I'm sorry, what exactly is the ongoing crime you are referring to? I am quite simply unable to find the law being broken here... Could you also please back up your fanciful assumption by filling us in on the person charged. I can't quite seem to find that either.... I mean, aside from from the fact that the govt has "played ball" with some truly atrocious characters in the last 20 years in the name of keeping America safe..like Saddam, Iran, Saudi, Mugabe, etc.. they won't deal with Assange and wiki... right.. such a compelling argument you are making! Could you also please provide concrete details of persons harmed, not airy fairy operatives..murmer murmer... diplomacy murmer murmer... Lastly, in your last blurb you mistakenly write "Assange stole" he stole nothing, no one has been convicted of theft. Assange has been charged with nothing,. I'm sure you and your ilk will find a way of stripping these last few right and freedoms from us, but till then you might like the taste of the kool aid but don't expect me to tell you it makes you sound smart.
Is that with a straight face people are saying we have damaged democracy in Zimbabwe. Doesn't something have to be present to be damaged? Mugabe has been president since 1987 when he began to oversee the election process, using violence, ballot box stuffing and registering false voters. The international community refuses to acknowledge his last election its so bad. His country has 80% thats right, 80! unemployment. He seized all the farms from white people and says that that white people are the real enemy. He commonly blames the US and Britian for the atrocious state of affairs his country is in. Reporters without Borders ranks Zim 151st out of 173 for freedom. Here is a gem of a quote" Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins." thats a quote from the last election Oh wait here is another " This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfoldofficer" This was after the UN called his transgressions unpardonable, and called his years in power a reign of terror. Oh, he also cancelled the last election for 2 yrs as a cost saving measure.This article is priceless. Priceless. If you buy it i have some land for you in Florida, its a real steal.... Too funny
Bwahahahahahaha - Wikileaks sure screwed democracy in Zim! It was like, so close too! Next we will say Wikileaks made Kim Jong Il an asshole! The US won't even let Mugabe travel to the US for refusing to let us monitor the last set of elections... T
Your post is at best intellectual fraud and at worst will actually harm people. 1) Your assertion that this is a problem for bio engineers and scientists implies that until then we do nothing. We simply sit on our hands and cheer on the people in this situation who have control. The scientists. In one fell swoop you turn an entire demographic into powerless victims 2) Point number 3 is brilliantly worded , by using the terms might be and partly at the same time they abdicate any responsibility for the contents of that article being complete horseshit. 3)At one point you compare fidgeting to actual organized sport. 4) Because you don't really exercise but aren't really obese doesn't mean you are healthy, not at all... so you have managed to achieve skinny and unfit. How novel for you. The benefits of exercise have been proven thousands of times in thousands of studies. As have the benefits of eating well, there is a more balanced brain chemistry, nicer skin tone, better memory, ad infinitum 5)To insinuate that parents forcing their children to eat a plate of food has caused the absolutely staggering rise in childhood obesity is akin to claiming that that leaving your freezer open will cure global warming. 6) Diet and exercise is not akin to bleeding with leeches, it is the start of a healthy lifestyle and just might save someones child's life. To counsel against it is the very heart of arrogance and indifference. It may not "save" a child's life but it sure might give them a life worth living. 7)At another point in this bomb you compare obesity and stomach ulcers, bravely showing a lack of understanding between both cause and effect and physiology. 8) During your post you repeatedly insinuate that a lack of obesity is an indication of health. It.Is.Not.
I'm not sure if my favorite part of your post is where you a) Take transparency to an illogical/implausible extreme just to evoke a pithy emotional response... or b) Where you cleverly palm a card while stating that Julian Assange is personally responsible for this. Either way, lets back up for a sec Poster, you should ignore this paragraph, it contains facts. 1. WikiLeaks tried to engage the govt in detailing what should or shouldn't be released, the govt refused. documents.nytimes.com/letters-between-wikileaks-and-gov
Oh wait... kinda takes the sting out of your personal decision claim doesn't it?! 2. I'm sure you haven't but if you actually look at WL you can see that they have released less than 1% of what they received. 3. I can't believe you (actually I can) don't know the difference beween a) operational details b) strategic details c) diplomatic cables , but your parent post makes it clear you do not.
