Another was to prevent purchases by people on the FBI no fly list, which also has broad support.
No where in the constitution does it give the government to regulate an individual's travel between the states.
I've seen that argument before, but it doesn't hold water and I'll tell you why. The no fly list prevents you from getting on a commercial aircraft. It does not prevent you from travelling by car, rail, foot, bicycle, boat, or even a private plane. Sure, if you were looking at a $300 plane ticket and a 5 hour plane ride but now you're looking at several days in a car and many hundreds of dollars worth of gas, that is a big inconvenience. However it is not preventing you from doing it - you just have to plan a little more ahead of time.
Does that make the list perfect? No, not by a long shot. But do you know of a better law enforcement curated list of potential terrorists? You don't get on that list by going to tea party rallies or blogging about how terrible you think congress is.
I would expect they would try to release something that would be harmful to Hillary's campaign. None of that really sounds particularly earth-shattering, there. Even if the Russian government might feel that Clinton is a better candidate for their agenda (in spite of Drumpf's high praises for Putin), I would expect that the Russian hacker would find it useful to bash Clinton if for no reason other than to make the Kremlin look bad.
Did I miss the article on Democrats expanding gun control laws?
There is enough stupid going around that there is no need to make up new stupid to supplement what is already there.
The Democrats proposed 4 bills in the senate fully knowing that they would not go anywhere due to GOP opposition in both the house and senate. However, if you look at what the bills proposed, there really wasn't much "control" in them. One was universal background checks, which is a measure that over 80% of Americans - and a majority of gun owners - support. Another was to prevent purchases by people on the FBI no fly list, which also has broad support.
Nowhere was there a bill proposing to take away an existing gun from an owner who is legally entitled to have a gun. Nowhere was there a bill that would restrict sale of guns between legal owners. Nowhere was there a bill that would make guns or ammo more expensive or difficult to obtain for legal purchasers.
If you don't like what was proposed, that's fine. At least be honest about it, rather than making up shit and pretending that the proposals contained things they did not.
We can't possibly do anything to prevent (or even slow down) people from getting guns, because reasons. So instead we'll expand domestic spying, which we all know works so well and never has any negative consequences. That's the ticket, right there.
Granted, I haven't been to an arena concert in over a decade, but the last concert I was at (a non-arena concert last fall) they were happy to have fas taking pictures with their phones. I've seen other performances from the band I saw posted online that were shot with varying degrees of consumer hardware, and the artists have never (to the best of my knowledge) protested against it. I guess I just run with a different crowd or something.
My own personal (as in, at home hosted on a cable modem) web server used to get these same kinds of distributed dictionary attacks, botnet attempts to gain access to whatever they can. There were times when I would see this type of thing almost once a month or so; then it started to taper off and I haven't seen it in some time. I figured the botnets were just doing other things (or had decomposed).
And yes, I acknowledge that there is nothing important about my web server. I figured the botnets just occasionally go through every IP address they can find that accepts ssh connections and my number comes up every so often. I've never seen an IP address come up in both my web and ssh logs.
And yes, I know I can do more to prevent this. People offer up plenty of suggestions. Frankly I don't care, and I actually enjoy seeing tons of blocked ssh traffic in my logs from time to time. As you might expect the vast overwhelming majority of traffic is Chinese script kiddies attempting dictionary attacks as root; I don't care about those as I don't allow remote root. I find the distributed, phone book, and distributed phone book attacks much more interesting. They even give me a chance to tune up my cron jobs that parse my server logs:)
The insurance racket can't be destroyed soon enough. The amount that our government at all levels does to protect every segment of the insurance industry - auto, health, life, etc - is terrible. This industry can't die soon enough. Any other industry attempting to drive Ponzi schemes such as theirs would have been taken out long ago, but these guys have better lobbyists.
Russian spies also targeted the computers of [...] Hillary Clinton
Certainly if there was incriminating evidence of something diabolical in her email server, the Russians would have found it, would they not have? Why would they wait to release it?
If he released this dump of "evidence" in time it would lead to Sanders winning the democratic endorsement. All the polling data we've ever seen has shown Sanders very easily defeating Drumpf in a general election.
$200k won't last long there, especially once the ACA forces him to buy into COBRA. If he doesn't land a job in 6 months or less he'll be close to out of money.
