It would be interesting if they they drill through the earth's crust completely, and instead of the mantle they find something else. Maybe more crust? Or....
I'm not going to forward anything to you. I filled out the form on it-mate.co.uk, and got this response from services@it-mate.co.uk (in part):
Cheers for the heads up. I'll have another word with him (I've also removed the referenced thread).
When I got that I checked the link, and it redirected to the forum login page. It sounds like you didn't ask him to put it back, so I'll go ahead and let him know that 1) it's still live and 2) you continue to press the issue.
I didn't eat anything, man-child. Steve sent me an email and said that he had removed the link. That's what his email said, and that's what I said in my comments here. If he restored the link that doesn't change the fact that he sent me an email saying he removed it. I imagine you convinced him to restore the link. Keep spamming Slashdot and I'm sure he'll end up with a flood of emails questioning why he supports you. If he has to deal with that it's going to be your fault alone, and he'll know that.
I would contribute to a fund to put APK out there in his home town.
That would be the Syracuse/Liverpool, New York area. If you go to lamar.com it looks like they have quite a bit available. Billboards, buses (outside ads, inside ads, bus stop ads, etc), posters, etc. How about we wrap an entire bus with APK quotes? Are you aware of any pictures of him? That would help increase brand identity and recognition. It looks like we would be on the hook for a few hundred through $20k per month depending on size and placement. This is easily doable. If we put up more than one, and leave a URL or something on the billboards that people can contact, maybe the local media would be interested as well.
National Outdoor Media at outdoorbillboard.com also has 14 by 48 foot billboards, although they want to give a quote over the phone. Hey, we could put APK quotes on the tops of tables where people eat, or at gas station pumps, ooh how about an APK blimp? Should we start collecting his quotes? We need pictures, we need a private investigator in Syracuse to get some snaps of him. Looks like there are several of them up for the job. There is a lot of information in public records, but pictures are apparently not one of those things.
APK, scroll up and read through my posts again. Notice how they don't contain any personal attacks against you. Still, you respond like a child to anyone who questions anything you say.
I'll leave it at this: if you continue to spam Slashdot with your advertisements for software that blocks advertisements, then I'll put together a contact list that others can use to reach out to all of the people that you cite so that those people can hear from everyone who has to wade through your spam in order to find the discussions they're looking for on Slashdot. Those people deserve to hear how you're using their reputations. Your posts to others such as myself are obviously abusive in nature, you admit that you are willing to have your posts down-modded only to post the same content again, you demonstrably try to pick fights with anyone who questions any of your claims or asks you to stop spamming, and the people that you depend on for endorsements deserve to know how their endorsements are being used. You're welcome to call me whatever names you want, I can handle that, but at some point your ridiculous behavior has to stop.
There's a conspicuous lack of replies from APK, so hopefully Steve got through to him. I suppose there's something to learn here. If he continues to spam his application then the best course of action is to probably contact the people he's citing and let them know how their reputation is being used.
You didn't address any of my questions, just more trolling flamebait.
APK, don't you see the irony? You developed a piece of security software, yeah? And how have you chosen to market your security software? By making yourself a spammer. Surely you can see the irony.
Steven Burn sees the irony, because he already removed the forum thread that you're spamming. Keep up the same behavior and I think you'll find that he no longer sees it worthwhile to host the software of an abusive spammer. He would be correct also.
Face facts: Nothing you trolling worms can do can affect me - get it?
I'll be happy to email Steven Burn again. He already removed your thread, what happens if 100 people from Slashdot send him a message complaining about your abuse? Should I write up a post describing how to contact him and follow you around when you post your spam 9 times in a comment thread? Is that seriously what needs to happen for you to decide that maybe you shouldn't be a spammer?
I'll just burn you out of your modpoints (I've done so literally 175++ @ a time, lol) - so keep it up! I figure it this way - I can easily repost as much as I like & when you're all spent?
Awesome, APK. A threat to abuse the moderation system of Slashdot so that you can continue spamming. That is totally going to help your cause.
Speaking of Mr. Steven Burn of Malwarebytes, he also said this in that same thread:
Thanks for letting me know. I'll have a word with him.
