I remember my first comment about this sort of thing on here so long ago. I said it would affect US business and many people said it was impossible that US industries and technologies were too entrenched. Amazing. I almost wish I was wrong. But we can add one more large business to the list of businesses lobbying to stop the NSA. I hope they act quickly enough.
I thought the whole purpose of currency is as a store of value. It's not an effective store if the amount of that store's unit count can be varied at will the way it is with Federal Reserve money. And how is it different from the gold standard? Sure, mining gold gets harder as the supply runs out too.
Answer then, how do vaccines work when your immune system is weakened?
I am not saying don't get vaccinated. I am saying make sure your vaccines have a chance to work by having the immune response needed. Once again, Vaccines don't do anything but pretend to be an active disease for your body to respond to.
Antibacterials DO weaken the immune response because when the body encounters fewer reasons to produce immune agents, it produces fewer agents. And when that happens, getting a disease is a great deal easier.
And no. Antibiotics and antibodies do not work in tandem like that. Not at all.
It also seems you're pretty far off the mark. As people read the articles, they discovered there's much about how the botnet works and not so much about how the infection gets in there except to say "the malware pretends to be something useful" or in other words, as a trojan horse.
And the short concensus of it is "if you're stupid enough to install these sketchy apps, you deserve what's coming to you." That said, the articles never exactly stated how wide spread this is. I suspect it's limited largely to China and Korea as I suspect those locations might, in some way, control what apps get loaded to their devices. In any case, I don't think it's global in any way.
And so far, all Android malware is acquired through stupid behavior which is not strongly blocked by Android though each user pretty much has to manually allow installing apps from locations other than Google.
The best medical practices promote a healthy body which can heal itself. This means not doing anything which will compromise or weaken the immune system. And if you're a person who believes vaccines are important, then you MUST agree that prophylactic use of antibiotics and the frequent use of antibacterials weaken the immune system by reducing attackers which keep the immune system active. Why must you agree? I'm not sure I need to explain this to anyone, but just in case, I'll remind anyone that vaccines are methods by which we seek to trick the body into forming an immunity response to a particular [inert] bug inserted into a body. If your immune system is weak or compromised, the efficacy of vaccines are naturally and likewise inhibited.
Ever wonder why so many people complain about getting the flu right after getting a flu shot? GUESS WHAT?!
Still, you have to appreciate from all of this what their thinking and understanding is. (1) They demonstrate their inability to see things (or to prioritize) from a consumer's point of view which shifts their leaning in the sociopathic direction. And (2) their business model relies primarily on artificial scarcity rather than quality of product or of service. Once again those drives speak of a weakness where human concerns and interests are relevant.
Not that it's any surprise to anyone, but these types of factors help us to appreciate the type of people and the thinking of people behind all of this. These are not artists and I would argue to say they are not 'good human beings.' I am quite sure they know and understand the facts about DRM schemes and are instead willing to see consumers through their own sociopathis lenses and invariably decide in favor or restricted access.
Is it big pharma pushing doctors to prescribe more? Is it doctors too lazy/busy to do a proper diagnosis? Is it mothers, fathers and teachers who seek to explain bad behavior and poor discipline (which is largely their fault) on medical conditions? Is it our foods which have changed over to GMO based content over the same period of time?
I don't know, but I certainly want to know.
In the mean time, I tend to stick to basic foods to avoid as much problem as I can. Most dinners consist of salad and some kind of meat or fish and some other vegetables. Lunch is usually the same and breakfast is eggs, sausage or bacon and garden vegetables. Not much room for GMOs to creep in yet unless you count the feed that goes into the animals.
CFL light is a bit "off" and they are horrible to use when selecting clothes in the morning or looking at your face and teeth. I'm sure some do a better job than others, but the range of light is not as natural as incandecent. They still have their purposes and uses. What will little girls (and boys) make their little brownies and cakes in? They still make the easy bake ovens right?
