And why was the grant issued to researcher X instead of Y?
And why was amount M instead of L paid out for the grant?
There is plenty to audit in the grant system. You presume there is nothing to hide so you can't imagine finding anything.
If you do a RICO investigation then the investigators assume there is wrong doing. Understand... the investigators... not the courts. The courts are bound to presume innocence but when you conduct a criminal investigation you do not presume innocence. You presume wrong doing and on that basis look for it. Whether you find it or not is another matter.
You cannot investigate something if you simply presume there is nothing to find before you even start.
People aren't against anti corruption measures. People isn't what we're talking about here.
We're talking about politicians, special interests, and backroom dealers.
So YOUR question corrected so it actually applies to my point is "why would politicians, special interests, and backroom dealers be against anti corruption measures?"
The answer is obvious to those capable of spotting the obvious. There is huge money involved in this AGW stuff. Huge government grants to build, to research, to promote, etc. Hundreds of billions of dollars globally. The big corporations LOVE AGW because they haven't had an easier time getting government money since WW2. They get cherry contracts for everything on this topic. Its nothing new.
If you chaps don't mind the environmental lobbying groups audited... and the financial paperwork of AL Gore's carbon trading schemes checked out... Pull the trigger.
Bro... if there were anywhere to go, I'd already be gone. You fucking retards are giving people no where else to go.
The west is getting taken over by various flavors of people like you and where else can a man go? To the totalitarian, theocratic. and oligarchic countries? We have no where else to go. You've succeeded in fucking up the entire planet and now you're busy fucking up one of the last places in the world where someone could be just left alone.
As to reading the fucking article... I didn't need to. The synopsis actually told me all I needed to know. But on the off chance that I was wrong, when you said that... I read it just to make sure. And that's 3 minutes I'm never getting back. So fuck you for that. The fucking article was exactly what I thought it was and my post addressed it correctly the first time.
As to being frightened... My fear is a sign of your strength or wisdom? A monkey playing with a A-Bombs is supposed to make me comfortable?
What I find distressing about people like you is that you're not actually ill meaning typically... you're just too stupid and ignorant to realize what you're fucking with or the ultimate consequences of your idiotic ideology.
As I said, I'm happy to offer the olive branch of letting you fuck up some isolated corner of the country without taking the rest of the country down the rat hole with you. But you won't tolerate that... and that fact alone reveals your fear more than mine. If you were confident you'd accept that and believe that the example of your success would convince the rest of the nation to follow you.
Given that your previous experiments were cities like what has become of Detroit... I think you know damn well at some level... perhaps subconsciously that you're a poison merchant. Or at the very least... you know that if you competed head to head without political games you'd get skull fucked by the disparity between the two systems.
I'll give you the last word... I have no patience to go back and forth with AC shitheads. Say whatever you like. I'm gone.
... I literally dream of the Aleutian islands when I read crap like this article. I just want to leave and settle some place no one is going to bother me. I don't want to build anything in a country where people think this way. Why would create something if people that have done nothing are just going to come along and demand pieces of it simply because they want it?
Fuck them. Here they'll say "but we have torchs and pitchforks!"... And in the not too distant future I'm going to have terminator robots and von neuman machines.
Here is my compromise and my olive branch to the communists. I am perfectly happy to let you take individual STATES to communism if you want to do that. Make Vermont or California or whomever you can get to sign off on it into a communist state. Go nuts. I won't stop you.
All I ask is that you leave states that decline your platform alone and don't fuck with them.
I suspect you won't be able to help yourself because the reality is that the non-communist states will be productive since they'll attract people able to compete while the communist states will be shit shows because they'll soak up all the people that basically want to jerk off all day. And I think this is why the communists want to make sure that if communism happens, that it is national and not state based.
The flaw in this line of logic is that the United States is not in fact Planet Earth. And just as rival states within the country will damn a communist state within the US... other countries outside the US that are not communist will damn any effort by the US itself to go communist.
