The carrot one was believable since a deficiency of vitamin A was found to cause night blindness some time before the 1940s and was almost general knowlege by then. My parents still remember it as getting a lot of press when the Battle of Britain was going on. However at least some of the Luftwaffe already knew about radar, although perhaps not about airbourne radar or the extent of British radar, so mostly it fooled the Alllied population into thinking that you could get special night vision on a diet containing a lot of carrot. On a related note the "too much vitamin A will kill you" based on an Antarctic dog liver incident was debunked a few years ago. There were many other things wrong with the two suspected poisoning casualties and nobody has found anything near lethal quantities of vitamin A in livers or other meat since.
So you want a mechanism to distinguish one ponzi from another that may is some way be associated with dishonesty? It does not matter. With bitcoin a new bitcoin from any source increases the value of existing bitcoins so the perpetrators do not care where it comes from.
you're telling me that the best use somebody can think of for a botnet of network attached storage devices
If criminals were bright enough to think of those other applications they would probably be able to think of the consequences if they get caught. Unless you are already doing it how many people would have a clue where to fence stolen credit card numbers let alone any other "juicy private data". With bittorrent etc I don't know it "massive stolen storage space" has any value.
Last word - what the fuck are people doing letting cheap and nasty NAS drives be routable from out on the internet? It's not as if a VPN is hard these days and it's not as if even a $30 piece of gear can keep the nasties out in it's default configuration. These things are only likely to be exposed if somebody fucks up.
Since part of the world has the date of April 1 we've got a couple of days of trying to tell which stories are bogus and which not. Please bring back the ponies instead of making us guess.
I do not think it has been suggested that such a thing has happened in the case. Please let us stick to the facts as known without making serious allegations with no foundation.
The earthquakes were felt as far away as New York City and Boston, Massachusetts, where ground motion caused church bells to ring
Combine that with tall buildings on loose fill over a swamp (a problem in San Francisco 1906) and I think that's why "even Chicago" goes on the New Madrid risk list, even if it's nowhere near the main contender.
Amazing what people will go through because they are stuck behind NAT and can't send things directly or allow people to pick things up directly from them.
Such an exercise would affect the welfare of every smallpox infected soldier and civilian that could be found so it would come to the attention of the church that those soldiers and civilians belong to. I also wonder if there were even enough smallpox victims available for such a large scale effort as is suggested to be anything other than fantasy. It's far more likely that person to person casual contact or proximity resulted in the epidemic as happened in other places where there is no suggestion of deliberate infection. Nobody deliberately attempted to spread Spanish 'flu but it spread through some populations at a rate far higher than the smallpox epidemic we are discussing is thought to have progressed. A complete bastard may have wanted to infect people with a few thousand blankets but I suspect contact with traders probably did the job for him.
If what is wanted to be done is kicking sick troops out of their beds for new blankets every day or two to get ammunition for an extermination campaign then you should see my reference above to the local church being a pretty damn powerful social force in those times. Logisticly and socially I see it as being very unlikely to be done at a policy level. File it under pilots having a special high carrot diet (as a cover story for radar) and other military urban myths.
There were some great alien characters (Mollari and G'Kar) but human ones?
The actors playing them were just about the only members of the main cast that had ever trod upon a stage and probably turned mediocre writing into good TV. The transformations of those two characters (thug to Ghandi, clown to Stalin) showed a lot of range.
I was comparing with Troi and will have to take your word on Kira, since the stupid amphibian sex episode that had zero effect on continuity on Voyager turned me off the entire Trek franchise and anything those writers are likely to come in contact with. Yes, there were writing problems on B5 with Ivanova's character but I was putting that forward as an example of "decoration" that evolved into something more when the writers worked out that Claudia could act. Remember she was cast as Ivanova immediately after being cast as a pole dancer FFS - chosen as eye candy and not the ability that provided the best moments for the character. Also I see the PTSD as a very clumsy hook to link into a psi-corps plot. I can't see how the character would have made it as far as being a mid ranking military officer in peacetime if they had that in their past before they even joined. I also see the lesbian fanservice thing as a clumsy addition that added nothing to the character apart from an excuse for a skimpy costume.
