True, but this "crisis" is burning up vast amounts of OIL to powers the processors of Coin Miners, a crisis that will remain for all of us, for many years, if not permanently.
Personally, I think Cryptocurrencies are simply a means of supplying "added-value" for the oil industry in affort to stave off the effects of Peak Oil Demand (which we have already experienced, and will continue to experience).
Let me be clear on this--EVERY coin created is nothing more than OIL BURNED. If they can't get us to burn it in our cars, they'll get us to burn it with our computers, taking full advantage of GREED in the process. The value of Bitcoin is directly based on the value of the oil consumed--it takes a lot of oil to generate a single coin these days. THAT is why the (actual) value is going up.
That being said, leaving Bitcoins to your children is like saying "Here, I shit on your future to give you...a future."
"The best, and definitely the most enjoyable, primer on the potential for abuse of the TPP (based on abuse of previously negotiated similar trade agreements) and the underhanded way it's being negotiated, is probably John Oliver's segment on it."
That link now goes to a video of Oliver's discussing Big Tobacco.
Doing a search on YouTube for "John Oliver t" auto-fills with "John Oliver Trans Pacific Partnership" as third, leading me to the conclusion that quite a few people are searching for that video--which is now GONE, from what I can tell.
"To understand some of the distrust of police that has fueled protests in Ferguson, Mo., consider this: In 2013, the municipal court in Ferguson--a city of 21,135 people--issued 32,975 arrest warrants for nonviolent offenses, mostly driving violations."
Now, if most of those people with warrants for driving offenses are black (Ferguson is 67.4% black, according to the 2010 census), and these warrants preclude them from serving on a Grand Jury (they do), then how is it possible to get a fairly balanced jury of one's peers? In short, the Ferguson Police Department handing out tickets to mostly black residents precludes black residents from ever serving on a Grand Jury, or any jury for that matter, in effect stacking the deck against them, racially speaking. A black person in Ferguson is fucked before they ever even reach a courtroom, and white folks have got it easy as the deck is ALWAYS stacked in their favor.
A similar situation exists where I live because there are NINE overlapping legal jurisdictions in terms of law enforcement--fully 5% of the population here is law enforcement (I live near a border, and as a result fall under the jurisdiction of local law-enforcement, County law-enforcement, State law-enforcement and numerous federal agencies including ICE, Border Patrol, FBI, DEA and DHS.). You cannot put together a jury here that isn't 5% (or more) law-enforcement, in effect stacking the deck against anyone being tried in a criminal court, as other jurors tend to believe them even when, during jury selection, those same officers said they would always believe a cop over anyone else, regardless of content. And yes, I actually heard several cops state that during jury selection when I was called up for jury duty. As a result of hearing this before I was questioned, I stated at that time I thought the cards stacked against any defendant...and was dismissed from jury duty.
The cards were stacked against Justice in Ferguson, and in favor of Darren Wilson. This shit needs to change.
For what it's worth, I'm white (or Caucasian...whatever makes you feel better about yourself).
While your incessant shilling, political doublespeak, out-of-context quoting, thread-diluting gibberish and lack of applicable morality have been interesting...I cannot say, with any grain of truth, that I will miss you.
From the ashes of Slashdot rises http://soylentnews.org/....News BY the People, FOR the People.
When the cops are all wearing them, they no longer need us to wear them.
Edward Snowden seriously fucked up their roll-out schedule--GoogleGlass was meant for us--so now they focus on getting it in place on the people that control us. They are running out of time because of people using websites like Slashdot, sharing information and raising public awareness. Even without Slashdot, YOU can still do the same. Seriously, folks--do you really think they are killing Slashdot on accident? Sheer stupidity? They are killing Slashdot to silence us.
A quick Google search reveals that "fuck beta" brings up only one result in the first ten pages relating to Slashdot, as follows (YMMV, default search, no scripts allowed, cache cleared)...
