Geniuses Wants to Eat Themselves and Take Everybody With Them
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You have to wonder…all these tech geniuses are working on the next big fear of the human race: They are all building artificial intelligence. 
If the climate doesn’t kill us, than artificial intelligence will according to them all. That thought alone is driving them forward! Why yes! Let’s build something that could destroy the human race!
To which the ordinary man makes the more logical deduction: “Well, then, don’t invent the stupid robot in the FIRST place, moron!”
You DO have a choice you know.
But, money and their own wonder of who is going to be the first human to build an artificial intelligence and be known forever as the next Steve Jobs, (ME! ME! ME!) is just too exciting to them: The money, and the ego is all you need: Damn mankind. Who needs them?
Stephen Hawkins has been the Al Gore of the “Death of mankind by Robots” scare:
‘And then Dmitri noticed something that would have a profound effect on the human/robot wars.’
He warned of a technology that could “re-design itself at an ever increasing rate” outpacing human advances.
Eldo Musk, another billionaire, speaking at a symposium held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), described the dangers of AI.
“If I were to guess what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful with the artificial intelligence,” he said. “With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.”
Along with his Paypal co-founder, Peter Thiel, and backing from Indian tech giant Infosys and Amazon Web Services, he has set up OpenAI, a nonprofit company that will back research into novel uses of AI and share the findings.
Beware of the words “non-profit” which is just another word for “tax exempt.”
When it comes to inventing new ways for them to gather big bank accounts, these guys truly are genius.
Let’s hope the first test robot gets quirky and decides to attack their inventors while they sleep…so that we can actually say, “Wow…they were right! AI is a dangerous thing. Now we know!”
If Obama The Mytholomaniac Said Something Honest, It WOULD Make History
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Anybody who has been lied to, and has known a psychopathic liar, can look at this video, and notice, that, just by the way Obama smiles calmly and explains the whole IRS scandal away as nothing, is proof that Obama himself orchestrated it.
I’ve known a few psychopathic liars myself. Some people can’t lie to save their own souls, (I’m one of them) and others, have made it into an art form.
To an honest person, being a good liar is almost a talent like hitting a home run…you sit back and go… “HOW do they DO that!” To us, it’s impossible. To them, it’s almost…thrilling.
Do we know that Obama was behind the IRS scandal? Sure. Everybody knows it. And yet, notice how Bill O’Reilly, is scared. He asks the questions and accepts the answer. In this interview, Bill O’Reilly, is scared…of Obama. I bet he didn’t do a ‘read my body language’ on this interview, did he?
Today’s Sunday talk shows were full of discussions about the IRS scandals. There is enough circumstantial evidence, despite the emails that have been destroyed, to convict them all in an honest court. Not to mention, all of those emails were backed up. (Somebody call Snowdon)
The crimes committed by the White House, and the IRS, ARE high crimes, but we have reached the point in America where the ruling class is all-powerful.
The daily lying from Obama and all his puppets of delusional Marxists fanatics are really old news, aren’t they?
Remember, we had eight years of the Clinton’s, who lied so much they must consider it a blood sport, and every time they get by with ‘murder’ they must high-five all the way to the bank.
When Hillary made her famous “What difference does it make?” speech in front of Congress, we all forget just how long she has been lying, and the lying has KEPT her in power. If Hillary had been an honest person, she would at best, be working as a teacher. ( a job she says she would like to be now.)
Remember Travelgate? Hillary came into the Oval office, and then she fired everyone in the Travel office,
” action be taken to get ‘our people’ into the travel office”
There was an investigation.
Hillary Clinton gave a deposition under oath to the Independent Counsel that touched on travel office questions; she denied having had a role in the firings, but was unable to recall many specifics of conversations with Foster and Watkins.
I remember that questioning. She said “I don’t recall” at least 110 times.
And it’s no wonder the Clinton’s wanted the old guard out of the Travel Office, they didn’t want anyone to know Bill’s trips to the islands…that’s my thought. Dale and his staff had been replaced with Little Rock, Arkansas-based World Wide Travel, a company with a substantial reputation in the industry but with several ties to the Clintons.
They brought the corruption from Arkansas with them to the White House. When did they get involved in corruption? We won’t go into the fact that Bill Clinton had lunch with David Rockefeller when he was 17, and helped run drugs in Arkansas. Hillary had Watergate.
Nobody Wonders, when do psychopathic narcissistic politicians start lying? Did they all start lying when they were kids?
