These terrorists are nothing but a tool used by our hijacked government to control the people with fear while they loot and plunder the American people.
Meanwhile Americans are apathetic and ignorant while their food supply is being poisoned, their liberties are being eroded and the executive branch weilds power that goes unchecked.
Both Republicans and Democrats are in on this. Do not trust any Democrats to help the people (except for a select few). Hillary Clinton's adminstration will be little different than the Bush adminstration. She will succeed in taking away more liberties from the people (2nd amendment).
Expect "terrorist" attacks, massive internet control and censorship, mandatory (bird flu) vaccinations, national ID cards, unwarranted monitoring/tracking, FEMA detention camps and declining liberties.
They are so evil in their ways that their most insidious weapon is using free speech itself. Expect posts on forums all over the internet saying the truth in such absurd and obvious radical ways that nobody will ever believe it again.
They will take your words and turn them against you. They will make you look like conspiracy theorists, sensless lunatics or hiperactive teenagers. They will make it so nobody will listen to what you have to say. Beware! They are everywhere!
Yeap, my thoughts exactly. Most of what he allegedly did goes right into the free speech category. Some years back there was the "Anarchist cookbook", a compilations of ways to blow things up (and likely yourself in the process). Lots of noise was made around weather it should be allowed online or not. The result? It's pretty easy to find on the net.
What he "disseminates" is even closer to what free speech is about, because it has a lot of political content. I saw Fahrenheit 9/11, I saw Bowling for Columbine (both pirated btw), but I have no chance whatsoever to see All Is for Allah's Religion and I'm actually a bit afraid to look for it, not to mention share it. (Would you share it?)
Now I'm all for closing down radical websites, if it's necessary. I actually come from a very centralised and authoritarian society (ex-communist) and I liked it a lot from the POV of law enforcement. It was incredibly efficient, and remarcably void of abuses. No, it's not a fairy tale. Why? Because the police, more then the regular citisen, were afraid to cross the line. The problem isn't that we are beeing watched more and more, and our liberties are restrained. I could live quite relaxed knowing the police can listen to my phone or net connection, if it meant a lot less "regular" crime. The real problem is: who watches the watchers? Because the way we're headed, we're beeing watched, we're beeing rendered powerless, and we have no idee why or by whom. We're not allowed to know that. Only to believe the common wisdom, or shut up.
That's very close to the ideea of a transparent society, publicised by David Brin. May be worth it to check it out.
For every "brain" gone West there's a lot of management and technology and entropy in general that comes from the big companies that come into the country. All those brains would have done almost nothing without the big companies to allow them to use their potential.
My country (Romania) is in the same position: a lot of talk about brain drain but nobody stops to think that neither windows nor linux not mobile telephony not even the simplest computer would have been possible if we retained out precious "brains" but closed the borders.
Making examples doesn't really... feel ok. Many of us had their "rebel days" in our youth, and I wouldn't have liked getting thrown in jail with a permanent record for remotely rebooting someone's server. Not that I ever did that of course:) but I could have. The real problem is that it takes too much effort to catch all those guys "by hand". Catching a few and chopping their right arm may work, and I may even go with it, but I'll never like it. And I wouldn't advertise it either.
This is _exactly_ why I switched to anime! If there is a less interesting period I can't find it. The guy just grew up at his uncle's farm! Why can't you live it at that? He was a simple farmer's boy (or raised as one) with dreams of adventure. That's what made him so likable. Now they're gonna say, no, by the time he met obi-wan he had already saved the republic three or for times. Geesh! Get a life people...
They din't say anywhere freedom is bad and opression is good. Only that westerners jump to conclutions too quickly the they should stop and ponder a bit and maybe find interesting non-obvious truths.
What they said with this is: "Things are not as simple as you westerners make them look". And that's a warning which should be taken seriously. Why? Because maybe it wasn't them who cried wolf, maybe it was the western media for the last few years. Again and again reporting about firewalls and cisco and yahoo, and maybe, just maybe, the real censorship has nothing to do with all this. Come to think of if, "the great firewall of china" sould awfully cool, but not very effective. Maybe what they tried to say was "yes, there's censorship, lots of it, but you're looking in the wrong places. You're looking where the chinese governament tells you to, and you don't even realise it".
