(a) Mohawks needed the work and took the dangerous jobs for the money, bringing in friends and relatives who also needed work (see: Irish cops) or (b) Mohawks have a genetic mutation that makes them unafraid of heights, or (c) Mohawks are comfortable with heights from their experience shape-shifting into animal forms
Ridiculous. Using GPS as part of your password is just.... ready for it... a password! A password cracker would try many different GPS coordinates instead of many different words and letters. Even easier, because if you have some knowledge of the datas original location the password cracker can try starting at that location and spiraling out from there.
> A terrorist who knows he has a 50% chance to be uncovered and spend most of his/her life in jail may prefer to give up
I'm probably responding to a troll, but you realize he also has a 50% chance of not being uncovered and blowing up and dying. Jail is the more pleasant option.
I'm with you up to 5 buffalos, but then you lose me.
"Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo" = "Bison from the city of Buffalo trick Bison from the city of Buffalo" Please explain the last three Buffalo.
A hillbilly with a.22 won't even see the SWAT team coming in their armored personnel carrier in the middle of the night with night-vision goggles, air-support from helicopters, flash-bang grenades, and heavy weapons. They'll hit him with a dozen tasers until they see the.22 then they'll fill him full of holes and drop a joint on him to validate their enthusiastic response.
In the rare case they get reprimanded by the police's lawyers if there is a lawsuit from his now destitute wife, they will pick a scapegoat who will get a week's leave with pay.
I showed my eight-year-old girl Kick-Ass and told her she could be like Hit-Girl if she worked hard enough. "See honey, Hit-Girl is tiny and skinny just like you, but she just obliterated those drug-gang punks and hardly broke a sweat."
You just have to look for the positive messages in the media, they are out there if you look for them.
Years ago an artist named Kit Williams buried an expensive jeweled rabbit and wrote a book, Masquerade, that hid clues to the whereabouts of the buried rabbit. Thousands of people pored over every bit of the book in minute detail looking for clues. The rabbit was eventually found, and the solution was clever and satisfying (unlike the many attempts in following years to duplicate the 'magic' of that book).
What I found especially interesting, however, was the documentary written afterwards. 'The Quest for the Golden Hare' by Bamber Gascione, described the incredible self-delusional pattern matching people did where they convinced themselves that they had solved the clues and found the solution. They would not change their beliefs even after the rabbit was found elsewhere and the true solution was revealed. Some people even held on to the belief that Kit Williams had hidden a second more subtly hidden treasure just for them.
Fascinating reading.
"the human mind has an equal capacity for pattern-matching and self-deception" - Bamber Gascione
But the fact is the federal government WILL threaten the states and will get their way. They will declare a no-fly zone over Texas for the TSA. They will withhold highway money to get federal speed limits. They even made a farmer burn his crops that he grew for his own family's use because: if he HADN'T grown it he would have had to buy it and that would affect crop prices across state lines and therefore it falls under the inter-state commerce clause which is federal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn)
> Several states have already decriminalized Marijuana possession
And because the supreme court says the "commerce clause" is a total carte-blanche that allows the federal government to do anything they like anywhere they like, you will still be arrested by a swat team who will break down your door, shoot your dog, point guns at your kids, and grind your face into the ground.
So for between $0.11 and $2.17 I can have a custom ride go directly to my destination faster more conveniently and more comfortably, and I can bring all my friends for free.
Make a special version of your software that is loaded with the nastiest viruses available and seed it onto pirate boards. On your website warn people to only use software downloaded directly from you. Give away a limited free version so people can give it a test drive.
*this* of course is the real answer in every sense.
The Adam and Eve story is an allegory based on our own universal experience of being born innocent and eventually growing up - In the process often learning knowledge of good and evil and also disobeying our parents.
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No thanks. I'll be celebrating a holiday that makes more sense on June 28th.
Google+ is awesome, it's a great way to talk to Google employees.
Which do you think is more likely:
(a) Mohawks needed the work and took the dangerous jobs for the money, bringing in friends and relatives who also needed work (see: Irish cops) or
(b) Mohawks have a genetic mutation that makes them unafraid of heights, or
(c) Mohawks are comfortable with heights from their experience shape-shifting into animal forms
> Cops aren't above the law, or accountability,
Yes they are.
Are you new around here?
Ridiculous. Using GPS as part of your password is just.... ready for it... a password!