Just recently I had an actual recruiter, representing an actual job, contact me via linkedin. I've been in discussion with him and the company he represents - whose identity I know - and things look potentially promising. Otherwise I've had lots of flotsam on there (and more recently I had three recruiters from India ask to add me for some reason). I'd say the signal:noise is pretty low there already, and I can't imagine it will get any better with MS calling the shots.
ICANN became a corporation - in every meaningful sense of the word - some time ago. They stopped acting like a government organization long ago and have focused on profit for years now. The "leaders" of ICANN entered into a machine that was fairly effective and orderly, now they have created dysfunctional chaos and arbitrary mish-mash instead. While the government isn't a fix-all, a cat walking across a keyboard repeatedly could make decisions that would be equally as beneficial as the idiots running ICANN.
There is also the argument of whether or not you believe in corrections and rehabilitations.
I do believe, that some people may be rehabilitated. However, the purpose of the justice system is not solely that.
The current system in its current configuration cares almost not at all about rehabilitation. The current system focuses on the punishment, regardless of the offense.
Killing the uncorrectable is not "anti-correction".
Who gets to determine who is "uncorrectable"? In the context of the death penalty that you seem to be squarely in support of, when is the last time that the judge or jury had been tasked with determining how "correctable" the convicted is? That pretty almost never comes up in the trial - especially in the sentencing phase. Capital trials almost never have any interest in showing whether or not the person on trial has any capacity for rehabilitation.
I however would much rather we work on making criminals into functional and valuable members of society
Such work would indeed be most desirable, if it had any reasonable promise in it.
Why did you wait that long to admit that you have no belief in rehabilitation? Granted it was strongly implied in your earlier statements but here you finally came out and fully said it. I can't make you believe in rehabilitation. You can choose to hold on to your belief structure that some good comes from execution, in spite of the mountains of evidence to the contrary. But when you then follow up with
For another example, I'd very much humans could fly. Unfortunately, our bodies do not allow for it and I'm going to dismiss your whining about rehabilitating murderers with the same amused disdain I have for people flapping their hands trying to rise into the air
You just demonstrate that you made up your mind on the matter long ago and have no interest in discussing the mater. Why did you even hit reply?
Plenty of crimes do deserve death-penalty - the only valid argument against it can be based on the imperfections of the justice systems.
There is also the argument of whether or not you believe in corrections and rehabilitations. Nobody has ever been corrected or rehabilitated by being killed. It doesn't matter how horrific the crime, they did not become a better person as a result of being killed in retaliation for their crime. Just because you absolutely took away their ability to ever commit another crime again does not mean you did anything to actually help them.
If you are comfortable with the anti-correction and anti-rehabilitation stance that our penal system has taken on, then that is your decision. I however would much rather we work on making criminals into functional and valuable members of society. Even more so I would rather we work on helping these people before they become criminals so we don't have to deal with these problems later. Unfortunately that seems to be a very minority opinion in this country - or at least an opinion that is vastly unpopular amongst those who are able to pull the levers of power.
If you're looking to buy a reasonably priced, turbo, AWD vehicle you don't have much choice between Subaru and Mitsubishi unless you're willing to spend twice as much.
There is certainly a segment of the market that values the Evo and the WRX STI. I am not of that segment and it goes beyond my disdain for whale tails on my back bumper.
To me, those cars answer a question I have never asked or felt a reason to ask. I have never found myself looking for a car with massive turbo lag, poor fuel economy, a back seat that nobody over 5'8" can sit in for more than 10 minutes, and a requirement for premium gas. Sure, they are fast with the turbo fully spooled up and running wide open but before that happens they are not very impressive and they really don't have a point where their fuel economy is ever even slightly impressive for their size and price. Real world fuel economy on the decked out Evo or WRX STI is close to that of the Ford F150 EcoBoost, which is not much slower but vastly more utilitarian (and runs on regular gas).
They've been at the top of the list of "Japanese car makers that won't be around much longer" for a few years now. So few of them are sold in the US currently that I was starting to think perhaps they quietly went under or were absorbed by Toyota. Their long running Lando Calrissian approach to car manufacturing can only last so long, really.
