Posts by blue

Slime

>It's like they all know the direction we're heading and nobody is steering.

Kind of like a giant slimemold - working by instinct alone to migrate toward food - but here the desired matter is power. It's in the nature of those who are given power that they want more, even if they don't consciously acknowledge it to themselves, let alone others (and propagate the myth that it's all done to protect).

New tech in this regard is like a new pasture to be occupied and devoured.

As the resources of greater and more expansive powers become available, they're unable to help themselves without a conscious effort to practice restraint. But because they see themselves as a 'cut above' those they're exercising power over and don't feel the consequences themselves, their view is one-sided. Their sympathy is lacking and so their greed is unabated and unchecked.

That's when there is need an intervention.

For their own good, of course.

And everyone else's.

The Unacceptably High Price of Safety

The terrorists want to destroy our way of life. That's what we're told. And yet here we are with the government watching our every move, stopping us from reading certain things - being exposed to certain words and ideas; wanting to curb the drinking of alcohol; puntitive crackdowns on unnaceptable forms of sexuality; movements to stop certain 'language' on TV - curbs on 'offensive' speech; curtailing and banning musical performances - restrictions on expressions of our culture.

I can't be the only one thinking that we *might as well* be living under the fucking Taliban.

Is there still some doubt?

Police State. We Has It.

Pirate Bay

I read the other day that the Pirate Bay routinely inserts random IP addresses into its torrents, and as a result dozens of people are being falsely accused of sharing games by IP harvesting suebots.

If every public tracker/p2p program did this, I'm guessing the backlash for the idiots who made this suspicion=guilt law might be significant?