The bottom line is that Fascism was and is a left-wing phenomenon, with goals in accord with Marxist ones. The method differed in terms of using corporations - or large firms generally - as conduits for social control of the population rather than direct government control.
Two key points that undermine the "right wing" Fascist fabrication:
Mussolini was the editor of Avanti, the largest circulation Marxist periodical in Italy during the 1910s, with views that accorded with Lenin's almost precisely. Lenin and he exchanged mutual admiration until Lenin's death in 1924.
Two quotes from Dr. Goebbels: “Lenin is the greatest man, second only to Hitler” “the difference between Communism and the Hitler faith is very slight.” - both from the NYT in 1925.
"once Hitler was in power in 1933, most German Communists became ardent Nazis." - Norman Friedman, "The Fifty Year War"
Analyzing Fascist policy, whether in Italy or Germany or elsewhere, shows all the same indications of totalization of society, eliminating class boundaries, and providing guaranteed jobs, health care, government supplied vacations (have a look at the "Strength through Joy" program in Germany), etc.
Last point, Marx himself was a virulent anti-Semite, despite being Jewish by birth. Mussolini was not. Hitler was, but we knew that already.
You need to read some Marco Polo and see what life was actually like trying to trade across continents in his day. His party literally sewed gems into their clothing to avoid tolls and thieves.
Hint: there's a reason we have governments with police powers. Radical libertarians are crazy.
Presuming that they didn't drive-by install something using a zero day against your browser or OS. It wouldn't take very long, and probably not even long enough for you to notice.
Your hope based strategy is probably not going to work out well over the long term.
Most people don't understand what that means. "What's Javascript?" might be the response. So they pay for too much bandwidth and tolerate the poor performance inherent in the unfiltered net. And all the usual risks of running unidentified code.
A system based upon the execution of unknown code downloaded from remote sites is inherently insecure. That'll probably never get through enough heads to do anything about it, but there it is.
Walled gardens that prevent the blocking of said unknown code are prima facie unusable.
The problem isn't whether Shkreli is an asshole or not, or whether McAfee is a weirdo. The problem is branding everything someone says as invalid because you think the person is an asshole. There are lots of sources of information, none are utterly trustworthy, and each needs evaluation independently.
Branding people as not worth listening to based on ad hominem attacks identifies you as someone unable to differentiate information based on the source. Either you have a personal animus or you're too dumb to do that kind of differentiation. Therefore, somewhat ironically, you've successfully invalidated yourself as an information source because of either an inscrutable bias or a mental defect.
These people we fuck are usually not geeks and don't like using complicated electronics. I need a system that is usable by the wife. I have downsized all my electronics for this reason. She's far from a moron but prefers MacOS, Sonos and such to having a universal remote that tries to integrate 3 different peripherals and if it goes even slightly wrong, she throws the thing across the room because she has no idea how to fix it. And doesn't want to learn, same as I don't want to learn how to play 10 instruments and what colors go together with others.
The problem with traditional speakers is that they require integration with an AV receiver at a minimum - or choose your more complex option - you could have preamps and amps and source devices to your heart's content. To listen to Pandora or whatever streaming music service, the options out there are:
1) Listen to it on your phone or tablet - mono and shitty 2) Listen to it connected via a phone or tablet on bluetooth to a speaker or a receiver that supports same - stereo and shitty 3) Listen to it connected via a computer using its internal speakers - stereo, not so hot sound quality, but better than bluetooth. 4) Listen to it connected via a computer directly connected to a stereo - stereo, decent sound quality, but not portable 5) Get an all-in-one device along the lines of the old Squeezebox or the Sonos - stereo, decent sound quality and doesn't tie up a computer or phone
So there is your use case. The Sonos is a middling to nice speaker that has the electronics to stream music built in. Why someone would want an Echo is beyond me. I don't want to have to talk to my electronics and have them mistake what I want. F that. Besides, why would I want to talk to it?
Seriously, bad input devices seems to be all we can do in computing nowadays. Where is the innovation?
The funny part is that I got a smartphone so I could take pictures of whiteboards. True story. I would just get a camera in another age, which would be a camera with a much better lens, incidentally.
Of course I am. I'm making the point that if it were all over, that all the fiber was cut and we'd never have an internet again, it'd be ok. I'm not going to have "I MISS/." carved on my headstone.
I actually don't use my cellphone much. It's all voice calls or SMS. Any use as a web browser is a last resort and perhaps twice weekly. The apps are jokes and I usually don't bother even opening any of them on the average week. I spent 20 years on call. I leave my cell phone hooked up to the charger before 8pm every night and I go upstairs. If it rings or buzzes, tough shit. If you want me, you have to know my wife's number, or my private e-mail address which few have.