I am using LED bulbs in many of my light sockets. One problem of waste heat that's not often mentioned is that most of these bulbs have AC-DC converters which have heatsinks which radiate a fair amount of heat on their own. While I'm sure it's "less" heat than a conventional bulb, it's heat and I don't want it.
It seems to me if we are going to be serious about all of this, we should convert our overhead lights and many receptacles to DC power generally compatible with LED lights and a collection of other devices which might be better suited to DC power.
I get it. AC power is great for transmitting power over great distances. But the way things are, every device must convert the power to make use of it with the exception of a few devices like ovens and large appliances like that. But my TV, my computers, my lights and a lot of things convert from AC to DC which is wasted power and wasted heat. Like many greener, more energy efficient data centers out there making a single conversion of AC to DC and powering all servers and relevant devices directly off of DC power sources, why aren't we doing the same at home? It makes sense if only for lighting.
As a plus, wouldn't it be nice if I could jumpstart my car directly from my house?
Anyway, I'd like to see some more seriousness about that. I'm no tree hugger, but I love the idea of being efficient.
Yes, I predicted as much when the Snowden stories of tech company collaboration started coming out.
This is where money meets government head-to-head.
I know directly that companies like Wells Fargo are going to Linux in order to avoid the obvious vulnerabilities and compromised states of Windows. And I know they aren't the only ones. Moving away from [US Government] compromised technology is exactly what every security concerned business should be doing right now. The shareholders, obviously, demand it.
I have never heard of a "dark market" before. Is this a more "PC" way of saying "Black Market"? I know I recently heard people asserting that "Black Friday" is racist, so is "Black Market" also racist?
I know this is Germany and there are no software patents but why would that stop Microsoft (or some MS funded troll) from trying?
They simply can't let the public know that whatever it is, it can be done with F/OSS and if it can't now, a project can be launched and funded to pay for it... ONCE! Not over and over and over again, by the seat, by the user, by the processor or however a software might be licensed. It's just better. But people have grown pretty fat, dumb and lazy and are willing to just let the product vendors tell us all how to work and what is good and what is safe.
Also, the dairy counsel says we need more milk in our daily intake, Monsanto says their stuff is perfectly healthy and that HFCS doesn't cause any problems either.
How on earth can a properly skeptical person ever believe that letting the people who profit the most from a thing tell us what's best?
I'm reading and stuff, but I'm not seeing a reason for appeal. Was there a technical error? I suppose there was that one bit about Alsup declaring APIs can't be copyrighted. I believe Alsup is right. But it doesn't advantage 'big software' in the least that people could be allowed to replace their software with something compatible... which, by the way, was something which I thought was established back when someone rewrote their own BIOS for a PC clone so long ago.
Oh I can think of more reasons than that. For example, Windows XP is far more exploitable as it exists almost exclusively as a 32bit OS. Keeping their people exploitable better ensures they can continue to do what "no US government would even consider doing to it's own citizens."
Also since China is extremely large, infrastructure change concerns are likely high on their list of concerns.
And yes, if they don't have to buy any new licenses at all they should be pretty good to go without spending any more money.
You are. He is actually stacking the odds against the prosecution by challenging (daring really) not to block the witness from appearing. Also, once again, it does the defense and the witness no good if a final decision in their favor is overturned on appeal based on a trvial technicality. Better that the prosecution's case is destroyed with strong evidence of their own misconduct. And to do that, very strong proof must be presented. If she arrives safely and provides testimony, that's good. If she is blocked again, it's still pretty good considering the judge gave explicit orders to allow her to fly. And, if she was smart enough to visit the US embassy with an airline/airport employee to sign an affidavit confirming the authenticity of the no-fly order as well as a statement confirming that the no-fly order was indeed received and honored, better still.
One major point of this case is to show the DoJ's and by extension the executive's unfair practices.
There should be little doubt that US executive department activities are harming the US and the world at large. Public exposure is the most important first steps in correcting the problem.
I'll simply ask you to google "Adam Kokesh." He has been charged with violation of that ban. As a form of protest, he went into DC with a shotgun, turned on a video camera, loaded and made ready his weapon and then posted it on the internet.
