"appear" is the key word here... you must disabuse yourself of the idea that this is really a small-dee democracy, the 'leaders' and such are really trying hard to make it work for us 99%, etc, etc, etc...
in other words, EVERYTHING you 'know' about America is a lie... EVERYTHING is bullshit propaganda intended to keep the rabble in line...
the purpose of this system, this society is NOT to provide the greatest good for the greatest number, the purpose -as set up or hijacked by our 'superiors'- is to funnel ALL the money, ALL the power, ALL the control to the 1%...
all the while attempting to hide the naked power mongering behind a thin veneer of democracy-looking institutions and processes...
...next election, i'm going to write-in Edward Snowden on EVERY ballot position available, from dog-catcher to senator... AND it will be the proudest ballot i ever submitted...
here's the thing: we KNOW if sauron turns his all-seeing eye on you, YOU WILL BE FUCKED, no matter what... 'legal' schmegal, DOES NOT MATTER any more: Empire will fuck you up, period... 'legality' has NO MEANING in this society any longer, get that through your morality-seeking brain...
1. so-o-o-o, we are supposed to 'trust' LEO's who lie with impunity, even over things they aren't allowed to lie about ? ? ? gee, that sounds about right... 2. so-o-o-o, they are the ONLY group of LEOs who can be trusted to NOT abuse this technology that has no record or other means of restricting or monitoring its use ? ? ? maybe we need to start a company that makes gizmos to monitor police state monitoring equipment... bet THAT would go over real big...
you would have had to go on at still greater length to catalog the litany of valid points against Big Media and their predatory, extortionist actions... and that is just the what the average joe like yourself runs into in *attempting* to 'legally' view current media: we pay exorbitant fees for temporary license to view 90% crap; we are restricted in so many ways that ONLY legal buyers are encumbered, while pirates have nicer, free-er versions; and THEN we get pilloried for making and end-run around their artificial restrictions...
a handful of dedicated amateurs make BETTER versions of THEIR products, and they sic the police state on you... why don't they try -i don't know- COMPETING ! ! !
i heard tell once, that *used* to be the American way... now, its just hit-them-over-the-head-and-take-their-shit thuggishness...
this was *many* years ago, before nielsen had 'set top' boxes, etc... i was a temporary nielsen 'family' (of a single guy) who was supposed to keep a 'diary' of my viewing for -as i recall- a month... they gave you a little digest sized calendar, and you were supposed to write in every time you turned on the teevee, who -if anyone- was watching (and their gender, age, etc) for what time frame, what channel, what show, blah blah blah... you know how long that lasted ? less than a week, before i would forget, or just didn't want to bother... *then*, when it came time to send it back, i just sat down and filled in a bunch of the diary to reflect what i *would like* to have watched, NOT necessarily what i actually watched...
the 'hold up' (how appropriate), is that besides holding all us lowly end users up for exorbitant prices on crap teevee, Big Media also has its own internecine squabbles... after screwing us over as much as they can get away with (Plus just a little bit more !), they turn on each other to screw each other over...
ONE of the major playing cards in this 'game' among the Big Media oligarchy, is 'sports'... and particularly live broadcasts of the major sports...
i have no idea what the percentages are (apparently a LOT less among the younger set), but a LOT of people -including this formerly avid, now mild-medium sports fan- want live sports broadcasts at a minimum, and base their cable/satellite/etc teevee packages on that factoid...
like dune: he who controls the sports, controls the teevee universe...
"swag" is the whole bidness model of dizzy world, et al... it is ALL about the marketing of chinese-made crap to pre-pubescent grrls... swag makes money... mere artistry -no matter how excellent- does not, in and of itself, make money...
*if only* there was -like- some sort of -i don't know- region identifier that could be used to, -um, let's say- link an advert so it -oh, what's the word- targets specific audiences based on that ? obviously, that can't be technically feasible...
if we don't turn this titanic empire around, we are bound to run aground... we rip the hull open, that tomorrow will make today seem like moral and enlightened times...
the sooner the fall, the gentler for all... Empire must die, or surely we will...
the absolutely dunderheaded aspect of this, is the little monsters are absolutely shielded from ANY and ALL of even the slightest, tangential, hint of S.E.X., etc; but then get out of school and go to their friends house and surf pron (if not perform pron), dead body sites, whatever sick and stupid shit kids are ALWAYS into when they are kids... (its called 'being kids', and -in some cases- 'being adults')
'cause, all it takes is ONE loudmouth, ignorant, uptight useless mouth-breather of a 'parent' to bitch about SOMETHING/ANYTHING, and the school admin will back down 99.99% of the time simply to avoid 'the controversy'...
