Any decent human being would. The fact that politicians on neither side of the aisle don't do anything to hold people who abuse their authority accountable is proof that none of them are decent human beings.
Put the same sort of effort into discovering and prosecuting those who classify documents to avoid embarassment, rather than ensure national security. This group is far larger, and far more dangerous than any group of whistleblowers.
Or you could get a PowerPak and play your ROMs on a real machine. If you must use an emulator, use bsnes which is cycle accurate. It also requires a multi-gigahertz CPU to run in full speed.
This is a nice project, but I don't see it getting much traction among classic console enthusiasts. Maybe if you could guarantee realistic input latency, we might be able to tolerate lower accuracy. Otherwise I don't see much here that isn't better accomplished with other solutions.
Ellsberg was a citizen, and that was pre-9/11. For a non-citizen accused of espionage post-9/11, he can reasonably be expected to be rendered to another country for torture.
Of course, since he's a white european and not an arab or persian he may not actually be rendered. But that doesn't speak highly for our justice system either. Justice should be blind.
Do you believe the US indiscriminately slaughters civilians with intend as a matter of policy, and that even in examples where civilians have died, has actually wanted that to occur?
I believe the dead don't care what your intent was. If you choose a course of action where you know people are going to be killed and go ahead with it anyway, I don't see any way to excuse those deaths as unintentional.
And no, I don't just mean in those exact forms, by those exact names â" would any of the things that have driven human achievement for the past six decades even have existed?
Wow, that's some first class chauvinism there. The US got there first, because of the economic advantage it got post WWII. If Germany had won, they'd have the advantage and would have made the advances. They also would have slaughtered many more millions of people, and I'm glad that didn't happen. But science will progress either way. Other people in other countries would find the same questions we did, and they'd find similar answers.
Also, remember that that was over half a century ago. More like Germany pre-1933 than US post-1949. Germany too once enjoyed being the technological and artistic capital of the world. Just as they fell, so are we falling.
prefer to do what's best for the largest amount of people â" and not JUST Americans â" with the tools and knowledge that we have in the present.
I agree with this entirely. I simply have no faith whatsoever in the US to do what is best for most people, instead of what is best for the powerful stakeholders that run our political and economic system. I don't see any evidence that the US has acted in the best interests of anyone other than the top.01% of Americans for decades.
If you can't see anything positive in the United States or the West, and see their governments as something just as bad/good/indifferent as China by a different name, then we are likely at a philosophical impasse
I too value the principles that the US stands for. I just wish they would actually put them into practice. It's not a philosophical impasse. I look at the world and what I see is not consistent with the US being a force for good, or even well intentioned but misguided.
Then why didn't the military release the collateral murder video itself? If this is the kind of thing we want to achieve, then they should be proud of their successes.
No, the actual reason is that most people are horrified by unnecessary killing, and you are just a sick fuck.
I don't want to know (for example) the list of spies we have planted in the Iranian government.
I do. Those spies are almost certainly making our diplomatic relations with Iran worse. I don't feel safer with spies in Iran. If I knew exactly how many spies we had in Iran, I could pressure my representative to hold hearings to justify our espionage.
I don't want to know the location of our nuclear warheads.
I do. Then I could go protest there.
I also don't want to know every detail of the president's schedule for the next six months.
See above.
It should be the exception to the rule that a document / process / etc. is kept secret - and the necessity to keep such things a secret should be validated by a third party.
What third party could be trusted? The courts are already completely on board with total secrecy. Any independent body powerful enough to withstand government pressure would have their own interests to protect with secrecy.
There are things one might legitimately want secret. There are a lot more things where secrecy is used to hide impropriety. The nature of secrecy is that accountability is not possible. On the whole, we stand to gain a lot by abolishing secrecy and enforcing accountability throughout the government. The threat our foreign enemies pose is negligible compared to the threat of corruption shrowded in secrecy.
Yes, call out abuse. But as soon as you start believing the US is "just as bad" (or some similar sentiment) as any other government, but "just in a different way", you have lost all perspective on the realities of history and the world in which we live.
I see you're watching this thread. I look forward to your response to BForrester who demonstrates that the US isn't "just as bad" but worse by roughly an order of magnitude in absolute terms.
The fact is, it's you who have lost all perspective on historical reality. The principles you think the US stands for have never been anything except cover for rapacious greed and power lust. If we were talking about China, whose Communism is supposed to benefit the proletariat, I'm sure you'd understand. But in America with "Freedom and Justice for All (TM)", you can't seem to make the leap when its your own country. It's all lies, and that's all it's ever been, just like every other government, in every other country, throughout history.
The video was not "chilling" unless you expect war to be a happy affair
Most people don't think about the costs of war. Presenting them with actual footage really does chill the general public. If it didn't, they wouldn't bother hiding it from us.
Yes, war is hell and sometimes people choose to do it anyway. But if they do, they should be presented with the consequences of their choices as directly and as often as possible. This is the service that Wikileaks provided with its release of Collateral Murder.
Let's try and remember that Manning hasn't been tried yet. He shouldn't be punished at all until he is, and only if he is found guilty. Anything that happens to Manning now should be considered as done to an innocent.
I have to check you there on the "right-wing" appellation, as if it's only one political party that's responsible for this blatant bit of dirty work by the US. You *are* aware of who holds power over the State Dept, the WH, the military, US intelligence agencies, etc, right?
You are aware that Barack Obama is a center right president, right? He lies somewhere between Reagan and Nixon on the political spectrum. The country has shifted so far to the right anymore that the traditionally progressive party is more conservative than the conservatives from 50 years ago. There's really only one leftist in American government, Bernie Sanders.
If you know you're in a high-risk group, you presumably would be getting regularly tested at a public health clinic, and OraQuick isn't necessarily your best choice.
If you know you're in a high-risk group, you're probably not making the best decisions anyway. In fact, you're probably looking for an excuse to continue your destructive behavior. Why would such a person go to a clinic instead of popping one of these in their mouth just before hooking up with a new partner?
I am HIV positive. I am a registered Republican. And I am an atheist.
Not all Republicans are religious nutjobs in the same way that not all Democrats are hippie nutjobs.
I guess not. Apparently some of them are dumb enough to vote for a party who isn't even interested in making good policy to slow the spread of a terminal disease you suffer from, and whose leaders barely even consider you a citizen. In short, you're even dumber than the average republican.
Every major radiation safety authority in the world uses the linear no-threshold model for estimating risks from low dose radiation. Whatever evidence there is for DNA repair hasn't been enough to convince them, so I'll stick with that model for my predictions as well. Currently, the evidence is very limited, and only applicable to cell culture. Claims like "your DNA can recover perfectly" are grandiose overstatements at this point.
That is a common argument that drug addicts use to justify their destructive behavior. Yet when they eventually come face to face with the consequences of their old habits, they almost invariably have their regrets.
Lovely logic you have there. Obviously people who quit drinking coffee are going to have negative opinions about it, otherwise they wouldn't have quit. Why don't you ask divorcees their opinion about marriage?
How so? What powerful lobby would be sponsoring research into coffee being unhealthy? The tea industry? Coffee haters?
There's an entire industry built on micromanaging your health with dubious dietary guidelines based on the slimmest possible evidence. One decade eggs are bad, and then they're good. The next decade tea is good, and then it's bad. Any health claim you can make, can be used by a profiteer to sell books or ads on a daytime TV show.
But really, there's little evidence that coffee is generally harmful. Let's look at what people actually claim:
Dependency: Not a negative effect in and of itself. Cancer: No epidemiological data in support, only lab tested carcinogens, and everything is carcinogenic in the lab. GI problems: I have no ulcers and don't get heartburn, i'm not concerned. Sleep: I sleep a full 8 hours every night on a regular schedule, not an issue. Cholesterol: I use paper filters Blood Pressure: I have low blood pressure, despite drinking coffee. Coronary artery disease: Epidemiological data indicates no effect Interactions with medications: I don't take analgesics anyway.
So far, I'm not seeing anything worth worrying about, even drinking between 32 and 48 oz of black coffee daily.
As far as I can tell, almost every single piece of dietary advice that exists (from vitamin C to gluten(unless you're diagnosed celiac)) is due to people over-extrapolating barely significant results from flawed studies. People love telling others what to do, and people like feeling like they can do something about their health, even if it's just placebo. There's a veritable army of woo-woo health gurus out there looking to take advantage of this.
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Any decent human being would. The fact that politicians on neither side of the aisle don't do anything to hold people who abuse their authority accountable is proof that none of them are decent human beings.
Put the same sort of effort into discovering and prosecuting those who classify documents to avoid embarassment, rather than ensure national security. This group is far larger, and far more dangerous than any group of whistleblowers.
Of what use is a newborn child?