That's in regard to you spamming Slashdot comments, and he posted that in February. How did that conversation go? Because in this story from yesterday, you posted this exact text 9 different times in those comments, and since it's the end of the day before a holiday and no one is getting anything done anyway, I went ahead and found no less than 39 comments from you in that one story alone. There are only 101 comments total, 39 of them are yours, and 9 of those are that same wall of text advertising your software. That is the very definition of spam. You also posted this text, the one referencing Steven Burn, 4 different times in that comment thread. You are spamming a Slashdot comment thread with a link to a guy saying that he's going to talk to you about spamming Slashdot comment threads. What's going on here? Why is it necessary to go into the comments for certain stories and see tens of posts by you with either the exact same text or you arguing with other people about spamming? Why do we have to endure that on Slashdot? More importantly, do you think that makes you look good? Do you think it makes people want to try your software? What's the point? Why isn't it enough to post a single ad for your software, even though that would still be considered spam? Why do you need to do it 9 times? Can you give it a rest for the sake of everyone else?
U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady just declared himself a traitor to the USA...hopefully he'll be treated appropriately.
You think so? Let's see what Article 3 of the Constitution says about that:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Congress created the offense in 18 USC section 2381:
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
So, what's an enemy:
ENEMY, international law. By this term is understood the whole body of a nation at war with another. It also signifies a citizen or subject of such a nation, as when we say an alien enemy. In a still more extended sense, the word includes any of the subjects or citizens of a state in amity with the United States, who, have commenced, or have made preparations for commencing hostilities against the United States; and also the citizens or subjects of a state in amity with the United States, who are in the service of a state at war with them.
You could also look to the Bush-era definition of "enemy combatant", to include non-state actors:
'Enemy combatant' shall mean an individual who was part of or supporting Taliban or al Qaeda forces, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners. This includes any person who has committed belligerent act or has directly supported hostilities in aid of enemy armed forces.
So, noted law scholar MitchDev, how is the judge in this case a traitor to the US?
We're exploring the universe from our computer chairs?
No, we're just taking pictures of it. If you're flying in a plane over the Grand Canyon and you take a picture of it, that's not the same thing as exploring the Grand Canyon.
French intelligence officials have concluded that Mr. Abaaoud was involved in at least four of six terrorist plots in France that have been foiled since the spring, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced at a news conference.
Mr. Abaaoud, a Belgian citizen who was 27 or 28, went to Syria last year to fight with the Islamic State, but it was not until Monday that French authorities learned - through a foreign intelligence service - that he had returned to Europe, via Greece, Mr. Cazeneuve said.
They had been tracking him, at least enough to break up several other things he was planning. But the problem with this situation, like we all know, is that the terrorists only have to succeed once, while law enforcement has to succeed every time. They didn't even realize he was back inside the country until 4 days before the attack, and that's not a lot of time to find someone who probably didn't want to be found.
Many people in that region are joining ISIS just so they can get better food, cheaper electricity, and luxuries like Redbull. Seriously, why do they have access to American luxuries like Redbull. If we can do a trade embargo on Iran, surely we can do something about ISIS getting Redbull.
People aren't joining ISIS because of goddamn Redbull. It's about money, plain and simple. A couple days ago NPR ran a piece on ISIS gaining a foothold in Afghanistan, and the interviewee had this to say:
So Afghan army, they get $300 per month. And most of the time it's delayed. After five months they get two months' salary. And they cannot support their family. And that's why thousands of Afghan troops left the army. But ISIS offer $700 and they pay monthly. And without any delay. And most of the Afghan people, especially the young generation, they are unemployed. So of course everyone going to join them. They are poor. They don't have anything to eat. And they want to support their families. And also the way they - they pitch their ideas - their opinions on these people - they are very clever. They say and God says this and Quran says this and because these people are uneducated, they can't read Quran. They don't know about Islam. So they think, yes. He is right. Let's do whatever he's saying. So that's why ISIS succeed in Afghanistan.
Take away their money, and you remove the major reason why so many people join them. Add education for the poor and you take away the other reason. This is why the Taliban fights so hard against education. An educated girl is way more of a threat to their existence than a US bomb.
Eating certain things together can give you a complete proteins (which is how the Mayans survived), but no one does that.
