Of all those defacements, I see only about 4 entries about non-Republicans, and those involve specifically the addition of libel. As for the rest of the entries, they are either about sensitive Republican issues (Iraq war), or Republican political figures (removing damaging information).
The one item that I can't see as extremely important either way was the defacement of "podcasting". But then again, my ignorance may be chiefly to blame there.
Interview before the launch was to the effect of "And what do you think of your mother being the first teacher in space?"
A: "She should be here with me."
Followed by extreme tragedy for her.
note: I am posting this because a typo came out that changed my comment from what I intended, to something that was very different. Moderators, please feel free to mod the parent of this (my own post, also, but with typo) down to zero.
It would be for both heating and cooling. It drives the "exterior" (really, the mid-exterior) ambient temperature to something slightly above cave temperature, if you will. So on hot days, it keeps the "exterior" cooler than outdoors. On cool days, it keeps the "exterior" temperature warmer than outdoors.
One thing that would work for a more comfortable environment I have seen mentioned on a book about "nearly free energy" (free as in beer, not free as in perpetual motion).
The idea is to build the building entirely out of double-T girders (walls, roof, and ground) so that there is a layer of air around the entire building. (Note that a double-T girder looks like this: TT). The spikes of the T should point outwards. Then, you glass in the walls, cover the roof with aluminum, and drive heat tubes into the ground below the bottom.
The sun will strike the windows on one side, and heat the air there, sending it to the roof where it cools, drops down the far side, and cycle under the building, where the heat tubes have the greatest effect on the overall temperature of the cycling air, keeping it at about 58 degrees. The presence of people and office machines inside raises the ambient temperature to about 68... actually quite comfortable for an office building.
Of course, this energy isn't completely free. The glass costs something, and the girders aren't cheap, though there nearly indestructable. In that sense, the control algorithm beats the passive design hands-down.
I have to agree, it looks on the surface like incompetance by the lawyers.
Having read the article, but not knowing whereof I speak, I note that there were 2 men who spent a total of 400 man-hours (or equivalently 5 work weeks of them both working at the job) doing nothing other than, as the IBM claim states, working "in response to the intrusion."
However, not all work "in response" to an intrusion could count as loss. If they were doing work that was supposed to have been done in the first place (but never had been), or upgrading a system beyond what it had been before, that is profitable work or work owed, not work lost. Moreover, I suspect that these two workers probably had other work in the meantime, meaning that some of that work should have been billed elsewhere.
So to the extent that some of this response was profitable work or billed to the wrong customer, it was misbilled. Such misbilling can be common for fortune-500 companies. Indeed, my own plant manager at a fortune-500 company would regularly take all the employees' timesheets, and erase/rewrite them, to bill time from where it should have been billed, to where he thought he could get away with the least pressure. As employees, we were required to write our timesheets in pencil for exactly that reason. That's outright fraud, I know, but my point is that among fortune-500 companies, it would appear to be common. It certainly seems that it's easy to get away with.
Yet I'm not sure that the lawyers could challenge it, because the offender was not the primarily injured party. Moreover, even if the lawyers knew that there was fraud, they would have trouble securing "reasonable cause" for a search warrant.
So it might have been a case where the lawyers saw the bill, and ground their teeth, but could say nothing.
In which case, I'd have to say, yeah, that's malicious by IBM, but the criminal was wicked, let his wickedness lead him into evil, and that's what this gets him.
But all I can be reasonably sure of, is that I don't know the whole story here. At such a point, I don't think I could assign fault one way or another.
As it currently stands, when someone breaks into, say, a credit card database, they get information on a couple million people. This proposes to set up a database with all the identifying information on everybody. If it breaks, the criminal has information on every single American citizen with a driver's license.
I would like to note that within the FBI Hoover building in DC are tons of fingerprint card records, and according to agents whom I worked with, there, they regularly catch people (agents) stealing information, which of course results in their being fired.
Point being, that among those with a power complex, the bastions of power are very attractive, and the call of abuse of power is also very strong.
