No need for those theatrics. I'll just load Granny up for a holiday trip, and intentionally ride beside a bunch of 18-wheelers. Real close, so you can hear the thunder and rumble of their suspension, and the tires hitting the asphalt. When Granny strokes out, we'll have a fatality in a Volvo.
I could start with seatbelt laws, and take a nice tour along the way to the sex offender's registries around the country. I won't even stop to visit the drunk driving laws, because I happen to like them, in general. The point is, "progressives" progressively legislate anything and everything they can think of. The next baby to die of SIDS will likely have the mother up on charges because she allowed the child to roll over on his stomach while sleeping.
"Progressive" isn't quite the dirty word that liberal of neoconservative are, but it ranks with the closest runners up.
You don't need a friend to put you on Facebook. I was reading the posts by those two buttheads, the two who always give you a hard time when you ride your bicycle to the custard stand. They were bragging about knocking you off your bike, and telling everyone what a dipstick you are. Oh yeah - they were bragging about banging your sister and your cousin too.
Nope - you don't need friends to end up on Facebook.
I won't take any bets on anyone finding you with "just" your name. That depends on who is looking, how many resources they can spend on the matter, and how dedicated they are.
But, the thing is, they don't HAVE to just go with your name. You know someone on Facebook - Mama, sister, brother, the geek in the marching band - SOMEONE. Most likely, you know half a dozen people or more. When one of them posted your photo(s) some of the other saw them, and commented. The IP address of each commenter is available, as well as that of the poster. If Uncle Sam, or a hacker, wants to find you, all the data needed is either available online, or avaialable by means of an interview with each of the people who publicly acknowledged that they know you.
Even without interviews, the feds could come to the hometown of all these people who know you, and just keep their eyes and ears open.
Hell, we have the basis on which to build another epic tale of adventure, as our young hero fruitlessly attempts to elude BIG BROTHER!! All we need to decide, is whether we'll have Elves, Dragons, Aliens, or Angels in the story. Crap - let's have them ALL!!
I had that very thing on my mind last night, as I drove to work. I just bought an ultracheap knockaround car, that I don't very much care if some idiot at work backs into it. 1992 Mazda 626, purchased from a guy in Hooks, Texas. The thing still has his Texas license plates on it, and the big blue inspection sticker in the window.
Funny thing about inspection stickers. Arkansas ended vehicle inspections several years ago. (fifteen? Less than twenty years ago, I think, but I'm not sure) The reason was, there was so much fraud involved, the state finally stopped enforcing the inspection regulations, ended inspections, just did away with all of it. The penalty for fraud was generally a scolding - fines amounted to a couple day's wages. Nothing serious.
Texas, however, will burn you for committing an inspection fraud. Lose your business license, pay huge fines, and possibly spend time in jail. NO ONE in Texas who is authorized to do inspections is willing to commit an inspection fraud. No one that I've ever met, anyway. This 18 year old car is in better shape than many 10 year old cars operated in Arkansas - because Texas takes their law seriously!
To me, it seems obvious that if the penalty is high enough, and sure enough, criminals aren't going to commit the crimes.
Whatever - I'm in a good spot to purchase old used vehicles for cheap, drive them for a couple years, and get another. The last car I bought like this lasted for four years, at an average cost of about $350.00 per year, plus fuel. Beats hell out of paying $350.00 monthly car payments, and still having idiots at work putting dents in it!
Current events. Keep up with them much? Around 70% of Californians (a super majority, or the overwhelming majority) voted on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. It's quite possible that I would be in the minority regarding my views on homosexuality, if I found myself among your freinds. But, in the wider population of American citizens, homosexuality is looked down upon.
Whatever. Go ahead and feel smug and superior, along with that group of friends that you cite.
"if it is possible, and med care decides to pay for the artificial procreation of infertile straight couples, they can obviously not discriminate against gays."
Wow. Just wow. So - helping an infertile young woman to reach a chemical balance that will enhance her chances of getting pregnant equates to implanting an artificial womb into some dude? Wow. Amazing. It's "obvious" that if the insurance company pays for a fertility treatment for a hetero couple, then the insurance company should pay for crimes against nature so that Adam and Steve can feel normal. I just don't know what to say to this nonsense.
"Gays, for example, just want to live normal lives like you and me."
This is why they have gay parades all over the nation, with the people dressed as freakishly as possible? Alright, now I understand. They act abnormally so that thy can be normal!!
"their views are based on cold, hard, bloody, rotting, diseased evidence..."