True, communism isn't to be trusted easily, but i doubt they put much faith in censorship through technology when there are more eficient ways. What ways? Don't know... all I see on the news is about the last firewall they put in our face. Nothing about what really goes on behind it.
Oh come on. You don't have to be "disgusted by homosexuality" to prefer straight love stories. I may be open minded, I may even be politically correct, but sure as hell ain't gonna enjoy gay love stories as much as boy/girl stories. Because... well... there's no girl:) Seriously, I just can't identify with the characters and if that's missing, there is little pleasure in just watching the movie as an art form.
I'm a bit surprised though there's no female audience for this. I know from anime&manga chicks loove gay innuendos, and yet they don't seem to watch that kind of movies that much. This might be indeed because of cultural inhibitions.
PS: I second on the endless stream of crappy romantic love stories...
Since you mention physics, genetics, and nanotechnology, i'll daresay you're not an expert in either. Neither am I, but it's not really a matter of science as one of proportion. In this case for example they may have done some amazing things, but something that is 2 bilion kelvins for only nanoseconds, and probably has a total mass of less then a gram... chances are it has a lower total energy then a campfire. Anyways, less then medium size power plant. So no, it's not dangereus.
Maybe fortunately we live in a world where hard things are _hard_. Nanotechnology sound very nice on paper, but in reality it's... nothing. Really. As we understand it it involves small intelligent self-replicating machines, when we don't have any of: small machines, replicating machines regardless of size, inteligent machines. So no, there is no nanotechnology to speak of and won't be for the predictable future.
As for genetics... I still have to hear a single reason why genetics is dangereus, that doesn't also involve stupidity of the highest degree. So I don't worry, because stupidity doesn't need genetics to be harmful. (Army of clones. Heh. Each clone costing as much as an F117 and vulnerable to anything from bullets to brick in the head.)
Anyways, please try to keep things in proportion. In this case, the experiment didn't brake the laws of thermodynamcs, neither did it create a gas bilions of degrees hotter then expected. They were most likely expectig a very hot gas (they're Sandia after all). This was just a little hotter in the wrong moment.
Lots of times in science things are a little more complicated then just applying a few law. First time I realised this was in early in school when I learned about capilaries. If you have a tube small enough, water will go upwards. Like in a direction opposed to gravity. And is's perfectly legit, too. Trees use this to pump gallons of water each day without using any energy. And again, it's legit. Moral of the story is that before yelling "perpetuum mobile" you have _a lot_ of side effects to consider.
Interesting tidbit about radioactive waste: it's not really radioactive. Most of it is just stuff policies dictate should be treated as nuclear waste, which includes almost anything that comes into contact, or may come into contact, with radioactive material. Probably a good portion of it is made of disposable gloves and shoes:)
Which explaines both why it's a headache (lots of it) and not so dangereous at the same time.
I used to wonder about where do they take the same old stories over and over until i learned how they actually write scripts. It's a bit like assembly line: you have the first scriptwriter, who sometimes is even outside hollywood (like a writer making his own scrips after his books), and then you have teams rewriting and rewriting the script. They a definitely hollywood profesionals, and never less then two teams/script, each rewriting at least once. So no matter how original the ideea was, the end product is written by the same hundred-odd people every time.
Unfortunately, the first thing they're going to do is make a carbon copy of the hard drive. And after they type in the distress password they can see the software altered portions of the hard drive it's not supposed to. On second thought, they'll probably run their own software from the start, one that knows the decryption algorithms but doesn't have the "erase date" part.
So it'll probably only work if the bad guys are morons.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant
or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Beautiful. Yet, few people experience what you describe, and fewer still from those who are in love.
Oh come on, be honest, Al Quaeda definitely doesn't qualify. It's a lot more political and social then religious and i'm not even sure it's stupid - if big bad guys came to your country with big bad tanks and lasers, woudn't you be inclined to do more or less the same?
