In an outdoor area, I'd be incline to mostly agree. One should exercise caution being aware they are not in a well controlled environment. Inside a store or something I'd expect the proprietor to have caution wet floor signs up or something to let me know that my ordinary expectation of safe walking conditions in an indoor space are incorrect.
In lots of cities 'YOU' are responsible for the sidewalks along your property. Check your local laws. If its your job to keep those walks clear and you fail to keep them free of grease, debris, ice, and snow you might be at fault.
Well China is one of the worst most oppressive regimes in the world. If you CARE AT ALL about basic human rights and freedom rather than just virtue signalling by endorsing letting people use the wrong bathroom our China policy and that of the UN's would be of real concern.
There is a lawful democratic Chinese government its sitting in exile in Taipei controlling the small territory of Taiwan. The PRC isn't legitimate and its not good for or to its people! Its to our shame as Americans we have acknowledged let alone done business with the PRC for 60+ years now.
A hot war is certainly undesirable as well for us and them. That said the ethical thing to do is cease the moment and start that trade war. Will it hurt our economy yes, short term it will, but we can get real freedom for so many people if we topple the PRC.
I would say kick off a trade way, state we have a one China policy and we recognize Taipei as the capital with the ROC as its lawful government. Let the economy in mainland China crash, make sure we have provided the ROC with weapons capable of MAD with the mainland in the meantime and wait.
I don't know why I wasting time on an AC but yes. That is correct and was a perfectly reasonable thing to do. It was an aspirational date, it was 'possible' Iraq would be ready to stand on its own by than and if it had been it would have made sense to leave.
A treaty is contract like any other. They are ALWAYS open to renegotiation when the facts change, and are ALWAYS subject to breach if the costs associated with breach exceed the real and or supposed costs of remaining a party to one party.
So the choice was have a major political failure to make a status of forces agreement today or move forward and plan to renegotiate as the situation evolves. Bush and Rice chose the latter and were wise to do so!
Its like during the mortgage crisis. All those people were crying about the moral hazard of walking away if you are underwater. That is total crap. Its an arms length contract that was supposed to provide mutual benefit between you and a bank, its not your mother. Both parties (the bank especially) knew the risks. For anyone so deep underwater that the costs of not being able to secure future credit and the loss of existing equity made more sense than continuing to pay, the RIGHT thing to do was to walk away!
Same with Iraq, the right thing to do was to tell them. Well you are not ready, and you will give us the status of forces agreement we want or we will withdraw as required, but that does not mean only the troops, it also means all the reconstruction aide, and that we WILL NOT come back and help you if all the enemies that surround here start to move it! Now are we walking or are you giving us a status of forces agreement? That is how that should have been handled.
that was clear when 9/11 happened and Bush was in a classroom, he had no clue what to do next because nobody prodded him
Utter fucking bullshit. Bush did EXACTLY what he should have as a leader. He was told of major catastrophe and responded by asking for more information and by reassuring everyone through stoically continuing his current schedule, which meant finishing reading to the children.
There was nothing he could do that would have been more presidential! Without more information there was not sane response, other than to let the qualified people under him mind the tactical situations until the information needed to make a strategic move emerged. Ship captains used to dawn a red shirt before boarding because if they got shot or stabbed it would be less obvious to the crew, Bush finished the story (same thing). Once there was information about who was resonsible and what other threats existed he began to act.
Or blaming Obama for withdrawing troops from Iraq, when it was Bush who signed the agreement to do so
This old saw is so tired and discredited you really need to let it go. Bush signed the agreement with an aspirational date. Was it possibly to ambitious? Did it have echos of "Mission Accomplished"? Yes. Nobody ever seriously though that was the drop dead pull out date on either side. Its also supposed to have been at Maliki insistence that a date was specified, probably because he had to save some face with local hardliners who still had anti American sentiment. Nouri al-Maliki was basically ignored by Obama the moment he took office, he was in near constant contact with the Bush admin before that. Obama wanted out of Iraq for political reasons, and he basically sabotaged any effort to negotiate a new status of forces agreement via three years of neglect.
