The man in the story was deported quickly, too quickly for intelligence services to wring him dry. When spies like him get caught, you need to do a thorough damage assessment, to find out exactly what they knew and how they got the information in the first place. If he penetrated Microsoft, we needed to know everything about it, what he got, how he got it, and who gave it to him. Why so fast? "the prospect of a public trial revealing embarrassing facts about Russian influence operations, like the targeting of a key Democratic Party financier close to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton." The [FBI's] criminal complaint stated that in February 2009 a New Jersey-based Russian, who posed as Cynthia Murphy and was later identified as SVR officer Lydia Guryev, met several times with a "prominent New York-based financier" who was active in politics and a "active fundraiser" for a "major political party, name omitted." He also was described as a "personal friend of [a current Cabinet official, name omitted]." Source. You can fill in the [name omitted] yourself - go ahead and guess.
I've tried several USB joysticks - not joypads, joysticks. The only kind I can ever find are optimized for playing Street Fighter type games and they totally suck for arcade gaming. They only have 8-directional movement which absolutely cripples you in some games. The joystick registers a mechanical "click" whenever it engages. It's either on or off, no middle ground. This is fine for Pac-Man but absolutely sucks at Joust and Gyruss. I've never seen a good analog stick, those are all optimized for flight sims. I did once see a nice arcade two-stick set with an integrated trackball for a sky-high price, advertised as the ultimate arcade stick...again, the same digital joystick optimized for Street Fighter.
You're missing the point - tattoos make you unique. Without them, you're just another standard human, another carbon copy drone. After you customize your skin, nobody will ever have anything like it. Like a snowflake, really, no two alike. Your tats become a part of who you are. I'd be lying if I said they weren't addictive, though! Just make sure you live among people who accept your uniqueness instead of intolerant fools.
I agree. What's needed is a sort of planned economy, to give jobs to everyone. With the plan in hand, we could make just the right amount of goods, with no waste. We could get rid of advertising as it would no longer be needed. There could be no more than 3 or 4 times pay difference between ordinary American peasants and the Ivy League elite. This system would only work if we were all on the same page about it, so we'd need political education at a national level. We could have sort of town meetings every Tuesday night where Obama could brief us by video on last week's progress and tell us what we need to work on for the coming week. Everyone would register in a work unit so we could make sure nobody missed the meeting.
Or you could just, you know, get another job. It's up to you. Where did this bizarre idea that someone else is responsible for your job come from? Has this idea ever been tried before, on a large scale? How did it work out?
Please stop perpetuating negative stereotypes. Guess what? *shock* *horror* There are actual people out there who do NOT fit the self-perpetuating "aspie" stereotype and who heartily enjoy the company of others, INCLUDING the company of strangers. Some of them even read Slashdot!
For the crime of being an unsmiling prick nerd, your ability to revoke others' geek cards has been revoked. Your loss of privileges will be updated the next time your geek card syncs with the cloud.
It might be worth asking: what did Web TV do right that made Chase list it as a supported browser? And made them keep the support until the present time?
Sssh! Don't say that! It's all about moral equivalence! Every time somebody says something about China or other repressive governments, the very next breath will contain some example, no matter how contrived, about how we are exactly the same if not worse. Refer to 1960s-era arguments handwaving away the USSR's political oppression by referring to Senator McCarthy.
Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." Once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.
Reductio ad Hitlerum, also argumentum ad Hitlerum, (dog Latin for "reduction to Hitler" or "argument to Hitler," respectively) is an ad hominem or ad misericordiam argument, and is an informal fallacy. Engaging in this fallacy is sometimes known as playing the Nazi card, by analogy to playing the race card.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html Here's a link for you to read, fascist. You might want to dwell on the part that says "disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind" because that's exactly where you're coming from, blackshirt. There have been many who advocated your views in the past, but since you've never heard of them, I'm sure your "only intelligent people should vote" idea has never, ever been tried before.
Sad to see the typical "project my feelings onto China" comments here - yet again. This has zippo to do with IP theft (China doesn't respect IP, remember?) or protectionism. It has everything to do with control.
In China, accurate maps are military secrets. There is no public USGS. Even Google Maps does not provide proper coordinates. This map phobia has to do with some ancient story about a stolen map. Indeed, being in possession of accurate maps of European countries could get you arrested or executed not so long ago. To print a map in China, you must contract with a local cartographic firm who will then do the work of producing your map for you. Needless to say, military facilities don't appear on such maps. It is simply not allowed to print maps otherwise. Look at the bottom of the Shanghai Tourist Map, you'll see the imprint of a cartograhpy company. I've seen tourist type maps before that seem to subvert this law by saying "for novelty purposes only" or "souvenir" but as always I'm sure the government could scrape around and find a reason to to shut them down, if it wanted.
Anyway, that's what this is all about. The government feels that it needs to have the balls of any online map making companies. JVs are a good way to get totally screwed in the China market. "Let's hold a vote about the future of the company! 51-49 result yet again! Oh well let's empty out the company checking account and put it in our pockets, we held a vote and majority rules!"