So - where's this evidence? Do vegans live ten years longer, on average? Twenty years? Maybe they live twice as long as meat eaters? If there are any credible citations, I might consider converting.
I do know from study and from experience that hard working men, especially in cold climates, need the condensed energy found in meats and meat products. A guy can eat two tons of vegetables, and not have the energy and stamina needed to get through a day's work. Add four to eight ounces of meat to his two tons of vegetables, and he's a new man! In fact, he won't need those two tons of veggies at all - he'll opt for a couple of sensible servings, along with a slice of bread and a piece of pie.
Of course, I don't expect an audience of nerds and geeks to appreciate that. I know that SOME of the nerds and geeks have worked hard sometime during their lives, but many of you have spent your lives in offices, classrooms, and other sheltered areas, seldom lifting anything heavier than a can of Mountain Dew.
Gay marriage. Adoption by gay couples. Those are just the two more outrageous things that traditional, conservative people find objectionable. And, I don't use the word "conservative" in the political sense. The vast majority of people find homosexuality objectionable - and the gays are demanding that we accept them as equals.
Before some wise guy pops off with "Yes, but slavery was accepted . . . " he needs to google LZ Granderson. Gay is not the new black. Stop using black as the tool with which you can force everyone to accept anything. It may be "politically correct" in this day and age, but I'm not a communist, I don't answer to Moscow, and I don't give a rat's ass about being politically correct.
Okay, you've got one side of the door pretty securely anchored. What about the side with the hinges? I've seen many doors held to the door frame by nothing more than the six or nine little screws I've already mentioned. Often times, the door jamb is held by nothing but a few staples. A door that swings inward won't be stopped by the jamb anyway. Given a good quality deadbolt, the swinging side will stay in place when the hinged side is kicked in through the door frame.
You do realize that most doors can be kicked down by a moderately healthy guy? Many people have locks on their doors that are worth more than the door. If a person is going the route of barring windows and buying good locks for the door, we better remind them to really LOOK AT their door. Is that door really suitable for use as a security device, or is it more suitable for a dressing room, as prevention of voyeurism? What holds the door and it's frame to the studs in the wall? What secures the door itself to the door frame? Believe me, six or nine little #2 phillip's screws aren't going to keep me out of anyplace that I really want to be.
Typing and spreadsheets aren't even "computer science", FFS. Spreadsheet skills fall under a broader category of "accounting", and typing is an ancient skill that existed before electricity became commonplace.
Sorry, but RTFA. These trade "offers" aren't genuine offers at all. They are extraneous noise introduced into the system. And, people are only speculating about the reasons.
Hell - it's remotely POSSIBLE that some of these algorithms run only because some geek likes looking at the video output! Looky the pictures: http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrash/CCircleDay.html
Alright, so I don't really think for a moment that some autistic nerd does this just to look at the pics. Maybe the noise IS only there to make the competition's algorithms work a few nanoseconds slower. Or, maybe someone is playing with ideas to manipulate the market, and these are dry runs for practice. OR, maybe an outsider (like China) is already set up with a New Jersey or Manhattan data center, and they are already manipulating the market in ways that we haven't detected.
Whatever - it doesn't look to me like this should be permitted.
"There just *ain't* too many pure Gandhis** on this planet,"
Just a thought here. Maybe you don't understand Ghandi as well as you think you do?
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." Ghandi WANTED arms for India, but because arms were denied, he used alternative forms of resistance.
Gandhi, for the major part of his life, worshipped British imperialism and too often proudly proclaimed himself a lover of the Empire. He was Kipling's Gunga Din in flesh and blood.
To understand Gandhi's politics in South Africa, it is essential to note the three fundamental trends which all along persisted underneath all his activities. They were: (1) his loyalty to the British Empire, (2) his apathy with regard to the Indian "lower castes", India's indigenous population, and (3) his virulent anti-African racism.
Let me try to apply some analytical reasoning here.
Black.
Hat.
Hackers.
WOW - BLACK HAT HACKERS!!!
There's no need to piss any of them off. In fact, it would probably have been better not to try sucking up to them. Just fly under the radar, avoid attention. Keep your frigging mouth tightly SHUT.
Analytical conclusion? Michael's a friggin' idiot.
There's a commercial I hear from time to time, I believe it's broadcast from Shreveport. A lawyer warns, the moment a police officer notices you, and turns on his blue lights, he is actively seeking to build a criminal case against you. SAY NOTHING, except to ask for a lawyer. Provide your documents, and cooperate with the cop, but SAY NOTHING, and keep asking for your lawyer.
