I think the New Yorker knows its a good idea to find a way to put Apple on the cover. As I recall, Apple has been a dominant advertising presence for a while. I think its a good bet they can afford most print media these days, therefore Apple is good butt to kiss if you have an infinite supply of advertising to sell. There is only one front page, and the New Yorker gives it to them in good faith....like taking out a hot date for a night on the town.....after all its the Big Apple. Now they can approach Microsoft to buy space in order to square off with their enemy....maybe they get a prominent placement too. Microsoft will try to remind us we can't afford an Apple or else we would have bought it by now. The sky is falling down so don't buy anything you can't afford! Apple has placement at the front of the Good Book as well, and temptation remains the theme. How fitting to grab this cover, and at viral media prices: free. Take a bite says the serpent to Eve....
Trace amounts of cocaine were found in the German parliament toilets.
Ergo, German politicians should be banned from Germany.
....However, in an effort to reform rather than banish, the German politicians will only be banned from toilets. Hopefully, they will learn from this experience to minimize on the shit they spew in public.
I am so pissed about this I could just let loose on everything. Is that how its gonna be? No more prissy plots pander to pious public pissing people. Pppfff!
I went from Verizon to Sprint. Now I hate them both and will never do business with them again. Like AT&T, Comcast, and the rest of the monopolies I have to deal with because extortion is their marketing strategy. So now I have NO CELL PHONE at all.
I sure showed them!!
Now I feel like I'm Amish and should ride a horse and buggy to my next job interview....jeez, sorry...I only have one phone #, and its always ringing in the same place, all alone in a room without me. Like a Cave Man.
The good news is I don't have to screen my messages anymore, I don't have to pay for minutes that you already paid for five times, and my sperm count is rising.... the brain tumor has gone away.... and I can drive a car without crashing.
Can you hear me now? Nope. I'm all alone. And Sprint and Verizon and Metro and AT&T can just KMA and sell someone else their overpriced electrons and imaginary minutes.... But not me!!.... Not in my cave!!.... Not in the previous century, not at that price... I'd rather talk to people I can see. I may be a dinosaur, but I wasn't born.... recently!.
I agree large companies and large governments are equally untrustworthy because our own self interest is never served by the interest of others, particularly in mass, and completely unwilling to deal with individuals that do not conform to the status quo. Whether they serve the shareholder or the taxpayer, in theory, they really are self serving first. One is run by a few greedy cheapskates that only want profit, the other is run entirely by a bunch of government employees who don't ever want to look for another job ever again. No wonder we feel screwed by both...that's what people do really well in any country at any time in history no matter what they say - its that old human nature and the simple fact that life and poker are never fair, even if they should be. So, I agree, we should nuke Verizon, whack the fed, spank the legal system, punish the pharmaceutical company, the cops, and the courts, then we can eat the rich, blame the poor, lie and steal and pray and cry, and if were lucky, absolutely nothing will be our fault or any different than it was before we arrived. I sure as hell don't know how to connect the dots of common sense to finding a good way to manage the lives of 300 million countrymen and 6 billion earthlings in a way where the golden rule can thrive. Its all about survival and self preservation, and yet its all about sacrifice and cooperation, a perpetual balancing act of the virtues and vices of humans who embody both extremes. My point is that corporations and government can't be trusted any more than any evil scumbag dwarf. If people decide how to run it, then somebody is getting screwed in the deal. I would feel a whole lot better if I was in charge of everything, especially reality, and I just blinked like a genie and then suddenly, everything was perfect, and Verizon was free, and we all sing koom-by-ah at Kwanzaa....but at least I have a good idea, an ideal plan, a great concept......if only I could win that super lotto power ball first, then I'd take care of everything....
