Bill Maher & Jimmy Kimmel Agree US 'Becoming A Police State'

Chris | InformationLiberation

Bill Maher commenting on the police's reaction to the Boston bombings points out how the US is now police state, to which Jimmy Kimmel and another guest agree.

His other two guests, a random politician and a news media propagandist, say it's a "balance" between liberty and security, and even say the police state is what caught the suspects. What caught the suspects was the general public's tips, the police state actually did nothing but threaten innocent people and didn't even prevent the bombing in the first place, which is the supposed goal of having so much "security."

Fact is there is no "balance" between liberty and security, it's either have liberty and free market in security with real incentives to keep people safe, or have no liberty and a monopolist provider of "security" which not only has little to no incentive to keep people safe, but every incentive not to keep people safe so as to justify larger budgets and greater personal power.

There is no "balance," and Bill is entirely wrong and his astute guest entirely right that there is no need for police at all.
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Becoming? That word is misleading, suggests that we don't live in a police state.

2 weeks ago, the programming tools began locking the gates at my childrens' school. I asked them why this was necessary. They responded with "because of the school shootings."

me: "so, we need to lock down our kids in prison, in a country that programs them to believe that freedom is worth killing and dying for?"

of course, their response was the usual one - theatrics included: "DO YOU WANT YOUR CHILDREN TO DIE?!!"

me: "no, i want them to live, it's hard to do that in a prison."

Sorry but Bill is a bought and paid for hypocrite. You can't complain about a police state and be anti-second amendment. Fuck Bill. And that stupid fat black idiot: "Look how fast they caught those guys because of the technology"...... They were patsies. They knew where they were the whole time. All that technology didn't stop the bombers, did it? As with the school shooters and any other "terrorist" action, they did not expect to survive anyway.

The USA IS a police state and no longer a free country. Your 2nd Amendment BS will not change that. If you think it will, you're part of the problem.

Please the bombing is a hoax and Bill Maher is a Jew anti-second amendment hypocrite. @17444 - Bill Maher is a gun owner and there for a supporter of the second amendment. He was raised Irish Catholic, but later in life chose against organized religion, which he views as a bureacracy. Why would you even drag religion into your point?

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Jimmy Wales Says Irrelevance, Not Piracy, Will Doom Hollywood

by Mike Masnick

Jimmy Wales, who has become a bit of a thorn in the side of Hollywood of late, has given a speech in which he predicts that Hollywood is doomed, but not because of any threat from "piracy," but from the fact that technology and innovation means that the old infrastructure that filmmakers used to require is going away. As Ryan Singel at Wired reports, Wales' talk at the Internet Society's recent gathering let him predict that disruption was coming from the bottom up:

?Hollywood will be destroyed and no one will notice,? Wales said. But it won?t be Wikipedia (or Encarta) that kills the moviemaking industry: ?Collaborative storytelling and filmmaking will do to Hollywood what Wikipedia did to Encyclopedia Britannica,? he said.

Wales hedged by saying predictions are easy ? and he?s usually wrong. But he looks at a generation of kids growing up in a world of video and mastering editing software at a young age. His own 12-year-old daughter, Wales said, is already adept at iMovie and won a local award for a short film she made.

And just as Wikipedia has show that collaboration on the web is possible (despite the messiness, flame wars and turf battles found on Wikipedia Talk pages), the new generation will find ways to collaborate online to create movies to entertain themselves and their friends.

And, Wales says, they?ll do that with impressive special effects, CGI and even remote actors.

Of course, we've been seeing this trend already growing at the lower end of the scale for a while. For example, the power that individuals have to create amazing special effects has been documented for years, and the tools are only getting better and better. Does traditional Hollywood have even better tools? Absolutely, but this is a classic innovator's dilemma situation, where the tools at the low end are getting better at a faster rate, and they're reaching the "good enough" point pretty quickly -- such that the value of spending many many millions extra on special effects doesn't provide any significant benefit.

Add to that the growth of Kickstarter as an alternative funding platform, the growth of the internet as an alternative promotion and distribution method... and at some point the benefits of going with a traditional Hollywood studio become more difficult to quantify.

Of course, this isn't something that happens overnight, by any means. And there are some in Hollywood who appear to understand this and are working to get their studios ahead of the curve, though it's unclear if they'll be able to do that successfully. Either way, the point that Wales makes is a pertinent one. Instead of worrying so much about online infringement -- the studios might want to spend a little more time figuring out how they can remain relevant.

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