Please learn and stop presuming. The NRA is a lobby group. They are still fighting that and many other laws. Lobbyists are most effective at preventing new law and helping to write new law. That's what lobbyists do.
After all, there are factions within government and if one doesn't agree with another, you may find yourself the victim of an unfortunate accident. Only a tiny minority of government gets the secret service and paramilitary police protecting them you know.
Perhaps we are seeing some government players waking up to the reality that even THEY have good reason to fear the government they are participating in.
Well you have reached a relatively sharp but small demographic. Let's try to get this on the "consumer media." (I am creating new words which better describe what they are. Mainstream media just doesn't describe them any longer as they are losing their relevance for so many. But they still remain the consumer media as they still control the minds of so many consumers out there.)
This sort of lawlessness and unaccountability is precisely what Michael Cannon testified to congress about. He asserted that what this leads to no one wants to think about. But that by following this path to its conclusion can end no other way as in all of human history, no one has succeeded in that sort of domination and abuse..
If you asked me if this was possible 20 years ago, I would have said "Yes, and they have already done it. We have some freedoms, but no real control. We're happy and comfortable slaves by and large." And it was true. There was a middle class and we had ways and means to improve our lives if we really wanted to. Not that we had any hope of being a 1%er or anyone particiarly powerful, but we could all potentially live a good life with reasonable comfort, safety and the ability for the persuit of happiness.
These days, the greed of wanting more and/or the ambition of the 1%ers trying to squeeze more people into their circles or whatever the hell has gone wrong, they have gone off the rails and exceeded the limits which have brought their evil into the light while people aren't distracted by TV and shopping and sports and celebrities. Instead, people are suffering while things are getting worse and they are already looking for people to blame. Bad way to treat your slaves 1%ers. You were supposed to keep us happy and unaware. You failed.
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I remember my first comment about this sort of thing on here so long ago. I said it would affect US business and many people said it was impossible that US industries and technologies were too entrenched. Amazing. I almost wish I was wrong. But we can add one more large business to the list of businesses lobbying to stop the NSA. I hope they act quickly enough.
I thought the whole purpose of currency is as a store of value. It's not an effective store if the amount of that store's unit count can be varied at will the way it is with Federal Reserve money. And how is it different from the gold standard? Sure, mining gold gets harder as the supply runs out too.
Consumers need to give up on Apple. Why continue to believe that supply and demand works against a company which refuses to listen to demand?
Answer then, how do vaccines work when your immune system is weakened?
I am not saying don't get vaccinated. I am saying make sure your vaccines have a chance to work by having the immune response needed. Once again, Vaccines don't do anything but pretend to be an active disease for your body to respond to.
Antibacterials DO weaken the immune response because when the body encounters fewer reasons to produce immune agents, it produces fewer agents. And when that happens, getting a disease is a great deal easier.
And no. Antibiotics and antibodies do not work in tandem like that. Not at all.
An amazing leap there eh?
It also seems you're pretty far off the mark. As people read the articles, they discovered there's much about how the botnet works and not so much about how the infection gets in there except to say "the malware pretends to be something useful" or in other words, as a trojan horse.
And the short concensus of it is "if you're stupid enough to install these sketchy apps, you deserve what's coming to you." That said, the articles never exactly stated how wide spread this is. I suspect it's limited largely to China and Korea as I suspect those locations might, in some way, control what apps get loaded to their devices. In any case, I don't think it's global in any way.
And so far, all Android malware is acquired through stupid behavior which is not strongly blocked by Android though each user pretty much has to manually allow installing apps from locations other than Google.
It doesn't have to.
The best medical practices promote a healthy body which can heal itself. This means not doing anything which will compromise or weaken the immune system. And if you're a person who believes vaccines are important, then you MUST agree that prophylactic use of antibiotics and the frequent use of antibacterials weaken the immune system by reducing attackers which keep the immune system active. Why must you agree? I'm not sure I need to explain this to anyone, but just in case, I'll remind anyone that vaccines are methods by which we seek to trick the body into forming an immunity response to a particular [inert] bug inserted into a body. If your immune system is weak or compromised, the efficacy of vaccines are naturally and likewise inhibited.
