Just about any aerosol paint will dissolve styrofoam. I had a model rocket Space Ship One (that turned out to be a total piece of crap, but that's another matter) mostly made of styrofoam, that after some unfortunate glue drips I attempted to paint, only to watch it start to dissolve.
Unfortunately there aren't good delivery for fluids that aren't just water, especially considering both that a whole lot of fluid would be needed to hit the target if the nozzle is low, and that a lot of fluid is going to miss and land on whatever's on the ground. Personally I don't want the paint on my car, my house, or my elastomeric roof coating to chemically react with anything, so that pretty much means just water.
Seems to me that a garden hose with a good high-quality nozzle may be your best bet. No questions about how close it is, no questions about using something dangerous, etc.
You still have the legal liability question, but I think the first thing to do on that if someone were to challenge you would be to subpoena any and all video, photo and GPS logs created by the person suing. Possibly (assuming you have a lawyer involved to write this up) with some sort of motion to compel or attempt to seize computers, smartphones, tablets, etc. along with flash cards, etc. to ensure that responsive materials weren't destroyed.
Of course, you might also look into the options of very low-powered (to avoid widespread damage, for safety, and for size) HERF guns. "Really, it just fell out of the sky! What the hell was the pilot doing dropping that thing on us? He could have hurt someone!"
Or, I donno, you could render the camera/video transmission nonfunctional (if the water didn't do that already) and simply take the thing indoors, then not answer the door when they come knocking, and also not answer the door if they bring a patrolman to knock.
It's very unlikely that a police officer will do any more than knock on the door on the complainant's behalf. If no one answers the officer isn't going to force the issue, and the officer doesn't really have any responsibility as far as civil law goes, so if there's no immediate proof of a crime (remember, the device has been concealed) then the officer will probably just leave, and maybe file a report that a complaint was made and that no followup was possible.
The original operator doesn't really have a whole lot of recourse after that point. Anything that he were to try to do would require pursuits through civil court, up to and including small-claims filings, and he'd have to figure out who to serve papers to, pay for the papers to be served, pay the court filing fees, and then actually have some form of proof to present to the judge, all while serving the papers presents the defendant a chance to present a counter-claim, like trespassing, voyeurism, or other things. All of that assumes that lawyers aren't brought into the equation either, and that the property owner doesn't pull the footage from the machine to present a criminal case to the police, to then have the operator cited.
I've had to pursue small-claims proceedings before, it's a pain in the butt.
If she bought tickets for herself and has been documented as joining ISIS, she should be charged for being an agent, not for contributing material support.
This then begs the question, at what point can one call the individual in question a member? Does the act of buying the tickets make her an agent? Does her commencing her travel make her a member? Does her changing planes or arriving at her final airport make her a member? Does she actually have to meet with other members, or does she have to at least receive orders?
Because, up until she actually conspires with them to take an actual action or follows instructions from them she could decide not to go through with whatever her original intentions were. Hell, if you want a more down-to-earth example of it, watch one of those "bait car" tv shows; they don't make a bust until the perpetrators put the car in-gear and move it. They can get into the car, they can rummage around the car, they can start the car, they can shut the car off, but until it moves they don't swoop-in to arrest anyone, excepting situations where the perpetrators start vandalizing or disassembling the car in-place, which are other crimes in of themselves. If the people that get all up in the bait car close the doors walk away without moving the car or stealing anything from the car then the police do not bust them.
It's probably unrealistic to define the point of the crime of joining a terror group as being when they arrive to the group or when the attempt to take a specifically overt action, but I don't think that it's unrealistic to require commencing travel after agreeing to join as the bare-minimum threshold.
