My job has an explicit anti-moonlighting clause, IIRC it was added to my job contract within the last 4 or so years and after I'd been moonlighting. I've been violating it just over the last couple of weeks. Of course they have to catch me first;-)
That's IF there's a bombshell in there that's sure to ruin Hillary. If it's just mundane stuff (my bet), it will only hurt Hillary (who would now have to deal with "Climategate"-style hyper-scrutiny over every little comment that can be framed as remotely incriminating) and help Trump. Worst of all would be if there's something bad in there but not bad enough to hand Sanders the nomination, that could threaten to hand Trump the win over Hillary.
If there is a bombshell you'd be right.
I think Assange knows better than to help Trump, the only question is if the blood has drained from the higher-functioning parts of his brain because his ego has a boner.
More seriously, he made a large number of enormous mistakes, here are the biggest:
1. Looks like his real name was on the goddamn hosting for KAT. Perfect job for an anonymous shell company held by a Russian lawyer, but instead he left a business card on a neat little stand at the crime scene.
2. Not separating his real name completely from his identity as KAT admin OR his casual pseudonym. He should've created a completely new identity for the KAT admin that doesn't touch any others with a 30-foot pole.
3. Apparently he thought Canada was a good place to host the servers safe from the reach of US lawmen. Such a US-unfriendly place this is, that he felt confident storing incriminating info on the server for some reason.
4. Insufficient money laundering. He even could've accepted ad payments in Bitcoin. Really, he put less effort into laundering criminal proceeds than your average 1%er puts into not paying taxes.
5. Being on Facebook never helps.
In short, he was running this operation almost completely in the open, relying only on the assumption that he couldn't be extradited and the obfuscation of naming the company Cryptoneat instead of KickassTorrents Inc. to keep his ass out of prison. Ross "You'll take payment in Bitcoin without a second thought, Mr. Mob Boss? Seems Legit." Ulbricht looks like a genius in comparison.
True, electric motors lack torque at high revs, where "high revs" is in terms of what the motor can handle before it destroys itself. But they have massive, unyielding torque within a powerband similar to an ICE engine's *entire* rev range, you'd just need to run a gearbox to take advantage of that up to high speed (as Formula E cars do).
No I am talking about the wealthy as well, as seen in the first two links and easily found with a quick search for "wealthy cash hoarding." They're doing the same thing.
Also, we need to close the loopholes that let companies hide earnings overseas instead of making it easier for them to profit from these arrangements.
They stuff a lot of it into Swiss bank accounts, which is the closest banking industry equivalent of stuffing cash into a drum and burying it under the basement. They spend a some of it on high-end luxury goods (megayachts, supercars), where the money mostly goes to other 1%ers, with some going to small handful of ultra-skilled workers.
They're not spending much of their money, mostly they're sending it into economic black holes or tossing it above the reach of most of the population.
I think a new phone every 5 years is reasonable, that's what I've been doing, although I've stretched my current phone to 6 now. Older folks like to call young people wasteful for buying a new phone every year, and I'd say you are if you replace your phone that often, but saving the cost of even a high-end phone 4 years out of 5 sure as hell won't fix any adult's money problems.
The money didn't disappear, the world's wealthiest people are simply hoarding it. In the '50s and '60s when sci-fi writers predicted that we'd be working 2 days a week by now and have a better standard of living to boot, that math had only one minor mistake - it assumed that wealth inequality wouldn't massively increase, funneling all that wealth into a new class of hyper-royalty.
Exactly. And this sub-livable minimum wage amounts to a massive, unorganized corporate welfare scheme, paid by the family, friends, and government programs that subsidize the workers making sub-livable wages.
Ha! Pokemon Go has now revealed the existence of cloaked Chinese military bases that aren't visible on satellite images like all of the world's other military bases!
(Half-seriously - maybe they have bases hidden under dummy neighborhoods like the US had during WW2, and this could indeed reveal them through apparently suburban neighborhoods in which nobody hunts Pokemon?)
Horseshit. There are clothes made in the USA, even if it's a small fraction of the industry. If Trump wanted to walk the talk, he could have, but he didn't.
