Can you explain how you would execute this attack? Do you throw the alcohol on the victim then try to light it while avoiding being punched in the face? Or have you already lit it in a vessel you are holding while every bloke around you jumps on top of you and punches you in the head before you get the chance to throw it? I've seen a lot of fights in my time and this is the stupidest idea for a weapon I've ever heard of.
Or any number of young men who think they're UFC champions in waiting and want to try out their new moves. Maybe it's just where I live, but in any decent crowd there always seems to be a lot of people that are willing to kick off given half an excuse.
Fuck them. These monkeys need to be taught a lesson, and I'm not talking stupid Iraq/Afghanistan type lessons, more like Desert Storm. Go destroy every piece of infrastructure they have and then let them rot in their own fetid mess. Innocent people will die, but the alternative is for innocent people to die too, so better off on our terms and without the protracted occupation or losses on our side. Control the air and render their offensive capability useless and they cease to be a threat.
Um, that should be a yes? MS, Sony, Apple etc are all rich and successful despite how much we moan about their business practices in here. If Slashdot has taught me anything it is that a well thought out and reasoned argument carries zero weight when measuring the likely success of a product in the marketplace.
Don't you know that quick cuts and a shaky camera angles means that there's hardcore action going on and you should be impressed. See the Fast and Furious franchise for more detail.
Funny how you can find $3Trillion to shoot some brown people on the other side of the world, but when you need a few hundred billion to improve the lives of your own people it's all too hard.
Seems to be an overlooked strategy, one which I'd like to see more of. Instead of violence, imagine carpet bombing the country with small gifts? Parachute drop millions of packages of cute toys, chocolate, popular media and other trinkets with pro-west propaganda messages attached. It makes it hard for any govt to maintain any level of control or loyalty if supposed 'enemy' is showering you with presents.
"much CHEAPER to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers"
It's not about easier. It's trading control, stability, and uptime for Lower IT operation costs. Executives dont care about safety of data, stability, uptime or control. All they care about is how good does the next quarter look to the board.
Yes, yes it's a well work stereotype, these Execs all have MBAs too right? And they all scream goddammit! and bang their fists on their huge desks when things don't go their way. If only Eugene from the helpdesk was in charge, the company would be in much, much better shape...
What your missing is that almost everything in IT has been history repeating itself for 20 years or so now.
Such as mobile devices for example? Social Networking? Ecommerce and Web 3? Multimedia convergence? Perhaps what you meant to say is that one small concept of IT infrastructure design is a little bit similar to how things we're done 20 years ago, but as for most of IT, it is mostly all new and different.
And when they walk the beat, perhaps they could not do it in full military riot squad garb. I'm not sure what the uniform code is here, but cops seem to have taken a fancy to the combat boot/pants/vest look, rather than the more customer friendly shirt and pants like the old days. A bit if PR would go a long way to helping improve the situation IMO
Probably more than you're average internet keyboard warrior who pours shit on every other profession except his/her own. Really, all this place seems to be these days is a bitchfest about how useless everyone else is. Politicians suck, CEOs are jerks, MBAs are wankers VCs are idiots, Marketing are tossers, HR are arseclowns... You need to get out of your basement. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it has no value.
And this is worse than murdering innocent people ?
(Yes I know most muslims are peaceful and happy people - the point is that even the angriest atheist is still better than than angriest religious fanatic)
The independence of a bunker comes not so much the thick concrete shell, but the machinery inside that provides power, water, air, fuel, food, comms and waste management. When you buy these things secondhand you don't get any of that.
These cold war bunkers can operate for 10 years as a government funded operation with unlimited supplies and budget to house such equipment and personnel. As a civilian operation, I highly doubt you'd have the facilities to last much longer than a couple of weeks, if the govt really wanted to come and get you.
Since it is built on more sound principles than fiat some of us take it in preference to fiat.
Bunk. I know it's fashionable to slag on modern economics because we're right in the middle of a recession, but the fact is that fiat currencies gave our economies the fluidity it need to expand and give most people in the western world unprecedented levels of prosperity. The answer to poor regulations, isn't no regulation.
It is no accident that the countries that survived the GFC the best we're the ones that had the strongest finance and banking regulations.
