And while a 100% confirmed connection between Scooter Libby and say, Dick Cheney, has never been fully established, you'd be more than just naïve to think, that the White House didn't have anything to do with it.
Granted, so far it's "only" about illegal wiretaps against U.S. citizens. But essentially this says "If the PotUS says 'do task A for me', then the company that does task A cannot and will not be held liable, even if it breaks the law."
So far that task has been (and might still be) "spy on U.S. citizens"
What's to stop the next task from being "rough up U.S. citizens who mouth off against the government"? Or "kill U.S. citizens who are a pain in the ass"?
Sure, that's a big slippery slope, but then again, I'm sure if you went back to say... September 2000 and asked people on the street, they'd probably say that the U.S. government would NEVER allow such a thing. Of course, they'd probably say the same thing about torture (or whatever phrase you'd like to use instead), suspension of habeas corpus and a lot of other things that have happend in less than a decade. Even "small" stuff like purposely revealing the name and occupation of an active CIA agent working abroad.
Hanging it under is far more practical. You can tear if it off with one hand very easily without having the paper unspool 7 yards of itself onto the floor.
Uhm... do you have.. what are they called. Fingers. You know, you can use your index finger to press against the roll and pull the paper with your thumb and index finger. Sure, you have to locate a perforation, but I really don't see why this is a problem.
Well, in the end, you're just sending bits back and forth. If you know that one of the ends of the communication is a person/entity of interest, you just have to copy the communication. Since the bits are running past your equipment, I don't see why you couldn't copy it now, decrypt it later.
Copying it doesn't really require you to be the man in the middle, and it's not like a "please don't copy"-flag would be respected anyway.
I think we're rather naïve if we believe, that Sweden is the only country in the Western world to do this. They're just (one of) the first to be honest about it.
As the submitter points out, you cannot be sure where your data is being sent on the route between you and your recipient. For all you know your "Dear Mom" email might go through Sweden, the US, the UK, Denmark, Russia and China even though you live within 50 km of eachother.
And your Skype call? Well, that's likely to do the same thing with its routing feature.
Your SSL connection isn't any safer from snooping - not sure about MitM attacks, but if you're just listening in, do you really need to be a MitM?
Considering that most SUVs can't even be expected not to crash when it's a little wet, just how are they expected to fare when they're essentially driving on ice?
Or did you mean "... and when enough SUVs litter the road sides, we just drive across them"?
Imagine living in Paris and commuting every day to Amsterdam, by car. That's what a lot of Americans depend upon.
Then they're fucking stupid, and they deserve every single bad thing that happens to them.
Paris is 465 miles away from Amsterdam. Even doing an average speed of 80 miles an hour, they're still spending almost 12 hours driving. Then they have an 8 hour workday, so they get to spend 4 hours sleeping.
Most European countries can easily be crossed by road in an hour or two
And most American states can't? In case you're wondering, don't compare the US to individual European countries - compare the US to the EU, and compare individual countries with individual states. Otherwise you're just comparing apples to orchards.
It's quite entertaining (Goatse-monster aside) to toy with this program.
Some of the limits in the creator are a bit silly (like only having carnivore mouth options and not including herbi- and omnivore), but it's still fun, and very easy to learn to use.
I can't wait to get my hands on the full game - but I really hope I get to set the language myself and not be limited to whatever the installer has detected on my system.
How does Uwe Boll keep finding people to pump money into his trash?
I mean, let's be honest here. That guy didn't make a single movie worth the time it takes to watch it, let's not talk about money. His movies are invariably in every "worst. movies. ever." list there is. And even trash movie fans won't touch his junk with a ten foot pole.
Can anyone explain the miracle of where he gets his funding? I mean, if you can solve that mystery, it should be trivial to get money just the same way. I mean, people who are willing to pump money into a movie that you know will bomb might actually finance a movie that has a slim chance to be gold.
A: Wish I could give you an answer, but I just don't know
Actually that's a really easy question to answer: Enough people are willing to pay to see his movies to turn a profit.
Why not just present the kids with an experiment. Doesn't have to be extremely complicated. Something where you can set up two or more "expected" results. Talk about what makes one more realistic than another. What fallacies are easy to fall into.
Some of the simple ones we did (back in '86 I think - 9 or 10 years old) in natural sciences were along the lines of
What brings the music to your radio? Amazing how many kids will (or would) think that it was the power cord. It's a reasonable assumption - the radio doesn't work without power. Pull the cord, and the music stops. And it's very easy to test with a battery powered radio.
As you teach them use more and more 'tricky' problems. Not to mess with them, but it would be nice if at some point you end up at a place where the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a likely answer.
Of course, you can use tricky questions, like "if you actually flip a coin 1,000 times, how many heads and how many tails are you likely to get (roughly)". Can't quite remember where I found it, but turns out it's not 50/50, but 49/51. Of course, experiment bias would also have an effct. You likely can't flip the coins in the same way - if you could, you could probably end up with 1,000 heads or tails instead. Would also be a good lesson I think.