Anyone play "The Secret World"? It's a Funcom MMO that is obviously designed to drive users to Google. Mission that don't have enough information to complete them are common. You literally cannot complete some missions without Google.
In this game, Bees are the analog of Google--they are everywhere and are integral to the theme of the game. Every transport hub has bees flying and buzzing everywhere. The idea is to get us to conflate our actions with being a worker-bee. We make honey for them, not us, or so they would have us believe.
"Next time one is deleted you will be able to prove it."
That does nothing to prevent, or prove, other methods of stifling dissent--moderation abuses.
I've been posting the following in several places at once--AFTER I watched the first one get modded up to +5, and almost instantly (less then 30 seconds) go back to +1)--and every single time...it gets modded up, then back down and then, once the body of the post is no longer visible, STAY THERE.
President of Shmuckovia (yelling from the presidential balcony): "People! People! Relief is here! I am taking the extraordinary measure of canceling the debt of the People! All debts are null and void! No longer will you be crushed by debt as a result of..."
President's Advisor (in hushed and secretive tone): "My President! What are you doing! This is just a peace rally! Gah! We're doomed, you fool!"
President of Shmuckovia (obviously confused): But...but...I HAD TO DO SOMETHING! You said the peasants were revolting!"
Example---"NIGHTSTAND: Portable system that wirelessly installs Microsoft Windows exploits from a distance of up to eight miles" (I have a feeling it's been updated for Win7/8 by now)
"BTW, that same database the cops used to stalk other cops? Also used to stalk political candidates."
And that is just the databases that the cops are allowed to use.
Did anyone pay attention to the full contents of the latest Snowden document release, aside from the Angry Birds articles that The Guardian and The New York Times focused on? There was significantly more important information in the latest leak. Mind-blowing, really.
THINK about these capabilities. When you start taking into account such things as RF/Pulsed communication technologies built into the electrical grid, and combine them with the technologies listed in the latest leak, the true extent of surveillance is far more than most people would imagine possible.
"...and then having to dig through your memory to try to remember who they are (failing miserably) while acting like you know exactly who they are."
I'd rather trust my own memory then out-source it.
For fuck sake people, are you listening to yourselves? This is a corporation literally trying to turn people into mobile data gathering devices. You are either deluding yourself about your own level of intelligence, or suffer from a serious lack of morality, if you think any of this is acceptable. Every person on this planet values privacy to some degree--What, exactly, do we really get in exchange for the loss of this privacy? Knowledge we could get by simply asking that person?
THINK, PEOPLE. If history is any sort of an indicator, any rights we sell today, our children must buy back with blood.
Slashdot Mirror
"Every future crisis is just a path to profit."
True, but this "crisis" is burning up vast amounts of OIL to powers the processors of Coin Miners, a crisis that will remain for all of us, for many years, if not permanently.
Personally, I think Cryptocurrencies are simply a means of supplying "added-value" for the oil industry in affort to stave off the effects of Peak Oil Demand (which we have already experienced, and will continue to experience).
Let me be clear on this--EVERY coin created is nothing more than OIL BURNED. If they can't get us to burn it in our cars, they'll get us to burn it with our computers, taking full advantage of GREED in the process. The value of Bitcoin is directly based on the value of the oil consumed--it takes a lot of oil to generate a single coin these days. THAT is why the (actual) value is going up.
That being said, leaving Bitcoins to your children is like saying "Here, I shit on your future to give you...a future."
"The best, and definitely the most enjoyable, primer on the potential for abuse of the TPP (based on abuse of previously negotiated similar trade agreements) and the underhanded way it's being negotiated, is probably John Oliver's segment on it."
That link now goes to a video of Oliver's discussing Big Tobacco.
Doing a search on YouTube for "John Oliver t" auto-fills with "John Oliver Trans Pacific Partnership" as third, leading me to the conclusion that quite a few people are searching for that video--which is now GONE, from what I can tell.
