My interpretation was that Russia intends to continue harassing non-allies, and they've figured it's time to have a better story. So just like the green men weren't Russian-controlled troops, but patriotic volunteers, the story on hackers will be the same.
Cervical cancer is virtually always (according to cancer.org) caused by an HPV infection. Effective prevention as part of healthcare is how you combat STDs like that, so yes, it seems reasonable to expect that poor healthcare will lead to increased cervical cancer rates.
Well, maybe there's a reason it's better to wait two weeks before selling a stolen phone. Like a limited number of phone shops to sell them to. Might set off some alarms if someone brought a used phone to sell daily.
It's all a conspiracy. You're a troll on the Russian payroll, tasked to create chaos. I'm a monarchist pretending to be a confused bleeding-heart liberal to create chaos. Obama of course is a lizard pretending to be a muslim pretending to be an American, all the better to create chaos.
Or maybe you're just nuts.
You wouldn't replace rainfall, you'd just desalinate enough for drinking water. Couple that with no water for toilets or washing, and the population should go down to more sustainable levels in no time, so the water issue would cease to be a problem.
It seems to me this is a very honest comment from Obama, surprisingly unvetted for a US president. Why? Simply because he does a piss-poor job of calling anyone to action here. This is a lamentation, and it seems Obama genuinely has no idea how to deal with the problem he's describing.
I feel I should note, in this context, that my username is derived from a Sam&Max quote, and does not reflect my political views. I sympathize with Obama's frustration, but am worried that he and his cohort (much like me) seem unable to do anything about it other than complain.
Swarms of autonomous drones carrying explosives encased in nuts and bolts. I'm surprised and glad it hasn't been done yet, but it seems like only a matter of time.
Sortition is a good idea, but why water it down with this electoral college idea? Just select the president by lottery. What's that, it's way too risky? Well, maybe a king by another name isn't what a modern society should have in the first place...
I've got my tinfoil hat on tight, so it's baseless speculation time:
How do we know Apple didn't help them? They could have just done the court dance to keep up appearances, and help the Feds out on the sly. Win-win: Apple keeps their users happy and even gains extra points for standing up to the government, and they keep up good relations with the Feds.
Netflix probably aren't too keen on the idea of paying people to puzzle over what compression would best suit each and every item in their 1-Petabyte video library.
So this would raise the cost of selling rhino horns by forcing buyers to have every piece checked, right? Not that I'm sure this is a great idea: If the horns are similar enough to pass for real horns in some meaningful sense, then won't it be easier to hide real horns among legal, fake horns?
Well, if you want to encourage skepticism in children, what better way to do it than show them they can't even trust their parents not to just make stuff up about magical bearded men. Why, you'd almost think Santa is a devious atheist conspiracy...
Increased military spending wouldn't cause a drop in gdp if the funds are largely spent domestically, would it? It would instead decrease funding available to other, more long-term constructive uses and contribute to debt accumulation.
Which I guess is the major strategy of Al Qa'e'da - asymmetrical attacks
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WO...
Per Osama Bin Laden, their goal is to bankrupt the USA. They seem to have achieved a pretty good ROI if the returns are counted as dollars spend by the US fighting Al Qaeda. They don't even need to do anything these days, just having their name mentioned can cause costly countermeasures to kick in.
say, you're actively committing fraud, by claiming that you're a doctor of alien sciences or some bullshit like that. should you be able to remove all criticism about your "alien artifact healing technology" or not?
should some random dude be able to remove _my_ information that I _want_ to be available?
To the first, I don't believe that is the kind of information Google is required to remove. To the second, Google requires verification of ID as part of the removal process.
Don't get me wrong, I think asking search engines to forget publically available data is censorship, and it seems like it must cost Google quite a bit to comply with such requirements. Still, let's at least criticize this development for what it is, not for what it might be in bizarro-world.
Hopefully the counterparty risk in trusting an exchange with your funds is now obvious enough people start demanding exchanges adopt procedures to let people check their BTC solvency at any time, and implement m-of-n transactions to ensure the exchange alone can't spend bitcoins without the user who owns the BTC signing off on it first.
Bitcoin is not designed to work in an environment where trust is important. It's designed to make it unnecessary to trust banks such as flexcoin to a large extent. That part needs some fleshing out, still, but the protocol offers a lot of opportunity for it.
What does this even mean? If you can transfer "brain state" to silicon, why can't you just make a copy of a living person instead of a dead or dying one? And if you had a silicon copy of yourself, would you be willing to kill the meat-you? No? Then I'd say a brain-state copy isn't you, it's a copy.
In short, either all this business about a continuous, individual consciousness is largely illusory or we just don't understand the phenomenon very well at all yet.
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My interpretation was that Russia intends to continue harassing non-allies, and they've figured it's time to have a better story. So just like the green men weren't Russian-controlled troops, but patriotic volunteers, the story on hackers will be the same.
How do you manage to believe your post was on topic?
All your complaints seem to be policy points, not facts of any kind ,and certainly not government data.
