She is not legally able to enter into a contract. So all remonstrations of her immaturity are irrelevant. She is not mature by law and obviously in deed.
Still can't sign contracts. Don't understand how she's held as capable of holding to terms she's not legally compelled to honor. Since she was the focus of the case, hard to see how she'd not be told. These "shut-up" congrats are vile; Scientology uses them to silence people they sue and harass. Then sometimes they keep harassing, but the victim is bound under insane penalties not to complain. And the non-ethics of business blames the victim for agreeing to terms.
Homeopathy is not silly; it is a lie. If you sell it, you're lying to people. So it matters that Whole Foods sells it, as it casts doubt on their grasp of science, which indicates their "healthly" foods are just marketing to the credulous.
Creation museum: customers tend to be poor, relatively uneducated, and don't understand basic science. Whole Foods: customers are almost exclusively well-off, expensively educated, and don't understand basic science.
I've been around for a while, and notice trends and processes a bit more than some. I don't upgrade to Lion because Apple has integrated Total Information Awareness about the files and processes on our computers in that OS. Subsequent OSes are even worse. What I mean is that to perform the automated cloud backups and updates that Lion+ seem to mandate demand that access (at least) to your private files be provided, regardless of your wishes. The OS is designed to spy in the name of our convenience. Encryption is possible, but can you ever really trust the box, considering it can record every keystroke? I understand that the Goldfish Generation, as I call them with some ruefulness, have never had privacy since their preschools searched their backpacks and high schools made them lay on the floor while dogs sniffed them. That's a mean way of saying it, but I do understand that most people under 35 have never experienced a life unexamined or files unsearched. I know it's not their fault, as it was done to them in the name of Security, and no way to opt out of the new world order is even possible. But I want at least one computer in my life that is not, default, providing the contents of my life to the corporation that provided it to me and the government that is tapping their incoming fiber lines.
Well done - I've a Mac Mini, same vintage, and I don't really relish the intrusiveness of Lion and newer releases - don't really want Apple to know about what I want to store on my computer. Snow Leopard for a bit longer.
May I ask - any issues in upgrading to an SSD? What brand did you use? Type? I want to upgrade, but don't want to waste time sending back drives that are just too whizbang to work on my 2006 Core Duo.
I like this opening: "One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. Itâ(TM)s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents."
So. You believe nothing is knowable? Saves time. Waitaminut. Lookie here! https://firstlook.org/theinter... News today from Glenn Greenwald says that there are well organized covert groups whose purpose is to disrupt and neutralize online forums and discredit people. You don't think they'd show up on Slashdot, do you?
As L. Ron Hubbard commanded his secret nerd commando assholes, find their crimes, especially sex crimes, the dirtier the better. Publicize it though side channels and bring it up at every opportunity. Smear, smear, and keep on smearing. Pamphlet the neighbors, call the schools, alarm the parents, burn the bastard through anonymous innuendo until he's ready to commit suicide. Well, just the first sentence was his. The rest his Boy Bands did on their own, and still do.
Fourth amendment against search and seizure. Mass surveillance and use of such data to undermine opposition. Murder. Conspiracy to commit murder. War crimes. Accessories to murder. Use of weapons of mass destruction against civilians. Throw in the ninth amendment while we are at it. Abuse of secrecy declarations to conceal crimes and persecutions. And the panels are useless - they are carefully loaded with shills. Amazing that one actually broke free and declared illegality.
Not the government. The intel community. They are a separate thing. They are beyond government - elected officials come and go, but the network of ops and analysts and right-wing nutjob policy makers at the CIA and a dozen other agencies are secret, safe, and damned near unkillable. And they know what every is saying, who they are with, and and where they have been. They are freaking gods of vengeance and manipulation, should they choose to come and get you. Assange has royally pissed them off - and GOT AWAY WITH IT. They are not going to let him live a life outside of a torture cell. They will never surrender.
Any one who believes any story about Assange that smears him is a damned fool. The full hatred and might of the US intel community is focused on that man. Believe nothing. Especially from the Telegraph, for Christ's sake.
"Probably because like here, the people who support him make a ton of noise about how he is just a saint who has been vilified by a vengeful US government..."
Straw man. No one is a saint. No one said he is a saint. And he has been vilified, tracked, and set up by an EXTREMELY vengeful US intelligence community - which is much different - and separate from - the US government. Governments come and go, but our real masters live behind the scenes and pull perception management stunts like this.
How many men, how much money, did they spend to track down every physical movement, every call, every text, every phone call he made? And interview every woman they could find that slept with him until they found two (sleeping with him at the same time) who would say "boo"? And further, one of those dropped the matter with disgust once she found the US was using her to get Assange.
No one ever did. And every one of you, at some time in your life, acted the fool in front of a woman. So, we will not be surprised when you are accused of crimes.
