The trouble with allowing corporate interests to embed propaganda in the media, in educational establishments, and in political discourse is that "corporate interests" isn't one cohesive group. Result: money has been poured into promoting conflicting right wing causes by individuals and groups each trying to advance their own agendas. This accounts for the fracturing of discourse while the whole damn lot lurches rightwards.
Meanwhile the Republican party has been courting the fringe loons and using wedge issues to drag people on to their side as part of the Southern Strategy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
So if you add both together the endgame candidate is either Clinton or Trump, depending on whether you're motivated more by money and power or by privilege and paranoia. There's no way rigging the game could possibly create an alternate scenario with sane, qualified candidates. The entire system needs to be reset and opened up so a more honest conversation can take place, possibly with a view to creating an electoral system based on proportional representation in which people are invited to engage.
The events described in the first sentence are unlikely to occur. Your hope for the second is based on a lie: Snowden ratted on the NSA for spying on Americans.
The events described in the first sentence are unlikely to occur. Your hope for the second is based on a lie: Snowden ratted on the NSA for spying on Americans.
Actually, the word you're looking for is "Neoliberal." Stoking moral panics to gain power is a major tool of the trade. See "piracy" for details. "_________ is causing massive harm to {vulnerable group}. Give us the power to block their websites, kick them off the internet, and arrest them on suspicion alone."
That said, I've got a lot of sympathy for Saeed; all he did was create a sharing tool. It's not his fault if other people used it to share items the government doesn't want shared.
Then what we're seeing from the EU is outrage theatre: shouting about it in public while quietly doing business as usual behind our backs — with our data.
The DEA is given billions of dollars to work with every year. Some of this goes to its informants, some of which are very unreliable. Apparently none of the budget goes towards recordkeeping.
Bu-b-but red tape and bureaucracy gets in the way of us doing our job! - The DEA
free reign
It's "free rein," Tim. A king reigns, there are reins on a horse. When you give the horse free rein, it goes where it wants. /spelling nazi
Ditto. I'm not a gamer but it's Mike's blog, not mine. I skip those posts and move on to the ones I'm actually interested in. This is a particularly interesting one and if Tim hadn't made DannyB's funny comment First Word, I'd have asked for it.
Per Ben Franklin you can't own an idea. As Judge Mayer wisely and correctly pointed out, patents are government-granted monopolies and they're supposed to be temporary.
You can make make money well enough from an idea without having a monopoly of any length on it; millions of people do so every day.
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Re: Trump is a living parody
The trouble with allowing corporate interests to embed propaganda in the media, in educational establishments, and in political discourse is that "corporate interests" isn't one cohesive group. Result: money has been poured into promoting conflicting right wing causes by individuals and groups each trying to advance their own agendas. This accounts for the fracturing of discourse while the whole damn lot lurches rightwards.
Meanwhile the Republican party has been courting the fringe loons and using wedge issues to drag people on to their side as part of the Southern Strategy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
So if you add both together the endgame candidate is either Clinton or Trump, depending on whether you're motivated more by money and power or by privilege and paranoia. There's no way rigging the game could possibly create an alternate scenario with sane, qualified candidates. The entire system needs to be reset and opened up so a more honest conversation can take place, possibly with a view to creating an electoral system based on proportional representation in which people are invited to engage.
A girl can dream.
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Re: Fair treatment
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Re: Snowden
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Re: Snowden
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http://law2.wlu.edu/deptimages/Powell%20Archives/PowellMemorandumTypescript.pdf
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Re: Hypocritical
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It's cognitive dissonance, pure and simple. What a bunch of hypocrites.
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Benign?!
That said, I've got a lot of sympathy for Saeed; all he did was create a sharing tool. It's not his fault if other people used it to share items the government doesn't want shared.
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Re: Cognitive Dissonance and Glass Houses
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Bu-b-but red tape and bureaucracy gets in the way of us doing our job!
- The DEA
free reign
It's "free rein," Tim. A king reigns, there are reins on a horse. When you give the horse free rein, it goes where it wants. /spelling nazi
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Good one, Danny.
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You can make make money well enough from an idea without having a monopoly of any length on it; millions of people do so every day.
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