Sorry, but your post exposes some naivete. Oil is a STRATEGIC ASSET - not merely a commodity. Supply and demand are certainly non-trivial forces, but they can be manipulated. For evidence of that, just look at the speculative trade that was happening prior to the economic bust.
Our government in the US manipulates the oil market as much as possible to ensure that the government has as close to an unlimited supply as possible, then they work to ensure that the American public has an adequate supply as well.
Anyone who believes that oil was NOT a factor in deciding to invade Iraq is really denying reality. Despite all the other reasons given for the invasion, the DECIDING factor was oil. The US needs to ensure that oil flows freely around the world, and that the US always has the lion's share of that oil. We need not benefit directly from the flow of oil out of Iraq. The fact that oil is flowing helps to keep prices down elsewhere.
Always remember that word "strategic" when you are considering the price and availability of petroleum products. Mere supply and demand take a back seat to strategic concerns.
Google Operation Ajax. You'll look long and hard before you find any reason to "trust BP". They have a long and murky history, despite recent name changes and changes in investors. In the end, they'll throw anyone under the bus, in the name of profit. Governments and nations are thrown under the bus, in the name of profit. A little ecological disaster might be embarrassing, but it will be white washed soon enough.
To true. Anytime men's lives are at stake, there should be redundant backup plans in place before the men arrive. In this case, more than just a dozen lives were at stake. It's hard to establish an exchange rate - but the pollution in the gulf, and the damage that will last for decades far outweighs a few human deaths. Most definitely, the tools necessary to contain and control a catastrophic blowout should be onhand long before the drilling gets close to the reservoir.
Portable media should never be considered "secure". FFS, just think about the corporations that have distributed malware, intentionally or unintentionally, via their CD's and/or DVD's. From time to time, a story comes out about malware being distributed at the various conventions. Yeah, it's a joke, mostly, because the techies at the conventions SHOULD be savvy enough to watch for that crap. Still, the malware gets distributed, and it runs on any number of machines, before the techies get wise to it.
Uhhhmmmm - yeah, I think. I guess I'm a freetard. Now and then, I'll fire up Wireshark, and just watch the traffic. Yeah, I can see that my deviant son is browsing a porn site. I can see that the wife is checking her email and the banking. I can see that the other kid is looking for car parts. And - the other other kid is playing games. But, why on earth does he have packets going to http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ ??? That isn't a game site - he's not browsing, or there would be a lot more packets. Hmmmmm. A little checking, and I holler at him. "Have you installed anything lately? Have you done a virus scan on your stupid Windows laptop? What is this site?" He looks at it, tells me it's nothing HE ever heard of, goes back to his machine, and does some checking. An hour or so later, he admits that he was testing some stupid schitz that one of his buddies recommended. One of the features happens to be a trojan.
I don't bother making reports - I guess if I did, I might get my name attached to some zero day thingy. Hmmmm. That might not be good either. The better known you are, the harder it is to stay anoynymous when you really WANT to be anonymous!
Seems to me that there is proof in today's world for that. Fish lay very soft eggs, or at least all of the fish that I'm aware of. Amphibians lay soft eggs. All the snake's eggs I've ever seen have tough, rubbery shells. Lizard eggs are harder than the snake's eggs that I've seen, but still don't have the brittle calcium egg shell that bird's eggs have.
Oh wait - let me back up a wee bit. I've found a few bird's eggs in the wild that were less hard and brittle than chicken's eggs. Apparently, not all birds produce the same type of egg shell. Duck's egg shells are more rubbery than chicken's eggs.
Nope - no citations for any of that - just personal experience. Go buy a jar of caviar, and examine those fish eggs.
Key word there is "seem". I'm perfectly aware that my IP is logged everywhere I go - unless I use some sort of a proxy. However, with a law that all of my posts, everything I do online, has to be identified with a unique identifier, proxies and other anonymizing tools will obviously be illegal. Using TOR, I2P, or other similar software will make me a criminal.
Of course, I'm already a criminal, because I use P2P, LMAO
I don't know if the geek will inherit the earth - but the teenagers certainly will. Today's teens are tomorrow's voters. Piss 'em off now with irrational laws, and they will remember. I wish that RIAA would piss off a whole LOT of teens. Not to mention their parents, who happen to be eligibile to vote today, AND tomorrow.
How sure are you of that? I'm not even going to argue that you have to fear the GOVERNMENT. There are plenty of other people that you should fear. I think that it's Dateline that ran all those child predator expose's - if you're young and female, and the predator can get your name and location, they'll come flocking to your door. Hell, if you're young and MALE, a different predator will come to your door, too. Then, there are the predators who prefer the more mature females.