Honestly, if the point is to somewhat replace walking then this isn't that bad of a range. Convert to miles and round-down, that's a range of about three and a half miles one-way. I live in fairly low-density suburbia and within that range are dozens of strip-malls and corner commercial properties, several doctors' and dentists' offices, probably a dozen grocery stores ranging from Whole Foods at the high-end to a low-end Food City at the bottom end, plus movie theatres, restaurants of all varieties, and the primary and secondary schools for which my home is districted. I may not use one as my commute is farther than this thing's range and I tend to do a lot of my shopping on my way home, but for someone living in the neighborhood that isn't going very far and doesn't need to take a whole lot with them something like this might actually work, especially if parking is routinely a headache at the destination.
What I didn't see in the video was how stepping on to it starts it moving. They cut right as he starts to step-on at the beginning. That initial kick from being still to moving is probably one of the riskier parts of using this, I want to see how someone older or someone a little less sure-footed handles it. I also want to see more varied terrain, like transitioning between sidewalks and crosswalks down sloped curbs and over those bump patterns for the blind.
One of the many dozens of crappy police procedurals also featured this trope in the last few years, where two guys were disposing of bodies by sealing them in 55 gallon drums of acid, and the one guy ends up killing the other because he wouldn't stop boasting about it, completely defeating the purpose.
I heard that the producers of Heathers were sued by some Columbine victims' families, but I couldn't find a source when I searched a few minutes ago. If I remember correctly it was dismissed.
Robin Hood is also in the public domain, and anyone is free to tell their own story about Robin Hood with their own bias.
The Fantastic Four is a specific series of work that has been licensed by a single entity. The entity that has licensed it is not free to do whatever, but they are free to continue the existing story or to tell stories that they've licensed from the print version. Instead they reboot.
No. Thoughtcrime literally only exists within the head of the individual. It becomes a different form of crime once it is expressed or otherwise shared.
The trick with thoughtcrime is to make the very idea of feeling it or thinking it so abhorrent that those that do think it must report themselves for it.
Until their friends or family or religious brethren in another part of the world, that so far have not been involved, decide to get involved because of what you have done.
IE, a certain young man from a rich Saudi construction conglomerate travelling more than a thousand miles to take-up war against an invading aggressor, being armed and trained by third-parties, and then years later staging attacks against those very third-parties that previously helped him...
Yeah, I was under the impression that material support meant providing money or physical assets. I was also under the impression that encouraging others to join would be acting as an agent. I'd bet that this material support threat stems from there simply not being enough to charge someone with being an enemy agent but there being no law covering this kind of speech, which means that attempting to silence people doing this might not even be legal.
On the other hand I've seen people make public statements about how certain political candidates should just be assassinated (Hillary Clinton seems to be a common target for this sort of red-neck speech) and it's just free speech during the election cycle.
There was a fad around here for awhile for bumper stickers that said "pray for Obama" and had a biblical passage number on them; it was something about someone dying or being killed in the passage. I don't think that Christ would have liked these Christians.
It also doesn't account for missing persons, some of whom might have been killed and are simply never found. The entire San population, which includes the !Kung and numerous other tribal groups is only 90,000. If the !Kung are say, 20,000 strong and are heavily studied then perhaps there are basically few missing persons by our society's standards, so our missing-and-murdered numbers and our known-murdered numbers are more level with their murdered numbers.
Also may not really require any appreciable work. Digging a hole is a lot of work; I've helped when we had the rather unpleasant task of burying several large dogs that died in a house fire, digging a large hole down the better part of six feet with hand tools takes quite some time even with a few people taking turns, and afterward it's obvious that a hole was dug and filled-in.
It kind of makes you wonder how many modern instances of this occur, either in bogs or in other wetlands that might lend themselves to the clandestine disposal of bodies.
It is a breathtaking movie precisely because it is so real. Action movie fans have been saturated with CGI for so long, we hardly know what the real thing is anymore. Most recent superhero movies have been a big yawn for me. It's all fake and the actors are not really in a scary situation. Nothing brings out good acting like actually driving at high speed through the desert with actual explosions and crashes all around you.
