Subject-change detected — the usual tactics of Kremlin bots.
You mean projection
So, you are denying having changed the subject? Fine, let's recount: I started this thread pointing out Russia being a dangerous aggressor and it is therefor dangerous to be buying gas from her. You and boredwithpolitics "counter" that by saying, US is more of an aggressor... Sorry, but USA was not even in the picture — buying gas from the US is not an option for Germany.
The only reason to bring US into the conversation at all was for you two Kremlin-bots to shift attention from the topic you'll immediately lose to the one, where you can usually fight to stalemate.
But I recognized your subject-change — before moving on — and called it out.
You're comparing an anthill to Mt. Everest.
I'm comparing American efforts to propagandize freedom and Capitalism to Russia's armed invasions: into Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine to name just the most recent ones. Yes, one of them is an ant hill and the other — a mountain. Only it is not the side you are backing, hater.
Radio America, heard of it?
What of it?
How many governments around the world has Russia - and even the USSR - overthrown
Let's see — and, unlike you, I'm going to stick to known facts of military invasions not unsupported accusations of "foreign influence":
Notably, your bombastic accusation includes neither a link to the video, nor transcript of the actual words.
Like asking for a citation that water is wet. [youtube.com]
There is still no transcript and the video is nearly 9 minutes long. If you can not find the transcript — as would've been customary for text-based debates — perhaps, you can link directly to the section of the v
Because we do not. When Clinton tried to do this, the backlash made him reconsider — to this day, 23 years later, there is still no such requirement in any US law.
Overzealous executive branch does try it every once in a while, but it is still perfectly legal to own and use unbreakable encryption in the US.
For fuck's sake, i even have provided the name of the treaty, are you too stupid to use a bloody search engine?
You make a claim, you present evidence. That's how things work in a debate.
Good. Now, please, cite the actual violations. Oh, heck, I'll do your job for you — this once... So, Russia and others have violated the treaty in 1998, according to Wikipedia and its sources, whereas NATO violated it in 2006...
Seriously, claiming that these "violations" are equivalent to and justify an actual armed invasion is ridiculous... Russian scum indeed.
Well, there was also a treaty on conventional armed forces in Europe between the USSR and NATO countries that limited the amount of NATO troops and equipment in Europe.
One of the promises made to the USSR when the whole wall came down and Soviet Union dissolved and all that was that the NATO would not expand to the borders of Russia
Yes, yes — a tale oft-repeated by Russian scum. Please, cite the treaty, where that promise was made. Oops...
If Russia would expand - peacefully, through alliances - to include Canada and Mexiko, how do you think the USA would react?
You are trying to equate unequatable. Russian "expansion" brings not the prosperity of freedom and Capitalism, but disasters of Socialism. Witness Cuba, where we tried to fight it decades ago, and Venezuela, where we did not. Russia keeps trying, though — and we haven't attacked anyone.
Subject-change detected — the usual tactics of Kremlin bots. I accept your surrender of the previous topic — of Russia being a dangerous aggressor — and move on to the new one: whether the US "is just as bad".
ignoring the fact that their assistant Secretary of State is on video bragging about spending billions to subvert a democracy
Notably, your bombastic accusation includes neither a link to the video, nor transcript of the actual words.
It is perfectly normal for countries to spend money on legal organizations abroad. USSR has been doing just that for decades fomenting racial strife in the US, for example, as well as the so-called "Peace Movement". In the Middle East KGB kept Arafat afloat and fighting Israel.
You joked about Obama being a KGB-agent — had that been true, it would've been "subverting Democracy" in the extreme. And yet, the entire Russia would've found it awesome.
So, blaming the hapless State Department for "subverting Democracy" is rather hypocritical of you, KGB wrote that book — using Western freedoms to subvert them. But that's not all Russia does... Armed invasion is Ok with you to — and not even to dethrone a particularly nasty dictator or right some other wrong (real or perceived), but to simply grab land.
caught on the phone picking leaders after the coup.
