C4 was used for cooking in the field (it burns nicely when not initiated by a blasting cap). Not all IEDs use fancy electronic detonators. There are any number of non-electronic ways to set off explosives. While EMP/HERF systems can be useful, there is no panacea.
I among them. The concept of innocence is elastic. For example, is a KKK member of a chapter that commits a lynching "innocent" even if he does not participate in the act? In the same way, I understand that group participation is a buy-in on group behaviors. If someone in Gitmo is actually a Communist Atheist who reviles Islam, then I consider him "innocent". If they are Islamists, then I consider them an enemy to be destroyed. Americans, and the West, are in a cultural war. It is outside the ability of many folks to understand that, because they are taught to sort people by their individual actions. In civil process, guilt means "you did this specific act". In war, it is enough to take sides or be in the wrong location at the wrong time. The post WWII fetish for trying to enforce legal micromanagement of every process is IMO part of a silly culture of self-justification. It began with the Nuremburg trial ritual. The Nazis concerned would have been best treated to a quick firing squad with no drama, and we would have been free thereafter to act cleanly. Civil processes are a luxury of peacetime. Jihadists understand this, and use our weaknesses against us. It is my hope that eventually Jihadist violence will free most Westerners of their political correctness, and we can have at the Pan-Islamists full-force.
What will have me giggling like a schoolgirl is that when the next Democratic administration cycles into power, they will inherit the tools the Republicans put in place. Wanna place any bets on how much power they will give up?
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Or for those lacking a furnace, the much more common stick welder, cranked up to 220 amps, will easily blast through the cover and melt the platters. Uses less energy too, since dragging a stick welder about the platter cavity is quicker than melting the whole drive.
As long as they don't threaten the Second Amendment rights, threatening the others does not pose much problem. I don't need my weapons to stop government folks from bothering me. They do not do that. I HAVE had to brandish, but not fire, weapons over the years to deter crackheads who parked on my rural property and threatened me when I directed them to leave. Guess who I'm mre concerned about as a threat? What is also missing from most Slashdot discussion is the reason most people don't object to government surveillance, is that they know that they don't do anything remotely interesting to an intelligence agency. At all. Ever. If the government want to spy on Muslims, I don't care, because Muslims and their sympathizers are my political enemies and I do not wish Constitutional protections to apply to them. There are practical benefits to being on the right side of activity that is "morally" wrong, but morals are abritrary so I choose situational ethics and pragmatism. Ideals that preserve my enemies do not serve me, so I do not support them. Politics is war. The Right and Left have different visions, and playing hardball means attacking each others "rights". The Left would destroy the Second Amendment in order to leave armed Rightists at the mercy of any Leftist government. If the Bush haters were in power they would be equally ruthless (as they demonstrate in their attempts to destroy Second Amendment protections for mostly-Conservative gun owners) in their drive to power. Why should I care about doing to my enemies what they will joyfully do to me?
At least in my area, the culture is the problem. The focus is on social promotion, not offending the religious fanatics (science is an enemy of superstition) and risk avoidance. If chemistry and science could be linked to NASCAR maybe Bubba would care. Until then, forget it.
Unless we wish the US to be flooded with cheap illegal immigrant labor to the point where there is no benefit to being on our side of the border, methods of excluding illegal immigrants must be found and used. Businesses will not be deterred from hiring illegals unless employees are tracked. The governement already knows who I work for. It's on my fscking W-2! Why I should mind them cross-indexing my employment information and verifying my status as a citizen? If I wanted to live in a Third World failed state I'd move to Mexico. I do not, nor do I want Mexico moved on top of me!
The functional value to all the world of Free and Open Source Software is arguably more than the lives of a few humans who espouse a violently anti-freedom religion even more toxic than Christianity.
Many of the people exposed to education won't live to use it, but that is a reasonable expectation and no cause not to educate them. Education does not save everyone. Those it DOES reach and who choose to use it well justify the investment. Human processes are sloppy. Third World cultures have high death and disease rates because of the choices their adults make. Education can give some of them tools to make better choices. Instead of the whinging about "computers not being food", maybe we should understand the food perpetuates bad systems while education offers hope for changing them!
