What if I create a FB page under your name and put up a bunch of partying, boozing, and drugging photos up, with links to groups like "Fuck work -- seriously", "Getting high at work ROCKS!!", and "[My boss' favorite sports team] are a bunch of LOSERS!"
Good luck with work. You'll never get a chance to explain why it's not you. You simply wouldn't get a call for an interview. You might get everything wrong you do at work slowly documented until they have cause to fire you. "No, it wasn't drug use (since that's a disability and protected, and we'd never do that) but look at these logs./. 1000 times, he kept taking extra-long breaks, and he was late one time in 2008. We decided to move in a new direction, specifically one without Vectormatic."
I've been impersonated before. That's why I have a FB profile, so that when someone looks me up online, there's my good information out there. My name is rare enough that a GS brings me up as the first hit.
I would love to try out this mouse because 5 buttons is limiting sometimes. 18 might be a little overkill, but I can always disable / multi-map some buttons.
I wouldn't use this for gaming. I'd use it for work. I draft military documents. No wireless, End of Discussion.
But realistically if you find a new target market* for something you've invented, it would be foolish to NOT sell it. Is it faster and cheaper than splicing fish genes into the crop?
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. If you touch your antenna it stops working right because you have to have the proper length for the frequency. If it's a little weak antenna then you get bad reception. If it's a big powerful antenna you get 4th degree burns and die.
You could probably just spray it with conformal so it's not conductive anymore, but that will mess up the RF voodoo and you'd have to do a really good job of masking it.
Actually, in those four words you've managed to fail at history, political science, and the Internet.
The political spectrum shows socialism on the left-hand side and fascism on the right. Fascism is not restricted to 1930s-1940s Germany. Rather, it is when the state enforces its will upon your own and individuals get little or no freedom. It's in the first paragraph on Wikipedia, for crying out loud. For example, adding restrictions on abortion, gay marriage, and copyright legislation are all fascist moves. (Yeah, I know, one of these things are not like the others.)
Godwin's law requires a direct comparison of someone or something to Nazi Germany or Hitler. You could, I suppose, also Godwin a discussion by invoking alternate Axis figures, for example Himmler, Mussolini, or by a stretch Hirohito.
Merely stating the fact that a behaviour pattern is fascist is not directly comparing anything to Nazis. There's no comparing the murder of 12 million civilians to the mishandling of citizen dollars. That's ridiculous and it shows a serious lack of political insight on your part. I can only assume that you're deliberately putting on a character, as logical flaws that deep should not exist in nature.
Also, none of the participants in the argument can call "Godwin" as that itself Godwins the thread, which means that either party can simply end the discussion by claiming Godwinning on the part of the other party.
I agree with you, and the lying bastards from all parties waste money all the time -- this is just grieviously wasteful.
The conservatives spent hundreds of millions on Clement's riding and then forced the rest of us to spend double the costs on G8 / G20 because they had to keep G8 in his riding to cover the infrastructure costs. The airport sure is shiny and new, but too bad none of the G? are going to land there.
But hey, you're right, spending $500 million to get an Apple fanboi re-elected is totally not fraud or a violation of the Elections act.
By the way, I do not vote Lieberal (Fiberal?). You're the one who keeps voting for a party who wants to have unlimited government funding, no accountability to the citizens, and control over your body, your marriage, and your Internet. That's not libertarian. That's fascist.
Actually, your argument is far more spurious. Allow me to poke some holes in it. First, you have not countered any of my claims. You have put forth two unrelated points and hope that an oil spill caused by recklessness and a luge accident caused by poor design somehow justify spending a billion dollars on security.
What is the cost of security for these dignitaries at home? Do they spend $3500 every second (cumulatively, of course) on their security? The fencing is $1500 per metre. (or yard, for the Americans out there.) To put that into perspective, they could have built the fence out of Plasma TVs. However, unlike the Panasonic I've got in my living room, it's going to be dismantled and scrapped once everyone goes home.
Canada doesn't have assassinations, we don't have terrorist acts, and we don't have any justification whatsoever for this much expense.
Who is moving to hurt these dignitaries? What plots exist? What's the intelligence chatter? Is anyone behind anything?
No.
All we have from the CPC's talking heads -- many of whom are actually paid to astroturf and argue online about how AWESOME the CPC is and how great a job our PM is doing -- is "imagine what would happen if someone got hurt".
That's it: "Shut the fuck up and let Harper spend your money the way he sees fit."
That's a little interesting, as our Industry Minister has poured... let's look this up... $50 million into his own riding in order to boost his re-election chances and claimed that rework dozens of kilometers away from the summit was "required work for the summit".
As for Nodar Kumaritashvili, whoever designed the track should have been facing criminal charges or at the very least sanctions from APEG-BC. I'm astonished that it didn't happen.
