Dude, what you ask for is impossible.
I won't put any more words in your mouth.
But news organizations far and wide are not now going to come up with any sort of agreement about what's right and proper to do when delivering the news.
Your wish is just a wish then, it can't actually happen. Not without the kind of things I was talking about being implemented.
As a Lutheran myself, I gotta say I really like the idea of Linus nailing the source code to the church door. Spot on metaphor there.
Captain Hindsight is that you??
But you are right about one thing. If the NSA says they're doing what they're doing to protect us, but then an attack happens that proves they can't protect us, then their justifications for their spying are inadequate.
And yet by the government he is named as traitor and fugitive.
And thus he rode off into the files of History.
History is full of people authority called scoundrels, but the people have loved them.
That's the rub with standards and values though.
They have to come down from "on high". They can initially be agreed upon by a group (when the group is small enough), but they will always trend towards having a smaller organization or a single selected leader defining them over time.
The totally decentralized and fragmented nature of news and information on the web naturally resists any incursion of those standards and values.
The people get what the people want, even if its not "good" for them. Good being defined, of course, by a select or selected few.
I extrapolated from your post. You yourself may not want censorship and just want better news sources. But I contend that the mechanisms that would be necessary to create better news sources will inevitably be utilized in an effort to achieve command and control of all news sources.
The world shouldn't work like this, but it does anyway.
Then how should the world work?
I will take this decentralized, messy, sometimes inaccurate, active, energized, aggressive reporting of everything under the sun with the caveat of "reader beware" a thousand times over something that is managed by (to borrow from a meme I hate) "Top Men".
Those granted the authority to fix the stated problem in this case will always ALWAYS become corrupted and begin to limit views that do not agree with their "norms". Out of that will eventually be borne far more evil than exists in the chaotic system we have today.
Freedom is messy and I'm getting sick of Tyranny trying to market itself to us as a shiny, clean alternative.
Say what you want about Windows, it still can get viruses easily, while Linux is a more secure browsing experience.
Not true. Windows cannot get viruses easily anymore. Unless you are a clueless Homer Simpson which runs every spurious BirthdayCard.exe with admin privileges, Windows is perfectly safe to use.
Windows still gets nailed easily. We run a very secure shop and some are still coming in, without the user ever browsing outside the network. While this means a worm or virus is introduced into the network from somewhere, it's sophisticated enough to find all the up-to-date machines and still infect them. We thought we were secure, again. Fact is the people who write these things are better at writing them and understanding protection behavior and circumventing it than the people fighting them.
In my mind I pictured a vending machine like many pop machines.
You select your car then it clangs around through the machines inside and comes out at the opening at the bottom
Of course not how it would really work, but a funny juxtaposition of calling these things "vending machines."
Why do I think they ordered those parts from the most expensive sources possible?
Or it could just be the riced up hipster case.
... $9,599 which includes 64GBs of ECC DDR3 memory, a 1TB PCIe SSD, two AMD D700 (W9000) GPUs, and a twelve core Intel Xeon 2.7GHz processor.
While there is nothing really remarkable about this list of parts, it’s the way that they are integrated that provides both pros and cons. On the pro side, you have all this workstation grade hardware in a cylinder that is less than 10 inches tall and under 7 inches wide, with the power supply inside. This makes it very easy to take it on site or pack with you.
Pack with you? Because that's a concern with desktop workstations? I guess you can discount the dual monitor setup if portability is the key? Oh, right, OSX, so you basically have to bring it with you because everyone else is running a different OS and your programs aren't compatible. I don't give half a crap about the story, or I'd go to build the thing online in a tower configuration. Maybe throw in some LEDs, black-light ground effects, a custom body job with clear side panel and glitter+glue monogram too -- You know, really rice it to the next level.
I'll bet this thing just smokes. I've always aimed high when redoing my desktop, back in January I loaded up 32GB of DDR3 RAM, 6 TB RAID V, 250GB SSD for boot and OS space and a 6 core AMD CPU, which is fairly adequate. It has to be as I'll expect it to run for 5 or 6 years before I upgrade again. I built and even beastlier machine for a friend who's doing a lot of media work. It's an absolute screamer, but again, he is expecting it to be competent for the next 5 or 6 years. I build his last one and it motored along well until he decided it was time to upgrade, too. When you spend money, you don't want to do it often.
Does New Zealand have any?
Your post is unbelievable.
The GP poster posted a subject of:
Seems there's more ice than usual in the antarctic
And then they posted a LINK to a graph that proved their subject.
THIS IS ALL THEY POSTED!! No follow on sentences about global warming. No links to any other sites about global warming or to sites denying global warming for that matter.
The post stated only facts, and made no arguments. Facts that seem to be backed up by the research vessel being stuck in the ice.
YOU brought global warming into the discussion, YOU called the GP poster a denier (note: I am speaking only to evidence in the GP post, if mc6809e is a raging denier elsewhere I don't know it).
This isn't really cherry picking of data, it is only presentation of data.
If there is an increase in antarctic summer ice at the same time there is a decrease in arctic summer ice, we should study what is happening.
There really wasn't a global warming argument being made in the GP. You just saw one there. Check your glasses.
This case could be a huge PR win for the NSA. If they could arrest 10-20 people involved in this using all their data, I think the country would be appreciative. At least they could make their case that their data collection is worth something.
Of course the NSA has done nothing about this because helping protect the citIzens isn't really their job, it's just their bogus excuse for their actions.
No! We need real change away from both what Bush did AND what Obama is doing.
Every time people make the "but Bush" argument they're giving Obama more power to abuse the system.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
You can see mine from the Moon.
but more to the point.. mobile websites tend to suck because THEYRE FUCKING MORE COMPLEX AND HEAVIER THAN THE DESKTOP BROWSER VERSION!
I find they suck mostly because the site owner presents what THEY think you should have rather than what YOU think you should have, which are worlds apart. If they were to start in this world on their mobile version, without ever having a prior version, it would probably still suck because they aren't thinking like the user, only what they want the user to focus on. eBay is also a prime example, though their regular site is into major suckage with trying to do too effing many things.
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde
