I believe the poll results, but only for one reason. Because the responses were framed in the context of "to fight terrorism."
I suspect you're right. Poll results are notoriously sensitive to exactly how the questions are phrased. The other problem is that those polled might not understand the entire scope of the program, or have considered how it can be misused and how little protection against misuse there might be (or might not be - that's the charming thing about a secret court). Nevertheless I find the overall results very depressing. IIRC there have been polls from time to time asking people if they believed in the principles of the Bill of Rights (but phrased in such a way that it wasn't obvious they were talking about the Bill of Rights). Unfortunately what many (including me) consider the most important part of American law didn't fare well. Thank goodness the 1st Congress was filled with radicals.
Make no mistake, this poll was engineered to show the end result. The goal of this is to make people who feel disgusted with PRISM to question why they feel disgusted. If no one else does, perhaps they should just let go and consent.
Americans used to be strong and independent people they wanted freedom and were willing "To pay the iron price" for it. Today freedoms are good but the illusion of safety trumps it every time.
I don't think that's true. I think the majority of Americans have always happily gone along with whatever they think the majority are doing.
Sure, and now that the majority of people have no trouble getting food on the table (hungry or not), having a nice car in the driveway (job or not), and don't get pulled over for bribes in the middle of the night (breaking the law or not), there's no reason to fight. Tyranny isn't messing with their ability to watch Honey Boo Boo and buy fuzzy handcuffs for bedroom playtime.
Prohibition. Separate-but-equal. TSA. It's always been fringe elements and radicals that get these policies changed.
With the NSA watching, the heroic radicals of the future better be SPOTLESS. Who would follow, say, someone who's cheated on his wife, or pirated a CD, or made an off-color joke?
As with any male contraceptive, there's one big problem: guys lie.
"Sure, honey, I've got the gold thingies in my balls. Don't worry."
Not a problem. The law is completely stacked against men when it comes to conception. He would be guilty of rape, and be forced by the government to pay child support (even have his wages garnished to accomplish this), with no consideration at all towards his ability to pay.
Consider a woman that lies about conception. He has no parental say regarding abortion, and can still be forced by the government to pay child support. Legalized slavery, a blast from the past.
Wouldn't a mandatory software update require an internet connection? Can't really mandate an update if I don't connect it to the network.
New games could have a firmware update embedded and force you to update the system in order to play it (the Wii did something similar, although it just installed middleware -- think drivers and extra APIs -- that the game can use to interact with the hardware). The online store can refuse connections if you don't have the update, matchmaking servers can refuse service. It might encourage you to pair up your phone or tablet to it for some neat feature, and enable tethering. New Blu-Ray movies can be required, as part of the terms to license the logo and compatibility marks, to have a few tracks set aside for just-in-case-he-runs-it-on-a-PS4. The damn thing isn't even out yet, there could yet be some kind self-expiring key with a requirement to phone home once a year that we don't know about yet.
Hell, with how advanced consoles are these days, they could even embed firmware updates in hardware accessories. Buy a new controller? Plug it in, it mounts the internal flash, updates the system.
Sure this is conjecture and it might be possible for a dedicated person to avoid updating, but they're going to be working off a reduced feature set until they do.
As much as Sony wants to play up the idea that the PS4 is an island onto itself so you can enjoy entertainment on your terms, those days are long gone. Ultimately, as with any closed source anything, you have no way to know what it wants to do and, ultimately, you don't own the hardware.
The best part about those that defend the pulverization of liberty is that they think they're protecting themselves by getting in the good graces. They think they'll still have their nice suburban home and car. They think they'll have their pension waiting for them during their golden years. Hell, they think they'll still be able to eat anything they would like to whenever they want to.
In the end, those in power care nothing about them. They wouldn't think twice before sending you and yours down the river. Even those wearing the jack-boots thinking "if you can't beat them, join them" don't realize they're just cannon fodder.
