I should have either noted that it's not a direct criticism of the post by "thinkwaitfast" or placed it elsewhere. There are a lot of naive views here that argue in absolutes but the above poster is not pushing them.
It's called "democratic socialism" for a reason and does not mean that capitalism is excluded. A naive view just leads to stupid arguments, pissing contests and pointless shit about whether Rear-Done metal is real or not.
The problem here is that your so-called "psychopaths" are normal humans exhibiting normal human behavior
Where does this shit come from? By all definitions it is abnormal. Just because there are plenty of incidents does not mean that a significant portion of the population are like that.
No, the secret is to take that money from a primary industry and spend it in ways that benefit the country. Scotland is also "a small, homogeneous population" with "lots of offshore oil" but the oil money was used to finance a shift of the UK as a manufacturing economy to England as a service economy with a focus on financial services. One approach was a success for many and the other made a small percentage of the people in one part of the UK very very rich. It could be argued that neither the "Socialist" or "Tory" ideology had anything to do with the difference - merely the difference between acting in the interest of the Nation instead of the interests of some individuals the rulers owe favours to. Good governance versus running things like a fabled jungle despot - the "ism" doesn't have much to do with it.
So the Norwegians with "a small, homogeneous population" did OK but the Scottish were so badly screwed over that their arses are still spouting blood decades later.
Yes and I want a pony. They are in no position to threaten anyone outside of Iraq and Syria at this point - even people in Jordan and Turkey are not currently in danger let alone Russia, Chechnya, USA, etc.
The old situation of managing a problem (eg. hiring more telephone switchboard operators) to providing a solution to a problem (eg. automatic phone exchange). With a vast majority of management from the ranks of accountants, economists etc instead of a technical background it's really obvious that the former is what is usually going to happen.
It was the same guy that put an open drink can down on a large live UPS after someone let him into the server room so it's possible that stupidity has killed him by now. Turns out the "new" phone system is a ten year old model - so telnet in with no password to change the settings and he wanted us to unblock and port forward telnet to the thing. I wonder if he convinced someone else in another place and who is getting free calls out of diverting through hacked phone systems?
So yes, these sort of people are around trying to convince anyone who will listen to punch huge holes through security to make it easier for them to support their crap devices. See the Target hack via an alarm system as an example.
I lost around 200 bitcoins in the first "crash"; it was very early on. Not widely reported.
I hope this guy spends some time in the slammer.
People also forget that such things happen with more than just Bitcoins. I wonder how much was lost when "The Donald" had his crash, and then somehow lept back up as rich as before as if he had just moved other people's money into a secret account. There are a lot of such crooks about.
In bitcoin it is deliberately built into the system (so that the early adopters at the top of the pyramid can clean up if enough suckers sign up). If you have another example *in practice* please supply it.
If people didn't mangle the name there should be no surprise - it's "MT GOX" as in "Magic The Gathering Online eXchange" - a card trading site for fucks sake people. Typos like the one in the summary ("mount" Gox) and people referring to it as Gox without knowing why are part of the confusion that led to a reputation the site did not deserve. Hobby level bitcoin stuff behaved as expected. "Mass incompetence" in only perceived by people that thought it was a bank or some other thing it is not. It's like accusing a terrier for being incompetent because it can't do a drum solo.
Spot on. I'll bet in both cases there are plenty of stupid shortcuts that would induce facepalms or "I told you so" on a lot of the readers here. Last year I had one idiot ask to put the phone system he was sometimes called out to work on onto the internet with telnet access - with no password! Another wanted direct RDP access to a machine over the internet. Neither of course seemed to have heard of a VPN or gave a shit about security - people who actually do what these idiots say are probably going to get burnt within days with the number of bots out there scanning for stuff.
Since there was nothing along those lines in the credits, and given the lack of respect for the law of the "creator", that is very unlikely. The funny thing (finally) is when it ended it was replaced with the real thing.
Letterman is essentially the same as any other talk show. The distinctive feature was Letterman himself.