On the other hand, bad practical-effects can also hurt a movie. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has a lot of bad practical effects; the car chase and destruction of Venice scenes were mostly filmed in miniature, and other appearances of the automobile featured a full-scale custom car made for the movie. I like the movie, but I do not really care for these scenes as they look pretty silly, and I suspect that the silliness in these particular scenes make it hard to suspend disbelief.
Fox may simply not have licensed enough villains from the Fantastic Four comics. For all we know, their licensing is for the four primary characters and for their origin stories, and for villains from a specific range of comic books, and a prohibition on introducing new main villains that were not featured in those comics.
I don't see why they keep rebooting these franchises. Rise of the Silver Surfer did not so horribly damage the franchise as to make it completely necessary to abandon the storyline established in the Ioan Gruffudd and Jessica Alba version, and one of the few things that the Batman movies showed us is that it was possible to change actors every few movies and still have a continuous franchise. Granted, Batman did eventually jump the shark to the point that a reboot was required, but the Keaton, Kilmer, and Clooney movies are one somewhat contiguous set. Even in the Marvel-controlled Cinematic Universe some characters have been played by other actors and the audience has accepted this.
If they didn't want to continue to cast Gruffudd, Alba, Evans, and Chiklis they didn't have to actually reboot the universe in order to bring in new actors. Some would argue that such a movie might not be as successful as the studio wanted, but what they've created with this reboot is apparently worse than either of the previous movies. Hell, if it's this poorly received then perhaps Sony should release the rights back to Marvel, maybe they can actually make something of it.
The fate of the Japanese was determined in-part by a single family in Hawaii that aided a crash-landed Japanese pilot during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Yoshio Harada and his wife Irene, both first-generation Americans of Japanese ancestry, provided direct assistance to the pilot despite having lived among the native Hawaiians for several years. That treachery provided the excuse needed by the federal government to round-up and hold Americans of Japanese ancestry for the duration of the war.
It's extremely rare to be able to point to one incident with literally a handful of otherwise-average people as a turning-point in the history of the human race, but those incidents in December 1941 on an island with a hundred residents in a remote part of the world sure had an effect.
Frankly it doesn't matter if the Japanese were trying to surrender. Surrender is a negotiation process, a transaction. After the way Allied troops were treated in the surrender of the Philippines, the United States and its allies were morally free to decline any surrender offer by the Japanese that didn't meet their demands. Until terms are offered and accepted it's not a surrender. Doesn't matter how hard they tried.
I find it very funny that you attack someone that attempts to understand history beyond the high-school textbook, and that you attribute traits to me that must come from some sad, psychotic little part of your head. I take no pride or shame in what my country has done in historical wars, I was not there. I do, however, like to look at what factors contributed to what decisions, especially the missteps along the way that changed the outcome, and the possible or likely ramifications of different decisions. That you are unable to be dispassionate about something that happened long before you were born and that most people have managed to move beyond says a lot more about you than it does about me.
If the repeated firebombing of Tokyo that resulted in probably 100,000 dead didn't prompt the Japanese leadership to sue for peace, the US war planners couldn't have expected what was perceived as just a bigger bomb to have caused them to do so.
Frankly, we do not know if the Japanese would have surrendered after the first bomb. We do know that two horribly devastating bombs that close together convinced them to surrender unconditionally.
The United States is very good at estimating military casualties. It's necessary when war is waged on a huge scale, and good numbers are needed if the war effort is to be as efficient as possible.
The United States had a million Purple Hearts manufactured to award to the soldiers expected to be killed or wounded in action in the invasion of Japan. They're still using that stock today, after Korea, after Vietnam after Grenada, after Panama, after Afghanistan, after Iraq.
Even at the highest estimated death toll, less than a quarter of the number of people died due to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as would have been killed or wounded on just the American side of a full invasion of Japan.
Murray Peshkin does not have to take pride in his work, but he should not feel that he is party to a war crime either.
No one takes security seriously anymore. Everyone's chasing features. End-users simply don't care because there are so many of them that it's impossible to dramatically affect enough of them to build a movement against shoddy software. Everyone knows of someone that had problems yet it's just considered a fact of life.
