I think you are right, in that removing the source of anger is important. That, after all, is the point of anger, isn't it? Except that in so many situations you can't remove the source of anger by being angry. That's civilization for you: you can't haul of and smack somebody you disagree with into submission.
What about just walking away? That's the problem with society right now. Some people fool themselves into believing they can't walk away (now, I'm not saying everyone can walk away, for instance, a kid in a family, or a soldier in the military, or a guy in prison, but for almost everyone else living in the United States, the disgruntled post office worker, the abused girlfriend or boyfriend, the codependent adult, etc. All those other people are free to walk away, except they convinced themselves otherwise, and remain the prisoners of their own minds.)
There are firefox extensions that will help you change the user agent by which you're identified with, and there is Opera that lets you do that through its preferences, but that being said, it might just be easier to install the IE Tab addon on firefox -- that works just fine for me (on my old or my new computer, on my slow cheap dsl line, without any of the flickers that someone else was mentioning earlier).
From what I've seen and heard, the air force has a lot of technically skilled people in programming and hardware that would be able to pull this off.
Pull what off? Keeping the computers on their planes secure? Keeping their own communication lines secure? Keeping their own web sites up? What's their end objective here? How will you ever know if this is something that they actually succeed in?
How about giving this task to the Marines? You don't ever hear anyone hacking into their computers.
This sounds to me like they're trying to create another unlimited mandate, with an unclear objective and an unlimited budget, like the war on terror or the war on drugs, which will only make the Air Force a bigger cybertarget because that will only piss everyone off. And personally, it just pisses me off to no end that the Air Force is attempting this money-power-grab on my hard earned cash, and that they will probably fuck things up on the internet and impose stupid rules for the rest of us. Airplanes, black planes, and satellites are cool enough, they should just stick to that.
From what I've seen and heard, the air force has a lot of technically skilled people in programming and hardware that would be able to pull this off.
Yes, but those technically skilled people are obviously not high up in the chain of command. I don't care what kind of magical powers you think were bestowed upon those highly skilled people, but an unclear mission, unlimited scope creep, and a clueless and an unsupportive chain of command, are more than enough to sabotage any effort even by the greatest uber-genius-hacker-wizards you may have ever seen played in Hollywood action-packed movies.
Correction: There is no "should" in American science, learning about the subjunctive or the conditional is no longer a requirement in the US K-12 education. You sir, must be really old, or some kind of foreigner, to flaunt your advanced knowledge of both grammar and science.
Hey! That's not a fair statement. Someone in legal could find new innovative ways to sue competitors, create patents for areas that were previously unpatentable, and create new profits centers where previously none existed before. There is always more room to grow in that area.
By your definition, anybody who indulges in creative accounting has the ability to "print money". Playing those kinds of games can make you temporarily richer, but it doesn't actually increase the money supply. If it did, you could drop the "temporarily" from the above statement.
It's not the same thing. If I loan you money for instance, I need to have 100% of that money I'm loaning you. A bank on the other hand, is given the legal right to loan more money than it has in its reserves. It's a government-granted privilege no one else has.
Other people and other businesses can play creative accounting, but that's usually done at the level of the assets. That in itself does nothing to increase the money supply. The banks on the other hand are allowed to play creative accounting at the cash level. It's a completely different game.
You seem to be under the impression that all the banks just failed had the ability to print money. If they had, do you think they would have failed?
Banks are allowed to loan out more money than they have in their reserves. This is essentially a government-granted right to make money out of thin air.
That being said, during this banking crisis, only the banks that are reserve-rich, for instance all the banks that Warren Buffett owns, are able to make money out of thin air. The other banks, the ones that failed, had already exceeded their legal limit.
What printing too much money does is cause inflation. That's how the German hyperinflation happened. During that period, the German economy roared right along, and everybody was employed, even though they were paid with worthless paper.
May be, that's what caused our housing inflation then. The US economy was roaring along just fine, we were all making plenty of money, it's just that most of us couldn't afford to buy houses even with plenty money anymore.
It's like with any ponzi scheme, it all goes great initially, but then something got to give.
...the plugin routes you through a Chinese proxy. I can't imagine this open proxy will last long.
