Nothing of value was lost and no one gives a crap.
Right. Not yet, but it will be. And just because there are few published reports or incidents of the "West" retaliating doesn't mean there isn't massive preparation underway. If there isn't, it's due to incompetence. Waiting to show your hand is just a smart play in the game.
Or am I just paranoid and the "rival"/"co-dependent" governments are just looking for a way to stay friendly and exchange daisies?
Honestly, you Repubs should be very afraid. If someone finally motivates the Poor and Minorities to get out and vote, all of your GOP candidates in every election will lose in a landslide as the poor outnumber you 100 to1.
I agree with most of your sentiment, but this is a little ridiculous. If the poor outnumber the rich 100-to-1, that makes them 99%+ of the population. In that case, unless you're defining the entire nation as impoverished (which would be really shallow considering third world conditions), they're not poor, they're average. The remaining 1% would just be richer than average.
Unless of course I misinterpreted and you're suggesting that 99%+ of the population constitutes a minority rather than the "poor"...
Damn, brain's working slow. When I said triangular, I meant round. Really. It was just a really long series of typos where my fingers hit the wrong keys and made it look like I said triangular.
Just to fuck everyone up they should align the doors with compass directions.
I'm not an architect but, based on the limited amount of civil engineering I've done, if I'm not housing apartments or offices, I'm not worried about city-block-style traffic, and I want something that's ridiculously tall and sturdy, it'll be triangular. Maybe we can just make it point north.
Kind of like asking, if my natural gas furnace burns a 2500 degree blue flame, how can I use it to keep my house at 72 degrees in the winter?
I think it's more like asking, "If these plants typically grow in 65-100 degree weather, why are we putting them in a greenhouse instead of outside where it's typically 65-100 degrees?" Plants in that region don't need more heat - They have plenty. They need water and trucking water in to a place that's beyond their typical thermal comfort zone is a little ridiculous. If you want to water plants, great, but why bake them at the same time???
I think this is the difference between buying and renting. If you can't pick it up, it seems like you can't "buy" much any more... Pirate? Yes. Buy? No.
This is in no way analogous to smoking pot. This is more like finding somebody who sells pot via mail-order and sharing the phone number with people who live where it's illegal and telling them where to find it. I'm not saying that it's worth trying/extraditing over, just try to be fair when making an analogy - Otherwise the rest of your argument will fall flat.
To be fair, the Swiss arrested Polanski at the US's request and then released him refusing extradition. The French (where he's been living) haven't even gone through the trouble of arresting him and leave him be. So if you want to use Polanski as an example of giving the US the middle finger, I'd say the French are ahead of the Swiss.
On a side note, I'm not a huge fan of the French just based on the handful I've known, but some of their laws, national policies, and public "interest" toward the government are pretty respectable.
If it's being routed through a proxy, they don't even have to identify the warning. They just have to glean the results, adjust them to their liking, and recreate a reasonably google-like results page. I'm surprised the warnings ever got through in the first place.
Yes, but should you take advantage of the Bistromathics principles and come up with an innovative napkin improvement technology, what are you going to write your idea down on? A notebook? Pshaw! Notebooks have no place in the world of Bistromathics. Napkins now, Bistro Math later.
Take $10,000,000 + "we think X causes cancer" and you will get, surprise surprise, "proof" that X causes cancer.
And "alt-med" is different? If you take $10,000,000 + "we think X cures cancer" and you will get, surprise surprise, "proof" that X cures cancer. Then all of the sudden we're all strapping magnets to our heads and yelling into our cell phones at a minimum 18" distance to avoid tumors because of the latest "study". The reason "Big Pharma" is so successful (aside from very favorable patent law) is that their research shows tangible, measurable results. "Alt-med," even after thousands of years of research and practice, simply makes the true-believers feel good while doing little to actually treat the ailments or showing any benefit for skeptics who undergo the same treatment.
On the other hand, things like "I wonder how X works" gets funded because it fills in gaps that we simply don't even begin to understand and similar "fill in the gap" research is largely responsible for the tech that we have now but lacked only a couple of hundred years ago.
Ok, ok. I confess - I'm part of Anonymous and I'm willing to cut a deal. I'll roll over on everyone. You know those pseudonyms in the IRC channel you've been monitoring and caught me in? That's the rest of them... *sob*
I think going tin foil and yelling "Black Flag!" is going overboard, but you can bet that the feds had (have) members at core levels. Probably a mix of traditional undercover and turn-coats taken in unannounced arrests. I'm sure the same can be said about most widespread underground groups that give the feds the heebie-jeebies. And, frankly, I don't really have a problem with that.
