Sometimes oppressive regimes can keep the peace though. Look at Iraq: A country packed with different religious/cultural factions that loathed each other, but kept in check by a brutal dictator. People could live there and go about their lives in safety, so long as they steered clear of politics and didn't take up any campaign against government policy. Then the coalition steps in, removes the dictator and most of the regime he managed, and what happened? Chaos, civil war, years of terrorist attacks so common the world media barely bothered to mention them after a while.
I've never heard of it, which means it isn't a big brand in the UK. I looked it up, and it is available here, but only from more specialist 'organic' shops. If it's in supermarkets, it's not on prominent display.
I also checked the ingredients. It's fatty acids, made the old-fashioned way - with lye. Wouldn't be out of place cleaning some high-class priest in ancient Egypt. It works, of course. It's just a bit more expensive, and it also forms that ugly scum line on the bathtub that SLS doesn't. Both of which are reasons that SLS has almost entirely displaced soap made from fat. You get more foam from SLS too, which is of absolutely no practical benefit, but customers love it and it helps the product to sell.
It would actually be slightly amusing, in a twisted way, to see the police search my storage. There's no CP (Though plenty of regular porn and copyright infringement), but the sheer quantity and complexity would bog down the digital forensics team for years. Some of it is stored in a filesystem of my own design, some of it is in an IPFS MerkleDAG. I run a crawler than auto-archives and sorts images from a number of sites, so I'm in the millions now - they'd have to look at each and every one to be sure there isn't something hidden in there. Most of it is duplicated two or three times as part of the backups.
They might plant something just so they can get the case finished within a reasonable time.
Police care. Pot is valuable to them in two ways: First, it's easy and low-risk arrests and convictions. No years-long court fights or expensive hundred-officer investigations to infiltrate and bring down a gang. Just criminal, clear physical evidence, officer testimony, and usually a plea bargain or an open-and-shut case. Secondly, it's a route towards something they can seize assets on if they find a distributor. Money, cars, even entire houses.
Yet, for all their enforcement efforts and jails crammed far over their designed capacity with non-violent drugs offences, it's still readily available. It's really hard to ban a substance for which the raw ingredients are just seeds and soil.
Parallel construction is used when the police wish to conceal not just the details of a source, but the existence of a source. The textbook example of the 'legitimate' use is protecting informants. If you have an insider in a gang tell the police that Mr Mule is going to be transporting cocaine on Tuesday, and the police stop and search his car, then the rest of the gang are going to be pretty confident that they are compromised and start their internal security processes - which may involve requiring gang members to prove their loyalty with some violent criminal acts, and killing all who refuse. So the police might arrange an 'accidental' stop, like pulling him over for a minor traffic violation and bringing out the dog or having the officer claim he smelled pot. The police get their mule, and the gang leaders are none the wiser that a traitor lives among them.
More cynically, it's also the best tool the police could ask for when it comes to covering up their own violation of the law. Warrantless searches, tip-offs from the intelligence services, threatening suspects to extract information. It's all easily hidden with parallel construction.
It solves one problem, but creates others. For one, refusing to decrypt your stick is strong evidence you are up to no good - not proof in itsself, but more than enough to turn a jury. Many countries also have laws by which police can compel you to supply the keys, with refusal an imprisonable offence.
Dogs have been selectively bred, if unintentionally, to pick up on human signals. They are very, very good at it. They are among the few animals who are able interpret hand signals, and they know what pointing means without even needing training. They can follow a human gaze with ease. They can react to slight shifts in position of speed of motion that no human notices, including the person making them.
They can use the underhanded precedent approach, always. 1. Find some Scum. Real Scum. A producer of child abuse images is best - the more, the better. The important thing is that every judge and juror will hate them passionately. 2. Abuse whatever procedures you want. 3. Go to court. Go on, dare the court. Is the judge going to let this child abuser walk free just because some police officer, in his desperation to protect the children, rushed things and went in without a proper warrant? Of course not. 4. Ok, now go after the less-loathed suspects - because you have a nice solid precedent to back you up.
I think a very common way in which politicians regard the constitution is as a barrier to their specific agenda. They always do respect the constitution, in a general sense... but when it comes to their particular policy priority, that's another matter, and they set about the task of finding some legal way to weasel around the constitution. But they never regard this as weaseling around the constitution itsself - no true American would ever consider such a thing. No, they are just weaseling their way around some specific court judgement in which biased judges clearly misinterpreted what the constitution so clearly says.
You are half-right: MRSA and other resistant pathogens are a consequence of overuse of antibiotics, but not the particular antibiotics used in soaps.