And that, even if it were true, equates to an armed invasion in your opinion? Wow...
Yes, like the rest of Russian scum, you keep talking about "US grabbing", while it was Russia, that actually invaded a peaceful neighbor.
Crimea, that was stolen by the Soviet Union and given to the Ukraine
Soviet Union is Russia and Russia is Soviet Union. The current Russia recognized Ukraine's borders — including Crimea — several times. Most recently — in 2010.
But your attitude is most telling — and reinforcing my point: Russia will not honor any of its agreements, and is a dangerous aggressor.
And it is not just the evil Putin at the top — ordinary Russians, including Slashdot critters, have been brainwashed into becoming scum as well.
The alternative to fracking is buying more gas from Russia's Gazprom.
Last year, Bloomberg published an article making the case that the U.S. must consider the earthquake situation in Oklahoma a national security threat.
Maybe. But buying stuff from an aggressor is certainly increasing a national security threat. Does Germany believe, Putin will be satisfied with Ukraine and the Baltic states?
The way the rest of the world believed, throwing Czechoslovakia to Germany will bring "peace for our time"?
But where is the money going to come from to purchase all these cards at retail?
Consumer Reports seems to have the model figured out... They've been discreetly buying the stuff they test — including cars — for decades now. And then selling their reviews to paid subscribers...
And yet, Donald Trump, who suggested a freeze of such immigrations, was widely denounced as just that — a racist everywhere, Slashdot included... But bashing the entire China is Ok?
I like how you completely ignored the "Illegal" part
The original poster, quite obviously, expressed personal disapproval of the activity. Whether the activity is, in fact, illegal (and in which country), does not matter — whether it is wrong, is what's important.
Seafile is an illegal file sharing site run out of China.
Wow... So, file-sharing is wrong and "out of China" is an aggravating circumstance.
And I read it on Slashdot, where people used to scream and fight anything suggesting that. And where referring to "out of $country" used to be a sign of "racism"...
it shows that some in the academic research community are still intent on patching the holes that their peers are helping government hackers exploit.
So, to recap, the government-paid researchers are fighting the efforts of government-paid hackers to make the tool, that the government paid to create as a secure one, less so.
Oh please, the Peace Prize is the popularity contest of the Nobel Prizes [...]
So, you are saying, Obama could still be wrong despite having won the prize? Are we facing something organized, however loosely (and thus possibly predictable), or just random hate-crimes and work-place violence?
We are suffering from self-radicalizedlone-wolves according to our President. And he must be right, or else the enlightened Europeans would've never honored him with the Nobel Peace Prize.
Your data is no less secure at AWS, than in any Internet-connected hospital — though that in itself is not saying much.
If you can not store it yourself, trusting a company like CareMonkey, whose entire business model is predicated on the security of customers' data, probably, makes more sense, than trusting someone, for whom it is but a side-show. Such companies may still experience a problem — nothing is safe — but they are less likely to.
And if you worry about government, well, to the delight of Statists, our "democratically controlled" "strong government" already has access to your medical history. And will get more, when the "single-payer" system, so beloved by those same Statists, replaces the designed to fail — and failing — Obamacare.
That is very, very broken logic and shows the sickness that lies in the government.
You are very right. It is a sickness, and it shows, how outright tyranny can sip in, when the government is allowed to do as much as it currently is in the Western world.
We had the early warnings — things, the government could not force you to do straight, it forced you to do by attaching strings to the tax-based wealth-redistribution:
Male students applying for financial aid were forced to register with Selective Service.
Retirees applying for Social Security where forced to also switch to Medicaire — decades before the infamous "If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance" lie.
The ultimate manifestation of this would be 100% taxation with the government kindly allowing you to pay less in exchange for obedience.
Can also take the approach into criminal justice system — saving billions in law enforcement costs — by making it illegal to live above, say, 20 years of age. The government would, of course, grant annual waivers to the well-behaved — those, who "maintain eligibility"... Scaremongering? You bet — but this idea is the same in principle with the current one: tax everyone, but spend the taxes only on the obedient.
