We should all hail the day that nations dispatch their tribalism and TLAs like America's CIA, Russia's KGB, Britain's MI6, France's DGSE, & ad infinitum are unnecessary in a perfect world of international cooperation.
If the USA didn't make a career of threatening Russia, it wouldn't be targeted.
Hmmm... Like when, during the Kennedy administration, the US threatened Russia when they deployed ballistic missiles in Cuba?
Clearly, Russian trolls' and military hackers' personal kryptonite is US government pop-ups and direct warning messages
I imagine a text to a burner phone you think is secure would scare most of people. And since Russia is starting to play shadow war assassination games, they might worry about being targeted.
Perhaps, if the target were within the jurisdiction of US authorities, but the interference is at the very least State-approved and quite likely State-sponsored... just as similar programs in the US, China, and all the rest of the nations sitting on the UN Security Council and even many of those who do not.
On the plus side, it's an improvement over thousands of years of seeking advantage through conventional warfare. This is modern day influence peddling... winning the hearts and minds with minimal body bags returning your sons home.
National security adviser John Bolton acknowledged as much last week when he said the U.S. government was undertaking "offensive cyber operations" aimed at "defending the integrity of our electoral process." There aren't many details. Reportedly this entailed sending texts, pop-ups, emails and direct messages warning Russian trolls and military hackers not to disrupt the midterms.
Clearly, Russian trolls' and military hackers' personal kryptonite is US government pop-ups and direct warning messages.... Just the one question: why did we wait until this election cycle to break out the big guns?
It's a damn shame citizens of the modern day Rome cannot gain the political capital to force universal healthcare... many of us actually spend more annually our god damn pets' medical welfare.
$15 per hour and a job guarantee assures the replacement of our entry-level employees with entry-stage robotic replacements, and infrastructure investment only stands a chance if the voters/political donors deem it an important plank of one of two political parties... thus, little chance at all.
The local governors recently put up multiple $44,000 streetlight fixtures near interstate intersections, apparently without the Cowboy Neil? Streetlight Concealments... I wonder just exactly how many fixtures, retailing at $22k and $28K, could've been purchased for this insidious TLA deployment?
Actually many countries and corporations have policies like this because a senior employee can have de-facto control over subordinate employees which can cause all sorts of problems like basically unreported rape and things.
This is a huge problem in many countries where a lot of new interns (younger girls) basically find out soon that either they must sleep with a superior or quit. And in these same countries quitting or getting fired is basically equivalent to being unemployable.
Spot on.
I would add that the social trend towards equality of the sexes has improved society to the point where
a lot of new interns
doesn't mean a club of exclusively younger or even just girls.
The perks of power have traditionally, in Weinsteinian fashion, afforded superiors sexual power over their subordinates.
If you're an Uber driver in California for instance, you would have won the recent class lawsuit against Uber (if not for the arbitration clause).
As it stands, only the drivers that had the presence of mind to opt-out of arbitration within a specific time limit won that case, but that's only a tiny fraction of them.
To be ware, it's plausible the grandparent is bizzaro Hanlon's Razor... uninformed, as opposed to malice-driven.
If you graduate from high school, you're statistically likely to be a better earner than someone who doesn't, a college graduate is probably going to earn more than a high school graduate, and an Ivy league graduate is going to do better, financially, than a graduate of community college. It's no secret; there is an incremental improvement in potential outcome for each helping step up. Each step up implies one's network of friends, colleagues, and acquaintances also have improved potential outcomes. So, it matters.
State and Municipal subsidies to attract corporations are a tool of elected officials to get reelected... whether or not they make good fiscal sense, they create voting capital. Thus, they are here to stay.
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. In fact, the monkey would almost surely type every possible finite text an infinite number of times.
Our middling City, in the grand tradition of keeping up with the Joneses, has implemented a quarter cent sales tax increase to fund an Economic Development Fund.
It has basically amounted to little more than a slush fund for the politically connected, and though the promise of economic diversity looms large like the lottery funding education, it is just another way to funnel taxpayer's money to the ruling class.
"Sure, let's legislate additional ways for our reliable politicians to hoover up our tax money... it's a tried and true method that virtually always falls short of expectations."
Except the use case discussed here is on takeoff and landing.
The burst of power needed for takeoff is a big limit on the payload of electric planes. So this alleged breakthrough could make electric planes more feasible. An electric booster could also make fueled jets better able to take off on short runways, with bigger payloads, and/or with smaller more efficient engines optimized for cruising.
It is not just about takeoff, and it is not about landing at all.
Yep; also, too, and furthermore, batttery tech development is fortuitously important to several ancillary, temporarily popular, pursuits... wouldn't it be funny (funny strange, not funny ha-ha) if the Kardashian-level Instagram popular-culture craze of the masses led to the necessary battery development?
"Developed by Texas Instruments (TI), the vulnerable BLE chips are used by roughly 70 to 80 percent of business wireless access points today by way of Cisco, Meraki and Aruba products," reports ZDNet.
Of course, it's entirely likely you're not affected by the compromised chips.
So you can take the reassuring route of "Clearly, that vulnerability clearly affects folks other than me, so I'm righteously Dunning-Kruger in my examination of the evidence that might suggest I'm super, duper, special.
...and because every step of the distribution chain is completely honest and they never pull a switcheroo and substitute a cheaper product for a more expensive one.
Disregarding the likelihood the human greed factor plays a role is ill-advised, and in real time, not the percentage bet. Yet, it doesn't discount the fact that advertised organic produce is still more likely to be better for you than the pesticide-ridden common fare produced by industrial farms.
P:
You are spreading disinformation FUD.
This knee jerk FUD proclamation is not a conversation ender, so much as a catchy way to undermine arguments contrary to one's settled belief set without scientific evidence.
Considering the sheer number of published studies today, if you use the results of a single study to live your life by, then you're an idiot, independent of your socioeconomic status.
Like getting your news from a single source, not factoring in the value of many studies is a mistake on the order of parroting the viewpoint of a single 24 hr news source.
Given the cryptocurrency industry's solid history of self-regulation, I'd feel much safer knowing they won't be subject to burdensome government regulation.
Similar officially sanctioned bodies exist in industries such as securities brokerages.
As poorly as government oversight has been in banking and securities, the biggest boondoggles have generally occurred in their absence... looking at you, authors of the US Savings and Loans regulatory loophole and Glass-Steagall repeal advocates.
True enough, assuming someone competent enough to dig/drill the well is present. Although I can't speak to people everywhere, it seems like most USian folks displaced by natural disaster seem to sit around and wait for someone to deliver salvation in frustration-free packaging.
This system can also be deployed to regions without plentiful carbon rich dead fall and powered by solar collectors and batteries.
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We should all hail the day that nations dispatch their tribalism and TLAs like America's CIA, Russia's KGB, Britain's MI6, France's DGSE, & ad infinitum are unnecessary in a perfect world of international cooperation.
If the USA didn't make a career of threatening Russia, it wouldn't be targeted.
Hmmm... Like when, during the Kennedy administration, the US threatened Russia when they deployed ballistic missiles in Cuba?
I imagine a text to a burner phone you think is secure would scare most of people. And since Russia is starting to play shadow war assassination games, they might worry about being targeted.
Perhaps, if the target were within the jurisdiction of US authorities, but the interference is at the very least State-approved and quite likely State-sponsored... just as similar programs in the US, China, and all the rest of the nations sitting on the UN Security Council and even many of those who do not.
On the plus side, it's an improvement over thousands of years of seeking advantage through conventional warfare. This is modern day influence peddling... winning the hearts and minds with minimal body bags returning your sons home.
National security adviser John Bolton acknowledged as much last week when he said the U.S. government was undertaking "offensive cyber operations" aimed at "defending the integrity of our electoral process." There aren't many details. Reportedly this entailed sending texts, pop-ups, emails and direct messages warning Russian trolls and military hackers not to disrupt the midterms.
Clearly, Russian trolls' and military hackers' personal kryptonite is US government pop-ups and direct warning messages.... Just the one question: why did we wait until this election cycle to break out the big guns?
It's a damn shame citizens of the modern day Rome cannot gain the political capital to force universal healthcare... many of us actually spend more annually our god damn pets' medical welfare.
$15 per hour and a job guarantee assures the replacement of our entry-level employees with entry-stage robotic replacements, and infrastructure investment only stands a chance if the voters/political donors deem it an important plank of one of two political parties... thus, little chance at all.
The local governors recently put up multiple $44,000 streetlight fixtures near interstate intersections, apparently without the Cowboy Neil? Streetlight Concealments... I wonder just exactly how many fixtures, retailing at $22k and $28K, could've been purchased for this insidious TLA deployment?
Actually many countries and corporations have policies like this because a senior employee can have de-facto control over subordinate employees which can cause all sorts of problems like basically unreported rape and things.
This is a huge problem in many countries where a lot of new interns (younger girls) basically find out soon that either they must sleep with a superior or quit. And in these same countries quitting or getting fired is basically equivalent to being unemployable.
Spot on.
I would add that the social trend towards equality of the sexes has improved society to the point where
a lot of new interns
doesn't mean a club of exclusively younger or even just girls.
The perks of power have traditionally, in Weinsteinian fashion, afforded superiors sexual power over their subordinates.
You're a liar.
If you're an Uber driver in California for instance, you would have won the recent class lawsuit against Uber (if not for the arbitration clause).
As it stands, only the drivers that had the presence of mind to opt-out of arbitration within a specific time limit won that case, but that's only a tiny fraction of them.
To be ware, it's plausible the grandparent is bizzaro Hanlon's Razor... uninformed, as opposed to malice-driven.
Paper credentials and other imitable proofs of identity are going to be the casualty of virtually everyone's failure to secure the public's data.
It's probably time to invest in the companies at the forefront of biometric identification.
If you graduate from high school, you're statistically likely to be a better earner than someone who doesn't, a college graduate is probably going to earn more than a high school graduate, and an Ivy league graduate is going to do better, financially, than a graduate of community college. It's no secret; there is an incremental improvement in potential outcome for each helping step up. Each step up implies one's network of friends, colleagues, and acquaintances also have improved potential outcomes. So, it matters.
State and Municipal subsidies to attract corporations are a tool of elected officials to get reelected... whether or not they make good fiscal sense, they create voting capital. Thus, they are here to stay.
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. In fact, the monkey would almost surely type every possible finite text an infinite number of times.
Our middling City, in the grand tradition of keeping up with the Joneses, has implemented a quarter cent sales tax increase to fund an Economic Development Fund.
It has basically amounted to little more than a slush fund for the politically connected, and though the promise of economic diversity looms large like the lottery funding education, it is just another way to funnel taxpayer's money to the ruling class.
"Sure, let's legislate additional ways for our reliable politicians to hoover up our tax money... it's a tried and true method that virtually always falls short of expectations."
It might have been alien, but almost certainly wasn't.
You're not going to be landing a largish research grant with that attitude.
Like new,
much akin to virtually new... which means not precisely new, with an apparently reasonably explanation as to the change in conditions.
Damn. Clicking on this link is worse than Goatse, as it likely affects your permanent record, internet-wise, with the TLAs.
Except the use case discussed here is on takeoff and landing.
The burst of power needed for takeoff is a big limit on the payload of electric planes. So this alleged breakthrough could make electric planes more feasible. An electric booster could also make fueled jets better able to take off on short runways, with bigger payloads, and/or with smaller more efficient engines optimized for cruising.
It is not just about takeoff, and it is not about landing at all.
Yep; also, too, and furthermore, batttery tech development is fortuitously important to several ancillary, temporarily popular, pursuits... wouldn't it be funny (funny strange, not funny ha-ha) if the Kardashian-level Instagram popular-culture craze of the masses led to the necessary battery development?
Sigh... I was rather foolishly attempting to communicate an interesting parable to the feeble... epic fail.
"Developed by Texas Instruments (TI), the vulnerable BLE chips are used by roughly 70 to 80 percent of business wireless access points today by way of Cisco, Meraki and Aruba products," reports ZDNet.
Of course, it's entirely likely you're not affected by the compromised chips.
So you can take the reassuring route of "Clearly, that vulnerability clearly affects folks other than me, so I'm righteously Dunning-Kruger in my examination of the evidence that might suggest I'm super, duper, special.
Disregarding the likelihood the human greed factor plays a role is ill-advised, and in real time, not the percentage bet. Yet, it doesn't discount the fact that advertised organic produce is still more likely to be better for you than the pesticide-ridden common fare produced by industrial farms.
P:
You are spreading disinformation FUD.
This knee jerk FUD proclamation is not a conversation ender, so much as a catchy way to undermine arguments contrary to one's settled belief set without scientific evidence.
keeping your alcohol intake in the moderate zone
... jesus, what are we, savages?
Considering the sheer number of published studies today, if you use the results of a single study to live your life by, then you're an idiot, independent of your socioeconomic status.
Like getting your news from a single source, not factoring in the value of many studies is a mistake on the order of parroting the viewpoint of a single 24 hr news source.
An asset with a value of >0 is to be treated as property... no fracking wonder the Chinese have come to dominate the World's economic theater.
Given the cryptocurrency industry's solid history of self-regulation, I'd feel much safer knowing they won't be subject to burdensome government regulation.
Similar officially sanctioned bodies exist in industries such as securities brokerages.
As poorly as government oversight has been in banking and securities, the biggest boondoggles have generally occurred in their absence... looking at you, authors of the US Savings and Loans regulatory loophole and Glass-Steagall repeal advocates.
"Good ole Larry! He was far from perfect, but kind to his dog... and even at the last, he was into recycling."
True enough, assuming someone competent enough to dig/drill the well is present. Although I can't speak to people everywhere, it seems like most USian folks displaced by natural disaster seem to sit around and wait for someone to deliver salvation in frustration-free packaging.
This system can also be deployed to regions without plentiful carbon rich dead fall and powered by solar collectors and batteries.
Not incredibly surprising.
Socially, we have an inherent predilection to speak kindly of the recently deceased.
Sociopathically, liking someone has never really been much of an obstacle for those most likely to rise to the top of billion dollar corporations.