Restricting and filtering all internet communication is in the interest of proletariat?
It is in the interest of the communist party ruling class, and since they constitute the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, and personify the interests of the workers, it is clearly in the interest of the proletariat as well. At least that is the theory.
When I went to college, the best instructors were professional lecturers, the second best were grad students, and the professors were the worst. Why do universities waste the talents of brilliant researchers by requiring them to teach introductory courses?
Also: How hard would it be to write an app to game these analytics, and make the professor think you are doing the reading, when you are actually goofing off? It should just be some JavaScript to generate randomly timed scroll events.
Data centers suffer from very rapid capital depreciation. Kryder's Law means your storage hardware loses half its value every 13 months. It is a very competitive business, and only large scale automated data centers can be competitive. This is the start of the shake out, not the end. You will soon see more companies exit the business.
What the First World should do is tax products that are produced in factories that don't have equivalent labour and environmental protections in place
Then those countries will immediately retaliate with tariffs on American goods, and everybody loses. Your plan is economic nonsense, and hypocritical as well: On a per-capita basis, Americans produce far more pollution than Chinese, Africans, etc. American SUVs produce a lot more emissions than Chinese factories.
Try to organize a union in China and see what happens to you. You go to prison... it is illegal to unionize.
Unions are not illegal in China. Many foreign-owned factories are unionized, and unions are allowed at any private company. They are not generally tolerated at state owned factories, but, in theory, they are not needed there since the government already represents the interests of the proletariat.
AFAIK, the FBI can't prosecute US citizens for thought crimes.
Then you are obliviously ignorant, and probably should spend a few minutes educating yourself about American child porn laws before you comment on them again.
prosecuted people for criminal behaviour, i.e. passing on the products of criminal acts (against children)...
This NOT what they are doing. Child porn is illegal, even if it involves NO CHILDREN whatsoever. Many of the people being prosecuted were making or viewing animations or adult actors, not anything involving actual children.
It is not so clear that this is "good". There is not much evidence for a causal link from porn to sexual crime. Most countries that have liberalized their pornography laws have experienced a decline in sexual violence toward women and children. Child porn is illegal even if is entirely animated, or made with adult actors portraying adolescents. That pushes the entire genre onto the dark web. If, instead, the law only banned the actual abuse of children, rather than thought crime, there could be a legal market that would drive out most of the material involving actual harm to children.
I'd like to see the hydrogen bomb small enough to cause a 5.1 earthquake
H-bombs can be designed with small yields. It is basically just a fission core with a lithium deuteride booster. You can make the booster any size you want just by putting in more LiD, which is non-radioactive, non-toxic, and requires no special shielding or handling. Early American designs held the LiD in place with Styrofoam. The hard part is building the fission core, which NK has already done in the past. Going from fission bombs to fusion bombs is not difficult, and every country that has attempted it has succeeded on the first try.
these West German youth knew they didn't have any real power, but they knew through song they could fight against their enemies.
The songs and protests were not directed against their "enemies". They were directed against the Atlanticist government of Helmut Schmidt, and the American deployment of Pershing Missiles in Germany. Rather than "fighting" their enemies, the protestors advocated unilateral disarmament and appeasement.
Why are South Korean youth so silent when facing a similar threat?
Since 2012, we have much greater experience with exoplanets, more data, and better algorithms. So a mistake today is less likely than a mistake 4 years ago.
These IRS scammers were certainly dumb. They made $1M over 7 years, and split it at least 3 ways. So they are going to prison for less than $50k/year each. They could have made more money, and stayed out of prison, by just getting better jobs.
Someone needs to use CRISPR to genetically-engineer a female mosquito that does not drink blood
Plant nectar does not provide as much protein for egg laying. If there was no evolutionary advantage to blood sucking, it would not have evolved. So a no-blood-sucking gene would likely be out-competed in the wild.
A more fruitful approach may be to use CRISPR (or some other technique) to create Aedes mosquitoes that do not host the zika virus. The virus provides no known benefit to the mosquito, and other types of mosquitoes do not transmit the virus. So that should not be too difficult, and the modified genome should not be eliminated by natural selection.