And as a sidenote, I've come to think in recent years religion per se is not a source of stupidity. Most likely that's the dogma.
The problem wasn't with the word NOW. I guess if anything it was more the 5 Insightful mod, which meant lots of people agree with you. Lots of people rushing to give simple, obvious advice to an unknown, complicated problem. Of course this is the first thing you think about when reading the GP, it's just that actually saying it should take some consideration. And a more moderate tone.
I reread the GP, and it doesn't look like unacceptable conditions. After all it's an amusement park and hesitating to buy icecream 'cause the icecream man looks busy talking on his cell is not really the feeling it's trying to create. That's about the conditions. About the fact that people were fired without good reason, that doesn't affect him unless he's fired himself. If job security is important, he might want to consider quitting, but in any case it's no hurry.
Every time I have seen someone who is a "life sux" kind of person it's always been their choice (did not want to relocate, did not want to educate themselves further, did not etc...)
You've never been asked if you want to buy a woman for 200 dollars, have you? And yes, i'm in a quite civilised country in Europe. Just not everybody gets to make the choices they want to make.
Are you for real? Seriously, are you for real? Life sux man, you're damn lucky if you didn't find out yet. You have no ideea how bad this guy needs a job. Or how good this guy is at what he does, people usually don't find acceptable jobs the next day after quiting. Or even how the boss really is, i know i've met my share of good people who have one or two loose boards. Or, of course, if when firing those people theese were his only considerations. Let's see... what did i forget? Yeah, the pay, distance from work, coworkers, opportunity for profesional development, and again *the need to make money*. Double that if there is a SO. And actually knowing something about the GP would add more to the list.
But of course... you think he should quit NOW so that you can feel good you made a statement. Life sux already man... let's not add more stupidity to it.
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And christians kill people for performing abortions. I don't get your point.
These terrorists are nothing but a tool used by our hijacked government to control the people with fear while they loot and plunder the American people.
Meanwhile Americans are apathetic and ignorant while their food supply is being poisoned, their liberties are being eroded and the executive branch weilds power that goes unchecked.
Both Republicans and Democrats are in on this. Do not trust any Democrats to help the people (except for a select few). Hillary Clinton's adminstration will be little different than the Bush adminstration. She will succeed in taking away more liberties from the people (2nd amendment).
Expect "terrorist" attacks, massive internet control and censorship, mandatory (bird flu) vaccinations, national ID cards, unwarranted monitoring/tracking, FEMA detention camps and declining liberties.
They are so evil in their ways that their most insidious weapon is using free speech itself. Expect posts on forums all over the internet saying the truth in such absurd and obvious radical ways that nobody will ever believe it again.
They will take your words and turn them against you. They will make you look like conspiracy theorists, sensless lunatics or hiperactive teenagers. They will make it so nobody will listen to what you have to say. Beware! They are everywhere!
"They're animals"
http://www.psichi.org/pubs/articles/article_72.as
I just read this article a few days ago. It'll probably ring a bell to most people here, but i'll keep it a surprise.
Yeap, my thoughts exactly. Most of what he allegedly did goes right into the free speech category. Some years back there was the "Anarchist cookbook", a compilations of ways to blow things up (and likely yourself in the process). Lots of noise was made around weather it should be allowed online or not. The result? It's pretty easy to find on the net.
What he "disseminates" is even closer to what free speech is about, because it has a lot of political content. I saw Fahrenheit 9/11, I saw Bowling for Columbine (both pirated btw), but I have no chance whatsoever to see All Is for Allah's Religion and I'm actually a bit afraid to look for it, not to mention share it. (Would you share it?)
Now I'm all for closing down radical websites, if it's necessary. I actually come from a very centralised and authoritarian society (ex-communist) and I liked it a lot from the POV of law enforcement. It was incredibly efficient, and remarcably void of abuses. No, it's not a fairy tale. Why? Because the police, more then the regular citisen, were afraid to cross the line. The problem isn't that we are beeing watched more and more, and our liberties are restrained. I could live quite relaxed knowing the police can listen to my phone or net connection, if it meant a lot less "regular" crime. The real problem is: who watches the watchers? Because the way we're headed, we're beeing watched, we're beeing rendered powerless, and we have no idee why or by whom. We're not allowed to know that. Only to believe the common wisdom, or shut up.
