You were the one who linked it to the cloud when you made your comment "irrational hatred of cloud services", not the original poster you were replying to.
You make the comparison yourself and then criticise someone else for commenting on your comparison.
Sounds like you have an irrational thing for cloud services that is, ahem, clouding your rational judgement.
Cloud services are good tools to use in the right situation, but they are limited in certain ways. Permanence of data is one of them. The idea of "the cloud" and its claimed reliability doesn't absolve the user of good data backup and control policies. As in all things, making sensible decisions about what systems you use is key regardless how much Amazon or whoever reassures you.
That applies to business situations more, but it's something to be taken into account even in home situations.
As to the second part, I watch many things more than once. You'd hate to know how many times I've watched Ben Hur.
"I'm delighted to see they're giving Doctorates in Psychiatry to Anonymous Cowards these days."
Well, he may not have been very nice about it (especially in including you personally in his opinion), but dropping by the site you linked to, the second article (only slightly more breathless than the first) was headlined:
"A March 31st deadline has been delivered to the committee of 300 by the gnostic "illuminati" faction"
With first few lines of:
"The group that claims to have started the American, French and Russian revolutions state they have issued a March 31st deadline to the committee of 300, according to their spokesman "Alexander Romanoff." In addition, Prince Harry has been in touch with the group and has agreed to take over control of the British Royal family from Queen Elizabeth."
The first few lines of the next one is:
"The controlled implosion of the Federal Reserve Board and the European Central Bank is continuing and must be completed before a new financial system can go online, according to Pentagon and other sources. In addition, action is soon expected against criminals like Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu murdered his psychiatrist Moshe Yatom after Yatom began revealing Netanyahuâ(TM)s insane plans to work with Mossad agent and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmajinedad to start World War 3."
That sounds pretty out there to me.
I'm not anon, but I don't think you need a degree in psychiatry to conclude that's pretty far over the top.
They're useful as one source when combined with others. They at least a have a pretty predictable methodology.
The one area I saw that they seemed to be better than other sources was on the cartel wars and security situation in northern Mexico. That may have just been because they were more interested, being in Austin rather than say, NY.
I don't read Spanish, so following Mexican papers would be a problem. Having Stratfor summarize was a pretty good deal. The rates aren't all that much for a general subscription.
Do you realize that genetic modification is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
Do you realize that in addition to modifying corn and soy - why, there are studies under way to modify tapioca, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake! - children's ice cream!
Do you know when genetic modified crops were introduced?
Nineteen hundred and ninety-six. 1996, Mandrake. Just after the World Trade Organization was established. How does that coincide with your New World Order Commie conspiracy, huh?
It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign genetic substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual - certainly without any choice.
The big problem with learning how to run a planetary base at Mars is the minimum 6 month trip if something goes wrong.
The moon is two days away and doesn't have a return window only at certain parts of the planetary orbits.
So either abandoning it for safety reasons, medivac, or sending up emergency supplies/repair parts, etc is much quicker on the moon.
But, this argument has been gone through many times. Most often with needlessly heated rhetoric on both sides.
Though I'm more for a return to the moon, the answer that I'd be delighted with is: Do either of them, but actually DO IT.
Don't make grand political statements, and then stretch out the program with anemic funding and mismanagement until it gets shut down. We've all seen that way too many times.
From the wording it looks like Burton is using "we" to refer to the US government/country. Burton had heard that there was a secret indictment from some source.
I don't know if it's true, but would anyone really be surprised if it was?
So far, these amazingly revealing internal Stratfor emails have been a damp squib. If these are the selected "smoking guns" we're in for a replay of Geraldo Rivera and Capone's Vault.
They were tracking PETA apparently through newspaper accounts and PETA's own press releases. Ditto The Yes Men.
That's hardly surprising either. Or illegal. I'd be extremely surprised if either PETA or The Yes Men didn't keep up their own watch on press releases and news items on corporations/groups opposed to them. It's called opposition research. ProTip: groups you agree with do it too.
Who knows, maybe they contracted with Stratfor to do it. We won't know until the full email set is dumped, if ever.
I am oblivious. I'm not even a squad, let alone a Legion. It may look like I forgive. But really I just forget. Don't expect me because I'll probably oversleep.
Though I don't favor the restrictions,I'm guessing the ban on home biodiesel production in Phoenix is due to one step of the process being a fire hazard if you do it wrong.
