Hold manufacturers of such shitty IoT appliances liable for facilitating crimes. Not only will we be spared fridges that spy on our lives, this whole mess would end pretty fucking quickly.
So, in other words, if someone is a dipshit and still has a good life, it doesn't mean that God is an asshole that favors dipshits, it means that somewhere down the line of his descendants, one of them will get punished for it.
Yeah.
Right.
In other words, we just have to wait long enough until some random act happens to his son, grandson or whoever, then we can say "see, god is just".
I'd call that bullshit, but I've called stuff that was less harebrained bullshit and hence wouldn't do it justice.
Russia? No. China. China is quickly trying to catch up, no matter the cost, and that includes space technology. They have probes, they have labs, they have astronauts. All within rather little time. And don't forget, China doesn't have pesky elections, the chairman says, the country does. And unlike Russia, which had the same advantage, they also have the economic muscle to do what they want.
Imagine the freedom to do it without people asking pesky questions like "why do we need that?", like Russia during the space race, with the financial and economic power to pull it off, like the US during the space race.
Imagine they would count people "watching" videos for less than 3 seconds (read: people who click something, notice it's a video, go "fuck this shit, I ain't watching a video now!" and close it). Would that cause an uproar? You bet it would. "Bah, cheating, people aren't really watching that, it's just clickbait and they get lured there, people aren't really interested in the video, FB is only trying to say so to be relevant, people go to YouTube for videos..." and so on.
I'd be the last defender of FB (as far as I am concerned, the day they finally croak should be called "privacy day"), but what exactly should they have done?
The Bible has many WTF moments when you read it, but for some reason back then it must've seemed ok to the people back then. I mean, if god supports Jacob's trick and doesn't punish him for being an asshole and swindling his brother out of his firstborn rights, does god condone such behaviour?
Then again, when you look at Job, God can be quite the asshole himself.
The reliability can be safeguarded by the exchange of bonds, payable if contractual responsibilities are not being met. Don't pay? Say good bye to the international financial market. That's easy to secure, but of course, such safeguards hit mutually. Read: Can hit you too if you fail to deliver.
The split should be between the countries simply at what they can do best. Russia has shown time and again that they can deliver with a pretty good safety record and at reasonable cost. Europe is pretty good at getting stuff designed, and the US can create very reliable payloads that can endure years of travel, provided we can somehow teach them the metric system...
Bad publicity is one thing. Being the target of the BY FAR biggest DDoS in history is another thing. They can have the best publicity on earth if they have to fold tomorrow because all their customers bail due to not being reachable because of the DDoS.
The reason is irrelevant. The message is clear: You want to silence your opposition? Conduct a DDoS until your enemy's hoster decides that you're more hassle than he is worth.
When I take a look down the average fairy tale, from Grimm's tales to Andersen, they are not that much different from many parables and allegories in the Bible. In many of either you find a good and a bad person, the good one facing hardship, overcoming it (in the fairy tale usually by his own feats, in the Bible it's usually divine intervention that helps him) and in the end being the winner because he was the (morally) superior being.
I'm pretty sure that something like this would also be seen favorably in the rest of the world. The reaction of the moonshot was also one of admiration and praise for the efforts of the US, and the general, worldwide feeling that the US is _the_ country, that they can do anything and that they'll show us the way.
Right now, the US is regarded as something between laughing stock and schoolyard bully.
If anything, such an effort should probably be undertaken as a cooperation between different countries. And not for sentimental reasons, only for financial ones.
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No, it came out with the left-leaning candidate in the lead and the nationalist-populist didn't want to accept that.
Great idea!
Erh... umm... where should I send the nuke?
So? He'd be the first person whose imaginary friend hates him.
Why should I give a fuck about what side of The Party he prefers?
Hold manufacturers of such shitty IoT appliances liable for facilitating crimes. Not only will we be spared fridges that spy on our lives, this whole mess would end pretty fucking quickly.
So, in other words, if someone is a dipshit and still has a good life, it doesn't mean that God is an asshole that favors dipshits, it means that somewhere down the line of his descendants, one of them will get punished for it.
Yeah.
Right.
