You seem to misunderstand the point of modern elections. They are not in place so that the people can choose their representatives. They are there to suppress revolt by displacing the responsibility of bad government into the people.
Actually counting the votes is a pointless expense. The system works just as well by flipping a coin.
Azerbaijan are ahead of their time in more ways than the obvious one.
It depends on how you look at it. Maybe the "two parties controlled by an oligarchy" is the final step of democracy right before it turns into something better.
Maybe Azerbaijan are far from that next system, still playing with rigged elections, instead of making them pointless like the more civilized countries.
3... 2... 1. GO! Write posts explaining how people buying things like herion and cocaine on the black market is okay.
hmmm!...hmm!... People should be the owners of their own lives and taking responsibility away from people and treating them as stupid children turns them into stupid children!
It's more like: "Go to the bathroom. Take a bucket of water. Lie down face up. Cover your face with a wet towel. Slowly pour the water over your mouth and nostrils until you're convinced you're dying. Keep pouring for about half a minute after that. Stop, refill your glass and repeat ten to twenty times."
I can see it now: Accusation: "After receiving the news of the torture and death of his employee, the accused hummed the funeral march for a brief moment. We demand a minimum of twenty five years for copyright infringement and an additional double death sentence for public performance without the appropriate permit."
Practically everything they do either directly impacts user data or has the potential to do so, so of course they are concerned about user privacy issues.
I see you did make an effort by specifying that London is in the UK and Paris in France, but I think it will still be a confusing post for Americans.
You could have tried with: - Paris (Not USA) -> London (also not USA) -> Paris (Still not USA) -> London (Nope) -> Paris (You guessed it.) -> Lyon (Don't even try to guess) -> Geneva (Narnia).
IMHO at this point we have to assume the hardware is compromised at some level. Not necessarily a backdoor but the hardware random number generator might not be that random.
We also have to assume that the power sockets are compromised. All computers that are, or have been at any point, attached to any source of power not directly coming from the sun must be considered infected, and shot in the brain.
Programming on itself isn't so useful, but learning to divide and organize a complex idea into it's base elements is one of the biggest flaws of the existing curricula. Almost no effort is done in that direction before kids reach college ages and not even for all kinds of degrees, at that point.
They don't want their customers to have free wifi. They want their customers to have free wifi and everybody else passing every day by a 500kg reminder of them not being with the correct operator.
If you ignore the kickstarter and only buy the game once it's made, EA's death marches gives you shitty games every time, while the polar opposite gives you failed projects (which you just ignore) and great games (which you can then buy).
What I don't like about Kickstarter is the long time before I start wanting something and I get it.
I like it to exist. It allows many projects that would otherwise be abandoned. I just don't want to know about them until they are ready to ship the product.
Knowing about the amazing toys I may have in a year's time makes me appreciate less those I've got right now.
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That might be true.
Maybe in previous administrations the same people that are now prosecuted were killed and erased from history by CIA black ops.
I demand restitution! My BS-o-meter has exploded as it scanned over "accidentally".
The BS density was so high that the main sensor melted and is now a tiny puddle in my desk.
Problems? What problems?
You seem to misunderstand the point of modern elections. They are not in place so that the people can choose their representatives. They are there to suppress revolt by displacing the responsibility of bad government into the people.
Actually counting the votes is a pointless expense. The system works just as well by flipping a coin.
Azerbaijan are ahead of their time in more ways than the obvious one.
Further proof that we need the mod option "Prophetic".
As I've been repeating since at least 2014.
It depends on how you look at it. Maybe the "two parties controlled by an oligarchy" is the final step of democracy right before it turns into something better.
Maybe Azerbaijan are far from that next system, still playing with rigged elections, instead of making them pointless like the more civilized countries.
3... 2... 1. GO! Write posts explaining how people buying things like herion and cocaine on the black market is okay.
hmmm! ...hmm! ... People should be the owners of their own lives and taking responsibility away from people and treating them as stupid children turns them into stupid children!
Right? ... Right? ...What did I win?
We do not talk about those people.
The computer is your friend. Trust the computer.
It's more like: "Go to the bathroom. Take a bucket of water. Lie down face up. Cover your face with a wet towel. Slowly pour the water over your mouth and nostrils until you're convinced you're dying. Keep pouring for about half a minute after that. Stop, refill your glass and repeat ten to twenty times."
Actually, they first came for the terrorists, then for political dissidents and rebels, and only then, the jellyfish.
Amoebas should start worrying.
Yes, we are very interested in the forum you decide to use to discuss each and every angle on every piece of news you encounter on the internet.
Feel free to present all that useful information in spreadsheet form.
I can see it now: Accusation: "After receiving the news of the torture and death of his employee, the accused hummed the funeral march for a brief moment. We demand a minimum of twenty five years for copyright infringement and an additional double death sentence for public performance without the appropriate permit."
Experts-exchange was bad enough.
Well. If you want a sex change, I don't see what's wrong with demanding an expert.
The answer to this obvious question will frame every other question. It should have been included in the main post.
Open source compilers... that compile themselves.
It's compilers all the way down.
Practically everything they do either directly impacts user data or has the potential to do so, so of course they are concerned about user privacy issues.
Facebook?
I see you did make an effort by specifying that London is in the UK and Paris in France, but I think it will still be a confusing post for Americans.
You could have tried with:
- Paris (Not USA) -> London (also not USA) -> Paris (Still not USA) -> London (Nope) -> Paris (You guessed it.) -> Lyon (Don't even try to guess) -> Geneva (Narnia).
Cruise missiles go a long way in expressing customer dissatisfaction, I guess.
"ICBM. We go the extra mile so you can reach out to your customers."
IMHO at this point we have to assume the hardware is compromised at some level. Not necessarily a backdoor but the hardware random number generator might not be that random.
We also have to assume that the power sockets are compromised. All computers that are, or have been at any point, attached to any source of power not directly coming from the sun must be considered infected, and shot in the brain.
" ZeroAccess was using $561,000 of electricity a day on infected PCs, to generate about $2000 worth of Bitcoin/"
Just as with government spending, the important the RoI must take into account the origin of each money input.
i.e.: The $2,000 must not be compared to the $561,000, but to the cost of developing/acquiring the botnet.
Programming on itself isn't so useful, but learning to divide and organize a complex idea into it's base elements is one of the biggest flaws of the existing curricula. Almost no effort is done in that direction before kids reach college ages and not even for all kinds of degrees, at that point.
They don't want their customers to have free wifi. They want their customers to have free wifi and everybody else passing every day by a 500kg reminder of them not being with the correct operator.
My manic/depressive system works on a weekly cycle. Except when I'm on holidays.
If they believed in their project so much they would use their own money to back it, but they don't.
With the tiny big difference that if they invest their fortune, once the project is finished they have to sell the product.
Kickstarter "only" guarantees buyers. It doesn't matter how amazingly rich you are, knowing that you've got buyers is always good.
For example, Microsoft could have kickstarted their surface 2 to check if there's still enough... clients.
IT depends on your point of view.
If you ignore the kickstarter and only buy the game once it's made, EA's death marches gives you shitty games every time, while the polar opposite gives you failed projects (which you just ignore) and great games (which you can then buy).
What I don't like about Kickstarter is the long time before I start wanting something and I get it.
I like it to exist. It allows many projects that would otherwise be abandoned. I just don't want to know about them until they are ready to ship the product.
Knowing about the amazing toys I may have in a year's time makes me appreciate less those I've got right now.