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Could you cite previous examples of the "far worse" you are alluding to? Thank you.
So, you are denying having changed the subject? Fine, let's recount: I started this thread pointing out Russia being a dangerous aggressor and it is therefor dangerous to be buying gas from her. You and boredwithpolitics "counter" that by saying, US is more of an aggressor... Sorry, but USA was not even in the picture — buying gas from the US is not an option for Germany.
The only reason to bring US into the conversation at all was for you two Kremlin-bots to shift attention from the topic you'll immediately lose to the one, where you can usually fight to stalemate.
But I recognized your subject-change — before moving on — and called it out.
I'm comparing American efforts to propagandize freedom and Capitalism to Russia's armed invasions: into Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine to name just the most recent ones. Yes, one of them is an ant hill and the other — a mountain. Only it is not the side you are backing, hater.
What of it?
Let's see — and, unlike you, I'm going to stick to known facts of military invasions not unsupported accusations of "foreign influence":
That was USSR. Now comes modern Russia: Moldova, Geogrgia, Ukraine. Again, the above are only the military invasions by Russia. Subtler things — like poisoning of Ukraine's presidential contender — aren't included for brevity.
There is still no transcript and the video is nearly 9 minutes long. If you can not find the transcript — as would've been customary for text-based debates — perhaps, you can link directly to the section of the v
Because we do not. When Clinton tried to do this, the backlash made him reconsider — to this day, 23 years later, there is still no such requirement in any US law.
Overzealous executive branch does try it every once in a while, but it is still perfectly legal to own and use unbreakable encryption in the US.
Oh, come one, Bill Clinton is not running for any office any more, stop beating him up.
You make a claim, you present evidence. That's how things work in a debate.
Good. Now, please, cite the actual violations. Oh, heck, I'll do your job for you — this once... So, Russia and others have violated the treaty in 1998, according to Wikipedia and its sources, whereas NATO violated it in 2006...
Seriously, claiming that these "violations" are equivalent to and justify an actual armed invasion is ridiculous... Russian scum indeed.
Citation needed.
Yes, yes — a tale oft-repeated by Russian scum. Please, cite the treaty, where that promise was made. Oops...
You are trying to equate unequatable. Russian "expansion" brings not the prosperity of freedom and Capitalism, but disasters of Socialism. Witness Cuba, where we tried to fight it decades ago, and Venezuela, where we did not. Russia keeps trying, though — and we haven't attacked anyone.
Subject-change detected — the usual tactics of Kremlin bots. I accept your surrender of the previous topic — of Russia being a dangerous aggressor — and move on to the new one: whether the US "is just as bad".
Notably, your bombastic accusation includes neither a link to the video, nor transcript of the actual words.
It is perfectly normal for countries to spend money on legal organizations abroad. USSR has been doing just that for decades fomenting racial strife in the US, for example, as well as the so-called "Peace Movement". In the Middle East KGB kept Arafat afloat and fighting Israel.
In today's world, Russia buys influence among not only its traditional Communist-allies, but the far-right as well.
You joked about Obama being a KGB-agent — had that been true, it would've been "subverting Democracy" in the extreme. And yet, the entire Russia would've found it awesome.
So, blaming the hapless State Department for "subverting Democracy" is rather hypocritical of you, KGB wrote that book — using Western freedoms to subvert them. But that's not all Russia does... Armed invasion is Ok with you to — and not even to dethrone a particularly nasty dictator or right some other wrong (real or perceived), but to simply grab land.
And that, even if it were true, equates to an armed invasion in your opinion? Wow...
Yes, like the rest of Russian scum, you keep talking about "US grabbing", while it was Russia, that actually invaded a peaceful neighbor.
Soviet Union is Russia and Russia is Soviet Union. The current Russia recognized Ukraine's borders — including Crimea — several times. Most recently — in 2010.
But your attitude is most telling — and reinforcing my point: Russia will not honor any of its agreements, and is a dangerous aggressor.