I don't know how to break it to you, but RP is also the man... just with more folksy marketing.
Looking at how he was treated throughout the Republican primaries, I'm pretty sure he isn't. He was included as the joke candidate, just to see what happened, and quickly had to be put in his place.
If you look at the timeline, as soon as Paul made out surprisingly well in Iowa (3rd, with no clear winner for 1st between Romney and Santorum), the dirty tricks started to make sure his accelerating popularity was diffused and kept him the joke. He was kept out of many debates, with moderators being biased against him on others. Reports of how he did in the polls would be intentionally sorted so that his name was at or near the bottom of the list despite being 2nd or 3rd (or even 1st) in many runs throughout February, or just dropped altogether from the listings. (Imagine the Olympics if they just chose to omit the silver medal winner to avoid him gaining fans!) His campaign was repeatedly stonewalled and shut out, no wonder they ran out of funds and were unable to raise more money.
One could argue that the mass media is a vehicle for the Democratic side in politics, and they wanted a Republican candidate that would be easy to defeat (and, boy, Romney sure was that guy!), but I think a lot of it also can from the Republicans. The idea that they could put someone forward that rejects much of their own platform is completely untenable.
"This was created by the Congress, and if we've made mistakes and we've gotten outside the lane then we're going to get inside the lane. But the consequence of taking these tools away from the American people through their government would be catastrophic."
Do I even need to comment?
Part of the problem is that there is no penalty to legislators and executives for violating the Constitution.
There is. It's called impeachment.
Of course, when everyone that has the power to call for impeachment is also violating their oath, there's no one left to take the corrective action.
This is the mechanism by which corruption is sinister. All it takes is a foothold, and some minor and reasonable bending of the restraints because it's easier than doing things the right way, and over several generations, you get a fully corrupt institution where doing things the right way is unthinkable.
Ordinary people can vote based on principle, instead of party lines, and scare the politicians into shape by the one string they hold: The ability to get reelected.
I know, I know, what sort of fantasy world do I live in?
The problem is that politicians tend to promise one thing during the campaign (or multiple things to different crowds), and then once snugly elected into office, fall back into the same status-quo conventions that they and their predecessors have maintained for decades or centuries. Those who stick to their principles often don't stay in office long, because there are enough people in opposition that they can vote the bastard out of office the next time.
This is pretty much a distillation of the Obama presidency, at it's heart. At least when Bush was elected he was upfront about being a war monger.
"no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation"
It's long past time to divest Judge Rubberstamp of his position. The government does not have probable cause for such a search.
Congressperson Rubberstamp should go as well. Unfortunately, the populace is stupid, and so we will continue to see such erosion of privacy based upon the flimsiest of disingenuous excuses.
It doesn't really matter. The ones doing the actual work of the power wielders didn't affirm an oath, aren't elected into their positions, and are shielded from the consequence of their actions by their association with the government despite the nuremberg defense being considered useless.
The law as government restraint? More like the law tells them where to be careful about getting caught breaking it, and where the law doesn't exist they definitely immediately defy the ideas that the constitution suggests.
One of the key fallacies of the "false flag" is that you can't keep a big operation that kills lots of people secret in a free society.
I changed your quote to match your argument, looks like it was just a typo.
The first step in dismantling that the kind of skepticism that would find "false flag" operations is calling people "conspiracy nuts", which the mainstream is certainly happy doing. It's worth reminding folks that MK-ULTRA was a conspiracy theory too, until, oops, they found some documents that proved it happened and it sudden because simple historical fact.
We're not a free society. If you don't immediately buy in to the official story, you're a crazy. I don't know if it's always been that way (I figure it has been, but I don't know), but a free society would openly discuss these ideas, instead of just playing hear no evil.
In a lot of ways, that's why free speech in the US is still so free. It's because speech has very little power here. Critical thinking has been bred out of society through public schools, so the facts are whatever is written on a paper shoved in front of us by an official.
