I'll admit - I have two standards. I've become more aware of it in recent times. Some rogue nation does "x" against it's citizens, and I judge it as terrible. Then the US does something similar, and I judge it as a PITA.
In this case, I see Israel doing something that I would condemn the US for, but I don't condemn Israel as harshly.
Hmmm. Why is that? I'm not a Zionist. Could be, my military background. If Israel is to survive, then they had better use everything at their disposal, and use it efficiently. On the other hand, the US isn't fighting for it's very survival, so the same actions would be less forgiveable, I guess.
Yeah, I have double standards. Unfortunately, a lot of people deny having their own double standards. And, least of all, can they be expected to understand those double standards.
In reality, we've all admitted that "there's no privacy on the internet". All governments are busy data mining Facebook, and all the rest of the web. This should have been expected. Just like we've discovered that electronically aiding protestors in Arabic countries can, in some instances, expose those protestors to the government. It's to be expected. That doesn't make it right - just expected.
Facts, you say? Why are the indigenous populations of much of northern Europe being overrun by Islamic "immigrants"? Them muslims are outfucking the white boys, simple as that. Why is the US being overrun by Latin Americans? The Catholics are outfucking the white boys.
Seriously - what do you think has happened all through history, and prehistory? The old bastards start dying off. The young bastards dispose of the bodies, distribute the possessions, and get on with their lives. Can you find some point in history when things were different?
You're a bit closed minded, in calling for the end of a "meme". Actually, the "meme" is true, at least to some extent. Even welfare trash in the United States has other forms of entertainment, so they don't lay around and fuck all day for lack of anything else to do. Even welfare trash gets some decent public school education.
As for the government paying welfare trash to have more babies - some states are finally beginning to wise up, a little bit. "Who's the father? He's going to pay child support, and we'll take up some of the slack if he doesn't make enough." "I can't tell you who the father is." "Oh - well - no welfare for you then, Little Miss Smart Ass!"
Oh yeah - that adoption thing? How well is that working out in third world countries? Do they manage to export.0005% of the excess babies?
Not subtle enough. The biological mutation you refer to didn't happen. Instead, advances in the field of medicine pretty much wiped out the most common causes of death.
Now, if you're finished mocking, you might actually do a Google search, to see what the earth's estimated population levels were for tens of thousands of years in the past. There most definitely was population growth, all through history and pre-history. But, that growth, overall, was stable. Only in the 1800's do we see that "population explosion".
You can see the same thing in nature. Some outside influence (usually man) kills off the predators, then the prey like rabbits, deer, or whatever, breed like mad. They eventually exceed the "carrying capacity" of the land, and ultimately begin to starve and/or die of various diseases.
Go forth, google, and learn. Medical advances may very well increase the chances of survival for individuals - but they have done little to ensure the survival of our species. There are so many of us, we're poisoning the very land we depend on for survival!
It might not be all that surprising to learn that the majority of Catholics do NOT use birth control. There is a reason that Mexico and other Latin American countries are overpopulated, and poor. There is a reason that the illegal aliens in the United States are rapidly repopulating the South West, while the white man is actually seeing negative population growth.
I'll accept that a lot of Catholics in wealthy, educated nations might be practicing birth control methods, but those Catholics are a minority of all Catholics combined, I think.
Even a closed loop radiator in the ocean would depend on water flowing through it, again, into an open ended system. And - what exactly attracts those pesky jellyfish? The heat? So - the jellyfish drape themselves over and around the ridiculously expensive gargantuan radiators - and we're right back to re-telling the story in the summary. Hmmm - no net gain there, sorry!
I wasn't real happy with OpenDNS - why would Norton do a better job of "filtering" than OpenDNS did?
Actually, despite the fact that I hate some of the (mostly malicious) crap that comes across the internet, I HATE censorship even more. I'll click the "close" button on that stupid popup, instead of allowing some DNS server to do it for me. Closing my own popups means that I can actually visit and view those sites that I really do want to view.
Download and run Namebench sometime, to get an idea how much of the web is blocked already by DNS servers. They are already hiding portions of the web from Joe Average.
I think it's a multiple stage cooling system. The reactor's excess heat is transferred from the internal cooling loop, to ponds, the ponds are cooled by a separate cooling loop - into yet another pond? Then the pond is hooked up to an open ended system that pulls cool water from the sea, dumping warm water back into the sea. The reactor is isolated from the sea by a couple of stages, but ultimately, the excess heat has to go SOMEWHERE other than another closed loop system.