Alright, let's forget about sex predators. How about more "normal" thieves, muggers, and robbers. Only months ago, someone was selling something online, and agreed to meet the buyers AT THEIR HOME. The buyer shows up with a gun and a freind, and they walk away with the goodies.
Politics. I argue politics online all the time. Some of those crazy SOB's would be happy to ambush me when I leave the house in the morning, because I hate their favorite, or they hate my favorite, or whatever. Step into ANY political forum, and say anything good about Obama, and the crazies will come out of the woodwork with "He isn't a citizne" "He's a Moslem" "Obama hates whites" "Obama hates America", etc ad nauseum
Still on politics, world level. I've badmouthed a LOT of people like Osama bin Laden. Some of the people I've argued with actually claim to have fought against westerners and against whites, and to have fought against American interests. I have little idea if any individual claim is true or not - but out of all of them, one or more may very well have the resources and/or the contacts to send a squad to my house. IF, that is, I were foolish enough to tell them who I am, and where I live.
Is it dangerous to identify yourself online? Maybe not - if you're a homely old dude with nothing to lose, and no political convictions. But, you MIGHT come to the attention of some kid who needs to impress his gang, so he decides to come to your house and kill you.
Go ahead, put YOUR full name and all your details online. I'll pass. Oh - don't forget. The clown(s) who show up to take you out will probably see your wife and kids, and use them for amusement after they knock you off. But, hey, that's the risk your family takes for associating with you, right?
Red_Flayer wrote: Interestingly, currency issues have been mentioned as a big reason why the US went into Iraq in the early 90s... Iraq was beating some drums about selling oil in Euros. That would have been *disastrous* for the US economy...
AC's post is insightful? Actually, it's off topic. He is apparently addressing GP's claims about the invasion of Iraq IN THE EARLY '90'S, but throws in Dubya and Cheney. Wrong administration, wrong decade, wrong war, wrong enemy, wrong answer. One would expect that on a tech/geek/nerd forum that the moderators would at least be literate enough to have caught that.
I think I might have figured it out. Are you using IE6? I think that I remember a rumor about dropping support for IE6, but I'm not sure if I heard the alleged rumor correctly.
"except the smart ones on/. know better--they actually read your posts rather then the fucking mod points."
Not claiming to be especially smart - but that's how I read. I read the post, give it a thought, agree or disagree, and move on. It's hard to believe that there are those who spend their time modding up pro- (apple, *nix, Microsoft, copyright or whatever) posts, and modding down anti- (fill in the blank) posts. Such little people, with such little minds. You've got to feel sorry for them and their pathetic little lives.
Censorship is censorship. It hardly matters WHY they are censoring. After all, redundancy and obscenity both help to get a point across, when the recipient of the point is being intentionally obtuse.
Kinda funny, really. I'm opposed to most gay rights bullshit - especially marriage. But - I agree with the FTC. Sensitive information of this nature should NOT be divulged, period. No qualifiers, no quantifiers, nothing. Just don't do it.
As for the pink pistols - it's just to gay to consider. Peter puffers with pistols, ROFLMAO Oh well - seriously - if they are American citizens, OF COURSE they have the right to keep and bear arms, and to defend themselves from assholes. But, I'll be laughing all day. Pistol packin' peter puffers. Oh god. I need to share that page with everyone I know.
Icebike gives the answer that matters. You send a copy of the original police report to the police WHERE THE IP IS LOCATED, and ask them to pick up your computer. The cops in your state cannot do anything, but the cops in the state where the computer is located certainly can. IF they are tech savvy enough to understand your evidence, and to subpoena the ISP for the address.
As has already been suggested - read TFA. Then, read the comments. The article seems to be largely about bogus science. There isn't any real periodicity to the extinctions.
But, even if TFA were accurate, and provable - we'll miss the next regularly schduled extinction anyway, I'm sure. We'll probably kill ourselves off first.
I really don't think that you understand serial killers as well as you think you do. There are the fanatics who have a cause. The Manson family is the best example of that. The cause was nuts, but the leader had a cause.
There are those who are positively deranged. That kid from Boston who murdered other kids in the 1800's comes to mind. He never gave a reason for his killings, that I know of. He just killed.
I don't think there is a "serial killer" gene at all. I think that people with broken minds account for most of them. The Ted Bundy type are probably quite rare - he had a fine mind, but it seems that his sexuality was tied to torturing and killing women, much like Jack the Ripper.
Other killers with lesser minds than Bundy have killed plenty of women, out of some perverse sexual need.