And have you noticed, lying, to a liberal, is as natural breathing in air. Today I heard a liberal say that it was a IRS republican that started the Tea Party harassments. And he said it with a straight face.
Nobody Wonders, what in the world happens to a person to make them want so much power, that they will do anything under the sun, including, minute by minute lying, to get to the top?
Was the fact that Hillary’s Republican Daddy loved the boys the best? She had to prove herself to spite him?
Or Bill Clinton’s mommy had a loose sexual life, witnessed by her young son? The old “grew up with a prostitute” and no daddy problem?
Or how about Obama’s Marxists mummy and daddy deserted me, and I’m STILL angry?
There has to be deep psychological problems with all these people.
But, back to Travelgate:
The travel office controversy was subsequently judged to have been a factor in Vince Foster’s depression and July 20, 1993, suicide.[5][14] In his torn-up resignation note from a few days before, he wrote “No one in The White House, to my knowledge, violated any law or standard of conduct, including any action in the Travel Office. There was no intent to benefit any individual or specific group. […] The press is covering up the illegal benefits they received from the travel staff”.[25] (In the last part, Foster may have been referring to lax customs treatment by the Travel Office of goods brought back from foreign trips by reporters.[25])
There is ample proof that Vince Foster KNEW the Clinton’s very well, and had to be…disposed of. And the Clinton’s must have made sure that resignation got out to clear their good names.
If you do the research, the circumstantial evidence that Vince Foster was murdered is very compelling. Let’s not even get into Ron Brown.
And what did Hillary do? What democrats always do: they get RID of the evidence of their crimes.
Contrary to the White House spin, Vincent Foster’s connection to the Clinton’s was primarily via Hillary, rather than Bill. Vincent and Hillary had been partners together at the rose law firm, and allegations of an ongoing affair had persisted from the Little Rock days to the White House itself.Foster was also the keeper of the files of the Clinton’s Arkansas dealings and had indicated in a written memo that “Whitewater is a can of worms that you should NOT open!”
While the U.S. Park Police (a unit not equipped for a proper homicide investigation) studied the body, Foster’s office at the White House was being looted. Secret Service agent Henry O’ Neill watched as Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, Margaret Williams, carried boxes of papers out of Vincent Foster’s office before the Park Police showed up to seal it. Amazing when you consider that the official identification of Vincent Foster’s body by Craig Livingstone did not take place until 10PM! Speaking of Craig Livingstone, another Secret Serviceman saw him remove items from Vincent Foster’s office in violation of the official seal. Witnesses also saw Bernard Nussbaum in Foster’s office as well. Three witnesses noted that Patsy Thomason, director of the White House’s Office of Administration, was desperate to find the combination to Vincent Foster’s safe. Ms. Thomason finally opened the safe, apparently with the help of a special “MIG” technical team signed into the White House in the late hours. Two envelopes reported to be in the safe by Foster’s secretary Deborah Gorham, addressed to Janet Reno and to William Kennedy III, were never seen again. When asked the next day regarding rumors of the safe opening, Mack McLarty told reporters Foster’s office did not even have a safe, a claim immediately shot down by former occupants of that office.
Hillary’s good at shredding stuff too.
And here’s the good news: You can only lie so often and so long. sooner or later, even the most gullible person will figure out, just how horribly corrupt the democrats are. I have a feeling, by the up scaled PR on them all, that people are starting to get tired of all their…lying. 
I heard an expert on the radio talking about voter fraud last week. She sounded hopeless and laid out just how many ways they can stuff the ballot boxes, and remember both the Clinton’s and Obama’s second term was probably fixed —-they won by a slim margins.
ONLY by mass numbers of people voting, can the corruption be stopped.
So…will we have someone we will even want to vote for in the next Presidential election?
Go ahead and lie. I am SO used to it.
Eric Schmidt: Still Creepy…
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Ha! Here’s a good laugh on a Monday afternoon…
The ‘creepy’ Google guy, Eric Schmidt, thinks that Amazon should not be allowed to use drones to deliver packages. This from a guy who will BAN your conservative writings against democrats on his Google website. He said THIS in Fortune magazine, and I quote:
“How would you feel,” Google (GOOG) chairman Eric Schmidt asked in the Guardian last April, “if your neighbor went over and bought a commercial observation drone that they can launch from their back yard. It just flies over your house all day. How would you feel about it?”
