Instead of just immediately refusing the request, has anyone bothered to ask the Trump Transition Team why they want the list? Everyone seems to think they want this so they can blacklist them.
Right.
He actually wants to give them medals and a big bonus.
If they "rebel", he will just shut down the entire department. If they do a job worth doing (energy does not), then he will reform it with new people.
Good luck with firing all the people who know how to make nuclear weapons: we'll have nobody qualified to maintain our own stockpile, and a whole bunch of seriously disgruntled nuclear weapons experts (AKA "snowflakes") suddenly on the job market. What could possibly go wrong?
If the NSA was seriously trying to protect the country they would be working to make sure the USA systems are much better protected and that means better security by default and better crypto.
At one time, this is exactly what they did. Read up on the history of DES S-boxes sometime.
Nice to see a corporation doing something socially responsible instead of giving a bunch of already well-compensated Silicon Valley enginneers a bunch of toys.
There is no phone as nice as the Note 7 on the market today.
Anybody who thinks this is a valid reason for putting the people around them at risk of injury or death should not just have their phone bricked, they should have the stupid beaten out of them with a bag of oranges.
How about being stuck on a road in a snowstorm without communication? There are reasons why we shouldn't disable people's phones. I would argue for nagware - every hour, have a message pop up telling you there is a safety issue and asking you to return your phone to a Verizon store for a free replacement or something. Seems like a good balance between keeping devices safe and people losing critical communication.
They already do that, and the morons with these phones still refuse to return them, putting not only themselves at risk, but the people around them.
Seriously, there is no excuse for still using one of these phones, and they should be bricked immediately. I hope Verizon gets sued for a bazillion dollars for any damages that result from leaving these phones in use.
I don't understand how they managed to raise $73.5 million fucking dollars for this
Are you kidding? The app that did nothing but say "Yo" conned some VC morons into giving them a million bucks: “We are fascinated by these uses of simple yes/no, on/off communications tools,” Betaworks co-founder John Borthwick wrote on the Betaworks blog. “As the notification layer becomes the primary interface of alert-based information on your phone — as the OS’s allow navigation and controls in those alerts — there will emerge a new class of applications that mediate this layer for web sites, other app’s and connected hardware.”
With mindless bullshit like that, how can you not get rich?
The worst a trump presidency means for the US is another foreign war
That won't spike the deficit or anything, just like it didn't under Dubya.
Besides, how bad that worst-case scenario is depends entirely on whom the war is with. If Fuckface von Clownstick manages to inadvertently goad China into invading Taiwan, and Kim Jong Un decides to take advantage of the distraction by attacking South Korea, we're in some pretty deep kimchee.
Even worse, Michael G. Flynn, member of the Trump transition team and son of the next National Security Adviser might be a 4chan shitstain and is spreading this story just for the keks.
Either way, it does not speak well of the Trump transition team. I see this morning Trump nominated a medical doctor who thinks dietary supplements can cure cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis to be the next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Look on the bright side. At least he won't be practicing medicine.
On the flip side, if Climate Change is your religion, and yet you live in low-lying coast land, you're kind of an idiot at this point. If you Believe, then topographical maps are free and you should be taking care of yourself and your family - live and work where it will remain safe, and make the move now, not after everything goes crazy.
So... your solution to global warming is that impoverished villagers in Bangladesh should be buying condos in Aspen?
Indeed, from TFS: "having been linked to the Arab Spring, the war in Syria and the Boko Haram terrorist insurgency."
No matter where you stand on climate change, linking it to the above is more than a bit of a stretch.
Which brings up a point. If you're serious about doing something about AGW/climate change, articles such as this one move the cause backward, not forward, by giving ammunition to AGM/cc opponents.
Actually, not so much of a stretch. The civil war in Syria was preceded by a massive migration of people from rural to urban areas due to an unprecedented drought:
People's lifestyles are going to change whether they like it or not. Nature is going to force them to, not the Evil Gubmint. The "climate change police" are pointing out that if people act in their own best interest now, that change will be less disruptive than if they sit around stroking their dicks and opining about conspiracy theories about "social control". But the change will come.
There is only crisis if 'we' allow it. Securing the boarders against 'mass migration' would be easy.
Who's 'we'?
Preventing migration will make the crisis worse, not better. Unless you don't consider tens or hundreds of millions of people starving to death just outside your beautiful wall a "crisis".
The problem with all these hairbrained schemes is that people throw them around without working through all the consequences and explaining exactly how they are all dealt with.
When that is done it's almost always the case that there's something apparent that we already know to be false.
I'm sure this never occurred to the authors of the work, given that they are actual theoretical physicists and all. (Theories with varying speeds of light, which are entirely consistent with relativity, have been around for many decades. )
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This morning I saw on the news that Trump had met with Kanye. Someone asked if a cabinet position was discussed, and he didn't say.
National Endowment for the Arts?
Instead of just immediately refusing the request, has anyone bothered to ask the Trump Transition Team why they want the list? Everyone seems to think they want this so they can blacklist them.
Right.
He actually wants to give them medals and a big bonus.
If they "rebel", he will just shut down the entire department. If they do a job worth doing (energy does not), then he will reform it with new people.
Good luck with firing all the people who know how to make nuclear weapons: we'll have nobody qualified to maintain our own stockpile, and a whole bunch of seriously disgruntled nuclear weapons experts (AKA "snowflakes") suddenly on the job market. What could possibly go wrong?
