Employers just don't invest in employees like they used to.
Well to that I took the advice of one of my former, now retired by choice at an early age coworkers, take every dime you can from the company.
401k put in the maximum amount they will match
employee share matching plan, put in as much as they will match
chance for training or conferences, take it all
business travel, take it
vacation, take it but carry over as much as you can
tuition reimbursement, get that advanced degree
Even if your employer doesn't offer all of those options take what ever they do and make use of it.
Well the most commonly cited one is Wickard v. Filburn where the government ruled that because crops grown on your own property for your own use are subject to their regulation because it has an effect on the interstate market for those crops. Additionally there is the case of Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States case which is less cited but still an important one in how to interpret where the line is in what can be regulated under the guise of interstate commerce.
While there is the understanding of how things SHOULD work there is also the way things actually work. Although there does appear to be limits on the commerce clause in that it can't be used to force you to buy something but that ruling found that a tax is both a tax (so it was constitutional) and not a tax (ruled first so that there was standing) so take that a what it is.
Most? It is all workers as the feds concern themselves if it "has an effect on interstate commerce" so if I dug up my own iron ore, made my own hardwood charcoal quarried my own limestone and then produced my own steel from them (my state has all of those resources so nothing in this process is interstate) they could regulate me, even if I did it all by hand. All because my production of steel affects the interstate commerce market because if I didn't produce my own I would have to instead purchase it on the open interstate market.
Personally I like this example instead of the drug one as all of these things existed in the are that is my state before the US even existed.
Well bombing their tanker trucks is probably one of the more efficient methods of disrupting their money flow since if they have a few hundred it is a couple of million a day that they are transporting. Then there is the money they make from transporting antiquities out onto the black market which again can be dealt with by bombing transport trucks. The hard part would be cutting off the flow of money they get from "taxing" people or just outright stealing from people. The only solution I am aware of would be something like the US and other countries used during WWII called invasion currencies. Each city/region would need it's own currency that normally trades just like the old currency did but when a city is captured the currency from that city is declared void and not recognized by anyone. When someone enters a city or region they can exchange their other currency for the local one at some government office which destroys the currency brought in and issues new local currency.
Well these terrorists don't initially seem like the run of the mill, the I'm surprised they haven't choked on their own tongues stupid, terrorists. It seems the simplest way to not get caught before hand is simply to shut your fucking pie hole about your plans. When you do have to discuss your plans don't do them in public view but instead over secure channels, with only those who need to know the plan and not Hadji the clerk at the local halal market.
Well I seem to remember a month or two ago where the CIA director was bitching about how it would take a large attack for them to push through legislation getting backdoors or forcing weak encryption onto the population. At the moment I can't seem to find an article on that since now the noise is all about the douche nozzle CIA director following through saying that we need to ban/weaken/backdoor encryption in the wake of the Paris attacks. It sure passes the "don't let a crisis go to waste" smell test to me.
But here's something else to consider...they act like you're getting some fantastic deal because the shows and episodes don't expire, but seriously, how useful is that? I mean, it's great that they don't expire, but how often do any of us go back and watch stuff more than once?
Said someone who obviously doesn't have small children.
This is simple. Take a box of ammo out deer hunting put it in your coat pocket and then when done for the day you unload the gun and leave the ammo in the pocket. Then you go forward about a week and have to travel for business and just send the coat that still has the box of ammo in the pocket through the x-ray machine. As I only have one winter jacket it gets used for hunting and regular use as it is warmer than most regular winter jackets as it is meant to keep you warm if you are sitting outside all day. Also 7.62x54r is a great round for deer, bear, and elk. I use the 203 grain soft points and with the Finnish M39 I use for hunting it is a tack driver of a rifle with them.
As an added bonus you don't even have to buy a ticket and since no one seems to give a shit about the oversize roller bags that will in no way fit in the overhead compartment you can pack a bunch of explosives and ball bearings in one of them.
