Why would they renege, other than in some fantasy you've invented? Westminster has already set out the timeline for the new Scotland Bill to be written and presented to Parliament.
What makes you think Parliament will go along with the Prime Minister's promises?
I'd love to let them have the run of things for a while, except they insist on flying planes into our buildings and beheading children.
With that logic, we should go to war with our ally Saudi Arabia as well. Saudi nationals have flown more planes into buildings than ISIS. The Saudi Government has beheaded more people than ISIS. (Though ISIS seems to be trying to catch up)
No, I think the only option is to go in and kill every last one of them, like the vermin infestation that they are.
The language of dehumanization is ugly. I'm glad that Western governments have abandoned it as a propaganda tool. I can only hope that some of the less evolved citizens of the West will abandon it as well.
Admiral Rogers, I know this is harder for you than it is for a civilian, but you've really gotta stop conflating "legal" with "ethical." And if you can't do that, I can sympathize, but could you at least stop conflating "legal" with "in the interests of the United States?"
You should read what he said again.
I try to remind people that the all judgement to date find that the NSA has abided by the law. We have not been found to attempt to undermine the law.
He didn't say that the NSA abides by the law, only that no court has judged them as acting illegally.
The NSA's warrantless wiretapping was nakedly illegal and unconstitutional, but so far (AFAIK) no Judge has taken a case to its conclusion. And Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to retroactively shield the telecom companies for their participation. The NSA has even admitted to "overcollection" under the 2008 law, but the details are classified, so no one can claim standing to sue.
The NSA knows they've repeatedly broken the law; what's impressive is the rearguard action they've maintained to prevent & delay legal action.
If a route needed to be blackholed because of a DDOS, and that action had to be approved of by a central authority, which could take days to weeks for a ruling, nothing could be done because routers would not accept changes to any route until then.
Why would you need permission to blackhole a route? The problem is adding good routes, not dropping bad ones.
But, yes, the US has an unfortunate tendency, since the War of Independence, and the Civil War, continued to the present, of always fighting wars off budget.
That's not even remotely true. The US has, for most of its history, levied taxes for the explicit purpose of paying for wars. The Federal Government didn't exist during the Revolution, so the individual states raised taxes. I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty of pre-20th century war taxes, because they were on things like slaves, carriages, sugar, and whiskey.
And don't come back with the "US is too biiiiig!" excuse. You have electricity, water and gas, don't you? How did you get that if the area you live in is "Too biiiig!" The density where I live is no more than a place like Nashville, or Arlington Heights, or Jacksonville, or Albuquerque, or Portland, or Anytown, USA.
You're making several wildly inappropriate assumptions:
1. Despite being the size of Minnesota, Japan has the world's third largest GDP 2. Japan has a very high population density 3. Many Americans in low density rural States don't have water and gas, they have wells and a wood stove. 4. Japan and America (and each individual State) have completely different regulatory environments and philosophies. No shit we have different outcomes.
Isn't QoS supported by most home type routers, even
The difference between QoS and AT&T's proposal, is that QoS gives ALL video traffic the same special treatment. AT&T wants companies to pay them for special treatment on a 1-to-1 basis.
It's a bad idea and they are bad people for suggesting it.
Anyone remember the seventies pre-Star Wars? You couldn't produce an SF film unless it had a downer ending.
Highlights of the early 70s include the USA abandoning the gold peg, the CIA overthrowing the government of Chile, the Vietnam War showing itself a failure, the oil crisis, Pol Pot killing millions in Cambodia, African countries overthrowing their leaders, etc etc etc.
The 70s were a dark and stormy time. And don't forget that the Cuban Missile crisis, despite happening the previous decade, had a serious effect on the US psyche.
I keep hearing about these responsible gun owners who are so very careful with their dangerous weapons, so I can only conclude that this guy did it on purpose!
The problem for the "responsible gun owner" is that they have to be responsible every. single. time. Why not use technology to help with that?
Or do you accept that a certain minimal number of children accidentally killing each other and dudes shooting themselves in the dick is the price we pay for freedom that is arbitrarily unregulated.
Liberia is/was classified as a "fragile state," despite being near the bottom of the failed state index.
Cultural issues exacerbated the spread, but the actual problem is the Liberian Government's inability to (or decision not to) mobilize resources and quarantine infected patients or infected areas.
