May I ask you, in this big government orgy that protects us from theft, how much time has the HSBC management have done? Than at least i will take the small government, thank you.And why do some people always leave out the part where the desired small government is not a weak government?
HSBC were the best fucking bank I ever used. And I wasn't even laundering money.
I'm in the UK. I recently stopped and looked around near where I work and counted 27 cameras. Ten were pointing directly at my location. They may or may not be active but they are there OK.
Soon everyone in the UK will start wearing masks to get a sense of privacy.
"Dennis Ritchie, designer of the C programming language, revealed his design for a new model of car today. Instead of the multiple confusing gauges on the dashboard is a single light that lights up with a '?'.
"The experienced user", Ritchie says, "will usually know what's wrong."
I think part of the issue some people have with the 'right to bear arms' is that they don't trust their fellow citizens to only use lethal force defensively not offensively. They guess that their neighbors would use lethal force against them, unprovoked. That doesn't sound like an unreasonable concern, but I think part of having a sane society is being able to trust your neighbors with lethal weapons and the right to use lethal force TO DEFEND themselves or their families.
But... people are aware of human nature and that given enough neighbors with lethal weaponry some of those neighbors are going to use that weaponry offensively and, if they get the jump, successfully. So maybe one should pre-emptively take out those neighbors of 'questionable morals'... And then, if everyone starts using their lethal force pre-emptively 'just in case', things get very ugly very quickly.
So having an armed populace can create an environment of paranoia and fear just by the very presence of those weapons in so many hands. Just because one is armed doesn't mean those arms will always protect one so one fears those armed others despite being armed to the teeth oneself. Carrying weapons does not, in itself, make a person fearless. Often quite the contrary... Firearms, swords etc don't bring quite enough 'mutually assured destruction' to keep the game theoretic aspect of this 'sane'. Maybe everyone should have nukes or at least suicide vests. Fuck, what mugger would be stupid enough to try mugging someone wearing a suicide vest? (rhetorical question).
If human beings had natural lethal weaponry built in things would be different, I guess. The concern would be academic.
It's sounds like you never used it, right? even the integration solutions that serves as the backbone of cloud based gaming platforms use it. maybe you're the kind of people that think that Java is slow? Or not scalable enough? (Close dot net).
Java is a monster which was created to boost RAM sales.
Bruce Schneier had a good essay on the nuances of what "WMD" means now. From a quote in the article,
All artillery, and virtually every muzzle-loading military long arm for that matter, legally qualifies as a WMD. It does make the bombardment of Ft. Sumter all the more sinister. To say nothing of the revelation that The Star Spangled Banner is in fact an account of a WMD attack on American shores.
Well, I won't go that far. There is a valid technical reason why miners have to do nonsense work. But that doesn't really make that work itself meaningful. It is literally a waste of time of energy, because that is what it is designed to be, because the whole system would collapse if you could do it too quickly, so you have to force people to waste time.
Yeah I get that. But it would be nice if it also actually produced some useful work like crypto, genomics, protein folding etc. as a byproduct. Plenty of gold gets used in industry. Just think about those awesome gold hifi cables (oh.. wait).
And mining, eg, gold doesn't just produce something only useable as currency. So mining gold isn't combarable either. The only thing I can think of thats comparable is... a ponzi or pyramid scheme.
But the process of bit coin creation doesn't produce anything that can actually be used outside the bitcoin system? Unlike, say, mining gold (gold having numerous practical uses).
When you 'mine' a bitcoin have you actually produced something of tangible value other than an electronic token which a group of people have agreed to exchange goods and services for?
ie does the process of 'mining' bitcoins actually generate some kind of useful computational result? Something thats useful in genomics, or crypto or whatever, outside of just 'more bitcoins'.
I'd be genuinely alarmed that Cameron's leadership has left us so feckless that a tiny, technologically backwards nation on the other side of the globe was an existential threat. How bad do you have to be at your job that North Korea is near the top of the threats list?
You have to be delusional, that was my point.
Cameron, and anyone who believes that NK is near the top of the threats list of the UK, is delusional.
An American citizen who had been in Syria fighting for the rebels was, on returning to the US, charged with using a 'weapon of mass destruction'. This was an RPG. If thats a WMD then FUCK YEAH WMDs were found in Iraq!
That the corporate democracy in the USA isn't as bad as a dictatorship doesn't mean it is the golden solution.
No, from all that I can see the USA doesn't have a democracy anymore. It has corporate democracy and that is quite a different beast.
No-one's actually shown that neutron bombs will work as intended. The high neutron flux would do all kinds of weird shit to building materials. Could make the entire city too radioactive to be useful.
