On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 05:43:21PM -0300, Punk wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processor

see how much information wikipedia-NSA has on amd-NSA? One could make some searches using google-NSA for "platform security processor" but I'm not bothering.

bottom line, the super-rich who control AMD shouldn't be taxed to death. They must FIRST be executed (AP style or whatever) and then 'their' wealth claimed back by the rightful owners - the 'consumers'.

That thought is appealing on the face of it. But. We are hierarchical animals. By all means institute a new system of interaction amongst our fellow humans - I may well join you in the attempt at a fairer world, and as some well know, the Federal Reserve banks are illegal/ unconstitutional, sanctioned by statute at the literal end of a gun and on Christmas Eve (who the hell passes laws on Christmas Eve? (((TPTB))) I guess...)... a litany of cabalistic goy enslavement running hot for around 4,500 years now. THAT system needs to go. But whatever system we have, some folks will attempt to game, and shall succeed to a greater or lesser extent - so this is in a real sense an eternal mission, of education, of standing for better/ greater/ fairer principles, challenging the pyramid hierarchies which, quite naturally, form over years, centuries, millenia. <snaps metaphorical lobster claws a few times> Certainly co-operative, auditable, FLOSS/open hardware is in the consciousness of many, thanks to the decades long efforts of many, not least of which is Richard Stallman, and thus like FLOSS software and Red Hat, a real possibility for our shared Star Trek future. As we reach literally into space we shall meet other races, civilizations, and those who wish to FLOSS it, and those who wish, at least primarily, to trade it. What can we trade, galactically? Mineral resources, natural resources, manufacturing capacity, design and creativity capacity to some extent. There can however in this realm be no ultimate utopia - there can be groups of high-cooperative, high IQ individuals who entangle with one another in synergistic ways, but there shall always be not so high IQ individuals, and indeed low IQ individuals, for whom no design can be idiot proof enough to forestall damage to life, limb and thing. There literally are different capacities of humans, and only the neo Marxist "anything I say at any time is now fact" relativists who have not sufficient IQ to model group or long term outcomes of their folly. So, intangle yourself as you so choose. Folks round here generally have at least sufficient IQ to joust conversationally - which is a reasonable indicator of possibility or capacity to take self responsibility (though of course not a certainty :) . After a few years I can say with some experience that two high IQ individuals with even only one low IQ individual, is an exhausting combination, notwithstnding apparent intention of all three to cooperate extensively on mutual problem solving and future creation. Such a ratio (2 to one) is too low for the flourishing of creativity and manifestation it appears. Those who can't, ought support, or at least not get in the way, of those who can. But those who can must strictly ensure they may always be brought to account, at any time (within reason of course), or tyranny reins. Good luck,