Cervical cancer is virtually always (according to cancer.org) caused by an HPV infection. Effective prevention as part of healthcare is how you combat STDs like that, so yes, it seems reasonable to expect that poor healthcare will lead to increased cervical cancer rates.
Yet another reason to kill video autoplay. Seriously the shittiest web trend at the moment.
Well, maybe there's a reason it's better to wait two weeks before selling a stolen phone. Like a limited number of phone shops to sell them to. Might set off some alarms if someone brought a used phone to sell daily.
Climate change is an existential threat to the whole species. None of the issues you listed even begin to compare in severity.
It's all a conspiracy. You're a troll on the Russian payroll, tasked to create chaos. I'm a monarchist pretending to be a confused bleeding-heart liberal to create chaos. Obama of course is a lizard pretending to be a muslim pretending to be an American, all the better to create chaos. Or maybe you're just nuts.
You wouldn't replace rainfall, you'd just desalinate enough for drinking water. Couple that with no water for toilets or washing, and the population should go down to more sustainable levels in no time, so the water issue would cease to be a problem.
It seems to me this is a very honest comment from Obama, surprisingly unvetted for a US president. Why? Simply because he does a piss-poor job of calling anyone to action here. This is a lamentation, and it seems Obama genuinely has no idea how to deal with the problem he's describing. I feel I should note, in this context, that my username is derived from a Sam&Max quote, and does not reflect my political views. I sympathize with Obama's frustration, but am worried that he and his cohort (much like me) seem unable to do anything about it other than complain.
Swarms of autonomous drones carrying explosives encased in nuts and bolts. I'm surprised and glad it hasn't been done yet, but it seems like only a matter of time.
Sortition is a good idea, but why water it down with this electoral college idea? Just select the president by lottery. What's that, it's way too risky? Well, maybe a king by another name isn't what a modern society should have in the first place...
If you could get results like that with skill, Vegas wouldn't exist.
I've got my tinfoil hat on tight, so it's baseless speculation time: How do we know Apple didn't help them? They could have just done the court dance to keep up appearances, and help the Feds out on the sly. Win-win: Apple keeps their users happy and even gains extra points for standing up to the government, and they keep up good relations with the Feds.
Netflix probably aren't too keen on the idea of paying people to puzzle over what compression would best suit each and every item in their 1-Petabyte video library.
So this would raise the cost of selling rhino horns by forcing buyers to have every piece checked, right? Not that I'm sure this is a great idea: If the horns are similar enough to pass for real horns in some meaningful sense, then won't it be easier to hide real horns among legal, fake horns?
Well, if you want to encourage skepticism in children, what better way to do it than show them they can't even trust their parents not to just make stuff up about magical bearded men. Why, you'd almost think Santa is a devious atheist conspiracy...
Increased military spending wouldn't cause a drop in gdp if the funds are largely spent domestically, would it? It would instead decrease funding available to other, more long-term constructive uses and contribute to debt accumulation.
Which I guess is the major strategy of Al Qa'e'da - asymmetrical attacks
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WO... Per Osama Bin Laden, their goal is to bankrupt the USA. They seem to have achieved a pretty good ROI if the returns are counted as dollars spend by the US fighting Al Qaeda. They don't even need to do anything these days, just having their name mentioned can cause costly countermeasures to kick in.
say, you're actively committing fraud, by claiming that you're a doctor of alien sciences or some bullshit like that. should you be able to remove all criticism about your "alien artifact healing technology" or not?
should some random dude be able to remove _my_ information that I _want_ to be available?
To the first, I don't believe that is the kind of information Google is required to remove. To the second, Google requires verification of ID as part of the removal process.
Don't get me wrong, I think asking search engines to forget publically available data is censorship, and it seems like it must cost Google quite a bit to comply with such requirements. Still, let's at least criticize this development for what it is, not for what it might be in bizarro-world.
What is going to prevent these plates from getting scratched and rendered useless shortly by studded tires, gravel, snow plows, etc.
Flying cars, of course.
Hopefully the counterparty risk in trusting an exchange with your funds is now obvious enough people start demanding exchanges adopt procedures to let people check their BTC solvency at any time, and implement m-of-n transactions to ensure the exchange alone can't spend bitcoins without the user who owns the BTC signing off on it first.
Bitcoin is not designed to work in an environment where trust is important. It's designed to make it unnecessary to trust banks such as flexcoin to a large extent. That part needs some fleshing out, still, but the protocol offers a lot of opportunity for it.
What does this even mean? If you can transfer "brain state" to silicon, why can't you just make a copy of a living person instead of a dead or dying one? And if you had a silicon copy of yourself, would you be willing to kill the meat-you? No? Then I'd say a brain-state copy isn't you, it's a copy.
In short, either all this business about a continuous, individual consciousness is largely illusory or we just don't understand the phenomenon very well at all yet.
So if you can't cover the costs of investigating and prosecuting a crime with seized assets, you should just ignore it?
Seriously, you think the U.S. Gov't is going to register at Mt Gox or Bitstamp and sell the SR coins there?
What do they do with seized gold? I'm pretty sure they don't go to the nearest pawn shop to sell it. In fact, I'm pretty sure they auction it.