They have appointed a special prosecutor and it is likely that those murdering murderers that murdered Dziekanski will face criminal charges.
Now, those charges might be perjury, which is unfair, but there are ~30 million of us who want those murdering murderers that murdered Dziekanski put into prison. I'd accept any charges that put them in jail.
Over a billion dollars. A billion fucking dollars. Canadian. Citizen's. Dollars. (Our exchange rate is about par.) That's.1% of our GDP and.25% of our national debt. Think about that.
It's a four-day event. That's $300 Million a day, or 12.5 Million an hour, or 208 thousand dollars a minute. (3.5 thousand PER SECOND.)
I'm all for making sure that we've got a secure event, but for that they could have bought an Aircraft Carrier and parked it in the middle of Lake Superior and had an impenetrable fortress. Okay, so some of the G20 don't like the cramped quarters on a military vessel. They could have rented a cruise ship and hauled in, let's say Halifax and VDQ (Canadian Patrol Frigates, our ships-of-the-line) for security. (Or Montreal if they wanted to show off the new Cyclones) If someone else (like POTUS) wanted more security, they could task a Nimitz to accompany the group for the duration. The same with anyone else -- you want more security, bring in a warship.
No "Conservative" ever gets to talk about adscam ever again. EVER. FUCKING. AGAIN.
I question their model because I own a Wii, I have never modded it, and half the time when I start it up I get the "System Files are Corrupted" message.
It's bullshit and the only ones getting hurt are people who AREN'T hacking their Wiis.
Canada has two official languages, English and French. If you don't speak French, Quebec would have une vache. While we could teach him French, it's likely that we'll just get someone else. It's way too complicated to go over on/., so just look it up on wikipedia if you truly care.
Romeo Dallaire would be a vastly superior choice. He's a real life hero rather than a made-up one.
Also, ST was a very low-budget show and they didn't have the money for retakes.
Nevertheless, William Shatner has already turned down the idea. There was a FB group a while ago, and he contacted us to say that while he was flattered, he felt that he was not qualified to represent Canada in such a respected and honoured position.
Maybe some of those engineers were angst monkeys who always talk like that. You know somebody who is like that in your life, right? "Oh my god, Joe got a papercut, and it might get infected. We should file down the edges of all the paper in the office so we don't have that happen."
Seventy-five emails like that later, and you just put a filter on the AM's email. "Meh, if it's important, they'll come see me."
OR
They might not have written the email for BlackBerry. I know several people that I must put the entire email into the subject or they just won't read it.
For example: Subject: Risk Assessment Study on Drilling Practice in Gulf. Body: Mr. Foo, it has come to my attention that...
vs.
911: DWH -> Explosion Risk -> Severe, Immediate.
Unstable drilling. Risk of death / catastrophe. PR nightmare. Must stop NOW. Call 123-4567 to discuss.
You don't need a coyote, elrous. We regularly accept Americans up here as immigrants, and it's fairly simple to gain your permanent residency and eventual citizenship. Some of my real-life friends are Americans.
You've got a family, right? You seem to be educated and employable, based on some of your other posts. Those are all ticks in the "good" column.
Drive up for a visit and if you like what you see apply for a work visa. Canada requires more people; we've got ZPG and only immigration will help.
If you've got a corporate machine and it's set up correctly, they'll be able to read anything you do no matter what kind of setup you install on their box.
They know everything I do here, everything that gets installed, when certain types of files go onto the hard drive, every time I read/., etc. There's a guide book that says "employees should have no expectation of privacy" and they mean it.
They're paying me, they sort of deserve to know what they're getting for their money.
No, in all seriousness, it's not paranoia when they actually ARE out to get you. I saw a cartoon where there was a couple sitting in their house, while workers were putting up a fence. The fence was labelled "security" and the house "privacy".
The workers were, of course, using the boards of the house to build the fence.
That's the problem. People have been promised absolute security in everything they do. Look at the teenager who wanted to sail -- everyone is calling out the parents for being assholes for letting their adult offspring do something they had been planning for since she was 13 years old. Life's dangerous. No amount of information awareness is going to fix that, since it's not even a problem to begin with. It's not the government's business what I do with myself unless THEY HAVE A WARRANT to look at my life or I give them permission. (I gave them permission because I require a security clearance for work.)
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Okay, Vectormatic.
What if I create a FB page under your name and put up a bunch of partying, boozing, and drugging photos up, with links to groups like "Fuck work -- seriously", "Getting high at work ROCKS!!", and "[My boss' favorite sports team] are a bunch of LOSERS!"
Good luck with work. You'll never get a chance to explain why it's not you. You simply wouldn't get a call for an interview. You might get everything wrong you do at work slowly documented until they have cause to fire you. "No, it wasn't drug use (since that's a disability and protected, and we'd never do that) but look at these logs. /. 1000 times, he kept taking extra-long breaks, and he was late one time in 2008. We decided to move in a new direction, specifically one without Vectormatic."
