As a US citizen, I'm not sure if I have ever wanted a foreign power to give the finger to our government quite so hard. Civil Forfeiture goes against everything the Founders stood for. IMHO, our first revolution started over matters far less concerning. The only reason we haven't burned it all down yet is because it isn't hurting enough people.
I get what you're saying about "God hiding"; but let's look at this from a practical PoV. The first time you simulate civilization sophisticated enough for there to be simulated scientists, they discover they're running in a simulation. That information leaks into your simulation, which proceeds to have an existential crisis, preoccupies itself with jail-breaking the sim, communicating with the simulators, etc. If your desire was anything other than this, the experiment is deemed a failure and version 2.0 is designed to run like your world; but with a few clauses to make it harder for simulated scientists to discover the sim.
Either the aliens live in a universe where the rules are different and simulating this is easy, or the scientists being convinced of this is part of the program, or I'm the only one in the universe and me typing on Slashdot is something that the aliens in the zoo find interesting. Nobody can disprove any of that.... assuming anybody exists.
The smart thing to do would have been to evacuate the embassy without telling anybody, possibly leaving behind a skeleton crew who understood the risk. They could pack it with sensors and determine what it was and where it was coming from. It seems plausible that Cuba wouldn't do this, and since Canada has had normal relations with them for years that's an obvious mistake. I'm guessing the Canadian embassy is near the US one; but if it isn't then we have to ask ourselves who would want to mess with both countries? We're probably not going to find out though now, because our hand was tipped... unless we actually know who it is and are deciding not to announce *that*, in which case I stand corrected and might applaud them for a smart move... if I'm alive long enough to see it declassified. That takes what, 50 years usually?
Some things have changed, some haven't. The government was *always* abusing people both here and abroad. The Internet just makes it easier to hear about things, and easier to engage in different kinds of abuse. Tuskeegee experiment, MK ultra, CIA meddling overseas, FBI files on people, McCarthyism, eugenics, etc. All that stuff took place a long time ago in the America that people looked up to. It was easier to hide back then.
That said, it does seem like there's something more than simply the removal of rose-colored glasses at work here. We've seen a steady erosion of ethics, a tighter integration of lobbyists and government to the point where corruption is blatantly obvious, an exhaustion of the treasury by the military-industrial complex, and a lack of vision. We don't even have our own manned space vehicles now, although "we're working on it".
We need statesmen. We keep electing yes men.
It's not necessarily the end of our nation--we've actually had some really terrible corruption if you go back through history and read it. It may be part of a generational cycle. I definitely think we are going through an ugly phase now. I'm not sure how we pull out; but I know we can.
That's a good question. We'd have to know more about what it's like inside the bank, what their procedures are for handling various pieces of equipment. We really need more detail, down to the layout of the bank's offices. Hey, Swiss Bank, see? If you were fully open source we could fix this bug./sarcasm.
Seriously though, I can see how somebody would be paranoid about using the shredder in this situation. It's often near the copier, sometimes in a secure location. You might say the same about counterfeit testing equipment... but maybe not. Maybe all the tellers have access to a proprietary tester and it doesn't go "W00t!" or anything that would attract attention when it hits.
Of course the bills could be real, and then we're back to square 1.
TFA only says the bills are worth "10s of thousands of dollars". With each bill being worth approx. $600 at current exchange rates, it doesn't take too many to get into that range. The question becomes, "how many 500 Euro notes does it take to clog a toilet?", and the answer depends on all kinds of things such as the diameter and condition of the pipes, and the characteristics of their cut-up currency. Narrow pipes full of scale sometimes get clogged by turds and paper, so it might not take too many plastic bank notes to do that. Whoever did this most likely thought the cut-up notes were on their way to a sewage treatment plant, or at least into main pipes where their origins would be obscured. They guessed wrong.
Do we really know what the deceleration would be? Is the train supposed to fit the tube perfectly like a piston in a cylinder, or is there a gap? If there's a gap it might not be so bad. Even if it's like a piston, air is highly compressible and there could be blow-out gaskets. Under ordinary circumstances the outside air will push the gaskets in hard. Just put a few plates with relatively weak bolts and some caulking at regular intervals. Under ordinary circumstances even the strongest man couldn't pull those gaskets off. If anything decompresses, the over-pressure from the oncoming train would blow them out and relieve the pressure.
