Easy, public key cryptography. Instead of using "anonymous coward" as the pseudonym, use "anonymous coward who posses the private key to the following public key.
Oh who am I kidding, we're talking about law makers who criminalized a piece of software. "public key cryptography" probably sounds like "thermonuclear weapons" to them.
Do you even know how offshore natural gas is processed?
Natural gas is pressurized at the offshore platform and pumped all the way to the shore using a long pipeline. Then an onshore LNG processing plant cleans and liquefies it and pump it back out to LNG tankers.
This thing is designed to replace the long undersea pipeline and the onshore LNG processing plant and its associated dock. One of the reasons why this monstrosity is being built is precisely because it's more environmentally friendly than the alternative. A single offshore facility can replace multiple onshore facilities since the offshore facility is mobile.
Where the fuck did you see me ranking the BP spill over Bhopal? Were you always this obtuse or did you have to go to a special school for it?
Person A said: "single largest environmental disaster in U.S. history". Person B said: "The oil spill did not happen in the United States." I said: "Even if it's outside US territory it's still part of U.S. history."
Me correcting person B doesn't mean I agree or disagree with person B. Me correcting person B doesn't mean I agree or disagree with person A. It just means I corrected person B and nothing else.
single largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
But the summary didn't say "U.S. waters" or "U.S. territory". It said "U.S. history". Regardless where it took place, with 11 Americans dead, millions more affected, and criminal convictions in US courts, it was a huge part of US history.
He pointed out, correctly, that the overwhelming majority of traffic accient deaths come from things that are either illegal (impaired driving, speeding) or ill-advised (distracted driving).
FTFY.
The Pareto principle applies to both driving and skydiving (and pretty much everything else).
Yes, I understand how the debt based monetary system works. No debt equals no monetary system.
I said "pay down", not "pay off". I used the the personal mortgage to illustrate the point of "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step", not "the US Federal government should have zero debt and thus lead to the collapse of the world economy".
We both agree there's a "good" level of national debt. I just happen to think we're currently above that level.
Godwin isn't supposed to be bad in the first place: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
It's a simple observation. It only posits that such comparison occurs. It doesn't say whether such comparisons are good or bad at all.
Many people think Godwin's law is "Ha! You used the N word! You just lost the argument." or "If you bring up the Nazis you ruin the discussion" (what GP did in this case).
The choice isn't between having the NSA or flushing that $10 billion down the toilet every year. The choice is between having the NSA or increasing the NASA budget by 50%. The choice is between having the NSA or better endowing social security. The choice is between having the NSA or paying down the national debt.
You're right, not everything they do is bad, but what little good they have done is trivial compared to what $10 billion should have contributed to our society each year.
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Easy, public key cryptography. Instead of using "anonymous coward" as the pseudonym, use "anonymous coward who posses the private key to the following public key.
-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCqGKukO1De7zhZj6+H0qtjTkVxwTCpvKe4eCZ0
FPqri0cb2JZfXJ/DgYSF6vUpwmJG8wVQZKjeGcjDOL5UlsuusFncCzWBQ7RKNUSesmQRMSGkVb1/
3j+skZ6UtW+5u09lHNsj6tQ51s1SPrCBkedbNf0Tp0GbMJDyR4e9T04ZZwIDAQAB
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----"
Oh who am I kidding, we're talking about law makers who criminalized a piece of software. "public key cryptography" probably sounds like "thermonuclear weapons" to them.
Do you even know how offshore natural gas is processed?
Natural gas is pressurized at the offshore platform and pumped all the way to the shore using a long pipeline. Then an onshore LNG processing plant cleans and liquefies it and pump it back out to LNG tankers.
This thing is designed to replace the long undersea pipeline and the onshore LNG processing plant and its associated dock. One of the reasons why this monstrosity is being built is precisely because it's more environmentally friendly than the alternative. A single offshore facility can replace multiple onshore facilities since the offshore facility is mobile.
