It is hard to take seriously when someone comes with grandiloquent statements, showing pompously delusions of grandeur.
"Collective super-consciousness" my ass.
HERD MENTALITY + Anonymity= diffusion of responsability^impunity
You are getting all conspirational, and that hypothesis shows how little you know about the intelligence world. I am not saying that they had covert agenda from the beginning, that's not how it works.
What usually happens is that they (CIA or whatever intelligence agency) find the best candidate by studying the one who has enough access in the company/organization AND has grudges, dissatisfaction, unsatisfied needs, economic struggles, legal problems, etc... and they try to offer a seduce the insider a solution to their problems if they are willing to do them "a favor". Another way is to keep pushing the wounds inciting them to do it for honor, patriotism, morals, values, or whatever ideological reason. The latter case is obviously the most economical method and so the preferred one. The traitor/snitch/saboteur who accepts the deal are known as "CIA agents". (In the CIA jargon the one proposing the offer representing the agency is known as "CIA officer")
This is what always have been the basic modus operandi of all the intelligence agencies in the world. Also creating disinformation, discredit and confusion is also a very old counterintelligence tactic. It happened in the past, it is happening in the present, and it is not really that unreasonable to consider that it is also happening in the Wikileaks case.
That's precisely the point of all this scandal. And precisely it strengthens my point of being a carefully planned smear campaign by the CIA. If it becomes an untrustworthy source, no matter what they publish, it won't matter.
the "core collectors" in the clandestine service of the CIA are precisely experts on these kind of operations.
If anyone is familiar with the clandestine service of the CIA, you can tell how this could be a result planned by the CIA. "Core collectors" are the ones who approach foreign employers/officers and make an offer they can't refuse, in exchange to betraying their own country/company. The difference with the Godfather's offer, usually they are sweet deals. This is what they do, this is what they are trained for, to manipulate people.
The weakest link is always a disgruntled, stressed out, tired, divorced, a sick relative, etc... employer/officer and they prey on them.
I can see the CIA modus operandi all over the scandals behind Wikileaks, very specially the division of the organization and the smear campaign through sabotages from within the lines. Typical, old school, and yet effective.
You can get a religious interpretation from anything.
You can even interpret Lolita as a biblical allegory, because the bible is just that: a book of metaphors and myths that attempts to explain our human condition. Throw anything to the screen and it CAN become a biblical allegory/analogy.
And hanging from words like "genesis" is simply childish, it merely a latin word... please don't greek and latin words as christians.
If you think it is a reference to the book of Genesis, you clearly are forcing it making a collage of biblical references without any coherence. Genesis just means "origin", and clearly they use this word to describe a process of how original ideas are generated becoming the roots of our convictions. Please don't usurp greek and latin words, monopolizing them as christians references.
Dying to wake-up? Humans have been playing with this idea independently from Christianity and Judaism, by just revising ancient Greek philosophers you will find tons of references.
If you are decided to see a Christian allegory, you will see it... And you are missing the most important "cliff", the cliffhanger. We will never know if the kids in the end are real or imaginary, and here we have a very interesting point to start a metaphysical debate about the movie.
From my psychological perspective, Inception is a very amusing exploration of our unconscious, with a lot of metaphors that describe real psychological processes (taking some licenses, of course)
The intervention of the real phenomenas and its effects in our dreams is a known phenomena, the water pouring into the dream when DiCaprio gets "the kick" in the bathtub is a beautiful representation of this effect.
The "inception" of an idea, can be traced to the real life effect of planting false memories and later having cryptomnesia.
I am still amazed when I see people who think that the US is the world. Isn't it amazing that whenever there is an alien invasion, they seem to invade the US first (or some times ONLY in the US). Bleh.
If by market you mean the masses, and by masses you mean the idiots who buy the crappy iPad and the ones that consume irrationally, if by market you meant the one that crashed the economic system by irrational choices and whims, I really doubt that the market is really conscious about what is really good for them.
The market chooses by whim not by critical thinking.
History shows that technologically superior product is beaten by a way inferior one just because it has a better marketing campaign, or the market is not ready for the qualitative jump. The market is stupid, the market is impulsive, and this makes it a very poor way of measuring the real value of a product.
They are planning to eventually use balloons and planes. Which I think it is idiotic, what if the enemy has a cell tower simulator? Cellphones are designed to freely choose the closest cell and the strongest signals. Even if they have roaming disabled, spoofing a cell tower is trivial, cellular networks weren't designed with military grade security in mind.
Seriously, gsm security has been proven again and again to be defeatable, the last demonstration was in defcon with a cell tower simulator that forced the device to remotely disable encryption.
GSM wasn't made for military communication, are they NUTS??
For smart people there are two options: being a social pariah, or owning the society.
Mark geekberg, I mean, Mark Suckerberg ended up owning it, literally.
Regular code audits increase the probability that a backdoor would be found, but they don't guarantee it. That's why this is sucheffective FUD: it's basically impossible to prove that it's not true
There is one thing that these nerd herds don't realize: most tracings are "side-channel". The weakest link isn't a bad password, it's the people. And the latent "bug" is their alter-ego, and the law enforcement exploits it by socializing. There are more hackers being ratted out by girlfriends than sophisticated tracings with computers.