There are a number of safe ways to do it, but apparently the powers that be just put down a blanket ban rather than a regulation saying don't do this in a large batch mode in your living room with the kids around.
NK's nuclear deterrent isn't the problem. That's at best, limited in range and small in number. (Though obviously not to be discounted.)
The real problem is the South Korean capital, Seoul, lies within artillery and rocket range of North Korea. NK has built up huge numbers of launchers and tube artillery that can rain vast numbers of shells on Seoul and destroy it within a day or two.
South Korea investigated moving the government capital farther south, but that proved very unpopular to those living in Seoul, so it was shelved. (No surprise there.)
My background is physics and I work on a chemistry department at a university. It was a muck character I have, so I'm the one to blame for it. (Tomatoes and other missiles happily dodged.;) Like you said, I came up with the name as a truly horrible pun that only a few would get.
Even had a suitably altered write up about the "Hartree Fox" method attached to the character description.
"This conversation about meth production should somehow link to that story about truckers hauling nuclear loads."
Dunno about radiologic hazards, but there's gotta be some mean biochemistry going on when after sitting in those cabs for hours, meth addled truckers start dropping nuclear loads at the truck stop.
I don't want to be any closer than the next county.
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In the words of david Mermin: "Shut up and calculate!"
I'd pay to get to see Spencer Ackerman zapped with one of these a few times! ;)
This paper is written specifically to raise a fire storm with much wailing and gnashing of teeth on all sides.
Meanwhile, Liao loves every minute of the spectacle and writes a couple of grant proposals based on it.
Sorta like when Limbaugh or Beck or Imus etc, says something outrageous specifically because he's not been the center of attention lately.
If it's the same Jeremy Hammond, he's a known item in Chicago for some time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond
The talk page is interesting as well.
Yes, Rashiki, you're confusing me.
You were the one who linked it to the cloud when you made your comment "irrational hatred of cloud services", not the original poster you were replying to.
You make the comparison yourself and then criticise someone else for commenting on your comparison.
Are you just tossing out arguments at random?
Sounds like you have an irrational thing for cloud services that is, ahem, clouding your rational judgement.
Cloud services are good tools to use in the right situation, but they are limited in certain ways. Permanence of data is one of them. The idea of "the cloud" and its claimed reliability doesn't absolve the user of good data backup and control policies. As in all things, making sensible decisions about what systems you use is key regardless how much Amazon or whoever reassures you.
That applies to business situations more, but it's something to be taken into account even in home situations.
As to the second part, I watch many things more than once. You'd hate to know how many times I've watched Ben Hur.
"I'm delighted to see they're giving Doctorates in Psychiatry to Anonymous Cowards these days."
Well, he may not have been very nice about it (especially in including you personally in his opinion), but dropping by the site you linked to, the second article (only slightly more breathless than the first) was headlined:
"A March 31st deadline has been delivered to the committee of 300 by the gnostic "illuminati" faction"
With first few lines of:
"The group that claims to have started the American, French and Russian revolutions state they have issued a March 31st deadline to the committee of 300, according to their spokesman "Alexander Romanoff." In addition, Prince Harry has been in touch with the group and has agreed to take over control of the British Royal family from Queen Elizabeth."
The first few lines of the next one is:
"The controlled implosion of the Federal Reserve Board and the European Central Bank is continuing and must be completed before a new financial system can go online, according to Pentagon and other sources. In addition, action is soon expected against criminals like Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu murdered his psychiatrist Moshe Yatom after Yatom began revealing Netanyahuâ(TM)s insane plans to work with Mossad agent and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmajinedad to start World War 3."
That sounds pretty out there to me.
I'm not anon, but I don't think you need a degree in psychiatry to conclude that's pretty far over the top.
They're useful as one source when combined with others. They at least a have a pretty predictable methodology.
The one area I saw that they seemed to be better than other sources was on the cartel wars and security situation in northern Mexico. That may have just been because they were more interested, being in Austin rather than say, NY.
I don't read Spanish, so following Mexican papers would be a problem. Having Stratfor summarize was a pretty good deal. The rates aren't all that much for a general subscription.
"especially when in competition with sleep"
So...
You're saying she falls asleep whenever you do that?
Eiher you got some bad technique, or she's got one heck of a case of narcolepsy.
"it worked wonders for George Bush, Jr.'s career"
Yep. Worked so well that his brother Jeb isn't running due to having one of the most toxic last names in US politics.
I'd hate to see something that worked poorly.
