Long story short, yes this use of number stations has been confirmed by multiple sources, including operators and "users". It is a well known, and confirmed, fact that a Cuban spyring operating out of Florida (IIRC) was controlled by a number station.
Yeah, you're doing real well in western Europe when journalists, film makers and cartoonists all have to fear for their lives if they don't self-censor. Where a state of emergency had to be extended in France five times, with military posted to street corners. Where rape and no-go zones are becoming endemic. That vocal minority of fear-mongering racists really are deluded, aren't they?
Admit nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter-accusations.
Exactly.
Cool. Learn something new every day, pretty cool how you guys know more than people actually living here.
All of Western Europe is a flaming dumpster fire of deranged stupidity that will collapse on it'self in the next 20 years or so and all of Europe will soon be one great Caliphate with the heads of the infidels on steel pikes at every city entrance. And they will have done it to themselves... That or they will all have a mass conversion to hard core conservatism, arm themselves and take back their countries, but I am not holding my breath, too much inbreeding and beta males in Europe. All the alphas moved to he colonies generations ago.
Cool. I didn't know that, last time I checked we were doing pretty well for ourselves here in Western Europe. I mean, granted, we do have a vocal minority of fear-mongering racists, but eh, what can you do?
That's not how it works. The studio doesn't get 100% of the box office take. In the US, on average, the studio gets a little more than 50% of the box office generated by a movie. The theaters and other parties get the rest. For foreign box office, the studio's cut is usually around one third. The listed budgets for movies also don't include marketing expenses, which for a tent-pole movie is usually $100 million or higher. A movie like The Mummy had a production budget of $125 million, and it's marketing budget was likely around $100 million. The studio's cut of the domestic box office was probably around $45 to $55 million, and their cut off the foreign box office was probably around $110 million. That means the studio's losses for The Mummy might have been $65+ million. (It was probably slightly lower, though, since Universal seemed to be aware they had a stinker on their hands and cut back on marketing.) Using the same math, Baywatch probably lost around $50 million, Dark Tower lost around $70 million, King Arthur lost $100+ million, Alien: Covenant lost around $100 million, and Transformers lost $100+ million. Pirates of the Caribbean probably lost around $35 million at the box office, but with merchandising, home video, etc., it will probably turn a slight profit in the end. The numbers for Transformers might be off a little bit, too, since I believe companies in China were involved in the production, like previous Transformers movies, which meant the studios involved would get more than one third of the Chinese box office.
Cool, how much does it pay to shill for Hollywood these days?
Let's also not overlook that this autopilot was SPEEDING so clearly there is an issue there.
Decent chance the thing was set on a "maintain distance to object in front" setting, the thing is not really that smart so if the object in front was speeding, then the autopilot would just faithfully speed as well in an attempt to maintain distance.
As ~20% of the seats in the Danish Parliament held by the far-right group 'Dansk Folkeparti', I would hardly say your part of the world is without issues.
to be fair, compared to the US right wing, those Dansk Folkeparti are not really "far right"
You mean like the perspective they cast by popping up an "Edge is the most secure browser" message every time you click a Chrome or Firefox icon in Win 10?
That doesn't happen though, but cool of you to say it does
Happens all the time when a team member makes a mistake. And I say "team" because often it's not the organisation as a whole that gets involved in covering up mistakes, it's not policy; it's just individual teams with people in other departments playing ball. They close ranks, have each others backs, and go out of their way to ensure they will not have to admit they made a mistake. Sometimes they go to extreme lengths: police plant evidence in a case they bollocksed up, people at city hall drive a businessman to financial ruin because they issued him with a zoning permit when they shouldn't have. And don't get me started on what passes for child protective services over here. There have been several cases where they made a mistake, and instead of admitting it they doubled down on smearing the parents, with several "professionals" colluding in this deception, including MDs. It's not even confirmation bias, they have knowingly kept children away from their parents in order to not have to own up to an earlier mistake in the case.
Sources please.
I mean, you're probably right, but I'd like to feel some outrage.
A single person can do batshit crazy stuff, yes. But a group of professionals working in a hospital? Nope. Not going to happen. There may be some bending of rules, some I'll-scratch-your-back-if-you'll-scratch-mine situations, but a group of doctors intentionally trying to injure a child? That doesn't happen. Period.
Do not attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.
Nah, this sorta thing is pretty much SOP for NK, they'll be all like "Raaaah look at us we are like SUPER dangerous! Give us oil and food or we use our spooky new powers!"
