If you think Snowden is intentionally cooperating with those governments, you have the burden of explaining why he went public, instead of just moving into his dacha and enjoying his ill-gotten gains.
If you think those governments have tried to get the data without his knowledge, bear in mind that he's technically sophisticated and it's inconceivable that he didn't encrypt his drive.
If you think the Russians are employing rubber hose cryptanalysis, bear in mind that he is still in contact with several western journalists, and it's very likely that they have prearranged codes to let him communicate such a message.
He'd have all kinds of duress codes. eg "If I ask after your nephew, somethings wrong. If I don't ask after your niece somethings wrong. If I mention anything about X somethings wrong. If I don't mention anything about Y somethings wrong." etc.
That makes no sense, you can't trace cash. When I hand you a twenty that twenty has no information about me whatever, nor does it have information on who handed it to me.
Ulan Bator is based on a misunderstanding. The correct spelling is Ulaanbaatar.
It means 'Red Hero' and, surprisingly, predates Communism despite its reference to the color red. The city is named for a historical character whose real name, deeds etc have been forgotten. All that it is remembered is that they were a woman.
I always figured that phasers had some sort of reclamation tech -- where the energy deployed in the first phase was then reclaimed, thus solving the issue of a bunch of superheated water vapor -- leaving it instead as ambient temperature water vapor, and the phaser as reusable. That was my own way of reasoning it away all those years ago, anyway.
I could never figure out how you could set a phaser to "stun" though -- does it just change the phase of some molecules while ignoring the bulk of them?
I figured it used transporter/replicator technology and this is where all the food in the galley came from...
Staff weapons are weapons of terror, not combat. I'd quote the episode, but I'm lazy. It was one of the ones were they were just starting to partner with the Jaffa, and they had O'neall talking about the MP5s they use, the staff weapon fired at a log hanging took some hits and missed, the MP5 in Sam's hands, cut the swinging target in half.
Yeah the Jaffa 'marksman' demonstrating the staff weapon took about 3 shots just to hit the swinging log and all the Jaffa cheered at his amazing prowess.
Sam cut the rope with the MP5 on full auto almost instantly and the Jaffa kind of went quiet and sheepish.
IIRC it was the episode where the Goa'uld Imhotep was posing as a Jaffa leader.
What I'm wondering is; where does an NSL get sent? What form does it take? Is it literaly a letter on paper? Can the company which is the subject of such a letter ensure that it is sent to an address outside of the USA? If so then whats to say the letter gets intercepted by some third party, opened and leaked, before it arrives at its addressee?
It's mostly to do with Camoron wanting all UK ISPs to 'think of the children' and opt out of censorship.
Anyone who uses a 'best interests of the children' argument should be immediately shipped to an island populated entirely by other people just like them.
The UK has bad enough immigration problems as it is.
Safety -- like the shinkansen the proposed Tokyo-Nagoya maglev will run on separated track, no crossings or other traffic allowed on the same route. There are barrier walls and fencing along all of the track to keep cows, people and Gojira from getting in the way.
The recent Spanish high-speed train "accident" was a disaster waiting to happen when you study it, there is no way a high-speed railway line should have had an 80kph-limit curve like that anywhere along its length. The Japanese maglev will be basically as straight as they can make it with a lot of tunneling and raised viaducts like the existing shinkansen routes but even more so as the maglev will start operation with a 50% speed increase over the steel-wheel-on-steel-rail shinkansen (there are somewhat sketchy plans to eventually run maglev trains at 700km/h and more once the technology improves).
80kph curve pshaw! He was doing 190kph and he NEARLY made it!
They should get him test driving these maglev trains, the guys clearly an ace.
It is weird i don't see any USA or Russian trains, they both got a vast country and a knack of looking for grandour. How come that much smaller countries like Taiwan got faster trains, heh.
The Russian train system is very heavily used. People 'commute' on the trans-siberian.
A trans-siberian mag-lev would be awesome. The existing tracks are so fucked up its a very bumpy ride. The passenger and freight service shares the same tracks and those freight cars are the size of houses (Russian gauge is wider than the rest of the world, the freight cars are fucking HUGE) and visibly bend the tracks as they roll along... needless to say the rails don't bend back to straightness.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)
I just want to point out; GBS 'Man and Superman' was intended to parody Nietzsche, who GBS hated, and to discredit his ideas. That sentence was *intended* to make the reader laugh at how absurd Nietzsche is. Doesn't seem so absurd now, does it.
The thing is, that in the modern world, the sentence seems more plausible as a genuine statement than as a parody. In fact a lot of Nietzsche makes more sense now and in the current context Nietzsches question at the start of "Beyond Good and Evil" is one worth thinking about, just to clarify ones mind on the idea and to force a re-evaluation of ones deepest held ideas.
And that is: "Why should we prefer truth over falsehood?"