Which is more than what Assange faces, because he is accused of nothing.
He has been accused of nothing. He has been charged with nothing. A friendly right-wing judge helped the US publicize allegations made by two women - one of whom has bowed out in disgust and wants nothing more to do with the US's little Paula Jones games.
Amazing. They must have tracked his every movement, interviewed every woman he ever talked to, to find two woman who would allege he had sex without a condom - which is only a crime in that country. And one of them walked away. Wonder what they have on the other woman - or how much she's been paid.
They smeared him, and set him up for an extradition snatch when he was to come in for "questioning".
And they have a lot of perception management sock puppets in this thread.
Philip Wylie, the author of Gladiator, the novel of the first superhero that predated and probably inspired Siegel and Schuster's Superman, wrote a number of admonitory books during his lifetime. In high school, I read one of his last, "The End of The Dream" (1972). In it he cast a future history which ended with the world, hungry for energy, drilling into Antarctica's ice cap to uncover the coal buried deep under the ground. The fossil-fuel mad world, which he nailed, BTW, capped the seams and burned the coal in situ within the ground to generate electricity. Plausible.
The novel ended with the underground fires joining up and expanding, burning out of control. The smoke slowly built up, moving north like the wrath of an unstoppable god of hell, until the earth died under the cloud. It was the end of a long litany of excellent *science* fiction. He extrapolated future actions of humans acting under the Law of General Stupidity, in which business always triumphs the hippies because, you know, they are hippies. You can call it the reaction of least energy expended, or simply conservative thinking - Everything Is Awesome.
When I head of fracking - it snuck up on me - Philip Wylie's sad voice came back to my memory, singing that same old song of mankind's monkey stupid snarling resistance to change, especially when there are trillions of dollars to be made digging up those ancient forests underground and setting them on fire. It didn't have to be. But it will be. America has no left, no intelligent people in power. We have businessmen. And businessmen don't do science. They do money and power. And Americans like things the way they are: the 1950's eternally reenacted, a never-changing world of cars and new houses and more and more and more... what is coming next is as predictable as those black clouds of Hell coming up from the Antarctic in Wylie's last warning. We will change the world. And it will be another business opportunity: mass relocation, new housing, new agriculture, potable water as precious as gold, cleaning up toxins, disposable houses, so so many ways to make money off overpopulation and the utter bovine imbecility of the human race.
Yes. We absolutely used proxies to slaughter "socialists" in Indonesia in 1964? perhaps the bloodiest anti-commie action we ever committed. They dragged union members by the hundreds into a sports stadium and mass-murdered them in one bloody night, as the CIA handlers listened in from the outside. Hell fucking yes.
And you know the jihadis are out to take the world over from what, exactly? Who told you this? Is it possible to convince you that the entire "war" is a fraud, based on laserlike focus on a few nutballs? You have confirmation bias - you have your conclusion ready, and everything is either true or not true, depending on whether it confirms your iron idea that jihadis are trying to take the world over. They are not. The war is every bit of a fraud as the one against commies, the anarchists, the trade unionists, the socialists, the Spaniards, the Philippines, Mexico, Cuba, drugs, copyright crime and every other confirmation-bias "war" we've ever waged. None of them were actual wars, and none were ever a threat to us, especially in the precise sense that they, in fact, issued threats to us. Our "threats" are perceptual and grown in our own minds; rarely are we threatened. We misuse the word to justify our madness.
The people who are fighting us in Iraq and Afghanistan do so because we attacked them. The few who aren't there and actually do attack us with actual bombs aren't trying to advance Islam and impose sharia on us. They are pissed off because of things that we've done - people and nations we've killed when it suited our purpose. Americans willfully refuse to listen to what they are screaming about; we'd rather have jihadis and a worldwide conspiracy to blow up with drones rather than rethink our history and our actions. We're a perfect storm of an violent empire that cannot intellectually grasp the fact that it is, in fact, a violent empire, and so we react insanely.
I don't know. It is impossible to change a person's mind, and infinitely more difficult to convince a nation that it is slaughtering innocent people while undergoing a gargantuan hallucination.
A huge number of Americans in the idea that constitutional rights are only for Americans by birth, and are not applicable to furinners. They don't see your point. A foreigner can be kidnapped from any street in the world, including American streets. They can be quietly imprisoned for life, and all communication cut off to the outside world. That was BEFORE 9/11. Now foreigners are considered something on a spectrum between terrorists and feral dogs. Unless they are rich. Rich foreigners can't be terrorists, even if they are.
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She is not legally able to enter into a contract. So all remonstrations of her immaturity are irrelevant. She is not mature by law and obviously in deed.