Communism is not competitive. It never was. Marx was a clever fellow but he didn't understand people. I wouldn't hire Issac Newton to write poetry. I wouldn't employ Salvador Dali to look for a genetic cure to cancer. I would not call upon Gandhi to solve obscure mathematical puzzles. Just because someone is clever in one thing does not mean they are clever in something else. Marx was clever in some things... philosophy, psychology, sociology, history, and social engineering were not in his wheel house no matter how much he wanted them to be.
I could cite the many examples of this little concept being trial ballooned again failing... James Town is a prime example of how far this goes back and how it inevitably ends.
I think its more a question of people not talking about it more than anything. The technology and cost structure is not a problem.
I've never heard any device manufacturer talk about it.
And really this IS the solution to firmware virus issue. I mean... I could even go a step farther and use those SD cards with the write lock switch. I'm not sure how those switches work... whether they literally hardware lock the card or simply tell the machine not to write to the card. If the former than that is a dandy way to stop viruses from creeping into firmware. If is merely a suggestion... then the possibility of hijinks remains.
In practice we're talking about using TINY micro SD cards... like... 32MB would be fine in most cases. But it would also be upgradable if you wanted to install a much larger firmware. That is one of the stumbling blocks with the open source router firmwares. You need the router to have space.
If I'm paying 500~thousands of dollars for a big Cisco router then is it so much to ask for the persistent memory to be a removable SD card? The only writable memory that persists on a reboot should be removable and scannable in a third party system. Pull the card, check it out... maybe flash replacement firmware to the card separately, then plug it back into the router.
I generally have this attitude with any firmware in any computer. Viruses are getting uploaded to them and how is the antiviral supposed to detect any of it?
I'd like this done with the BIOS firmware on motherboards and anything else in the machine that has firmware that can be flashed just by being connected to the computer.
Here someone will say "that will cost more money"... so the fuck what? You don't want that feature? Fine. You don't pay for it and you don't get it.
I'm quite happy to pay for it and I don't think it will be expensive. Look at all the bells and whistles we put on motherboards these days. Most of it costs you something like 5 or 10 dollars per feature. And here's the real sell point... if I can pull the firmware memory for every device capable of being infected... then I can guarantee a system is clean without junking it. Any other option is not going to give you certainty. This solution is the only way to ensure a complete purge of any infection. Its the only way to go.
Just use the paper and ink systems. I'd go electronic if I had any respect for the government's security procedures in IT... but I don't.
They're not competent to do it electronically. So keep it paper and ink. The digitization users a scantron type system.
Why is this hard? Stick with paper and ink until all the baby boomers have died of old age. Minimum. The generations after should be more competent with the tech. But baby boomer and older... no.
And before some fuckwit shows up to say "but people from the older generations made all this stuff"... yes but their peers in their own generation don't understand it. The tech was not normalized in their youths. That's the difference.
Different outfits will do things in their own way. All the printers I deal with use CIS systems. I don't say this because I won't deal with printers that don't but because they literally just "do". I've never actually seen a professional high volume and successful printing outfit that doesn't use CIS.
I live in Los Angeles. Everyone uses CIS.
I mostly get architectural schematics and other technical things printed. They're all using CIS. Why would you use anything else?
This is like the fucking consoles versus PC argument all over again. Some people like things spoon fed to them and don't mind paying more and getting controlled as the price of things being simple.
But the stuff we're talking about is not complicated. I've personally installed some CIS systems for my office and I use CIS for my home printer. It makes inkjet printing comparable in price to laser printing.
If THAT isn't an inducement to get a company that prints a lot to put in the time and effort to install CIS... then you just don't like money.
As to substanciation, this isn't a court of law, gent. This is the court of public opinion and it has a very different standard of evidence.
The people that are pushing this shit have exploited that. And that's fine. Because the same thing that allowed them to do that has in it the solution to the problem itself.