I've been impersonated before. That's why I have a FB profile, so that when someone looks me up online, there's my good information out there. My name is rare enough that a GS brings me up as the first hit.
I would love to try out this mouse because 5 buttons is limiting sometimes. 18 might be a little overkill, but I can always disable / multi-map some buttons.
I wouldn't use this for gaming. I'd use it for work. I draft military documents. No wireless, End of Discussion.
It's sort of like this:
"Money, money, money money, money, money, money."
Set that to some music and there you go.
But realistically if you find a new target market* for something you've invented, it would be foolish to NOT sell it. Is it faster and cheaper than splicing fish genes into the crop?
*base base snare
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. If you touch your antenna it stops working right because you have to have the proper length for the frequency. If it's a little weak antenna then you get bad reception. If it's a big powerful antenna you get 4th degree burns and die.
You could probably just spray it with conformal so it's not conductive anymore, but that will mess up the RF voodoo and you'd have to do a really good job of masking it.
The Internet is Serious Business.
You are absolutely correct, sir. Thank you for the correction.
Actually, in those four words you've managed to fail at history, political science, and the Internet.
The political spectrum shows socialism on the left-hand side and fascism on the right. Fascism is not restricted to 1930s-1940s Germany. Rather, it is when the state enforces its will upon your own and individuals get little or no freedom. It's in the first paragraph on Wikipedia, for crying out loud. For example, adding restrictions on abortion, gay marriage, and copyright legislation are all fascist moves. (Yeah, I know, one of these things are not like the others.)
Godwin's law requires a direct comparison of someone or something to Nazi Germany or Hitler. You could, I suppose, also Godwin a discussion by invoking alternate Axis figures, for example Himmler, Mussolini, or by a stretch Hirohito.
Merely stating the fact that a behaviour pattern is fascist is not directly comparing anything to Nazis. There's no comparing the murder of 12 million civilians to the mishandling of citizen dollars. That's ridiculous and it shows a serious lack of political insight on your part. I can only assume that you're deliberately putting on a character, as logical flaws that deep should not exist in nature.
Also, none of the participants in the argument can call "Godwin" as that itself Godwins the thread, which means that either party can simply end the discussion by claiming Godwinning on the part of the other party.
They could have bought every dignitary 20 new 3D plasma TVs, a 3D camera, and held it electronically.
They could have even kept the TVs. I would have been okay with that.
Wait -- is our financial future being worked out by people who don't know how to set up a conference call?
I agree with you, and the lying bastards from all parties waste money all the time -- this is just grieviously wasteful.
The conservatives spent hundreds of millions on Clement's riding and then forced the rest of us to spend double the costs on G8 / G20 because they had to keep G8 in his riding to cover the infrastructure costs. The airport sure is shiny and new, but too bad none of the G? are going to land there.
But hey, you're right, spending $500 million to get an Apple fanboi re-elected is totally not fraud or a violation of the Elections act.
By the way, I do not vote Lieberal (Fiberal?). You're the one who keeps voting for a party who wants to have unlimited government funding, no accountability to the citizens, and control over your body, your marriage, and your Internet. That's not libertarian. That's fascist.
Actually, your argument is far more spurious. Allow me to poke some holes in it. First, you have not countered any of my claims. You have put forth two unrelated points and hope that an oil spill caused by recklessness and a luge accident caused by poor design somehow justify spending a billion dollars on security.
What is the cost of security for these dignitaries at home? Do they spend $3500 every second (cumulatively, of course) on their security? The fencing is $1500 per metre. (or yard, for the Americans out there.) To put that into perspective, they could have built the fence out of Plasma TVs. However, unlike the Panasonic I've got in my living room, it's going to be dismantled and scrapped once everyone goes home.
Canada doesn't have assassinations, we don't have terrorist acts, and we don't have any justification whatsoever for this much expense.
Who is moving to hurt these dignitaries? What plots exist? What's the intelligence chatter? Is anyone behind anything?
No.
All we have from the CPC's talking heads -- many of whom are actually paid to astroturf and argue online about how AWESOME the CPC is and how great a job our PM is doing -- is "imagine what would happen if someone got hurt".
That's it: "Shut the fuck up and let Harper spend your money the way he sees fit."
That's a little interesting, as our Industry Minister has poured... let's look this up... $50 million into his own riding in order to boost his re-election chances and claimed that rework dozens of kilometers away from the summit was "required work for the summit".
As for Nodar Kumaritashvili, whoever designed the track should have been facing criminal charges or at the very least sanctions from APEG-BC. I'm astonished that it didn't happen.
Meh, not much happens. Uh, trust me on this, okay?
They have appointed a special prosecutor and it is likely that those murdering murderers that murdered Dziekanski will face criminal charges.