Please do not vote or breed. It is the parent's responsibility to ensure the environment the children is safe
This all sounds nice and cosy when you write it down, but I'm a parent and it's simply not practical to eyeball your children non-stop for 18 years. Yes you try your hardest and do your best, but it is physically impossible to have that level of vigilance. Some kids will have accidents no matter how hard to protect them, then of course there's the argument that too much protection makes your kids more vulnerable because you're helicoptered them their whole lives. I actually allow my kids to get into semi-supervised trouble because I think it helps them learn and develop. Life comes with risk, we should aim to manage this risk, not avoid it altogether.
just remember that for every call you make it costs them approximately $15 in total costs (phone + personnel + training)
And another trick, a lot of call centres are outsourced. They have stats that measure how many customers hangup after a predefined time on hold (usually 30 or 60 seconds) and there are financial penalties if this number goes over a threshold. So if you have the time, call during the busy times and hang up after 61 seconds. If you have free local calls, then a couple of PCs and modems with an autodial script would be enough to bring down a smaller call centre.
So one combat method is to pollute your data. I regularly change my names, accounts and other identifying artifacts I use online, and also make a habit of posting conflicting or irregular statements so that any record is unreliable or confusing. Sure it's not fail safe, but it makes any effort to build a reliable picture of me a lot more difficult and costly to anyone interested in such things.
Correct, and it is already happening. I work with "young & cool" people, and what we considered embarrassing only 15 years ago is now normal, simply because everyone is doing it. The other trend I see is the signal to noise ratio is getting much lower. There's a lot more information available, but most of it is unreliable. At some point you would think there is a cost associated with storing all this useless data that is no longer cost effective.
China will not risk a shift ass kicking by the USA and her allies.
Yeah I bet they're still running scared after their little experience in Vietnam. Oh wait...
Yeah but that was 40 years ago, America is hell good at war now dude. Just see Afghanistan for example. Oh wait...
Have you ever tried to use your cellphone on a plane? Out of curiosity, I did.
I used to fly domestic every couple of weeks and so for fun I'd mute my phone and try making call to my home answer machine to see if I could connect successfully. I'd do it in the lounge, on the runway, waiting to taxi, while taxiing, taking off, mid flight etc etc Once the plane started moving it was a black hole, you might get the odd blip of signal, but never long enough to make a call. Even when circling the runway at a few hundred metres I still couldn't maintain signal
My conclusion is that there is zero effect to plane safety, but it does make me wonder how those recorded 9/11 messages made it through.
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Can you explain how you would execute this attack? Do you throw the alcohol on the victim then try to light it while avoiding being punched in the face? Or have you already lit it in a vessel you are holding while every bloke around you jumps on top of you and punches you in the head before you get the chance to throw it? I've seen a lot of fights in my time and this is the stupidest idea for a weapon I've ever heard of.
Or any number of young men who think they're UFC champions in waiting and want to try out their new moves. Maybe it's just where I live, but in any decent crowd there always seems to be a lot of people that are willing to kick off given half an excuse.
and set up an unconventional delivery mechanism like a nuke in a shipping container addressed to New York.
I'm not sure you understand how a full military blockade works.
It would make you sound less stupid if you didn't think that all people in a certain group all though the exact same way as some movie you saw once.
Fuck them. These monkeys need to be taught a lesson, and I'm not talking stupid Iraq/Afghanistan type lessons, more like Desert Storm. Go destroy every piece of infrastructure they have and then let them rot in their own fetid mess. Innocent people will die, but the alternative is for innocent people to die too, so better off on our terms and without the protracted occupation or losses on our side. Control the air and render their offensive capability useless and they cease to be a threat.
Are we a drop in the ocean? No.
Um, that should be a yes? MS, Sony, Apple etc are all rich and successful despite how much we moan about their business practices in here. If Slashdot has taught me anything it is that a well thought out and reasoned argument carries zero weight when measuring the likely success of a product in the marketplace.
I'm not sure how the titles work at MSFT, but where I work, the "Creative Director" is one step up from art school intern.
Don't you know that quick cuts and a shaky camera angles means that there's hardcore action going on and you should be impressed. See the Fast and Furious franchise for more detail.
Funny how you can find $3Trillion to shoot some brown people on the other side of the world, but when you need a few hundred billion to improve the lives of your own people it's all too hard.
Seems to be an overlooked strategy, one which I'd like to see more of. Instead of violence, imagine carpet bombing the country with small gifts? Parachute drop millions of packages of cute toys, chocolate, popular media and other trinkets with pro-west propaganda messages attached. It makes it hard for any govt to maintain any level of control or loyalty if supposed 'enemy' is showering you with presents.
"much CHEAPER to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers"
It's not about easier. It's trading control, stability, and uptime for Lower IT operation costs. Executives dont care about safety of data, stability, uptime or control. All they care about is how good does the next quarter look to the board.
Yes, yes it's a well work stereotype, these Execs all have MBAs too right? And they all scream goddammit! and bang their fists on their huge desks when things don't go their way. If only Eugene from the helpdesk was in charge, the company would be in much, much better shape...