To which I grabbed THIS quote from Philip Elmer Dewitt:
How would I feel about a drone that could snoop on me? Probably the same way I’d feel about a company that monitored all my online activities — the e-mail I send and receive, the websites I visit, the places I visit, the products I buy, the YouTubes I watch, etc. etc. — and sold that information to advertisers.
Yes, creepy Eric thinks that only governments should have drones because according to him, terrorists could get one and use it.
Ha! They could do that ANYWAY. If a terrorist wants a drone, or a missile, or guns, I’m sure all he has to do is hook up with the Libyan army (who have all those US goodies) and march across our border. And he could get all those things in Mexico!
You have to laugh when one of the biggest spy networks on the planet is worried about other people spying. Why do I call him creepy? He also said this:
The Google policy on a lot of things,” he told attendees at the Aspen Institute’s Washington Ideas Forum, “is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.”
The question is: What is Eric’s definition of creepy?
So therefore, every time I see Eric Schmidt I can’t help myself…I think of this guy:
Nobody’s Fool: John McAfee
Nobody’s Fool
Everybody who has had a computer, probably at one time in their lives, had McAfee antivirus on their computer. And last night…John was on Coast to Coast.
The man is pretty incredible. He started out selling drugs: got a Master’s Degree in Math: than worked with NASA, started his own highly successful Antivirus company, and then…suddenly he was on the “most wanted” list. The liberal media tried to hang him as a criminal, and make him out to be a drug-selling, cocaine sniffing, murderer. And dangerous. He said he was set up in Belize, and yes, I believe him. In case you were not aware, he was living in Belize when the government accused him of murdering his neighbor.
But…it’s no wonder they don’t like him. John is developing a device that everyone will be able to put on their phones and computers that will keep the NSA from listening in on you or tracking you. He admitted that the government will probably not let him sell it in the United States, but he will sell it to the rest of the world.
Merkel will probably give him free beer for the rest of his life.
Can you imagine? That is going to be one of the hottest products in the world, and everybody is going to want one. (Including me)
Oh…he also said he looked at the Obamacare code, and you can’t even repair it. It should be thrown out, which he said they will NEVER do. The reason he gave was that to save money, they hired people from India, and for it to work, the systems have to download to every computer, and it’s just too big, and that’s why it’s such a mess.
He reminds me very much of Richard Feynman. Very high I.Q….and a bit of a shit disturber…Having said that: He believes in the Constitution, and loves the founders of our country, and therefore, he is on a big hit list…because that makes him a terrorist in Obama’s world.
AND–He looks fabulous for a man of 78.
So, Richard wins my Nobody’s Fool Award for the week. We could use a lot more fools like John McAfee.
Kathleen Sebelius VS Windows 8
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This week we have Kathleen Sebelius VS Windows 8 *.
Let’s start with Kathleen Sebelius. She has been under attack for the complete and utter failure of the Obamacare website that she put up, so that everyone could sign in and get their ‘health insurance,” which is now the law. Everyone is screaming about it.
First, they couldn’t get on it. Then, days went passed, and they found out that the prices were out of this world. Then, the whole system was messing up. Some in Congress want her fired, because she has had three years to get her act together:
Embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will testify before Congress next week about the botched rollout of ObamaCare’s insurance exchanges after rejecting GOP demands to appear this week. The New York Times reported Monday that HHS contractors may need to rewrite 5 million lines of code to make the site navigable, a task that may not be complete before the Nov. 1 deadline set by the administration.
So, was it Kathleen’s idea to have the whole thing set up in Canada? Don’t those big liberals have Google, and Yahoo as best friends? What happened here? What about their good Common Core buddy Bill Gates? What? Kathleen’s wasn’t invited to the right parties?
They have already spent millions trying to promote the stupid thing, not to mention the thousands of ACORN workers that are being hired to sign people up on the street. And even though today, Obama had to give a big Rose Garden talk saying how it MUST be fixed, he still doesn’t blame Kathleen. Probably because she shops at the same stores Michelle does. He said this:
“Implementing this law is a hard piece of policy business. It’s a hard piece of technology business and it’s very hard politically. And Kathleen has taken a lot of, a lot of hits over the years, and she can very much handle them.”
Right. The government can tap every single phone line in the world, but they can’t put up a website.
And that brings us to another computer rollout that didn’t go over so well:
Windows 8.