That's very close to the ideea of a transparent society, publicised by David Brin. May be worth it to check it out.
Relax, nobody remembers what's a CP/M anymore
I know what the first application will be: lots of little company logos everywhere. You want a genuine Nike? take an electron microscop and check it!
For every "brain" gone West there's a lot of management and technology and entropy in general that comes from the big companies that come into the country.
All those brains would have done almost nothing without the big companies to allow them to use their potential.
My country (Romania) is in the same position: a lot of talk about brain drain but nobody stops to think that neither windows nor linux not mobile telephony not even the simplest computer would have been possible if we retained out precious "brains" but closed the borders.
Making examples doesn't really... feel ok. Many of us had their "rebel days" in our youth, and I wouldn't have liked getting thrown in jail with a permanent record for remotely rebooting someone's server. Not that I ever did that of course
This is _exactly_ why I switched to anime! If there is a less interesting period I can't find it. The guy just grew up at his uncle's farm! Why can't you live it at that? He was a simple farmer's boy (or raised as one) with dreams of adventure. That's what made him so likable. Now they're gonna say, no, by the time he met obi-wan he had already saved the republic three or for times. Geesh! Get a life people...
I suggest you go to www.google.com and search for "join terrorist organisation kill bush" to begin playing.
Thanks. Informative +1
Wasn't there a story onm slashdot a while back about how it is illegal not to give them the password? I think it was in Britan, but i'm not sure.
You just proved their point. Like totally.
They din't say anywhere freedom is bad and opression is good. Only that westerners jump to conclutions too quickly the they should stop and ponder a bit and maybe find interesting non-obvious truths.
What they said with this is: "Things are not as simple as you westerners make them look". And that's a warning which should be taken seriously. Why? Because maybe it wasn't them who cried wolf, maybe it was the western media for the last few years. Again and again reporting about firewalls and cisco and yahoo, and maybe, just maybe, the real censorship has nothing to do with all this. Come to think of if, "the great firewall of china" sould awfully cool, but not very effective. Maybe what they tried to say was "yes, there's censorship, lots of it, but you're looking in the wrong places. You're looking where the chinese governament tells you to, and you don't even realise it".
True, communism isn't to be trusted easily, but i doubt they put much faith in censorship through technology when there are more eficient ways. What ways? Don't know... all I see on the news is about the last firewall they put in our face. Nothing about what really goes on behind it.
Oh come on. You don't have to be "disgusted by homosexuality" to prefer straight love stories. I may be open minded, I may even be politically correct, but sure as hell ain't gonna enjoy gay love stories as much as boy/girl stories. Because... well... there's no girl
I'm a bit surprised though there's no female audience for this. I know from anime&manga chicks loove gay innuendos, and yet they don't seem to watch that kind of movies that much. This might be indeed because of cultural inhibitions.
PS: I second on the endless stream of crappy romantic love stories...
From TFA: ...But for approximately 10 nanoseconds
Since you mention physics, genetics, and nanotechnology, i'll daresay you're not an expert in either. Neither am I, but it's not really a matter of science as one of proportion. In this case for example they may have done some amazing things, but something that is 2 bilion kelvins for only nanoseconds, and probably has a total mass of less then a gram... chances are it has a lower total energy then a campfire. Anyways, less then medium size power plant. So no, it's not dangereus.
Maybe fortunately we live in a world where hard things are _hard_. Nanotechnology sound very nice on paper, but in reality it's... nothing. Really. As we understand it it involves small intelligent self-replicating machines, when we don't have any of: small machines, replicating machines regardless of size, inteligent machines. So no, there is no nanotechnology to speak of and won't be for the predictable future.
As for genetics... I still have to hear a single reason why genetics is dangereus, that doesn't also involve stupidity of the highest degree. So I don't worry, because stupidity doesn't need genetics to be harmful. (Army of clones. Heh. Each clone costing as much as an F117 and vulnerable to anything from bullets to brick in the head.)
