I would probably buy one, and I live in the US. It would depend on how much it costs to run the pump and get a full tank.
Back in 2000 I was driving a gas guzzling huge SUV. When gas was consistently cheap it was never a real consideration for me. That changed in a hurry with the gas prices. Bought several Priuses since then, and lately I have reorganized my life so that I have to travel dramatically less.
In the last two years I walk to the grocery store. I buy less food (only what I can carry), have lost considerably weight, and eat better.
My work commute is 5-8 minutes. No problems doing that in a little car like that, especially if it is zero emissions, good for the environment, and cheap to operate.
I tend to stick close to home, ride a bike for long distances, and generally have changed my spending habits and how I relax. This kind of car actually fits to my lifestyle, and I don't think I would be the only one. Betting there is a market in the US as well.
First you are cynical that nobody would be willing to sacrifice to step up to do something right, I answer and tell you that I am, and you can do nothing but continue to berate me and paint horrific pictures of my torture to come.
Well, okay. I don't care. I answered your question, I am not a coward, and I will risk death, HIV, and all that horrible stuff to do what is right.
You don't need to comment back about how something even more disturbing is going to happen to me. I get it, I just don't care.
I'll give you Afghanistan, and Iraq. Those only served the powerful elite, and most notably to military contractors that acted dishonorably and never faced justice.
However, WWII did bring freedom to many, and did bring about peace. If it was not for the Allies I think the world would not be a more free or peaceful place. The Nazis were truly evil and would not have limited themselves to Jews. Anybody not worthy according to those Aryan attributes they were so fond of would have been treated the same way. The Japanese were not evil, but certainly power hungry and nationalistic. With respect to WWII, I think they were just being opportunistic at the time and making a grab for an expanded Japanese empire. On the battlefield they could be some real sons of bitches, but I can chalk that up to cultural differences.
WWI was more defensive than anything. If it were not for the Germans going crazy with the submarines and the Zimmerman letter, the US may have never entered the war.
How did the Civil War not bring about freedom? I think millions of African Americans would disagree with you there.
Vietnam.... yeah. I would not exactly say that was about bringing freedom or peace primarily. There is nothing to be proud of about our recent wars. While I support the troops, I certainly don't support the wars.
I think we are more or less saying the same thing and have the same feelings. I'm very passionate about freedom and willing to defend it, I think you just get caught up my terms of patriotism and willingness to fight (seemingly in a blind fashion).
But im not stupid enough to reiterate over and over how I wont turn into a coward. No person really knows what he or she will do when faced in unknown situations. In fact its better not to know because when that time comes you wont be surprised by your own internal struggle.
It's one thing to be going around announcing that you are no coward and are ready to fight for anything at a moment's notice. It's another to speak up when somebody says that it is too dangerous to fight and better to back down.
In this case it was specifically asked, and almost in a way that was assuming that nobody would be willing to risk themselves to shed light on activity by the US government, and other governments, that quite frankly really needs to be seen by everyone.
I answered. When I say coward, it is only to somebody that is willing to give up the struggle before they even have it. When the time comes I am sure I will have a struggle, and I might have more to lose. I believe in myself that I will have the courage when the times comes to do so. Not just myself, but I believe that plenty of others will have the courage to do so as well, you included.
You think I don't know the difference between my own personal power and theirs? I don't need to wake up. I know this.
I refuse to live the life of coward, stay silent, and continue to enable those in power to abuse us and repress us. If they are going to come for me, then they can fucking do it anytime they want.
Death comes to us all. Without exception. Control can be argued to be an illusion, but the one thing that is not an illusion, is that I am in control over my own honor and integrity. I can choose that.
If they come and torture me and kill me because I stood up, it will be a good and honorable death of which I can be proud. Hopefully, I can serve as inspiration to the future. That may be likely, as I am strongly inspired by those men and women in the past that acted the same way.
You know what? I don't know any of the names of people involved in the underground railroad, or those that were hiding Jews in WWII. I do know that they existed, and risked their lives (and many gave it) to stand up for what was right and noble.
Legal is worthless as a term. Laws can be made to prevent any behavior, whether to the behavior is ethical or moral or not.
Were the underground railroads a legal method of opposing slavery at the time? Were they ethical?
Manning performed illegal actions, but they were strongly ethical. While it may have put some people at risk, even troops, it is overwhelmingly evident that the greater good was serviced by the dissemination of that information.
