Even if this attack is halted soon, it does raise some very pointed questions about resilience in a lot of mission critical systems. CEO phones CIO: 'Are you confident this can't happen to us?' 'Um....'
In the UK almost noone fills in a tax return for income tax. VAT - the sales tax - is always added to the displayed price, not afterwards. The ONLY tax of which this is not true is the local property tax; you have to pay that separately. Lo and behold, that's the one that the government works hard to freeze...
I guess they should turn on their TV to see if the emergency broadcast system had kicked in. If it had, do what that says. But is that how people reacted.
The sirens appear to offer little purpose if they aren't achieving that; more thought required?
Much of the problem is that people get away with lies. Quite how we stop this being the case remains unclear - though getting politicians' spokespeople to promise to resign and never work in the industry again if they are proved to have lied might help.
Yup - those are days that can only be enjoyed with the right sort of friends. However finding the right sort of friends is HARD; I can't say I've really cracked after 5 decades on this planet.
Here's hoping it gets easier for both of us in the future
The problem is that we're all living a LOT longer because those clever doctors have cured the things that used to kill us off. Therefore pension benefits have to fall, pensionable age rise, or both. Add in the collapse of negotiating power of labour as globalisation and automation destroys jobs, and you will inevitably get what's happening today.
Sadly I suspect the next generation will end up disengaged and unbelieving about anything; the present level of voting in the younger generation seems to support my pessimism.
We don't do hard work anymore - so it's not a surprise that the number of critical thinkers is falling rapidly.
An undergraduate history degree did wonders for my ability to spot BS, but it's always hard work. The best historical evidence is the stuff that is circumstantial to the main thrust of the story being told - because it's least likely to be deliberately manipulated. John Wesley's letters to the editor of a Bristol newspaper about brewing beer torpedo 19th century Methodism adoption of teetotalism, for example. The next best is when a chronicler is recording something he's upset to admit to happening: Emperor Julian the Apostate's complaints about the welfare efforts of the church that show up paganism's failure in the area are a great example of this.
Unfortunately it's rare to see examples of these in modern journalism - though it pops up occasionally.
The ideal of free speech in society is to enable the free exchange of opinion / arguments in order to find the truth. The expression of an opinion that is a contribution to ongoing debate in a society should therefore not be subject to sanctions by any part of that society - thus the concept of whistleblower as well as the freedom to endorse publicly views that are unfashionable.
The examples you offer are illuminating in that they are largely beyond the purpose of free speech as I've suggested it ought to work. However in the case of an employee, it should be the case that they are not SACKED for an opinion unrelated to work, because that is to use employment as a constraint on public discussion. Which is the issue here: is this guys private behaviours and views substantially detrimental to his employability. To my mind no.
Both are basing their beliefs on an outside standard. The only issue is whether the liberal or conservative reason is correct.
You are also conflating 'conservative' with 'religious'. To do so is to ignore the conservative tradition articulated by Roger Scruton, who, to hopelessly oversimplify, argues that what has been done in the past is a pattern which is likely to be good in itself, whose rejection is inherently bad to some extent. I.e Cultural practices emerge and define a community, and to destroy them is wrong.
If there's a case for it, it comes from the statement
"participate in, elaborate sexual subjugation fantasies, in which men are inherently superior to women."
The claim presumably being that the person believes this to be the case. What we then have is a free speech issue; is it still acceptable to believe that statement, or is it no longer covered by freedom of speech principles. Either position is problematic.
Ok - so I'm anal about this... but for those of us who are, it does do terrible things to our ability to hear what is being said. So be kind to those of us who have this disability.
This is a great discussion of the need for provision
“A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.”
Suing the parents whose children not being vaccinated caused a measles (or worse) outbreak for the FULL costs of the medical treatment might help them get real.
Its reboot of Survivors was unimpressive. Their reboot of Dr Who is superb.
It is the virtue of their funding model - a poll tax on TV viewers - is that it enables them to be adventurous. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel was excellent although the first episode dragged. Let's hope 'Good Omens' is as good.
For me as a long in the tooth trekkie, that was a great homage to the original series with some funny and poignant moments. Sadly II was poor and I didn't bother with III
Slashdot Mirror
Don't forget to include the phone number of their constituency office. A script to allow it to be robocalled might also be appropriate.
Armed forces
Libraries
Schools
Sewers
Public Health Laboratories - the CDC work tracking diseases
Policing
Firefighting
All of these cannot be funded voluntarily, because the free rider problem will be too great.
Even if this attack is halted soon, it does raise some very pointed questions about resilience in a lot of mission critical systems. CEO phones CIO: 'Are you confident this can't happen to us?' 'Um....'