What will be rejected is the attempt to have a double standard. if you push one thing through on ONE standard then get used to it being knocked over by anything else that wins through on the SAME standard.
if you want to do this all by the legal book... Fine. Abolish Title IX and make it clear that throughout on all these issues that its the court of law or nothing.
You won't and can't do that. Which means that standard is not applicable in matters of public opinion.
As to internet blowhard... That is all that sustained Poe's case in the first place. And that particular insult kill you as quickly as it kills me... thus granting your position no relative superiority.
You're basically arguing against your value as a person expressing his opinion here as a means to undermine me. It is self defeating.
We're done. Good day. You can have the last word. I'm gone.
I'm open but I'm not neutral because these issues are not being addressed in a neutral fashion. They are being promoted and given undue credibility for largely political and ideological reasons.
And that then requires that I compensate for that. That is the PRICE paid for that sort of advocacy. Now, you might say that is unfair. However, it is all I can do from this vantage. If these cases stop being pushed and biased then I will stop taking such reports with an extra helping of salt.
As to gooses and ganders... and proving I'm one thing or another. I have no interest in proving anything to you. I have neither the responsibility nor the inclination. I also don't appreciate your presumption to believe that I or that the public in general is inclined to not take such matters seriously when the stories are promoted with such frequency absent any justification.
Naturally if you do that then the public is going to become jaded to such stories. And that is unavoidable and natural. If you don't want the public to respond that way... then like what I said above... stop biasing the matter by presuming that a given accusation is valid without evidence. You do that and we have the Duke rape case all over again. Promoting issues that you feel are political relevant is fine. It is your right. But actions have reactions and they're not necessarily going to be the ones you desire unless you're a master manipulator of the social construct.
And to my knowledge no such master exists in my era. We have people that try very hard to manipulate things... but success is quite limited.
Responding to a troll comment doesn't make me either a troll or stupid. I don't moderate this board. My only means of expressing that something is shit is to say so here.
YOU are responding because you don't like that I called a topic you like on its bullshit.
To that, I say... deal with it. I care literally nothing for your petty ire.
If there is real discrimination then I'm open to hearing about it. But if its just toxic sociopaths spinning tales to intimidate and extort then they can go fuck themselves with a rake.
If I am selling lemonade and you say "your stand cost X dollars"... I can respond "sure but I made Y dollars from Z customers"
That everyone in the world was a customer is not relevant. I merely need ENOUGH to nullify your bill. Then I can pay the bill with other people's money.
We're done. This is a troll topic and you're clearly too dumb to realize it.
I'll let you get the last word because I'm already gone.
The US has invented HALF the inventions in about the last 100 years. Much of the modern world is something we brought into being.
If the world would like to settle accounts then lets put that 4 trillion on the ledger for the sake of argument and then see how much the world owes us. When all is said and done I rather doubt the people making this charge will appreciate the irony of the outcome.
host file > AD > Router linked DNS which can be open DNS.
So you point the workstation at the server as you would normally. Then you point the server at the router or whatever your DNS server is which can have OpenDNS set as its DNS and... no worries.
There are issues and more than what I've cited here but you can deal with it if you're determined.
I like your host file system. I'll fuck around with some scripts to see if I can burn the feature into a server.
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And why was the grant issued to researcher X instead of Y?
And why was amount M instead of L paid out for the grant?
There is plenty to audit in the grant system. You presume there is nothing to hide so you can't imagine finding anything.
If you do a RICO investigation then the investigators assume there is wrong doing. Understand... the investigators... not the courts. The courts are bound to presume innocence but when you conduct a criminal investigation you do not presume innocence. You presume wrong doing and on that basis look for it. Whether you find it or not is another matter.
You cannot investigate something if you simply presume there is nothing to find before you even start.
People aren't against anti corruption measures. People isn't what we're talking about here.
We're talking about politicians, special interests, and backroom dealers.
