In context, or out, AC has complained about the situation surrounding terrorism, characterized our own people as incompetent, and characterized the terrorists as "smart". He has concluded that "we are dog meat".
I insist that the terrorists aren't all that smart, and that despite our incompetent leaders, we, individual Americans, can make all the difference in the world.
Further, I propose that the FBI, NSA, etc aren't trying to get around the Constitution because they are stupid. In reality, they are typical organizations, which seek to expand their authority, their budgets, their manpower and their influence. Some pretty smart people in each of these organizations spend a lot of time figuring out ways to accomplish these goals. Is it stupid to try to acquire more power? I would say, "No, it is not."
It's dishonest, it's overbearing, it's dirty - but it's not stupid.
Yet more evidence that the terrorists have won. We have here yet another citizen who believes that terrorism is a major problem. Each and every day, more Americans die in automobile accidents, than the terrorists have managed to kill since 9/11/01. Yet, "we're dog meat" because of terrorists.
Far to few Americans have any balls these days. Is it something in the diet? To many drugs? To much brain washing? What is it that causes Americans to whine like whipped dogs? "we're dog meat".
On the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, I saw a lot of people who have a bit of fortitude running TOWARD the explosions, to care for their fellow citizens. People with big brass balls, who understood that something bad had happened, and decided that they should disregard the potential for further explosions. Most of the severely injured have survived because all those people ran toward the disaster, and not away from it. The crowd at the marathon bombing made me proud.
This "we're dog meat" shit is embarrassing as all hell. I can see why he posted as AC.
Is providing a hotspot a user interactive activity? TFS says it's all about talking on the phone, texting, or watching/reading media. GPS will still work, as would your hotspot.
You chose to own a television, and to have cable access in your house? I see little real difference. Throw the television in the trash heap where it belongs, and tear the cable out of your walls, pull it from the service box outside, and lay it on top of the TV that you've already thrown out.
Stupidity? Actually - their plan isn't much better, or much worse than ours here in the states.
For every hour of entertainment, you agree to suffer through xx minutes of mind numbing idiotic commercials. If I still watched television, given a choice, I might opt for the British version of TV taxes.
In fact, I stopped watching television years ago, and the commercials were only a small part of the reason.
So, just set the computer up to show the video on a time delay. Two seconds should do it. Write to cache, then read it two seconds later. It's not a "live broadcast" any longer!
I'm sitting in front of a computer that is orders of magnitude faster than my first computer. I have orders of magnitude more memory. I have orders of magnitude more storage than any of my first six computers.
And the stupid thing is, a little bit of crapware, moronic animations, poorly crafted scripts, and all the other trash found on the internet, can make my machine crawl. How does all this power benefit me, exactly, if no-programing lackwits can just WASTE all that power trying to decipher what the hell their page is supposed to be?
Imagine a four engine jet aircraft with so much power you'll never need it. So, some moron passenger takes control of one of your engines, and uses it as an air brake, or finds ways to point it in random directions, then gives it a shot of power.
Find the better power sources, then let ME decide what the hell to do with that power. Don't just ramp up all the software in the world to waste the power!
As for the women, maybe it's you who doesn't understand charges. The women have both flatly stated that Assange DID NOT RAPE THEM. I can't be assed to search for the interviews, but I'm sure that anyone posting here can easily run a Google search to find any number of tabloid releases of the interviews. One more time: Both women have flatly stated that Assange DID NOT RAPE THEM!
The judge in Sweden wants a man to submit to examination (and cross examination, and recross, probably) for a crime that the supposed victims have flatly stated DID NOT HAPPEN.
Sure, Assange may have committed some impropriety. It seems that he has admitted that much. But - HELLO!! Both women seduced him, both women got what they wanted from the encounter. Unless one or both women alleges rape, then it's none of the friggin' court's business.
"Oh, that bastard - he didn't use a condom!"
FFS - if a condom were that important to either women, she could have resisted his advances the next morning - THEN if he forced himself on them, they would have a case of rape.