In the late nineties I dreamed of the smart home, the smart car, etc. I even played with X10 for awhile and had strongly considered integrating a computer into my car in a fashion that modern automobiles have only embraced in the last five or so years. Now that I see how all of that stuff has been integrated I'm very glad that the most advanced home system I have is a 35-year-old wired analog intercom with stations in most of the rooms of the house and the workshop. Everyone wants their system to tie into their servers even though it literally serves no benefit to the owner and opens a giant security hole and dependency on a vendor that to me is just unacceptable.
A security vulnerability discussion on Slashdot that's over 30 minutes old and has no posts relevant to the content (including this one), and instead has three trolls, one reaction to a troll, and one comment on the fall of Slashdot.
Of course it was smaller than the Eastern Front. On the other hand it also forced resources that would have been sent to fight Russia to go back to securing what was previously thought to be conquered territory.
I'm kind of wondering what would have happened if Germany hadn't attacked the UK after the evacuation at Dunkirk. The evacuation was in May of 1940. Air attacks on Britain began in July 1940. The US Lend-Lease Act was passed in March 1941, mostly as a measure to assist the UK, but that later was applied to assist the Soviet Union. Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union was in June 1941. Lend-lease support of the Soviet Union began in October 1941 and ramped-up in-earnest in 1942. Had Lend-lease not been passed then possibly the Soviet Union would have fared worse in the war as they probably couldn't have afforded to purchase-outright the materials that they obtained through Lend-lease.
I have a mid-nineties GM with a remote. Despite changing the batteries in the remote I can only get about 30' range at the max on a good day. On a bad day I'm damn near standing next to it to get it to unlock the doors or open the trunk. Honestly it's a little too short.
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Never offend with style when you can offend with substance. You're clearly far into style territory, he's well into substance.
Just about any aerosol paint will dissolve styrofoam. I had a model rocket Space Ship One (that turned out to be a total piece of crap, but that's another matter) mostly made of styrofoam, that after some unfortunate glue drips I attempted to paint, only to watch it start to dissolve.
Unfortunately there aren't good delivery for fluids that aren't just water, especially considering both that a whole lot of fluid would be needed to hit the target if the nozzle is low, and that a lot of fluid is going to miss and land on whatever's on the ground. Personally I don't want the paint on my car, my house, or my elastomeric roof coating to chemically react with anything, so that pretty much means just water.
Seems to me that a garden hose with a good high-quality nozzle may be your best bet. No questions about how close it is, no questions about using something dangerous, etc. You still have the legal liability question, but I think the first thing to do on that if someone were to challenge you would be to subpoena any and all video, photo and GPS logs created by the person suing. Possibly (assuming you have a lawyer involved to write this up) with some sort of motion to compel or attempt to seize computers, smartphones, tablets, etc. along with flash cards, etc. to ensure that responsive materials weren't destroyed. Of course, you might also look into the options of very low-powered (to avoid widespread damage, for safety, and for size) HERF guns. "Really, it just fell out of the sky! What the hell was the pilot doing dropping that thing on us? He could have hurt someone!"
Or, I donno, you could render the camera/video transmission nonfunctional (if the water didn't do that already) and simply take the thing indoors, then not answer the door when they come knocking, and also not answer the door if they bring a patrolman to knock.
It's very unlikely that a police officer will do any more than knock on the door on the complainant's behalf. If no one answers the officer isn't going to force the issue, and the officer doesn't really have any responsibility as far as civil law goes, so if there's no immediate proof of a crime (remember, the device has been concealed) then the officer will probably just leave, and maybe file a report that a complaint was made and that no followup was possible.
The original operator doesn't really have a whole lot of recourse after that point. Anything that he were to try to do would require pursuits through civil court, up to and including small-claims filings, and he'd have to figure out who to serve papers to, pay for the papers to be served, pay the court filing fees, and then actually have some form of proof to present to the judge, all while serving the papers presents the defendant a chance to present a counter-claim, like trespassing, voyeurism, or other things. All of that assumes that lawyers aren't brought into the equation either, and that the property owner doesn't pull the footage from the machine to present a criminal case to the police, to then have the operator cited.