The point that you are missing in your post is that it would have beneficial for Germans to know that the German government had been disallowing visas to Jewish refugees. A problem commonly cited by older Germans is that the polulace simply had little to no idea about what the govt what actually doing during the war years. There was secrecy and disinformation and little else. Floyd Abrams is an asshat, his "journalism" is staggering is its fact selection. Oh, why don't I include a link from the NYT documents nytimes.com/letters-between-wikileaks-and-gov...yah... He TRIED to engage the gov't in meaningful dialogue. They don't need to with shills like Abrams on their side. GIve me the truth dammit, I waould way rather deal with difficult truth than ever be in a position where i have to justify lies...
Simply amazing. WikiLeaks has made it abundantly clear that the 5th estate is not working in our best interests anymore, the media in the general sense has simply become a tool. By feeding us a special blend of half truth, fear and innuendo our attention is kept where it is needed most, on Miley Cyrus smoking a bong and Jon and Kate's divorce. WikiLeaks has unearthed more truth in a month than the rest of the worlds media has since the Pentagon papers in the 70's. Now, in a simply dazzling show of both confidence and obfuscation the media( both left AND right leaning) have reframed whats occurred. You will note that not one gov't or media agency is disputing that the facts presented by WL are all true. Instead of a discussion on why the gov't and media are working in concert to keep the citizens in the dark and fed lies at a level not seen since Nazi Germany, we are treated to discussions on Julian Assange's sex life and dating history. We are invited into a discussion about a sexually frustrated Army private (the privates' privates!) and then told that this man is a terrorist for telling us the truth! We debate freedom of information acts, Federal espionage acts, and extradition law, all the while moving farther and farther away fromthe end result of all of this will simply be the status quo. The discussion we so badly needed to have as a populace and the moral outrage that should be absolutely simmering across america has been rendered inert and impotent by a reframing of what actually occurred. sigh.....
A day where no company will wish to host a site, or register a company in the US. When extortion becomes acceptable under the guise of business people will look elsewhere.
So is it free speech if a go into a crowded sporting event and yell "fire" at the top of my lungs? Should the people hurt in the resulting panic just have the constitution quoted to them? There is intent to cause harm there. As with burning the Qu'Ran. We can logically assume there will be dead Americans at the end of the day. For what? So some asshat in Florida can pretend impotance for a day? As for a comparative between pedolphilia free speech and the right to burn Qu'Rans, are you implying that one is more or less right than the other, they are both gauranteed! My point is that for either to use the constitution as a shield is ridicuous. I don't need a law to tell me murder is wrong, common sense does, i don't need a time machine to tell me this was not what the founding fathers wanted for the 1st amendment... common sense does.
Sexism, racism, ableism, heterosexism, classism and anti-semitism are not about individual acts of discrimination (what some conservative commentator might have specifically said to offend someone or some group). These terms do not primarily refer to acts of discrimination (They refer to systems of privilege that "normalize" a particular way of talking about and thinking about particular groups of people in society.
The effects of some speech when launched into public space are not simply situational. They are another series of burps in the historical and existing framework that has normalized a particular way of thinking about Muslims, gays and lesbians, and other marginalized groups. Is yelling "Fire" in a church/ synagogue or mosque when its crowded (furthermorer, even a crowded mall) protected, or is its intent to cause harm? Do we allow the KKK to burn crosses on people's lawns in the south? Is this acceptable? People talk about the constitution as though its some perfect shield hat should act as either armor or a sword to defend completely abhorrent behaviour. People who deny the holocaust, or talk about pedophilia as being desirable are NOT what the founding fathers had in mind. GROW UP! You have so sadly been marked as insighful.
HOMER Oh, what am I gonna call my Internet company? All the good names are taken. Oh wait, I've got it! Flancrest Enterprises! (looks in a book) D'oh!
MARGE What exactly is it your company does again?
HOMER This industry moves so fast it's really hard to tell. That's why I need a name that's cutting-edge, like CutCo, EdgeCom, InterSlice... come on, Marge, you're good at these! Help me out!
MARGE How about... CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet?
HOMER Fine, it's not important... What really matters is my title. I think I'll make myself... vice president. (excitedly) No, wait! Junior vice president!
The phone rings, and Homer answers it.
HOMER CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet, junior vice president Homer Simpson speaking, how may I direct your call? (disappointedly) It's Patty.