The most accessible BASIC interpreter around (back then). I learned how to type on it, as well as how to code. Sure, "30 GOTO 10" isn't the most profound statement but it got my interest going.
Consider how many people use auto-login for all sorts of things in their web browser. If you can log in to their system as their user, and access their web browser, you will almost certainly be able to access some of their accounts. No amount of teamviewer security can offset user laziness.
And "OH" -- the most interesting part (I didn't read the article cited in TFA, but I've read a few on this subject and know one of the folks in the trial) is that the stem cells die off pretty quick. They just seem to "spark" brain cells to go "Hey guys! Lets hold hands" and magically make new connections.
I'm glad you pointed that out; I didn't have a chance to get to this discussion sooner. As a scientist - though not one involved in the study - I find myself wondering if this was a kind of apoptotic response. The stem cells probably found themselves in an unfamiliar environment (they were bone stem cells no longer subjected to bone cell transcription factors, bone cell extracellular matrix, etc) so they may have found themselves with nothing left to do but die. Apoptosis tends to leave tidy little packages in the wake of cell death (as opposed to cells going straight-up necrotic) which may have made some of their contents accessible to other cells. Neurons do live much more dynamic lives than we tend to give them credit for, so they may well have picked up these post-apoptotic packages and then responded to their contents.
One neat thing about such an approach is it should be fairly short lived on the molecular level, which seems to be just what we wanted here. The proteins and mRNA from the stem cells likely was degraded fairly quickly and almost certainly did not form a self-feedback loop. It sounds like magic, but it's really more like a crude attempt at gene hacking:)
Tattoos have become so common and trendy amongst generation X (and later) that it is almost less common to see someone with no tattoos at all. You can try to identify someone by the collection of tattoos they have (since the Pokemon mentality of "gotta catch 'em all" seems to apply to tattoos) but that gets iffy as you don't know where some are and some may be covered for any of a number of reasons. Even sorting isn't that useful; sure there are gang and prison tattoos but there is no shortage of people with tattoos of their favorite broken-up band and people with barbed wire tattoos that can be mistaken for other things.
Really, pretty useless effort. Might as well go for high-speed retinal scanning.
The key is simply tying our currency to *something* tangible, rather than backing it with nothing but faith in the monetary system remaining solvent.
I just realized - a few days late - that I didn't respond to this point. I have tried to get people who bring this up to elaborate more on it but nobody has yet done so.
My big question about this is if this is so important, why is there not a single currency of any economic importance in the world today that is doing this? The British Pound Sterling is not pegged to the value of a pound (or any other weight) of anything. No dollar (of any country) is either. Nor is the Euro, the Yuan, the Yen, or any Peso. Same with the Ruble, the Rupee, and the Lira.
If basically the entire world says "no, it's not that important", why are they wrong? Sure, the world has been wrong before; we can think of a time not that long ago when most people in the world thought the world was flat or that the sun revolved around the earth.
I just can't put my finger on what the world is missing. The currency is worth something because someone says so. If I want to trade you 5 bananas for a rusty bicycle and we both think that's a good deal what's the problem with the exchange of non-pegged goods? Currency is just a stand-in. I don't see why it needs to be pegged to a physical commodity as long as all the parties using it agree on what it should be worth.
And frankly as any physical commodity will have a finite supply, how would a pegged currency prevent increasing decreases in personal net worth of the lower economic classes? I appreciate that you did not specify gold, but any other substance will have the same problem unless you want to peg the currency to gaseous carbon dioxide.
And not many people are about to trade a nice comfy seat traveling at 5000 MPH for a cramped, drafty, noisy cockpit...
Especially since 5000 MPH is over twice as fast as an SR-71 and is way the fuck faster than any commercial aircraft available. New York to Los Angeles in 30 minutes is kinda hard to beat.
I had to go back to the original comment to make sure that indeed they said 5000 MPH; as I read it to be 500 MPH when I saw it. As you quoted, they did indeed type 5000 MPH (obviously I am not the poster of said comment). Good catch; though my money is on it being a typo (I'd give you a +1, funny if I ever got mod points again).
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Another was to prevent purchases by people on the FBI no fly list, which also has broad support.
No where in the constitution does it give the government to regulate an individual's travel between the states.
