The excuse is to catch criminals. How much more honest is that really compared to any other nation? In any case, if candor is all that is required in your mind's eye to mend the broken relationship between government and citizens, then I'm afraid you're beyond the reach of reason.
Consumer interest groups like the ACLU are free to exist and operate in the US to fight directly against government overstep. Try setting up the equivalent of an ACLU in China. Actually you don't even need such a lofty goal, just try being a human rights lawyer in China and see what happens.
Well, it takes coherence and coordination to pull off any type of complex group action. Flashmobs too -- as anonymous, random, and simple as they are -- but there's no flashmob without someone making the facebook page and others spreading the link. There is structure and a hierarchy of influence. Additionally, perhaps you're right that referring to Anonymous as a whole is imprecise. Perhaps we can call last month's hacks the work of Anonymous.antiSONY();, and this month's silly antics performed by Anonymous.antiNATO();
Funny how when Anon gets bruised they're sympathetically painted as hero underdogs looking out for the public, and when they triumph they're just in it for the lulz and whatever damage they caused for shits and giggles doesn't matter.
Would they have the same legal problems if they didn't use app stores? In any case they should probably: 1. Throw away that "original" idea of a Crush The Castle or Galaga clone 2. Make a compelling niche game based on at least some research and innovation. 3. Use social media to publicize.
Do the GM assembly plants in the UK even make Cadillacs? If not, then that Cadillac is imported whole and you can probably expect very high import tariffs on top of the VAT.
But it does absolutely nothing about the issues, both real and perceived
Very good point right there. Even if you deal with the real issues, you'll still have to deal with the perceived. The US can totally pull out of the middle east, and there will still be terrorism aimed at it from the middle east just for the sake of having association with another entity, e.g. Israel, Turkey, India, allies who interfere in Africa, etc. Perceived injustice is a personal opinion, and those don't go away just because you make concessions.
Well, it'd be easier to catch impropriety here than in China or Taiwan. At least Wikileaks and myriad of other groups aren't afraid of releasing evidence of wrong doing committed by the US entities, and we have plenty of whistleblowers with public interest in mind to provide them the data. If we depend on China for supply, what leaks organisation will dare keep them in check? I suspect no one.
After al-Asiri entered a small room to speak with Prince Mohammed, he activated a small improvised explosive device (IED) he had been carrying inside his anal cavity. The resulting explosion ripped al-Asiri to shreds but only lightly injured the shocked prince
Human flesh can absorb quite a large percentage of the force of an explosion -- for example the soldier who saves his buddies a meter away because he threw himself on a grenade. The damage from an implanted bomb should be far less than one that's carried. So a small implant would probably not cause much harm, which would mean terrorists resorting to implants larger than what they would normally carry. These would be very uncomfortable, perhaps enough such that behavioral indicators (how one bends or sits down) can be used effectively to narrow the profile of such people without resorting to physically checking everyone for scars. Forcing them to take up implants would make the back scatter machines rather useless, but it might have the side effect of making previously less useful detection methods more effective.
Also, bombs are easy to make, but not many can perform successful surgery, which means their support network will further depend on specially trained people, in which case their level of dependency goes up and decentralization goes down, making them more vulnerable to detection in the planning stage should they choose to go down this path.
You're right, but we all know where these down-voting mods are from;) They up-vote the ones that rightly criticize the US, but can't handle the greater truth.
If it's anything like the typical online filtering, anything that contains sensitive words will never make past the submit button. It just won't get published, and if you keep at it you'll get the 502 bad gateway error (ip lockout) for the next 15 minutes. If you post something egregious like asking other people for support (trying to form a rally group), you might get a knock at the door.
Good point, protesting the foregone past does seem pretty silly. But what would you say about a memorial being built? Or perhaps a solemn discussion of what transpired, and the lessons we've learned as a society? Well, in China attempts to do either have been met with censorship and punishment.
What did we do after Kent State here in the US? We mourned, we fought for answers, we reflected, we changed, we put the shameful truth in our history books for all to see. People grow up on the knowledge of this event, and it shapes their world view and moral character. In owning up to our mistakes we become a better nation. You're right that protesting the past is useless, but it seems all the rest that we can do isn't so useless.
So maybe Kent State is not as much a point of similarity that the US shares with China as one that sets it apart.
Now, about your class back in the 80's. You guys may have glossed through that part, but my AP US History class 10 years ago was assigned a 2 page essay, and let me tell you 2 pages is excruciating for a 10th grader. Times are changing;)
I wasn't alive at the time, but I did learn about it in history class here in the US years later. I got to hear everyone who had an opinion condemn the national guard rather than the students. I learned there was the memorial paid by public funds, and the commemorations that happened year after year. Not to mention the greater emphasis on non-lethal means of riot control brought forth as a result of the incident.
