The Tank, when it was invented, was thought to be such a terrifying weapon that it might end all war for fear of utter devistation. It was even named a tank to disguise why all this metal was being shipped... under the guise of building water tanks.
You don't know who is planning or not planning an invasion. You don't know who will or won't help you in a war. You don't know troop composition, disposition, or strength. You don't know how the cookie will crumble due to current political winds. You don't know a goddamn thing unless you spy on them.
You can put two and two together, and fill in the blanks with educated guesses, inferences, and patterns... that is one tool. Other tool is spying. Without either you are a total SHIT craftsman.
"International Law" are nothing but agreements between countries backed up ONLY by what the angry country can do about it. There is no power on earth above the nation-state. At that level, each country does what it can to do what ever is necessary for its own survival in the realpolitik game. And maintaining economic power is just as important as how many tanks you have. More, actually.
Countries don't go to heaven. They don't get any credit for doing what is "right", only for doing what is "necessary". Spying, blackmail, assassination... all of it bad and distasteful, some of it necessary. Like war.
If you yourself live in any kind of comfortably safe society, you have benefited from a strong nation-state somewhere willing to spy and fight where necessary. Even if you don't live in said country. Even if you don't appreciate it.
civilian leaders? they are the decision makers. they turn the political wheels. you ABSOLUTELY should be spying as high up as your ability will allow.
countries don't have friends, they have interests. you shouldn't be trying to justify anything. it is team A's job to spy on team B. It is team B's job to stop it. There's no crying about it. Pick a side and do work.
People are about to get a good lesson in how government can take something government-less and make it better. EVERYTHING is under control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUSUJHmamtQ
The government employs too many people. We borrow money from China to employ them. Sad as it is, it is too expensive. Federal employees in particular are pretty expensive.
Here's the crazy part. The US Government can simply take more money from taxpayers, then borrow 40 cents from China for every dollar, and they will make ACA succeed by brute-force. They will simply out-spend the problem, using other people's money.
They don't have to show a profit. They don't have to prove efficiency. They don't have to prove competency. They will simply take what they want from other people until it works.
Imagine Stalin's purges if he had made everyone use a website... his communism would have barely purged 10% of Ingushetia before being overwhelmed.
Actually, west jordan is in the massive sprawl complex that stretches from North Ogden to Nephi. He would probably have at least a couple hours drive to get up past Park City, Heber, Payson, or out towards the west desert, Tooele, or even Dugway He will have some driving if he wants darkness. Utah'ns in general take a "consumptive model" view of nature, and aren't big into reducing pollution, let alone LIGHT pollution.
We used to sneak the LHX helicopter sim game into the lab and play it off a microfloppy.
How would you know what settings changes to counter, for multiple OS'es, a couple years into the future? Writing code to monitor how many windows registry, mac settings, bsd setting that may or may not exist when they are used or might not have existed when you wrote the logic? That alone is quite a feat.
Then there's the whole sonic communication thing. And ability to
I have a hard time believing that you could pack enough logic into bios that could anticipate and counter your actions in OSX, BSD, and Windows.
Otherwise, this code must maintain a link to the outside world, relying on equipment that may or may not be anywhere near by, and then a human would have to monitor this machine and send commands back. That would take an insane level of commitment.
If this was real, wouldn't every security researcher, hardware manufacturer, and government in the world be at this dude's lab to get in on the action?
Communicating via sound or ultrasound from speakers to microphones. Possible. The rest of it... leaves me dubious.
But The Motorola Way, as embodied by the engineer's corporate religion of Six Sigma, would not have trucked with such nonsense. Just saying, brah.
Discuss.
Oh, and I'm sure I've seen it done all wrong. But every time I've seen it, it's been an excuse to never order parts until it's too late because companies are cheap.
The ideals of The Toyota Way, as embodied in the corporate religion of Lean, may have contributed to overlooking some aspects of software engineering best practices.
If you aren't worried about the results, then just do the study and follow the data where it goes. If AGW really is the ONE TRUE WAY then I'm sure one more study won't change that. You aren't worried are you?
Forcibly take a portion of my personal property (taxes) and it over to some elite board of intellectuals who aren't beholden in any way whatsoever to me, they taxpayer?
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Actually what you just said appears nowhere in any definition of psychopath. Clinical or otherwise.
Any old God can do speciation. But a TRULY awesome God? He automates it.
The Tank, when it was invented, was thought to be such a terrifying weapon that it might end all war for fear of utter devistation. It was even named a tank to disguise why all this metal was being shipped... under the guise of building water tanks.
You don't know who is planning or not planning an invasion. You don't know who will or won't help you in a war. You don't know troop composition, disposition, or strength. You don't know how the cookie will crumble due to current political winds. You don't know a goddamn thing unless you spy on them.
You can put two and two together, and fill in the blanks with educated guesses, inferences, and patterns... that is one tool. Other tool is spying. Without either you are a total SHIT craftsman.
