And they say the Sun spends 60% of it's time there... it seems likely there are a lot of things that correlate to the sun passing through the spiral arms, at least 60% of the time!
Correlation does not equal causation but people tend to bring that logical point out forgetting that A correlation can be the causation. Toss a ball in the air, watch said ball subsequently fall down. Correlation. Connect an instrument to something, the reading is a correlation.
All of science is built on correlations and the assumption that the nature of reality is unchanging therefore things will behave tomorrow as they did today. So far it is mostly true. Things will probably behave tomorrow as they did today. The more we've seen them behave that way, the more correlations, the more probable that they will behave that way tomorrow.
That isn't the same logic at all. Murder is not part of Linux development. The things the NSA employees are doing as part of their job function is illegal, thus if they are performing their job functions they are in fact criminals. Even the job functions which aren't actively committing crimes are complicit in the crimes committed by the rest so they are accomplices.
These days I think we like to go with "democracies" that owe complete loyalty to the United States. Later when it's declassified it looks better. Also it opens up the door for us to get involved officially and send major military support through the front door.
CIA budget is peanuts compared with all that war on terror money.
Really? Do tell, what conspiracy is required? Since when is conspiring needed for people to advance their own ideological goals?
An atheist/agnostic who doesn't see a merit in advancing any particular line of genetic decent has precisely what reason to support the massive aid given to Israel rather than advocate staying neutral with regard to what is essential a dispute about race and/or religion in the area. So, if it is not religion and desire to advance a particular line of decent driving the political push to support Israel and arm them with nuclear weapons... what is it?
Regardless of the source of the push, the fact that the US armed Israel with nuclear technology and spit in the face of all anti-proliferation stances clearly indicates political pressure to support Israel. So my overall point stands.
I don't recall alleging that it was a crime to be a banker or Jewish or to marry someone who is Jewish. That is all you.
I don't recall saying there is anything wrong with people who are Jewish being in any position. Or singling out Jewish vs Christian. Both religious and racial leanings have especial interest in backing Israel for reasons that have little to do with the actual tangible interests of the United States.
We provide most of the Israeli arms. Their jets, missiles, guns, etc are largely supplied by the US. The United States gave Israel nuclear arms technology, an unprecedented move on the part of the US indicating they have the highest level of trust with the United States.
You don't need to draw on any racist conspiracy theory to be aware that there is a huge Christian/Jewish political base in the United States. Additionally, there are a large number of wealthy Jewish families entrenched in the top tiers of US privatized banking system including most of the Federal Reserve board. That is a massive hammer of political and financial power that pretty much guarantees the US will never be in bed with any nation as tightly as Israel.
None of this is a secret, it is a big part of why the US is now such a big target for Muslim terrorist groups. The US hasn't been fighting these groups directly but has been supplying arms, funds, technology, to prop up Israel against Muslim nations and in more recent times the "war on terror" has given the excuse for more direct involvement.
This part is speculation, the above is well known, on the record, and not denied. If there is a magical wave of dissent suddenly springing out of nowhere in the past few years in the Muslim nations where the US has been taking interest and action I would be completely shocked. Recent events and unrest in Saudi Aradia, Egypt, Syria, etc definitely have the smell of the CIA with it's hands untied playing a lot of the same games it's already admitted to playing using other nations against the USSR in the cold war.
Also, there is data sharing with common wealth nations exposed in other memos already leaked just not on this level. There could be similar sharing programs with them that aren't part of this particular set of leaked information.
This is no different than our methods for torturing suspected terrorists by routing them to nations which are willing to do the dirty work for us. The NSA has determined they can tap all the calls and gather all the data but not search it without a warrant from the secret rubber stamp court. But all the data can (is?) passed to the Isreali's who can query it without even that oversight. Naturally, the NSA can ask them to do it a favor and query said data on their behalf without any warrant.
We need community and built and vetted algorithms, easy and in-built encryption that doesn't rely on a "trusted" third party infrastructure, e-mail encryption that just works, zrtp for all voice communications on by default, and a genuinely locked down android system with firewalling.
There are a lot of Google services we rely on that can be replaced with decentralized community replacements. Clearly, Google is working for the enemy. Clearly, Facebook is working for the enemy. Here we can look to TOR and Bitcoin for hints on how these kind of decentralized systems can work.
These days most of this starts with our phones. So we need a solid and secure community vetted android system that becomes the basis for all those root your phone/tablet guides in the world.