Ever wonder why so many people complain about getting the flu right after getting a flu shot? GUESS WHAT?!
Still, you have to appreciate from all of this what their thinking and understanding is. (1) They demonstrate their inability to see things (or to prioritize) from a consumer's point of view which shifts their leaning in the sociopathic direction. And (2) their business model relies primarily on artificial scarcity rather than quality of product or of service. Once again those drives speak of a weakness where human concerns and interests are relevant.
Not that it's any surprise to anyone, but these types of factors help us to appreciate the type of people and the thinking of people behind all of this. These are not artists and I would argue to say they are not 'good human beings.' I am quite sure they know and understand the facts about DRM schemes and are instead willing to see consumers through their own sociopathis lenses and invariably decide in favor or restricted access.
Is it big pharma pushing doctors to prescribe more? Is it doctors too lazy/busy to do a proper diagnosis? Is it mothers, fathers and teachers who seek to explain bad behavior and poor discipline (which is largely their fault) on medical conditions? Is it our foods which have changed over to GMO based content over the same period of time?
I don't know, but I certainly want to know.
In the mean time, I tend to stick to basic foods to avoid as much problem as I can. Most dinners consist of salad and some kind of meat or fish and some other vegetables. Lunch is usually the same and breakfast is eggs, sausage or bacon and garden vegetables. Not much room for GMOs to creep in yet unless you count the feed that goes into the animals.
A very thoughtful answer. Useful. thanks.
CFL light is a bit "off" and they are horrible to use when selecting clothes in the morning or looking at your face and teeth. I'm sure some do a better job than others, but the range of light is not as natural as incandecent. They still have their purposes and uses. What will little girls (and boys) make their little brownies and cakes in? They still make the easy bake ovens right?
I am using LED bulbs in many of my light sockets. One problem of waste heat that's not often mentioned is that most of these bulbs have AC-DC converters which have heatsinks which radiate a fair amount of heat on their own. While I'm sure it's "less" heat than a conventional bulb, it's heat and I don't want it.
It seems to me if we are going to be serious about all of this, we should convert our overhead lights and many receptacles to DC power generally compatible with LED lights and a collection of other devices which might be better suited to DC power.
I get it. AC power is great for transmitting power over great distances. But the way things are, every device must convert the power to make use of it with the exception of a few devices like ovens and large appliances like that. But my TV, my computers, my lights and a lot of things convert from AC to DC which is wasted power and wasted heat. Like many greener, more energy efficient data centers out there making a single conversion of AC to DC and powering all servers and relevant devices directly off of DC power sources, why aren't we doing the same at home? It makes sense if only for lighting.
As a plus, wouldn't it be nice if I could jumpstart my car directly from my house?
Anyway, I'd like to see some more seriousness about that. I'm no tree hugger, but I love the idea of being efficient.
Yes, I predicted as much when the Snowden stories of tech company collaboration started coming out.
This is where money meets government head-to-head.
I know directly that companies like Wells Fargo are going to Linux in order to avoid the obvious vulnerabilities and compromised states of Windows. And I know they aren't the only ones. Moving away from [US Government] compromised technology is exactly what every security concerned business should be doing right now. The shareholders, obviously, demand it.
I have never heard of a "dark market" before. Is this a more "PC" way of saying "Black Market"? I know I recently heard people asserting that "Black Friday" is racist, so is "Black Market" also racist?
I know this is Germany and there are no software patents but why would that stop Microsoft (or some MS funded troll) from trying?
They simply can't let the public know that whatever it is, it can be done with F/OSS and if it can't now, a project can be launched and funded to pay for it... ONCE! Not over and over and over again, by the seat, by the user, by the processor or however a software might be licensed. It's just better. But people have grown pretty fat, dumb and lazy and are willing to just let the product vendors tell us all how to work and what is good and what is safe.
