"These people never receive the information and make up a kind of underclass who eke out an information-poor existence in a few dark corners of the network. "
Assuming they are not uncomfortable or in need, they are not an underclass. In fact, they may be an uberclass.
I know some super-rich people (a few, not many) and all of them don't really bother with the internet. One of them told me, "Look, I pay people to deal with that bullshit." That struck me as interesting. Many people today *must* be informed and online. It's the only way to keep up. But if you're worth a Billion Dollars (or even hundreds of millions), you basically don't have to give flying fuck about that. You can jet down to the Bahamas for the winter, and then scoot north for the summer. You can work on your golf game. One friend spends a lot of time making bad paintings. He knows they suck, but he simply enjoys making them. And he can afford to make them and show them to his friends, and not even bother exhibiting - a waste of time. He's never on the internet and doesn't really care.
That's what real wealth brings - freedom FROM the internet.
Where the fuck have you been? There's a guy named Snowden. Check him out.
* Has the NSA been a vocal critic of America's enemies?
No. The NSA isn't vocal about much of anything.
* Has the NSA been on the job for a really long time?
Spying on citizens, yes. See Snowden Reference.
* Do we have any evidence that the NSA is favoring our enemies?
Yes we do. By turning the USA into a police state, those foreign agents who wish to change the USA from a free and open society into a cryptofascist police state in order to hasten its decline have won.
Oh, nonsense. Any system built on bad faith, which is the system you're describing *logically* leads to self contradiction. When you have proof that Schneier is a tool of the cryptofascists, get back to us. Otherwise, you might as well be talking about my uncle Dave, about whom you have as much proof as you have against Schneier.
Everyone has to get their car inspected every year. So in 2014, your car has 123,456 miles. Drive as much as you want. The next year, 2015, you bring it in to inspection, and they note the mileage: 144,123 miles. What kind of car do you drive? The Toyota Poofball. The official mileage on the Poofball is 47 hwy, 35 city, for an average of 41 mpg. You drove 20,667 miles that year, or, on average, 504 gallons. I don't know what the gas tax rate is in Oregon (I do know you can't pump you're own gas there - fucking weird - like New Jersey) but let's say it's 10 cents a gallon. Your Inspection in 2015 would then charge you $50.40. Done.
An assumption of bad faith is self defeating. How can we trust YOU???
Has Schneier given us bad advice? So far, so good it seems.
Has Schneier been a vocal critic of the NSA? Yes.
Has Schneier been on this file for a really long time? Yes.
Do you have any evidence that he's in cahoots with the cryptofascists? No.
So, all you have is a speculation to tear down the reputation of one of the good guys, a thought experiment, based on no evidence, but one that has real world consequences of spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt regarding someone who is fighting the good fight.
Therefore, I would humbly suggest that I could and do logically conclude that YOU are a tool of the NSA, not Schneier, and furthermore, I have more evidence than you do: Your suggestion to consider Schneier as less than reliable based on zero evidence.
It's like we used to say: Windows is a second rate UI on top of a third rate DOS, on top of a fourth rate scheduler. It just fires shit off when it gets around to it. Completely retarded.
Yes, there is. I can assure you there is no free will. Our understanding of time is unidimensional. Once you open up more than one dimension, it stops "moving" in a line. We only think we have free will because we're trapped in a lower dimensionality. If we had access to a higher dimensionality we would see that the universe is actually completely static.
But we don't have that perspective, so we are "forced" to conclude by evidence created by time that we have free will (as in, decision making in time) even though we really don't.
`Was the whole idea of blowing up an asteroid. An asteroid, especially one the size of fucking TEXAS, does its damage through kinetic energy. So, as it strikes land, the other side is still 500 miles up in space, beyond the orbit of the ISS. Something that big is almost the size of Ceres. Ceres's mass is 9.43 ± 0.07×10^20 kg. So, let's say it's a bit smaller and "only" 9x10^20 kg, and you blew it up into a million pieces, each piece is going to weigh 900,000,000,000,000 kg. or roughly, an asteroid of 5 miles wide. It only took one 8 miles wide to snuff the dinosaurs out. So multiply that by a million.
Even if you were on the other side of the planet, the winds would be upward of 2000 mph, with an over pressure of 276 psi. The sound would be 126 dB, and you would experience an earthquake of 13.6 richter. Blowing up something that big doesn't help - it's still 9x10^20 kg of rock falling on the earth, basically all at once. So, even if the Armageddon asteroid was blown up into a million pieces, it would still mean DOOM.
and the last 7 she basically worked from home. They had a "desk" for her, but it was fairly useless and in a pen with a bunch of other desks. She never used it. Carly drove a stake through the heart of the company, and so my wife opted for "Early retirement". There was NO reason for her to be in an office - she managed multinational projects - her team was scattered all over the place and none of them were in Silicon Valley. She could have been on the moon and except for the time delay due to the speed of light, no one would have noticed.
This is just typical - they're trying to shed employees, cut staff, make money. That's what the Compaq merger was about. It had nothing to do with computers and had everything to do with Compaqs crappier HR policies which were adopted as HPs, saving the company millions, forever. My wife lost a week and a half of vacation time because of that. Dicks.
"No offense meant, but what world do you live on? For humans, vengeance and retribution are always excuses for killing people."
No, it's not an EXCUSE. It's a reason. There's a big difference. Vengeance and demands for retribution are the reasons people set about killing other people. They are not EXCUSES, because vengeance and a demand for retribution do not exculpate people for being violent dickheads. IT simply explains why they are violent dickheads.
Fuck off troll. Go to nukemap. The article says the bomb was 256x that of Hiroshima (17kt), so we're talking 4.5Mt. Per nukemap, the Immediate casualties are over 12,000 people, and thousands more would die from radiation related illnesses and cancers.