But, a serial killer gene? Nope, I don't believe so. There are OTHER things seriously wrong with a man who kills women - or other men, for that matter. You won't find the problem isolated in one gene, or even associated with any small group of genes. You'll do better searching for the genes that cause various mental illnesses. Shizophrenia isn't all that uncommon among the famous killers, for example.
Heh. Just so we understand each other. But, you do realize that your position makes Islam that much more appealing to some people? And, Catholicism too. Patriarchal societies and patriarchal personalities are going to hate your ideas - passionately.
Ahhhhh. You seem to understand the psychology of war and serial killing at least as well as the FBI and the DOD. Which agency do you work for, again?
Seriously, I call BS. I have met plenty of aggressive people who remain aggressive no matter the situation. It's their nature. And, blocking their aggressiveness often leads to violence. You do note that "most people can be trained to kill" - but fail to note that tampering with gene selectiion just might make that pool of people smaller, or even non-existent.
Let's just say that fools run where angels fear to tread.
That doesn't address my question. Are you saying that only the female gets any voice in deciding what traits may or may not be desirable? I definitely see a future for the Eloi here.
"Explain how being violent, impulsive, and sociopathic can help in anything?"
I can see that you place no value in having a military force, prepared to defend you. While so many people whine and cry about violent tendencies, more knowledgable people work toward channeling violent tendencies into useful pursuits. Without violent tendencies, what kind of world do you think that you would be living in today? Go on - use your imagination. Can't do it? Alright - I'll TELL YOU. You'd be just another fucking monkey flinging his shit at the big cat on the ground, prowling around the edges of the monkey colony.
Good idea. Remove all the genes that cause violent tendencies. Then what? We have a population of passive idiots sitting around, waiting for a conqueror to come in. If the Russians, the Chinese, the Koreans, and the Mexicans all decline to conquer this country, then we'll just have to wait for Alien or Predator to do it.
Despite common "wisdom", without violence we would be an entirely different creature. Some of those creatures have been examined in various science fiction novels. Personally, I don't much want to become an Eloi, being preyed upon by the Morlocks.
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Sorry, but your post exposes some naivete. Oil is a STRATEGIC ASSET - not merely a commodity. Supply and demand are certainly non-trivial forces, but they can be manipulated. For evidence of that, just look at the speculative trade that was happening prior to the economic bust.
Our government in the US manipulates the oil market as much as possible to ensure that the government has as close to an unlimited supply as possible, then they work to ensure that the American public has an adequate supply as well.
Anyone who believes that oil was NOT a factor in deciding to invade Iraq is really denying reality. Despite all the other reasons given for the invasion, the DECIDING factor was oil. The US needs to ensure that oil flows freely around the world, and that the US always has the lion's share of that oil. We need not benefit directly from the flow of oil out of Iraq. The fact that oil is flowing helps to keep prices down elsewhere.
Always remember that word "strategic" when you are considering the price and availability of petroleum products. Mere supply and demand take a back seat to strategic concerns.
"I went looking for a reason to trust BP"
Google Operation Ajax. You'll look long and hard before you find any reason to "trust BP". They have a long and murky history, despite recent name changes and changes in investors. In the end, they'll throw anyone under the bus, in the name of profit. Governments and nations are thrown under the bus, in the name of profit. A little ecological disaster might be embarrassing, but it will be white washed soon enough.
To true. Anytime men's lives are at stake, there should be redundant backup plans in place before the men arrive. In this case, more than just a dozen lives were at stake. It's hard to establish an exchange rate - but the pollution in the gulf, and the damage that will last for decades far outweighs a few human deaths. Most definitely, the tools necessary to contain and control a catastrophic blowout should be onhand long before the drilling gets close to the reservoir.
*cough*
Portable media should never be considered "secure". FFS, just think about the corporations that have distributed malware, intentionally or unintentionally, via their CD's and/or DVD's. From time to time, a story comes out about malware being distributed at the various conventions. Yeah, it's a joke, mostly, because the techies at the conventions SHOULD be savvy enough to watch for that crap. Still, the malware gets distributed, and it runs on any number of machines, before the techies get wise to it.
Uhhhmmmm - yeah, I think. I guess I'm a freetard. Now and then, I'll fire up Wireshark, and just watch the traffic. Yeah, I can see that my deviant son is browsing a porn site. I can see that the wife is checking her email and the banking. I can see that the other kid is looking for car parts. And - the other other kid is playing games. But, why on earth does he have packets going to http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ ??? That isn't a game site - he's not browsing, or there would be a lot more packets. Hmmmmm. A little checking, and I holler at him. "Have you installed anything lately? Have you done a virus scan on your stupid Windows laptop? What is this site?" He looks at it, tells me it's nothing HE ever heard of, goes back to his machine, and does some checking. An hour or so later, he admits that he was testing some stupid schitz that one of his buddies recommended. One of the features happens to be a trojan.
