As a shift worker, I regularly watch parliarment question time (it is either that or offensive/degrading FLIRT/porn spiced dating adverts) and so inclined to disagree.
It has been talked about before that war could be declared on us by (say) Indonesia.
Well, they do have 240+ million to our 20 million, so I sometimes wonder how many volcanoes have to open in that ring of fire before they decide North Oz looks a bit more stable ...
Then the government decides they need censorship of foreign news reports etc. Well the tool is already there to allow them to do that with this filter
To stop us panicking, requiring our guns back, and stop shopping for banal nonsenses ? Hmmmm .. but how deep would "their" bunker be to keep them safe should we be invaded ?
Nah, doesn't work for me ... if the Powers That Be thought we were in danger from a foreign land, they would do better to make sure we were armed and dangerous in order to give them as much breathing/running/hiding time as possible.
Such sell out ideas only work if there is an actual benefit to those doing the selling out.
Depends how the false postives are generated. Is it a blacklist? Is it an algorithm that looks for words or pictures – as someone has suggested before there go all the information sites on breast cancer.
I think we are trying to get too clever here. Sure, many of us here (including me) think along such lines, for after all, we are about using IT to make the world a clever wonderful and better place. Conroy and CO are just about keeping the most amount of people happy with the least amount of complexity, thus, I wouldn't be surprised if the final product wasn't much better than being akin to host file exclusions or something like that.
Another pet word. Oh well, decrease your credibility slightly more if that is possible.
(presumably in response to "notwork" ?)
Only a narcissist sees themselves as vital, important, necessary, needful to the drama they have immersed themselves in. I, on the other hand, am more than happy to have my words, even single words, outlive me ... especially if it helps diffuse the bane of our world; Fanatical Religious Zealotism, and instead helps folk to think/act/be more balanced in life.
You are talking about the proposed faster network – but at the same time you said you are happy on 256k ADSL. So yes – you will get a hit on your connection. As will I using a 3G based speed limited service. So you might as well contact your service provider and say I don't need 256 anymore, drop it to 180 please.
No richary, because the fact is no one really knows ... all that is going on here is hysterical scare mongering for personal gain. Same applies re: the environtologists and the church of environtology, ec, etc.
[confession]
You might remember me as someone particularly Fanatical once upon a time. Sure, I'm still fanatical, but mainly against religious zealotry whatever form it might take (religion being such a broad term and measure).
Why ? September 11, 2001. Since then, whenever I see anything getting too fanatical in one direction or another, I seek to find ways to bring it back to balance, the middle. Can you see why I might be attracted to this discussion and issue ?
[/confession]
I'm happy enough with the 256/65 connection ATM because there is nothing worth spending anything more on ATM IMHO. Sure, it would be nice to be downloading Ubuntu 8.10 while typing this and getting the next season of "Reaper" (excellent comedy about someone who's soul is sold to the devil by his parents) from the US at the same time, but I can wait for it to come here on DVD and the next PC mag to include it.
Perhaps we ALL need to slow down a bit ... even if just to learn to appreciate things a little bit more/better ?
That being said, I doubt if there will be any kind of meaningful slow down for very long.
There never is, dammit.
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