If we have such a database, its very existance will ensure that it is broken into. Therefore,
I take strong exception to your phrase, "If it breaks".
I ask this, because back in 1998 I had a 486, and wrote a Binary Spatial Partition algorithm in C, based upon the description in a 1987(?)IEEE symposium synopsis book. It was complicated and difficult. It was also super slow on my 33Mhz machine. It would do 1 frame every 10 seconds or so.
So then I simplified it down to integer stuff, and got to 1 frame every 2 seconds.
That wasn't good enough, so I rewrote the darn thing in assembler/machine code, and got it down to about 5 frames a second.
Now, a standard modern student's computer might be 1 Ghz, so that's 30 times as fast. I'm guessing that they could get away with plain C code, therefore, except that they still have to do game play and probably music.
So maybe they just had to do the plane-drawing algorithm in machine code. That's still tremendously difficult.
And then they have to design a game around it as well?
If they did all that, I have to say I'm impressed.
... why Windows is still grappling with security issues. I'm not really sure that they are. Yes, they address them sometimes; but they aren't grappling.
I tend to prefer the question, why are Windows customers still grappling with security issues?
Relax. Don't worry. Be happy. Your daily stress will be less if the main server crashes.
Aside from that, it would be inaccurate to say that hurricanes are not electrical. Hurricanes often spawn tornados, and tornados *are* inherently electrical.
Well, I had 5 mod points, so I modded this one overrated (5 informative is too high; I'll say why in a second), and -- before clicking "moderate", decided to check out one of the underposts.
Naturally, a long-standing slashdot-bug that I had forgotten about, changed my mod to "underrated". I can't change the mod back to what I wanted, so I'm going to cancel it with a post.
Here's why I say the post is overrated:
Trade publications are *not* trash. Maybe trade publications in marketing-driven industries such as videogames are trash, but for technical subjects, I find trade publications to be remarkably informative.
I work in the precast/prestressed concrete industry. The articles they write tell about one PCC-PSC company dealing with problems with cold. That's actually pretty useful information.
For videogames, if you had a true trade publication, it wouldn't tell you what the latest videogame craze was, and what it's like playing the game.
It would instead tell you about the latest coding tricks for speeding up set-modifiable binary spatial partition processing; or about new algorithms for tying real-time original computer-arranged music (and indeed stuff that sounds like a good track) to the actual game play.
*That's* what kind of info you should expect from a trade publication. If it doesn't contain stuff like that, at least one good article per magazine, and usually 2-3, then you shouldn't call it a trade publication. Call it an advertising circular.
Lessee... I guess we can put it on our calendar that the GUT will be announced this year in... say... Boston, maybe around March. Then it will be confirmed at the new particle accelerator in Europe.
We'll handle it by sending messages back in time with our new warp drive.
since the density of the fish is approximately equal to the density of the water (as subject to the fish's air bladder), the importance of that term is perhaps negligible.
That said, I wonder what kind of speed and range they'd come up with for a 185 lb, 5'-10 jet-setter?
That's funny. If we weren't getting deep eruptions, but only surface eruptions, that would imply that the source mass of lava might be much wider than the proposed tube -- orders of magnitude wider.
So that might meen that there was a caldera, and the lava flows would be relieving the pressure on the roof of the caldera.
Which might imply a much larger explosion at some near future date...
Of course, the significance of a "that's funny" can always be canceled out by a...
I read your post; the/sarcasm flag didn't work. You might need to enclose it in brackets for it to work.
Aside from that, I think you missed the original poster's point: that too many techies put dogmatic faith in the generic name "science", and then transfer that to blind faith in people and their statements (all of which are unsupported by anything more than "he's a scientist, so his word must be gospel truth."
That's a valid point, and leads people into such flawed religions as scientology.
Disclaimer: I, for one, find the hand of God to be active in daily life. My experiences tell me that there is a God, and He is not a watchmaker God, nor an impersonal force, but a Person who but does desire a relationship with His creation.