Or you could get a PowerPak and play your ROMs on a real machine. If you must use an emulator, use bsnes which is cycle accurate. It also requires a multi-gigahertz CPU to run in full speed.
This is a nice project, but I don't see it getting much traction among classic console enthusiasts. Maybe if you could guarantee realistic input latency, we might be able to tolerate lower accuracy. Otherwise I don't see much here that isn't better accomplished with other solutions.
You could eat a 20lb sack of potatoes over the same timeframes. How does that not get better as time reduces?
Ellsberg was a citizen, and that was pre-9/11. For a non-citizen accused of espionage post-9/11, he can reasonably be expected to be rendered to another country for torture.
Of course, since he's a white european and not an arab or persian he may not actually be rendered. But that doesn't speak highly for our justice system either. Justice should be blind.
Do you believe the US indiscriminately slaughters civilians with intend as a matter of policy, and that even in examples where civilians have died, has actually wanted that to occur?
I believe the dead don't care what your intent was. If you choose a course of action where you know people are going to be killed and go ahead with it anyway, I don't see any way to excuse those deaths as unintentional.
And no, I don't just mean in those exact forms, by those exact names â" would any of the things that have driven human achievement for the past six decades even have existed?
Wow, that's some first class chauvinism there. The US got there first, because of the economic advantage it got post WWII. If Germany had won, they'd have the advantage and would have made the advances. They also would have slaughtered many more millions of people, and I'm glad that didn't happen. But science will progress either way. Other people in other countries would find the same questions we did, and they'd find similar answers.
Also, remember that that was over half a century ago. More like Germany pre-1933 than US post-1949. Germany too once enjoyed being the technological and artistic capital of the world. Just as they fell, so are we falling.
prefer to do what's best for the largest amount of people â" and not JUST Americans â" with the tools and knowledge that we have in the present.
I agree with this entirely. I simply have no faith whatsoever in the US to do what is best for most people, instead of what is best for the powerful stakeholders that run our political and economic system. I don't see any evidence that the US has acted in the best interests of anyone other than the top .01% of Americans for decades.
If you can't see anything positive in the United States or the West, and see their governments as something just as bad/good/indifferent as China by a different name, then we are likely at a philosophical impasse
I too value the principles that the US stands for. I just wish they would actually put them into practice. It's not a philosophical impasse. I look at the world and what I see is not consistent with the US being a force for good, or even well intentioned but misguided.
Then why didn't the military release the collateral murder video itself? If this is the kind of thing we want to achieve, then they should be proud of their successes.
No, the actual reason is that most people are horrified by unnecessary killing, and you are just a sick fuck.
I don't want to know (for example) the list of spies we have planted in the Iranian government.
I do. Those spies are almost certainly making our diplomatic relations with Iran worse. I don't feel safer with spies in Iran. If I knew exactly how many spies we had in Iran, I could pressure my representative to hold hearings to justify our espionage.
I don't want to know the location of our nuclear warheads.
I do. Then I could go protest there.
I also don't want to know every detail of the president's schedule for the next six months.
See above.
It should be the exception to the rule that a document / process / etc. is kept secret - and the necessity to keep such things a secret should be validated by a third party.
What third party could be trusted? The courts are already completely on board with total secrecy. Any independent body powerful enough to withstand government pressure would have their own interests to protect with secrecy.
There are things one might legitimately want secret. There are a lot more things where secrecy is used to hide impropriety. The nature of secrecy is that accountability is not possible. On the whole, we stand to gain a lot by abolishing secrecy and enforcing accountability throughout the government. The threat our foreign enemies pose is negligible compared to the threat of corruption shrowded in secrecy.
What makes you think he would ever get a day in court in the US?
Yes, call out abuse. But as soon as you start believing the US is "just as bad" (or some similar sentiment) as any other government, but "just in a different way", you have lost all perspective on the realities of history and the world in which we live.
I see you're watching this thread. I look forward to your response to BForrester who demonstrates that the US isn't "just as bad" but worse by roughly an order of magnitude in absolute terms.
The fact is, it's you who have lost all perspective on historical reality. The principles you think the US stands for have never been anything except cover for rapacious greed and power lust. If we were talking about China, whose Communism is supposed to benefit the proletariat, I'm sure you'd understand. But in America with "Freedom and Justice for All (TM)", you can't seem to make the leap when its your own country. It's all lies, and that's all it's ever been, just like every other government, in every other country, throughout history.
The video was not "chilling" unless you expect war to be a happy affair
Most people don't think about the costs of war. Presenting them with actual footage really does chill the general public. If it didn't, they wouldn't bother hiding it from us.
