03-09-2017, 10:27 AM
(03-09-2017, 04:35 AM)Galen Wrote:(03-08-2017, 08:40 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:
Sargon of Akkad does tend to get his facts straight and thus is worth listening to.
And what if I choose to heed King Arthur, Merlin, or "William Tell"?
Quote:This is why I prefer a much smaller government with a foreign policy closer to Switzerland since it would be much harder to do these kinds of things. Lets face it, the CIA and NSA doing this kind of shit indicates more of a desire to control the population of then to deal with foreign threats. Think of what Stalin would have done with this which is why I do not have a smartphone.
Maybe you would be happier if the United States were broken up into entities similar to Switzerland in population and you could choose which one in which to live. There are parts of America that would become similar to Switzerland in critical ways, like having a linguistic divide. Of course, there are parts of America that cannot have the living standard, let alone scenery, of Switzerland.
"If Stalin had had this power"... anachronism of the 'alternative history' genre of science fiction. Just imagine how much more power Stalin would have had had computers been available.
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I also avoid proprietary software because unless I control software on a device then someone else controls the device. While Richard Stallman is an economic illiterate but on the issue of free software and privacy time has shown that he is largely correct on that issue.
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I don't put my picture on Facebook.
If you do not trust proprietary software, then you do not trust free enterprise.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.