What happened was that pro-Hillary goons beat up on Trump supporters at his rallies. People were scared to admit they were voting for Trump. When asked, they said they were voting Clinton. But when election day came, they voted Trump. The fear of speaking up for Trump led many people to think Hillary had it in the bag. No need to go campaign in Michigan or Wisconsin, etc.
Ironically, if the democrat goons had not scared Trump supporters into silence, they would've heard from those supporters, and known that they had to work harder in Michigan/Wisconsin/etc.
If you're an MBA at an auto manufacturer, you probably want people to trade in their cars after a year or two, rather than keeping them for 9 or 10 years. If you're an MBA at Apple, you want people to throw away their $1,000plus iToy every year or two, rather than keeping it for several years. Same thing here. Language writers love writing new languages, but can't be bothered with maintenance and fixing bugs.
> How would none of the thousands of Alphabay members > not have noticed this email address and doxxed him earlier?
Think about this carefully... do you ***REALLY*** want law enforcement to know that you're a member of Alphabay? Guess what happens when they seize the servers and find what transactions you did there. A police undercover agent is the only guy who could admit to being on Alphabay, assuming that he was investigating it. Anybody else ends up in the slammer.
> The only sad part is, if everyone here used all the energy they > have to hate on SystemD, to actually fix those bugs, we wouldn't > be having these discussions about how buggy it is.
You've hear of how the best "Widnows solution" is linux? Well, the best "systemd fix" is openrc.
In today's difficult job market, that's what you're effectively saying. As long as you and your boss keep quiet about your personal likes/dislikes, you can get along at work. Even if things aren't happy at the office, at least you're making the car payments and rent while searching for a better job.
Hydro power is already 100% spoken for in the western world. The extra electricity to power electric vehicles will come from any of nuclear, gas-burning, or coal-burning generators. A few percent of the demand *MIGHT* come from wind and solar.
> they could just put a mesh net over the prison yard. maybe take it out of the > budget they use for locking up non-violent offenders for decades at a time.
While we're at it, use metallic mesh, e.g. chicken wire. In addition to blocking dropped objects, it would also block radio waves. Note that *BLOCKING* radio transmissions is perfectly legal, as opposed to *JAMMING* radio signals.
There's already a preccedent for lawsuits about cutting out content http://www.vanityfair.com/holl... A legitimate outfit that deletes x-rated content from DVD/BluRay videos *THAT YOU HAVE LEGITIMATELY PURCHASED* has been sued for merely deleting sex scenes, etc.
This is an ugly precedent. If you circumvent DRM to block ads, that'll be yet another charge they can throw against you. This would probably include even something as simple as noscript or a hosts file.
> Quiet motorcycles are fine with me, I just hate the stupid loud ones.
You mean the big Harley's with big "bikers" on them. I think they deliberately disable the muffler. While we're at it, the idiots who disable mufflers on cars are no better. It's all about "being macho".
> Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be consumed, > President Bill Clinton's White House feared that the Internet was allowing average > citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers and access > information that had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press. > > The infamous 1995 "conspiracy commerce memo" tried to demonize and discredit alternative > media outlets on the right to mainstream media organizations and D.C. establishment figures.
President Kennedy made Bill Clinton look like a saint. He was fucking women all over the place, e.g. Marilyn Monroe. But there was no internet back in the early 1960's, and the MSM lapdogs were all protective of a Democrat president. Compare that with Bill Clinton in 1998. The MSM were still protecting their Democrat president. But there was now a thing called "the internet" or "the web". Along came a lowly store clerk (Matt Drudge) with a modem
> Web Posted: 01/17/98 23:32:47 PST -- NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERN > > BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT > > **World Exclusive** > **Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT** > > At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, NEWSWEEK magazine > killed a story that was destined to shake official Washington to its foundation: A White House > intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States!
Up to the 1970's, the big music market was teenagers with limited disposable income buying 45 RPM records for approximately $1. They were only interested in the "A side" (the heavily promoted song) and "B side" took on a derrogatory meaning. Since the focus was on 1 song on the record, it was also known as a "single". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So teenagers were buying one song for approximately $1 (does that sound familiar?). Then the music industry went over to CDs. A kid with limited allowance from his/her parents could no longer buy the latest hit for $1. He or she had to pay $20 or $25 for the entire CD, just to get one or two "hits". Parents did not instantly increase kids' allowances by a factor of 20, so music purchases plummetted. Well... like... dohhhh. Of course the MPAA blamed it on piracy.
It was only when Apple used its power to drag the music industry, kicking and screaming, back to single-song sales for $1 (digital format this time), that music sales recovered.