No one eats beans and rice? It might be more common than you think... Other countries (like India) may substitute another legume like lentils for the beans, or another grain for the rice.
But that's not what is important now. What is important now is that we need someone in this thread to describe how everyone follows some sort of herd mentality. This is the perfect story, come on. What are we like? Are we like bugs? No! What are we like?
Atheists in history have used atheism as a reason to persecute Christians, I guess that means atheism needs to be wiped out, huh?
Maybe it means they were on the right track.
Also, atheists don't use "atheism", the belief that there is no god, to do anything. Atheists don't go around saying "stop believing or I'll kill you." They don't do anything "in the name of" atheism. They might point out why various belief systems are stupid, but they aren't going around telling everyone to stop believing in god. It would be great if more people thought rationally about religion, but I don't see a lot of persecution in the name of atheism going on.
Many of them do, it just doesn't get the same kind of airplay wherever you get your news. For example, you have to scroll to page 6 on that Google search to find the first result from Fox News, and it is a segment asking when Muslim clerics will denounce ISIS, posted several months after Muslim clerics were denouncing ISIS.
In case you still believe that all Muslims support things like this, just walk up to one and ask their opinion, see what they say. Ask them if running into a restaurant and killing a bunch of people inside is or is not sanctioned by Islam. They will probably think that it's a fairly stupid question, exactly the same as if you walked up to a Christian and asked them if killing dozens of school children was sanctioned by Christianity. They probably just sort of assume that you already know the answer to that question, and wonder how you became so confused that you even have to ask.
There is an apparently large number of people who are willing to commit violence and self-identify as Muslims, but I think that you'll find that the majority of Muslim scholars will be happy to point out why Islam forbids what they're doing.
I'm not trying to defend any of these people, innocent or otherwise, I'm just responding to your claim that "you think not" that Muslims do not disassociate themselves with terrorists. If you pay any attention to the news, for example, you'll notice that ISIS and other terrorists are killing Muslims right now, in addition to anyone else that they think is not religious enough or doesn't otherwise correspond to the so-called correct way to live. It's the same thing that has been going on forever. "You think differently than me, so I'm going to kill you." That has been happening ever since there were 2 people who disagreed.
Uhh, perhaps because the vast majority of fertilizer comes from fossil fuel feedstock? Are you seriously this ignorant of the systems you seek to fundamentally change with massive firearm-backed force?
Don't be obtuse. You know perfectly well that ammonia feedstock produced from natural gas does not require the presence of a natural gas power plant. You're trying to imply that the fertilizer industry requires power plants that burn fossil fuels, and that's not true. Using fossil fuels in the manufacture of fertilizer and using them for power generation are completely different and, like I said, eliminating fossil fuels as the major fuel source for power generation does not require changes to the fertilizer industry. Hell, there is currently plenty of infrastructure in place right now to extract natural gas and send it to fertilizer plants for decades and decades (assuming that the fertilizer industry somehow stagnates completely and no new methods for manufacturing fertilizer or ammonia are conceived).
Why? because you, in your living incarnation of ignorance says it is so? Do you think your opinons carry the weight of some sort of some sort of control language of the universe, such that the things you say simply BECOME true? Because they don't, and you are a fucking retard for thinking that.
Nice strawman. Yeah, just attack me instead. There is no evidence that investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency, and in the process using them to replace or obsolete fossil fuel power generation, will result in any widespread economic harm. If existing energy companies don't want to go the way of the buggy whip then they should be the ones leading that push to make sure that they will remain viable companies. Otherwise, they're going to be passed by and nary a soul will shed a tear for the oil company executives who aren't making tens of millions of dollars a year any more. Other people will be making that money instead. The economy will still be there, it's just going to be investing in a different product.
That is the EXACT OPPOSITE of the free market
Holy fuck, an accurate thought. I'm proud of you. Yes, what we have here in the US is the exact opposite of a free market. When business leaders pour hundreds of millions of dollars into our politicians in order to pass laws that benefit their companies, what you are seeing is not the invisible hand of the market. You're seeing artificial manipulation. You're seeing that with fossil fuel companies right now. You're seeing that with the Koch brothers and people like them. The free market isn't running shit in this country, enormously wealthy corporations and individuals are the people pulling the strings. And, yes, bankers are still doing it also because no meaningful reforms have been enacted to dissuade them. Goldman Sachs is making hundreds of millions of dollars by manipulating the price of aluminum, that's the exact opposite of a free market. The same can (and does!) happen with any other commodity, especially the fossil fuels that you want the free market to control.
it has doomed us all to starvation and death. Just like you will with your further anti-market GENOCIDE.