I've had to pursue small-claims proceedings before, it's a pain in the butt.
If she bought tickets for herself and has been documented as joining ISIS, she should be charged for being an agent, not for contributing material support.
This then begs the question, at what point can one call the individual in question a member? Does the act of buying the tickets make her an agent? Does her commencing her travel make her a member? Does her changing planes or arriving at her final airport make her a member? Does she actually have to meet with other members, or does she have to at least receive orders?
Because, up until she actually conspires with them to take an actual action or follows instructions from them she could decide not to go through with whatever her original intentions were. Hell, if you want a more down-to-earth example of it, watch one of those "bait car" tv shows; they don't make a bust until the perpetrators put the car in-gear and move it. They can get into the car, they can rummage around the car, they can start the car, they can shut the car off, but until it moves they don't swoop-in to arrest anyone, excepting situations where the perpetrators start vandalizing or disassembling the car in-place, which are other crimes in of themselves. If the people that get all up in the bait car close the doors walk away without moving the car or stealing anything from the car then the police do not bust them.
It's probably unrealistic to define the point of the crime of joining a terror group as being when they arrive to the group or when the attempt to take a specifically overt action, but I don't think that it's unrealistic to require commencing travel after agreeing to join as the bare-minimum threshold.
Honestly, if the point is to somewhat replace walking then this isn't that bad of a range. Convert to miles and round-down, that's a range of about three and a half miles one-way. I live in fairly low-density suburbia and within that range are dozens of strip-malls and corner commercial properties, several doctors' and dentists' offices, probably a dozen grocery stores ranging from Whole Foods at the high-end to a low-end Food City at the bottom end, plus movie theatres, restaurants of all varieties, and the primary and secondary schools for which my home is districted. I may not use one as my commute is farther than this thing's range and I tend to do a lot of my shopping on my way home, but for someone living in the neighborhood that isn't going very far and doesn't need to take a whole lot with them something like this might actually work, especially if parking is routinely a headache at the destination.
What I didn't see in the video was how stepping on to it starts it moving. They cut right as he starts to step-on at the beginning. That initial kick from being still to moving is probably one of the riskier parts of using this, I want to see how someone older or someone a little less sure-footed handles it. I also want to see more varied terrain, like transitioning between sidewalks and crosswalks down sloped curbs and over those bump patterns for the blind.
One of the many dozens of crappy police procedurals also featured this trope in the last few years, where two guys were disposing of bodies by sealing them in 55 gallon drums of acid, and the one guy ends up killing the other because he wouldn't stop boasting about it, completely defeating the purpose.
I heard that the producers of Heathers were sued by some Columbine victims' families, but I couldn't find a source when I searched a few minutes ago. If I remember correctly it was dismissed.
Robin Hood is also in the public domain, and anyone is free to tell their own story about Robin Hood with their own bias.
The Fantastic Four is a specific series of work that has been licensed by a single entity. The entity that has licensed it is not free to do whatever, but they are free to continue the existing story or to tell stories that they've licensed from the print version. Instead they reboot.
No. Thoughtcrime literally only exists within the head of the individual. It becomes a different form of crime once it is expressed or otherwise shared.
The trick with thoughtcrime is to make the very idea of feeling it or thinking it so abhorrent that those that do think it must report themselves for it.
Until their friends or family or religious brethren in another part of the world, that so far have not been involved, decide to get involved because of what you have done.
IE, a certain young man from a rich Saudi construction conglomerate travelling more than a thousand miles to take-up war against an invading aggressor, being armed and trained by third-parties, and then years later staging attacks against those very third-parties that previously helped him...
Most guys do want others to want their nuts, but they don't usually take it this extreme...
re-tweating is material support? Really?