Were you trying to equate Kent State to Tiananmen? Because you failed really hard.
Actually, I shouldn't have said it was effective, since plenty of people have illegal satellite installs, especially when they're so inconspicuously small nowadays. But there certainly is an effort to keep control.
Satellite dishes by themselves aren't illegal. What's illegal is private installation of satellite dish systems. Only the state-approved companies are allowed to install their dishes and decoder boxes, and equipment import/sale is heavily regulated. If private installations are found, you'll be fined and you'll have the option of removing it yourself or have it forcibly removed by public security. That sort of control effectively locks out anything you're not allowed to see.
everything that the United States, with a weak economy, should be doing, China, with a strong economy, IS doing
Trouble is, if you actually enumerate these things in a list and publicly support them on Slashdot, you'll be called a right-wing corporatism-supporting fascist who wants to rob from entitlements to subsidize business.
Really? People I know are always complaining. Housing prices, food prices, import duties where you'd pay 2x what people of other countries pay when they import. And then there's the constant strife between gov officials and public, disharmony between migrants and locals, increasing labor and civil rights disputes year after year, a handful I know even openly worry that there'll be civil war in their lifetimes (and they're 40+ year old businessmen who should be the most reassured).
I'm not going to support the silly besmirching of political leanings by you or the gp, but it does seem like the legislature is doing this not out of a sincere desire to make sure essential services are kept running, but because they're scared of the potential backlash if they make the hard choice that would balance the budget. Roads, street lights, defense are all paid for with other taxes (gas, property, income), whereas this sales tax mostly helps to maintain discretionary spending (i.e. vote-bribing funds), and is just an easy out for them relative to the other options they have. Easy way doesn't always mean best way. Making these guys into heroes who are defending our lifestyles seems a stretch.
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oops you're right. C words come and go in my head and I got em mixed up in there somewhere :D
The excuse is to catch criminals. How much more honest is that really compared to any other nation?
In any case, if candor is all that is required in your mind's eye to mend the broken relationship between government and citizens, then I'm afraid you're beyond the reach of reason.
Consumer interest groups like the ACLU are free to exist and operate in the US to fight directly against government overstep. Try setting up the equivalent of an ACLU in China. Actually you don't even need such a lofty goal, just try being a human rights lawyer in China and see what happens.
Well, it takes coherence and coordination to pull off any type of complex group action. Flashmobs too -- as anonymous, random, and simple as they are -- but there's no flashmob without someone making the facebook page and others spreading the link. There is structure and a hierarchy of influence. Additionally, perhaps you're right that referring to Anonymous as a whole is imprecise. Perhaps we can call last month's hacks the work of Anonymous.antiSONY();, and this month's silly antics performed by Anonymous.antiNATO();
Would that make you Slashdot pedants happy?
Funny how when Anon gets bruised they're sympathetically painted as hero underdogs looking out for the public, and when they triumph they're just in it for the lulz and whatever damage they caused for shits and giggles doesn't matter.
As regular brown dwarfs would have you know, "ultracool" brown dwarfs are actually hipster poseurs.
Would they have the same legal problems if they didn't use app stores?
In any case they should probably:
1. Throw away that "original" idea of a Crush The Castle or Galaga clone
2. Make a compelling niche game based on at least some research and innovation.
3. Use social media to publicize.
Should have gone with Discover lvl 6: Fusion Power
Do the GM assembly plants in the UK even make Cadillacs? If not, then that Cadillac is imported whole and you can probably expect very high import tariffs on top of the VAT.
Anything happen when you search Tiananmen in the Slashdot searchbox? It used to time out the entire domain for me.
a little preemptive reward to push them in the right direction maybe? We know it worked out last time.
But it does absolutely nothing about the issues, both real and perceived
Very good point right there. Even if you deal with the real issues, you'll still have to deal with the perceived. The US can totally pull out of the middle east, and there will still be terrorism aimed at it from the middle east just for the sake of having association with another entity, e.g. Israel, Turkey, India, allies who interfere in Africa, etc. Perceived injustice is a personal opinion, and those don't go away just because you make concessions.
Well, it'd be easier to catch impropriety here than in China or Taiwan. At least Wikileaks and myriad of other groups aren't afraid of releasing evidence of wrong doing committed by the US entities, and we have plenty of whistleblowers with public interest in mind to provide them the data. If we depend on China for supply, what leaks organisation will dare keep them in check? I suspect no one.