Microsoft is very much like the government. You are pretty much FORCED to take whatever Microsoft has to offer unless you have a Mac. And up to this point, Microsoft has forced us all to update to the latest version or else, every couple of years, simply because it makes them LOTS of money.
And just when everyone was getting used to Windows 7…along came…Windows 8! Peachy.
Windows 8 is a big phone tablet. It’s as if all the 23-year old design nerds at Microsoft have decided that the future is…small. Very small. Like in hand-held tablets. We must now all scroll. (Wait till THEY get cataracts.)
Except…thousand of us don’t’ WANT to scroll because we still….have DESK TOPS! We want to just move our one finger. Not our arm. That’s not progress. What…is this some kind of Michelle, “Get up and move your whole arm” conspiracy?
So many people complained about Windows 8 that Microsoft came out with 8.1.
In case you missed it, late Friday afternoon Microsoft pulled the Windows RT 8.1 update. Enough customers complained about BSODs and completely bricked machines — including, notably, Microsoft Surface RT machines — after applying the RT-to-RT 8.1 upgrade that the update was yanked entirely. There’s also been a steady stream of complaints about the Win8-to-Win8.1 update, including an inability to connect with Remote Access Website connections.
Wow. How did Obama miss this little detail? Why wasn’t he out saying things like, “You know, people are having trouble connecting with Remote Access Microsoft Websites!…See? Have patience.”
Why didn’t he think of that?
Because Kathleen Sebelius is just a pretty looking— connected politician, set there to obey the elites, She could care LESS about your health care.
So who wins the Nobody’s Perfect award for the week?
Kathleen, because she goes to Bilderberg meetings and I don’t like her. (Do I need another reason?) No really, there is great audacity to pass a law, that everyone is suppose to adhere to, and then, nobody can obey the law, even if they try….and then you don’t take the blame when it doesn’t work….you just tell Congress it’s just such a small glitch..really. Like breaking a nail.
From the words of Obama’s mouthpiece Carney:
Carney did not directly answer a question about whether the problematic website could delay the mandate, but he said: “The law is clear that if you do not have access to affordable health insurance, then you will not be asked to pay a penalty because you haven’t purchased affordable health insurance.”
So, Congratulations Kathleen! You win the Nobody’s Perfect award for the week!
I’m giving Microsoft a pass…because at least they have not changed spell-check.
Nobody Remembers Fat Man and Little Boy
Nobody Remembers
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”
–Carl Sagan
I watched the movie Fat Man and Little Boy last night, and was pleasantly amazed how that movie, actually presented both sides of the moral issues of the American’s developing the Atomic bomb.
If you’ve never seen it, a brief refresher:
America is fighting a war on both ends of the world, and the government is looking for a way to end it, and so it is decided to gather the best physicists they can find (many of them German) at a top secret location and give them $2 billion dollars, a deadline, and tell them to just do it: give the U.S. the biggest bomb ever invented. Robert Oppenheimer, the lead genius, (Played by Dwight Schultz) is incredibly excited, but needs a general (played by Paul Newman) to keep pushing him, especially when word gets out exactly what they are doing and scientists start to protest against the use of it. The film is all about, what great minds can do when pushed.
And what horror they produced.
Whatever you might think of the atomic weapons, the sheer ingenuity of it you have to admit, was beyond incredible. BUT…as you see in the scene above, with it came a double edged sword. Towards the final days when they were getting near to their bomb being near completion, many of the scientists started having second thoughts.
The very secrecy of the bomb, and the fact that even today, no one has told us if those hundreds of nuclear tests done by our country, left any permanent radioactive damage to the earth, means our government has held too many secrets way too long from the American people. The 300 nuclear aerial tests America did alone —-is enough to give one thought.
As you saw in the film in 1989, the bomb was invented to ‘protect us’…it was the reasoning that our government used to justify the money spent for all those explosions.
And now, although not seen as a weapon YET…we see the same thing happening with the spy technology being developed with the money from our government. Trillions are being spent…money we don’t have, but no matter.
Due to a whistleblower named Edward Snowdon, we have just found out how every one of our lives is being recorded, and eventually studied. No, unlike the atomic and hydrogen bomb, this technology can’t kill us, but like the atomic bomb, some of the computer scientists that help set up this program are very concerned. This technology, like the atomic bomb, will sooner or later be held by many other countries. There is already a ‘cyber’ war, and like the nuclear arms race, we now have a surveillance arms race. Great power will be put in the hands of the few.