When the time to leave came Maliki with a now sour relationship with Obama was unwilling to go out on a political limb and agree to shielding our forces from persecution...(Which is the part you always here cited, its not that simple though) he qualified that he was unwilling to do so without going thru parliament. It was not tried. It might have succeeded because the US had lots of leverage to make the case, for doing it, we could for example have threatened to withdraw the aide that was propping the country up! That is negotiation that Obama and his Secretary of state failed to do!
Its extremely disingenuous to lay the premature withdraw from Iraq at the feet of Bush alone, as well as problems between the time of Obama taking office and the withdrawal during which Obama failed to provide political support. Obama and Hillary Clinton are AT LEAST AS RESPONSIBLE.
I wish every department would do this too. That means he can fire all of them for cause, insubordination, and we tax payers won't have to pay them any severance!
Elections have consequences, these people should be fire, and black balled, for this sort of behavior. If it were me I would let them go and instruct HR to say only they were fired for insubordination if anyone calls looking for a reference.
Nuclear power is affordable! The costs associated with many of the failure modes however unlikely are simply huge.
You can say for example the typical coal plant over its lifetime might kill more people than Chernobyl, or that the economic loss associated with Fukushima is the same as the cumulative losses of land values around other types of plants. This ignores the fact that total costs don't matter its what the environment and society has the capacity to absorb at a given time that matters. Think of it like many people think about a car purchase (this is terrible think for that btw at a micro economic level but at a macro level the rules are different) Its not the total price of the car that matters its whether or not you can pay the monthly payments. If you had to come up with 35K now you can't buy the car but you can pay 300 a month. We can afford to treat a handful of people for lung disease every year, we can't compensate 10K refuges all at once when something goes awry, neither can any private insurer. So Nuclear generating plants only exist because of massive federal loan and insurance subsidies! What that really means is the power costs a lot more per KW than it appears to cost on your bill. Its just the money is being taken from your other pocket so to speak.
The other problem is I suspect many of these utilities are going to find themselves upside down. Its not entirely their fault, some of it has to do with not being able to obtain license to open and operate new plants to ensure a continuing revenue stream. Another big problem with nuclear generating plants is the decommissioning. You have a huge portion of the capital expense that must be incurred after the plant stops producing revenue. That isn't typically a good business model unless you are running a scheme where you plan to take the money and run and once again leave the tax payer or some other bilked investors holding the bag. This problem isn't entirely unique to nuclear generating stations, coal and gas fired plants also have some of these problems but the scale is worse with nukes. Once again the real costs end up being a lot higher than what you monthly energy bills might lead you to think.
Basically nuclear power isn't the 'to cheap to meter' magic bullet many want to believe and it really never can be. Renewables and bulk storage solutions likes pumped water reservoirs, grid scale batteries (though probably not lithium chemistry ultimately), etc really are probably the future. Unless Fusion somehow materializes anyway.
Then you must comply with whatever rules your landlord sets down. Actually renters have way to many rights, most places. Private property is the cornerstone of freedom and it should be nearly absolute.
Would you want your neighbors making that choice for you as well?
No I would expect my landlord to have rules regarding fire safety and that people would either be following them or be evicted.
And flipping that around if you live in an apartment or townhouse complex and your Note 7 did catch the place on fire, your neighbors would be well within their rights to sue you into a financial hole so deep you'd never get out of it.
Honestly I doubt very much they would. Statistically the Note 7 probably isn't nearly as great a fire risk as your average candle, or any of those cheap Chinese vape devices, to say nothing of your typical hot plate, rice cooker etc. All things that are generally permitted in residential buildings.
Why? Because the Note 7 is a proven fire risk that the manufacturer is doing everything it can to ensure that people return and you're ignoring that. I bet your insurance would decline coverage in that case as well.
I would actually be pretty surprised if they could skate on that one. Its possible, but there would be law suits.
I am all for Trump's get tough on China stance but 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union we should be applying the same model, rather than exporting our wealth to them via a trade deficit.