....when it comes to configuring a chicks computer, doing her homework, adding memory and all of her favorite MP3's on your dime or time, in exchange for the privileged of breathing in the same room. But only long enough for her to get the goodies and split. Geeks, however, would make really good stalkers who think they are in love and are therefore really good lovers, in their own fantasy. In the land of avatars its still relatively harmless to think the feeling is mutual. But all of that Casanova charm sure looks like something creepy if the non-geek is unaware of the fantasy. Anyway, I suppose call girls and pimps would not necessarily be better lovers, because they gave at the office, but I just can't see how geeks are any more qualified at love than any other career with a bunch of virgin, klingon speaking, brainy types....except for the fact that their desktop is better practice than a titty bar, a porn theater, an adult bookstore and a blow up doll cougar lessons. I suppose the escort thing would be practical training as well, but the only edge geeks have is their extreme appetite and electronic simulation. I wonder if the escorts on craigslist are the ones who say they are the best paying customers...I mean lovers, of any vocation. At least they don't expect freebees like the fuzz, or tie you up like premed students...
Thats correct, I miss the point because there doesn't seem to be one. I suppose I could just move to NK if you think I'll find it there, but its your argument not theirs.
You can pat yourself on the back all day for being better than other people because you cling to your ethnocentric cultural superiority of cold war America, McCarthy, Hoover, Hogans Hero's reruns, and best of all we're always the good guys. NK is a living hell, just like you know and love it - its the good ol days.
Believe me, I'm not trying to convince you to move to NK, as you suggest, I'm just saying the list is arbitrary and seems to reflect US cold war prejudice more accurately than it even substantiates "Electronic Police State" criteria. The four countries on the top of the list are there because why exactly?
What is the metric?
Belarus and NK but not Estonia and Latvia and Ukraine and Bulgaria? WTF? Just make up any ol list for any old reason for all I care, but the only country that we need to fix is our own.
So far, ideology is cheap when its all your own, but I'm convinced people are people everywhere and that North Koreans feel the same way about creepy electronic surveillance as any other people on planet earth.
Since we seem to be the country where all forms of policing has been excessive, particularly electronic, then how is it that tiny Belarus is considered to be next to China and Russia, but Good ol USA never managed to get around to it? Because you say so?
We have more police, more technology, more criminals, prisoners, and felons, more victims, car alarms, phone fraud, identity theft, zombie pcs, wire fraud, etc. etc. than most anywhere on earth so it seems really peculiar to contemplate a list of countries that has absolutely no clear basis of quantifiable fact worthy of mention, and yet it seems to insinuate that our shit don't stink and that we're better because Eurasia is a lousy place to live and we're golden.
Whatever. Think what you like, but I bet you don't have the slightest idea what they think about it in China, NK, Belarus, and Russia. You don't even seem to care. So its pointless to use them as a basis for comparison when you are too ethnocentric to realize people are people. Even in electronic police states with no foil hats
The Prophet George Carlen said all people are either stupid, crazy, or full of shit. At first, he would agree with you about stupidity trumping malice. That's a reasonable assumption before you grow wiser and more cynical and begin to suspect that a great deal of the stupid and crazy behavior is coming from a much larger group of duplicitous twits that play dumb and insane and get away with it because they are primarily full of shit. Without a doubt whatsoever, when you add up the facts of this story, everyone is completely full of shit. Even stupid and crazy people would not pursue the inept legal contest, bad press, and controversial topic unless they had ulterior motives shrouded in the full of shiftiness of fake idiotic lunacy.
My sense is that management was dying to fire this guy all along, they never liked him, or his politics, and youthful stride, and they just wait for an opportunity - any diversion will due. That would be grounds for dismissal as well as a red herring that would divert attention from the real motives of those in charge who are full of shit, and hide behind stupid, insane or crazy corporate and legal drama. Its a "slight of hand" diversion, but it seems a better explanation as to how the events would unfold in such ludicrous fashion. It looks really stupid when hacking and porn are legally indistinguishable, but after a while you figure it out and see the light: Stupid is a great way to hide in plain sight. And crazy is also equally disguised, undermined, and underestimated. Genuinely stupid lunatics would deny such a character defect. Only a bullshitter would perpetuate the lie and volunteer to wear the dunce cap. This way it looks like a case of how the law is a blunt instrument, not a surgical scalpel, and it often bludgeons the middle ground with a club. When a hostile environment manages to work to managements advantage, then they're not as stupid as they look. Its just really hard not to get attached to the idea than only a moron could act so idiotically.