The funny thing is that if you want to find places where speech still has power, they are nations where speech is very censored, China, Cuba, North Korea, former eastern bloc, because the countrymen have not yet been sufficiently trained to automatically reject things that are uncomfortable to think about, like government torture, murder of citizens, intentional starvation, etc. They are still capable of believing it.
I would love to get one of those change machines, rig it up so I can push a button to simulate a dollar but includes a timer that it will only work once a day. The "out of change" indicator would be pretty useful for indicating that no more can be had that day.
Now to find a good used change machine that doesn't cost more than the cabinet I built.:(
Not to mention that the quarters add an actual value to a loss. When you play on MAME or whatever, you lose nothing by losing. When you played in an arcade, you had a limited supply of quarters, which made game play more important.
1. Build arcade machine 2. Install a coin door and coin mechanism for quarters 3. Install plastic bucket under coin mechanism, fill with fuming nitric acid
Maybe they just want to play the game. If its not 100% accurate, who gives a shit?
It wasn't us who gave the shit.
From the TFS:
Adafruit brings the genuine 'clicky' arcade controls...
If you don't care if it's 100% accurate, you also don't care whether or not it has genuine 'clicky' arcade controls. Which I would then assert that if you either want a genuine experience or not. A genuine facade over inaccurate emulation is not a genuine experience, only the facade of one.
That said, calling 'clicky' arcade controls genuine isn't quite accurate, as it depends on the game. FWIW, the majority of the classic arcade games that the Pi is powerful enough to emulate didn't have clicky microswitch based controls, they had leaf switches.
If you care about performance, you buy Intel. If you care about power consumption, you buy Intel. If you're cheap and don't care about power consumption and want to play games on really low graphics settings, you buy AMD.
You can add "if you care about market conduct, you buy AMD."
Full disclosure, I care about performance, so my plinko chip doesn't fall that far.
Often it seems safety is traded for effectiveness. The best cough suppresent ever is herion, that was its original purposes. Since that was dangerous we moved to codeine, which was not as good but safer. Then we moved to Dextromethorphan, which is safer but works no where near as well and many folks cannot tolerate. Hallucinating while not getting good cough suppression sucks.
So now my options are to be accused of being a drug seeker by my doctor, take more powerful opiates I have left over from other procedures or going to canada and smuggling back Tylenol 3.
Sometimes the old stuff really was better.
It's also the standard of safety and liability. The older stuff could get away with having more side effects and cumulative effects.
Try releasing a drug like heroin today and it won't ever make it on the shelves. The standard then was, hmm.. I think it was zero. No FDA. Let's pretend it does make it on the shelves, the class action lawsuits and sharks-in-suits crowd would have a field day breaking off chunks of your company's finances for themselves.
It's just a different time we're living in, where society won't tolerate any new risks at all, despite all the risky stuff we all already engage in.
Another possiblility is that these countries rely on food shortage to control their citizens and an abundance of food doesn't really serve their purposes. Evil doesn't solely reside in capitalism.
When I think food shortage, I don't exactly think of countries like Japan or those that are part of the EU. Maybe I simply haven't heard of the latest famine in a 1st world nation?
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I believe the poll results, but only for one reason. Because the responses were framed in the context of "to fight terrorism."
I suspect you're right. Poll results are notoriously sensitive to exactly how the questions are phrased. The other problem is that those polled might not understand the entire scope of the program, or have considered how it can be misused and how little protection against misuse there might be (or might not be - that's the charming thing about a secret court). Nevertheless I find the overall results very depressing. IIRC there have been polls from time to time asking people if they believed in the principles of the Bill of Rights (but phrased in such a way that it wasn't obvious they were talking about the Bill of Rights). Unfortunately what many (including me) consider the most important part of American law didn't fare well. Thank goodness the 1st Congress was filled with radicals.
Make no mistake, this poll was engineered to show the end result. The goal of this is to make people who feel disgusted with PRISM to question why they feel disgusted. If no one else does, perhaps they should just let go and consent.
