Yes... I'm well aware of this. You're saying the Ancient Greek method of doing this was not effective? You see, in Ancient Greece, the concept of being a citizen of a country was not taken for granted. That's why the punishment was considered relatively harsh. People these days don't place the same value and responsibility on being a citizen. It's taken for granted.
Even better would be to pipe all traffic through monitoring systems - and radio seal the whole prison so that phones will only roam to the base stations inside the prison.
Any calls made would be incriminating for the receiver. Text messages should be scrambled or reviewed and thrown through autocorrecters and "talk like Yoda" to mess up any covert stuff.
Just what we need, IT contracts for prisons so that we can waste even more taxpayer dollars on them. I have a better solution to this. Take all the extreme law offenders and drop them on a deserted island with nothing including cell phones or cell phone service. Low tax cost and it reduces the prison population. Or you could threaten the inmates with this. Keep your shit up and you're all going to the island.
you're the one who's providing the analytics engines with data about your personality
Except what you'd really need to get what you want are meta analytics and only I have that. Thanks again for playing. Here's some data analytics for you: I'm an expert at cognitive science and psychology.
No, thank you for playing! You gave me everything I needed. Except, I won't divulge the nature of the game we're playing. That would spoil the OCD paranoia. I think you'll really like it though. Oh alright. It would be rude of my not to give you a hint. Cheers!
but I doubt it's going to happen for two reasons. First is that the FCC isn't one of those headlining institutions that the GOP cares about. In fact, they'd rather it all just go away right now
You can say all of that about Puerto Rico too, but neither the Internet nor Puerto Rico are "going away right now"
I don't think it would be POSSIBLE to make a more flimsy argument than you just did
Well you certainly invoked a broad interpretation of "they'd rather it all just go away right now". Let's make the set of things represented by "all" to include Anonymous Coward trolls on slashdot because you know, you can do that apparently.
My contribution is that I've pointed out the specific way in which you're full of shit. I'll do it again: I note that you're still dissembling instead of providing some evidence. If it's so obvious, it should be trivial for you.
Did you now? In order to prove that claim, you would have to do the following:
1) Define the claim I was making
2) Provide facts and evidence to refute the claim
In order for me to be "full of shit", I would have to be "full of shit" about <something>. If you can't define what said something is, then I'm not "full of shit". Unless of course, you are just spewing ad hominems, in which case, by all means carry on.:)
Are you at least going to attempt to be intellectual honest or are you just so consumed by your out of control emotions that you are just going to continue to spew nonsense? That would be pretty sad to have that level of lack of mental discipline.
That's the thing: everyone thinks their pet project is going to be super-popular for some reason, without considering the stakeholders. If you want the whole world to use it, then the whole world is your stakeholders.
Nonsense! All hipster coders know the formula goes like so:
1) Get VC funding with super cool presentation
2) Use all the shiniest, blingy blingy cool new technology
3) Business functionality? That's so lame
4) Startup goes under
5) Go back to step 1
I used to work with a guy who was in the IT Industry for about 30 years. He used to joke around about reading magazines in the 90's about Linux. He said in the beginning of the year an article would be published with a title like "This is the year of Linux!" and then later on in the year it would be followed up with "What happened to Linux?" and it did that ever year like clockwork to your point.
See previous response. Provide a proof for how the math of a balanced tax budget and how our national debt isn't going to balloon out of control.
You haven't provided a proof that it will, and you're demanding that they provide a proof that it won't? We call people like you hypocrites.
Oh what a valuable contribution to the topic. Ok I defer to you, what truth can we know on this topic then? Please enlighten us. Or instead of making a contribution, we'll just exchange insults then I take it? Because that does a lot of good doesn't it? When this is the default behavior of the human race, we deserve an extinction event.
Have you considered that the target of taxation shouldn't be individual incomes, but instead corporations, where most income is being made anyway (even when it's just for personal use, thanks to dummy shell corps), and who have systematically reduced their own tax liabilities to the point that most, especially the largest, pay almost nothing at all as it is?
See previous response. Provide a proof for how the math of a balanced tax budget and how our national debt isn't going to balloon out of control. You idiots can make any stupid appeal to emotion you like but math is math. Perhaps you should have spent more time learning economics and math instead of basket weaving.
Nah, I think you'll find the liberals actually want to raise taxes to generate enough revenue to cover the cost of programs.
Here's an exercise for you if you can put down the liberal Koolaid for a second. Calculate the amount of money that you would get from all tax filers making >$250,000 a year and sum it all up. Compare that to the $20 trillion deficit and calculate the difference. Inspect the number. Now, go calculate the combined income of EVERYONE and subtract that from the $20 trillion deficit and let that sink in. Still want to expand government programs and ask for more taxpayer money?
