"Need" for something to happen in (any) particular fairy tale or in real life is irrelevant. The issue at hand is the use of "loaded" religious imagery to incite intercultural hatred and how that has nothing to do with requests for the reveal of historical documents, the First Amendment and the freedom of press.
That quote isnt referring to honesty (that is, the act of telling the truth), but to knowing the truth
Yeah, and? That is the point. Enquiring minds want to know.
Or should they simply accept how that too is utter bullshit - along with that "home of the... land of the..." and be happy about their increased ration of chocolate?
Did you make it yourself or did an adult help you with it?
Here's a hint. Bin Laden photo - a historical document/photographic evidence. Mohammed cartoon depicting him as a pedophile - deliberate provocation through use "loaded" religious material.
Sorta like making a cartoon depicting Jesus and Judas french kissing. Or a cartoon depicting all that incestuous sex among Adam and Eve's children. Or how about that one with the current pope as a pimp of children prostitutes AND a child pornographer. "Suffer the little children to cum unto me" would make a great title for that one, don't you agree?
I KNOW! A cartoon comparing the genocides done by Israelites in the Bible with Holocaust. Complete with graphs of world populations and percentages of population killed by both sides. Quick! Someone call Randal Munroe! I have his next cartoon right here!
The idea that the photos can be used by those who hate us to drum up support (i.e., LOOK what they did to Bin Laden!) for additional attacks on innocent people is not whimsical. A picture is worth a thousand words. You may not wish to believe it, but it is so.
I mean, other Sesame Street characters need their 15 minutes in the political spotlight. Not just Bert and Elmo.
It's not that it is silly to pay attention to religious conventions when any sane, intelligent and educated person knows that there is no such thing as god(s). It's silly that they are supposedly adhering to religious conventions of someone they just shot in the head. Someone whom they present as a reason for waging a war or two. And it is even sillier if they actually prepared for such an occasion in advance by making sure that they have an imam on board, while apparently failing to bring along a skilled helicopter technician.
Honestly, the more I hear about these kinds of operations, the most I'm starting to think it would be suspicious if a helicopter didn't break! These things apparently fall out of the sky right and left!
Here's an idea. Why don't they use those civilian helicopters instead? They don't keep falling out of the sky. Just paint them black and use them as "secret-copters".
As for failing to capture him alive, understand that capturing something alive is virtually impossible without their cooperation. They're soldiers, not gods, and this isn't some Hollywood action flick where the heroes can just do anything the script writer thinks would be cool. If someone would rather die that be captured, your odds of capturing them are effectively zilch, I don't care who you are, how well trained you are, or what equipment you have.
Yeah, sure. So just to make sure he doesn't decide to die rather than be captured, make sure you shoot him in the head. It might be trickier than shooting him in some other, bigger, part of the body that would still allow for visual identification but hey - shot in the head stops him deciding in an instant.
They didn't haul him back on foot, they had multiple helicopters. (They do that, since, you know, helicopters have a bad habit of failing...)
There was a report that claimed they had to haul him out of there on foot. Couldn't really bother finding it. It's not like I was trying to be "journalistically correct" (HA!) - I was making fun of their apparent incompetence.
And again, if helicopters keep falling from the sky all the time - why does the military use them at all? Seems like a really expensive way of killing and injuring your own men, when the enemy is offering to do that for free.
To have him buried (as in "in the ground") - and then cover the entire area with cameras to monitor who comes to "revere him"? Maybe even arrest some of them?
I mean... the entire thing sounds like something out of Pulp Fiction. Best trained special forces in the world infiltrate a foreign country to get one sick old guy they haven't been able to catch for... what... 13 years? In the process they manage to crash a helicopter. Or they've failed to maintain it properly so it crashed due to mechanical failure. Can't really say which option is more embarrassing. Then these super-soldiers fail to capture him and instead shoot him in the head - so there goes visual identification. So, a helicopter short, they haul his ass on foot, extract him back to their ship, supposedly identify him by his DNA - and then they dump the body overboard.
Cause, you know... that is supposed to be according to Muslim beliefs and so his followers wouldn't have a grave-site to visit and pay their respects. I suppose they also had an imam on board, so it would be a proper Muslim burial? I mean... they were obviously paying more attention to his religious beliefs than capturing the man they've spent billions of dollars chasing - for over a decade.