That commercial is designed to make you paranoid, and it's meant to drum up business for a lawyer, but there is truth in it. Cops don't just "detain" you for a friendly chat. If you've come to a cop's attention, you are potentially in a heap of shit.
Personally, I respect the way Applebaum reportedly handled himself. Keep asking for a lawyer, and don't answer any questions.
I'd be interested in knowing what questions were asked, and whether the agents were qualified to understand the answers. Much has been made of court cases where neither the lawyers nor the judge understood the technology that was being discussed. SOME Customs agents might understand what Applebaum does, while others are completely clueless, and 6 months of interrogation wouldn't make them any more knowlegable. But, no matter which type of agent was doing the questioning, he was looking for something, anything, with which to charge Applebaum.
I've been "detained" a number of times in my life. "Registration, driver's license, and proof of insurance, please." I've not been held and interrogated by federal agents for three hours. Again - once you identify yourself to any officer, you answer a few cursory questions that might help identify you, if you attempt to leave and the cop won't allow you to leave, then you are under arrest, and entitled to legal counsel.
Uhhhh - yes. And, those spheres with lines in them are located about twelve miles out from the New Jersey shore, deep in salt water. When you come into the US via Newark, you've already BEEN in the United States for at least a few minutes before you land at the airport. If traveling by sea, you've been in the US more than just a few minutes before you dock anywhere.
Parsing words is for people like Bill Clinton. Detained or arrested - they interrogated the man, and he is entitled to have a lawyer present during questioning. Three hours of interrogation without a lawyer, especially after he ASKED for a lawyer to be present, is unconstitutional.
If a cop ever tells you that "You're not under arrest, but you can't leave", you tell him that's bullshit, and you demand your lawyer be present.
You can be assured that if they find their own MEMBERS acting out in unapproved ways, those members will be disciplined. The rest of the data? Maybe they'll sift through it, looking for potential rich converts. They can't rest on their laurels, after all. They need to continue bilking wealthy people out of their money!
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No need for those theatrics. I'll just load Granny up for a holiday trip, and intentionally ride beside a bunch of 18-wheelers. Real close, so you can hear the thunder and rumble of their suspension, and the tires hitting the asphalt. When Granny strokes out, we'll have a fatality in a Volvo.
In Soviet Russia, facebook has YOU!
I could start with seatbelt laws, and take a nice tour along the way to the sex offender's registries around the country. I won't even stop to visit the drunk driving laws, because I happen to like them, in general. The point is, "progressives" progressively legislate anything and everything they can think of. The next baby to die of SIDS will likely have the mother up on charges because she allowed the child to roll over on his stomach while sleeping.
"Progressive" isn't quite the dirty word that liberal of neoconservative are, but it ranks with the closest runners up.
You don't need a friend to put you on Facebook. I was reading the posts by those two buttheads, the two who always give you a hard time when you ride your bicycle to the custard stand. They were bragging about knocking you off your bike, and telling everyone what a dipstick you are. Oh yeah - they were bragging about banging your sister and your cousin too.
Nope - you don't need friends to end up on Facebook.
I won't take any bets on anyone finding you with "just" your name. That depends on who is looking, how many resources they can spend on the matter, and how dedicated they are.
But, the thing is, they don't HAVE to just go with your name. You know someone on Facebook - Mama, sister, brother, the geek in the marching band - SOMEONE. Most likely, you know half a dozen people or more. When one of them posted your photo(s) some of the other saw them, and commented. The IP address of each commenter is available, as well as that of the poster. If Uncle Sam, or a hacker, wants to find you, all the data needed is either available online, or avaialable by means of an interview with each of the people who publicly acknowledged that they know you.
Even without interviews, the feds could come to the hometown of all these people who know you, and just keep their eyes and ears open.
Hell, we have the basis on which to build another epic tale of adventure, as our young hero fruitlessly attempts to elude BIG BROTHER!! All we need to decide, is whether we'll have Elves, Dragons, Aliens, or Angels in the story. Crap - let's have them ALL!!
I had that very thing on my mind last night, as I drove to work. I just bought an ultracheap knockaround car, that I don't very much care if some idiot at work backs into it. 1992 Mazda 626, purchased from a guy in Hooks, Texas. The thing still has his Texas license plates on it, and the big blue inspection sticker in the window.