So YOUR question corrected so it actually applies to my point is "why would politicians, special interests, and backroom dealers be against anti corruption measures?"
https://youtu.be/kh9PYtmVybU?t...
The answer is obvious to those capable of spotting the obvious. There is huge money involved in this AGW stuff. Huge government grants to build, to research, to promote, etc. Hundreds of billions of dollars globally. The big corporations LOVE AGW because they haven't had an easier time getting government money since WW2. They get cherry contracts for everything on this topic. Its nothing new.
Yeah yeah yeah... Pull the trigger then. Audit BOTH sides and I'm cool with it.
Double dog dare you, punk.
scamming the government out of grants or other assorted fraud would be viable in this case.
If you chaps don't mind the environmental lobbying groups audited... and the financial paperwork of AL Gore's carbon trading schemes checked out... Pull the trigger.
Double dare you.
Your argument is literally an argument stupid people make. It is a stupid argument.
I'm not subsidizing addictions.
So you'd subsidize a junkie's heroin addiction? Because your concept would do exactly that.
Sure sure... anyone that has any issue with any government policy must want to live in Somalia. Great argument.
You're a moron.
Bro... if there were anywhere to go, I'd already be gone. You fucking retards are giving people no where else to go.
The west is getting taken over by various flavors of people like you and where else can a man go? To the totalitarian, theocratic. and oligarchic countries? We have no where else to go. You've succeeded in fucking up the entire planet and now you're busy fucking up one of the last places in the world where someone could be just left alone.
As to reading the fucking article... I didn't need to. The synopsis actually told me all I needed to know. But on the off chance that I was wrong, when you said that... I read it just to make sure. And that's 3 minutes I'm never getting back. So fuck you for that. The fucking article was exactly what I thought it was and my post addressed it correctly the first time.
As to being frightened... My fear is a sign of your strength or wisdom? A monkey playing with a A-Bombs is supposed to make me comfortable?
What I find distressing about people like you is that you're not actually ill meaning typically... you're just too stupid and ignorant to realize what you're fucking with or the ultimate consequences of your idiotic ideology.
As I said, I'm happy to offer the olive branch of letting you fuck up some isolated corner of the country without taking the rest of the country down the rat hole with you. But you won't tolerate that... and that fact alone reveals your fear more than mine. If you were confident you'd accept that and believe that the example of your success would convince the rest of the nation to follow you.
Given that your previous experiments were cities like what has become of Detroit... I think you know damn well at some level... perhaps subconsciously that you're a poison merchant. Or at the very least... you know that if you competed head to head without political games you'd get skull fucked by the disparity between the two systems.
I'll give you the last word... I have no patience to go back and forth with AC shitheads. Say whatever you like. I'm gone.
... I literally dream of the Aleutian islands when I read crap like this article. I just want to leave and settle some place no one is going to bother me. I don't want to build anything in a country where people think this way. Why would create something if people that have done nothing are just going to come along and demand pieces of it simply because they want it?
Fuck them. Here they'll say "but we have torchs and pitchforks!"... And in the not too distant future I'm going to have terminator robots and von neuman machines.
Here is my compromise and my olive branch to the communists. I am perfectly happy to let you take individual STATES to communism if you want to do that. Make Vermont or California or whomever you can get to sign off on it into a communist state. Go nuts. I won't stop you.
All I ask is that you leave states that decline your platform alone and don't fuck with them.
I suspect you won't be able to help yourself because the reality is that the non-communist states will be productive since they'll attract people able to compete while the communist states will be shit shows because they'll soak up all the people that basically want to jerk off all day. And I think this is why the communists want to make sure that if communism happens, that it is national and not state based.
The flaw in this line of logic is that the United States is not in fact Planet Earth. And just as rival states within the country will damn a communist state within the US... other countries outside the US that are not communist will damn any effort by the US itself to go communist.
