Well, to be fair, the US doesn't get involved in Tibet nearly as much as China does.
And they do have a Muslim terrorist problem, they just handle it differently. Google "Uyghur Muslim" for more information.
With Guantanamo inmates being sent to Kazakhstan we can almost see the ground being laid for the scenario which plays out in Diamond Age; radicalisation of the 'Stans, reaction against Chinas heavy handedness toward their Muslim population etc.
People love to hate on aggression. Aggression is not just the desire to hurt. It is also the desire to act - to explore, to create, to save, and the desire to fight back against evil. A world without aggression would make those idiots that talk about people being 'sheeple' correct.
Does aggression cause problems? Yes. So does complaisance. I for one am glad people have aggression, as opposed to being a bunch of complaisant, laid-back lemmings.
The problem is not excess aggression. It is insufficient self control. The inability to put off current desires in order to obtain greater rewards later on.
This is really a basic tenet of what might be called 'Nietszcheanism'.
Its possible for humans to live a life of 'poverty, dirt and miserable ease' ie where their life is awful and boring and drab but at the same time its so easy and safe that they can't be bothered doing anything about it. Its aggression, dissatisfaction and greed that gets them to step up and demand more from life and to live beyond that state of miserable ease.
Man's biggest failure may be failing to stand up to aggression, but get RID of aggression? Not going to happen, and not a good thing if it did. Leaders are aggressive.
Aggression, along with greed and selfishness are absolutely essential to the existance of life itself. They are at the very root of life. No living thing exists without doing so at the expense of another living thing and must be selfish, greedy and aggressive to survive and propagate. Even cyanobacteria exist at the expense of other cyanobacteria; occupying space that another cyanobacteria would like to occupy.
Get rid of aggression, selfishness and greed and you get rid of life.
Well of course, but that misses the point. Aliens traveling across space to come here would of course bring their supplies with them. If we traveled back in time a few hundred years, we'd of course bring supplies with us.
The point is, if the US military today decided to invade... lets say the North Sentinel Islanders, how well do you think that would go for the Sentinelese people?
My point is that bringing supplies with you is not a supply chain. Its a limited resource. So with those limited supplies you bring with you, you better hope you can finish the campaign before they run out. Or, like I said, those tanks will just be hard cover.
I used to think Canadians - even those out in the forsaken, endless prairies - were far more wise and progressive than us USians, but no. How long has GOP-backed and advised Harper been in power now? What happened? Was it tar sand greed? Pure apathy? The assumption they were all as 'funny' as Laughable Bublefuck Rob Ford?
Quite sad; I thought the Canadians were better than, well, just about everybody, but now no different than the rest of the Right-Wing Police State, Might Makes Right, Western world. [le sigh]
Honestly I wouldn't expect anything else from a 5-eyes nation.
If the modern invading force didn't have the supply chain for fuel then within a day or two those thousand M1 tanks would be nothing but cover to hide behind.
You hand them the license not the wallet. Ive even seen cops tell drivers to take the license out. They don't want to fumble with your wallet. It is the potential to drop something out of it or get accused of stealing from it.
I thought stealing was just normal for cops in the USA? They call it 'civil forfeiture'.
you beat me to it. this was the very first thing i thought of as well. while convenient, as it would make carrying a wallet unnecessary, it's a huge trap. you can't complain the cops have your phone, if you hand it to them. not to mention the camera you're probably using to document the stop is under their control.
However, if you hand your wallet over to a cop in the USA and theres cash in it he'll declare it 'obviously drug money' and confiscate it...
If the videos are taken down and no one can see them, people can't check if they are fake or not.
A lot of news media sites seem to refer to a movie 'which appears to show' someone being burned alive, as if theres some question about it. If the video is available then those with the expertise, and stomach, can verify whether it is genuine or if its a hoax and the flames are CG. Keep it hidden away forever and its authenticity might be challenged.
The headline is written such that it left me to think at first that it was for handling dangerous live insects (say, killer bees, fire ants, etc). The headline should really specify it is for handling insect specimens - or that the device ensures the safety of the insect rather than the handler.