Then we give them oil and food and they step back down, when that stuff runs out - they go "Raaaaaah!" again. They've done it before.
Besides there's a long way from a functional nuclear device to a missile deliverable one.
We've had this shit in the UK for over a decade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or is this some other kind of battery operated carnage?
The show in the UK (RobotWars) was based off the original US BattleBots.
What I find interesting is that since RobotWars ran for longer and had several of the same teams competing every year you got to see them basically find some of the best ways to win (HypnoDisc, Chaos II and Razor), interestingly enough looking at the new BattleBots it seems that almost all of the bots there either try to reinvent the wheel and come up with some stupid new gimmick like minibots, flamethrowers or other useless, stupid things; or try to mimic the big three from Robot Wars.
Still weirds me out how many people want to make a flipper bot and go the electric route, when clearly a pneumatic flipper is far superior - admittedly far less controllable, but it will actually flip or throw robots. Like, look at this season of BattleBots, there are several flipper bots - but most are electrical flippers, so those bots tend to get into wrestling matches where they sort of lift another robot and push them around, then you have something like Bronco that basically just drives at the other robots, tackles them to the wall and fires the pneumatic flipper, sending the other bots out over the edge - I know which one I prefer. Kinetic spinners are as effective and fun to watch as ever, even though the BattleBots guys kinda sucked at designing them, the disc design pioneered by HypnoDisc is obviously superior to the "two hammers" design showed in this season on BattleBots, as it is less likely to get slammed to a halt, burning out the engine or basically break itself at the joints.
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It's copypasta.
What'd you expect?
Found the internet tough guy.
So if we did not have memory radioactive atoms would not decay?
If we didn't have memory planets would not change position in orbit over time?
Über is illegal in denmark
...wot?
The amount of work people will put into complete idiocy never ceases to amaze.
What's a Virtual Machine machine?
...alright...
Check out Spycraft by Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton and Henry R. Schlesinger it is well sourced and quite informative.
Long story short, yes this use of number stations has been confirmed by multiple sources, including operators and "users". It is a well known, and confirmed, fact that a Cuban spyring operating out of Florida (IIRC) was controlled by a number station.
The sheer weirdness of slashdot trolls never cease to amaze.
Yeah, you're doing real well in western Europe when journalists, film makers and cartoonists all have to fear for their lives if they don't self-censor. Where a state of emergency had to be extended in France five times, with military posted to street corners. Where rape and no-go zones are becoming endemic. That vocal minority of fear-mongering racists really are deluded, aren't they?
Admit nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter-accusations.
Exactly.
Cool. Learn something new every day, pretty cool how you guys know more than people actually living here.
All of Western Europe is a flaming dumpster fire of deranged stupidity that will collapse on it'self in the next 20 years or so and all of Europe will soon be one great Caliphate with the heads of the infidels on steel pikes at every city entrance. And they will have done it to themselves... That or they will all have a mass conversion to hard core conservatism, arm themselves and take back their countries, but I am not holding my breath, too much inbreeding and beta males in Europe. All the alphas moved to he colonies generations ago.
Cool.
I didn't know that, last time I checked we were doing pretty well for ourselves here in Western Europe.
I mean, granted, we do have a vocal minority of fear-mongering racists, but eh, what can you do?
That's not how it works. The studio doesn't get 100% of the box office take. In the US, on average, the studio gets a little more than 50% of the box office generated by a movie. The theaters and other parties get the rest. For foreign box office, the studio's cut is usually around one third. The listed budgets for movies also don't include marketing expenses, which for a tent-pole movie is usually $100 million or higher. A movie like The Mummy had a production budget of $125 million, and it's marketing budget was likely around $100 million. The studio's cut of the domestic box office was probably around $45 to $55 million, and their cut off the foreign box office was probably around $110 million. That means the studio's losses for The Mummy might have been $65+ million. (It was probably slightly lower, though, since Universal seemed to be aware they had a stinker on their hands and cut back on marketing.) Using the same math, Baywatch probably lost around $50 million, Dark Tower lost around $70 million, King Arthur lost $100+ million, Alien: Covenant lost around $100 million, and Transformers lost $100+ million. Pirates of the Caribbean probably lost around $35 million at the box office, but with merchandising, home video, etc., it will probably turn a slight profit in the end. The numbers for Transformers might be off a little bit, too, since I believe companies in China were involved in the production, like previous Transformers movies, which meant the studios involved would get more than one third of the Chinese box office.