People are already calling for the President's resignation and arguing that the her poor *handling of this plague has pushed Liberia back towards being a failed state.
*and a general inability to create a viable healthcare system during her 9 years in office.
Why would automated software pick the "real" words over the BLR version?
Those BLR guys are going out of their way to produce something ridiculous. You can train recognition software using real language samples and some grammar rules.
Why would you assume that we can't strap these two technologies together?
The largest container ships have huge particulate emissions, but that's because there's no regulation on particulate emissions according to international law.
The lack of regulations is why container ships use Bunker No. 6.
It is one grade above the stuff we use to make asphalt and the dirtiest part of oil that can still be used for fuel. If allowed to cool to room temperature, it turns into a semi-solid.
Countries have started creating regulations for marine engine particulate emissions near their shores, but banning bunker fuel would have serious effects on the global shipping industry and product prices.
As an investor in renewables, China is well in the lead of ever other nation.
Either the Pew report or that article is giving you an incomplete picture. China, despite being a leader in nuclear and renewable power, is also going balls out to build coal-gasification plants.
China will be closing some coal power plants, but only ones nearest to its major cities (and responsible for the atrocious air quality). These will be replaced with 50 coal-to-gas plants in NW China and the synthetic natural gas will be shipped to new power plants in/near the cities. Cleaner air, but more CO2 per unit of power.
As a side note, China is responsible for about half the world's coal consumption, with no declines predicted.
They're huge slow(ish) moving, crazy expensive floating cities that could be made irrelevant with a salvo of cheap, dumb missles. (aegis be damned) They're dreadnoughts waiting for their Taranto.
The reason you damn them is exactly the reason they are relevant. Floating cities. Carrier groups are essentially a military base on the move. Hospitals, ammo dumps, fuel/food resupply, helicopters and airplanes, drones, marines, logistical support, etc.
The idea that we can adequately project force with only bombs is ludicrous and not something that can be explained in a/. post.
If you want to communicate, plug something in (or use near-field etc)
NFC is a misnomer. With a sensitive enough receiver, you don't need to be "near" a NFC device to hear it talking. With a large enough magnetic field, you don't need to be "near" a NFC device to get it talking.
I've never considered myself a "denier", and yet every time I ask someone to point to the evidence, I hear that slur tossed out. I've only briefly attempted to search for evidence online, and had virtually no success except to find things like the 97% consensus page at NASA's site. So, if anyone here has better sources, I'm all "ears".
Actually, you'll probably need to start with at least one college degree in meteorology or climatology. Or, in other words, the raw data is meaningless to a non-expert in the field.
We are guided by consensus a thousand ways every single day, but it's only climate science where people seem to get bent out of shape.
Then, at least, there will be no more nasty little low-intensity squabbles as we try to referee this crap and all doubt about the threat Islam poses to the species will be gone.
one can dream
You were doing fairly well until the very end. Bigotry aside, it's extremely naive to assume this is fundamentally motivated by religion.
The Islamists are not doing anything essentially different than what can be seen in Africa, where you have warlords controlling large swaths of territory with no religious motivations.
Get something through your thick skulls: regulation is ALWAYS bad!!
Food safety: ALWAYS bad!! Building codes: ALWAYS bad!! Headphones that don't electrocute me: ALWAYS bad!! Baby cribs that don't kill babies: ALWAYS bad!! Medicine that is safe: ALWAYS bad!!
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Why would they renege, other than in some fantasy you've invented? Westminster has already set out the timeline for the new Scotland Bill to be written and presented to Parliament.
What makes you think Parliament will go along with the Prime Minister's promises?
The report is a lie.
Terrorist groups have absolutely changed their behaviors and communications patterns
1. Did you read the report?
2. [Citation Needed]
I'd love to let them have the run of things for a while, except they insist on flying planes into our buildings and beheading children.
With that logic, we should go to war with our ally Saudi Arabia as well.
Saudi nationals have flown more planes into buildings than ISIS.
The Saudi Government has beheaded more people than ISIS.
(Though ISIS seems to be trying to catch up)
No, I think the only option is to go in and kill every last one of them, like the vermin infestation that they are.
The language of dehumanization is ugly.
I'm glad that Western governments have abandoned it as a propaganda tool.
I can only hope that some of the less evolved citizens of the West will abandon it as well.
Admiral Rogers, I know this is harder for you than it is for a civilian, but you've really gotta stop conflating "legal" with "ethical." And if you can't do that, I can sympathize, but could you at least stop conflating "legal" with "in the interests of the United States?"
