Actually, most of the stuff he was making was decidedly not low-power explosives. As I read, there were considerable quantities of PETN in there, which is very very very VERY energetic. However, PETN is a plastic explosive, so you'd need heat and shock to detonate, only one of which the fire will cause.
Explain how going in, picking up one item, walking out to the bomb disposal truck, rinse repeat, for a couple weeks (if necessary) is going to be so hazardous.
Very simple. Booby-traps. Bot (or god help us, a person) catches the wrong wire, sends the whole place to kingdom come. Then there's the issue of the people living around him, and I-15 within blast range. Best case scenario, the place gets cleaned out in two or three weeks, and that whole time I-15 is shut down. Can you imagine the impact on businesses if a major highway were shut down for a month?
Also, inevitable explosion? The stuff he was making in there was primarily (maybe entierly) plastic explosives. Plastic explosives require heat and shock to detonate. That's why you can set fire to or shoot a brick of C4, but it will only go off if you stick a detonator in it.
Besides, it was mentioned (perhaps not in TFA, but still) that he had molds for hand grenades, not actual grenades. He was making them from home, not buying them wholesale.
I don't think this is a case of rage. I think this is a case of a judge expressing his opinions of problems in the prosecution's case. And they are serious problems.
Wikileaks is having problems with DDoS attacks, so they can't host some of the other stuff. Granted, I'd like to see more global info, too, but it might not be possible.
Or Assange might just like the attention he gets from posting anti-US stuff. I dunno. Either way, it's not changing anytime soon.
I took offense to the implication that American problems don't matter because others are having problems too. I agree, there are pressing issues outside of America, but guess where I live? Yeah, I'm biased. I'm baised to think that issues that affect me are important. You're biased, too. Bias isn't inherently bad.
Technically, US Bank is "a major US banking firm". However, that wasn't how I intended it. I got my information from FOX, which was inadvisable in and of itself.
150,000 people dying in a war many Americans don't support, 4400 of those American, with 31,000 American injured. Two of the largest threats remaining in the world, each possibly equipped with multiple nuclear weapons and the capability to deliver them halfway around the world. The terminal cancer of one of those countries' leaders.
The problem is that the controversy was getting so bad that some retailers were considering taking it off the shelves. If the game can't be sold, it's time to cave to controversy.
Is it must me, or is putting "Google X" in your post the fastest way to discredit yourself?
Didn't help that the result I got was to a conservative site with a navigation bar consisting of Science and Medicine, Life Issues, Terrorism, International Affairs, and Islamofacism.
CS2 and Elements != CS5. Besides, they all but give away Elements in specially-marked boxes of cereal.
As stated, I don't have an issue with industry-specific hardware being expensive, but Photoshop? Especially when free alternatives exist, $1000-$2000 is just insane.
Problem: While the police may not do anything, the university would be entirely within its rights to ban you from their network or dismiss you from the university altogether. It's their network, and they do have the right to be dicks about it.
If CS5 was $20, I wouldn't pirate it. Charigng $2000, $1000, even $500 is outrageous for software that doesn't come with multiple licenses and isn't intended for very specific industry use.
Legal P2P isn't just updates for games. Many indie movies are distributed over P2P networks because they're faster than a direct FTP download. Not to mention software like Dameon Tools Lite which (as I recall) is free to begin with.
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Actually, most of the stuff he was making was decidedly not low-power explosives. As I read, there were considerable quantities of PETN in there, which is very very very VERY energetic. However, PETN is a plastic explosive, so you'd need heat and shock to detonate, only one of which the fire will cause.
Explain how going in, picking up one item, walking out to the bomb disposal truck, rinse repeat, for a couple weeks (if necessary) is going to be so hazardous.
Very simple. Booby-traps. Bot (or god help us, a person) catches the wrong wire, sends the whole place to kingdom come. Then there's the issue of the people living around him, and I-15 within blast range. Best case scenario, the place gets cleaned out in two or three weeks, and that whole time I-15 is shut down. Can you imagine the impact on businesses if a major highway were shut down for a month?
Also, inevitable explosion? The stuff he was making in there was primarily (maybe entierly) plastic explosives. Plastic explosives require heat and shock to detonate. That's why you can set fire to or shoot a brick of C4, but it will only go off if you stick a detonator in it.
Besides, it was mentioned (perhaps not in TFA, but still) that he had molds for hand grenades, not actual grenades. He was making them from home, not buying them wholesale.
I don't think this is a case of rage. I think this is a case of a judge expressing his opinions of problems in the prosecution's case. And they are serious problems.
Nobody said that.
That's why I said implication, not statement.
Wikileaks is having problems with DDoS attacks, so they can't host some of the other stuff. Granted, I'd like to see more global info, too, but it might not be possible.
Or Assange might just like the attention he gets from posting anti-US stuff. I dunno. Either way, it's not changing anytime soon.
I took offense to the implication that American problems don't matter because others are having problems too. I agree, there are pressing issues outside of America, but guess where I live? Yeah, I'm biased. I'm baised to think that issues that affect me are important. You're biased, too. Bias isn't inherently bad.
Technically, US Bank is "a major US banking firm". However, that wasn't how I intended it. I got my information from FOX, which was inadvisable in and of itself.
Actually, no. I addressed his argument by providing examples of why America was, in fact, the juiciest target.
Also, I never professed to be a spelling expert.
What's with the anger?
For native Veitnamese, sure. However, English speakers refer to it as Vietnam. And either way, that's not the main argument of my post.
And you're only the third to point that out. Although I'm told that it's spelled that way by Portugeuse speakers.
150,000 people dying in a war many Americans don't support, 4400 of those American, with 31,000 American injured.
Two of the largest threats remaining in the world, each possibly equipped with multiple nuclear weapons and the capability to deliver them halfway around the world.
The terminal cancer of one of those countries' leaders.
By the way, Vietnam is one word.
I'm not Portuguese, just a bit thick.
I've heard rumors that the next leak is US Bank.
Can they help it that the United States is the juiciest target?
Go Equador.
Wait, what? Operation Payback is still going on?
Wow, anon has more staying power than I thought.
The problem is that the controversy was getting so bad that some retailers were considering taking it off the shelves. If the game can't be sold, it's time to cave to controversy.
No true /.ian is above a Monty Python joke.
Is it must me, or is putting "Google X" in your post the fastest way to discredit yourself?
Didn't help that the result I got was to a conservative site with a navigation bar consisting of Science and Medicine, Life Issues, Terrorism, International Affairs, and Islamofacism.
Content-aware editing, for one.
CS2 and Elements != CS5. Besides, they all but give away Elements in specially-marked boxes of cereal.
As stated, I don't have an issue with industry-specific hardware being expensive, but Photoshop? Especially when free alternatives exist, $1000-$2000 is just insane.
Ref SanityInAnarchy:
Problem: While the police may not do anything, the university would be entirely within its rights to ban you from their network or dismiss you from the university altogether. It's their network, and they do have the right to be dicks about it.
If CS5 was $20, I wouldn't pirate it. Charigng $2000, $1000, even $500 is outrageous for software that doesn't come with multiple licenses and isn't intended for very specific industry use.
Legal P2P isn't just updates for games. Many indie movies are distributed over P2P networks because they're faster than a direct FTP download. Not to mention software like Dameon Tools Lite which (as I recall) is free to begin with.
What's the word for "hilarious but really scary all at the same time"?
That'd be quite the terror attack to gain control of a nuclear submarine and launch codes.
This guy's got a point. If China had done it, everybody at the pentagon would have shat themselves so hard you could smell it from California.