RUBBISH I live in Canada, where we have hate speech laws. They work great...
Not all speech is not just "free" (i. e. bias-free, objectively sent out into the atmosphere). The effects of some speech when launched into public space are not simply situational. They are another series of burps in the historical and existing framework that has normalized a particular way of thinking about Muslims, gays and lesbians, and other marginalized groups.
The "free speech" discourse protects power and privilege by acting as a shield against such challenges. If you dare challenge free speech as a normal social value, you dare challenge the founding ideals of Western-style democracy. WHich is bullshit
all speech is not free, neutral and deserving of utterance.
Then the rhetoricians/magicians will notice where Apple cleverly palms a card
Among the methods considered are voice print analysis, photo analysis, heartbeat analysis (!), hacking attempts, or even "noting particular activities that can indicate suspicious behavior."
By including "hacking attempts" in the list of considered activities they allow themselves the ability to say 'we didn't know you were jail breaking your phone when we wiped it, we saw a hacking attempt, assumed the machine had been fully compromised and did what we thought was best'. Or even shutting down already freed phones by saying, 'we know the OS isn't supposed to work like this, its obviously been fully compromised to we wiped it'
By making jailbreaking that much of a pain in the ass (see disarming functionality from the article" while its still "legal" its more heartache than its worth apple wins....
The average amount of energy that reaches the the top of Earth's atmosphere was what I clearly stated, you counter with telling my how much your flat plate collects at sea level aimed at polar noon....uh...ok... So uh....where exactly is my serious factual error? If anything my awful spelling undermines my authority, but rarely my math. Here is a calculatpor for my area http://www.apricus.com/html/insolation_levels_canada.htm (yes, i know this is sea level as well) or just look up the top of atmosphere data from somewhere else.
I still feel my arguement stands though, my error was not fully explaining my calculations(like some kindly AC did), like the profs always say "show your work!"
Yes, I was. For the puspose of simplicity i was attempting to simplify and not get bogged down in arguements about direct vs. diffuse, the radiant power of different portions of the spectrum or any kind of trig. I was attempting to illustrate how Global warming, or dimming for that matter is actually achieved by using broad simple analogies and numbers. Sigh... i was so frustrated by the anecdotal evidence i see that i resorted to dumbing down, which ended in someone (rightly i might add) pointing out that I myself had selectively chosen variables. Thank you
Gets used here.... alot. Arguments both for or againsts a scientific problem should be framed as defendable proofs. We know that the top of Earth's atmosphere receives 342 watts of energy, in the form of sunlight, per square meter. Note that 107 W/m2 of this energy is reflected or scattered back into space by clouds, the atmosphere, and high-albedo features on Earth's surface. So, only 235 W/m2 (342 - 107) of energy actually make it into the atmosphere, and shines down upon us giving me women in miniskirts and the ability to grow food (both of which are....awesome) Furthermore, we know that 67 W/m2 of the incoming energy is absorbed by the atmosphere, and another 168 W/m2 is absorbed by Earth's surface. When energy is absorbed, it raises the temperature of the substances that absorb it (the atmosphere and surface of our planet, in this case); this causes those substances to radiate away that heat in the form of IR radiation. We can all agree that these are not simply my opinions right? For those of who are are unfarmiliar, these are called facts, lets keep going. About 390 W/m2 of IR energy starts upward from the surface, this difference being caused by longwave radiation needing an atmospheric window that does not have a lot of water vapor or gas molocules containing three or more atoms (i realize this is incomplete, i am atempting to simplify). The more of these conditions present in our atmosphere, the harder it is for longwave radiation to escape. So when we spew into the environment, and what we need to agree on is that adding vapor and GHG's to the environment increases the GW potential... right? Keep your fucking anecdotes to yourself, Using these things called facts we can see that keeping equilibrium becomes more difficult when we insist on changing the atmosphere. So don;t tell me you got two colds last year and only on this year so we are getting warmer, or that your uncle your uncles garden got frosted early thid year so we are geting colder. Or about ICEBERGS, this is an atmospheric issue, give me meaningful data about that and i will listen. Anyone who thinks that chnging the composition of our atmosphere will not result in temp change needs to back to school.
Remember when Jeff Moss had his talk cancelled, or Kim Zetter? All it did was make people salivate to read thier presentation when they released it online at a later date. The last thing you want to do to this demographic is tell them the info is "too dangerous (see awesome) for them to hear. It will be everywhere with in the week.