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After al-Asiri entered a small room to speak with Prince Mohammed, he activated a small improvised explosive device (IED) he had been carrying inside his anal cavity. The resulting explosion ripped al-Asiri to shreds but only lightly injured the shocked prince
Human flesh can absorb quite a large percentage of the force of an explosion -- for example the soldier who saves his buddies a meter away because he threw himself on a grenade. The damage from an implanted bomb should be far less than one that's carried. So a small implant would probably not cause much harm, which would mean terrorists resorting to implants larger than what they would normally carry. These would be very uncomfortable, perhaps enough such that behavioral indicators (how one bends or sits down) can be used effectively to narrow the profile of such people without resorting to physically checking everyone for scars. Forcing them to take up implants would make the back scatter machines rather useless, but it might have the side effect of making previously less useful detection methods more effective.
Also, bombs are easy to make, but not many can perform successful surgery, which means their support network will further depend on specially trained people, in which case their level of dependency goes up and decentralization goes down, making them more vulnerable to detection in the planning stage should they choose to go down this path.
Just my apolitical 2 cents.
You're right, but we all know where these down-voting mods are from ;) They up-vote the ones that rightly criticize the US, but can't handle the greater truth.
He could just as well be talking about every major country in Europe.
If it's anything like the typical online filtering, anything that contains sensitive words will never make past the submit button. It just won't get published, and if you keep at it you'll get the 502 bad gateway error (ip lockout) for the next 15 minutes. If you post something egregious like asking other people for support (trying to form a rally group), you might get a knock at the door.
Good point, protesting the foregone past does seem pretty silly. But what would you say about a memorial being built? Or perhaps a solemn discussion of what transpired, and the lessons we've learned as a society? Well, in China attempts to do either have been met with censorship and punishment.
What did we do after Kent State here in the US? We mourned, we fought for answers, we reflected, we changed, we put the shameful truth in our history books for all to see. People grow up on the knowledge of this event, and it shapes their world view and moral character. In owning up to our mistakes we become a better nation. You're right that protesting the past is useless, but it seems all the rest that we can do isn't so useless.
So maybe Kent State is not as much a point of similarity that the US shares with China as one that sets it apart.
Now, about your class back in the 80's. You guys may have glossed through that part, but my AP US History class 10 years ago was assigned a 2 page essay, and let me tell you 2 pages is excruciating for a 10th grader. Times are changing ;)
I wasn't alive at the time, but I did learn about it in history class here in the US years later. I got to hear everyone who had an opinion condemn the national guard rather than the students. I learned there was the memorial paid by public funds, and the commemorations that happened year after year. Not to mention the greater emphasis on non-lethal means of riot control brought forth as a result of the incident.
Were you trying to equate Kent State to Tiananmen? Because you failed really hard.
Actually, I shouldn't have said it was effective, since plenty of people have illegal satellite installs, especially when they're so inconspicuously small nowadays. But there certainly is an effort to keep control.
Satellite dishes by themselves aren't illegal. What's illegal is private installation of satellite dish systems. Only the state-approved companies are allowed to install their dishes and decoder boxes, and equipment import/sale is heavily regulated. If private installations are found, you'll be fined and you'll have the option of removing it yourself or have it forcibly removed by public security. That sort of control effectively locks out anything you're not allowed to see.
everything that the United States, with a weak economy, should be doing, China, with a strong economy, IS doing
Trouble is, if you actually enumerate these things in a list and publicly support them on Slashdot, you'll be called a right-wing corporatism-supporting fascist who wants to rob from entitlements to subsidize business.
Really? People I know are always complaining. Housing prices, food prices, import duties where you'd pay 2x what people of other countries pay when they import. And then there's the constant strife between gov officials and public, disharmony between migrants and locals, increasing labor and civil rights disputes year after year, a handful I know even openly worry that there'll be civil war in their lifetimes (and they're 40+ year old businessmen who should be the most reassured).
I'm not going to support the silly besmirching of political leanings by you or the gp, but it does seem like the legislature is doing this not out of a sincere desire to make sure essential services are kept running, but because they're scared of the potential backlash if they make the hard choice that would balance the budget. Roads, street lights, defense are all paid for with other taxes (gas, property, income), whereas this sales tax mostly helps to maintain discretionary spending (i.e. vote-bribing funds), and is just an easy out for them relative to the other options they have. Easy way doesn't always mean best way. Making these guys into heroes who are defending our lifestyles seems a stretch.