Either that, or the Chinese government was the one that set up the proxy, the Chinese government will strongly advise Chinese travelers to install that plugin, and it will start scanning laptops and cell phones for any sign of illegal content/web sites whenever Chinese people reenter their country. That being said, I'm probably just being freaking paranoid. A country like China could never be as repressive, no country could ever go that far.
Also, I'd find this study (or this survey???) far more persuasive if it had been sponsored by some organization like The Chamber of Commerce, and not sponsored by a social network mostly composed of other Web2.0 Social Networks Companies/Entrepreneurs/VCs.
I for one would prefer advanced fighter jet technology (i.e. F-22) to stay IN the united states and out of China, Russia, Israel, Iran...etc.
Have some kids, and teach them some math then.
China, Russia, Israel, and Iran, are some of our best technical feeder schools. The training gap, between American-born students and foreign-born students in the US, is growing. Don't let the mounting grade inflation, of our ivy league schools and mainstream technical universities, give you a false sense of peace and security.
It's doubtful that using the old "This is what they terms have always meant." will fly in a court of law. I am convinced that most ISP's will agree, that P2P users are absolultely "uploading". All networking equipment I have managed calls it that.
The initial seeder is the uploader, just like when someone used to place a file on a bbs -- that person was the uploader. Those laws were originally designed to punish one person out of hundreds of potential downloaders, now these laws are punishing pretty much everyone -- not just each initial seeder.
In a court of law, you don't say "This is what those terms have always meant." You say "This is what those terms meant at the time." And saying, "It doesn't matter what it used to mean at the time, it only matters what that word means now." will equally get you laughed out of court.
Maybe that's what Governor Palin means when she says small towns are more pro-America, she means they are still protected by the Constitution.
Either that, or she's still complaining that her town wouldn't let her fire the town's head librarian because the librarian was against "book banning" on principle.
I'm sure I'll be modded down for saying this, but gamers are usually the worst developers/IT personnel (although, I do agree that gamers are the most likely to enter our field). This move would only attract more gamers to your company. And by gamers, I mean people who play computer games at home every night.
That being said, I'm not speaking about the Techie who occasionally plays computer games once in a blue moon. And I'm not talking about the Techie who occasionally makes computer games (usually I find, there is a difference between the person who makes computer games and the person who constantly plays computer games).
I could see why you'd want to do this to other people's passports, but why do it to your own? Do you enjoy being detained by airport security before/after a long flight? Do you think the American government will pay to replace your defective passport?
And how exactly do you propose that governments go about doing that?
Because I assure you, they'd be very interested in the answer.
It's called profiling.
Round up all the Catholic priests, and lock them up in a camp with no internet access and no access to children. Next, start looking at any other subgroups/subcultures that are sexually repressed, or highly repressed in other ways, their members in position of authority tend to be the most likely to lash out and go to extremes. I'd include in that category: Irish nuns, Muslim Mullahs, refugees, and highly stressed out Japanese office men.
I'd also include some government officials to that list, I think we all know who these government officials are, but I'd exclude that fact from any proposal I'd give them.
I think the point is that the theft counted as part of the offense. In other words, rather than being viewed as assault, it was viewed as a mugging.
Also, the particular value of this property is what makes this assault particularly horrifying (at least, in the eyes of news reporting agencies). I know that in my neck of the woods, if someone gets mugged, beaten, and their life threatened with a knife, it doesn't count if real money was involved -- that's what we consider in my neck of woods -- good cause -- although we don't use those exact words. And we say things like, well he shouldn't have been carrying that much cash on him, or that's never going to happen to me -- I never carry that much on me, besides I don't drive a corvette, etc.
But if on the other hand, the mugger almost kills someone only to get a few dollars, or just to steal a stick of gum from him, that's when we lose all respect for the perpetrator -- in fact that's when we really get scared our self. It becomes a new class of crime, one without good cause, and one with basically unlimited potential, and it just shows how senseless, stupid, and young some of our young criminals can be.
I don't think you would be saying the same thing if it had be Mainland China that had confiscated domain names of foreign sites that their own Chinese citizens frequent.