I buy that argument. I've been always believing that homosexuality is nature's hand of controlling birth rate.
Other animals do have such mechanisms, I don't think it is really that far fetched to consider that humans have analogous signaling (environmental, pheromonal, hormonal, etc...)
It may feel "anti-natural" because in fact it is going against its reproductive function which is essential for immediate survival of the genes of the subject/animal, but also ironically it could be part of Nature's mechanism to protect the "big picture": the long term survival of the species. Overpopulation means diminished resources for everyone or total depredation of resources which would lead to the extinction of the species. Economy has a direct impact on people and this in turn could trigger innumerable hormonal/pheromonal responses that we haven't discovered yet, also there is still a lot to explore in epigenetics. For example, we know the phenomena of the synchronized periods (McClintock effect), but we still don't know the inherent mechanisms that triggers it and this phenomena is used as a supportive evidence of the existence of pheronomes in humans. Another research seemed to show some evidence of pheromones (or another "invisible" and unknown way of signaling) by researching estrus in humans (this is a fun research to read, researchers went to strip clubs to measure how many tips the dancers received when they were in the fertile period compared to their infertile periods) Surprisingly men seemed to "detect" and find more attractive women in their fertile period, resulting in more requests and tips to those women.
Could something analogous be happening with homosexuality?
I remember reading somewhere that a cage overpopulated with rats incited homosexual behavior (if anyone could find the research or the supporting evidence of this idea I would really appreciate it)
BUT a conflicting evidence to that idea is that the poorest countries are the ones with the highest birth rate, and the wealthiest countries are the ones with less births.
This leads to my definite thesis: reproduction is a survival strategy but if there is no hazard, no threat, and they are in a relatively benign environment it would tend to disincentivize reproduction because there is no need to "survive".
I've been struggling with these two ideas that might seem to be contradictory because the first one suggests that low resources/overpopulation might disincentivize reproduction to avoid overpopulation and its danger of depleting all the resources, while the second one suggests that the opposite too much wealth disincentivize reproduction because of lack of immediate threats that would require reproduction as a survival strategy.
I collected the data of the UN's Human Development Index+World Birth Rates and very clear inverse correlation seems to happen globally: The poorer, the higher the birth rate; which makes sense, reproduction is a way of cheating death. The richer, the lower the birth rate.
I wondered if the richer countries would have more homosexuals than poor countries (I have no data and for obvious reasons finding homosexual demographics is really hard).
But then I wondered, what if both hypothesis were right? In wealthy countries/benign environments, homosexuality/lack of births would be "induced" (somehow by nature) protecting the comfortable status quo and also due to the lack of the need of the "survival mode".
And in poor countries/hostile environments, the survival mode activates reproduction but the hostile environment itself contributes to the death of a portion of the population, and if the population started to threaten the availability of resources it would occasionally trigger "homosexuality" to control the birth rates.
So that is what I've been reasoning, what I currently believe to be reasonable, and I wish to research it deeply eventually.
If anyone could provide me with data or if someone thinks I am reinventing the wheel, I would really appreciate any research, theory or data regarding to it.
D.K.
Slashdot Mirror
"Where do you want to go today?"
What should I do as I can't get a full bladder?
You see? It would have been easier to decide with a full bladder.
If this is Darwinism at work, if you do mean that a motherf*cker is the most apt to survive, we have a very dark future ahead.
HERD MENTALITY + Anonymity= diffusion of responsability^impunity
What usually happens is that they (CIA or whatever intelligence agency) find the best candidate by studying the one who has enough access in the company/organization AND has grudges, dissatisfaction, unsatisfied needs, economic struggles, legal problems, etc... and they try to offer a seduce the insider a solution to their problems if they are willing to do them "a favor". Another way is to keep pushing the wounds inciting them to do it for honor, patriotism, morals, values, or whatever ideological reason. The latter case is obviously the most economical method and so the preferred one. The traitor/snitch/saboteur who accepts the deal are known as "CIA agents". (In the CIA jargon the one proposing the offer representing the agency is known as "CIA officer")
This is what always have been the basic modus operandi of all the intelligence agencies in the world. Also creating disinformation, discredit and confusion is also a very old counterintelligence tactic. It happened in the past, it is happening in the present, and it is not really that unreasonable to consider that it is also happening in the Wikileaks case.
That's precisely the point of all this scandal. And precisely it strengthens my point of being a carefully planned smear campaign by the CIA. If it becomes an untrustworthy source, no matter what they publish, it won't matter. the "core collectors" in the clandestine service of the CIA are precisely experts on these kind of operations.
I can see the CIA modus operandi all over the scandals behind Wikileaks, very specially the division of the organization and the smear campaign through sabotages from within the lines. Typical, old school, and yet effective.
From my psychological perspective, Inception is a very amusing exploration of our unconscious, with a lot of metaphors that describe real psychological processes (taking some licenses, of course) The intervention of the real phenomenas and its effects in our dreams is a known phenomena, the water pouring into the dream when DiCaprio gets "the kick" in the bathtub is a beautiful representation of this effect. The "inception" of an idea, can be traced to the real life effect of planting false memories and later having cryptomnesia.