So, what you're saying is that in contrast to most lawyers, who are coins with big edges, NYCL is a marble? Or just that he has more marbles than most lawyers?
As has been mentioned, in game you can do much faster times than real life drivers, and getting live telemetry from the cars during races might be tricky.
So why not use delayed telemetry? And maybe use endurance racing instead of formula racing? Most endurance races have different classes of vehicles, so you're constantly "fighting" traffic (especially if you're in the fastest classes), gamewise you could have to earn your way up from GT2 to GT1 to LMP2 to LMP1 (to use Le Mans standards).
Le Mans alone would qualify as at least 24 hours of gaming;)
-In the MM section he makes deals over things that ALREADY existed, like a picture for each monster.
That's odd... granted, I only have the 2nd ed. MM, but I could swear they left out the picture for Invisible Stalker. Why the hell would they put that in the newer ones?
And what does that tell you about what patrons of those bars want?
Back before the smoking ban was implemented around here, out of the about seven regular people I hang out with, one wss a smoker. Interestingly enough, the only reason we didn't go to non-smoking bars, sit in the non-smoking areas at restaurants was if our smoking friend was along. This, to me, suggests that we didn't pick the smoking areas or smoking bars (unless we couldn't find a no-smoking one), was because he was addicted to smoking and couldn't go long without it.
Hell, let's try regular statistics
Here, about 35% of people were smokers. That would indicate that 65% of bar patrons are non-smokers who simply stand the smoke to hang out with their nicotine addicted friends.
Groups with small arms are great at making things so unpleasant an occupying modern military decides it's not worth it and goes home.
Pardon my rather silly question, but if (part) the American citizenship makes an uprising, just where is the military supposed to go home to? They're already HOME.
And no, if it turned into an all-out civil war like 1861, I rather doubt it'd be a minor uprising, and then you'd have military fighting military (divided by states, most likely) along side each states national guard units. In this case you'd have small civil groups on both sides poking at the other side's military. That'd balance out and not make an actual difference (ie, one side inflicts as much or little damage as the other).
Which brings back the question from before - what exactly is it, the small groups are supposed to do? If they rise to a violent protest, especially something involving firearms, they'll be labled terrorists, hung out in every media outlet as nutbags not willing to adhere to the world of democracy. Additionally there'll be put a warrent out for anyone helping them, for aiding and abetting terrorists. And of course, we all remember what happens to terrorists and their helpers, right? They get a free vacation in Cuba, with free medical, lots of sunshine and free food and lodging.
Maybe we should do what whomever did with Obama's former minister?
Find lots and lots of fun soundbits - like the one where he was on live TV spouting how much that last kid who shot up a school was OBVIOUSLY playing tonnes of violent video games and using them as murder simulators.
And then slip in the clip of his roommate pointing out that he NEVER played games.
Then you show censored images from the gay porn brief. Etc. etc. etc.
Make sure it gets real popular on YouTube and get all your friends and acquaintances to send in the links to the media...
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Uhm ... does the name Valerie Plame ring a bell?
And while a 100% confirmed connection between Scooter Libby and say, Dick Cheney, has never been fully established, you'd be more than just naïve to think, that the White House didn't have anything to do with it.
Granted, so far it's "only" about illegal wiretaps against U.S. citizens. But essentially this says "If the PotUS says 'do task A for me', then the company that does task A cannot and will not be held liable, even if it breaks the law."
So far that task has been (and might still be) "spy on U.S. citizens"
What's to stop the next task from being "rough up U.S. citizens who mouth off against the government"? Or "kill U.S. citizens who are a pain in the ass"?
Sure, that's a big slippery slope, but then again, I'm sure if you went back to say ... September 2000 and asked people on the street, they'd probably say that the U.S. government would NEVER allow such a thing. Of course, they'd probably say the same thing about torture (or whatever phrase you'd like to use instead), suspension of habeas corpus and a lot of other things that have happend in less than a decade. Even "small" stuff like purposely revealing the name and occupation of an active CIA agent working abroad.
Eeeew! Why the hell would I give you five after that comment? But I will give you a sanitary napkin ...
How does this compare to the law in Sweden?
Doesn't it simply rubber stamp the domestic spying, that has been done along with legalising it in the future?
Well, in the end, you're just sending bits back and forth. If you know that one of the ends of the communication is a person/entity of interest, you just have to copy the communication. Since the bits are running past your equipment, I don't see why you couldn't copy it now, decrypt it later.
Copying it doesn't really require you to be the man in the middle, and it's not like a "please don't copy"-flag would be respected anyway.
I think we're rather naïve if we believe, that Sweden is the only country in the Western world to do this. They're just (one of) the first to be honest about it.