The article specifically says they introduced fundamental weaknesses in the algorithms by influencing their development and built specialized computing clusters to exploit those weaknesses IN ADDITION to their key gathering programs.
They censor the names of the algorithms for the NSA but mention one was adopted by NIST in 2006 and later by ISO. That would be AES ladies and gentlemen. The article strongly implies they can decode all SSL and AES in real time as it flies over the fiber... You aren't using AES anywhere are you ladies and gents?
You can get a lot of this stuff on Amazon now at Ebay cheap prices. Most of it is just cheap chinese wares that aren't used but new and some of those vendors sell through amazon now as well as Ebay.
If you genuinely believe that the concept of not fucking over your fellow man when given the choice only has a potential impact on your well being in the after life then it is you who is the fucking moron. If you don't burn the people you interact with at every opportunity they will be aware of it at some point and be less inclined to burn you when the chance strikes. Not every time and in every situation, but in general. You might even find that over a long course of this behavior one will actually take a moment to piss on you one day when you are on fire. If on the other hand you do burn everyone every time it benefits you, you will quickly find yourself surrounded by people who will go out of their way to accidentally spill an accelerant on you in such a moment.
It's called Karma and it isn't some voodoo magical effect the universe tosses back on you. It is simple statistical probability the builds as a result of the good or poor will you build in social interaction vs the probability of something in the life depending on good poor will from another in turn.
As for the rest of what people toss in with morals and ethics. Obviously you aren't familiar with my posting history.
Exactly who is you think secures and operates those tanks, guns, missiles, chopers etc? The men and women of the military are sworn to uphold the constitution and to the people and have already indicated they are willing to shed blood to defend those oaths. Do you really think there would be no defection to the revolution bringing arms with it? What about the national guard units and armories?
I was in the military. I know a lot of other people who were in the military. Just because they follow orders and serve their country the best they can doesn't mean they are happy about the way the government pisses on our constitution. If they think there is a REAL chance to fight and make it right, there are no shortage ready to help however they can.
There was a recent story where they used malware to infect 80% of the people on TOR so they could trace them. It got mainstream coverage because it is the kind of makes law enforcement look good piece they like to push. Thus mainstream now knows about TOR.
Snowden's abusing his powers is an act of civil disobedience. The same tatics were used by Ghandi and the civil rights movement. It's a wrong that warrants a "tsk tsk, don't do that" and a stern look. He did it to expose evils so great and widespread that it would be hard to figure out which of the hundreds involved who merit it should be executed for treason first. That's not shoot the messenger here.
The ISP's charge each other to send data over one anothers networks so they care if their consumers send more data across. So... stop charging each other to send data over one anothers networks. Problem solved. This is just the ISP's colluding to invent an excuse to charge you more.
Drug companies don't have any "their" drugs. Scientists who works for drug companies do. The drug companies are the "generous benefactor" in the current scenario. Ditch the patents, change the FDA oversight to something closer to what you have for food... check production is as it should be, confirm what they are selling is what they claim and not something known to be dangerous. Then take away all legal immunity that is granted by going through the current process. Toss out grants and funding to encourage the efforts.
If scientists were working for themselves, pooling resources to get and share equipment and distribution lines. The money they make just being the first one to market with a drug would likely be much more than they are paid by drug companies.
Or that the commercial entity which ends up with the technology wants to get the most they can out of it commercially and release it as slow incremental improvements that put them just a little ahead of their competitors over and over again for years. If they go full on and put in the money to dish it out all at once they get a single big leap over their competitors for the time it takes their competitors to adopt said technology as well and then they have nothing else to release to answer back.
Though you can't run to local retail outlets and buy with bitcoin yet you can definitely buy plenty of things with Bitcoin. There are auction sites, sites with electronics, bitcoin gateways for amazon purchases, and of course drugs/black market items.
Bitcoin is anonymous in the sense that no address is tied to a person unless the person is dumb enough to create that association. That the addresses and their transactions are traceable is by design. A simple coin tumbler will break that association if you are going the other direction, buying at a broker and then purchasing anonymously. Even if you do this the lamest way, buy 50 coins on address A and transfer all of them to another non-broker address B. There is no way establish if you or a third party you were paying controls address B.
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And they say the Sun spends 60% of it's time there... it seems likely there are a lot of things that correlate to the sun passing through the spiral arms, at least 60% of the time!
