Those were chosen because they are the top 2 items that showed up in my google search on that phrase (no quotes) and they appear to be at odds with one another. I also doubt many people would know off hand who the Nazi propaganda minster was so that reference indicating how you wanted to issue to be viewed would be lost.
Well it isn't as bad as I thought but it is biased in that it does have the "Something must be done" theme in it. The document could have been worse but it could have been a lot better. As someone involved in security and encryption it felt very patronizing to me but then I'm not the target audience. There is a lot of space dedicated to explaining the productive uses of encryption but then there is about the same explaining why it makes life difficult for law enforcement. Then there is a big section showing what restrictions other countries have or what laws governing encryption other countries have tried to pass. They still push the idea that encryption caused them problems in the Paris attack yet ignoring the fact that the mastermind of it was featured as pig fucker of the month in Daesh's monthly magazine. They also bring up the San Bernardino cellphone but fail to mention that the government at all levels screw the pooch at every turn there. Yes I actually did read it.
So does this mean that they will stop trying to demonize encryption now. Or are they going to look to explain key escrow to the general public and mandate that. I find that a lot of the general public doesn't understand encryption and believe it is possible to have crypto that can only be broken by the government. Then there is the comment, you don't know what kind of computers the NSA has so they can probably break it. I do wonder if the report mentions that they shouldn't announce their plans like they did when the FBI or CIA siad it would take a major attach were encryption was used before they could get people to give up strong encryption and then a while later (weeks maybe a couple of months) there was the Paris terror attacks and there was tons of coverage on the terrorists using encryption. Then there was the stupid iPhone incident where the government screwed the pooch at every turn.
What you describe is fairly similart to what I experience there 2.5-3 years ago. The main difference was that they would only go through your carry on luggage and they would dump it out on a table after it had been X-rayed. They also made you keep your your checked luggage with you for about as long as possible. You brought it over to the X-ray machine, you picked it up on the other side of the X-ray machine and you then brought it over to finally be checked only after it was approved. If there was a problem or question you instead brought it over somewhere else while guards watched you open it in-front of another screener who would ask you about the item in question. You would then retrieve the item and they would ask you more questions about the item. In my case it was my old metal bodied film SLR and metal bodied lenses. As I was a guest of the government all the times I went I didn't get the full Q&A session as I had previously provided a detailed listing of my activities while there that was already checked and approved by other government officials. The questions they ask seem to be to see if you stumble or get tripped up. When questioned about my camera the questions where in quick succession asking where I got it, how long I had it, etc. and at the end if it took better pictures than digital ones.
Other things of note is at each stage they do little things to keep people moving and they also have many checkpoints in parallel so that there isn't a big pile up in one spot. You know the exact opposite of what the TSA does.
Fuck just using bomb vests, too small. Think one of those everyone knows it too large to actually fit in overhead bin but not so big as to cause the airport personnel to tell you you have to check it roller bags that all the assholes now carry on. Fill one of those with explosives and shrapnel and you could get a pretty good body count easy. Add in a backpack and regular suicide vest and you can get a few more and a bigger effect. Now get 19 people (chosen because that is how many hijackers there were with the 9/11 attacks) and do the same at different airports at the same time. You would have a body count similar to 9/11 and probably create a similar mess, just not as big of a physical mess. Flights canceled for days, massive travel disruptions, instilling fear in the country, financial losses, governmental overreaction, etc.
I prefer 12 ga slug, 7.62x54r, or.454 casull. Salvage the magnets, properly dispose of the electronics, recycle the aluminum case and spacers. Once the platters have been outside for a few months and are starting to resemble lorraine cheese they also find their way to the recycling.
I said similar not the same fully realizing that Morocco is not part of the EU. And yes you are correct that I haven't read the EU Constitution as I am not someone who falls under their jurisdiction. The reason I mentioned those issues is because similar (not the same) complaints have been levied against Spain.
Never had the dealer change the oil on my car (2002 BMW 325i) but 7 quarts of quality full synthetic plus a good filter that isn't made by the company that makes the orange cans of death is pretty spendy just for supplies (I spend about $50 on oil and filter). I think the last time I looked BMW was charging like $150 for an oil change and while the dealer probably can get the supplies cheaper they also have labor that I don't pay. Then add in that I check all the belts, check all the fluid levels, change out the fluid in the power steering fluid reservoir, rotate the tires, check break pad wear, grease the wheel bearings, check for looseness in the suspension, etc. it is easy to see how a full service oil change can get expensive quickly. Granted I check and do more with my oil change than the dealer but then the full service oil change at the dealer still does a lot. I do enjoy working on cars as it is a nice change of pace from my day job.