"Do you know what the QUEERS are doing to the SOIL?"
You're saying the milkmen died after they put genetically engineered mandrake into the ice cream, Stuart?
Do you realize that genetic modification is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
Do you realize that in addition to modifying corn and soy - why, there are studies under way to modify tapioca, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake! - children's ice cream!
Do you know when genetic modified crops were introduced?
Nineteen hundred and ninety-six. 1996, Mandrake. Just after the World Trade Organization was established. How does that coincide with your New World Order Commie conspiracy, huh?
It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign genetic substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual - certainly without any choice.
That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
"meta-x interrogate-pinhead"
Oh to have points and that I could mod you up.
(And that's coming from a vi partisan.)
That reads like a Zippy the Pinhead quote.
I wonder if someone could reconfigure the Zippy quote generator to optimize it for hitting the watch list.
Not that I would do or condone doing such a horrible timewasting thing to our worthy DHS agents. ;)
The big problem with learning how to run a planetary base at Mars is the minimum 6 month trip if something goes wrong.
The moon is two days away and doesn't have a return window only at certain parts of the planetary orbits.
So either abandoning it for safety reasons, medivac, or sending up emergency supplies/repair parts, etc is much quicker on the moon.
But, this argument has been gone through many times. Most often with needlessly heated rhetoric on both sides.
Though I'm more for a return to the moon, the answer that I'd be delighted with is: Do either of them, but actually DO IT.
Don't make grand political statements, and then stretch out the program with anemic funding and mismanagement until it gets shut down. We've all seen that way too many times.
"Stratfor claims to have a "secret indictment.""
I doubt Stratfor has a secret indictment.
From the wording it looks like Burton is using "we" to refer to the US government/country. Burton had heard that there was a secret indictment from some source.
I don't know if it's true, but would anyone really be surprised if it was?
So far, these amazingly revealing internal Stratfor emails have been a damp squib. If these are the selected "smoking guns" we're in for a replay of Geraldo Rivera and Capone's Vault.
They were tracking PETA apparently through newspaper accounts and PETA's own press releases. Ditto The Yes Men.
That's hardly surprising either. Or illegal. I'd be extremely surprised if either PETA or The Yes Men didn't keep up their own watch on press releases and news items on corporations/groups opposed to them. It's called opposition research. ProTip: groups you agree with do it too.
Who knows, maybe they contracted with Stratfor to do it. We won't know until the full email set is dumped, if ever.
"I am Anonymous."
I am oblivious.
I'm not even a squad, let alone a Legion.
It may look like I forgive.
But really I just forget.
Don't expect me because I'll probably oversleep.
Though I don't favor the restrictions,I'm guessing the ban on home biodiesel production in Phoenix is due to one step of the process being a fire hazard if you do it wrong.
There are a number of safe ways to do it, but apparently the powers that be just put down a blanket ban rather than a regulation saying don't do this in a large batch mode in your living room with the kids around.
NK's nuclear deterrent isn't the problem. That's at best, limited in range and small in number. (Though obviously not to be discounted.)
The real problem is the South Korean capital, Seoul, lies within artillery and rocket range of North Korea. NK has built up huge numbers of launchers and tube artillery that can rain vast numbers of shells on Seoul and destroy it within a day or two.
South Korea investigated moving the government capital farther south, but that proved very unpopular to those living in Seoul, so it was shelved. (No surprise there.)
"Farting"
It's a great way of keeping the teacher from coming close enough to check your factoring or long division.
My background is physics and I work on a chemistry department at a university. It was a muck character I have, so I'm the one to blame for it. (Tomatoes and other missiles happily dodged. ;) Like you said, I came up with the name as a truly horrible pun that only a few would get.
Even had a suitably altered write up about the "Hartree Fox" method attached to the character description.
"This conversation about meth production should somehow link to that story about truckers hauling nuclear loads."
Dunno about radiologic hazards, but there's gotta be some mean biochemistry going on when after sitting in those cabs for hours, meth addled truckers start dropping nuclear loads at the truck stop.
I don't want to be any closer than the next county.
"2.8 million to keep the meth labs running."
You mean us rural types have to make that for you too?
You guys should really google "one pot method" and invest in some plastic 2 liter bottles... ;)
The nick comes from an animal character in an online rpg (a muck). Hartree Fox. ;)
Indeed. Certainly wouldn't want to give those Kansans any distraction from growing food for your portly cube dwelling butt.