Haven't played it yet (damn Steam sale, I had too many games I haven't played beforehand).
I would take the darkness, and let communities survive as they can. The internet is a perverted advertising ponzi scheme at this point. At least without several layers of various blockers and proxies.
The elephants and the donkeys are different on many minor issues (abortion, gay marriage - No offense to those concerned about such topics - I'm pro for both,the debate is a control mechanism. They are minor compared to what comes next). They differ a bit on some important issues such as immigration and energy.
But, when it comes to major issues such as overall economy, the financial industry, and the military-industrial complex, they are the same. And that is where it matters, . Both parties support more debt, bail out banks (too big to fail the rich...), let the Fed run amok with trillions to spend, and both parties are pro-war (wars support a lot of jobs),
The major issues are the ones that matter. Most everything else results in an ethical argument, such topics are immune from true debate and are subject to the Supreme Court Members.
The Amash amendement vote to defund NSA domestic phone spying was very interesting. 54% of the voting Democrats voted for it, even though Obama was adamant about failing it. 62% of republicans voted against it. I had lunch with a Constitutional scholar friend of mine the day after the vote, he said the Republicans should have supported it, they are the party most in distress (all thanks to Bush 2). That the Democrats would turn against the President on the topic is amazing, if they had had Republican support they would have had veto level power. And seriously, is the President going to veto a DOD appropriations bill (nope).
If the Republicans had shown some backbone there's a good chance actual progress regarding our rights could occur.
I hope other members of the US government will be emboldened by the vote results and submit more divisive privacy amendments and bills.
Think about it. The new political parties would be Pro-Privacy/Liberty against Spying Incorporated. The other issues melt away.
Please let this continue, and thank goodness for Snowden, this debate would have never occurred without his information releases. And get involved, this is a moment where actual change could occur.
Who the FUCK will vote for someone who is willing to constantly spy on him/her? SHEEP (party members, the one eyed man is running)!!!! And in that world, I would be a vegetarian wolf... .
Small world story: David Rasche's (Sledge Hammer) father baptized me in my grandmother's house some time ago. David even came to the church one time between seasons 1 and 2 (I have all three issues of the comic book signed by him...). He's from Belleville, IL (his Wikipedia page is incorrect, it's a suburb of St. Louis).
The US wouldn't sanction Russia. Russia owns Europe via energy: oil and natural gas. Keep in mind that Russia is the #1 oil producer in the world (#2 is Saudi Arabia, #3 is the US, and #4 is China, FYI).
Sanctioning Russia would equal sanctions against Europe because Russia would respond in kind against our allies. Russia doesn't sell its energy on the open market, they "negotiate" prices.
I think this action means that Russia is the most probable place he will land permanently. And since he's already there transit isn't an issue. I believe the entire charade is designed to force Russia to take him in.
My only hope is that 0 of these 30 legislators gets reelected. Shame on them, they are incompetent due to their complete failure to understand the Oath of Office they took.
Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside And it is ragin' It'll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'.
The government is facing a lot of lawsuits over this, and good thing too. Too many secrets. Amash is moving up in the world (across parties, the most incredible thing about the vote is that it proves both parties are uncomfortable regarding the issue).
NO MORE SECRETS (Sneakers is a top 10 movie in my opinion, I may have to watch it annually on the day that Snowden first released information, I watch Red Dawn on July 4th, and V for Vendetta on November 5th every year).
My rep voted for it, if yours didn't call or write (snail style) that you are saddened by his/her position.
I spoke with a friend of mine who has a different House Representative, and he referred to her as "a piece of shit" for voting against it. Then we considered that statement and concluded, "she is worse than a piece of shit, at least the shit would have abstained from the vote..."