There is a lesson for cable TV here. Give people a-la-carte, i.e. an option to pay a reasonable price for just the channels that they want, and they'll pay for it. If you insist on selling only "the-500-channel-universe" for an arm and a leg, sales will plummet.
1) There is a maximum amount of solar energy available. In round numbers, it's approximately 1 kilowatt per square metre at the earth's surface... period... end of story. You're *NOT* going to see a "Moore's Law" boosting solar panels every year into infinity. Current solar panels are from 15 to 23 percent efficient, and degrade with age. Yes, there is room for improvement, but there is a hard ceiling.
2) Solar panels produce 300 times as much toxic waste per unit of energy output versus nuclear powerplants http://www.theenergycollective... Definitely *NOT* "green".
> Take away either the US or the Russian efforts in the war would have > likely resulted in the Axis winning over the Allies. Without the US, > Europe would have been routed allowing Germany to focus on Russian front.
Knocking out Russia (i.e. Stalin gets killed by artillery fire in Moscow) would've meant Axis victory in Europe. Agreed there. But disagree about US non-entry allowing German victory. Hitler's forces were starting to lose a few battles on the Eastern Front in November 1941, *BEFORE* Pearl Harbor. US non-entry would've envtually meant the "Iron Curtain" at the English Channel, as the Russkies pushed back retreating German forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> However, von Reichenau saw at once that von Rundstedt was right and > succeeded in persuading Hitler, via Franz Halder, to authorise the > withdrawal, and the 1st Panzer Army was forced back to the Mius River > at Taganrog. It was the first significant German withdrawal of the war.
Then came the winter of 1941-42, which dealt the Russians a body blow.
> US beat Japan, not Russia. Russia had only the briefest interaction > with Japan. Had Russia been forced to deal with Japan for real, > they wouldn't have been able to sustain such force against Germany.
Japan's military was a joke once they left jungles, and ventured onto open plains. Russia kicked Japanese butt in the summer of 1939 in the Battles of Khalkin Gol, of which the Battle of Nomonhan was the most notable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Brief analysis... the Japanese "tanks" were small, lightweight, glorified tin cans that were very maneouverable in the jungle. And Japanese soldiers were damn good at jungle warfare. However, once they ventured into open terrain against heavily-armoured open-terrain tanks, Japanese forces were slaughtered. After signing a cease-fire on September 15, 1939, Japan never bothered the Russkies again.
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It's bad enough to get get fired for a post about how your job sucks. But people seem to get offended by anything on Facebook. Case in point, teacher Ashley Payne photos holding a couple of glasses of alcohol... *WHILE ON VACATION*. And no, this was not a face-down-in-her-own-vomit-wearing-only-panties photo. http://www.georgianewsday.com/... If innocent stuff like that can get you fired, screw Facebook.
> Did people freak out like this when self-service instead > of full-service at the gas station became the norm?
If they had to navigate umpteen levels of menus, yes they probably would've, At "gas stations" you'l probably see at most 3 different options... Regular/Premium/Diesel. And the pump nozzles are supposed to be sized to match the car's fuel-tank nozzle, so even that is partially idiot-proof.
> Unfortunately in a cable topology that's not practical at the individual level. > It's a shared medium to the node. And even then, the nodes aren't the be-all > end-all of the system, so having different nodes on different ISPs is not easily done.
In Canada we have TPIA (Third Party ISP Access) I can get internet service from Rogers Cable (the incumbent), the owner of the physical plant. Or I can get cable internet over the same wire from any of several 3rd-party ISPs, at lower rates.
Manufacturers are effing *CHEAP*. Yes you might be able to mesh network a device with a 2-cent chip. But you can't make a *SECURE* device for 2 cents. You'll get the usual idiot practices of hardcoded passwords being the same for all products of the same model, communicating by cleartext telnet. When bricked devices start being returned in droves, watch for manufacturers to change their minds quickly.
Ditto for not operating when not connected. maybe Brickerbot can get some of these devices to transmit a random noise signal at max power. Eventually it'll become like wifi in my condo, where I can see 25+ neighbours' systems fighting over the same 11 channels. If it needs connectivity to work at all, a *LOT* of people will avoid it.
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What happened was that pro-Hillary goons beat up on Trump supporters at his rallies. People were scared to admit they were voting for Trump. When asked, they said they were voting Clinton. But when election day came, they voted Trump. The fear of speaking up for Trump led many people to think Hillary had it in the bag. No need to go campaign in Michigan or Wisconsin, etc.
Ironically, if the democrat goons had not scared Trump supporters into silence, they would've heard from those supporters, and known that they had to work harder in Michigan/Wisconsin/etc.
If you're an MBA at an auto manufacturer, you probably want people to trade in their cars after a year or two, rather than keeping them for 9 or 10 years. If you're an MBA at Apple, you want people to throw away their $1,000plus iToy every year or two, rather than keeping it for several years. Same thing here. Language writers love writing new languages, but can't be bothered with maintenance and fixing bugs.
