Yea, I've noticed that since 9/11. I'm sure the DOHS has input and influence over any script for any film or tv program dealing with "national security". It was like that when Hoover was around.
It's like the 1950's with the threat of Communism around every corner, and how film and television pushed that fear on the American public.
If you question anything, or want to get the real reason decisions are made, then you're a bad guy.
Rational thought and deductive reasoning aren't taught in school, and now we see the consequences, where the younger generations coming up simply tune out all this talk of privacy. They don't have a problem with the NSA, or anyone else, monitoring their every thought, word and deed.
The ultimate irony will be when Orwells 1984 isn't banned, it just won't be read or studied because his vision has come true.
The support I needed wasn't about the game really.
It was the problem many users had running the game once EA made ME a "phone home" game.
I think this was in ME 2?
I would start up the game, get to the login screen and it would show I was connected but would then throw a variety of errors...
I eventually figured out a sort of "dance in a circle backwards during a full moon on a Tuesday" workaround that some on the forums had suggested.
It was bullshit that I couldn't just play the game, that I paid for, because of their ridiculous "always on" krap.
Back when I was playing the Mass Effect series I needed support on a couple of occasions.
I attempted in vain to get assistance via the legitimate support channels.
I quickly found out their "support" isn't worth the time and effort and I was got more help via forums, etc;
I almost made that mistake.
Then I thought I should gather the version info of all my servers and check those against what is ACTUALLY vulnerable, instead of just upgrading to upgrade.
Everytime I go somewhere where there is cable or satellite, it's the same thing, people surf channels.
They can't decide on what to watch.
Then they have their DVR with butloads of crap they didn't want to record, entire series of bizarre, mind-numbing time wasting "programming" that they feel almost like they have to watch them.
I gave up satellite several years ago and haven't looked back. Netflix gives me the interesting, commercial free content of all stripes, and my crystal clear, free, over the air PBS programming gives me all the news and educational programming I could ever need.
Fox News?
CNN?
Who watches that crap?
The only thing, and we all know this, that keeps cable and satellite going is Sports.
Yes, I miss this...
However, I have found ways to work around it, such as sports bars, friends houses and of course, frontrow/firstrow-sports.
I'm also VERY excited to see more culinary beers on the market. I've been brewing beers with grapefruit and tamarind and bananas and cardamom for years, and for awhile, the purist community stuck their nose up at any beer that contained anything more than water, barley, hops and yeast. Not any longer!! Go hogwild, people.
I love good beer and especially good home brewed beer, "craft beer" etc; However, beers with the aforementioned ingredients don't do anything for me. Grapefruit? Cardamon?
I don't think so.
I'm one of those beer purists, and I still love the hoppy beers, the ales, the porters, in their traditional format more than any sort of "Apricot twisted, bird-of-paradise on the half-shell" kind of fu-fu beer.
In a world that seems to be lurching towards greater individual autonomy and personal choice
What utter horseshit:"Individual autonomy and personal choice"?
The food industry has and continues to consolidate, giving food consumers much less actual choice.
Apparently their marketing propaganda has worked...
The "choice" they give us is what they decide.
The fast food industry continues to push the over-eating of meat as "normal" and healthy, which it is not. But it makes them loads of money, which is the driver behind their control of our choice.
This is why I love slashdot. I had no idea Ghostery had such a conflict of interest. Thanks for that info.
From WP:
"Evidon, the company owning Ghostery, plays a dual role in the online advertising industry. Ghostery blocks sites from gathering personal information. But it does have an opt-in feature named GhostRank that can be checked to "support" them. GhostRank takes note of ads encountered and blocked, and sends that information, though anonymously, back to advertisers so they can better formulate their ads to avoid being blocked.[4]"
That, in turn, tells me that that's is the last thing I should do so I leave the page and never go back.
The problem with this is that more and more sites are, as you say, sucking in bits from other domains who in turn suck in bits from other domains. I have been using these sorts of tools for a while now and I can say that I'm seeing more of this type of behavior. It really is reprehensible and cowardly on the part of developers or, pardon my french, whoever the fucking idiot is who has to script/link/script/link the crap out of their site like that.
I've started using FF with privacy tools for most sites and then I'll use Chrome for the occasion when it would take me ten minutes to get a site to work correctly.
Do you agree with the following statement, and would you comment?
Industrial livestock production and the high meat consumption diet of the industrialized world are unsustainable and are causing great damage to the Earths ecosystems,
and that the only real solution being that the amount of meat being consumed must drop considerably.
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Yea, I've noticed that since 9/11. I'm sure the DOHS has input and influence over any script for any film or tv program dealing with "national security". It was like that when Hoover was around.
It's like the 1950's with the threat of Communism around every corner, and how film and television pushed that fear on the American public.
If you question anything, or want to get the real reason decisions are made, then you're a bad guy.
Rational thought and deductive reasoning aren't taught in school, and now we see the consequences, where the younger generations coming up simply tune out all this talk of privacy. They don't have a problem with the NSA, or anyone else, monitoring their every thought, word and deed.