Petrogel is kindof like other gelatinous materials: it's quite small until it hits a reactive substance. Then it expands hundreds of times in size, resulting in very large volumes. In this case, the gel is a liquid (and later solid) rock. The moment it hits an aquifer, it hydrates, forming a much larger volume.
You didn't know this? Well, neither did our scientists. I just made it up.
I guess my original point is that there are more things that could be wrong with our theories than what we imagine.
Wonderful Charles Dickensian prose here, and just in time for a production of "A Christmas Carol". But hold on -- are things actually as he describes?
Or did he forget some quite old technologies of yesteryear that invalidate everything he said?
At the company where I work, we ship bridge segments. Our shipping/billing tickets are 5-copy carbon copy forms. Our database records *are* computerized on Microsoft Access, but that's just for one person because nobody can modify the system. The rest of us keep track using a pencil and paper spreadsheet, and it's no big deal.
Our purchase orders are 3-copy carbon copy forms. (Whoops... for those of you not in the know, "carbon copy" refers to a paper that has a thick layer of carbon-heavy ink on the back. When you write on the top copy, carbon paper echos the writing down to lower levels.)
Our information is stored on pegboards on the walls. We don't have hundreds of typists -- in fact, I'm the only typist. Before that, we simply wrote things by hand.
Oh... and we're a Fortune 500 company.
Yes, our drafting department does use computers nowadays. But I've been through drafting myself, and the computer doesn't save more than about 40% of the jobs. For a company like ours, that means that it causes a workforce reduction of about 1%. No big deal.
Indeed, for every work hour saved by not needing a personal secretary, several hours of more expensive time are wasted by executives having to respond to emails, phone calls, and faxes every 3 minutes. Technology allows such inflated-importance immediacy, which is extremely damaging to productivity.
I, for one, have to say that the technology has *not* greatly helped.
My first disagreement is that you should always have the option of locking into a given mode of "1 keypress only". However, you could do that by tap-and-holding the first key, and then tap-and-holding it to release.
My second disagreement is that one hand does not do two keys quickly and well. But we can relegate the awkward combos to rare chars.
So that aside, how could such a combo work by memory?
Well, let's see. 18 keys. That would be a numeric keypad under each hand, wouldn't it? So one of the keys is always like a shift of some sort. Let's see:
Shift 1: All vowels and near vowels and common characters: aeiouythsl.,"';
Shift 2: The caps of Shift 1, with the punctuation being replaced by ?:#%&
Shift 3: Less common letters: bcdfgjkmnpqrvwxz@
Shift4: The caps of Sh3, with the @ replaced by the !
Shift5: The numbers, plus mathematical stuff: 1234567890+-=*/.$
Shift6: The Fkeys 1..12, plus _\|
Shift7: Control keys arrows 1...9, Tab, BTAB, Ins, Del, BKSP, Enter,CapsLock,Start
Shift8: Ctrl-chars of Shift1, plus {}[]()
Shift9: Ctrl-chars of Shift3, plus Escape
Shift10: Alt-chars of Shift1, plus Scrollock, "Show me reminder of where my keys are on the screen", Print Screen, Enter, compose-character, plus `
Shift11: Alt-chars of Shift3, plus ^
Shift 12: Accent keys of Shift1, as appropriate, plus tilde and lots of unknowns
Shift 13: Accent keys of Shift3, as appropriate, plus lots of unknowns.
Shift 14: Pseudo mouse behavior, including 3-button clicks.
Shift 15,16,17: All unknown.
The unknowns can be relegated to common key combos, such as the word "the", or the spanish double ll.
If I do, this, though, I don't have to write the numbers -- they'll be pretty obvious. I do have to write the letters, and the "shift" character of each key. I have to write any special punctuation, perhaps, in order; it looks like I need 3 punctuation marks per key. I also have to write control codes. So I need about 5 symbols per key: 2 on (say the control code and the letter) and 3 off (say, on the front face of the key).