Still can't sign contracts. Don't understand how she's held as capable of holding to terms she's not legally compelled to honor. Since she was the focus of the case, hard to see how she'd not be told. These "shut-up" congrats are vile; Scientology uses them to silence people they sue and harass. Then sometimes they keep harassing, but the victim is bound under insane penalties not to complain. And the non-ethics of business blames the victim for agreeing to terms.
Homeopathy is not silly; it is a lie. If you sell it, you're lying to people. So it matters that Whole Foods sells it, as it casts doubt on their grasp of science, which indicates their "healthly" foods are just marketing to the credulous.
Creation museum: customers tend to be poor, relatively uneducated, and don't understand basic science.
Whole Foods: customers are almost exclusively well-off, expensively educated, and don't understand basic science.
Everyone's stupid about something.
You mean, you'd like some privacy? You do get the horror of that, don't you?
I've been around for a while, and notice trends and processes a bit more than some. I don't upgrade to Lion because Apple has integrated Total Information Awareness about the files and processes on our computers in that OS. Subsequent OSes are even worse. What I mean is that to perform the automated cloud backups and updates that Lion+ seem to mandate demand that access (at least) to your private files be provided, regardless of your wishes. The OS is designed to spy in the name of our convenience. Encryption is possible, but can you ever really trust the box, considering it can record every keystroke?
I understand that the Goldfish Generation, as I call them with some ruefulness, have never had privacy since their preschools searched their backpacks and high schools made them lay on the floor while dogs sniffed them. That's a mean way of saying it, but I do understand that most people under 35 have never experienced a life unexamined or files unsearched. I know it's not their fault, as it was done to them in the name of Security, and no way to opt out of the new world order is even possible. But I want at least one computer in my life that is not, default, providing the contents of my life to the corporation that provided it to me and the government that is tapping their incoming fiber lines.
Well done - I've a Mac Mini, same vintage, and I don't really relish the intrusiveness of Lion and newer releases - don't really want Apple to know about what I want to store on my computer. Snow Leopard for a bit longer.
May I ask - any issues in upgrading to an SSD? What brand did you use? Type? I want to upgrade, but don't want to waste time sending back drives that are just too whizbang to work on my 2006 Core Duo.
I like this opening:
"One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. Itâ(TM)s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents."
So. You believe nothing is knowable? Saves time.
Waitaminut. Lookie here! https://firstlook.org/theinter...
News today from Glenn Greenwald says that there are well organized covert groups whose purpose is to disrupt and neutralize online forums and discredit people. You don't think they'd show up on Slashdot, do you?
OOPS. Forgot! He was never accused.
Bingo. Most attractive young guys I ever knew.
As L. Ron Hubbard commanded his secret nerd commando assholes, find their crimes, especially sex crimes, the dirtier the better. Publicize it though side channels and bring it up at every opportunity. Smear, smear, and keep on smearing. Pamphlet the neighbors, call the schools, alarm the parents, burn the bastard through anonymous innuendo until he's ready to commit suicide. Well, just the first sentence was his. The rest his Boy Bands did on their own, and still do.
Fourth amendment against search and seizure. Mass surveillance and use of such data to undermine opposition. Murder. Conspiracy to commit murder. War crimes. Accessories to murder. Use of weapons of mass destruction against civilians. Throw in the ninth amendment while we are at it. Abuse of secrecy declarations to conceal crimes and persecutions. And the panels are useless - they are carefully loaded with shills. Amazing that one actually broke free and declared illegality.
Not the government. The intel community. They are a separate thing. They are beyond government - elected officials come and go, but the network of ops and analysts and right-wing nutjob policy makers at the CIA and a dozen other agencies are secret, safe, and damned near unkillable. And they know what every is saying, who they are with, and and where they have been. They are freaking gods of vengeance and manipulation, should they choose to come and get you. Assange has royally pissed them off - and GOT AWAY WITH IT. They are not going to let him live a life outside of a torture cell. They will never surrender.
Any one who believes any story about Assange that smears him is a damned fool. The full hatred and might of the US intel community is focused on that man. Believe nothing. Especially from the Telegraph, for Christ's sake.
Name. One. Person. Who. Was. Extradited. For. Accusation. Of. Sex. Without. A. Condom.
Just.
One.
Attack the man, not the facts, to neutralize the facts.
"Probably because like here, the people who support him make a ton of noise about how he is just a saint who has been vilified by a vengeful US government..."
Straw man. No one is a saint. No one said he is a saint. And he has been vilified, tracked, and set up by an
EXTREMELY vengeful US intelligence community - which is much different - and separate from - the US government. Governments come and go, but our real masters live behind the scenes and pull perception management stunts like this.
How many men, how much money, did they spend to track down every physical movement, every call, every text, every phone call he made? And interview every woman they could find that slept with him until they found two (sleeping with him at the same time) who would say "boo"? And further, one of those dropped the matter with disgust once she found the US was using her to get Assange.