You have it ass backwards. Just how the Nazi's perverted the Swastika, you are working with a perverted version of American Patriotism.
American Patriotism to me, and I believe by definition, is not the devotion to one's country at all, but the devotion to the American ideals. I am devoted to the reasons and philosophy of why America was created in the first place, regardless of whether you think it was a lie and never truly implemented. One of the core tenants of American Patriotism is that when the government fails to uphold those ideals, it needs to be removed and changed. That is directly counter to your claim of patriotism being defined as strongly nationalistic.
My country is not defined by races, geography, or historical claims. It is defined by our ideals, our love of freedom.
My love of country and ideals does not force me to do anything I would not do on my own. In fact, that is the whole point of freedom in my country in the first place.
Try to do something that really sets people free and you will surely lose any freedom you think you have real quick
That is the purest expression of my form of American Patriotism. The willingness to stand up and fight, the performance of civil disobedience when you know the laws are not ethical or just, the refusal to give in to the corporate rulers that would willingly sacrifice freedom, and the greater good, for short term profits.
You're wrong about my patriotism, and you're wrong about my intentions, and you're most certainly wrong about my understanding of how fragile freedom in American is right now.
I refuse to live the life of a coward. If government is a willing to abuse us and repress us, and with our cowardice we continue to enable them to do so, then we deserve that government.
I'm willing to die to make sure my country remains free. Granted, it is in a world of shit right now, but I don't back down just because the authority threatens me with further loss of freedom, or my life.
If and when the time comes to prove it, I believe in my heart, that I have the courage to make such a sacrifice and would be proud to do so.
Its called the chilling effect [wikipedia.org] and works quite well and I'm sure will work in this case. After all what person is gonna be willing to say or print shit in any high profile capacity against the USA if they see Assange dragged before a kangaroo court before being dropped in a deep dark hole somewhere?
Oooohhh Ooooooh! *raises hands*
Right here. If I was in the position to do so, I would not hesitate for a second to air the dirty laundry of the government. In fact, it is my duty to do so as a patriotic American . I could never live with myself allowing the government to continue to do something contrary to the ideals that we cherish. They failed us with their behavior and shamed all of America with their previously hidden actions.
My family history has members in WWII, WWI, and the Civil War. They bled for my freedom, as well as yours. They did not run away scared, or react to some chilling effect.
I would be proud to be dropped in a dark hole somewhere if I knew that I was exposing corruption in the country, that although I am currently deeply ashamed and disappointed in, I love for its ideals.
So, either the fed gets a court decision, or Congress passes a new law, or the IRS makes a very bad decision and thousands of people wealthy enough to pay estate taxes start adding that to their reasons for tax revolt, and a whole bunch of state v. fed lawsuits get launched anyways.
*snicker*
I've had a few, and I have tears streaming down my face I have been laughing so hard.
To think that a bunch of little bastards in their mothers basement farming for gold in a video game would cause congressional debates a few decades later about encumbered assets in wills. Mouse clicks fueled by hot pockets and Dew are responsible for grown men to be arguing about Federal vs. State and the finer points of estates, tax laws, and politics.
The older I get the more the world just seems absurd:)
I thought of that scene in star wars where they rescue the princess from the death star and she sees the millennium falcon and says "You came here in that? You're braver than I thought!".
I didn't take it as a real insult to the Millennium Falcon (always capitalized), just that Princess Leia was a little bit bitchy.
What amazes me about that scene is how Han manages to keep his shit together and not throw her Hotness to Vader on the way out. Think about everything he had to deal with up to that point:
- Effective death sentence from Jabba the Hut for losing a shipment - Stuck on a backwater planet just trying to get a drink and figure out what the fuck he is going to do next - Jedi, of all people, booking passage trying to get away from Imperials... and Imperials just love Jedi at this point. - Gay golden robot annoying as hell second guessing his decisions every other second - Sarcastic midget robot that just beeps all the time - Greedo, getting all up in his shit when he is trying to get the money to appease Jabba - It's implied... but you know Chewbacca probably shed like a mother fucker on that ship, lord help Han, when Chewy drops some super-fiber induced dump in the bathroom. Not a great idea to be burning matches in enclosed spaces with combustible gases on a star ship - Smart ass little blonde kid that has only seen that backwater planet, but already knows everything at 18. - The Death Star - Seriously, the fucking Death Star. What the fuck is that? A Star Destroyer was not big enough for the emperor, he needed a god damn movable planetoid full of storm troopers? Those same guys Han was just shooting at not moments before. You know the old saying... the Millennium Falcon may do the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, but galactic communications are near instantaneous...... - Tractor beam pulling him to the aforementioned planetoid of fuck my life. - Jail break goes horribly wrong. Han can't act for shit over the radio. Screws the pooch big time. - Her bitchiness. Kind of hot, Han knows she has a rough day, but seriously not even a little gratitude? - Stuck in a garbage compactor - What the fuck is that smell? - No.. No... What the fuck is in her with us - Garbage compactor is... well... compacting - Need Gay Golden Boy's help. Out of everyone Han knows, it's fucking Threepio that needs to nut up and come to the rescue - Sure.... I don't mind fighting a whole bunch of troops. You guys go ahead, me and Chewy are going to fuck their shit up
- Bitch insults my ride just as we are about to get away.
