"Obviously this information is only used to prevent car theft because the car thieves will never think to switch plates. It couldn't have any other use."
ANPR can also (no shit) track PLATES listed as stolen. If you steal a plate to install on your lawfully-owned auto, ANPR can detect that too.
"If you attract the interest of a sophisticated enough adversary, the FBI or NSA for instance, you're probably toast."
The FBI and NSA are our friends, so consider the following instructions to be for use in Syria and Iran.
The only reason to hide stuff from the government is if you are "doing something they don't like" which they will incarcerate or kill you for.
If you are a serious person, you are willing to use violence because anything less is being a poser. After you take out the arresting Baathists/Jihadists with a worn IED, ensure your data is also a nice gift.
Want your data destroyed along with the asshole trying to take it? A 3.5" drive case has enough room for a reasonable amount of gunpowder or other explosive along with an e-match (easy to make) or other initiator. Put a flash drive inside the 3.5" case to store your encrypted info, and use the rest of the space appropriately. I'll leave any interface connectors up to you, but save the power Molex for the e-match/detonator. With any luck your Secret Police tech will dead, blind and/or be typing with stubs, and since you were doomed anyway you at least damaged their ability to mess with the next guy.
They are ignored because the folks who post regarding them have inoperable or intermittent Caps Lock keys.
This particular keyboard malfunction mimics the way the way paranoid nutjobs once typed when conspiracy theorists only had mimeographed newsletters with which to practice "samizdat".
The trucks and tailings don't locate the bunker, they locate entrances used for construction. They don't necessarily locate those to be used for post-construction access.
In other old news, entrances to catacombs don't locate the catacombs.
The MOP is dirt cheap so far, and unlike nuclear weapons, conventional bombs have very wide application.
MOP raise the cost of ALL conventional shelters intended to be survivable, such as dug-in North Korean artillery emplacements.
MOPs would have been nice to have over Afghanistan (Tora Bora) and over Libya to gut Qaddafist bunkers.If the enemy is buried deep enough, he can be sealed in for good if he isn't killed outright. Recovery efforts on a military installation are military action and can be lawfully attacked.
If Jihadist nuclear installations are "dead and buried" they pose much less contamination threat to civilization.
The sooner the US gets pushed off the "world stage" the better for the American PEOPLE.
The US is merely a tool of the rich, and most Americans are not the elites. The rich keep us comfortable enough not to kill them, but the world would do us a favor to resist US hegemony, treat its politicians (ALL of them) with scorn, and chart its own course.
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"Obviously this information is only used to prevent car theft because the car thieves will never think to switch plates. It couldn't have any other use."
ANPR can also (no shit) track PLATES listed as stolen. If you steal a plate to install on your lawfully-owned auto, ANPR can detect that too.
"The US needs to get a set of BALLS and Liberate Pakistan."
If you mean by that "help India erase it with a pre-emptive first strike after the Taliban take over" I agree.
Now articulate why one should prefer they be injured to injuring someone else, all other things being equal.
Virtue has no reward or it would be MUCH more popular.
If they want to be assholes, they obviously don't "want" users.
There is no reason they should want to need users when they are working to scratch their own itch. Mere users don't contribute anything to the OS.
As a user, however, I don't need them either.
You can drink it in the US, but consumers have been groomed to buy water.
No longer fashionable since you can store all your stuff in the cloud, but nice to have.
"If you attract the interest of a sophisticated enough adversary, the FBI or NSA for instance, you're probably toast."
The FBI and NSA are our friends, so consider the following instructions to be for use in Syria and Iran.
The only reason to hide stuff from the government is if you are "doing something they don't like" which they will incarcerate or kill you for.
If you are a serious person, you are willing to use violence because anything less is being a poser. After you take out the arresting Baathists/Jihadists with a worn IED, ensure your data is also a nice gift.
Want your data destroyed along with the asshole trying to take it?
A 3.5" drive case has enough room for a reasonable amount of gunpowder or other explosive along with an e-match (easy to make) or other initiator. Put a flash drive inside the 3.5" case to store your encrypted info, and use the rest of the space appropriately. I'll leave any interface connectors up to you, but save the power Molex for the e-match/detonator. With any luck your Secret Police tech will dead, blind and/or be typing with stubs, and since you were doomed anyway you at least damaged their ability to mess with the next guy.
"coolness of the dog will balance-out the total uncoolness of the scooter and you might still have a chance at getting laid."
There's always the "peanut butter" alternative. It's YOUR dog.
"If you're going to do that, just leave the car and steal the club."
Tools for recovery folks to snap clubs are quite simple, fast to operate, and have been available for years:
http://www.clubbuster.com/cb_directions.htm
IAAM (I Am A Mechanic) and agree on cars. USians can do trucks, but that's different.
The Dexcool situation should be a scandal and it's more than one engine...
OTOH I've worked at a used car lot and even the most clueless dumbfucks have trouble killing Hondas unless they wreck them.
So how do you sanitize the media you BUY for yourself?
They are ignored because the folks who post regarding them have inoperable or intermittent Caps Lock keys.
This particular keyboard malfunction mimics the way the way paranoid nutjobs once typed when conspiracy theorists only had mimeographed newsletters with which to practice "samizdat".
e.e. cummings was cool,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings
but he's fucking DEAD and anyone imitating that stylistic affectation (especially at length) needs to be.
The only cure for "crazy" is to do a Hemingway (Ernest or Margaux depending on how much mess you mind leaving) and check out.
BW is always a hazard. If the military gets complacent, bad shit happens.
That the Soviets were not so long ago working a vigorous BW program means the leftovers, and leftover scientists, pose a threat.
Doh, typo!
Rephrase to;
"the idea that "something that blows up" should be INexpensive is a bit silly.
Sixteen million isn't impressive, and the idea that "something that blows up" should be expensive is a bit silly.
That it should be "effective" is more to the point.
The trucks and tailings don't locate the bunker, they locate entrances used for construction. They don't necessarily locate those to be used for post-construction access.
In other old news, entrances to catacombs don't locate the catacombs.
"Do you think that maybe, just maybe, it might help to have more women in positions of power?"
Put them in Iran and let us know how that works out.
Also, Indira Ghandi and Margaret Thatcher.
The MOP is dirt cheap so far, and unlike nuclear weapons, conventional bombs have very wide application.
MOP raise the cost of ALL conventional shelters intended to be survivable, such as dug-in North Korean artillery emplacements.
MOPs would have been nice to have over Afghanistan (Tora Bora) and over Libya to gut Qaddafist bunkers.If the enemy is buried deep enough, he can be sealed in for good if he isn't killed outright. Recovery efforts on a military installation are military action and can be lawfully attacked.
If Jihadist nuclear installations are "dead and buried" they pose much less contamination threat to civilization.
It took considerable violence to take the edge off Christianity, and that was well worth it.
Superstitionists cannot be swayed from their position by logic, but can be killed.
Because even more superstitionists with nukes = bad and no concept of "fairness" is remotely important compared to that.
(Large) batteries are already efficiently recycled, not "thrown out".
Good luck getting a standard battery form-factor to make that practical.
"Money is the only language these idiots understand"
You forget "force".
The sooner the US gets pushed off the "world stage" the better for the American PEOPLE.
The US is merely a tool of the rich, and most Americans are not the elites. The rich keep us comfortable enough not to kill them, but the world would do us a favor to resist US hegemony, treat its politicians (ALL of them) with scorn, and chart its own course.
"I'd hope the AFL-CIO would shape up if enough members threatened to quit."
As a branch of Cosa Nostra, that's unlikely to happen.