(a question which, Nietzsche claims, had never been asked by any philosopher before him all of whom just took it for granted. Its the 'taking it for granted' that Nietzsche is challenging, also the idea that there are some things that exist at a 'meta-level' outside of consideration of good and evil eg reproduction, survival. Again, relevant to the current context.)
That's actually why he identified himself -- to help avoid assassination.
And he has some security in the form of encrypted documents scattered around the world with instructions to release the key should anything 'happen' to him. And these documents contain stuff that would be VERY damaging to the US government.
So, naturally, the US doesn't want to assassinate him. But the US has many enemies who would like to see these documents released. Do the math.
Or make your country so shitty, with so few freedoms left and so much oppression, that no one wants to go there.
Never mind all those billion dollars from tourism. At least no unwanted SOFTWARE will be entering your country.
The British have been trying to do this for decades and they STILL have massive immigration. Why anyone would want to immigrate to the UK (legally or illegally) is beyond me. And I was born there.
There was an incident after WW1 where veterans protesting in Washington over not getting their war bond money had their little tent city rolled over by tanks and set on fire. Yes, tanks used in Washingon against war veterans.
The overman is nothing to do with robots or genetically engineered supermen (Roddenberry explored that very nicely with so many examples of failed attempts to deliberately create the overman). The overman is evolution. The human race is on a journey from the bestial to the superhuman and every human child is a step on that journey. One day our ancestors will be to us as we are to the apes, and they'll look back at us with the same mixture of humor and embarrassment as we now look upon apes. How you can get robots out of Nietzsche is beyond me; its obviously organic evolution of the species.
And yeah I have read his work, thanks for the tip.
Mankind dieing on the vine begs a question; where else is mankind supposed to die? We have a destiny?
Me, I'm a Nietzschean. The destiny of mankind, such as it is, is to give birth to a god. Then that god replaces us. A father should not try to keep his children weaker than himself, such as the god of the christians/jews/muslims does.
What is great in Man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
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If you think Snowden is intentionally cooperating with those governments, you have the burden of explaining why he went public, instead of just moving into his dacha and enjoying his ill-gotten gains.
If you think those governments have tried to get the data without his knowledge, bear in mind that he's technically sophisticated and it's inconceivable that he didn't encrypt his drive.
If you think the Russians are employing rubber hose cryptanalysis, bear in mind that he is still in contact with several western journalists, and it's very likely that they have prearranged codes to let him communicate such a message.
He'd have all kinds of duress codes. eg "If I ask after your nephew, somethings wrong. If I don't ask after your niece somethings wrong. If I mention anything about X somethings wrong. If I don't mention anything about Y somethings wrong." etc.
That makes no sense, you can't trace cash. When I hand you a twenty that twenty has no information about me whatever, nor does it have information on who handed it to me.
Probably got some of your DNA on it. Just sayin'
its not exactly 'in English', its a transliteration and transliterations can be improved.
That would be Cypress Hill, not ICP.
though 'Riddlebox' is also appropriate.
Ulan Bator is based on a misunderstanding. The correct spelling is Ulaanbaatar.
It means 'Red Hero' and, surprisingly, predates Communism despite its reference to the color red. The city is named for a historical character whose real name, deeds etc have been forgotten. All that it is remembered is that they were a woman.
I always figured that phasers had some sort of reclamation tech -- where the energy deployed in the first phase was then reclaimed, thus solving the issue of a bunch of superheated water vapor -- leaving it instead as ambient temperature water vapor, and the phaser as reusable. That was my own way of reasoning it away all those years ago, anyway.
I could never figure out how you could set a phaser to "stun" though -- does it just change the phase of some molecules while ignoring the bulk of them?
I figured it used transporter/replicator technology and this is where all the food in the galley came from...
Staff weapons are weapons of terror, not combat. I'd quote the episode, but I'm lazy. It was one of the ones were they were just starting to partner with the Jaffa, and they had O'neall talking about the MP5s they use, the staff weapon fired at a log hanging took some hits and missed, the MP5 in Sam's hands, cut the swinging target in half.
Yeah the Jaffa 'marksman' demonstrating the staff weapon took about 3 shots just to hit the swinging log and all the Jaffa cheered at his amazing prowess.
Sam cut the rope with the MP5 on full auto almost instantly and the Jaffa kind of went quiet and sheepish.
IIRC it was the episode where the Goa'uld Imhotep was posing as a Jaffa leader.
Oh, I forgot. The internet is US soil, right?
Soil? Its dirty, I'll give you that...
What I'm wondering is; where does an NSL get sent? What form does it take? Is it literaly a letter on paper? Can the company which is the subject of such a letter ensure that it is sent to an address outside of the USA? If so then whats to say the letter gets intercepted by some third party, opened and leaked, before it arrives at its addressee?
It's mostly to do with Camoron wanting all UK ISPs to 'think of the children' and opt out of censorship.
Anyone who uses a 'best interests of the children' argument should be immediately shipped to an island populated entirely by other people just like them.