Historically, we didn't have a population problem. China reflects the population growth of the entire world. Until about 1850, population growth was a stable thing, growing fractionally every century or so. After about 1850, we saw this exponential growth.
The reason I picked China as the example, is that China has made a conscious effort to control population. One couple, one child. Negative population growth, which should put China comfortably within the land's capability to support their population within the next 100 years or so. (Sorry, no, I haven't researched projected population figures - I'm just guesstimating that 100 years from now, China's population will be (very roughly) about 1/4 what it is today.)
Roughly half of the rest of the world still practices unrestrained population growth - all of Islam, all of the Catholic people, and much of the third world no matter their religion, politics, or anything else.
I think it's past time that some of those people were brought up to date on the results of unrestricted procreation.
Some of us have RTFA. The guy asked permission from the security people before installing. So - if the owner gives permission, he's in the clear, right?
And, why is it the Secret Service that is investigating this?
The two internets should never meet. If your machine is set up to use the WWW.net,.com,.org, or whatever - then it should be incapable of connecting to.secure. And, vicey versey.
Have we forgotten that there should be an air gap between infrastructure and the web?
Oh wait, I forgot about all that nonsense about cyberwarfare against our electrical grid, and other infrastructure. Seems we never learned that lesson, so how could we have forgotten it?
Nahhhh - I always just dumped my girl friends at the front entrance to the air port. What's the point in going to the boarding gate, watching her sniffle and cry, just so I have to be sad as I walk back to the parking lot? Nope, not for me. Last minute arrival at the front gate, "You're gonna be late, Girl, git your shit and git!" No sniffling, no wet shoulder, nada.
"No, we don't want to be in a world where idiots die."
Speak for yourself, Hazel. I have been made aware, during the past five decades, that there really are just to damned many people on this earth. And, I blame it on people like you. FFS, let the idiots kill themselves off! We could return to zero population growth, or maybe even a little negative population growth. The last thing we need on this earth, are more idiots! We can't even start enough bogus wars to kill them off with! Please, think about what you're saying, before you post.
BTW - I generally despise the Chinese - or at least the Chinese government. But, they do have one thing going that I *almost* admire. Negative population growth is a good thing, when the population has far outstripped the capacity of the land to support said population. I don't think that any other population in history has done anything like this, short of going to war. Sadly, war usually only causes a temporary reduction in population. As soon as the hostilities end, everyone gets busy fornicating with everyone in sight!
I really don't see any art here. On the other hand, I certainly don't see any computer fraud, or criminal elevation of privileges, or anything that the Secret Service should be concerned about.
What I think happened is, he got one or more images of someone who isn't supposed to be seen. Someone in witness protection? A real terrorist? An agent having a bad hair day? I guess a million people could really study all those images, and fail to find anything. But, the Secret Service found something that bothers them.
I get it right, sometimes. I even spell my own name wrong sometimes. The idea got across, didn't it? You understood that I believe a lot of our laws are Orwellian, right?
FFS, I did a lot of things, as a kid, that could have landed me in trouble. Like shooting a duck, out of season, for my dinner. Yep, I shot him, and ate him. Because I'm color blind, I couldn't identify that duck precisely. I saved a few feathers though, because I thought they'd make nice fishing flies. Some old timer saw those feathers, and came half unglued. "You didn't kill that duck, did you? They are protected!" "Oh, no sir! I found these feathers down by the creek!"
And, that wasn't the very worst of what I got up to as a kid, either. I figure, kids will be kids, and whatever they may have done as a pre-teen, or even in their early teens should be forgotten. Later teens - well - that pretty much depends on how serious their "offenses" were. Private party with alcohol, no one's life at risk? No one's business. Drinking and driving, with a fatality as a result? Different story - people have the right to know.
Actually - I had a teacher in high school who was very vocal about the laws he broke as a young man. And, he had several scars to show us the penalty for some of the stupid shit he did. It was like, "Look, at this, look what stupidity did to me! Are you stupid? Then don't do as I did, because it was STUPID!!"