Poster #1: Besides, these people don't have much use in society or a future, especially in India's caste society. This is an excellent opportunity for them to contribute something to better mankind and benefit the rest of us. We should be applauding and congratulating them for their sacrifice. We shouldn't try to take this away from them.
Poster #2So you agree- givent he caste system they don't have any real choice at all.
Not only that, but the original makes it real clear that he considers their real purpose in life being to make his life better. No offense to the others here, but if that guy means what he says, he belongs in prison for life. He's psychopathic, and a danger to the rest of society. Essentially, he is saying that his neighbor's entire existance is be subject to his benefit; and if his actions match his will, then he will inevitably harm his neighbors.
Of course, there are many such people running at large in our society, and indeed most of the people in power are such. The founder of planned parenthood was such a person; so was Orwell. The same was true of most of the horror civilizations in the past, from Vlad the Impaler, to Stalin, to the Nazis, and so on. The difference is that the horror civilazations empowered their psychopaths, as we are doing now.
Except that though the choice may be semi-informed, it won't be free when the person has a choice between being killed by drugs or killed by starvation (along with their family). There's a reason why India is being targeted.
I think I can do without those drugs. Even if not using them shortens my life.
Except, as I remember it we didn't give them the software. Rather, Microsoft gave them the code about 1-2 years ago, which then they apparently were able to use to find the security flaws, and breach our own government's networks.
If so, though, that means that Microsoft is responsible for this.
Of course, I could be wrong. I really hope I am. Would someone like to explain to me how I am wrong?
As a result of which, 90% of our middle class would be being paid substinance level wages, working 12-16 hour days to be able to eat...
... could I interrupt a second here? The British, at least, were empowered to do exactly that with the Irish, after taxing all their land away. Taxes have nothing to do with man's inhumanity to man. That happens both with and without taxes, though more often with taxes.
My real problem with taxes is corruption. That is, the real purpose of taxes as we actually see it, is to create raidable nest eggs that corrupt government officials can divert to their own assets. The more taxes, the more corrupt officials are supported. The less taxes, the less they are supported.
I have yet to see a single tax-based fund that isn't usually mismanaged and often outright stolen from. That includes Social Security, road building, school construction, Government pension funds, school operating funds, NASA... the list goes on.
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Of all those defacements, I see only about 4 entries about non-Republicans, and those involve specifically the addition of libel. As for the rest of the entries, they are either about sensitive Republican issues (Iraq war), or Republican political figures (removing damaging information). The one item that I can't see as extremely important either way was the defacement of "podcasting". But then again, my ignorance may be chiefly to blame there.
Interview before the launch was to the effect of "And what do you think of your mother being the first teacher in space?"
A: "She should be here with me."
Followed by extreme tragedy for her.
note: I am posting this because a typo came out that changed my comment from what I intended, to something that was very different. Moderators, please feel free to mod the parent of this (my own post, also, but with typo) down to zero.
It would be for both heating and cooling. It drives the "exterior" (really, the mid-exterior) ambient temperature to something slightly above cave temperature, if you will. So on hot days, it keeps the "exterior" cooler than outdoors. On cool days, it keeps the "exterior" temperature warmer than outdoors.
Interview before the launch was to the effect of "And what do you think of your mother being the first teacher in space?"
A: "She should be here with me."
Followed by sextreme tragedy for her.
Nah. The solution to this problem should be to double the founds allotted to the NEA and the universitationalizers.
One thing that would work for a more comfortable environment I have seen mentioned on a book about "nearly free energy" (free as in beer, not free as in perpetual motion).
The idea is to build the building entirely out of double-T girders (walls, roof, and ground) so that there is a layer of air around the entire building. (Note that a double-T girder looks like this: TT). The spikes of the T should point outwards. Then, you glass in the walls, cover the roof with aluminum, and drive heat tubes into the ground below the bottom.
The sun will strike the windows on one side, and heat the air there, sending it to the roof where it cools, drops down the far side, and cycle under the building, where the heat tubes have the greatest effect on the overall temperature of the cycling air, keeping it at about 58 degrees. The presence of people and office machines inside raises the ambient temperature to about 68... actually quite comfortable for an office building.