A common misconception. It has one large geological formation that may appear similar to a massive oil deposit but there is no oil inside, it's simply an apparently bottomless cavern. The locals (who call it "dhev-noll") have been dumping their refuse in the hole for years and even their sewage system drains into it, yet it shows no signs of filling. The old joke is that it's "always hungry." It might me more interesting for use as a nuclear waste disposal site.
I don't even count satellite viewing as spying...everyone can see that stuff through commercial satellite services now. I could see how that would be more like a spy activity in maybe the 70s and 80s, but not anymore. Having your own surveillance satellites just gets you faster updates than waiting for it to appear on Google Earth.
I don't buy the "everyone's doing it" argument, first because there's little to no evidence they are (we only have evidence in the form of words from the intelligence community with secret sources, and unless they are to be treated as omniscient gods, all such evidence must be disregarded), second because it doesn't make much sense (it would indicate a situation where both parties know they're being spied on by the other and are OK with it - how could intelligence leaks be intentionally allowed to exist and ignored?), and third because "everyone's doing it" has never been a good excuse.
I think the situation is more likely that US intelligence is doing the vast majority of the ally-spying (with Israel in a very solid second place), according to their old "no action is too heinous if you don't get caught, and that will totes never happen!" philosophy, and they use the "everyone's doing it" excuse to hand-wave away how terrible it is, while there is virtually zero truth to it.
There are ways to verify other than intercepting private communications.
There are Allies and then there are "allies." Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are "allies" of the US. Germany and Canada are Allies. Spying on an "ally" could be understandable, spying on an Ally is just wrong.
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My job has an explicit anti-moonlighting clause, IIRC it was added to my job contract within the last 4 or so years and after I'd been moonlighting. I've been violating it just over the last couple of weeks. Of course they have to catch me first ;-)
That's IF there's a bombshell in there that's sure to ruin Hillary. If it's just mundane stuff (my bet), it will only hurt Hillary (who would now have to deal with "Climategate"-style hyper-scrutiny over every little comment that can be framed as remotely incriminating) and help Trump. Worst of all would be if there's something bad in there but not bad enough to hand Sanders the nomination, that could threaten to hand Trump the win over Hillary.
If there is a bombshell you'd be right.
I think Assange knows better than to help Trump, the only question is if the blood has drained from the higher-functioning parts of his brain because his ego has a boner.
More seriously, he made a large number of enormous mistakes, here are the biggest:
1. Looks like his real name was on the goddamn hosting for KAT. Perfect job for an anonymous shell company held by a Russian lawyer, but instead he left a business card on a neat little stand at the crime scene.
2. Not separating his real name completely from his identity as KAT admin OR his casual pseudonym. He should've created a completely new identity for the KAT admin that doesn't touch any others with a 30-foot pole.
3. Apparently he thought Canada was a good place to host the servers safe from the reach of US lawmen. Such a US-unfriendly place this is, that he felt confident storing incriminating info on the server for some reason.
4. Insufficient money laundering. He even could've accepted ad payments in Bitcoin. Really, he put less effort into laundering criminal proceeds than your average 1%er puts into not paying taxes.
5. Being on Facebook never helps.
In short, he was running this operation almost completely in the open, relying only on the assumption that he couldn't be extradited and the obfuscation of naming the company Cryptoneat instead of KickassTorrents Inc. to keep his ass out of prison. Ross "You'll take payment in Bitcoin without a second thought, Mr. Mob Boss? Seems Legit." Ulbricht looks like a genius in comparison.
With a magnet link, it's impossible to tell "downloading torrents" from "looking at torrent descriptions" ;-)
True, electric motors lack torque at high revs, where "high revs" is in terms of what the motor can handle before it destroys itself. But they have massive, unyielding torque within a powerband similar to an ICE engine's *entire* rev range, you'd just need to run a gearbox to take advantage of that up to high speed (as Formula E cars do).
Also on all spacious public roads when police aren't looking :-P
No I am talking about the wealthy as well, as seen in the first two links and easily found with a quick search for "wealthy cash hoarding." They're doing the same thing.