Probably the most easily spotted contraband I have accidentally brought through was an almost full box of 7.62x54r ammo in a coat pocket. Sent the coat through the x-ray machine and they didn't find it. only slightly worse was the time I sent that same coat through with a handful of 3" 12 gauge magnum goose loads in a pocket. This was after 9-11-01, and I have also forgotten about pocket knives as well since then that were never found.
During that time a bunch of my friends and my wife's friends thought we were dumb because we bought a modest house we could afford if one of us lost our job using a traditional 30 year fixed with 20% down instead of buying as much house as we could afford and then eating dog food. Then the shit hits the fan and while we just recently got equity back in our house we didn't have to file for bankruptcy, get one of the government bailouts, do a short sale, etc like so many of them did. My only complaint about my situation was that for the longest time we couldn't refinance it because the mortgage was underwater and even though we were financially better off, interest rates were lower and we had never even been late on a payment. We eventually did get it refinanced and went from a 30 year down to a 15 year mortgage and it only added $18 to the monthly payment but we would have it paid off 7 years sooner.
Try flying with a bulb cable for a camera. When I bring my camera that one piece of equipment causes them the most confusion even beyond the film, filters, interchangeable lenses, detachable flash, and light meter. A set of macro rings also confuses the hell out of them just about as much.
The way they seem to treat those water bottles at the checkpoint, is proof positive that they didn't even consider them dangerous for a millisecond. Seriously, they just toss them in a bin next to the X-Ray machine.
I see I am not the only one who has wondered about that. Get a bunch of attackers on a busy day to pitch some 20 oz. bottles filled with explosives in the trash at a few checkpoints and then a while later have someone pitch one in to set them all off. On another side note is the huge line the TSA manages to create, get some asshole who has one of those tool large to actually carry on, carry on bags that too many people have and fill that thing with explosives and detonate it in the security line.
Exactly. Nothing the TSA, NSA, CIA, FBI, US armed services did prevented those individuals for begin unsuccessful in their attempts. What did make them unsuccessful were the passengers as well as the bombers being only slightly smart enough to not choke on their own tongues.
The problems are that there are vast swaths of the population that believe that the TSA is actually doing something to keep them safe. I have a cousin who is 13 years younger than I am who is a weekend warrior (MN national guard reserves) and he fully believes the line that all of this is necessary and prevents terrorist attacks. He is too young to really remember before 9/11/01 and so doesn't really know what has changed. Pointing out that the 3 things that have actually prevented another 9/11 doesn't register with him and he insists that our foreign adventurism has helped the most. He may very well be correct as he may be privy to information that I am not but I have yet to see any evidence showing this to be the case.Then you have people like my mother who will openly state that "At least they are trying to do something". Then add in the "if you have nothing to hide", and "so long as it keeps us safe" groups and this won't change for a very long time.
As I have pointed out here before I have accidentally brought banned items through security without any real effort in concealing them, they were left in coat pockets, and the TSA never once found them. Yet every time I bring my camera through I get to play 20 questions with the otherwise unemployable.
I always laugh at the didn't see it coming statements. I bought a house a couple of years before the bust and my wife and I qualified for some huge loan (I think it was 3/4 of a million or something like that) that would have consumed all of but $20 or something of our monthly pretax income. I looked at the loan officer and asked him if he was really retarded as it would be physically impossible for use to make even 1 payment. His response was that is what the system told him. I then provided him with a reasonable monthly payment and the amount we could put down and made him work backwards from that to figure out what we could really afford. At that point I realized that the housing market was headed for a huge correction and it wasn't going to be pretty.
I like this reasoning. As all modern encryption schemes to have a lower bound on the amount of time and energy required to crack them it means they are all allowable. It just so happens that for a number of them you would be harvesting a sizable portion of the energy available in the universe but that doesn't mean it couldn't be theoretically done.
You need to be thinking on the scale of the heat death of the universe and total mass energy of the universe. At those scales it is still possible using even quantum computers to have unbreakable encryption. This actually happens at surprisingly low key lengths. For symmetric key encryption around 540 bits will protect against attacks even from ideal quantum computers (well beyond tomorrow's technology or even the next millennium's technology) harvesting all of the energy in the universe. I don't have to pretend to know about tomorrows technology to know that things are secure once the state space is so huge that it cannot be explored even by using theoretically perfect devices using all of the energy available matter, or time in the universe I can feel secure knowing that my data is actually secure.
