That's not how I remember it. Climate change was put forward by the greenies because the results were not agreeing with the predictions. Once you can attribute temperatures going up, going down or staying the same to the same cause, you're golden.
If they don't know how it doesn't work then they don't know when it won't work because of some unaccounted for situation. For an example, consider that pedestrian bridge in London. Engineering is about more than designing for the common case. You also have to consider outliers.
This is why I've avoided using it on my Chromebook. I've accepted that the Chromebook itself may be compromised but damned if I'll install Google's spy software on my main PC. Just waiting for VNC to become available for the Sammy...
The problem isn't so much that they have a big bunch of data but that then rather than have a crime and find the perpetrator, they can now pick a person who they don't like and find a crime or other embarrassing data to fit them.
You can argue that people shouldn't be doing things if they don't want to have them show up later. However, firstly, there are so many laws that most of us are committing a few every day, often without knowing. Secondly, what kind of world is it going to be if only the completely pure can go up against the status quo?
There are other things that need our attention right now. Though having politicians spend their time on meaningless fluff rather than passing more shitty laws is probably a good thing, in general this kind of thing is just used to run interference for meaningful stuff that is going on that they don't want you to pay attention to.
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That's not how I remember it. Climate change was put forward by the greenies because the results were not agreeing with the predictions. Once you can attribute temperatures going up, going down or staying the same to the same cause, you're golden.
If they don't know how it doesn't work then they don't know when it won't work because of some unaccounted for situation. For an example, consider that pedestrian bridge in London. Engineering is about more than designing for the common case. You also have to consider outliers.
(sadly VLC can't decrypt modern Blu-rays atm.)
How about other kinds of porn?
This is why I've avoided using it on my Chromebook. I've accepted that the Chromebook itself may be compromised but damned if I'll install Google's spy software on my main PC. Just waiting for VNC to become available for the Sammy...
The problem isn't so much that they have a big bunch of data but that then rather than have a crime and find the perpetrator, they can now pick a person who they don't like and find a crime or other embarrassing data to fit them.
You can argue that people shouldn't be doing things if they don't want to have them show up later. However, firstly, there are so many laws that most of us are committing a few every day, often without knowing. Secondly, what kind of world is it going to be if only the completely pure can go up against the status quo?
Next year the US can retroactively free all the slaves and claim that therefore there was never a slavery problem.
Society was better when "The state is mother, the state is father" were just words on a page.
There are other things that need our attention right now. Though having politicians spend their time on meaningless fluff rather than passing more shitty laws is probably a good thing, in general this kind of thing is just used to run interference for meaningful stuff that is going on that they don't want you to pay attention to.
Bravo, sir. I was about to post the same thing. Never mod points when you need them.
I'd rather have them spending the money on cigars and strippers than paying some guy to touch my junk.
Both my cars have "valet modes" for the trunk.
Many cars don't have folding seats. But FWIW, my VW does and has key-locks on them and a key lock to de-activate the trunk button in the door.
If you're driving to the airport, you *are* a commoner. My chauffeur agrees.
Not all aircraft are tracked.
Yeah, but he used a big font.
This is why CAs are a bad idea and we should have been using fingerprints for verifying certs.
I would say the 9th is probably the most important and most overlooked.
Who can push for this?
Yeah, I'm not letting this joker pump my gas...
Had he left a tube of biscuit dough in the back of his space-suit?
(OK, this is *very* obscure)
Costs three times as much as the originally budgeted cost, is delivered five times past the deadline and doesn't do a tenth of what was promised.
This was the comment I was looking for. If I had mod points, you'd get them all.
They are lost forever. That's not as big an issue as it might seem (except for the owner) for reasons which have been explained to death elsewhere.
USPS is part of the federal government. QED.
It is purely online. The problem you are having is with your fiat money.