So a police officer in every front room it is then. 
The walls are closing in … more and more privacy coins are being kicked off mainline exchanges too … decentralized exchanges and privacy coins will become a must for those wanting privacy in the future IMO.
Some details of the recent US DOJ gain from silk-road takedown.
User: “Alexa - Where is my privacy; security; and freedom?”
Alexa: “You don’t have any. You want to start using the Safe Network.”
User: “I want to use the Safe Network. thank you Alexa!”
Australia ahead of the game again… hmm
ON EVIL: BATTLING MISCONCEPTIONS
A. Psychopathy: The Cause of Evil
B. Ponerology: A New Science“Oversimplification of the causative picture as regards the genesis of evil, often to a single easily understood cause or one perpetrator, itself becomes a cause in this genesis. . . . Any attempt to explain the things that occurred during the first half of our [twentieth] century by means of categories generally accepted in historical thought leaves a nagging feeling of inadequacy. Only a ponerological approach can compensate for this deficit in our comprehension, as it does justice to the role of various pathological factors in the genesis of evil at every social level.” (Lobaczewski, 144, 109)
Our modern Western culture lacks an adequate framework to understand the causes and processes of what we commonly refer to as evil in our history. The Third Reich, the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalinism… Our body of literature, social sciences, and our common sense of morality only scratch the surface of a true comprehension of the nature of evil. Thus, the very people who are, in fact, the initiators of the greatest ponerogenic activity pass undetected. Our lack of understanding will inevitably lead to the very problems that the majority of humanity seeks to prevent.
In literature and film, evil is romanticized; portrayed as mysterious, yet beautiful; dark, yet conflicted. There is always a heart of gold beneath a cold-blooded exterior. The Hollywood psychopath, rarely depicted accurately, evokes both our disgust and our sympathy; war heroes slaughter their enemies ruthlessly, yet live loving lives as husbands and fathers. If the villain did not have a rough childhood, or does not show any signs of a struggle of conscience, he is seen as “two-dimensional” and “unrealistic”.
Leading social scientists and psychologists promote a similarly narrow view of evil, dealing only with its social and moral aspects. In other words, they study effects; not causes. One such researcher argues that “most evil is the product of rather ordinary people caught up in unusual circumstances that they are not equipped to cope with in the normal ways that have worked in the past to escape, avoid or challenge them, while they are being recruited, seduced, initiated into evil by persuasive authorities or compelling peer pressure.” According to this researcher, the line of distinction between a sadistic torturer at Abu Ghraib, and a non-violent peace activist is simply one of chance.
These somewhat naive views on evil are not entirely wrong. Movies can accurately portray psychotic, or even psychopathic, serial murderers; the common view of evil can accept that human frailties and ambitions often degenerate into bloodthirsty madness. However, both of these views demonstrate a complete ignorance of the causal role of psychopathology (especially essential psychopathy) in the genesis of evil, or ponerogenesis. Film ignores an analysis of the psychopathic parent that creates the traumatized child; social sciences ignore the influence of psychopathy on the minds of normal humans and the specific processes that give rise to ignoring one’s conscience.
Moreso, the common view of evil still partly justifies the blood-stained solutions of past, present, and future politicians. In such a way is the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the firebombing of Dresden, to the present day occupation of Iraq and Palestine justified. And without an understanding of the role of psychopathy, any attempt to objectively evaluate such symptoms of macrosocial evil, no matter how accurate, can be co-opted by spellbinders. In such a way, a partial truth can be used as justification and as a rallying point for further destruction…
If we do not deal directly with psychopathy I fear we headed down a dark path. These humans are not like the rest of us. They are attracted to power and influence. These traits when mix with technology have been disastrous. Just look at the 20th Century. We need to design systems that they can’t manipulate or twist.
Remind me again what kind of government Vietnam has?
Remind me again whose arse they kicked?
People are still having their legs blown off from old cluster bombs. Are they compensated by the country that dropped them and just left. Nope. It’s sick.
They are controlling all border crossing and internation airports, so every citizen have to stay 14 days in a hotel room on own expenses.
That makes sense - If only Scotlands First Minister had had the guts to close the border, then Scotland would have been in a far better position.
As it is we are shackled to the rotting English corpse.
Thailand has been doing the same, except repatriated citizens didn’t pay for the hotel. Outside of very special cases, only since very recently are non-Thais allowed in to the country, and they only if they have a long-term visa and they have to pay for the hotel stay.
Thailand, the first country where COVID-19 was found outside China, had only a handful of locally transmitted cases since the end of May. Most people are still wearing a mask when in public.
(Will I support their military dictatorship just because they handled the pandemic well? I don’t think so.)
Parler is funded by the former owners of Cambridge Analytica.
A hell to put conservatives in…
It makes me laugh when they talk about banning encryption to stop criminals. As if a criminal would give a flying feck about that, when breaking much more severe laws.
Banning encryption just weakens the independence and privacy of the common man or woman with little to gain in return.
I completely agree with you. Except it doesn’t make me laugh. I feel more like crying.
