I fail to see the point of this article, if there is one. If a substantial part of the evidence was obtained illegally without a warrant or other grave procedural mistakes were made, then the case needs to be dismissed. If the mistakes are less grave, then only part of the evidence might have to be dismissed and the case can go on. This holds for suspected murderers, horse thieves and terrorists alike. It's called "due process".
Do you have any citation or source for that? As of today, iraqbodycount.org reports 224,000 deaths, so this makes me curious from where you've got this "million+" figure.
Mars is only relevant for studying long travel and habitat design. In the long run, we will build space stations with artificial gravity. Plans for them have been made since the 60s and they quite feasible, and at one point or another, large stations will become desirable or even a must.
I expect there to be thousands of gigantic space stations in the distant future. Materials will be mined from asteroids and moons using robots. Most of them will probably be near earth, but many might also be traveling or farer out, e.g. not too far away from Jupiter or Saturn but not near enough to make radiation shielding impossible.
Unless mankind somehow manages to revert itself to stone age culture, I consider all of this inevitable. Earths space and resources will deplete, and we could build a large rotating space station even with today's technology.
That's my opinion, and I'm an "expert", as is evidenced by my many peer-reviewed publications on slashdot.
Most of the refugees are are fleeing from IS and it is not a good idea to not help hundreds of thousands of legitimate refugees just because several dozens or even hundreds of them might be terrorists. By your logic, you should kick all car drivers out of your country because some of them might drive drunk and kill your loved ones.
The world does only revolve around you and your family, there are also some higher values to defend.
Contrary to what you believe, religion does not provide any of these things. A trouble-free childhood with caring parents and a continuing lack of existential worries can do miracles, though.
I'm against extensive surveillance laws, but this is still a non-sequitur. France has a very special problem with citizens with an immigration background (2nd and 3rd generation) from former colonies, particularly Algeria. Many of them live in ghettos, have poor education and only dim chances of success in society and created their own subculture. As a consequence, the risk of home-grown terrorism is way higher in France than in Italy or Spain.
There is a certain fix to this that exists in various Muslim countries. You can offer a convicted criminal the choice of being sentenced by Sharia law or by Western law.
I'm personally against it, though, because in my point of view Sharia law violates basic humanist principles even if it is chosen seemingly voluntarily.
You describe problems with assholes. Unfortunately, you can find roughly the same percentage of assholes everywhere and in every religious or ethnic group. Luckily, they are always a minority.
I agree. Over the past centuries up until now, religion has always been a source of great evil because of its anti-enlightenment and anti-rational tendencies. But the real sources of violence are more often than not poverty, lack of education and lack of realistic perspectives in life.
Blame is always to be attributed to the people who actually commit the crimes, since there are always countless others in the same position who do not commit any crime.
From what I've seen about IS - there are some incredible documentaries - they do not think in the way you describe. Even their leaders are far less rational. Most of their followers are very young men filled up with Islamist bullshit preachings. They say literally say things like "If Turkey fights us, we will conquer them until Istanbul within a few weeks". In other words, they grossly overestimate their abilities and importance, and they are continually boosting their own morale with all kinds of pseudo-religious and historically false nonsense.
As for the refugees, they should perhaps be asked to allow being surveilled more than is usually allowed for a limited time period. I personally would have no problem with signing, say, an agreement that allowed authorities to monitor my phone and internet traffic for the next 5 years, if I had just fled a war zone full of terrorists and were looking for shelter. Most of the refugees flee from ISIS, I'm sure they'd be happy signing something like this as long as it's time-limited. In Germany, some refugees from Syria went straight to the German police after some Salafists tried to "befriend" them.
This is one of the few reasonable and informed posts in this thread, which otherwise mostly contains upvoted racist gibberish against peope who nothing to do with this act of terror. France has unfortunately missed many opportunities to integrate their minorities, there are "no go" area banlieus just outside Paris with thousands of disgruntled youth who see no perspective in their life. It wouldn't be surprising if the terrorists were recruited from them.
But how did they manage to get assault rifles? This may sound odd to many Americans, but in countries with strict gun control such as France and Germany, it is extremely hard to get weapons and explosives without getting on the radar of police and intelligence agencies. They must have had some special connection to the outside.
I'm not blaming him for anything, I'm just saying that his rants about the imminent collapse of capitalist society and various other cue phrases more likely indicate a distorted world view and possibly some mental health problems rather than sound judgements that are rooted in reality. This has nothing to do with the political views he's trying to advertise, it's about the way he expresses them, which has the letters 'cranky scientist about to go mad' written all over. You must be new to the Internet if you haven't seen these telltale signs yourself.
