Option 3.
Sadly.
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lol unless they shut down all of the US based ispâs itâs not going to do anything.
The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will be tweeted, internet streamed, retweeted, blogged, and shortly after uploaded to youtube. The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised⌠will not be televised.
/bongo drums
The Constitution gets stepped on daily. Donât even get me started on how often people wipe their asses with it. The all mighty dollar logically rules the States, but itâs getting to the point where certain corporations in the world are apparently âtoo bigâ to fail, or technically incapable of losing money (banks). They stop even having boundaries. I wouldnât even say Goldman Sachâs is American anymore. They supercede America. European banks and megacorporations have just as much of a chance to buy there way in North America, as North American corporations and banks do.
What chance do you have when banks and corporations see a way to get more money, and literally have laws changed to allow them to do so? Because we still concede that corporations and businesses are people? People that we canât execute or prosecute and that donât DIE, and can be created for a few bucks to front scams.
We need a whole new law system, designed to PROPERLY deal with people and corporations/banks/etc who can literally buy and sell NATIONS. Or we are fucked as a civilization. This isnât like back when we had shit like the East India Tea Company or a company could influence their government/king to influence others. These companies today can cripple dozens of countries in the blink of an eye. Thatâs TOO much power for anybody, me thinksâŚ
Doesnât matter and it wonât happen to the internet. The government would have to be retarded to shut off communication to US citizens. People would literally revolt and the government would be finished.
In addition, there are many individuals, both within and outside the US, that have the capability of literally disabling data communication for not just the government but the corporations as well. They can but CHOOSE not to. It would be really stupid to give these people a reason.
Fixed that up for you Cigar. :tup:
Iâd agree except the younger generation isnât as ignorant as they used to be, generally speaking. In short, racism donât âflyâ any more. Maybe if there would be a war it would be a class war, with rich people hiding in their fortresses or escaping to less accessible places. Iâd love to go into discussions about this stuff (never really gave it much thought beyond the obvious), but that would make most of us seem crazier than we are lol. Itâs funny how itâs not culturally acceptable to look at the big picture, and how youâre supposed to just stay in your own little world with your head down. Like a child. We need to change that.
If that would happen there would be a tidal wave of open minded and curious people, and maybe weâd have more hope than we do now.
If thereâs revolution its going to be violent. Because people will fight and kill to ensure that what they fought for isnât wasted by the petty ideals of some fucking foerigner who doesnât belong here.
I often wonder, is the allusion of freedom and liberty worse than the reality of dictatorship. We are told and brainwashed into thinking we have a choice, when we really donât. We pay to get raped by the other side of the coin.
using the ps3 is an extremely poor example of âplanned obsolescenceâ. just consider that sony loses money on ps3 units. their profits dont come directly from the system itself
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I believe this was in the first year or 2 of the PS3 and peripherals and games were what offset the loss. When the technology became cheaper and they started removing whatever chip it was for hardware emulation of PS2 games and then just stop PS2 emulation outright, they were turning profits.
Huh? I donât understand this nor have I experienced it. Only ignorance can lead to a narrow view of the world.
Are you saying becoming educated is not culturally acceptable in America in general?
Maybe itâs just the micro climate of the Monterey and SF Bay Areas. Iâm just not seeing what youâve said here. In fact Iâd say there is too much pressure on the kids to become educated where I live. Itâs more like some people are not capable of thinking about the big picture due to a lack of education and/or motivation.
edit: My opening day SF PS3 still works fine. Blu-ray movies and games still work.
If the XBOX360 was meant to fall apart, I think they fucked it up, because they certainly got raped by recalls.
Wow, a thread that verifies what I say and nobody listens to me about the world climate. Feels good man. Feels good.
No one does and no one will.
The fact that we need an overhaul is pretty obovious, the american dream of coming and making a great life for you and your is dead and itâs grave pissed on.
Itâs a cash grab of who fucks who harder and the only way to fix that is by force.
I really believe as corny as it may sound Robert A. Heinleinâs idea of rights in starship troopers where only people who have sacrificed for said nation have any right making policy for is along the lines of the only system that may work.
Oh trust me I know. I have learned just to shut up. Most people seem to be oblivious with each new law passed favors the corporatations instead of the individuals. Americans are just tools to the governement currently with the corporations controlling it. Nothing to do except revolt which then ends with harsh military put down, leave country which most are not better off or just grin and bare it.
America has been on the way to a corporate oligarchy for a while IMO.
The movie was also pretty awesome. Itâs propaganda from a Fascist government from the future.
Yeah, that doesnât sound even more open to a ludicrous level of abuse than our current system already is. Not at all.
I somewhat agree.
However, where I COMPLETELY disagree is with said service being militaristic in nature.
Which is precisely what Heinlein was advocating, and, ironically, is exactly antithetical to any peaceable, just future, we might, as a race, endeavor to create.
Stop posting quips that mirror my longer, more elaborate rejoinders, but get posted faster! 
360 wasnât planned obsolescence. Some engineer got in shit for writing a book on MS blunder.
Higher ups kept asking for more features without seeing how it would affect the system
Now the shitty ass controllers, thatâs a whole different story
Try talking to your friends or family about real deeper issues. Exploitation of people and natural resources of âthird worldâ countries, the way that capitalism encourages poor values (greed, competition, isolationism), how war is just business to the corporatocracy, why we havenât converted to clean energy despite having the technology. Etc etc. They donât really want to talk or think about that stuff. Even now you can see by watching local or national news how stuff just gets ignored, and if someone tries to speak out they will be ridiculed or looked down upon. Like hey, youâre not supposed to have opinions that go against the status quo. Please donât make our viewers actually thinkâŚ
Really you canât see this? Look at how saturated popular culture is by garbage. Reality shows, music with no message, sports, games, etc etc. I mean thereâs nothing wrong with it, but if people would put half as much thought into how we can make a better world as they put into their own self images and their own self involved lives imagine how much better the world could be.
Becoming educated is a very vague concept. What is education? Is it getting degrees in business, or economics where you learn to manipulate money and earn wages without contributing anything useful to society? Is it learning how to best attract attention through advertising, or how to appear trustworthy and have a good image like in politics?
So far my school education hasnât taught me half of what I know that I consider to be valuable. Schoolâs today teach how to do well on tests, and how to look good for scholarships, so that one day you can have a job and provide for yourself so that you can brainwash yourself into not caring what goes on in the world around you. They donât teach important things like practical problem solving, creativity, or altruism. They teach standardized tests, conformity, nationalism, and desensitization.
Sorry if I donât share the same enthusiasm for the US educational system, or our global economic system. Pretty soon you might not either.