"Every real conservative is completely mortified by the recent goings-on within the US, and their involvement in wars around the world." Unfortunately. the (few) real Conservatives can only hope to have any political influence under a NeoCon Administration. They are stuck. The public has never embraced real Conservatism, so the only way to sell any variety was to make bedfellows with the Evangelical ultranationalists who are horny for the Apocalypse. The binary choices of Identity Politics leave no other effective option. Democrat leftists do not want Conservatives (and on issues like the Second Amendment are bitter enemies) and the Christian Taleban are capable of instantly torpedoing any secular Conservative candidate.
Killing manned exploration for a few decades would free billions we could use to learn about the places we wish to visit in the future. The space race between the Soviets and the US was great for jumpstarting space exploration, but what humans do in space (other then personally experience it) can be automated. We are getting away from manned combat aircraft because meat in the cockpit gets tired, makes mistakes, and needs life support. Losing people damages a program far more than losing hardware, because they have emotion-based value to the public. Free the space prrogram, advance robotic technology, and keep the meat on Terra!
With understanding of a system comes understanding of how to manipulate what that system "sees". With excellent surveillance will come complacency by those running the system...
"Of course, these same people are likely to buy a car and end up seizing the engine by never having the oil changed." I get lots of vehicles and 'puters from such folk. May they never change.
"How long does this sick comedy have to go on before people decide it is time to kick all their stuff into the bin and go live in a cottage somewhere out in the woods with only the most basic amenities, keeping only a PO Box number for the bare essential communications?" Please demonstrate how the aforementioned "sick comedy" actually impacts any significant number of people in a manner that causes them ANY inconvenience. I'm not worried about the US and EU retaining my records, I'm worried about malware and spyware opening them to people who actually have an incentive to screw me over.
The moral is don't be a "good kid". Look like one, keep you head down, and don't trust authority figures. If you have information whose release might get you punished, release anonymously or not at all. This has never been different, by the way.
I could fit plastique (or a smokeless pistol powder packet) and a blasting cap into a homemade plaster sandal mold and cast a presentable plastic (urethane) "sandal" around the thing quite easily. Other than the explosives the components are cheap, common and their purchase wouldn't raise any eyebrows. Shucks, nitrate some rope and the thong portion becomes a dandy fuse! BTW, being a Gringo does not exclude being a Muslim, however uncommon the combo may be. John Lind was quite White.
Implants also carry an infection risk and are inconvenient to upgrade. My opinion is that those who want implants really desire them as a body modification, not that there is anything inherently wrong with that.
I wish computer users had an organization as effective as the NRA to protect out rights. Unlike my firearms, neither a lobbying group nor either political party is working to protect my computer buying options.
That goes for everything from groceries to medical care! The duty to yourself to be an informed consumer is ageless. Caveat Emptor, anyone? I don't patronize brick and mortar computer or electronics stores, except to buy printer paper and similar. It isn't worth the petrol and time. Except for getting boned on some memory by micromagic (Google for "micromagic scam") web shopping has been far more satisfactory than going local. I can research a product thoroughly and order it in one sitting, track its progress, and go no further than my driveway to fetch it. My electronic order trail (and pics I may take of damaged items) facilitate any RMA or damage claims.
Skilled immigrants, all types, are exactly what we need to strengthen the US. People who excel in tech self-select, and the determination to emigrate for a better life reflects the kind of achiever we need. US "Joe Average" doesn't excel at anything, and no education system will make an achiever out of a zero. Labor is mobile so let's welcome immigrants instead of curling up into a xenophobic foetal position.
If my employer believes in Voodoo Garbage, then I shall study Voodoo Garbage that I may manipulate the situation to my benefit. "I don't consider these tests harmless," I consider them beneficial. Asymmetric warfare is fine with me.;) Now let's steer the discussion to "how to haxor behavioral interviews".
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C4 was used for cooking in the field (it burns nicely when not initiated by a blasting cap).
Not all IEDs use fancy electronic detonators. There are any number of non-electronic ways to set off explosives. While EMP/HERF systems can be useful, there is no panacea.
