Posit that you have a child who gets piss poor grades but is an excellent dancer. Is something wrong with this child, or are they simply gifted in a different way than most?
You have a higher chance of finding minerals in naturally generated caves than if you just started digging out a massive quarry somewhere. Look for large natural cave systems and explore them; you'll find minerals way faster.
Even in modern movies I still catch a fair few - places where the rotoscoping fucked up, or the lighting/color between, say, a foreground character and the background are just a hair off - but I'm quite confident that I miss a lot of it.
If oil became truly economically infeasible we'd have solutions rolled out relatively quickly. There's no rush to go green because oil's cheap. Double or triple the price (either via regulation, price collusion on the part of oil exporters, or lack of supply) and things will change very quickly. Necessity is the mother of invention.
If I needed almost $400,000 for bail I wouldn't give a shit if it came from a South American dictator. The sooner my ass gets out of whatever shithole, overcrowded prison I'm crammed in, the better.
I'm sure they get a fair few less regardless, but yes that was what I had intended to get across. Refer to my timestamp for a reference towards my frame of mind.:)
Then I'll summarize and I might get hit with a FLamebait for this, but if people have their basic needs met and are generally happy they won't resort to extremist shit like blowing themselves up in the first place.
Okay, so there's the odd dude who's moderately well off who wants to take out some infidels, but if you are positing in any way that that makes up the majority of people who actually carry out terrorist attacks (planning != carrying out), then I call bullshit.
Increase education, human rights, and quality of life in those countries and religion - as well as all of the strife, human rights issues, and general pain-in-the-ass retarded ideas (my opinion, YMMV) that come with it - will disappear on its own over time.
How many terrorist attacks of any sort have taken place in Sweden or The Netherlands?
If the people have not only their basic needs met but also have things like a good social safety net they will be far harder to sway to extremist causes that try to change our way of life. (Nationalistic causes, of course, are different and excluded from this.) How many middle class persons of any country - people two or three times above that country's poverty line - have parked an explosives-laden truck next to a building and blown it up? (Note: people who have money like, say, Bin Laden don't count - I don't imagine we'd ever see them do an attack themselves any more than we'd expect the modern leader of a nation to charge into battle at the front of the lines.)
Yes, but there are things that younger generations feel differently about - homosexual marriage and recreational drug use, for instance. I can't remember anyone in my high school being against these things other than being opposed to them personally (i.e. "I'll never use drugs, but I don't care if someone else does") or religious reasons ("drugs are bad, gays will burn in hell, yadda yadda").
By the time my generation starts voting more heavily (as they age), most of the people who oppose the things they have nothing against will be dead. It's slow but that's how progress seems to work (at least in the U.S.) from my experience.
He was writing a sarcastic post that was ever so slightly derogatory about Apple. His iPhone's Brand Image Integrity Sensor (R) (C) (TM) picked this up and dispatched a team of commandos driving black Priuses and wearing black turtleneck combat vests.
Good thing I don't have any Apple products in my home! The bastards can't get to disregard my previous statements. All is well. Hail Apple and Greatfather Jobs, for he brings glory to all of our iProducts.
I can barely justify the expense of having a cellphone -- and the only reason that makes the cut is because I have to be available 24/7 in case our servers go down. If that requirement went away, I'd just junk my cellphone with a smile.
Shouldn't your company be paying for that? I've found that the handful of IT guys I know get a phone from their company (many of whom keep a separate, private cell phone). The one or two that don't have companies decent enough that they pay part or all of their bill.
How do you tell what is legitimately an "Anonymous" product and what is not?
It's not like they have an official PSYOPS division whose job it is to make these things. For all you know, it could have been created by an Anon to be deliberately poor in quality.
That aside, that's the real beauty and real danger of the group. They're only motivated by what seems to amuse them, but occasionally they've been shown to mobilize towards something they perceive as an injustice - put a video of yourself abusing a cat online and see how long you last before they Sherlock Holmes the high hell out of you and find out where you live.
They're highly unpredictable, highly random, and hugely difficult to take down as a collective because there isn't a collective per se. It's more like an open forum - someone proposes an idea, and if it's good enough to tickle the fancy of most people who follow the right information sources then it will expand and grow into something both beautiful and horrifying at the same time.
I recall another poster on Slashdot in another legal-related article stating that lawyers are taught to file every motion they conceivably can - no matter how ridiculous - just in case it flies. There's no real penalty to filing a motion that barely has a chance of going through.
Hell, with that kind of IT heroics, who's to say he didn't? He might just be doing the gentlemanly thing and not talking about it.
I mean, really, "I saved her thesis from being lost forever and then banged her brains out with her leaning against a blade server" is a tad bit uncouth, wouldn't you say?
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Posit that you have a child who gets piss poor grades but is an excellent dancer. Is something wrong with this child, or are they simply gifted in a different way than most?
Every man, woman, and child in the entire world has a built in check against their government.
It's called their conscience.
You have a higher chance of finding minerals in naturally generated caves than if you just started digging out a massive quarry somewhere. Look for large natural cave systems and explore them; you'll find minerals way faster.
This sounds like a revolutionary idea! Every office should have some sort of room where a large group of their employees could meet to work together!
Now what to call it, what to call it...