For anything slightly shorter than this sentence that becomes a task that is computationally impossible before the heat death of universe.
So using that example it is about 138 bytes long and or 1104 bits meaning if a OTP was used it would also have to be 1104 bits long. If one harvest all of the mass energy of the universe it would be around enough energy to cycle a 270 bit counter through all of its states on a conventional theoretical perfect computer, yet we have many orders of magnitude more possible states in our 1104 bit OTP. As there is no benefit to using a quantum computer for cracking a OTP there isn't any benefit to be had as there would with regular symmetric key encryption, bet even if there was it would only allow the cycling of a counter about 540 bits in length which is still many orders of magnitude smaller than our 1104 bit OTP. Finally even with just cycling that 270 bit counter through all of its states we still haven't done any actual decryption or analysis of the cleartext so the actual limit would be somewhat less.
So now to put this in perspective if the state space of the 1104 bit OTP is represented by all of the atoms in the universe, looking at only the first 270 bits of space means statistically we haven't even found one atom in the entire state space to examine to see if that atom is the one state space to even see if it is the one we are looking for. I'll take those odds that it is unbreakable.
Also, by definition, no encryption is unbreakable, you just need a few thousand years to crack it.
Well at somewhere around 270 bit with symmetric key algorithms on conventional computers you run out of available energy in the entire universe or around 540 bits with quantum computers. So at that point I would call it unbreakable. Also there are one time pads which are unbreakable assuming that you have a real random pad and that you do use that pad only once.
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Employers just don't invest in employees like they used to.
Well to that I took the advice of one of my former, now retired by choice at an early age coworkers, take every dime you can from the company.
401k put in the maximum amount they will match
employee share matching plan, put in as much as they will match
chance for training or conferences, take it all
business travel, take it
vacation, take it but carry over as much as you can
tuition reimbursement, get that advanced degree
Even if your employer doesn't offer all of those options take what ever they do and make use of it.
Well the most commonly cited one is Wickard v. Filburn where the government ruled that because crops grown on your own property for your own use are subject to their regulation because it has an effect on the interstate market for those crops. Additionally there is the case of Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States case which is less cited but still an important one in how to interpret where the line is in what can be regulated under the guise of interstate commerce.
While there is the understanding of how things SHOULD work there is also the way things actually work. Although there does appear to be limits on the commerce clause in that it can't be used to force you to buy something but that ruling found that a tax is both a tax (so it was constitutional) and not a tax (ruled first so that there was standing) so take that a what it is.
Most? It is all workers as the feds concern themselves if it "has an effect on interstate commerce" so if I dug up my own iron ore, made my own hardwood charcoal quarried my own limestone and then produced my own steel from them (my state has all of those resources so nothing in this process is interstate) they could regulate me, even if I did it all by hand. All because my production of steel affects the interstate commerce market because if I didn't produce my own I would have to instead purchase it on the open interstate market.
Personally I like this example instead of the drug one as all of these things existed in the are that is my state before the US even existed.
Hopefully France won't go full retard and implement their own version of the PATRIOT ACT. Learn form my country's mistakes.
Freedom, similar level of security, less government waste, following the constitution.
The government has previously admitted that its mass surveillance efforts haven't cracked a case or helped to catch a terrorist so doing nothing would have been just as effective.
Well bombing their tanker trucks is probably one of the more efficient methods of disrupting their money flow since if they have a few hundred it is a couple of million a day that they are transporting. Then there is the money they make from transporting antiquities out onto the black market which again can be dealt with by bombing transport trucks. The hard part would be cutting off the flow of money they get from "taxing" people or just outright stealing from people. The only solution I am aware of would be something like the US and other countries used during WWII called invasion currencies. Each city/region would need it's own currency that normally trades just like the old currency did but when a city is captured the currency from that city is declared void and not recognized by anyone. When someone enters a city or region they can exchange their other currency for the local one at some government office which destroys the currency brought in and issues new local currency.
