If I just hum along outside the office to repopulate my gums, does the Canadian RIA"A" send me a dentist's bill? Or am I covered under socialist health insurance, just like my other piracy is covered by the blank media tax I filled a few shoeboxes with?
Internet used to get people out of sending money to the church? Splits voluntary religious power from mandatory state power?
I see a new threat to Freedom lurking on the horizon, ready to enter the Republican Party platform as "them" in the "us vs them" Terror War just in time for 2006 Campaign Season.
Didn't I hear about some "Cathedral vs Bazaar" terrorist manifesto praising the Finnish cyberterrorists attacking America's beloved Microsoft?
We've got to rip these Internets out by the roots!
And just the letters "B B" aren't "Big Brother", either. As I pointed out, people have been using posted pictures of eyes to keep people honest for millennia, without that forming Big Brother.
The hidden cameras and unlimited enforcement are most certainly essential parts of Big Brother. Try reading the whole book and then say something when you're informed. The iron boot in the face is important, too.
Who said "Slashdotters should use encryption for everything"?
I said "the Internet's HTTPS:HTTP ratio".
Besides, HTTPS isn't automatically considered reasonable evidence of guilt now. Except by unreasonable people, who never understand anything, and who rarely have the power to convict in the US.
The 4 Egyptians were also Arabs - 19 Arabs on 9/11/2001, 14 of them Saudis.
The Afghanis who were "involved" in the attacks were of course the Afghani Taliban who supported and protected the Qaeda assholes who did the manual labor.
Who were of course a Pakistani secret police creation. Designed by the American CIA.
1978, though your question is a typical Anonymous Coward loaded cheap shot at begging the question. If you don't even know when Spain formally rejected fascism, or can't google to learn, you have nothing to add to this discussion.
That post isn't "Flamebait". If anything, it's an atomic flame shot at the fascist who flamed me. The only way to stop these fascists is to burn them out. Even though the TrollMods who love them are flamers themselves.
My original post is factual, linked to references, and uses simple logic. No wonder TrollMods hate it: they hate America. Or at least the America we used to know and love, until about 6 years ago.
Fuck you, fascist. No matter how hard you spew, you can't change the fact that I agree with Truman's decision to atomic bomb Japan, as I've consistently posted. Stupid bitch, FDR and Truman won the World War faster than your Bush assholes have spent bogging us down in Iraq, our manufactured enemy. The rest of your gibberish strawmen don't even rate a dignifying response.
We don't need a machine to see the rot inside your skull. Go play your deluded games with your rapidly shrinking pool of Bush cultists.
Better yet, practice what you're preaching and go down to register for Iraq duty. You've already invoked our brave, misled troops in this thread to somehow defend your wasting their lives for your fascist dreams. I expect to see you actually putting your life on the line, instead of your brave keyboard bullshit duty.
But of course you won't. Because the Americans who've joined since Afghanis and Arabs attacked America (not Iraqis) are not cowards like you. They're brave, and stand up to defend our country. You, on the other hand, hate our country (as it stands), and are such a pisspants coward that you'd throw away everything we've got in your terror. You're the perfect fascist tool, the perfect terrorist target. The best you could do for our country would be to take the place of a brave American as an IED goes off. Which is just the last reason why you won't.
Actually, Bush's executive order says nothing that has any effect. What it "means" is subject to lots of discussion. But of course an executive order cannot contradict an express Supreme Court decision. Even if that decision is unjust, or if the court is loaded with Bush's corporate appointees.
The only way to counter a Supreme Court decision, which interprets actions in the context of American laws, is to make new laws. That power is reserved to the Congress, not the president, as anyone who ever saw Schoolhouse Rock knows.
Despite the neocon "unitary executive" ("king") philosophy, the president is optional (when Congress overrides a presidential veto), but Congress never is, when making laws.
Of course, with Republicans controlling all three branches of our government, it's hard to tell how the powers are separated. Of course, that's why Republicans are doing all these antiamerican actions, while they have the chance.