The Vizard show slavishly copied his mannerisms (eg. walking around with a cup at that start of the show) and the timing of the segments. It was all very strange until I saw an episode of Letterman. Of course someone who ended up being forbidden for running a company for ten years after being caught at insider trading is exactly to sort of person that doesn't care about copying someone else's show that has worked elsewhere. Few people in Australia had seen Letterman back then. Top Gear however has a wider international reach than most things, it's broadcast just about everywhere on the planet.
Where I am we had "pornographic rock music". One of the records taken by the police had a track called "doing the shag", which was an instrumental. Meanwhile some corrupt police were deep into a prostitution racket and the state police commissioner was playing out the "street value" drug joke in reality - selling the evidence! He went to jail as did several members of the government at the time. Be careful when someone plays the morality card and see if you can look behind the curtain to see what they are trying to distract you from.
Do you really think giving your credit card information to a pornography website operator
Whether you like the situation or not you've somehow managed to deny what happened about twenty years ago and led to the widespread use of credit cards on the net that we have today. Ironically the problem to be solved back then was for the pornographers to trust their customers and not the other way around. Do you really think giving your credit card information to kids on minimum wage is a good idea? Somehow retail operates that way without a lot of fraud despite plenty of people that could do with the money, yet they don't steal it from you.
it always prompts me to let me know i should reboot.
You missed the line about full screen games. The notification presumably happens where you cannot read it, and then the system reboots. Annoying as hell.
His Letterman clone showed that without the others to carry him he was a boring waste of space. He was the money and connections guy for Fast Forward production and he got time on screen to keep his ego fed.
Yes. Some of the others were very funny. His stuff was pretty well the homosexual version of "blackface" and other unoriginal shit, but he was the guy with the finance so went in the show.
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You are so focused on playing silly little troll games on the net that you just checkmated YOURSELF. If you argue both sides you always lose.
I should have either noted that it's not a direct criticism of the post by "thinkwaitfast" or placed it elsewhere. There are a lot of naive views here that argue in absolutes but the above poster is not pushing them.
Yet the experts declare that if you think it is normal we should be a bit worried about how you are going to act.
The naive person is the one that has connected all those local crimes with a group in Syria that is not in contact with those local criminals.
Rather convenient to not have a high priority to do something you cannot actually do isn't it?
Home grown terror not ISIS/Daash.
It's called "democratic socialism" for a reason and does not mean that capitalism is excluded.
A naive view just leads to stupid arguments, pissing contests and pointless shit about whether Rear-Done metal is real or not.
Where does this shit come from? By all definitions it is abnormal. Just because there are plenty of incidents does not mean that a significant portion of the population are like that.
No, the secret is to take that money from a primary industry and spend it in ways that benefit the country.
Scotland is also "a small, homogeneous population" with "lots of offshore oil" but the oil money was used to finance a shift of the UK as a manufacturing economy to England as a service economy with a focus on financial services. One approach was a success for many and the other made a small percentage of the people in one part of the UK very very rich.
It could be argued that neither the "Socialist" or "Tory" ideology had anything to do with the difference - merely the difference between acting in the interest of the Nation instead of the interests of some individuals the rulers owe favours to. Good governance versus running things like a fabled jungle despot - the "ism" doesn't have much to do with it.
So the Norwegians with "a small, homogeneous population" did OK but the Scottish were so badly screwed over that their arses are still spouting blood decades later.
Yes and I want a pony. They are in no position to threaten anyone outside of Iraq and Syria at this point - even people in Jordan and Turkey are not currently in danger let alone Russia, Chechnya, USA, etc.
The old situation of managing a problem (eg. hiring more telephone switchboard operators) to providing a solution to a problem (eg. automatic phone exchange). With a vast majority of management from the ranks of accountants, economists etc instead of a technical background it's really obvious that the former is what is usually going to happen.
You are preaching to a crowd that think "loose" and "lose" are the same word. Just be happy it has two "f"s in it and ends in "t".