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He was popular for a while after 9/11, at the time he attempted to make it seem as though he was the lone force in the world that had been warning of the threat, and a ll of the powers that be ruffled his hair and told him to be on his way... and now weren't they all sorry they hadn'rt listened. As was the case before, is seeming to be the case now, an author with enough of a grasp of the siuation to make an intelligent commment is simply not enough, he chooses to muddle the waters with a blatantly personal agenda which will ensure that no one gives a shit whatever he says becomes any wisdom needs to be sifted through a mountain of self serving drivel
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Thae fact that there are errors and vulnerabilities in web based tools just means that they were written by programmers who largely don't have peer code review, which is why so many computer viruses never get to trigger or release paylod, the only working part of them is the infection mechanism.
Perhaps these vulnerabilities would aid n catching a script kiddie who had downloaded a poorly programmed tool and was dumb enough to launch from his own computer.
Nobody with brains would launch from "home", they would use bots, which means the police will be storming an old age home with grandparents still using windows 95.
I do applaud looking at hacking tools though, I workd for a company that used a stripped down, harmless version of the sub7 trojan to deploy software and it was far superior to commercial deployment solutions at the time.
Whats flamebait about this? Do you honestly expect that America, who hover on the brink of complete economic collapse, is doing this for free? One of the reasons for America huge deficit is this war.... and they just "found" a trillion dollars.. Is it truly so unreasonable to assume at some point, with hundreds of thousand s of soldiers on the ground in the area that the USA will clear thier throat and mention the cost?
It was the military who announced the find I think the most likely out come is incredible stability... right after America announces that Afganistan owes them for the cost of the war, so they are putting a huge permanent base there to watch over thier investment. I mean, the only thing we love more than bringing democracy places at the point of a sword is collecting what they owe us for it!
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I'm sorry, what exactly is the ongoing crime you are referring to? I am quite simply unable to find the law being broken here... Could you also please back up your fanciful assumption by filling us in on the person charged. I can't quite seem to find that either....
I mean, aside from from the fact that the govt has "played ball" with some truly atrocious characters in the last 20 years in the name of keeping America safe..like Saddam, Iran, Saudi, Mugabe, etc.. they won't deal with Assange and wiki... right.. such a compelling argument you are making!
Could you also please provide concrete details of persons harmed, not airy fairy operatives..murmer murmer... diplomacy murmer murmer...
Lastly, in your last blurb you mistakenly write
"Assange stole" he stole nothing, no one has been convicted of theft. Assange has been charged with nothing,. I'm sure you and your ilk will find a way of stripping these last few right and freedoms from us, but till then you might like the taste of the kool aid but don't expect me to tell you it makes you sound smart.
Is that with a straight face people are saying we have damaged democracy in Zimbabwe. Doesn't something have to be present to be damaged? Mugabe has been president since 1987 when he began to oversee the election process, using violence, ballot box stuffing and registering false voters. The international community refuses to acknowledge his last election its so bad. His country has 80% thats right, 80! unemployment. He seized all the farms from white people and says that that white people are the real enemy. He commonly blames the US and Britian for the atrocious state of affairs his country is in.
Reporters without Borders ranks Zim 151st out of 173 for freedom.
Here is a gem of a quote" Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins." thats a quote from the last election
Oh wait here is another " This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfoldofficer" This was after the UN called his transgressions unpardonable, and called his years in power a reign of terror.
Oh, he also cancelled the last election for 2 yrs as a cost saving measure.This article is priceless. Priceless. If you buy it i have some land for you in Florida, its a real steal....
Too funny
Bwahahahahahaha - Wikileaks sure screwed democracy in Zim! It was like, so close too! Next we will say Wikileaks made Kim Jong Il an asshole! The US won't even let Mugabe travel to the US for refusing to let us monitor the last set of elections... T
Your post is at best intellectual fraud and at worst will actually harm people.
1) Your assertion that this is a problem for bio engineers and scientists implies that until then we do nothing. We simply sit on our hands and cheer on the people in this situation who have control. The scientists. In one fell swoop you turn an entire demographic into powerless victims
2) Point number 3 is brilliantly worded , by using the terms might be and partly at the same time they abdicate any responsibility for the contents of that article being complete horseshit.