And when Bush can sign such a BS order, and have naive people post, publish and read on Slashdot that it somehow "repeals" a Court decision (the correct term is "rescind", even when that is actually the effect), we can tell why they do it. Because when people believe it, it has effect. Even when it's the kind of destruction of America that our enemies have always dreamed of.
I also believe dropping the atomic bombs on Japan was worth the cost, as I believe my detailed description some of the costs of a continued war spelled out. To anyone not walking around with a fascist stick up their ass, that is.
That still doesn't mean we understood the cost of the fallout to protect ourselves, as is also obviously true. To anyone without a fascist stick up their ass.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is most certainly libertarian, committed to nothing but defending our liberties. From fascists with terrorist sticks up their ass.
As any fool could guess, and anyone with a brain doesn't have to guess, no one should be waving around these ridiculous devices as if they worked to "extract truth". Any more than that Star Wars "missile defense shield" works to protect us, or Bush's FEMA protected New Orleans, or anything else shiny and expensive that you fascists worship when so ordered by a waving flag.
But of course, since you vote for Bush as often as possible, need thousands of random "ignorant goat herders" tortured in concentration camps like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, you demand we attack someone, no matter how effective or just. Because you're a sadist - that's what makes fascism so appealing to you. And that stick up your ass.
You people are the answer to Osama's prayers: such scared pussies that seeing terrorism on TV immediately makes you burn any liberties that make our country worth living for. Disgusting cowards projecting their fear onto every strong patriot available, who must be Communists when they protect the people from government tyranny.
Oooh, calling it "the G" makes you sound like such an insider. As if you had any power, any more than a single termite devouring the Constitution with the rest of its mindless brood. I require you to immediately report to one of "the G's" test centers to tweak this sexy Mystery Machine into working order. It's your patriotic duty... there, that always works with you zombies. I won't have to deal with you anymore on Slashdot, because you'll be able to fax your posts directly to Cheney after the tests are completed. If you need to keep posting anyway, just stick it up your ass. It's your best feature.
No one posted anything about American nanotube investment or any of the other points I made. Mostly a lot of jokes about "nanotube equality" and jokes about theocrats. None mod'ed redundant.
Where are these studies that show that more woods don't really take up all that much CO2? The more trees are made of more CO2!
Sure a lot of CO2 is sucked up by the ocean. So what? I don't encourage marine cultivation to sequester carbon because the marine ecology is much too misunderstood to mess with today. What we do know shows how fragile it is presently, under great stress from the Greenhouse (eg. fishing to extinction, vast dead coral reefs from temperature rises). But we do have quite a lot of experience cultivating forests, and controlling growth on land. When all we're doing is replanting existing species in their native locations.
I read your post, and all it clearly contains is FUD - in every direction. Reforestation is a safe way to sequester the CO2 pollution. It doesn't need any more FUD than already put out by the petrofuel companies and their cronies.
In WWII's 1945, America was facing at least several more months of massive deaths, even in victory over Japan. Perhaps a permanent counterinsurgency in occupied Japan. Or joint occupation of Japan/Pacific with Russia, as in Europe. The atomic bombs had already been tested to "work" (massive explosions, but still only "local" effects) in the American desert.
In other words, reliable enough, compared to the alternative.
However, not tested enough to protect ourselves from fallout and other contamination. And certainly not tested as "diplomacy" to avoid the next half-century nuclear Cold War, which stood only a single syllable away from extinction at least once.
Scientists usually don't insist on anything before the government (or anyone else) uses their discoveries - they're almost never in such a powerful position. Even in this case, a libertarian activist organization is trying to stop the government from (ab)using this technology before it's reliable.
Vast power brings vast responsibilities. Big decisions about giant risks like this need to be made by responsible, informed who understand the consequences, and are liable when they're wrong. We can't afford our $3.5TRILLION government, with its miniscule accountability, beta testing devices like this before the law is even ready, let alone the machines.
American labs seem to be creating the nanotech revolution. Especially government subsidized academic labs. Even the commercial labs like IBM get lots of public subsidy.
I wonder whether the next generation of devices that uses the tech will see American developers use the "homegrown advantage". I wonder whether American education will lead the way in teaching how to produce software for these new kinds of (massively parallel, nonlinear, paradigm-busting...) devices.