Google moves fast!
"We need those attitudes and policies changed by lawmakers, the problem isn't that Police are acting badly, its that they are allowed to act badly."
And that the Justice system is designed/manipulated to protect THEM when they do behave "badly", as you put it.
Here is another bit of information you should all digest, a quote from NPR: ( http://www.npr.org/2014/08/25/ )
"To understand some of the distrust of police that has fueled protests in Ferguson, Mo., consider this: In 2013, the municipal court in Ferguson--a city of 21,135 people--issued 32,975 arrest warrants for nonviolent offenses, mostly driving violations."
Now, if most of those people with warrants for driving offenses are black (Ferguson is 67.4% black, according to the 2010 census), and these warrants preclude them from serving on a Grand Jury (they do), then how is it possible to get a fairly balanced jury of one's peers? In short, the Ferguson Police Department handing out tickets to mostly black residents precludes black residents from ever serving on a Grand Jury, or any jury for that matter, in effect stacking the deck against them, racially speaking. A black person in Ferguson is fucked before they ever even reach a courtroom, and white folks have got it easy as the deck is ALWAYS stacked in their favor.
A similar situation exists where I live because there are NINE overlapping legal jurisdictions in terms of law enforcement--fully 5% of the population here is law enforcement (I live near a border, and as a result fall under the jurisdiction of local law-enforcement, County law-enforcement, State law-enforcement and numerous federal agencies including ICE, Border Patrol, FBI, DEA and DHS.). You cannot put together a jury here that isn't 5% (or more) law-enforcement, in effect stacking the deck against anyone being tried in a criminal court, as other jurors tend to believe them even when, during jury selection, those same officers said they would always believe a cop over anyone else, regardless of content. And yes, I actually heard several cops state that during jury selection when I was called up for jury duty. As a result of hearing this before I was questioned, I stated at that time I thought the cards stacked against any defendant...and was dismissed from jury duty.
The cards were stacked against Justice in Ferguson, and in favor of Darren Wilson. This shit needs to change.
For what it's worth, I'm white (or Caucasian...whatever makes you feel better about yourself).
Goodbye, Cold Fjord.
While your incessant shilling, political doublespeak, out-of-context quoting, thread-diluting gibberish and lack of applicable morality have been interesting...I cannot say, with any grain of truth, that I will miss you.
From the ashes of Slashdot rises http://soylentnews.org/ ....News BY the People, FOR the People.
When the cops are all wearing them, they no longer need us to wear them.
Edward Snowden seriously fucked up their roll-out schedule--GoogleGlass was meant for us--so now they focus on getting it in place on the people that control us. They are running out of time because of people using websites like Slashdot, sharing information and raising public awareness. Even without Slashdot, YOU can still do the same. Seriously, folks--do you really think they are killing Slashdot on accident? Sheer stupidity? They are killing Slashdot to silence us.
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These guys think Beta is 100/100.
(Script warning!)
http://www.webutations.net/go/...
Apparently, they want people to write reviews for beta.slashdot.org.
A quick Google search reveals that "fuck beta" brings up only one result in the first ten pages relating to Slashdot, as follows (YMMV, default search, no scripts allowed, cache cleared)...
http://slashdot.org/journal/63...
THAT'S IT.
How is that possible?
" So why not make Slashdot picutre based only, to open it up more to the masses (who often have the intellectual capacity of a 2-year-old anyway)?..."
I'll give it a shot.
http://troll.me/images/grandma...
http://www.lolwtfcomics.com/up...
http://troll.me/images/bill-or...
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/e9...
http://global3.memecdn.com/bet...
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/7e...
Did that convey my message sufficiently?
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"Bees make honey..."
Yes, we are worker bees.
Anyone play "The Secret World"? It's a Funcom MMO that is obviously designed to drive users to Google. Mission that don't have enough information to complete them are common. You literally cannot complete some missions without Google.
