The USA doesn't actually have to lay a finger on Julian Assange, Just about every European leader would like is head right about now
Why? Because German chancellor Merkel is described as bland and non-creative? Everyone in Germany knew that already. Heck, it's part of the reason she got elected. The only surprise is that the Americans were able to find that out. Incompetence must start above the State Department.
Many picture print services have an anti-blasphemy clause in their ToS. Does that mean, they won't let me print pictures of a bearded guy wearing a turban? Probably not, because Lieberman won't threaten them over that. But it still shouldn't be in their ToS.
The proper way to handle things like Wikileaks would be a court order - expressing the will of the people, open to a legal counter-challenge, and a democratic discussion process.
Not some blacklists, a corrupt politican's personal blackmail, or a company using their ToS to turn citizens into compliant consumers
We had all this crap before. Some time ago one couldn't publish information on birth control, because it was "indecent". If things have to be removed from public speech, this should happen in a democratic process, not by some self-declared guardians.
For the last few years, things have been moving into the cloud. Somehow decentralized systems like irc have been replaced with centralized social media platforms. Nice cheap hosting and sharing services with some teeny, tiny clauses in their tos have become widely available. Wikileaks is the perfect storm that tests just how much we can trust the life in the cloud.
Maybe RMS, that guy who looks and talks like Jesus was right all along.
Even with all our modern sawing machines and steel bolts and steel plates to connect the wood
That's easy: trees were much, much bigger.
it would be hard to prevent leaks from occurring.
Duh, you use elephants as pumps
The first question is why. Why would a loving god choose a flood to destroy most of its creation?
Because HE went all old testament on them?
Where are the fossil remains of these giants?
Giants obviously turn into dust. One word: Beaches.
A god that can create a universe out of nothing could just as easily made evil creatures disappear.
That's the story.
How did the kangaroos get there and get back?
They hopped.
How long would it have taken for the vegetation to grow back enough to support the plant eaters and than how long before the plant eaters had enough numbers to support the meat eaters?
Just eat dead fish.
Where did all the water come from
From the heavens, just read the bible.
and where did it go after the flood?
Into the large sea upon which our earth floats.
It would have taken a lot more time for 3 men and 3 women to repopulate this planet
Unless they are really, really determined. I mean really determined.
In just a little over a thousand years they would have had to go back to Egypt and built all the pyramids and have forgotten their past
You forget, biblical time is logarithmic. The further you go back, the more compressed it seems to you. The first week is like 3 billion years.
It is totally beyond my belief.
That's why Kentucky needs this theme park. Seeing is believing. Just go there (and tell the slave girls, I sent you.)
According to AP, Wikileaks shared the information with the Guardian and the Guardian shared it with the NYT.
So, while the New York Times was one of the five papers to publish the leaks, it technically never had any contact with the hacker taliban.
They can honestly say that everything they published came from another Newspaper.
They know where the times are going again and are cautious enough to not put a noose around their neck. The New York Times survived Comstock and McCarthy, and they for sure are determined to ride out Palin and Lieberman.
When the French criticized the Gulf War, the reaction was pouring French wine down the drain.
Yeah, Merika! Merika! (my country right or wrong) !
If nothing else, patriotism makes you feel good. - But if patriotism is a virtue and not just a replacement for whatever else you lack, shouldn't it make things better?
As I said before:
If Americans wouldn't take Wikileaks as an attack on their national ego but as an opportunity to hold their beloved leaders accountable, much could be accomplished.
Do you think the media will care if they leak the displomatic wires of the government of some tiny country nobody really cares about?
If by "media" you mean "US media", then no. Otherwise: the banking scandal in Iceland!
If Americans wouldn't take Wikileaks as an attack on their national ego but as an opportunity to hold their beloved leaders accountable, much could be accomplished.
Once in a while there are posts that are so exceptional good textbook cases of trolldom, that you feel they trump everything any other troll could ever write. For these cases there should be a +1 troll. Maybe not as part of the regular rating, but as an exception mod one could give once a year.
Also, for these rare posts -that should be made visible for everyone- I'd like to see:
+1 perfect strawman
+1 this is what's wrong with humanity
+1 clinically insane
+1 so dumb, I almost rated it funny
..do you find scanners on train stations, and Europe had many train attacks.
