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You have no "natural rights" ether. There is no such thing as natural, god given, odin given, zeus, or lucifer given rights. Any rights that you think you have that you think came from god(s) can be taken away from you with the stroke of a pen. All rights that you have come from government and society and are subject to the whims of that society.
Because then they start whining about their "god given rights" to be stupid. Which is another pet peeve of mine. There is no such thing as "god given rights." But anyway, just let them be stupid, just make sure they can't affect any one else.
While I understand your frustration with the stupid, I do believe that "lynching" might be a little extreme. I think we should make them pay for it. You want to be a dumb ass and not vaccinate your spawn, fine. Insurance and government medical don't have to cover your dumb ass for such illnesses. Or insurances get to charge you more for your stupidity.
I often wonder if we should remove all the warning labels and safety limits off everything for 2 years. How much would it improve the species? Just 2 short years.
If your tech company cannot support remote work in the year 2019, then you're working for the wrong damn tech company.
Isn't this the damn truth. I drive 30 minutes to work every day, to sit in a office, and manage 6,500 virtual machines all around the world. I don't have to touch hardware any where because we rent space in data centers where they have their own tech-monkies do the hands on. I can do my job from my home just as well as the office. Hell, I can do it from the Starbucks down the road, or even the Starbucks mens room if I needed too.
The only reason that most of us have to drive in is because we have to many PHB that don't understand the how the technical infrastructure works.
So, Fuck That. We live in a world now where most jobs that don't involved physically laying hands on hardware can be done any where in the world now. If I was inclined I could rent out a 1 bedroom shack in bumfuck Alabama, and as long as I had a good internet connection, manage thousands of servers any where in the world.
No, I'm not inclined to move back to bumfuck Alabama.
You may want to read a world atlas. Panama is in Central America (continent of North America). It is not in South Africa.
You might want to bone up on the subject and your reading comprehension. VPNs, like nordVPN, have servers in countries all around the world. The company is headquartered in Panama, but the physical server is one located in South Africa. So to obtain any logs an entity must deal with South African legal processes as well as Panama's. And which I believe Panama does have a habit of telling outside agencies seeking such logs to take a hike.
This exactly. I really don't believe the Chinese government gives two shits and a Popsicle if I'm leaching the latest season of The Flying Nun or some shit. But that being said, I'm not really worried about my government. I figure that if I'm on some list to be watched it wouldn't matter if my internet traffic is going through vpn or not.
I use a vpn to keep my local isp from seeing what I'm doing. I don't want them seeing what I'm leaching, if I'm leaching, then turning me over to MPAA or some shit. I also use a vpn when I'm on the road and using some coffee shop or airports wifi. These I trust less than my ISP. An a good vpn can get you around unreasonable blocks that some people place on their wifi.
I use NordVPN myself. It's based out of Panama and has a no log policy. I really don't believe that but it has a policy. I also don't use it for anything super illegal but I'm not above poaching a video or two over p2p.
I don't believe for a moment that a vpn makes me untrackable but it does throw extra road blocks in the way. If I'm leaching something out of South Africa then any US based warrant has to be brought up in South Africa. Which will make it more difficult to spy on me.
All a vpn does is make you higher fruit on the tree. It's the low hanging fruit they go after. If all the MPAA has to do is serve a search warrant to your US based ISP to get your traffic logs, then you are low hanging fruit. If they have to serve a search warrant to a company based in Panama to get the logs off a server, if they exist, in South Africa, then its more complex. Doesn't mean it can't be done, but it does make it more complex and more expensive.
No, it isn't. It isn't important in anyway, shape, or factor. It doesn't belong on/. but for some strange reason it is. We have plenty of other "propaganda" sites that will tell us why its important, with their own brand of spin.
Well obviously the public stopped using them. All you can order is cheese, laundry detergent, trash bags, and the like. Someone in marketing needs to be fired because they missed the market for this. The need dash buttons for beer, pizza, weed, Cheetos, hookers and blow. Network them, push three buttons and hooker shows up with a pizza, and a bag of weed. That is where the market is. The might need to make the buttons bigger for the beer and weed ones.