Sounds to me like this guy has simply gone a bit bonkers. It's very common for people with real or perceived personal problems to find an external scapegoat, exaggerate problems with other people, politics, or economy, and generally get a distorted world view.
Yes, your description is fairly accurate and it seems I should have expressed myself more clearly to avoid this misunderstanding. Organization Gehlen was not an organization funded by Nazis, it was funded under US supervision and only had a certain percentage of (former) Nazis such as SS and Gestapo officers. I just tend to include that little tid-bit whenever I talk about the BND, because it constitutes some often "lost knowledge" that seems generally worth knowing.
It had a lot to do with the Nazis, and this is well-known. Gehlen himself was from the Wehrmacht, but he managed, with the help of the US, to recruit many former members SS, SD, Abwehr, and Gestapo, in addition to many officers from the Wehrmacht. They got new names and identities, and yes, some of them were wanted for possible involvement in war crimes. Reference: The German wikipedia entry ("Nähe zum Nationalsozialismus") and any history book on the BND.
To be fair, most officers recruited by Gehlen were from the Wehrmacht and thus not necessarily ardent Nazis.
But just today all news sites over Germany reported that the German BND (the direct successor of the Nazi "Organization Gehlen") has been spying on allies, too, including France and German(!) diplomats.
Anything that can be recognized automatically can be also hashed by hashing the parameters used for recognition rather than the image they're extracted from.
A reasonable mixture of both conventions should be used, and it's a bad idea to have synonyms for primitive operations. Readability is more important than being able to type code fast.
A good language defines a minimal set of primitive operations and allows the user to define the rest, including infix, postfix, and prefix operators, so it's not clear to me what the problem is.
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I fail to see the point of this article, if there is one. If a substantial part of the evidence was obtained illegally without a warrant or other grave procedural mistakes were made, then the case needs to be dismissed. If the mistakes are less grave, then only part of the evidence might have to be dismissed and the case can go on. This holds for suspected murderers, horse thieves and terrorists alike. It's called "due process".
Where's the "difficult puzzle"?
No complaints from me, I like APK's spam. Reminds me to use a host file. Also, his stuff is free.
Do you have any citation or source for that? As of today, iraqbodycount.org reports 224,000 deaths, so this makes me curious from where you've got this "million+" figure.
Mars is only relevant for studying long travel and habitat design. In the long run, we will build space stations with artificial gravity. Plans for them have been made since the 60s and they quite feasible, and at one point or another, large stations will become desirable or even a must.
I expect there to be thousands of gigantic space stations in the distant future. Materials will be mined from asteroids and moons using robots. Most of them will probably be near earth, but many might also be traveling or farer out, e.g. not too far away from Jupiter or Saturn but not near enough to make radiation shielding impossible.
Unless mankind somehow manages to revert itself to stone age culture, I consider all of this inevitable. Earths space and resources will deplete, and we could build a large rotating space station even with today's technology.
That's my opinion, and I'm an "expert", as is evidenced by my many peer-reviewed publications on slashdot.
Go take your "Black Friday" and shove it up your ass!
Most of the refugees are are fleeing from IS and it is not a good idea to not help hundreds of thousands of legitimate refugees just because several dozens or even hundreds of them might be terrorists. By your logic, you should kick all car drivers out of your country because some of them might drive drunk and kill your loved ones.
The world does only revolve around you and your family, there are also some higher values to defend.
Terrorists intentionally kill non-combatant civilians. Of course the term is pejorative. Terrorism is despicable.
And you can call them any way you want, it will not change a thing about determining their strategy, as long as you base your assessments on evidence.
Contrary to what you believe, religion does not provide any of these things. A trouble-free childhood with caring parents and a continuing lack of existential worries can do miracles, though.
I think so. Next question.
I'm against extensive surveillance laws, but this is still a non-sequitur. France has a very special problem with citizens with an immigration background (2nd and 3rd generation) from former colonies, particularly Algeria. Many of them live in ghettos, have poor education and only dim chances of success in society and created their own subculture. As a consequence, the risk of home-grown terrorism is way higher in France than in Italy or Spain.
There is a certain fix to this that exists in various Muslim countries. You can offer a convicted criminal the choice of being sentenced by Sharia law or by Western law.