The insects appear to be dead, impaled on various spikes attached to the LEGO. I'd therefore say its NOT safe for the insects.
The US government has given the telcos hundreds of billions of dollars in USF fees over the last 15+ years. No one in the world has subsidized broadband as much as we have.
And, apparently, no one in the world has as little to show for the investment...
After hearing about the grilled cheese sandwich that looks like the virgin Mary I read this headline and the image that comes to mind is a roast turkey where the pattern of browning on the skin sort of looks like an image of the prophet Muhammad.
Then I think Facebook is being biased. If they allowed pictures of the virgin Mary grilled cheese then they shouldn't censor pictures of the Muhammad roast turkey.
Then I imagine extremists shouting "death to the turkey!"
(News can me so much more entertaining if you allow yourself to be creative.)
The thing is, no one would know it was an image of the prophet Mohammed because no one knows what he looked like.
And the worst part is, how will Facebooks system be able to tell the difference between an image thats 'supposed to be that one Mohammed who was the prophet' and an image thats of one of the millions of Muslims around the world whose name is 'Mohammed'??
Its true *ESPECIALLY* with the occasional vulnerability because thats a vulnerability thats been found, publicised and fixed unlike in the proprietary shit where the vulnerability will be found by a limited group of people and kept secret so they can use it.
Oh, you mean those nice folks over in Eastern Europe?
and the intelligence network of the 5 main english speaking nations...
That's great in theory, but no one likes reading lines and lines of old code looking for a potential error. Know what? Even fewer people do it for free. At least in proprietary software, people are paid to do it.
In proprietary software and free alike many people are paid to do it.
They do it so their masters can then exploit the bugs they find and pry into your private life, hack your bank accounts and generally fuck with you.
Its true *ESPECIALLY* with the occasional vulnerability because thats a vulnerability thats been found, publicised and fixed unlike in the proprietary shit where the vulnerability will be found by a limited group of people and kept secret so they can use it.
You have that backwards. Pedophiles are the group that society wants to watch burn. The group that nobody will cry for as they are marched to the stake, or the concentration camp, or the guillotine. The group that politicians use as moral grounds for passing laws based on hate and vigilantism instead of justice.
It's a slippery slope my friends.
Pretty soon it'll be people who are suspected of having harbored lustful thoughts of girls who appear to be under age.
That and camera technology in the posters you see everywhere advertising clothes/makeup etc for young girls so that men whose eyes linger just a little too long on the poster are flagged as potential pedos.
Most of us practice head shots for hours at a time.
People in the South tend to have guns within reach at all times; what could possibly go wrong?:)
As I replied to a similar comment below.
Do you idiots seriously believe that if the government was going to target you for surveillance, and go to the length of breaking into your home in order to bug it, that they would do so while you were there????
Some people never leave their homes though! I guess the ultimate in defence against this kind of thing is being a shut-in!
>> Me too. It's a hell of a lot harder to bug every man, woman, and child in the west than it is to intercept and crawl their communications
You don't need to do that. You just put a worm or backdoor in all these peoples smartphones:)
>> bug every man, woman, and child in the west
The east attempted that before '89, didn't work so well
It didn't work out that badly either. You don't directly spy on everyone; you give everyone a really good incentive to spy on everyone else for you. Kind of what 5 eyes does but on a more personal level.
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Well, to be fair, the US doesn't get involved in Tibet nearly as much as China does.
And they do have a Muslim terrorist problem, they just handle it differently. Google "Uyghur Muslim" for more information.
With Guantanamo inmates being sent to Kazakhstan we can almost see the ground being laid for the scenario which plays out in Diamond Age; radicalisation of the 'Stans, reaction against Chinas heavy handedness toward their Muslim population etc.
The obvious angle here is aggression towards one another, not aggression towards other species.
Obviously aggression toward one another is required.
People love to hate on aggression. Aggression is not just the desire to hurt. It is also the desire to act - to explore, to create, to save, and the desire to fight back against evil. A world without aggression would make those idiots that talk about people being 'sheeple' correct.
Does aggression cause problems? Yes. So does complaisance. I for one am glad people have aggression, as opposed to being a bunch of complaisant, laid-back lemmings.