Again, I'm the alarmist.
Christ, do you even understand what the market is? Its human beings trading with each other. That is IT.
Haha! No, that's not it. You left out the myriad of regulations imposed by politicians paid for by the corporations that benefit. THAT is the market.
CO2 was assumed to be a greenhouse gas, when in fact is is H2O that is the greeenhouse gas.
OK, I guess you're probably right about that. We have examples too, we can just look at Venus for example with its water vapor atmosphere. Wait, no, the atmosphere of Venus is 96% CO2, which supports the balmy 900 degree temperatures on the surface. But CO2 isn't a greenhouse gas
The question isn't "is a fingerprint more secure than a password"
It is, that is actually the question that this article is attempting to answer, and also to prove. And they helpfully answer it right in the first paragraph: But you know what’s worse than a password? A fingerprint.
it's "is a fingerprint more secure than no security"
No one is asking that question, because it's a stupid question.
Most phone users didn't have any password on their device. Adding a fingerprint secured those devices.
No, it didn't. In fact, the title of The Fucking Article makes that pretty clear:
YOUR UNHASHABLE FINGERPRINTS SECURE NOTHING
Your fancy phone is not "secure" because you put your fingerprint on it. It's still not secure, it still takes $5 and a few hours to replicate your fingerprint and have a master key to your device. Is it "more secure" than having no security at all? If you're asking that question, then you should realize that it's a stupid question to ask. It's like asking if a $2 TSA-approved padlock on a suitcase is more secure than having no lock at all. Yes, your $2 padlock will probably keep out some random kid. It doesn't make your suitcase "secure" though.
A fingerprint scanner on your phone is what we like to refer to as security theater. It gives you that warm feeling of your stuff being secure without the hassle of your stuff being secure. Is it better than not having any password at all? Well, sure, but if someone can't be bothered to enter a PIN or swipe a line then they probably also don't want to be hassled with a fingerprint scanner. You either care about security or not. If you do, then you use a password or something similar (for a phone). If you don't, then I guess a fingerprint scanner still helps you feel like your stuff is secure, anyway.
But that doesn't mean you need to go around asking questions like "is a bare minimum of security more secure than no security at all".
I can't imagine a high % of people are still playing a 2 year old game when the franchise has likely released 2 more sequels.
That's not the situation here. Oblivion (The Elder Scrolls 4) was released in 2006; Fallout 3 was released in 2008; Skyrim (The Elder Scrolls 5) was released in 2011, and now Fallout 4 in 2015 (Fallout: New Vegas was released in 2010 by a different developer). Each of those games are several years apart, and they are 2 different franchises. This isn't Madden football or Call Of Duty or whatever where they crank out the same game with a different skin year after year. And, yes, people still play Oblivion, Fallout 3 (and New Vegas), and Skyrim today, specifically because there are so many mods available that have been produced by the community. These are games where people put many hundreds of hours into playing over the course of several years. There is even an active community that is remaking The Elder Scrolls 3 (Morrowind) in the Skyrim engine, the entire game, voice acting and all. This isn't a new football game every year, it's a large community of people who have a lot of time invested in these franchises. Fallout 4 is going to receive new mods for several years to come, you might even see people try remaking the originals in the new engine.
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It would be interesting if they they drill through the earth's crust completely, and instead of the mantle they find something else. Maybe more crust? Or....
My bet is on pie filling.
I'm not going to forward anything to you. I filled out the form on it-mate.co.uk, and got this response from services@it-mate.co.uk (in part):
Cheers for the heads up. I'll have another word with him (I've also removed the referenced thread).
When I got that I checked the link, and it redirected to the forum login page. It sounds like you didn't ask him to put it back, so I'll go ahead and let him know that 1) it's still live and 2) you continue to press the issue.
