In America you have free speech, unless you suffer from "secondary" mood disorders. Is that your position?
Let's hope that no one ever decides that you should be forced to undergo a psychiatric assessment and treatment. There are plenty of clearly insane people wandering around the streets. Maybe you should be advocating mandatory treatment for them too.
"who are presumably trying to do their job"
Presumably? Does your boss "presume" that you do your job? No, they know, they watch you, they have files. Now, thanks to this woman, we have files too. Good for her.
If some random woman can find all this information, then the problem is not the woman, or what she did, it is the indisputable fact that this information is available. If she can find this information, then a highly skilled elite hacker/investigator in the employ of the Angels (or any organized crime or terror group) could uncover the same information. The problem is that the cops don't have good security.
Aside from this, you can bet that organized crime already knows all this stuff. The most common method is to buy off or blackmail an employee of the police force who has access to this same information. I can assure you that this is almost certainly the case at most, if not all major to mid-level police departments.
Picking on this woman makes no sense, it will do nothing to protect information that is already available, and it only gives the cop a false sense of security if they think, little Dutch boys that they are, that they have "plugged a leak" and are now secure. Security is the biggest illusion in the world. We never had it, and we never will. What we can have is an open and free society, and these cops are working hard to destroy that.
Human weakness will always overcome ANY security. CBC, here in Canada did a survey which revealed the fact that 40% of their users has written their PW on the bottom of their keyboard.
Ha ha funny! Seriously!
If they are in one of these dang infernal machines you betcha sonny.
I am not against progress, I love tech and toys, but just happen to think these things are silly and impractical.
Now, get off my lawn!
Yeah, flying cars and fusion, just around the corner.
I am 53 and have been reading about some flying car or other my whole life, longer if you count the old Popular Mechanics magazines from the 40's and 50's I found in my grandad's attic.
It's a stupid friggin concept anyway. The worst thing that could ever happen is that someone develops a "practical" flying car. I can barely cross the street now, if I have to add "look up" to my "look left, look right" algorithm I think I'll just stay in my compound.
When are people going to accept the fact that personal internal combustion engines are unsustainable from both an environmental and practical POV? Please note that the "cheap" (no it isn't) gas that we are using now is a product of the recession.
Also a newborn has to be fed, housed, clothed, treated medically, educated, et al. Each of those needs stimulates the economy.
At some point that baby will be an adult tax payer,(chances are). So you are right, a newborn is only a problem if you want to frame it that way.
Most people I know don't know because they don't want to know. You are right, it's not that hard to read up on the basics, then implement a few easy peasy downloads and installs of antivirals and the like.
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo
It's true, moving money around does nothing to create real wealth. Listen to Dr. Thom Hartman on AA radio, he talks about creating wealth versus the idea that you make money from nothing like mortgages given to people for no money down, who had no jobs.
And Dianne Feinstein is trying to throttle the web too, it's all part of a larger effort to 'shut down' the internet as it is the last man standing in terms of free speech, and has proven a potent political force on the left.
For a lot of the reasons already put forward, it seems unlikely that the Indians will be able to deliver a $10 laptop.
They are also smart enough to know that people will go only as far as you push them. Give me two weeks to finish a project and guess what, I will use the time available. That's a big part of why Windows is so bloated. Computers are now HUGE, give a developer gigs of RAM and gigs of storage, well guess what, he'll use it!
I remember the flight simulator I had on my C64. Can you imagine telling a kid today, "We need a spreadsheet app, and it needs to run on 1 meg of RAM". He'd choke, but in the end might actually do it.
Same with India, if they said "we want a $50 laptop", they would wind up with a $75 laptop. $10 is ridiculous, but $25... mebbe not.
The really truly terrifying thing is that you seem to believe this. Tell that to the Muslims who just got kicked off a plane because one of them said, Oh, look, we are next to the jets. Their preferential treatment included missing their flight and several hours in detention.
Thanks for the polite and thoughtful response, although I will of course disagree you on the politics.
In an editorial yesterday, Ha'aretz, a major Israeli newspaper called the most recent actions "war crimes". This characterization is fairly common outside of America, Britain, and Israel. For some reason "we" seem to think it's not torture if we do it, but it is.
I agree that the Israeli bombardment is a response to Hamas rocket attacks, no doubt about it. But a better question is why is Hamas doing the rocket attacks in the first place? The settler movement is one of the major causes. I will ask you to do the same thing. How would you feel if one day you woke up and found a group of heavily armed "settlers" had taken over your farm, essentially depriving you of your means of livelihood.
Would I feel different if Hamas was rocketing my town? Absolutely. I would want to kill them. But that would be wrong. A perfectly valid emotional response, but in the end, counterproductive.