We really need to model all this first before we build it though. That's way beyond my capabilities, but certainly Musk's organizations are up to the task.
Because he's an insider at the bank, working with his partners to test the bills. The insider was using the bank's counterfeit detection machinery to see which bills would work. These were detected, so he disposed of them.
I suppose that's possible; but I think it's far more likely that the government is just trying to reduce capital flight. People in China who have money are always looking for ways to offshore it, and the government is always looking for ways to stop that.
Yeah, but it looks like the background image goes "under" the camera. What happens when you go full screen to watch a video? If you get a black background with status on the horns, and the video is re-sized so that it's unobstructed; that's cool. I wouldn't want any of my actual video or picture being obstructed by the "bite" though. Either way, they can't legitimately claim that the front is "all display".
Is that really display surface with a bite out of it on the X? What are you supposed to do with the two little devil-horns at the top? Ads I guess. Yeah, nevermind. Devil-horn advertising will be the hot new trend.
Spellikans be deludin' that our common ling be driftin' up on a split. Satchel in sharp tip, "boffins" fur "enginkrafter". It squaks like a non-flying ave to some; but it's snot.
I've already heard that Gates dropped acid and a little googling pulled up some confirmation. I've seen it in other sources too. So. Old school Microsoft *is* a product of the "hippie" generation, just like Apple stuff. That generation gave us the happy-go lucky Woz, and the hard-driving egomaniacal Jobs, and the square Gates.
The jury is out on whether or not it increases your odds of certain cancers; but I've read some bios of other "pscyhonauts", and cancer seems to come up a lot. Of course it's just anecdotal, and they did a lot of other drugs; so it's hard to say.
So. If the Silly Valley wants to guinea pig themselves, I guess they are quasi-free to do that since the government is so dysfunctional these days it can barely even keep nazis and commies from re-enacting the Civil War with less spiffy uniforms. Then again, maybe somebody dosed me without me realizing it. That would explain a lot of things.
This is like me blaming a lock manufacturer for a theft that involved a bunch of Russian guys driving a truck up to my front door, picking the lock, and carrying off all my stuff over the course of 8 hours while I sat there getting drunk.
The best thing you can do with stuff like this is to take a once-in a lifetime profit. The 2nd best thing you can do is stay out. The worst thing you can do is hem and haw for months and then finally decide to go in big.
I can't tell you when this tide will turn; but I can virtually guarantee that the media will be interviewing somebody sobbing over how much they lost. That person will be a latecomer. Don't be that guy.
The people that are positioned to take a huge profit already believed in this stuff. If you are trying to convince yourself that this is the pony to pick, you're in serious danger of being that guy.
I saw this with the last silver run. There was a guy who put his life saving in silver days before it crashed. He was that guy. Every market does that. Don't be that guy. But I guarantee, somebody will be that guy.
Even if the machine had 30 different packets and custom drinks, it's not innovative. That's what Coca Cola Freestyle does, and it has a lot more than 30. I'd be surprised if Coke didn't have some patents they'd be violating.
OK, I got curious and tracked down some source. Warning PDF and the source is the MPAA, although I don't know why they would want to bias that particular stat, they *are* the MPAA so who knows? Anyway, their data show 18-24 and 25-39 as consistently the two largest age ranges. The wrinkle in this is that 9-18 is having their parents buy the tickets, especially the lower end of that range so I'm not sure how they actually measure this.
I can't find a better source, or any explanation of their methodology that might explain how a movie put a butt in a seat because an adult wanted to see it, or because they had to accompany their offspring or little sibling.
I don't know if the number of R rated films has dropped off, but let's say that it has. Maybe it's got more to do with ubiquitous Internet porn than age catering. Why pay $12 to see 10 seconds of boobies when you can fap your eyes out online for nothing?
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As a US citizen, I'm not sure if I have ever wanted a foreign power to give the finger to our government quite so hard. Civil Forfeiture goes against everything the Founders stood for. IMHO, our first revolution started over matters far less concerning. The only reason we haven't burned it all down yet is because it isn't hurting enough people.