I'm currently 18 years ahead of schedule on a 30 year mortgage
I doubt this. If this were the case then you are a fool for not getting a 10 or 15 year one as a either of those would have been a better option as the interest rates are lower.
As far as revolving credit I have a grand total of $3,000, down from a high of $30,000. All of it has been with a single credit card as I have only had 1 so it isn't like I have a massive amount of credit available as I don't need even that much. Although I have pushed close to $7000 through that $3000 limit in one month. Never had a HELOC either as I never decided to "Use my home as a bank" as that always seemed like a really dumb idea.
The only vehicle loan that I have taken out was the one for my current car and that only lasted 8 days (36 month term) because for some reason selling stock held internationally takes about 10 business days for the money to appear in my US checking account. Before that I just always paid cash or that one time where I used the credit card and immediately paid off the credit card.
Like I said I should have horrid credit by the standards you lay out but yet I don't. I do however agree that credit rating are used for way too many things that have nothing to do with the lending of money and this is just another abuse of that system.
Don't worry they were just giving you some good advice. The last time I looked at CNN's site it would have made GeoCities page owners' eyes bleed. Seriously it makes a facebook feed look well laid out.
This is very different than what the GP said. You have a bad credit score while being a good credit risk because of lack of history, the GP while making it sound like they had a long credit history with paying things off ahead of time has bad credit score. Personally I have never like how the system assume from the get go that people have shit credit because they have no credit history. I would think that it would be better to consider someone's initial assets and income for that initial credit assessment as it would at least provide some reasonable basis for assigning a score. That said I have never really like the the whole credit industry especially now as your credit score is use for so much more than just getting credit.
I would be all for this just as a means of sanity checking things and finding obvious contradictions.
The most glaring example of a contradiction I can think of is the original ACA ruling. The first part of the ruling was to determine if the thing you had to pay for not having health insurance was a fine or a tax to determine if the plaintiffs had standing. The court found that it was in fact not a tax so therefore the plaintiffs had standing. The second part of the ruling was the part about expanded medicare or medicade for the states that isn't important to this discussion. The 3rd and final part was to determine if the mandating of health insurance and the as previously determined fine was constitutional. Here the court said that it was constitutional because that thing they ruled as being a fine just mere moment previously was actually a tax. It is that type of incoherent ruling (apparently we have now entered the era of quantum law) that I can't stand.
Seriously you likely have screwed up somewhere else. I have 1 credit card and the previous statement balance gets paid off as well as the current outstanding balance each month (I pay ahead) when I pay it. So the balance carried forward each month is always 0. I also took out a loan for my current car and then paid it off in 8 days because the loan was cheaper than driving my beater every day while waiting for my money to show up in my account. The only debt I have is my home mortgage which I have been paying extra on and 3 years ago refinanced and went from a 30 year down to a 15 year shaving 8 years off the term. By your reasoning I should have shit credit yet my credit score sits in the low to mid 830s and has been there for years. The biggest factor is the balance of my credit card as I run everything I can through it because it has the cash back program. In the summer when I have more projects the monthly balance tends to be higher because I am buying things like lumber, hardware, tools, parts, etc. in the spring fall and winter I don't do as much of that so the monthly balance I accrue is lower. I find the swing in my credit score is about 5 points, so like I said it stays in the low to mid 830s pretty consistently. My credit card company keeps offering to up my limit and at one point I requested that they actually decrease my limit because they had bumped it up to $30,000 which was just silly, granted that was just after I had purchased a car with it and then paid it off in full back when some dealerships would let you pay by card for a vehicle.
It most likely is the 4.0 which is a really good engine as far as reliability goes so long as the main seals are good on them the rest of the vehicle will turn to dust around them. This isn't all that different from those old Volvo diesels that that just keep going just fine while the rest of the car rusts away to nothing. The 4.0 liter engine wasn't designed by Chrysler and they don't appear to have mucked with it much which is probably it is a really good engine. If you want to find out just open the hood and if there is a really long engine (that inline 6 is substantially longer than it is wide) then you have the 4.0. I gave up on my jeep when the fuel pump went out even though the engine ran great as it was so rusty I would have likely had to replace all the fuel lines, fittings, tank, and tank support when changing out the pump that it just wasn't worth my money and time with that many miles. I do miss having a vehicle with real 4WD, limited slip differentials on both axles, and high clearance though.