What your missing is that almost everything in IT has been history repeating itself for 20 years or so now.
Such as mobile devices for example? Social Networking? Ecommerce and Web 3? Multimedia convergence? Perhaps what you meant to say is that one small concept of IT infrastructure design is a little bit similar to how things we're done 20 years ago, but as for most of IT, it is mostly all new and different.
And when they walk the beat, perhaps they could not do it in full military riot squad garb. I'm not sure what the uniform code is here, but cops seem to have taken a fancy to the combat boot/pants/vest look, rather than the more customer friendly shirt and pants like the old days. A bit if PR would go a long way to helping improve the situation IMO
Probably more than you're average internet keyboard warrior who pours shit on every other profession except his/her own. Really, all this place seems to be these days is a bitchfest about how useless everyone else is. Politicians suck, CEOs are jerks, MBAs are wankers VCs are idiots, Marketing are tossers, HR are arseclowns... You need to get out of your basement. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it has no value.
And this is worse than murdering innocent people ? (Yes I know most muslims are peaceful and happy people - the point is that even the angriest atheist is still better than than angriest religious fanatic)
The independence of a bunker comes not so much the thick concrete shell, but the machinery inside that provides power, water, air, fuel, food, comms and waste management. When you buy these things secondhand you don't get any of that. These cold war bunkers can operate for 10 years as a government funded operation with unlimited supplies and budget to house such equipment and personnel. As a civilian operation, I highly doubt you'd have the facilities to last much longer than a couple of weeks, if the govt really wanted to come and get you.
Since it is built on more sound principles than fiat some of us take it in preference to fiat.
Bunk. I know it's fashionable to slag on modern economics because we're right in the middle of a recession, but the fact is that fiat currencies gave our economies the fluidity it need to expand and give most people in the western world unprecedented levels of prosperity. The answer to poor regulations, isn't no regulation. It is no accident that the countries that survived the GFC the best we're the ones that had the strongest finance and banking regulations.
Eating magnets? What's the attraction in that?
Ironic, don't you think?
Well there's some positives and some negatives...
Please do not vote or breed. It is the parent's responsibility to ensure the environment the children is safe
This all sounds nice and cosy when you write it down, but I'm a parent and it's simply not practical to eyeball your children non-stop for 18 years. Yes you try your hardest and do your best, but it is physically impossible to have that level of vigilance. Some kids will have accidents no matter how hard to protect them, then of course there's the argument that too much protection makes your kids more vulnerable because you're helicoptered them their whole lives. I actually allow my kids to get into semi-supervised trouble because I think it helps them learn and develop. Life comes with risk, we should aim to manage this risk, not avoid it altogether.
just remember that for every call you make it costs them approximately $15 in total costs (phone + personnel + training)
And another trick, a lot of call centres are outsourced. They have stats that measure how many customers hangup after a predefined time on hold (usually 30 or 60 seconds) and there are financial penalties if this number goes over a threshold. So if you have the time, call during the busy times and hang up after 61 seconds. If you have free local calls, then a couple of PCs and modems with an autodial script would be enough to bring down a smaller call centre.
So one combat method is to pollute your data. I regularly change my names, accounts and other identifying artifacts I use online, and also make a habit of posting conflicting or irregular statements so that any record is unreliable or confusing. Sure it's not fail safe, but it makes any effort to build a reliable picture of me a lot more difficult and costly to anyone interested in such things.
Correct, and it is already happening. I work with "young & cool" people, and what we considered embarrassing only 15 years ago is now normal, simply because everyone is doing it. The other trend I see is the signal to noise ratio is getting much lower. There's a lot more information available, but most of it is unreliable. At some point you would think there is a cost associated with storing all this useless data that is no longer cost effective.
China will not risk a shift ass kicking by the USA and her allies.
Yeah I bet they're still running scared after their little experience in Vietnam. Oh wait...
Yeah but that was 40 years ago, America is hell good at war now dude. Just see Afghanistan for example. Oh wait...
Have you ever tried to use your cellphone on a plane? Out of curiosity, I did.
I used to fly domestic every couple of weeks and so for fun I'd mute my phone and try making call to my home answer machine to see if I could connect successfully. I'd do it in the lounge, on the runway, waiting to taxi, while taxiing, taking off, mid flight etc etc Once the plane started moving it was a black hole, you might get the odd blip of signal, but never long enough to make a call. Even when circling the runway at a few hundred metres I still couldn't maintain signal
My conclusion is that there is zero effect to plane safety, but it does make me wonder how those recorded 9/11 messages made it through.
Yeah that's what he thinks, because all those types of people are the same. Just like Asians and Black people...