Well these terrorists don't initially seem like the run of the mill, the I'm surprised they haven't choked on their own tongues stupid, terrorists. It seems the simplest way to not get caught before hand is simply to shut your fucking pie hole about your plans. When you do have to discuss your plans don't do them in public view but instead over secure channels, with only those who need to know the plan and not Hadji the clerk at the local halal market.
Well I seem to remember a month or two ago where the CIA director was bitching about how it would take a large attack for them to push through legislation getting backdoors or forcing weak encryption onto the population. At the moment I can't seem to find an article on that since now the noise is all about the douche nozzle CIA director following through saying that we need to ban/weaken/backdoor encryption in the wake of the Paris attacks. It sure passes the "don't let a crisis go to waste" smell test to me.
But here's something else to consider...they act like you're getting some fantastic deal because the shows and episodes don't expire, but seriously, how useful is that? I mean, it's great that they don't expire, but how often do any of us go back and watch stuff more than once?
Said someone who obviously doesn't have small children.
This is simple. Take a box of ammo out deer hunting put it in your coat pocket and then when done for the day you unload the gun and leave the ammo in the pocket. Then you go forward about a week and have to travel for business and just send the coat that still has the box of ammo in the pocket through the x-ray machine. As I only have one winter jacket it gets used for hunting and regular use as it is warmer than most regular winter jackets as it is meant to keep you warm if you are sitting outside all day. Also 7.62x54r is a great round for deer, bear, and elk. I use the 203 grain soft points and with the Finnish M39 I use for hunting it is a tack driver of a rifle with them.
As an added bonus you don't even have to buy a ticket and since no one seems to give a shit about the oversize roller bags that will in no way fit in the overhead compartment you can pack a bunch of explosives and ball bearings in one of them.
Probably the most easily spotted contraband I have accidentally brought through was an almost full box of 7.62x54r ammo in a coat pocket. Sent the coat through the x-ray machine and they didn't find it. only slightly worse was the time I sent that same coat through with a handful of 3" 12 gauge magnum goose loads in a pocket. This was after 9-11-01, and I have also forgotten about pocket knives as well since then that were never found.
During that time a bunch of my friends and my wife's friends thought we were dumb because we bought a modest house we could afford if one of us lost our job using a traditional 30 year fixed with 20% down instead of buying as much house as we could afford and then eating dog food. Then the shit hits the fan and while we just recently got equity back in our house we didn't have to file for bankruptcy, get one of the government bailouts, do a short sale, etc like so many of them did. My only complaint about my situation was that for the longest time we couldn't refinance it because the mortgage was underwater and even though we were financially better off, interest rates were lower and we had never even been late on a payment. We eventually did get it refinanced and went from a 30 year down to a 15 year mortgage and it only added $18 to the monthly payment but we would have it paid off 7 years sooner.
Try flying with a bulb cable for a camera. When I bring my camera that one piece of equipment causes them the most confusion even beyond the film, filters, interchangeable lenses, detachable flash, and light meter. A set of macro rings also confuses the hell out of them just about as much.
The way they seem to treat those water bottles at the checkpoint, is proof positive that they didn't even consider them dangerous for a millisecond. Seriously, they just toss them in a bin next to the X-Ray machine.
I see I am not the only one who has wondered about that. Get a bunch of attackers on a busy day to pitch some 20 oz. bottles filled with explosives in the trash at a few checkpoints and then a while later have someone pitch one in to set them all off. On another side note is the huge line the TSA manages to create, get some asshole who has one of those tool large to actually carry on, carry on bags that too many people have and fill that thing with explosives and detonate it in the security line.
Exactly. Nothing the TSA, NSA, CIA, FBI, US armed services did prevented those individuals for begin unsuccessful in their attempts. What did make them unsuccessful were the passengers as well as the bombers being only slightly smart enough to not choke on their own tongues.