Yeah. I think Han was the very model of self restraint to still let her on the ship. I would of told Chewy to get the fuck on the ship and gone back to the bar alone.
I think preventing casual bios updates from any source would be the preferred and correct solution for servers. We have a movement towards lights out datacenters, but even so, some things should just have to be done in person.
I'm not opposed to BIOS updates only being performed from an attached flash drive and completely impossible while the machine is running as jmorris42 proposes.
Also, remember how often people update BIOS in the first place. Hardly ever. How often is an operating system wiped to get rid of malware? A heck of lot more often. I would accept the trade off having a semi-permanent BIOS and confidence that is not compromised over some convenience any day. Especially on servers that can be running sensitive platforms.
Well the first thing I saw was German photographs. The Internet has caused me to be immediately suspicious of any German photographs. Even with mundane things you do instantly recognize.
German and Coelawhatsahamtanths.... I admit I was hesitant.
You're about as backasswards retarded as any fundamentalist out there.
People are calling you a fucking asshole because you are saying we are rape defenders you fuck.
In my hypothetical scenario, I would not have been raped. You're not going to find anyone who agrees with you, and any sane country run with even a modicum of logical and rationality would not make the baseless and damaging conclusions about rape that you have.
You insult the victims of rape with your definition. You insult all people of intelligence with your pedantry.
You really are a fucking asshole. Do you know why you are so offensive? It's because you are a complete fucking retard, and when people that have a modicum of common sense call you out, you call them rape defenders. Then you have the unmitigated gall to act as if you have the moral high ground and are the only one acting with civility and a conscience.
Fuck You.
While you are enthralled with your own moronic pedantry, you fail to realize just how wrong and utterly stupid your position is .
So let me turn that around for you dipshit:
I'm with a woman (stop laughing/.) and we are getting into it and clearly about to have sex (I said stop laughing), and I ask, "Are you on birth control?" .
She is either irresponsible, confused if she took it or not, or just plain lying.
We have sex. Note, I said WE. So I was raped? If your view is not completely sexist, then by your logic I was in fact raped.
That is not correct . You see, I am a mature adult and take ownership of my actions. I was not forced to lick her pussy. Neither was I forced to continual pump my dick into her pussy over and over again. I was a man capable of making rational decisions during the entire act of sex.
Rape is specific. It means that the act was against the person's will the entire time. Not some sort of legal and gestalt understanding and agreement of all specifics you can possibly imagine, such as alignment of the stars, who will win the next Super Bowl, or some weird shit like that.
It was not a specific circumstance which could only be evaluated after the act was completed.
So, fuck you. Nobody here is defending rape. Just calling you out for being a ridiculously retarded pedant obsessed with redefining the act of rape to be so broad and inclusive, that the very act of rape loses all power and meaning.
What you need is to be turned into a woman and sent to Africa, or Afghanistan you retarded fuckstick. Than you might actually start to understand what rape really is.
These are not serious allegations, and are not sex crimes. Not in any sane country.
He was an asshole, I will grant you that. However, failing to put a condom on, even when the woman expects it, is more likely to be the plot of a Hollywood movie, than the actions of a "rapist" or "sexual predator".
By that logic a woman in Sweden could demand cuddling and talking after sex and it would be deemed just as worthy of being a sex crime when it was not performed.
The whole case is ridiculous and Sweden had their chance to prosecute and now are refuse to offer any guarantees against extradition to the US (which is quite reasonable under the circumstances) or prosecute him remotely.