I among them. The concept of innocence is elastic. For example, is a KKK member of a chapter that commits a lynching "innocent" even if he does not participate in the act? In the same way, I understand that group participation is a buy-in on group behaviors. If someone in Gitmo is actually a Communist Atheist who reviles Islam, then I consider him "innocent". If they are Islamists, then I consider them an enemy to be destroyed. Americans, and the West, are in a cultural war.
It is outside the ability of many folks to understand that, because they are taught to sort people by their individual actions.
In civil process, guilt means "you did this specific act". In war, it is enough to take sides or be in the wrong location at the wrong time. The post WWII fetish for trying to enforce legal micromanagement of every process is IMO part of a silly culture of self-justification. It began with the Nuremburg trial ritual. The Nazis concerned would have been best treated to a quick firing squad with no drama, and we would have been free thereafter to act cleanly.
Civil processes are a luxury of peacetime. Jihadists understand this, and use our weaknesses against us. It is my hope that eventually Jihadist violence will free most Westerners of their political correctness, and we can have at the Pan-Islamists full-force.
What will have me giggling like a schoolgirl is that when the next Democratic administration cycles into power, they will inherit the tools the Republicans put in place. Wanna place any bets on how much power they will give up?
Or for those lacking a furnace, the much more common stick welder, cranked up to 220 amps, will easily blast through the cover and melt the platters. Uses less energy too, since dragging a stick welder about the platter cavity is quicker than melting the whole drive.
As long as they don't threaten the Second Amendment rights, threatening the others does not pose much problem. I don't need my weapons to stop government folks from bothering me. They do not do that.
I HAVE had to brandish, but not fire, weapons over the years to deter crackheads who parked on my rural property and threatened me when I directed them to leave. Guess who I'm mre concerned about as a threat?
What is also missing from most Slashdot discussion is the reason most people don't object to government surveillance, is that they know that they don't do anything remotely interesting to an intelligence agency. At all. Ever.
If the government want to spy on Muslims, I don't care, because Muslims and their sympathizers are my political enemies and I do not wish Constitutional protections to apply to them. There are practical benefits to being on the right side of activity that is "morally" wrong, but morals are abritrary so I choose situational ethics and pragmatism. Ideals that preserve my enemies do not serve me, so I do not support them.
Politics is war. The Right and Left have different visions, and playing hardball means attacking each others "rights". The Left would destroy the Second Amendment in order to leave armed Rightists at the mercy of any Leftist government. If the Bush haters were in power they would be equally ruthless (as they demonstrate in their attempts to destroy Second Amendment protections for mostly-Conservative gun owners) in their drive to power. Why should I care about doing to my enemies what they will joyfully do to me?
At least in my area, the culture is the problem. The focus is on social promotion, not offending the religious fanatics (science is an enemy of superstition) and risk avoidance.
If chemistry and science could be linked to NASCAR maybe Bubba would care. Until then, forget it.
Unless we wish the US to be flooded with cheap illegal immigrant labor to the point where there is no benefit to being on our side of the border, methods of excluding illegal immigrants must be found and used.
Businesses will not be deterred from hiring illegals unless employees are tracked.
The governement already knows who I work for. It's on my fscking W-2!
Why I should mind them cross-indexing my employment information and verifying my status as a citizen? If I wanted to live in a Third World failed state I'd move to Mexico. I do not, nor do I want Mexico moved on top of me!
The functional value to all the world of Free and Open Source Software is arguably more than the lives of a few humans who espouse a violently anti-freedom religion even more toxic than Christianity.
Both Marines and SeaBees have ample use for them. Google for why. :)
Many of the people exposed to education won't live to use it, but that is a reasonable expectation and no cause not to educate them.
Education does not save everyone. Those it DOES reach and who choose to use it well justify the investment.
Human processes are sloppy. Third World cultures have high death and disease rates because of the choices their adults make.
Education can give some of them tools to make better choices.
Instead of the whinging about "computers not being food", maybe we should understand the food perpetuates bad systems while education offers hope for changing them!
"Every real conservative is completely mortified by the recent goings-on within the US, and their involvement in wars around the world."