Americans used to be strong and independent people they wanted freedom and were willing "To pay the iron price" for it.
Today freedoms are good but the illusion of safety trumps it every time.
I don't think that's true. I think the majority of Americans have always happily gone along with whatever they think the majority are doing.
Sure, and now that the majority of people have no trouble getting food on the table (hungry or not), having a nice car in the driveway (job or not), and don't get pulled over for bribes in the middle of the night (breaking the law or not), there's no reason to fight. Tyranny isn't messing with their ability to watch Honey Boo Boo and buy fuzzy handcuffs for bedroom playtime.
Prohibition. Separate-but-equal. TSA. It's always been fringe elements and radicals that get these policies changed.
With the NSA watching, the heroic radicals of the future better be SPOTLESS. Who would follow, say, someone who's cheated on his wife, or pirated a CD, or made an off-color joke?
As with any male contraceptive, there's one big problem: guys lie.
"Sure, honey, I've got the gold thingies in my balls. Don't worry."
Not a problem. The law is completely stacked against men when it comes to conception. He would be guilty of rape, and be forced by the government to pay child support (even have his wages garnished to accomplish this), with no consideration at all towards his ability to pay.
Consider a woman that lies about conception. He has no parental say regarding abortion, and can still be forced by the government to pay child support. Legalized slavery, a blast from the past.
Wouldn't a mandatory software update require an internet connection? Can't really mandate an update if I don't connect it to the network.
New games could have a firmware update embedded and force you to update the system in order to play it (the Wii did something similar, although it just installed middleware -- think drivers and extra APIs -- that the game can use to interact with the hardware). The online store can refuse connections if you don't have the update, matchmaking servers can refuse service. It might encourage you to pair up your phone or tablet to it for some neat feature, and enable tethering. New Blu-Ray movies can be required, as part of the terms to license the logo and compatibility marks, to have a few tracks set aside for just-in-case-he-runs-it-on-a-PS4. The damn thing isn't even out yet, there could yet be some kind self-expiring key with a requirement to phone home once a year that we don't know about yet.
Hell, with how advanced consoles are these days, they could even embed firmware updates in hardware accessories. Buy a new controller? Plug it in, it mounts the internal flash, updates the system.
Sure this is conjecture and it might be possible for a dedicated person to avoid updating, but they're going to be working off a reduced feature set until they do.
As much as Sony wants to play up the idea that the PS4 is an island onto itself so you can enjoy entertainment on your terms, those days are long gone. Ultimately, as with any closed source anything, you have no way to know what it wants to do and, ultimately, you don't own the hardware.
Microsoft went for rape jokes during their Xbox presentation.
That's what passes for a rape joke nowadays?
"How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?"
"THAT'S NOT FUNNY"
...why keep the system so hush-hush?
And if the metadata so meaningless, why collect it?
Kieran Healy's article linked from TFS is really really great.
Go lick the jack-boots of your masters elsewhere.
The best part about those that defend the pulverization of liberty is that they think they're protecting themselves by getting in the good graces. They think they'll still have their nice suburban home and car. They think they'll have their pension waiting for them during their golden years. Hell, they think they'll still be able to eat anything they would like to whenever they want to.
In the end, those in power care nothing about them. They wouldn't think twice before sending you and yours down the river. Even those wearing the jack-boots thinking "if you can't beat them, join them" don't realize they're just cannon fodder.
Oh yeah, unsafe driver and betraying democracy... same thing.
Seriously, this guy is a criminal and should face the consequences of his actions.
Betraying democracy? Funny, I don't remember voting on having all my communications intercepted without cause into perpetuity.
To remove kickstarter advertisements, I mean, news articles, from Slashdot?
Maybe they can create a kickstarter.slashdot.org channel so those that like it can keep it (or go right to it), and the rest of us can exclude it.
