Yet it still sailed through the Senate, mostly because lawmakers - many of whom can barely operate their own email - know hardly anything about the technology that theyâ(TM)re crafting legislation about.
Bullshit. They know damned well what they're doing: They're legalizing more and more surveillance and privacy violation of U.S. citizens, because they can. Them, them, fuck them.
Yes both sugar and flour are bad for you. There is thing called "Diseases of Western Civilization" and they come along when sugar and flour start showing up in your diet.
Sure thing, chief. Then there's the study that came out recently that says washing your body with soap is actually terrible for you. All in all it sounds like we're supposed to drop everything, including our clothes, and go back to living in the trees, eating whatever grubs and berries we can forage. So much for evolution.:-(
"Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time." - George Carlin
We're now not supposed to eat meat of any kind, or sugar, or alcohol, avoid carbs, avoid fat.. would someone like to point out some peer-reviewed University studies that show that drinking water will actually kill you? Then we can all be totally healthy and just kill ourselves in 3 days from dehydration, rather than having to wait out the several months it takes to die of starvation.
Have any of you ever decompiled machine code and from that tried to figure out how it worked? It's damned difficult, because what functions, variables, registers, and ports are referred to as in the source code, and very much so the programmers' comments, tell you most of what you need to know. Of course I'm not saying that truly talented programmers can't do it, but it's much more difficult. If you've got the source code, fully (hopefully!) commented, a talented hacker (said in the malicious sense of the word, mind you) can find the vulnerabilities relatively quickly, and devise a way to exploit them. I'm not necessarily advocating for closed-source software, but having something as critical as the firmware/software running your vehicle as all open-source could really turn things into a worse race against time between the black hats who want to hijack your vehicle, and the white hats who want to find the vulnerabilities and fix them. In my opinion it's going to be tougher all around if the firmware/software is closed-source, making that race slower. To be fair though, with closed-source, it's easier for manufacturers to just hide the vulnerabilities instead of spending the money required to fix them; you can thank their lawyers and their risk/benefit calculations for that ('It's cheaper to pay off the lawsuits than to fix the actual problem' sort of thinking).
"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them." "...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." "Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." "I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly." "Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178. Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug. Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant." "A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude."
..yeah, I don't trust Zuckerberg, Facebook, or their 'school' any farther than I could throw them, and I don't recommend anyone else do so, either.
Oh I dunno, I'm kind of sick and fucking well tired of how people typically treat other people on this gods-be-damned planet, and I don't mean just the Internet.
While you're at it, you might as well be done with women too. I mean, if you're going to use Linux you should get used to sucking dick and taking it up the ass.
It's always nice to hear from someone who speaks from a position of knowing what they're talking about because of their long experience with the subject. Perhaps you should write a book on the subject, a sort of 'how-to'?
Before we know they can stop us from walking down the street because we would be violating their copyrights by appearing in a public place
See, on the surface that sounds like hyperbole, but it's closer to the truth than one might think: Remember, not too long ago at all, they tried to enforce copyright on Happy Birthday? We live in a world where if these dickheads had their wish, would have Copyright Police all over the place, maybe even audio surveillance, and would send you a royalties bill if they caught you idly humming or singing a popular song in a public place. There would be no such thing as 'fair use', everyone would own something, and even if you created something entirely unique, you'd have to defend your ownership of it tooth and nail, because some corporation would otherwise claim ownership of it (just like Sony did in TFA) and effectively take it away from you then charge you for daring to use it. There would be no such thing anymore as 'public domain' or 'open source'. Essentially there would be no such thing as 'freedom of speech/expression', either, and effectively no such thing as 'freedom of thought'. Now, someone is going to accuse me of spreading FUD, but go take a look at what's going on in the world: we're not that far from an outright, 100% corporate-owned-and-operated world already. The only thing right now that stands in the way of that is the same thing that has already been standing in the way of it for decade upon decade: people are still relatively free (more or less so, depending where you are in the world) to do as they please. You can still make a 'mix tape' for someone on a thumb drive and pass it around to people you know. Media still isn't so completely locked down that someone can't find a way to rip copies of it for 'fair use' purposes. And so on. Given their druthers, corporations all over the world would have us living in a full-on police state, complete with random warrantless public search-and seizures, just to make sure that 'pirates' aren't 'illegally copying' anything, and every last character transmit or receive on the Internet would be sifted and analyzed to make sure you're not even thinking of violating someone's copy'right'. We aren't 100% at that dystopia yet, but things like the TPP will bring us closer to it.