No, it is the Conservatives who won't pay the cost of doing business. Pay some taxes, pay some workers...all grudgingly. Pay for fouling the environment? Nope, that's not them, they believe it is the environment's fault it got fouled. People taking it in the neck because of a fouled environment? They must be ungrateful bastards who don't want to work for a living, they should be honored to live in a fouled environment, sacrificing their kids' health if need be.
Clowns to the left, jokers to the right. Conservatives want a free lunch doing business. Liberals want an unlimited amount of free social programs. Neither have any regard for the work or cost involved in either endeavor.
They should be able to police themselves on this issue because they won't violate it.
Let's abolish all laws and let all citizens be on the honor system and see how that turns out. AT&T you have no legal recourse but I promise I will pay my bills and we don't need laws because I would never do that to you.
Suck it. Enjoy your lack of competition while it lasts. When it's not like that anymore, you're going to get kicked on the way down and while you're down. What goes around, comes around.
2nd world economy grows, wages increase, standard of living increases.
Let's stop right there. Here's a lesson to learn. What this means is that by subsidizing the standard of living of the citizens of your own home country, you raise the standards of living in a different country and possibly one that hates you. That's almost the definition of treason is it not? Yes I use the word "hate". Why you might ask? Let's take India for example, do you know where the majority of scam robocalls come from? Have you heard what these folks have to say about Americans and probably not just Americans? They use racial slurs and all kinds of profanity. Sometimes the racial slurs are quite funny because they use insults that would be extremely offensive in their culture but have no meaning in other cultures. Why would you want to raise the standard of living in a country where the country's disposition towards your country is far less than friendly? You do the math.
You'd think companies would have started to realise now that outsourcing isn't always the solution to their problems, sometimes it IS the problem.
Corporations have the same problem as liberals. They want to do business but don't want to pay the cost of doing business. They want it for free or as close as they can possibly get to it.
You are splitting hairs. What's your fucking point? Just want to be a superior pedant? The issue is citizens who when you trace back the path which they became citizens either included legal immigration procedures or they did not. Do you refute that there is a difference? I mean let's get to the point why have any fucking immigration law at all if illegal aliens can just side-step the whole thing based on their own self interest and not be tax payers and suck off of the teat of the actual taxpaying American citizens? You don't see a problem with that? I have an idea, why don't you send me all your money as a gift and a demonstration of altruism. Better yet how about I find a way to force you to do it because I consider you selfish. Sounds like a good idea doesn't it? You're a typical liberal idiot.
I didn't say they weren't considered "citizens". What I said is in the situation where a child is born on US soil to non-US citizens a distinction is made between those who are born to US citizens and those who aren't (naturalized citizens). And we also have evidence to show that these two types of citizens are indeed treated differently based on that status. Can you refute that claim?
This affects millions of people and worse than simply being denied a particular job, it actively harms them.
Please describe in more detail what "it actively harms them" means otherwise I think we can safely assume you're making an irrational appeal to emotion aka hyperbole.
Oh you didn't get the memo? The Trump administration sent slashdot a nastygram informing them that they must install tracking software or be shut down. Now that the tracking software is installed, slashdot is back up. Enjoy!
why I don't use social media - I just don't like being snooped, scanned, evaluated and judged by some unknown mechanisms which, excuse me, reminds me a lot of totalitarian systems where secrete files are kept, people in your neighborhood block have something like a block-ward looking after your activities, everyone suspects somebody and suspects to be suspected.
Except when you say "social media" it has nothing to do with the government. Facebook is already tracking you and advertisers and marketing agencies are as well. They are far more sinister. Where is your protest against that?
Now America has no need to even pretend to the moral high ground and it can adopt behaviour such as mass surveilance which used to be thought to be tôtalitarian.
The guy you're looking for that wanted what you're describing is George W. Bush. He wanted the "Total Information Awareness" program in a knee-jerk response to 9/11. It got such backlash that it was cutely renamed to "Terrorism Information Awareness". If the United States was going to do that, it would have done it by now.
Slashdot Mirror
...you kill the person. All other questions in this thought experiment are irrelevant and probably useless.
The Greek's called it "exile".
Yes... I'm well aware of this. You're saying the Ancient Greek method of doing this was not effective? You see, in Ancient Greece, the concept of being a citizen of a country was not taken for granted. That's why the punishment was considered relatively harsh. People these days don't place the same value and responsibility on being a citizen. It's taken for granted.