I'm not saying that it was all some conspiracy and that the whole thing was staged or something, but they are REALLY stretching the limits of "what can be adequately explained by incompetence" there. All they managed to do is simply make him an even shadier figure now - by destroying evidence of his death.
They are transparent so you can immediately see what is in each of them, come pre-punched so you just attach them to a binder and... well... what the other poster said about toner. But I primarily use them for easy sorting.
What is one of those cases? As a private citizen, I've never had a need for a "wet-ink" original document, copies have been fine for everything, even when I had a dispute with my mortgage company.
The only reason anyone might need to keep a receipt/bill/contract. A case of an asshole. You know... an asshole behind a plate of glass demanding to see your original receipt/bill/contract/27b-6 as a proof for this or that.
Even a photocopied (as in - copied onto a dead tree format) documents will be useless in many cases if you are required to have the original receipt/bill/invoice.
As for filing... Stick everything into plastic sheet protectors. If you need to label them in some way, either attach a post-it from the inside or simply write the label on the sheet protector with a marker. Put sheet protectors into a binding box or two. About once a year go through your binders and throw away the bills you no longer need.
Same procedure is useful for storing warranties, manuals and instructions nobody ever reads (but you start looking for them when something needs fixing/replacing).
Since the main way DU shells get to affect the civilian population is through fragmentation - which leads to inhaling and ingesting radioactive particles by said population.
Thousands of civilians killed? Yes. Thousands of civilians killed by U.S.? Again, yes.
The IBC project released a report detailing the deaths it recorded between March 2003 and March 2005[72] in which it recorded 24,865 civilian deaths. The report says the U.S. and its allies were responsible for the largest share (37%) of the 24,865 deaths.
Thousands killed by DU ammunition? Possibly. Thousands affected by the continuous effect radiation from DU ammunition? Almost certainly. When you measure something in thousands of tonnes you can safely say that it WILL affect large areas of land and large numbers of people. And 4.468 billion years is a long time.
The use of DU in munitions is controversial because of questions about potential long-term health effects.[4][5] Normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and numerous other systems can be affected by uranium exposure, because uranium is a toxic metal.[6] It is weakly radioactive and remains so because of its long physical half-life (4.468 billion years for uranium-238). The biological half-life (the average time it takes for the human body to eliminate half the amount in the body) for uranium is about 15 days.[7] The aerosol or spallation frangible powder produced during impact and combustion of depleted uranium munitions can potentially contaminate wide areas around the impact sites leading to possible inhalation by human beings.[8] During a three week period of conflict in 2003 in Iraq, 1,000 to 2,000 tonnes of DU munitions were used.[9]
I was making fun of the parent poster's approach of teaching users about "difference between adding information to a document and removing information". Cause that is what user is really thinking about when writing/reading/erasing/masking - adding information or not.
Unlike say... maybe... thinking about writing/reading/erasing/masking.
Users don't think about what those abstractions they are using ACTUALLY represent. Easiest fool-proof solution probably is to get them a special easy-to-use tool for JUST THAT and pound it into their heads to use only THAT TOOL for masking out sensitive information. Make it common practice.
That way, when some user who didn't get the proper education on how to mask out sensitive info gets into the community, at least you'll have the "do as everyone else does" working for you.
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Rainbow colored ponies.
That is the name of a video with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The video of US military forces killing civilians, which was released by WikiLeaks was labeled "Collateral Murder".
"Need" for something to happen in (any) particular fairy tale or in real life is irrelevant.
The issue at hand is the use of "loaded" religious imagery to incite intercultural hatred and how that has nothing to do with requests for the reveal of historical documents, the First Amendment and the freedom of press.
That quote isnt referring to honesty (that is, the act of telling the truth), but to knowing the truth
Yeah, and? That is the point. Enquiring minds want to know.
Or should they simply accept how that too is utter bullshit - along with that "home of the... land of the..." and be happy about their increased ration of chocolate?
It's like some kind of hideous, journalistic Voltron.
Now you got me contemplating on who'll be forming the crotch part.
Did you make it yourself or did an adult help you with it?
Here's a hint.
Bin Laden photo - a historical document/photographic evidence.