The strong propaganda coming from both the RiNO’s and the Obama administration is that this unconstitutional data gathering is being sold as necessary for our own protection.
Robert Oppenheimer was asked to work on the Hydrogen bomb, and he refused. Edward Tiller, though, was happy to do it.
Today, we see a young genius named Zuckerberg all excited bout getting everybody in the world ONLINE…everybody. That means everybody in the world will be spied on. Nobody Knows how he is going to pay for this, but you can bet your next last FACEBOOK post about your dog eating your cell phone, that our government will find a way.
Why else would he be so excited? He knows he will get the money to do it. One can only imagine.
And Zuckerberg is no Oppenheimer. Many of these young boys playing god with the backing of Obama and Homeland security have NO idea the damage they might be doing. Like the atomic bomb, the sheer joy is just in doing it. They are doing it, for money, and because the technology excites them. They rationalize , that to know what every single human being on the planet is thinking, will give them the power, to make the world a better place.
But it’s sad but true, that this technology can ONLY lead to tyranny, because as the good doctor suggests: Nobody should play God, the position is already taken.
And so, history repeats itself.
The world now, is waiting for Iran or North Korea, to use a nuclear weapon. And with the upcoming NSA surveillance program, we now live in daily fear of what we say and do with every phone call, every internet post, every bank transaction…and they even want into our homes with TV monitoring and Google Glasses.
It’s insanity.
It’s a New World Order.
And NOBODY, except the people at the top, likes it.
“I believe in a Zone of Privacy,” Hillary Clinton. (For HER!)
Two days before the Trinity test, Oppenheimer expressed his hopes and fears in a quotation from the Bhagavad Gita:
In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains,
On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,
In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,
The good deeds a man has done before defend him.
Nobody Thinks, that the ‘good deed’ fuse is getting shorter…don’t you?
Nobody’s Perfect: Facebook VS NSA
Nobody’s Perfect:
This week we have two security mishaps: Facebook VS the NSA
Let’s start with the genius who single handedly invented the perfect spying system for the U.S. government: Mark Zuckerburg. It seems Mark must have been out looking at Google glasses instead of taking care of business, A Palestinian hacker found a way to get on Mark’s personal message board:
A computer hacker has broken into Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg’s account and posted a message on his homepage to show how the site’s security is deficient, after the company’s security team snubbed his efforts to report the problem.
The man, who goes by the name “Khalil,” said on his blog that he submitted several reports to Facebook’s “white hat” team about a site vulnerability that allowed him to post on anybody’s wall, despite their security settings, reports Gizmodo.
But the second time Khalil submitted the error, he received an e-mail telling him “I am sorry this is not a bug.”
“Exploiting bugs to impact real users is not acceptable behavior for a white hat,” said Facebook. ”
Researchers are permitted to create test accounts through a special Facebook site, the social network’s security team said, noting that more than $1 million has been paid out in rewards to people who report bugs.
Right. The guy tries to help Zuckerface out, and Zuckerberg acts like your usually immoral liberal: He tells him thanks, but get lost. After all, the government can get on FACEBOOK and get into anybody’s homepage, so what’s new here?
And then, there’s the NSA:
Last week, The Washington Post reported that an NSA internal audit and other secret documents provided by Snowden showed the agency “has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008.”
But there was less than meets the eye in this story, Journal editors write. “The critics claim to have finally found evidence of government abuse, but the truth is that the evidence shows no abuse and even reveals admirable self-monitoring by the NSA.” The audit reveals that the agency only broke its privacy rules 2,776 times over the last year among the tens of millions of communications it intercepts monthly. And the auditors said the majority of slip-ups were “database query incidents due to human error.”
Wow. This is how you spin it. You tell the American citizen that — “Hey! Mathematically speaking, we are doing a great job at collecting everybody data, aren’t we!”
Nobody wants to know why we are spending trillions funding the unconstitutional NSA spying when Facebook does most of the surveillance on everybody in the world for free?
So, who wins the Nobody’s Perfect award for the week?
David Miranda—a journalist working with the Guardian who visited Edward Snowdon in Russia, and very stupidly took his laptop and all his notes with him on his return trip to Britian. He was stopped by the British government, interrogated for 9 hours, and then his laptop and notes were confiscated.
Really…hasn’t he EVER seen a James Bond movie?
He should have found some chick at the airport to carry that back for him.