Will American investment in nanotech return a fair share of the benefit to Americans, or are we giving it away? Do multinational corporations count as "Americans"?
Solving the problems among the people is always better than fixing them technically. That's why it's so important for people to elect representatives who will actually protect our freedom, our constitutions, rather than just abuse them while spouting propaganda slogans. People have the power; we just use machines to execute it.
HTTPS is much more CPU intensive than HTTP, though not prohibitive. HTTPS requires significant math crunching per transaction, while HTTPS does not (necessarily). I'm sure others have better realworld performance differentials.
No, HTTPS is just the HTTP application protocol transacted across an encrypted (SSL or TLS) TCP transport protocol. The only data passed in the clear is the IP#s of the remote endpoints. Once connected, the client requests the server send the identified object (eg. "GET/home_explosives.html HTTP/1.1") during the encrypted transaction.
Of course HTTPS is vulnerable to traffic analysis and attacks on HTTPS itself, but proxies and tunnelling protect HTTPS even more.
The increase in HTTPS would come from the public perception of HTTPS as more private, hindered only slightly by imperfections in the protection.
Of course there is a way around it: buy blank media from across the border. When this tax is universalized globally, buy black market.
The demand to use our own content for ourselves is very strong. The sheeple who pay the "fair use" tax will smokescreen the people who don't. Who are the real folk, anyway. The rest find their folk culture in marketing jingles, Hollywood blockbusters, "Top 40" syngles and other transient synthetic products. Even those people are born thieves with little deep sense of value, so will frequent the taxfree markets also, usually seeking perversion - of the system, even if not in the content.
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"low-intensity pulsed ultrasound"
If I just hum along outside the office to repopulate my gums, does the Canadian RIA"A" send me a dentist's bill? Or am I covered under socialist health insurance, just like my other piracy is covered by the blank media tax I filled a few shoeboxes with?
Internet used to get people out of sending money to the church? Splits voluntary religious power from mandatory state power?
I see a new threat to Freedom lurking on the horizon, ready to enter the Republican Party platform as "them" in the "us vs them" Terror War just in time for 2006 Campaign Season.
Didn't I hear about some "Cathedral vs Bazaar" terrorist manifesto praising the Finnish cyberterrorists attacking America's beloved Microsoft?
We've got to rip these Internets out by the roots!
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TrollMods have modpoints to spare for lying about the Supreme Court.
And just the letters "B B" aren't "Big Brother", either. As I pointed out, people have been using posted pictures of eyes to keep people honest for millennia, without that forming Big Brother.
The hidden cameras and unlimited enforcement are most certainly essential parts of Big Brother. Try reading the whole book and then say something when you're informed. The iron boot in the face is important, too.
Who said "Slashdotters should use encryption for everything"?
I said " the Internet's HTTPS:HTTP ratio".
Besides, HTTPS isn't automatically considered reasonable evidence of guilt now. Except by unreasonable people, who never understand anything, and who rarely have the power to convict in the US.
The 4 Egyptians were also Arabs - 19 Arabs on 9/11/2001, 14 of them Saudis.
The Afghanis who were "involved" in the attacks were of course the Afghani Taliban who supported and protected the Qaeda assholes who did the manual labor.
Who were of course a Pakistani secret police creation. Designed by the American CIA.
More recently than the death of explicit fascist governments elsewhere in 1945, almost twice as long ago.
In Spain, with its 500 years of modern history, and over 2500 years of literal history, 28 years is very recent.
Considering Spains new corporate government moves that we're now discussing, it's not even the blink of an eye.
1978, though your question is a typical Anonymous Coward loaded cheap shot at begging the question. If you don't even know when Spain formally rejected fascism, or can't google to learn, you have nothing to add to this discussion.
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That post isn't "Flamebait". If anything, it's an atomic flame shot at the fascist who flamed me. The only way to stop these fascists is to burn them out. Even though the TrollMods who love them are flamers themselves.
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30% Overrated
My original post is factual, linked to references, and uses simple logic. No wonder TrollMods hate it: they hate America. Or at least the America we used to know and love, until about 6 years ago.