Not using a condom is a pretty big deal when the woman has asked you not to.
Perhaps it is. However, as long as consent was given the entire time it is not anywhere close to being rape or sexual battery. It just makes him a dick. She did not notice it till the next day. Rape is not retroactive. She can't demand breakfast as part of some verbal contract and then claim breach of contract constitutes rape.
This is just theater. Assange has damn good reason to expect that once in custody he would be shipped off to the US. If Sweden really wants justice they can prosecute him without having him in custody. It's not like we don't have the technology to perform streaming video to a court room. Done all the time in the US now. Prisoners don't even step foot in the courtroom and are in a building across town.
If they do convict him, then there might be a better case to get him back to Sweden to serve his sentence. That is highly doubtful, as most people are in agreement that this would never go to a conviction based on the testimony of those involved.
At first they will just evaluate, which will be boring. Then install the tracking devices around their necks so they can do onsite testing. Start video taping the testing. A reality tv show is developed.
If you and a halfling are being chased by a dragon...
... remember that the halfling has a better shot at your knees than you do at his.
Yes, but you can pick the halfling up and toss him towards the dragon's mouth. Which I have actually done before playing role playing games. Buddy was not amused.
and... real criminals are not always that smart and get their working knowledge of security systems from Hollywood movies.
I'm willing to bet real money that if you took a sampling of 1000 prisoners (guilty of robbery) and showed them the video, 990 would believe it was a real laser security system.
If the criminal was sophisticated enough to know better, chances are they would walk into the place in broad daylight and use social engineering instead.
Now, if you *really* wanted to fuck with the criminals you would also install the infrared lasers and have a really big mean fucking dog set to be loose once the lasers were tripped.... and have a cage slam down in the front preventing escape.
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Last time I checked USAA uses Java to deposit checks online too.
If I am driving aggressively I can routinely get 45-50. That's flooring it.
Taking it easy and approaching it like a game I find I can easily get 55-60. I know somebody who is so damn good at it she gets 72.
You're reading into it way too much then.
Poster said expensive, as in expensive compared to other cars.
Sure, a Prius may cost way more than a head of lettuce, but for a car? Just about right.
Yes. I started with a 1st gen and traded up twice.
They are only around ~3000 lbs, which hardly makes them heavy compared to other cars. Expensive? They are on the low end between $20 and $30k.
I would probably buy one, and I live in the US. It would depend on how much it costs to run the pump and get a full tank.
Back in 2000 I was driving a gas guzzling huge SUV. When gas was consistently cheap it was never a real consideration for me. That changed in a hurry with the gas prices. Bought several Priuses since then, and lately I have reorganized my life so that I have to travel dramatically less.
In the last two years I walk to the grocery store. I buy less food (only what I can carry), have lost considerably weight, and eat better.
My work commute is 5-8 minutes. No problems doing that in a little car like that, especially if it is zero emissions, good for the environment, and cheap to operate.
I tend to stick close to home, ride a bike for long distances, and generally have changed my spending habits and how I relax. This kind of car actually fits to my lifestyle, and I don't think I would be the only one. Betting there is a market in the US as well.
You're one nasty person.
First you are cynical that nobody would be willing to sacrifice to step up to do something right, I answer and tell you that I am, and you can do nothing but continue to berate me and paint horrific pictures of my torture to come.
Well, okay. I don't care. I answered your question, I am not a coward, and I will risk death, HIV, and all that horrible stuff to do what is right.
You don't need to comment back about how something even more disturbing is going to happen to me. I get it, I just don't care.
I'll give you Afghanistan, and Iraq. Those only served the powerful elite, and most notably to military contractors that acted dishonorably and never faced justice.
However, WWII did bring freedom to many, and did bring about peace. If it was not for the Allies I think the world would not be a more free or peaceful place. The Nazis were truly evil and would not have limited themselves to Jews. Anybody not worthy according to those Aryan attributes they were so fond of would have been treated the same way. The Japanese were not evil, but certainly power hungry and nationalistic. With respect to WWII, I think they were just being opportunistic at the time and making a grab for an expanded Japanese empire. On the battlefield they could be some real sons of bitches, but I can chalk that up to cultural differences.
WWI was more defensive than anything. If it were not for the Germans going crazy with the submarines and the Zimmerman letter, the US may have never entered the war.
How did the Civil War not bring about freedom? I think millions of African Americans would disagree with you there.