I don't bother making reports - I guess if I did, I might get my name attached to some zero day thingy. Hmmmm. That might not be good either. The better known you are, the harder it is to stay anoynymous when you really WANT to be anonymous!
"Well it would have been soft eggs"
Seems to me that there is proof in today's world for that. Fish lay very soft eggs, or at least all of the fish that I'm aware of. Amphibians lay soft eggs. All the snake's eggs I've ever seen have tough, rubbery shells. Lizard eggs are harder than the snake's eggs that I've seen, but still don't have the brittle calcium egg shell that bird's eggs have.
Oh wait - let me back up a wee bit. I've found a few bird's eggs in the wild that were less hard and brittle than chicken's eggs. Apparently, not all birds produce the same type of egg shell. Duck's egg shells are more rubbery than chicken's eggs.
Nope - no citations for any of that - just personal experience. Go buy a jar of caviar, and examine those fish eggs.
"You seem to be under the impression"
Key word there is "seem". I'm perfectly aware that my IP is logged everywhere I go - unless I use some sort of a proxy. However, with a law that all of my posts, everything I do online, has to be identified with a unique identifier, proxies and other anonymizing tools will obviously be illegal. Using TOR, I2P, or other similar software will make me a criminal.
Of course, I'm already a criminal, because I use P2P, LMAO
I don't know if the geek will inherit the earth - but the teenagers certainly will. Today's teens are tomorrow's voters. Piss 'em off now with irrational laws, and they will remember. I wish that RIAA would piss off a whole LOT of teens. Not to mention their parents, who happen to be eligibile to vote today, AND tomorrow.
"using my real name is not dangerous here,"
How sure are you of that? I'm not even going to argue that you have to fear the GOVERNMENT. There are plenty of other people that you should fear. I think that it's Dateline that ran all those child predator expose's - if you're young and female, and the predator can get your name and location, they'll come flocking to your door. Hell, if you're young and MALE, a different predator will come to your door, too. Then, there are the predators who prefer the more mature females.
Alright, let's forget about sex predators. How about more "normal" thieves, muggers, and robbers. Only months ago, someone was selling something online, and agreed to meet the buyers AT THEIR HOME. The buyer shows up with a gun and a freind, and they walk away with the goodies.
Politics. I argue politics online all the time. Some of those crazy SOB's would be happy to ambush me when I leave the house in the morning, because I hate their favorite, or they hate my favorite, or whatever. Step into ANY political forum, and say anything good about Obama, and the crazies will come out of the woodwork with "He isn't a citizne" "He's a Moslem" "Obama hates whites" "Obama hates America", etc ad nauseum
Still on politics, world level. I've badmouthed a LOT of people like Osama bin Laden. Some of the people I've argued with actually claim to have fought against westerners and against whites, and to have fought against American interests. I have little idea if any individual claim is true or not - but out of all of them, one or more may very well have the resources and/or the contacts to send a squad to my house. IF, that is, I were foolish enough to tell them who I am, and where I live.
Is it dangerous to identify yourself online? Maybe not - if you're a homely old dude with nothing to lose, and no political convictions. But, you MIGHT come to the attention of some kid who needs to impress his gang, so he decides to come to your house and kill you.
Go ahead, put YOUR full name and all your details online. I'll pass. Oh - don't forget. The clown(s) who show up to take you out will probably see your wife and kids, and use them for amusement after they knock you off. But, hey, that's the risk your family takes for associating with you, right?
Red_Flayer wrote: Interestingly, currency issues have been mentioned as a big reason why the US went into Iraq in the early 90s... Iraq was beating some drums about selling oil in Euros. That would have been *disastrous* for the US economy...
AC's post is insightful? Actually, it's off topic. He is apparently addressing GP's claims about the invasion of Iraq IN THE EARLY '90'S, but throws in Dubya and Cheney. Wrong administration, wrong decade, wrong war, wrong enemy, wrong answer. One would expect that on a tech/geek/nerd forum that the moderators would at least be literate enough to have caught that.
I think I might have figured it out. Are you using IE6? I think that I remember a rumor about dropping support for IE6, but I'm not sure if I heard the alleged rumor correctly.
It's your handle. Personally, I can't take anyone with that nickname seriously. Pimp. Dawg. Pimpdawg. The nick inspires contempt.
"except the smart ones on /. know better--they actually read your posts rather then the fucking mod points."