So, David Miranda, you win the Nobody’s Perfect award for the week! Congratulations! Unless of course…
You really gave them….holiday pictures of Moscow encoded with secrets because Edward Snowdon is actually an undercover agent for the CIA.
Hey…I’ve read all those books!
What’s in the Future?
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The future looks great says Mr. Clarke
This is…incredible. So imagine. If they knew this all way back then…what do they know about our future now?
Nobody Cares About What You Copy at the Office
Nobody Cares
I thought this was interesting: If you happen to work at some place and have made copies of your personal stuff (even at libraries) then it has been stored.
Sneaky buggers.
You learn something new every day, don’t you? So now Nobody has been warned. Be careful what you copy.
Nobody’s Email: Advice From Snoopes…Are We embarrassed Yet Girls?
Nobody Gets Email
I am posting an email that I got from Tom Beebe, (Thanks Tom) in sections because I think it’s very informative….and because I know my few personal girlfriends (Pattie & Mona) will read this as I did, and remember………….
AaaaaaLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL those emails they sent me where I was supposed to pass on the good feelings for luck, or to ten friends, and how HARD it was for me because I don’t &$&*% HAVE ten friends, and I always felt really bad typing in my only two (Pattie and Mona) and of course, knowing that I wasn’t going to get my “wish” because I was short of friends to email and bug, was just enough to ruin my morning.
Now, my shortage of friends, according to this, is a blessing. 
Well read this…and girls (I KNOW no man does this stuff ) think: How many people have we ‘cookied” in our computer lifetime?
Who knew? (Besides Dandapani)
Advice from snopes.com VERY IMPORTANT
1) Any time you see an email that says “forward this on to ’10’ (or however many) of your friends”, “sign this petition”, or “you’ll get bad luck” or “you’ll get good luck” or “you’ll see something funny on your screen after you send it” or whatever–it almost always has an email tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and emails of those folks you forward to. The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of ‘active’ email addresses to use in SPAM emails or sell to other Spammers. Even when you get emails that demand you send the mail on If you’re not ashamed of God/Jesus…that is email tracking, and they are playing on our conscience. These people don’t care how they get your email addresses…just as long as they get them. Also, emails that talk about a missing child or a child with an incurable disease “How would you feel if that was your child”…email tracking. Ignore them don’t participate!
The Future of the Digital Age According to Jaron Lanier
Nobody’s Opinion
Okay…so Joran doesn’t exactly have the slick look of the other internet guru’s. When Tom Beebe (Thanks Tom) sent me an article about this guy last week, I must admit, besides being upset about the “cashless’ society that the internet is taking us, I had not thought much about the other side— but I am now.
So Nobody Asks: Is there a downside to the internet?
Men love to invent…and thank God. For the short time they have been here, they went from clubbing each other with clubs, to threatening each other with the atomic bomb proving that many inventions have a double edge sword. One’s man’s ceiling is another man’s floor, and even Paul Simon would admit that he’d rather be a hammer than a nail.
While the sheer genius of the atomic bomb can be marveled at…the world is now in continuous fear of the next ‘nuclear’ attack, and some of us wish that it had never been invented..and did they REALLY think the future consequences of it through?
Obviously not.
And so it is with the new digital technology–like the atomic bomb it is having a downside effect. With all the wonderment that has come with the ease of home computers, there is a man who is pointing out, that it could be the destruction of us all.
And that’s where Jaron Lanier comes in. Jaron was a Silicon Valley digital rock star. He was a pioneer and publicizer of virtual-reality technology (computer-simulated experience. ) and knew all the big guys; Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg, —-Google, Facebook, etc…and he is so upset about what he has created, he is going around the world and warning the rich guys…of what he calls, “digital Maoism.”
Jaron Lanier, calls this “digital Maoism” indicting “internet intellectuals” like Facebook and Google of being “spy agencies.” He wants to subvert the “hive mind,” as the web world’s been called, before it engulfs us all, destroys political discourse, economic stability, the dignity of personhood and leads to “social catastrophe.” Instead of an ever-upward enlightenment, it is just as likely, he argues, that the crowds will devolve into an online lynch mob.
And who could deny this? Remember how excited Obama was about the Arab Spring? Remember how it was declared that the whole thing came about because of FACEBOOK? Without FACEBOOK the riots would not have evolved. But what came of that? While Zuckerberg was taking victory laps with Obama’s plans to get rid of Mubarak, a huge vacuum was created and the Muslim brotherhood jumped into that hole, and took the reigns of power, leaving the ‘useful idiots” staring at their cell phones and wondering what the hell happened.