Mohammed cartoon depicting him as a pedophile - deliberate provocation through use "loaded" religious material.
Sorta like making a cartoon depicting Jesus and Judas french kissing.
Or a cartoon depicting all that incestuous sex among Adam and Eve's children.
Or how about that one with the current pope as a pimp of children prostitutes AND a child pornographer.
"Suffer the little children to cum unto me" would make a great title for that one, don't you agree?
I KNOW!
A cartoon comparing the genocides done by Israelites in the Bible with Holocaust.
Complete with graphs of world populations and percentages of population killed by both sides.
Quick! Someone call Randal Munroe! I have his next cartoon right here!
The idea that the photos can be used by those who hate us to drum up support (i.e., LOOK what they did to Bin Laden!) for additional attacks on innocent people is not whimsical. A picture is worth a thousand words. You may not wish to believe it, but it is so.
I mean, other Sesame Street characters need their 15 minutes in the political spotlight. Not just Bert and Elmo.
My money is on Oscar.
"...and the truth will set you free"?
I mean, besides being taken up and distorted into a sort of a motto by CIA.
My Douglas Adam is alive and well, thank you very much.
Surely you mean Galaxy Express 999, considering the
Granted, both are created by Leiji Matsumoto, so it is understandable that one could get confused.
It's not that it is silly to pay attention to religious conventions when any sane, intelligent and educated person knows that there is no such thing as god(s).
It's silly that they are supposedly adhering to religious conventions of someone they just shot in the head.
Someone whom they present as a reason for waging a war or two.
And it is even sillier if they actually prepared for such an occasion in advance by making sure that they have an imam on board, while apparently failing to bring along a skilled helicopter technician.
Honestly, the more I hear about these kinds of operations, the most I'm starting to think it would be suspicious if a helicopter didn't break! These things apparently fall out of the sky right and left!
Here's an idea. Why don't they use those civilian helicopters instead? They don't keep falling out of the sky. Just paint them black and use them as "secret-copters".
As for failing to capture him alive, understand that capturing something alive is virtually impossible without their cooperation. They're soldiers, not gods, and this isn't some Hollywood action flick where the heroes can just do anything the script writer thinks would be cool. If someone would rather die that be captured, your odds of capturing them are effectively zilch, I don't care who you are, how well trained you are, or what equipment you have.
Yeah, sure. So just to make sure he doesn't decide to die rather than be captured, make sure you shoot him in the head. It
might be trickier than shooting him in some other, bigger, part of the body that would still allow for visual identification but hey - shot in the head stops him deciding in an instant.
They didn't haul him back on foot, they had multiple helicopters. (They do that, since, you know, helicopters have a bad habit of failing...)
There was a report that claimed they had to haul him out of there on foot. Couldn't really bother finding it.
It's not like I was trying to be "journalistically correct" (HA!) - I was making fun of their apparent incompetence.
And again, if helicopters keep falling from the sky all the time - why does the military use them at all? Seems like a really expensive way of killing and injuring your own men, when the enemy is offering to do that for free.
To have him buried (as in "in the ground") - and then cover the entire area with cameras to monitor who comes to "revere him"?
Maybe even arrest some of them?
I mean... the entire thing sounds like something out of Pulp Fiction.
Best trained special forces in the world infiltrate a foreign country to get one sick old guy they haven't been able to catch for... what... 13 years?
In the process they manage to crash a helicopter. Or they've failed to maintain it properly so it crashed due to mechanical failure. Can't really say which option is more embarrassing.
Then these super-soldiers fail to capture him and instead shoot him in the head - so there goes visual identification.
So, a helicopter short, they haul his ass on foot, extract him back to their ship, supposedly identify him by his DNA - and then they dump the body overboard.
Cause, you know... that is supposed to be according to Muslim beliefs and so his followers wouldn't have a grave-site to visit and pay their respects.
I suppose they also had an imam on board, so it would be a proper Muslim burial?
I mean... they were obviously paying more attention to his religious beliefs than capturing the man they've spent billions of dollars chasing - for over a decade.
I'm not saying that it was all some conspiracy and that the whole thing was staged or something, but they are REALLY stretching the limits of "what can be adequately explained by incompetence" there.
All they managed to do is simply make him an even shadier figure now - by destroying evidence of his death.