Unfortunately. the (few) real Conservatives can only hope to have any political influence under a NeoCon Administration. They are stuck. The public has never embraced real Conservatism, so the only way to sell any variety was to make bedfellows with the Evangelical ultranationalists who are horny for the Apocalypse.
The binary choices of Identity Politics leave no other effective option.
Democrat leftists do not want Conservatives (and on issues like the Second Amendment are bitter enemies) and the Christian Taleban are capable of instantly torpedoing any secular Conservative candidate.
Corn should be classified as a petroleum product, given the amount of fertilizer needed to produce it. :)
Killing manned exploration for a few decades would free billions we could use to learn about the places we wish to visit in the future.
The space race between the Soviets and the US was great for jumpstarting space exploration, but what humans do in space (other then personally experience it) can be automated.
We are getting away from manned combat aircraft because meat in the cockpit gets tired, makes mistakes, and needs life support. Losing people damages a program far more than losing hardware, because they have emotion-based value to the public.
Free the space prrogram, advance robotic technology, and keep the meat on Terra!
With understanding of a system comes understanding of how to manipulate what that system "sees". With excellent surveillance will come complacency by those running the system...
"Of course, these same people are likely to buy a car and end up seizing the engine by never having the oil changed."
I get lots of vehicles and 'puters from such folk. May they never change.
"How long does this sick comedy have to go on before people decide it is time to kick all their stuff into the bin and go live in a cottage somewhere out in the woods with only the most basic amenities, keeping only a PO Box number for the bare essential communications?"
Please demonstrate how the aforementioned "sick comedy" actually impacts any significant number of people in a manner that causes them ANY inconvenience.
I'm not worried about the US and EU retaining my records, I'm worried about malware and spyware opening them to people who actually have an incentive to screw me over.
The moral is don't be a "good kid". Look like one, keep you head down, and don't trust authority figures. If you have information whose release might get you punished, release anonymously or not at all.
This has never been different, by the way.
I could fit plastique (or a smokeless pistol powder packet) and a blasting cap into a homemade plaster sandal mold and cast a presentable plastic (urethane) "sandal" around the thing quite easily. Other than the explosives the components are cheap, common and their purchase wouldn't raise any eyebrows. Shucks, nitrate some rope and the thong portion becomes a dandy fuse!
BTW, being a Gringo does not exclude being a Muslim, however uncommon the combo may be. John Lind was quite White.
Implants also carry an infection risk and are inconvenient to upgrade.
My opinion is that those who want implants really desire them as a body modification, not that there is anything inherently wrong with that.
That is the reason behind the Second Amendment. You won't win the first battle, but enough folks going down fighting helps foment revolution.
I wish computer users had an organization as effective as the NRA to protect out rights. Unlike my firearms, neither a lobbying group nor either political party is working to protect my computer buying options.
I AM surprised that the likes of Google and Microsoft aren't "getting" that they need lobbyists to buy influence and beat the telecoms.
That goes for everything from groceries to medical care!
The duty to yourself to be an informed consumer is ageless. Caveat Emptor, anyone?
I don't patronize brick and mortar computer or electronics stores, except to buy printer paper and similar. It isn't worth the petrol and time.
Except for getting boned on some memory by micromagic (Google for "micromagic scam") web shopping has been far more satisfactory than going local. I can research a product thoroughly and order it in one sitting, track its progress, and go no further than my driveway to fetch it. My electronic order trail (and pics I may take of damaged items) facilitate any RMA or damage claims.
Skilled immigrants, all types, are exactly what we need to strengthen the US.
People who excel in tech self-select, and the determination to emigrate for a better life reflects the kind of achiever we need. US "Joe Average" doesn't excel at anything, and no education system will make an achiever out of a zero.
Labor is mobile so let's welcome immigrants instead of curling up into a xenophobic foetal position.
If my employer believes in Voodoo Garbage, then I shall study Voodoo Garbage that I may manipulate the situation to my benefit. ;)
"I don't consider these tests harmless,"
I consider them beneficial. Asymmetric warfare is fine with me.
Now let's steer the discussion to "how to haxor behavioral interviews".