The UK has bad enough immigration problems as it is.
I live in a third world country. Have for years.
People from third world countries don't travel to the USA to live in its third world zone; they go to live in its first world city states.
Conflating a "war" on poverty with real police and military assault is despicable.
'War on poverty' should mean going around burning slums and slaughtering the inhabitants?
The U.S. is, by definition, a first-world nation.
Not really. Not the whole of the United States; in reality its a third world country with several first world city-states.
Safety -- like the shinkansen the proposed Tokyo-Nagoya maglev will run on separated track, no crossings or other traffic allowed on the same route. There are barrier walls and fencing along all of the track to keep cows, people and Gojira from getting in the way.
The recent Spanish high-speed train "accident" was a disaster waiting to happen when you study it, there is no way a high-speed railway line should have had an 80kph-limit curve like that anywhere along its length. The Japanese maglev will be basically as straight as they can make it with a lot of tunneling and raised viaducts like the existing shinkansen routes but even more so as the maglev will start operation with a 50% speed increase over the steel-wheel-on-steel-rail shinkansen (there are somewhat sketchy plans to eventually run maglev trains at 700km/h and more once the technology improves).
80kph curve pshaw! He was doing 190kph and he NEARLY made it!
They should get him test driving these maglev trains, the guys clearly an ace.
It is weird i don't see any USA or Russian trains, they both got a vast country and a knack of looking for grandour.
How come that much smaller countries like Taiwan got faster trains, heh.
The Russian train system is very heavily used. People 'commute' on the trans-siberian.
A trans-siberian mag-lev would be awesome. The existing tracks are so fucked up its a very bumpy ride. The passenger and freight service shares the same tracks and those freight cars are the size of houses (Russian gauge is wider than the rest of the world, the freight cars are fucking HUGE) and visibly bend the tracks as they roll along... needless to say the rails don't bend back to straightness.
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)
I just want to point out; GBS 'Man and Superman' was intended to parody Nietzsche, who GBS hated, and to discredit his ideas. That sentence was *intended* to make the reader laugh at how absurd Nietzsche is. Doesn't seem so absurd now, does it.
The thing is, that in the modern world, the sentence seems more plausible as a genuine statement than as a parody. In fact a lot of Nietzsche makes more sense now and in the current context Nietzsches question at the start of "Beyond Good and Evil" is one worth thinking about, just to clarify ones mind on the idea and to force a re-evaluation of ones deepest held ideas.
And that is: "Why should we prefer truth over falsehood?"
(a question which, Nietzsche claims, had never been asked by any philosopher before him all of whom just took it for granted. Its the 'taking it for granted' that Nietzsche is challenging, also the idea that there are some things that exist at a 'meta-level' outside of consideration of good and evil eg reproduction, survival. Again, relevant to the current context.)
Notice that your definition of propaganda doesn't say "false information".
Sometimes propaganda can be true information that you want people to think false.
That's actually why he identified himself -- to help avoid assassination.
And he has some security in the form of encrypted documents scattered around the world with instructions to release the key should anything 'happen' to him. And these documents contain stuff that would be VERY damaging to the US government.
So, naturally, the US doesn't want to assassinate him. But the US has many enemies who would like to see these documents released. Do the math.
Or make your country so shitty, with so few freedoms left and so much oppression, that no one wants to go there.
Never mind all those billion dollars from tourism. At least no unwanted SOFTWARE will be entering your country.
The British have been trying to do this for decades and they STILL have massive immigration. Why anyone would want to immigrate to the UK (legally or illegally) is beyond me. And I was born there.
Didn't you mean there are more stars in the universe than there are atoms in our galaxy?
No, I'm pretty sure black science guy said that.
There was an incident after WW1 where veterans protesting in Washington over not getting their war bond money had their little tent city rolled over by tanks and set on fire. Yes, tanks used in Washingon against war veterans.
"There are more stars in our galaxy than there are atoms in the universe."
-- Niel DeGrasse Tyson
But there is asteroid mining, There is a ton of rare earth metals up there.
They'll have to be renamed; rare space metals.
The overman is nothing to do with robots or genetically engineered supermen (Roddenberry explored that very nicely with so many examples of failed attempts to deliberately create the overman). The overman is evolution. The human race is on a journey from the bestial to the superhuman and every human child is a step on that journey. One day our ancestors will be to us as we are to the apes, and they'll look back at us with the same mixture of humor and embarrassment as we now look upon apes. How you can get robots out of Nietzsche is beyond me; its obviously organic evolution of the species.
And yeah I have read his work, thanks for the tip.
Mankind dieing on the vine begs a question; where else is mankind supposed to die? We have a destiny?
Me, I'm a Nietzschean. The destiny of mankind, such as it is, is to give birth to a god. Then that god replaces us. A father should not try to keep his children weaker than himself, such as the god of the christians/jews/muslims does.
What is great in Man is that he is a bridge and not an end.