Funny thing about inspection stickers. Arkansas ended vehicle inspections several years ago. (fifteen? Less than twenty years ago, I think, but I'm not sure) The reason was, there was so much fraud involved, the state finally stopped enforcing the inspection regulations, ended inspections, just did away with all of it. The penalty for fraud was generally a scolding - fines amounted to a couple day's wages. Nothing serious.
Texas, however, will burn you for committing an inspection fraud. Lose your business license, pay huge fines, and possibly spend time in jail. NO ONE in Texas who is authorized to do inspections is willing to commit an inspection fraud. No one that I've ever met, anyway. This 18 year old car is in better shape than many 10 year old cars operated in Arkansas - because Texas takes their law seriously!
To me, it seems obvious that if the penalty is high enough, and sure enough, criminals aren't going to commit the crimes.
Whatever - I'm in a good spot to purchase old used vehicles for cheap, drive them for a couple years, and get another. The last car I bought like this lasted for four years, at an average cost of about $350.00 per year, plus fuel. Beats hell out of paying $350.00 monthly car payments, and still having idiots at work putting dents in it!
Current events. Keep up with them much? Around 70% of Californians (a super majority, or the overwhelming majority) voted on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. It's quite possible that I would be in the minority regarding my views on homosexuality, if I found myself among your freinds. But, in the wider population of American citizens, homosexuality is looked down upon.
Whatever. Go ahead and feel smug and superior, along with that group of friends that you cite.
"if it is possible, and med care decides to pay for the artificial procreation of infertile straight couples, they can obviously not discriminate against gays."
Wow. Just wow. So - helping an infertile young woman to reach a chemical balance that will enhance her chances of getting pregnant equates to implanting an artificial womb into some dude? Wow. Amazing. It's "obvious" that if the insurance company pays for a fertility treatment for a hetero couple, then the insurance company should pay for crimes against nature so that Adam and Steve can feel normal. I just don't know what to say to this nonsense.
"Gays, for example, just want to live normal lives like you and me."
This is why they have gay parades all over the nation, with the people dressed as freakishly as possible? Alright, now I understand. They act abnormally so that thy can be normal!!
"their views are based on cold, hard, bloody, rotting, diseased evidence..."
So - where's this evidence? Do vegans live ten years longer, on average? Twenty years? Maybe they live twice as long as meat eaters? If there are any credible citations, I might consider converting.
I do know from study and from experience that hard working men, especially in cold climates, need the condensed energy found in meats and meat products. A guy can eat two tons of vegetables, and not have the energy and stamina needed to get through a day's work. Add four to eight ounces of meat to his two tons of vegetables, and he's a new man! In fact, he won't need those two tons of veggies at all - he'll opt for a couple of sensible servings, along with a slice of bread and a piece of pie.
Of course, I don't expect an audience of nerds and geeks to appreciate that. I know that SOME of the nerds and geeks have worked hard sometime during their lives, but many of you have spent your lives in offices, classrooms, and other sheltered areas, seldom lifting anything heavier than a can of Mountain Dew.
Gay marriage. Adoption by gay couples. Those are just the two more outrageous things that traditional, conservative people find objectionable. And, I don't use the word "conservative" in the political sense. The vast majority of people find homosexuality objectionable - and the gays are demanding that we accept them as equals.
Before some wise guy pops off with "Yes, but slavery was accepted . . . " he needs to google LZ Granderson. Gay is not the new black. Stop using black as the tool with which you can force everyone to accept anything. It may be "politically correct" in this day and age, but I'm not a communist, I don't answer to Moscow, and I don't give a rat's ass about being politically correct.
Okay, you've got one side of the door pretty securely anchored. What about the side with the hinges? I've seen many doors held to the door frame by nothing more than the six or nine little screws I've already mentioned. Often times, the door jamb is held by nothing but a few staples. A door that swings inward won't be stopped by the jamb anyway. Given a good quality deadbolt, the swinging side will stay in place when the hinged side is kicked in through the door frame.
You do realize that most doors can be kicked down by a moderately healthy guy? Many people have locks on their doors that are worth more than the door. If a person is going the route of barring windows and buying good locks for the door, we better remind them to really LOOK AT their door. Is that door really suitable for use as a security device, or is it more suitable for a dressing room, as prevention of voyeurism? What holds the door and it's frame to the studs in the wall? What secures the door itself to the door frame? Believe me, six or nine little #2 phillip's screws aren't going to keep me out of anyplace that I really want to be.
