Its all on wikipedia laddie, look it up. Where do you think Great Britain got its name, from being great? Its Grand Bretagne, as in Bretagne, the northern French province. Most of the common words, for example anything ending in -ion is of French origin. England is indeed an upstart colony of France.
If you can figure out where I can get a reliable 6%-7% return on an investment, do let me know. And he'll be keeping ahead of inflation since he's producing his own power. If and when electricity prices rise sharply, so will his return on investment.
No. The drug cartels took it seriously because they rule and are ruled through fear and alpha male machismo. Issuing a direct threat to them in public is a slap in the face, which HAS to be responded to or the alpha male thing falls apart, no matter how humble the source of the threat. I doubt they took it that seriously, but if anyone disses them, they must be seen to respond. These ain't businessmen.
Also, do you think anonymous actually has any damaging information?
You know what though - lets say I'm a drug cartel boss sitting in Mexico somewhere. I get this little message and I ask myself, have they actually got this information? I mean this information can be got, but it would take years of sophisticated intelligence work that probably the Mexican authorities themselves haven't got. And its not like the lists of the corrupt are sitting somewhere on a webserver just waiting for a junior high SQL injection - most of this stuff happens very far off the books.
So, as this hypothetical cartel boss, I decide that these guys are bluffing. So I call their bluff by not just murdering the captive, but his family, friends, anyone he's ever done business with, neighbours, and associates. Then I get a few hackers of my own and start finding out who these anonymous guys are, using my contacts in various other international crime groups, and you better believe they are all online. Rinse and repeat.
These anonymous guys have fucked up big this time. This really isn't an Antonio Banderas movie.
Crippled or what now? Besides being completely wrong (we have evidence that even Neanderthals looked after the old, weak and infirm), technologically and economically we have the ability to provide a decent standard of living for everyone in the world, as in car, house, education and so on. This is entirely seperate from the idea that some people are smarter or stronger than others. Bluntly, we've been kicking nature's ass for a while now, that's why we're the apex predator, which is why social Darwinism is a non starter.
And frankly, almost every alternative energy solution has serious if not fundamental flaws. If they didn't, we would already have been using them.
Really? So when the Wright brothers got their rickety and ridiculous bundle of sticks airborne, you'd have scoffed at the notion of intercontinental jets routinely ferrying hundreds of people, would you? Because, if it was going to work, it would already exist, right?
It would probably have been calamitous but extinction level, maybe not. I mean most of those would probably have landed in the ocean anyway, with maybe a thousand or so dropping on land. The Tunguska event didn't raise too much atmospheric dust or cause much occlusion, and at around 10 megatons might have released in total ten gigatons or so, which is what, twice the total world nuclear arsenal except without fallout.
Just build up a knowledge base of common questions and answers, not unlike a wiki. You might need tutors at the start, but eventually you could phase them out.
Man its funny watching you squirm. Buh buh genetics. Here's how it is son, in a world where people like to get dressed up in nappies and paddled with a plastic representation of David Beckham for jollies, sex has less to do with genetics than you think.
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Leave it to organised religion to dial the stupid up to 11.
Tolkien and many many other authors would disagree with you there.
Ever wonder if that's what China is doing building all those huge empty cities far inland?
English words of French origin, look it up.
Its all on wikipedia laddie, look it up. Where do you think Great Britain got its name, from being great? Its Grand Bretagne, as in Bretagne, the northern French province. Most of the common words, for example anything ending in -ion is of French origin. England is indeed an upstart colony of France.
After inflation, I'm guessing 4-5% at minimum given how fast the greenback is being printed.
If you can figure out where I can get a reliable 6%-7% return on an investment, do let me know. And he'll be keeping ahead of inflation since he's producing his own power. If and when electricity prices rise sharply, so will his return on investment.
For the greater good, let those who are suffering die and give the rest of us a chance at a sustainable future.
Back in your socioeconomically illiterate grave, Malthus! Back I say! The power of christ compels you! The power of christ compels you!
Do you reckon that recent breach of lightspeed might indicate that Einstein was seriously wrong?
Who run Bartertown?
Seriously though I don't use Apple products anyway so I guess I'm already there.
To be honest I'd like a list of those companies that allow users to bring their own devices, so I can never do business with them.
Kinda reminds me of that short story, "A Colder War", where Cthulhu's wormholes were first used by the CIA to transport drugs.
Of course that works both ways, an adversary could easily negate the entire US blue water capability with a few of these.
Please look up Desertec, solar has a bright future. ;)
Pot is legal in Amsterdam and you DO see a swarm of partakers swarming to it.
No. The drug cartels took it seriously because they rule and are ruled through fear and alpha male machismo. Issuing a direct threat to them in public is a slap in the face, which HAS to be responded to or the alpha male thing falls apart, no matter how humble the source of the threat. I doubt they took it that seriously, but if anyone disses them, they must be seen to respond. These ain't businessmen.
Also, do you think anonymous actually has any damaging information?
If they aren't technical enough, you better believe they have enough money to hire the brainpower.
You know what though - lets say I'm a drug cartel boss sitting in Mexico somewhere. I get this little message and I ask myself, have they actually got this information? I mean this information can be got, but it would take years of sophisticated intelligence work that probably the Mexican authorities themselves haven't got. And its not like the lists of the corrupt are sitting somewhere on a webserver just waiting for a junior high SQL injection - most of this stuff happens very far off the books.
So, as this hypothetical cartel boss, I decide that these guys are bluffing. So I call their bluff by not just murdering the captive, but his family, friends, anyone he's ever done business with, neighbours, and associates. Then I get a few hackers of my own and start finding out who these anonymous guys are, using my contacts in various other international crime groups, and you better believe they are all online. Rinse and repeat.
These anonymous guys have fucked up big this time. This really isn't an Antonio Banderas movie.
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Crippled or what now? Besides being completely wrong (we have evidence that even Neanderthals looked after the old, weak and infirm), technologically and economically we have the ability to provide a decent standard of living for everyone in the world, as in car, house, education and so on. This is entirely seperate from the idea that some people are smarter or stronger than others. Bluntly, we've been kicking nature's ass for a while now, that's why we're the apex predator, which is why social Darwinism is a non starter.
And frankly, almost every alternative energy solution has serious if not fundamental flaws. If they didn't, we would already have been using them.
Really? So when the Wright brothers got their rickety and ridiculous bundle of sticks airborne, you'd have scoffed at the notion of intercontinental jets routinely ferrying hundreds of people, would you? Because, if it was going to work, it would already exist, right?
Look up Desertec for your further edification.
Oh yeah I mean we'd have been looking at an ice age, most likely, but we survived the last ice age pretty well.
It would probably have been calamitous but extinction level, maybe not. I mean most of those would probably have landed in the ocean anyway, with maybe a thousand or so dropping on land. The Tunguska event didn't raise too much atmospheric dust or cause much occlusion, and at around 10 megatons might have released in total ten gigatons or so, which is what, twice the total world nuclear arsenal except without fallout.
Apocalypse territory? Certainly. Extinction? Probably not.
Just build up a knowledge base of common questions and answers, not unlike a wiki. You might need tutors at the start, but eventually you could phase them out.
Man its funny watching you squirm. Buh buh genetics. Here's how it is son, in a world where people like to get dressed up in nappies and paddled with a plastic representation of David Beckham for jollies, sex has less to do with genetics than you think.