> So now the portion of my travel time taken up by TSA is even greater? Fuck that, I'll take a train.
Don't look now, but TSA could soon also stand for "Train Security Assholes"... http://thehill.com/policy/tran...
> How would none of the thousands of Alphabay members
> not have noticed this email address and doxxed him earlier?
Think about this carefully... do you ***REALLY*** want law enforcement to know that you're a member of Alphabay? Guess what happens when they seize the servers and find what transactions you did there. A police undercover agent is the only guy who could admit to being on Alphabay, assuming that he was investigating it. Anybody else ends up in the slammer.
Nuff said
> The only sad part is, if everyone here used all the energy they
> have to hate on SystemD, to actually fix those bugs, we wouldn't
> be having these discussions about how buggy it is.
You've hear of how the best "Widnows solution" is linux? Well, the best "systemd fix" is openrc.
> You would probably be better off not working...
In today's difficult job market, that's what you're effectively saying. As long as you and your boss keep quiet about your personal likes/dislikes, you can get along at work. Even if things aren't happy at the office, at least you're making the car payments and rent while searching for a better job.
Block input and out from and to the following CIDRs. The one that affects you will depend on what country you're in.
31.13.24.0/21
31.13.64.0/18
66.220.144.0/20
69.63.176.0/20
69.171.224.0/19
74.119.76.0/22
103.4.96.0/22
173.252.64.0/18
204.15.20.0/22
Hydro power is already 100% spoken for in the western world. The extra electricity to power electric vehicles will come from any of nuclear, gas-burning, or coal-burning generators. A few percent of the demand *MIGHT* come from wind and solar.
> they could just put a mesh net over the prison yard. maybe take it out of the
> budget they use for locking up non-violent offenders for decades at a time.
While we're at it, use metallic mesh, e.g. chicken wire. In addition to blocking dropped objects, it would also block radio waves. Note that *BLOCKING* radio transmissions is perfectly legal, as opposed to *JAMMING* radio signals.
There's already a preccedent for lawsuits about cutting out content http://www.vanityfair.com/holl... A legitimate outfit that deletes x-rated content from DVD/BluRay videos *THAT YOU HAVE LEGITIMATELY PURCHASED* has been sued for merely deleting sex scenes, etc.
This is an ugly precedent. If you circumvent DRM to block ads, that'll be yet another charge they can throw against you. This would probably include even something as simple as noscript or a hosts file.
> Quiet motorcycles are fine with me, I just hate the stupid loud ones.
You mean the big Harley's with big "bikers" on them. I think they deliberately disable the muffler. While we're at it, the idiots who disable mufflers on cars are no better. It's all about "being macho".
1) Pass wierd legislation authorizing huge fines for whatever
2) Levy huge fines against American companies
3) Profit!
The Democrats are a conspiracy to convince people to vote Republican
The Republicans are a conspiracy to convince people to vote Democrat
http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...
> Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be consumed,
> President Bill Clinton's White House feared that the Internet was allowing average
> citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers and access
> information that had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.
>
> The infamous 1995 "conspiracy commerce memo" tried to demonize and discredit alternative
> media outlets on the right to mainstream media organizations and D.C. establishment figures.
President Kennedy made Bill Clinton look like a saint. He was fucking women all over the place, e.g. Marilyn Monroe. But there was no internet back in the early 1960's, and the MSM lapdogs were all protective of a Democrat president. Compare that with Bill Clinton in 1998. The MSM were still protecting their Democrat president. But there was now a thing called "the internet" or "the web". Along came a lowly store clerk (Matt Drudge) with a modem
http://australianpolitics.com/...
> Web Posted: 01/17/98 23:32:47 PST -- NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERN
>
> BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT
>
> **World Exclusive**
> **Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**
>
> At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, NEWSWEEK magazine
> killed a story that was destined to shake official Washington to its foundation: A White House
> intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States!
Hillary Clinton's response was to lament the lack of "internet gatekeepers". http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...
Up to the 1970's, the big music market was teenagers with limited disposable income buying 45 RPM records for approximately $1. They were only interested in the "A side" (the heavily promoted song) and "B side" took on a derrogatory meaning. Since the focus was on 1 song on the record, it was also known as a "single". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So teenagers were buying one song for approximately $1 (does that sound familiar?). Then the music industry went over to CDs. A kid with limited allowance from his/her parents could no longer buy the latest hit for $1. He or she had to pay $20 or $25 for the entire CD, just to get one or two "hits". Parents did not instantly increase kids' allowances by a factor of 20, so music purchases plummetted. Well... like... dohhhh. Of course the MPAA blamed it on piracy.
