If the current regulations are flawed - FIX THEM, don't just throw them away....
Nope. Throw them out, fire the legislators who voted for it, and let the new batch of legislators decide if it's worth taking a crack at again. I'd also be in favor of mandatory prison sentences for any legislator voting for something that is ruled unconstitutional, or voting on something without having personally read it in its entirety.
The solution is never more laws. The solution is almost always fewer laws, but better laws.
This is what happens when you to to exploit the "global economy". It bites back.
Why would anyone pay the sucker price when they can walk across the street and get the same exact thing for much less? A game, movie, song, etc. isn't worth more based on where it's sold. I'm sick of paying full price for such things while people in Asia and Russia pay pennies on the dollar. (Though I'm glad I'm paying tons more like people in Australia and South America are.) If you can sell the game to millions in China/Russia/etc. for X, I'm going to seek to pay no more than X as well.
I mean, what's the worst that can happen to me? You region lock your shit? I'll just crack it or use a VPN. You jack up the prices in Russia/wherever? You're not going to jack them up past the US price, so it's still a net win for me.
Of course they have an agenda. So what? Everyone does, including the person I replied to, who was harping on about things being "objectively fake" while showing nothing resembling objectivity. If you don't agree with their agenda, that's fine. But you should be objective about it if you're going to accuse them of being "objectively" anything.
This isn't about whether they're right or wrong, it's about whether they're incorrect or correct. I don't know what they state or claim, so I can't argue about that. But you and the person I replied to initially don't seem to offer any argument other than "religious/right-wing/anti-forced-vaccine bad, vaccine good", without discussing anything objective about the vaccine itself.
Please define "real college". A college is just an association of peers or (get this!) colleagues. Are they claiming to be doctors while not having licenses? Or are they just promoting an air of bullshit like Deepak Chopra? Because one is illegal and the other isn't.
Ultimately, if they're promoting abstinence, they're correct; abstinence prevents STDs. We could nearly wipe out HIV/AIDS and just about every other nasty STD in a generation if people stopped engaging in unsafe sex, drug use, blood donations, etc. That won't work on a global (or even local) scale, because that's not how many people behave. It will work on a personal scale though, and for a disease like HPV that's as far as anyone needs to consider.
Arguing that Girl A (or Boy B) should get vaccinated to protect others who may make shitty choices is fucking nonsense that's 2 steps removed from the concept of herd immunity. The thing being protected against isn't spread like chicken pox, it's spread like babies. Do you want to argue for all children to be chemically sterilized because some of them will engage in unprotected sex? I'd certainly understand the argument for it, and would be glad my tax dollars wouldn't be wasted on their unwanted spawn, but that's still some grade AAA bullshit that wouldn't fly.
However, arguing that an individual should get vaccinated to protect themselves makes perfect sense, as does arguing that parents should vaccinate their children to protect them. But that's different from arguing that they must, especially when the one doing the arguing is the company that stands to make lots and lots of money off of the forced vaccination program.
When did we go from a country of personal freedom and responsibility to a herd of mindless shits all racing to the common bottom to support corporations as long as they have a "think of the children" or "support the <blank>" or "green" style campaign attached? What kind of mentality enables this shit? It certainly isn't "objectivity".
No, you'll still get HPV if you're having unprotected sex even if vaccinated, you just won't get the handful of strains this vaccine protects against that have been correlated to a mild increase in the risk of developing certain cancers.
This isn't anything like an MMR vaccine. It's not even as justifiable as pushing for everyone to get a flu shot.
"No Bitcoin is not a democracy; it's called a 51% attack for a reason. That's not a majority of the vote, that's not how Bitcoin works."
51% would be a majority of the vote. That's how Bitcoin works. It's still a democracy. Democracies can use majority voting vs plurality voting, include runoffs until a majority is reached, or some manner of supermajority.
Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, democracy has more to do with who can vote than where you set the finish line?
Owning the network and owning the hash power are separate things.
If you own the network, then you can lie to other nodes about stuff. Other nodes would be like "WTF?" and the network would split. But that's not automatic, and until people can trace back and find out which nodes are janky, you can profit in the chaos.
This sort of attack needs storage and network resources, not computational resources. For a successful attack giving you a usable time window in which to take action, you would want the network to be as distributed as possible.
