Yes, because the Bolsheviks were such a force for free speech weren't they? Perhaps if you could offer something new and original that hadn't historically failed, people wouldn't roll their eyes when they came to your post.
The Tories are lockstep in line with New Labor (sic) - they differentiate themselves largely by their position on the foxhunting ban. So our 'elections' are a choice between a totalitarian government and a totalitarian government that gets its rocks off maiming small animals. Go democracy!
See my post below: If they implement a whitelist as opposed to a blacklist, then they can very well decide what can be viewed because your proxy servers will never get a rating.
Of course, it will require so much manpower and money it may bankrupt the country - but that won't be a shock as it seems to me the UK workforce will in a few years be employed solely in checking people aren't peadophiles. Think of the children!
His idea seems to be (although he is being vague about it, probably on purpose) to have ISPs only allow access to sites (in context presumably meaning IP addresses) that have a certificate - one we can only assume has to be applied for.
If this is indeed what he is suggesting, its horrific. For crying out loud, Iran only operates blacklists. We would officially have worse Internet censorship than a nation that executes women for being victims of rape.
The reason totalitarian nations haven't tried a whitelist by the way, is the amount of work it requires. Of course, that may work to the advantage of the UK government. A slow process of being allowed to publish controversial material on the web would prevent non-government groups being able to react quickly to government abuse. By the time your web page got through the government approval (after your personal details have been lost a few times) the controversy has died down, government wins.
I don't want to live in a society where you need to apply to the government for permission to speak.
Whether or not they do homework is down to parents - it isn't something that should be left to software. Computers are great for a child's natural curiosity about the world (up to and included *gasp* nekkid people) and you don't want to stomp on that just because you can't be arsed to raise your kids properly.
Don't know when you last visited England, but at 27 I cannot remember any other kind of socket than the one we have now.
And wants the problem with having a switch next to every socket? It resolves idiotic standby issues by making sure your appliance is actually turned off and also it is safer in case some kid sticks something into the live hole.
Why can't their military development (which these days, is about changing from quantity to quality) feed into their civilian development? They won't follow the Japanese path precisely, but it doesn't mean they won't develop.
Nuclear isn't mature enough yet. Basically, all the good research into making it not spew out tonnes of highly dangerous transuranic waste was killed off by politicians worried about what to do with tonnes f transuranic waste.
Nuclear is a backup plan in my view. Its there to keep the lights on and the electric cars moving during periods of low availability of renewables.
if my computer doesn't response immediately to the device by spewing all my private data? Am I arrested for having a computer too sophisticated for police goons to break into?
A reversal of the Earth's magnetic field is not overdue, because it was never due. The universe hasn't promised in advance to flip the field every n years without fail. People shouldn't still be anthropomorphizing natural phenomena.
The modern man is required to live as the following
Be born
Go to School
Get job
Consume shit
Get married
Consume more shit
Invest in something
Retire
Die
Anything that deviates from ruthless pursuit of the above is frowned upon or banned.
Fortunately, market fundamentalists who want to abolish health care and education for all but the wealthy are on the decline. Take your failed ideology and fuck off to Somalia.
LMAO anarcho-capitalism. Go move to Somalia and experience your ideology first hand.
But to address your points... until quite recently education functioned pretty much as you said it should - and literacy was rare. What you give the sinister label of 'socialised' education is the only system that has even been able to deliver universal or near universal literacy.
So in short a) fuck off to somalia and make a living hijacking ships and b) shut up about education beecause you know nothing about it.
I can second that recommendation. Game theory based on a horribly simplified view of human beings (created by a mad person who later admitted such) has bought nothing good to public services.
There is competition in state schools. It was deliberately and hamfistedly introduced in the 1980s and 90s by rabid free market ideologues who believed you could make anything better with market forces. History has shown they were dead wrong.
Neanderthals had art, and they had burial rituals and also tools. Who says they are dumb? It could've been that Sapiens just wiped them out through aggression.
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Citizens? What a quaint little concept. We are, and always have been, Subjects.
His proposals seem to centre around ISPs censoring based on a whitelist. This is quite possible, although expensive, so don't get comfortable.
Yes, because the Bolsheviks were such a force for free speech weren't they? Perhaps if you could offer something new and original that hadn't historically failed, people wouldn't roll their eyes when they came to your post.
