I think that hardly that moron^H^H^H^H^Htechie will have enough resources to compensate his former employer for damages.
What damages? TFA mentions "virtual chaos" - why wouldn't this equate with "virtual damages" and "virtual prison"?
For those not fully awaken, I'm attempting some lame fun on the overuse of "virtual/virtualization". I've seen until now lots of abuses: "piracy is theft", "cloud", cyberwar/cyberterror (BTW, cybernetics doesn't have too much to do with computers) etc. The "virtual chaos" seems a new concept.
Outback still has internet, slow and expensive yes but internet still
Let me guess: it will be my duty, as a responsible citizen, to throw in some money and get myself a slow but expensive internet connection? If the govt wants to get my post online, then its responsibility to get me proper internet.
After paying the taxes, I don't understand why it should be me to pay extra... or is it the liberal party on the idea that the govt is a corporation, to externalize the costs as much as possible and get a higher profit?
What for the cases in which:
a. no reliable access to Internet or not owning a computer - the outback is huge
b. persons that don't know how to operate a computer (even if they know very well how to break a horse).
He gives an example of a dielectric slab being inserted into a parallel plate capacitor, which results in a decrease in the electric field between the plates. The decrease is due to the fact that the electric charges of opposite sign attract each other. But if the electric charges of opposite sign were repulsive instead of attractive, then the electric field would increase. Back to the quantum vacuum scenario, since the gravitational charges of opposite sign are repulsive, the strength of the gravitational field increases.
If the gravitational charge of opposite signs are repulsive, it would mean that the "vacuum gravitational dipole" will have a tendency to separate into matter and antimatter. As the antimatter is repulsed by the normal matter, wouldn't this require the introduction of another force (the "dark force"?) – that should be even stronger than the strong force – to explain how come we are not seeing flows of antimatter originating from the core of the galaxies?
But Dr Chin says any artificial amino acid could be chosen to produce specific new properties. Dr de Bono suggests the approach could now be used to introduce into organisms designer proteins that could be controlled by light.
On the "bright side" - some designer CART-s activated by shining a laser inside the ear?
IANAB. Suppose an alga with a gene containing an "unnatural" aminoacid escapes the enclosure and start multiplying (thus producing more of that unnatural aminoacid). What would happen to organisms that feed on that algae? Or just... I don't know... inhale it in the act of respiration?
However, to lighten the tone a bit - paradoxically we (the people) were the champions of telling jokes about the authorities, the Party and the leader. It was simply the national favorite past-time. Even jokes that joked about being killed because of telling jokes. We were laughing our heads off! Was it the same in your place?
(from what I wrote, just how did you get that one has to be listed on all 3 of them?)
Isn't just one enough to know that the same would have happened if one would be listed in the bad books of any other secret police?
Do you remember the "fun" we had when those files were opened after 1989?
Yes, I do and I confirm this is how it goes. I can't however stress enough that, as innacurate as they were, they were just accurate enough for their purpose: no matter what, the purpose ends in not being the security of the citizens, but the "security" of a totally screwed up and nightmarish status-quo!
My fellow Americans, for your own sake, do not go there!!
By my feeling the correct expression should be: stop going there (before it's too late).
Listening to VOA shouldn't be punishable for the act in itself is ample punishment.
I can assure you it wasn't like this when one was living in the communist block about more than 20 years ago.
For the present, I wouldn't know, I have no reasons to listen to it anymore. But I tend to trust you on this: as the attitude of the population, USA took quite a nasty turn from the civil movements of 1970 to what it is now. Mind you, this is not necessarily attributable to the govts: the period have had govts at least as ugly as they are now.
This doesn't sound a whole lot different than CDs or DVDs burned in factories.
What, in your opinion, is written on the vast majority of the CD/DVD-es produced in factories? (with the minor correction: by etching, not burning, it's cheaper)
While I don't like the Terrorist Screening Database operated by the FBI, this story is off the mark by making it sound like DHS is setting up a new list; which they are not. They are looking to improving how they get the information from the TSD. Read the abstract here:
Thanks for the link, but I think it is you that are way off the mark: the uttermost important thing to the matter is not how accurate the information is, but the fact that nobody from the civil society will know if they are or are not included in that database, much less how accurate the information is.
Not very different from the files gathered and stored by every secret police (or "State Security" organisation, like STASI and KGB) used to. And I can guarantee you: the STASI/Securitate/KGB/Gestapo files were accurate enough for the purpose.