I second this question; I'm done with Windows and Microsoft in general, and would rather not have a computer at all anymore than ever have Orwellian Windows 10.
You know.. I left this comment, and now you've got me thinking. How many other people would react the same way I just reacted to it, but who have the money to actually invest? Maybe plenty.
I don't have a chronic or terminal disease, but if I had money lying around I'd invest it in this guy's company, just to encourge them to continue being one of the few anti-assholes of the world. More power to 'em.
What I was thinking, is if there's sugar and alcohol present, does that mean there's a good possibility that there are (or were) colonies of microorganisms on this (and perhaps other) comets, that are turning the sugar into alcohol?
I defend the U.S. Constitution every single time I exercise my right to vote in this country, sign petitions to right wrongs or effect change, join in a peaceful public protest, write or call a member of congress to voice my opinions or concerns, or for that matter call or write POTUS directly -- all of which I have, at one point or another, actually done. For that matter I'm defending the U.S. Constitution right here and now, by exercising my First Amendment Right to freedom of speech. What have you done, other than shoot your mouth off as an anonymous coward on a gods-be-damned Internet discussion forum? Rhetorical question, I'm pretty sure you've done Jack and Shit, in that order. You do not impress me one bit.
What if you received a National Security Letter instructing you to kill somebody . . . what would you do . . . ?
Frankly? I'd take the shortest possible route to the closest foreign embassy of either Russia, or China, or some other large country that is not an ally of the United States, and present them with it, because at that moment in time it would become obvious that even the illusion of the U.S. Constitution meaning a goddamned thing would be gone, so there would be no reason to defend it anymore.
I'm not sure if you're trying to make a Doctor Who joke, or if you don't get what I'm doing, but Tardis 2000 is just what's interpreting the serial data stream from the GPS receiver I'm using.
Note that I am not disagreeing with your comment, but I wouldn't quite put it as 'friendly' bacteria. They co-exist with us in a symbiotic relationship, yes, but if you do something to put things too far out of balance, these so-called 'friendly' bacteria can overbreed and become harmful, too. As others above and below you have mentioned, we're just starting to understand how the populations of bacteria in and on our bodies impact our overall health and well-being.
Long term studies are being done by customers. They may not realize it.
Really. So who, exactly, has been putting this substance in their mouths for years and years? Nothing mentioned above is anything that goes in your mouth and stays there for years and years.
Quaternary ammonium salts are used as disinfectants, surfactants, fabric softeners, and as antistatic agents (e.g. in shampoos). In liquid fabric softeners, the chloride salts are often used. In dryer anticling strips, the sulfate salts are often used. Spermicidal jellies also contain quaternary ammonium salts.
Are we sure this is safe to have in your mouth 24/7/365? Long-term studies done?
What I'm saying is that it seems a bit extreme to pick up and move out of the country over this. They've received much public support in the press, from the White House, from POTUS himself, etc. At the very least there is more to the story than what we all know at this point, and what's hidden is what's making me feel like this was some sort of pre-planned set-up. Have they received death threats, or been directly threatened? I think there's much we don't know and may not know for weeks or months from now.
Actually it was a Radio Shack clock, not a Walmart clock.
Regardless of that.. this whole thing is now sounding like it was some sort of setup from the beginning, a publicity stunt, intended to make the U.S. look bad to the rest of the world -- even worse than we already look, that is.
If distance=0 represents a theoretical "full power", then how do you double that distance to get the half (or quarter) power according to the inverse law?
You're halfway across the bridge. You're three quarters of the way across the bridge. You're seven eighths of the way across the bridge. You're fifteen sixteenths of the way across the bridge. You're thirty-one thirty-seconds of the way across the bridge. You're sixty-three sixty-fourths of the way across the bridge. You're one hundred twenty-seven one hundred twenty-eighths of the way across the bridge. You're two hundred fifty-five two hundred fifty-sixths of the way across the bridge. (and so on, and so on..)
A transformer, which has tightly wound coils over a metal core, is something like 99.99% efficient. Loosening things up with distance, the efficiency starts dropping off quickly, as previously stated by others.
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Yet it still sailed through the Senate, mostly because lawmakers - many of whom can barely operate their own email - know hardly anything about the technology that theyâ(TM)re crafting legislation about.
Bullshit. They know damned well what they're doing: They're legalizing more and more surveillance and privacy violation of U.S. citizens, because they can. Them, them, fuck them.
