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Comment Re:How? (Score 2, Insightful) 109

Worse than that. It's blind faith in circular belief in truth. You get just enough people saying it and it becomes "a number of people" and suddenly a critical mass of people are making or supporting the claim and it becomes "truth." This is a general understanding of how lies become truth all over. Such common lies are "god" and "global warming." Deny either of those (among others) and you will be attacked politically. Observe as I get modded down because I dared mention god or global warming as lies.

Comment Too little too late? (Score 2) 178

1. Government shouldn't use anything proprietary and the US should follow its own rules (AMD exists because gov't rules requirements, why not Microsoft compatible-competitors?)
2. Vendor lock-in always leads to over-pricing and government waste (also, see #1)
3. Microsoft did a deal with the devil (US Government) and now wants to regain trust. Sorry Microsoft. Not going to work.

And did anyone miss the work facebook has been doing with government? Holy crap. Not only is their censorship completely to the left, they are conducting psych experiments at the request of the US government. I personally avoid the social networking sites and [almost] always have.

(I have used LinkedIn due in no small part to my previous employer reducing its staff by over 90% Oh yeah, now I can talk about it too! Turns out the Fukushima incident and subsequent lies, deception, inaccuracies and omissions run pretty deep and even found its way to my former employer, a Mitsubishi company. Anyway, LinkedIn... i was checking that from my mobile device and it made mobile pages unusable through CSS and insisted I use an app. I loaded the app and agreed to whatever and the next thing I knew LinkedIn grabbed my whole addressbook and pulled it into their servers. I can't say whether they used the data to spam others, but I can say they used it to "suggest links" to my profile. That's pretty dirty and disgusting.)

Trust is a difficult thing these days... a fragile thing. And I hope companies everywhere, large and small, learn that lesson. They can learn the hard way or they can be good and decent people asking themselves "would I want someone doing this to me?!" (Just like government gun confiscation -- the answer is NO. The government wouldn't allow the citizens to take their guns, so why should the citizens allow government to take theirs?) Of course, too few people care about golden rules of morality because the world is run by psychopaths. Psychopaths think they can just buy trust. That may have been true, but the pendulum has reached its furthest point and is about to swing back the other way. Microsoft and others are only now figuring that out.

Comment Re:Government without accountability is tyranny (Score 1) 534

Yes we all know what is going on. It's not a secret and hasn't been for a long while. Many people prefer not to talk about it but it's been going on. "No more hesitation" targets depicting people in bathrobes in their homes as targets. This is something they asked for and some company sold. Now they say they stopped selling them. But word has it, they simply created a new entity that sells that stuff exclusively and does not deal with any public at all.

And as others point out, one person in his home, or even a handful of people in their homes cannot hope to hold off these people. I don't expect it to either. But look what happened to the BATF after Waco. Completely neutered for a while until recently.

The best answer for now is people to keep talking about it. Talking is working to some degree. Those people out there saying "wait and see before you take action" are forgetting what has happened already and what is happening now. We can all face them down together or let fear paralyze the nation. People who use fear to get their way are terrorists. If you're afraid of your government and their enforcers, and if you're afraid to even talk about it? Guess who the terrorists actually are.

Comment Re:Spy glasses? (Score 1) 58

I see the next evolution as such devices being issued to police and local military forces operating in the US. They can and likely will be used to issue orders and directives about targets further disabling human choice and decision making. You may have already heard about the "zero hesitaiton targets" being used in police and other government training. It is surprisingly hard to overcome humanity and morality in government employees, but they are working VERY hard to overcome it and rather successfully I might add. Keep in mind that's one of the core issues with the use of drones. They remove "humans" from the morality and humanity of a situation, turning deadly operations into a score-keeping video game with a great deal less accountability and conscience.

Or I could just call it "terminator vision" and hope people understand the depth of what I mean.

Comment Re:Alchemist chimes in. (Score 1) 222

That, of course, would not happen. "Gold standards" have been destroyed by the central banks of the world. Global fraud as to the location and quantity of gold available is still a quiet and under-reported scandal. It is not in the interests of the banks to rely on something which they cannot easily manipulate. We have seen that a great deal in the past even to the point that they over-sold gold and silver certificates by a wide margin. They always seek to do this and will always seek to do this. These kinda of things are the reasons banking regulations have been put into place. And now they wish to deregulate. What could possibly go wrong?

Comment Re:Steps to global conspiracy (Score 1) 222

That's a good point. You're saying manipulating currency wouldn't be as "noticable." But it would be even more dangerous. Controlling the money means controlling the world. The US does not control the world and the world has been pushing back to prove it. This is not delusion. This is watching events from other global perspectives, not just the carefully selective feeds available in the US.

Comment Re:Business sells to bad government, there is a co (Score 1) 340

Well since you put it that way, I guess it's all okay because "everyone is [likely] doing it." But apparently that isn't really the case. In fact, the US is one of the greatest sources of spyware both commercial and "unsanctioned." We sell it to governments like Iran on a regular basis. And if other governments were really doing it, do you think they believed we weren't while they were? They kept using all US technologies the entire time? I find that to be highly unlikely. I think what fits observable reality better is that they aren't doing it (infecting exported products and services) and believe the US wouldn't be that bold or stupid as it would literally jeopardize the US's global marketplace if it were discovered.

If you test that theory against observable reality, I'd say that fits much better than what you're suggesting.

Comment Re:Not technically (Score 1) 222

Regulation they are seeking to remove was not an arbitrary measure. In fact, the regulation of government which is the constitution was not an arbitrary measure. For many hundreds, if not thousands of years, people have known well and understood human nature and the nature of currencies. We keep having to re-learn many of these things as if they are new or our arrogance makes us believe old measures are no longer applicable.

A simple truth is this. The only way for man to be more than he is, is to live within a structure of laws which limit the harm we can do to one another while enabling the best of what we can do.

The nature of financial regulation is to limit the harm that can be done to the world's financial systems. It is generally agreed that the prior global financial crisis (which is still going on, I will remind you) was the result of similar collusion to relax regulations. The harm of 'the first wave' is still being felt and remedies of the causes have been limited. (Aren't you at all concerned that the markets are enjoying amazing vibrancy while the pedestrian [producing] economy is still pretty bad?) To allow a second wave to occur simply because it hsn't been finalized is to fail to appreciate the general nature of what is being attempted.

What you are advocating is dangerous and akin to "let's pass it so we can see what is in it." And in the US where there is a dark and ugly history of legislation being passed in the dead of night? You would trust to let things get that close? I think you trust government too much.

Comment Re:Steps to global conspiracy (Score 1) 222

Multiple currencies means that currencies, and the nations backing them, compete and values will fluctuate against one another but, in theory, not terribly so. We can see the problems of the manipulations of the US dollar even now and the "QE" is still going on meaning they are continuing to devalue the dollar. Imagine that kind of scamsmanship on a 100% global scale?

A world currency means whoever controls the currency controls the world. There is no, and can be no, democracy there. There is none in the US where the privately owned and controlled Federal Reserve Bank system is concerned. And before you or anyone else says "but they are accountable to..." Yeah? Learn about the year-after-year-after-year continuing effort to do an audit on the Federal Reserve and see how far we have gotten. They AREN'T accountable to anyone as long as we cannot intervene, let alone review what they are doing.

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