The default is already "Filtering ON", even though the Gov tried to insist that the ISP's call it something like "your choice" to hide the fact! Railroaded in by referring to it as some anti-child porn crusade, it also includes filters to block (extreme) political websites too.
Of course in the US asking ANY question when you've been told to do something by an officer is "Resisting Arrest" and can get you in a LOT of trouble!
So if you think it may be an official stop (for whatever) reason you just do what you're told for risk of getting into serious trouble!
Who was the US politician who openly called for Assange to be assassinated? They've not collected him from Washington and shipped him to Guantanamo yet I see!
... real scientific evidence suggests groundwater contamination isn't uncommon...
Please provide a link to this evidence. Fracking has been industry standard practice for 50 years or so - it is NOT a new invention - and there are no recorded instances that I am aware of where contamination has been proven.
There was a case where contamination was found, but tests that would have shown fracking to have been the cause (the gas that is released has a 'signature' and so can be traced to a specific well) was not done for some reason (possibly because the well drilled to run the tests could have been the problem!).
When a user in country A goes to a server in country B, the laws of country B are what matter. Just like when you travel to a country on vacation, it's THAT countries laws which apply, not the laws of the country you're coming from.
America can't have it both ways. They made online gambling illegal and then go after the companies offering online gambling from elsewhere. Dudes, it's not the online gambling that's the problem, it's your citizens being bad by ignoring your retarded online gambling laws!
... and now the French are giving you some of your own medicine. Reap what you have sown!
Gravity bends the fabric of space-time itself, which the photons are travelling through.
Yeah, I get that, but I thought that the gravitational attraction was between the relative masses of the two objects. Presumably, therefore, any massless doodah wandering by would be unaffected by the masses of thingamejigs it might pass.
That being so...
A mass-less photon (at speed) whizzing past a superhumongous 'body' would be unaffected by it, gravitationally, regardless of how massive the body was, if it had no mass. Ergo - a photon at speed has mass.
Where does that mass come from. If it comes from momentum, then it must have mass at rest (mass * velocity).
>Photons have no _rest mass_ or they couldn't go the speed of light.
So, we keep measuring the speed of light more and more precision, and what if our precision with that measurement simply isn't up to the job, and light actually travels at ever so slightlyless than the (theoretical) speed of light.
Photons at rest could then have a Really (really really...) small mass...
ebyrob> I think momentum is an important term to remember here. Photons may not have rest mass, but they do have momentum. (in classical physics: p = m * v)
Hang on... isn't momentum mass times velocity?
Momentum? why you keep using that word?
Oh I do hope they don't try and Top Gearise it, like they did with Gardener's World a year or so back. With GW they reverted to the old format (and quite possibly killed Toby Buckland's TV Gardener career!).
Hey BBC, do us all a service and just leave it alone!
And a criminal isnt playing on equal footing by following your rules.
You hear a lot about "but then only criminals will have guns", and that may well be partially true.
The difference, of course, is that if only the criminal has a gun they mug you, you hand over your wallet, and they leave. They are unlikely to decide to shoot you anyway because then they're murders rather than muggers. best of all, you live, but are a little poorer.
The other fact that is ignored is that criminals simply do not walk into schools or cinemas and shoot kids. They just don't do it!
To recap:
Strict Gun Laws = a chance to be robbed at gunpoint, far less chance of having someone shoot your kids.
No Gun Laws = Far less chance of petty crime, but a high incidence of mass shootings.
For the record, in the UK you are more likely to be mugged at knife point as guns simply aren't that easy to get hold of - but you're still unlikely to be mugged at all. Also, those criminals who _do_ get guns tend to use them to shoot each other rather than the public at large.
Er... no. His post successfully explained the anomaly to me. That you cannot see the point isn't down to his explanation being 'bad', or indeed because he may be egocentric (not sure how that affects it either way?).
