Ok, I HAVE to see this backed up with facts. Oh wait, there aren't any, you said so yourself. What incentives would an American have to work illegally in Mexico? Very few that I can think of. So, I'm not going to believe you, as the story makes little sense.
As I recall, some of the overseas ballots (mostly from military personnel, who tend to vote republican) were "misplaced" in the 2000 election in Florida. This was in a county with Democrats running the election. Now, were the election managers incompetent, or was it a conspiracy? I'd guess incompetent, but who knows. Now, if people can't figure out how to COUNT, what makes anyone think that they will be able to run an election electronically without screwing something up?
If we're going to get into "Far-right conspiracy theory" research on Google, might I suggest a search for "Mena Arkansas"? Who was governer then? Did the state police really cover it up? I would dismiss this particular rumor as "tinfoil hat" material were it not for the fact that a former deputy director of the CIA wrote a book on related events, complete with tail numbers of old Air America planes coming in at Homestead in FL with unusual cargo. The book, by the way, was "edited" by the government in the name of national security before it went to print. And I doubt that was "right wing", more like plain old "government conspiracy". This power failure, on the other hand, is one of those things that just happen. I really doubt that a Google search on "NE power grid failure conspiracy" will turn up much ten years from now.
Funny... I thought the CA environmentalists shared some of the blame for that mess. You know, protesting against nuclear power, protesting against new coal plants because of the smog problem, etc. Of course, you didn't see too many of them trading in their cars for bicycles, did you? Also, who were the dumbasses that signed the deal with the predatory companies? I don't think yoiu can put all the blame in one place on this one.
So far this is an isolated event... it looks more like an accident than the result of bad policies (CA deregulated power, refused to construct new power plants, signed some dumb deals, etc.). The parent post is correct about ripple effects. Everly system has potention bottlenecks/points of failure, and it sounds like one of those went down and overloaded the rest. No clear place to point fingers yet... if there is place to put the blame, CNN hasn't found it yet:)
They have a lot of catching up to do. Why do they keep spending money on Russian hardware? They can't make their own. Yeah, they have a lot of guns. They don't seem to have a hell of a lot of creativity, though, and that won't change until their government does. I hope the CDC and Hacktivismo keep giving them holy hell... even the Chinese have a limit to how many fingers they can stick in the dam.
The Chinese military and Chinese industry are really the same entity. Hutchinson-Whampoa is a good place to start googling. Imagine the US army owning and operating General Motors, Ford, all of the telcos and you're close. That's why, in my opinion, anything the US does that helps China economically is stupid when you look at it long term. Giving them the Panama Canal was especially stupid. Why in the FUCK did Clinton think that was OK? Oh yeah, the Chinese are trying to influence US elections, aren't they? Not a conspiracy theorist. I have to wonder how anyone smart enough to get elected to high office is that fucking stupid.
If you don't fuck with anyone, sooner or later someone will decide that you are weak and fuck with you. The Chinese are already trying to push the US, see how far they can go. Spy plane incident? Spies in Los Alamos? Dumping goods into our markets? We need to fuck with them a little more then we are, in my opinion. Why are they spending all that money are military hardware if they aren't planning on using it? We should officially declare Taiwan a legit country and tell the mainland Chinese to go fuck off. Taking away their "most favored nation" trading status until they at least pretend to have some form of human rights law would help, for starters.
So, totalitarian governments that don't acknowledge, let alone respect, the rights of their people are a GOOD thing? You must love Macchiavelli. I think the Chinese government is going to implode in the coming decades. And I'm going to enjoy watching their government leaders get hanged on CNN. Yeah, they are a large country. They are also a country with an evil government. Hopefully that government will fall soon.
Yeah, Israel has nukes. If Israel nukes the Palestinians, or Iran, or Syria, I don't think the US will care much. Yeah, it would suck for a lot of innocent civilians. On the other hand, it would kill an ASSLOAD of terrorists. That nuclear threat may very well prevent another war aimed at wiping Israel off the map, which is something the Islamic countries have tried in the past. Several times. China, on the other hand, has threatened first-strike us of their nukes on US cities. That's not a very friendly thing to say. Half of their missiles are pointed at us (I live in the United States). China is a threat. Israel is not. Enough said.
Here's the deal, kid: I have learned from experience (you'll get some of this too as you get older) that legel != right and illegal != wrong. This is especially true when it is really large tyrannical corporations writing the laws. If I think a law is wrong, I SIMPLY DO NOT OBEY it. This is what most rational people do. If Mcdonald's had a law passed in Canada that said "Tom St Denis is a pain in the ass and should not be allowed to breathe as he is an annoying troll", would you dutifully drown yourself?
So you're saying that you agree that the RIAA is using evil methods (a tyranny) to control what the population listens to. You're also saying that in your opinion this is justified and acceptable. How much do they pay you?