...and *that*, kampers, is a race to the least common denominator...
it is INFINITELY easier to play to sheeple's fears, than to have them aspire to be better...
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we *are* the death star, silly...
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its sausages all the way down ! ! !
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you must disabuse yourself of the idea that this is really a small-dee democracy, the 'leaders' and such are really trying hard to make it work for us 99%, etc, etc, etc...
in other words, EVERYTHING you 'know' about America is a lie... EVERYTHING is bullshit propaganda intended to keep the rabble in line...
the purpose of this system, this society is NOT to provide the greatest good for the greatest number, the purpose -as set up or hijacked by our 'superiors'- is to funnel ALL the money, ALL the power, ALL the control to the 1%...
all the while attempting to hide the naked power mongering behind a thin veneer of democracy-looking institutions and processes...
bread tastes good, and circuses are fun...
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i'm telling you...
AND it will be the proudest ballot i ever submitted...
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we KNOW if sauron turns his all-seeing eye on you, YOU WILL BE FUCKED, no matter what...
'legal' schmegal, DOES NOT MATTER any more: Empire will fuck you up, period...
'legality' has NO MEANING in this society any longer, get that through your morality-seeking brain...
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gee, that sounds about right...
2. so-o-o-o, they are the ONLY group of LEOs who can be trusted to NOT abuse this technology that has no record or other means of restricting or monitoring its use ? ? ?
maybe we need to start a company that makes gizmos to monitor police state monitoring equipment...
bet THAT would go over real big...
scumbags all...
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and that is just the what the average joe like yourself runs into in *attempting* to 'legally' view current media: we pay exorbitant fees for temporary license to view 90% crap; we are restricted in so many ways that ONLY legal buyers are encumbered, while pirates have nicer, free-er versions; and THEN we get pilloried for making and end-run around their artificial restrictions...
a handful of dedicated amateurs make BETTER versions of THEIR products, and they sic the police state on you...
why don't they try -i don't know- COMPETING ! ! !
i heard tell once, that *used* to be the American way...
now, its just hit-them-over-the-head-and-take-their-shit thuggishness...
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i was a temporary nielsen 'family' (of a single guy) who was supposed to keep a 'diary' of my viewing for -as i recall- a month...
they gave you a little digest sized calendar, and you were supposed to write in every time you turned on the teevee, who -if anyone- was watching (and their gender, age, etc) for what time frame, what channel, what show, blah blah blah...
you know how long that lasted ? less than a week, before i would forget, or just didn't want to bother... *then*, when it came time to send it back, i just sat down and filled in a bunch of the diary to reflect what i *would like* to have watched, NOT necessarily what i actually watched...
and another bogus nielsen number was born...
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ONE of the major playing cards in this 'game' among the Big Media oligarchy, is 'sports'...
and particularly live broadcasts of the major sports...
i have no idea what the percentages are (apparently a LOT less among the younger set), but a LOT of people -including this formerly avid, now mild-medium sports fan- want live sports broadcasts at a minimum, and base their cable/satellite/etc teevee packages on that factoid...
like dune: he who controls the sports, controls the teevee universe...
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"swag" is the whole bidness model of dizzy world, et al...
it is ALL about the marketing of chinese-made crap to pre-pubescent grrls...
swag makes money...
mere artistry -no matter how excellent- does not, in and of itself, make money...
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obviously, that can't be technically feasible...
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the sooner the fall, the gentler for all...
Empire must die, or surely we will...
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(its called 'being kids', and -in some cases- 'being adults')
'cause, all it takes is ONE loudmouth, ignorant, uptight useless mouth-breather of a 'parent' to bitch about SOMETHING/ANYTHING, and the school admin will back down 99.99% of the time simply to avoid 'the controversy'...
...and *that*, kampers, is a race to the least common denominator...
it is INFINITELY easier to play to sheeple's fears, than to have them aspire to be better...
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more non-sense about nonsense; makes ME want to get all up in their faces with as much 'obscene' shit as i can muster...
one more time with feeling:
you have the right to NOT be assaulted;
you do NOT have the right to NOT be insulted...
grow a pair of 'nads, or FOAD...
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only so much you can do to protect people from their own stupidity, and usually, that is too much...
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did you pay taxes ? ? ?
if 'yes' YOU ARE AN NSA 'COLLABORATOR' ! ! !
OMGZ ! ! !
dick
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you know, i used to think like this when i was 10-12 years old, then i grew up...
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