OP here. I watched the House “debate” on the Amash amendment. One guy got up, read the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, and then sat back down. It was actually pretty cool (the debate video is at 8:11:15 – full screen video for better time granularity, the vote starts at 9:02:04): http://houselive.gov/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=10183
But, there was one position that no one took that I believe could have been persuasive:
“The reason this amendment exists is because of secret actions using secret courts and obviously very secret and broad domestic data collection methods. That said, we should make any and all attempts to block domestic terrorism. But the overbearing surveillance is clearly out of line with the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. I ask that you pass this amendment so that we may pause and have a PUBLIC discussion about domestic surveillance. Yes, terrorists may change their communication techniques based on such knowledge, but they had to assume, and now know, we were already monitoring everything. Let us have a public discussion, free of phone monitoring, so we can determine what reasonable domestic surveillance means and to ensure that We The People be given a chance to know what is happening.”
The break away neck straps are on children's head lamps, designed to prevent them from choking if they get caught on something (they also turn off automatically after 45 minutes to save battery, great features, terribly bright colors). One never knows what 3.5 year olds will do (which means the lights don't stay on their heads)...
And for regular headlamps, the chin doesn't get in the way when wearing it around the neck, the light just lays on your upper chest (and then is aimed outward rather than down). When camping I sleep with the light around my neck as described so it's easily available in the middle of the night.
Oddly enough, I have a headlamp with me in my work bag at the office.
CNN has had a couple of corespondents try and find Snowden at the airport. There's actually a hotel has a floor that isn't considered Russian territory (having not passed through customs) that they will bus you off airport property to. There's room service, and probably laundry as well.
Having software for a headlamp is crazy!!! I love it. Next thing you know they will add bluetooth and have phone apps for them... (user story: I'm camping, but I forgot to set my headlamp to the highest brightness.)
Looks like a nice system, especially since it's a drop in rather than a replacement for the AAA battery tray. I'll have to check my Petzls for compatibility (we also keep cheaper headlamps - $10 Energizer models - which are bulky but nice quality compared to the very cheap Chinese crap, 1 in each car, 2 in the house, and the kids have 2 children headlamps - Princeton Tec models that turn off after 45 minutes and the neck straps breakaway rather than choke when pulled on).
I think we have 10 head lamps total as I also have a couple with busted battery clips, tape fixes that up just fine though...
Read the bill amendment, which is quite short.. It's worded to limit FISA information collection specifically, things like phone numbers called, incoming call numbers, among others.
It would be attached to a DOD appropriations bill (HR 2397).
I called my representative's office. You should too.
I don't care if they tracked my call (which was routed through the central office then to my reps office). Keep their lines ringing off the hook people!
I agree with you completely, but my night vision has degraded a bit over the last couple of decades.
My headlamp set to the red LED is sufficient when the moon is under a quarter full. And it doesn't impact my low light adaptation, unless I straight at the bulb (which is usually on my forehead so that's not possible). Great for reading a star map.
Pure starlight (new moon) is pretty much total darkness for me. It's my favorite time to be outside after dark.
A head lamp may be a good solution. They can be worn, obviously, on the head. But they can also work well around the neck. Head is more intuitive and easier to work with, the light goes where you look and doesn't bounce around during movement.
I camp a lot and no longer bring an area light, everyone gets a head lamp. Keeps the bugs down as well.
I've shown at least a dozen contractors my headlamp and they are always impressed (as they try to hold a flashlight between a shoulder and the neck).
I use mine at home a lot, for grilling outside or walking around the house in the dark. Skip rechargeable batteries, they are a pain and their usage time is not impressive.
Understanding and realizing the nature of something is usually enough. It works for medicine (and penicillin and other accidental discoveries, which over time we have learned much more about).
In this case we have a heuristic knowledge of the effect, and it applies to complicated networking/data transfer. We don't know the details, but we know it works. The algorithms, or the AI itself, could be applied to similar, but disparate, systems.
Shoot, we use our brains, but we don't understand them yet. Yet we still rely on them...
Actually, most everyone should pass a given class, after freshman year.
My actuarial education involved stats, calculus, and linear algebra the first year. 1/3 of the students switched majors, most mid-way through the first semester. Too difficult. The pass rate in cut classes can be very high. But this is a good thing,
The remaining group went on to finish the program. There were occasional D grades, but outright failing was rare and usually involved a change in major. Again, the difficulty of the classes progressed quicklly (life contingencies was crazy hard during my senior year). I'm sure most sciences are like this.