I've seen that argument before, but it doesn't hold water and I'll tell you why. The no fly list prevents you from getting on a commercial aircraft. It does not prevent you from travelling by car, rail, foot, bicycle, boat, or even a private plane. Sure, if you were looking at a $300 plane ticket and a 5 hour plane ride but now you're looking at several days in a car and many hundreds of dollars worth of gas, that is a big inconvenience. However it is not preventing you from doing it - you just have to plan a little more ahead of time.
Does that make the list perfect? No, not by a long shot. But do you know of a better law enforcement curated list of potential terrorists? You don't get on that list by going to tea party rallies or blogging about how terrible you think congress is.
I would expect they would try to release something that would be harmful to Hillary's campaign. None of that really sounds particularly earth-shattering, there. Even if the Russian government might feel that Clinton is a better candidate for their agenda (in spite of Drumpf's high praises for Putin), I would expect that the Russian hacker would find it useful to bash Clinton if for no reason other than to make the Kremlin look bad.
Did I miss the article on Democrats expanding gun control laws?
There is enough stupid going around that there is no need to make up new stupid to supplement what is already there.
The Democrats proposed 4 bills in the senate fully knowing that they would not go anywhere due to GOP opposition in both the house and senate. However, if you look at what the bills proposed, there really wasn't much "control" in them. One was universal background checks, which is a measure that over 80% of Americans - and a majority of gun owners - support. Another was to prevent purchases by people on the FBI no fly list, which also has broad support.
Nowhere was there a bill proposing to take away an existing gun from an owner who is legally entitled to have a gun. Nowhere was there a bill that would restrict sale of guns between legal owners. Nowhere was there a bill that would make guns or ammo more expensive or difficult to obtain for legal purchasers.
If you don't like what was proposed, that's fine. At least be honest about it, rather than making up shit and pretending that the proposals contained things they did not.
We can't possibly do anything to prevent (or even slow down) people from getting guns, because reasons. So instead we'll expand domestic spying, which we all know works so well and never has any negative consequences. That's the ticket, right there.
Granted, I haven't been to an arena concert in over a decade, but the last concert I was at (a non-arena concert last fall) they were happy to have fas taking pictures with their phones. I've seen other performances from the band I saw posted online that were shot with varying degrees of consumer hardware, and the artists have never (to the best of my knowledge) protested against it. I guess I just run with a different crowd or something.
Works everywhere I go. Every car I'm in has it, no subscription needed. If I don't like it, I just turn it off.
My own personal (as in, at home hosted on a cable modem) web server used to get these same kinds of distributed dictionary attacks, botnet attempts to gain access to whatever they can. There were times when I would see this type of thing almost once a month or so; then it started to taper off and I haven't seen it in some time. I figured the botnets were just doing other things (or had decomposed).
:)
And yes, I acknowledge that there is nothing important about my web server. I figured the botnets just occasionally go through every IP address they can find that accepts ssh connections and my number comes up every so often. I've never seen an IP address come up in both my web and ssh logs.
And yes, I know I can do more to prevent this. People offer up plenty of suggestions. Frankly I don't care, and I actually enjoy seeing tons of blocked ssh traffic in my logs from time to time. As you might expect the vast overwhelming majority of traffic is Chinese script kiddies attempting dictionary attacks as root; I don't care about those as I don't allow remote root. I find the distributed, phone book, and distributed phone book attacks much more interesting. They even give me a chance to tune up my cron jobs that parse my server logs
The insurance racket can't be destroyed soon enough. The amount that our government at all levels does to protect every segment of the insurance industry - auto, health, life, etc - is terrible. This industry can't die soon enough. Any other industry attempting to drive Ponzi schemes such as theirs would have been taken out long ago, but these guys have better lobbyists.
Russian spies also targeted the computers of [...] Hillary Clinton
Certainly if there was incriminating evidence of something diabolical in her email server, the Russians would have found it, would they not have? Why would they wait to release it?
If he released this dump of "evidence" in time it would lead to Sanders winning the democratic endorsement. All the polling data we've ever seen has shown Sanders very easily defeating Drumpf in a general election.
$200k won't last long there, especially once the ACA forces him to buy into COBRA. If he doesn't land a job in 6 months or less he'll be close to out of money.