The Chinese economy is radically unbalanced right now much more so than our own in fact. If we suddenly deprived them of the sink for all the consumer goods the produces we could probably turn the PRC into failed state! What we ought to do is trigger that and simultaneously lay the ground work for installing a friendly government over their that by simply say "You bet we have a one China policy, the lawful government is the ROC and the capital is Taipei"
If your doctor says you need this 300k$ surgery to survive, and then you need to take this $500 a pill medication every day for the rest of your life, or you will die... you're not going to shop around. you're not going to say wait, hold on. you're gonna say "OK".
Yes if someone else is writing the check you certainly will. If you had to pay out of pocket lots of people would say "I can't." At which point the medical providers are going to have to find a way to deliver for a lower cost if they want the work at all. They charge enough to basically wipe out the majority of their potential patients but no more. The problem is right now there is essentially no upper limit on what they can charge.
I would also argue that a lot of people might choose alternatives like 'make me comfortable as long as possible' at those prices. $300k I might find away to come up with but at say half a million I might decide it would be better to not bankrupt my family leave my wife and children with some of our aquired wealth and a hefty life insurance payout. I think a lot of people would
I don't think there is any denying that Obamacare has helped a certain segment of society. There exists a group that got access to care they did not have before. There is a much much larger group that now pays a great deal more for the care they already had access to and is being gradually priced out of consuming as much care as they once did due to the rise in deductibles and premiums they are paying. I know for example I am paying a little more than 3 times what I paid before 2010 in premiums and my deductible as doubled. If I were on a tighter budget the added cost of the premiums would lesson my ability to shoulder the higher out of pocket costs due to the rise in deductible.
There are a lot of families and individuals who are now choosing not to treat minor ailments because they can't fit the out of pocket costs into their budgets. There probably is a cumulative effect of living with these conditions. Although its a bit soon for that show up in life expediency I would think. Still its not at all hard to see how Obamacare has materially hurt far more people than it has helped. The issue is for a small group of people it has help a lot.
I really hope an owner will challenge this in court. It should NOT be legal for an manufacturer to intentionally damage something they sold you, even if it is in your best interest.
That isn't really the whole truth though is it. PS makes doing things to the system very easy. How do you change a registry entry from cmd? You probably have to write a reg file and invoke reg.exe. Same is true of Bash etc on linux. How do alter my desktop session to auto load your malware everytime I log in? Home bash isn't going to provide you a friendly interface to do that. You probably are going to be pushing sed scripts etc, it will be kludgy and unreliable. How do you exfil data with bash?/dev/tcp/? Sure I guess but its not going to look like any known protocol, isn't going to give you encryption etc; you'll probably end up invoking curl. With PS just create an XMLHTTP request object and go, heck if they use has a proxy configured you'll even get that for free!
I would say an attacker having access to PS on Windows is more like an attacker have access to Ruby or Python on Linux with every ruby/python library under the sun installed!
While the situation PS / Bash might theoretically be comparable in practice its really not.
You can't windows updates and lots of application installers now use PS scripts to get the work done. If you disable it you break the system. That ship has sailed.
They are prefectly capable, and have done so. Actually windows is pretty (NT train on which everything current is based) is pretty cross platform.
What Microsoft can't do is get every other vendor in the world to port all their x86 code, and rebuild all their x86 binaries, where the source is otherwise free of x86 assumptions about pointer size, etc.
My thought is that such a nasty and vicious act, which is exactly what is, is the kind of thing that would teach the current generation the lessons of 20th century history they seem to be forgetting.
A big part of the chocolate 'experience' is the texture. Sugar does more than just provide sweetness its also a 'wet' ingredient in most cooking. Its also highly soluble in saliva, what does this do the creaminess?
I am sorry I can't agree. There are going to be ALOT more people running a stock Windows 8.1 or stock Ubuntu than any of the 'privacy' distributions, all of which almost certainly can be finger printed. If you want to blend into the heard I would certainly pick on of those two platforms.
I like the idea of running tor an a separate VM from the one you do your browsing on.