DHS has failed to make the country safer; if anything it made it easier for government to abuse the citizens.
This is thoughtcrime! How dare you object to MiniLuv!?... Errr, or was it KGB? Maybe STASI or Securitate? No? Gestapo then?
What are you saying, is still just the Department of Homeland Security? Not for long, my friend, not for long - we've always been at war with Eastasia - the PROTECT-IP makes sure we are always right (because everything wrong does not exist) and the PATRIOT act is essential for maintaining the peace.
We'll probably eventually find out who's on it when all our personal info ends up leaked on a torrent somewhere.
IF you'll be able to access it.
From direct experience, I can tell that the moment institutions concerned with "the state security" like STASI, KGB, Securitate start dealing in secret and unchecked by the civil society, funny things happen: even listening to radio stations like"Voice of America" or BBC used to land you in prison.
Remember the PROTECT-IP? How long 'til will be extended beyond "Intellectual Property" and possibly merged with the PATRIOT act? How long until circumventing it will be considered a crime?
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I think that hardly that moron^H^H^H^H^Htechie will have enough resources to compensate his former employer for damages.
What damages? TFA mentions "virtual chaos" - why wouldn't this equate with "virtual damages" and "virtual prison"?
For those not fully awaken, I'm attempting some lame fun on the overuse of "virtual/virtualization". I've seen until now lots of abuses: "piracy is theft", "cloud", cyberwar/cyberterror (BTW, cybernetics doesn't have too much to do with computers) etc. The "virtual chaos" seems a new concept.
Outback still has internet, slow and expensive yes but internet still
Let me guess: it will be my duty, as a responsible citizen, to throw in some money and get myself a slow but expensive internet connection? If the govt wants to get my post online, then its responsibility to get me proper internet.
After paying the taxes, I don't understand why it should be me to pay extra... or is it the liberal party on the idea that the govt is a corporation, to externalize the costs as much as possible and get a higher profit?
That's why it's opt-in.
So, what if one opts-in and 2-3 years later wants to relocate in the outback?
as long as they tie the delivery of e-services up good and tight so that it mus be always available to every citizen,
In regards with tight, one word... LulSec.
(they showed it is possible. How long until this "pigeon hole" will be cracked?)
The real issue is winding down the postal system. Postal systems worldwide are sending fewer letters each year.
I think Anonymous (the LulSec branch) may be tempted to disagree with the "real issue".
Wanna bet on the outcome in the context in which (TFA):
Citizens would likely be given a name and date of birth as an account name for the service to be hosted on the country's Australia.gov.au domain.
?
What for the cases in which:
a. no reliable access to Internet or not owning a computer - the outback is huge
b. persons that don't know how to operate a computer (even if they know very well how to break a horse).
... and I'm sharing my impression... with the hope it will save others some time so they can waste it on more intelligent news: for example, try this: Man Just Walked Into Best Buy For No Reason Whatsoever
He gives an example of a dielectric slab being inserted into a parallel plate capacitor, which results in a decrease in the electric field between the plates. The decrease is due to the fact that the electric charges of opposite sign attract each other. But if the electric charges of opposite sign were repulsive instead of attractive, then the electric field would increase. Back to the quantum vacuum scenario, since the gravitational charges of opposite sign are repulsive, the strength of the gravitational field increases.
If the gravitational charge of opposite signs are repulsive, it would mean that the "vacuum gravitational dipole" will have a tendency to separate into matter and antimatter.
As the antimatter is repulsed by the normal matter, wouldn't this require the introduction of another force (the "dark force"?) – that should be even stronger than the strong force – to explain how come we are not seeing flows of antimatter originating from the core of the galaxies?
Maps and street signs don't need batteries.
And they don't need gasoline for driving the car.
Neither do they need sails for boats.
Or even wood only for the fire.
Did I get your point well?
But Dr Chin says any artificial amino acid could be chosen to produce specific new properties. Dr de Bono suggests the approach could now be used to introduce into organisms designer proteins that could be controlled by light.
On the "bright side" - some designer CART-s activated by shining a laser inside the ear?
IANAB.
Suppose an alga with a gene containing an "unnatural" aminoacid escapes the enclosure and start multiplying (thus producing more of that unnatural aminoacid). What would happen to organisms that feed on that algae? Or just... I don't know... inhale it in the act of respiration?
Peolpe with blue houses are not a protected class in any way shape of form.
My religion requires me to paint my house in blue. Do you discriminate against me because of this?