And Jason sees this as not a good thing. It’s Mob rule…which is what democracy is, and our founders hated it. He explains it as:
“An enabling and foreshadowing of mob rule, not a growth of democracy, but an accretion of tribalism. But it slowly is turning us into a nation of hate-filled trolls. We have economic fear combined with everybody joined together on these instant twitchy social networks which are designed to create mass action. What does it sound like to you? It sounds to me like the prequel to potential social catastrophe.”
And then there’s the economic side, which is much more damaging. Here’s more:
“I’d had a career as a professional musician and what I started to see is that once we made information free, it wasn’t that we consigned all the big stars to the bread lines. They still had mega tour profits. Instead, it was the middle-class people who were consigned to the bread lines. And that was a very large body of people. And all of a sudden there was this weekly ritual, sometimes even daily: ‘Oh, we need to organize a benefit because so and so who’d been a manager of this big studio that closed its doors has cancer and doesn’t have insurance. We need to raise money so he can have his operation.’
And I realized this was a hopeless, stupid design of society and that it was our fault. It really hit on a personal level—this isn’t working. And I think you can draw an analogy to what happened with communism, where at some point you just have to say there’s too much wrong with these experiments. So by taking value off the books, you’re actually shrinking the economy.” whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. [Meanwhile], it’s shrinking the overall economy. I think it’s the mistake of our age.”
Since Jason is a musician also, he sees the damage here. Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg, they just don’t get it because the ONLY job they ever had was creating the internet. But when you’re a musician you dream of the hit record, and with free downloads…the monetary rewards of original music went out with the proverbial free downloads onto your hard drive.
And not just musicians…the whole print industry has been changed: thousands of newspapers and magazines have shut down. Think of how many journalists have lost their jobs. And SO much misinformation is put on the internet, it’s hard to tell what’s true and what isn’t.
Many of our schools are getting rid of books, and giving the kids IPADS. They have stopped teaching cursive writing…texting will become so big in the future, that future generations will not even know how to make a complete sentence. Already in China, the kids are forgetting how to read, because all they do is text. Not to mention the waste of time everyone spends on their computers.
AND…when everything is online: books, money—- all that you do and say will go to the few people who run the world and who will have the power to completely control every single thing. Jaron is right. Jason even goes so far as to blame the housing crash on the internet:
“The rise of networking has coincided with the loss of the middle class, instead of an expansion in general wealth, which is what should happen. But if you say we’re creating the information economy, except that we’re making information free, then what we’re saying is we’re destroying the economy.”
To my mind a over leveraged unsecured mortgage is exactly the same thing as a pirated music file. It’s somebody’s value that’s been copied many times to give benefit to some distant party. In the case of the music files, it’s to the benefit of an advertising spy like Google [which monetizes your search history], and in the case of the mortgage, it’s to the benefit of a fund manager somewhere. But in both cases all the risk and the cost is radiated out toward ordinary people and the middle classes—and even worse, the overall economy has shrunk in order to make a few people more.”
We read of online bullying leading to teen suicides in the United States and, in China, there are reports of well-organized online virtual lynch mobs forming…digital Maoism.”
You know, too many of us know someone who has been grieviously hurt by the internet. I know a man whose girlfriend got mad at him, and went online to FACEBOOK and told all kinds of horror stories to their whole network of friends, and it even got back to his work. They were lies, and somehow he forgave her, and they made up, but the damage had been done. This is happening to millions daily. There is no recourse in court….in fact the law can’t keep up with it.
And if you think that the powerful people will think twice about hurting society, remember the story of Zuckerberg. When he first invented FACEBOOK as a student, he put up a very demoralizing contest and rated all the women on his campus as “ugly” or “cute” and everyone on campus got to have fun putting down women. Typical liberal. He was old enough to have a moral compass, but he had none.
It was…disgusting….and yet, Zuckerberg was forgiven for such an insidious prank because he was a genius. The question is, when these young, rich, and sometimes very immature boys work with Presidents, you DO have a Maoism. Zuckerberg has moved to China to avoid taxes.
No doubt Zuckerberg thinks he is saving the world, he’s not like Jaron who sees beyond himself. You COULD say that the internet is a young technology..it will work out the bugs in time.