With hashing power you can "change the order of transactions", sure, but as others have pointed out that means you can spend BTC you don't have, fuck other transactions, etc. This is the attack everyone worries about because the Chinese ASIC farms basically control Bitcoin at this point. But they're not controlled by a single entity and any shenanigans would again be met with a fork.
I don't know if it's about that pizza shop or kiddies, but it's absolutely certain that something illicit and secret was being referenced in those emails, and they were using codewords to talk about it.
My guess would be that they were setting up clandestine meetings for off the books bullshit ranging from "Let's get Chelsea another huge paycheck for doing nothing." to "You've got that fat bribe ready for me, right?"
Figuring out the codes and shit in the emails will only get you so far. PizzaGate is real in the sense that some shit went down. It's unconfirmed as to what/where. But it's absolutely not "fake". The emails are available for public download. Feel free to trawl through them and connect the dots. You can use other people's work as a starting point or you can go in fresh.
What's "objectively fake" about the "American College of Pediatricians"?
I don't know who or what they are, but it just seems you don't like them and what they're doing. Are they claiming to have medical licenses when they don't?
Further, the HPV vaccine only targets a handful of viruses that may be correlated to higher rates of certain types of cancer. Yet they fucking initially marketed it as cancer vaccine, with an entire ad campaign with young girls skipping rope and chanting "One less, one less! I'm gonna be one less!". Then they aggressively tried to force the vaccine on all middle school girls despite the fact that the viruses they protect against aren't generally considered communicable unless you're doing the nasty, and it was all based on a mild correlation of increased risk.
But think of the children? They're just trying to save lives? They why was the vaccine not tested for boys? Those same viruses are correlated to similar anal cancers in boys, you know. But nope - they didn't give a shit about that. Anal cancer isn't marketable. Protecting boys isn't marketable. But they changed their tune after meeting initial push back. Why? They predicted that people fighting against their plan to force the vaccine on all shool girls would try the "You're forcing girls, not boys, that's discrimination!!!" angle. So they started marketing it for everyone. Boys getting it wouldn't be getting it for their own health, however, because that's still not marketable. They'd be getting it to do their part to protect girls.
Even if there's a causal link between the strains it protects against and cancer, and even if the vaccine is ultimately effective in preventing cancer (i.e., the strains it targets are the only strains causing cancer), the whole thing was a fucking farce.
"Sometimes people have this misapprehension that Bitcoin is a democracy. No Bitcoin is not a democracy; it's called a 51% attack for a reason. That's not a majority of the vote, that's not how Bitcoin works."
That's exactly how Bitcoin works. If you control more than 50% of the nodes storing the blockchain, you can manipulate the currency to your heart's content. If you do it in such a way that someone notices, people will fork the blockchain. Forking the blockchain has already happened due to other issues. And it went about as smoothly as anyone could have hoped for.
PROTIP: If this new cryptocurrency involves any sort of premine or exclusivity period, it's a scam.
The encryption scheme you're using is flawed by design due to their moles influencing in their design, allowing them to break it rapidly, or they know of practical flaws that they did not put in there but that they have also chosen to hide from the public.
They surreptitiously steal your private key.
They have quantum computing capabilities advanced enough to run practical attacks on the encryption scheme you're using.
Very few encryption schemes are mathematically proven to be secure, and they typically just devolve into the problem of keeping a secret (e.g., one time pads).
I get the feeling that they want people to switch out of their old contracts to a new one because the new contract is missing any mention of privacy. Someone should compare the terms of the contracts as this may be the start of them selling your info.
They're selling your info regardless of what any "contract" says.
I'm usually against clicking any of the links and reading the article, but do yourself a favor and click on the link for the video. This is a joke so big that it'll carry me through Monday.
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If the current regulations are flawed - FIX THEM, don't just throw them away....
Nope. Throw them out, fire the legislators who voted for it, and let the new batch of legislators decide if it's worth taking a crack at again.
I'd also be in favor of mandatory prison sentences for any legislator voting for something that is ruled unconstitutional, or voting on something without having personally read it in its entirety.
The solution is never more laws. The solution is almost always fewer laws, but better laws.
Oregon state law is wrong, and in violation of the first amendment.
Next topic.
This is what happens when you to to exploit the "global economy". It bites back.
Why would anyone pay the sucker price when they can walk across the street and get the same exact thing for much less?
A game, movie, song, etc. isn't worth more based on where it's sold. I'm sick of paying full price for such things while people in Asia and Russia pay pennies on the dollar. (Though I'm glad I'm paying tons more like people in Australia and South America are.) If you can sell the game to millions in China/Russia/etc. for X, I'm going to seek to pay no more than X as well.
