If I was the UK, I'd say screw that. These people have seen ISIS's website, they've read and heard the news for the past year, they have to have known what ISIS is really about and still they went. To help form a strict, severe, Islamic theocracy, and that's putting it nicely. There's no excuse, none. If they came back to Britain the first thing they'd do is hook up with Anjem "Chowderhead" Choudary.
I'm trying to figure out why this got downvoted. It's an extremely valid point. It seems like the "coalition" did little but target ISIS pickup trucks *until* the Russians came in and started bombing the oil facilities, raising the bar and doing some real damage to ISIS's economic infrastructure. Now the coalition is finally taking out some oil refineries but it's very little very late.
I am far, far from an anti-gun zealot (I already have my permit to buy, though I haven't yet) and I think from a purely technological POV, this design is "cool", but I agree, all in all this is a very bad idea.
If this sells well and becomes common, how are cops supposed differentiate between this gun and a cellphone from 10 feet away? This can only drive up the number of accidental shootings, causing more riots and violence. It sounds perfect for someone who wants to circumvent their state's concealed or open carry laws. It's awesome for James Bond, but out in the street..?
I have both an iPhone5 (personal) and a Galaxy S4 (for work); this is one area where the iPhone display is definitely better, I can read the retina display in bright sunlight fairly easily; the S4, it's very difficult, even with the brightness cranked.
Pretty sure he was referring to the context of the thing: "Hitler did nothing wrong" "Bush did 9-11", profanity, racial slurs, etc..etc.. It's pretty obvious the thing was hacked.
Oh, it's horrible, I know. We deal with them for cable TV. That said, I haven't found Verizon to be one stitch better. When I was to upgrade my DSL modem from them last year (free upgrade), I waited a week for the mail, and they sent a useless DSL filter kit instead, no modem. Ookay, I guess that happens. So I called them back, and could barely understand the guy (Indian, thick accent); they tried again. This time, I got a phone cord. I shit you not. A phone cord. Nothing else. Morons. I called again saying I was ready to drop their crap service, got an american or aussie guy on the phone, I explained everything, and he said for my trouble they'd send their top of the line modem/router for free (normally there's an extra charge for that).
A week later, wow, I actually got what they'd said they send. Finally. And then a month later, $67 showed on my bill for the "free" modem/router. Fuck Verizon.
I can't deal with DSL anymore, and the only other (better) game in my town is Xfinity/Comcast. I have no love for either them (or Verizon), but 25MB sounds a lot better than 3GB. But I think I'm SOL here where signing up through Amazon is concerned because I already have a Comcast account.. for cableTV. If I click on "existing customer", the Add Service button gets disabled. Ah well.
Sadly people in the US tend to picture the terrorists as being ignorant savages
Really? I think most view them as intelligent and resourceful savages.
This. Even immediately after 9-11 we acknowledged it as a "sophisticated" attack that took years in the planning, dry runs, etc..
Many of the lower level terrorists in the ground forces (like in Syria) might be simpletons, but we know they (ISIS, AQ) have seriously knowledgeable businessmen and scientists working for them too. That, combined with their unifying ideology and disciplined organization, is what makes modern terrorists so dangerous.
This whole thing is a bit misleading. Kindles update automatically, so this is only for some older models, and only if you've left it off in a drawer somewhere for the past couple of years. If you use the Kindle regularly, this should be a non-issue.
Not realistically, you can't.
First, it only housed a few hundred people at any time, and well less than a thousand all together, *most* of which were the most severe of terrorists, not thousands upon thousands of innocent people (along with captured soldiers), and there were no gas chambers, no ovens, and no mass starvation (hunger strikes were willingly initiated by the prisoners, not the guards - in Auschwitz, it would've been the other way around). Prisoners were even allowed a copy of their Q'uran. Waterboarding and sleep deprivation may be torture, but they're at the bottom of the relative scale.. it doesn't compare to the shit the Nazi's pulled, and the majority of prisoners were not waterboarded.