This is real life - and I don't much give a rat's ass whether it's Sweden, Zimbabwe, or it happened on Io.
It's politically motivated, and that's all I can see here.
Understanding which switches work and how is going to help understand both ideal behavior AND actual behavior. Having some idea of what "ideal" might mean, helps to identify "deviant", and maybe to understand those deviations from the norm.
So, you're suggesting that there are only two schools of thought: That of the tinfoil hat community, and that of the sheeple.
Well, if I must choose between the two, I'll go with the tin foil hat bunch. I don't want every government agency spying on me through their corporate proxies. And, that is precisely what we would see if congress passes their various cyber security bills - all major corporations would be sharing everything they can learn about every citizen with the government. AND, the government will return the favor, granting corporations access to that same database.
Your 1. has a flaw. What you mean is, you BELIEVE that there is zero chance that Assange would be extradited from Sweden. In fact, the "charges" aren't even charges - he has NOT been charged with any crime involving those women. Sweden has an ulterior motive for dragging Assange back into their jurisdiction. What could that motive be? Well - an arrangement with the US to permit Assange to be extradited or "rendered" seems most likely to me.
Do we need to revisit the two women involved? 1. Both women came on to Julian, and seduced him - not the other way around. 2. Both women, in interviews, have flatly stated that he did NOT rape or assault them. 3. Both women make exactly the same claim - on the "morning after" Julian had a second helping, WITHOUT a condom. 4. Neither woman made any complaint until AFTER they coincidentally met, and discussed their encounters with Julian.
It is important to note, that after one judge dismissed warrants for Assange's arrest, a DIFFERENT judge took over, and issued warrants on greater crimes than anyone had previously considered.
It's political, and if Sweden gets their hands on Assange, he will be sacrificed to the US Justice department.
If making yourself a political target is a crime, then Assange is most assuredly guilty of a crime. But he's hardly guilty of any gross sexual offense.
Please, don't forget that Julian became something of a minor hero, when his leaks concerned mostly Arab nations that we disapproved of, or approved of very little. It wasn't until Manning's stuff was published that Julian became "Public Enemy #xx". Congress critters and the White House gave him praise, even if it was faint, as long as he seemed to be focusing on Arab nations. How quickly the tables turned when we became the focus of attention!
To be perfectly honest - I've not had time to get into that ActionLogic5 controller. It's been in the plant for about two years now, and it has "just worked" all this time. Setup was very much like an Allen Bradley - in fact, the housing looks very much like an Allen Bradley. I suspect that it's a rebranded AB.
Maybe I phrased that poorly - my complaint isn't the logic, but the spaghetti wire boards. Yes, we'll have ladder programs for a long time to come, because it works wonderfully in the type of application that it was designed for. But, it's SO MUCH simpler to work with in an ActionLogic or comparable PLC!!!
Oh, God! That makes me feel sick. We had messes like that when I started working at this company. There are exactly two of them left, and one of them is being dismantled to be carted off to the junk yard. The remaining one is rapidly becoming so expensive to maintain, that no one can justify keeping it around.
We'll still have ladder logic for a long time to come, but no more of those freaking tangled spaghetti wire boards!
Yeah, it's voluntary. But, more and more banks use it, more and more retailers use it, employers use it, then Wal-Mart says that all credit card users MUST have it, then the state says that all beneficiaries of Medicaid, food stamps, social security, and unemployment benefits MUST have it.
Give it ten years, and "voluntary" will be a completely meaningless descriptor.
"Well, Junior, there's no law that says you HAVE TO swallow this pill, but you can't get a job, you can't buy groceries, you can't see the doctor, you may not even be permitted to breathe good American air if you refuse!"
Uhhhhhh - your idea sounds like the shits. For the sake of fairness, I want to verify what I think you said.
At the bottom of the list of ingredients, you want a disclaimer that some or all of the ingredients might be GMO? Really?