Yeah, I was under the impression that material support meant providing money or physical assets. I was also under the impression that encouraging others to join would be acting as an agent. I'd bet that this material support threat stems from there simply not being enough to charge someone with being an enemy agent but there being no law covering this kind of speech, which means that attempting to silence people doing this might not even be legal.
On the other hand I've seen people make public statements about how certain political candidates should just be assassinated (Hillary Clinton seems to be a common target for this sort of red-neck speech) and it's just free speech during the election cycle.
There was a fad around here for awhile for bumper stickers that said "pray for Obama" and had a biblical passage number on them; it was something about someone dying or being killed in the passage. I don't think that Christ would have liked these Christians.
I guess it didn't paint a good picture...
It also doesn't account for missing persons, some of whom might have been killed and are simply never found. The entire San population, which includes the !Kung and numerous other tribal groups is only 90,000. If the !Kung are say, 20,000 strong and are heavily studied then perhaps there are basically few missing persons by our society's standards, so our missing-and-murdered numbers and our known-murdered numbers are more level with their murdered numbers.
Also may not really require any appreciable work. Digging a hole is a lot of work; I've helped when we had the rather unpleasant task of burying several large dogs that died in a house fire, digging a large hole down the better part of six feet with hand tools takes quite some time even with a few people taking turns, and afterward it's obvious that a hole was dug and filled-in.
It kind of makes you wonder how many modern instances of this occur, either in bogs or in other wetlands that might lend themselves to the clandestine disposal of bodies.
It is a breathtaking movie precisely because it is so real. Action movie fans have been saturated with CGI for so long, we hardly know what the real thing is anymore. Most recent superhero movies have been a big yawn for me. It's all fake and the actors are not really in a scary situation. Nothing brings out good acting like actually driving at high speed through the desert with actual explosions and crashes all around you.
On the other hand, bad practical-effects can also hurt a movie. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has a lot of bad practical effects; the car chase and destruction of Venice scenes were mostly filmed in miniature, and other appearances of the automobile featured a full-scale custom car made for the movie. I like the movie, but I do not really care for these scenes as they look pretty silly, and I suspect that the silliness in these particular scenes make it hard to suspend disbelief.
I don't think it's that complex.
Fox may simply not have licensed enough villains from the Fantastic Four comics. For all we know, their licensing is for the four primary characters and for their origin stories, and for villains from a specific range of comic books, and a prohibition on introducing new main villains that were not featured in those comics.
I don't see why they keep rebooting these franchises. Rise of the Silver Surfer did not so horribly damage the franchise as to make it completely necessary to abandon the storyline established in the Ioan Gruffudd and Jessica Alba version, and one of the few things that the Batman movies showed us is that it was possible to change actors every few movies and still have a continuous franchise. Granted, Batman did eventually jump the shark to the point that a reboot was required, but the Keaton, Kilmer, and Clooney movies are one somewhat contiguous set. Even in the Marvel-controlled Cinematic Universe some characters have been played by other actors and the audience has accepted this.
If they didn't want to continue to cast Gruffudd, Alba, Evans, and Chiklis they didn't have to actually reboot the universe in order to bring in new actors. Some would argue that such a movie might not be as successful as the studio wanted, but what they've created with this reboot is apparently worse than either of the previous movies. Hell, if it's this poorly received then perhaps Sony should release the rights back to Marvel, maybe they can actually make something of it.
Well, nothing has managed to fully replace it.
The fate of the Japanese was determined in-part by a single family in Hawaii that aided a crash-landed Japanese pilot during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Yoshio Harada and his wife Irene, both first-generation Americans of Japanese ancestry, provided direct assistance to the pilot despite having lived among the native Hawaiians for several years. That treachery provided the excuse needed by the federal government to round-up and hold Americans of Japanese ancestry for the duration of the war.
It's extremely rare to be able to point to one incident with literally a handful of otherwise-average people as a turning-point in the history of the human race, but those incidents in December 1941 on an island with a hundred residents in a remote part of the world sure had an effect.