Because your little snowflakes are so special someone's going to stalk you on online, go sleuthing until they track you down and then create an elaborate scheme to kidnap them ? Unless your last name is Rockefeller or Hilton, I doubt that scenario is plausible. Criminals are lazy buggers and opportunists, they'll just grab a kid off the street.
The scenario you paint isn't all that farfetched. Look through the news of missing, abducted, murdered, and raped children over the past few years. SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, took notice of that child for SOME REASON.
Why put up a reason for them to notice your kids?
Let's just suppose, some freak who was released from Texas state prison last year happens to live only 20 miles or less from me. I don't know he's there. Even if he happens to be a registered sex offender, I may or may not know that he's there. I post my grand daughter's pic on line, he happens to see it, and the child's appearance just happens to appeal to him. He can see that the child lives close to him - less than a half hour drive. Why WOULDN'T he start stalking my family and I, waiting for an opportunity to steal what appeals to him?
Of course someone from Maine, or Washington, or even London is unlikely to think about stalking my children. But, there really are predators living close to me - and to you!
Alright - I have trouble with collectivism in general. I'm a private person, and I do NOT believe that everything I do should be public. I've written a lot of things, drawing parallels between today's reality, and Orwelle's 1984. I do NOT like the idea of a New World Order, a One World Government, or government censorship, or a lot of other things that we see the world's leadership working toward.
All the same - I can't paint Google as "evil". Or, if there is evil there, it's far more diluted than a number of other equally powerful megacorporations.
Evil. Maybe when you and people like you say that "Google are fucking evil", then you should define what you mean by "evil".
Putting things in perspective, do you think Google is as evil as a huge media megacorporation that employs people to hack into private phone lines, targeting politicians, celebs, murdered and/or missing people? Or, do you think that Google is as evil as a governmental intelligence agency(s) which redefines a whole class of prisoners, so as to deny those prisoners any judicial rights? Or, are they as evil as some tinpot dictator in Africa or Asia, who just executes people who disagree with him?
Evil. If corporations are evil, and Murdoch's empire were to rate a 10 on the evil scale, then I'd have to put Google somewhere around.1 to.5.
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I'll admit - I have two standards. I've become more aware of it in recent times. Some rogue nation does "x" against it's citizens, and I judge it as terrible. Then the US does something similar, and I judge it as a PITA.
In this case, I see Israel doing something that I would condemn the US for, but I don't condemn Israel as harshly.
Hmmm. Why is that? I'm not a Zionist. Could be, my military background. If Israel is to survive, then they had better use everything at their disposal, and use it efficiently. On the other hand, the US isn't fighting for it's very survival, so the same actions would be less forgiveable, I guess.
Yeah, I have double standards. Unfortunately, a lot of people deny having their own double standards. And, least of all, can they be expected to understand those double standards.
In reality, we've all admitted that "there's no privacy on the internet". All governments are busy data mining Facebook, and all the rest of the web. This should have been expected. Just like we've discovered that electronically aiding protestors in Arabic countries can, in some instances, expose those protestors to the government. It's to be expected. That doesn't make it right - just expected.
Facts, you say? Why are the indigenous populations of much of northern Europe being overrun by Islamic "immigrants"? Them muslims are outfucking the white boys, simple as that. Why is the US being overrun by Latin Americans? The Catholics are outfucking the white boys.
Maybe white boys are just to queer to compete?
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Obviously not the same thing . . .
China has a retirement program?
Seriously - what do you think has happened all through history, and prehistory? The old bastards start dying off. The young bastards dispose of the bodies, distribute the possessions, and get on with their lives. Can you find some point in history when things were different?
You're a bit closed minded, in calling for the end of a "meme". Actually, the "meme" is true, at least to some extent. Even welfare trash in the United States has other forms of entertainment, so they don't lay around and fuck all day for lack of anything else to do. Even welfare trash gets some decent public school education.
As for the government paying welfare trash to have more babies - some states are finally beginning to wise up, a little bit. "Who's the father? He's going to pay child support, and we'll take up some of the slack if he doesn't make enough." "I can't tell you who the father is." "Oh - well - no welfare for you then, Little Miss Smart Ass!"
Oh yeah - that adoption thing? How well is that working out in third world countries? Do they manage to export .0005% of the excess babies?
Not subtle enough. The biological mutation you refer to didn't happen. Instead, advances in the field of medicine pretty much wiped out the most common causes of death.