The idea that Israel is attacking Hamas, sans civilians is, I am sorry, ridiculous. Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on Earth. Hamas does not have an army, the fighters live in apartment buildings and houses, they don't have barracks. The civilian deaths are not accidental, they know that for every "legitimate" target killed, many civilians will die, some of them Christians, (yes there are Christian Pals).
They cannot "move", they are trapped there, there is literally no place to go. In the past when the Germans or the Russians or even the Yanks, bombed cities, people could move, but in the case of Gaza they are trapped, they cannot leave, it's impossible. Some tried to get to Egypt but were shot for their efforts.
You are also correct when you say that the Gazans have not been affected by the sanctions any worse than the Iraqis. Well almost correct, the Gazans have not suffered as much as the Iraqis who, as a result of the sanctions, suffered 1 million "extra deaths" due to the lack of medicines, food, etc.
As for the precision of the attacks, this is probably correct. However a 500lb bomb that hits dead centre on an Hamas office building will inevitably kill civilians in the surrounding area, so in that sense the civilian deaths are quite deliberate.
In closing I will say that I am against Hamas rocketing Israel. Completely against it. It's wrong, it's completely ineffective, and it just pisses off the Israelis and gives them good political and faux moral justification for their actions (if you only get your news from FOX).
There are ways to stop the fighting, but it is not up to the Pals. It is up to Israel. They need to make a real and just peace, which will never happen as long as America continues to finance them and provide them with free weapons. The Pals are fighting an occupation, just as anyone would, just as the Iraqis are. End the occupation and you end the war.
You've obviously had the full benefit of the Zionist POV via AIPAC and the infotainment networks, so please have a look at some contrary data here: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/. And if you are still interested in at least understanding your many "enemies" think tune into Al Jazeera, I believe that is still legal in America, although your IP will be logged for future reference by some spy or other.
Good luck! We'll all need it.
Gaza has nothing. It is very small, 140 square miles. For many months the Israelis have been refusing to allow food, fuel, and medicine in. There are very few trees. In the middle east, if its a tree it is probably a date palm or an olive tree, and these cannot be burned for fuel for obvious reasons.
The concentrated sunlight is good idea but it would still require a good design and proper materials in a place where even aluminum is under embargo (because it's used in Qassem rockets).
Not sure what oil you are thinking of, olive oil is used for cooking but not as a heat source.
Of course none of this matters much as now appears that Gaza has been scheduled for demolition, otherwise known as "collective punishment", a war crime under the Geneva conventions, and one that got some Nazis hanged and earned others long prison sentences.
I got your point. You were defeated. The goal of any war is to kill your enemy or deprive them of the will to fight. For a lot of reasons the United States lost it's will to fight. Where you and I part company is that after 3 million dead Vietnamese and 50,000 Americans, that was a good thing. As people have said Vietnam didn't exactly go communist, the POW's got to go home, no Vietnamese has killed an American since May, 75.
Well, at least it's clear now. You don't consider the Pals part of the human race.
And my point about fuel remains, so let's divide 5000 rockets by....
Yeah, that makes sense, they launch what 20 rockets a week, with say, 15lbs of propellant per rocket. So lets see, 300 lbs of rocket fuel divided by 1.2 million people. Yes! Your equation works! You must be a genius.
If you think that Pals, or Jews, Iranians or Yanofuckingmamos think any less of their children than anyone else you need to think again.
And that would be the same Democratic freedom fighter, Sirik Matak who,
"On March 18, 1970, while Norodom Sihanouk was on a trip abroad in Beijing, China, Prince Sirik Matak assisted Prime Minister Lon Nol in organizing a vote of the National Assembly to depose Norodom Sihanouk as head of state. The measure passed easily in parliament and they declared a new government named the Khmer Republic."
Wiki
Thus opening the country (with the help of millions killed by B52 raids) to Pol Pot, who killed a couple of million more.
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In America you have free speech, unless you suffer from "secondary" mood disorders. Is that your position? Let's hope that no one ever decides that you should be forced to undergo a psychiatric assessment and treatment. There are plenty of clearly insane people wandering around the streets. Maybe you should be advocating mandatory treatment for them too.
"who are presumably trying to do their job" Presumably? Does your boss "presume" that you do your job? No, they know, they watch you, they have files. Now, thanks to this woman, we have files too. Good for her.