In regards internet usage, I stop here every once in a while. I do pay attention to the facebook crowd, mostly family. I don't use Twitter (anti-free speech issue there, as well as not seeing any value added in using it). I read my fill of 'news' of different stripe and play a FPS or two, write some code, or read books, admittedly with a Kindle, but that's only because the wife was giving me agita about the dead tree type taking up too much room in the house.
I also don't watch TV. Full stop. Haven't since I was 12. I have a media server but it's mostly for the wife and kids. I'll watch South Park or Archer once in a while, but off the server, and therefore downloaded. I never use Netflix or any other streaming service, either.
If you told me tomorrow all the computers were going away, i'd be ok as long as I could get dead tree books. I'd regret it because then I couldn't even consider coding stuff. Otherwise, who cares. The internet is way overrated.
Obviously I didn't spend the first 20 years of my life living under the specter of Soviet annihilation. Obviously, I don't work for the US military and have never deployed to theaters where Soviet-era weaponry was lobbed at me. And obviously, i'm a conspiracy theorist who believes Russia is behind every effect in the world.
That pretty much covers it.
More seriously, you lefty Russia nuts are crazy. I knew some serious anti-communists in my time, but they at least had some sense to their views at some level. You Russia people are just reflexively assuming that Russia did this and Russia did that. I'm suspicious of them - you people are seriously fucked up. Why, because they made Obama look like a fool? It wouldn't take much, you know.
The US isn't invading Cuba. I'm not relying on any non-public information that I know. I'm just stating it as a bald fact that the wherewithal might be there, but the will isn't and never will be as far as my crystal ball goes. If the US were so inclined, it would have happened in the 1990s, when more will could have been mustered. The Cuban emigres who would be the strongest supporters are getting old and dying by now.
Given that the invasion of Cuba is a non-starter and therefore there is no profit motive here, the idea of Trump himself arranging harm to come to US diplomats is abhorrent. I'd like to say you know better, but i'm not sure about that.
The KGB was wont to have flights of fancy toward conspiracy theory. It was one of their chief problems in evaluating events in the West. It was born of the requirement to never gainsay the belief structure of the Politburo and nomenklatura. This was bad for your career, and back in the 30s and 40s would also carry the threat of death. So the KGB evaluation of every event was wound into a complex conspiracy theory involving the mythical denizens of the West, rather than being evaluated rationally.
The other problem they had was being captive to their ideology. Anyway, there are much simpler solutions than Trump trying to pad his bottom line. Besides which, the guy is dying soon, He couldn't care less about that, he already made and lost a fortune several times.
This is definitely a false flag operation. Who would gain from it is not clear. The US having bad relations with Cuba is not worth THAT much to the Russians. It's a backwater that they don't even care much about anymore, and honestly is mainly kept in their stable of allies for reasons of institutional memory rather than any real use they have. Cuba also still costs them money that they can ill afford.
I keep thinking China. Who else would have motive and the belief that pushing back US relations with Cuba would benefit them somehow?
Yes, but you know the GNAA types are still doing their thing, and I have noted those comments disappearing too. I don't think this is an isolated incident.
It would be completely possible to use something like "the Jews" in a context that wouldn't necessarily be an ugly comment. For instance: "Hitler and Stalin both killed the Jews for different reasons, but in comparable numbers." So any filtering mechanism would have to be fairly intelligent.
The reason it wasn't a hurricane when it made landfall was that it had undergone an extratropical transition before landfall. Only tropical storms are hurricanes. The intensity was sufficient for the case.
The reason it was such a big deal was that New Jersey/NY had not seen a hurricane since about 1988, and no direct hits since 1985 - I remember, because I had to evacuate that year. In the meantime, construction was performed by people who had forgotten that, yes, we do get hurricanes there, just very rarely. A lot of that construction was swamped and destroyed, with the requisite whining from all involved.
Older people know full well that the area gets hurricanes and lived inland as a result. A wise government policy would prevent new construction in low-lying areas, but good luck getting that to happen in the face of all the money involved.
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The bottom line is that Fascism was and is a left-wing phenomenon, with goals in accord with Marxist ones. The method differed in terms of using corporations - or large firms generally - as conduits for social control of the population rather than direct government control.
Two key points that undermine the "right wing" Fascist fabrication:
Mussolini was the editor of Avanti, the largest circulation Marxist periodical in Italy during the 1910s, with views that accorded with Lenin's almost precisely. Lenin and he exchanged mutual admiration until Lenin's death in 1924.