Its interesting that top four list: China, North Korea, Belarus, and Russia looks more like a John Birch Society hangover from the Korean War than anything else. Evil commie pinko Maoist spies with technosplat. My sense is that the story presumes that our foreign policy rivals are intrinsically fascist, rogue, authoritarian, cyber-nazis and therefore are evil in most ways imaginable. I suppose you could objectively evaluate police methods by how much time and money is spent at radio shack, but even that is meaningless. Lets get real: all law enforcement world wide will find crime and criminals with electronics. Thats really deep. So I guess we're really just making a list of contemporary political and social rivals to the old cliche of a 20th century US foreign policy, ideologies and cultural prejudice. Its like central casting wants to make a spy movie and we all know just what the bad guys look like. So take it from America, only our enemies are a menacing threat to civil liberties....after all, they are on the opposite side of the planet. So we should worry more about that then our own heavy handed treatment of ourselves. The NSA and CIA aren't police. They're special agents and everything they do with bugs and spyware is endorsed by God and AT&T. Every country should put themselves number one on their list since only local jurisdiction matters, in reality. After all, the evil commie spies like secret Russian Police aren't here to stop outlaws or wholesale crime that is born in the usa. Those beady little eyes give em away every time.....
I wonder how much better it will be after it doubles its wad. I'd rather pay $10 bucks for twice the gross income and get more bang for my bowels. If "star trek" spent 30 million dollars just on advertising and promotional spectacle would great film be any less newsworthy? Can the movie be better than its promotional campaign and still sell as well as total crap? If you can sell crap for 75 million in a week, why waste a good movie ? If you really want news headlines sell garbage instead, like AIG and Chevy. Any idiot can pay to enjoy an excellent film or wait till its free on cable. It takes real commitment to be number one to eat number two and enjoy shit before someone steps in it and ruins the magic.
I am beginning to think that Gates Foundation will have a better chance of irradiating malaria in Africa, than Microsoft does at ever satisfying its customers. It seems there is more effort placed in resisting the will of sensible expectations of interoperability and open source creative common, community code. The stupidity of this constant resistance persists like the yellow fever treadmill. This attitude is fueling anti trust lawsuits, Open source application standards, like open office. This futility is just senseless as the African Malaria epidemic that the Gate's Foundation vows to end. Maybe if we can cure all parasitical bloodsucking behavior we can move forward without getting tangled up in repeating the same mistakes and wasted opportunities.
I understand that these three social networking applications are popular, but I am already burning out on this trend. I was an early adopter but find myself just wanting to take a step back from the herding masses and regroup. I wonder if these proprietary web applications are really worthy of such Presidential endorsement. Perhaps we're just piling on the craze with Ellen, Ashton, and Oprah, as well as every texting teen and their friends with benefits. Its a good thing to see alternatives to newspaper start taking a hold, but I can't help but feel a little bit as though "we the sheeple" are being herded into this arrangement. Like cellular, its promise comes at a price, and with a commitment to corporate media monoliths. And I just hate feeding corporations in order to participate in the public community. I'll be interested to see how the White House copes with this bold dive into the national social networking media blast.