Of course, this energy isn't completely free. The glass costs something, and the girders aren't cheap, though there nearly indestructable. In that sense, the control algorithm beats the passive design hands-down.
Having read the article, but not knowing whereof I speak , I note that there were 2 men who spent a total of 400 man-hours (or equivalently 5 work weeks of them both working at the job) doing nothing other than, as the IBM claim states, working "in response to the intrusion."
However, not all work "in response" to an intrusion could count as loss. If they were doing work that was supposed to have been done in the first place (but never had been), or upgrading a system beyond what it had been before, that is profitable work or work owed, not work lost. Moreover, I suspect that these two workers probably had other work in the meantime, meaning that some of that work should have been billed elsewhere.
So to the extent that some of this response was profitable work or billed to the wrong customer, it was misbilled. Such misbilling can be common for fortune-500 companies. Indeed, my own plant manager at a fortune-500 company would regularly take all the employees' timesheets, and erase/rewrite them, to bill time from where it should have been billed, to where he thought he could get away with the least pressure. As employees, we were required to write our timesheets in pencil for exactly that reason. That's outright fraud, I know, but my point is that among fortune-500 companies, it would appear to be common. It certainly seems that it's easy to get away with.
Yet I'm not sure that the lawyers could challenge it, because the offender was not the primarily injured party. Moreover, even if the lawyers knew that there was fraud, they would have trouble securing "reasonable cause" for a search warrant.
So it might have been a case where the lawyers saw the bill, and ground their teeth, but could say nothing.
In which case, I'd have to say, yeah, that's malicious by IBM, but the criminal was wicked, let his wickedness lead him into evil, and that's what this gets him.
But all I can be reasonably sure of, is that I don't know the whole story here. At such a point, I don't think I could assign fault one way or another.
I would like to note that within the FBI Hoover building in DC are tons of fingerprint card records, and according to agents whom I worked with, there, they regularly catch people (agents) stealing information, which of course results in their being fired.
Point being, that among those with a power complex, the bastions of power are very attractive, and the call of abuse of power is also very strong.
If we have such a database, its very existance will ensure that it is broken into. Therefore, I take strong exception to your phrase, "If it breaks".
I ask this, because back in 1998 I had a 486, and wrote a Binary Spatial Partition algorithm in C, based upon the description in a 1987(?)IEEE symposium synopsis book. It was complicated and difficult. It was also super slow on my 33Mhz machine. It would do 1 frame every 10 seconds or so.
So then I simplified it down to integer stuff, and got to 1 frame every 2 seconds.
That wasn't good enough, so I rewrote the darn thing in assembler/machine code, and got it down to about 5 frames a second.
Now, a standard modern student's computer might be 1 Ghz, so that's 30 times as fast. I'm guessing that they could get away with plain C code, therefore, except that they still have to do game play and probably music.
So maybe they just had to do the plane-drawing algorithm in machine code. That's still tremendously difficult.
And then they have to design a game around it as well?
If they did all that, I have to say I'm impressed.
I tend to prefer the question, why are Windows customers still grappling with security issues?
Relax. Don't worry. Be happy. Your daily stress will be less if the main server crashes.
Aside from that, it would be inaccurate to say that hurricanes are not electrical. Hurricanes often spawn tornados, and tornados *are* inherently electrical.
Well, I had 5 mod points, so I modded this one overrated (5 informative is too high; I'll say why in a second), and -- before clicking "moderate", decided to check out one of the underposts.
Naturally, a long-standing slashdot-bug that I had forgotten about, changed my mod to "underrated". I can't change the mod back to what I wanted, so I'm going to cancel it with a post.
Here's why I say the post is overrated:
Trade publications are *not* trash. Maybe trade publications in marketing-driven industries such as videogames are trash, but for technical subjects, I find trade publications to be remarkably informative.
I work in the precast/prestressed concrete industry. The articles they write tell about one PCC-PSC company dealing with problems with cold. That's actually pretty useful information.