Wasn't Spain literally fascist until recently? Sounds like some of the old government never retired.
The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca was a good movie, but a terrible way to run a country.
Fuck you, fascist. No matter how hard you spew, you can't change the fact that I agree with Truman's decision to atomic bomb Japan, as I've consistently posted. Stupid bitch, FDR and Truman won the World War faster than your Bush assholes have spent bogging us down in Iraq, our manufactured enemy. The rest of your gibberish strawmen don't even rate a dignifying response.
We don't need a machine to see the rot inside your skull. Go play your deluded games with your rapidly shrinking pool of Bush cultists.
Better yet, practice what you're preaching and go down to register for Iraq duty. You've already invoked our brave, misled troops in this thread to somehow defend your wasting their lives for your fascist dreams. I expect to see you actually putting your life on the line, instead of your brave keyboard bullshit duty.
But of course you won't. Because the Americans who've joined since Afghanis and Arabs attacked America (not Iraqis) are not cowards like you. They're brave, and stand up to defend our country. You, on the other hand, hate our country (as it stands), and are such a pisspants coward that you'd throw away everything we've got in your terror. You're the perfect fascist tool, the perfect terrorist target. The best you could do for our country would be to take the place of a brave American as an IED goes off. Which is just the last reason why you won't.
Actually, Bush's executive order says nothing that has any effect. What it "means" is subject to lots of discussion. But of course an executive order cannot contradict an express Supreme Court decision. Even if that decision is unjust, or if the court is loaded with Bush's corporate appointees.
The only way to counter a Supreme Court decision, which interprets actions in the context of American laws, is to make new laws. That power is reserved to the Congress, not the president, as anyone who ever saw Schoolhouse Rock knows.
Despite the neocon "unitary executive" ("king") philosophy, the president is optional (when Congress overrides a presidential veto), but Congress never is, when making laws.
Of course, with Republicans controlling all three branches of our government, it's hard to tell how the powers are separated. Of course, that's why Republicans are doing all these antiamerican actions, while they have the chance.
And when Bush can sign such a BS order, and have naive people post, publish and read on Slashdot that it somehow "repeals" a Court decision (the correct term is "rescind", even when that is actually the effect), we can tell why they do it. Because when people believe it, it has effect. Even when it's the kind of destruction of America that our enemies have always dreamed of.
I also believe dropping the atomic bombs on Japan was worth the cost, as I believe my detailed description some of the costs of a continued war spelled out. To anyone not walking around with a fascist stick up their ass, that is.
That still doesn't mean we understood the cost of the fallout to protect ourselves, as is also obviously true. To anyone without a fascist stick up their ass.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is most certainly libertarian, committed to nothing but defending our liberties. From fascists with terrorist sticks up their ass.
As any fool could guess, and anyone with a brain doesn't have to guess, no one should be waving around these ridiculous devices as if they worked to "extract truth". Any more than that Star Wars "missile defense shield" works to protect us, or Bush's FEMA protected New Orleans, or anything else shiny and expensive that you fascists worship when so ordered by a waving flag.
But of course, since you vote for Bush as often as possible, need thousands of random "ignorant goat herders" tortured in concentration camps like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, you demand we attack someone, no matter how effective or just. Because you're a sadist - that's what makes fascism so appealing to you. And that stick up your ass.
You people are the answer to Osama's prayers: such scared pussies that seeing terrorism on TV immediately makes you burn any liberties that make our country worth living for. Disgusting cowards projecting their fear onto every strong patriot available, who must be Communists when they protect the people from government tyranny.
Oooh, calling it "the G" makes you sound like such an insider. As if you had any power, any more than a single termite devouring the Constitution with the rest of its mindless brood. I require you to immediately report to one of "the G's" test centers to tweak this sexy Mystery Machine into working order. It's your patriotic duty... there, that always works with you zombies. I won't have to deal with you anymore on Slashdot, because you'll be able to fax your posts directly to Cheney after the tests are completed. If you need to keep posting anyway, just stick it up your ass. It's your best feature.
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No one posted anything about American nanotube investment or any of the other points I made. Mostly a lot of jokes about "nanotube equality" and jokes about theocrats. None mod'ed redundant.
