"The OS, unsurprisingly, allowed only tightly fettered access to web sites, using a whitelist approach that gives access to government-controlled or approved sites."
In other words-the NSA wet dream.
Are you joking?
The NSA *want* you to go to 'forbidden' websites so they can monitor your activity and use it as blackmail material.
There is already a domain where ubiquitous integration of high complexity capabilities into virtually all materials with room for them is a reality.
We call it "Biology". And, in my professional capacity as a fungus, let me remind you that you'd be fucking insane to want your computers to go down that path.
I went from majoring in computer science to studying biology (ecology, cell biology and genetics, just up to stage 3). It was a humbling experience.
Computer scientists and engineers like to feel that what they work with is sophisticated and cool. This stuff is *nothing* on biological systems.
At the very least, we should take a casting of items before they are returned and perhaps laser surveys of things too large to protect.
Unfortunately the facilities in Mongolia aren't that great. The main museum where dinosaur bones are kept has suffered water damage. Its likely this skull will just rot (or whatever dinosaur bones do).
Amazon is crowded with Star-Wars related RC flying toys right now, from a Millennium Falcon quad-copter to a really cool X-Wing RC airplane (with ducted fans, so it's safer then normal RC planes with props).
All these toys should be registered as drones under the new rules. It's total nonsense.
I can see Disney lobbying hard on this. And when Disney lobby the US government listens.
I can remember when the Feds wanted everyone with a CB radio to have a license, too.
Just wait, there will be license and registration for shoes as well. And in case anyone thinks theres a handy loophole, virtually every city will have bylaws against going barefoot as well due to 'liability issues'.
>They are not U.S. profits. The U.S. has no right to tax...
I call BULLSHIT on this.
I can work outside of the U.S. for a foreign based company with not a single penny coming from U.S. sales for that company and I STILL GET TO PAY U.S. INCOME TAXES EACH AND EVERY YEAR! Sounds to me like the US had decided decided it has the right to MY non U.S. profits.
Thats the problem with being a US citizen. Or a North Korean citizen; those are the only two countries that pull this trick (taxing their citizens on overseas earnings).
I get no say in the matter.
You do get a say; you can choose to give up your US citizenship. Oh wait; if they figure out that you are giving up your citizenship for tax purposes THEY WON'T LET YOU. Some 'land of the free' LOL
No, he avoids taxes where they do business by other tricks to avoid it. Like paying money to Apple USA for product rights that Apple owns, if that garners a lower tax rate. Those rates, though, apparently, are the tax regimes of the industrial age and need to be update for the digital one, and payments for IP and product rigts need to be paid by the company who wishes to have their "IP" protected in the region.
IOW if Apple Eire own all the IP, but Apple USA wish it protected in the USA, then Apple Eire need to pay taxes in the USA for that protection.
I can see it now.
"Nice IP you 'ave there guvnor. Shame if sumfink was to 'appen to it."
You have to look at the deep cultural background of the countries that are falling over themselves to take in refugees.
You might notice that it is only countries with a strong Christian background who are doing so.
This is because Western Christianity (as contrasted with Eastern Christianity) is descended from the religion of the slaves of Rome. Consequently its strongest values are things which were important to the slaves of Rome and this has profoundly affected the psychology of the societies of Europe and many of their colonies.
In this example victims are good and any victim must be embraced and supported. These Western countries are simply incapable of rationally evaluating the benefit or detriment of taking in refugees; they are compelled to take in refugees no matter the consequences. They will continue to take in refugees until their societies and economies have completely broken down.
You will notice that Eastern Christian countries (eg Russia, Greece) aren't interested in taking refugees. You'll notice that Muslim countries aren't interested in taking refugees. Not even Buddhist countries are so driven to destruction and Buddhism is one of the most altruistic religions that exists.
To put it simply; In certain cultures people get a really good feeling out of 'acts of kindness' it makes these people release endorphins which gives them a 'natural high'.
They aren't taking the refugees for the benefit of the refugees. They are taking the refugees so that they can feel better about themselves.
The UK is only less regulated because they don't have the OUTSTANDING government infrastructure that we have here in the good 'ol USSA. Europeans in general are slightly less risk averse as we are here in nannyland...
If the government of USA weren't nannyland it'd go Lord of the Flies in a week.
The UK as a less regulated environment? Is this April first, or did I accidentally get to the Onion?
North America is horrifically regulated by comparison. Look at the taxi protests in Toronto against Uber. you know what the taxis are really protesting about?
The police and city council say they are unable to enforce the regulations and bylaws on taxis because they are too complicated.
I hope they find a way to do away with civil asset forfeitures too. That is the worst thing police do in America today. Steal things from citizens to boost their income.
Look at it this way; at least the organised banditry that the USA operates on is applied to US citizens as well as the rest of the world!