Now, if you're finished mocking, you might actually do a Google search, to see what the earth's estimated population levels were for tens of thousands of years in the past. There most definitely was population growth, all through history and pre-history. But, that growth, overall, was stable. Only in the 1800's do we see that "population explosion".
You can see the same thing in nature. Some outside influence (usually man) kills off the predators, then the prey like rabbits, deer, or whatever, breed like mad. They eventually exceed the "carrying capacity" of the land, and ultimately begin to starve and/or die of various diseases.
Go forth, google, and learn. Medical advances may very well increase the chances of survival for individuals - but they have done little to ensure the survival of our species. There are so many of us, we're poisoning the very land we depend on for survival!
It might not be all that surprising to learn that the majority of Catholics do NOT use birth control. There is a reason that Mexico and other Latin American countries are overpopulated, and poor. There is a reason that the illegal aliens in the United States are rapidly repopulating the South West, while the white man is actually seeing negative population growth.
I'll accept that a lot of Catholics in wealthy, educated nations might be practicing birth control methods, but those Catholics are a minority of all Catholics combined, I think.
Even a closed loop radiator in the ocean would depend on water flowing through it, again, into an open ended system. And - what exactly attracts those pesky jellyfish? The heat? So - the jellyfish drape themselves over and around the ridiculously expensive gargantuan radiators - and we're right back to re-telling the story in the summary. Hmmm - no net gain there, sorry!
I wasn't real happy with OpenDNS - why would Norton do a better job of "filtering" than OpenDNS did?
Actually, despite the fact that I hate some of the (mostly malicious) crap that comes across the internet, I HATE censorship even more. I'll click the "close" button on that stupid popup, instead of allowing some DNS server to do it for me. Closing my own popups means that I can actually visit and view those sites that I really do want to view.
Download and run Namebench sometime, to get an idea how much of the web is blocked already by DNS servers. They are already hiding portions of the web from Joe Average.
I think it's a multiple stage cooling system. The reactor's excess heat is transferred from the internal cooling loop, to ponds, the ponds are cooled by a separate cooling loop - into yet another pond? Then the pond is hooked up to an open ended system that pulls cool water from the sea, dumping warm water back into the sea. The reactor is isolated from the sea by a couple of stages, but ultimately, the excess heat has to go SOMEWHERE other than another closed loop system.
Historically, we didn't have a population problem. China reflects the population growth of the entire world. Until about 1850, population growth was a stable thing, growing fractionally every century or so. After about 1850, we saw this exponential growth.
The reason I picked China as the example, is that China has made a conscious effort to control population. One couple, one child. Negative population growth, which should put China comfortably within the land's capability to support their population within the next 100 years or so. (Sorry, no, I haven't researched projected population figures - I'm just guesstimating that 100 years from now, China's population will be (very roughly) about 1/4 what it is today.)
Roughly half of the rest of the world still practices unrestrained population growth - all of Islam, all of the Catholic people, and much of the third world no matter their religion, politics, or anything else.
I think it's past time that some of those people were brought up to date on the results of unrestricted procreation.
Some of us have RTFA. The guy asked permission from the security people before installing. So - if the owner gives permission, he's in the clear, right?
And, why is it the Secret Service that is investigating this?
The two internets should never meet. If your machine is set up to use the WWW.net, .com, .org, or whatever - then it should be incapable of connecting to .secure. And, vicey versey.
Have we forgotten that there should be an air gap between infrastructure and the web?
Oh wait, I forgot about all that nonsense about cyberwarfare against our electrical grid, and other infrastructure. Seems we never learned that lesson, so how could we have forgotten it?
Nahhhh - I always just dumped my girl friends at the front entrance to the air port. What's the point in going to the boarding gate, watching her sniffle and cry, just so I have to be sad as I walk back to the parking lot? Nope, not for me. Last minute arrival at the front gate, "You're gonna be late, Girl, git your shit and git!" No sniffling, no wet shoulder, nada.
"ShopVac bong"
Sounds like industrial hemp to me . . . .
Is Doctor Bob a subluxation on humanity's spine?
"No, we don't want to be in a world where idiots die."
Speak for yourself, Hazel. I have been made aware, during the past five decades, that there really are just to damned many people on this earth. And, I blame it on people like you. FFS, let the idiots kill themselves off! We could return to zero population growth, or maybe even a little negative population growth. The last thing we need on this earth, are more idiots! We can't even start enough bogus wars to kill them off with! Please, think about what you're saying, before you post.
