@HerraBRE Under your standard pretense of civility there's a thinking human being who was able to overcome the usual laziness of caring only about form.
@HerraBRE Of course I'm not suggesting that people should become something disgusting like McAfee.
I don't know what you disagree with as I'm not proposing that you do anything specific.
What I'm doing is to highlight the jarring incoherence of doing absolutely nothing to improve radical causes, and choosing the role of being idle commentators when capitalists are stealing actual economic value from the commons to enrich themselves.
So today people are envious and complaining that McAfee is seizing the means of production, and they're doing nothing to finance their own causes, they won't even steal from the rich people they hate.
Lobotomy of the liberal mind and its superior christian ethics.
When Obama pioneered his industrial persecution of immigrants, taking it to record levels of deportation unseen since WWII, that wasn't too bad. Trump is only capable of doing this now because liberals supported it first.
@grainloom "Out of an abundance of love for the mobile web, Google has volunteered to run the infrastructure, especially the user tracking parts of it." Snerk.
"Everything we do to make it harder to create a website or edit a web page, and harder to learn to code by viewing source, promotes that consumerist vision of the web.
Pretending that one needs a team of professionals to put simple articles online will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Overcomplicating the web means lifting up the ladder that used to make it possible for people to teach themselves and surprise everyone with unexpected new ideas."
"It is likely that there is further major writing by Turing yet to be released from government secrecy. One might conjecture about the following items: reports on the security of Allied cryptosystems; a 1945 report on his visit to Germany; a 1946 report for GCHQ on the potential of the digital computer he was designing at the NPL; a 1948/9 report for GCHQ commenting on Shannon's theory of communication and cryptography "
There's no new low they won't stoop. When people are dying in the street, and we have knowledge that that could be easily avoidable, that's not austerity. Put simply, it's eugenics.
@h That’s the rich-get-richer aspect of the power law. The dumb luck winners have subsequent advantage in winning more opportunities and, as you say, block others.
Conservatives and liberals have convinced too many people about the absolute finality of their respective visions of the ends of history they rehearse in their minds.
This firm conviction that nothing but these dictated, restricted pre-fab permafutures are possible is not defeatism, and not self-defeating: it's something worse.
It's inception of an idea deep down the brain that from the perspective of the host of the ideavirus feels like he has thought those thoughts himself