So, I go get a can of nasty assed pasta, tomato, and beef byproduct, similar to Chef Boy-ar-Dee. It's got all kinds of ingredients in it. How am I to know whether the GMO is the wheat, the tomatoes, the beef, or what?
I'd rather have a list of actual ingredients, please.
Tomatoes, GMO wheat, beef byproduct, artificial colors and flavorings, GMO corn syrup and so forth.
Gluten allergies affect a small amount of people. What Monsanto does is intended to affect everyone on earth. If/when one of their test goes horribly wrong - we all suffer. Well - everyone EXCEPT the people with gluten allergies, because they aren't eating the stuff anyway.
That is my thought. An "impactor" would seem to leave a nice wide crater. A bunker buster would probably leave a cleaner, more focused channel, and probably deeper. Slip the nuke down into the deep, narrow hole, detonate, the plasma is more or less focused in one direction. Any chunks and pieces that break away are just reaction mass anyway. The asteroid may or may not be fragmented, but it will have a lot of delta-V in the desired direction.
They are requiring you to assist them in building a case against you. It's an adversarial situation, and I cannot be required to assist my adversaries.
I have two options - I can open the door for them, and hope the assholes will give me a pat on the head, and knock some time off of my conviction. OR, I can refuse to cooperate. and force them to break the door down to execute their warrant.
In MOST situations, it will be to my benefit to cooperate with them. But, let's imagine that I've just executed dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda and exited the house, just to be stopped by the police as I was climbing into my car.
I'm not going to open the door, thereby enabling them to halt the dd command so that they can get the info to prosecute me! Let them break the door down, and in court, they can tell the judge that I was uncooperative, and my lawyer can deal with motions, pleas, etc.
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In context, or out, AC has complained about the situation surrounding terrorism, characterized our own people as incompetent, and characterized the terrorists as "smart". He has concluded that "we are dog meat".
I insist that the terrorists aren't all that smart, and that despite our incompetent leaders, we, individual Americans, can make all the difference in the world.
Further, I propose that the FBI, NSA, etc aren't trying to get around the Constitution because they are stupid. In reality, they are typical organizations, which seek to expand their authority, their budgets, their manpower and their influence. Some pretty smart people in each of these organizations spend a lot of time figuring out ways to accomplish these goals. Is it stupid to try to acquire more power? I would say, "No, it is not."
It's dishonest, it's overbearing, it's dirty - but it's not stupid.
"The terrorists are smart and we're dog meat"
Yet more evidence that the terrorists have won. We have here yet another citizen who believes that terrorism is a major problem. Each and every day, more Americans die in automobile accidents, than the terrorists have managed to kill since 9/11/01. Yet, "we're dog meat" because of terrorists.
Far to few Americans have any balls these days. Is it something in the diet? To many drugs? To much brain washing? What is it that causes Americans to whine like whipped dogs? "we're dog meat".
On the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, I saw a lot of people who have a bit of fortitude running TOWARD the explosions, to care for their fellow citizens. People with big brass balls, who understood that something bad had happened, and decided that they should disregard the potential for further explosions. Most of the severely injured have survived because all those people ran toward the disaster, and not away from it. The crowd at the marathon bombing made me proud.
This "we're dog meat" shit is embarrassing as all hell. I can see why he posted as AC.
Is providing a hotspot a user interactive activity? TFS says it's all about talking on the phone, texting, or watching/reading media. GPS will still work, as would your hotspot.
You chose to own a television, and to have cable access in your house? I see little real difference. Throw the television in the trash heap where it belongs, and tear the cable out of your walls, pull it from the service box outside, and lay it on top of the TV that you've already thrown out.
Choice.
How many Confederate dollars do you want for a coin? I think five bucks per offline bitcoin?
Stupidity? Actually - their plan isn't much better, or much worse than ours here in the states.
For every hour of entertainment, you agree to suffer through xx minutes of mind numbing idiotic commercials. If I still watched television, given a choice, I might opt for the British version of TV taxes.
In fact, I stopped watching television years ago, and the commercials were only a small part of the reason.
