Comment Wont make any difference (Score 1) 500
The law was bought in to give them permission to do something they always did anyway, you think a politician can stop them now ?
Until one of them goes to Jail nothing will change.
The law was bought in to give them permission to do something they always did anyway, you think a politician can stop them now ?
Until one of them goes to Jail nothing will change.
Just add their logo in the bottom corner of all the movies and call it art.
But of course the law is about playing favorites
OTOH If someone had read all the major religous texts from all the major religions, then they could be objective 'the bible'. (assume you mean just one of them)
Sometimes you get so close to something you lose sight of whats happening around it. Like the saying 'Cant see the forrest for the trees', or people arguing if the best editor is Vi or Emacs.
To be objective is really difficuly, you need to be able to see the details without losing sight of the big picture.
If the only book you read is the Bible, i would say you most certainly can NOT be objective about the bible.
I disagree with the premise, that fame is more important than domain-specific expertise.
I disagree than domain-specific expertise permits objectivity in that domain.
(i also agree with you)
Not if you're a spy agency.
Such an old fashioned term, they called advertising corporations now.
With those uniforms ?
This is only news if you think the NSA still couldn't easily gain access....
The question is how hard they have to work for it.
Pot, meet kettle.
Don't worry guys, our numbers are calculated by computers, originally funded by the Ballistic Research Facility of the United States Army. Keep on calculating all your numbers.
I heard one of Obama's unclassified speeches, it was on TV, does that make me a hax0r ?
I hate these islamic extremists at least as much as anyone here. But it isn't just islam that is capable of such things.
Heraclitus believed the only way to avoid being an extremist is to contradict oneself. (according to my understanding).
Most people are probably extremists, we can only really understand the world based on our own experiences, so anyone who is an extremist like us wont appear to be an extremist.
Also capitalism rewards specialization, which is a very constructive form of specialization.
At basic training in the military the process of team building involved breaking us all down as individuals and building us up as a team. First they went after any way you appeared or behaved differently, then they went after the "normal" people because not being different is being different.
Looking for differences, or extremists is a witch hunt, easy enough to find one if you abandon objectivity.
The real enemy is those who think they have the right and ability to judge others objectively (unless they are an actual judge, those deserve respect).
Search engines should shine a light on sites that show different results to different users, maybe its for commercial exploitation (GEOIP blocking), or political propaganda or whatever.
Search engine show allow users to run crawlers in coordinated distributed manner, this helps users have privacy, it adds extra noise to surveillance systems, it might give users deniability as to their intent to access subversive material. It it should help with the first problem.
Apparetly drugs can help a creative mind, which isnt what you want when studying logic based subjects, but if doing somethign something expressive, creative, original
In Australia government will be suing corporation for not spying on their users. (metadata retention laws)
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