A problem can be where if even one of the bad cops is so politically connected that testifying against them does nothing other than end the careers of those who tesitfy. I've seen that and all the honest cops could do was keep their heads down for nine years until a change in government meant that the corrupt could finally be put on trial and imprisoned.
Those are NOT the only two choices that free citizens have when confronted by police malfeasance, nor should they be
When you have a cop who is already breaking the rules they are supposed to be following then those two choices are all you've got. It happens. I've been lucky enough to see some cops of that sort do time for it (right up to the rot at the top of the tree), but sometimes it takes a while for corruption to get cleaned up if it ever happens. So while "police procedure is very specific about the use of deadly force" we are describing situations where the person involved is no longer following police procedure are we not? While recording may change things in the long term remember we are discussing a recording of a child's death - the recording didn't help the child did it? Do you really want to die knowing that at least you've got it on film? Think like a responsible adult with people who depend on you being alive and not like a juvenile fantasy where you are a hero in a movie.
Who ever interacts with the init system on a desktop?
Someone who can't get their computer to boot due to detecting a mouse dongle causing the entire init sequence to hang for hours (CentOS7) instead of the old init on the same machine that would just complain and move on if it couldn't work out what to do.
Run gnome2 and then you can use X remotely at full speed instead. All that "modern X just spams remote sessions with bitmaps" stuff is about how badly gnome3 is written and how it spams your local screen with bitmaps and can only get away with it due to standard graphics hardware now being enough for a year 2000 professional flight simulator.
However in a lot of other places these cars do not violate the local standards. It's mostly a California issue with the standards violation. The fraud issue however is still fraud no matter whether the standards apply in a small area or large.
I think VW are playing the odds and see being caught at fraud as just a business expense that will cost less than if they hadn't done the fraud in the first place. GM came out ahead when they were caught doing something almost identical in 1996 after all (the wikipedia entry on GM gives some info).
It has been said many times already in this thread that the UK has already colluded in extraordinary renditions through its airports
Not so obviously and as undeniable as in the Swedish example quoted above. Besides, I'm waiting for something from phayes who has written a very large number of posts on this yet suddenly become evasive then silent.
I'm actually referring to the post by "quenda" which appears directly above yours as another reply to "iggmanz" - it's a post about the extralegal removal of a person from Sweden by a US agency which is the sort of thing Assage has said he's worried about since very early in this situation. Are you going to address that issue or play the card of the idiot who cannot read but is by some magic capable of writing yet again? It appears that when the going gets tough weaklings play dumb. Are you really that weak?
So, you expect us to take your very large number of ridiculous posts seriously despite your poor ability to comprehend English? Tell us please, how can you write so much when you don't have a grip on the language?
Everybody loves a free speech martyr. Sexual predators are usually not so popular.
Which was the plot for framing a political prisoner at the start of the British SF show "Blakes 7", something Assange probably watched when he was young since it was very popular in Australia.
Avon: I am not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going.
What makes me laugh out loud here is the post directly above yours renders it entirely worthless and makes it look like the bleatings of an apologist ignoring 99% of the issue. I suggest you try harder.
do you realise that the mastermind behind this policy is in charge! After all Turnbull was communications minister up until a month ago
He was the minister of "just shut up and destroy the NBN so we can pretend that every policy before us was shit". "You can have my good mate Ziggy to help you empty the bank with no result".
He had very little leeway to do anything unlike ministers in previous governments - which is why so little has been done at all by the government in a couple of years.
is not like comparing today's technology to 1915 tech
My bike is made of the same metal as the airships back then - same alloy, same heat treatment to produce age hardening. Other stuff has changed a great deal but I think things like mobile phones would be recognised as the complex collections of radio transmitters and receivers that they are - an astonishingly good mutlipurpose radio and not some strange unfathonable thing.
We have Star Trek style computers that respond to natural language questions, hundreds of years before TNG said we would.
We had text based computer games that responded to a reasonable subset of natural language questions a few years before TNG was ever written, let alone serious academic work along those lines.
But that type of grid can not handle the power distribution you are describing
It already is because it is a GRID made up of lots of WIRES and many GENERATORS instead of some COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE STRAWMAN like trying to supply everything from one point. It does not work that way. If you think it does why are you bothering to comment when you should be using the time to get at least a high school understanding of the topic?
Yes as an Australian I've been subjected to him using those exact words as well which is why I took you seriously instead of seeing it as the joke it was intended to be. Sorry about that. Hockey isn't the only one charging at windmills so I mistook you for one of that bunch.
The "Mr D" personality or whatever it is (since the guy likes to pretend to be things he is not so is probably one of several accounts) claimed that at the end of a thread during which he made several mistakes that none of my first year engineering students would have made back in the day due to them taking high school science. Among other things he keeps going on about days where there is no wind anywhere so windmills will not work. My reply was to one of his posts since I am very sick of his deliberate misinformation.
It's pretty devastating to rely on any monoculture - however the bullshit about the wind stopping everywhere is an utterly retarded piece of junk that can be disproved by nearly any teenager with a daily weather map.
The insults only come in response - your ridiculous obvious lies and the insults with them marked you as what you are so it's best that I inform more naive readers about your politically motivated charging at windmills.
Yes that is how electricity distribution works - "overbuilding" so as to be able to handle the largest peak of the year with room to spare when units are down for repairs.
Are you going to make the grid so robust, so grossly overbuilt, that you can ship huge amounts of power over transcontinental distances
We were doing that long before you, or anyone else, started reading Slashdot.