In this game, Bees are the analog of Google--they are everywhere and are integral to the theme of the game. Every transport hub has bees flying and buzzing everywhere. The idea is to get us to conflate our actions with being a worker-bee. We make honey for them, not us, or so they would have us believe.
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If history is any sort of an indicator, any rights we sell today, our children must buy back with blood tomorrow
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If history is any sort of an indicator, any rights we sell today, our children must buy back with blood tomorrow
"Next time one is deleted you will be able to prove it."
That does nothing to prevent, or prove, other methods of stifling dissent--moderation abuses.
I've been posting the following in several places at once--AFTER I watched the first one get modded up to +5, and almost instantly (less then 30 seconds) go back to +1)--and every single time...it gets modded up, then back down and then, once the body of the post is no longer visible, STAY THERE.
So, fuck you, Dice. Here goes again.
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The kind of information they are trying to stop flowing...by intentionally killing Slashdot .
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"Dice gets most of their income from companies like Microsoft, Apple etc who pay for their products to receive favorable and frequent attention."
Do not forget Google (How many GoogleGlass Articles this week?).
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"Stay strong people..."
Can I be in your next movie? I want to be as FUCKed as BETA. /.
Since I cannot add this much to my signature, and the fact that signature isn't visible unless you are a logged-in user, this will have to do...
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Title says it all. Is this recent?
I kinda feel I've been told to shut up. :(
"Dice, do you have the slightest inkling of what you are about to destroy?"
Yes, they know exactly what they are about to destroy.
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President of Shmuckovia (yelling from the presidential balcony): "People! People! Relief is here! I am taking the extraordinary measure of canceling the debt of the People! All debts are null and void! No longer will you be crushed by debt as a result of..."
President's Advisor (in hushed and secretive tone): "My President! What are you doing! This is just a peace rally! Gah! We're doomed, you fool!"
President of Shmuckovia (obviously confused): But...but...I HAD TO DO SOMETHING! You said the peasants were revolting!"
Spiegal Online apparently did a full release of images from each of the two document leaks--far more complete than the Wikipedia pages.
Scroll down for the images and "straight from the horse's mouth" descriptions of capabilities.
http://leaksource.wordpress.co...
Example---"NIGHTSTAND: Portable system that wirelessly installs Microsoft Windows exploits from a distance of up to eight miles" (I have a feeling it's been updated for Win7/8 by now)
http://leaksource.files.wordpr...
And....the guys developing and putting to use these capabilities.
http://leaksource.wordpress.co...
Make sure to check out the links at the bottom of that last page.
"BTW, that same database the cops used to stalk other cops? Also used to stalk political candidates."
And that is just the databases that the cops are allowed to use.
Did anyone pay attention to the full contents of the latest Snowden document release, aside from the Angry Birds articles that The Guardian and The New York Times focused on? There was significantly more important information in the latest leak. Mind-blowing, really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
THINK about these capabilities. When you start taking into account such things as RF/Pulsed communication technologies built into the electrical grid, and combine them with the technologies listed in the latest leak, the true extent of surveillance is far more than most people would imagine possible.
http://www.landisgyr.com/webfo...
Now you know why Google recently purchased Nest--sensing technology that can be tied directly into existing Landis-Gyr communications.
This isn't future tech, it's already out there and has been for awhile.
"...and then having to dig through your memory to try to remember who they are (failing miserably) while acting like you know exactly who they are."
I'd rather trust my own memory then out-source it.
For fuck sake people, are you listening to yourselves? This is a corporation literally trying to turn people into mobile data gathering devices. You are either deluding yourself about your own level of intelligence, or suffer from a serious lack of morality, if you think any of this is acceptable. Every person on this planet values privacy to some degree--What, exactly, do we really get in exchange for the loss of this privacy? Knowledge we could get by simply asking that person?
THINK, PEOPLE. If history is any sort of an indicator, any rights we sell today, our children must buy back with blood.