Oh horse shit. My post didn't fit the narrative as dictated the status quo. I actually think for myself and don't bleet in line with the sheep. You know, look at the evidence and make my own mind. What a lot of people use to do here on slashdot. You know make reasonable arguments with the data I have and debate it?
The entire tone of the thread will run "America BADDDDD, China GOODDDD."
I also predict any posts that do not follow this theme will invoke the wrath of the modtrolls. I wonder what my two posts will get, troll or flamebait.
America, the country that didn't sign the Paris accord, dropped CO2 emissions more than anyone else.
Of course we have but that won't matter. Nor will it matter that the two biggest polluters, China and India, will just get a free pass. What I'm predicting that in the next few posts we will see the America bashers running out in full force. The entire tone of the thread will run "America BADDDDD, China GOODDDD."
A decade back I propose something like this on/. Except I thought that color coded stainless steel disks would be a better option. I don;t that my obscure post had anything to do with this project but I'm glad someone else had a similar ideal.
I don't know. I've seen more than a few crack pot ideals that have been passed off as legitimate science in the past few years. Maybe I'm being to skeptical. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now. I would love to see this be true. We are due for a ground breaking, breakthrough. After the big disappointment that turned out to be the em-drive.
"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and thoroughly immoral -- doctrine that 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."
- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Isaac Asimov was a great writer. His Foundation series remains, and will remain, one of the great classics of SciFi. But on this manner he is completely wrong. Violence is not the last refuge of the incompetent. Violence is the first choice of the incompetent. It is usually the only choice or the last choice of the desperate.
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Someone accidentally modded the parent as flamebait. Being a moderator is a very important and sacred duty. For future reference the parent post should have been modded "Insightful." In the future keep this in mind.
Thank you.
how do you shout ... get off my lawn! in French?
I think it is something like "lItHa' lawn!" Waving around something sharp or pointy would help empathize the message.
You have no "natural rights" ether. There is no such thing as natural, god given, odin given, zeus, or lucifer given rights. Any rights that you think you have that you think came from god(s) can be taken away from you with the stroke of a pen. All rights that you have come from government and society and are subject to the whims of that society.
Because then they start whining about their "god given rights" to be stupid. Which is another pet peeve of mine. There is no such thing as "god given rights." But anyway, just let them be stupid, just make sure they can't affect any one else.
I just filed my taxes, where's my standing ovation?
I filed mine weeks ago, and already got my refund. Why is it taking you this long to get around to it?
disclaimer for the humorless: Yes, I'm just messing with him.
While I understand your frustration with the stupid, I do believe that "lynching" might be a little extreme. I think we should make them pay for it. You want to be a dumb ass and not vaccinate your spawn, fine. Insurance and government medical don't have to cover your dumb ass for such illnesses. Or insurances get to charge you more for your stupidity.
Well learn something new every day. I never thought a VW Beetle could do a 120 MPH.
I often wonder if we should remove all the warning labels and safety limits off everything for 2 years. How much would it improve the species? Just 2 short years.
If your tech company cannot support remote work in the year 2019, then you're working for the wrong damn tech company.
Isn't this the damn truth. I drive 30 minutes to work every day, to sit in a office, and manage 6,500 virtual machines all around the world. I don't have to touch hardware any where because we rent space in data centers where they have their own tech-monkies do the hands on. I can do my job from my home just as well as the office. Hell, I can do it from the Starbucks down the road, or even the Starbucks mens room if I needed too.
The only reason that most of us have to drive in is because we have to many PHB that don't understand the how the technical infrastructure works.
It's not a typo, and that sounds about right.
So, Fuck That. We live in a world now where most jobs that don't involved physically laying hands on hardware can be done any where in the world now. If I was inclined I could rent out a 1 bedroom shack in bumfuck Alabama, and as long as I had a good internet connection, manage thousands of servers any where in the world.
No, I'm not inclined to move back to bumfuck Alabama.
You may want to read a world atlas. Panama is in Central America (continent of North America). It is not in South Africa.
