The most obnoxious thing about all these gross misconceptions is that Wikileaks is RIGHT THERE. IT'S ON THE FUCKING INTERNET! God damn it people, this is not some obscure research paper published by a little known scientific journal and only available on microfilm in the Library of Congress or some shit like that. Just fucking type "wikileaks" into god damn Google and figure this shit out for yourself! Fuck!
So flashing gang signs in Myspace photos can get you arrested now? Uh oh. If that's the case, then millions of 14 year old girls are about to be thrown in jail.
People forget about the economic revolutions. Probably because they're bloodless, and don't come with flashy stories in the history books about idiots doing action hero crap.
In the quest for social stability though, pragmatism will always be a more powerful tool than sensationalism.
Maybe you could go read the article for yourself seeing as HE LINKED IT IT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE POST GOOD LORD why do people do this, they just make these comments like: "well I'm going to make a second-hand criticism about how, hypothetically, the source work is probably wrong - acting as though I myself have no access to said source even though the author GAVE IT TO ME - thus dismissing both articles through nothing more than speculative rhetoric."
Then someone calls the person on their bullshit and they're all "Oh yeah well I DID read the provided material, BUT [insert ad hoc justification based on unspecified or vague details that allow person to maintain their ridiculous position]"
While it's incredibly impressive and animated beautifully, the fur is cheap. Probably done with out-of-the-box stuff, and doesn't really reflect what "Rhythm and Hues" was able to do (Yogi in the official trailer has soft, nicely washed fur; this one has coarse, oily fur).
Not that they couldn't have intentionally used cheap fur, but that seems like a strange choice for obfuscation.
Plus it diminishes Edmund Earle's accomplishment here to suggest he's faking responsibility for the interests of some studio.
"Or, you could say (and probably should say) that Wikileaks is actually doing much of what a journalist would do in selecting which documents to pass along at this time.
I'd say that their accuracy, careful decisions and thorough methodology is making them look entirely unlike a modern journalist.
THAT'S the real story here.
This is like something you'd find on the front page of The Onion, "BREAKING: Area Man Still Uses Blockbuster to Rent Movies"
1) You do not have the right to life saving drugs. If you can afford them, you can have them. The .gov has no responsibility to step in and save your life.
So I guess it's just been shortened to "liberty and the pursuit of happiness" these days, eh?
The interesting thing is that what Joe Lieberman is doing is exactly what Wikileaks *wants* to have happen. After reading some interviews and essays by Julian Assange, I've found that he's made it quite clear that he sees the increase of closed systems and conspiracy to be a good thing, because those things - in his opinion - are the primary cause of degradation within organized systems. The more closed and secretive a group is, the more inefficient they become in his assessment, until they either collapse - or right themselves for the better.
So as far as they're concerned, the U.S. blocking their site is a step in the right direction.
That's true, but Netflix isn't exactly struggling here. Quite the opposite, it's wildly successful. And honestly, the movie studios suck at content distribution. They always have. So, what? They pull away from Netflix causing it to fail, and then try it on their own and also fail. That's a lose-lose situation if ever I've heard one.
They can grumble and whine all they want, but at the end of the day, Netflix is getting them tons of money that they don't have the means to get themselves.
Yeah. Ultimately, you really can't fault a company for protecting its bottom line. They are simple creatures, with little understanding of morality or greater purposes.
That's pretty much the spiral that leaks like this are supposed to create.
When people talk about inevitability of knowledge; freeing information, etc, it means taking the long view. It's easy to be short sighted and imagine squash this or that specific leak with a strong - maybe even competent - crackdown. But once you take a step back and see where everything is heading, you realize that all that effort - regardless even whether it's successful or not - is for nothing. To ignore it is to let it happen, and to attack it is to make it happen faster. The endgame here is a world - not where secrets don't exist - but where secrets don't last very long.
And that's probably something that a lot of the people who are angry about this don't get. Openness isn't about getting the truth immediately, as it happens. Openness is about getting the truth [i]at all[/i], and being secure in the knowledge that it will happen without a fight. We don't need to know what every soldier in every part of Afghanistan is doing at this very moment; we don't need to know what espionage we're performing on other countries...we be [i]deserve[/i] to know all those things eventually, and in a timely manner.
But it's valuable and interesting nonetheless.
Sometimes important things aren't fun and exciting. Sometimes they're boring and involve reading about lots of dull dinner parties.
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Yeah, that guy is a real bummer at parties. But I always have to invite him because he's a friend of a friend and it would be rude not to. He's always the first to get drunk too, that asshole. Never pays for the beer either.
Oh and he constantly steals my inventions and patents them as his own.
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In the quest for social stability though, pragmatism will always be a more powerful tool than sensationalism.
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Then someone calls the person on their bullshit and they're all "Oh yeah well I DID read the provided material, BUT [insert ad hoc justification based on unspecified or vague details that allow person to maintain their ridiculous position]"
So annoying.
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Not that they couldn't have intentionally used cheap fur, but that seems like a strange choice for obfuscation.
Plus it diminishes Edmund Earle's accomplishment here to suggest he's faking responsibility for the interests of some studio.
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I'd say that their accuracy, careful decisions and thorough methodology is making them look entirely unlike a modern journalist.
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This is like something you'd find on the front page of The Onion, "BREAKING: Area Man Still Uses Blockbuster to Rent Movies"
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So I guess it's just been shortened to "liberty and the pursuit of happiness" these days, eh?
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So as far as they're concerned, the U.S. blocking their site is a step in the right direction.
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They can grumble and whine all they want, but at the end of the day, Netflix is getting them tons of money that they don't have the means to get themselves.
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http://www.google.com/finance?q=netflix
Gives me movies whenever I want
http://www.google.com/finance?q=walt+disney
Locks their movies in "vaults" until they decide I'm allowed to watch them
;D
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When people talk about inevitability of knowledge; freeing information, etc, it means taking the long view. It's easy to be short sighted and imagine squash this or that specific leak with a strong - maybe even competent - crackdown. But once you take a step back and see where everything is heading, you realize that all that effort - regardless even whether it's successful or not - is for nothing. To ignore it is to let it happen, and to attack it is to make it happen faster. The endgame here is a world - not where secrets don't exist - but where secrets don't last very long.
And that's probably something that a lot of the people who are angry about this don't get. Openness isn't about getting the truth immediately, as it happens. Openness is about getting the truth [i]at all[/i], and being secure in the knowledge that it will happen without a fight. We don't need to know what every soldier in every part of Afghanistan is doing at this very moment; we don't need to know what espionage we're performing on other countries...we be [i]deserve[/i] to know all those things eventually, and in a timely manner.
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Sometimes important things aren't fun and exciting. Sometimes they're boring and involve reading about lots of dull dinner parties.
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Oh and he constantly steals my inventions and patents them as his own.
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