The problem is not excess aggression. It is insufficient self control. The inability to put off current desires in order to obtain greater rewards later on.
This is really a basic tenet of what might be called 'Nietszcheanism'.
Its possible for humans to live a life of 'poverty, dirt and miserable ease' ie where their life is awful and boring and drab but at the same time its so easy and safe that they can't be bothered doing anything about it. Its aggression, dissatisfaction and greed that gets them to step up and demand more from life and to live beyond that state of miserable ease.
Anti-vaxxers on slashdot? Don't they revoke your geek card for that?
I heard that antibiotics can cause extreme nut allergies in children... or at least thats what I'm telling the anti-vaxxers.
Man's biggest failure may be failing to stand up to aggression, but get RID of aggression? Not going to happen, and not a good thing if it did. Leaders are aggressive.
Aggression, along with greed and selfishness are absolutely essential to the existance of life itself. They are at the very root of life. No living thing exists without doing so at the expense of another living thing and must be selfish, greedy and aggressive to survive and propagate. Even cyanobacteria exist at the expense of other cyanobacteria; occupying space that another cyanobacteria would like to occupy.
Get rid of aggression, selfishness and greed and you get rid of life.
What makes you think it is so limited? Perhaps they have matter replicators on-board that only require power and they can refuel at any star.
The ship itself becomes a self-sustaining factory that runs forever, making anything you need, including spare parts for the ship.
The external power source is any nearby star for fuel. With enough fuel, there is no supply chain, just the ship.
The example I was responding to involved M1 tanks and the US military of today. I don't think that the US military has replicator technology.
Well of course, but that misses the point. Aliens traveling across space to come here would of course bring their supplies with them. If we traveled back in time a few hundred years, we'd of course bring supplies with us.
The point is, if the US military today decided to invade... lets say the North Sentinel Islanders, how well do you think that would go for the Sentinelese people?
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My point is that bringing supplies with you is not a supply chain. Its a limited resource. So with those limited supplies you bring with you, you better hope you can finish the campaign before they run out. Or, like I said, those tanks will just be hard cover.
I used to think Canadians - even those out in the forsaken, endless prairies - were far more wise and progressive than us USians, but no. How long has GOP-backed and advised Harper been in power now? What happened? Was it tar sand greed? Pure apathy? The assumption they were all as 'funny' as Laughable Bublefuck Rob Ford?
Quite sad; I thought the Canadians were better than, well, just about everybody, but now no different than the rest of the Right-Wing Police State, Might Makes Right, Western world. [le sigh]
Honestly I wouldn't expect anything else from a 5-eyes nation.
It would depend on the supply chain.
If the modern invading force didn't have the supply chain for fuel then within a day or two those thousand M1 tanks would be nothing but cover to hide behind.
You hand them the license not the wallet. Ive even seen cops tell drivers to take the license out. They don't want to fumble with your wallet. It is the potential to drop something out of it or get accused of stealing from it.
I thought stealing was just normal for cops in the USA? They call it 'civil forfeiture'.
you beat me to it. this was the very first thing i thought of as well. while convenient, as it would make carrying a wallet unnecessary, it's a huge trap. you can't complain the cops have your phone, if you hand it to them. not to mention the camera you're probably using to document the stop is under their control.
However, if you hand your wallet over to a cop in the USA and theres cash in it he'll declare it 'obviously drug money' and confiscate it...
If the videos are taken down and no one can see them, people can't check if they are fake or not.
A lot of news media sites seem to refer to a movie 'which appears to show' someone being burned alive, as if theres some question about it. If the video is available then those with the expertise, and stomach, can verify whether it is genuine or if its a hoax and the flames are CG. Keep it hidden away forever and its authenticity might be challenged.
The headline is written such that it left me to think at first that it was for handling dangerous live insects (say, killer bees, fire ants, etc). The headline should really specify it is for handling insect specimens - or that the device ensures the safety of the insect rather than the handler.
The insects appear to be dead, impaled on various spikes attached to the LEGO. I'd therefore say its NOT safe for the insects.
Funny how the country that talks the loudest about free market is so crap at actually implementing it...
We subsidized something, it turns out it certainly wasn't broadband.