Communism is not competitive. It never was. Marx was a clever fellow but he didn't understand people. I wouldn't hire Issac Newton to write poetry. I wouldn't employ Salvador Dali to look for a genetic cure to cancer. I would not call upon Gandhi to solve obscure mathematical puzzles. Just because someone is clever in one thing does not mean they are clever in something else. Marx was clever in some things... philosophy, psychology, sociology, history, and social engineering were not in his wheel house no matter how much he wanted them to be.
I could cite the many examples of this little concept being trial ballooned again failing... James Town is a prime example of how far this goes back and how it inevitably ends.
I think its more a question of people not talking about it more than anything. The technology and cost structure is not a problem.
I've never heard any device manufacturer talk about it.
And really this IS the solution to firmware virus issue. I mean... I could even go a step farther and use those SD cards with the write lock switch. I'm not sure how those switches work... whether they literally hardware lock the card or simply tell the machine not to write to the card. If the former than that is a dandy way to stop viruses from creeping into firmware. If is merely a suggestion... then the possibility of hijinks remains.
In practice we're talking about using TINY micro SD cards... like... 32MB would be fine in most cases. But it would also be upgradable if you wanted to install a much larger firmware. That is one of the stumbling blocks with the open source router firmwares. You need the router to have space.
If I'm paying 500~thousands of dollars for a big Cisco router then is it so much to ask for the persistent memory to be a removable SD card? The only writable memory that persists on a reboot should be removable and scannable in a third party system. Pull the card, check it out... maybe flash replacement firmware to the card separately, then plug it back into the router.
I generally have this attitude with any firmware in any computer. Viruses are getting uploaded to them and how is the antiviral supposed to detect any of it?
I'd like this done with the BIOS firmware on motherboards and anything else in the machine that has firmware that can be flashed just by being connected to the computer.
Here someone will say "that will cost more money"... so the fuck what? You don't want that feature? Fine. You don't pay for it and you don't get it.
I'm quite happy to pay for it and I don't think it will be expensive. Look at all the bells and whistles we put on motherboards these days. Most of it costs you something like 5 or 10 dollars per feature. And here's the real sell point... if I can pull the firmware memory for every device capable of being infected... then I can guarantee a system is clean without junking it. Any other option is not going to give you certainty. This solution is the only way to ensure a complete purge of any infection. Its the only way to go.
Just use the paper and ink systems. I'd go electronic if I had any respect for the government's security procedures in IT... but I don't.
They're not competent to do it electronically. So keep it paper and ink. The digitization users a scantron type system.
Why is this hard? Stick with paper and ink until all the baby boomers have died of old age. Minimum. The generations after should be more competent with the tech. But baby boomer and older... no.
And before some fuckwit shows up to say "but people from the older generations made all this stuff"... yes but their peers in their own generation don't understand it. The tech was not normalized in their youths. That's the difference.
Different outfits will do things in their own way. All the printers I deal with use CIS systems. I don't say this because I won't deal with printers that don't but because they literally just "do". I've never actually seen a professional high volume and successful printing outfit that doesn't use CIS.
I live in Los Angeles. Everyone uses CIS.
I mostly get architectural schematics and other technical things printed. They're all using CIS. Why would you use anything else?
This is like the fucking consoles versus PC argument all over again. Some people like things spoon fed to them and don't mind paying more and getting controlled as the price of things being simple.
But the stuff we're talking about is not complicated. I've personally installed some CIS systems for my office and I use CIS for my home printer. It makes inkjet printing comparable in price to laser printing.
If THAT isn't an inducement to get a company that prints a lot to put in the time and effort to install CIS... then you just don't like money.
And that's fine. More for me.
If you're not using a Continuous Ink System then I've very little patience for these complaints.
As to substanciation, this isn't a court of law, gent. This is the court of public opinion and it has a very different standard of evidence.
The people that are pushing this shit have exploited that. And that's fine. Because the same thing that allowed them to do that has in it the solution to the problem itself.