Cops don't make it into the top ten, they don't even make it into the top 20. You want a dangerous job? Go fish. Literally. Or try logging, or being a cabbie, those are dangerous. Driving around while heavily armed and wearing ballistic vests, with dozens of similarly equipped confreres a radio call away, is hardly "dangerous" -- hundreds of phony, "I love the police, because they keep me safe from legions of zombies", police shows aside. http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/25/dangerous-jobs-fishing-lead-careers-cx_mk_0825danger.html http://money.msn.com/content/invest/extra/P63405.asp http://socyberty.com/work/ten-most-dangerous-jobs-in-america/ About 60 police officers are killed every year in America, and the number is dropping. Astoundingly none of those deaths have been attributed to blogs! http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-30-police-killings_x.htm So please stop telling us how fraking dangerous it is to be a cop.
If some random woman can find all this information, then the problem is not the woman, or what she did, it is the indisputable fact that this information is available. If she can find this information, then a highly skilled elite hacker/investigator in the employ of the Angels (or any organized crime or terror group) could uncover the same information. The problem is that the cops don't have good security. Aside from this, you can bet that organized crime already knows all this stuff. The most common method is to buy off or blackmail an employee of the police force who has access to this same information. I can assure you that this is almost certainly the case at most, if not all major to mid-level police departments. Picking on this woman makes no sense, it will do nothing to protect information that is already available, and it only gives the cop a false sense of security if they think, little Dutch boys that they are, that they have "plugged a leak" and are now secure. Security is the biggest illusion in the world. We never had it, and we never will. What we can have is an open and free society, and these cops are working hard to destroy that.
Human weakness will always overcome ANY security. CBC, here in Canada did a survey which revealed the fact that 40% of their users has written their PW on the bottom of their keyboard.
The key word here is "glider". All your questions will be answered if you visit their site.
Ha ha funny! Seriously! If they are in one of these dang infernal machines you betcha sonny. I am not against progress, I love tech and toys, but just happen to think these things are silly and impractical. Now, get off my lawn!
Edward James Olmos and some origami unicorns.
So let me get this straight, Futurama might return in the future? I see... I think.
Yeah, flying cars and fusion, just around the corner. I am 53 and have been reading about some flying car or other my whole life, longer if you count the old Popular Mechanics magazines from the 40's and 50's I found in my grandad's attic. It's a stupid friggin concept anyway. The worst thing that could ever happen is that someone develops a "practical" flying car. I can barely cross the street now, if I have to add "look up" to my "look left, look right" algorithm I think I'll just stay in my compound. When are people going to accept the fact that personal internal combustion engines are unsustainable from both an environmental and practical POV? Please note that the "cheap" (no it isn't) gas that we are using now is a product of the recession.
Also a newborn has to be fed, housed, clothed, treated medically, educated, et al. Each of those needs stimulates the economy. At some point that baby will be an adult tax payer,(chances are). So you are right, a newborn is only a problem if you want to frame it that way.
Most people I know don't know because they don't want to know. You are right, it's not that hard to read up on the basics, then implement a few easy peasy downloads and installs of antivirals and the like. "We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo
It's true, moving money around does nothing to create real wealth. Listen to Dr. Thom Hartman on AA radio, he talks about creating wealth versus the idea that you make money from nothing like mortgages given to people for no money down, who had no jobs. And Dianne Feinstein is trying to throttle the web too, it's all part of a larger effort to 'shut down' the internet as it is the last man standing in terms of free speech, and has proven a potent political force on the left.
For a lot of the reasons already put forward, it seems unlikely that the Indians will be able to deliver a $10 laptop. They are also smart enough to know that people will go only as far as you push them. Give me two weeks to finish a project and guess what, I will use the time available. That's a big part of why Windows is so bloated. Computers are now HUGE, give a developer gigs of RAM and gigs of storage, well guess what, he'll use it! I remember the flight simulator I had on my C64. Can you imagine telling a kid today, "We need a spreadsheet app, and it needs to run on 1 meg of RAM". He'd choke, but in the end might actually do it. Same with India, if they said "we want a $50 laptop", they would wind up with a $75 laptop. $10 is ridiculous, but $25... mebbe not.
The really truly terrifying thing is that you seem to believe this. Tell that to the Muslims who just got kicked off a plane because one of them said, Oh, look, we are next to the jets. Their preferential treatment included missing their flight and several hours in detention.
Some people hate Jews. Some people just are not very happy with what the state of Israel does. It is not helpful to conflate the two.