Right, at the very least you need to install a perfectly clean VM taking all the default install options on the OS so you don't do anything that might be identifiable or make it more unique. Make sure you do not enable any of the host integration stuff, no copy paste, don't install the VMware tools, ensure all the host isolation stuff is on, don't even allow the power status or system clock to the VM. Only then do you install tor. After that take a snapshot. Be sure to revert to that snapshot each and ever time you use the VM before you do any tor browsing! Start over and make a fresh build every few months as you can't trust upgrade processes won't leave something finger-printable and using a browser even a few months old might separate you from the masses somewhat now that most of the world auto updates.
If you do those things you *might* have a fighting chance of actually remaining anonymous.
I don't want to try and round up 11 million people. I want to try and round up a much much smaller list of self identified illegal aliens who applied for deferred action. I suspect its highly likely their similarly undocumented parents and other family members will follow them home, and so much the better.
Finding and deporting 11 million is impossible. Finding a small faction of them stupid enough to literally file an admission to a crime on the other hand isn't difficult at all. It will also serve as a very instructive example of the dangers of federal power and 'lists' for everyone else!
Sadly its not hyperbole, this probably does need doing. The reason its happening now is because there are lots of lefty looser in tech, they made some token gripes about the surveillance stuff going on but mostly they were okay with it because 'their guy' was in charge.
Now that someone else is in charge, suddenly they are scared. Hopefully they will learn a hard lesson about big government, hint: your party is not always in power!
All and all though the threats to internet freedoms are real, and I don't see Trump (who I did vote for in the general, for other reasons) as likely to be someone who will reverse that trend. I also don't believe Hillary would have done anything but make matters in that regard worse either.
This is the same deal as with the differed action people. Personally I think illegal are just that criminals and should be deported! Yes even people brought here as children! I would support the idea that people brought here as children should be allowed to apply for legal re-entry without prejudice however but they should go. Trump really ought to use the DOCA list as a road map for rounding them up. Hopefully that would make an impression on the left about the wisdom of allowing the federal government to register people and property!
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In an outdoor area, I'd be incline to mostly agree. One should exercise caution being aware they are not in a well controlled environment. Inside a store or something I'd expect the proprietor to have caution wet floor signs up or something to let me know that my ordinary expectation of safe walking conditions in an indoor space are incorrect.
In lots of cities 'YOU' are responsible for the sidewalks along your property. Check your local laws. If its your job to keep those walks clear and you fail to keep them free of grease, debris, ice, and snow you might be at fault.
Well China is one of the worst most oppressive regimes in the world. If you CARE AT ALL about basic human rights and freedom rather than just virtue signalling by endorsing letting people use the wrong bathroom our China policy and that of the UN's would be of real concern.
There is a lawful democratic Chinese government its sitting in exile in Taipei controlling the small territory of Taiwan. The PRC isn't legitimate and its not good for or to its people! Its to our shame as Americans we have acknowledged let alone done business with the PRC for 60+ years now.
A hot war is certainly undesirable as well for us and them. That said the ethical thing to do is cease the moment and start that trade war. Will it hurt our economy yes, short term it will, but we can get real freedom for so many people if we topple the PRC.
I would say kick off a trade way, state we have a one China policy and we recognize Taipei as the capital with the ROC as its lawful government. Let the economy in mainland China crash, make sure we have provided the ROC with weapons capable of MAD with the mainland in the meantime and wait.
I don't know why I wasting time on an AC but yes. That is correct and was a perfectly reasonable thing to do. It was an aspirational date, it was 'possible' Iraq would be ready to stand on its own by than and if it had been it would have made sense to leave.
A treaty is contract like any other. They are ALWAYS open to renegotiation when the facts change, and are ALWAYS subject to breach if the costs associated with breach exceed the real and or supposed costs of remaining a party to one party.
So the choice was have a major political failure to make a status of forces agreement today or move forward and plan to renegotiate as the situation evolves. Bush and Rice chose the latter and were wise to do so!
Its like during the mortgage crisis. All those people were crying about the moral hazard of walking away if you are underwater. That is total crap. Its an arms length contract that was supposed to provide mutual benefit between you and a bank, its not your mother. Both parties (the bank especially) knew the risks. For anyone so deep underwater that the costs of not being able to secure future credit and the loss of existing equity made more sense than continuing to pay, the RIGHT thing to do was to walk away!