Yes both sugar and flour are bad for you. There is thing called "Diseases of Western Civilization" and they come along when sugar and flour start showing up in your diet.
Sure thing, chief. Then there's the study that came out recently that says washing your body with soap is actually terrible for you. All in all it sounds like we're supposed to drop everything, including our clothes, and go back to living in the trees, eating whatever grubs and berries we can forage. So much for evolution. :-(
"Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time." - George Carlin
We're now not supposed to eat meat of any kind, or sugar, or alcohol, avoid carbs, avoid fat.. would someone like to point out some peer-reviewed University studies that show that drinking water will actually kill you? Then we can all be totally healthy and just kill ourselves in 3 days from dehydration, rather than having to wait out the several months it takes to die of starvation.
Have any of you ever decompiled machine code and from that tried to figure out how it worked? It's damned difficult, because what functions, variables, registers, and ports are referred to as in the source code, and very much so the programmers' comments, tell you most of what you need to know. Of course I'm not saying that truly talented programmers can't do it, but it's much more difficult. If you've got the source code, fully (hopefully!) commented, a talented hacker (said in the malicious sense of the word, mind you) can find the vulnerabilities relatively quickly, and devise a way to exploit them. I'm not necessarily advocating for closed-source software, but having something as critical as the firmware/software running your vehicle as all open-source could really turn things into a worse race against time between the black hats who want to hijack your vehicle, and the white hats who want to find the vulnerabilities and fix them. In my opinion it's going to be tougher all around if the firmware/software is closed-source, making that race slower. To be fair though, with closed-source, it's easier for manufacturers to just hide the vulnerabilities instead of spending the money required to fix them; you can thank their lawyers and their risk/benefit calculations for that ('It's cheaper to pay off the lawsuits than to fix the actual problem' sort of thinking).
"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."
"...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution."
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
"I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly."
"Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178. Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug. Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."
"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude."
..yeah, I don't trust Zuckerberg, Facebook, or their 'school' any farther than I could throw them, and I don't recommend anyone else do so, either.
Oh I dunno, I'm kind of sick and fucking well tired of how people typically treat other people on this gods-be-damned planet, and I don't mean just the Internet.
While you're at it, you might as well be done with women too. I mean, if you're going to use Linux you should get used to sucking dick and taking it up the ass.
It's always nice to hear from someone who speaks from a position of knowing what they're talking about because of their long experience with the subject. Perhaps you should write a book on the subject, a sort of 'how-to'?
Before we know they can stop us from walking down the street because we would be violating their copyrights by appearing in a public place
See, on the surface that sounds like hyperbole, but it's closer to the truth than one might think: Remember, not too long ago at all, they tried to enforce copyright on Happy Birthday? We live in a world where if these dickheads had their wish, would have Copyright Police all over the place, maybe even audio surveillance, and would send you a royalties bill if they caught you idly humming or singing a popular song in a public place. There would be no such thing as 'fair use', everyone would own something, and even if you created something entirely unique, you'd have to defend your ownership of it tooth and nail, because some corporation would otherwise claim ownership of it (just like Sony did in TFA) and effectively take it away from you then charge you for daring to use it. There would be no such thing anymore as 'public domain' or 'open source'. Essentially there would be no such thing as 'freedom of speech/expression', either, and effectively no such thing as 'freedom of thought'. Now, someone is going to accuse me of spreading FUD, but go take a look at what's going on in the world: we're not that far from an outright, 100% corporate-owned-and-operated world already. The only thing right now that stands in the way of that is the same thing that has already been standing in the way of it for decade upon decade: people are still relatively free (more or less so, depending where you are in the world) to do as they please. You can still make a 'mix tape' for someone on a thumb drive and pass it around to people you know. Media still isn't so completely locked down that someone can't find a way to rip copies of it for 'fair use' purposes. And so on. Given their druthers, corporations all over the world would have us living in a full-on police state, complete with random warrantless public search-and seizures, just to make sure that 'pirates' aren't 'illegally copying' anything, and every last character transmit or receive on the Internet would be sifted and analyzed to make sure you're not even thinking of violating someone's copy'right'. We aren't 100% at that dystopia yet, but things like the TPP will bring us closer to it.
Does it run Linux ?
I second this question; I'm done with Windows and Microsoft in general, and would rather not have a computer at all anymore than ever have Orwellian Windows 10.
