Use your own brains -- the NSA doesn't know who its interested in in advance, so they collect as much information as possible to use in later analysis once they find out who might be connected to a person of interest.
Close, but no cookie.
The NSA doesn't know who will they have to investigate by order of someone in power. So they collect as much information as possible on everyone and then think of a way to justify that collection on a case by case basis.
Q: "Why did you investigate Bob?" NSA: "Three hops." Q: "And Jim?" NSA: "Flying lessons." Q: "And Mary?" NSA: "Used the same train as Bob twice." Q: "And Rob?" NSA: "Hmmm... Tough one... Hmmm... Got it! His son said 'I kill you' once in a Counter Strike game! Clearly referencing a known Muslim public figure!" Q: "And we have a winner! Four of four! Mr NSA wins the national 'bullshit excuse' championship! Ten years in a row!"
The most obvious answer is always the one (almost) never thought of or mentioned: stop polluting the planet.
- Develop cold fusion. - Replace polluting energy sources by unlimited fusion energy. - Use unlimited energy to reverse the polluting mechanisms (carbon scrubbing).
Some times I wonder how bad is the player that's managing Humans in the intergalactic strategy game. Somewhere there's a civilization that made a fusion rush and are now conquering their galaxy.
I still don't see what the problem is. Spotify (et al) have done their math and decided that's what they will pay. If an author doesn't like it, nobody is forcing him to sell his songs to Spotify.
Making songs today doesn't pay as much as they expected? Well, that's so bad, they can surely find another job and leave music to people who do it because they love it.
If a miracle killed every single person involved in the music industry and all existing music records, I'm pretty sure we'd be hearing music again before 24h had passed.
The job I can tolerate to pay the bills takes most of my day and leaves me mentally too tired to focus on anything related to it.
I would cut my salary in half to work half hours if I could. However, even smaller differences, like cutting 1/8th for one more free hour, as recent parents do, would cut my progression in the corporation by turning me into "those people who aren't compromised with the enterprise".
Dichotomy is already a compromise, and having to sacrifice one's career for it is too expensive.
I prefer the option of amassing money until I can sell everything and go live in some beach in Thailand for the rest of my life.
I cannot conceive of a circumstance where I would be intimidated by nuclear missile production plants, while in the absence of belligerent people. The presence of belligerent people on the other hand, may intimidate me without the presence of nuclear missile production plants. It's clear to me that nuclear missile production plants are not what make the world dangerous.
- Record all their actions on a self overwriting one hour long file. - Give them a "one button" way of reporting a bug. The button saves the user and the time, then waits for five minutes and then sends you the recorded actions file.
It's simple to develop and gives you a lot of information. It might be illegal in some countries.
You can't use that to recognize the feds. All hackers wear black. And sunglasses the whole day long.
However, feds burn. And why do feds burn?... Because they're made of wood. How to know if one's made of wood?... Because it floats. And what also floats?... A duck! So, if the guy weights like a duck, he's a fed!
In standard (boring) writing, you have a topic sentence, followed by supporting sentences. Then you start a new paragraph for a new topic.
Also, the aforementioned sentences are constructed with words, which start with a letter, followed, or not, by some more. Then you end that word with a space so you can start with the next word.
The exception is that after the last word in the sentence, instead of a space, there's a period.
Marriages shouldn't have any government benefit. Government benefits should only be awarded for behaviors that benefit society as a whole. All marriages (same sex or not) are completely useless to society.
Society disagrees. Not religious society, mind you, society in general.
Couples are economically better than single parents. Trios would be even better, but our own psychology limits us somewhat from having stable three person interdependent relationships.
Read Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. He doesn't express racist remarks, directly but he does express bigotted remarks regarding the superiority of the French people.
Yes, believe it or not, those who have different points of view deserve tolerance, regardless of whether you agree with them or not.
It's not a question of belief. What you say is a philosophy I, for example, might not follow.
My point of view is that tolerance is not binary. The acceptance of the beliefs, opinions or practices of others is to be given based on a number of criteria. For me, bigotry isn't not to accept the beliefs of others, is to have personal opinion as the overwhelming criterion.
I have no problem with the disqualification of beliefs based on their scientific inaccuracy or on their discrimination of human beings.
However, I fully agree with you on the idea that whether you agree or not with a point of view can never be accepted as a reason not to tolerate it.
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That would be grounds for making vaccination mandatory, not its refusal punishable.
Otherwise you're punishing ex post facto.
There is something to see here, darwinism. And its might is as magnificent as that of a river.
Use your own brains -- the NSA doesn't know who its interested in in advance, so they collect as much information as possible to use in later analysis once they find out who might be connected to a person of interest.
Close, but no cookie.
The NSA doesn't know who will they have to investigate by order of someone in power. So they collect as much information as possible on everyone and then think of a way to justify that collection on a case by case basis.
Q: "Why did you investigate Bob?"
NSA: "Three hops."
Q: "And Jim?"
NSA: "Flying lessons."
Q: "And Mary?"
NSA: "Used the same train as Bob twice."
Q: "And Rob?"
NSA: "Hmmm... Tough one... Hmmm... Got it! His son said 'I kill you' once in a Counter Strike game! Clearly referencing a known Muslim public figure!"
Q: "And we have a winner! Four of four! Mr NSA wins the national 'bullshit excuse' championship! Ten years in a row!"