The rest of the world feels your pain and I'm sure many overseas would be happy to help you oust those thugs who call themselves police and politicians in the USA.
Palestine is recognised as a independent state. Therefore this is a war between states.
One Israeli of my acquaintance stated that "They are not 'Palestinians', they are Arabs and as such they should be happy to live anywhere in the Arab world. Israel isn't part of the Arab world."
Aside from Australians I have never met a group more prone to racism than Israelis. But unlike Aussies the Israeli men didn't seem to be entirely misogynistic.
Interesting how Judaism is pretty much the only religion alive today which is almost entirely racial in nature and focussed on parentage. Who your mother is matters very much in Judaism; I don't believe there is any other religion for which your parents, your genealogy, actually matters at all.
Does Jordan plowing under entire Palestinian villages count as racism in your Israel-hating Euro-fashionable worldview?
I don't know. Does an African American calling other African Americans 'nigger' count as racism?
I do know that a lot of the Arab countries are not in the least bit sympathetic to the Palestinians so Israels position that they are just Arabs and should be happy to live anywhere in the Arab world doesn't work in practice for the Palestinians who have basically been left without a nation thanks to the UN.
Maybe the Turks should re-instate the Ottoman empire, cos the Middle East was a fucking lot more stable under them...
Palestinian are not Arab, they are of semitic decent.
Both Arabs and Jews are of semitic descent, though European Jews are rather diluted through intermarriage over the past 2000 years. "Palestinians" are Arabs. The term Palestinian is political, not racial.
e.g.: They share common ancestor with the jews that left the region to colonise Europe.
All Arabs share a common ancestor with those Jews. I'd like to point out that Jews never colonized Europe.
It is for the jews the assimilate into the Palestinian nation,
At the time the Jews started returning with the explicit goal of establishing a State, there were no "Palestinians", never mind a nation of them.
The argument made by Israel is that the term 'Palestinian' was invented during the period when Israel was being formed and Jewish jackbooted thugs were going around kicking 'Arabs' out of their homes.
The claim is that by calling themselves 'Palestinian' they were claiming a connection to the Philistines (AKA the Phonecians (you may have heard of them, they invented phonetic writing)).
The Philistines were a race of people who inhabited the 'promised land' when the Israelites arrived there. So they were exterminated.
Many Israelis claim that the so-called 'Palestinians' are just Bedouin Arabs who moved into their promised land after their ancestors vacated it because they (the Hebrews) didn't like the way the Romans were governing it). That they call themselves 'Palestinians' is simply an effort to raise sympathy for having been brutally dispossessed of their lands and territories by the UN, USA and 'Israel'.
Those nations projected their power by means of gun powder and the spreading of diseases, not by passing laws. As an inhabitant of the American Colonies of the British Empire you should know that.
Oh come on, the US just celebrated thanksgiving and I doubt 1 in 10 of them even know they are celebrating genocide.
Yes and no. Anyone can convert, and no one can then consider you any less Jewish than any other Jew, no matter their pedigree. So the only real difference is that there are many defacto Jews and non practising Jews; The big difference is the difficulty is giving up your Jewish status.
For sure there are people who can consider converts less Jewish, in fact non-Jewish. Orthodoxy in Israel does not recognise conversions. Conversions are a mostly non-Israeli thing.
FWIW A non-Israeli Jewish friend once told me that he felt that nothing had done more harm to the reputation of international Jewry than the state of Israel.
Palestine is recognised as a independent state. Therefore this is a war between states.
One Israeli of my acquaintance stated that "They are not 'Palestinians', they are Arabs and as such they should be happy to live anywhere in the Arab world. Israel isn't part of the Arab world."
Aside from Australians I have never met a group more prone to racism than Israelis. But unlike Aussies the Israeli men didn't seem to be entirely misogynistic.
Interesting how Judaism is pretty much the only religion alive today which is almost entirely racial in nature and focussed on parentage. Who your mother is matters very much in Judaism; I don't believe there is any other religion for which your parents, your genealogy, actually matters at all.
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"The OS, unsurprisingly, allowed only tightly fettered access to web sites, using a whitelist approach that gives access to government-controlled or approved sites."
In other words-the NSA wet dream.
Are you joking?
The NSA *want* you to go to 'forbidden' websites so they can monitor your activity and use it as blackmail material.
There is already a domain where ubiquitous integration of high complexity capabilities into virtually all materials with room for them is a reality.
We call it "Biology". And, in my professional capacity as a fungus, let me remind you that you'd be fucking insane to want your computers to go down that path.
I went from majoring in computer science to studying biology (ecology, cell biology and genetics, just up to stage 3). It was a humbling experience.
Computer scientists and engineers like to feel that what they work with is sophisticated and cool. This stuff is *nothing* on biological systems.