Have to nit-pick a nerd foul. Chewy never lived on Endor, he just visited for a little bit to get some chores done. Not positive about any ground-based home for Chewy, but his family lives on Kashyyyk.
I've yet to see any savings. First I covered my flat roof with solar panels, then to go super-green I took the extra step of painting them all white. The house not only isn't cooler, but the energy efficiency of those panels is abysmal!
That is blatantly unfair and derogatory. Suggesting that the parties discriminate between which set of corporations they work for is ridiculous. All dollars are created equal.
That's the law in most places, but it's very rarely enforced and you seem to be one of few that even knows that's the case. With Amazon it can be enforced. I love using Amazon and would love to continue paying no tax there, but I agree that it seems to be violating several states' laws. Whether those state laws are constitutional is still open for debate though...
When Amazon ships something to you by UPS, and it gets stolen, Amazon doesn't call the police to report a theft. They call UPS and UPS handles it, because the package was in their care.
And when their warehouse catches fire, Amazon doesn't call the fire department, they send their own employees out with buckets to put it out. And when their warehouse is vandalized or robbed, they don't report it to the police, they send out their security team and private investigators to track down the culprits. And when a drunk driver rams their semi, they lock him up the they Amazon Brig (TM).
Yeah, the Iranians would love that. "We don't know who it was, but we suspect either an American or Israeli group. Please send us some Americans and Israelis to punish." What could go wrong?
Or, suppose it's proved that it was a government effort. "Please send us the staff of the CIA."
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Nothing of value was lost and no one gives a crap.
Right. Not yet, but it will be. And just because there are few published reports or incidents of the "West" retaliating doesn't mean there isn't massive preparation underway. If there isn't, it's due to incompetence. Waiting to show your hand is just a smart play in the game.
Or am I just paranoid and the "rival"/"co-dependent" governments are just looking for a way to stay friendly and exchange daisies?
Honestly, you Repubs should be very afraid. If someone finally motivates the Poor and Minorities to get out and vote, all of your GOP candidates in every election will lose in a landslide as the poor outnumber you 100 to1.
I agree with most of your sentiment, but this is a little ridiculous. If the poor outnumber the rich 100-to-1, that makes them 99%+ of the population. In that case, unless you're defining the entire nation as impoverished (which would be really shallow considering third world conditions), they're not poor, they're average. The remaining 1% would just be richer than average.
Unless of course I misinterpreted and you're suggesting that 99%+ of the population constitutes a minority rather than the "poor"...
Damn, brain's working slow. When I said triangular, I meant round. Really. It was just a really long series of typos where my fingers hit the wrong keys and made it look like I said triangular.
Damn it's a long Monday...
Just to fuck everyone up they should align the doors with compass directions.
I'm not an architect but, based on the limited amount of civil engineering I've done, if I'm not housing apartments or offices, I'm not worried about city-block-style traffic, and I want something that's ridiculously tall and sturdy, it'll be triangular. Maybe we can just make it point north.
Kind of like asking, if my natural gas furnace burns a 2500 degree blue flame, how can I use it to keep my house at 72 degrees in the winter?
I think it's more like asking, "If these plants typically grow in 65-100 degree weather, why are we putting them in a greenhouse instead of outside where it's typically 65-100 degrees?" Plants in that region don't need more heat - They have plenty. They need water and trucking water in to a place that's beyond their typical thermal comfort zone is a little ridiculous. If you want to water plants, great, but why bake them at the same time???
I think this is the difference between buying and renting. If you can't pick it up, it seems like you can't "buy" much any more... Pirate? Yes. Buy? No.
This is in no way analogous to smoking pot. This is more like finding somebody who sells pot via mail-order and sharing the phone number with people who live where it's illegal and telling them where to find it. I'm not saying that it's worth trying/extraditing over, just try to be fair when making an analogy - Otherwise the rest of your argument will fall flat.
To be fair, the Swiss arrested Polanski at the US's request and then released him refusing extradition. The French (where he's been living) haven't even gone through the trouble of arresting him and leave him be. So if you want to use Polanski as an example of giving the US the middle finger, I'd say the French are ahead of the Swiss.