Vietnam.... yeah. I would not exactly say that was about bringing freedom or peace primarily. There is nothing to be proud of about our recent wars. While I support the troops, I certainly don't support the wars.
I think we are more or less saying the same thing and have the same feelings. I'm very passionate about freedom and willing to defend it, I think you just get caught up my terms of patriotism and willingness to fight (seemingly in a blind fashion).
But im not stupid enough to reiterate over and over how I wont turn into a coward. No person really knows what he or she will do when faced in unknown situations. In fact its better not to know because when that time comes you wont be surprised by your own internal struggle.
It's one thing to be going around announcing that you are no coward and are ready to fight for anything at a moment's notice. It's another to speak up when somebody says that it is too dangerous to fight and better to back down.
In this case it was specifically asked, and almost in a way that was assuming that nobody would be willing to risk themselves to shed light on activity by the US government, and other governments, that quite frankly really needs to be seen by everyone.
I answered. When I say coward, it is only to somebody that is willing to give up the struggle before they even have it. When the time comes I am sure I will have a struggle, and I might have more to lose. I believe in myself that I will have the courage when the times comes to do so. Not just myself, but I believe that plenty of others will have the courage to do so as well, you included.
I'm sorry, but I am not going to be a coward.
You think I don't know the difference between my own personal power and theirs? I don't need to wake up. I know this.
I refuse to live the life of coward, stay silent, and continue to enable those in power to abuse us and repress us. If they are going to come for me, then they can fucking do it anytime they want.
Death comes to us all. Without exception. Control can be argued to be an illusion, but the one thing that is not an illusion, is that I am in control over my own honor and integrity. I can choose that.
If they come and torture me and kill me because I stood up, it will be a good and honorable death of which I can be proud. Hopefully, I can serve as inspiration to the future. That may be likely, as I am strongly inspired by those men and women in the past that acted the same way.
You know what? I don't know any of the names of people involved in the underground railroad, or those that were hiding Jews in WWII. I do know that they existed, and risked their lives (and many gave it) to stand up for what was right and noble.
Legal is worthless as a term. Laws can be made to prevent any behavior, whether to the behavior is ethical or moral or not.
Were the underground railroads a legal method of opposing slavery at the time? Were they ethical?
Manning performed illegal actions, but they were strongly ethical. While it may have put some people at risk, even troops, it is overwhelmingly evident that the greater good was serviced by the dissemination of that information.
You have it ass backwards. Just how the Nazi's perverted the Swastika, you are working with a perverted version of American Patriotism.
American Patriotism to me, and I believe by definition, is not the devotion to one's country at all, but the devotion to the American ideals. I am devoted to the reasons and philosophy of why America was created in the first place, regardless of whether you think it was a lie and never truly implemented. One of the core tenants of American Patriotism is that when the government fails to uphold those ideals, it needs to be removed and changed. That is directly counter to your claim of patriotism being defined as strongly nationalistic.
My country is not defined by races, geography, or historical claims. It is defined by our ideals, our love of freedom.
My love of country and ideals does not force me to do anything I would not do on my own. In fact, that is the whole point of freedom in my country in the first place.
Try to do something that really sets people free and you will surely lose any freedom you think you have real quick
That is the purest expression of my form of American Patriotism. The willingness to stand up and fight, the performance of civil disobedience when you know the laws are not ethical or just, the refusal to give in to the corporate rulers that would willingly sacrifice freedom, and the greater good, for short term profits.
You're wrong about my patriotism, and you're wrong about my intentions, and you're most certainly wrong about my understanding of how fragile freedom in American is right now.
Irrelevant.
I refuse to live the life of a coward. If government is a willing to abuse us and repress us, and with our cowardice we continue to enable them to do so, then we deserve that government.
I'm willing to die to make sure my country remains free. Granted, it is in a world of shit right now, but I don't back down just because the authority threatens me with further loss of freedom, or my life.
If and when the time comes to prove it, I believe in my heart, that I have the courage to make such a sacrifice and would be proud to do so.
for your ideals then that puts you in a very small minority.
Gee... and we wonder why America is in the shitter?
Its called the chilling effect [wikipedia.org] and works quite well and I'm sure will work in this case. After all what person is gonna be willing to say or print shit in any high profile capacity against the USA if they see Assange dragged before a kangaroo court before being dropped in a deep dark hole somewhere?