Same with Iraq, the right thing to do was to tell them. Well you are not ready, and you will give us the status of forces agreement we want or we will withdraw as required, but that does not mean only the troops, it also means all the reconstruction aide, and that we WILL NOT come back and help you if all the enemies that surround here start to move it! Now are we walking or are you giving us a status of forces agreement? That is how that should have been handled.
that was clear when 9/11 happened and Bush was in a classroom, he had no clue what to do next because nobody prodded him
Utter fucking bullshit. Bush did EXACTLY what he should have as a leader. He was told of major catastrophe and responded by asking for more information and by reassuring everyone through stoically continuing his current schedule, which meant finishing reading to the children.
There was nothing he could do that would have been more presidential! Without more information there was not sane response, other than to let the qualified people under him mind the tactical situations until the information needed to make a strategic move emerged. Ship captains used to dawn a red shirt before boarding because if they got shot or stabbed it would be less obvious to the crew, Bush finished the story (same thing). Once there was information about who was resonsible and what other threats existed he began to act.
Or blaming Obama for withdrawing troops from Iraq, when it was Bush who signed the agreement to do so
This old saw is so tired and discredited you really need to let it go. Bush signed the agreement with an aspirational date. Was it possibly to ambitious? Did it have echos of "Mission Accomplished"? Yes. Nobody ever seriously though that was the drop dead pull out date on either side. Its also supposed to have been at Maliki insistence that a date was specified, probably because he had to save some face with local hardliners who still had anti American sentiment. Nouri al-Maliki was basically ignored by Obama the moment he took office, he was in near constant contact with the Bush admin before that. Obama wanted out of Iraq for political reasons, and he basically sabotaged any effort to negotiate a new status of forces agreement via three years of neglect.
When the time to leave came Maliki with a now sour relationship with Obama was unwilling to go out on a political limb and agree to shielding our forces from persecution...(Which is the part you always here cited, its not that simple though) he qualified that he was unwilling to do so without going thru parliament. It was not tried. It might have succeeded because the US had lots of leverage to make the case, for doing it, we could for example have threatened to withdraw the aide that was propping the country up! That is negotiation that Obama and his Secretary of state failed to do!
Its extremely disingenuous to lay the premature withdraw from Iraq at the feet of Bush alone, as well as problems between the time of Obama taking office and the withdrawal during which Obama failed to provide political support. Obama and Hillary Clinton are AT LEAST AS RESPONSIBLE.
I wish every department would do this too. That means he can fire all of them for cause, insubordination, and we tax payers won't have to pay them any severance!
Elections have consequences, these people should be fire, and black balled, for this sort of behavior. If it were me I would let them go and instruct HR to say only they were fired for insubordination if anyone calls looking for a reference.
Nuclear power is affordable! The costs associated with many of the failure modes however unlikely are simply huge.
You can say for example the typical coal plant over its lifetime might kill more people than Chernobyl, or that the economic loss associated with Fukushima is the same as the cumulative losses of land values around other types of plants. This ignores the fact that total costs don't matter its what the environment and society has the capacity to absorb at a given time that matters. Think of it like many people think about a car purchase (this is terrible think for that btw at a micro economic level but at a macro level the rules are different) Its not the total price of the car that matters its whether or not you can pay the monthly payments. If you had to come up with 35K now you can't buy the car but you can pay 300 a month. We can afford to treat a handful of people for lung disease every year, we can't compensate 10K refuges all at once when something goes awry, neither can any private insurer. So Nuclear generating plants only exist because of massive federal loan and insurance subsidies! What that really means is the power costs a lot more per KW than it appears to cost on your bill. Its just the money is being taken from your other pocket so to speak.