Can't we just appreciate this post for the blatant slashvertisement it is? There is literally nothing that's special about this game.
We could probably survive without #3 though.
Are you kidding?
Without 3, they could set up camp in your house while they make it a new police headquarters
I don't know how to break it to you, but RP is also the man... just with more folksy marketing.
Looking at how he was treated throughout the Republican primaries, I'm pretty sure he isn't. He was included as the joke candidate, just to see what happened, and quickly had to be put in his place.
If you look at the timeline, as soon as Paul made out surprisingly well in Iowa (3rd, with no clear winner for 1st between Romney and Santorum), the dirty tricks started to make sure his accelerating popularity was diffused and kept him the joke. He was kept out of many debates, with moderators being biased against him on others. Reports of how he did in the polls would be intentionally sorted so that his name was at or near the bottom of the list despite being 2nd or 3rd (or even 1st) in many runs throughout February, or just dropped altogether from the listings. (Imagine the Olympics if they just chose to omit the silver medal winner to avoid him gaining fans!) His campaign was repeatedly stonewalled and shut out, no wonder they ran out of funds and were unable to raise more money.
One could argue that the mass media is a vehicle for the Democratic side in politics, and they wanted a Republican candidate that would be easy to defeat (and, boy, Romney sure was that guy!), but I think a lot of it also can from the Republicans. The idea that they could put someone forward that rejects much of their own platform is completely untenable.
let's quote Sen. Lindsey Graham
"This was created by the Congress, and if we've made mistakes and we've gotten outside the lane then we're going to get inside the lane. But the consequence of taking these tools away from the American people through their government would be catastrophic."
Do I even need to comment?
Part of the problem is that there is no penalty to legislators and executives for violating the Constitution.
There is. It's called impeachment.
Of course, when everyone that has the power to call for impeachment is also violating their oath, there's no one left to take the corrective action.
This is the mechanism by which corruption is sinister. All it takes is a foothold, and some minor and reasonable bending of the restraints because it's easier than doing things the right way, and over several generations, you get a fully corrupt institution where doing things the right way is unthinkable.
Ordinary people can vote based on principle, instead of party lines, and scare the politicians into shape by the one string they hold: The ability to get reelected.
I know, I know, what sort of fantasy world do I live in?
The problem is that politicians tend to promise one thing during the campaign (or multiple things to different crowds), and then once snugly elected into office, fall back into the same status-quo conventions that they and their predecessors have maintained for decades or centuries. Those who stick to their principles often don't stay in office long, because there are enough people in opposition that they can vote the bastard out of office the next time.
This is pretty much a distillation of the Obama presidency, at it's heart. At least when Bush was elected he was upfront about being a war monger.
It's long past time to divest Judge Rubberstamp of his position. The government does not have probable cause for such a search.
Congressperson Rubberstamp should go as well. Unfortunately, the populace is stupid, and so we will continue to see such erosion of privacy based upon the flimsiest of disingenuous excuses.
It doesn't really matter. The ones doing the actual work of the power wielders didn't affirm an oath, aren't elected into their positions, and are shielded from the consequence of their actions by their association with the government despite the nuremberg defense being considered useless.
The law as government restraint? More like the law tells them where to be careful about getting caught breaking it, and where the law doesn't exist they definitely immediately defy the ideas that the constitution suggests.
One of the key fallacies of the "false flag" is that you can't keep a big operation that kills lots of people secret in a free society.
I changed your quote to match your argument, looks like it was just a typo.
The first step in dismantling that the kind of skepticism that would find "false flag" operations is calling people "conspiracy nuts", which the mainstream is certainly happy doing. It's worth reminding folks that MK-ULTRA was a conspiracy theory too, until, oops, they found some documents that proved it happened and it sudden because simple historical fact.
We're not a free society. If you don't immediately buy in to the official story, you're a crazy. I don't know if it's always been that way (I figure it has been, but I don't know), but a free society would openly discuss these ideas, instead of just playing hear no evil.