The reason might be, as others pointed out, that they would be completely useless. But then again, the US government has to support the failing car industry. And what better way of doing that, than to molest people, who want to use "unnatural" (public) forms of transportation.
because the magnitude of background radiation is much much lower
Right! As I said it earlier: Don't confuse the numbers they give you -whole body equivalent (basically skin as percentage of body weight)- with the actual dose.
And don't confuse the specific risks (skin cancer, genitals) with the "overall" risk.
Especially when operators make mistakes
No, let's not even think of the very, very remote possibility of the government making mistakes and exposing people to harmful radiation.
safe if it were distributed throughout the volume of the entire body
That's the "body equivalent" and that's the number you usually get -even from your doctor (who knows squat about radiation).
It is like saying, "I will poke out your eye, but don' t worry, taking your body weight into account, that' s only a 0.01% injury rate."
The body equivalent is fine in cases of unspecific radiation exposure to different body parts, where you want to estimate a general cancer risk.
It is bogus where you have a cancer specific to one organ and have that organ exposed. Example: Chest X-ray. The radiation rate and the risk they tell you is for your whole body and cancer in general. (I kind of assumed, that a chest X-ray, won' t lead to skin cancer on my pinky toe..) If you talk about lung cancer, the number is higher.
With the TSA scanners, they also take the exposure to your skin and divide that by body weight. But if you talk specifically about skin cancer, testicle cancer, or the risk of sperm mutation the risk is much higher. Since the TSA doesn't give out the data, the machines aren't regularly calibrated, and the radiation level isn't public, I would guess it could be anything between 100 times and 1000 times. (Or higher if one assumes criminal incompetence)
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The USA doesn't actually have to lay a finger on Julian Assange, Just about every European leader would like is head right about now
Why? Because German chancellor Merkel is described as bland and non-creative? Everyone in Germany knew that already. Heck, it's part of the reason she got elected. The only surprise is that the Americans were able to find that out. Incompetence must start above the State Department.
And don't forget: It's not your fault. It's genetic.
If there is anyone to blame it's your parents.
Wikileaks violated their ToS
So? Don't give me the business at will crap.
Many picture print services have an anti-blasphemy clause in their ToS. Does that mean, they won't let me print pictures of a bearded guy wearing a turban? Probably not, because Lieberman won't threaten them over that. But it still shouldn't be in their ToS.
The proper way to handle things like Wikileaks would be a court order - expressing the will of the people, open to a legal counter-challenge, and a democratic discussion process.
Not some blacklists, a corrupt politican's personal blackmail, or a company using their ToS to turn citizens into compliant consumers
We had all this crap before. Some time ago one couldn't publish information on birth control, because it was "indecent".
If things have to be removed from public speech, this should happen in a democratic process, not by some self-declared guardians.
And it belongs on /.
For the last few years, things have been moving into the cloud. Somehow decentralized systems like irc have been replaced with centralized social media platforms. Nice cheap hosting and sharing services with some teeny, tiny clauses in their tos have become widely available.
Wikileaks is the perfect storm that tests just how much we can trust the life in the cloud.
Maybe RMS, that guy who looks and talks like Jesus was right all along.
Even with all our modern sawing machines and steel bolts and steel plates to connect the wood
That's easy: trees were much, much bigger.
it would be hard to prevent leaks from occurring.
Duh, you use elephants as pumps
The first question is why. Why would a loving god choose a flood to destroy most of its creation?
Because HE went all old testament on them?
Where are the fossil remains of these giants?
Giants obviously turn into dust. One word: Beaches.
A god that can create a universe out of nothing could just as easily made evil creatures disappear.
That's the story.
How did the kangaroos get there and get back?
They hopped.
How long would it have taken for the vegetation to grow back enough to support the plant eaters and than how long before the plant eaters had enough numbers to support the meat eaters?
Just eat dead fish.
Where did all the water come from
From the heavens, just read the bible.
and where did it go after the flood?
Into the large sea upon which our earth floats.
It would have taken a lot more time for 3 men and 3 women to repopulate this planet
Unless they are really, really determined. I mean really determined.
In just a little over a thousand years they would have had to go back to Egypt and built all the pyramids and have forgotten their past
You forget, biblical time is logarithmic. The further you go back, the more compressed it seems to you. The first week is like 3 billion years.
It is totally beyond my belief.
That's why Kentucky needs this theme park. Seeing is believing. Just go there (and tell the slave girls, I sent you.)