You should read what he said again.
I try to remind people that the all judgement to date find that the NSA has abided by the law. We have not been found to attempt to undermine the law.
He didn't say that the NSA abides by the law, only that no court has judged them as acting illegally.
The NSA's warrantless wiretapping was nakedly illegal and unconstitutional, but so far (AFAIK) no Judge has taken a case to its conclusion.
And Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to retroactively shield the telecom companies for their participation.
The NSA has even admitted to "overcollection" under the 2008 law, but the details are classified, so no one can claim standing to sue.
The NSA knows they've repeatedly broken the law; what's impressive is the rearguard action they've maintained to prevent & delay legal action.
If a route needed to be blackholed because of a DDOS, and that action had to be approved of by a central authority, which could take days to weeks for a ruling, nothing could be done because routers would not accept changes to any route until then.
Why would you need permission to blackhole a route?
The problem is adding good routes, not dropping bad ones.
But, yes, the US has an unfortunate tendency, since the War of Independence, and the Civil War, continued to the present, of always fighting wars off budget.
That's not even remotely true.
The US has, for most of its history, levied taxes for the explicit purpose of paying for wars.
The Federal Government didn't exist during the Revolution, so the individual states raised taxes.
I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty of pre-20th century war taxes, because they were on things like slaves, carriages, sugar, and whiskey.
Just remember, every dollar you spend for something you don't need, is a dollar spent to help the Axis
To pay for the Korean War, Congress heaped taxes on top of the already high WWII rates.
President Johnson cut domestic spending and created surtaxes specifically to pay for Vietnam.
AFAIK, George W. Bush was the first President to categorically refuse to raise any taxes to pay for his wars.
I live in Japan [...]
And don't come back with the "US is too biiiiig!" excuse. You have electricity, water and gas, don't you? How did you get that if the area you live in is "Too biiiig!" The density where I live is no more than a place like Nashville, or Arlington Heights, or Jacksonville, or Albuquerque, or Portland, or Anytown, USA.
You're making several wildly inappropriate assumptions:
1. Despite being the size of Minnesota, Japan has the world's third largest GDP
2. Japan has a very high population density
3. Many Americans in low density rural States don't have water and gas, they have wells and a wood stove.
4. Japan and America (and each individual State) have completely different regulatory environments and philosophies. No shit we have different outcomes.
Isn't QoS supported by most home type routers, even
The difference between QoS and AT&T's proposal, is that QoS gives ALL video traffic the same special treatment.
AT&T wants companies to pay them for special treatment on a 1-to-1 basis.
It's a bad idea and they are bad people for suggesting it.
That's why Star Wars 7 will focus on the melting of the glaciers of Hoth and the "war on women" by remnants of the Old Empire.
And with a clever bit of licensing, will be co-marketed alongside the inspirational and dramatic family comedy: We Bought a Tauntaun Zoo
Anyone remember the seventies pre-Star Wars? You couldn't produce an SF film unless it had a downer ending.
Highlights of the early 70s include the USA abandoning the gold peg, the CIA overthrowing the government of Chile, the Vietnam War showing itself a failure, the oil crisis, Pol Pot killing millions in Cambodia, African countries overthrowing their leaders, etc etc etc.
The 70s were a dark and stormy time.
And don't forget that the Cuban Missile crisis, despite happening the previous decade, had a serious effect on the US psyche.
Statistically the only problem the "smart gun" solves can is already taken care of by responsible gun owners with a safe.
Yet Another Responsible Gun Owner Shoots His Own Penis
At least five American men have shot off their penises since 2010.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/yet-another-responsible-gun-owner-shoots
I keep hearing about these responsible gun owners who are so very careful with their dangerous weapons, so I can only conclude that this guy did it on purpose!
The problem for the "responsible gun owner" is that they have to be responsible every. single. time.
Why not use technology to help with that?
Or do you accept that a certain minimal number of children accidentally killing each other and dudes shooting themselves in the dick is the price we pay for freedom that is arbitrarily unregulated.
Sorry this whole story is some attempt to fill a boring summer void.
The pedant in me desperately wants to point out that Spock is half human and feels emotions too.
Liberia is/was classified as a "fragile state," despite being near the bottom of the failed state index.