3)At one point you compare fidgeting to actual organized sport.
4) Because you don't really exercise but aren't really obese doesn't mean you are healthy, not at all... so you have managed to achieve skinny and unfit. How novel for you. The benefits of exercise have been proven thousands of times in thousands of studies. As have the benefits of eating well, there is a more balanced brain chemistry, nicer skin tone, better memory, ad infinitum
5)To insinuate that parents forcing their children to eat a plate of food has caused the absolutely staggering rise in childhood obesity is akin to claiming that that leaving your freezer open will cure global warming.
6) Diet and exercise is not akin to bleeding with leeches, it is the start of a healthy lifestyle and just might save someones child's life. To counsel against it is the very heart of arrogance and indifference. It may not "save" a child's life but it sure might give them a life worth living.
7)At another point in this bomb you compare obesity and stomach ulcers, bravely showing a lack of understanding between both cause and effect and physiology.
8) During your post you repeatedly insinuate that a lack of obesity is an indication of health. It.Is.Not.
I'm not sure if my favorite part of your post is where you a) Take transparency to an illogical/implausible extreme just to evoke a pithy emotional response... or b) Where you cleverly palm a card while stating that Julian Assange is personally responsible for this. Either way, lets back up for a sec
Poster, you should ignore this paragraph, it contains facts.
1. WikiLeaks tried to engage the govt in detailing what should or shouldn't be released, the govt refused.
documents.nytimes.com/letters-between-wikileaks-and-gov
Oh wait... kinda takes the sting out of your personal decision claim doesn't it?!
2. I'm sure you haven't but if you actually look at WL you can see that they have released less than 1% of what they received.
3. I can't believe you (actually I can) don't know the difference beween a) operational details b) strategic details c) diplomatic cables , but your parent post makes it clear you do not.
Quick, turn back to FOX and get your next opinion
The point that you are missing in your post is that it would have beneficial for Germans to know that the German government had been disallowing visas to Jewish refugees. A problem commonly cited by older Germans is that the polulace simply had little to no idea about what the govt what actually doing during the war years. There was secrecy and disinformation and little else. Floyd Abrams is an asshat, his "journalism" is staggering is its fact selection. Oh, why don't I include a link from the NYT documents nytimes.com/letters-between-wikileaks-and-gov ...yah... He TRIED to engage the gov't in meaningful dialogue. They don't need to with shills like Abrams on their side. GIve me the truth dammit, I waould way rather deal with difficult truth than ever be in a position where i have to justify lies...
Simply amazing. WikiLeaks has made it abundantly clear that the 5th estate is not working in our best interests anymore, the media in the general sense has simply become a tool. By feeding us a special blend of half truth, fear and innuendo our attention is kept where it is needed most, on Miley Cyrus smoking a bong and Jon and Kate's divorce. WikiLeaks has unearthed more truth in a month than the rest of the worlds media has since the Pentagon papers in the 70's. Now, in a simply dazzling show of both confidence and obfuscation the media( both left AND right leaning) have reframed whats occurred. You will note that not one gov't or media agency is disputing that the facts presented by WL are all true. Instead of a discussion on why the gov't and media are working in concert to keep the citizens in the dark and fed lies at a level not seen since Nazi Germany, we are treated to discussions on Julian Assange's sex life and dating history. We are invited into a discussion about a sexually frustrated Army private (the privates' privates!) and then told that this man is a terrorist for telling us the truth! We debate freedom of information acts, Federal espionage acts, and extradition law, all the while moving farther and farther away fromthe end result of all of this will simply be the status quo. The discussion we so badly needed to have as a populace and the moral outrage that should be absolutely simmering across america has been rendered inert and impotent by a reframing of what actually occurred. sigh.....
I'll finish this post tomorrow, I'm tired
A day where no company will wish to host a site, or register a company in the US. When extortion becomes acceptable under the guise of business people will look elsewhere.
So is it free speech if a go into a crowded sporting event and yell "fire" at the top of my lungs? Should the people hurt in the resulting panic just have the constitution quoted to them? There is intent to cause harm there. As with burning the Qu'Ran. We can logically assume there will be dead Americans at the end of the day. For what? So some asshat in Florida can pretend impotance for a day?