Its still possible to counterfeit new fancy passports with biometric data. But RFID is ideal for accurate accounting. Its like a credit card, and its a wonderful tool for preparing accurate inventories and logs. I think that governments want this so its easier to CHARGE FEES AND TAXES. Also, as a master key reference for an individual and all relative data, address, gps, cell, drivers license, credit cards, mortgage, etc. I honestly believe that its an attempt to authoritatively get an iron grip on to all commerce and financial transactions, down to the monetary system itself. Its virtual wallet and ID and without it you are a prisoner locked out of an identity, civil rights, public access, social services, communications, or monetary transactions. Since its data on a chip that can be scanned without a holders knowledge, it almost makes the individual less necessary to the entire process. Basically, you can just let Big Brother treat you like you are a cell phone, and you'll just get an outrageous billing statement at the end of the month.
We don't need no stinkin' log file! How dare they keep records of everything. AT&T, Verizon and Sprint would never do that! No way! If our telecoms actually kept records they would bill me for every minute I log any time on the network so that they could over charge me. In America, we know how to lie about the truth so we can steal from our customers, and then turn em into the Feds! We better build a bigger wall so their cellular towers don't vector any of our border towns!
Its all the same. Don't get me Wong....I mean Buddhist...... Its just that there's no distinction between human belief systems. Each asshole projects their own personal value judgments and language ambiguous flatulence of their digestive misconceptions. . . Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...hes as big an idiot as that blow up doll in the string theory bikini - the big one the wizard inflated for.... aesthetics. Mockery makes assholes out of atheists and believers alike. Simultaneously we extract true science and logic from our other massive black holes, and yet we fail to see the similarity - The big holes that suck hard: every body has got one, only theirs' is more important. Theirs doesn't stink. They have their head up theirs. Their Big Hole is totally more important the closer you get to it, otherwise its totally hard to see. Black holes, Assholes, Exit Poles, Mythic Roles....their all just opinions.... and everybody, and every single one of you has got one. So, does it really matter that only A-Hole is actually smart enough to be right, and the rest are so stupid they believe exactly the same thing. If that doesn't make a fool out of God's atheism then he has got a bigger existential dilemma than Jean Paul Sartre. Or Gumby! Put that in your pipe hole and smoke it. Orifices !
The cop approaches the motionless car as the driver stares ahead at the traffic light.
"I pulled you over, Sir, because you just sat and stared at the green light"
I'm sorry officer, I must have been in a mouse trance....I thought I was at a Pink Floyd Concert with babes that want me for my shiny aura of mice light.
"Do you have any illegal light or other opened illumination paraphernalia I need to know about? I better not find any any open radiation or phosphorescence.....and sir turn off those headlights and stop drooling rapturously on my flashlight or I'll have no choice but to restrain you with blindfolds and darkness."
"No not three blind mice! Anything, but that!!!
Its weird, since I realize that my fears are misdirected while total creepy lurks in the hearts of shareholders, stalkers, or the obtuse. But lately a great deal of Google beta features are clearly exploiting user input and data profiling. I suppose its good that they do the creepy just to snap us out of our hypnotic stupor and remember that our every keystroke is available to the creep factory. I suppose its like someone digging through your garbage, or like a dog sniffing some poop on the curb. Its just creepy, even if it is "doing no evil" it sure smells funny and I'm glad I didn't step in it. I just wish I could get the taste out of my mouth.
No question that we can't seem to stop the infection of living conscious - its seems like a good idea to get a little more room. "There goes the neighborhood"....perhaps but honestly, in this twisted world of now, I find myself increasingly relieved by as much space exploration as possible. Perhaps a vicarious thrill or indulging the imagination or wishful thinking....or perhaps an innate instinct to survive elsewhere, in a place without human institutions anachronistic and twisted with human error and befuddlement. 'La Tabla Rasa' - a clean slate - for the messy ascent of men - Like the hope of a new world, that became the discovery of new continents, before it turns into self centered and self destructive human nature infusing itself into society.
Whatever....beam me up Scotty....my unemployment runs out in a few weeks and frankly my stimulus package needs a little more stimulatin' or at least I desire a much broader approach to the possibilities of living life in pursuit happiness outside the realm of the obvious, bleaker possibilities....