What engine does it have? The 4.0 liter I6 is a great engine for reliability but that wasn't a Chrysler designed engine as it came originally from AMC. It seems like Chrysler mostly left that I6 alone only hacking fuel injection in to it, seriously the intake manifold looks like it is still set up for a carburetor with the awful intake plumbing setup and the taps for the injectors.
Exactly my point. That AMC I6 is a great motor, the rest left a lot to be desired, but the AMC designed drive train (transmission, transfer case, etc) was all very good. Mine had plywood for floors and the good old armstrong windows. It even had an aftermarket radio as the original probably went to shit long before I got it.
Not all Americans are like that but it does seem that far too many of my fellow citizens are. I have things other than work I like to do and do take time to do them. I have made it very clear that while I will work extra if needed, needed means it is a once in a very long while. Also I have made it clear that when I go on vacation don't bother trying to contact me as I will be out of range of any method you would use. The last time I had a manager who insisted that he be able to contact me I told him where I was leaving my car and heading into the woods and if he wanted to find me he should hire a trained tracker and a team of dogs and start there.
Hey my jeep had 371,+++ miles on it when the fuel pump went out because it sat for too long with not enough fuel in the tank for a winter. So not all Chrysler corporation vehicle don't keep running. Granted it was a rusty pile of crap which is why I didn't replace the fuel pump, one apart all that stuff was never going back together, but up until I basically did it in on accident it ran great. then again that engine was the 4.0L inline 6 that was not a Chrysler designed motor and it didn't have one of the trash Chrysler designed automatic transmissions.
It was a US senator. There have been a number of other news worthy fuck ups as well with that list too. Now add in that most of the people who would be impacted by this list are nobodies that would never make the news and it becomes clear that this is a pretty shitty list.
That doesn't imply that these people have been found guilty in a court of law through due process and can have their rights taken away from them. It is a list that you can be put on with questionableinformation.
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What about pistols that shoot rifle rounds? Personally I find the existence of such things amusing much like the existence of this car.
Without knowing which things you would like to highlight I might assume you may mean this article:
Why Congress Cut The CDC’s Gun Research Budget
or did you mean something like this: What happened to the CDC's courage on guns?
Those were chosen because they are the top 2 items that showed up in my google search on that phrase (no quotes) and they appear to be at odds with one another. I also doubt many people would know off hand who the Nazi propaganda minster was so that reference indicating how you wanted to issue to be viewed would be lost.
Well it isn't as bad as I thought but it is biased in that it does have the "Something must be done" theme in it. The document could have been worse but it could have been a lot better. As someone involved in security and encryption it felt very patronizing to me but then I'm not the target audience. There is a lot of space dedicated to explaining the productive uses of encryption but then there is about the same explaining why it makes life difficult for law enforcement. Then there is a big section showing what restrictions other countries have or what laws governing encryption other countries have tried to pass. They still push the idea that encryption caused them problems in the Paris attack yet ignoring the fact that the mastermind of it was featured as pig fucker of the month in Daesh's monthly magazine. They also bring up the San Bernardino cellphone but fail to mention that the government at all levels screw the pooch at every turn there. Yes I actually did read it.
So does this mean that they will stop trying to demonize encryption now. Or are they going to look to explain key escrow to the general public and mandate that. I find that a lot of the general public doesn't understand encryption and believe it is possible to have crypto that can only be broken by the government. Then there is the comment, you don't know what kind of computers the NSA has so they can probably break it. I do wonder if the report mentions that they shouldn't announce their plans like they did when the FBI or CIA siad it would take a major attach were encryption was used before they could get people to give up strong encryption and then a while later (weeks maybe a couple of months) there was the Paris terror attacks and there was tons of coverage on the terrorists using encryption. Then there was the stupid iPhone incident where the government screwed the pooch at every turn.
What you describe is fairly similart to what I experience there 2.5-3 years ago. The main difference was that they would only go through your carry on luggage and they would dump it out on a table after it had been X-rayed. They also made you keep your your checked luggage with you for about as long as possible. You brought it over to the X-ray machine, you picked it up on the other side of the X-ray machine and you then brought it over to finally be checked only after it was approved. If there was a problem or question you instead brought it over somewhere else while guards watched you open it in-front of another screener who would ask you about the item in question. You would then retrieve the item and they would ask you more questions about the item. In my case it was my old metal bodied film SLR and metal bodied lenses. As I was a guest of the government all the times I went I didn't get the full Q&A session as I had previously provided a detailed listing of my activities while there that was already checked and approved by other government officials. The questions they ask seem to be to see if you stumble or get tripped up. When questioned about my camera the questions where in quick succession asking where I got it, how long I had it, etc. and at the end if it took better pictures than digital ones.