A., one of the trends of the last several decades is much greater use of OTS (Off The Shelf) equipment in the military. That is just buying existing commercial equipment without all of the traditional MILSPEC type hardening that would have been done in the past. That has meant much quicker fielding times, and more current technology, but at the cost of much greater vulnerability to EMP and other associated effects. Some recent prime examples would be the tablet PCs the military is deploying, and various low level tactical communications gear. There are others.
Yeah and all the Chinese made electronic components in that hardened, MILSPEC gear that the US military use really helps, I'm sure.
As it was reported in the UK, there is nothing that these people can be charged with on the basis of their interactions with the software, but the police will be looking closely at those people. It probably means they will be considered to have reasonable grounds to go rooting around their hard drives and so on.
At least the story seems to have been reported accurately on slashdot. The UK media represented everybody who interacted with the software as being a pedophile, with the charity only being able to identify about 1000. Great. So now if a 10-year-old asks for help, anybody who tries to help must be evil. Oh well, so long H. sapiens, we've had a good run...
I am pretty sure that, in the UK, masturbating over any image of an underage person, a person who 'appears' to be underage (ponytails, plaid skirt), a cartoon or a computer generated image which 'a reasonable person would assume is intended to represent an underage person' would get you on the sex offenders register.
In fact I guess anything but granny porn. "If it has fewer than 10 wrinkles, nick him!"
The problem with DNA evidence, as its actually used in practice, is that there is a FAR higher chance of a false positive than there is with fingerprints. They don't compare the ENTIRE damn genome, they compare a few markers and then the court ASSUMES that if the markers match it MUST be you. Whereas in fact it could match thousands of people around just the UK alone.
wow, that's a douchey thing to do! you probably made her feel really bad. how was she to know it wasn't allowed on your public network - you have a toc?
Could have been worse. Could have used a transparent squid proxy to turn all images on web pages into goatse or tubgirl and all videos to 'two girls one cup'
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And gold has some practical uses, not including those really expensive and awesome hifi cables.
May I ask you, in this big government orgy that protects us from theft, how much time has the HSBC management have done? Than at least i will take the small government, thank you.And why do some people always leave out the part where the desired small government is not a weak government?
HSBC were the best fucking bank I ever used. And I wasn't even laundering money.
I'm in the UK. I recently stopped and looked around near where I work and counted 27 cameras. Ten were pointing directly at my location. They may or may not be active but they are there OK.
Soon everyone in the UK will start wearing masks to get a sense of privacy.
(see Michael Moorcock, Hawkmoon)
From the Unix Haters Handbook:
"Dennis Ritchie, designer of the C programming language, revealed his design for a new model of car today. Instead of the multiple confusing gauges on the dashboard is a single light that lights up with a '?'.
"The experienced user", Ritchie says, "will usually know what's wrong."
I think part of the issue some people have with the 'right to bear arms' is that they don't trust their fellow citizens to only use lethal force defensively not offensively. They guess that their neighbors would use lethal force against them, unprovoked. That doesn't sound like an unreasonable concern, but I think part of having a sane society is being able to trust your neighbors with lethal weapons and the right to use lethal force TO DEFEND themselves or their families.
But... people are aware of human nature and that given enough neighbors with lethal weaponry some of those neighbors are going to use that weaponry offensively and, if they get the jump, successfully. So maybe one should pre-emptively take out those neighbors of 'questionable morals'... And then, if everyone starts using their lethal force pre-emptively 'just in case', things get very ugly very quickly.
So having an armed populace can create an environment of paranoia and fear just by the very presence of those weapons in so many hands. Just because one is armed doesn't mean those arms will always protect one so one fears those armed others despite being armed to the teeth oneself. Carrying weapons does not, in itself, make a person fearless. Often quite the contrary... Firearms, swords etc don't bring quite enough 'mutually assured destruction' to keep the game theoretic aspect of this 'sane'. Maybe everyone should have nukes or at least suicide vests. Fuck, what mugger would be stupid enough to try mugging someone wearing a suicide vest? (rhetorical question).
If human beings had natural lethal weaponry built in things would be different, I guess. The concern would be academic.
The one thing that defines a free man, is the right to keep and bear arms.
I'm curious about your opinion on this; clearly your first intention there is firearms. But how about knives or swords or other melee weapons?
It's sounds like you never used it, right?
even the integration solutions that serves as the backbone of cloud based gaming platforms use it. maybe you're the kind of people that think that Java is slow? Or not scalable enough? (Close dot net).
Java is a monster which was created to boost RAM sales.
Bruce Schneier had a good essay on the nuances of what "WMD" means now. From a quote in the article,
All artillery, and virtually every muzzle-loading military long arm for that matter, legally qualifies as a WMD. It does make the bombardment of Ft. Sumter all the more sinister. To say nothing of the revelation that The Star Spangled Banner is in fact an account of a WMD attack on American shores.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/07/counterterroris_1.html
Wow. It is truly newspeak. Doubleplus ungood.