Cultural issues exacerbated the spread, but the actual problem is the Liberian Government's inability to (or decision not to) mobilize resources and quarantine infected patients or infected areas.
People are already calling for the President's resignation and arguing that the her poor *handling of this plague has pushed Liberia back towards being a failed state.
*and a general inability to create a viable healthcare system during her 9 years in office.
Why would automated software pick the "real" words over the BLR version?
Those BLR guys are going out of their way to produce something ridiculous.
You can train recognition software using real language samples and some grammar rules.
Why would you assume that we can't strap these two technologies together?
If you want to understand why the new inhalers are so expensive, read this:
The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/us/the-soaring-cost-of-a-simple-breath.html
It's a product of the USA's captured regulatory system.
Europe doesn't have the same problem, for a variety of reasons.
The largest container ships have huge particulate emissions, but that's because there's no regulation on particulate emissions according to international law.
The lack of regulations is why container ships use Bunker No. 6.
It is one grade above the stuff we use to make asphalt and the dirtiest part of oil that can still be used for fuel.
If allowed to cool to room temperature, it turns into a semi-solid.
Countries have started creating regulations for marine engine particulate emissions near their shores,
but banning bunker fuel would have serious effects on the global shipping industry and product prices.
As an investor in renewables, China is well in the lead of ever other nation.
Either the Pew report or that article is giving you an incomplete picture.
China, despite being a leader in nuclear and renewable power, is also going balls out to build coal-gasification plants.
China will be closing some coal power plants, but only ones nearest to its major cities (and responsible for the atrocious air quality). These will be replaced with 50 coal-to-gas plants in NW China and the synthetic natural gas will be shipped to new power plants in/near the cities. Cleaner air, but more CO2 per unit of power.
As a side note, China is responsible for about half the world's coal consumption, with no declines predicted.
They're huge slow(ish) moving, crazy expensive floating cities that could be made irrelevant with a salvo of cheap, dumb missles. (aegis be damned) They're dreadnoughts waiting for their Taranto.
The reason you damn them is exactly the reason they are relevant.
Floating cities. Carrier groups are essentially a military base on the move.
Hospitals, ammo dumps, fuel/food resupply, helicopters and airplanes, drones, marines, logistical support, etc.
The idea that we can adequately project force with only bombs is ludicrous and not something that can be explained in a /. post.
If you want to communicate, plug something in (or use near-field etc)
NFC is a misnomer.
With a sensitive enough receiver, you don't need to be "near" a NFC device to hear it talking.
With a large enough magnetic field, you don't need to be "near" a NFC device to get it talking.
I've never considered myself a "denier", and yet every time I ask someone to point to the evidence, I hear that slur tossed out. I've only briefly attempted to search for evidence online, and had virtually no success except to find things like the 97% consensus page at NASA's site. So, if anyone here has better sources, I'm all "ears".
Start here: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/#datdow
Actually, you'll probably need to start with at least one college degree in meteorology or climatology.
Or, in other words, the raw data is meaningless to a non-expert in the field.
We are guided by consensus a thousand ways every single day,
but it's only climate science where people seem to get bent out of shape.
Then, at least, there will be no more nasty little low-intensity squabbles as we try to referee this crap and all doubt about the threat Islam poses to the species will be gone.
one can dream
You were doing fairly well until the very end.
Bigotry aside, it's extremely naive to assume this is fundamentally motivated by religion.
The Islamists are not doing anything essentially different than what can be seen in Africa,
where you have warlords controlling large swaths of territory with no religious motivations.
Bigotry is blinding you to realpolitik.
The class action settlement is, at most, $5,408.33 per *worker
Take out the 25% cut for the lawyers, and it's $4,056.25 per *worker.
Lawyers and companies love to wave around these big figures as if it's a success, but it's actually a huge joke.
*I used 60,000, but TFA says "more than 60,000"
4k Blu-Ray drives and movies are scheduled for next year.
They'll be using H.265 compression and some new DRM.
I'll end up with one, but only if/when my current blu-ray player dies.
Name one DRM scheme that hasn't been cracked?
DIVX?
Get something through your thick skulls: regulation is ALWAYS bad!!
Food safety: ALWAYS bad!!
Building codes: ALWAYS bad!!
Headphones that don't electrocute me: ALWAYS bad!!
Baby cribs that don't kill babies: ALWAYS bad!!
Medicine that is safe: ALWAYS bad!!
Your position is absurd.