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A problem can be where if even one of the bad cops is so politically connected that testifying against them does nothing other than end the careers of those who tesitfy. I've seen that and all the honest cops could do was keep their heads down for nine years until a change in government meant that the corrupt could finally be put on trial and imprisoned.
When you have a cop who is already breaking the rules they are supposed to be following then those two choices are all you've got. It happens. I've been lucky enough to see some cops of that sort do time for it (right up to the rot at the top of the tree), but sometimes it takes a while for corruption to get cleaned up if it ever happens.
So while "police procedure is very specific about the use of deadly force" we are describing situations where the person involved is no longer following police procedure are we not?
While recording may change things in the long term remember we are discussing a recording of a child's death - the recording didn't help the child did it? Do you really want to die knowing that at least you've got it on film? Think like a responsible adult with people who depend on you being alive and not like a juvenile fantasy where you are a hero in a movie.
You are supposed to grow up and have an adult attitude before you pass on such psychotic bullshit onto your kids.
The NRA stuff doesn't have to make sense, it's always just a very cowardly shifting of blame instead of some effort to consider gun safety.
Someone who can't get their computer to boot due to detecting a mouse dongle causing the entire init sequence to hang for hours (CentOS7) instead of the old init on the same machine that would just complain and move on if it couldn't work out what to do.
Run gnome2 and then you can use X remotely at full speed instead. All that "modern X just spams remote sessions with bitmaps" stuff is about how badly gnome3 is written and how it spams your local screen with bitmaps and can only get away with it due to standard graphics hardware now being enough for a year 2000 professional flight simulator.
However in a lot of other places these cars do not violate the local standards.
It's mostly a California issue with the standards violation. The fraud issue however is still fraud no matter whether the standards apply in a small area or large.
I think VW are playing the odds and see being caught at fraud as just a business expense that will cost less than if they hadn't done the fraud in the first place. GM came out ahead when they were caught doing something almost identical in 1996 after all (the wikipedia entry on GM gives some info).
Not so obviously and as undeniable as in the Swedish example quoted above.
Besides, I'm waiting for something from phayes who has written a very large number of posts on this yet suddenly become evasive then silent.
I'm actually referring to the post by "quenda" which appears directly above yours as another reply to "iggmanz" - it's a post about the extralegal removal of a person from Sweden by a US agency which is the sort of thing Assage has said he's worried about since very early in this situation.
Are you going to address that issue or play the card of the idiot who cannot read but is by some magic capable of writing yet again?
It appears that when the going gets tough weaklings play dumb. Are you really that weak?
So, you expect us to take your very large number of ridiculous posts seriously despite your poor ability to comprehend English?
Tell us please, how can you write so much when you don't have a grip on the language?
Which was the plot for framing a political prisoner at the start of the British SF show "Blakes 7", something Assange probably watched when he was young since it was very popular in Australia.
Avon: I am not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going.
Since it looks a lot like Hillary kicked this whole thing off the US taxpayer is probably getting the bill.
What makes me laugh out loud here is the post directly above yours renders it entirely worthless and makes it look like the bleatings of an apologist ignoring 99% of the issue. I suggest you try harder.
He was the minister of "just shut up and destroy the NBN so we can pretend that every policy before us was shit". "You can have my good mate Ziggy to help you empty the bank with no result".
He had very little leeway to do anything unlike ministers in previous governments - which is why so little has been done at all by the government in a couple of years.
Plus this thread is about generating power in more than one place is it not?
I had taken the following bit from you as sarcasm - deliberately pretending to be an idiot but not actually being one:
Surely you are not so ignorant of the topic to be serious?
My bike is made of the same metal as the airships back then - same alloy, same heat treatment to produce age hardening. Other stuff has changed a great deal but I think things like mobile phones would be recognised as the complex collections of radio transmitters and receivers that they are - an astonishingly good mutlipurpose radio and not some strange unfathonable thing.
We had text based computer games that responded to a reasonable subset of natural language questions a few years before TNG was ever written, let alone serious academic work along those lines.
It already is because it is a GRID made up of lots of WIRES and many GENERATORS instead of some COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE STRAWMAN like trying to supply everything from one point.
It does not work that way. If you think it does why are you bothering to comment when you should be using the time to get at least a high school understanding of the topic?
That's what a grid is FFS.
Yes as an Australian I've been subjected to him using those exact words as well which is why I took you seriously instead of seeing it as the joke it was intended to be.
Sorry about that. Hockey isn't the only one charging at windmills so I mistook you for one of that bunch.
The "Mr D" personality or whatever it is (since the guy likes to pretend to be things he is not so is probably one of several accounts) claimed that at the end of a thread during which he made several mistakes that none of my first year engineering students would have made back in the day due to them taking high school science. Among other things he keeps going on about days where there is no wind anywhere so windmills will not work.
My reply was to one of his posts since I am very sick of his deliberate misinformation.
Isn't it lucky that you already have one.
It's pretty devastating to rely on any monoculture - however the bullshit about the wind stopping everywhere is an utterly retarded piece of junk that can be disproved by nearly any teenager with a daily weather map.
The insults only come in response - your ridiculous obvious lies and the insults with them marked you as what you are so it's best that I inform more naive readers about your politically motivated charging at windmills.
Yes that is how electricity distribution works - "overbuilding" so as to be able to handle the largest peak of the year with room to spare when units are down for repairs.
We were doing that long before you, or anyone else, started reading Slashdot.