Correlation does not equal causation but people tend to bring that logical point out forgetting that A correlation can be the causation. Toss a ball in the air, watch said ball subsequently fall down. Correlation. Connect an instrument to something, the reading is a correlation.
All of science is built on correlations and the assumption that the nature of reality is unchanging therefore things will behave tomorrow as they did today. So far it is mostly true. Things will probably behave tomorrow as they did today. The more we've seen them behave that way, the more correlations, the more probable that they will behave that way tomorrow.
That isn't the same logic at all. Murder is not part of Linux development. The things the NSA employees are doing as part of their job function is illegal, thus if they are performing their job functions they are in fact criminals. Even the job functions which aren't actively committing crimes are complicit in the crimes committed by the rest so they are accomplices.
These days I think we like to go with "democracies" that owe complete loyalty to the United States. Later when it's declassified it looks better. Also it opens up the door for us to get involved officially and send major military support through the front door.
CIA budget is peanuts compared with all that war on terror money.
"Yes, you do."
Really? Do tell, what conspiracy is required? Since when is conspiring needed for people to advance their own ideological goals?
An atheist/agnostic who doesn't see a merit in advancing any particular line of genetic decent has precisely what reason to support the massive aid given to Israel rather than advocate staying neutral with regard to what is essential a dispute about race and/or religion in the area. So, if it is not religion and desire to advance a particular line of decent driving the political push to support Israel and arm them with nuclear weapons... what is it?
Regardless of the source of the push, the fact that the US armed Israel with nuclear technology and spit in the face of all anti-proliferation stances clearly indicates political pressure to support Israel. So my overall point stands.
I don't recall alleging that it was a crime to be a banker or Jewish or to marry someone who is Jewish. That is all you.
I don't recall saying there is anything wrong with people who are Jewish being in any position. Or singling out Jewish vs Christian. Both religious and racial leanings have especial interest in backing Israel for reasons that have little to do with the actual tangible interests of the United States.
We provide most of the Israeli arms. Their jets, missiles, guns, etc are largely supplied by the US. The United States gave Israel nuclear arms technology, an unprecedented move on the part of the US indicating they have the highest level of trust with the United States.
You don't need to draw on any racist conspiracy theory to be aware that there is a huge Christian/Jewish political base in the United States. Additionally, there are a large number of wealthy Jewish families entrenched in the top tiers of US privatized banking system including most of the Federal Reserve board. That is a massive hammer of political and financial power that pretty much guarantees the US will never be in bed with any nation as tightly as Israel.
None of this is a secret, it is a big part of why the US is now such a big target for Muslim terrorist groups. The US hasn't been fighting these groups directly but has been supplying arms, funds, technology, to prop up Israel against Muslim nations and in more recent times the "war on terror" has given the excuse for more direct involvement.
This part is speculation, the above is well known, on the record, and not denied. If there is a magical wave of dissent suddenly springing out of nowhere in the past few years in the Muslim nations where the US has been taking interest and action I would be completely shocked. Recent events and unrest in Saudi Aradia, Egypt, Syria, etc definitely have the smell of the CIA with it's hands untied playing a lot of the same games it's already admitted to playing using other nations against the USSR in the cold war.
Also, there is data sharing with common wealth nations exposed in other memos already leaked just not on this level. There could be similar sharing programs with them that aren't part of this particular set of leaked information.
This is no different than our methods for torturing suspected terrorists by routing them to nations which are willing to do the dirty work for us. The NSA has determined they can tap all the calls and gather all the data but not search it without a warrant from the secret rubber stamp court. But all the data can (is?) passed to the Isreali's who can query it without even that oversight. Naturally, the NSA can ask them to do it a favor and query said data on their behalf without any warrant.
We need community and built and vetted algorithms, easy and in-built encryption that doesn't rely on a "trusted" third party infrastructure, e-mail encryption that just works, zrtp for all voice communications on by default, and a genuinely locked down android system with firewalling.
There are a lot of Google services we rely on that can be replaced with decentralized community replacements. Clearly, Google is working for the enemy. Clearly, Facebook is working for the enemy. Here we can look to TOR and Bitcoin for hints on how these kind of decentralized systems can work.
These days most of this starts with our phones. So we need a solid and secure community vetted android system that becomes the basis for all those root your phone/tablet guides in the world.
The article specifically says they introduced fundamental weaknesses in the algorithms by influencing their development and built specialized computing clusters to exploit those weaknesses IN ADDITION to their key gathering programs.