Even better would be to pipe all traffic through monitoring systems - and radio seal the whole prison so that phones will only roam to the base stations inside the prison.
Any calls made would be incriminating for the receiver. Text messages should be scrambled or reviewed and thrown through autocorrecters and "talk like Yoda" to mess up any covert stuff.
Just what we need, IT contracts for prisons so that we can waste even more taxpayer dollars on them. I have a better solution to this. Take all the extreme law offenders and drop them on a deserted island with nothing including cell phones or cell phone service. Low tax cost and it reduces the prison population. Or you could threaten the inmates with this. Keep your shit up and you're all going to the island.
For Illusion Gap to work, the attacker must convince a user to execute a file hosted on a malicious SMB server under his control.
Ticket Description: Windows Defender is vulnerable to human stupidity
Acceptance Criteria: Show that humans are no longer stupid
Priority: High
Chop chop developers!
you're the one who's providing the analytics engines with data about your personality
Except what you'd really need to get what you want are meta analytics and only I have that. Thanks again for playing. Here's some data analytics for you: I'm an expert at cognitive science and psychology.
thanks for playing!
No, thank you for playing! You gave me everything I needed. Except, I won't divulge the nature of the game we're playing. That would spoil the OCD paranoia. I think you'll really like it though. Oh alright. It would be rude of my not to give you a hint. Cheers!
but I doubt it's going to happen for two reasons. First is that the FCC isn't one of those headlining institutions that the GOP cares about. In fact, they'd rather it all just go away right now
You can say all of that about Puerto Rico too, but neither the Internet nor Puerto Rico are "going away right now"
I don't think it would be POSSIBLE to make a more flimsy argument than you just did
Well you certainly invoked a broad interpretation of "they'd rather it all just go away right now". Let's make the set of things represented by "all" to include Anonymous Coward trolls on slashdot because you know, you can do that apparently.
My contribution is that I've pointed out the specific way in which you're full of shit. I'll do it again: I note that you're still dissembling instead of providing some evidence. If it's so obvious, it should be trivial for you.
Did you now? In order to prove that claim, you would have to do the following:
:)
1) Define the claim I was making
2) Provide facts and evidence to refute the claim
In order for me to be "full of shit", I would have to be "full of shit" about <something>. If you can't define what said something is, then I'm not "full of shit". Unless of course, you are just spewing ad hominems, in which case, by all means carry on.
Are you at least going to attempt to be intellectual honest or are you just so consumed by your out of control emotions that you are just going to continue to spew nonsense? That would be pretty sad to have that level of lack of mental discipline.
That's the thing: everyone thinks their pet project is going to be super-popular for some reason, without considering the stakeholders. If you want the whole world to use it, then the whole world is your stakeholders.
Nonsense! All hipster coders know the formula goes like so:
1) Get VC funding with super cool presentation
2) Use all the shiniest, blingy blingy cool new technology
3) Business functionality? That's so lame
4) Startup goes under
5) Go back to step 1
Don't be lame.
I used to work with a guy who was in the IT Industry for about 30 years. He used to joke around about reading magazines in the 90's about Linux. He said in the beginning of the year an article would be published with a title like "This is the year of Linux!" and then later on in the year it would be followed up with "What happened to Linux?" and it did that ever year like clockwork to your point.
See previous response. Provide a proof for how the math of a balanced tax budget and how our national debt isn't going to balloon out of control.
You haven't provided a proof that it will, and you're demanding that they provide a proof that it won't? We call people like you hypocrites.
Oh what a valuable contribution to the topic. Ok I defer to you, what truth can we know on this topic then? Please enlighten us. Or instead of making a contribution, we'll just exchange insults then I take it? Because that does a lot of good doesn't it? When this is the default behavior of the human race, we deserve an extinction event.
Have you considered that the target of taxation shouldn't be individual incomes, but instead corporations, where most income is being made anyway (even when it's just for personal use, thanks to dummy shell corps), and who have systematically reduced their own tax liabilities to the point that most, especially the largest, pay almost nothing at all as it is?
See previous response. Provide a proof for how the math of a balanced tax budget and how our national debt isn't going to balloon out of control. You idiots can make any stupid appeal to emotion you like but math is math. Perhaps you should have spent more time learning economics and math instead of basket weaving.
Nah, I think you'll find the liberals actually want to raise taxes to generate enough revenue to cover the cost of programs.