The ultimate irony will be when Orwells 1984 isn't banned, it just won't be read or studied because his vision has come true.
Brilliant!
What about the "War on Terror"?
Were you not paying attention to the last 13 years?
Since it happened in Canada, eh, he'll end up smoking WEED with Ricky and Julien in the little big house.
The support I needed wasn't about the game really.
It was the problem many users had running the game once EA made ME a "phone home" game.
I think this was in ME 2?
I would start up the game, get to the login screen and it would show I was connected but would then throw a variety of errors...
I eventually figured out a sort of "dance in a circle backwards during a full moon on a Tuesday" workaround that some on the forums had suggested.
It was bullshit that I couldn't just play the game, that I paid for, because of their ridiculous "always on" krap.
Back when I was playing the Mass Effect series I needed support on a couple of occasions.
I attempted in vain to get assistance via the legitimate support channels.
I quickly found out their "support" isn't worth the time and effort and I was got more help via forums, etc;
The best post on this thread yet.
Well done.
Google doesn't bias search results.
So I have to use Bing to find good tube amps?
You know you when you're replying to a Coward...
where there are already dozens of ISPs
What is this, 1996?
Who the heck is that?
It's the GEOCITIES for the trench coat mafia stuck in 1998 who can't wait for The Matrix to come out.
I almost made that mistake.
Then I thought I should gather the version info of all my servers and check those against what is ACTUALLY vulnerable, instead of just upgrading to upgrade.
Everytime I go somewhere where there is cable or satellite, it's the same thing, people surf channels.
They can't decide on what to watch.
Then they have their DVR with butloads of crap they didn't want to record, entire series of bizarre, mind-numbing time wasting "programming" that they feel almost like they have to watch them.
I gave up satellite several years ago and haven't looked back. Netflix gives me the interesting, commercial free content of all stripes, and my crystal clear, free, over the air PBS programming gives me all the news and educational programming I could ever need.
Fox News?
CNN?
Who watches that crap?
The only thing, and we all know this, that keeps cable and satellite going is Sports.
Yes, I miss this...
However, I have found ways to work around it, such as sports bars, friends houses and of course, frontrow/firstrow-sports.
I'm also VERY excited to see more culinary beers on the market. I've been brewing beers with grapefruit and tamarind and bananas and cardamom for years, and for awhile, the purist community stuck their nose up at any beer that contained anything more than water, barley, hops and yeast. Not any longer!! Go hogwild, people.
I love good beer and especially good home brewed beer, "craft beer" etc; However, beers with the aforementioned ingredients don't do anything for me. Grapefruit? Cardamon?
I don't think so.
I'm one of those beer purists, and I still love the hoppy beers, the ales, the porters, in their traditional format more than any sort of "Apricot twisted, bird-of-paradise on the half-shell" kind of fu-fu beer.
Can you predict who you will see in the mirror?
Your post made my day! Hilarious.
The problem is that every one of those SUB sticks comes pre-loaded(for your convenience...) with all manner of NSA spyware.
and "Worship Music" is the best thing they've done since "Among The Living".
In a world that seems to be lurching towards greater individual autonomy and personal choice
What utter horseshit:"Individual autonomy and personal choice"?
The food industry has and continues to consolidate, giving food consumers much less actual choice.
Apparently their marketing propaganda has worked...
The "choice" they give us is what they decide.
The fast food industry continues to push the over-eating of meat as "normal" and healthy, which it is not. But it makes them loads of money, which is the driver behind their control of our choice.
This behaviour seems to rapidly expanding
Yes, I have noticed sites I have gone to for years will now not deliver content unless all of their scumbagginess is allowed through...
Bill Hicks quotes on advertising are apropos here.
This is why I love slashdot. I had no idea Ghostery had such a conflict of interest. Thanks for that info.
From WP:
"Evidon, the company owning Ghostery, plays a dual role in the online advertising industry. Ghostery blocks sites from gathering personal information. But it does have an opt-in feature named GhostRank that can be checked to "support" them. GhostRank takes note of ads encountered and blocked, and sends that information, though anonymously, back to advertisers so they can better formulate their ads to avoid being blocked.[4]"
That, in turn, tells me that that's is the last thing I should do so I leave the page and never go back.
The problem with this is that more and more sites are, as you say, sucking in bits from other domains who in turn suck in bits from other domains. I have been using these sorts of tools for a while now and I can say that I'm seeing more of this type of behavior. It really is reprehensible and cowardly on the part of developers or, pardon my french, whoever the fucking idiot is who has to script/link/script/link the crap out of their site like that.
I've started using FF with privacy tools for most sites and then I'll use Chrome for the occasion when it would take me ten minutes to get a site to work correctly.
Do you agree with the following statement, and would you comment?
Industrial livestock production and the high meat consumption diet of the industrialized world are unsustainable and are causing great damage to the Earths ecosystems,
and that the only real solution being that the amount of meat being consumed must drop considerably.
If they don't get the same key grip it won't be canon!
In the second ST movie* he toned it down a lot.
Thats because he just directed and didn't write the script.
Kasdan, you're our only hope...