[ExI] The NSA's new data center

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:03:18PM -0400, J.R. Jones wrote:

> Or, that we need to mature as a species, and learn to accept all multitudes
> of differences in perspective and expectations we all have from one
> another. With transparency, I think, would come a new found respect and/or

I think total transparency is the most naive horse pucky (RIP, Robert)
I've heard in a longest while.

> understanding of what it means to be an individual.  Certainly, as time
> progressed we'd become similar in many ways.  But my hope is that these
> changes towards a more similar society, would be guided by some of the
> brightest minds humanity has to offer.

That has a tendency to become pretty ugly, in the retrospect, in history books.

> I can deal with bad news.  Even horrible news.  What I can't deal with, by
> definition, is news I'm not even aware of.  Bring on the
> transparency/accountability.  Let's start being 'real'.

In practice, all people are real. 

Only some are realer than the others.

And that kills it. Only the dumbest livestock picks their own location and method of slaughter.