I didn't eat anything, man-child. Steve sent me an email and said that he had removed the link. That's what his email said, and that's what I said in my comments here. If he restored the link that doesn't change the fact that he sent me an email saying he removed it. I imagine you convinced him to restore the link. Keep spamming Slashdot and I'm sure he'll end up with a flood of emails questioning why he supports you. If he has to deal with that it's going to be your fault alone, and he'll know that.
I would contribute to a fund to put APK out there in his home town.
That would be the Syracuse/Liverpool, New York area. If you go to lamar.com it looks like they have quite a bit available. Billboards, buses (outside ads, inside ads, bus stop ads, etc), posters, etc. How about we wrap an entire bus with APK quotes? Are you aware of any pictures of him? That would help increase brand identity and recognition. It looks like we would be on the hook for a few hundred through $20k per month depending on size and placement. This is easily doable. If we put up more than one, and leave a URL or something on the billboards that people can contact, maybe the local media would be interested as well.
National Outdoor Media at outdoorbillboard.com also has 14 by 48 foot billboards, although they want to give a quote over the phone. Hey, we could put APK quotes on the tops of tables where people eat, or at gas station pumps, ooh how about an APK blimp? Should we start collecting his quotes? We need pictures, we need a private investigator in Syracuse to get some snaps of him. Looks like there are several of them up for the job. There is a lot of information in public records, but pictures are apparently not one of those things.
APK, scroll up and read through my posts again. Notice how they don't contain any personal attacks against you. Still, you respond like a child to anyone who questions anything you say.
I'll leave it at this: if you continue to spam Slashdot with your advertisements for software that blocks advertisements, then I'll put together a contact list that others can use to reach out to all of the people that you cite so that those people can hear from everyone who has to wade through your spam in order to find the discussions they're looking for on Slashdot. Those people deserve to hear how you're using their reputations. Your posts to others such as myself are obviously abusive in nature, you admit that you are willing to have your posts down-modded only to post the same content again, you demonstrably try to pick fights with anyone who questions any of your claims or asks you to stop spamming, and the people that you depend on for endorsements deserve to know how their endorsements are being used. You're welcome to call me whatever names you want, I can handle that, but at some point your ridiculous behavior has to stop.
There's a conspicuous lack of replies from APK, so hopefully Steve got through to him. I suppose there's something to learn here. If he continues to spam his application then the best course of action is to probably contact the people he's citing and let them know how their reputation is being used.
You didn't address any of my questions, just more trolling flamebait.
APK, don't you see the irony? You developed a piece of security software, yeah? And how have you chosen to market your security software? By making yourself a spammer. Surely you can see the irony.
Steven Burn sees the irony, because he already removed the forum thread that you're spamming. Keep up the same behavior and I think you'll find that he no longer sees it worthwhile to host the software of an abusive spammer. He would be correct also.
Face facts: Nothing you trolling worms can do can affect me - get it?
I'll be happy to email Steven Burn again. He already removed your thread, what happens if 100 people from Slashdot send him a message complaining about your abuse? Should I write up a post describing how to contact him and follow you around when you post your spam 9 times in a comment thread? Is that seriously what needs to happen for you to decide that maybe you shouldn't be a spammer?
I'll just burn you out of your modpoints (I've done so literally 175++ @ a time, lol) - so keep it up! I figure it this way - I can easily repost as much as I like & when you're all spent?
Awesome, APK. A threat to abuse the moderation system of Slashdot so that you can continue spamming. That is totally going to help your cause.
Mr. Steven Burn of Malwarebytes
Speaking of Mr. Steven Burn of Malwarebytes, he also said this in that same thread:
Thanks for letting me know. I'll have a word with him.
That's in regard to you spamming Slashdot comments, and he posted that in February. How did that conversation go? Because in this story from yesterday, you posted this exact text 9 different times in those comments, and since it's the end of the day before a holiday and no one is getting anything done anyway, I went ahead and found no less than 39 comments from you in that one story alone. There are only 101 comments total, 39 of them are yours, and 9 of those are that same wall of text advertising your software. That is the very definition of spam. You also posted this text, the one referencing Steven Burn, 4 different times in that comment thread. You are spamming a Slashdot comment thread with a link to a guy saying that he's going to talk to you about spamming Slashdot comment threads. What's going on here? Why is it necessary to go into the comments for certain stories and see tens of posts by you with either the exact same text or you arguing with other people about spamming? Why do we have to endure that on Slashdot? More importantly, do you think that makes you look good? Do you think it makes people want to try your software? What's the point? Why isn't it enough to post a single ad for your software, even though that would still be considered spam? Why do you need to do it 9 times? Can you give it a rest for the sake of everyone else?