Other things of note is at each stage they do little things to keep people moving and they also have many checkpoints in parallel so that there isn't a big pile up in one spot. You know the exact opposite of what the TSA does.
Fuck just using bomb vests, too small. Think one of those everyone knows it too large to actually fit in overhead bin but not so big as to cause the airport personnel to tell you you have to check it roller bags that all the assholes now carry on. Fill one of those with explosives and shrapnel and you could get a pretty good body count easy. Add in a backpack and regular suicide vest and you can get a few more and a bigger effect. Now get 19 people (chosen because that is how many hijackers there were with the 9/11 attacks) and do the same at different airports at the same time. You would have a body count similar to 9/11 and probably create a similar mess, just not as big of a physical mess. Flights canceled for days, massive travel disruptions, instilling fear in the country, financial losses, governmental overreaction, etc.
Looks like another list that I need to add to my router based DNS poisoning/blocking update script.
I prefer 12 ga slug, 7.62x54r, or .454 casull. Salvage the magnets, properly dispose of the electronics, recycle the aluminum case and spacers. Once the platters have been outside for a few months and are starting to resemble lorraine cheese they also find their way to the recycling.
I said similar not the same fully realizing that Morocco is not part of the EU. And yes you are correct that I haven't read the EU Constitution as I am not someone who falls under their jurisdiction. The reason I mentioned those issues is because similar (not the same) complaints have been levied against Spain.
Never had the dealer change the oil on my car (2002 BMW 325i) but 7 quarts of quality full synthetic plus a good filter that isn't made by the company that makes the orange cans of death is pretty spendy just for supplies (I spend about $50 on oil and filter). I think the last time I looked BMW was charging like $150 for an oil change and while the dealer probably can get the supplies cheaper they also have labor that I don't pay. Then add in that I check all the belts, check all the fluid levels, change out the fluid in the power steering fluid reservoir, rotate the tires, check break pad wear, grease the wheel bearings, check for looseness in the suspension, etc. it is easy to see how a full service oil change can get expensive quickly. Granted I check and do more with my oil change than the dealer but then the full service oil change at the dealer still does a lot. I do enjoy working on cars as it is a nice change of pace from my day job.
"Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes."
I'm currently 18 years ahead of schedule on a 30 year mortgage
I doubt this. If this were the case then you are a fool for not getting a 10 or 15 year one as a either of those would have been a better option as the interest rates are lower.
As far as revolving credit I have a grand total of $3,000, down from a high of $30,000. All of it has been with a single credit card as I have only had 1 so it isn't like I have a massive amount of credit available as I don't need even that much. Although I have pushed close to $7000 through that $3000 limit in one month. Never had a HELOC either as I never decided to "Use my home as a bank" as that always seemed like a really dumb idea.
The only vehicle loan that I have taken out was the one for my current car and that only lasted 8 days (36 month term) because for some reason selling stock held internationally takes about 10 business days for the money to appear in my US checking account. Before that I just always paid cash or that one time where I used the credit card and immediately paid off the credit card.
Like I said I should have horrid credit by the standards you lay out but yet I don't. I do however agree that credit rating are used for way too many things that have nothing to do with the lending of money and this is just another abuse of that system.
Don't worry they were just giving you some good advice. The last time I looked at CNN's site it would have made GeoCities page owners' eyes bleed. Seriously it makes a facebook feed look well laid out.
- They kept colonies in other countries of the EU (Gibraltar) even though it's clearly illegal and have a specific article forbidding it.
Says someone from a county that does similar things. The Brits don't have clean hands either, nor do the Danes but at least the Danes just litter a little bit.
This is very different than what the GP said. You have a bad credit score while being a good credit risk because of lack of history, the GP while making it sound like they had a long credit history with paying things off ahead of time has bad credit score. Personally I have never like how the system assume from the get go that people have shit credit because they have no credit history. I would think that it would be better to consider someone's initial assets and income for that initial credit assessment as it would at least provide some reasonable basis for assigning a score. That said I have never really like the the whole credit industry especially now as your credit score is use for so much more than just getting credit.
I would be all for this just as a means of sanity checking things and finding obvious contradictions.
