Secrecy vs Privacy

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/03/03/285334820/if-theres-privacy-in-the-digital-age-it-has-a-new-definition

Strangely enough, a lot of those SECRET things that people want to keep SECRET is illegal. That illegal income, that money they are hiding from their spouse, etc etc etc etc.

Or stranger, things that they are ashamed of, ashamed that their "friends" and community will find out the truth about them.

I am not sure that we can keep ANYTHING secret anymore.
(Not saying that we shouldn't try. Not saying that we should let the government spy on us.)
But, so much of what we do is just out there in the public. And the tech to track ALL of it is now trivial and dirt cheap.

Time to start thinking about what that data means, how we should use it and not use it.

Tracking Boston Marathon bombers down??
AWESOME use of the data.

Tracking down the never-ending lies of politicians?
AWESOME use of the data.

Worried that Target might target market me stuff that I might want to buy??
LOL - I refuse to lose any sleep over this.

Worried that your company might fire you because they find out that you are gay, or had an abortion?
WELL, NOW I have a problem. And, strangely enough, we have been moving to make those kind of things illegal for companies to do for a while.

Arizona tried to pass a law that would legalize this. It was shot down.
More and more BIG companies are fighting back against people using their "morals" as tools of HATE.

meh
not losing any sleep over this



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another AWESOME point of the death of secrecy ....
With no more secrets, it is MUCH harder for governments to commit the heinous that they have in the past.

And easier for us to find out when they did and trace who did what and when.

London July 2014

So I am in England for a week this summer, mostly London.
Been there before, I have a list of things that I havent done and want to do,  do again, and did before and MEH, not doing again.

Been there Done That
Tower of London
British Museum
Canterbury
Royal George for a Musical
Castle Dover
Castle Leads

Would do again
Westminster Abbey - really worth doing

Going to do this trip

Royal Shakespaere Company - unless they have nothing on ;-) Matilda ???

Thinking about doing

Bath/Stonehedge

Old London - the strange that still exists from long ago

The Eye

Ed's Easy Diner? LOL

Saatchi Gallery

Cardiff ? HAHAHHA HAHAH Stupid Torchwood and Dr Who

Double Decker Bus Tour

Thought from the rest of you??

Consequences

Amazing response to dealing with trolls, one in particular

http://superopinionated.com/2011/02/08/here-is-a-project-troll-data-analysis/

BONUS!

I was planning on doing a name-and-shame of the idiots who harassed me on Facebook using their real accounts. However, it just makes me too sad. If you’ve messaged me with gross images or the word “RAPE” repeated over and over in the body of the message or whatever, please consider revisiting your Facebook privacy settings. For several of you, I can see where you live and work. And one of you in particular is who I’d like to talk to right now:

Kid, due to your disregard for the overlap between your online trolling and real life, I now know what your high school colors are. I know your hometown, your entire employment history and what community college you attended. I can also see your girlfriend’s profile and the fact that you two now live in her hometown, not yours. I can see the names and profiles of your parents, your brother, and your three sisters. I can see your phone number.

I get that when you’re recently 22, you might feel like nothing you do could ever have consequences. I suppose if I really wanted to demonstrate how wrong that feeling is I could get in touch with your family or girlfriend to let them see how you treat women you disagree with. However, you’re a stranger, you’re several states away, and even though we’re both apparently fans of How I Met Your Mother, I don’t really worry about you having an impact on my day-to-day life.

But kid, let me promise you right now: if you ever try and use the computer programming skills you got in community college to work in the video game industry, I will be expecting an apology from you about the harassing tweets and disgusting images. I can have a long memory when I choose to, and since you made such a compelling case for me to do so, I’m choosing to now. I hope you eventually grow up, but in the meantime your behavior shows you to be exactly what this industry doesn’t need. I’m not afraid of making that fact known should you attempt to enter it. You wanted my attention; you got it. Enjoy the consequences.

Liberal vs Conservative

Liberal - Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
Conservative - Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.

You have 3 addition obvious groups:
Further Left - Radical Liberals, which include socialists, communists, anarchists. They might be 10-15% of the country.