Slashdot Mirror
I think the New Yorker knows its a good idea to find a way to put Apple on the cover. As I recall, Apple has been a dominant advertising presence for a while. I think its a good bet they can afford most print media these days, therefore Apple is good butt to kiss if you have an infinite supply of advertising to sell. There is only one front page, and the New Yorker gives it to them in good faith....like taking out a hot date for a night on the town.....after all its the Big Apple. Now they can approach Microsoft to buy space in order to square off with their enemy....maybe they get a prominent placement too. Microsoft will try to remind us we can't afford an Apple or else we would have bought it by now. The sky is falling down so don't buy anything you can't afford! Apple has placement at the front of the Good Book as well, and temptation remains the theme. How fitting to grab this cover, and at viral media prices: free. Take a bite says the serpent to Eve....
Trace amounts of cocaine were found in the German parliament toilets.
Ergo, German politicians should be banned from Germany.
I am so pissed about this I could just let loose on everything. Is that how its gonna be? No more prissy plots pander to pious public pissing people. Pppfff!
I went from Verizon to Sprint. Now I hate them both and will never do business with them again. Like AT&T, Comcast, and the rest of the monopolies I have to deal with because extortion is their marketing strategy. So now I have NO CELL PHONE at all.
I sure showed them!!
Now I feel like I'm Amish and should ride a horse and buggy to my next job interview....jeez, sorry...I only have one phone #, and its always ringing in the same place, all alone in a room without me. Like a Cave Man.
The good news is I don't have to screen my messages anymore, I don't have to pay for minutes that you already paid for five times, and my sperm count is rising.... the brain tumor has gone away.... and I can drive a car without crashing.
Can you hear me now? Nope. I'm all alone. And Sprint and Verizon and Metro and AT&T can just KMA and sell someone else their overpriced electrons and imaginary minutes.... But not me!!.... Not in my cave!!.... Not in the previous century, not at that price... I'd rather talk to people I can see. I may be a dinosaur, but I wasn't born.... recently!.
Just say no to cellular phone companies.
I agree large companies and large governments are equally untrustworthy because our own self interest is never served by the interest of others, particularly in mass, and completely unwilling to deal with individuals that do not conform to the status quo. Whether they serve the shareholder or the taxpayer, in theory, they really are self serving first. One is run by a few greedy cheapskates that only want profit, the other is run entirely by a bunch of government employees who don't ever want to look for another job ever again. No wonder we feel screwed by both...that's what people do really well in any country at any time in history no matter what they say - its that old human nature and the simple fact that life and poker are never fair, even if they should be. So, I agree, we should nuke Verizon, whack the fed, spank the legal system, punish the pharmaceutical company, the cops, and the courts, then we can eat the rich, blame the poor, lie and steal and pray and cry, and if were lucky, absolutely nothing will be our fault or any different than it was before we arrived. I sure as hell don't know how to connect the dots of common sense to finding a good way to manage the lives of 300 million countrymen and 6 billion earthlings in a way where the golden rule can thrive. Its all about survival and self preservation, and yet its all about sacrifice and cooperation, a perpetual balancing act of the virtues and vices of humans who embody both extremes. My point is that corporations and government can't be trusted any more than any evil scumbag dwarf. If people decide how to run it, then somebody is getting screwed in the deal. I would feel a whole lot better if I was in charge of everything, especially reality, and I just blinked like a genie and then suddenly, everything was perfect, and Verizon was free, and we all sing koom-by-ah at Kwanzaa....but at least I have a good idea, an ideal plan, a great concept......if only I could win that super lotto power ball first, then I'd take care of everything....