... total lack of surpise.
If the NSA was seriously trying to protect the country they would be working to make sure the USA systems are much better protected and that means better security by default and better crypto.
At one time, this is exactly what they did. Read up on the history of DES S-boxes sometime.
Because this time it's different!
wrong, bad for Alphabet. They gave their employees nothing for Christmas. Employees appreciate a company that appreciates them.
Yeah, Google's employees are really abused.
Nice to see a corporation doing something socially responsible instead of giving a bunch of already well-compensated Silicon Valley enginneers a bunch of toys.
There is no phone as nice as the Note 7 on the market today.
Anybody who thinks this is a valid reason for putting the people around them at risk of injury or death should not just have their phone bricked, they should have the stupid beaten out of them with a bag of oranges.
How about being stuck on a road in a snowstorm without communication? There are reasons why we shouldn't disable people's phones. I would argue for nagware - every hour, have a message pop up telling you there is a safety issue and asking you to return your phone to a Verizon store for a free replacement or something. Seems like a good balance between keeping devices safe and people losing critical communication.
They already do that, and the morons with these phones still refuse to return them, putting not only themselves at risk, but the people around them.
Seriously, there is no excuse for still using one of these phones, and they should be bricked immediately. I hope Verizon gets sued for a bazillion dollars for any damages that result from leaving these phones in use.
I don't understand how they managed to raise $73.5 million fucking dollars for this
Are you kidding? The app that did nothing but say "Yo" conned some VC morons into giving them a million bucks: “We are fascinated by these uses of simple yes/no, on/off communications tools,” Betaworks co-founder John Borthwick wrote on the Betaworks blog. “As the notification layer becomes the primary interface of alert-based information on your phone — as the OS’s allow navigation and controls in those alerts — there will emerge a new class of applications that mediate this layer for web sites, other app’s and connected hardware.”
With mindless bullshit like that, how can you not get rich?
Kind of like patents that are "____________ on the INTERNET!!!!!" are different.
That's obsolete. It's about apps now.
The worst a trump presidency means for the US is another foreign war
That won't spike the deficit or anything, just like it didn't under Dubya.
Besides, how bad that worst-case scenario is depends entirely on whom the war is with. If Fuckface von Clownstick manages to inadvertently goad China into invading Taiwan, and Kim Jong Un decides to take advantage of the distraction by attacking South Korea, we're in some pretty deep kimchee.
How is this any different?
Because this time it's different!
Even worse, Michael G. Flynn, member of the Trump transition team and son of the next National Security Adviser might be a 4chan shitstain and is spreading this story just for the keks.
Either way, it does not speak well of the Trump transition team. I see this morning Trump nominated a medical doctor who thinks dietary supplements can cure cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis to be the next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Look on the bright side. At least he won't be practicing medicine.
Never, ever type "goats e..." in Opera.
You have to create a totalitarian state with the full apparatus of secret police, surveillance, detention camps and summary executions ...
Actually, a carbon tax with the revenues applied to subsidies for renewables would do the trick pretty easily.
But by all means stay locked and loaded. They're coming for you.
On the flip side, if Climate Change is your religion, and yet you live in low-lying coast land, you're kind of an idiot at this point. If you Believe, then topographical maps are free and you should be taking care of yourself and your family - live and work where it will remain safe, and make the move now, not after everything goes crazy.
So ... your solution to global warming is that impoverished villagers in Bangladesh should be buying condos in Aspen?
Indeed, from TFS: "having been linked to the Arab Spring, the war in Syria and the Boko Haram terrorist insurgency."
No matter where you stand on climate change, linking it to the above is more than a bit of a stretch.
Which brings up a point. If you're serious about doing something about AGW/climate change, articles such as this one move the cause backward, not forward, by giving ammunition to AGM/cc opponents.
Actually, not so much of a stretch. The civil war in Syria was preceded by a massive migration of people from rural to urban areas due to an unprecedented drought:
https://news.vice.com/article/...
Global warming doesn't directly cause civil wars, but migration and the resulting social instability most certainly does, and will.
Radical Islam can't be a factor here. It's all due to climate change.
I find it interesting that you believe that Radical Islam is capable of flooding Bangladesh. Can I follow your twitter feed?
Oh, good fucking God.
People's lifestyles are going to change whether they like it or not. Nature is going to force them to, not the Evil Gubmint. The "climate change police" are pointing out that if people act in their own best interest now, that change will be less disruptive than if they sit around stroking their dicks and opining about conspiracy theories about "social control". But the change will come.
There is only crisis if 'we' allow it. Securing the boarders against 'mass migration' would be easy.
Who's 'we'?
Preventing migration will make the crisis worse, not better. Unless you don't consider tens or hundreds of millions of people starving to death just outside your beautiful wall a "crisis".
I dare ya.
That made my whole day.
What is Buzz Aldrin doing at the South Pole? Is he the anti-Santa?
It's a hoax. He was never on the moon either.
The problem with all these hairbrained schemes is that people throw them around without working through all the consequences and explaining exactly how they are all dealt with.
When that is done it's almost always the case that there's something apparent that we already know to be false.
I'm sure this never occurred to the authors of the work, given that they are actual theoretical physicists and all. (Theories with varying speeds of light, which are entirely consistent with relativity, have been around for many decades. )