I have family that can't handle basic algebra. But he can operate a heavy lifter to clean up train accidents. He's also haz-mat certified for disaster situations (train wrecks involving chemicals or other dangerous materials). And he knows some stats, he's into sports... He knew he wasn't college material and never attempted that route.
I use cash a lot more these days (up to several hundred dollars at a time, above that I appreciate the credit card protections - my debit card only feels up ATM machines). Prevents retail purchase tracking and related data loss (a local grocery chain recently had a data breach and my wife's company and personal card had purchases made with the cards in question).
I'm not concerned about ATM withdrawal records, those are just accounting entries with no associated data.
Internet traffic mostly goes through a proxy (and I avoid certain political sites I might otherwise want to peruse). Phone calls and texts, not much I can do there.
I also send letters (no need for a full return address other than a zip code in my experience), signed with a single letter.
I don't have anything to hide. But I choose to hide it anyway where possible and convenient. Why leak data if you need to.
I am on Facebook, but only for the birthday notification emails (a killer feature in my opinion)...
In Arizona I regularly had my vehicle searched (the hatch on my CRV, cop looking in my windows) when entering the airport using the departure lanes. Every car was being stopped. This was in the immediately years after 9/11 though, and I haven't flown in years (by choice, flying sucks these days).
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Haven't played it yet (damn Steam sale, I had too many games I haven't played beforehand).
I would take the darkness, and let communities survive as they can. The internet is a perverted advertising ponzi scheme at this point. At least without several layers of various blockers and proxies.
Well said, here's a couple of pennies.
The elephants and the donkeys are different on many minor issues (abortion, gay marriage - No offense to those concerned about such topics - I'm pro for both,the debate is a control mechanism. They are minor compared to what comes next). They differ a bit on some important issues such as immigration and energy.
But, when it comes to major issues such as overall economy, the financial industry, and the military-industrial complex, they are the same. And that is where it matters, . Both parties support more debt, bail out banks (too big to fail the rich...), let the Fed run amok with trillions to spend, and both parties are pro-war (wars support a lot of jobs),
The major issues are the ones that matter. Most everything else results in an ethical argument, such topics are immune from true debate and are subject to the Supreme Court Members.
The Amash amendement vote to defund NSA domestic phone spying was very interesting. 54% of the voting Democrats voted for it, even though Obama was adamant about failing it. 62% of republicans voted against it. I had lunch with a Constitutional scholar friend of mine the day after the vote, he said the Republicans should have supported it, they are the party most in distress (all thanks to Bush 2). That the Democrats would turn against the President on the topic is amazing, if they had had Republican support they would have had veto level power. And seriously, is the President going to veto a DOD appropriations bill (nope).
If the Republicans had shown some backbone there's a good chance actual progress regarding our rights could occur.
I hope other members of the US government will be emboldened by the vote results and submit more divisive privacy amendments and bills.
Think about it. The new political parties would be Pro-Privacy/Liberty against Spying Incorporated. The other issues melt away.
Please let this continue, and thank goodness for Snowden, this debate would have never occurred without his information releases. And get involved, this is a moment where actual change could occur.
Who the FUCK will vote for someone who is willing to constantly spy on him/her? SHEEP (party members, the one eyed man is running)!!!! And in that world, I would be a vegetarian wolf... .
A Sledge Hammer reference!!!!
Small world story: David Rasche's (Sledge Hammer) father baptized me in my grandmother's house some time ago. David even came to the church one time between seasons 1 and 2 (I have all three issues of the comic book signed by him...). He's from Belleville, IL (his Wikipedia page is incorrect, it's a suburb of St. Louis).
The US wouldn't sanction Russia. Russia owns Europe via energy: oil and natural gas. Keep in mind that Russia is the #1 oil producer in the world (#2 is Saudi Arabia, #3 is the US, and #4 is China, FYI).
Sanctioning Russia would equal sanctions against Europe because Russia would respond in kind against our allies. Russia doesn't sell its energy on the open market, they "negotiate" prices.