"International Law" are nothing but agreements between countries backed up ONLY by what the angry country can do about it. There is no power on earth above the nation-state. At that level, each country does what it can to do what ever is necessary for its own survival in the realpolitik game. And maintaining economic power is just as important as how many tanks you have. More, actually.
Countries don't go to heaven. They don't get any credit for doing what is "right", only for doing what is "necessary". Spying, blackmail, assassination... all of it bad and distasteful, some of it necessary. Like war.
If you yourself live in any kind of comfortably safe society, you have benefited from a strong nation-state somewhere willing to spy and fight where necessary. Even if you don't live in said country. Even if you don't appreciate it.
civilian leaders? they are the decision makers. they turn the political wheels. you ABSOLUTELY should be spying as high up as your ability will allow.
countries don't have friends, they have interests. you shouldn't be trying to justify anything. it is team A's job to spy on team B. It is team B's job to stop it. There's no crying about it. Pick a side and do work.
it is what *countries* do.
Hmm.
Well, tell THAT to the Clam!
Oh, that's right. He can't hear you. Because he's DEAD!
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People are about to get a good lesson in how government can take something government-less and make it better.
EVERYTHING is under control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUSUJHmamtQ
In some states, you can't get your car fixed if the damage is over some arbitrary dollar amount without a police report.
I guess I figured the trailer hitch in question was attached to a vehicle of some kind. I guess we should take it to mean debris?
The guy got in an accident and figured he would just, you know, say screw it and drive home instead of stopping and reporting an accident?
The government employs too many people. We borrow money from China to employ them. Sad as it is, it is too expensive. Federal employees in particular are pretty expensive.
Here's the crazy part. The US Government can simply take more money from taxpayers, then borrow 40 cents from China for every dollar, and they will make ACA succeed by brute-force. They will simply out-spend the problem, using other people's money.
They don't have to show a profit. They don't have to prove efficiency. They don't have to prove competency. They will simply take what they want from other people until it works.
Imagine Stalin's purges if he had made everyone use a website... his communism would have barely purged 10% of Ingushetia before being overwhelmed.
"The Government" doesn't actually have its own money. It has to take it, with threat of violence, from the population it was supposed to leave alone.
That money isn't really for "The Government" to give away to every "scientist" who can write a grant.
Hardware is cheap.
Software is expensive.
Charging for IDEAS, though... THAT is where the real money is.
This guy earned "Long Haul Trucker" and is building a telescope with money he works for.
I find that much more respectable than the right honorable lord sir fuckface pursuing hobbies with leisure time and leisure money.
Actually, west jordan is in the massive sprawl complex that stretches from North Ogden to Nephi. He would probably have at least a couple hours drive to get up past Park City, Heber, Payson, or out towards the west desert, Tooele, or even Dugway He will have some driving if he wants darkness. Utah'ns in general take a "consumptive model" view of nature, and aren't big into reducing pollution, let alone LIGHT pollution.
I just open a port on my FW, and use a reverse VNC setup with a listening viewer.
The other guy connects to a listening viewer to my IP.
You could prolly find a portable-executable vnc server and roll it up with a launcher to call it with appropriate args like your IP.
We used to sneak the LHX helicopter sim game into the lab and play it off a microfloppy.
How would you know what settings changes to counter, for multiple OS'es, a couple years into the future? Writing code to monitor how many windows registry, mac settings, bsd setting that may or may not exist when they are used or might not have existed when you wrote the logic? That alone is quite a feat.
Then there's the whole sonic communication thing. And ability to
I have a hard time believing that you could pack enough logic into bios that could anticipate and counter your actions in OSX, BSD, and Windows.
Otherwise, this code must maintain a link to the outside world, relying on equipment that may or may not be anywhere near by, and then a human would have to monitor this machine and send commands back. That would take an insane level of commitment.
If this was real, wouldn't every security researcher, hardware manufacturer, and government in the world be at this dude's lab to get in on the action?
Communicating via sound or ultrasound from speakers to microphones. Possible. The rest of it... leaves me dubious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2q5L8kUOtA
The guy at Subway is not trying to make you the best tuna sandwich you’ve ever had, he’s just trying to get through the day.
-- Henry Rollins
I'm merely getting the ball rolling here.
But The Motorola Way, as embodied by the engineer's corporate religion of Six Sigma, would not have trucked with such nonsense. Just saying, brah.
Discuss.
Oh, and I'm sure I've seen it done all wrong. But every time I've seen it, it's been an excuse to never order parts until it's too late because companies are cheap.
Idea:
The ideals of The Toyota Way, as embodied in the corporate religion of Lean, may have contributed to overlooking some aspects of software engineering best practices.
Discuss.
If you aren't worried about the results, then just do the study and follow the data where it goes. If AGW really is the ONE TRUE WAY then I'm sure one more study won't change that.
You aren't worried are you?
Oh I see.
Forcibly take a portion of my personal property (taxes) and it over to some elite board of intellectuals who aren't beholden in any way whatsoever to me, they taxpayer?
No thanks.
The irony of getting a warrant to raid a jornalist for "guns".....
But hey, a judge signed it... so it must be legit.