I wonder if the US will also build a ceiling too to match with the southern wall.
I can charge a reasonable price for parsing your code and translating it to donuts.
You can get the pretzel module by paying the upgrade.
Hah, that's because it is the only country with central dogma.
Even a gecco speaks with a snobish accent. A gecco, can you believe that sh!t?
Now even a caveman can do it.
I am still amazed when I see people who think that the US is the world.
Isn't it amazing that whenever there is an alien invasion, they seem to invade the US first (or some times ONLY in the US). Bleh.
The market has spoken
If by market you mean the masses, and by masses you mean the idiots who buy the crappy iPad and the ones that consume irrationally, if by market you meant the one that crashed the economic system by irrational choices and whims, I really doubt that the market is really conscious about what is really good for them.
The market chooses by whim not by critical thinking.
History shows that technologically superior product is beaten by a way inferior one just because it has a better marketing campaign, or the market is not ready for the qualitative jump. The market is stupid, the market is impulsive, and this makes it a very poor way of measuring the real value of a product.
They are planning to eventually use balloons and planes. Which I think it is idiotic, what if the enemy has a cell tower simulator? Cellphones are designed to freely choose the closest cell and the strongest signals. Even if they have roaming disabled, spoofing a cell tower is trivial, cellular networks weren't designed with military grade security in mind.
GSM wasn't made for military communication, are they NUTS??
Yeah, sure, it sounds like a stupendous idea. Praise Allah.
For smart people there are two options: being a social pariah, or owning the society. Mark geekberg, I mean, Mark Suckerberg ended up owning it, literally.
Regular code audits increase the probability that a backdoor would be found, but they don't guarantee it. That's why this is sucheffective FUD: it's basically impossible to prove that it's not true
There is one thing that these nerd herds don't realize: most tracings are "side-channel". The weakest link isn't a bad password, it's the people. And the latent "bug" is their alter-ego, and the law enforcement exploits it by socializing. There are more hackers being ratted out by girlfriends than sophisticated tracings with computers.
It may feel "anti-natural" because in fact it is going against its reproductive function which is essential for immediate survival of the genes of the subject/animal, but also ironically it could be part of Nature's mechanism to protect the "big picture": the long term survival of the species. Overpopulation means diminished resources for everyone or total depredation of resources which would lead to the extinction of the species. Economy has a direct impact on people and this in turn could trigger innumerable hormonal/pheromonal responses that we haven't discovered yet, also there is still a lot to explore in epigenetics. For example, we know the phenomena of the synchronized periods (McClintock effect), but we still don't know the inherent mechanisms that triggers it and this phenomena is used as a supportive evidence of the existence of pheronomes in humans. Another research seemed to show some evidence of pheromones (or another "invisible" and unknown way of signaling) by researching estrus in humans (this is a fun research to read, researchers went to strip clubs to measure how many tips the dancers received when they were in the fertile period compared to their infertile periods) Surprisingly men seemed to "detect" and find more attractive women in their fertile period, resulting in more requests and tips to those women. Could something analogous be happening with homosexuality? I remember reading somewhere that a cage overpopulated with rats incited homosexual behavior (if anyone could find the research or the supporting evidence of this idea I would really appreciate it)
BUT a conflicting evidence to that idea is that the poorest countries are the ones with the highest birth rate, and the wealthiest countries are the ones with less births. This leads to my definite thesis: reproduction is a survival strategy but if there is no hazard, no threat, and they are in a relatively benign environment it would tend to disincentivize reproduction because there is no need to "survive".
I've been struggling with these two ideas that might seem to be contradictory because the first one suggests that low resources/overpopulation might disincentivize reproduction to avoid overpopulation and its danger of depleting all the resources, while the second one suggests that the opposite too much wealth disincentivize reproduction because of lack of immediate threats that would require reproduction as a survival strategy.
I collected the data of the UN's Human Development Index+World Birth Rates and very clear inverse correlation seems to happen globally: The poorer, the higher the birth rate; which makes sense, reproduction is a way of cheating death. The richer, the lower the birth rate. I wondered if the richer countries would have more homosexuals than poor countries (I have no data and for obvious reasons finding homosexual demographics is really hard). But then I wondered, what if both hypothesis were right? In wealthy countries/benign environments, homosexuality/lack of births would be "induced" (somehow by nature) protecting the comfortable status quo and also due to the lack of the need of the "survival mode". And in poor countries/hostile environments, the survival mode activates reproduction but the hostile environment itself contributes to the death of a portion of the population, and if the population started to threaten the availability of resources it would occasionally trigger "homosexuality" to control the birth rates.
So that is what I've been reasoning, what I currently believe to be reasonable, and I wish to research it deeply eventually. If anyone could provide me with data or if someone thinks I am reinventing the wheel, I would really appreciate any research, theory or data regarding to it. D.K.
Precisely, in the same way that celibacy isn't hereditary...
...not free for the rest of the world.
About the human infections: I wonder how you would prevent penetrations in the "backdoor".
I saw Lamo in person and he certainly seems to be pretty lame.