So, just set the computer up to show the video on a time delay. Two seconds should do it. Write to cache, then read it two seconds later. It's not a "live broadcast" any longer!
Uhhhh, no, that isn't what I want.
I'm sitting in front of a computer that is orders of magnitude faster than my first computer. I have orders of magnitude more memory. I have orders of magnitude more storage than any of my first six computers.
And the stupid thing is, a little bit of crapware, moronic animations, poorly crafted scripts, and all the other trash found on the internet, can make my machine crawl. How does all this power benefit me, exactly, if no-programing lackwits can just WASTE all that power trying to decipher what the hell their page is supposed to be?
Imagine a four engine jet aircraft with so much power you'll never need it. So, some moron passenger takes control of one of your engines, and uses it as an air brake, or finds ways to point it in random directions, then gives it a shot of power.
Find the better power sources, then let ME decide what the hell to do with that power. Don't just ramp up all the software in the world to waste the power!
As for the women, maybe it's you who doesn't understand charges. The women have both flatly stated that Assange DID NOT RAPE THEM. I can't be assed to search for the interviews, but I'm sure that anyone posting here can easily run a Google search to find any number of tabloid releases of the interviews. One more time: Both women have flatly stated that Assange DID NOT RAPE THEM!
The judge in Sweden wants a man to submit to examination (and cross examination, and recross, probably) for a crime that the supposed victims have flatly stated DID NOT HAPPEN.
Sure, Assange may have committed some impropriety. It seems that he has admitted that much. But - HELLO!! Both women seduced him, both women got what they wanted from the encounter. Unless one or both women alleges rape, then it's none of the friggin' court's business.
"Oh, that bastard - he didn't use a condom!"
FFS - if a condom were that important to either women, she could have resisted his advances the next morning - THEN if he forced himself on them, they would have a case of rape.
This is real life - and I don't much give a rat's ass whether it's Sweden, Zimbabwe, or it happened on Io.
It's politically motivated, and that's all I can see here.
Understanding which switches work and how is going to help understand both ideal behavior AND actual behavior. Having some idea of what "ideal" might mean, helps to identify "deviant", and maybe to understand those deviations from the norm.
So, you're suggesting that there are only two schools of thought: That of the tinfoil hat community, and that of the sheeple.
Well, if I must choose between the two, I'll go with the tin foil hat bunch. I don't want every government agency spying on me through their corporate proxies. And, that is precisely what we would see if congress passes their various cyber security bills - all major corporations would be sharing everything they can learn about every citizen with the government. AND, the government will return the favor, granting corporations access to that same database.
Your 1. has a flaw. What you mean is, you BELIEVE that there is zero chance that Assange would be extradited from Sweden. In fact, the "charges" aren't even charges - he has NOT been charged with any crime involving those women. Sweden has an ulterior motive for dragging Assange back into their jurisdiction. What could that motive be? Well - an arrangement with the US to permit Assange to be extradited or "rendered" seems most likely to me.
Do we need to revisit the two women involved?
1. Both women came on to Julian, and seduced him - not the other way around.
2. Both women, in interviews, have flatly stated that he did NOT rape or assault them.
3. Both women make exactly the same claim - on the "morning after" Julian had a second helping, WITHOUT a condom.
4. Neither woman made any complaint until AFTER they coincidentally met, and discussed their encounters with Julian.
It is important to note, that after one judge dismissed warrants for Assange's arrest, a DIFFERENT judge took over, and issued warrants on greater crimes than anyone had previously considered.
It's political, and if Sweden gets their hands on Assange, he will be sacrificed to the US Justice department.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Allegations_of_sexual_assault_and_political_refugee
If making yourself a political target is a crime, then Assange is most assuredly guilty of a crime. But he's hardly guilty of any gross sexual offense.
Please, don't forget that Julian became something of a minor hero, when his leaks concerned mostly Arab nations that we disapproved of, or approved of very little. It wasn't until Manning's stuff was published that Julian became "Public Enemy #xx". Congress critters and the White House gave him praise, even if it was faint, as long as he seemed to be focusing on Arab nations. How quickly the tables turned when we became the focus of attention!