Thanks for the polite and thoughtful response, although I will of course disagree you on the politics. In an editorial yesterday, Ha'aretz, a major Israeli newspaper called the most recent actions "war crimes". This characterization is fairly common outside of America, Britain, and Israel. For some reason "we" seem to think it's not torture if we do it, but it is. I agree that the Israeli bombardment is a response to Hamas rocket attacks, no doubt about it. But a better question is why is Hamas doing the rocket attacks in the first place? The settler movement is one of the major causes. I will ask you to do the same thing. How would you feel if one day you woke up and found a group of heavily armed "settlers" had taken over your farm, essentially depriving you of your means of livelihood. Would I feel different if Hamas was rocketing my town? Absolutely. I would want to kill them. But that would be wrong. A perfectly valid emotional response, but in the end, counterproductive. The idea that Israel is attacking Hamas, sans civilians is, I am sorry, ridiculous. Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on Earth. Hamas does not have an army, the fighters live in apartment buildings and houses, they don't have barracks. The civilian deaths are not accidental, they know that for every "legitimate" target killed, many civilians will die, some of them Christians, (yes there are Christian Pals). They cannot "move", they are trapped there, there is literally no place to go. In the past when the Germans or the Russians or even the Yanks, bombed cities, people could move, but in the case of Gaza they are trapped, they cannot leave, it's impossible. Some tried to get to Egypt but were shot for their efforts. You are also correct when you say that the Gazans have not been affected by the sanctions any worse than the Iraqis. Well almost correct, the Gazans have not suffered as much as the Iraqis who, as a result of the sanctions, suffered 1 million "extra deaths" due to the lack of medicines, food, etc. As for the precision of the attacks, this is probably correct. However a 500lb bomb that hits dead centre on an Hamas office building will inevitably kill civilians in the surrounding area, so in that sense the civilian deaths are quite deliberate. In closing I will say that I am against Hamas rocketing Israel. Completely against it. It's wrong, it's completely ineffective, and it just pisses off the Israelis and gives them good political and faux moral justification for their actions (if you only get your news from FOX). There are ways to stop the fighting, but it is not up to the Pals. It is up to Israel. They need to make a real and just peace, which will never happen as long as America continues to finance them and provide them with free weapons. The Pals are fighting an occupation, just as anyone would, just as the Iraqis are. End the occupation and you end the war. You've obviously had the full benefit of the Zionist POV via AIPAC and the infotainment networks, so please have a look at some contrary data here: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/. And if you are still interested in at least understanding your many "enemies" think tune into Al Jazeera, I believe that is still legal in America, although your IP will be logged for future reference by some spy or other. Good luck! We'll all need it.
Gaza has nothing. It is very small, 140 square miles. For many months the Israelis have been refusing to allow food, fuel, and medicine in. There are very few trees. In the middle east, if its a tree it is probably a date palm or an olive tree, and these cannot be burned for fuel for obvious reasons. The concentrated sunlight is good idea but it would still require a good design and proper materials in a place where even aluminum is under embargo (because it's used in Qassem rockets). Not sure what oil you are thinking of, olive oil is used for cooking but not as a heat source. Of course none of this matters much as now appears that Gaza has been scheduled for demolition, otherwise known as "collective punishment", a war crime under the Geneva conventions, and one that got some Nazis hanged and earned others long prison sentences.
Now there is the best and most constructive idea yet! A good solar powered cooker would go a long way to helping these people.
I got your point. You were defeated. The goal of any war is to kill your enemy or deprive them of the will to fight. For a lot of reasons the United States lost it's will to fight. Where you and I part company is that after 3 million dead Vietnamese and 50,000 Americans, that was a good thing. As people have said Vietnam didn't exactly go communist, the POW's got to go home, no Vietnamese has killed an American since May, 75.
Well, at least it's clear now. You don't consider the Pals part of the human race. And my point about fuel remains, so let's divide 5000 rockets by....
Yeah, that makes sense, they launch what 20 rockets a week, with say, 15lbs of propellant per rocket. So lets see, 300 lbs of rocket fuel divided by 1.2 million people. Yes! Your equation works! You must be a genius. If you think that Pals, or Jews, Iranians or Yanofuckingmamos think any less of their children than anyone else you need to think again.
Wouldn't they need fuel to burn the limestone? And wouldn't that energy exceed the amount of energy provided by burning the Ca0?
And that would be the same Democratic freedom fighter, Sirik Matak who, "On March 18, 1970, while Norodom Sihanouk was on a trip abroad in Beijing, China, Prince Sirik Matak assisted Prime Minister Lon Nol in organizing a vote of the National Assembly to depose Norodom Sihanouk as head of state. The measure passed easily in parliament and they declared a new government named the Khmer Republic." Wiki Thus opening the country (with the help of millions killed by B52 raids) to Pol Pot, who killed a couple of million more.
Yes, if only we had killed more Vietnamese, things would have been better. Nothing like wasting your vote on Sarah Palin.