Comment Assuming guilt by default (Score 1) 130
This automation of checking and acting on that is quite scary stuf.
It can ultimately lead to the opening scenes of Brazil, the movie made by Terry Gilliam.
Comment Re:Lack of tolerance to other religions (Score 1) 412
How do you think those "uneducated and ignorant" voters are going to react if you try to rule them without representation?
Probably they will sulk in a corner and cowardly do nothing, but don't think that I am much more courageous.
The problem is that we the people failed to keep them, the political class, from gathering massive militairy power and money.
We stand no whatsoever chance to win, apart from maybe die by the billions to unseat this generation of the political class.
If we do win the power vacuum will be filled before you can say bleh.
I have no other solution than eradicate all of us if we want to solve this problem, where there are people there will be faul games, power grabs and war.
Comment Re:Counter question... (Score 1) 144
No conspiracy here, just how the world turns.
Comment Counter question... (Score 1) 144
Why do you think that Apple has a 100 billion cashflow and is the highest ranked business on the stock exchange?
There are many defense companies of which you would say, why are they rated lower than a consumer grade shiny mirror company?
Could it be that the consumer grade shiny mirror company is worth more to the 1% and the authorities than all the other defense companies?
Why would you think that is? You connect the dots.
If you found the answer then you would also have found the answer to why Apple is banning people to see where dronestrikes take place.
Comment Re:What exactly does it do? (Score 1) 249
Keep the once trapped client in the environment where it belongs, why?
Comment Re:+5, wait what? (Score 1) 393
Calling my cynicism pathetic is not going to change the moderation of your post, as it is still 5+ Funny.
Neither does it help to solve how dictatorship structures are deeply embedded into our societies.
You need to lighten up as being cramped over this will do all but help solving the situation, besides, often there is way more result to point out painfull things in a humorous package.
Comment Re:+5, wait what? (Score 1) 393
For synical people like myself this is funny, painfully funny. (I do not mod)
Do We Need a Longer School Year? 729
Hugh Pickens writes "Jennifer Davis writes that while summer holds a special place in our hearts: lazy afternoons, camping at the lake, warm evenings gazing at the moon, languid summers can be educationally detrimental, with most youth losing about two months of grade-level equivalency in math computational skills over the summer and students from low-income families falling even further behind. A consensus is building that the traditional nine-month school year might be a relic of the 20th century that has no place in an increasingly competitive global work force and an analysis of charter schools in New York reveals that students are most likely to outperform peers if they attend schools that are open at least 10 days more than the conventional year. What of the idea that summer should be a time of respite from the stresses of school? There are two wrong notions wrapped up in this perspective. The first is that somehow summer is automatically a magical time for children but as one fifth-grader, happy to be back at school in August, declared, 'Sometimes summer is really boring. We just sit there and watch TV.' The second mis-perception is that school is automatically bereft of the excitement and joy of learning. On the contrary, as the National Center on Time and Learning describes in its studies of schools that operate with significantly more time, educators use the longer days and years to enhance the content and methods of the classroom. 'We should expect our schools to furnish today's students with the education they will need to excel in our global society,' says Davis. 'But we must also be willing to provide schools the tools they need to ensure this outcome, including the flexibility to turn the lazy days of summer into the season of learning.'"
Comment Re:The proper way (Score 1) 206
They are my isp too, and I had the same thing happening.
Their helpdesk is the only non scripted helpdesk with a dutch isp, they take the time it takes to solve the problem, instead of playing hide and seek while blaming their customers like most other companies do.
Comment Already done... (Score 2) 206
My ISP, xs4all blocks my connection automatically when trojans or other malware starts to make outbound connections.
I know this as I am responsible for several people on this connection, one of them connected a laptop which triggered this.
When this happens all my ports are closed at the ISP and I get a notice to connect to their proxyserver so that I can download protective means.
When I solve the issue I get a checkup and after that all goes well, the ports are reconnected.
Comment I want to punch people in the face... (Score 1) 287
When they say: "We're comitted to..... blah blah...."
Comment Re:Drug test the final standard? (Score 1) 482
Hey, chear up, it's the American way...
Comment I'd vote for... (Score 2) 64
Gum 19 — star-forming region with variable star V391 Velorum
Comment Re:Art? (Score 1) 151
And then people say that we in the west are decadent...
Comment Re:Journalists? (Score 0) 252
Didn't the UK have 58 million people?
So 2 million is 0.03 percent of the population.
So most people don't care. like the grandparent says.