I get what you're saying about "God hiding"; but let's look at this from a practical PoV. The first time you simulate civilization sophisticated enough for there to be simulated scientists, they discover they're running in a simulation. That information leaks into your simulation, which proceeds to have an existential crisis, preoccupies itself with jail-breaking the sim, communicating with the simulators, etc. If your desire was anything other than this, the experiment is deemed a failure and version 2.0 is designed to run like your world; but with a few clauses to make it harder for simulated scientists to discover the sim.
Either the aliens live in a universe where the rules are different and simulating this is easy, or the scientists being convinced of this is part of the program, or I'm the only one in the universe and me typing on Slashdot is something that the aliens in the zoo find interesting. Nobody can disprove any of that.... assuming anybody exists.
The smart thing to do would have been to evacuate the embassy without telling anybody, possibly leaving behind a skeleton crew who understood the risk. They could pack it with sensors and determine what it was and where it was coming from. It seems plausible that Cuba wouldn't do this, and since Canada has had normal relations with them for years that's an obvious mistake. I'm guessing the Canadian embassy is near the US one; but if it isn't then we have to ask ourselves who would want to mess with both countries? We're probably not going to find out though now, because our hand was tipped... unless we actually know who it is and are deciding not to announce *that*, in which case I stand corrected and might applaud them for a smart move... if I'm alive long enough to see it declassified. That takes what, 50 years usually?
Some things have changed, some haven't. The government was *always* abusing people both here and abroad. The Internet just makes it easier to hear about things, and easier to engage in different kinds of abuse. Tuskeegee experiment, MK ultra, CIA meddling overseas, FBI files on people, McCarthyism, eugenics, etc. All that stuff took place a long time ago in the America that people looked up to. It was easier to hide back then.
That said, it does seem like there's something more than simply the removal of rose-colored glasses at work here. We've seen a steady erosion of ethics, a tighter integration of lobbyists and government to the point where corruption is blatantly obvious, an exhaustion of the treasury by the military-industrial complex, and a lack of vision. We don't even have our own manned space vehicles now, although "we're working on it".
We need statesmen. We keep electing yes men.
It's not necessarily the end of our nation--we've actually had some really terrible corruption if you go back through history and read it. It may be part of a generational cycle. I definitely think we are going through an ugly phase now. I'm not sure how we pull out; but I know we can.
That's a good question. We'd have to know more about what it's like inside the bank, what their procedures are for handling various pieces of equipment. We really need more detail, down to the layout of the bank's offices. Hey, Swiss Bank, see? If you were fully open source we could fix this bug. /sarcasm.
Seriously though, I can see how somebody would be paranoid about using the shredder in this situation. It's often near the copier, sometimes in a secure location. You might say the same about counterfeit testing equipment... but maybe not. Maybe all the tellers have access to a proprietary tester and it doesn't go "W00t!" or anything that would attract attention when it hits.
Of course the bills could be real, and then we're back to square 1.
TFA only says the bills are worth "10s of thousands of dollars". With each bill being worth approx. $600 at current exchange rates, it doesn't take too many to get into that range. The question becomes, "how many 500 Euro notes does it take to clog a toilet?", and the answer depends on all kinds of things such as the diameter and condition of the pipes, and the characteristics of their cut-up currency. Narrow pipes full of scale sometimes get clogged by turds and paper, so it might not take too many plastic bank notes to do that. Whoever did this most likely thought the cut-up notes were on their way to a sewage treatment plant, or at least into main pipes where their origins would be obscured. They guessed wrong.
Do we really know what the deceleration would be? Is the train supposed to fit the tube perfectly like a piston in a cylinder, or is there a gap? If there's a gap it might not be so bad. Even if it's like a piston, air is highly compressible and there could be blow-out gaskets. Under ordinary circumstances the outside air will push the gaskets in hard. Just put a few plates with relatively weak bolts and some caulking at regular intervals. Under ordinary circumstances even the strongest man couldn't pull those gaskets off. If anything decompresses, the over-pressure from the oncoming train would blow them out and relieve the pressure.