I'm personally against it, though, because in my point of view Sharia law violates basic humanist principles even if it is chosen seemingly voluntarily.
You describe problems with assholes. Unfortunately, you can find roughly the same percentage of assholes everywhere and in every religious or ethnic group. Luckily, they are always a minority.
I agree. Over the past centuries up until now, religion has always been a source of great evil because of its anti-enlightenment and anti-rational tendencies. But the real sources of violence are more often than not poverty, lack of education and lack of realistic perspectives in life.
Blame is always to be attributed to the people who actually commit the crimes, since there are always countless others in the same position who do not commit any crime.
From what I've seen about IS - there are some incredible documentaries - they do not think in the way you describe. Even their leaders are far less rational. Most of their followers are very young men filled up with Islamist bullshit preachings. They say literally say things like "If Turkey fights us, we will conquer them until Istanbul within a few weeks". In other words, they grossly overestimate their abilities and importance, and they are continually boosting their own morale with all kinds of pseudo-religious and historically false nonsense.
As for the refugees, they should perhaps be asked to allow being surveilled more than is usually allowed for a limited time period. I personally would have no problem with signing, say, an agreement that allowed authorities to monitor my phone and internet traffic for the next 5 years, if I had just fled a war zone full of terrorists and were looking for shelter. Most of the refugees flee from ISIS, I'm sure they'd be happy signing something like this as long as it's time-limited. In Germany, some refugees from Syria went straight to the German police after some Salafists tried to "befriend" them.
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This is one of the few reasonable and informed posts in this thread, which otherwise mostly contains upvoted racist gibberish against peope who nothing to do with this act of terror. France has unfortunately missed many opportunities to integrate their minorities, there are "no go" area banlieus just outside Paris with thousands of disgruntled youth who see no perspective in their life. It wouldn't be surprising if the terrorists were recruited from them.
But how did they manage to get assault rifles? This may sound odd to many Americans, but in countries with strict gun control such as France and Germany, it is extremely hard to get weapons and explosives without getting on the radar of police and intelligence agencies. They must have had some special connection to the outside.
That's worst advice about security I've ever heard.
Why should it be perfectly fine to lie to a patient who has only a minor illness anyway? And make big bucks with it?
I'm not blaming him for anything, I'm just saying that his rants about the imminent collapse of capitalist society and various other cue phrases more likely indicate a distorted world view and possibly some mental health problems rather than sound judgements that are rooted in reality. This has nothing to do with the political views he's trying to advertise, it's about the way he expresses them, which has the letters 'cranky scientist about to go mad' written all over. You must be new to the Internet if you haven't seen these telltale signs yourself.
My advice to guys like him is to take it easy.
Sounds to me like this guy has simply gone a bit bonkers. It's very common for people with real or perceived personal problems to find an external scapegoat, exaggerate problems with other people, politics, or economy, and generally get a distorted world view.
Yes, your description is fairly accurate and it seems I should have expressed myself more clearly to avoid this misunderstanding. Organization Gehlen was not an organization funded by Nazis, it was funded under US supervision and only had a certain percentage of (former) Nazis such as SS and Gestapo officers. I just tend to include that little tid-bit whenever I talk about the BND, because it constitutes some often "lost knowledge" that seems generally worth knowing.
It had a lot to do with the Nazis, and this is well-known. Gehlen himself was from the Wehrmacht, but he managed, with the help of the US, to recruit many former members SS, SD, Abwehr, and Gestapo, in addition to many officers from the Wehrmacht. They got new names and identities, and yes, some of them were wanted for possible involvement in war crimes. Reference: The German wikipedia entry ("Nähe zum Nationalsozialismus") and any history book on the BND.
To be fair, most officers recruited by Gehlen were from the Wehrmacht and thus not necessarily ardent Nazis.
But just today all news sites over Germany reported that the German BND (the direct successor of the Nazi "Organization Gehlen") has been spying on allies, too, including France and German(!) diplomats.
Anything that can be recognized automatically can be also hashed by hashing the parameters used for recognition rather than the image they're extracted from.
Freedom of speech? How can a company "allow" or "disallow" journalists to publish benchmarks? Do they have to sign an NDA?
A reasonable mixture of both conventions should be used, and it's a bad idea to have synonyms for primitive operations. Readability is more important than being able to type code fast.
A good language defines a minimal set of primitive operations and allows the user to define the rest, including infix, postfix, and prefix operators, so it's not clear to me what the problem is.