Also, the dairy counsel says we need more milk in our daily intake, Monsanto says their stuff is perfectly healthy and that HFCS doesn't cause any problems either.
How on earth can a properly skeptical person ever believe that letting the people who profit the most from a thing tell us what's best?
The devices we commonly call computers literally translate abstract into action. The computer is the invention, not the abstract instructions.
I'm reading and stuff, but I'm not seeing a reason for appeal. Was there a technical error? I suppose there was that one bit about Alsup declaring APIs can't be copyrighted. I believe Alsup is right. But it doesn't advantage 'big software' in the least that people could be allowed to replace their software with something compatible... which, by the way, was something which I thought was established back when someone rewrote their own BIOS for a PC clone so long ago.
Oh I can think of more reasons than that. For example, Windows XP is far more exploitable as it exists almost exclusively as a 32bit OS. Keeping their people exploitable better ensures they can continue to do what "no US government would even consider doing to it's own citizens."
Also since China is extremely large, infrastructure change concerns are likely high on their list of concerns.
And yes, if they don't have to buy any new licenses at all they should be pretty good to go without spending any more money.
You are. He is actually stacking the odds against the prosecution by challenging (daring really) not to block the witness from appearing. Also, once again, it does the defense and the witness no good if a final decision in their favor is overturned on appeal based on a trvial technicality. Better that the prosecution's case is destroyed with strong evidence of their own misconduct. And to do that, very strong proof must be presented. If she arrives safely and provides testimony, that's good. If she is blocked again, it's still pretty good considering the judge gave explicit orders to allow her to fly. And, if she was smart enough to visit the US embassy with an airline/airport employee to sign an affidavit confirming the authenticity of the no-fly order as well as a statement confirming that the no-fly order was indeed received and honored, better still.
One major point of this case is to show the DoJ's and by extension the executive's unfair practices.
There should be little doubt that US executive department activities are harming the US and the world at large. Public exposure is the most important first steps in correcting the problem.
They'll either let her into the country to testify, or a terrorist attack will occur and she will become an unfortunate victim.
How about just google it? Or read a news story or two.
I'll simply ask you to google "Adam Kokesh." He has been charged with violation of that ban. As a form of protest, he went into DC with a shotgun, turned on a video camera, loaded and made ready his weapon and then posted it on the internet.
Please learn and stop presuming. The NRA is a lobby group. They are still fighting that and many other laws. Lobbyists are most effective at preventing new law and helping to write new law. That's what lobbyists do.
After all, there are factions within government and if one doesn't agree with another, you may find yourself the victim of an unfortunate accident. Only a tiny minority of government gets the secret service and paramilitary police protecting them you know.
Perhaps we are seeing some government players waking up to the reality that even THEY have good reason to fear the government they are participating in.
Well you have reached a relatively sharp but small demographic. Let's try to get this on the "consumer media." (I am creating new words which better describe what they are. Mainstream media just doesn't describe them any longer as they are losing their relevance for so many. But they still remain the consumer media as they still control the minds of so many consumers out there.)
This sort of lawlessness and unaccountability is precisely what Michael Cannon testified to congress about. He asserted that what this leads to no one wants to think about. But that by following this path to its conclusion can end no other way as in all of human history, no one has succeeded in that sort of domination and abuse..
If you asked me if this was possible 20 years ago, I would have said "Yes, and they have already done it. We have some freedoms, but no real control. We're happy and comfortable slaves by and large." And it was true. There was a middle class and we had ways and means to improve our lives if we really wanted to. Not that we had any hope of being a 1%er or anyone particiarly powerful, but we could all potentially live a good life with reasonable comfort, safety and the ability for the persuit of happiness.
These days, the greed of wanting more and/or the ambition of the 1%ers trying to squeeze more people into their circles or whatever the hell has gone wrong, they have gone off the rails and exceeded the limits which have brought their evil into the light while people aren't distracted by TV and shopping and sports and celebrities. Instead, people are suffering while things are getting worse and they are already looking for people to blame. Bad way to treat your slaves 1%ers. You were supposed to keep us happy and unaware. You failed.