I heard that oxygen was the preferred inhalant of terrorists. In fact, vast swathes of terrorists use oxygen directly to further bomb making, grainy video production, and training others in bomb making.
Yes, well, keep in mind that you're dealing with inferior people equipped with inferior minds there: they presume that just because they're stupid enough to join facebook et.al. that everyone else is equally stupid. It never penetrates their dim consciousness that superior people don't do such things, therefore -- as you say -- they presume that those who don't are lying.
This is the only part of your post I'm not sure I agree with. I think this product is much more "low hanging fruit with a well-targeted marketing campaign designed to play on the fears of people in specific positions". Geo Listening are not dumb. They've made a product that they predicted a market for, and they were right. Unless they're lying about something I'd say they were smart. If you can turn writing "a perl script to coalesce RSS feeds and push them through a keyword filter" into large government contracts, good for you. Stupid for the school board and the taxpayers, but good for you. The rest of your post is spot on.
The test of this program (not Geo Listening, but the entire program as instituted by the school board) will be how they respond to the grey area posts and the things require sensitive handling (e.g. depression and suicidal posts).
As you say, given their approach to date, I'd hazard the odds are not good.
The challenge with Iran is that the president rules with the consent of the mullahs. The theocracy wields the ultimate power.
They also have an established pattern of looking like they'll allow reform, and those who stick up their heads lose their heads.
While I would love to see change in Iran, even taking the new president at face value doesn't carry much weight as the mullahs are the final authority in Iran.
I don't feel an ounce of pity for Gibbs. He helped propagate the Prenda nonsense knowingly, he only turned on them after they burned him. While I'm glad Prenda is starting to fall apart, and Gibbs is finally being less untruthful, it's motivated by self-interest, there's nothing altruistic or noble about what he's doing.
Yes, like the time the Illuminati in conjunction with the Thule Society tried to introduce a mind control serum into the water supply and were only stopped at the last minute by a courageous young boy and his rascal of a dog.
I'd like to see the ACLU or similar take on this case and seek a declaratory judgement, and perhaps some finding of harassment (Assuming they have the available resources).
You'd also think the whole "I'm not going to charge now, and may choose to sit on this for up to 3 years" would violate Mr. Newingham's right to a speedy trial, or at least provide grounds for such a claim should Schmucko vonJusticar decide to file charges later on.
The purpose of that money is precisely to make available the knowledge. Locking it up defeats the purpose of the spending.
This times a million. AC has so many conflations going on (things that are valuable should be restricted to create more value, it being worth something therefore people will pay for it, blah blah blah) my head was spinning. How to peel back the onion of stupid? Whether to start by pointing out that value is derived from free and accessible knowledge, even by AC? To attack the heuristic that because something costs money to create it should require money to access? That MIT should invest taxpayer money in things that benefit, you know, taxpayers?
Your comment, Richard, cuts through all of it. Kudos.
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This is the only part of your post I'm not sure I agree with. I think this product is much more "low hanging fruit with a well-targeted marketing campaign designed to play on the fears of people in specific positions". Geo Listening are not dumb. They've made a product that they predicted a market for, and they were right. Unless they're lying about something I'd say they were smart. If you can turn writing "a perl script to coalesce RSS feeds and push them through a keyword filter" into large government contracts, good for you. Stupid for the school board and the taxpayers, but good for you. The rest of your post is spot on.
The test of this program (not Geo Listening, but the entire program as instituted by the school board) will be how they respond to the grey area posts and the things require sensitive handling (e.g. depression and suicidal posts).
As you say, given their approach to date, I'd hazard the odds are not good.
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They also have an established pattern of looking like they'll allow reform, and those who stick up their heads lose their heads.
While I would love to see change in Iran, even taking the new president at face value doesn't carry much weight as the mullahs are the final authority in Iran.
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Absolutely racist
Are you really so dumb as to suggest this isn't racist?
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Yup, still rings of the NYPD to me.
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Declaratory Judgement?
You'd also think the whole "I'm not going to charge now, and may choose to sit on this for up to 3 years" would violate Mr. Newingham's right to a speedy trial, or at least provide grounds for such a claim should Schmucko vonJusticar decide to file charges later on.
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This times a million. AC has so many conflations going on (things that are valuable should be restricted to create more value, it being worth something therefore people will pay for it, blah blah blah) my head was spinning. How to peel back the onion of stupid? Whether to start by pointing out that value is derived from free and accessible knowledge, even by AC? To attack the heuristic that because something costs money to create it should require money to access? That MIT should invest taxpayer money in things that benefit, you know, taxpayers?
Your comment, Richard, cuts through all of it. Kudos.
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