The Tories are lockstep in line with New Labor (sic) - they differentiate themselves largely by their position on the foxhunting ban. So our 'elections' are a choice between a totalitarian government and a totalitarian government that gets its rocks off maiming small animals. Go democracy!
See my post below: If they implement a whitelist as opposed to a blacklist, then they can very well decide what can be viewed because your proxy servers will never get a rating.
Of course, it will require so much manpower and money it may bankrupt the country - but that won't be a shock as it seems to me the UK workforce will in a few years be employed solely in checking people aren't peadophiles. Think of the children!
His idea seems to be (although he is being vague about it, probably on purpose) to have ISPs only allow access to sites (in context presumably meaning IP addresses) that have a certificate - one we can only assume has to be applied for.
If this is indeed what he is suggesting, its horrific. For crying out loud, Iran only operates blacklists. We would officially have worse Internet censorship than a nation that executes women for being victims of rape.
The reason totalitarian nations haven't tried a whitelist by the way, is the amount of work it requires. Of course, that may work to the advantage of the UK government. A slow process of being allowed to publish controversial material on the web would prevent non-government groups being able to react quickly to government abuse. By the time your web page got through the government approval (after your personal details have been lost a few times) the controversy has died down, government wins.
I don't want to live in a society where you need to apply to the government for permission to speak.
Whether or not they do homework is down to parents - it isn't something that should be left to software. Computers are great for a child's natural curiosity about the world (up to and included *gasp* nekkid people) and you don't want to stomp on that just because you can't be arsed to raise your kids properly.
Eventually, wanking gets old and you get down to work. Not wanking, however, can leave you too tense and horny to get owt done.
Am I the only one who thinks that treating teenage sexual curiosity as a crime is damaging?
Don't know when you last visited England, but at 27 I cannot remember any other kind of socket than the one we have now.
And wants the problem with having a switch next to every socket? It resolves idiotic standby issues by making sure your appliance is actually turned off and also it is safer in case some kid sticks something into the live hole.
Why can't their military development (which these days, is about changing from quantity to quality) feed into their civilian development? They won't follow the Japanese path precisely, but it doesn't mean they won't develop.
I love the third one with the airbag...
Nuclear isn't mature enough yet. Basically, all the good research into making it not spew out tonnes of highly dangerous transuranic waste was killed off by politicians worried about what to do with tonnes f transuranic waste.
Nuclear is a backup plan in my view. Its there to keep the lights on and the electric cars moving during periods of low availability of renewables.
if my computer doesn't response immediately to the device by spewing all my private data? Am I arrested for having a computer too sophisticated for police goons to break into?
Non-trivial tasks are almost never forced to be serial. So long as the software industry keeps up, adding cores is fine.
A reversal of the Earth's magnetic field is not overdue, because it was never due. The universe hasn't promised in advance to flip the field every n years without fail. People shouldn't still be anthropomorphizing natural phenomena.
The modern man is required to live as the following Be born Go to School Get job Consume shit Get married Consume more shit Invest in something Retire Die Anything that deviates from ruthless pursuit of the above is frowned upon or banned.
True. Last time we had a Chemist in charge of this country it fucked everything right up.
Fortunately, market fundamentalists who want to abolish health care and education for all but the wealthy are on the decline. Take your failed ideology and fuck off to Somalia.
LMAO anarcho-capitalism. Go move to Somalia and experience your ideology first hand.
But to address your points... until quite recently education functioned pretty much as you said it should - and literacy was rare. What you give the sinister label of 'socialised' education is the only system that has even been able to deliver universal or near universal literacy.
So in short a) fuck off to somalia and make a living hijacking ships and b) shut up about education beecause you know nothing about it.
Independent schools often pay less than state schools. Teachers get jobs there because of the conditions, not the pay.
I can second that recommendation. Game theory based on a horribly simplified view of human beings (created by a mad person who later admitted such) has bought nothing good to public services.
There is competition in state schools. It was deliberately and hamfistedly introduced in the 1980s and 90s by rabid free market ideologues who believed you could make anything better with market forces. History has shown they were dead wrong.
I love how they shamelessly push the France/Russia/China buttons to shut up the public.
Neanderthals had art, and they had burial rituals and also tools. Who says they are dumb? It could've been that Sapiens just wiped them out through aggression.