Oooohhh Ooooooh! *raises hands*
Right here. If I was in the position to do so, I would not hesitate for a second to air the dirty laundry of the government. In fact, it is my duty to do so as a patriotic American . I could never live with myself allowing the government to continue to do something contrary to the ideals that we cherish. They failed us with their behavior and shamed all of America with their previously hidden actions.
My family history has members in WWII, WWI, and the Civil War. They bled for my freedom, as well as yours. They did not run away scared, or react to some chilling effect.
I would be proud to be dropped in a dark hole somewhere if I knew that I was exposing corruption in the country, that although I am currently deeply ashamed and disappointed in, I love for its ideals.
So, either the fed gets a court decision, or Congress passes a new law, or the IRS makes a very bad decision and thousands of people wealthy enough to pay estate taxes start adding that to their reasons for tax revolt, and a whole bunch of state v. fed lawsuits get launched anyways.
*snicker*
I've had a few, and I have tears streaming down my face I have been laughing so hard.
To think that a bunch of little bastards in their mothers basement farming for gold in a video game would cause congressional debates a few decades later about encumbered assets in wills. Mouse clicks fueled by hot pockets and Dew are responsible for grown men to be arguing about Federal vs. State and the finer points of estates, tax laws, and politics.
The older I get the more the world just seems absurd :)
I thought of that scene in star wars where they rescue the princess from the death star and she sees the millennium falcon and says "You came here in that? You're braver than I thought!".
I didn't take it as a real insult to the Millennium Falcon (always capitalized), just that Princess Leia was a little bit bitchy.
What amazes me about that scene is how Han manages to keep his shit together and not throw her Hotness to Vader on the way out. Think about everything he had to deal with up to that point:
- Effective death sentence from Jabba the Hut for losing a shipment
- Stuck on a backwater planet just trying to get a drink and figure out what the fuck he is going to do next
- Jedi, of all people, booking passage trying to get away from Imperials... and Imperials just love Jedi at this point.
- Gay golden robot annoying as hell second guessing his decisions every other second
- Sarcastic midget robot that just beeps all the time
- Greedo, getting all up in his shit when he is trying to get the money to appease Jabba
- It's implied... but you know Chewbacca probably shed like a mother fucker on that ship, lord help Han, when Chewy drops some super-fiber induced dump in the bathroom. Not a great idea to be burning matches in enclosed spaces with combustible gases on a star ship
- Smart ass little blonde kid that has only seen that backwater planet, but already knows everything at 18.
- The Death Star
- Seriously, the fucking Death Star. What the fuck is that? A Star Destroyer was not big enough for the emperor, he needed a god damn movable planetoid full of storm troopers? Those same guys Han was just shooting at not moments before. You know the old saying... the Millennium Falcon may do the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, but galactic communications are near instantaneous......
- Tractor beam pulling him to the aforementioned planetoid of fuck my life.
- Jail break goes horribly wrong. Han can't act for shit over the radio. Screws the pooch big time.
- Her bitchiness. Kind of hot, Han knows she has a rough day, but seriously not even a little gratitude?
- Stuck in a garbage compactor
- What the fuck is that smell?
- No.. No... What the fuck is in her with us
- Garbage compactor is... well... compacting
- Need Gay Golden Boy's help. Out of everyone Han knows, it's fucking Threepio that needs to nut up and come to the rescue
- Sure.... I don't mind fighting a whole bunch of troops. You guys go ahead, me and Chewy are going to fuck their shit up
- Bitch insults my ride just as we are about to get away.
Yeah. I think Han was the very model of self restraint to still let her on the ship. I would of told Chewy to get the fuck on the ship and gone back to the bar alone.
I think preventing casual bios updates from any source would be the preferred and correct solution for servers. We have a movement towards lights out datacenters, but even so, some things should just have to be done in person.
I'm not opposed to BIOS updates only being performed from an attached flash drive and completely impossible while the machine is running as jmorris42 proposes.
Also, remember how often people update BIOS in the first place. Hardly ever. How often is an operating system wiped to get rid of malware? A heck of lot more often. I would accept the trade off having a semi-permanent BIOS and confidence that is not compromised over some convenience any day. Especially on servers that can be running sensitive platforms.
Well the first thing I saw was German photographs. The Internet has caused me to be immediately suspicious of any German photographs. Even with mundane things you do instantly recognize.