In that latter role they would at least be providing a useful service to society.
The problems are that there are vast swaths of the population that believe that the TSA is actually doing something to keep them safe. I have a cousin who is 13 years younger than I am who is a weekend warrior (MN national guard reserves) and he fully believes the line that all of this is necessary and prevents terrorist attacks. He is too young to really remember before 9/11/01 and so doesn't really know what has changed. Pointing out that the 3 things that have actually prevented another 9/11 doesn't register with him and he insists that our foreign adventurism has helped the most. He may very well be correct as he may be privy to information that I am not but I have yet to see any evidence showing this to be the case.Then you have people like my mother who will openly state that "At least they are trying to do something". Then add in the "if you have nothing to hide", and "so long as it keeps us safe" groups and this won't change for a very long time.
As I have pointed out here before I have accidentally brought banned items through security without any real effort in concealing them, they were left in coat pockets, and the TSA never once found them. Yet every time I bring my camera through I get to play 20 questions with the otherwise unemployable.
I always laugh at the didn't see it coming statements. I bought a house a couple of years before the bust and my wife and I qualified for some huge loan (I think it was 3/4 of a million or something like that) that would have consumed all of but $20 or something of our monthly pretax income. I looked at the loan officer and asked him if he was really retarded as it would be physically impossible for use to make even 1 payment. His response was that is what the system told him. I then provided him with a reasonable monthly payment and the amount we could put down and made him work backwards from that to figure out what we could really afford. At that point I realized that the housing market was headed for a huge correction and it wasn't going to be pretty.
I like this reasoning. As all modern encryption schemes to have a lower bound on the amount of time and energy required to crack them it means they are all allowable. It just so happens that for a number of them you would be harvesting a sizable portion of the energy available in the universe but that doesn't mean it couldn't be theoretically done.
You forgot the other part of that which is also having infinite energy.
You're not thinking on the correct scales even.
You need to be thinking on the scale of the heat death of the universe and total mass energy of the universe. At those scales it is still possible using even quantum computers to have unbreakable encryption. This actually happens at surprisingly low key lengths. For symmetric key encryption around 540 bits will protect against attacks even from ideal quantum computers (well beyond tomorrow's technology or even the next millennium's technology) harvesting all of the energy in the universe. I don't have to pretend to know about tomorrows technology to know that things are secure once the state space is so huge that it cannot be explored even by using theoretically perfect devices using all of the energy available matter, or time in the universe I can feel secure knowing that my data is actually secure.
For anything slightly shorter than this sentence that becomes a task that is computationally impossible before the heat death of universe.
So using that example it is about 138 bytes long and or 1104 bits meaning if a OTP was used it would also have to be 1104 bits long. If one harvest all of the mass energy of the universe it would be around enough energy to cycle a 270 bit counter through all of its states on a conventional theoretical perfect computer, yet we have many orders of magnitude more possible states in our 1104 bit OTP. As there is no benefit to using a quantum computer for cracking a OTP there isn't any benefit to be had as there would with regular symmetric key encryption, bet even if there was it would only allow the cycling of a counter about 540 bits in length which is still many orders of magnitude smaller than our 1104 bit OTP. Finally even with just cycling that 270 bit counter through all of its states we still haven't done any actual decryption or analysis of the cleartext so the actual limit would be somewhat less.
So now to put this in perspective if the state space of the 1104 bit OTP is represented by all of the atoms in the universe, looking at only the first 270 bits of space means statistically we haven't even found one atom in the entire state space to examine to see if that atom is the one state space to even see if it is the one we are looking for. I'll take those odds that it is unbreakable.
Also, by definition, no encryption is unbreakable, you just need a few thousand years to crack it.
Well at somewhere around 270 bit with symmetric key algorithms on conventional computers you run out of available energy in the entire universe or around 540 bits with quantum computers. So at that point I would call it unbreakable. Also there are one time pads which are unbreakable assuming that you have a real random pad and that you do use that pad only once.
Just look in a mirror and say APK 3 times.