I mean, what's the worst that can happen to me? You region lock your shit? I'll just crack it or use a VPN. You jack up the prices in Russia/wherever? You're not going to jack them up past the US price, so it's still a net win for me.
Of course they have an agenda. So what? Everyone does, including the person I replied to, who was harping on about things being "objectively fake" while showing nothing resembling objectivity. If you don't agree with their agenda, that's fine. But you should be objective about it if you're going to accuse them of being "objectively" anything.
This isn't about whether they're right or wrong, it's about whether they're incorrect or correct. I don't know what they state or claim, so I can't argue about that. But you and the person I replied to initially don't seem to offer any argument other than "religious/right-wing/anti-forced-vaccine bad, vaccine good", without discussing anything objective about the vaccine itself.
Please define "real college". A college is just an association of peers or (get this!) colleagues. Are they claiming to be doctors while not having licenses? Or are they just promoting an air of bullshit like Deepak Chopra? Because one is illegal and the other isn't.
Ultimately, if they're promoting abstinence, they're correct; abstinence prevents STDs. We could nearly wipe out HIV/AIDS and just about every other nasty STD in a generation if people stopped engaging in unsafe sex, drug use, blood donations, etc. That won't work on a global (or even local) scale, because that's not how many people behave. It will work on a personal scale though, and for a disease like HPV that's as far as anyone needs to consider.
Arguing that Girl A (or Boy B) should get vaccinated to protect others who may make shitty choices is fucking nonsense that's 2 steps removed from the concept of herd immunity. The thing being protected against isn't spread like chicken pox, it's spread like babies. Do you want to argue for all children to be chemically sterilized because some of them will engage in unprotected sex? I'd certainly understand the argument for it, and would be glad my tax dollars wouldn't be wasted on their unwanted spawn, but that's still some grade AAA bullshit that wouldn't fly.
However, arguing that an individual should get vaccinated to protect themselves makes perfect sense, as does arguing that parents should vaccinate their children to protect them. But that's different from arguing that they must, especially when the one doing the arguing is the company that stands to make lots and lots of money off of the forced vaccination program.
When did we go from a country of personal freedom and responsibility to a herd of mindless shits all racing to the common bottom to support corporations as long as they have a "think of the children" or "support the <blank>" or "green" style campaign attached? What kind of mentality enables this shit? It certainly isn't "objectivity".
No, you'll still get HPV if you're having unprotected sex even if vaccinated, you just won't get the handful of strains this vaccine protects against that have been correlated to a mild increase in the risk of developing certain cancers.
This isn't anything like an MMR vaccine. It's not even as justifiable as pushing for everyone to get a flu shot.
After taxes, 100,000 per year becomes 60,000 to 65,000 per year. California is awful.
So, yeah.
It's always a bubble.
"No Bitcoin is not a democracy; it's called a 51% attack for a reason. That's not a majority of the vote, that's not how Bitcoin works."
51% would be a majority of the vote. That's how Bitcoin works. It's still a democracy. Democracies can use majority voting vs plurality voting, include runoffs until a majority is reached, or some manner of supermajority.
Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, democracy has more to do with who can vote than where you set the finish line?
Owning the network and owning the hash power are separate things.
If you own the network, then you can lie to other nodes about stuff. Other nodes would be like "WTF?" and the network would split. But that's not automatic, and until people can trace back and find out which nodes are janky, you can profit in the chaos.
This sort of attack needs storage and network resources, not computational resources. For a successful attack giving you a usable time window in which to take action, you would want the network to be as distributed as possible.
With hashing power you can "change the order of transactions", sure, but as others have pointed out that means you can spend BTC you don't have, fuck other transactions, etc. This is the attack everyone worries about because the Chinese ASIC farms basically control Bitcoin at this point. But they're not controlled by a single entity and any shenanigans would again be met with a fork.
My favorite is when they scrub the talk page, too, citing "abuse".
I'd like to see some sample coverage showing how they would have reported on past notable events.
The Michael Brown incident and the related Ferguson riots would be a good place to start.
The Wikipedia link won't even use the word riots! The URL uses "unrest". LOOOOOOOOL!
I don't know if it's about that pizza shop or kiddies, but it's absolutely certain that something illicit and secret was being referenced in those emails, and they were using codewords to talk about it.