As for a comparative between pedolphilia free speech and the right to burn Qu'Rans, are you implying that one is more or less right than the other, they are both gauranteed! My point is that for either to use the constitution as a shield is ridicuous. I don't need a law to tell me murder is wrong, common sense does, i don't need a time machine to tell me this was not what the founding fathers wanted for the 1st amendment... common sense does.
You are full of crap.
Sexism, racism, ableism, heterosexism, classism and anti-semitism are not about individual acts of discrimination (what some conservative commentator might have specifically said to offend someone or some group). These terms do not primarily refer to acts of discrimination (They refer to systems of privilege that "normalize" a particular way of talking about and thinking about particular groups of people in society.
The effects of some speech when launched into public space are not simply situational. They are another series of burps in the historical and existing framework that has normalized a particular way of thinking about Muslims, gays and lesbians, and other marginalized groups. Is yelling "Fire" in a church/ synagogue or mosque when its crowded (furthermorer, even a crowded mall) protected, or is its intent to cause harm? Do we allow the KKK to burn crosses on people's lawns in the south? Is this acceptable?
People talk about the constitution as though its some perfect shield hat should act as either armor or a sword to defend completely abhorrent behaviour. People who deny the holocaust, or talk about pedophilia as being desirable are NOT what the founding fathers had in mind. GROW UP! You have so sadly been marked as insighful.
HOMER
Oh, what am I gonna call my Internet company? All the good names are taken. Oh wait, I've got it! Flancrest Enterprises! (looks in a book) D'oh!
MARGE
What exactly is it your company does again?
HOMER
This industry moves so fast it's really hard to tell. That's why I need a name that's cutting-edge, like CutCo, EdgeCom, InterSlice... come on, Marge, you're good at these! Help me out!
MARGE
How about... CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet?
HOMER
Fine, it's not important... What really matters is my title. I think I'll make myself... vice president. (excitedly) No, wait! Junior vice president!
The phone rings, and Homer answers it.
HOMER
CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet, junior vice president Homer Simpson speaking, how may I direct your call? (disappointedly) It's Patty.
Homer hands the phone to Marge.
Princeton has now been able to PROVE that getting a serious illness, or divorced is harder on poor people. WOW! Amazing! GO IVY LEAGUE
RUBBISH I live in Canada, where we have hate speech laws. They work great...
Not all speech is not just "free" (i. e. bias-free, objectively sent out into the atmosphere). The effects of some speech when launched into public space are not simply situational. They are another series of burps in the historical and existing framework that has normalized a particular way of thinking about Muslims, gays and lesbians, and other marginalized groups.
The "free speech" discourse protects power and privilege by acting as a shield against such challenges. If you dare challenge free speech as a normal social value, you dare challenge the founding ideals of Western-style democracy. WHich is bullshit
all speech is not free, neutral and deserving of utterance.
Yah that so awesome that nazi's and homophobes can run off at the mouth...whooooooo hooooo. Thats great..er.really
with how often the lead actor changes I'm like Dr. Who?
Then the rhetoricians/magicians will notice where Apple cleverly palms a card
Among the methods considered are voice print analysis, photo analysis, heartbeat analysis (!), hacking attempts, or even "noting particular activities that can indicate suspicious behavior."
By including "hacking attempts" in the list of considered activities they allow themselves the ability to say 'we didn't know you were jail breaking your phone when we wiped it, we saw a hacking attempt, assumed the machine had been fully compromised and did what we thought was best'. Or even shutting down already freed phones by saying, 'we know the OS isn't supposed to work like this, its obviously been fully compromised to we wiped it'
By making jailbreaking that much of a pain in the ass (see disarming functionality from the article" while its still "legal" its more heartache than its worth apple wins....
The average amount of energy that reaches the the top of Earth's atmosphere was what I clearly stated, you counter with telling my how much your flat plate collects at sea level aimed at polar noon....uh...ok... So uh....where exactly is my serious factual error? If anything my awful spelling undermines my authority, but rarely my math.
Here is a calculatpor for my area http://www.apricus.com/html/insolation_levels_canada.htm (yes, i know this is sea level as well)
or just look up the top of atmosphere data from somewhere else.
I still feel my arguement stands though, my error was not fully explaining my calculations(like some kindly AC did), like the profs always say "show your work!"
Yes, I was.
