I think there's a distinction between 'freedom of speech', and 'freedom to spread hate'. People don't always recognise the latter (which is why there are so many laws against hate speech).
Happy to see Anonymous making themselves truly useful for the first time since Operation Chanology. I can think of nobody more deserving than a kick in the arse than the Westboro mob.
Department managers have to manage their budgets, and that includes labour. They get detailed breakdowns of who's supposed to be working when, and supervise their own people; anomalies are picked up very fast. For checkout operators, attendance (I _think_), was correlated with checkout sign-in activity.
This place, hiring minimum-wage labour, tended to be a low-trust, highly-controlled, highly-regulated workplace, as all these places tend to be.
They have to find those students first, before they can deport them.
This country, unlike (say) Australia, doesn't have an efficient border protection force, and doesn't have mandatory detention. There is neither the political will, nor the resources to go after every chancer trying to scam the visa system.
Universities in the UK have been told by the UK Border Agency, that it's their legal responsibility to ensure that they and their students are complying with the law. Failure to do so, means that they lose their license to bring in highly-profitable foreign students.
London Metropolitan University had very poor controls, and some foreign students were scamming the system, and the UKBA busted them. They got to be the example -- and now they have the dubious distinction of being viciously kneecapped financially by the government as a consequence. They're now busy fighting for their financial lives in the High Court.
(I know people intimately familiar with the situation.)
I worked once, as a checkout chump in Australia's biggest supermarket chain.
They were having a hell of a time with people bunking off work and having their mates sign them in. So they implemented a biometric signin system, where you signed on and off by typing in your number and scanning your fingerprint.
Problem solved. I think our union went apeshit for a while, until they realized that it cut both ways -- that rock solid evidence of hours worked meant managers couldn't unfairly dock peoples' pay, and then it was a non-issue.
Given the advantages I've seen of biometric systems to prevent dishonesty, and the limited scope for abuse (my fingerprint hashes are currently useless to a crook wanting to make easy money), I need to be convinced that this is somehow a problem privacy-wise.
Britain is full of angry, dirt poor, undereducated, mentally screwed up lunatics as it is.
Some people say it's a miracle that this place is as safe as it is, given we've imported American right-wing politics and economics wholesale, which marginalizes large chunks of society.
The scum in this country are bad enough without being armed (guns are comparatively expensive and difficult for criminals to get a hold of over here). This fortunate state of affairs came about because of the Dunblane school massacre, after which handguns were banned.
Because the US had the temerity to fight back against the Barbary pirates. The Muslims of North Africa have been the scourge of Europe for milennia. Islam is an evil, violent pirate culture which conquers, raped and enslaved countless white people over the centuries. Islam gets butthurt that people get angry and fight back.
Every major religion has a version of the Golden Rule. "Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you".
All religions except Islam, that is.
They think they're Allah's chosen people, and can do no wrong when they're dishonest, lecherous and violent; but kaffir governments and people need to accomodate their constant demands for free stuff, lebensraun and political concessions.
I don't give a flying fuck about whether or not polywell/IEC works. I would be pleased if it showed promise, but it doesn't. It doesn't stop clueless crackpots from banging on about it on Slashdot though.
You lot need to understand that plasma physics is an exceedingly complex field of endeavour, attracting some of the best minds on Earth (and I certainly don't count myself as one of them). You can't advance the state-of-the-art by making shit up, or cheerleading failed research projects on the internet.
Some of the most technically challenging bits of ITER are being procured by the US. ITER has a deliberate policy of spreading the IP and manufacturing capability around its member states. That's why it's costing 3 to 4 times as much as it strictly needs to cost.
Do you HONESTLY think that some motivated (but very skint) fusion researchers wouldn't try and win themselves a shot at global fame by building a working demonstrator polywell power plant?
You're a moron. Credentials matter in judging somebody's ability to comprehend and weigh the merits of research results.
And if you were educated, you'd quickly be able to find out for yourself, that for various reasons, polywell (as well as several dozen other LEF concepts) cannot possibly scale enough to work as a power plant.
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I think there's a distinction between 'freedom of speech', and 'freedom to spread hate'. People don't always recognise the latter (which is why there are so many laws against hate speech).
Welcome to the party then :-)
If only ignoring them would make them go away. I have a feeling that they wouldn't.
That was completely lost on me.
Happy to see Anonymous making themselves truly useful for the first time since Operation Chanology. I can think of nobody more deserving than a kick in the arse than the Westboro mob.
Department managers have to manage their budgets, and that includes labour. They get detailed breakdowns of who's supposed to be working when, and supervise their own people; anomalies are picked up very fast. For checkout operators, attendance (I _think_), was correlated with checkout sign-in activity.