Now, those charges might be perjury, which is unfair, but there are ~30 million of us who want those murdering murderers that murdered Dziekanski put into prison. I'd accept any charges that put them in jail.
IT HAD BETTER BE THE BEST FUCKING SECURITY EVER.
Over a billion dollars. A billion fucking dollars. Canadian. Citizen's. Dollars. (Our exchange rate is about par.) That's .1% of our GDP and .25% of our national debt. Think about that.
It's a four-day event. That's $300 Million a day, or 12.5 Million an hour, or 208 thousand dollars a minute. (3.5 thousand PER SECOND.)
I'm all for making sure that we've got a secure event, but for that they could have bought an Aircraft Carrier and parked it in the middle of Lake Superior and had an impenetrable fortress. Okay, so some of the G20 don't like the cramped quarters on a military vessel. They could have rented a cruise ship and hauled in, let's say Halifax and VDQ (Canadian Patrol Frigates, our ships-of-the-line) for security. (Or Montreal if they wanted to show off the new Cyclones) If someone else (like POTUS) wanted more security, they could task a Nimitz to accompany the group for the duration. The same with anyone else -- you want more security, bring in a warship.
No "Conservative" ever gets to talk about adscam ever again. EVER. FUCKING. AGAIN.
I hadn't thought of that... but I was referring to Mr. Fusion. Wait, is that still ambiguous?
Meh, I'm having a vasectomy tomorrow so this has all of the cool and none of the drawbacks.
One of my friends owns a metal shop so I can get some nice looking parts made...
Stay tuned, folks. I'll either end up on /. or in This is True.
I question their model because I own a Wii, I have never modded it, and half the time when I start it up I get the "System Files are Corrupted" message.
It's bullshit and the only ones getting hurt are people who AREN'T hacking their Wiis.
You may or may not be serious...
Canada has two official languages, English and French. If you don't speak French, Quebec would have une vache. While we could teach him French, it's likely that we'll just get someone else. It's way too complicated to go over on /., so just look it up on wikipedia if you truly care.
Romeo Dallaire would be a vastly superior choice. He's a real life hero rather than a made-up one.
Also, ST was a very low-budget show and they didn't have the money for retakes.
Nevertheless, William Shatner has already turned down the idea. There was a FB group a while ago, and he contacted us to say that while he was flattered, he felt that he was not qualified to represent Canada in such a respected and honoured position.
I would look it up, but FB is blocked at work.
Maybe some of those engineers were angst monkeys who always talk like that. You know somebody who is like that in your life, right? "Oh my god, Joe got a papercut, and it might get infected. We should file down the edges of all the paper in the office so we don't have that happen."
Seventy-five emails like that later, and you just put a filter on the AM's email. "Meh, if it's important, they'll come see me."
OR
They might not have written the email for BlackBerry. I know several people that I must put the entire email into the subject or they just won't read it.
For example: ...
Subject: Risk Assessment Study on Drilling Practice in Gulf.
Body: Mr. Foo, it has come to my attention that
vs.
911: DWH -> Explosion Risk -> Severe, Immediate.
Unstable drilling. Risk of death / catastrophe. PR nightmare. Must stop NOW. Call 123-4567 to discuss.
You don't need a coyote, elrous. We regularly accept Americans up here as immigrants, and it's fairly simple to gain your permanent residency and eventual citizenship. Some of my real-life friends are Americans.
You've got a family, right? You seem to be educated and employable, based on some of your other posts. Those are all ticks in the "good" column.
Drive up for a visit and if you like what you see apply for a work visa. Canada requires more people; we've got ZPG and only immigration will help.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.asp
If you've got a corporate machine and it's set up correctly, they'll be able to read anything you do no matter what kind of setup you install on their box.
They know everything I do here, everything that gets installed, when certain types of files go onto the hard drive, every time I read /., etc. There's a guide book that says "employees should have no expectation of privacy" and they mean it.
They're paying me, they sort of deserve to know what they're getting for their money.
hunter2
I got the Onion reference. This would have been an Epic FP.
Okay.
You sound like you've got a lot to hide.
No, in all seriousness, it's not paranoia when they actually ARE out to get you. I saw a cartoon where there was a couple sitting in their house, while workers were putting up a fence. The fence was labelled "security" and the house "privacy".
The workers were, of course, using the boards of the house to build the fence.
That's the problem. People have been promised absolute security in everything they do. Look at the teenager who wanted to sail -- everyone is calling out the parents for being assholes for letting their adult offspring do something they had been planning for since she was 13 years old. Life's dangerous. No amount of information awareness is going to fix that, since it's not even a problem to begin with. It's not the government's business what I do with myself unless THEY HAVE A WARRANT to look at my life or I give them permission. (I gave them permission because I require a security clearance for work.)