I paid $599 and said I was a Mac User, because that's what they'll pay for any piece of garbage.
masmullin, is this you?
Even in modern movies I still catch a fair few - places where the rotoscoping fucked up, or the lighting/color between, say, a foreground character and the background are just a hair off - but I'm quite confident that I miss a lot of it.
If oil became truly economically infeasible we'd have solutions rolled out relatively quickly. There's no rush to go green because oil's cheap. Double or triple the price (either via regulation, price collusion on the part of oil exporters, or lack of supply) and things will change very quickly. Necessity is the mother of invention.
If I needed almost $400,000 for bail I wouldn't give a shit if it came from a South American dictator. The sooner my ass gets out of whatever shithole, overcrowded prison I'm crammed in, the better.
Now Typing of the Dead, THAT is hardcore.
Q!
Z!
FRF!
BANANAS!
Damn man, that post is so Flamebait that it could heat my house for a week.
I'm sure they get a fair few less regardless, but yes that was what I had intended to get across. Refer to my timestamp for a reference towards my frame of mind. :)
Then I'll summarize and I might get hit with a FLamebait for this, but if people have their basic needs met and are generally happy they won't resort to extremist shit like blowing themselves up in the first place.
Okay, so there's the odd dude who's moderately well off who wants to take out some infidels, but if you are positing in any way that that makes up the majority of people who actually carry out terrorist attacks (planning != carrying out), then I call bullshit.
Detroit, once a bustling city of 1.85 million people in 1950, is now under half of that, with nearly 35,000 empty homes.
Well, at least Detroit is exporting something again...
1) Duplicate existing, popular app with features for the visually and hearing-impaired
2) Profit
Increase education, human rights, and quality of life in those countries and religion - as well as all of the strife, human rights issues, and general pain-in-the-ass retarded ideas (my opinion, YMMV) that come with it - will disappear on its own over time.
How many terrorist attacks of any sort have taken place in Sweden or The Netherlands?
If the people have not only their basic needs met but also have things like a good social safety net they will be far harder to sway to extremist causes that try to change our way of life. (Nationalistic causes, of course, are different and excluded from this.) How many middle class persons of any country - people two or three times above that country's poverty line - have parked an explosives-laden truck next to a building and blown it up? (Note: people who have money like, say, Bin Laden don't count - I don't imagine we'd ever see them do an attack themselves any more than we'd expect the modern leader of a nation to charge into battle at the front of the lines.)
Yes, but there are things that younger generations feel differently about - homosexual marriage and recreational drug use, for instance. I can't remember anyone in my high school being against these things other than being opposed to them personally (i.e. "I'll never use drugs, but I don't care if someone else does") or religious reasons ("drugs are bad, gays will burn in hell, yadda yadda").
By the time my generation starts voting more heavily (as they age), most of the people who oppose the things they have nothing against will be dead. It's slow but that's how progress seems to work (at least in the U.S.) from my experience.
He was writing a sarcastic post that was ever so slightly derogatory about Apple. His iPhone's Brand Image Integrity Sensor (R) (C) (TM) picked this up and dispatched a team of commandos driving black Priuses and wearing black turtleneck combat vests.
Good thing I don't have any Apple products in my home! The bastards can't get to disregard my previous statements. All is well. Hail Apple and Greatfather Jobs, for he brings glory to all of our iProducts.
I can barely justify the expense of having a cellphone -- and the only reason that makes the cut is because I have to be available 24/7 in case our servers go down. If that requirement went away, I'd just junk my cellphone with a smile.
Shouldn't your company be paying for that? I've found that the handful of IT guys I know get a phone from their company (many of whom keep a separate, private cell phone). The one or two that don't have companies decent enough that they pay part or all of their bill.
How do you tell what is legitimately an "Anonymous" product and what is not?
It's not like they have an official PSYOPS division whose job it is to make these things. For all you know, it could have been created by an Anon to be deliberately poor in quality.
That aside, that's the real beauty and real danger of the group. They're only motivated by what seems to amuse them, but occasionally they've been shown to mobilize towards something they perceive as an injustice - put a video of yourself abusing a cat online and see how long you last before they Sherlock Holmes the high hell out of you and find out where you live.
They're highly unpredictable, highly random, and hugely difficult to take down as a collective because there isn't a collective per se. It's more like an open forum - someone proposes an idea, and if it's good enough to tickle the fancy of most people who follow the right information sources then it will expand and grow into something both beautiful and horrifying at the same time.
Pfft, meteorologists are the mouthpieces of the CONSPIRACY!
I recall another poster on Slashdot in another legal-related article stating that lawyers are taught to file every motion they conceivably can - no matter how ridiculous - just in case it flies. There's no real penalty to filing a motion that barely has a chance of going through.
Speaking from experience, IT is one of those jobs where nobody notices or cares about you until something goes wrong.
Hell, with that kind of IT heroics, who's to say he didn't? He might just be doing the gentlemanly thing and not talking about it.
I mean, really, "I saved her thesis from being lost forever and then banged her brains out with her leaning against a blade server" is a tad bit uncouth, wouldn't you say?
Only the public websites of Visa, Mastercard, et al. are being hit. The actual functionality of their payment system has been untouched.
It's a slap in the face without disrupting their actual business.