For videogames, if you had a true trade publication, it wouldn't tell you what the latest videogame craze was, and what it's like playing the game.
It would instead tell you about the latest coding tricks for speeding up set-modifiable binary spatial partition processing; or about new algorithms for tying real-time original computer-arranged music (and indeed stuff that sounds like a good track) to the actual game play.
*That's* what kind of info you should expect from a trade publication. If it doesn't contain stuff like that, at least one good article per magazine, and usually 2-3, then you shouldn't call it a trade publication. Call it an advertising circular.
No GUT? You sure?
... say ... Boston, maybe around March. Then it will be confirmed at the new particle accelerator in Europe.
We gotta do somethin about that.
Lessee... I guess we can put it on our calendar that the GUT will be announced this year in
We'll handle it by sending messages back in time with our new warp drive.
since the density of the fish is approximately equal to the density of the water (as subject to the fish's air bladder), the importance of that term is perhaps negligible. That said, I wonder what kind of speed and range they'd come up with for a 185 lb, 5'-10 jet-setter?
I could say the same thing too, but I'd write it more like:
Why? Yes... EEEEEAAAAAHHHH!!!! ART HISTORIAN!!!!
(runs off screaming)
I think you'll find that hawaii has had much more outflow for a much longer time.
That's funny. If we weren't getting deep eruptions, but only surface eruptions, that would imply that the source mass of lava might be much wider than the proposed tube -- orders of magnitude wider.
...
So that might meen that there was a caldera, and the lava flows would be relieving the pressure on the roof of the caldera.
Which might imply a much larger explosion at some near future date...
Of course, the significance of a "that's funny" can always be canceled out by a
Nah. Couldn't be.
I read your post; the /sarcasm flag didn't work. You might need to enclose it in brackets for it to work.
Aside from that, I think you missed the original poster's point: that too many techies put dogmatic faith in the generic name "science", and then transfer that to blind faith in people and their statements (all of which are unsupported by anything more than "he's a scientist, so his word must be gospel truth."
That's a valid point, and leads people into such flawed religions as scientology.
Disclaimer: I, for one, find the hand of God to be active in daily life. My experiences tell me that there is a God, and He is not a watchmaker God, nor an impersonal force, but a Person who but does desire a relationship with His creation.
Petrogel is kindof like other gelatinous materials: it's quite small until it hits a reactive substance. Then it expands hundreds of times in size, resulting in very large volumes. In this case, the gel is a liquid (and later solid) rock. The moment it hits an aquifer, it hydrates, forming a much larger volume.
You didn't know this? Well, neither did our scientists. I just made it up.
I guess my original point is that there are more things that could be wrong with our theories than what we imagine.
Wonderful Charles Dickensian prose here, and just in time for a production of "A Christmas Carol". But hold on -- are things actually as he describes?
Or did he forget some quite old technologies of yesteryear that invalidate everything he said?
At the company where I work, we ship bridge segments. Our shipping/billing tickets are 5-copy carbon copy forms. Our database records *are* computerized on Microsoft Access, but that's just for one person because nobody can modify the system. The rest of us keep track using a pencil and paper spreadsheet, and it's no big deal.
Our purchase orders are 3-copy carbon copy forms. (Whoops... for those of you not in the know, "carbon copy" refers to a paper that has a thick layer of carbon-heavy ink on the back. When you write on the top copy, carbon paper echos the writing down to lower levels.)
Our information is stored on pegboards on the walls. We don't have hundreds of typists -- in fact, I'm the only typist. Before that, we simply wrote things by hand.
Oh... and we're a Fortune 500 company.
Yes, our drafting department does use computers nowadays. But I've been through drafting myself, and the computer doesn't save more than about 40% of the jobs. For a company like ours, that means that it causes a workforce reduction of about 1%. No big deal.
Indeed, for every work hour saved by not needing a personal secretary, several hours of more expensive time are wasted by executives having to respond to emails, phone calls, and faxes every 3 minutes. Technology allows such inflated-importance immediacy, which is extremely damaging to productivity.