Indeed. I find it amusing that most slashdotters have full confidence in self driving cars, but so many find it hard to believe that a machine could grill a lousy burger and put some condiments on it; ostensibly because they don't like the idea of losing low wage jobs. What about the possibility of autonomous driving cars putting taxi drivers out of a job? If they ever get good enough that, as a passenger, you're not required to have a driver's license (hypothetically), for one example scenario, when you come out of the bar on Saturday night too plastered to legally drive, you won't need to call a taxi, just hop back in the backseat of your car and it'll drive you home.
Or worse, paired with the inevitable autonomous driving cars, if you're wanted for questioning, or late to court, your doors and windows will suddenly lock, and you'll find your car driving you directly to the nearest LEO facility, with you trapped inside to be delivered.
The hacking potential is also very scary. In the history of bad ideas, this one ranks pretty high.
I'm a Kasich supporter, but what is the definition of a "modern human being"? One that obsequiously bows to the fascist politically correct groupthink? "Think and do as I say, speak not what's on people's minds, criticize not, or be shamed into submission and ostracized relentlessly".
True, Trump bloviates, he paints with too broad a brush, he's crass, and he's vague (he needs to emphasize "illegal" immigrants, rather than "mexicans") but sometimes, some of his points, like "anchor babies" for example, are observationally valid. It's a real thing. Liberals, and some conservatives, got offended that he used that term, but no one got offended over the actual exploitative practice? That's a horrible reason to have and use a child. It's twisted that people got upset him over calling it what it is, unless one blindly denies it happens. That's PC for you.
I don't think he's a "hater", the word has been overused to the point where "hate" no longer means anything meaningful, it's been corrupted by hyperbole. Hate has come to mean "disagree" these days. Indifference is not hate. Disregard is not hate. Defensiveness and misunderstanding are not hate. It dilutes the danger of the people who actually are hateful, and it's insulting to people are victims of true hate.
But I'd rather see Kasich in office. At least he did good in Ohio.
Indeed. What Anonymous is doing is facist. Ironic. I don't support Sanders or Hillary(especially Hillary), but they have every right to conduct their campaign unimpeded.
I thought the article was totally silly until I read your comment. Now I think it's only maybe a little bit silly, you have some good points. Though...if you're the only passenger in the car (human backup!, I doubt the law would ever allow you that cocktail; and that's still two hours couped up in a rather confined space; more, if you hit traffic. But I could see it pushing that marginal decision over the line once in while.
I never said the "majority" number of random, disconnected attacks. What a useless metric.
What's important is the scale of the attacks: how many people killed, how much damage done, and the fact that there is a powerful organization behind it, bound by a common ideology and goals, actively plotting to do still more damage.
But... what if there is some unflattering FACT about a group that offends and insults most members of that group? Conversely, there may be flattering fact about a group that most members of the group find flattering.
I'd be interested in examples of what you mean here.
I'll just remark that (a) offensive speech is, absent libel or incitement, perfectly legal in the US, but people don't have to listen to you or let you use their property as a forum for that speech; and (b) it's also quite possible to lie using facts by quoting them out of context. In fact that's how the most skillful liars work. But lying is generally protected speech unless it's libel or fraud, so you're safe there.
1) The majority of organized terrorists operating in the world today, who have the largest organizations in terms of members and funding, and who have done the most damage in terms of cost (property) and lives, self-identify as muslims and explicitly act out in the name of Islam (ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Shabab, Al Nusra Front, Boko Haram, etc..).
2) Asians tend to do really well in mathematics, and academia in general.
You can also add slander to that list, BTW.
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If I was the UK, I'd say screw that. These people have seen ISIS's website, they've read and heard the news for the past year, they have to have known what ISIS is really about and still they went. To help form a strict, severe, Islamic theocracy, and that's putting it nicely. There's no excuse, none. If they came back to Britain the first thing they'd do is hook up with Anjem "Chowderhead" Choudary.