TrollMods hate America.
Where are these studies that show that more woods don't really take up all that much CO2? The more trees are made of more CO2!
Sure a lot of CO2 is sucked up by the ocean. So what? I don't encourage marine cultivation to sequester carbon because the marine ecology is much too misunderstood to mess with today. What we do know shows how fragile it is presently, under great stress from the Greenhouse (eg. fishing to extinction, vast dead coral reefs from temperature rises). But we do have quite a lot of experience cultivating forests, and controlling growth on land. When all we're doing is replanting existing species in their native locations.
I read your post, and all it clearly contains is FUD - in every direction. Reforestation is a safe way to sequester the CO2 pollution. It doesn't need any more FUD than already put out by the petrofuel companies and their cronies.
In WWII's 1945, America was facing at least several more months of massive deaths, even in victory over Japan. Perhaps a permanent counterinsurgency in occupied Japan. Or joint occupation of Japan/Pacific with Russia, as in Europe. The atomic bombs had already been tested to "work" (massive explosions, but still only "local" effects) in the American desert.
In other words, reliable enough, compared to the alternative.
However, not tested enough to protect ourselves from fallout and other contamination. And certainly not tested as "diplomacy" to avoid the next half-century nuclear Cold War, which stood only a single syllable away from extinction at least once.
Scientists usually don't insist on anything before the government (or anyone else) uses their discoveries - they're almost never in such a powerful position. Even in this case, a libertarian activist organization is trying to stop the government from (ab)using this technology before it's reliable.
Vast power brings vast responsibilities. Big decisions about giant risks like this need to be made by responsible, informed who understand the consequences, and are liable when they're wrong. We can't afford our $3.5TRILLION government, with its miniscule accountability, beta testing devices like this before the law is even ready, let alone the machines.
American labs seem to be creating the nanotech revolution. Especially government subsidized academic labs. Even the commercial labs like IBM get lots of public subsidy.
I wonder whether the next generation of devices that uses the tech will see American developers use the "homegrown advantage". I wonder whether American education will lead the way in teaching how to produce software for these new kinds of (massively parallel, nonlinear, paradigm-busting...) devices.
Will American investment in nanotech return a fair share of the benefit to Americans, or are we giving it away? Do multinational corporations count as "Americans"?
"How naive can you be?" I asked. The answer: Anonymous born yesterday Coward naive.
And stop calling me "Geesh". I'm not Geesh.
Isn't the Slashdot DDoS network the most powerful "computer" in the world?
Solving the problems among the people is always better than fixing them technically. That's why it's so important for people to elect representatives who will actually protect our freedom, our constitutions, rather than just abuse them while spouting propaganda slogans. People have the power; we just use machines to execute it.
HTTPS is much more CPU intensive than HTTP, though not prohibitive. HTTPS requires significant math crunching per transaction, while HTTPS does not (necessarily). I'm sure others have better realworld performance differentials.
No, HTTPS is just the HTTP application protocol transacted across an encrypted (SSL or TLS) TCP transport protocol. The only data passed in the clear is the IP#s of the remote endpoints. Once connected, the client requests the server send the identified object (eg. "GET /home_explosives.html HTTP/1.1") during the encrypted transaction.
Of course HTTPS is vulnerable to traffic analysis and attacks on HTTPS itself, but proxies and tunnelling protect HTTPS even more.
The increase in HTTPS would come from the public perception of HTTPS as more private, hindered only slightly by imperfections in the protection.
In a sane world, the Internet's HTTPS:HTTP ratio would be skyrocketing. Does anyone have trend graphs?
Of course there is a way around it: buy blank media from across the border. When this tax is universalized globally, buy black market.
The demand to use our own content for ourselves is very strong. The sheeple who pay the "fair use" tax will smokescreen the people who don't. Who are the real folk, anyway. The rest find their folk culture in marketing jingles, Hollywood blockbusters, "Top 40" syngles and other transient synthetic products. Even those people are born thieves with little deep sense of value, so will frequent the taxfree markets also, usually seeking perversion - of the system, even if not in the content.