As the submitter points out, you cannot be sure where your data is being sent on the route between you and your recipient. For all you know your "Dear Mom" email might go through Sweden, the US, the UK, Denmark, Russia and China even though you live within 50 km of eachother.
And your Skype call? Well, that's likely to do the same thing with its routing feature.
Your SSL connection isn't any safer from snooping - not sure about MitM attacks, but if you're just listening in, do you really need to be a MitM?
Considering that most SUVs can't even be expected not to crash when it's a little wet, just how are they expected to fare when they're essentially driving on ice?
Or did you mean "... and when enough SUVs litter the road sides, we just drive across them"?
And just how do you propose driving in a foot of snow in a car? Oh, they clear the roads? Gotcha.
Paris is 465 miles away from Amsterdam. Even doing an average speed of 80 miles an hour, they're still spending almost 12 hours driving. Then they have an 8 hour workday, so they get to spend 4 hours sleeping.And most American states can't? In case you're wondering, don't compare the US to individual European countries - compare the US to the EU, and compare individual countries with individual states. Otherwise you're just comparing apples to orchards.
It's quite entertaining (Goatse-monster aside) to toy with this program.
Some of the limits in the creator are a bit silly (like only having carnivore mouth options and not including herbi- and omnivore), but it's still fun, and very easy to learn to use.
I can't wait to get my hands on the full game - but I really hope I get to set the language myself and not be limited to whatever the installer has detected on my system.
Why not just present the kids with an experiment. Doesn't have to be extremely complicated. Something where you can set up two or more "expected" results. Talk about what makes one more realistic than another. What fallacies are easy to fall into.
Some of the simple ones we did (back in '86 I think - 9 or 10 years old) in natural sciences were along the lines of
What brings the music to your radio?
Amazing how many kids will (or would) think that it was the power cord.
It's a reasonable assumption - the radio doesn't work without power. Pull the cord, and the music stops. And it's very easy to test with a battery powered radio.
As you teach them use more and more 'tricky' problems. Not to mess with them, but it would be nice if at some point you end up at a place where the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a likely answer.
Of course, you can use tricky questions, like "if you actually flip a coin 1,000 times, how many heads and how many tails are you likely to get (roughly)". Can't quite remember where I found it, but turns out it's not 50/50, but 49/51. Of course, experiment bias would also have an effct. You likely can't flip the coins in the same way - if you could, you could probably end up with 1,000 heads or tails instead. Would also be a good lesson I think.
So, what you're saying is that in contrast to most lawyers, who are coins with big edges, NYCL is a marble? Or just that he has more marbles than most lawyers?
As has been mentioned, in game you can do much faster times than real life drivers, and getting live telemetry from the cars during races might be tricky.
;)
So why not use delayed telemetry? And maybe use endurance racing instead of formula racing? Most endurance races have different classes of vehicles, so you're constantly "fighting" traffic (especially if you're in the fastest classes), gamewise you could have to earn your way up from GT2 to GT1 to LMP2 to LMP1 (to use Le Mans standards).
Le Mans alone would qualify as at least 24 hours of gaming
Practicing animal husbandry is perfectly fine until they catch you red handed.
Hrmm ... that makes me wonder.
Would it be possible to make a wide spectrum photon generator (say 350 nm to 800 nm) and target that around a monitor?
Why would you want to settle for 640x480? I like the rest of the idea, but honestly, 640x480 wasn't even fun back in the days of Win95.
Boost it to 1600x1200 or something like that, and it'd be a lot more comfortable to work with.
Hell, let's try regular statistics
Here, about 35% of people were smokers. That would indicate that 65% of bar patrons are non-smokers who simply stand the smoke to hang out with their nicotine addicted friends.
And no, if it turned into an all-out civil war like 1861, I rather doubt it'd be a minor uprising, and then you'd have military fighting military (divided by states, most likely) along side each states national guard units. In this case you'd have small civil groups on both sides poking at the other side's military. That'd balance out and not make an actual difference (ie, one side inflicts as much or little damage as the other).
Which brings back the question from before - what exactly is it, the small groups are supposed to do? If they rise to a violent protest, especially something involving firearms, they'll be labled terrorists, hung out in every media outlet as nutbags not willing to adhere to the world of democracy. Additionally there'll be put a warrent out for anyone helping them, for aiding and abetting terrorists. And of course, we all remember what happens to terrorists and their helpers, right? They get a free vacation in Cuba, with free medical, lots of sunshine and free food and lodging.
Maybe we should do what whomever did with Obama's former minister?
...
Find lots and lots of fun soundbits - like the one where he was on live TV spouting how much that last kid who shot up a school was OBVIOUSLY playing tonnes of violent video games and using them as murder simulators.
And then slip in the clip of his roommate pointing out that he NEVER played games.
Then you show censored images from the gay porn brief. Etc. etc. etc.
Make sure it gets real popular on YouTube and get all your friends and acquaintances to send in the links to the media