For the puspose of simplicity i was attempting to simplify and not get bogged down in arguements about direct vs. diffuse, the radiant power of different portions of the spectrum or any kind of trig. I was attempting to illustrate how Global warming, or dimming for that matter is actually achieved by using broad simple analogies and numbers. Sigh... i was so frustrated by the anecdotal evidence i see that i resorted to dumbing down, which ended in someone (rightly i might add) pointing out that I myself had selectively chosen variables. Thank you
Gets used here.... alot.
Arguments both for or againsts a scientific problem should be framed as defendable proofs.
We know that the top of Earth's atmosphere receives 342 watts of energy, in the form of sunlight, per square meter. Note that 107 W/m2 of this energy is reflected or scattered back into space by clouds, the atmosphere, and high-albedo features on Earth's surface. So, only 235 W/m2 (342 - 107) of energy actually make it into the atmosphere, and shines down upon us giving me women in miniskirts and the ability to grow food (both of which are....awesome)
Furthermore, we know that 67 W/m2 of the incoming energy is absorbed by the atmosphere, and another 168 W/m2 is absorbed by Earth's surface. When energy is absorbed, it raises the temperature of the substances that absorb it (the atmosphere and surface of our planet, in this case); this causes those substances to radiate away that heat in the form of IR radiation. We can all agree that these are not simply my opinions right? For those of who are are unfarmiliar, these are called facts, lets keep going.
About 390 W/m2 of IR energy starts upward from the surface, this difference being caused by longwave radiation needing an atmospheric window that does not have a lot of water vapor or gas molocules containing three or more atoms (i realize this is incomplete, i am atempting to simplify). The more of these conditions present in our atmosphere, the harder it is for longwave radiation to escape. So when we spew into the environment, and what we need to agree on is that adding vapor and GHG's to the environment increases the GW potential... right? Keep your fucking anecdotes to yourself, Using these things called facts we can see that keeping equilibrium becomes more difficult when we insist on changing the atmosphere. So don;t tell me you got two colds last year and only on this year so we are getting warmer, or that your uncle your uncles garden got frosted early thid year so we are geting colder. Or about ICEBERGS, this is an atmospheric issue, give me meaningful data about that and i will listen. Anyone who thinks that chnging the composition of our atmosphere will not result in temp change needs to back to school.
Remember when Jeff Moss had his talk cancelled, or Kim Zetter? All it did was make people salivate to read thier presentation when they released it online at a later date. The last thing you want to do to this demographic is tell them the info is "too dangerous (see awesome) for them to hear. It will be everywhere with in the week.
He was popular for a while after 9/11, at the time he attempted to make it seem as though he was the lone force in the world that had been warning of the threat, and a ll of the powers that be ruffled his hair and told him to be on his way... and now weren't they all sorry they hadn'rt listened. As was the case before, is seeming to be the case now, an author with enough of a grasp of the siuation to make an intelligent commment is simply not enough, he chooses to muddle the waters with a blatantly personal agenda which will ensure that no one gives a shit whatever he says becomes any wisdom needs to be sifted through a mountain of self serving drivel
Meh... Thae fact that there are errors and vulnerabilities in web based tools just means that they were written by programmers who largely don't have peer code review, which is why so many computer viruses never get to trigger or release paylod, the only working part of them is the infection mechanism. Perhaps these vulnerabilities would aid n catching a script kiddie who had downloaded a poorly programmed tool and was dumb enough to launch from his own computer. Nobody with brains would launch from "home", they would use bots, which means the police will be storming an old age home with grandparents still using windows 95. I do applaud looking at hacking tools though, I workd for a company that used a stripped down, harmless version of the sub7 trojan to deploy software and it was far superior to commercial deployment solutions at the time.
Whats flamebait about this? Do you honestly expect that America, who hover on the brink of complete economic collapse, is doing this for free? One of the reasons for America huge deficit is this war.... and they just "found" a trillion dollars.. Is it truly so unreasonable to assume at some point, with hundreds of thousand s of soldiers on the ground in the area that the USA will clear thier throat and mention the cost?
It was the military who announced the find I think the most likely out come is incredible stability... right after America announces that Afganistan owes them for the cost of the war, so they are putting a huge permanent base there to watch over thier investment. I mean, the only thing we love more than bringing democracy places at the point of a sword is collecting what they owe us for it!