Now, Mitch. Neither of us are lawyers. I hope. But I'm glad that we've got people like you here to point out who all of the enemies are.
U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady just declared himself a traitor to the USA...hopefully he'll be treated appropriately.
You think so? Let's see what Article 3 of the Constitution says about that:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Congress created the offense in 18 USC section 2381:
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
So, what's an enemy:
ENEMY, international law. By this term is understood the whole body of a nation at war with another. It also signifies a citizen or subject of such a nation, as when we say an alien enemy. In a still more extended sense, the word includes any of the subjects or citizens of a state in amity with the United States, who, have commenced, or have made preparations for commencing hostilities against the United States; and also the citizens or subjects of a state in amity with the United States, who are in the service of a state at war with them.
You could also look to the Bush-era definition of "enemy combatant", to include non-state actors:
'Enemy combatant' shall mean an individual who was part of or supporting Taliban or al Qaeda forces, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners. This includes any person who has committed belligerent act or has directly supported hostilities in aid of enemy armed forces.
So, noted law scholar MitchDev, how is the judge in this case a traitor to the US?
We're exploring the universe from our computer chairs?
No, we're just taking pictures of it. If you're flying in a plane over the Grand Canyon and you take a picture of it, that's not the same thing as exploring the Grand Canyon.
From the New York Times:
French intelligence officials have concluded that Mr. Abaaoud was involved in at least four of six terrorist plots in France that have been foiled since the spring, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced at a news conference.
Mr. Abaaoud, a Belgian citizen who was 27 or 28, went to Syria last year to fight with the Islamic State, but it was not until Monday that French authorities learned - through a foreign intelligence service - that he had returned to Europe, via Greece, Mr. Cazeneuve said.
They had been tracking him, at least enough to break up several other things he was planning. But the problem with this situation, like we all know, is that the terrorists only have to succeed once, while law enforcement has to succeed every time. They didn't even realize he was back inside the country until 4 days before the attack, and that's not a lot of time to find someone who probably didn't want to be found.
Many people in that region are joining ISIS just so they can get better food, cheaper electricity, and luxuries like Redbull. Seriously, why do they have access to American luxuries like Redbull. If we can do a trade embargo on Iran, surely we can do something about ISIS getting Redbull.
People aren't joining ISIS because of goddamn Redbull. It's about money, plain and simple. A couple days ago NPR ran a piece on ISIS gaining a foothold in Afghanistan, and the interviewee had this to say:
So Afghan army, they get $300 per month. And most of the time it's delayed. After five months they get two months' salary. And they cannot support their family. And that's why thousands of Afghan troops left the army. But ISIS offer $700 and they pay monthly. And without any delay. And most of the Afghan people, especially the young generation, they are unemployed. So of course everyone going to join them. They are poor. They don't have anything to eat. And they want to support their families. And also the way they - they pitch their ideas - their opinions on these people - they are very clever. They say and God says this and Quran says this and because these people are uneducated, they can't read Quran. They don't know about Islam. So they think, yes. He is right. Let's do whatever he's saying. So that's why ISIS succeed in Afghanistan.
Take away their money, and you remove the major reason why so many people join them. Add education for the poor and you take away the other reason. This is why the Taliban fights so hard against education. An educated girl is way more of a threat to their existence than a US bomb.
Apology accepted.
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Eating certain things together can give you a complete proteins (which is how the Mayans survived), but no one does that.
No one eats beans and rice? It might be more common than you think... Other countries (like India) may substitute another legume like lentils for the beans, or another grain for the rice.
But that's not what is important now. What is important now is that we need someone in this thread to describe how everyone follows some sort of herd mentality. This is the perfect story, come on. What are we like? Are we like bugs? No! What are we like?