You might want to bone up on the subject and your reading comprehension. VPNs, like nordVPN, have servers in countries all around the world. The company is headquartered in Panama, but the physical server is one located in South Africa. So to obtain any logs an entity must deal with South African legal processes as well as Panama's. And which I believe Panama does have a habit of telling outside agencies seeking such logs to take a hike.
This exactly. I really don't believe the Chinese government gives two shits and a Popsicle if I'm leaching the latest season of The Flying Nun or some shit. But that being said, I'm not really worried about my government. I figure that if I'm on some list to be watched it wouldn't matter if my internet traffic is going through vpn or not.
I use a vpn to keep my local isp from seeing what I'm doing. I don't want them seeing what I'm leaching, if I'm leaching, then turning me over to MPAA or some shit. I also use a vpn when I'm on the road and using some coffee shop or airports wifi. These I trust less than my ISP. An a good vpn can get you around unreasonable blocks that some people place on their wifi.
I use NordVPN myself. It's based out of Panama and has a no log policy. I really don't believe that but it has a policy. I also don't use it for anything super illegal but I'm not above poaching a video or two over p2p.
I don't believe for a moment that a vpn makes me untrackable but it does throw extra road blocks in the way. If I'm leaching something out of South Africa then any US based warrant has to be brought up in South Africa. Which will make it more difficult to spy on me.
All a vpn does is make you higher fruit on the tree. It's the low hanging fruit they go after. If all the MPAA has to do is serve a search warrant to your US based ISP to get your traffic logs, then you are low hanging fruit. If they have to serve a search warrant to a company based in Panama to get the logs off a server, if they exist, in South Africa, then its more complex. Doesn't mean it can't be done, but it does make it more complex and more expensive.
No, it isn't. It isn't important in anyway, shape, or factor. It doesn't belong on /. but for some strange reason it is. We have plenty of other "propaganda" sites that will tell us why its important, with their own brand of spin.
I'm still reading through the commends waiting for someone to tell me why this is important.
Well obviously the public stopped using them. All you can order is cheese, laundry detergent, trash bags, and the like. Someone in marketing needs to be fired because they missed the market for this. The need dash buttons for beer, pizza, weed, Cheetos, hookers and blow. Network them, push three buttons and hooker shows up with a pizza, and a bag of weed. That is where the market is. The might need to make the buttons bigger for the beer and weed ones.
Can I get so show of hands of people that will trust people with their money? Anyone? Anyone......
Oh horse shit. My post didn't fit the narrative as dictated the status quo. I actually think for myself and don't bleet in line with the sheep. You know, look at the evidence and make my own mind. What a lot of people use to do here on slashdot. You know make reasonable arguments with the data I have and debate it?
As usual, I was correct.
The entire tone of the thread will run "America BADDDDD, China GOODDDD."
I also predict any posts that do not follow this theme will invoke the wrath of the modtrolls. I wonder what my two posts will get, troll or flamebait.
America, the country that didn't sign the Paris accord, dropped CO2 emissions more than anyone else.
Of course we have but that won't matter. Nor will it matter that the two biggest polluters, China and India, will just get a free pass. What I'm predicting that in the next few posts we will see the America bashers running out in full force. The entire tone of the thread will run "America BADDDDD, China GOODDDD."
A decade back I propose something like this on /. Except I thought that color coded stainless steel disks would be a better option. I don;t that my obscure post had anything to do with this project but I'm glad someone else had a similar ideal.
I don't know. I've seen more than a few crack pot ideals that have been passed off as legitimate science in the past few years. Maybe I'm being to skeptical. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now. I would love to see this be true. We are due for a ground breaking, breakthrough. After the big disappointment that turned out to be the em-drive.
An there you go. I read that and I can't take any of the article seriously any more.
"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and thoroughly immoral -- doctrine that 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." - Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Isaac Asimov was a great writer. His Foundation series remains, and will remain, one of the great classics of SciFi. But on this manner he is completely wrong. Violence is not the last refuge of the incompetent. Violence is the first choice of the incompetent. It is usually the only choice or the last choice of the desperate.