My guess would be that they were setting up clandestine meetings for off the books bullshit ranging from "Let's get Chelsea another huge paycheck for doing nothing." to "You've got that fat bribe ready for me, right?"
Figuring out the codes and shit in the emails will only get you so far. PizzaGate is real in the sense that some shit went down. It's unconfirmed as to what/where. But it's absolutely not "fake". The emails are available for public download. Feel free to trawl through them and connect the dots. You can use other people's work as a starting point or you can go in fresh.
I think Jimmy will be fine with whatever news ends up on here, as long as you bring your citations, please.
You misspelled "donations".
Literally any first world news source outside of the US is going to appear "left wing biased"
Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
Ssshhhh. Nobody tell him. He's so cute sitting there in his little safe space. Let's keep him out of the real world, forever.
Stay golden, AC.
What's "objectively fake" about the "American College of Pediatricians"?
I don't know who or what they are, but it just seems you don't like them and what they're doing. Are they claiming to have medical licenses when they don't?
Further, the HPV vaccine only targets a handful of viruses that may be correlated to higher rates of certain types of cancer. Yet they fucking initially marketed it as cancer vaccine, with an entire ad campaign with young girls skipping rope and chanting "One less, one less! I'm gonna be one less!". Then they aggressively tried to force the vaccine on all middle school girls despite the fact that the viruses they protect against aren't generally considered communicable unless you're doing the nasty, and it was all based on a mild correlation of increased risk.
But think of the children? They're just trying to save lives? They why was the vaccine not tested for boys? Those same viruses are correlated to similar anal cancers in boys, you know. But nope - they didn't give a shit about that. Anal cancer isn't marketable. Protecting boys isn't marketable. But they changed their tune after meeting initial push back. Why? They predicted that people fighting against their plan to force the vaccine on all shool girls would try the "You're forcing girls, not boys, that's discrimination!!!" angle. So they started marketing it for everyone. Boys getting it wouldn't be getting it for their own health, however, because that's still not marketable. They'd be getting it to do their part to protect girls.
Even if there's a causal link between the strains it protects against and cancer, and even if the vaccine is ultimately effective in preventing cancer (i.e., the strains it targets are the only strains causing cancer), the whole thing was a fucking farce.
But hey, you're "objective", right?
"Sometimes people have this misapprehension that Bitcoin is a democracy. No Bitcoin is not a democracy; it's called a 51% attack for a reason. That's not a majority of the vote, that's not how Bitcoin works."
That's exactly how Bitcoin works.
If you control more than 50% of the nodes storing the blockchain, you can manipulate the currency to your heart's content.
If you do it in such a way that someone notices, people will fork the blockchain. Forking the blockchain has already happened due to other issues. And it went about as smoothly as anyone could have hoped for.
PROTIP: If this new cryptocurrency involves any sort of premine or exclusivity period, it's a scam.
Either:
The encryption scheme you're using is flawed by design due to their moles influencing in their design, allowing them to break it rapidly, or they know of practical flaws that they did not put in there but that they have also chosen to hide from the public.
They surreptitiously steal your private key.
They have quantum computing capabilities advanced enough to run practical attacks on the encryption scheme you're using.
Very few encryption schemes are mathematically proven to be secure, and they typically just devolve into the problem of keeping a secret (e.g., one time pads).
Apple will get 29.25% (30% minus 2.5% of 30%) of a commissioned sale instead of 27.9% (30% minus 7% of 30%).
I get the feeling that they want people to switch out of their old contracts to a new one because the new contract is missing any mention of privacy. Someone should compare the terms of the contracts as this may be the start of them selling your info.
They're selling your info regardless of what any "contract" says.
It's like Jeopardy, you have to say the answer in the form of a question.
You must phrase your response in the form a question.
The clue is the answer.
The icing on the cake is that they're saying 2 different things are "first".
Waffles first, pancakes first.
I'm usually against clicking any of the links and reading the article, but do yourself a favor and click on the link for the video.
This is a joke so big that it'll carry me through Monday.
What did he pick off of his foot, and then eat?
TFH doesn't use the word "treason". TFS doesn't, either.
As of the time I'm typing this, only your little rant and one other AC post uses that word.
I think you're concerned with the word "traitor", not the word "treason". Please go back and check your work.
C-.
Don't even try. The people that fall for the laughable climate models are the kind of people who don't even know what "cal coo lus" is.