Yes, but if the Feds take this too far, it could backfire on them. For instance, when the prisons took away the belts of inmates, and made them wear pants far too big for them, that eventually became a fashion statement. The same could happen for the Mongols, they could take this every which way, stop wearing jackets with their name on it, call themselves "nameless", use some other designation that's simpler than a full name, introduce themselves as the motorcycle gang that's "formerly known as" Mongols, etc. The government can sure try to legislate fashion, but I seriously doubt it's going to succeed (I only hope they're trying to put a crimp on their t-shirt sales, and that's all).
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What about just walking away? That's the problem with society right now. Some people fool themselves into believing they can't walk away (now, I'm not saying everyone can walk away, for instance, a kid in a family, or a soldier in the military, or a guy in prison, but for almost everyone else living in the United States, the disgruntled post office worker, the abused girlfriend or boyfriend, the codependent adult, etc. All those other people are free to walk away, except they convinced themselves otherwise, and remain the prisoners of their own minds.)
There are firefox extensions that will help you change the user agent by which you're identified with, and there is Opera that lets you do that through its preferences, but that being said, it might just be easier to install the IE Tab addon on firefox -- that works just fine for me (on my old or my new computer, on my slow cheap dsl line, without any of the flickers that someone else was mentioning earlier).
Pull what off? Keeping the computers on their planes secure? Keeping their own communication lines secure? Keeping their own web sites up? What's their end objective here? How will you ever know if this is something that they actually succeed in?
How about giving this task to the Marines? You don't ever hear anyone hacking into their computers.
This sounds to me like they're trying to create another unlimited mandate, with an unclear objective and an unlimited budget, like the war on terror or the war on drugs, which will only make the Air Force a bigger cybertarget because that will only piss everyone off. And personally, it just pisses me off to no end that the Air Force is attempting this money-power-grab on my hard earned cash, and that they will probably fuck things up on the internet and impose stupid rules for the rest of us. Airplanes, black planes, and satellites are cool enough, they should just stick to that.
Yes, but those technically skilled people are obviously not high up in the chain of command. I don't care what kind of magical powers you think were bestowed upon those highly skilled people, but an unclear mission, unlimited scope creep, and a clueless and an unsupportive chain of command, are more than enough to sabotage any effort even by the greatest uber-genius-hacker-wizards you may have ever seen played in Hollywood action-packed movies.
Correction: There is no "should" in American science, learning about the subjunctive or the conditional is no longer a requirement in the US K-12 education. You sir, must be really old, or some kind of foreigner, to flaunt your advanced knowledge of both grammar and science.
Does this mean netflix/silverlight can play on an iphone? All iphone users, I challenge you.
You mean you're doing it in the "IE Tab" extension inside Firefox?
Hey! That's not a fair statement. Someone in legal could find new innovative ways to sue competitors, create patents for areas that were previously unpatentable, and create new profits centers where previously none existed before. There is always more room to grow in that area.
It's not the same thing. If I loan you money for instance, I need to have 100% of that money I'm loaning you. A bank on the other hand, is given the legal right to loan more money than it has in its reserves. It's a government-granted privilege no one else has.
Other people and other businesses can play creative accounting, but that's usually done at the level of the assets. That in itself does nothing to increase the money supply. The banks on the other hand are allowed to play creative accounting at the cash level. It's a completely different game.
Banks are allowed to loan out more money than they have in their reserves. This is essentially a government-granted right to make money out of thin air.
That being said, during this banking crisis, only the banks that are reserve-rich, for instance all the banks that Warren Buffett owns, are able to make money out of thin air. The other banks, the ones that failed, had already exceeded their legal limit.
May be, that's what caused our housing inflation then. The US economy was roaring along just fine, we were all making plenty of money, it's just that most of us couldn't afford to buy houses even with plenty money anymore.
It's like with any ponzi scheme, it all goes great initially, but then something got to give.
True enough. It's far less risky to post your negative opinions of EA on amazon or epinions.
