The new government NSA cyber-spying facility reportedly will have the ability to contain multiple "yottabytes" of stored data. Wow, "yottabytes"? Is that a combination of the words "lotta" and "yadda" (as in: "yadda, yadda")? It would make sense, especially seeing as how they will be using this storage capacity to archive billions and billions of emails, Tweets, Facebook and blog posts, telephone calls and answering machine messages, and so the expression "yadda yadda" particularly comes to mind. So perhaps "yottabytes" were so named to indicate that it could store "a lotta yadda yadda". (What do you think: does this seem like a plausible reason for the name "yottabytes"? And what's next: "yowzabytes"?)
Also, you know, when spoken, the word "yottabytes" sounds similar to "Yodabytes" (as in Yoda, the Jedi Master from the Star Wars franchise), and seeing as how Yoda always seemed to manage to psychically know everything that was going on, could this name "yottabytes" be intended to relate to this psychical protector of the galaxy from Star Wars?
(If so, it would be an especially appropriate connection to make, seeing as how Yoda seemed to know everything about everyone except for the evildoers, whom he could not read nor anticipate, and as a result he allowed for the hyper-militarization and all-powerful intrusiveness of the government in Star Wars to occur, tricked by the claims of looming threats to Democracy in the Republic, which enabled the bad guys to slide the government into a total dictatorship, and he couldn't even see what was coming, despite his supposed omniscience. You know, kind of like how the Patriot Act has invaded all of our privacies but still not been able to ferret-out terrorist plots such as the Fort Hood shooting and the Boston Marathon bombing despite the perpetrators' prolific use of the internet. In fact, isn't what's going on in the "War on Terror" and its related government abuses of power and totalitarian trend toward an everyday police state exactly what the Star Wars movies warned about?
Wow, I guess we were all so mesmerized by the fascinating characters and special effects that we completely missed the message of the overarching plot, huh? But who's going to save us from the evil empire that our government's becoming? Dennis Kucinich as Luke Skywalker, Kirsten Gillibrand as Princess Leia, Jimmy Carter as Obi-Wan, and Rand Paul as Han Solo? I wouldn't bet on the Rebel Alliance winning the day against the Empire here in America, though. Sadly most of our "heroes" in the Congress are playing the part of Jar-Jar Binks {specifically, the part in Attack of the Clones, where Jar-Jar's speech to the Senate, encouraging granting Chancellor Palpatine "emergency powers", begins the fall of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire's police state} by unwittingly ceding near absolute authority to the executive branch and its various agencies through "emergency powers" that never seem to go away, all for a war that never seems to end, as in Orwell's novel 1984.
Terrorism is bad, but I thought President Obama said we could defeat or at least combat terrorism and still remain true to our nation's values. Well, our nation's values are supposed to be personal liberty, limited government, freedom of expression, and protections from unreasonable search and seizure, etc.; and what the government is doing, at all levels, in the name of "security", is absolutely contrary to these values. So maybe we can fight terrorism without betraying our nation's values, but we're not doing it at present, and as far as I can tell, we're not planning on nor even considering doing it in the near future, either.)