Try saying things like supporting the Constitution, rule of law, personal responsibility, or quoting people like Virgil, Thomas Jefferson, or MLK in support of your arguments.
I have done all of those things, I have never been silenced by a SJW, and I get modded up far more often than I get modded down. You may not agree with everything the SJWs say, but they have a right to say it. Stop whining.
So the Pentagon thinks more money should go to the... Pentagon? Nobody has a greater vested interest in scaremongering about China, especially since Russia is not a scary boogey monster anymore.
Ceramics precisely shatter when the temperature changes too quickly.
This is not true for all ceramics. Many ceramics can tolerate high heat gradients. The biggest problem with ceramics for applications like turbine blades, is that while they are lighter and stronger, they are also more likely than metal to fail catastrophically. So ceramic turbine blades are a big improvement for generators and drones, but are not yet reliable enough for manned aircraft. With these new techniques, that may change.
I also fail to see how these guys are any danger to real terrorists.
They aren't, they are a benefit to IS. IS's raison d'etre is the conspiracy against Sunni Islam by the alliance of Shias and the Western World. By attempting to silence them, they are just giving IS more credibility in the eyes of their adherents, by validating the conspiracy theory. Even for groups as odious as IS, it is better to let them speak freely, and then counter their claims with more speech.
Btw, Saudi Arabia, a staunch American ally, beheaded 47 dissidents and apostates yesterday, including a leading Shia cleric. So on a moral basis, how is our enemy any worse than our ally?
So 1,274 retroactively classified emails tells me 1,274 times the country was put at risk.
Have you ever had a clearance? 99% of classified material is stuff that was in the newspapers two weeks earlier or other silly nonsense. I remember getting a document once a week that was an English translation done by the CIA of a Ukrainian newspaper. Despite being openly published information, it was always classified "secret". The only reason that I can see, was to make the translator feel like he was doing something important.
I've held a Secret clearance for 38 years, and the rules covering this sort of thing are very clear. The penalties include a huge fine and very serious federal prison time.
I held a secret clearance for 20 years, as a military officer, and while working on defense contracts. The spooks would hold security sweeps about once a month, checking desk drawers, file cabinets, computer drives. The ALWAYS found violations, and the worst consequences were verbal reprimands and mandatory remedial training. No one was ever fired or demoted or paid a fine. Certainly no one went to federal prison.
Just what are you doing? Denying there's a problem?
Yes. I deny there is a problem. People often treat each other badly, but I have seen NO evidence that this is a specific problem in FOSS projects, or in tech in general. My personal experience has been the exact opposite. Over the years, I have managed many techs, and I have also managed many non-techs. If you think that engineers are misogynists, you should meet some salesmen. I have dealt with sexual harassment complaints about the sales dept, the shipping crew, but never once about an engineer. My experience has been that techs behave at least as well as any other group of people, and better than most. Can we do better? Sure, but so can any other group of humans, including left handed methodists, but no one singles them out for criticism.
Why would you add different versions of Windows together if you're not adding different versions of iOS or Linux together?
Linux, iOS, and OSX tend to improve monotonically, so few people are running older versions. With Windows, new versions are often worse than their predecessors, so older versions are still widely used.
I always felt they were having issues once they decided to delete pages and more specifically information they consider trivia.
This is why I stopped contributing. Several pages where I had spent a lot of time and effort, were summarily deleted, with no explanation and no way to appeal the decision. That was five years ago, and I have not contributed one minute or donated one dime since. I don't understand the deletionist mindset. If you don't search for the topic, you won't see it, and it doesn't matter if it trivia. If you do search for it, then it is obviously an important, non-trivial topic for you.
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"Liberty Minded" is US code word for "white male who own guns".
Drug laws are disproportionately directed at blacks. Commercial sex laws are almost exclusively directed at women. Libertarians want to repeal both.
Restricting and filtering all internet communication is in the interest of proletariat?
It is in the interest of the communist party ruling class, and since they constitute the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, and personify the interests of the workers, it is clearly in the interest of the proletariat as well. At least that is the theory.