I just bought (today) a Sony MP3/CD player for my car. How many twelve year olds have cars? Very few, I would guess. How many twelve year olds have 66 CDs lying around? A lot. A hell of a lot. That's a pretty small collection. However, here's the kicker: How many CDs did I buy with that new player? None. Zero. And I don't pirate music, I have a pretty good collection of stuff I already like and I support my local bands. I will not support or defend bloodthirsty cocksuckers that are ruining lots of people's lives to keep an outdated business model going. You shouldn't either, unless you like the results.
Ok, I won't accuse you of being a schill for the recording industry, but you sure sound like one. Or maybe you live in a cave or something, as you obviously don't understand how tight a hold the RIAA members and companies like Clearchannel have on what is allowed to go over the airwaves. Try this for critical thinking: leave your pie-in-sky morality aside for a moment and think about the things that CAUSED ptp to explode, not the things that allowed that to happen. Getting the point now?
Ok, you and Tom go stand outside your local ClearChannel office and protest for a few weeks. Maybe get 998 of your closest friends to come with you. Demand that they add Frank Zappa to the playlist on a classic rock channel. It won't happen. I'd be willing to bet on it.
Your argument has a hole in it big enough to drive a truck though: you are assuming that the RIAA cares what the public thinks. They don't. Thier entire business model is based on telling the public what to think, and you think they'll listen to you? Good fucking luck.
Hey, I never said I was civilized. When it comes to script kiddies, I'm not. The only reason they would be in that part of the system is that they ALREADY did something malicious. In which case, fuck them. What are they going to do, complain? "I rooted this box with my 0-day and all I got was this nasty virus?" Give me a break.
Here you go: I vote. I am a member of the NRA, even though I don't always agree with them. I am a registered Republican, but I tend to vote Libertarian. I don't think politicians should be able to vote on a bill that impacts my personal, private life if they can't fill out a multiple-choice form that shows that they understand how this technology works. They don't (the politicians), and they can't. Ever wonder how many are truly bought and paid for and how many are just senile? They are bought and paid for lobbyists, on the one hand, and whores chasing after campaign contributions on the other. Disney will pass a law, we'll work around it, the whole thing will come back up, etc... Media corporations have already lost. They just don't know it yet.
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Ok, I HAVE to see this backed up with facts. Oh wait, there aren't any, you said so yourself. What incentives would an American have to work illegally in Mexico? Very few that I can think of. So, I'm not going to believe you, as the story makes little sense.
I agree... the NYT HAVE been a bunch of whiny bastards about this.
As I recall, some of the overseas ballots (mostly from military personnel, who tend to vote republican) were "misplaced" in the 2000 election in Florida. This was in a county with Democrats running the election. Now, were the election managers incompetent, or was it a conspiracy? I'd guess incompetent, but who knows. Now, if people can't figure out how to COUNT, what makes anyone think that they will be able to run an election electronically without screwing something up?
Um, you've never seen a credit card number generator?
If we're going to get into "Far-right conspiracy theory" research on Google, might I suggest a search for "Mena Arkansas"? Who was governer then? Did the state police really cover it up? I would dismiss this particular rumor as "tinfoil hat" material were it not for the fact that a former deputy director of the CIA wrote a book on related events, complete with tail numbers of old Air America planes coming in at Homestead in FL with unusual cargo. The book, by the way, was "edited" by the government in the name of national security before it went to print. And I doubt that was "right wing", more like plain old "government conspiracy". This power failure, on the other hand, is one of those things that just happen. I really doubt that a Google search on "NE power grid failure conspiracy" will turn up much ten years from now.
Funny... I thought the CA environmentalists shared some of the blame for that mess. You know, protesting against nuclear power, protesting against new coal plants because of the smog problem, etc. Of course, you didn't see too many of them trading in their cars for bicycles, did you? Also, who were the dumbasses that signed the deal with the predatory companies? I don't think yoiu can put all the blame in one place on this one.
So far this is an isolated event... it looks more like an accident than the result of bad policies (CA deregulated power, refused to construct new power plants, signed some dumb deals, etc.). The parent post is correct about ripple effects. Everly system has potention bottlenecks/points of failure, and it sounds like one of those went down and overloaded the rest. No clear place to point fingers yet... if there is place to put the blame, CNN hasn't found it yet :)
My contract states that I own the IP. I cannot sell or license it to a competitor, that's all.
They may have declared that. Who cares, though, if thier military has stated that they will nuke LA if the US interferes in a China/Taiwan conflict?
They have a lot of catching up to do. Why do they keep spending money on Russian hardware? They can't make their own. Yeah, they have a lot of guns. They don't seem to have a hell of a lot of creativity, though, and that won't change until their government does. I hope the CDC and Hacktivismo keep giving them holy hell... even the Chinese have a limit to how many fingers they can stick in the dam.