The other problem is I suspect many of these utilities are going to find themselves upside down. Its not entirely their fault, some of it has to do with not being able to obtain license to open and operate new plants to ensure a continuing revenue stream. Another big problem with nuclear generating plants is the decommissioning. You have a huge portion of the capital expense that must be incurred after the plant stops producing revenue. That isn't typically a good business model unless you are running a scheme where you plan to take the money and run and once again leave the tax payer or some other bilked investors holding the bag. This problem isn't entirely unique to nuclear generating stations, coal and gas fired plants also have some of these problems but the scale is worse with nukes. Once again the real costs end up being a lot higher than what you monthly energy bills might lead you to think.
Basically nuclear power isn't the 'to cheap to meter' magic bullet many want to believe and it really never can be. Renewables and bulk storage solutions likes pumped water reservoirs, grid scale batteries (though probably not lithium chemistry ultimately), etc really are probably the future. Unless Fusion somehow materializes anyway.
What if you live in an apartment or townhouse?
Then you must comply with whatever rules your landlord sets down. Actually renters have way to many rights, most places. Private property is the cornerstone of freedom and it should be nearly absolute.
Would you want your neighbors making that choice for you as well?
No I would expect my landlord to have rules regarding fire safety and that people would either be following them or be evicted.
And flipping that around if you live in an apartment or townhouse complex and your Note 7 did catch the place on fire, your neighbors would be well within their rights to sue you into a financial hole so deep you'd never get out of it.
Honestly I doubt very much they would. Statistically the Note 7 probably isn't nearly as great a fire risk as your average candle, or any of those cheap Chinese vape devices, to say nothing of your typical hot plate, rice cooker etc. All things that are generally permitted in residential buildings.
Why? Because the Note 7 is a proven fire risk that the manufacturer is doing everything it can to ensure that people return and you're ignoring that. I bet your insurance would decline coverage in that case as well.
I would actually be pretty surprised if they could skate on that one. Its possible, but there would be law suits.
I am all for Trump's get tough on China stance but 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union we should be applying the same model, rather than exporting our wealth to them via a trade deficit.
The Chinese economy is radically unbalanced right now much more so than our own in fact. If we suddenly deprived them of the sink for all the consumer goods the produces we could probably turn the PRC into failed state! What we ought to do is trigger that and simultaneously lay the ground work for installing a friendly government over their that by simply say "You bet we have a one China policy, the lawful government is the ROC and the capital is Taipei"
If your doctor says you need this 300k$ surgery to survive, and then you need to take this $500 a pill medication every day for the rest of your life, or you will die...
you're not going to shop around. you're not going to say wait, hold on. you're gonna say "OK".
Yes if someone else is writing the check you certainly will. If you had to pay out of pocket lots of people would say "I can't." At which point the medical providers are going to have to find a way to deliver for a lower cost if they want the work at all. They charge enough to basically wipe out the majority of their potential patients but no more. The problem is right now there is essentially no upper limit on what they can charge.
I would also argue that a lot of people might choose alternatives like 'make me comfortable as long as possible' at those prices. $300k I might find away to come up with but at say half a million I might decide it would be better to not bankrupt my family leave my wife and children with some of our aquired wealth and a hefty life insurance payout. I think a lot of people would
I don't think there is any denying that Obamacare has helped a certain segment of society. There exists a group that got access to care they did not have before. There is a much much larger group that now pays a great deal more for the care they already had access to and is being gradually priced out of consuming as much care as they once did due to the rise in deductibles and premiums they are paying. I know for example I am paying a little more than 3 times what I paid before 2010 in premiums and my deductible as doubled. If I were on a tighter budget the added cost of the premiums would lesson my ability to shoulder the higher out of pocket costs due to the rise in deductible.
There are a lot of families and individuals who are now choosing not to treat minor ailments because they can't fit the out of pocket costs into their budgets. There probably is a cumulative effect of living with these conditions. Although its a bit soon for that show up in life expediency I would think. Still its not at all hard to see how Obamacare has materially hurt far more people than it has helped. The issue is for a small group of people it has help a lot.
I really hope an owner will challenge this in court. It should NOT be legal for an manufacturer to intentionally damage something they sold you, even if it is in your best interest.