....when it comes to configuring a chicks computer, doing her homework, adding memory and all of her favorite MP3's on your dime or time, in exchange for the privileged of breathing in the same room. But only long enough for her to get the goodies and split. Geeks, however, would make really good stalkers who think they are in love and are therefore really good lovers, in their own fantasy. In the land of avatars its still relatively harmless to think the feeling is mutual. But all of that Casanova charm sure looks like something creepy if the non-geek is unaware of the fantasy. Anyway, I suppose call girls and pimps would not necessarily be better lovers, because they gave at the office, but I just can't see how geeks are any more qualified at love than any other career with a bunch of virgin, klingon speaking, brainy types....except for the fact that their desktop is better practice than a titty bar, a porn theater, an adult bookstore and a blow up doll cougar lessons. I suppose the escort thing would be practical training as well, but the only edge geeks have is their extreme appetite and electronic simulation. I wonder if the escorts on craigslist are the ones who say they are the best paying customers...I mean lovers, of any vocation. At least they don't expect freebees like the fuzz, or tie you up like premed students...
Thats correct, I miss the point because there doesn't seem to be one. I suppose I could just move to NK if you think I'll find it there, but its your argument not theirs. You can pat yourself on the back all day for being better than other people because you cling to your ethnocentric cultural superiority of cold war America, McCarthy, Hoover, Hogans Hero's reruns, and best of all we're always the good guys. NK is a living hell, just like you know and love it - its the good ol days. Believe me, I'm not trying to convince you to move to NK, as you suggest, I'm just saying the list is arbitrary and seems to reflect US cold war prejudice more accurately than it even substantiates "Electronic Police State" criteria. The four countries on the top of the list are there because why exactly? What is the metric? Belarus and NK but not Estonia and Latvia and Ukraine and Bulgaria? WTF? Just make up any ol list for any old reason for all I care, but the only country that we need to fix is our own. So far, ideology is cheap when its all your own, but I'm convinced people are people everywhere and that North Koreans feel the same way about creepy electronic surveillance as any other people on planet earth. Since we seem to be the country where all forms of policing has been excessive, particularly electronic, then how is it that tiny Belarus is considered to be next to China and Russia, but Good ol USA never managed to get around to it? Because you say so? We have more police, more technology, more criminals, prisoners, and felons, more victims, car alarms, phone fraud, identity theft, zombie pcs, wire fraud, etc. etc. than most anywhere on earth so it seems really peculiar to contemplate a list of countries that has absolutely no clear basis of quantifiable fact worthy of mention, and yet it seems to insinuate that our shit don't stink and that we're better because Eurasia is a lousy place to live and we're golden. Whatever. Think what you like, but I bet you don't have the slightest idea what they think about it in China, NK, Belarus, and Russia. You don't even seem to care. So its pointless to use them as a basis for comparison when you are too ethnocentric to realize people are people. Even in electronic police states with no foil hats
The Prophet George Carlen said all people are either stupid, crazy, or full of shit. At first, he would agree with you about stupidity trumping malice. That's a reasonable assumption before you grow wiser and more cynical and begin to suspect that a great deal of the stupid and crazy behavior is coming from a much larger group of duplicitous twits that play dumb and insane and get away with it because they are primarily full of shit. Without a doubt whatsoever, when you add up the facts of this story, everyone is completely full of shit. Even stupid and crazy people would not pursue the inept legal contest, bad press, and controversial topic unless they had ulterior motives shrouded in the full of shiftiness of fake idiotic lunacy. My sense is that management was dying to fire this guy all along, they never liked him, or his politics, and youthful stride, and they just wait for an opportunity - any diversion will due. That would be grounds for dismissal as well as a red herring that would divert attention from the real motives of those in charge who are full of shit, and hide behind stupid, insane or crazy corporate and legal drama. Its a "slight of hand" diversion, but it seems a better explanation as to how the events would unfold in such ludicrous fashion. It looks really stupid when hacking and porn are legally indistinguishable, but after a while you figure it out and see the light: Stupid is a great way to hide in plain sight. And crazy is also equally disguised, undermined, and underestimated. Genuinely stupid lunatics would deny such a character defect. Only a bullshitter would perpetuate the lie and volunteer to wear the dunce cap. This way it looks like a case of how the law is a blunt instrument, not a surgical scalpel, and it often bludgeons the middle ground with a club. When a hostile environment manages to work to managements advantage, then they're not as stupid as they look. Its just really hard not to get attached to the idea than only a moron could act so idiotically.