The Chinese military and Chinese industry are really the same entity. Hutchinson-Whampoa is a good place to start googling. Imagine the US army owning and operating General Motors, Ford, all of the telcos and you're close. That's why, in my opinion, anything the US does that helps China economically is stupid when you look at it long term. Giving them the Panama Canal was especially stupid. Why in the FUCK did Clinton think that was OK? Oh yeah, the Chinese are trying to influence US elections, aren't they? Not a conspiracy theorist. I have to wonder how anyone smart enough to get elected to high office is that fucking stupid.
If you don't fuck with anyone, sooner or later someone will decide that you are weak and fuck with you. The Chinese are already trying to push the US, see how far they can go. Spy plane incident? Spies in Los Alamos? Dumping goods into our markets? We need to fuck with them a little more then we are, in my opinion. Why are they spending all that money are military hardware if they aren't planning on using it? We should officially declare Taiwan a legit country and tell the mainland Chinese to go fuck off. Taking away their "most favored nation" trading status until they at least pretend to have some form of human rights law would help, for starters.
So, totalitarian governments that don't acknowledge, let alone respect, the rights of their people are a GOOD thing? You must love Macchiavelli. I think the Chinese government is going to implode in the coming decades. And I'm going to enjoy watching their government leaders get hanged on CNN. Yeah, they are a large country. They are also a country with an evil government. Hopefully that government will fall soon.
Yeah, Israel has nukes. If Israel nukes the Palestinians, or Iran, or Syria, I don't think the US will care much. Yeah, it would suck for a lot of innocent civilians. On the other hand, it would kill an ASSLOAD of terrorists. That nuclear threat may very well prevent another war aimed at wiping Israel off the map, which is something the Islamic countries have tried in the past. Several times. China, on the other hand, has threatened first-strike us of their nukes on US cities. That's not a very friendly thing to say. Half of their missiles are pointed at us (I live in the United States). China is a threat. Israel is not. Enough said.
I have one of those old Tadpoles lying around... couldn't find a version of AIX for it, but it runs Solaris fine. Kind of an antique, but oh well.
Yes... but shoot it more than once to make sure you killed it.
Here's the deal, kid: I have learned from experience (you'll get some of this too as you get older) that legel != right and illegal != wrong. This is especially true when it is really large tyrannical corporations writing the laws. If I think a law is wrong, I SIMPLY DO NOT OBEY it. This is what most rational people do. If Mcdonald's had a law passed in Canada that said "Tom St Denis is a pain in the ass and should not be allowed to breathe as he is an annoying troll", would you dutifully drown yourself?
So you're saying that you agree that the RIAA is using evil methods (a tyranny) to control what the population listens to. You're also saying that in your opinion this is justified and acceptable. How much do they pay you?
I just bought (today) a Sony MP3/CD player for my car. How many twelve year olds have cars? Very few, I would guess. How many twelve year olds have 66 CDs lying around? A lot. A hell of a lot. That's a pretty small collection. However, here's the kicker: How many CDs did I buy with that new player? None. Zero. And I don't pirate music, I have a pretty good collection of stuff I already like and I support my local bands. I will not support or defend bloodthirsty cocksuckers that are ruining lots of people's lives to keep an outdated business model going. You shouldn't either, unless you like the results.
Ok, I won't accuse you of being a schill for the recording industry, but you sure sound like one. Or maybe you live in a cave or something, as you obviously don't understand how tight a hold the RIAA members and companies like Clearchannel have on what is allowed to go over the airwaves. Try this for critical thinking: leave your pie-in-sky morality aside for a moment and think about the things that CAUSED ptp to explode, not the things that allowed that to happen. Getting the point now?
Ok, you and Tom go stand outside your local ClearChannel office and protest for a few weeks. Maybe get 998 of your closest friends to come with you. Demand that they add Frank Zappa to the playlist on a classic rock channel. It won't happen. I'd be willing to bet on it.
Your argument has a hole in it big enough to drive a truck though: you are assuming that the RIAA cares what the public thinks. They don't. Thier entire business model is based on telling the public what to think, and you think they'll listen to you? Good fucking luck.
Hey, I never said I was civilized. When it comes to script kiddies, I'm not. The only reason they would be in that part of the system is that they ALREADY did something malicious. In which case, fuck them. What are they going to do, complain? "I rooted this box with my 0-day and all I got was this nasty virus?" Give me a break.
The sheep lawmakers depend on the fact that sheep taxpayers will not ask questions.... doesn't always work that way.
Here you go: I vote. I am a member of the NRA, even though I don't always agree with them. I am a registered Republican, but I tend to vote Libertarian. I don't think politicians should be able to vote on a bill that impacts my personal, private life if they can't fill out a multiple-choice form that shows that they understand how this technology works. They don't (the politicians), and they can't. Ever wonder how many are truly bought and paid for and how many are just senile? They are bought and paid for lobbyists, on the one hand, and whores chasing after campaign contributions on the other. Disney will pass a law, we'll work around it, the whole thing will come back up, etc... Media corporations have already lost. They just don't know it yet.