What a brutish approach to politics."So a few million die"
That's not brutish - it depends on the desired outcome. Walter Duranty retains his Pulitzer Prize to this day for covering up the deaths of a few million people. Don't be so quick to judge.
Uh, guy? The two quotes are from The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Nice refutation you did there, let me guess you wear a white hood and vote Republican, don't you?
You're basically repudiating thousands of years of history that culminates in sayings like "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." Hey, it can bring the viewpoint I advocate some temporary advantage, let's throw the whole system down and start discriminating on basis of intelligence. You do know denying voting rights to "stupid" people has a dark, fascist history, right?
How about this one? "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." What if said opinions are, in your opinion, "stupid"? After all, it's not inherently wrong to discriminate against stupid people.
It's really frightening to see feelings so solidly against representative government modded up to +5. When did Slashdot become a fascist playground? It says "people shouldn't have this much influence" right there. I suppose we should invest all effort into backing one leader and discard this annoying pointless squabbling that only results in inefficiencies.
July 1st. I said it already! No more corrections please. Darn four-letter months sound the same. (bet there are already 3 replies while I wait for my "slow down cowboy!" 120 second repost time)
June 1st is Canada Day! Congratulations to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, on the occasion of what will be her 58th anniversary as head of state of the Dominion of Canada! All loyal Canadians, bow your heads to royalty! (Hey, Obama did it so it's not all bad).
The makers of Thalidomide thought they were trying to do something positive as well I bet.
Ah, where would environmentalism be today without the false analogy fallacy?
In an analogy, two objects (or events), A and B are shown to be similar. Then it is argued that since A has property P, so also B must have property P. An analogy fails when the two objects, A and B, are different in a way which affects whether they both have property P.
They are not nutcases. They are powerful pressure groups, able to influence the policies that rule your life. Don't dismiss this as the work of discredited extremists, what government minister even has meetings with crazy extremists?
Some environmental groups have warned these cables could be used instead to import non-renewable electricity from coal- and gas-fired power stations in north Africa.
OK, who wants to get up and defend this one? Here we are, trying to do something positive, and environmentalists come down hard on it. Is anyone here surprised or consider this atypical? It's almost as if environmentalists don't want any development whatsoever to happen from now until the end of humanity.
The "fault is nobody's fault" is exactly what we're talking about! Don't resign in disgrace or commit suicide, just go on like nothing has happened. What BP is doing is crass modern Western shamelessness. Why is that that BP is the first thing that pops into mind? Can we have a higher discussion without interjecting the crisis of the month?
Besides, responsibility has been taken already, so if there are any screwups, we already know who to blame: "I ultimately take responsibility for solving this crisis. I am the president and the buck stops with me." - Obama, May 28 2010.
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The man in the story was deported quickly, too quickly for intelligence services to wring him dry. When spies like him get caught, you need to do a thorough damage assessment, to find out exactly what they knew and how they got the information in the first place. If he penetrated Microsoft, we needed to know everything about it, what he got, how he got it, and who gave it to him. Why so fast? "the prospect of a public trial revealing embarrassing facts about Russian influence operations, like the targeting of a key Democratic Party financier close to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton." The [FBI's] criminal complaint stated that in February 2009 a New Jersey-based Russian, who posed as Cynthia Murphy and was later identified as SVR officer Lydia Guryev, met several times with a "prominent New York-based financier" who was active in politics and a "active fundraiser" for a "major political party, name omitted." He also was described as a "personal friend of [a current Cabinet official, name omitted]." Source. You can fill in the [name omitted] yourself - go ahead and guess.
I've tried several USB joysticks - not joypads, joysticks. The only kind I can ever find are optimized for playing Street Fighter type games and they totally suck for arcade gaming. They only have 8-directional movement which absolutely cripples you in some games. The joystick registers a mechanical "click" whenever it engages. It's either on or off, no middle ground. This is fine for Pac-Man but absolutely sucks at Joust and Gyruss. I've never seen a good analog stick, those are all optimized for flight sims. I did once see a nice arcade two-stick set with an integrated trackball for a sky-high price, advertised as the ultimate arcade stick...again, the same digital joystick optimized for Street Fighter.
Great idea. Why don't you start it?
Yyyyyeah. How are you supposed to figure out what the software does unless you can read the code? Typical.
You're missing the point - tattoos make you unique. Without them, you're just another standard human, another carbon copy drone. After you customize your skin, nobody will ever have anything like it. Like a snowflake, really, no two alike. Your tats become a part of who you are. I'd be lying if I said they weren't addictive, though! Just make sure you live among people who accept your uniqueness instead of intolerant fools.
Or you could just, you know, get another job. It's up to you. Where did this bizarre idea that someone else is responsible for your job come from? Has this idea ever been tried before, on a large scale? How did it work out?