What will be rejected is the attempt to have a double standard. if you push one thing through on ONE standard then get used to it being knocked over by anything else that wins through on the SAME standard.
if you want to do this all by the legal book... Fine. Abolish Title IX and make it clear that throughout on all these issues that its the court of law or nothing.
You won't and can't do that. Which means that standard is not applicable in matters of public opinion.
As to internet blowhard... That is all that sustained Poe's case in the first place. And that particular insult kill you as quickly as it kills me... thus granting your position no relative superiority.
You're basically arguing against your value as a person expressing his opinion here as a means to undermine me. It is self defeating.
We're done. Good day. You can have the last word. I'm gone.
I'm open but I'm not neutral because these issues are not being addressed in a neutral fashion. They are being promoted and given undue credibility for largely political and ideological reasons.
And that then requires that I compensate for that. That is the PRICE paid for that sort of advocacy. Now, you might say that is unfair. However, it is all I can do from this vantage. If these cases stop being pushed and biased then I will stop taking such reports with an extra helping of salt.
As to gooses and ganders... and proving I'm one thing or another. I have no interest in proving anything to you. I have neither the responsibility nor the inclination. I also don't appreciate your presumption to believe that I or that the public in general is inclined to not take such matters seriously when the stories are promoted with such frequency absent any justification.
Naturally if you do that then the public is going to become jaded to such stories. And that is unavoidable and natural. If you don't want the public to respond that way... then like what I said above... stop biasing the matter by presuming that a given accusation is valid without evidence. You do that and we have the Duke rape case all over again. Promoting issues that you feel are political relevant is fine. It is your right. But actions have reactions and they're not necessarily going to be the ones you desire unless you're a master manipulator of the social construct.
And to my knowledge no such master exists in my era. We have people that try very hard to manipulate things... but success is quite limited.
... So you're literally stupid?
Responding to a troll comment doesn't make me either a troll or stupid. I don't moderate this board. My only means of expressing that something is shit is to say so here.
YOU are responding because you don't like that I called a topic you like on its bullshit.
To that, I say... deal with it. I care literally nothing for your petty ire.
If there is real discrimination then I'm open to hearing about it. But if its just toxic sociopaths spinning tales to intimidate and extort then they can go fuck themselves with a rake.
If I am selling lemonade and you say "your stand cost X dollars"... I can respond "sure but I made Y dollars from Z customers"
That everyone in the world was a customer is not relevant. I merely need ENOUGH to nullify your bill. Then I can pay the bill with other people's money.
We're done. This is a troll topic and you're clearly too dumb to realize it.
I'll let you get the last word because I'm already gone.
First of all, I don't need to assume everyone profits. Enough people do that it doesn't matter.
Second of all, every other industrialized power would have to pay as well on this concept and thus no one would pay.
Third, the point of the article was to troll. Its a troll article that only morons don't realize is a troll.
Fourth, it doesn't matter if everything was entirely created in the US. Enough of it was that it doesn't matter.
The thread topic is flame bait.
The topic was adding up the accounts and settling scores. If you can't handle the consequences then don't ask for the closing of accounts.
Some idiot wanted to talk about it and on a tech site I commented that the US has contributed more to the WORLD than most countries ever will.
If you want the US to pay, we expect YOU to pay at the same time. We'll see if the US ends up having to pay a dime.
The US has invented HALF the inventions in about the last 100 years. Much of the modern world is something we brought into being.
If the world would like to settle accounts then lets put that 4 trillion on the ledger for the sake of argument and then see how much the world owes us. When all is said and done I rather doubt the people making this charge will appreciate the irony of the outcome.
Yeah but you're supposed to use nested DNS.
host file > AD > Router linked DNS which can be open DNS.
So you point the workstation at the server as you would normally. Then you point the server at the router or whatever your DNS server is which can have OpenDNS set as its DNS and... no worries.
There are issues and more than what I've cited here but you can deal with it if you're determined.
I like your host file system. I'll fuck around with some scripts to see if I can burn the feature into a server.