When primitive screwheads destroy it during a period of civil unrest due to their religious beliefs.
We've lost a lot to isis and the taliban.
Hopefully the bhuddists of Mongolia can keep the items safe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
At the very least, we should take a casting of items before they are returned and perhaps laser surveys of things too large to protect.
Unfortunately the facilities in Mongolia aren't that great. The main museum where dinosaur bones are kept has suffered water damage. Its likely this skull will just rot (or whatever dinosaur bones do).
Amazon is crowded with Star-Wars related RC flying toys right now, from a Millennium Falcon quad-copter to a really cool X-Wing RC airplane (with ducted fans, so it's safer then normal RC planes with props).
All these toys should be registered as drones under the new rules. It's total nonsense.
I can see Disney lobbying hard on this. And when Disney lobby the US government listens.
I can remember when the Feds wanted everyone with a CB radio to have a license, too.
Just wait, there will be license and registration for shoes as well. And in case anyone thinks theres a handy loophole, virtually every city will have bylaws against going barefoot as well due to 'liability issues'.
Do you still have to take an exam for that? In Latin?
Don't be silly, the HAM exam is in Morse code not Latin.
>They are not U.S. profits. The U.S. has no right to tax ...
I call BULLSHIT on this.
I can work outside of the U.S. for a foreign based company with not a single penny coming from U.S. sales for that company and I STILL GET TO PAY U.S. INCOME TAXES EACH AND EVERY YEAR! Sounds to me like the US had decided decided it has the right to MY non U.S. profits.
Thats the problem with being a US citizen. Or a North Korean citizen; those are the only two countries that pull this trick (taxing their citizens on overseas earnings).
I get no say in the matter.
You do get a say; you can choose to give up your US citizenship. Oh wait; if they figure out that you are giving up your citizenship for tax purposes THEY WON'T LET YOU. Some 'land of the free' LOL
No, he avoids taxes where they do business by other tricks to avoid it. Like paying money to Apple USA for product rights that Apple owns, if that garners a lower tax rate. Those rates, though, apparently, are the tax regimes of the industrial age and need to be update for the digital one, and payments for IP and product rigts need to be paid by the company who wishes to have their "IP" protected in the region.
IOW if Apple Eire own all the IP, but Apple USA wish it protected in the USA, then Apple Eire need to pay taxes in the USA for that protection.
I can see it now.
"Nice IP you 'ave there guvnor. Shame if sumfink was to 'appen to it."
Lebanon is taking refugees temporarily, ultimately they will leave and go to Western countries.
Silly oversight...they made them gun-free zones, but not bomb-free! Someone needs to put up some signs, then this will all go away.
Silly, guns have tiny little bombs inside them. So do (internal combustion engine) automobiles.
You have to look at the deep cultural background of the countries that are falling over themselves to take in refugees.
You might notice that it is only countries with a strong Christian background who are doing so.
This is because Western Christianity (as contrasted with Eastern Christianity) is descended from the religion of the slaves of Rome. Consequently its strongest values are things which were important to the slaves of Rome and this has profoundly affected the psychology of the societies of Europe and many of their colonies.
In this example victims are good and any victim must be embraced and supported. These Western countries are simply incapable of rationally evaluating the benefit or detriment of taking in refugees; they are compelled to take in refugees no matter the consequences. They will continue to take in refugees until their societies and economies have completely broken down.
You will notice that Eastern Christian countries (eg Russia, Greece) aren't interested in taking refugees. You'll notice that Muslim countries aren't interested in taking refugees. Not even Buddhist countries are so driven to destruction and Buddhism is one of the most altruistic religions that exists.
To put it simply; In certain cultures people get a really good feeling out of 'acts of kindness' it makes these people release endorphins which gives them a 'natural high'.
They aren't taking the refugees for the benefit of the refugees. They are taking the refugees so that they can feel better about themselves.
The UK is only less regulated because they don't have the OUTSTANDING government infrastructure that we have here in the good 'ol USSA. Europeans in general are slightly less risk averse as we are here in nannyland...
If the government of USA weren't nannyland it'd go Lord of the Flies in a week.
The UK as a less regulated environment? Is this April first, or did I accidentally get to the Onion?
North America is horrifically regulated by comparison. Look at the taxi protests in Toronto against Uber. you know what the taxis are really protesting about?
The police and city council say they are unable to enforce the regulations and bylaws on taxis because they are too complicated.
I hope they find a way to do away with civil asset forfeitures too. That is the worst thing police do in America today. Steal things from citizens to boost their income.
Look at it this way; at least the organised banditry that the USA operates on is applied to US citizens as well as the rest of the world!
The rest of the world feels your pain and I'm sure many overseas would be happy to help you oust those thugs who call themselves police and politicians in the USA.
Palestine is recognised as a independent state. Therefore this is a war between states.