Anyways, please try to keep things in proportion. In this case, the experiment didn't brake the laws of thermodynamcs, neither did it create a gas bilions of degrees hotter then expected. They were most likely expectig a very hot gas (they're Sandia after all). This was just a little hotter in the wrong moment.
Lots of times in science things are a little more complicated then just applying a few law. First time I realised this was in early in school when I learned about capilaries. If you have a tube small enough, water will go upwards. Like in a direction opposed to gravity. And is's perfectly legit, too. Trees use this to pump gallons of water each day without using any energy. And again, it's legit. Moral of the story is that before yelling "perpetuum mobile" you have _a lot_ of side effects to consider.
Interesting tidbit about radioactive waste: it's not really radioactive. Most of it is just stuff policies dictate should be treated as nuclear waste, which includes almost anything that comes into contact, or may come into contact, with radioactive material. Probably a good portion of it is made of disposable gloves and shoes
Which explaines both why it's a headache (lots of it) and not so dangereous at the same time.
I find it quite amusing that people have the time to type "NO CARRIER" as the fuzz come busting through their door.
Nooo... it's the men in black who always type "NO CARRIER" as a warning for future disidents.
I used to wonder about where do they take the same old stories over and over until i learned how they actually write scripts. It's a bit like assembly line: you have the first scriptwriter, who sometimes is even outside hollywood (like a writer making his own scrips after his books), and then you have teams rewriting and rewriting the script. They a definitely hollywood profesionals, and never less then two teams/script, each rewriting at least once. So no matter how original the ideea was, the end product is written by the same hundred-odd people every time.
Unfortunately, the first thing they're going to do is make a carbon copy of the hard drive. And after they type in the distress password they can see the software altered portions of the hard drive it's not supposed to. On second thought, they'll probably run their own software from the start, one that knows the decryption algorithms but doesn't have the "erase date" part.
So it'll probably only work if the bad guys are morons.
No naturalistic scientist could ever write:
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant
or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Beautiful. Yet, few people experience what you describe, and fewer still from those who are in love.
Oh come on, be honest, Al Quaeda definitely doesn't qualify. It's a lot more political and social then religious and i'm not even sure it's stupid - if big bad guys came to your country with big bad tanks and lasers, woudn't you be inclined to do more or less the same?
And as a sidenote, I've come to think in recent years religion per se is not a source of stupidity. Most likely that's the dogma.
Good luck!
Thanks for the chill pill.
The problem wasn't with the word NOW. I guess if anything it was more the 5 Insightful mod, which meant lots of people agree with you. Lots of people rushing to give simple, obvious advice to an unknown, complicated problem. Of course this is the first thing you think about when reading the GP, it's just that actually saying it should take some consideration. And a more moderate tone.
I reread the GP, and it doesn't look like unacceptable conditions. After all it's an amusement park and hesitating to buy icecream 'cause the icecream man looks busy talking on his cell is not really the feeling it's trying to create. That's about the conditions. About the fact that people were fired without good reason, that doesn't affect him unless he's fired himself. If job security is important, he might want to consider quitting, but in any case it's no hurry.
Every time I have seen someone who is a "life sux" kind of person it's always been their choice (did not want to relocate, did not want to educate themselves further, did not etc...)
You've never been asked if you want to buy a woman for 200 dollars, have you? And yes, i'm in a quite civilised country in Europe. Just not everybody gets to make the choices they want to make.
Are you for real? Seriously, are you for real? Life sux man, you're damn lucky if you didn't find out yet. You have no ideea how bad this guy needs a job. Or how good this guy is at what he does, people usually don't find acceptable jobs the next day after quiting. Or even how the boss really is, i know i've met my share of good people who have one or two loose boards. Or, of course, if when firing those people theese were his only considerations. Let's see... what did i forget? Yeah, the pay, distance from work, coworkers, opportunity for profesional development, and again *the need to make money*. Double that if there is a SO. And actually knowing something about the GP would add more to the list.
But of course... you think he should quit NOW so that you can feel good you made a statement. Life sux already man... let's not add more stupidity to it.