Further Right - Radical Conservatives, which include, tea party nuts and randists

The Middle - Centrists 

If you split the groups into 5 equal parts of 20% each, you will always get 60% in the middle, center-left, center and center-right. Whoever wins The Middle will pretty much always win the general election. They have the numbers. Even in primaries, the candidate which is closer to the center tends to win. (look at gore, kerry, mccain and romney, all of them were centrists to some degree or another compared to their competition. 

A third party? LOL
The far right would be too small, the far left would be too small, and these are the people who WANT a 3rd party, which would really be a 3rd and 4th party.

The only 3rd party that could work at all would be a centrist party (which is what the democrats have become - clinton and obama are both centrists or even slightly right of center.)

A centrist party could be from 40-60% of the voters, with 20 to 30% being on each side.

The centrist party would almost always win.

IF the GOP splits in two parts, they will always lose to the democrats. If the DEMS split, they will always lose to the GOP. Therefore, neither party will every split.

It would be interesting if center-right members left to become centrist-independents and caucused with the democrats. Shifting the majority further toward the center to center-left. The likelihood of the reverse happening is lower, that shift has already happened over the last 50 years with conservative dems switching to the GOP.

writing to a friend, while listening to sad music and talking about the dark times

"There can be no light without the dark. Songs like this help make the light so much brighter. Compare where you are today with those dark days. The pictures of Aria's shiny little face are reflecting your glow."

Leslie Sharp and Andrew Lincoln

Look, you never listen, you never watch the movies or shows that I go on and on about.
But once in a blue moon, ONE of you trusts me a tiny bit, Keith just started Chuck, he got to episode 10 without even trying, Denise watched Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica and was amazed.

So I am rewatching an episode of Dr Who, dont worry, you would hate it, but it guest stars Leslie Sharp and she is AMAZING. So the first time that I was watching this one episode, as always happens when I am watching and entertaining myself, I google the show and look at what else actors have done.

Well, Leslie Sharp was in a short series with Andrew Lincoln.

WAIT WHAT? Andrew Lincoln? The same guy from The Walking Dead?
Well I love that series, so of course I would be interested in something that both of them were in, right?
RIGHT??

Afterlife
University lecturer Robert Bridge (Andrew Lincoln) becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy (Lesley Sharp) in this chilling TV series.

Look, I am not sure how I would explain this to convince you to watch it.
Haunting
Compelling
Amazing
One of my all time favorites.

Like all supernatural stories, they ask you to suspend disbelief. And if they ask too much, you can not enjoy the show. This one ask for the tiniest bit. One that a lot of people already believe, which makes the transition so easy. She can see ghosts.

That's it. She can see ghosts.

The consequences though are what make the stories amazing.
Some of them wont leave her alone. Some living want to contact the dead. Some are restless spirits, trying to be released.

Andrew Lincoln plays a psychologist who interviews her. Of course, he has a few ghosts of his own. Which will break your heart.

In the end, this is just some amazing writing and acting and directing from the BBC.

Enjoy

PS
If anyone ever watches this, let me know, I really want to know what you thought!

SHIT PISS FUCK CUNT - swearing in the future

The article was pretty worthless without discussing what would be the NEW profanity topics. Science Fiction has led the way in a bunch of different stories and we can go from there.

If and when the vegans get there way and become the majority, there will be many swear words for the meat eaters.
Carnivorewould become an insult.

Recycling and waste. Look at how people already look at you funny if you toss a can or bottle in the trash. There is clearly something wrong with you. Waster! Dont get me started about wasting water or electricity, you  nasty clean freak.

If homo-sex became more common than hetero-sex, people would be ripping on straights and breeders.

FFS look at how the Luddites have turned education into an insult already. Elite has become an insult!!

At some point if the atheists ever become the majority, believers would be the new group to hate on.

1% percenters havent quite turned into a hated group. But if the economy died, they certainly would join the ranks of the insulted.

Private vs public transportation.
Private homes vs Renters
Full time vs part time
Healthy vs sick
Fat vs trim
Tall vs short

strange, the article didnt mention any of these as what the future would hold for swear words.

Conservatives, liberals, bigots.
When does moderate become an insult?

Prude will come back in fashion to insult the people who are still insulted by shiat piss fark.