Shoot, there's even a book about this very topic:
http://www.amazon.com/Well-Oiled-Diplomacy-Manipulation-Statecraft-ebook/dp/B007RUMCCK
I think this action means that Russia is the most probable place he will land permanently. And since he's already there transit isn't an issue. I believe the entire charade is designed to force Russia to take him in.
My only hope is that 0 of these 30 legislators gets reelected. Shame on them, they are incompetent due to their complete failure to understand the Oath of Office they took.
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.
So you're the guy that gets the floor wet by the urinal... (seriously, who is always peeing outside the urinal boundaries???)
The government is facing a lot of lawsuits over this, and good thing too. Too many secrets. Amash is moving up in the world (across parties, the most incredible thing about the vote is that it proves both parties are uncomfortable regarding the issue).
NO MORE SECRETS (Sneakers is a top 10 movie in my opinion, I may have to watch it annually on the day that Snowden first released information, I watch Red Dawn on July 4th, and V for Vendetta on November 5th every year).
My rep voted for it, if yours didn't call or write (snail style) that you are saddened by his/her position.
I spoke with a friend of mine who has a different House Representative, and he referred to her as "a piece of shit" for voting against it. Then we considered that statement and concluded, "she is worse than a piece of shit, at least the shit would have abstained from the vote..."
OP here. I watched the House “debate” on the Amash amendment. One guy got up, read the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, and then sat back down. It was actually pretty cool (the debate video is at 8:11:15 – full screen video for better time granularity, the vote starts at 9:02:04):
http://houselive.gov/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=10183
But, there was one position that no one took that I believe could have been persuasive:
“The reason this amendment exists is because of secret actions using secret courts and obviously very secret and broad domestic data collection methods. That said, we should make any and all attempts to block domestic terrorism. But the overbearing surveillance is clearly out of line with the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. I ask that you pass this amendment so that we may pause and have a PUBLIC discussion about domestic surveillance. Yes, terrorists may change their communication techniques based on such knowledge, but they had to assume, and now know, we were already monitoring everything. Let us have a public discussion, free of phone monitoring, so we can determine what reasonable domestic surveillance means and to ensure that We The People be given a chance to know what is happening.”
The break away neck straps are on children's head lamps, designed to prevent them from choking if they get caught on something (they also turn off automatically after 45 minutes to save battery, great features, terribly bright colors). One never knows what 3.5 year olds will do (which means the lights don't stay on their heads)...
And for regular headlamps, the chin doesn't get in the way when wearing it around the neck, the light just lays on your upper chest (and then is aimed outward rather than down). When camping I sleep with the light around my neck as described so it's easily available in the middle of the night.
Oddly enough, I have a headlamp with me in my work bag at the office.
CNN has had a couple of corespondents try and find Snowden at the airport. There's actually a hotel has a floor that isn't considered Russian territory (having not passed through customs) that they will bus you off airport property to. There's room service, and probably laundry as well.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/11/world/europe/russia-snowden-goodman-transit/index.html?iref=allsearch
Interesting read actually. And of course they didn't see him...
Having software for a headlamp is crazy!!! I love it. Next thing you know they will add bluetooth and have phone apps for them... (user story: I'm camping, but I forgot to set my headlamp to the highest brightness.)
Looks like a nice system, especially since it's a drop in rather than a replacement for the AAA battery tray. I'll have to check my Petzls for compatibility (we also keep cheaper headlamps - $10 Energizer models - which are bulky but nice quality compared to the very cheap Chinese crap, 1 in each car, 2 in the house, and the kids have 2 children headlamps - Princeton Tec models that turn off after 45 minutes and the neck straps breakaway rather than choke when pulled on).
I think we have 10 head lamps total as I also have a couple with busted battery clips, tape fixes that up just fine though...
Read the bill amendment, which is quite short.. It's worded to limit FISA information collection specifically, things like phone numbers called, incoming call numbers, among others.
It would be attached to a DOD appropriations bill (HR 2397).
I called my representative's office. You should too.
I don't care if they tracked my call (which was routed through the central office then to my reps office). Keep their lines ringing off the hook people!
Got my reps office (Wm. Lacy Clay, 1st District, MO) and asked that he vote for the defunding of domestic surveillance tomorrow.