It's been firmly established that you wish to lie, make fun of your elders, and oppose reason itself so all that matters now is determining the reason why. Is it to groom naive children to accept the word of your political masters or is it to progress to greater heights in your party?
I really don't think this is the place for your line of petty anti-intellectual political bullshit.
This is pretty much why railroads will shred brand new cars if they were in a derailment. It's easier accounting to pay the manufacturer
And this is pretty much why China will bury any economy with so much wastage just as USA companies buried their competitors some years ago. Rolls Royce would have like to sell just as many cars as Ford, as would the many others you have never heard of because they went broke.
I used to work at a place built on some landfill that included several truckloads of margerine (nickel powder contamination apparently). It was interesting when a crane support went down a hole so the crane was suddenly at 45 degrees, and also interesting when a ten metre deep sinkhole opened up next to the toilet block. To add to the confusion some bright spark had been using bags marked as being for asbestos as general waste bags for about a decade - so there was a vast amount of suspected asbestos under there mixed in with a very small amount of real asbestos.
The best is when I see stuff like bottles of vinegar or water dated only a few months out. Give me a break.
I was once laughed at for checking the date on a bottle of thai fish sauce. That stuff has gone off as much as will ever happen before it goes in the bottle. Honey is another funny one to label considering some has been found that is thousands of years old and still safe to eat (it dehydrates any bacteria that comes in contact with it) as is salt.
Where you have a lot of salt and oil many things will last for years so long as you keep the lid on, as seen by the date on some recently packaged containers. Also in this case we are talking about a product that can last for three months or more at room temperature after opening. If it hasn't been stored in the tropics you could add even a few more years for the sealed containers. Soldiers are given six year old peanut butter which hasn't been refridgerated and there has been no special need for a different military ration grade - it's the same stuff as in the shops.
So the volunteers throw out the leaky jars just like Costco workers do when they pack the stuff in the shelves. Isn't that obvious enough or have a hit a situation where a society feels so entitled that only Mexicans or white trash stock the shelves and are thus not noticed?
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The carrot one was believable since a deficiency of vitamin A was found to cause night blindness some time before the 1940s and was almost general knowlege by then. My parents still remember it as getting a lot of press when the Battle of Britain was going on. However at least some of the Luftwaffe already knew about radar, although perhaps not about airbourne radar or the extent of British radar, so mostly it fooled the Alllied population into thinking that you could get special night vision on a diet containing a lot of carrot.
On a related note the "too much vitamin A will kill you" based on an Antarctic dog liver incident was debunked a few years ago. There were many other things wrong with the two suspected poisoning casualties and nobody has found anything near lethal quantities of vitamin A in livers or other meat since.
So you want a mechanism to distinguish one ponzi from another that may is some way be associated with dishonesty?
It does not matter.
With bitcoin a new bitcoin from any source increases the value of existing bitcoins so the perpetrators do not care where it comes from.
If criminals were bright enough to think of those other applications they would probably be able to think of the consequences if they get caught.
Unless you are already doing it how many people would have a clue where to fence stolen credit card numbers let alone any other "juicy private data".
With bittorrent etc I don't know it "massive stolen storage space" has any value.
Last word - what the fuck are people doing letting cheap and nasty NAS drives be routable from out on the internet? It's not as if a VPN is hard these days and it's not as if even a $30 piece of gear can keep the nasties out in it's default configuration. These things are only likely to be exposed if somebody fucks up.
Since part of the world has the date of April 1 we've got a couple of days of trying to tell which stories are bogus and which not.
Please bring back the ponies instead of making us guess.
I do not think it has been suggested that such a thing has happened in the case. Please let us stick to the facts as known without making serious allegations with no foundation.
Combine that with tall buildings on loose fill over a swamp (a problem in San Francisco 1906) and I think that's why "even Chicago" goes on the New Madrid risk list, even if it's nowhere near the main contender.
Amazing what people will go through because they are stuck behind NAT and can't send things directly or allow people to pick things up directly from them.
If that's the case then SF is doing a piss poor job at doing that.
Surely many more than two.