His point, if I may attempt to clarify, is that because Japanese culture has the aforementioned duty, failure, shame deeply ingrained, combined with the history of ritual suicide, that there may well be more people considering suicide because of their perceived failures, shame, loss of face, etc, and ritual suicides are most often committed using blades anyway, so _possibly_ even if there were a gun available, they'd chose to use a blade, but given the strict gun control, and the fondness for harakiri (suicide by ritual self disembowelling) the lack of guns doesn't hold them back.
... And some might even consider raising that percentage depending on the available income as "fair"
I wonder whether higher rate taxation doesn't just encourage those caught to seek out the loopholes. A flat tax rate, combined with a reasonable initial tax free earning seems like the best, and fairest, way to me. Include in that tax rate any and all income, including dividends, and you (fairly) eliminate many of the current loop holes (the UK tried to target Contractors with IR35 rather than simply taxing dividends, the common loophole, possibly because of the big business lobbying during the Blair Govmnt).
In the US I think we'd have class action lawyers going after them immediately for lack of security due diligence. They would deserve it, too.
Oh, you mean like when Gary McKinnon, who similarly walked into unsecured US military and NASA computer. The difference - oh yes, no one noticed for ages!
Yes but it wasn't nature it was BP's subcontractors so I'm not sure what you're posting about. BP's subcontractors screw up, BP pays, because the subcontractors have friends in high places. Pretty simple.
I understand there was big uptake on VPN services from the US to get around the poor coverage so folks could get the BBC if they wanted, though I don't see why it couldn't be offered as a paid service to offset our licence fee.
I'd have to say the coverage by the beeb was excellent and well worth the fee, and I'm not a sports fan!
It totally stinks that the high percentage of legitimate Megaupload customers are getting screwed 'cos of the US bully-boy tactics. What about shutting down the US Postal Service because of all the illegal activity that enables? People do bad things with telephones too. Hey, don't people use cars as getaway cars... let's shut down Ford and GM while we're at it!
How about maintain two FB profiles, one for friends and one 'work safe' one with work colleagues on it. I know several of my friends kids maintain two profiles, one for friends and one for Mum & Dad and it works a treat!
Of course, you could just ask them to login too, and you can skim through their page(s) whilst they do the same to yours! As others have said, simply tell them you're not on FB (or any of the others) but you are willing to start one up if it is a requirement.
... and my personal favourite, ask them to send you a friend request and you'll consider their application!
The quickest and best way for us non-USians to protect ourselves is simply to disallow all connections coming from the US to our websites.
Possibly that might be the sensible thing to do, 'cos next time you land in the US you could find yourself arrested, but as other posters have said, it's not OUR fault the US has stupid laws and it's certainly not up to us to police them.
If I have a non-US gambling website and someone from the US wants to come spend their $$$'s then I say good luck to 'em 'cos it's none of my business where you are as long as what we're doing is legal where I am! It's the US citizen that's broken the law, not the website.
Really getting fed up with the US continually forgetting they're just ONE COUNTRY amongst many. You want to make online gambling illegal - go right ahead! Make Intelligent Design part of the science curriculum... fill ya boots! Legislate Pi = 3... whatever! Just don't think you can bully the rest of the World into doing it too!
... and Rest Of The World: Wake UP and grow a pair! Tell the US to take a hike!
While I believe that Manning should be tried and executed...
I am deeply saddened by that, but each to their own. I'd say he should be tried, and during that trial all the leaked documents should be examined and if it was in the public good that they be leaked (eg cover up of the gunning down of civilians) then they should count in the "plus" column. Ultimately, I think his bravery quite possibly warrants a medal. To stand up and be counted, to be the David to the US Goliath, to fight for Truth, Justice & The American Way!
If my government had been hiding evidence of the killing of innocent people (and Reuters reporters) I would want someone to blow the whistle on them. Not sure what Manning's reasons were (if, indeed, he was the leak:-) ), but whoever let it be known that the US covers up such atrocities is a hero in my book.
As I see it, you either agree with the cover up of the civilian massacre, or you think it's right that the video was leaked! I really can't see a third way!
The indictment is secret because the U.S. knows that if we expose whatever wildly unsupported bullshit we've indicted him on, it will hurt the extradition case.
