What drives these people?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-02-26 12:02pm

Microsoft
Ashcroft
TCPA
Palladium

What drives these people and organizations, and others like them, to do what they do? Are they really doing all this to make us feel safer against terrorism or piracy? (note that many of the measures Homeland security and such put in to combat terrorism are basically facades to please the public)

What is up with these people? Do they all have micropenises and feel some need to overcompensate for that? Are they control freaks? Sycophants who want to please the public so much they do anything to gain public support as being, "partiotic and against terrorism", without considering the consequences? And what about these computer idiots, like the ones who made TCPA, and also Gates? What drives them? What fuels them? Bad childhoods or something? Some weird control-deficiency syndrome?

And you'll notice this is a lot like a rant but it's also a call for opinions. What do you guys think?

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-02-26 01:09pm

Microsoft: Money and market control.

Ashcroft: Hatred of porn, hethens, and people with long hair.

Cap'n Hector · Post by **Cap'n Hector** » 2003-02-26 01:15pm

They have the One True Way. They know it's the One True Way, and will try to force you to follow it.

The mere fact that they're wrong never seems to occur to them....

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-02-26 01:44pm

Money, power, and thinking they are either right, or don't care.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-02-26 01:56pm

Shinova wrote:Microsoft
Ashcroft
TCPA
Palladium

What drives these people and organizations, and others like them, to do what they do? Are they really doing all this to make us feel safer against terrorism or piracy? (note that many of the measures Homeland security and such put in to combat terrorism are basically facades to please the public)

What is up with these people? Do they all have micropenises and feel some need to overcompensate for that? Are they control freaks? Sycophants who want to please the public so much they do anything to gain public support as being, "partiotic and against terrorism", without considering the consequences? And what about these computer idiots, like the ones who made TCPA, and also Gates? What drives them? What fuels them? Bad childhoods or something? Some weird control-deficiency syndrome?

And you'll notice this is a lot like a rant but it's also a call for opinions. What do you guys think?

Microsoft and Palladium, since they're corporations, are probably driven by greed and lottery mentality - just like every other corporation. However, I don't know what motivates Ashcroft.... since I'm not much fluent into US politics. All I know is that he's Attorney General of the USA, and that's he's an ultra-conservative. (But not as conservative as David Duke or Pat Buchanan)

And what the heck is the TCPA???

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2003-02-26 02:15pm

What I don't fucking understand is how can these people get into power and not people like us? By that, I mean law-abiding citizens who pay their taxes and whine at the latest unfair measure politics brings us sometimes.

Why???

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-02-26 02:39pm

jaeger115 wrote:What I don't fucking understand is how can these people get into power and not people like us? By that, I mean law-abiding citizens who pay their taxes and whine at the latest unfair measure politics brings us sometimes.

Why???

Natural selection? ... I'm not joking. I know people like this, who do anything to make a business/money. These people would be on their death-bed and still trying to keep their business running. Its like they're trying for immortality by creating this business empire. If you want to get into these positions you have to be willing to push aside people like this.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-26 02:44pm

I think Asscroft is sincere in his delusions about saving us from terrorism.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-26 02:48pm

what is palladium and TCAP?

microsoft: money, power

ashcrof: i have no clue. maybe he was the little, fat nerd in school whom everybody picked on and now wants revenge.
maybe he likes pissing people of
maybe he really believes in what he does and thinks that his homeland security is actually a good thing which supports society and helps the people.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-02-26 03:52pm

TCPA is something from a thread Einhander started. Supposedly, it limits which software you can save or use on a comp, basically the companies restricting our use of our comps.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-02-26 04:02pm

Shinova wrote:TCPA is something from a thread Einhander started. Supposedly, it limits which software you can save or use on a comp, basically the companies restricting our use of our comps.

TCPA is the name for the hardware technology behind Palladium. Palladium is basically Microsoft's brandname for TCPA.

The basic objective of TCPA is to change computers from general purpose devices that can run any software into glorified XBOXes only capable of running software and accessing data that has been certified by Big Brother.

TCPA FAQ: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-02-26 04:21pm

TCPA is possibly the best Anti-Linux Anti-Open source idea going.....
Since by defenition open source code cannot be certified (as it can be recompiled altered customized etc) it cannot ever be Palladium/TCPA complient.....isnt that an intresting coincidence....

Sektor31 · Post by **Sektor31** » 2003-02-26 08:55pm

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-02-26 09:00pm

That poster makes sense. After all, didn't the Nazis fight against the Communists in WWII?

For Microsoft, I'm guessing that they're motivitated by greed, and lots of it.

For Ashcroft, I'm sure he's either paranoid and thinks that we need to live in a police state to be safe from terrorists, or hates groups of people and wants them behind bars.

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