Yes, war is hell and sometimes people choose to do it anyway. But if they do, they should be presented with the consequences of their choices as directly and as often as possible. This is the service that Wikileaks provided with its release of Collateral Murder.
Indeed. This is Syria's business.
Manning did, and he is being punished for that.
Let's try and remember that Manning hasn't been tried yet. He shouldn't be punished at all until he is, and only if he is found guilty. Anything that happens to Manning now should be considered as done to an innocent.
I have to check you there on the "right-wing" appellation, as if it's only one political party that's responsible for this blatant bit of dirty work by the US. You *are* aware of who holds power over the State Dept, the WH, the military, US intelligence agencies, etc, right?
You are aware that Barack Obama is a center right president, right? He lies somewhere between Reagan and Nixon on the political spectrum. The country has shifted so far to the right anymore that the traditionally progressive party is more conservative than the conservatives from 50 years ago. There's really only one leftist in American government, Bernie Sanders.
Where have you been? That has been the whole of American foreign policy for decades.
If you know you're in a high-risk group, you presumably would be getting regularly tested at a public health clinic, and OraQuick isn't necessarily your best choice.
If you know you're in a high-risk group, you're probably not making the best decisions anyway. In fact, you're probably looking for an excuse to continue your destructive behavior. Why would such a person go to a clinic instead of popping one of these in their mouth just before hooking up with a new partner?
I am HIV positive. I am a registered Republican. And I am an atheist.
Not all Republicans are religious nutjobs in the same way that not all Democrats are hippie nutjobs.
I guess not. Apparently some of them are dumb enough to vote for a party who isn't even interested in making good policy to slow the spread of a terminal disease you suffer from, and whose leaders barely even consider you a citizen. In short, you're even dumber than the average republican.
Where the the group that led the charge to kill the Supercollider was led by a Democrat with the following vote totals:
Voting to kill - 166 Democrats, 115 Republicans
Voting to save - 98 Democrats, 61 Republicans
Wow, bipartisanship!
And then you take her home and catch incurable gonorrhea.
Every major radiation safety authority in the world uses the linear no-threshold model for estimating risks from low dose radiation. Whatever evidence there is for DNA repair hasn't been enough to convince them, so I'll stick with that model for my predictions as well. Currently, the evidence is very limited, and only applicable to cell culture. Claims like "your DNA can recover perfectly" are grandiose overstatements at this point.
Where are all of the Don Drapers of the scientific world anyway?
Can't happen. Good scientists are honest.
That is a common argument that drug addicts use to justify their destructive behavior. Yet when they eventually come face to face with the consequences of their old habits, they almost invariably have their regrets.
Lovely logic you have there. Obviously people who quit drinking coffee are going to have negative opinions about it, otherwise they wouldn't have quit. Why don't you ask divorcees their opinion about marriage?
How so? What powerful lobby would be sponsoring research into coffee being unhealthy? The tea industry? Coffee haters?
There's an entire industry built on micromanaging your health with dubious dietary guidelines based on the slimmest possible evidence. One decade eggs are bad, and then they're good. The next decade tea is good, and then it's bad. Any health claim you can make, can be used by a profiteer to sell books or ads on a daytime TV show.
But really, there's little evidence that coffee is generally harmful. Let's look at what people actually claim:
Dependency: Not a negative effect in and of itself.
Cancer: No epidemiological data in support, only lab tested carcinogens, and everything is carcinogenic in the lab.
GI problems: I have no ulcers and don't get heartburn, i'm not concerned.
Sleep: I sleep a full 8 hours every night on a regular schedule, not an issue.
Cholesterol: I use paper filters
Blood Pressure: I have low blood pressure, despite drinking coffee.
Coronary artery disease: Epidemiological data indicates no effect
Interactions with medications: I don't take analgesics anyway.
So far, I'm not seeing anything worth worrying about, even drinking between 32 and 48 oz of black coffee daily.
As far as I can tell, almost every single piece of dietary advice that exists (from vitamin C to gluten(unless you're diagnosed celiac)) is due to people over-extrapolating barely significant results from flawed studies. People love telling others what to do, and people like feeling like they can do something about their health, even if it's just placebo. There's a veritable army of woo-woo health gurus out there looking to take advantage of this.
Y.C. Wang - fpusa.com
uh huhuh huh...
The dilemma is of *your* creation. All the games are on Windows because that's what everyone puts on their gaming rigs.