1. Wow, this was a terrible tragedy.
2. Damn, this seems to happen a lot now.
3. Can we do anything about it?
4. Nope, there is nothing we can do about it.
5. We can't predict it, can't prevent it, so there is no reason to do anything about it. Have a nice day.
Just recently I had an actual recruiter, representing an actual job, contact me via linkedin. I've been in discussion with him and the company he represents - whose identity I know - and things look potentially promising. Otherwise I've had lots of flotsam on there (and more recently I had three recruiters from India ask to add me for some reason). I'd say the signal:noise is pretty low there already, and I can't imagine it will get any better with MS calling the shots.
ICANN became a corporation - in every meaningful sense of the word - some time ago. They stopped acting like a government organization long ago and have focused on profit for years now. The "leaders" of ICANN entered into a machine that was fairly effective and orderly, now they have created dysfunctional chaos and arbitrary mish-mash instead. While the government isn't a fix-all, a cat walking across a keyboard repeatedly could make decisions that would be equally as beneficial as the idiots running ICANN.
There is also the argument of whether or not you believe in corrections and rehabilitations.
I do believe, that some people may be rehabilitated. However, the purpose of the justice system is not solely that.
The current system in its current configuration cares almost not at all about rehabilitation. The current system focuses on the punishment, regardless of the offense.
Killing the uncorrectable is not "anti-correction".
Who gets to determine who is "uncorrectable"? In the context of the death penalty that you seem to be squarely in support of, when is the last time that the judge or jury had been tasked with determining how "correctable" the convicted is? That pretty almost never comes up in the trial - especially in the sentencing phase. Capital trials almost never have any interest in showing whether or not the person on trial has any capacity for rehabilitation.
I however would much rather we work on making criminals into functional and valuable members of society
Such work would indeed be most desirable, if it had any reasonable promise in it.
Why did you wait that long to admit that you have no belief in rehabilitation? Granted it was strongly implied in your earlier statements but here you finally came out and fully said it. I can't make you believe in rehabilitation. You can choose to hold on to your belief structure that some good comes from execution, in spite of the mountains of evidence to the contrary. But when you then follow up with
For another example, I'd very much humans could fly. Unfortunately, our bodies do not allow for it and I'm going to dismiss your whining about rehabilitating murderers with the same amused disdain I have for people flapping their hands trying to rise into the air
You just demonstrate that you made up your mind on the matter long ago and have no interest in discussing the mater. Why did you even hit reply?
Plenty of crimes do deserve death-penalty - the only valid argument against it can be based on the imperfections of the justice systems.
There is also the argument of whether or not you believe in corrections and rehabilitations. Nobody has ever been corrected or rehabilitated by being killed. It doesn't matter how horrific the crime, they did not become a better person as a result of being killed in retaliation for their crime. Just because you absolutely took away their ability to ever commit another crime again does not mean you did anything to actually help them.
If you are comfortable with the anti-correction and anti-rehabilitation stance that our penal system has taken on, then that is your decision. I however would much rather we work on making criminals into functional and valuable members of society. Even more so I would rather we work on helping these people before they become criminals so we don't have to deal with these problems later. Unfortunately that seems to be a very minority opinion in this country - or at least an opinion that is vastly unpopular amongst those who are able to pull the levers of power.
If you're looking to buy a reasonably priced, turbo, AWD vehicle you don't have much choice between Subaru and Mitsubishi unless you're willing to spend twice as much.
There is certainly a segment of the market that values the Evo and the WRX STI. I am not of that segment and it goes beyond my disdain for whale tails on my back bumper.
To me, those cars answer a question I have never asked or felt a reason to ask. I have never found myself looking for a car with massive turbo lag, poor fuel economy, a back seat that nobody over 5'8" can sit in for more than 10 minutes, and a requirement for premium gas. Sure, they are fast with the turbo fully spooled up and running wide open but before that happens they are not very impressive and they really don't have a point where their fuel economy is ever even slightly impressive for their size and price. Real world fuel economy on the decked out Evo or WRX STI is close to that of the Ford F150 EcoBoost, which is not much slower but vastly more utilitarian (and runs on regular gas).
They've been at the top of the list of "Japanese car makers that won't be around much longer" for a few years now. So few of them are sold in the US currently that I was starting to think perhaps they quietly went under or were absorbed by Toyota. Their long running Lando Calrissian approach to car manufacturing can only last so long, really.