Either that, or the Chinese government was the one that set up the proxy, the Chinese government will strongly advise Chinese travelers to install that plugin, and it will start scanning laptops and cell phones for any sign of illegal content/web sites whenever Chinese people reenter their country. That being said, I'm probably just being freaking paranoid. A country like China could never be as repressive, no country could ever go that far.
Also, I'd find this study (or this survey???) far more persuasive if it had been sponsored by some organization like The Chamber of Commerce, and not sponsored by a social network mostly composed of other Web2.0 Social Networks Companies/Entrepreneurs/VCs.
Sorry, Alfresco, Sharepoint, Jabber, or Wiki, does not get you laid (or if it does, it gets you laid with the wrong types of people).
Have some kids, and teach them some math then.
China, Russia, Israel, and Iran, are some of our best technical feeder schools. The training gap, between American-born students and foreign-born students in the US, is growing. Don't let the mounting grade inflation, of our ivy league schools and mainstream technical universities, give you a false sense of peace and security.
The initial seeder is the uploader, just like when someone used to place a file on a bbs -- that person was the uploader. Those laws were originally designed to punish one person out of hundreds of potential downloaders, now these laws are punishing pretty much everyone -- not just each initial seeder.
In a court of law, you don't say "This is what those terms have always meant." You say "This is what those terms meant at the time." And saying, "It doesn't matter what it used to mean at the time, it only matters what that word means now." will equally get you laughed out of court.
Enjoy your last years of freedom. Hacking no longer means what it used to.
Either that, or she's still complaining that her town wouldn't let her fire the town's head librarian because the librarian was against "book banning" on principle.
I'm sure I'll be modded down for saying this, but gamers are usually the worst developers/IT personnel (although, I do agree that gamers are the most likely to enter our field). This move would only attract more gamers to your company. And by gamers, I mean people who play computer games at home every night.
That being said, I'm not speaking about the Techie who occasionally plays computer games once in a blue moon. And I'm not talking about the Techie who occasionally makes computer games (usually I find, there is a difference between the person who makes computer games and the person who constantly plays computer games).
I could see why you'd want to do this to other people's passports, but why do it to your own? Do you enjoy being detained by airport security before/after a long flight? Do you think the American government will pay to replace your defective passport?
It's called profiling.
Round up all the Catholic priests, and lock them up in a camp with no internet access and no access to children. Next, start looking at any other subgroups/subcultures that are sexually repressed, or highly repressed in other ways, their members in position of authority tend to be the most likely to lash out and go to extremes. I'd include in that category: Irish nuns, Muslim Mullahs, refugees, and highly stressed out Japanese office men.
I'd also include some government officials to that list, I think we all know who these government officials are, but I'd exclude that fact from any proposal I'd give them.
Also, the particular value of this property is what makes this assault particularly horrifying (at least, in the eyes of news reporting agencies). I know that in my neck of the woods, if someone gets mugged, beaten, and their life threatened with a knife, it doesn't count if real money was involved -- that's what we consider in my neck of woods -- good cause -- although we don't use those exact words. And we say things like, well he shouldn't have been carrying that much cash on him, or that's never going to happen to me -- I never carry that much on me, besides I don't drive a corvette, etc.
But if on the other hand, the mugger almost kills someone only to get a few dollars, or just to steal a stick of gum from him, that's when we lose all respect for the perpetrator -- in fact that's when we really get scared our self. It becomes a new class of crime, one without good cause, and one with basically unlimited potential, and it just shows how senseless, stupid, and young some of our young criminals can be.
I don't think you would be saying the same thing if it had be Mainland China that had confiscated domain names of foreign sites that their own Chinese citizens frequent.
Yes, but if the Feds take this too far, it could backfire on them. For instance, when the prisons took away the belts of inmates, and made them wear pants far too big for them, that eventually became a fashion statement. The same could happen for the Mongols, they could take this every which way, stop wearing jackets with their name on it, call themselves "nameless", use some other designation that's simpler than a full name, introduce themselves as the motorcycle gang that's "formerly known as" Mongols, etc. The government can sure try to legislate fashion, but I seriously doubt it's going to succeed (I only hope they're trying to put a crimp on their t-shirt sales, and that's all).
And what if you got the jacket or the t-shirt before the trademark transferred ownership?