That isn't really the whole truth though is it. PS makes doing things to the system very easy. How do you change a registry entry from cmd? You probably have to write a reg file and invoke reg.exe. Same is true of Bash etc on linux. How do alter my desktop session to auto load your malware everytime I log in? Home bash isn't going to provide you a friendly interface to do that. You probably are going to be pushing sed scripts etc, it will be kludgy and unreliable. How do you exfil data with bash? /dev/tcp/? Sure I guess but its not going to look like any known protocol, isn't going to give you encryption etc; you'll probably end up invoking curl. With PS just create an XMLHTTP request object and go, heck if they use has a proxy configured you'll even get that for free!
I would say an attacker having access to PS on Windows is more like an attacker have access to Ruby or Python on Linux with every ruby/python library under the sun installed!
While the situation PS / Bash might theoretically be comparable in practice its really not.
You can't windows updates and lots of application installers now use PS scripts to get the work done. If you disable it you break the system. That ship has sailed.
PS is here to stay
They are prefectly capable, and have done so. Actually windows is pretty (NT train on which everything current is based) is pretty cross platform.
What Microsoft can't do is get every other vendor in the world to port all their x86 code, and rebuild all their x86 binaries, where the source is otherwise free of x86 assumptions about pointer size, etc.
we will take their documents so they can't cross the border
There is only crisis if 'we' allow it. Securing the boarders against 'mass migration' would be easy.
My thought is that such a nasty and vicious act, which is exactly what is, is the kind of thing that would teach the current generation the lessons of 20th century history they seem to be forgetting.
A big part of the chocolate 'experience' is the texture. Sugar does more than just provide sweetness its also a 'wet' ingredient in most cooking. Its also highly soluble in saliva, what does this do the creaminess?
I am sorry I can't agree. There are going to be ALOT more people running a stock Windows 8.1 or stock Ubuntu than any of the 'privacy' distributions, all of which almost certainly can be finger printed. If you want to blend into the heard I would certainly pick on of those two platforms.
I like the idea of running tor an a separate VM from the one you do your browsing on.
Right, at the very least you need to install a perfectly clean VM taking all the default install options on the OS so you don't do anything that might be identifiable or make it more unique. Make sure you do not enable any of the host integration stuff, no copy paste, don't install the VMware tools, ensure all the host isolation stuff is on, don't even allow the power status or system clock to the VM. Only then do you install tor. After that take a snapshot. Be sure to revert to that snapshot each and ever time you use the VM before you do any tor browsing! Start over and make a fresh build every few months as you can't trust upgrade processes won't leave something finger-printable and using a browser even a few months old might separate you from the masses somewhat now that most of the world auto updates.
If you do those things you *might* have a fighting chance of actually remaining anonymous.
Why do think this, what specific legal impediment, law, case law, precedent can you site that exists?
Microsoft has had some issues with this and EU privacy laws around E-mail, I don't know the matter is entirely dead yet.
I don't want to try and round up 11 million people. I want to try and round up a much much smaller list of self identified illegal aliens who applied for deferred action. I suspect its highly likely their similarly undocumented parents and other family members will follow them home, and so much the better.
Finding and deporting 11 million is impossible. Finding a small faction of them stupid enough to literally file an admission to a crime on the other hand isn't difficult at all. It will also serve as a very instructive example of the dangers of federal power and 'lists' for everyone else!
Sadly its not hyperbole, this probably does need doing. The reason its happening now is because there are lots of lefty looser in tech, they made some token gripes about the surveillance stuff going on but mostly they were okay with it because 'their guy' was in charge.
Now that someone else is in charge, suddenly they are scared. Hopefully they will learn a hard lesson about big government, hint: your party is not always in power!
All and all though the threats to internet freedoms are real, and I don't see Trump (who I did vote for in the general, for other reasons) as likely to be someone who will reverse that trend. I also don't believe Hillary would have done anything but make matters in that regard worse either.
This is the same deal as with the differed action people. Personally I think illegal are just that criminals and should be deported! Yes even people brought here as children! I would support the idea that people brought here as children should be allowed to apply for legal re-entry without prejudice however but they should go. Trump really ought to use the DOCA list as a road map for rounding them up. Hopefully that would make an impression on the left about the wisdom of allowing the federal government to register people and property!