Its interesting that top four list: China, North Korea, Belarus, and Russia looks more like a John Birch Society hangover from the Korean War than anything else. Evil commie pinko Maoist spies with technosplat. My sense is that the story presumes that our foreign policy rivals are intrinsically fascist, rogue, authoritarian, cyber-nazis and therefore are evil in most ways imaginable. I suppose you could objectively evaluate police methods by how much time and money is spent at radio shack, but even that is meaningless. Lets get real: all law enforcement world wide will find crime and criminals with electronics. Thats really deep. So I guess we're really just making a list of contemporary political and social rivals to the old cliche of a 20th century US foreign policy, ideologies and cultural prejudice. Its like central casting wants to make a spy movie and we all know just what the bad guys look like. So take it from America, only our enemies are a menacing threat to civil liberties....after all, they are on the opposite side of the planet. So we should worry more about that then our own heavy handed treatment of ourselves. The NSA and CIA aren't police. They're special agents and everything they do with bugs and spyware is endorsed by God and AT&T. Every country should put themselves number one on their list since only local jurisdiction matters, in reality. After all, the evil commie spies like secret Russian Police aren't here to stop outlaws or wholesale crime that is born in the usa. Those beady little eyes give em away every time.....
I wonder how much better it will be after it doubles its wad. I'd rather pay $10 bucks for twice the gross income and get more bang for my bowels. If "star trek" spent 30 million dollars just on advertising and promotional spectacle would great film be any less newsworthy? Can the movie be better than its promotional campaign and still sell as well as total crap? If you can sell crap for 75 million in a week, why waste a good movie ? If you really want news headlines sell garbage instead, like AIG and Chevy. Any idiot can pay to enjoy an excellent film or wait till its free on cable. It takes real commitment to be number one to eat number two and enjoy shit before someone steps in it and ruins the magic.
I am beginning to think that Gates Foundation will have a better chance of irradiating malaria in Africa, than Microsoft does at ever satisfying its customers. It seems there is more effort placed in resisting the will of sensible expectations of interoperability and open source creative common, community code. The stupidity of this constant resistance persists like the yellow fever treadmill. This attitude is fueling anti trust lawsuits, Open source application standards, like open office. This futility is just senseless as the African Malaria epidemic that the Gate's Foundation vows to end. Maybe if we can cure all parasitical bloodsucking behavior we can move forward without getting tangled up in repeating the same mistakes and wasted opportunities.
I understand that these three social networking applications are popular, but I am already burning out on this trend. I was an early adopter but find myself just wanting to take a step back from the herding masses and regroup. I wonder if these proprietary web applications are really worthy of such Presidential endorsement. Perhaps we're just piling on the craze with Ellen, Ashton, and Oprah, as well as every texting teen and their friends with benefits. Its a good thing to see alternatives to newspaper start taking a hold, but I can't help but feel a little bit as though "we the sheeple" are being herded into this arrangement. Like cellular, its promise comes at a price, and with a commitment to corporate media monoliths. And I just hate feeding corporations in order to participate in the public community. I'll be interested to see how the White House copes with this bold dive into the national social networking media blast.
Its still possible to counterfeit new fancy passports with biometric data. But RFID is ideal for accurate accounting. Its like a credit card, and its a wonderful tool for preparing accurate inventories and logs. I think that governments want this so its easier to CHARGE FEES AND TAXES. Also, as a master key reference for an individual and all relative data, address, gps, cell, drivers license, credit cards, mortgage, etc. I honestly believe that its an attempt to authoritatively get an iron grip on to all commerce and financial transactions, down to the monetary system itself. Its virtual wallet and ID and without it you are a prisoner locked out of an identity, civil rights, public access, social services, communications, or monetary transactions. Since its data on a chip that can be scanned without a holders knowledge, it almost makes the individual less necessary to the entire process. Basically, you can just let Big Brother treat you like you are a cell phone, and you'll just get an outrageous billing statement at the end of the month.