The most obvious answer is always the one (almost) never thought of or mentioned: stop polluting the planet.
- Develop cold fusion.
- Replace polluting energy sources by unlimited fusion energy.
- Use unlimited energy to reverse the polluting mechanisms (carbon scrubbing).
Some times I wonder how bad is the player that's managing Humans in the intergalactic strategy game. Somewhere there's a civilization that made a fusion rush and are now conquering their galaxy.
Maybe we're the AI set to Dumb.
I still don't see what the problem is. Spotify (et al) have done their math and decided that's what they will pay. If an author doesn't like it, nobody is forcing him to sell his songs to Spotify.
Making songs today doesn't pay as much as they expected? Well, that's so bad, they can surely find another job and leave music to people who do it because they love it.
If a miracle killed every single person involved in the music industry and all existing music records, I'm pretty sure we'd be hearing music again before 24h had passed.
The job I can tolerate to pay the bills takes most of my day and leaves me mentally too tired to focus on anything related to it.
I would cut my salary in half to work half hours if I could. However, even smaller differences, like cutting 1/8th for one more free hour, as recent parents do, would cut my progression in the corporation by turning me into "those people who aren't compromised with the enterprise".
Dichotomy is already a compromise, and having to sacrifice one's career for it is too expensive.
I prefer the option of amassing money until I can sell everything and go live in some beach in Thailand for the rest of my life.
Because he's being compared to less form professors (there have to be professors who are former than him, or he would be the formest).
Why yes I did love The Witcher, why do you ask?
I cannot conceive of a circumstance where I would be intimidated by nuclear missile production plants, while in the absence of belligerent people. The presence of belligerent people on the other hand, may intimidate me without the presence of nuclear missile production plants. It's clear to me that nuclear missile production plants are not what make the world dangerous.
*needle.
Pointless qualification. There are no women on the Internet.
We must be using different internets.
The one we have here is full of women. Most of them asking for money, probably to buy some clothes.
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Let me present you this new technology. It's called "The Internet". You can use it to look for answers to all your questions*.
*: For a fully immersive experience, all your questions should start with "nude pics of "
- Record all their actions on a self overwriting one hour long file.
- Give them a "one button" way of reporting a bug. The button saves the user and the time, then waits for five minutes and then sends you the recorded actions file.
It's simple to develop and gives you a lot of information. It might be illegal in some countries.
See the dot under the little hook that ends the sentence? What do you think it is? ... ... ...
No, it's not a period, it's a tiny 'o' under a 'q'. But I'm sure I could have convinced you otherwise.
The Feds who show up and identify themselves as Feds aren't the Feds you need to worry about anyway.
While saying that those weren't the feds we need to worry about... Did you wave a hand?
You can't use that to recognize the feds. All hackers wear black. And sunglasses the whole day long.
However, feds burn. And why do feds burn? ... Because they're made of wood. ... Because it floats. ... A duck!
How to know if one's made of wood?
And what also floats?
So, if the guy weights like a duck, he's a fed!
The concept of a post-apocalypse tribal society restoring mankinds' knowledge with femtocell lasers is hilarious.
Femtocell Sharks.
In standard (boring) writing, you have a topic sentence, followed by supporting sentences. Then you start a new paragraph for a new topic.
Also, the aforementioned sentences are constructed with words, which start with a letter, followed, or not, by some more. Then you end that word with a space so you can start with the next word.
The exception is that after the last word in the sentence, instead of a space, there's a period.
Marriages shouldn't have any government benefit. Government benefits should only be awarded for behaviors that benefit society as a whole. All marriages (same sex or not) are completely useless to society.
Society disagrees. Not religious society, mind you, society in general.
Couples are economically better than single parents. Trios would be even better, but our own psychology limits us somewhat from having stable three person interdependent relationships.
Read Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. He doesn't express racist remarks, directly but he does express bigotted remarks regarding the superiority of the French people.
He was being clearly sarcastic.
You just don't get comedy.
Better yet, download it from the Internet!
Each time you do that he loses a book's worth. Do it enough times, fast enough, and you might just bankrupt him before he dies.
Yes, believe it or not, those who have different points of view deserve tolerance, regardless of whether you agree with them or not.
It's not a question of belief. What you say is a philosophy I, for example, might not follow.
My point of view is that tolerance is not binary. The acceptance of the beliefs, opinions or practices of others is to be given based on a number of criteria. For me, bigotry isn't not to accept the beliefs of others, is to have personal opinion as the overwhelming criterion.
I have no problem with the disqualification of beliefs based on their scientific inaccuracy or on their discrimination of human beings.
However, I fully agree with you on the idea that whether you agree or not with a point of view can never be accepted as a reason not to tolerate it.
Marriage is not a "human right"...
Being equal under the law, on the other hand...
its a christian ceremony. Between a man and a woman.
Maybe you should rethink that statement. Marriage predates recorded history. Unlike Christ.
I mean... Mary and Joseph... Were quite married, you know?
Are you proposing the name IBig.ULittle?
"those suspected of copyright could be fined"
Suspected could be fined?
I guess it's time to overthrow this government and hang them.
Those suspected of sedition will be fined.
If your friend's sister has been fired for seven months and is now making 77$/hour; how many days will your sister need to reach the top of the well?
(Assume a spherical and frictionless sister.)