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Now, go crawl back under your rock in your mommy's basement, dickweasel.
Don't be such a troll. If the NYT was so liberal and leftie, explain its stenography for the Bush Admin., resulting in two undeclared wars with thousands of dead people in Iraq and Afghanistan financed with cooked off the books loans, and its support for the Bush led but Obama fulfilled idiocies re: the banking system, Guantanamo, and a host of other violations of common decency.
The answer is: You're a troll, Now go away. Troll.
please check your white privilege at the door. I lived in DC for 9 years. The white ruling class lives mostly in NW. The poor live in SE. The percentage of income going to housing is VASTLY higher in Benning Road than Woodley Park. If you don't like private slum lords taking advantage of a public housing assistance program, then change it so that such is not the case. Don't go hurting the poor.
Name Asteroid after Trayvon. A few weeks later it collides with a smaller rock, that nudges it into a path such that it turns Miami into a large smoking hole in the ground.
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Assuming they are not uncomfortable or in need, they are not an underclass. In fact, they may be an uberclass.
I know some super-rich people (a few, not many) and all of them don't really bother with the internet. One of them told me, "Look, I pay people to deal with that bullshit." That struck me as interesting. Many people today *must* be informed and online. It's the only way to keep up. But if you're worth a Billion Dollars (or even hundreds of millions), you basically don't have to give flying fuck about that. You can jet down to the Bahamas for the winter, and then scoot north for the summer. You can work on your golf game. One friend spends a lot of time making bad paintings. He knows they suck, but he simply enjoys making them. And he can afford to make them and show them to his friends, and not even bother exhibiting - a waste of time. He's never on the internet and doesn't really care.
That's what real wealth brings - freedom FROM the internet.
the body of some programmer is at the bottom of a river.
Where the fuck have you been? There's a guy named Snowden. Check him out.
* Has the NSA been a vocal critic of America's enemies?
No. The NSA isn't vocal about much of anything.
* Has the NSA been on the job for a really long time?
Spying on citizens, yes. See Snowden Reference.
* Do we have any evidence that the NSA is favoring our enemies?
Yes we do. By turning the USA into a police state, those foreign agents who wish to change the USA from a free and open society into a cryptofascist police state in order to hasten its decline have won.
Checkmate.
Oh, nonsense. Any system built on bad faith, which is the system you're describing *logically* leads to self contradiction. When you have proof that Schneier is a tool of the cryptofascists, get back to us. Otherwise, you might as well be talking about my uncle Dave, about whom you have as much proof as you have against Schneier.
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I fail to see what the problem is here.
Has Schneier given us bad advice? So far, so good it seems.
Has Schneier been a vocal critic of the NSA? Yes.
Has Schneier been on this file for a really long time? Yes.
Do you have any evidence that he's in cahoots with the cryptofascists? No.
So, all you have is a speculation to tear down the reputation of one of the good guys, a thought experiment, based on no evidence, but one that has real world consequences of spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt regarding someone who is fighting the good fight.
Therefore, I would humbly suggest that I could and do logically conclude that YOU are a tool of the NSA, not Schneier, and furthermore, I have more evidence than you do: Your suggestion to consider Schneier as less than reliable based on zero evidence.
It's like we used to say: Windows is a second rate UI on top of a third rate DOS, on top of a fourth rate scheduler. It just fires shit off when it gets around to it. Completely retarded.
But we don't have that perspective, so we are "forced" to conclude by evidence created by time that we have free will (as in, decision making in time) even though we really don't.
What could possibly go wrong?
Even if you were on the other side of the planet, the winds would be upward of 2000 mph, with an over pressure of 276 psi. The sound would be 126 dB, and you would experience an earthquake of 13.6 richter. Blowing up something that big doesn't help - it's still 9x10^20 kg of rock falling on the earth, basically all at once. So, even if the Armageddon asteroid was blown up into a million pieces, it would still mean DOOM.
This is just typical - they're trying to shed employees, cut staff, make money. That's what the Compaq merger was about. It had nothing to do with computers and had everything to do with Compaqs crappier HR policies which were adopted as HPs, saving the company millions, forever. My wife lost a week and a half of vacation time because of that. Dicks.
FUCK YOU. ASSHOLE.
No, it's not an EXCUSE. It's a reason. There's a big difference. Vengeance and demands for retribution are the reasons people set about killing other people. They are not EXCUSES, because vengeance and a demand for retribution do not exculpate people for being violent dickheads. IT simply explains why they are violent dickheads.
FTFY
You are a tool.
Sadly, I agree. What a waste of human effort.
Fuck off troll. Go to nukemap. The article says the bomb was 256x that of Hiroshima (17kt), so we're talking 4.5Mt. Per nukemap, the Immediate casualties are over 12,000 people, and thousands more would die from radiation related illnesses and cancers. http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ Now, go crawl back under your rock in your mommy's basement, dickweasel.
The answer is: You're a troll, Now go away. Troll.
please check your white privilege at the door. I lived in DC for 9 years. The white ruling class lives mostly in NW. The poor live in SE. The percentage of income going to housing is VASTLY higher in Benning Road than Woodley Park. If you don't like private slum lords taking advantage of a public housing assistance program, then change it so that such is not the case. Don't go hurting the poor.
I think if they used an alphabet they would truly rule the world.
Said the selfish randian douchebag.
I would think that this would be much more interesting in a more egalitarian and pan-racial society.
Fuck - just gimme 320kbps MP3 and I'll be happy....
Name Asteroid after Trayvon. A few weeks later it collides with a smaller rock, that nudges it into a path such that it turns Miami into a large smoking hole in the ground.
Base PUBLIC SAFETY DECISIONS on meaningless sports spectacles!!! GENIUS!
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(breaks down into weeping)