I’m sure they thought the same thing about nuclear warfare. But unlike the atomic bomb…so far, we’ve been kept pretty safe from it..it doesn’t affect our daily lives. But the internet is working it’s magic every single day. Hopefully…Jaron will make the rich elites think: After all…he’s right…we are NOT gadgets….but like the ‘ape’: We sure do love them. 
Nobody’s Email: Google 2012 Christmas Message
Nobody Gets Email
I got this video from my liberal friend, who I met at my local library about five years ago. We both were taking a class in EXCEL, and became fast friends because, when it came to computers, we both we in wonderment…like little kids.
We STILL hold that same childlike attitude about many things. Anyway, when he sent me this video he said, “How do they think up these things?”
That’s my bud. JR is in his 70’s, and yet, still holds his love of learning, and that’s one of the reasons we get along. While our politics are completely opposite, neither one of us has ever gotten mad at our opinions.
Hatred, gets you…nowhere.
(Thanks to J.R.)
Nobody’s Fool: William Binney
Nobody’s Fool
Every American should take 12 minutes out of their day and watch this video. William Binney is a true hero in my Nobodys’ Opinion…he is trying to warn the public that every single email they send is being filed away illegally, so that our government can have the ammunition to call you on some crime they think you have committed. While you might think that since you are a law-abiding citizen, and have no need to worry, let me remind you, IF you have said anything against our government, or voiced strong patriotism for America, you are a terrorist according to the Obama Administration.
They are especially fearful of veterans, who they fear might just side with citizens one day and kick them all out.
William Binney is trying to take this unlawful and disgusting practice to the Supreme Court, and by law, they should shut it down. BUT, as we saw with Obamacare which was unconstitutional, that doesn’t mean they will. The Supreme Court now works for the elites agenda, not the people OR the Constitution.
And to all you dweebs at the NSA who are reading this…May Obama someday do unto your children, as you have done unto us.”
In fact, that’s the ONLY good news coming out of all this.
Remember in your emails to give em all hell.
Nancy Pelosi Forgets…Her BIG Gavel.
Nobody’s Perfect
Remember, in my last post I was talking about the people who just NEVER seem to go away? Well…Nancy Pelosi makes another great “gaff” in the history of stupid poltical statements.
Really, she’s has GOT to stop spending weekends with Joe.
Someone suggested that humans are just too ignorant to control anything…in the end, it’s who you know I guess, and if you know the right person, then you get the job. So, Nobody Asks: Was it just a random fluke that Nancy Pelosi is STILL in the Congress and is now surrounding herself with a bunch of …dimwitted ninny’s to run the country? Were these women voted in?
Did a nation of ninny’s vote in a rather clueless woman leader in Australia?
What’s with all these women? The worst of this video was cut out. Everyone is laughing at the fact that Nancy, in her own mind, STILL believes that she is the leader of the house, and after the REAL leader of the house making the comment that the tea party is dead, ( GOP John Beohner) I think she is right. But..then watch…Nancy giggles like a little girl…and comes out of it with the ‘unity’ nonsense.
It’s what she said BEFORE that little giggle that was annoying.
- Pelosi touted the diversity of the new caucus, which grew to nearly 200 Democrats after last Tuesday’s election, boasting that it was the first caucus “in the history of civilized government to have a majority of women and minorities.” The party caucus in 2013, she said, would have 61 women, 26 Hispanics, 11 Asians, and five gay, one bisexual and 43 black members.
- “With these new members, the tea party starts to roll back and problem-solving starts to move forward,” Israel said. “And that’s what this election was all about.”
Nobody Thinks that this ‘majority of women and minorities” is a direct hint at the ‘diversity’ bar that you…dirty, corrupt, white, and conservative man and woman, have to take heed to. Be forewarned: You may be the majority in numbers…but you are not represented anymore. They…don’t…like you.
Like the REAL gavel holder John Boehner, Nancy thinks the tea party is …gone. Somewhere in the halls of one of her many estates is the gavel she carried up the steps of Congress in order to bully the “tea party” people into accepting Obamacare.
The tea party is just another name for Americans who do not want the country to change into some kind of fascist dictatorship.
Nobody Wonders Why…Why are all these women ‘placed’ in power? And WHY is it again, that a bunch of people who come from so many different languages and cultures and can now rule a country, is a good thing?
I have my own Nobody Opinion, but I’d like to hear yours.
About
I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
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