A password cracker would try many different GPS coordinates instead of many different words and letters.
Even easier, because if you have some knowledge of the datas original location the password cracker can try starting at that location and spiraling out from there.
Here's your problem, your using Monster Cables. They are known to exceed C.
It is. Great ripping song, fun to drink and sing along to. It recounts the legend of "The Chalvey Stab Monkey".
> A terrorist who knows he has a 50% chance to be uncovered and spend most of his/her life in jail may prefer to give up
I'm probably responding to a troll, but you realize he also has a 50% chance of not being uncovered and blowing up and dying. Jail is the more pleasant option.
I'm with you up to 5 buffalos, but then you lose me.
"Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo" = "Bison from the city of Buffalo trick Bison from the city of Buffalo"
Please explain the last three Buffalo.
JOSS, the 1960's timesharing environment?
See my post above about SWAT teams equipped with military level gear and think again about how the right to bear arms will defend our rights.
Give me a break, Internet Tough Guy.
A hillbilly with a .22 won't even see the SWAT team coming in their armored personnel carrier in the middle of the night with night-vision goggles, air-support from helicopters, flash-bang grenades, and heavy weapons. They'll hit him with a dozen tasers until they see the .22 then they'll fill him full of holes and drop a joint on him to validate their enthusiastic response.
In the rare case they get reprimanded by the police's lawyers if there is a lawsuit from his now destitute wife, they will pick a scapegoat who will get a week's leave with pay.
I showed my eight-year-old girl Kick-Ass and told her she could be like Hit-Girl if she worked hard enough. "See honey, Hit-Girl is tiny and skinny just like you, but she just obliterated those drug-gang punks and hardly broke a sweat."
You just have to look for the positive messages in the media, they are out there if you look for them.
Now I'm curious. What is your unique place in the world?
Years ago an artist named Kit Williams buried an expensive jeweled rabbit and wrote a book, Masquerade, that hid clues to the whereabouts of the buried rabbit. Thousands of people pored over every bit of the book in minute detail looking for clues. The rabbit was eventually found, and the solution was clever and satisfying (unlike the many attempts in following years to duplicate the 'magic' of that book).
What I found especially interesting, however, was the documentary written afterwards. 'The Quest for the Golden Hare' by Bamber Gascione, described the incredible self-delusional pattern matching people did where they convinced themselves that they had solved the clues and found the solution. They would not change their beliefs even after the rabbit was found elsewhere and the true solution was revealed. Some people even held on to the belief that Kit Williams had hidden a second more subtly hidden treasure just for them.
Fascinating reading.
"the human mind has an equal capacity for pattern-matching and self-deception" - Bamber Gascione
> I refuse to support the Chinese and avoid goods with Chinese components like the plague.
You're not doing a very good job of it, unless you're posting articles to Slashdot using smoke signals.
But the fact is the federal government WILL threaten the states and will get their way. They will declare a no-fly zone over Texas for the TSA. They will withhold highway money to get federal speed limits. They even made a farmer burn his crops that he grew for his own family's use because: if he HADN'T grown it he would have had to buy it and that would affect crop prices across state lines and therefore it falls under the inter-state commerce clause which is federal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn)
> Several states have already decriminalized Marijuana possession
And because the supreme court says the "commerce clause" is a total carte-blanche that allows the federal government to do anything they like anywhere they like, you will still be arrested by a swat team who will break down your door, shoot your dog, point guns at your kids, and grind your face into the ground.
So for between $0.11 and $2.17 I can have a custom ride go directly to my destination faster more conveniently and more comfortably, and I can bring all my friends for free.
Make a special version of your software that is loaded with the nastiest viruses available and seed it onto pirate boards. On your website warn people to only use software downloaded directly from you. Give away a limited free version so people can give it a test drive.
If you don't like it run NoScript and blacklist Google Analytics. Easy.
Fuck all of them. Homeschooling for the win.
*this* of course is the real answer in every sense.
The Adam and Eve story is an allegory based on our own universal experience of being born innocent and eventually growing up - In the process often learning knowledge of good and evil and also disobeying our parents.
> Also worth answering with more than, "Maybe He had a plan."
It was a good enough explanation for Battlestar Galactica.
Because it "feels good?"!
Next thing you know you're going to say people should enjoy sex for non-procreative purposes!