Such an exercise would affect the welfare of every smallpox infected soldier and civilian that could be found so it would come to the attention of the church that those soldiers and civilians belong to.
I also wonder if there were even enough smallpox victims available for such a large scale effort as is suggested to be anything other than fantasy. It's far more likely that person to person casual contact or proximity resulted in the epidemic as happened in other places where there is no suggestion of deliberate infection. Nobody deliberately attempted to spread Spanish 'flu but it spread through some populations at a rate far higher than the smallpox epidemic we are discussing is thought to have progressed.
A complete bastard may have wanted to infect people with a few thousand blankets but I suspect contact with traders probably did the job for him.
If what is wanted to be done is kicking sick troops out of their beds for new blankets every day or two to get ammunition for an extermination campaign then you should see my reference above to the local church being a pretty damn powerful social force in those times.
Logisticly and socially I see it as being very unlikely to be done at a policy level. File it under pilots having a special high carrot diet (as a cover story for radar) and other military urban myths.
The actors playing them were just about the only members of the main cast that had ever trod upon a stage and probably turned mediocre writing into good TV. The transformations of those two characters (thug to Ghandi, clown to Stalin) showed a lot of range.
I was comparing with Troi and will have to take your word on Kira, since the stupid amphibian sex episode that had zero effect on continuity on Voyager turned me off the entire Trek franchise and anything those writers are likely to come in contact with.
Yes, there were writing problems on B5 with Ivanova's character but I was putting that forward as an example of "decoration" that evolved into something more when the writers worked out that Claudia could act. Remember she was cast as Ivanova immediately after being cast as a pole dancer FFS - chosen as eye candy and not the ability that provided the best moments for the character.
Also I see the PTSD as a very clumsy hook to link into a psi-corps plot. I can't see how the character would have made it as far as being a mid ranking military officer in peacetime if they had that in their past before they even joined. I also see the lesbian fanservice thing as a clumsy addition that added nothing to the character apart from an excuse for a skimpy costume.
Not all civilisations. The civilisation making the stuff is OK and doesn't give much more than lip service to patents.
Two? The defence rests.
Caesar was corrupt before he gained power and it's part of the way he was able to gain it.
Obviously not. Speak to me and not the strawman in your head.
It's been firmly established that you wish to lie, make fun of your elders, and oppose reason itself so all that matters now is determining the reason why. Is it to groom naive children to accept the word of your political masters or is it to progress to greater heights in your party?
I really don't think this is the place for your line of petty anti-intellectual political bullshit.
And this is pretty much why China will bury any economy with so much wastage just as USA companies buried their competitors some years ago. Rolls Royce would have like to sell just as many cars as Ford, as would the many others you have never heard of because they went broke.
I used to work at a place built on some landfill that included several truckloads of margerine (nickel powder contamination apparently). It was interesting when a crane support went down a hole so the crane was suddenly at 45 degrees, and also interesting when a ten metre deep sinkhole opened up next to the toilet block.
To add to the confusion some bright spark had been using bags marked as being for asbestos as general waste bags for about a decade - so there was a vast amount of suspected asbestos under there mixed in with a very small amount of real asbestos.
Some stupidly chose the wrong parents.
I was once laughed at for checking the date on a bottle of thai fish sauce. That stuff has gone off as much as will ever happen before it goes in the bottle. Honey is another funny one to label considering some has been found that is thousands of years old and still safe to eat (it dehydrates any bacteria that comes in contact with it) as is salt.
Where you have a lot of salt and oil many things will last for years so long as you keep the lid on, as seen by the date on some recently packaged containers. Also in this case we are talking about a product that can last for three months or more at room temperature after opening.
If it hasn't been stored in the tropics you could add even a few more years for the sealed containers. Soldiers are given six year old peanut butter which hasn't been refridgerated and there has been no special need for a different military ration grade - it's the same stuff as in the shops.
Actually it is. Batches get rejected after tests and then the batches after get tested.
So the volunteers throw out the leaky jars just like Costco workers do when they pack the stuff in the shelves. Isn't that obvious enough or have a hit a situation where a society feels so entitled that only Mexicans or white trash stock the shelves and are thus not noticed?