We don't need no stinkin' log file! How dare they keep records of everything. AT&T, Verizon and Sprint would never do that! No way! If our telecoms actually kept records they would bill me for every minute I log any time on the network so that they could over charge me. In America, we know how to lie about the truth so we can steal from our customers, and then turn em into the Feds! We better build a bigger wall so their cellular towers don't vector any of our border towns!
Its all the same. Don't get me Wong....I mean Buddhist...... Its just that there's no distinction between human belief systems. Each asshole projects their own personal value judgments and language ambiguous flatulence of their digestive misconceptions. . . Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...hes as big an idiot as that blow up doll in the string theory bikini - the big one the wizard inflated for .... aesthetics. Mockery makes assholes out of atheists and believers alike. Simultaneously we extract true science and logic from our other massive black holes, and yet we fail to see the similarity - The big holes that suck hard: every body has got one, only theirs' is more important. Theirs doesn't stink. They have their head up theirs. Their Big Hole is totally more important the closer you get to it, otherwise its totally hard to see. Black holes, Assholes, Exit Poles, Mythic Roles....their all just opinions .... and everybody, and every single one of you has got one. So, does it really matter that only A-Hole is actually smart enough to be right, and the rest are so stupid they believe exactly the same thing. If that doesn't make a fool out of God's atheism then he has got a bigger existential dilemma than Jean Paul Sartre. Or Gumby! Put that in your pipe hole and smoke it. Orifices !
Its as if they had little brains, and are like little people. Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?
Celebrity virus, Survivor HIV, The smallest loser, The amazing erased....
The cop approaches the motionless car as the driver stares ahead at the traffic light. "I pulled you over, Sir, because you just sat and stared at the green light" I'm sorry officer, I must have been in a mouse trance....I thought I was at a Pink Floyd Concert with babes that want me for my shiny aura of mice light. "Do you have any illegal light or other opened illumination paraphernalia I need to know about? I better not find any any open radiation or phosphorescence.....and sir turn off those headlights and stop drooling rapturously on my flashlight or I'll have no choice but to restrain you with blindfolds and darkness." "No not three blind mice! Anything, but that!!!
Me
He does all of his serious crimes on secure lines.
Do dee do dee do - Sinatra
Its weird, since I realize that my fears are misdirected while total creepy lurks in the hearts of shareholders, stalkers, or the obtuse. But lately a great deal of Google beta features are clearly exploiting user input and data profiling. I suppose its good that they do the creepy just to snap us out of our hypnotic stupor and remember that our every keystroke is available to the creep factory. I suppose its like someone digging through your garbage, or like a dog sniffing some poop on the curb. Its just creepy, even if it is "doing no evil" it sure smells funny and I'm glad I didn't step in it. I just wish I could get the taste out of my mouth.
You deserve a raise.
Unless they practice law
No question that we can't seem to stop the infection of living conscious - its seems like a good idea to get a little more room. "There goes the neighborhood"....perhaps but honestly, in this twisted world of now, I find myself increasingly relieved by as much space exploration as possible. Perhaps a vicarious thrill or indulging the imagination or wishful thinking....or perhaps an innate instinct to survive elsewhere, in a place without human institutions anachronistic and twisted with human error and befuddlement. 'La Tabla Rasa' - a clean slate - for the messy ascent of men - Like the hope of a new world, that became the discovery of new continents, before it turns into self centered and self destructive human nature infusing itself into society. Whatever....beam me up Scotty....my unemployment runs out in a few weeks and frankly my stimulus package needs a little more stimulatin' or at least I desire a much broader approach to the possibilities of living life in pursuit happiness outside the realm of the obvious, bleaker possibilities....