... and that, in a nutshell, is pretty much why many UK citizens are unhappy with the extradition deal our bozo government signed us up to, because if we want someone from the US we have to show sufficient evidence to a US court, but the US just has to point and we bend over!
The old geezer who's just been shipped out is a case in point, and I've no idea if he's guilty or not, but surely if you ask for someone to be handed over you should show some evidence first.
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Who determines what political sites are extreme?
Of course in the US asking ANY question when you've been told to do something by an officer is "Resisting Arrest" and can get you in a LOT of trouble! So if you think it may be an official stop (for whatever) reason you just do what you're told for risk of getting into serious trouble!
Who was the US politician who openly called for Assange to be assassinated? They've not collected him from Washington and shipped him to Guantanamo yet I see!
... real scientific evidence suggests groundwater contamination isn't uncommon ...
Please provide a link to this evidence. Fracking has been industry standard practice for 50 years or so - it is NOT a new invention - and there are no recorded instances that I am aware of where contamination has been proven.
There was a case where contamination was found, but tests that would have shown fracking to have been the cause (the gas that is released has a 'signature' and so can be traced to a specific well) was not done for some reason (possibly because the well drilled to run the tests could have been the problem!).
When a user in country A goes to a server in country B, the laws of country B are what matter. Just like when you travel to a country on vacation, it's THAT countries laws which apply, not the laws of the country you're coming from.
America can't have it both ways. They made online gambling illegal and then go after the companies offering online gambling from elsewhere. Dudes, it's not the online gambling that's the problem, it's your citizens being bad by ignoring your retarded online gambling laws!
Gravity bends the fabric of space-time itself, which the photons are travelling through.
Yeah, I get that, but I thought that the gravitational attraction was between the relative masses of the two objects. Presumably, therefore, any massless doodah wandering by would be unaffected by the masses of thingamejigs it might pass. ...
That being so
A mass-less photon (at speed) whizzing past a superhumongous 'body' would be unaffected by it, gravitationally, regardless of how massive the body was, if it had no mass. Ergo - a photon at speed has mass.
Where does that mass come from. If it comes from momentum, then it must have mass at rest (mass * velocity).
So, we keep measuring the speed of light more and more precision, and what if our precision with that measurement simply isn't up to the job, and light actually travels at ever so slightly less than the (theoretical) speed of light. ...) small mass ...
Photons at rest could then have a Really (really really
ebyrob> I think momentum is an important term to remember here. Photons may not have rest mass, but they do have momentum. (in classical physics: p = m * v)
Hang on ... isn't momentum mass times velocity?
Momentum? why you keep using that word?
Hey BBC, do us all a service and just leave it alone!
This country is out of control. My great x 3 grandparents left Germany during the rise of Bismarck. They came to the US. Where's to go now?
Ironically, Germany!
And a criminal isnt playing on equal footing by following your rules.
You hear a lot about "but then only criminals will have guns", and that may well be partially true.
The difference, of course, is that if only the criminal has a gun they mug you, you hand over your wallet, and they leave. They are unlikely to decide to shoot you anyway because then they're murders rather than muggers. best of all, you live, but are a little poorer.
The other fact that is ignored is that criminals simply do not walk into schools or cinemas and shoot kids. They just don't do it!
To recap:
Strict Gun Laws = a chance to be robbed at gunpoint, far less chance of having someone shoot your kids.
No Gun Laws = Far less chance of petty crime, but a high incidence of mass shootings.
For the record, in the UK you are more likely to be mugged at knife point as guns simply aren't that easy to get hold of - but you're still unlikely to be mugged at all. Also, those criminals who _do_ get guns tend to use them to shoot each other rather than the public at large.
His point, if I may attempt to clarify, is that because Japanese culture has the aforementioned duty, failure, shame deeply ingrained, combined with the history of ritual suicide, that there may well be more people considering suicide because of their perceived failures, shame, loss of face, etc, and ritual suicides are most often committed using blades anyway, so _possibly_ even if there were a gun available, they'd chose to use a blade, but given the strict gun control, and the fondness for harakiri (suicide by ritual self disembowelling) the lack of guns doesn't hold them back.