The cost of security maintenance goes down some when you feed the intruder to your security system. ;^)
Not so. http://www.colt45acp.com/
Typing and spreadsheets aren't even "computer science", FFS. Spreadsheet skills fall under a broader category of "accounting", and typing is an ancient skill that existed before electricity became commonplace.
Computer science. Good grief.
Sorry, but RTFA. These trade "offers" aren't genuine offers at all. They are extraneous noise introduced into the system. And, people are only speculating about the reasons.
Hell - it's remotely POSSIBLE that some of these algorithms run only because some geek likes looking at the video output! Looky the pictures: http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrash/CCircleDay.html
Alright, so I don't really think for a moment that some autistic nerd does this just to look at the pics. Maybe the noise IS only there to make the competition's algorithms work a few nanoseconds slower. Or, maybe someone is playing with ideas to manipulate the market, and these are dry runs for practice. OR, maybe an outsider (like China) is already set up with a New Jersey or Manhattan data center, and they are already manipulating the market in ways that we haven't detected.
Whatever - it doesn't look to me like this should be permitted.
"There just *ain't* too many pure Gandhis** on this planet,"
Just a thought here. Maybe you don't understand Ghandi as well as you think you do?
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
Ghandi WANTED arms for India, but because arms were denied, he used alternative forms of resistance.
You should read Ghandi's biography. One possible starting point, http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/gandhi.html
Gandhi, for the major part of his life, worshipped British imperialism and too often proudly proclaimed himself a lover of the Empire. He was Kipling's Gunga Din in flesh and blood.
To understand Gandhi's politics in South Africa, it is essential to note the three fundamental trends which all along persisted underneath all his activities. They were: (1) his loyalty to the British Empire, (2) his apathy with regard to the Indian "lower castes", India's indigenous population, and (3) his virulent anti-African racism.
"keep this trojan horse around their neck"
I find your mixed metaphor rather interesting. Are you into bestiality, or what? A little Freudian slip there?
Let me try to apply some analytical reasoning here.
Black.
Hat.
Hackers.
WOW - BLACK HAT HACKERS!!!
There's no need to piss any of them off. In fact, it would probably have been better not to try sucking up to them. Just fly under the radar, avoid attention. Keep your frigging mouth tightly SHUT.
Analytical conclusion? Michael's a friggin' idiot.
There's a commercial I hear from time to time, I believe it's broadcast from Shreveport. A lawyer warns, the moment a police officer notices you, and turns on his blue lights, he is actively seeking to build a criminal case against you. SAY NOTHING, except to ask for a lawyer. Provide your documents, and cooperate with the cop, but SAY NOTHING, and keep asking for your lawyer.
That commercial is designed to make you paranoid, and it's meant to drum up business for a lawyer, but there is truth in it. Cops don't just "detain" you for a friendly chat. If you've come to a cop's attention, you are potentially in a heap of shit.
Personally, I respect the way Applebaum reportedly handled himself. Keep asking for a lawyer, and don't answer any questions.
I'd be interested in knowing what questions were asked, and whether the agents were qualified to understand the answers. Much has been made of court cases where neither the lawyers nor the judge understood the technology that was being discussed. SOME Customs agents might understand what Applebaum does, while others are completely clueless, and 6 months of interrogation wouldn't make them any more knowlegable. But, no matter which type of agent was doing the questioning, he was looking for something, anything, with which to charge Applebaum.
I've been "detained" a number of times in my life. "Registration, driver's license, and proof of insurance, please." I've not been held and interrogated by federal agents for three hours. Again - once you identify yourself to any officer, you answer a few cursory questions that might help identify you, if you attempt to leave and the cop won't allow you to leave, then you are under arrest, and entitled to legal counsel.
Uhhhh - yes. And, those spheres with lines in them are located about twelve miles out from the New Jersey shore, deep in salt water. When you come into the US via Newark, you've already BEEN in the United States for at least a few minutes before you land at the airport. If traveling by sea, you've been in the US more than just a few minutes before you dock anywhere.
Parsing words is for people like Bill Clinton. Detained or arrested - they interrogated the man, and he is entitled to have a lawyer present during questioning. Three hours of interrogation without a lawyer, especially after he ASKED for a lawyer to be present, is unconstitutional.
If a cop ever tells you that "You're not under arrest, but you can't leave", you tell him that's bullshit, and you demand your lawyer be present.
You can be assured that if they find their own MEMBERS acting out in unapproved ways, those members will be disciplined. The rest of the data? Maybe they'll sift through it, looking for potential rich converts. They can't rest on their laurels, after all. They need to continue bilking wealthy people out of their money!