Who is making mindless rants about Flock? People who have never felt threatened by crime and maybe some fucked up weirdos who are either casual criminals or secretly aspire to be ones.
Thank you for showing us that your lens is cracked.
Pervasive surveillance is antithetical to a Free Society. Period.
Weird. Communications just aren't all that important to you. *shrug*
Let's hope you never have a need for communications. Actually, since you do not want anyone else to have it either, I hope for ALL of us that a dire emergency where communication would save lives never happens.
I can agree that in non-emergencies, AM radio is an utter waste. I can agree that emergencies where major infrastructure is not terribly impacted, AM radio is a waste. If even one bomb gets dropped, you would be VERY glad for AM radio. The amount of infrastructure it needs is so minimal that a singular individual could stand up a station with minimal infrastructure. A shame all of the Radio Shacks are gone now. Makes it slightly more difficult to set up an AM transmitter.
I mean the software is impressive and all, but since when is someone with a user ID in the 400,000s a long-time reader?
This account has been active since 2004 or so. That counts as a long time. 20+ years definitely qualifies as a "long time".
They are doing the first step now. The second one may not be needed.
LOL, do you really think the leopard will change its spots? The second step is ALWAYS needed. Who is the leopard in this scenario? The one who has the power... currently a UK company.
12PM is fucking noon is when the fucking sun is at its highest position in the sky.
It has been like this for at least a millennia. DST is bullshit.
Live with nature and quit fucking denying it like a conservative.
*hug*
America had a republic until Lincolns' War of Northern Aggression.
Oh look, it's the hipster maggot come along to tell us all how great slavery was.
Look bro, have you ever heard this saying:
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
-- H.L. Mencken"
It was indeed, the War of Northern Aggression. The reasoning by the North was valid, the path taken was not. That should be fixed first. Centralized power is the ill that is killing the USA right now.
Since some people are unable to think clearly, what I am saying is that Slavery absolutely *IS* bad; however, the ends do not justify the means.
Nobody can march down the street and burn them down.
Aha! Someone else who understands.
There is not a single aspect of this were the idea is actually good. All it does is tickle the imagination of the clueless. And that is exactly why it gets pushed.
In space, the enraged proletariat will not be able to smash the satellite with pitchforks and rocks. That is why compute in space is so desirable: YOU can't stop it.
AI will be your personal government enforced monitor. Say, "hi" to Big Brother, in space.
If we ever again have even remotely sane management
Sadly, not in our lifetime. We are too old. The fascists have won. We will be a failed State like Russia or the various governments in Africa, or India... holy fuck. The entire world is corrupt and failed.
Billions claim to follow a religion of Love, Peace, and Truth and still allow this shit. Hypocrites... or just REALLY dumb people who can be led to believe that up is down etc.
So they discovered their error prior to bombing the girls school in Iran? Oh wait, you are purposefully missing the point explicitly because nothing bad happened this particular time. You deserve all of the misery that is coming.
It couldn't do worse.
To reproduce is to guarantee an innocent person all the suffering and tedium of a lifetime. I cannot imagine a more sadistic act than inflicting life.
There is no altruistic reason to have children. No one suffers when a person opts out of reproduction. To not reproduce is the ethical choice.
What's the difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman? A used car salesman knows when he's lying.