Most of the blame for them can be pointed in two groups: Doctors who very readily prescribe antibiotics for minor infections (because the patient wants to be better right now, not bedbound for two weeks) and the agricultural industry, which routinely feeds healthy livestock antibiotics so they can survive in the overcrowded, disease-ridden hellhole that is a modern industrial farm.
Every soap I've ever seen uses SLS. Every shampoo bottle, shower creme and bubble bath label I've ever read lists it (-yl or -ith). I've yet to find an exception. It's the modern wondercleaner: It foams really well, it shifts dirt really well.
That entire industry is basically just selling SLS solution mixed with various thickeners, dyes and scents.
Benzethonium Chloride. One part in a thousand. Plus all the regular products you find in soaps, but that's the one that kills bacteria. It's also the antimicrobial used in Dial Gold soap.
Also 3. Smokers are voters too. And the various factions who wish for smoking to remain legal, regardless of their motivation, could easily spin it as a 'big government' issue and so secure the support of a lot of politicians desperate to prove their conservative credentials.
These ghost detectors usually claim to detect electromagnetic emissions from the ghosts. If the ghosts are unlicensed EM transmitters, that puts them in FCC territory.
Even the aether wasn't entirely wrong. The wave-in-a-medium model of light explained a lot of things very well. Interference. Refraction, including variable refraction according to frequency, seemingly constant speed. The aether part was wrong, but it was only one component of the model, and the model in general was pretty good.
Easily, I'd imagine. If the tests are inaccurate or are improperly performed, people might unknowingly spread a disease, or undergo potentially dangerous treatment that they don't require. That's a serious enough consequence to require regulation.
C&P does have some exploitable vulnerabilities, certainly, but it's a lot better than magstripe. Any idiot with $20 worth of readily available commodity hardware can duplicate one of those in seconds. C&P fraud at least takes a level of organised crime and some equipment you have to know the right people to buy.
Look at it from the ISPs perspective: "Oh, if we screw up outgoing bittorrent traffic then we not only reduce network demands, but we make bittorrent slower for every service provider except ourselves!"
But Facebook has a lot of influence over which stories become global news that all people are aware of, and which remain forgotten in the back pages of a local paper. That's a great deal of power to be in the hands of just one company.
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Sometimes oppressive regimes can keep the peace though. Look at Iraq: A country packed with different religious/cultural factions that loathed each other, but kept in check by a brutal dictator. People could live there and go about their lives in safety, so long as they steered clear of politics and didn't take up any campaign against government policy. Then the coalition steps in, removes the dictator and most of the regime he managed, and what happened? Chaos, civil war, years of terrorist attacks so common the world media barely bothered to mention them after a while.
Progressive, conservative, liberal, it doesn't matter.
Calling people who disagree with you stupid isn't the signature of any political faction. It's a signature of human nature.
I've never heard of it, which means it isn't a big brand in the UK. I looked it up, and it is available here, but only from more specialist 'organic' shops. If it's in supermarkets, it's not on prominent display.
I also checked the ingredients. It's fatty acids, made the old-fashioned way - with lye. Wouldn't be out of place cleaning some high-class priest in ancient Egypt. It works, of course. It's just a bit more expensive, and it also forms that ugly scum line on the bathtub that SLS doesn't. Both of which are reasons that SLS has almost entirely displaced soap made from fat. You get more foam from SLS too, which is of absolutely no practical benefit, but customers love it and it helps the product to sell.
It would actually be slightly amusing, in a twisted way, to see the police search my storage. There's no CP (Though plenty of regular porn and copyright infringement), but the sheer quantity and complexity would bog down the digital forensics team for years. Some of it is stored in a filesystem of my own design, some of it is in an IPFS MerkleDAG. I run a crawler than auto-archives and sorts images from a number of sites, so I'm in the millions now - they'd have to look at each and every one to be sure there isn't something hidden in there. Most of it is duplicated two or three times as part of the backups.
They might plant something just so they can get the case finished within a reasonable time.
"No one cares you smoke pot."
Police care. Pot is valuable to them in two ways: First, it's easy and low-risk arrests and convictions. No years-long court fights or expensive hundred-officer investigations to infiltrate and bring down a gang. Just criminal, clear physical evidence, officer testimony, and usually a plea bargain or an open-and-shut case. Secondly, it's a route towards something they can seize assets on if they find a distributor. Money, cars, even entire houses.
Yet, for all their enforcement efforts and jails crammed far over their designed capacity with non-violent drugs offences, it's still readily available. It's really hard to ban a substance for which the raw ingredients are just seeds and soil.
