An open letter to The United States Senate, in particular to those currently serving in the capacity of adjudication in the matter of potential Supreme Court Justice, Honorable Brett Kavanaugh: It is with some quiet wonderment that I witness this, the latest skirmish within the halls of what is supposed to be our most humble […]
8:17am PST – I’m sitting here listening to a government official grilling a corporate representative on hate speech and how/when/if it is removed. As much as I detest the type of content currently at centerpiece of the discussion, it remains that the notion of the government in any way instructing corporations on how/when/if they must […]
I believe that We The People are being played. I believe that, around this globe, those in positions of leadership[1] and/or power know that there is but one thing to keep all of this speculative investment, revenue-hiding, debt kiting, usury-inciting, offshore-work exploiting, offshore-bank-account-infusing group of REPRESENTATIVES AND TRUSTEES proceeding (sometimes quite literally) full speed ahead: […]
I have come to an awareness that, perhaps for the first time in our country’s history, the United States has fallen to being aggressively indisposed toward its constituency. Be it by the bludgeoning of over-informing, the divisiveness of misinforming, or the profound distraction of both in the national and community commons, a somewhat corporatist, political, […]
TL;DR – They really think they have you now, Mr. Anderson. (The Kinks) This is a very nice piece of propaganda, but it IS propaganda. You do realize that there comes a point where vocal opposition without action becomes support, yes? For that matter, any vocal opposition without action is support. If not in the […]
(Delivered via email in response to his unfortunate decision to spam me without being asked to do so.) Representative Smith, As a resident of Hillman City for the last three years, I have been a little more lax than usual in relation to staying in touch with what is happening in my home district and […]
Use Google Drive… ? Oh sure, use it: If you want Google to be able to use, re-use, and plagiarize your work. http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/04/26/google-drive-sparks-privacy-concerns-among-businesses/ If you are ok with Google claiming rights to use your work and content in its ads or potentially make it public to the world (if you forget to flick a certain […]
This latest from Google puts me in mind of an Uncle Remus tale: http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/04/16/brin-we-would-not-have-been-able-to-develop-google-if-the-internet-had-been-dominated-by-facebook/ What’s that you say? Facebook is a walled garden? Say it ain’t so! Oh, lawdy, ‘jes don’ put me in the Facebook patch! (Google WISHES it had Facebook’s troubles, press, and market.) Seriously, this has got to be the most ludicrous […]
I’d like to say I’m surprised, but I’m not. I now think that Google is becoming quite expert at both hypocrisy and “being evil”. I’d like to say I cannot imagine how I missed this story (January 2nd) but, considering the topic, I can imagine just fine. Looks like Google is (again) breaking their own […]
Today, I’m reading an article that speaks about the NSTIC (National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace) initiative; the latest, greatest effort to mandate identity online. Essentially, this appears to be an effort to empower a group of corporations to serve as the de facto administrators of online identity. More pointedly, it supports this “unofficial” […]