We really need to model all this first before we build it though. That's way beyond my capabilities, but certainly Musk's organizations are up to the task.
Because he's an insider at the bank, working with his partners to test the bills. The insider was using the bank's counterfeit detection machinery to see which bills would work. These were detected, so he disposed of them.
It's less than worthless.
Even if it takes 9 yeares. If I had wanted your website to make noise I would have licked my finger and rubbed it across the monitor.
Equifax is now an international criminal organization.
I suppose that's possible; but I think it's far more likely that the government is just trying to reduce capital flight. People in China who have money are always looking for ways to offshore it, and the government is always looking for ways to stop that.
Yeah, but it looks like the background image goes "under" the camera. What happens when you go full screen to watch a video? If you get a black background with status on the horns, and the video is re-sized so that it's unobstructed; that's cool. I wouldn't want any of my actual video or picture being obstructed by the "bite" though. Either way, they can't legitimately claim that the front is "all display".
Is that really display surface with a bite out of it on the X? What are you supposed to do with the two little devil-horns at the top? Ads I guess. Yeah, nevermind. Devil-horn advertising will be the hot new trend.
Spellikans be deludin' that our common ling be driftin' up on a split. Satchel in sharp tip, "boffins" fur "enginkrafter". It squaks like a non-flying ave to some; but it's snot.
I've already heard that Gates dropped acid and a little googling pulled up some confirmation. I've seen it in other sources too. So. Old school Microsoft *is* a product of the "hippie" generation, just like Apple stuff. That generation gave us the happy-go lucky Woz, and the hard-driving egomaniacal Jobs, and the square Gates.
The jury is out on whether or not it increases your odds of certain cancers; but I've read some bios of other "pscyhonauts", and cancer seems to come up a lot. Of course it's just anecdotal, and they did a lot of other drugs; so it's hard to say.
So. If the Silly Valley wants to guinea pig themselves, I guess they are quasi-free to do that since the government is so dysfunctional these days it can barely even keep nazis and commies from re-enacting the Civil War with less spiffy uniforms. Then again, maybe somebody dosed me without me realizing it. That would explain a lot of things.
This is like me blaming a lock manufacturer for a theft that involved a bunch of Russian guys driving a truck up to my front door, picking the lock, and carrying off all my stuff over the course of 8 hours while I sat there getting drunk.
Sorry. I'll try to cut back.
Don't anthropomorphize the atmosphere. It hates when you do that.
Burning Man is not one of them. If I had CEO pay from something as silly as that, I'd party while it circles the drain too.
It is a good day to dye.
The best thing you can do with stuff like this is to take a once-in a lifetime profit. The 2nd best thing you can do is stay out. The worst thing you can do is hem and haw for months and then finally decide to go in big.
I can't tell you when this tide will turn; but I can virtually guarantee that the media will be interviewing somebody sobbing over how much they lost. That person will be a latecomer. Don't be that guy.
The people that are positioned to take a huge profit already believed in this stuff. If you are trying to convince yourself that this is the pony to pick, you're in serious danger of being that guy.
I saw this with the last silver run. There was a guy who put his life saving in silver days before it crashed. He was that guy. Every market does that. Don't be that guy. But I guarantee, somebody will be that guy.
Even if the machine had 30 different packets and custom drinks, it's not innovative. That's what Coca Cola Freestyle does, and it has a lot more than 30. I'd be surprised if Coke didn't have some patents they'd be violating.
OK, I got curious and tracked down some source. Warning PDF and the source is the MPAA, although I don't know why they would want to bias that particular stat, they *are* the MPAA so who knows? Anyway, their data show 18-24 and 25-39 as consistently the two largest age ranges. The wrinkle in this is that 9-18 is having their parents buy the tickets, especially the lower end of that range so I'm not sure how they actually measure this.
I can't find a better source, or any explanation of their methodology that might explain how a movie put a butt in a seat because an adult wanted to see it, or because they had to accompany their offspring or little sibling.
I don't know if the number of R rated films has dropped off, but let's say that it has. Maybe it's got more to do with ubiquitous Internet porn than age catering. Why pay $12 to see 10 seconds of boobies when you can fap your eyes out online for nothing?