But for those who'll need persuasion to get there, let's not pretend that bugs are like teeny chuck steaks or dot-sized lobster tails
Interesting analogy. Guess what kind of animal things like lobsters and shrimp are.
It's a suggestion that we eat whole bugs – shells, heads, eyes, guts, everything.
Yeah. Horrifying.
You want to know what the difference is between you enjoying or not enjoying eating whole bugs? A good recipe and chef. That's it.
Atheists in history have used atheism as a reason to persecute Christians, I guess that means atheism needs to be wiped out, huh?
Maybe it means they were on the right track.
Also, atheists don't use "atheism", the belief that there is no god, to do anything. Atheists don't go around saying "stop believing or I'll kill you." They don't do anything "in the name of" atheism. They might point out why various belief systems are stupid, but they aren't going around telling everyone to stop believing in god. It would be great if more people thought rationally about religion, but I don't see a lot of persecution in the name of atheism going on.
France has really stringent gun control laws. That did not prevented Charlie Hebdo. That also did not prevented 11/13/2015 events in Paris.
What's your point? Do you want to go over the number of mass shootings in the US that also were not prevented by armed citizens?
but do the Muslims do that . . . I think not!
Many of them do, it just doesn't get the same kind of airplay wherever you get your news. For example, you have to scroll to page 6 on that Google search to find the first result from Fox News, and it is a segment asking when Muslim clerics will denounce ISIS, posted several months after Muslim clerics were denouncing ISIS.
In case you still believe that all Muslims support things like this, just walk up to one and ask their opinion, see what they say. Ask them if running into a restaurant and killing a bunch of people inside is or is not sanctioned by Islam. They will probably think that it's a fairly stupid question, exactly the same as if you walked up to a Christian and asked them if killing dozens of school children was sanctioned by Christianity. They probably just sort of assume that you already know the answer to that question, and wonder how you became so confused that you even have to ask.
There is an apparently large number of people who are willing to commit violence and self-identify as Muslims, but I think that you'll find that the majority of Muslim scholars will be happy to point out why Islam forbids what they're doing.
I'm not trying to defend any of these people, innocent or otherwise, I'm just responding to your claim that "you think not" that Muslims do not disassociate themselves with terrorists. If you pay any attention to the news, for example, you'll notice that ISIS and other terrorists are killing Muslims right now, in addition to anyone else that they think is not religious enough or doesn't otherwise correspond to the so-called correct way to live. It's the same thing that has been going on forever. "You think differently than me, so I'm going to kill you." That has been happening ever since there were 2 people who disagreed.
We have to be able to plug it in and ignore it for those 20 years, until the smoke leaks out
We did, and it is.
Uhh, perhaps because the vast majority of fertilizer comes from fossil fuel feedstock? Are you seriously this ignorant of the systems you seek to fundamentally change with massive firearm-backed force?
Don't be obtuse. You know perfectly well that ammonia feedstock produced from natural gas does not require the presence of a natural gas power plant. You're trying to imply that the fertilizer industry requires power plants that burn fossil fuels, and that's not true. Using fossil fuels in the manufacture of fertilizer and using them for power generation are completely different and, like I said, eliminating fossil fuels as the major fuel source for power generation does not require changes to the fertilizer industry. Hell, there is currently plenty of infrastructure in place right now to extract natural gas and send it to fertilizer plants for decades and decades (assuming that the fertilizer industry somehow stagnates completely and no new methods for manufacturing fertilizer or ammonia are conceived).
Why? because you, in your living incarnation of ignorance says it is so? Do you think your opinons carry the weight of some sort of some sort of control language of the universe, such that the things you say simply BECOME true? Because they don't, and you are a fucking retard for thinking that.
Nice strawman. Yeah, just attack me instead. There is no evidence that investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency, and in the process using them to replace or obsolete fossil fuel power generation, will result in any widespread economic harm. If existing energy companies don't want to go the way of the buggy whip then they should be the ones leading that push to make sure that they will remain viable companies. Otherwise, they're going to be passed by and nary a soul will shed a tear for the oil company executives who aren't making tens of millions of dollars a year any more. Other people will be making that money instead. The economy will still be there, it's just going to be investing in a different product.