Frankly it doesn't matter if the Japanese were trying to surrender. Surrender is a negotiation process, a transaction. After the way Allied troops were treated in the surrender of the Philippines, the United States and its allies were morally free to decline any surrender offer by the Japanese that didn't meet their demands. Until terms are offered and accepted it's not a surrender. Doesn't matter how hard they tried.
I find it very funny that you attack someone that attempts to understand history beyond the high-school textbook, and that you attribute traits to me that must come from some sad, psychotic little part of your head. I take no pride or shame in what my country has done in historical wars, I was not there. I do, however, like to look at what factors contributed to what decisions, especially the missteps along the way that changed the outcome, and the possible or likely ramifications of different decisions. That you are unable to be dispassionate about something that happened long before you were born and that most people have managed to move beyond says a lot more about you than it does about me.
If the repeated firebombing of Tokyo that resulted in probably 100,000 dead didn't prompt the Japanese leadership to sue for peace, the US war planners couldn't have expected what was perceived as just a bigger bomb to have caused them to do so.
Frankly, we do not know if the Japanese would have surrendered after the first bomb. We do know that two horribly devastating bombs that close together convinced them to surrender unconditionally.
The United States is very good at estimating military casualties. It's necessary when war is waged on a huge scale, and good numbers are needed if the war effort is to be as efficient as possible.
The United States had a million Purple Hearts manufactured to award to the soldiers expected to be killed or wounded in action in the invasion of Japan. They're still using that stock today, after Korea, after Vietnam after Grenada, after Panama, after Afghanistan, after Iraq.
Even at the highest estimated death toll, less than a quarter of the number of people died due to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as would have been killed or wounded on just the American side of a full invasion of Japan.
Murray Peshkin does not have to take pride in his work, but he should not feel that he is party to a war crime either.
No one takes security seriously anymore. Everyone's chasing features. End-users simply don't care because there are so many of them that it's impossible to dramatically affect enough of them to build a movement against shoddy software. Everyone knows of someone that had problems yet it's just considered a fact of life.
In the late nineties I dreamed of the smart home, the smart car, etc. I even played with X10 for awhile and had strongly considered integrating a computer into my car in a fashion that modern automobiles have only embraced in the last five or so years. Now that I see how all of that stuff has been integrated I'm very glad that the most advanced home system I have is a 35-year-old wired analog intercom with stations in most of the rooms of the house and the workshop. Everyone wants their system to tie into their servers even though it literally serves no benefit to the owner and opens a giant security hole and dependency on a vendor that to me is just unacceptable.
I predict SDTs will spread like wildfire through the live performance community. Exciting news for understudies everywhere!
I could take this comment so many different directions...
At least the Rocky Horror understudies have been exposed so many times that they're immune!
At least something new will spread through the live performance community, it's been a little dull lately...
Of course it'll spread through understudies. Why do you think they call them understudies? *wink*
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I really did not expect to see this.
Of course it was smaller than the Eastern Front. On the other hand it also forced resources that would have been sent to fight Russia to go back to securing what was previously thought to be conquered territory.
I'm kind of wondering what would have happened if Germany hadn't attacked the UK after the evacuation at Dunkirk. The evacuation was in May of 1940. Air attacks on Britain began in July 1940. The US Lend-Lease Act was passed in March 1941, mostly as a measure to assist the UK, but that later was applied to assist the Soviet Union. Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union was in June 1941. Lend-lease support of the Soviet Union began in October 1941 and ramped-up in-earnest in 1942. Had Lend-lease not been passed then possibly the Soviet Union would have fared worse in the war as they probably couldn't have afforded to purchase-outright the materials that they obtained through Lend-lease.
People want long range.
I have a mid-nineties GM with a remote. Despite changing the batteries in the remote I can only get about 30' range at the max on a good day. On a bad day I'm damn near standing next to it to get it to unlock the doors or open the trunk. Honestly it's a little too short.