One Israeli of my acquaintance stated that "They are not 'Palestinians', they are Arabs and as such they should be happy to live anywhere in the Arab world. Israel isn't part of the Arab world."
Aside from Australians I have never met a group more prone to racism than Israelis. But unlike Aussies the Israeli men didn't seem to be entirely misogynistic.
Interesting how Judaism is pretty much the only religion alive today which is almost entirely racial in nature and focussed on parentage. Who your mother is matters very much in Judaism; I don't believe there is any other religion for which your parents, your genealogy, actually matters at all.
Does Jordan plowing under entire Palestinian villages count as racism in your Israel-hating Euro-fashionable worldview?
I don't know. Does an African American calling other African Americans 'nigger' count as racism?
I do know that a lot of the Arab countries are not in the least bit sympathetic to the Palestinians so Israels position that they are just Arabs and should be happy to live anywhere in the Arab world doesn't work in practice for the Palestinians who have basically been left without a nation thanks to the UN.
Maybe the Turks should re-instate the Ottoman empire, cos the Middle East was a fucking lot more stable under them...
You are a fucking idiot.
Palestinian are not Arab, they are of semitic decent.
Both Arabs and Jews are of semitic descent, though European Jews are rather diluted through intermarriage over the past 2000 years. "Palestinians" are Arabs. The term Palestinian is political, not racial.
e.g.: They share common ancestor with the jews that left the region to colonise Europe.
All Arabs share a common ancestor with those Jews. I'd like to point out that Jews never colonized Europe.
It is for the jews the assimilate into the Palestinian nation,
At the time the Jews started returning with the explicit goal of establishing a State, there were no "Palestinians", never mind a nation of them.
The argument made by Israel is that the term 'Palestinian' was invented during the period when Israel was being formed and Jewish jackbooted thugs were going around kicking 'Arabs' out of their homes.
The claim is that by calling themselves 'Palestinian' they were claiming a connection to the Philistines (AKA the Phonecians (you may have heard of them, they invented phonetic writing)).
The Philistines were a race of people who inhabited the 'promised land' when the Israelites arrived there. So they were exterminated.
Many Israelis claim that the so-called 'Palestinians' are just Bedouin Arabs who moved into their promised land after their ancestors vacated it because they (the Hebrews) didn't like the way the Romans were governing it). That they call themselves 'Palestinians' is simply an effort to raise sympathy for having been brutally dispossessed of their lands and territories by the UN, USA and 'Israel'.
Why can't we all just get along?
Japan
Being Japanese isn't a religion but possibly Shinto I'll grant.
Ricky Lee's (large) thesis Creating a Practical Legal Framework for the Commercial Exploitation of Mineral Resources in Outer Space
Oh great, just what we need to help open a new frontier; massive piles of regulation.
He an evil mastermind set on world (Mars) domination. Didn't you see the Colbert interview?
And he's obviously played waaaay too much Kerbal Space Program.
Those nations projected their power by means of gun powder and the spreading of diseases, not by passing laws. As an inhabitant of the American Colonies of the British Empire you should know that.
Oh come on, the US just celebrated thanksgiving and I doubt 1 in 10 of them even know they are celebrating genocide.
Yes and no. Anyone can convert, and no one can then consider you any less Jewish than any other Jew, no matter their pedigree. So the only real difference is that there are many defacto Jews and non practising Jews; The big difference is the difficulty is giving up your Jewish status.
For sure there are people who can consider converts less Jewish, in fact non-Jewish. Orthodoxy in Israel does not recognise conversions. Conversions are a mostly non-Israeli thing.
FWIW A non-Israeli Jewish friend once told me that he felt that nothing had done more harm to the reputation of international Jewry than the state of Israel.
Palestine is recognised as a independent state. Therefore this is a war between states.
One Israeli of my acquaintance stated that "They are not 'Palestinians', they are Arabs and as such they should be happy to live anywhere in the Arab world. Israel isn't part of the Arab world."
Aside from Australians I have never met a group more prone to racism than Israelis. But unlike Aussies the Israeli men didn't seem to be entirely misogynistic.
Interesting how Judaism is pretty much the only religion alive today which is almost entirely racial in nature and focussed on parentage. Who your mother is matters very much in Judaism; I don't believe there is any other religion for which your parents, your genealogy, actually matters at all.
Possibly the greatest added value of Alienware is the case. Thats pretty much it. The rest is a reasonable office PC but not a 'gaming rig'.
Yes, but you would still have to come up with a method for people to move large packages around if you eliminated all the cars.
Cut the large packages into smaller packages and distribute them among multiple cyclists! Job done!
"Have you ever tried LSD? "
No, and I never will. Only an idiot would sacrifice their mental health for a few hours of tripping.
'Mental health' is way overvalued.