Two quotes from Dr. Goebbels:
“Lenin is the greatest man, second only to Hitler”
“the difference between Communism and the Hitler faith is very slight.” - both from the NYT in 1925.
"once Hitler was in power in 1933, most German Communists became ardent Nazis." - Norman Friedman, "The Fifty Year War"
Analyzing Fascist policy, whether in Italy or Germany or elsewhere, shows all the same indications of totalization of society, eliminating class boundaries, and providing guaranteed jobs, health care, government supplied vacations (have a look at the "Strength through Joy" program in Germany), etc.
Last point, Marx himself was a virulent anti-Semite, despite being Jewish by birth. Mussolini was not. Hitler was, but we knew that already.
That did great things for their economy and productivity.
The Soviet people loved their economy so much, they overthrew their government.
You need to read some Marco Polo and see what life was actually like trying to trade across continents in his day. His party literally sewed gems into their clothing to avoid tolls and thieves.
Hint: there's a reason we have governments with police powers. Radical libertarians are crazy.
I agree. This is a nice story, more interesting than 99% of what is seen here nowadays.
There's another name for a government that enforces a corporatist system. Take a guess what it is? It's real popular on the streets nowadays.
Are you positive that it has worked?
I'm quite sure that I wouldn't recognize every exploit for what it was, so therefore I don't allow such things to execute.
Presuming that they didn't drive-by install something using a zero day against your browser or OS. It wouldn't take very long, and probably not even long enough for you to notice.
Your hope based strategy is probably not going to work out well over the long term.
Most people don't understand what that means. "What's Javascript?" might be the response. So they pay for too much bandwidth and tolerate the poor performance inherent in the unfiltered net. And all the usual risks of running unidentified code.
A system based upon the execution of unknown code downloaded from remote sites is inherently insecure. That'll probably never get through enough heads to do anything about it, but there it is.
Walled gardens that prevent the blocking of said unknown code are prima facie unusable.
The problem isn't whether Shkreli is an asshole or not, or whether McAfee is a weirdo. The problem is branding everything someone says as invalid because you think the person is an asshole. There are lots of sources of information, none are utterly trustworthy, and each needs evaluation independently.
Branding people as not worth listening to based on ad hominem attacks identifies you as someone unable to differentiate information based on the source. Either you have a personal animus or you're too dumb to do that kind of differentiation. Therefore, somewhat ironically, you've successfully invalidated yourself as an information source because of either an inscrutable bias or a mental defect.
These people we fuck are usually not geeks and don't like using complicated electronics. I need a system that is usable by the wife. I have downsized all my electronics for this reason. She's far from a moron but prefers MacOS, Sonos and such to having a universal remote that tries to integrate 3 different peripherals and if it goes even slightly wrong, she throws the thing across the room because she has no idea how to fix it. And doesn't want to learn, same as I don't want to learn how to play 10 instruments and what colors go together with others.
The problem with traditional speakers is that they require integration with an AV receiver at a minimum - or choose your more complex option - you could have preamps and amps and source devices to your heart's content. To listen to Pandora or whatever streaming music service, the options out there are:
1) Listen to it on your phone or tablet - mono and shitty
2) Listen to it connected via a phone or tablet on bluetooth to a speaker or a receiver that supports same - stereo and shitty
3) Listen to it connected via a computer using its internal speakers - stereo, not so hot sound quality, but better than bluetooth.
4) Listen to it connected via a computer directly connected to a stereo - stereo, decent sound quality, but not portable
5) Get an all-in-one device along the lines of the old Squeezebox or the Sonos - stereo, decent sound quality and doesn't tie up a computer or phone
So there is your use case. The Sonos is a middling to nice speaker that has the electronics to stream music built in. Why someone would want an Echo is beyond me. I don't want to have to talk to my electronics and have them mistake what I want. F that. Besides, why would I want to talk to it?
Seriously, bad input devices seems to be all we can do in computing nowadays. Where is the innovation?
I cut and paste them into that profile block. But thanks for making them all public again. I loved every one in its time.
The funny part is that I got a smartphone so I could take pictures of whiteboards. True story. I would just get a camera in another age, which would be a camera with a much better lens, incidentally.
When you're looking for a job, remember you'll be interviewing with people like me.
Of course I am. I'm making the point that if it were all over, that all the fiber was cut and we'd never have an internet again, it'd be ok. I'm not going to have "I MISS /." carved on my headstone.