To be perfectly honest - I've not had time to get into that ActionLogic5 controller. It's been in the plant for about two years now, and it has "just worked" all this time. Setup was very much like an Allen Bradley - in fact, the housing looks very much like an Allen Bradley. I suspect that it's a rebranded AB.
Maybe I phrased that poorly - my complaint isn't the logic, but the spaghetti wire boards. Yes, we'll have ladder programs for a long time to come, because it works wonderfully in the type of application that it was designed for. But, it's SO MUCH simpler to work with in an ActionLogic or comparable PLC!!!
Oh, God! That makes me feel sick. We had messes like that when I started working at this company. There are exactly two of them left, and one of them is being dismantled to be carted off to the junk yard. The remaining one is rapidly becoming so expensive to maintain, that no one can justify keeping it around.
We'll still have ladder logic for a long time to come, but no more of those freaking tangled spaghetti wire boards!
Yeah, it's voluntary. But, more and more banks use it, more and more retailers use it, employers use it, then Wal-Mart says that all credit card users MUST have it, then the state says that all beneficiaries of Medicaid, food stamps, social security, and unemployment benefits MUST have it.
Give it ten years, and "voluntary" will be a completely meaningless descriptor.
"Well, Junior, there's no law that says you HAVE TO swallow this pill, but you can't get a job, you can't buy groceries, you can't see the doctor, you may not even be permitted to breathe good American air if you refuse!"
Uhhhhhh - your idea sounds like the shits. For the sake of fairness, I want to verify what I think you said.
At the bottom of the list of ingredients, you want a disclaimer that some or all of the ingredients might be GMO? Really?
So, I go get a can of nasty assed pasta, tomato, and beef byproduct, similar to Chef Boy-ar-Dee. It's got all kinds of ingredients in it. How am I to know whether the GMO is the wheat, the tomatoes, the beef, or what?
I'd rather have a list of actual ingredients, please.
Tomatoes, GMO wheat, beef byproduct, artificial colors and flavorings, GMO corn syrup and so forth.
Wait - huh, wut? Thalidomide? I was just considering Sonic for a nice refreshing thalidomide milkshake!
Wrong answer. The correct answer would have been, "Because Monsanto owns a large number of American lawmakers and judges."
Gluten allergies affect a small amount of people. What Monsanto does is intended to affect everyone on earth. If/when one of their test goes horribly wrong - we all suffer. Well - everyone EXCEPT the people with gluten allergies, because they aren't eating the stuff anyway.
"I would actually be a little surprised it was sold."
They'll buy ANYTHING on E-bay. No reason to be surprised.
That is my thought. An "impactor" would seem to leave a nice wide crater. A bunker buster would probably leave a cleaner, more focused channel, and probably deeper. Slip the nuke down into the deep, narrow hole, detonate, the plasma is more or less focused in one direction. Any chunks and pieces that break away are just reaction mass anyway. The asteroid may or may not be fragmented, but it will have a lot of delta-V in the desired direction.
"You forgot to sudo. Go directly to jail!"
Terminal window was already su - I don't use sudo very often. Some say it's a bad habit, but some distros don't even have sudo.
By default, sudo is disabled in Sabayon. http://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Enable_sudo
They are requiring you to assist them in building a case against you. It's an adversarial situation, and I cannot be required to assist my adversaries.
I have two options - I can open the door for them, and hope the assholes will give me a pat on the head, and knock some time off of my conviction. OR, I can refuse to cooperate. and force them to break the door down to execute their warrant.
In MOST situations, it will be to my benefit to cooperate with them. But, let's imagine that I've just executed dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda and exited the house, just to be stopped by the police as I was climbing into my car.
I'm not going to open the door, thereby enabling them to halt the dd command so that they can get the info to prosecute me! Let them break the door down, and in court, they can tell the judge that I was uncooperative, and my lawyer can deal with motions, pleas, etc.