No one ever did. And every one of you, at some time in your life, acted the fool in front of a woman. So, we will not be surprised when you are accused of crimes.
Which is more than what Assange faces, because he is accused of nothing.
He has been accused of nothing. He has been charged with nothing. A friendly right-wing judge helped the US publicize allegations made by two women - one of whom has bowed out in disgust and wants nothing more to do with the US's little Paula Jones games.
Amazing. They must have tracked his every movement, interviewed every woman he ever talked to, to find two woman who would allege he had sex without a condom - which is only a crime in that country. And one of them walked away. Wonder what they have on the other woman - or how much she's been paid.
They smeared him, and set him up for an extradition snatch when he was to come in for "questioning".
And they have a lot of perception management sock puppets in this thread.
No. he is not accused of rape. He has been accused of nothing.
And the stories about his womanizing? Almost every guy posting at Slashdot. Perception management is everything.
Philip Wylie, the author of Gladiator, the novel of the first superhero that predated and probably inspired Siegel and Schuster's Superman, wrote a number of admonitory books during his lifetime. In high school, I read one of his last, "The End of The Dream" (1972). In it he cast a future history which ended with the world, hungry for energy, drilling into Antarctica's ice cap to uncover the coal buried deep under the ground. The fossil-fuel mad world, which he nailed, BTW, capped the seams and burned the coal in situ within the ground to generate electricity. Plausible.
The novel ended with the underground fires joining up and expanding, burning out of control. The smoke slowly built up, moving north like the wrath of an unstoppable god of hell, until the earth died under the cloud.
It was the end of a long litany of excellent *science* fiction. He extrapolated future actions of humans acting under the Law of General Stupidity, in which business always triumphs the hippies because, you know, they are hippies. You can call it the reaction of least energy expended, or simply conservative thinking - Everything Is Awesome.
When I head of fracking - it snuck up on me - Philip Wylie's sad voice came back to my memory, singing that same old song of mankind's monkey stupid snarling resistance to change, especially when there are trillions of dollars to be made digging up those ancient forests underground and setting them on fire. It didn't have to be. But it will be. America has no left, no intelligent people in power. We have businessmen. And businessmen don't do science. They do money and power. And Americans like things the way they are: the 1950's eternally reenacted, a never-changing world of cars and new houses and more and more and more... what is coming next is as predictable as those black clouds of Hell coming up from the Antarctic in Wylie's last warning. We will change the world. And it will be another business opportunity: mass relocation, new housing, new agriculture, potable water as precious as gold, cleaning up toxins, disposable houses, so so many ways to make money off overpopulation and the utter bovine imbecility of the human race.
40% failed grammar school, more like.
Yes. We absolutely used proxies to slaughter "socialists" in Indonesia in 1964? perhaps the bloodiest anti-commie action we ever committed. They dragged union members by the hundreds into a sports stadium and mass-murdered them in one bloody night, as the CIA handlers listened in from the outside. Hell fucking yes.
And you know the jihadis are out to take the world over from what, exactly? Who told you this? Is it possible to convince you that the entire "war" is a fraud, based on laserlike focus on a few nutballs? You have confirmation bias - you have your conclusion ready, and everything is either true or not true, depending on whether it confirms your iron idea that jihadis are trying to take the world over. They are not. The war is every bit of a fraud as the one against commies, the anarchists, the trade unionists, the socialists, the Spaniards, the Philippines, Mexico, Cuba, drugs, copyright crime and every other confirmation-bias "war" we've ever waged. None of them were actual wars, and none were ever a threat to us, especially in the precise sense that they, in fact, issued threats to us. Our "threats" are perceptual and grown in our own minds; rarely are we threatened. We misuse the word to justify our madness.
The people who are fighting us in Iraq and Afghanistan do so because we attacked them. The few who aren't there and actually do attack us with actual bombs aren't trying to advance Islam and impose sharia on us. They are pissed off because of things that we've done - people and nations we've killed when it suited our purpose. Americans willfully refuse to listen to what they are screaming about; we'd rather have jihadis and a worldwide conspiracy to blow up with drones rather than rethink our history and our actions. We're a perfect storm of an violent empire that cannot intellectually grasp the fact that it is, in fact, a violent empire, and so we react insanely.
I don't know. It is impossible to change a person's mind, and infinitely more difficult to convince a nation that it is slaughtering innocent people while undergoing a gargantuan hallucination.
A huge number of Americans in the idea that constitutional rights are only for Americans by birth, and are not applicable to furinners. They don't see your point. A foreigner can be kidnapped from any street in the world, including American streets. They can be quietly imprisoned for life, and all communication cut off to the outside world. That was BEFORE 9/11. Now foreigners are considered something on a spectrum between terrorists and feral dogs. Unless they are rich. Rich foreigners can't be terrorists, even if they are.