Well, I won't go that far. There is a valid technical reason why miners have to do nonsense work. But that doesn't really make that work itself meaningful. It is literally a waste of time of energy, because that is what it is designed to be, because the whole system would collapse if you could do it too quickly, so you have to force people to waste time.
Yeah I get that. But it would be nice if it also actually produced some useful work like crypto, genomics, protein folding etc. as a byproduct. Plenty of gold gets used in industry. Just think about those awesome gold hifi cables (oh.. wait).
And mining, eg, gold doesn't just produce something only useable as currency. So mining gold isn't combarable either. The only thing I can think of thats comparable is... a ponzi or pyramid scheme.
But the process of bit coin creation doesn't produce anything that can actually be used outside the bitcoin system? Unlike, say, mining gold (gold having numerous practical uses).
When you 'mine' a bitcoin have you actually produced something of tangible value other than an electronic token which a group of people have agreed to exchange goods and services for?
ie does the process of 'mining' bitcoins actually generate some kind of useful computational result? Something thats useful in genomics, or crypto or whatever, outside of just 'more bitcoins'.
I'd be genuinely alarmed that Cameron's leadership has left us so feckless that a tiny, technologically backwards nation on the other side of the globe was an existential threat. How bad do you have to be at your job that North Korea is near the top of the threats list?
You have to be delusional, that was my point.
Cameron, and anyone who believes that NK is near the top of the threats list of the UK, is delusional.
Nah, cobalt bombs are for entire continents or planets,
They are going to be bloody handy when we've been at war with Eurasia so long everyone thinks "We have always been at war with Eurasia."
'North Korea's nuclear weapons could hit UK': Alarm at David Cameron's claim
I just want to point out that "alarm at David Cameron's claim" is actually "alarm that UK PM is delusional."
Who said that WMDs were found in Iraq?
An American citizen who had been in Syria fighting for the rebels was, on returning to the US, charged with using a 'weapon of mass destruction'. This was an RPG. If thats a WMD then FUCK YEAH WMDs were found in Iraq!
That the corporate democracy in the USA isn't as bad as a dictatorship doesn't mean it is the golden solution.
No, from all that I can see the USA doesn't have a democracy anymore. It has corporate democracy and that is quite a different beast.
Not quite; more corporate republic...
No-one's actually shown that neutron bombs will work as intended. The high neutron flux would do all kinds of weird shit to building materials. Could make the entire city too radioactive to be useful.
Thats where you need a cobalt bomb...
A., one of the trends of the last several decades is much greater use of OTS (Off The Shelf) equipment in the military. That is just buying existing commercial equipment without all of the traditional MILSPEC type hardening that would have been done in the past. That has meant much quicker fielding times, and more current technology, but at the cost of much greater vulnerability to EMP and other associated effects. Some recent prime examples would be the tablet PCs the military is deploying, and various low level tactical communications gear. There are others.
Yeah and all the Chinese made electronic components in that hardened, MILSPEC gear that the US military use really helps, I'm sure.
As it was reported in the UK, there is nothing that these people can be charged with on the basis of their interactions with the software, but the police will be looking closely at those people. It probably means they will be considered to have reasonable grounds to go rooting around their hard drives and so on.
At least the story seems to have been reported accurately on slashdot. The UK media represented everybody who interacted with the software as being a pedophile, with the charity only being able to identify about 1000. Great. So now if a 10-year-old asks for help, anybody who tries to help must be evil. Oh well, so long H. sapiens, we've had a good run...
I am pretty sure that, in the UK, masturbating over any image of an underage person, a person who 'appears' to be underage (ponytails, plaid skirt), a cartoon or a computer generated image which 'a reasonable person would assume is intended to represent an underage person' would get you on the sex offenders register.
In fact I guess anything but granny porn. "If it has fewer than 10 wrinkles, nick him!"
The problem with DNA evidence, as its actually used in practice, is that there is a FAR higher chance of a false positive than there is with fingerprints. They don't compare the ENTIRE damn genome, they compare a few markers and then the court ASSUMES that if the markers match it MUST be you. Whereas in fact it could match thousands of people around just the UK alone.
wow, that's a douchey thing to do! you probably made her feel really bad. how was she to know it wasn't allowed on your public network - you have a toc?
Could have been worse. Could have used a transparent squid proxy to turn all images on web pages into goatse or tubgirl and all videos to 'two girls one cup'
How about putting the shoe on the other foot.
A Saudi woman goes to the USA, is raped there. Goes back to Saudi Arabia and is thrown in jail for having been raped (had sex outside marriage).
But, they are also required to record anything and everything you say.
and *specifically* so that it can be used against you.
Don't forget the RAM upgrades needed to run everything in Java! Every spare memory stick in the nation will be commandeered!