On a side note, I'm not a huge fan of the French just based on the handful I've known, but some of their laws, national policies, and public "interest" toward the government are pretty respectable.
If it's being routed through a proxy, they don't even have to identify the warning. They just have to glean the results, adjust them to their liking, and recreate a reasonably google-like results page. I'm surprised the warnings ever got through in the first place.
Yes, but should you take advantage of the Bistromathics principles and come up with an innovative napkin improvement technology, what are you going to write your idea down on? A notebook? Pshaw! Notebooks have no place in the world of Bistromathics. Napkins now, Bistro Math later.
Take $10,000,000 + "we think X causes cancer" and you will get, surprise surprise, "proof" that X causes cancer.
And "alt-med" is different? If you take $10,000,000 + "we think X cures cancer" and you will get, surprise surprise, "proof" that X cures cancer. Then all of the sudden we're all strapping magnets to our heads and yelling into our cell phones at a minimum 18" distance to avoid tumors because of the latest "study". The reason "Big Pharma" is so successful (aside from very favorable patent law) is that their research shows tangible, measurable results. "Alt-med," even after thousands of years of research and practice, simply makes the true-believers feel good while doing little to actually treat the ailments or showing any benefit for skeptics who undergo the same treatment.
On the other hand, things like "I wonder how X works" gets funded because it fills in gaps that we simply don't even begin to understand and similar "fill in the gap" research is largely responsible for the tech that we have now but lacked only a couple of hundred years ago.
Absolutely - D'oh. Oh well... I assure everyone that I wasn't trying to refer to the popular brand of insecticide...
Not to mention that many of the things he copied were being made commercially available for sale, not made free as in library.
He claims to be a Reddit co-founder, but several sources including Reddit strongly dispute that claim.
That's what I was thinking.
Ok, ok. I confess - I'm part of Anonymous and I'm willing to cut a deal. I'll roll over on everyone. You know those pseudonyms in the IRC channel you've been monitoring and caught me in? That's the rest of them... *sob*
Very effective.
I think going tin foil and yelling "Black Flag!" is going overboard, but you can bet that the feds had (have) members at core levels. Probably a mix of traditional undercover and turn-coats taken in unannounced arrests. I'm sure the same can be said about most widespread underground groups that give the feds the heebie-jeebies. And, frankly, I don't really have a problem with that.
Obviously the best way to advance the world's technology is to improve napkin design. Let's get on that folks!
The search for her daughter was already national news, but not the details of the case - That's true.
But think back a few years. How many people on the jury selected back in '95 were asking, "Wait... OJ who?
Have to nit-pick a nerd foul. Chewy never lived on Endor, he just visited for a little bit to get some chores done. Not positive about any ground-based home for Chewy, but his family lives on Kashyyyk.
I've yet to see any savings. First I covered my flat roof with solar panels, then to go super-green I took the extra step of painting them all white. The house not only isn't cooler, but the energy efficiency of those panels is abysmal!
That is blatantly unfair and derogatory. Suggesting that the parties discriminate between which set of corporations they work for is ridiculous. All dollars are created equal.
That's the law in most places, but it's very rarely enforced and you seem to be one of few that even knows that's the case. With Amazon it can be enforced. I love using Amazon and would love to continue paying no tax there, but I agree that it seems to be violating several states' laws. Whether those state laws are constitutional is still open for debate though...
When Amazon ships something to you by UPS, and it gets stolen, Amazon doesn't call the police to report a theft. They call UPS and UPS handles it, because the package was in their care.
And when their warehouse catches fire, Amazon doesn't call the fire department, they send their own employees out with buckets to put it out. And when their warehouse is vandalized or robbed, they don't report it to the police, they send out their security team and private investigators to track down the culprits. And when a drunk driver rams their semi, they lock him up the they Amazon Brig (TM).
Oh, wait. I think I got something wrong there.
Yeah, the Iranians would love that. "We don't know who it was, but we suspect either an American or Israeli group. Please send us some Americans and Israelis to punish." What could go wrong?
Or, suppose it's proved that it was a government effort. "Please send us the staff of the CIA."
You seem to think that nuclear reactor byproducts were ever going to be stored there. This was always a jobs product.
Let us fantasize. For many years, people were saying the exact same thing about WIPP. Trucks loaded with TRU-PAKs head down to Carlsbad all the time.