In other words, we just have to wait long enough until some random act happens to his son, grandson or whoever, then we can say "see, god is just".
I'd call that bullshit, but I've called stuff that was less harebrained bullshit and hence wouldn't do it justice.
Russia? No. China. China is quickly trying to catch up, no matter the cost, and that includes space technology. They have probes, they have labs, they have astronauts. All within rather little time. And don't forget, China doesn't have pesky elections, the chairman says, the country does. And unlike Russia, which had the same advantage, they also have the economic muscle to do what they want.
Imagine the freedom to do it without people asking pesky questions like "why do we need that?", like Russia during the space race, with the financial and economic power to pull it off, like the US during the space race.
Imagine they would count people "watching" videos for less than 3 seconds (read: people who click something, notice it's a video, go "fuck this shit, I ain't watching a video now!" and close it). Would that cause an uproar? You bet it would. "Bah, cheating, people aren't really watching that, it's just clickbait and they get lured there, people aren't really interested in the video, FB is only trying to say so to be relevant, people go to YouTube for videos..." and so on.
I'd be the last defender of FB (as far as I am concerned, the day they finally croak should be called "privacy day"), but what exactly should they have done?
The Bible has many WTF moments when you read it, but for some reason back then it must've seemed ok to the people back then. I mean, if god supports Jacob's trick and doesn't punish him for being an asshole and swindling his brother out of his firstborn rights, does god condone such behaviour?
Then again, when you look at Job, God can be quite the asshole himself.
Yup, you're right about Mars' atmosphere, thanks for the correction.
But isn't Venus what Earth WAS a few billion years ago? Damn, geology has been a long time ago...
The reliability can be safeguarded by the exchange of bonds, payable if contractual responsibilities are not being met. Don't pay? Say good bye to the international financial market. That's easy to secure, but of course, such safeguards hit mutually. Read: Can hit you too if you fail to deliver.
The split should be between the countries simply at what they can do best. Russia has shown time and again that they can deliver with a pretty good safety record and at reasonable cost. Europe is pretty good at getting stuff designed, and the US can create very reliable payloads that can endure years of travel, provided we can somehow teach them the metric system...
Bad publicity is one thing. Being the target of the BY FAR biggest DDoS in history is another thing. They can have the best publicity on earth if they have to fold tomorrow because all their customers bail due to not being reachable because of the DDoS.
Are you here to provide a sample of what kind of spam the DDoS traffic consisted of or what's that got to do with the story?
It's not that we don't understand it (frankly, people, who would act differently?), what is troublesome is the signal this broadcasts.
Umm... NIMBY. As in "yes, we like what he does, but he should be hosted somewhere else".
The reason is irrelevant. The message is clear: You want to silence your opposition? Conduct a DDoS until your enemy's hoster decides that you're more hassle than he is worth.
Try again if you found an example when we didn't have to pay for our own blunders dearly.
When I take a look down the average fairy tale, from Grimm's tales to Andersen, they are not that much different from many parables and allegories in the Bible. In many of either you find a good and a bad person, the good one facing hardship, overcoming it (in the fairy tale usually by his own feats, in the Bible it's usually divine intervention that helps him) and in the end being the winner because he was the (morally) superior being.
The difference isn't that big, you know...
That's basically the joke. Atheism is just rejecting one more holy story as a fairy tale than every believer does.
If you want dramatic change, you have to translate it to a different language.
The joke is that the Old Testament we have today is probably closer to the original text than the New one.
According to all religions, almost all religious texts are fairy tales. What's your problem?
In a nutshell, to get people to the moon it took a former Nazi to put pressure behind it, the urge to one-up the Soviets and a prez had to croak.
Holy fuck, to get to Mars we'd probably need to nuke the Capitol.
I'm pretty sure that something like this would also be seen favorably in the rest of the world. The reaction of the moonshot was also one of admiration and praise for the efforts of the US, and the general, worldwide feeling that the US is _the_ country, that they can do anything and that they'll show us the way.
Right now, the US is regarded as something between laughing stock and schoolyard bully.
Ok, I bite: How?
If anything, such an effort should probably be undertaken as a cooperation between different countries. And not for sentimental reasons, only for financial ones.