I'm trying to figure out why this got downvoted. It's an extremely valid point. It seems like the "coalition" did little but target ISIS pickup trucks *until* the Russians came in and started bombing the oil facilities, raising the bar and doing some real damage to ISIS's economic infrastructure. Now the coalition is finally taking out some oil refineries but it's very little very late.
I am far, far from an anti-gun zealot (I already have my permit to buy, though I haven't yet) and I think from a purely technological POV, this design is "cool", but I agree, all in all this is a very bad idea. ..?
If this sells well and becomes common, how are cops supposed differentiate between this gun and a cellphone from 10 feet away? This can only drive up the number of accidental shootings, causing more riots and violence. It sounds perfect for someone who wants to circumvent their state's concealed or open carry laws. It's awesome for James Bond, but out in the street
I have both an iPhone5 (personal) and a Galaxy S4 (for work); this is one area where the iPhone display is definitely better, I can read the retina display in bright sunlight fairly easily; the S4, it's very difficult, even with the brightness cranked.
What self respecting female doesn't know how to properly administer Oo-mox ?
Pretty sure he was referring to the context of the thing: "Hitler did nothing wrong" "Bush did 9-11", profanity, racial slurs, etc..etc.. It's pretty obvious the thing was hacked.
Maybe the Verizon tortoises are designing the data centers.
Oh, it's horrible, I know. We deal with them for cable TV. That said, I haven't found Verizon to be one stitch better. When I was to upgrade my DSL modem from them last year (free upgrade), I waited a week for the mail, and they sent a useless DSL filter kit instead, no modem. Ookay, I guess that happens. So I called them back, and could barely understand the guy (Indian, thick accent); they tried again. This time, I got a phone cord. I shit you not. A phone cord. Nothing else. Morons. I called again saying I was ready to drop their crap service, got an american or aussie guy on the phone, I explained everything, and he said for my trouble they'd send their top of the line modem/router for free (normally there's an extra charge for that).
A week later, wow, I actually got what they'd said they send. Finally. And then a month later, $67 showed on my bill for the "free" modem/router. Fuck Verizon.
Whoops, yeah, I butchered that.
I can't deal with DSL anymore, and the only other (better) game in my town is Xfinity/Comcast. I have no love for either them (or Verizon), but 25MB sounds a lot better than 3GB. But I think I'm SOL here where signing up through Amazon is concerned because I already have a Comcast account.. for cableTV. If I click on "existing customer", the Add Service button gets disabled. Ah well.
I'm buying them for my employees...
...of your bomb factory. ..in Yemen... ;)
Still think they're a "JV" team ?
Sadly people in the US tend to picture the terrorists as being ignorant savages
Really? I think most view them as intelligent and resourceful savages.
This. Even immediately after 9-11 we acknowledged it as a "sophisticated" attack that took years in the planning, dry runs, etc..
Many of the lower level terrorists in the ground forces (like in Syria) might be simpletons, but we know they (ISIS, AQ) have seriously knowledgeable businessmen and scientists working for them too. That, combined with their unifying ideology and disciplined organization, is what makes modern terrorists so dangerous.
Hasta la vista, coax..you von't be baack.
With that logic, all crimes are equal, because wrong is wrong.
This whole thing is a bit misleading. Kindles update automatically, so this is only for some older models, and only if you've left it off in a drawer somewhere for the past couple of years. If you use the Kindle regularly, this should be a non-issue.
Not realistically, you can't.
First, it only housed a few hundred people at any time, and well less than a thousand all together, *most* of which were the most severe of terrorists, not thousands upon thousands of innocent people (along with captured soldiers), and there were no gas chambers, no ovens, and no mass starvation (hunger strikes were willingly initiated by the prisoners, not the guards - in Auschwitz, it would've been the other way around). Prisoners were even allowed a copy of their Q'uran. Waterboarding and sleep deprivation may be torture, but they're at the bottom of the relative scale.. it doesn't compare to the shit the Nazi's pulled, and the majority of prisoners were not waterboarded.