In a lot of ways, that's why free speech in the US is still so free. It's because speech has very little power here. Critical thinking has been bred out of society through public schools, so the facts are whatever is written on a paper shoved in front of us by an official.
The funny thing is that if you want to find places where speech still has power, they are nations where speech is very censored, China, Cuba, North Korea, former eastern bloc, because the countrymen have not yet been sufficiently trained to automatically reject things that are uncomfortable to think about, like government torture, murder of citizens, intentional starvation, etc. They are still capable of believing it.
This tempts me so bad. I don't want to steal cars. I just want a button that sets off everyone's panic alarms.
I want one that will let me do it right after they cut me off in traffic.
I would love to get one of those change machines, rig it up so I can push a button to simulate a dollar but includes a timer that it will only work once a day. The "out of change" indicator would be pretty useful for indicating that no more can be had that day.
Now to find a good used change machine that doesn't cost more than the cabinet I built. :(
Not to mention that the quarters add an actual value to a loss. When you play on MAME or whatever, you lose nothing by losing. When you played in an arcade, you had a limited supply of quarters, which made game play more important.
1. Build arcade machine
2. Install a coin door and coin mechanism for quarters
3. Install plastic bucket under coin mechanism, fill with fuming nitric acid
Optional step 4. try not to breathe
accurate? lol. even the latest version of MAME isn't THAT accurate. besides, this story is lame and OLD NEWS to those in the Pi world.
MAME isn't so much an emulator but an organized collection of emulators. The accuracy depends on the driver and the cores it includes.
Maybe they just want to play the game. If its not 100% accurate, who gives a shit?
It wasn't us who gave the shit.
From the TFS:
Adafruit brings the genuine 'clicky' arcade controls...
If you don't care if it's 100% accurate, you also don't care whether or not it has genuine 'clicky' arcade controls. Which I would then assert that if you either want a genuine experience or not. A genuine facade over inaccurate emulation is not a genuine experience, only the facade of one.
That said, calling 'clicky' arcade controls genuine isn't quite accurate, as it depends on the game. FWIW, the majority of the classic arcade games that the Pi is powerful enough to emulate didn't have clicky microswitch based controls, they had leaf switches.
As I see it:
If you care about performance, you buy Intel.
If you care about power consumption, you buy Intel.
If you're cheap and don't care about power consumption and want to play games on really low graphics settings, you buy AMD.
You can add "if you care about market conduct, you buy AMD."
Full disclosure, I care about performance, so my plinko chip doesn't fall that far.
Often it seems safety is traded for effectiveness. The best cough suppresent ever is herion, that was its original purposes. Since that was dangerous we moved to codeine, which was not as good but safer. Then we moved to Dextromethorphan, which is safer but works no where near as well and many folks cannot tolerate. Hallucinating while not getting good cough suppression sucks.
So now my options are to be accused of being a drug seeker by my doctor, take more powerful opiates I have left over from other procedures or going to canada and smuggling back Tylenol 3.
Sometimes the old stuff really was better.
It's also the standard of safety and liability. The older stuff could get away with having more side effects and cumulative effects.
Try releasing a drug like heroin today and it won't ever make it on the shelves. The standard then was, hmm.. I think it was zero. No FDA. Let's pretend it does make it on the shelves, the class action lawsuits and sharks-in-suits crowd would have a field day breaking off chunks of your company's finances for themselves.
It's just a different time we're living in, where society won't tolerate any new risks at all, despite all the risky stuff we all already engage in.
Zombie Apocalypse: Zombie Wheat
Monsanto confirmed as the real-life version of the Umbrella Corporation.
Another possiblility is that these countries rely on food shortage to control their citizens and an abundance of food doesn't really serve their purposes. Evil doesn't solely reside in capitalism.
When I think food shortage, I don't exactly think of countries like Japan or those that are part of the EU. Maybe I simply haven't heard of the latest famine in a 1st world nation?