That's all fine and dandy... Until someone requests to see your original 27b/6.
what purpose does the sheet protector serve?
Easy sorting.
They are transparent so you can immediately see what is in each of them, come pre-punched so you just attach them to a binder and... well... what the other poster said about toner.
But I primarily use them for easy sorting.
What is one of those cases? As a private citizen, I've never had a need for a "wet-ink" original document, copies have been fine for everything, even when I had a dispute with my mortgage company.
The only reason anyone might need to keep a receipt/bill/contract. A case of an asshole.
You know... an asshole behind a plate of glass demanding to see your original receipt/bill/contract/27b-6 as a proof for this or that.
Even a photocopied (as in - copied onto a dead tree format) documents will be useless in many cases if you are required to have the original receipt/bill/invoice.
As for filing...
Stick everything into plastic sheet protectors.
If you need to label them in some way, either attach a post-it from the inside or simply write the label on the sheet protector with a marker.
Put sheet protectors into a binding box or two.
About once a year go through your binders and throw away the bills you no longer need.
Same procedure is useful for storing warranties, manuals and instructions nobody ever reads (but you start looking for them when something needs fixing/replacing).
Death to flobbalobs!
@50$ per bullet?
@500$ per bullet?
@5000$ per bullet?
@50000$ per bullet?
@500000$ per bullet?
And that's not even accounting for a specialized rifle that could cost a couple of 100k dollars to a couple million dollars a piece.
See what he meant with cost/benefit ratio?
I expect we are only a few years away from a massive increase in the number of deaths due to stupidity.
Just think of the ratings for a show about all those death by stupidity incidents?
Won't someone please think of the ratings?
Why not compare water to cyanide too while you're at it?
Come on! Please? Clearly some people still believe that you are not talking out of your ass. Prove them wrong. It is your DUTY as a troll!
Synergy. Apparently, coal miner smokers have a far greater chance of lung cancer than either regular coal miners or smokers.
Worrying about all that cholesterol in your last meal before execution, ain't it?
It's not like inhaled lead particles will radiate from inside your lungs for the next couple of eons.
On a positive side, with DU in your lungs you can start smoking like a chimney. It's not like smoking will give you cancer or something.
Since the main way DU shells get to affect the civilian population is through fragmentation - which leads to inhaling and ingesting radioactive particles by said population.
Thousands of civilians killed? Yes.
Thousands of civilians killed by U.S.? Again, yes.
The IBC project released a report detailing the deaths it recorded between March 2003 and March 2005[72] in which it recorded 24,865 civilian deaths. The report says the U.S. and its allies were responsible for the largest share (37%) of the 24,865 deaths.
Thousands killed by DU ammunition? Possibly.
Thousands affected by the continuous effect radiation from DU ammunition? Almost certainly.
When you measure something in thousands of tonnes you can safely say that it WILL affect large areas of land and large numbers of people.
And 4.468 billion years is a long time.
The use of DU in munitions is controversial because of questions about potential long-term health effects.[4][5] Normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and numerous other systems can be affected by uranium exposure, because uranium is a toxic metal.[6] It is weakly radioactive and remains so because of its long physical half-life (4.468 billion years for uranium-238). The biological half-life (the average time it takes for the human body to eliminate half the amount in the body) for uranium is about 15 days.[7] The aerosol or spallation frangible powder produced during impact and combustion of depleted uranium munitions can potentially contaminate wide areas around the impact sites leading to possible inhalation by human beings.[8] During a three week period of conflict in 2003 in Iraq, 1,000 to 2,000 tonnes of DU munitions were used.[9]
I was making fun of the parent poster's approach of teaching users about "difference between adding information to a document and removing information".
Cause that is what user is really thinking about when writing/reading/erasing/masking - adding information or not.
Unlike say... maybe... thinking about writing/reading/erasing/masking.
Users don't think about what those abstractions they are using ACTUALLY represent.
Easiest fool-proof solution probably is to get them a special easy-to-use tool for JUST THAT and pound it into their heads to use only THAT TOOL for masking out sensitive information.
Make it common practice.
That way, when some user who didn't get the proper education on how to mask out sensitive info gets into the community, at least you'll have the "do as everyone else does" working for you.