And it is not just the evil Putin at the top — ordinary Russians, including Slashdot critters, have been brainwashed into becoming scum as well.
Fuck you, Russian scum.
And here come Russians deluded by Putin-TV into believing, it was the US, who invaded Ukraine. So sad...
The alternative to fracking is buying more gas from Russia's Gazprom.
Maybe. But buying stuff from an aggressor is certainly increasing a national security threat. Does Germany believe, Putin will be satisfied with Ukraine and the Baltic states?
The way the rest of the world believed, throwing Czechoslovakia to Germany will bring "peace for our time"?
Consumer Reports seems to have the model figured out... They've been discreetly buying the stuff they test — including cars — for decades now. And then selling their reviews to paid subscribers...
By that logic, pointing out, that welcoming refugees from countries with a comparably flagrant disregard for women's rights may not be smart, is Ok too.
And yet, Donald Trump, who suggested a freeze of such immigrations, was widely denounced as just that — a racist everywhere, Slashdot included... But bashing the entire China is Ok?
The original poster, quite obviously, expressed personal disapproval of the activity. Whether the activity is, in fact, illegal (and in which country), does not matter — whether it is wrong, is what's important.
Wow... So, file-sharing is wrong and "out of China" is an aggravating circumstance.
And I read it on Slashdot, where people used to scream and fight anything suggesting that. And where referring to "out of $country" used to be a sign of "racism"...
So, you are saying, your taxes only pay for one side of this fight, right?
Have you really missed my point, or just pretend to have? Oh, well...
So, to recap, the government-paid researchers are fighting the efforts of government-paid hackers to make the tool, that the government paid to create as a secure one, less so.
Whichever side wins, we, the taxpayers lose...
According to a different article about the same hack, which I read some days ago, the hacker changed the password at the end of his exploit.
Now, I wonder, why he did not record any of the conversations — to be published on Wikileaks, etc.? Information wants to be free and so on...
And how would /. react, if he did? Would the reaction depend, for example, on which political party and/or politician were the target(s)?
So, you are saying, Obama could still be wrong despite having won the prize? Are we facing something organized, however loosely (and thus possibly predictable), or just random hate-crimes and work-place violence?
We are suffering from self-radicalized lone-wolves according to our President. And he must be right, or else the enlightened Europeans would've never honored him with the Nobel Peace Prize.
AWS is HIPPA-compliant, which is why the company in TFA is able to use them at all.
Your data is no less secure at AWS, than in any Internet-connected hospital — though that in itself is not saying much.
If you can not store it yourself, trusting a company like CareMonkey, whose entire business model is predicated on the security of customers' data, probably, makes more sense, than trusting someone, for whom it is but a side-show. Such companies may still experience a problem — nothing is safe — but they are less likely to.
And if you worry about government, well, to the delight of Statists, our "democratically controlled" "strong government" already has access to your medical history. And will get more, when the "single-payer" system, so beloved by those same Statists, replaces the designed to fail — and failing — Obamacare.
Trump/Johnson 2016, anyone?
So, removal of pistol-emoji is next? And swords and dagger? How about the mosque and the star-and-crescent — a majority of Muslims in the US today would prefer for Sharia to replace the Constitution.
If only we could have the unpleasant facts of life disappear by banning the symbols related to them...
You are very right. It is a sickness, and it shows, how outright tyranny can sip in, when the government is allowed to do as much as it currently is in the Western world.
We had the early warnings — things, the government could not force you to do straight, it forced you to do by attaching strings to the tax-based wealth-redistribution:
The ultimate manifestation of this would be 100% taxation with the government kindly allowing you to pay less in exchange for obedience.
Can also take the approach into criminal justice system — saving billions in law enforcement costs — by making it illegal to live above, say, 20 years of age. The government would, of course, grant annual waivers to the well-behaved — those, who "maintain eligibility"... Scaremongering? You bet — but this idea is the same in principle with the current one: tax everyone, but spend the taxes only on the obedient.