This place, hiring minimum-wage labour, tended to be a low-trust, highly-controlled, highly-regulated workplace, as all these places tend to be.
They have to find those students first, before they can deport them.
This country, unlike (say) Australia, doesn't have an efficient border protection force, and doesn't have mandatory detention. There is neither the political will, nor the resources to go after every chancer trying to scam the visa system.
The UKBA have clamped down *hard* on the above-chip-shop colleges. They're all basically gone now.
Universities in the UK have been told by the UK Border Agency, that it's their legal responsibility to ensure that they and their students are complying with the law. Failure to do so, means that they lose their license to bring in highly-profitable foreign students.
London Metropolitan University had very poor controls, and some foreign students were scamming the system, and the UKBA busted them. They got to be the example -- and now they have the dubious distinction of being viciously kneecapped financially by the government as a consequence. They're now busy fighting for their financial lives in the High Court.
(I know people intimately familiar with the situation.)
I worked once, as a checkout chump in Australia's biggest supermarket chain.
They were having a hell of a time with people bunking off work and having their mates sign them in. So they implemented a biometric signin system, where you signed on and off by typing in your number and scanning your fingerprint.
Problem solved. I think our union went apeshit for a while, until they realized that it cut both ways -- that rock solid evidence of hours worked meant managers couldn't unfairly dock peoples' pay, and then it was a non-issue.
Given the advantages I've seen of biometric systems to prevent dishonesty, and the limited scope for abuse (my fingerprint hashes are currently useless to a crook wanting to make easy money), I need to be convinced that this is somehow a problem privacy-wise.
What will the thickies and retards do then?
This is a very serious question.
Vote parent up.
Britain is full of angry, dirt poor, undereducated, mentally screwed up lunatics as it is.
Some people say it's a miracle that this place is as safe as it is, given we've imported American right-wing politics and economics wholesale, which marginalizes large chunks of society.
The scum in this country are bad enough without being armed (guns are comparatively expensive and difficult for criminals to get a hold of over here). This fortunate state of affairs came about because of the Dunblane school massacre, after which handguns were banned.
"It has been conclusively shown again and again that the purpose of the second amendment is not to fight zombies, but to resist tyranny."
Sure. Like you'll be able to stop tanks, fighter jets, drones and professional soldiers with automatic rifles with your .45 peashooter.
If you believe that, there's a handful of people in Syria who'd like to have a word with you.
Batman never uses guns to fight bad guys.
Where's Batman when you need him?
Guns are very efficient at killing people. Knives, garden implements, poisons, etc, less so.
I think this one is a Poe.
The gun lobby is untouchable in America.
THIS is the root of Islamic hatred of America.
Because the US had the temerity to fight back against the Barbary pirates. The Muslims of North Africa have been the scourge of Europe for milennia. Islam is an evil, violent pirate culture which conquers, raped and enslaved countless white people over the centuries. Islam gets butthurt that people get angry and fight back.
Every major religion has a version of the Golden Rule. "Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you".
All religions except Islam, that is.
They think they're Allah's chosen people, and can do no wrong when they're dishonest, lecherous and violent; but kaffir governments and people need to accomodate their constant demands for free stuff, lebensraun and political concessions.
Muslims are hated the world over for a reason.
So when Assange bombs out, and loses his deposit, whose money will he waste this time?
Note to clueless rich libertarians backing this douchebag: madness is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result.
I don't give a flying fuck about whether or not polywell/IEC works. I would be pleased if it showed promise, but it doesn't. It doesn't stop clueless crackpots from banging on about it on Slashdot though.
You lot need to understand that plasma physics is an exceedingly complex field of endeavour, attracting some of the best minds on Earth (and I certainly don't count myself as one of them). You can't advance the state-of-the-art by making shit up, or cheerleading failed research projects on the internet.
Nice ad-hominem btw.
Aren't there high-reliability, or radiation-hardened versions of old designs that still need to run, out there?
Wouldn't they want to retain Linux compatibility? Or do these people use different OSs?
Some of the most technically challenging bits of ITER are being procured by the US. ITER has a deliberate policy of spreading the IP and manufacturing capability around its member states. That's why it's costing 3 to 4 times as much as it strictly needs to cost.
Do you HONESTLY think that some motivated (but very skint) fusion researchers wouldn't try and win themselves a shot at global fame by building a working demonstrator polywell power plant?
Some common sense is called for here.
You're a moron. Credentials matter in judging somebody's ability to comprehend and weigh the merits of research results.
And if you were educated, you'd quickly be able to find out for yourself, that for various reasons, polywell (as well as several dozen other LEF concepts) cannot possibly scale enough to work as a power plant.
There is indeed a proliferation risk with thorium that lots of folks don't seem to like to talk about.
There's a decay chain that moves through protactinium-233 and uranium-233.