They censor the names of the algorithms for the NSA but mention one was adopted by NIST in 2006 and later by ISO. That would be AES ladies and gentlemen. The article strongly implies they can decode all SSL and AES in real time as it flies over the fiber... You aren't using AES anywhere are you ladies and gents?
You can get a lot of this stuff on Amazon now at Ebay cheap prices. Most of it is just cheap chinese wares that aren't used but new and some of those vendors sell through amazon now as well as Ebay.
*Gandhi
*Let's not shoot the messenger here.
If you genuinely believe that the concept of not fucking over your fellow man when given the choice only has a potential impact on your well being in the after life then it is you who is the fucking moron. If you don't burn the people you interact with at every opportunity they will be aware of it at some point and be less inclined to burn you when the chance strikes. Not every time and in every situation, but in general. You might even find that over a long course of this behavior one will actually take a moment to piss on you one day when you are on fire. If on the other hand you do burn everyone every time it benefits you, you will quickly find yourself surrounded by people who will go out of their way to accidentally spill an accelerant on you in such a moment.
It's called Karma and it isn't some voodoo magical effect the universe tosses back on you. It is simple statistical probability the builds as a result of the good or poor will you build in social interaction vs the probability of something in the life depending on good poor will from another in turn.
As for the rest of what people toss in with morals and ethics. Obviously you aren't familiar with my posting history.
Exactly who is you think secures and operates those tanks, guns, missiles, chopers etc? The men and women of the military are sworn to uphold the constitution and to the people and have already indicated they are willing to shed blood to defend those oaths. Do you really think there would be no defection to the revolution bringing arms with it? What about the national guard units and armories?
I was in the military. I know a lot of other people who were in the military. Just because they follow orders and serve their country the best they can doesn't mean they are happy about the way the government pisses on our constitution. If they think there is a REAL chance to fight and make it right, there are no shortage ready to help however they can.
There was a recent story where they used malware to infect 80% of the people on TOR so they could trace them. It got mainstream coverage because it is the kind of makes law enforcement look good piece they like to push. Thus mainstream now knows about TOR.
Ethics. Now ponder the implications of that for a minute.
Snowden's abusing his powers is an act of civil disobedience. The same tatics were used by Ghandi and the civil rights movement. It's a wrong that warrants a "tsk tsk, don't do that" and a stern look. He did it to expose evils so great and widespread that it would be hard to figure out which of the hundreds involved who merit it should be executed for treason first. That's not shoot the messenger here.
The ISP's charge each other to send data over one anothers networks so they care if their consumers send more data across. So... stop charging each other to send data over one anothers networks. Problem solved. This is just the ISP's colluding to invent an excuse to charge you more.
This is what happens when I post before coffee.
Bet you'll get a plus 5 informative.
Drug companies don't have any "their" drugs. Scientists who works for drug companies do. The drug companies are the "generous benefactor" in the current scenario. Ditch the patents, change the FDA oversight to something closer to what you have for food... check production is as it should be, confirm what they are selling is what they claim and not something known to be dangerous. Then take away all legal immunity that is granted by going through the current process. Toss out grants and funding to encourage the efforts.
If scientists were working for themselves, pooling resources to get and share equipment and distribution lines. The money they make just being the first one to market with a drug would likely be much more than they are paid by drug companies.
Or that the commercial entity which ends up with the technology wants to get the most they can out of it commercially and release it as slow incremental improvements that put them just a little ahead of their competitors over and over again for years. If they go full on and put in the money to dish it out all at once they get a single big leap over their competitors for the time it takes their competitors to adopt said technology as well and then they have nothing else to release to answer back.
Though you can't run to local retail outlets and buy with bitcoin yet you can definitely buy plenty of things with Bitcoin. There are auction sites, sites with electronics, bitcoin gateways for amazon purchases, and of course drugs/black market items.
Bitcoin is anonymous in the sense that no address is tied to a person unless the person is dumb enough to create that association. That the addresses and their transactions are traceable is by design. A simple coin tumbler will break that association if you are going the other direction, buying at a broker and then purchasing anonymously. Even if you do this the lamest way, buy 50 coins on address A and transfer all of them to another non-broker address B. There is no way establish if you or a third party you were paying controls address B.
Some cruise controls are better than others. Within a mph or two my car will maintain when climbing.
It's really for long trips and not stop and go where cruise matters. Trying to manually maintain speed during a multi-hour drive sucks.