Most professors are bad at teaching.
When I went to college, the best instructors were professional lecturers, the second best were grad students, and the professors were the worst. Why do universities waste the talents of brilliant researchers by requiring them to teach introductory courses?
Also: How hard would it be to write an app to game these analytics, and make the professor think you are doing the reading, when you are actually goofing off? It should just be some JavaScript to generate randomly timed scroll events.
Data centers suffer from very rapid capital depreciation. Kryder's Law means your storage hardware loses half its value every 13 months. It is a very competitive business, and only large scale automated data centers can be competitive. This is the start of the shake out, not the end. You will soon see more companies exit the business.
Remind me again how many of the monumental number of televisions manufactured in the vast factories of America are exported and sold in China?
China imports aircraft, CPUs, capital goods, movies, and billions of hours of services from America.
What the First World should do is tax products that are produced in factories that don't have equivalent labour and environmental protections in place
Then those countries will immediately retaliate with tariffs on American goods, and everybody loses. Your plan is economic nonsense, and hypocritical as well: On a per-capita basis, Americans produce far more pollution than Chinese, Africans, etc. American SUVs produce a lot more emissions than Chinese factories.
Try to organize a union in China and see what happens to you. You go to prison ... it is illegal to unionize.
Unions are not illegal in China. Many foreign-owned factories are unionized, and unions are allowed at any private company. They are not generally tolerated at state owned factories, but, in theory, they are not needed there since the government already represents the interests of the proletariat.
AFAIK, the FBI can't prosecute US citizens for thought crimes.
Then you are obliviously ignorant, and probably should spend a few minutes educating yourself about American child porn laws before you comment on them again.
prosecuted people for criminal behaviour, i.e. passing on the products of criminal acts (against children) ...
This NOT what they are doing. Child porn is illegal, even if it involves NO CHILDREN whatsoever. Many of the people being prosecuted were making or viewing animations or adult actors, not anything involving actual children.
It is not so clear that this is "good". There is not much evidence for a causal link from porn to sexual crime. Most countries that have liberalized their pornography laws have experienced a decline in sexual violence toward women and children. Child porn is illegal even if is entirely animated, or made with adult actors portraying adolescents. That pushes the entire genre onto the dark web. If, instead, the law only banned the actual abuse of children, rather than thought crime, there could be a legal market that would drive out most of the material involving actual harm to children.
I'd like to see the hydrogen bomb small enough to cause a 5.1 earthquake
H-bombs can be designed with small yields. It is basically just a fission core with a lithium deuteride booster. You can make the booster any size you want just by putting in more LiD, which is non-radioactive, non-toxic, and requires no special shielding or handling. Early American designs held the LiD in place with Styrofoam. The hard part is building the fission core, which NK has already done in the past. Going from fission bombs to fusion bombs is not difficult, and every country that has attempted it has succeeded on the first try.
these West German youth knew they didn't have any real power, but they knew through song they could fight against their enemies.
The songs and protests were not directed against their "enemies". They were directed against the Atlanticist government of Helmut Schmidt, and the American deployment of Pershing Missiles in Germany. Rather than "fighting" their enemies, the protestors advocated unilateral disarmament and appeasement.
Why are South Korean youth so silent when facing a similar threat?
Perhaps they have more sense.
Since 2012, we have much greater experience with exoplanets, more data, and better algorithms. So a mistake today is less likely than a mistake 4 years ago.
Just the dumb ones?
These IRS scammers were certainly dumb. They made $1M over 7 years, and split it at least 3 ways. So they are going to prison for less than $50k/year each. They could have made more money, and stayed out of prison, by just getting better jobs.
Someone needs to use CRISPR to genetically-engineer a female mosquito that does not drink blood
Plant nectar does not provide as much protein for egg laying. If there was no evolutionary advantage to blood sucking, it would not have evolved. So a no-blood-sucking gene would likely be out-competed in the wild.