Please stop perpetuating negative stereotypes. Guess what? *shock* *horror* There are actual people out there who do NOT fit the self-perpetuating "aspie" stereotype and who heartily enjoy the company of others, INCLUDING the company of strangers. Some of them even read Slashdot!
For the crime of being an unsmiling prick nerd, your ability to revoke others' geek cards has been revoked. Your loss of privileges will be updated the next time your geek card syncs with the cloud.
It might be worth asking: what did Web TV do right that made Chase list it as a supported browser? And made them keep the support until the present time?
Sssh! Don't say that! It's all about moral equivalence! Every time somebody says something about China or other repressive governments, the very next breath will contain some example, no matter how contrived, about how we are exactly the same if not worse. Refer to 1960s-era arguments handwaving away the USSR's political oppression by referring to Senator McCarthy.
Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." Once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.
Reductio ad Hitlerum, also argumentum ad Hitlerum, (dog Latin for "reduction to Hitler" or "argument to Hitler," respectively) is an ad hominem or ad misericordiam argument, and is an informal fallacy. Engaging in this fallacy is sometimes known as playing the Nazi card, by analogy to playing the race card.
For the same reason that people joined Stalin's NKVD, or Chavez' Bolivarian Circles. Any more questions?
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html Here's a link for you to read, fascist. You might want to dwell on the part that says "disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind" because that's exactly where you're coming from, blackshirt. There have been many who advocated your views in the past, but since you've never heard of them, I'm sure your "only intelligent people should vote" idea has never, ever been tried before.
In China, accurate maps are military secrets. There is no public USGS. Even Google Maps does not provide proper coordinates. This map phobia has to do with some ancient story about a stolen map. Indeed, being in possession of accurate maps of European countries could get you arrested or executed not so long ago. To print a map in China, you must contract with a local cartographic firm who will then do the work of producing your map for you. Needless to say, military facilities don't appear on such maps. It is simply not allowed to print maps otherwise. Look at the bottom of the Shanghai Tourist Map, you'll see the imprint of a cartograhpy company. I've seen tourist type maps before that seem to subvert this law by saying "for novelty purposes only" or "souvenir" but as always I'm sure the government could scrape around and find a reason to to shut them down, if it wanted.
Anyway, that's what this is all about. The government feels that it needs to have the balls of any online map making companies. JVs are a good way to get totally screwed in the China market. "Let's hold a vote about the future of the company! 51-49 result yet again! Oh well let's empty out the company checking account and put it in our pockets, we held a vote and majority rules!"
That's not brutish - it depends on the desired outcome. Walter Duranty retains his Pulitzer Prize to this day for covering up the deaths of a few million people. Don't be so quick to judge.
Uh, guy? The two quotes are from The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Nice refutation you did there, let me guess you wear a white hood and vote Republican, don't you?
How about this one? "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." What if said opinions are, in your opinion, "stupid"? After all, it's not inherently wrong to discriminate against stupid people.
It's really frightening to see feelings so solidly against representative government modded up to +5. When did Slashdot become a fascist playground? It says "people shouldn't have this much influence" right there. I suppose we should invest all effort into backing one leader and discard this annoying pointless squabbling that only results in inefficiencies.
Letting the browser render the content to how the user sees fit is a feature, not a bug!
July 1st. I said it already! No more corrections please. Darn four-letter months sound the same. (bet there are already 3 replies while I wait for my "slow down cowboy!" 120 second repost time)
June 1st is Canada Day! Congratulations to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, on the occasion of what will be her 58th anniversary as head of state of the Dominion of Canada! All loyal Canadians, bow your heads to royalty! (Hey, Obama did it so it's not all bad).
The makers of Thalidomide thought they were trying to do something positive as well I bet.
Ah, where would environmentalism be today without the false analogy fallacy?
In an analogy, two objects (or events), A and B are shown to be similar. Then it is argued that since A has property P, so also B must have property P. An analogy fails when the two objects, A and B, are different in a way which affects whether they both have property P.
Well, I thought someone would come out and say why development in Africa is a bad idea. Thanks for restoring my faith in environmentalists!
They are not nutcases. They are powerful pressure groups, able to influence the policies that rule your life. Don't dismiss this as the work of discredited extremists, what government minister even has meetings with crazy extremists?
Some environmental groups have warned these cables could be used instead to import non-renewable electricity from coal- and gas-fired power stations in north Africa.
OK, who wants to get up and defend this one? Here we are, trying to do something positive, and environmentalists come down hard on it. Is anyone here surprised or consider this atypical? It's almost as if environmentalists don't want any development whatsoever to happen from now until the end of humanity.
The "fault is nobody's fault" is exactly what we're talking about! Don't resign in disgrace or commit suicide, just go on like nothing has happened. What BP is doing is crass modern Western shamelessness. Why is that that BP is the first thing that pops into mind? Can we have a higher discussion without interjecting the crisis of the month?
Besides, responsibility has been taken already, so if there are any screwups, we already know who to blame: "I ultimately take responsibility for solving this crisis. I am the president and the buck stops with me." - Obama, May 28 2010.