The most accessible BASIC interpreter around (back then). I learned how to type on it, as well as how to code. Sure, "30 GOTO 10" isn't the most profound statement but it got my interest going.
Consider how many people use auto-login for all sorts of things in their web browser. If you can log in to their system as their user, and access their web browser, you will almost certainly be able to access some of their accounts. No amount of teamviewer security can offset user laziness.
Microsoft never expected that this version of windows would be used for anything of any importance.
And "OH" -- the most interesting part (I didn't read the article cited in TFA, but I've read a few on this subject and know one of the folks in the trial) is that the stem cells die off pretty quick. They just seem to "spark" brain cells to go "Hey guys! Lets hold hands" and magically make new connections.
I'm glad you pointed that out; I didn't have a chance to get to this discussion sooner. As a scientist - though not one involved in the study - I find myself wondering if this was a kind of apoptotic response. The stem cells probably found themselves in an unfamiliar environment (they were bone stem cells no longer subjected to bone cell transcription factors, bone cell extracellular matrix, etc) so they may have found themselves with nothing left to do but die. Apoptosis tends to leave tidy little packages in the wake of cell death (as opposed to cells going straight-up necrotic) which may have made some of their contents accessible to other cells. Neurons do live much more dynamic lives than we tend to give them credit for, so they may well have picked up these post-apoptotic packages and then responded to their contents.
:)
One neat thing about such an approach is it should be fairly short lived on the molecular level, which seems to be just what we wanted here. The proteins and mRNA from the stem cells likely was degraded fairly quickly and almost certainly did not form a self-feedback loop. It sounds like magic, but it's really more like a crude attempt at gene hacking
Tattoos have become so common and trendy amongst generation X (and later) that it is almost less common to see someone with no tattoos at all. You can try to identify someone by the collection of tattoos they have (since the Pokemon mentality of "gotta catch 'em all" seems to apply to tattoos) but that gets iffy as you don't know where some are and some may be covered for any of a number of reasons. Even sorting isn't that useful; sure there are gang and prison tattoos but there is no shortage of people with tattoos of their favorite broken-up band and people with barbed wire tattoos that can be mistaken for other things.
Really, pretty useless effort. Might as well go for high-speed retinal scanning.
The key is simply tying our currency to *something* tangible, rather than backing it with nothing but faith in the monetary system remaining solvent.
I just realized - a few days late - that I didn't respond to this point. I have tried to get people who bring this up to elaborate more on it but nobody has yet done so.
My big question about this is if this is so important, why is there not a single currency of any economic importance in the world today that is doing this? The British Pound Sterling is not pegged to the value of a pound (or any other weight) of anything. No dollar (of any country) is either. Nor is the Euro, the Yuan, the Yen, or any Peso. Same with the Ruble, the Rupee, and the Lira.
If basically the entire world says "no, it's not that important", why are they wrong? Sure, the world has been wrong before; we can think of a time not that long ago when most people in the world thought the world was flat or that the sun revolved around the earth.
I just can't put my finger on what the world is missing. The currency is worth something because someone says so. If I want to trade you 5 bananas for a rusty bicycle and we both think that's a good deal what's the problem with the exchange of non-pegged goods? Currency is just a stand-in. I don't see why it needs to be pegged to a physical commodity as long as all the parties using it agree on what it should be worth.
And frankly as any physical commodity will have a finite supply, how would a pegged currency prevent increasing decreases in personal net worth of the lower economic classes? I appreciate that you did not specify gold, but any other substance will have the same problem unless you want to peg the currency to gaseous carbon dioxide.
And not many people are about to trade a nice comfy seat traveling at 5000 MPH for a cramped, drafty, noisy cockpit...
Especially since 5000 MPH is over twice as fast as an SR-71 and is way the fuck faster than any commercial aircraft available. New York to Los Angeles in 30 minutes is kinda hard to beat.
I had to go back to the original comment to make sure that indeed they said 5000 MPH; as I read it to be 500 MPH when I saw it. As you quoted, they did indeed type 5000 MPH (obviously I am not the poster of said comment). Good catch; though my money is on it being a typo (I'd give you a +1, funny if I ever got mod points again).