That is the EXACT OPPOSITE of the free market
Holy fuck, an accurate thought. I'm proud of you. Yes, what we have here in the US is the exact opposite of a free market. When business leaders pour hundreds of millions of dollars into our politicians in order to pass laws that benefit their companies, what you are seeing is not the invisible hand of the market. You're seeing artificial manipulation. You're seeing that with fossil fuel companies right now. You're seeing that with the Koch brothers and people like them. The free market isn't running shit in this country, enormously wealthy corporations and individuals are the people pulling the strings. And, yes, bankers are still doing it also because no meaningful reforms have been enacted to dissuade them. Goldman Sachs is making hundreds of millions of dollars by manipulating the price of aluminum, that's the exact opposite of a free market. The same can (and does!) happen with any other commodity, especially the fossil fuels that you want the free market to control.
it has doomed us all to starvation and death. Just like you will with your further anti-market GENOCIDE.
Again, I'm the alarmist.
Christ, do you even understand what the market is? Its human beings trading with each other. That is IT.
Haha! No, that's not it. You left out the myriad of regulations imposed by politicians paid for by the corporations that benefit. THAT is the market.
CO2 was assumed to be a greenhouse gas, when in fact is is H2O that is the greeenhouse gas.
OK, I guess you're probably right about that. We have examples too, we can just look at Venus for example with its water vapor atmosphere. Wait, no, the atmosphere of Venus is 96% CO2, which supports the balmy 900 degree temperatures on the surface. But CO2 isn't a greenhouse gas
It doesn't matter...
It does though.
The question isn't "is a fingerprint more secure than a password"
It is, that is actually the question that this article is attempting to answer, and also to prove. And they helpfully answer it right in the first paragraph: But you know what’s worse than a password? A fingerprint.
it's "is a fingerprint more secure than no security"
No one is asking that question, because it's a stupid question.
Most phone users didn't have any password on their device. Adding a fingerprint secured those devices.
No, it didn't. In fact, the title of The Fucking Article makes that pretty clear:
YOUR UNHASHABLE FINGERPRINTS SECURE NOTHING
Your fancy phone is not "secure" because you put your fingerprint on it. It's still not secure, it still takes $5 and a few hours to replicate your fingerprint and have a master key to your device. Is it "more secure" than having no security at all? If you're asking that question, then you should realize that it's a stupid question to ask. It's like asking if a $2 TSA-approved padlock on a suitcase is more secure than having no lock at all. Yes, your $2 padlock will probably keep out some random kid. It doesn't make your suitcase "secure" though.
A fingerprint scanner on your phone is what we like to refer to as security theater. It gives you that warm feeling of your stuff being secure without the hassle of your stuff being secure. Is it better than not having any password at all? Well, sure, but if someone can't be bothered to enter a PIN or swipe a line then they probably also don't want to be hassled with a fingerprint scanner. You either care about security or not. If you do, then you use a password or something similar (for a phone). If you don't, then I guess a fingerprint scanner still helps you feel like your stuff is secure, anyway.
But that doesn't mean you need to go around asking questions like "is a bare minimum of security more secure than no security at all".
I can't imagine a high % of people are still playing a 2 year old game when the franchise has likely released 2 more sequels.
That's not the situation here. Oblivion (The Elder Scrolls 4) was released in 2006; Fallout 3 was released in 2008; Skyrim (The Elder Scrolls 5) was released in 2011, and now Fallout 4 in 2015 (Fallout: New Vegas was released in 2010 by a different developer). Each of those games are several years apart, and they are 2 different franchises. This isn't Madden football or Call Of Duty or whatever where they crank out the same game with a different skin year after year. And, yes, people still play Oblivion, Fallout 3 (and New Vegas), and Skyrim today, specifically because there are so many mods available that have been produced by the community. These are games where people put many hundreds of hours into playing over the course of several years. There is even an active community that is remaking The Elder Scrolls 3 (Morrowind) in the Skyrim engine, the entire game, voice acting and all. This isn't a new football game every year, it's a large community of people who have a lot of time invested in these franchises. Fallout 4 is going to receive new mods for several years to come, you might even see people try remaking the originals in the new engine.