That's what the SHA1 checksum is f... wait a minute.
And people who are deaf are all out of their minds?
No wonder deaf people are always flailing their arms at each other. It all makes perfect sense now!
If it wasn't for Mark David Chapman, how many people would even know about the "Catcher In The Rye"?
Seeing as how it's been on the highschool reading list for half a centruy already, I'm guessing at least 50 million?
Oh sorry, my bad. I thought you asked about how many people read the "Catcher In The Rye".
As for how many knowing about it, probably vast majority of English speaking world, 400 million, give or take.
You're right. My apolgies. Terrible mistake on my part.
You obiously don't know how shorting works then.
If you buy 2 bitcoins and short 1, and bitcoin falls to $0 tomorrow, you'll still have $1000.
If you buy 1 bitcoin, and bitcoin falls to $0 tomorrow, you'll have $0.
Who relays the relays?
Everyone wins, except for the tax payers.
BRB, going to convincine my boss to tip all our servers over.
That explains why climate change deniers all seem to lack intelligence; they're merely trolling apparitions created by Gaia.
Where the fuck did you see me ranking the BP spill over Bhopal? Were you always this obtuse or did you have to go to a special school for it?
Person A said: "single largest environmental disaster in U.S. history".
Person B said: "The oil spill did not happen in the United States."
I said: "Even if it's outside US territory it's still part of U.S. history."
Me correcting person B doesn't mean I agree or disagree with person B.
Me correcting person B doesn't mean I agree or disagree with person A.
It just means I corrected person B and nothing else.
single largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
But the summary didn't say "U.S. waters" or "U.S. territory". It said "U.S. history". Regardless where it took place, with 11 Americans dead, millions more affected, and criminal convictions in US courts, it was a huge part of US history.
He pointed out, correctly, that the overwhelming majority of traffic accient deaths come from things that are either illegal (impaired driving, speeding) or ill-advised (distracted driving).
FTFY.
The Pareto principle applies to both driving and skydiving (and pretty much everything else).
Skydiving is 7 micromorts per jump. That's equivalent to travlling 1600 miles by car.
Source
24 percent? More like 50 percent. Both of the guys I just passed were staring at their little gadget in zombie-like trance.
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. But under communism, it's the other way around.
Scandalous! Whoever is responsible for this mess should go to jail!
Noughmad is not in the plutocrat file. This incident will be reported.
Yes, I understand how the debt based monetary system works. No debt equals no monetary system.
I said "pay down", not "pay off". I used the the personal mortgage to illustrate the point of "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step", not "the US Federal government should have zero debt and thus lead to the collapse of the world economy".
We both agree there's a "good" level of national debt. I just happen to think we're currently above that level.
Damn plebes jumping on the bandwagon.
I was into hipster.com way before this "-ster" trend.
not every godwin instance is bad.
Godwin isn't supposed to be bad in the first place: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
It's a simple observation. It only posits that such comparison occurs. It doesn't say whether such comparisons are good or bad at all.
Many people think Godwin's law is "Ha! You used the N word! You just lost the argument." or "If you bring up the Nazis you ruin the discussion" (what GP did in this case).
I said "paying down", not "paid off". 1 cent paid towards the debt is paying it down; $10 billion towards it is still paying it down.
If the NSA budget were zeroed and the money just not spent on anything else, you'd barely notice a change in either the federal budget or the deficit.
If I used my entire paycheck to pay down my mortgage, I'd barely notice a change. I think I'll just stop paying my mortgage then.
The choice isn't between having the NSA or flushing that $10 billion down the toilet every year. The choice is between having the NSA or increasing the NASA budget by 50%. The choice is between having the NSA or better endowing social security. The choice is between having the NSA or paying down the national debt.
You're right, not everything they do is bad, but what little good they have done is trivial compared to what $10 billion should have contributed to our society each year.
They outsourced the editing department to India so that the grammar and spelling errors could mask their nefarious activities. Sneaky bastards!