I think you subsidized the bonus payouts to the telco executives...
Don't worry I'm sure the benefits will trickle down through the economy
LOL
The US government has given the telcos hundreds of billions of dollars in USF fees over the last 15+ years. No one in the world has subsidized broadband as much as we have.
And, apparently, no one in the world has as little to show for the investment...
In the US we gave our telcos massive tax cuts in the 90s in exchange for fiber rollout. The telcos took the money and ran.
Don't worry I'm sure the market will sort it out...
Thats why you have free market, capitalism and democracy!
After hearing about the grilled cheese sandwich that looks like the virgin Mary I read this headline and the image that comes to mind is a roast turkey where the pattern of browning on the skin sort of looks like an image of the prophet Muhammad.
Then I think Facebook is being biased. If they allowed pictures of the virgin Mary grilled cheese then they shouldn't censor pictures of the Muhammad roast turkey.
Then I imagine extremists shouting "death to the turkey!"
(News can me so much more entertaining if you allow yourself to be creative.)
The thing is, no one would know it was an image of the prophet Mohammed because no one knows what he looked like.
And the worst part is, how will Facebooks system be able to tell the difference between an image thats 'supposed to be that one Mohammed who was the prophet' and an image thats of one of the millions of Muslims around the world whose name is 'Mohammed'??
FOSS *is* more secure, and that's true even with the occasional vulnerability.
Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool.
Its true *ESPECIALLY* with the occasional vulnerability because thats a vulnerability thats been found, publicised and fixed unlike in the proprietary shit where the vulnerability will be found by a limited group of people and kept secret so they can use it.
Oh, you mean those nice folks over in Eastern Europe?
and the intelligence network of the 5 main english speaking nations...
Apparently "many eyes" were not reading that bit of code.
Will you please actually read the quote rather than quoting an inorrect interpretation. The quote is:
"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
It means that once a bug is found, it is shallow, i.e. quick and easy to solve for someone. It doesn't and never did mean that all bugs will be found.
'many eyes' weren't reading that bit of code.
But you can fucking bet that 5 eyes were reading that bit of code!
That's great in theory, but no one likes reading lines and lines of old code looking for a potential error. Know what? Even fewer people do it for free. At least in proprietary software, people are paid to do it.
In proprietary software and free alike many people are paid to do it.
They do it so their masters can then exploit the bugs they find and pry into your private life, hack your bank accounts and generally fuck with you.
FOSS *is* more secure, and that's true even with the occasional vulnerability.
Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool.
Its true *ESPECIALLY* with the occasional vulnerability because thats a vulnerability thats been found, publicised and fixed unlike in the proprietary shit where the vulnerability will be found by a limited group of people and kept secret so they can use it.
Pedophiles are like Nazis
You have that backwards. Pedophiles are the group that society wants to watch burn. The group that nobody will cry for as they are marched to the stake, or the concentration camp, or the guillotine. The group that politicians use as moral grounds for passing laws based on hate and vigilantism instead of justice.
It's a slippery slope my friends.
Pretty soon it'll be people who are suspected of having harbored lustful thoughts of girls who appear to be under age.
That and camera technology in the posters you see everywhere advertising clothes/makeup etc for young girls so that men whose eyes linger just a little too long on the poster are flagged as potential pedos.
Most of us practice head shots for hours at a time.
People in the South tend to have guns within reach at all times; what could possibly go wrong? :)
As I replied to a similar comment below.
Do you idiots seriously believe that if the government was going to target you for surveillance, and go to the length of breaking into your home in order to bug it, that they would do so while you were there????
Some people never leave their homes though! I guess the ultimate in defence against this kind of thing is being a shut-in!
>> Me too. It's a hell of a lot harder to bug every man, woman, and child in the west than it is to intercept and crawl their communications
You don't need to do that. :)
You just put a worm or backdoor in all these peoples smartphones
>> bug every man, woman, and child in the west
The east attempted that before '89, didn't work so well
It didn't work out that badly either. You don't directly spy on everyone; you give everyone a really good incentive to spy on everyone else for you. Kind of what 5 eyes does but on a more personal level.