It was only when Apple used its power to drag the music industry, kicking and screaming, back to single-song sales for $1 (digital format this time), that music sales recovered.
There is a lesson for cable TV here. Give people a-la-carte, i.e. an option to pay a reasonable price for just the channels that they want, and they'll pay for it. If you insist on selling only "the-500-channel-universe" for an arm and a leg, sales will plummet.
1) There is a maximum amount of solar energy available. In round numbers, it's approximately 1 kilowatt per square metre at the earth's surface... period... end of story. You're *NOT* going to see a "Moore's Law" boosting solar panels every year into infinity. Current solar panels are from 15 to 23 percent efficient, and degrade with age. Yes, there is room for improvement, but there is a hard ceiling.
2) Solar panels produce 300 times as much toxic waste per unit of energy output versus nuclear powerplants http://www.theenergycollective... Definitely *NOT* "green".
> Take away either the US or the Russian efforts in the war would have
> likely resulted in the Axis winning over the Allies. Without the US,
> Europe would have been routed allowing Germany to focus on Russian front.
Knocking out Russia (i.e. Stalin gets killed by artillery fire in Moscow) would've meant Axis victory in Europe. Agreed there. But disagree about US non-entry allowing German victory. Hitler's forces were starting to lose a few battles on the Eastern Front in November 1941, *BEFORE* Pearl Harbor. US non-entry would've envtually meant the "Iron Curtain" at the English Channel, as the Russkies pushed back retreating German forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> However, von Reichenau saw at once that von Rundstedt was right and
> succeeded in persuading Hitler, via Franz Halder, to authorise the
> withdrawal, and the 1st Panzer Army was forced back to the Mius River
> at Taganrog. It was the first significant German withdrawal of the war.
Then came the winter of 1941-42, which dealt the Russians a body blow.
> US beat Japan, not Russia. Russia had only the briefest interaction
> with Japan. Had Russia been forced to deal with Japan for real,
> they wouldn't have been able to sustain such force against Germany.
Japan's military was a joke once they left jungles, and ventured onto open plains. Russia kicked Japanese butt in the summer of 1939 in the Battles of Khalkin Gol, of which the Battle of Nomonhan was the most notable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Brief analysis... the Japanese "tanks" were small, lightweight, glorified tin cans that were very maneouverable in the jungle. And Japanese soldiers were damn good at jungle warfare. However, once they ventured into open terrain against heavily-armoured open-terrain tanks, Japanese forces were slaughtered. After signing a cease-fire on September 15, 1939, Japan never bothered the Russkies again.
Hello; this is Rachel at Tax Services. We understand that you got a free upgrade to Windows 10. Because it was free, there is a gift tax payment outstanding. Either you or your attorney must call us immediately at 1-800-xxx-xxxx to settle this outstanding bill or else you will face immediate arrest. We only accept payment in Itunes cards.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/...
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks
It's bad enough to get get fired for a post about how your job sucks. But people seem to get offended by anything on Facebook. Case in point, teacher Ashley Payne photos holding a couple of glasses of alcohol... *WHILE ON VACATION*. And no, this was not a face-down-in-her-own-vomit-wearing-only-panties photo. http://www.georgianewsday.com/... If innocent stuff like that can get you fired, screw Facebook.
Bringing back the "good ol days" of Slashdot.
> Did people freak out like this when self-service instead
> of full-service at the gas station became the norm?
If they had to navigate umpteen levels of menus, yes they probably would've, At "gas stations" you'l probably see at most 3 different options... Regular/Premium/Diesel. And the pump nozzles are supposed to be sized to match the car's fuel-tank nozzle, so even that is partially idiot-proof.
> Unfortunately in a cable topology that's not practical at the individual level.
> It's a shared medium to the node. And even then, the nodes aren't the be-all
> end-all of the system, so having different nodes on different ISPs is not easily done.
In Canada we have TPIA (Third Party ISP Access) I can get internet service from Rogers Cable (the incumbent), the owner of the physical plant. Or I can get cable internet over the same wire from any of several 3rd-party ISPs, at lower rates.
Manufacturers are effing *CHEAP*. Yes you might be able to mesh network a device with a 2-cent chip. But you can't make a *SECURE* device for 2 cents. You'll get the usual idiot practices of hardcoded passwords being the same for all products of the same model, communicating by cleartext telnet. When bricked devices start being returned in droves, watch for manufacturers to change their minds quickly.
Ditto for not operating when not connected. maybe Brickerbot can get some of these devices to transmit a random noise signal at max power. Eventually it'll become like wifi in my condo, where I can see 25+ neighbours' systems fighting over the same 11 channels. If it needs connectivity to work at all, a *LOT* of people will avoid it.