... And some might even consider raising that percentage depending on the available income as "fair"
I wonder whether higher rate taxation doesn't just encourage those caught to seek out the loopholes. A flat tax rate, combined with a reasonable initial tax free earning seems like the best, and fairest, way to me. Include in that tax rate any and all income, including dividends, and you (fairly) eliminate many of the current loop holes (the UK tried to target Contractors with IR35 rather than simply taxing dividends, the common loophole, possibly because of the big business lobbying during the Blair Govmnt).
In the US I think we'd have class action lawyers going after them immediately for lack of security due diligence. They would deserve it, too.
Oh, you mean like when Gary McKinnon, who similarly walked into unsecured US military and NASA computer. The difference - oh yes, no one noticed for ages!
... BP's subcontractors trashed the Gulf ...
Fixed that for you
Yes but it wasn't nature it was BP's subcontractors so I'm not sure what you're posting about. BP's subcontractors screw up, BP pays, because the subcontractors have friends in high places. Pretty simple.
Fixed that for you
I'd have to say the coverage by the beeb was excellent and well worth the fee, and I'm not a sports fan!
It totally stinks that the high percentage of legitimate Megaupload customers are getting screwed 'cos of the US bully-boy tactics. What about shutting down the US Postal Service because of all the illegal activity that enables? People do bad things with telephones too. Hey, don't people use cars as getaway cars ... let's shut down Ford and GM while we're at it!
Of course, you could just ask them to login too, and you can skim through their page(s) whilst they do the same to yours! As others have said, simply tell them you're not on FB (or any of the others) but you are willing to start one up if it is a requirement.
... the next time RIAA tries to bribe a heaping pile through Congress.
What I don't get is why anyone thinks lobby groups buying legislation is the right way!
The quickest and best way for us non-USians to protect ourselves is simply to disallow all connections coming from the US to our websites.
Possibly that might be the sensible thing to do, 'cos next time you land in the US you could find yourself arrested, but as other posters have said, it's not OUR fault the US has stupid laws and it's certainly not up to us to police them.
If I have a non-US gambling website and someone from the US wants to come spend their $$$'s then I say good luck to 'em 'cos it's none of my business where you are as long as what we're doing is legal where I am! It's the US citizen that's broken the law, not the website.
Really getting fed up with the US continually forgetting they're just ONE COUNTRY amongst many. You want to make online gambling illegal - go right ahead! Make Intelligent Design part of the science curriculum ... fill ya boots! Legislate Pi = 3 ... whatever! Just don't think you can bully the rest of the World into doing it too!
While I believe that Manning should be tried and executed ...
I am deeply saddened by that, but each to their own. I'd say he should be tried, and during that trial all the leaked documents should be examined and if it was in the public good that they be leaked (eg cover up of the gunning down of civilians) then they should count in the "plus" column. Ultimately, I think his bravery quite possibly warrants a medal. To stand up and be counted, to be the David to the US Goliath, to fight for Truth, Justice & The American Way!
If my government had been hiding evidence of the killing of innocent people (and Reuters reporters) I would want someone to blow the whistle on them. Not sure what Manning's reasons were (if, indeed, he was the leak :-) ), but whoever let it be known that the US covers up such atrocities is a hero in my book.
As I see it, you either agree with the cover up of the civilian massacre, or you think it's right that the video was leaked! I really can't see a third way!
The indictment is secret because the U.S. knows that if we expose whatever wildly unsupported bullshit we've indicted him on, it will hurt the extradition case.
The old geezer who's just been shipped out is a case in point, and I've no idea if he's guilty or not, but surely if you ask for someone to be handed over you should show some evidence first.
True, I'm sure he could be killed with a handshake if the US had zero respect for the UK's sovereignty.
Sure, but it's not like the US is France!
Yes. If the government knows your have child porn on your computer, then they can get a warrant to force decryption.
If they know, that implies they can prove it, and if they can prove it they don't need to decrypt it!
(I'm happily married to my first wife, so I have only the experience of others to draw on.)
Word to the wise, don't let her hear you calling her your first wife!