BTW - I generally despise the Chinese - or at least the Chinese government. But, they do have one thing going that I *almost* admire. Negative population growth is a good thing, when the population has far outstripped the capacity of the land to support said population. I don't think that any other population in history has done anything like this, short of going to war. Sadly, war usually only causes a temporary reduction in population. As soon as the hostilities end, everyone gets busy fornicating with everyone in sight!
I really don't see any art here. On the other hand, I certainly don't see any computer fraud, or criminal elevation of privileges, or anything that the Secret Service should be concerned about.
What I think happened is, he got one or more images of someone who isn't supposed to be seen. Someone in witness protection? A real terrorist? An agent having a bad hair day? I guess a million people could really study all those images, and fail to find anything. But, the Secret Service found something that bothers them.
A lot of people are that dumb. Why not a slashdotter?
I get it right, sometimes. I even spell my own name wrong sometimes. The idea got across, didn't it? You understood that I believe a lot of our laws are Orwellian, right?
FFS, I did a lot of things, as a kid, that could have landed me in trouble. Like shooting a duck, out of season, for my dinner. Yep, I shot him, and ate him. Because I'm color blind, I couldn't identify that duck precisely. I saved a few feathers though, because I thought they'd make nice fishing flies. Some old timer saw those feathers, and came half unglued. "You didn't kill that duck, did you? They are protected!" "Oh, no sir! I found these feathers down by the creek!"
And, that wasn't the very worst of what I got up to as a kid, either. I figure, kids will be kids, and whatever they may have done as a pre-teen, or even in their early teens should be forgotten. Later teens - well - that pretty much depends on how serious their "offenses" were. Private party with alcohol, no one's life at risk? No one's business. Drinking and driving, with a fatality as a result? Different story - people have the right to know.
Actually - I had a teacher in high school who was very vocal about the laws he broke as a young man. And, he had several scars to show us the penalty for some of the stupid shit he did. It was like, "Look, at this, look what stupidity did to me! Are you stupid? Then don't do as I did, because it was STUPID!!"
Because your little snowflakes are so special someone's going to stalk you on online, go sleuthing until they track you down and then create an elaborate scheme to kidnap them ? Unless your last name is Rockefeller or Hilton, I doubt that scenario is plausible. Criminals are lazy buggers and opportunists, they'll just grab a kid off the street.
The scenario you paint isn't all that farfetched. Look through the news of missing, abducted, murdered, and raped children over the past few years. SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, took notice of that child for SOME REASON.
Why put up a reason for them to notice your kids?
Let's just suppose, some freak who was released from Texas state prison last year happens to live only 20 miles or less from me. I don't know he's there. Even if he happens to be a registered sex offender, I may or may not know that he's there. I post my grand daughter's pic on line, he happens to see it, and the child's appearance just happens to appeal to him. He can see that the child lives close to him - less than a half hour drive. Why WOULDN'T he start stalking my family and I, waiting for an opportunity to steal what appeals to him?
Of course someone from Maine, or Washington, or even London is unlikely to think about stalking my children. But, there really are predators living close to me - and to you!
Alright - I have trouble with collectivism in general. I'm a private person, and I do NOT believe that everything I do should be public. I've written a lot of things, drawing parallels between today's reality, and Orwelle's 1984. I do NOT like the idea of a New World Order, a One World Government, or government censorship, or a lot of other things that we see the world's leadership working toward.
All the same - I can't paint Google as "evil". Or, if there is evil there, it's far more diluted than a number of other equally powerful megacorporations.
Evil. Maybe when you and people like you say that "Google are fucking evil", then you should define what you mean by "evil".
Putting things in perspective, do you think Google is as evil as a huge media megacorporation that employs people to hack into private phone lines, targeting politicians, celebs, murdered and/or missing people? Or, do you think that Google is as evil as a governmental intelligence agency(s) which redefines a whole class of prisoners, so as to deny those prisoners any judicial rights? Or, are they as evil as some tinpot dictator in Africa or Asia, who just executes people who disagree with him?
Evil. If corporations are evil, and Murdoch's empire were to rate a 10 on the evil scale, then I'd have to put Google somewhere around .1 to .5.
But, that's just my opinion.