You know.. I left this comment, and now you've got me thinking. How many other people would react the same way I just reacted to it, but who have the money to actually invest? Maybe plenty.
I don't have a chronic or terminal disease, but if I had money lying around I'd invest it in this guy's company, just to encourge them to continue being one of the few anti-assholes of the world. More power to 'em.
What I was thinking, is if there's sugar and alcohol present, does that mean there's a good possibility that there are (or were) colonies of microorganisms on this (and perhaps other) comets, that are turning the sugar into alcohol?
Thanks for the pic, I'll put it in the same folder as the pic comparing the image on an HD display versus the same image rendered on a UHD display.
I defend the U.S. Constitution every single time I exercise my right to vote in this country, sign petitions to right wrongs or effect change, join in a peaceful public protest, write or call a member of congress to voice my opinions or concerns, or for that matter call or write POTUS directly -- all of which I have, at one point or another, actually done. For that matter I'm defending the U.S. Constitution right here and now, by exercising my First Amendment Right to freedom of speech. What have you done, other than shoot your mouth off as an anonymous coward on a gods-be-damned Internet discussion forum? Rhetorical question, I'm pretty sure you've done Jack and Shit, in that order. You do not impress me one bit.
What if you received a National Security Letter instructing you to kill somebody . . . what would you do . . . ?
Frankly? I'd take the shortest possible route to the closest foreign embassy of either Russia, or China, or some other large country that is not an ally of the United States, and present them with it, because at that moment in time it would become obvious that even the illusion of the U.S. Constitution meaning a goddamned thing would be gone, so there would be no reason to defend it anymore.
Nah, his verdict was probably given to him by the NSA shortly after realizing exactly how much internet monitoring they do.
This, or perhaps the judge in question was just too much of a coward to rule against a government organization that could destroy his entire life.
I'm not sure if you're trying to make a Doctor Who joke, or if you don't get what I'm doing, but Tardis 2000 is just what's interpreting the serial data stream from the GPS receiver I'm using.
..friendly bacteria..
Note that I am not disagreeing with your comment, but I wouldn't quite put it as 'friendly' bacteria. They co-exist with us in a symbiotic relationship, yes, but if you do something to put things too far out of balance, these so-called 'friendly' bacteria can overbreed and become harmful, too. As others above and below you have mentioned, we're just starting to understand how the populations of bacteria in and on our bodies impact our overall health and well-being.
Long term studies are being done by customers. They may not realize it.
Really. So who, exactly, has been putting this substance in their mouths for years and years? Nothing mentioned above is anything that goes in your mouth and stays there for years and years.
My desktop is updated via a GPS receiver connected to Tardis 2000 so I don't have to use any Internet-connected time server.
Quaternary ammonium salts are used as disinfectants, surfactants, fabric softeners, and as antistatic agents (e.g. in shampoos). In liquid fabric softeners, the chloride salts are often used. In dryer anticling strips, the sulfate salts are often used. Spermicidal jellies also contain quaternary ammonium salts.
Are we sure this is safe to have in your mouth 24/7/365? Long-term studies done?
What I'm saying is that it seems a bit extreme to pick up and move out of the country over this. They've received much public support in the press, from the White House, from POTUS himself, etc. At the very least there is more to the story than what we all know at this point, and what's hidden is what's making me feel like this was some sort of pre-planned set-up. Have they received death threats, or been directly threatened? I think there's much we don't know and may not know for weeks or months from now.
Actually it was a Radio Shack clock, not a Walmart clock.
Regardless of that.. this whole thing is now sounding like it was some sort of setup from the beginning, a publicity stunt, intended to make the U.S. look bad to the rest of the world -- even worse than we already look, that is.
If distance=0 represents a theoretical "full power", then how do you double that distance to get the half (or quarter) power according to the inverse law?
You're halfway across the bridge.
You're three quarters of the way across the bridge.
You're seven eighths of the way across the bridge.
You're fifteen sixteenths of the way across the bridge.
You're thirty-one thirty-seconds of the way across the bridge.
You're sixty-three sixty-fourths of the way across the bridge.
You're one hundred twenty-seven one hundred twenty-eighths of the way across the bridge.
You're two hundred fifty-five two hundred fifty-sixths of the way across the bridge.
(and so on, and so on..)
A transformer, which has tightly wound coils over a metal core, is something like 99.99% efficient. Loosening things up with distance, the efficiency starts dropping off quickly, as previously stated by others.
Moo. XD