Comment Re:Oh give it a rest (Score 1) 195
Congratulations on proving my point.
Hope you don't mind - but I'm going to mail your post URL to some mates so they can have a good laugh
Congratulations on proving my point.
Hope you don't mind - but I'm going to mail your post URL to some mates so they can have a good laugh
Take your own advice sonny and grow up. You're obviously just another know it all student arsewipe with lots of words and nothing to say and who thinks rude insults somehow make a killer point. They don't, they just make you sound like an 18 year old idiot. Which you probably are.
Yes , but they're also the next generation of politicians and business "leaders".
Nice one
Russians and north koreans are brown are they? Or is everyone outside 'merica "brown" to you?
"Yet here you are, in your armchair picking safe fights with people on a harmless Internet forum. Bravo."
If you think I was picking a fight then you obviously have anger management issues and an inability to distinguish a threat from a disagreement. I'd recommend you seek help before you get into trouble on the street.
Or maybe draw up a list of Islamic militants and post it. Oh, they won't? Why is that then? A bit scared of what might happen? Boo hoo.
Typical 21st century armchair warriors, pick on easy targets and make it look like you're a hero Sticking It To The Man when you know you're really living in a comfy democracy where nothing particularly bad is going to happen to you. Try doing the same in various other countries around the world and see how long it is before someone kicks down your door at 3am and your family never see you again.
"What a mature reaction on your part, GTFU."
It simply matched the intellectual level of your argument.
"Yes, and step by step it incrementally becomes more of a police state until someone steps in, uses those powers and it becomes a dictatorship. "
Oh really? So Stalin and hitler got to power by evesdropping on emails and phone calls did they? You've got a lot to learn about politics my friend and by the sounds of things , life in general.
"You are the domestic enemy we are warned about."
Oh look, out comes the tin foil hat.
"To put it another way you enjoy being anally fist fucked,"
Thats an interesting response from someone who just told me to grow up. How about you take your own advice sonny.
"In my context I was thinking of my grandfather who fought in both world wars"
We've all got grandparents or great grandparents who fought in something so you can cut off your cross for a start.
"How these establishment of police states leads to state sponsored terrorism, which is scarier than fundamentalism in a different way."
Whatever. The exact same "police state" rhetoric arguments was wheeled out when fingerprinting was indroduced, then DNA matching, then CCTV. Change the bloody record.
Except in this case its being made public knowledge that this can be done. Though frankly I'd be amazed if the facilities to do it haven't been there for years anyway.
And as you prove by your statement - if a government wants to collect information on its population its been able to do it for centuries. The normans did it in the 11th century with their Domesday Book. This little black box changes nothing.
That tired old appeal to "what they fought for"
You know, perhaps you and people like you who spout this drivel should go to a quiet room and consider the difference between mass genocide of jews, gypsies, gays and eastern europeans by the nazis (yes, hello Godwin) plus the indescriminate bombing of civilian populations in Britain and elsewhere, and the recording of your phone conversations and emails on a little black box. Which if you work in any large company is already done anyway and has been for decades.
GTFU!
If the hardware is still fully operational after 20 years in a hostile enviroment like an oil rig I'd say its anything but "crud". It was probably some of the best kit on the market.
This might come as a shock but a lot of businesses want kit that Just Works reliably 24/7, not the latest trendy junk that would impress a Hipster cycling past on his fixie bike but lasts about 5 minutes in the real world.
I know this goes against the myth of untouchable Cobol code hidden away that no one dares even look at - but bit by bit it is being replaced (by C++, java, C# whatever). Or at least in the companies I've worked in it was. One small sub section at a time with plenty of testing and a proper rollback plan.
Most people can do most things averagely well given enough time and practice. However to be exceptional at something takes an innate talent. Mozart was born, not made. Ditto einstein. And the same applies to programmers (and no, I don't count myself as one these elite).
That the best you could come up with?
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol