...the new cybercriminals Amad Umar Agha22, known online as 'The Pro,' and Firas Dardar, 27, known online as 'The Shadow,'
Because The Falcon & the Snowman and The Ghost & the Darkness were already taken?
Seriously, I could get behind a pair of would-be supervillains willing to take that next step and opt for ironic power names. Burps & the Slug, anyone...
Well stated. The governors are ever vigilant in their use of a tragedy to pass some sketchy, freedom restricting legislation in a time of upheaval involving loss of life... looking at you Patriot Act.
It does seem like the caliber of the boogeyman has diminished over the years...
At one point, the evil Soviet Empire was used to keep our freedoms in check. B^)
It smells like they went into execution mode as quickly as possible after the well-publicized arrest.
Perhaps anti-terror agencies could take a page from the narcotics police, where they may routinely quietly arrest a suspect to gain intel on his suppliers and customers.
We're an interesting, fundamentally diverse people... the melting pot, if you will. We're insecure, racist, xenophobic, and given to tribalism.
We're also brilliant, clever, optimistic, and still one of the most desirable places to relocate if you were born somewhere else.
How do you attract the best and the brightest, while simultaneously punishing the poorest in numbers not seen anywhere else on the planet? A self righteous penchant for punishing minorities combined with Draconian drug laws, if I had to guess.
I always wonder why nobody talks about the fact that the United States represents 4 percent of the world's population but has 22 percent of the world's prisoners.
While we shouldn't be leading the league in this category,
remember that we are descended from Puritans deemed too vile for Europe, refugees from everywhere, and a race of native Americans so tough they often went to war with no clothes on.
Congress has made it nearly impossible to transfer captives elsewhere.
Defense Intelligence Agency concluded that at least a fourth of the detainees the United States has released from Guantanamo were confirmed or suspected of later engaging in terrorism or insurgent activity.
ISIL has taken hold in Yemen, the very country where the Obama administration had planned to transfer many detainees.
Please keep in mind the folks these prisoners are fighting for are beheading their prisoners, while the men at Guantanamo are eating three meals a day, watching cable, and working out in gyms.
Guantanamo is not a source of pride for many Americans, and yet, the bulk of the human rights violations that did exist there were flushed out by the American people and the US press.
Yes. Obama was unable to fulfill that campaign promise, and the base should be converted to something else, but comparing this to the WWII concentration camps is a bit much.
These people are being held without American constitutional protection, but they are, by and large bad guys, and they were not indiscriminately rounded up man, woman, and child because of their race.
Your pod idea is interesting, but the likelihood that in 30 minutes, two nerds on/. thought of the bio-accumulation hazard,while the developers did not, is increasingly small.
A recently released poll of earthlings indicates those living in China, The Netherlands, India, and America have a firmer fundamental grasp of the obvious than the Germans and Chileans.
I'd be surprised if the professional damages were that high too, but I guess the jury did not. It appears he was fired from the WWE over this.
He was actually fired for the racist rant that appeared in the video, over his daughter's relationship with a black fellow, rather than for the sex scene itself...
This looks like a particularly good year for a third party candidate to have a real shot... and not just as a distraction or vote siphon.
As long as it's not Trump. Let him have the Rep. nomination he has earned under the present rules, and run somebody independent against him and Hillary (if she's still in it).
Though candidates for recent Presidential elections have lowered expectations for voters, this one is shaping up to be a real doozy.
Let's face it, the government doesn't REALLY need a sound reason to monitor you anyway.
No sir. They do not. It just has to be convenient and technologically feasible.
The gov't is not beholden to traditional budgetary metrics. Others are positing that it is the cost of the data accumulation and storage that affects the amount the gov't is willing to monitor.
Not so much. It seems the people who print the currency that is the rest of the world's reserve currency basically have a license to print money.
I'm not going to put forth an opinion about "drawing the line" somewhere else, but we clearly do "draw the line" for example at 18-year-olds.
I'm going to err on the side of tradition here. We have always prevented younglings beneath a certain age from engaging in the activities we would enjoy the most as adults.
As adults, at least part of the activities plus side was the absence of the least experienced humans.
I don't know. It sounds weird to an earthling, right?
If they said, "We are going to build and then burn a house in Scotland for you!", you might consider that a tad excessive in evaluating your safety in the event of a future emergency with an infinitesimal chance of occurring.
But. If it's space travel and long term habitation, FFS, I say err on the side of caution.
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Because The Falcon & the Snowman and The Ghost & the Darkness were already taken?
Seriously, I could get behind a pair of would-be supervillains willing to take that next step and opt for ironic power names. Burps & the Slug, anyone...
It does seem like the caliber of the boogeyman has diminished over the years...
At one point, the evil Soviet Empire was used to keep our freedoms in check. B^)
This guy was talking and the press was reporting his cooperation.
Perhaps anti-terror agencies could take a page from the narcotics police, where they may routinely quietly arrest a suspect to gain intel on his suppliers and customers.
Only 4% of global CO2 is attributable to humans. 96% of it is naturally occurring, and we couldn't do anything about it if we tried.
Fun. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
We're also brilliant, clever, optimistic, and still one of the most desirable places to relocate if you were born somewhere else.
How do you attract the best and the brightest, while simultaneously punishing the poorest in numbers not seen anywhere else on the planet? A self righteous penchant for punishing minorities combined with Draconian drug laws, if I had to guess.
I always wonder why nobody talks about the fact that the United States represents 4 percent of the world's population but has 22 percent of the world's prisoners.
While we shouldn't be leading the league in this category,
remember that we are descended from Puritans deemed too vile for Europe, refugees from everywhere, and a race of native Americans so tough they often went to war with no clothes on.
Defense Intelligence Agency concluded that at least a fourth of the detainees the United States has released from Guantanamo were confirmed or suspected of later engaging in terrorism or insurgent activity.
ISIL has taken hold in Yemen, the very country where the Obama administration had planned to transfer many detainees.
Please keep in mind the folks these prisoners are fighting for are beheading their prisoners, while the men at Guantanamo are eating three meals a day, watching cable, and working out in gyms.
Yes. Obama was unable to fulfill that campaign promise, and the base should be converted to something else, but comparing this to the WWII concentration camps is a bit much.
These people are being held without American constitutional protection, but they are, by and large bad guys, and they were not indiscriminately rounded up man, woman, and child because of their race.
Both of them can FOAD.
An acronym that includes a bad word.
My favorite is the "N" word
Your pod idea is interesting, but the likelihood that in 30 minutes, two nerds on /. thought of the bio-accumulation hazard,while the developers did not, is increasingly small.
A variation of the tried and true knee drop, when actually damaging your opponent is not the intent.
A recently released poll of earthlings indicates those living in China, The Netherlands, India, and America have a firmer fundamental grasp of the obvious than the Germans and Chileans.
I'd be surprised if the professional damages were that high too, but I guess the jury did not. It appears he was fired from the WWE over this.
He was actually fired for the racist rant that appeared in the video, over his daughter's relationship with a black fellow, rather than for the sex scene itself...
Is Sénator politically correct, yet?
As long as it's not Trump. Let him have the Rep. nomination he has earned under the present rules, and run somebody independent against him and Hillary (if she's still in it).
Though candidates for recent Presidential elections have lowered expectations for voters, this one is shaping up to be a real doozy.
What do you think about when you hear "bus" and "accident" in the same phrase? Lawsuits? Pedestrians hopping on the crashed bus?
This is so frequent there have been stings set up purposely to single out the fraudsters
The only way I could vote for Bill's wife is if she is opposed by a candidate one lab accident away from a supervillain...
>>>reduced to a sheet of glass in a matter of days, and damn the nuclear winter.
Nice word play, Etherwalk.
Do you now understand now what CG has spared you?
"When I was a kid, we had to learn to tie our own shoes!"
-1 commented not obviously against Edward in a Snowden story
-2 moderated a Snowden comment favorably
-3 Submitted a favorable Snowden story
-4 Posted a pro-Snowden story (damn the bad luck)
Let's face it, the government doesn't REALLY need a sound reason to monitor you anyway.
No sir. They do not. It just has to be convenient and technologically feasible.
The gov't is not beholden to traditional budgetary metrics. Others are positing that it is the cost of the data accumulation and storage that affects the amount the gov't is willing to monitor.
Not so much. It seems the people who print the currency that is the rest of the world's reserve currency basically have a license to print money.
I'm not going to put forth an opinion about "drawing the line" somewhere else, but we clearly do "draw the line" for example at 18-year-olds.
I'm going to err on the side of tradition here. We have always prevented younglings beneath a certain age from engaging in the activities we would enjoy the most as adults.
As adults, at least part of the activities plus side was the absence of the least experienced humans.
If they said, "We are going to build and then burn a house in Scotland for you!", you might consider that a tad excessive in evaluating your safety in the event of a future emergency with an infinitesimal chance of occurring.
But. If it's space travel and long term habitation, FFS, I say err on the side of caution.