You state that you had direct experience of ... and then gave a list of 3 secret police organisations.
...
What you originally wrote sounded like a list of the political police forces that you'd fallen foul of. An incredible list.
Well, not intentionally. A word may make the difference
institutions concerned with "the state security" like STASI, KGB, Securitate
Other than that, you are right.
However, to lighten the tone a bit - paradoxically we (the people) were the champions of telling jokes about the authorities, the Party and the leader. It was simply the national favorite past-time. Even jokes that joked about being killed because of telling jokes. We were laughing our heads off! Was it the same in your place?
Yes, it was the same.
And don't start with the "Will somebody please think of the children" crap. Kids are smart, they'll figure out what to do.
If they'll survive the economic crisis by then.
(from what I wrote, just how did you get that one has to be listed on all 3 of them?)
Isn't just one enough to know that the same would have happened if one would be listed in the bad books of any other secret police?
Do you remember the "fun" we had when those files were opened after 1989?
Yes, I do and I confirm this is how it goes. I can't however stress enough that, as innacurate as they were, they were just accurate enough for their purpose: no matter what, the purpose ends in not being the security of the citizens, but the "security" of a totally screwed up and nightmarish status-quo!
My fellow Americans, for your own sake, do not go there!!
By my feeling the correct expression should be: stop going there (before it's too late).
Let me give you a simple example of gamification: karma points on Slashdot.
Well, they do matter for karma-whores. Not so much the one of us coming for "stuff that matters" and certainly not at all for trolls.
(BTW: TFA-s are, in my opinion, an excellent food for thought. At least today I haven't wasted all the time I spent on /.. Thank you, Mark)
Listening to VOA shouldn't be punishable for the act in itself is ample punishment.
I can assure you it wasn't like this when one was living in the communist block about more than 20 years ago.
For the present, I wouldn't know, I have no reasons to listen to it anymore.
But I tend to trust you on this: as the attitude of the population, USA took quite a nasty turn from the civil movements of 1970 to what it is now. Mind you, this is not necessarily attributable to the govts: the period have had govts at least as ugly as they are now.
This doesn't sound a whole lot different than CDs or DVDs burned in factories.
What, in your opinion, is written on the vast majority of the CD/DVD-es produced in factories? (with the minor correction: by etching, not burning, it's cheaper)
While I don't like the Terrorist Screening Database operated by the FBI, this story is off the mark by making it sound like DHS is setting up a new list; which they are not. They are looking to improving how they get the information from the TSD. Read the abstract here:
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy_pia_dhs_wls.pdf
Thanks for the link, but I think it is you that are way off the mark: the uttermost important thing to the matter is not how accurate the information is, but the fact that nobody from the civil society will know if they are or are not included in that database, much less how accurate the information is.
Not very different from the files gathered and stored by every secret police (or "State Security" organisation, like STASI and KGB) used to. And I can guarantee you: the STASI/Securitate/KGB/Gestapo files were accurate enough for the purpose.
DHS has failed to make the country safer; if anything it made it easier for government to abuse the citizens.
This is thoughtcrime! How dare you object to MiniLuv!?... Errr, or was it KGB? Maybe STASI or Securitate? No? Gestapo then?
What are you saying, is still just the Department of Homeland Security? Not for long, my friend, not for long - we've always been at war with Eastasia - the PROTECT-IP makes sure we are always right (because everything wrong does not exist) and the PATRIOT act is essential for maintaining the peace.
We'll probably eventually find out who's on it when all our personal info ends up leaked on a torrent somewhere.
IF you'll be able to access it.
From direct experience, I can tell that the moment institutions concerned with "the state security" like STASI, KGB, Securitate start dealing in secret and unchecked by the civil society, funny things happen: even listening to radio stations like"Voice of America" or BBC used to land you in prison.
Remember the PROTECT-IP? How long 'til will be extended beyond "Intellectual Property" and possibly merged with the PATRIOT act? How long until circumventing it will be considered a crime?
A measured response, sir. However my scepticism arises as you invoke both the Daily Mail Law and the Star Trek Law:
- be suspicious if somebody quotes the Daily Mail as a reliable source of evidence
- be really worried if somebody argues their position is correct *because something similar happened in Star Trek* ;-)
Run as fast as you can if they start using the Chewbacca defense.
so no: to confuse criminal rioting with genuine protesting is disgusting
But you admit that for almost any sufficiently long protest, criminal rioting is an inevitability...
I guess, by your terms, more than 6 months isn't long enough, eh?