Wow, it's 2014, the cold war ended decades ago, the 'red scare' was half a century ago and yet some slashdotter can't take a light joke about communism without modding it as flamebait!
Witness the power of propaganda.
restricting smoking is reasonable. your smoke can give me cancer, which means your actions potentially are affecting me negatively (very).
i really dont care if you smoke. go ahead, light em up.
just dont do it near me where im forced to breathe your carcinogens without choice or in a way that impeeds my ability to make that choice or carry on with my life.
You seem to live under the illusion that it's possible to live your life unaffected by the choices of others. You likely inhale, ingest or imbibe carcinogens every day. Yet you are concerned about standing next to a smoker and inhaling a minute amount of smoke, which will have no measurable affect on your health. You are not forced to breathe anything. If a smoker is near you, you are free to move away.
I'm a left wing smoker (both kinds)
You smoke cigars *and* cigarettes?
Country and Western!
Not just no, but fuck no.
Having internal company correspondence, communication between groups and corporate offices will have valuable company information in Facebook's hands. We've had people walked out, fired, for using Evernote in meetings.
Remember what Zuckerman said.
"They trust me — dumb fucks," says Zuckerberg in one of the instant messages, first published by former Valleywag Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider, and now confirmed by Zuckerberg himself in Jose Antonio Vargas's New Yorker piece. Zuckerberg now tells Vargas, "I think I've grown and learned a lot" since those instant messages.
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I thought the same thing when I read TFS. My company deals with secret stuff and wouldn't want their data flowing through Facebook's servers. We block cloud storage as it is.
I wonder how long before they no longer feel the need to give us the illusion of freedom?
They'll keep it up as long as they can. Maintaining control through propaganda is preferable to maintaining it by force. It's cheaper and more stable. Most people still buy what they hear on the news. Even though people are starting to chafe under the surveillance, most still think it's about terrorism (as opposed to maintaining the status quo). If the powers that be do have to resort to jackboots in the streets, the media will make sure to characterize it in the right way. Again, most people will buy it.
Like they say in the movie, most people are not ready to be unplugged from the matrix. It would take something supremely radical for them to start distrusting the news and make a real break from the world view that they have. Most will never do it. We all know how people will generally continue to believe what they have always believed, even in the face of contrary evidence. At this point the illusion is so pervasive people will maintain it themselves, without help, because they firmly believe the illusion is real.
At some point - probably soon - they'll shut down the last one of these and then there won't be any more. That's how the war on drugs was won!
If you want to truly win the war on drugs, then you need to go after the biggest drug dealers on the planet.
In case you were wondering, that would be the ones we allow to legally peddle their fucking addictions.
Don't forget the CIA and the banks that launder the money for them!
This is like trying to stop people from breathing... The illicit markets will NEVER die.
Man wants what he cannot have... This will NEVER change.
Its our Nature. Fighting our own nature... Is costing us more than we care to admit.
More like Man wants what his government has decided he should not have. But you're right, it is costing us a lot.
We'll "get it right" when we knock off the electronic BS and use what has been tested to work, marked paper ballots. It.Just.Works.
This is really all that needs to be said. Electronic voting machines cannot be trusted to be free of errors and not open to mischief. The companies that make them won't reveal the code. And what has been revealed has been troubling (sloppy coding, insecure data transmission methods, lack of overall security, etc.)
Stephen Spoonamore has had some good things to say on the subject. One of the things he says is, "Paper ballots, please"
What on earth would make you say something like that? Everyone who isn't blinded by ideology knows that Ferguson is a mountain made out of a mole hill for political reasons and ratings. Shit like what happened there happens all over the place with at least three incidents i know of happening after it and no one is excited about them. Ferguson just happens to be in the right place to muster the troops so to say.
It has nothing to do with anyone's citizenship and everything to do with motivating the right people to the polls. We've already seen the flyers claiming some are will be turned into ferguson if certain people are elected.
It has to do with the systemic violence directed toward black people, young black men more specifically. Like you said, it happens all the time. It's wrong, and it's past time that the nation dealt with it. Yes, the incident in Ferguson was just one example, but it has become a flash point for the larger issue.
Nope, and they don't care. They don't care that their cheap shitty chocolate comes from slaves. They don't care than Nike uses child labor. They don't care about the abusive practices involved in processing shrimp. They don't care about overfishing. They don't care about the pink goo in their food. They don't care about air pollution.
Face it, people are fucking stupid, and NO they don't care. If they did, actually, they'd probably be in favor of it, as long as it didn't happen to them.
Americans (people, really) care about what they're told to care about. Everyone is terrified of Ebola and ISIL and know something must be done; and it's not because of their good judgement and risk analysis.
Is anyone even remotely surprised by this?
Maybe all the commenters here who have maintained that H-1B workers are paid the same as domestic workers and don't contribute to wage suppression in the IT industry.
When I enlisted in 1990 you only had to be able to complete something like 13 pushups to be assigned to a basic training unit. Those that couldn't were put into a "remedial physical training" unit...
This is kind of what I was thinking. Can't you just get some of these overweight recruits into training and whip them into shape? After all, you control their exercise and diet. Maybe they need to bring Bob Harper on as a consultant.
I think they're human beings. I think that money is power, and that political suffrage (the vote) is no longer enough. We must also have universal economic suffrage as well. Every individual needs to have an assurance that their annual income won't fall below the poverty line, because poor people aren't human beings in the USA.
If they don't want to work, but live on ten grand a year while sharing an apartment with a few other people who want to live on basic, that's their problem. Ideally it would help parents, especially single parents. It would help students. It would help artists. It would help open source hackers and other people who do useful work that isn't adequately valued by our system.
And it would give us an excuse to get rid of our existing welfare system. We can tell people who aren't working, "You got your basic income. If you need more money, get a fuckin' job."
I quite agree. As someone who gave up his artistic dreams for a steady paycheck, this vision speaks to me personally.
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