Parallel construction is used when the police wish to conceal not just the details of a source, but the existence of a source. The textbook example of the 'legitimate' use is protecting informants. If you have an insider in a gang tell the police that Mr Mule is going to be transporting cocaine on Tuesday, and the police stop and search his car, then the rest of the gang are going to be pretty confident that they are compromised and start their internal security processes - which may involve requiring gang members to prove their loyalty with some violent criminal acts, and killing all who refuse. So the police might arrange an 'accidental' stop, like pulling him over for a minor traffic violation and bringing out the dog or having the officer claim he smelled pot. The police get their mule, and the gang leaders are none the wiser that a traitor lives among them.
More cynically, it's also the best tool the police could ask for when it comes to covering up their own violation of the law. Warrantless searches, tip-offs from the intelligence services, threatening suspects to extract information. It's all easily hidden with parallel construction.
It solves one problem, but creates others. For one, refusing to decrypt your stick is strong evidence you are up to no good - not proof in itsself, but more than enough to turn a jury. Many countries also have laws by which police can compel you to supply the keys, with refusal an imprisonable offence.
Dogs have been selectively bred, if unintentionally, to pick up on human signals. They are very, very good at it. They are among the few animals who are able interpret hand signals, and they know what pointing means without even needing training. They can follow a human gaze with ease. They can react to slight shifts in position of speed of motion that no human notices, including the person making them.
They can use the underhanded precedent approach, always.
1. Find some Scum. Real Scum. A producer of child abuse images is best - the more, the better. The important thing is that every judge and juror will hate them passionately.
2. Abuse whatever procedures you want.
3. Go to court. Go on, dare the court. Is the judge going to let this child abuser walk free just because some police officer, in his desperation to protect the children, rushed things and went in without a proper warrant? Of course not.
4. Ok, now go after the less-loathed suspects - because you have a nice solid precedent to back you up.
I think a very common way in which politicians regard the constitution is as a barrier to their specific agenda. They always do respect the constitution, in a general sense... but when it comes to their particular policy priority, that's another matter, and they set about the task of finding some legal way to weasel around the constitution. But they never regard this as weaseling around the constitution itsself - no true American would ever consider such a thing. No, they are just weaseling their way around some specific court judgement in which biased judges clearly misinterpreted what the constitution so clearly says.
I thought 'activist judge' means 'judge who does not agree with me.'
You are half-right: MRSA and other resistant pathogens are a consequence of overuse of antibiotics, but not the particular antibiotics used in soaps.
Most of the blame for them can be pointed in two groups: Doctors who very readily prescribe antibiotics for minor infections (because the patient wants to be better right now, not bedbound for two weeks) and the agricultural industry, which routinely feeds healthy livestock antibiotics so they can survive in the overcrowded, disease-ridden hellhole that is a modern industrial farm.
Every soap I've ever seen uses SLS. Every shampoo bottle, shower creme and bubble bath label I've ever read lists it (-yl or -ith). I've yet to find an exception. It's the modern wondercleaner: It foams really well, it shifts dirt really well.
That entire industry is basically just selling SLS solution mixed with various thickeners, dyes and scents.
That's an easy one.
Benzethonium Chloride. One part in a thousand. Plus all the regular products you find in soaps, but that's the one that kills bacteria. It's also the antimicrobial used in Dial Gold soap.
Also 3. Smokers are voters too. And the various factions who wish for smoking to remain legal, regardless of their motivation, could easily spin it as a 'big government' issue and so secure the support of a lot of politicians desperate to prove their conservative credentials.
The less concentrated it is, the more the user will consume.
These ghost detectors usually claim to detect electromagnetic emissions from the ghosts. If the ghosts are unlicensed EM transmitters, that puts them in FCC territory.
Even the aether wasn't entirely wrong. The wave-in-a-medium model of light explained a lot of things very well. Interference. Refraction, including variable refraction according to frequency, seemingly constant speed. The aether part was wrong, but it was only one component of the model, and the model in general was pretty good.
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But that would add another two millimeters to the thickness! Unacceptable!
Easily, I'd imagine. If the tests are inaccurate or are improperly performed, people might unknowingly spread a disease, or undergo potentially dangerous treatment that they don't require. That's a serious enough consequence to require regulation.
C&P does have some exploitable vulnerabilities, certainly, but it's a lot better than magstripe. Any idiot with $20 worth of readily available commodity hardware can duplicate one of those in seconds. C&P fraud at least takes a level of organised crime and some equipment you have to know the right people to buy.
One person's outbound is another's inbound.
Look at it from the ISPs perspective: "Oh, if we screw up outgoing bittorrent traffic then we not only reduce network demands, but we make bittorrent slower for every service provider except ourselves!"
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Facebook does not create media, especially news.
But Facebook has a lot of influence over which stories become global news that all people are aware of, and which remain forgotten in the back pages of a local paper. That's a great deal of power to be in the hands of just one company.