Indeed. I find it amusing that most slashdotters have full confidence in self driving cars, but so many find it hard to believe that a machine could grill a lousy burger and put some condiments on it; ostensibly because they don't like the idea of losing low wage jobs. What about the possibility of autonomous driving cars putting taxi drivers out of a job? If they ever get good enough that, as a passenger, you're not required to have a driver's license (hypothetically), for one example scenario, when you come out of the bar on Saturday night too plastered to legally drive, you won't need to call a taxi, just hop back in the backseat of your car and it'll drive you home.
Or worse, paired with the inevitable autonomous driving cars, if you're wanted for questioning, or late to court, your doors and windows will suddenly lock, and you'll find your car driving you directly to the nearest LEO facility, with you trapped inside to be delivered.
The hacking potential is also very scary. In the history of bad ideas, this one ranks pretty high.
I'm a Kasich supporter, but what is the definition of a "modern human being"? One that obsequiously bows to the fascist politically correct groupthink? "Think and do as I say, speak not what's on people's minds, criticize not, or be shamed into submission and ostracized relentlessly".
True, Trump bloviates, he paints with too broad a brush, he's crass, and he's vague (he needs to emphasize "illegal" immigrants, rather than "mexicans") but sometimes, some of his points, like "anchor babies" for example, are observationally valid. It's a real thing. Liberals, and some conservatives, got offended that he used that term, but no one got offended over the actual exploitative practice? That's a horrible reason to have and use a child. It's twisted that people got upset him over calling it what it is, unless one blindly denies it happens. That's PC for you.
I don't think he's a "hater", the word has been overused to the point where "hate" no longer means anything meaningful, it's been corrupted by hyperbole. Hate has come to mean "disagree" these days. Indifference is not hate. Disregard is not hate. Defensiveness and misunderstanding are not hate. It dilutes the danger of the people who actually are hateful, and it's insulting to people are victims of true hate.
But I'd rather see Kasich in office. At least he did good in Ohio.
Indeed. What Anonymous is doing is facist. Ironic. I don't support Sanders or Hillary(especially Hillary), but they have every right to conduct their campaign unimpeded.
I thought the article was totally silly until I read your comment. Now I think it's only maybe a little bit silly, you have some good points. Though...if you're the only passenger in the car (human backup!, I doubt the law would ever allow you that cocktail; and that's still two hours couped up in a rather confined space; more, if you hit traffic. But I could see it pushing that marginal decision over the line once in while.
I never said the "majority" number of random, disconnected attacks. What a useless metric.
What's important is the scale of the attacks: how many people killed, how much damage done, and the fact that there is a powerful organization behind it, bound by a common ideology and goals, actively plotting to do still more damage.
But... what if there is some unflattering FACT about a group that offends and insults most members of that group? Conversely, there may be flattering fact about a group that most members of the group find flattering.
I'd be interested in examples of what you mean here.
I'll just remark that (a) offensive speech is, absent libel or incitement, perfectly legal in the US, but people don't have to listen to you or let you use their property as a forum for that speech; and (b) it's also quite possible to lie using facts by quoting them out of context. In fact that's how the most skillful liars work. But lying is generally protected speech unless it's libel or fraud, so you're safe there.
1) The majority of organized terrorists operating in the world today, who have the largest organizations in terms of members and funding, and who have done the most damage in terms of cost (property) and lives, self-identify as muslims and explicitly act out in the name of Islam (ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Shabab, Al Nusra Front, Boko Haram, etc..). 2) Asians tend to do really well in mathematics, and academia in general. You can also add slander to that list, BTW.
Not entirely sure.. it was before the "X" designations, I believe. Sonar 6, I think. It's been a while.