We shall see how it goes.
It doesn't look as bad as it was in 2007 (read the article, looked at the photo...).
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sidoarjo,+East+Java,+Indonesia&hl=en&ll=-7.528426,112.710285&spn=0.14091,0.264187&sll=32.576226,-86.680736&sspn=7.662306,16.907959&oq=Sidoarjo,+in&hnear=Sidoarjo,+East+Java,+Republic+of+Indonesia&t=h&z=13
The mud area is about 1 mile square (or 1.8KM guesstimating from the legend).
I agree with you completely, but my night vision has degraded a bit over the last couple of decades.
My headlamp set to the red LED is sufficient when the moon is under a quarter full. And it doesn't impact my low light adaptation, unless I straight at the bulb (which is usually on my forehead so that's not possible). Great for reading a star map.
Pure starlight (new moon) is pretty much total darkness for me. It's my favorite time to be outside after dark.
A head lamp may be a good solution. They can be worn, obviously, on the head. But they can also work well around the neck. Head is more intuitive and easier to work with, the light goes where you look and doesn't bounce around during movement.
I camp a lot and no longer bring an area light, everyone gets a head lamp. Keeps the bugs down as well.
I've shown at least a dozen contractors my headlamp and they are always impressed (as they try to hold a flashlight between a shoulder and the neck).
I use mine at home a lot, for grilling outside or walking around the house in the dark. Skip rechargeable batteries, they are a pain and their usage time is not impressive.
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You forgot a comment about our current overlords and a reference to your lawn and how those kids over there should get off it.
Understanding and realizing the nature of something is usually enough. It works for medicine (and penicillin and other accidental discoveries, which over time we have learned much more about).
In this case we have a heuristic knowledge of the effect, and it applies to complicated networking/data transfer. We don't know the details, but we know it works. The algorithms, or the AI itself, could be applied to similar, but disparate, systems.
Shoot, we use our brains, but we don't understand them yet. Yet we still rely on them...
Actually, most everyone should pass a given class, after freshman year.
My actuarial education involved stats, calculus, and linear algebra the first year. 1/3 of the students switched majors, most mid-way through the first semester. Too difficult. The pass rate in cut classes can be very high. But this is a good thing,
The remaining group went on to finish the program. There were occasional D grades, but outright failing was rare and usually involved a change in major. Again, the difficulty of the classes progressed quicklly (life contingencies was crazy hard during my senior year). I'm sure most sciences are like this.
I have family that can't handle basic algebra. But he can operate a heavy lifter to clean up train accidents. He's also haz-mat certified for disaster situations (train wrecks involving chemicals or other dangerous materials). And he knows some stats, he's into sports... He knew he wasn't college material and never attempted that route.
I use cash a lot more these days (up to several hundred dollars at a time, above that I appreciate the credit card protections - my debit card only feels up ATM machines). Prevents retail purchase tracking and related data loss (a local grocery chain recently had a data breach and my wife's company and personal card had purchases made with the cards in question).
I'm not concerned about ATM withdrawal records, those are just accounting entries with no associated data.
Internet traffic mostly goes through a proxy (and I avoid certain political sites I might otherwise want to peruse). Phone calls and texts, not much I can do there.
I also send letters (no need for a full return address other than a zip code in my experience), signed with a single letter.
I don't have anything to hide. But I choose to hide it anyway where possible and convenient. Why leak data if you need to.
I am on Facebook, but only for the birthday notification emails (a killer feature in my opinion)...
Bomb sniffing dogs are expensive and can't be worked too hard.
Valet drivers on the other hand...
In Arizona I regularly had my vehicle searched (the hatch on my CRV, cop looking in my windows) when entering the airport using the departure lanes. Every car was being stopped. This was in the immediately years after 9/11 though, and I haven't flown in years (by choice, flying sucks these days).
Thanks for your efforts.
Is there a link to your Right to Serve effort for updates as the deadline for a response from Google is very close?
I figure there might be some legal site that tracks such things (or the states DOJ site).
I think an Amendment is the only real way to reign in this stuff. And I actually believe that such an effort could get some traction from the States.