Here's an exercise for you if you can put down the liberal Koolaid for a second. Calculate the amount of money that you would get from all tax filers making >$250,000 a year and sum it all up. Compare that to the $20 trillion deficit and calculate the difference. Inspect the number. Now, go calculate the combined income of EVERYONE and subtract that from the $20 trillion deficit and let that sink in. Still want to expand government programs and ask for more taxpayer money?
Ok this is the stupidest comment I've read all day.
I think I lost brain cells reading your response. Next time I vote, I will vote with the intent to cancel out your vote. Cheers!
No, it is the Conservatives who won't pay the cost of doing business. Pay some taxes, pay some workers...all grudgingly. Pay for fouling the environment? Nope, that's not them, they believe it is the environment's fault it got fouled. People taking it in the neck because of a fouled environment? They must be ungrateful bastards who don't want to work for a living, they should be honored to live in a fouled environment, sacrificing their kids' health if need be.
Clowns to the left, jokers to the right. Conservatives want a free lunch doing business. Liberals want an unlimited amount of free social programs. Neither have any regard for the work or cost involved in either endeavor.
They should be able to police themselves on this issue because they won't violate it.
Let's abolish all laws and let all citizens be on the honor system and see how that turns out. AT&T you have no legal recourse but I promise I will pay my bills and we don't need laws because I would never do that to you.
Suck it. Enjoy your lack of competition while it lasts. When it's not like that anymore, you're going to get kicked on the way down and while you're down. What goes around, comes around.
2nd world economy grows, wages increase, standard of living increases.
Let's stop right there. Here's a lesson to learn. What this means is that by subsidizing the standard of living of the citizens of your own home country, you raise the standards of living in a different country and possibly one that hates you. That's almost the definition of treason is it not? Yes I use the word "hate". Why you might ask? Let's take India for example, do you know where the majority of scam robocalls come from? Have you heard what these folks have to say about Americans and probably not just Americans? They use racial slurs and all kinds of profanity. Sometimes the racial slurs are quite funny because they use insults that would be extremely offensive in their culture but have no meaning in other cultures. Why would you want to raise the standard of living in a country where the country's disposition towards your country is far less than friendly? You do the math.
You'd think companies would have started to realise now that outsourcing isn't always the solution to their problems, sometimes it IS the problem.
Corporations have the same problem as liberals. They want to do business but don't want to pay the cost of doing business. They want it for free or as close as they can possibly get to it.
a distinction is made between those who are born to US citizens and those who aren't (naturalized citizens)
You have no idea what "naturalized citizen" means. https://www.uscis.gov/us-citiz...
You are splitting hairs. What's your fucking point? Just want to be a superior pedant? The issue is citizens who when you trace back the path which they became citizens either included legal immigration procedures or they did not. Do you refute that there is a difference? I mean let's get to the point why have any fucking immigration law at all if illegal aliens can just side-step the whole thing based on their own self interest and not be tax payers and suck off of the teat of the actual taxpaying American citizens? You don't see a problem with that? I have an idea, why don't you send me all your money as a gift and a demonstration of altruism. Better yet how about I find a way to force you to do it because I consider you selfish. Sounds like a good idea doesn't it? You're a typical liberal idiot.
I didn't say they weren't considered "citizens". What I said is in the situation where a child is born on US soil to non-US citizens a distinction is made between those who are born to US citizens and those who aren't (naturalized citizens). And we also have evidence to show that these two types of citizens are indeed treated differently based on that status. Can you refute that claim?
This affects millions of people and worse than simply being denied a particular job, it actively harms them.
Please describe in more detail what "it actively harms them" means otherwise I think we can safely assume you're making an irrational appeal to emotion aka hyperbole.
Inquiring minds would like to know....
Oh you didn't get the memo? The Trump administration sent slashdot a nastygram informing them that they must install tracking software or be shut down. Now that the tracking software is installed, slashdot is back up. Enjoy!
why I don't use social media - I just don't like being snooped, scanned, evaluated and judged by some unknown mechanisms which, excuse me, reminds me a lot of totalitarian systems where secrete files are kept, people in your neighborhood block have something like a block-ward looking after your activities, everyone suspects somebody and suspects to be suspected.
Except when you say "social media" it has nothing to do with the government. Facebook is already tracking you and advertisers and marketing agencies are as well. They are far more sinister. Where is your protest against that?
Now America has no need to even pretend to the moral high ground and it can adopt behaviour such as mass surveilance which used to be thought to be tôtalitarian.
The guy you're looking for that wanted what you're describing is George W. Bush. He wanted the "Total Information Awareness" program in a knee-jerk response to 9/11. It got such backlash that it was cutely renamed to "Terrorism Information Awareness". If the United States was going to do that, it would have done it by now.