A conspiracy theory is a theory that relies on the existence of a conspiracy to keep it quiet.
Eh? Keep what quiet? The theorising or the criminality of the event?
And not one of these people would gladly go to the press to guarantee their name going down in history as the one who blew the lid off the conspiracy?
Rather than talk of a conspiracy, the parent had the good sense to reference organised propaganda efforts that receive a lot of investment. Awareness of these should be mandatory; here in the UK we had the discovery of IRD to illuminate this murky area a little. At least you have an FOIA act that works.
Or wait, the media is in on it too! See the problem with suggesting conspiracies? Either everyone is in on it, or the people in on it at are the best liars and deceivers known to mankind.
Great little bit of black-and-white thinking, and of pushing words into the parent's mouth. Yes people are difficult to predict and control, er, unless they have some immense disadvantage placed on behaviour that steps out of line. There are oodles of testimonies from insiders about how controlled the news media is. Amazon is your friend.
I, personally, doubt that such a large-scale event could be pulled off without some mistake or someone defecting and offering proof to the media.
I haven't a damn clue how it happened, but the whole mess stinks to high heaven. You only have to read Dan Hopsicker's work to see that much. A lot more than what we're aware of surrounds 9/11 - certainly a lot more than most people, myself included, are comfortable with.
Power isn't a "technology" as such but it is possibly the fundamental property determining who does what in this world. All the TED attendees are people with substantial personal power, and they are in a unique position to appreciate the power relations at play in the world today.
The most interesting thing I heard from Obama's campaign was the "Google for Government" initiative, which allows the public to use search technology to track how tax dollars are spent. Offering this kind of transparency through technology is a great example of cutting-edge use of a not-so-cutting-edge technology, and if implemented well, substantially changes the power relations at play in the US.
I haven't got any ideas of other people doing similar work but if we are serious about steering the planet on it's optimal course we have to give exposure to people who want to use technology to break down long-held power structures. An example is the WITNESS initiative that places camcorders into the hands of people under oppression. TED gave this a platform back in 2006 here.
How on Earth did this "plan" make it through to the execution phase? I'm sorry Sky techs, but when I read this, sitting as I am on a Sunday with nothing in particular taking up my sweet time, all I could think was "Ha ha...ha ha haa haaaaaaaa you poor bastards!"
All I can imagine is that nobody who was anywhere near reality was behind this...i.e. consultants. Anyone with a passing regard for humans using computers would have come up with something better.
I can't believe the idiots on here rattling on like they know better than the good folks at Nintendo when it comes to deciding what the damn console is called. Yes, I was shocked, but the name screams future.
Even the logo movie is cool - just using the two little i's with basic audio to convey a general idea of 'play'. The message is - on this console, we're going to get back to the essence of games.
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Just use
$ source ~/.bash_profile
instead of logging out and in again. This reads the file into the current shell's environment.
"...under its Microsoft Permissive License..."
love the way Microsoft kinda imply that open source is so slutty...
Eh? Keep what quiet? The theorising or the criminality of the event?
Rather than talk of a conspiracy, the parent had the good sense to reference organised propaganda efforts that receive a lot of investment. Awareness of these should be mandatory; here in the UK we had the discovery of IRD to illuminate this murky area a little. At least you have an FOIA act that works.
Great little bit of black-and-white thinking, and of pushing words into the parent's mouth. Yes people are difficult to predict and control, er, unless they have some immense disadvantage placed on behaviour that steps out of line. There are oodles of testimonies from insiders about how controlled the news media is. Amazon is your friend.
I haven't a damn clue how it happened, but the whole mess stinks to high heaven. You only have to read Dan Hopsicker's work to see that much. A lot more than what we're aware of surrounds 9/11 - certainly a lot more than most people, myself included, are comfortable with.
Power isn't a "technology" as such but it is possibly the fundamental property determining who does what in this world. All the TED attendees are people with substantial personal power, and they are in a unique position to appreciate the power relations at play in the world today.
The most interesting thing I heard from Obama's campaign was the "Google for Government" initiative, which allows the public to use search technology to track how tax dollars are spent. Offering this kind of transparency through technology is a great example of cutting-edge use of a not-so-cutting-edge technology, and if implemented well, substantially changes the power relations at play in the US.
I haven't got any ideas of other people doing similar work but if we are serious about steering the planet on it's optimal course we have to give exposure to people who want to use technology to break down long-held power structures. An example is the WITNESS initiative that places camcorders into the hands of people under oppression. TED gave this a platform back in 2006 here.
How on Earth did this "plan" make it through to the execution phase? I'm sorry Sky techs, but when I read this, sitting as I am on a Sunday with nothing in particular taking up my sweet time, all I could think was "Ha ha...ha ha haa haaaaaaaa you poor bastards!"
All I can imagine is that nobody who was anywhere near reality was behind this...i.e. consultants. Anyone with a passing regard for humans using computers would have come up with something better.
I can't believe the idiots on here rattling on like they know better than the good folks at Nintendo when it comes to deciding what the damn console is called. Yes, I was shocked, but the name screams future.
Even the logo movie is cool - just using the two little i's with basic audio to convey a general idea of 'play'. The message is - on this console, we're going to get back to the essence of games.
I'm in.