies of the 19th Century. These days, running a corporation is:
synonymous with greed
abusing stats to prove your point and cover your ass and brand.
abusing the same stats to ensure Pareto Optimality (i.e. that 20% of your customers are dissatisfied, but you do not need to care.)
comparing your firm to your competitors such that mediocrity is ensured and the status quo is maintained -- of course you call this best practice, and many believe you, but it's exactly the opposite.
???
Profit!
While the law ensures that no one individual is held accountable for the actions of a corporate committee, the above will never change. If you have any ethics at all, you will not last long at any corporation.
Mod parent up - seriously, as a brit, it's NOT a troll. It's actually funny, insightful and factually accurate. UK National Health Service dentistry is a bad as it gets.
If one takes the British position that 'man has no business in space' then there isn't a point to sending robots beyond geostationary orbit either. The whole point of sending robots is that they are cheaper and more expendable to send than humans, thus they are good for the early scouting missions. But if humans aren't eventually going, what is the freaking point?
Should Brits go into space though? As one, I question the relevance of the UK in today's World. The Sun has set on the Empire and is now setting on democracy too. The UK is a formerly great nation now controlled by incompetent, treacherous politicians, and its populace of obese, selfish, lazy, ignorant, gimme-gimme drunkards are manipulated by the media of Rupert Murdoch to obsess with security, celebrity and pedophiles.
While space -- sans craft or suit -- might be a good place for some of them, the future of the human race is best preserved by ensuring the majority of Brits stay terribly firmly on Terra Firma.
Probably the only reason the UK Politburo has changed its mind on this is so they can install security cameras on a satellite somewhere to keep yet more of the population under close control.
Instead of Babyboomers vs GenX, we now have GenX vs Millennials (let us pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that this lame term dies with this article). Yes, there's some new fangled technology thrown in as a MacGuffin, but essentially this is just: "oh there's a generation gap".
I don't see how we continue to support the olympics in such a country. It's not that they're communist. It's not that they're corrupt. It's that they're against the very fundamental freedoms that the olympics represents.
This is true. However, short of having the Olympics in Scandinavia every time, it's really hard to see where better alternatives exist. The next Olympics are in London. The UK has more breaches of the right to privacy than any other country on Earth. Theoretically it has a free press -- but only theoretically -- the BBC is governement own and News Corp Internation owns in full or part almost everything else.
It would be ironic if China were to boycott the UK for just that reason -- but in many ways they would have every right to do so.
If everyone would just focus on fixing the corruption in their own governments, rather than name-calling other countries, the World would be a much better place. Forget Eastasia, lets focus on the real enemies within Oceania.
That will make sense once there's decent quality (and non-copyright infringing) material at a much higher resolution -- we are several years away from that being YouTube.
Although, I guess it's perfect right now if you normally tivo pets skateboarding or teenagers doing retarded things. Or you are one of the very few people who like to see slideshows of lame celebutards to a soundtrack of music that only a 12 year old could possibly enjoy.
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One would like to hope that this incident might mean that all 3 candidates now fully understand the importance of protecting everyone's privacy, and will ensure that its kept sacrosanct.
Yes, I don't think that will happen either.
It is a very sobering thought. There is no doubt that a present (or very near future) day Anne Frank will get the opportunity to do just that in either the UK or the US.
It's coming. These Fusion centers are just one more step. It's already too late to stop the horrific future we are headed straight for. Nobody's fighting back, nobody is doing anything but shrugging their shoulders and saying "oh look, more fascism". We are resigned to the fact that is is surely coming.
In the US elections this isn't even a topic of discussion. It's not a policy issue, it's not a manifesto issue. In the UK there are not elections for some time, but the UK is already much further on the path to totalitarianism, so who knows if there will even be any more elections there.
... for mechaGodzilla.
I suspect I was not alone.
Those of us who are Gen X were once described as the lost generation. It's interesting that this seems still to be true - especially of corporate culture.
The babyboomers we so rightly despised as teenagers, built the corporations based on naked greed. Yet, now it seems Gen Y -- the gimmegimme generation -- will be far more selfish and despicable than the babyboomers ever were. It's really hard to understand how Gen X, knowing the evils of their parents, didn't instill sort sort of values -- any sort of values at all -- into Gen Y. It seems not to have happened. Gen Y is mostly amoral and self-serving to the bone.
I still feel lost. Rock / hard place. I still feel I must be on the wrong damn planet.
Pray that Gen Z is a vast improvement. Assuming Gen Y doesn't nuke us all into oblivion.
Gen Y??? I thought they were called Millennials???
Seriously, stop changing the names, you young whippersnappers! Us Gen-Xers can't keep up.
The only advantage of a prequel is that might actually give them the opportunity to address the MASSIVE plot holes. New show runners, ones who have vision and can drive a story forward with momentum, ones who understand the rhythm and cadence of a story arc, are must-hires though. The current show runners are the absolute undoubted cause of the poor quality of BSG.
The only laws we really need relating to this are laws that protect us from our "protectors". Not likely to happen though. 2+2=5
Bat metaphors... but one louder.
- synonymous with greed
- abusing stats to prove your point and cover your ass and brand.
- abusing the same stats to ensure Pareto Optimality (i.e. that 20% of your customers are dissatisfied, but you do not need to care.)
- comparing your firm to your competitors such that mediocrity is ensured and the status quo is maintained -- of course you call this best practice, and many believe you, but it's exactly the opposite.
- ???
- Profit!
While the law ensures that no one individual is held accountable for the actions of a corporate committee, the above will never change. If you have any ethics at all, you will not last long at any corporation.Mod parent up - seriously, as a brit, it's NOT a troll. It's actually funny, insightful and factually accurate. UK National Health Service dentistry is a bad as it gets.
While space -- sans craft or suit -- might be a good place for some of them, the future of the human race is best preserved by ensuring the majority of Brits stay terribly firmly on Terra Firma.
Probably the only reason the UK Politburo has changed its mind on this is so they can install security cameras on a satellite somewhere to keep yet more of the population under close control.
And then I read that quote. Yep... just another aspirational "news" story. Tag under: "flyingcars", "dukenukemforever" and "robotbulter".
So essentially...
Instead of Babyboomers vs GenX, we now have GenX vs Millennials (let us pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that this lame term dies with this article). Yes, there's some new fangled technology thrown in as a MacGuffin, but essentially this is just: "oh there's a generation gap".
Thanks.
News at 11.
It would be ironic if China were to boycott the UK for just that reason -- but in many ways they would have every right to do so.
If everyone would just focus on fixing the corruption in their own governments, rather than name-calling other countries, the World would be a much better place. Forget Eastasia, lets focus on the real enemies within Oceania.
Well, the parent is already modded right the way up but I'd mod it further if I could. It's an Hall of Fame post.
erm... no, not just yet...
That will make sense once there's decent quality (and non-copyright infringing) material at a much higher resolution -- we are several years away from that being YouTube.
Although, I guess it's perfect right now if you normally tivo pets skateboarding or teenagers doing retarded things. Or you are one of the very few people who like to see slideshows of lame celebutards to a soundtrack of music that only a 12 year old could possibly enjoy.
...640k ought to be enough for everyone.
Can you get one of these from an ad in the back of comic books, along with some sea monkeys?