Not claiming to be especially smart - but that's how I read. I read the post, give it a thought, agree or disagree, and move on. It's hard to believe that there are those who spend their time modding up pro- (apple, *nix, Microsoft, copyright or whatever) posts, and modding down anti- (fill in the blank) posts. Such little people, with such little minds. You've got to feel sorry for them and their pathetic little lives.
A Cuban pig, or what? What makes a pig sandwich Cuban? Is a Cuban pig as good as a Cuban cigar? AHHHH - THAT'S IT!! Smoked pig!
Censorship is censorship. It hardly matters WHY they are censoring. After all, redundancy and obscenity both help to get a point across, when the recipient of the point is being intentionally obtuse.
Kinda funny, really. I'm opposed to most gay rights bullshit - especially marriage. But - I agree with the FTC. Sensitive information of this nature should NOT be divulged, period. No qualifiers, no quantifiers, nothing. Just don't do it.
As for the pink pistols - it's just to gay to consider. Peter puffers with pistols, ROFLMAO Oh well - seriously - if they are American citizens, OF COURSE they have the right to keep and bear arms, and to defend themselves from assholes. But, I'll be laughing all day. Pistol packin' peter puffers. Oh god. I need to share that page with everyone I know.
Icebike gives the answer that matters. You send a copy of the original police report to the police WHERE THE IP IS LOCATED, and ask them to pick up your computer. The cops in your state cannot do anything, but the cops in the state where the computer is located certainly can. IF they are tech savvy enough to understand your evidence, and to subpoena the ISP for the address.
As has already been suggested - read TFA. Then, read the comments. The article seems to be largely about bogus science. There isn't any real periodicity to the extinctions.
But, even if TFA were accurate, and provable - we'll miss the next regularly schduled extinction anyway, I'm sure. We'll probably kill ourselves off first.
I really don't think that you understand serial killers as well as you think you do. There are the fanatics who have a cause. The Manson family is the best example of that. The cause was nuts, but the leader had a cause.
There are those who are positively deranged. That kid from Boston who murdered other kids in the 1800's comes to mind. He never gave a reason for his killings, that I know of. He just killed.
I don't think there is a "serial killer" gene at all. I think that people with broken minds account for most of them. The Ted Bundy type are probably quite rare - he had a fine mind, but it seems that his sexuality was tied to torturing and killing women, much like Jack the Ripper.
Other killers with lesser minds than Bundy have killed plenty of women, out of some perverse sexual need.
But, a serial killer gene? Nope, I don't believe so. There are OTHER things seriously wrong with a man who kills women - or other men, for that matter. You won't find the problem isolated in one gene, or even associated with any small group of genes. You'll do better searching for the genes that cause various mental illnesses. Shizophrenia isn't all that uncommon among the famous killers, for example.
Heh. Just so we understand each other. But, you do realize that your position makes Islam that much more appealing to some people? And, Catholicism too. Patriarchal societies and patriarchal personalities are going to hate your ideas - passionately.
Ahhhhh. You seem to understand the psychology of war and serial killing at least as well as the FBI and the DOD. Which agency do you work for, again?
Seriously, I call BS. I have met plenty of aggressive people who remain aggressive no matter the situation. It's their nature. And, blocking their aggressiveness often leads to violence. You do note that "most people can be trained to kill" - but fail to note that tampering with gene selectiion just might make that pool of people smaller, or even non-existent.
Let's just say that fools run where angels fear to tread.
That doesn't address my question. Are you saying that only the female gets any voice in deciding what traits may or may not be desirable? I definitely see a future for the Eloi here.
"Explain how being violent, impulsive, and sociopathic can help in anything?"
I can see that you place no value in having a military force, prepared to defend you. While so many people whine and cry about violent tendencies, more knowledgable people work toward channeling violent tendencies into useful pursuits. Without violent tendencies, what kind of world do you think that you would be living in today? Go on - use your imagination. Can't do it? Alright - I'll TELL YOU. You'd be just another fucking monkey flinging his shit at the big cat on the ground, prowling around the edges of the monkey colony.
Only the woman should have a voice in deciding? Nice bit of feminazism there.
Good idea. Remove all the genes that cause violent tendencies. Then what? We have a population of passive idiots sitting around, waiting for a conqueror to come in. If the Russians, the Chinese, the Koreans, and the Mexicans all decline to conquer this country, then we'll just have to wait for Alien or Predator to do it.
Despite common "wisdom", without violence we would be an entirely different creature. Some of those creatures have been examined in various science fiction novels. Personally, I don't much want to become an Eloi, being preyed upon by the Morlocks.