Lat every felawe telle his tale aboute. - G. Chaucer
It was the same guy that put an open drink can down on a large live UPS after someone let him into the server room so it's possible that stupidity has killed him by now.
Turns out the "new" phone system is a ten year old model - so telnet in with no password to change the settings and he wanted us to unblock and port forward telnet to the thing. I wonder if he convinced someone else in another place and who is getting free calls out of diverting through hacked phone systems?
So yes, these sort of people are around trying to convince anyone who will listen to punch huge holes through security to make it easier for them to support their crap devices. See the Target hack via an alarm system as an example.
All of the above was a reason to us a *nix workstation instead of a toy like Win98. Massive amounts of PR spending changed that.
I lost around 200 bitcoins in the first "crash"; it was very early on. Not widely reported.
I hope this guy spends some time in the slammer.
People also forget that such things happen with more than just Bitcoins. I wonder how much was lost when "The Donald" had his crash, and then somehow lept back up as rich as before as if he had just moved other people's money into a secret account.
There are a lot of such crooks about.
In bitcoin it is deliberately built into the system (so that the early adopters at the top of the pyramid can clean up if enough suckers sign up).
If you have another example *in practice* please supply it.
If people didn't mangle the name there should be no surprise - it's "MT GOX" as in "Magic The Gathering Online eXchange" - a card trading site for fucks sake people.
Typos like the one in the summary ("mount" Gox) and people referring to it as Gox without knowing why are part of the confusion that led to a reputation the site did not deserve. Hobby level bitcoin stuff behaved as expected. "Mass incompetence" in only perceived by people that thought it was a bank or some other thing it is not. It's like accusing a terrier for being incompetent because it can't do a drum solo.
Spot on. I'll bet in both cases there are plenty of stupid shortcuts that would induce facepalms or "I told you so" on a lot of the readers here.
Last year I had one idiot ask to put the phone system he was sometimes called out to work on onto the internet with telnet access - with no password! Another wanted direct RDP access to a machine over the internet. Neither of course seemed to have heard of a VPN or gave a shit about security - people who actually do what these idiots say are probably going to get burnt within days with the number of bots out there scanning for stuff.
Since there was nothing along those lines in the credits, and given the lack of respect for the law of the "creator", that is very unlikely. The funny thing (finally) is when it ended it was replaced with the real thing.
The Vizard show slavishly copied his mannerisms (eg. walking around with a cup at that start of the show) and the timing of the segments. It was all very strange until I saw an episode of Letterman. Of course someone who ended up being forbidden for running a company for ten years after being caught at insider trading is exactly to sort of person that doesn't care about copying someone else's show that has worked elsewhere. Few people in Australia had seen Letterman back then.
Top Gear however has a wider international reach than most things, it's broadcast just about everywhere on the planet.
Yes. His name is Rupert Murdoch :(
Where I am we had "pornographic rock music". One of the records taken by the police had a track called "doing the shag", which was an instrumental. Meanwhile some corrupt police were deep into a prostitution racket and the state police commissioner was playing out the "street value" drug joke in reality - selling the evidence! He went to jail as did several members of the government at the time.
Be careful when someone plays the morality card and see if you can look behind the curtain to see what they are trying to distract you from.
Whether you like the situation or not you've somehow managed to deny what happened about twenty years ago and led to the widespread use of credit cards on the net that we have today. Ironically the problem to be solved back then was for the pornographers to trust their customers and not the other way around.
Do you really think giving your credit card information to kids on minimum wage is a good idea? Somehow retail operates that way without a lot of fraud despite plenty of people that could do with the money, yet they don't steal it from you.
You missed the line about full screen games. The notification presumably happens where you cannot read it, and then the system reboots. Annoying as hell.
His Letterman clone showed that without the others to carry him he was a boring waste of space.
He was the money and connections guy for Fast Forward production and he got time on screen to keep his ego fed.
Yes. Some of the others were very funny. His stuff was pretty well the homosexual version of "blackface" and other unoriginal shit, but he was the guy with the finance so went in the show.