Cool, how much does it pay to shill for Hollywood these days?
...They argue about always keeping a round in the chamber like you're in the military.....
You don't do that in the military though, whether or not you chamber a round depends largely on your current alert state.
Let's also not overlook that this autopilot was SPEEDING so clearly there is an issue there.
Decent chance the thing was set on a "maintain distance to object in front" setting, the thing is not really that smart so if the object in front was speeding, then the autopilot would just faithfully speed as well in an attempt to maintain distance.
Which, granted, is stupid.
As ~20% of the seats in the Danish Parliament held by the far-right group 'Dansk Folkeparti', I would hardly say your part of the world is without issues.
to be fair, compared to the US right wing, those Dansk Folkeparti are not really "far right"
If by "real soon now" you mean since the '70s.
Yes, in niche applications, but no modern doctor routinely suggests the use of leeches and I think we both know that.
What? Every doctor doesn't use those things in all cases?
Well...fuck. I think I need to have a talk with my doctor...
if they're public companies, it should be illegal for them to not disclose such a loss.
To their shareholders probably, to randos on the internet, not so much.
You mean like the perspective they cast by popping up an "Edge is the most secure browser" message every time you click a Chrome or Firefox icon in Win 10?
That doesn't happen though, but cool of you to say it does
The WinNuke exploit was patched long, long ago dude.
Happens all the time when a team member makes a mistake. And I say "team" because often it's not the organisation as a whole that gets involved in covering up mistakes, it's not policy; it's just individual teams with people in other departments playing ball. They close ranks, have each others backs, and go out of their way to ensure they will not have to admit they made a mistake. Sometimes they go to extreme lengths: police plant evidence in a case they bollocksed up, people at city hall drive a businessman to financial ruin because they issued him with a zoning permit when they shouldn't have. And don't get me started on what passes for child protective services over here. There have been several cases where they made a mistake, and instead of admitting it they doubled down on smearing the parents, with several "professionals" colluding in this deception, including MDs. It's not even confirmation bias, they have knowingly kept children away from their parents in order to not have to own up to an earlier mistake in the case.
Sources please.
I mean, you're probably right, but I'd like to feel some outrage.
A single person can do batshit crazy stuff, yes. But a group of professionals working in a hospital? Nope. Not going to happen. There may be some bending of rules, some I'll-scratch-your-back-if-you'll-scratch-mine situations, but a group of doctors intentionally trying to injure a child? That doesn't happen. Period.
Do not attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.
Nah, this sorta thing is pretty much SOP for NK, they'll be all like "Raaaah look at us we are like SUPER dangerous! Give us oil and food or we use our spooky new powers!"
Then we give them oil and food and they step back down, when that stuff runs out - they go "Raaaaaah!" again.
They've done it before.
Besides there's a long way from a functional nuclear device to a missile deliverable one.
We've had this shit in the UK for over a decade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or is this some other kind of battery operated carnage?
The show in the UK (RobotWars) was based off the original US BattleBots.
What I find interesting is that since RobotWars ran for longer and had several of the same teams competing every year you got to see them basically find some of the best ways to win (HypnoDisc, Chaos II and Razor), interestingly enough looking at the new BattleBots it seems that almost all of the bots there either try to reinvent the wheel and come up with some stupid new gimmick like minibots, flamethrowers or other useless, stupid things; or try to mimic the big three from Robot Wars.
Still weirds me out how many people want to make a flipper bot and go the electric route, when clearly a pneumatic flipper is far superior - admittedly far less controllable, but it will actually flip or throw robots. Like, look at this season of BattleBots, there are several flipper bots - but most are electrical flippers, so those bots tend to get into wrestling matches where they sort of lift another robot and push them around, then you have something like Bronco that basically just drives at the other robots, tackles them to the wall and fires the pneumatic flipper, sending the other bots out over the edge - I know which one I prefer.
Kinetic spinners are as effective and fun to watch as ever, even though the BattleBots guys kinda sucked at designing them, the disc design pioneered by HypnoDisc is obviously superior to the "two hammers" design showed in this season on BattleBots, as it is less likely to get slammed to a halt, burning out the engine or basically break itself at the joints.
...Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters...
Fun ( or maybe, not so fun, who knows) fact: The game is just called "The Ur-Quan Masters", the "Star-Control" brand is still owned by 3DO.