There are times I'm grateful I'm retired!
As the post says. The failure is that they don't hurt the delivery people enough.
There is hope...
Gen 5:5
Methuselah 969 Gen 5:25
What DO they teach them in Sunday School these days...
We don't give our physicians MDs - which is a very high academic qualification, > Ph.D.
In the UK almost noone fills in a tax return for income tax. VAT - the sales tax - is always added to the displayed price, not afterwards. The ONLY tax of which this is not true is the local property tax; you have to pay that separately. Lo and behold, that's the one that the government works hard to freeze...
I guess they should turn on their TV to see if the emergency broadcast system had kicked in. If it had, do what that says. But is that how people reacted.
The sirens appear to offer little purpose if they aren't achieving that; more thought required?
Much of the problem is that people get away with lies. Quite how we stop this being the case remains unclear - though getting politicians' spokespeople to promise to resign and never work in the industry again if they are proved to have lied might help.
How do we ensure lying is effectively punished?
Yup - those are days that can only be enjoyed with the right sort of friends. However finding the right sort of friends is HARD; I can't say I've really cracked after 5 decades on this planet.
Here's hoping it gets easier for both of us in the future
From the big corporates
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
The snowflake effect!
http://www.independent.co.uk/l...
The problem is that we're all living a LOT longer because those clever doctors have cured the things that used to kill us off. Therefore pension benefits have to fall, pensionable age rise, or both. Add in the collapse of negotiating power of labour as globalisation and automation destroys jobs, and you will inevitably get what's happening today.
Sadly I suspect the next generation will end up disengaged and unbelieving about anything; the present level of voting in the younger generation seems to support my pessimism.
We don't do hard work anymore - so it's not a surprise that the number of critical thinkers is falling rapidly.
An undergraduate history degree did wonders for my ability to spot BS, but it's always hard work. The best historical evidence is the stuff that is circumstantial to the main thrust of the story being told - because it's least likely to be deliberately manipulated. John Wesley's letters to the editor of a Bristol newspaper about brewing beer torpedo 19th century Methodism adoption of teetotalism, for example. The next best is when a chronicler is recording something he's upset to admit to happening: Emperor Julian the Apostate's complaints about the welfare efforts of the church that show up paganism's failure in the area are a great example of this.
Unfortunately it's rare to see examples of these in modern journalism - though it pops up occasionally.
The ideal of free speech in society is to enable the free exchange of opinion / arguments in order to find the truth. The expression of an opinion that is a contribution to ongoing debate in a society should therefore not be subject to sanctions by any part of that society - thus the concept of whistleblower as well as the freedom to endorse publicly views that are unfashionable.
The examples you offer are illuminating in that they are largely beyond the purpose of free speech as I've suggested it ought to work. However in the case of an employee, it should be the case that they are not SACKED for an opinion unrelated to work, because that is to use employment as a constraint on public discussion. Which is the issue here: is this guys private behaviours and views substantially detrimental to his employability. To my mind no.
Both are basing their beliefs on an outside standard. The only issue is whether the liberal or conservative reason is correct.
You are also conflating 'conservative' with 'religious'. To do so is to ignore the conservative tradition articulated by Roger Scruton, who, to hopelessly oversimplify, argues that what has been done in the past is a pattern which is likely to be good in itself, whose rejection is inherently bad to some extent. I.e Cultural practices emerge and define a community, and to destroy them is wrong.
If there's a case for it, it comes from the statement
"participate in, elaborate sexual subjugation fantasies, in which men are inherently superior to women."
The claim presumably being that the person believes this to be the case. What we then have is a free speech issue; is it still acceptable to believe that statement, or is it no longer covered by freedom of speech principles. Either position is problematic.
Ok - so I'm anal about this... but for those of us who are, it does do terrible things to our ability to hear what is being said. So be kind to those of us who have this disability.
This is a great discussion of the need for provision
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eats-...
based on the old joke
“A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.”
I have the right to drive my car despite the chance I'll seriously injury someone else?
I see that the colonial education system is of its usual quality...
Suing the parents whose children not being vaccinated caused a measles (or worse) outbreak for the FULL costs of the medical treatment might help them get real.
Its reboot of Survivors was unimpressive. Their reboot of Dr Who is superb.
It is the virtue of their funding model - a poll tax on TV viewers - is that it enables them to be adventurous. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel was excellent although the first episode dragged. Let's hope 'Good Omens' is as good.
For me as a long in the tooth trekkie, that was a great homage to the original series with some funny and poignant moments. Sadly II was poor and I didn't bother with III