I actually don't use my cellphone much. It's all voice calls or SMS. Any use as a web browser is a last resort and perhaps twice weekly. The apps are jokes and I usually don't bother even opening any of them on the average week. I spent 20 years on call. I leave my cell phone hooked up to the charger before 8pm every night and I go upstairs. If it rings or buzzes, tough shit. If you want me, you have to know my wife's number, or my private e-mail address which few have.
In regards internet usage, I stop here every once in a while. I do pay attention to the facebook crowd, mostly family. I don't use Twitter (anti-free speech issue there, as well as not seeing any value added in using it). I read my fill of 'news' of different stripe and play a FPS or two, write some code, or read books, admittedly with a Kindle, but that's only because the wife was giving me agita about the dead tree type taking up too much room in the house.
I also don't watch TV. Full stop. Haven't since I was 12. I have a media server but it's mostly for the wife and kids. I'll watch South Park or Archer once in a while, but off the server, and therefore downloaded. I never use Netflix or any other streaming service, either.
If you told me tomorrow all the computers were going away, i'd be ok as long as I could get dead tree books. I'd regret it because then I couldn't even consider coding stuff. Otherwise, who cares. The internet is way overrated.
Obviously I didn't spend the first 20 years of my life living under the specter of Soviet annihilation. Obviously, I don't work for the US military and have never deployed to theaters where Soviet-era weaponry was lobbed at me. And obviously, i'm a conspiracy theorist who believes Russia is behind every effect in the world.
That pretty much covers it.
More seriously, you lefty Russia nuts are crazy. I knew some serious anti-communists in my time, but they at least had some sense to their views at some level. You Russia people are just reflexively assuming that Russia did this and Russia did that. I'm suspicious of them - you people are seriously fucked up. Why, because they made Obama look like a fool? It wouldn't take much, you know.
About the time that my Iraq battle buddy and his wife got assaulted by some Antifa thugs.
It's very personal at this point.
The US isn't invading Cuba. I'm not relying on any non-public information that I know. I'm just stating it as a bald fact that the wherewithal might be there, but the will isn't and never will be as far as my crystal ball goes. If the US were so inclined, it would have happened in the 1990s, when more will could have been mustered. The Cuban emigres who would be the strongest supporters are getting old and dying by now.
Given that the invasion of Cuba is a non-starter and therefore there is no profit motive here, the idea of Trump himself arranging harm to come to US diplomats is abhorrent. I'd like to say you know better, but i'm not sure about that.
The KGB was wont to have flights of fancy toward conspiracy theory. It was one of their chief problems in evaluating events in the West. It was born of the requirement to never gainsay the belief structure of the Politburo and nomenklatura. This was bad for your career, and back in the 30s and 40s would also carry the threat of death. So the KGB evaluation of every event was wound into a complex conspiracy theory involving the mythical denizens of the West, rather than being evaluated rationally.
The other problem they had was being captive to their ideology. Anyway, there are much simpler solutions than Trump trying to pad his bottom line. Besides which, the guy is dying soon, He couldn't care less about that, he already made and lost a fortune several times.
This is definitely a false flag operation. Who would gain from it is not clear. The US having bad relations with Cuba is not worth THAT much to the Russians. It's a backwater that they don't even care much about anymore, and honestly is mainly kept in their stable of allies for reasons of institutional memory rather than any real use they have. Cuba also still costs them money that they can ill afford.
I keep thinking China. Who else would have motive and the belief that pushing back US relations with Cuba would benefit them somehow?
Hope your day against the wall comes soon!
Yes, but you know the GNAA types are still doing their thing, and I have noted those comments disappearing too. I don't think this is an isolated incident.
It would be completely possible to use something like "the Jews" in a context that wouldn't necessarily be an ugly comment. For instance: "Hitler and Stalin both killed the Jews for different reasons, but in comparable numbers." So any filtering mechanism would have to be fairly intelligent.
The reason it wasn't a hurricane when it made landfall was that it had undergone an extratropical transition before landfall. Only tropical storms are hurricanes. The intensity was sufficient for the case.
The reason it was such a big deal was that New Jersey/NY had not seen a hurricane since about 1988, and no direct hits since 1985 - I remember, because I had to evacuate that year. In the meantime, construction was performed by people who had forgotten that, yes, we do get hurricanes there, just very rarely. A lot of that construction was swamped and destroyed, with the requisite whining from all involved.
Older people know full well that the area gets hurricanes and lived inland as a result. A wise government policy would prevent new construction in low-lying areas, but good luck getting that to happen in the face of all the money involved.
It's a bad change. In the past, nothing was deleted. Even under duress...I seem to remember Taco defying a C&D or two in the past.