So, while the New York Times was one of the five papers to publish the leaks, it technically never had any contact with the hacker taliban.
They can honestly say that everything they published came from another Newspaper.
They know where the times are going again and are cautious enough to not put a noose around their neck. The New York Times survived Comstock and McCarthy, and they for sure are determined to ride out Palin and Lieberman.
Yeah, Merika! Merika! (my country right or wrong) !
If nothing else, patriotism makes you feel good.
- But if patriotism is a virtue and not just a replacement for whatever else you lack, shouldn't it make things better?
As I said before:
If Americans wouldn't take Wikileaks as an attack on their national ego but as an opportunity to hold their beloved leaders accountable, much could be accomplished.
- at least for people with nothing stored in their brain...
Do you think the media will care if they leak the displomatic wires of the government of some tiny country nobody really cares about?
If by "media" you mean "US media", then no. Otherwise: the banking scandal in Iceland!
If Americans wouldn't take Wikileaks as an attack on their national ego but as an opportunity to hold their beloved leaders accountable, much could be accomplished.
Once in a while there are posts that are so exceptional good textbook cases of trolldom, that you feel they trump everything any other troll could ever write. For these cases there should be a +1 troll. Maybe not as part of the regular rating, but as an exception mod one could give once a year.
Also, for these rare posts -that should be made visible for everyone- I'd like to see:
+1 perfect strawman
+1 this is what's wrong with humanity
+1 clinically insane
+1 so dumb, I almost rated it funny
..for providing the technology that makes it possible to censor, track, and imprison.
And then you could have an arduino with one of the analog output pins changing the R value in the 555 delay loop? Right?
Dude, that would be awesome!
He wants to be remembered as the Deciderer, so "Decision Points" is a fully adequatious choice of book entitlement.
Friday morning you park your car at the mall, then take the bus home and hide.
- Unless of course you want to know how well your competitor is doing.
- for the European pirate party. I was afraid, they'd never get above 2%.
No, it's a slap in the frontal head area.
Oh Great!
For years, I looked at these home-built alert level gadgets and finally decided to build one myself.
-And the moment I buy a string of orange Halloween LED-lights, they decide to drop the color level system
Quite painful. I'm so traumatized I 'll probably have to use these expensive push-pencils for the rest of my life.
And girls, after pencils that was the most traumatizing thing, they definitely should ban girls. Yes, pencils and girls. Oh and chalk.
The reason might be, as others pointed out, that they would be completely useless. But then again, the US government has to support the failing car industry. And what better way of doing that, than to molest people, who want to use "unnatural" (public) forms of transportation.
... when you ask for reentry and they just keep telling you. "Please stay in low orbit. We will contact you again"
because the magnitude of background radiation is much much lower
Right! As I said it earlier: Don't confuse the numbers they give you -whole body equivalent (basically skin as percentage of body weight)- with the actual dose.
And don't confuse the specific risks (skin cancer, genitals) with the "overall" risk.
Especially when operators make mistakes
No, let's not even think of the very, very remote possibility of the government making mistakes and exposing people to harmful radiation.
But this will finally allow teenagers to use 911.
CP/M? Features almost like *nix but could run on a 32kB computer
Ah, now you remember!
No? Anybody?
safe if it were distributed throughout the volume of the entire body
That's the "body equivalent" and that's the number you usually get -even from your doctor (who knows squat about radiation). It is like saying, "I will poke out your eye, but don' t worry, taking your body weight into account, that' s only a 0.01% injury rate."
The body equivalent is fine in cases of unspecific radiation exposure to different body parts, where you want to estimate a general cancer risk.
It is bogus where you have a cancer specific to one organ and have that organ exposed. Example: Chest X-ray. The radiation rate and the risk they tell you is for your whole body and cancer in general. (I kind of assumed, that a chest X-ray, won' t lead to skin cancer on my pinky toe..) If you talk about lung cancer, the number is higher.
With the TSA scanners, they also take the exposure to your skin and divide that by body weight. But if you talk specifically about skin cancer, testicle cancer, or the risk of sperm mutation the risk is much higher. Since the TSA doesn't give out the data, the machines aren't regularly calibrated, and the radiation level isn't public, I would guess it could be anything between 100 times and 1000 times. (Or higher if one assumes criminal incompetence)