German and Coelawhatsahamtanths.... I admit I was hesitant.
You're about as backasswards retarded as any fundamentalist out there.
People are calling you a fucking asshole because you are saying we are rape defenders you fuck.
In my hypothetical scenario, I would not have been raped. You're not going to find anyone who agrees with you, and any sane country run with even a modicum of logical and rationality would not make the baseless and damaging conclusions about rape that you have.
You insult the victims of rape with your definition. You insult all people of intelligence with your pedantry.
You really are a fucking asshole. Do you know why you are so offensive? It's because you are a complete fucking retard, and when people that have a modicum of common sense call you out, you call them rape defenders. Then you have the unmitigated gall to act as if you have the moral high ground and are the only one acting with civility and a conscience.
Fuck You.
While you are enthralled with your own moronic pedantry, you fail to realize just how wrong and utterly stupid your position is .
So let me turn that around for you dipshit:
I'm with a woman (stop laughing /.) and we are getting into it and clearly about to have sex (I said stop laughing), and I ask, "Are you on birth control?" .
She is either irresponsible, confused if she took it or not, or just plain lying.
We have sex. Note, I said WE. So I was raped? If your view is not completely sexist, then by your logic I was in fact raped.
That is not correct . You see, I am a mature adult and take ownership of my actions. I was not forced to lick her pussy. Neither was I forced to continual pump my dick into her pussy over and over again. I was a man capable of making rational decisions during the entire act of sex.
Rape is specific. It means that the act was against the person's will the entire time. Not some sort of legal and gestalt understanding and agreement of all specifics you can possibly imagine, such as alignment of the stars, who will win the next Super Bowl, or some weird shit like that.
It was not a specific circumstance which could only be evaluated after the act was completed.
So, fuck you. Nobody here is defending rape. Just calling you out for being a ridiculously retarded pedant obsessed with redefining the act of rape to be so broad and inclusive, that the very act of rape loses all power and meaning.
What you need is to be turned into a woman and sent to Africa, or Afghanistan you retarded fuckstick. Than you might actually start to understand what rape really is.
These are not serious allegations, and are not sex crimes. Not in any sane country.
He was an asshole, I will grant you that. However, failing to put a condom on, even when the woman expects it, is more likely to be the plot of a Hollywood movie, than the actions of a "rapist" or "sexual predator".
By that logic a woman in Sweden could demand cuddling and talking after sex and it would be deemed just as worthy of being a sex crime when it was not performed.
The whole case is ridiculous and Sweden had their chance to prosecute and now are refuse to offer any guarantees against extradition to the US (which is quite reasonable under the circumstances) or prosecute him remotely.
Not using a condom is a pretty big deal when the woman has asked you not to.
Perhaps it is. However, as long as consent was given the entire time it is not anywhere close to being rape or sexual battery. It just makes him a dick. She did not notice it till the next day. Rape is not retroactive. She can't demand breakfast as part of some verbal contract and then claim breach of contract constitutes rape.
This is just theater. Assange has damn good reason to expect that once in custody he would be shipped off to the US. If Sweden really wants justice they can prosecute him without having him in custody. It's not like we don't have the technology to perform streaming video to a court room. Done all the time in the US now. Prisoners don't even step foot in the courtroom and are in a building across town.
If they do convict him, then there might be a better case to get him back to Sweden to serve his sentence. That is highly doubtful, as most people are in agreement that this would never go to a conviction based on the testimony of those involved.
That's a slippery slope.
At first they will just evaluate, which will be boring. Then install the tracking devices around their necks so they can do onsite testing. Start video taping the testing. A reality tv show is developed.
Then bam! Running Man.
If you and a halfling are being chased by a dragon ...
... remember that the halfling has a better shot at your knees than you do at his.
Yes, but you can pick the halfling up and toss him towards the dragon's mouth. Which I have actually done before playing role playing games. Buddy was not amused.
and... real criminals are not always that smart and get their working knowledge of security systems from Hollywood movies.
I'm willing to bet real money that if you took a sampling of 1000 prisoners (guilty of robbery) and showed them the video, 990 would believe it was a real laser security system.
If the criminal was sophisticated enough to know better, chances are they would walk into the place in broad daylight and use social engineering instead.
Now, if you *really* wanted to fuck with the criminals you would also install the infrared lasers and have a really big mean fucking dog set to be loose once the lasers were tripped.... and have a cage slam down in the front preventing escape.