Also, we need to close the loopholes that let companies hide earnings overseas instead of making it easier for them to profit from these arrangements.
I have no idea.
They stuff a lot of it into Swiss bank accounts, which is the closest banking industry equivalent of stuffing cash into a drum and burying it under the basement. They spend a some of it on high-end luxury goods (megayachts, supercars), where the money mostly goes to other 1%ers, with some going to small handful of ultra-skilled workers.
They're not spending much of their money, mostly they're sending it into economic black holes or tossing it above the reach of most of the population.
#4 is technically probable but politically difficult.
I think a new phone every 5 years is reasonable, that's what I've been doing, although I've stretched my current phone to 6 now. Older folks like to call young people wasteful for buying a new phone every year, and I'd say you are if you replace your phone that often, but saving the cost of even a high-end phone 4 years out of 5 sure as hell won't fix any adult's money problems.
Ding ding ding!
The money didn't disappear, the world's wealthiest people are simply hoarding it. In the '50s and '60s when sci-fi writers predicted that we'd be working 2 days a week by now and have a better standard of living to boot, that math had only one minor mistake - it assumed that wealth inequality wouldn't massively increase, funneling all that wealth into a new class of hyper-royalty.
Exactly. And this sub-livable minimum wage amounts to a massive, unorganized corporate welfare scheme, paid by the family, friends, and government programs that subsidize the workers making sub-livable wages.
This one doesn't look eaten:
http://static.rcgroups.net/for...
Maybe this plus some silver and gold paint?
https://www.alibaba.com/produc...
See also: Using vaccination programs to collect terrorist DNA.
They're already used for this - ornithopters made to look like raptors are used at airports and other areas where bird traffic is undesirable.
Yes they do, they're called ornithopters. I have one but it looks like a giant dragonfly.
That's not hovering, that's gliding on an updraft. It couldn't "hover" inside a gymnasium, a hummingbird could.
Here are some other birds that can hover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Ha! Pokemon Go has now revealed the existence of cloaked Chinese military bases that aren't visible on satellite images like all of the world's other military bases!
(Half-seriously - maybe they have bases hidden under dummy neighborhoods like the US had during WW2, and this could indeed reveal them through apparently suburban neighborhoods in which nobody hunts Pokemon?)
Horseshit. There are clothes made in the USA, even if it's a small fraction of the industry. If Trump wanted to walk the talk, he could have, but he didn't.
A common misconception. It has one large geological formation that may appear similar to a massive oil deposit but there is no oil inside, it's simply an apparently bottomless cavern. The locals (who call it "dhev-noll") have been dumping their refuse in the hole for years and even their sewage system drains into it, yet it shows no signs of filling. The old joke is that it's "always hungry." It might me more interesting for use as a nuclear waste disposal site.
I don't even count satellite viewing as spying...everyone can see that stuff through commercial satellite services now. I could see how that would be more like a spy activity in maybe the 70s and 80s, but not anymore. Having your own surveillance satellites just gets you faster updates than waiting for it to appear on Google Earth.
Eavesdropping I'm sure is rampant :-P
I don't buy the "everyone's doing it" argument, first because there's little to no evidence they are (we only have evidence in the form of words from the intelligence community with secret sources, and unless they are to be treated as omniscient gods, all such evidence must be disregarded), second because it doesn't make much sense (it would indicate a situation where both parties know they're being spied on by the other and are OK with it - how could intelligence leaks be intentionally allowed to exist and ignored?), and third because "everyone's doing it" has never been a good excuse.
I think the situation is more likely that US intelligence is doing the vast majority of the ally-spying (with Israel in a very solid second place), according to their old "no action is too heinous if you don't get caught, and that will totes never happen!" philosophy, and they use the "everyone's doing it" excuse to hand-wave away how terrible it is, while there is virtually zero truth to it.
There are ways to verify other than intercepting private communications.
There are Allies and then there are "allies." Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are "allies" of the US. Germany and Canada are Allies. Spying on an "ally" could be understandable, spying on an Ally is just wrong.