A more fruitful approach may be to use CRISPR (or some other technique) to create Aedes mosquitoes that do not host the zika virus. The virus provides no known benefit to the mosquito, and other types of mosquitoes do not transmit the virus. So that should not be too difficult, and the modified genome should not be eliminated by natural selection.
And that is why there is e.g. Gorrila tape.
No one has ever won a Nobel Prize with either duct tape or Gorilla Tape.
Try saying things like supporting the Constitution, rule of law, personal responsibility, or quoting people like Virgil, Thomas Jefferson, or MLK in support of your arguments.
I have done all of those things, I have never been silenced by a SJW, and I get modded up far more often than I get modded down. You may not agree with everything the SJWs say, but they have a right to say it. Stop whining.
The Pentagon assessment disagrees with you.
So the Pentagon thinks more money should go to the ... Pentagon? Nobody has a greater vested interest in scaremongering about China, especially since Russia is not a scary boogey monster anymore.
Ceramics precisely shatter when the temperature changes too quickly.
This is not true for all ceramics. Many ceramics can tolerate high heat gradients. The biggest problem with ceramics for applications like turbine blades, is that while they are lighter and stronger, they are also more likely than metal to fail catastrophically. So ceramic turbine blades are a big improvement for generators and drones, but are not yet reliable enough for manned aircraft. With these new techniques, that may change.
I also fail to see how these guys are any danger to real terrorists.
They aren't, they are a benefit to IS. IS's raison d'etre is the conspiracy against Sunni Islam by the alliance of Shias and the Western World. By attempting to silence them, they are just giving IS more credibility in the eyes of their adherents, by validating the conspiracy theory. Even for groups as odious as IS, it is better to let them speak freely, and then counter their claims with more speech.
Btw, Saudi Arabia, a staunch American ally, beheaded 47 dissidents and apostates yesterday, including a leading Shia cleric. So on a moral basis, how is our enemy any worse than our ally?
So 1,274 retroactively classified emails tells me 1,274 times the country was put at risk.
Have you ever had a clearance? 99% of classified material is stuff that was in the newspapers two weeks earlier or other silly nonsense. I remember getting a document once a week that was an English translation done by the CIA of a Ukrainian newspaper. Despite being openly published information, it was always classified "secret". The only reason that I can see, was to make the translator feel like he was doing something important.
What if Trump is her opponent?
Then I think the Libertarians and the Greens will get a lot of votes.
I've held a Secret clearance for 38 years, and the rules covering this sort of thing are very clear. The penalties include a huge fine and very serious federal prison time.
I held a secret clearance for 20 years, as a military officer, and while working on defense contracts. The spooks would hold security sweeps about once a month, checking desk drawers, file cabinets, computer drives. The ALWAYS found violations, and the worst consequences were verbal reprimands and mandatory remedial training. No one was ever fired or demoted or paid a fine. Certainly no one went to federal prison.
Just what are you doing? Denying there's a problem?
Yes. I deny there is a problem. People often treat each other badly, but I have seen NO evidence that this is a specific problem in FOSS projects, or in tech in general. My personal experience has been the exact opposite. Over the years, I have managed many techs, and I have also managed many non-techs. If you think that engineers are misogynists, you should meet some salesmen. I have dealt with sexual harassment complaints about the sales dept, the shipping crew, but never once about an engineer. My experience has been that techs behave at least as well as any other group of people, and better than most. Can we do better? Sure, but so can any other group of humans, including left handed methodists, but no one singles them out for criticism.
Why would you add different versions of Windows together if you're not adding different versions of iOS or Linux together?
Linux, iOS, and OSX tend to improve monotonically, so few people are running older versions. With Windows, new versions are often worse than their predecessors, so older versions are still widely used.
I always felt they were having issues once they decided to delete pages and more specifically information they consider trivia.
This is why I stopped contributing. Several pages where I had spent a lot of time and effort, were summarily deleted, with no explanation and no way to appeal the decision. That was five years ago, and I have not contributed one minute or donated one dime since. I don't understand the deletionist mindset. If you don't search for the topic, you won't see it, and it doesn't matter if it trivia. If you do search for it, then it is obviously an important, non-trivial topic for you.