I, for one, have to say that the technology has *not* greatly helped.
My first disagreement is that you should always have the option of locking into a given mode of "1 keypress only". However, you could do that by tap-and-holding the first key, and then tap-and-holding it to release.
My second disagreement is that one hand does not do two keys quickly and well. But we can relegate the awkward combos to rare chars.
So that aside, how could such a combo work by memory?
Well, let's see. 18 keys. That would be a numeric keypad under each hand, wouldn't it? So one of the keys is always like a shift of some sort. Let's see:
Shift 1: All vowels and near vowels and common characters: aeiouythsl.,"';
Shift 2: The caps of Shift 1, with the punctuation being replaced by ?:#%&
Shift 3: Less common letters: bcdfgjkmnpqrvwxz@
Shift4: The caps of Sh3, with the @ replaced by the !
Shift5: The numbers, plus mathematical stuff:
1234567890+-=*/.$
Shift6: The Fkeys 1..12, plus _\|
Shift7: Control keys arrows 1...9, Tab, BTAB, Ins, Del, BKSP, Enter,CapsLock,Start
Shift8: Ctrl-chars of Shift1, plus {}[]()
Shift9: Ctrl-chars of Shift3, plus Escape
Shift10: Alt-chars of Shift1, plus Scrollock, "Show me reminder of where my keys are on the screen", Print Screen, Enter, compose-character, plus `
Shift11: Alt-chars of Shift3, plus ^
Shift 12: Accent keys of Shift1, as appropriate, plus tilde and lots of unknowns
Shift 13: Accent keys of Shift3, as appropriate, plus lots of unknowns.
Shift 14: Pseudo mouse behavior, including 3-button clicks.
Shift 15,16,17: All unknown.
The unknowns can be relegated to common key combos, such as the word "the", or the spanish double ll.
If I do, this, though, I don't have to write the numbers -- they'll be pretty obvious. I do have to write the letters, and the "shift" character of each key. I have to write any special punctuation, perhaps, in order; it looks like I need 3 punctuation marks per key. I also have to write control codes. So I need about 5 symbols per key: 2 on (say the control code and the letter) and 3 off (say, on the front face of the key).
Poster #2So you agree- givent he caste system they don't have any real choice at all.
Not only that, but the original makes it real clear that he considers their real purpose in life being to make his life better. No offense to the others here, but if that guy means what he says, he belongs in prison for life. He's psychopathic, and a danger to the rest of society. Essentially, he is saying that his neighbor's entire existance is be subject to his benefit; and if his actions match his will, then he will inevitably harm his neighbors.
Of course, there are many such people running at large in our society, and indeed most of the people in power are such. The founder of planned parenthood was such a person; so was Orwell. The same was true of most of the horror civilizations in the past, from Vlad the Impaler, to Stalin, to the Nazis, and so on. The difference is that the horror civilazations empowered their psychopaths, as we are doing now.
Except that though the choice may be semi-informed, it won't be free when the person has a choice between being killed by drugs or killed by starvation (along with their family). There's a reason why India is being targeted. I think I can do without those drugs. Even if not using them shortens my life.
Except, as I remember it we didn't give them the software. Rather, Microsoft gave them the code about 1-2 years ago, which then they apparently were able to use to find the security flaws, and breach our own government's networks.
If so, though, that means that Microsoft is responsible for this.
Of course, I could be wrong. I really hope I am. Would someone like to explain to me how I am wrong?
As a result of which, 90% of our middle class would be being paid substinance level wages, working 12-16 hour days to be able to eat...
My real problem with taxes is corruption. That is, the real purpose of taxes as we actually see it, is to create raidable nest eggs that corrupt government officials can divert to their own assets. The more taxes, the more corrupt officials are supported. The less taxes, the less they are supported.
I have yet to see a single tax-based fund that isn't usually mismanaged and often outright stolen from. That includes Social Security, road building, school construction, Government pension funds, school operating funds, NASA... the list goes on.
Okay, thank you. Please go on...