The most glaring example of a contradiction I can think of is the original ACA ruling. The first part of the ruling was to determine if the thing you had to pay for not having health insurance was a fine or a tax to determine if the plaintiffs had standing. The court found that it was in fact not a tax so therefore the plaintiffs had standing. The second part of the ruling was the part about expanded medicare or medicade for the states that isn't important to this discussion. The 3rd and final part was to determine if the mandating of health insurance and the as previously determined fine was constitutional. Here the court said that it was constitutional because that thing they ruled as being a fine just mere moment previously was actually a tax. It is that type of incoherent ruling (apparently we have now entered the era of quantum law) that I can't stand.
Seriously you likely have screwed up somewhere else. I have 1 credit card and the previous statement balance gets paid off as well as the current outstanding balance each month (I pay ahead) when I pay it. So the balance carried forward each month is always 0. I also took out a loan for my current car and then paid it off in 8 days because the loan was cheaper than driving my beater every day while waiting for my money to show up in my account. The only debt I have is my home mortgage which I have been paying extra on and 3 years ago refinanced and went from a 30 year down to a 15 year shaving 8 years off the term. By your reasoning I should have shit credit yet my credit score sits in the low to mid 830s and has been there for years. The biggest factor is the balance of my credit card as I run everything I can through it because it has the cash back program. In the summer when I have more projects the monthly balance tends to be higher because I am buying things like lumber, hardware, tools, parts, etc. in the spring fall and winter I don't do as much of that so the monthly balance I accrue is lower. I find the swing in my credit score is about 5 points, so like I said it stays in the low to mid 830s pretty consistently. My credit card company keeps offering to up my limit and at one point I requested that they actually decrease my limit because they had bumped it up to $30,000 which was just silly, granted that was just after I had purchased a car with it and then paid it off in full back when some dealerships would let you pay by card for a vehicle.
It most likely is the 4.0 which is a really good engine as far as reliability goes so long as the main seals are good on them the rest of the vehicle will turn to dust around them. This isn't all that different from those old Volvo diesels that that just keep going just fine while the rest of the car rusts away to nothing. The 4.0 liter engine wasn't designed by Chrysler and they don't appear to have mucked with it much which is probably it is a really good engine. If you want to find out just open the hood and if there is a really long engine (that inline 6 is substantially longer than it is wide) then you have the 4.0. I gave up on my jeep when the fuel pump went out even though the engine ran great as it was so rusty I would have likely had to replace all the fuel lines, fittings, tank, and tank support when changing out the pump that it just wasn't worth my money and time with that many miles. I do miss having a vehicle with real 4WD, limited slip differentials on both axles, and high clearance though.
What engine does it have? The 4.0 liter I6 is a great engine for reliability but that wasn't a Chrysler designed engine as it came originally from AMC. It seems like Chrysler mostly left that I6 alone only hacking fuel injection in to it, seriously the intake manifold looks like it is still set up for a carburetor with the awful intake plumbing setup and the taps for the injectors.
Exactly my point. That AMC I6 is a great motor, the rest left a lot to be desired, but the AMC designed drive train (transmission, transfer case, etc) was all very good. Mine had plywood for floors and the good old armstrong windows. It even had an aftermarket radio as the original probably went to shit long before I got it.
Not all Americans are like that but it does seem that far too many of my fellow citizens are. I have things other than work I like to do and do take time to do them. I have made it very clear that while I will work extra if needed, needed means it is a once in a very long while. Also I have made it clear that when I go on vacation don't bother trying to contact me as I will be out of range of any method you would use. The last time I had a manager who insisted that he be able to contact me I told him where I was leaving my car and heading into the woods and if he wanted to find me he should hire a trained tracker and a team of dogs and start there.
Hey my jeep had 371,+++ miles on it when the fuel pump went out because it sat for too long with not enough fuel in the tank for a winter. So not all Chrysler corporation vehicle don't keep running. Granted it was a rusty pile of crap which is why I didn't replace the fuel pump, one apart all that stuff was never going back together, but up until I basically did it in on accident it ran great. then again that engine was the 4.0L inline 6 that was not a Chrysler designed motor and it didn't have one of the trash Chrysler designed automatic transmissions.
It was a US senator. There have been a number of other news worthy fuck ups as well with that list too. Now add in that most of the people who would be impacted by this list are nobodies that would never make the news and it becomes clear that this is a pretty shitty list.
That doesn't imply that these people have been found guilty in a court of law through due process and can have their rights taken away from them. It is a list that you can be put on with questionable information.
from a Portland OR area politician
That tells you just about everything you need to know about them politically. It is much like saying a bay area rep, or Texas senator.