Perhaps there is nothing but early civilizations. Maybe they don't survive themselves for one reason or another. And even in the future, civilizations will always be "early" ones.
They failed to mention that Amazon now owns Quidsi and the sub brands since 2010
Good catch.
https://www.quidsi.com/brands
Businesses of an industry tend to agglomerate over time - like planets forming from dust and asteroids. There's even a math formula to predict the distribution member sizes tend to. Someone else probably can explain this. I can't. Except for monopolistic implications, in most industries, this is not such a bad thing. Size often makes for efficiency.
(I should note, however, in the news media industry, it's definitely a bad thing. We get deprived of alternative points of view.)
... felt like a scam, I paid 30% more somewhere else rather than give them my payment info (I was worried I'd get subscribed to something).
Anytime you give your payment info to another party online, you are taking some risk. Even a trusted recipient can be insecure with the data. But that risk can be managed. (Read up on the subject if you need to. You can always just use a card with only a small balance.)
And by "subscribed to something" do you mean a recurrent automatic withdrawal from your money? If so, has that happened to you before? Did you try to correct it?
Since there is no life-expectancy penalty for cycling LEDs on and off, much of the roadway could be dark in times of non use. Sensors detecting a vehicle or pedestrian, could turn the lights on in advance of their arrival. A "soft" turn on could be employed to avoid the abruptness of a quick on.
Also, those New Yorkers should be glad they at least have a government that lights the streets. I've been trying for years to get some streetlights fixed here in Kansas City, Kansas. (Just for accuracy, I should say, I've been partially successful. Most of the lights I've complained about are now fixed. Most but not all.)
One of my customers is a very high person in the telecom industry (who will go unnamed); he makes deals in the billions. I noticed he signs his name with a simple swish, not much more than a line. I figured if he can do it, so can I. Life is short. Now, I sign my name with a quick bumped line. So far, and it's been years, I haven't had a problem with it.
...takes an active role in seeking out and quelling extremism... Saudi Arabia does.
Saudi Arabia itself is Sunni Islam extremism. If it quells non-government extremism, it's either anti- ruling family, Shia, or some differing other Sunni sect.
When he was pouring money into luxury fixtures for Atlantic City casinos, the Wall Street Journal ran an article showing how dumb this was. (I don't have access to their archives.) The point is that, in financial circles, Trump was known to be dumb at business long ago. The low-brow public sees something different, though.
I'm now awaiting your casino. I'm sure you can show everyone how it's done and not have it as a failing venture when there's an over-abundance and the economy hasn't been doing shit hot for the last 8 years. Oh and I'm guessing you're american, so you'll be doing that on a declining wage front.
I never ran a big legal casino, but when I was a kid, I ran a poker game. It does, indeed, make lots of money. I imagine a casino is just scaling up the operation.
Basically, the house takes a cut. Eventually, this amounts to taking everything.
Modern casinos, like Trump's, prey on dumb people's dreams. It's not ethical. If you want to see the effects, look at the faces of people leaving casinos.
But there won't be millions. Maybe if you were charismatic and started a major protest following, you could do it. But it still wouldn't accomplish anything.
Besides, nobody pays attention to the few protest ballots that are cast. If you are lucky, the story of protest votes may merit a brief article under weird news.
These aren't "good points" at all. Or at lay their irrelevant. Now that the DNC Chairman has resigned, even though the DNC had not confirmed the veracity of the emails, we can reasonably deduce they are true.
Whether or not there is other evidence painting the DNC in a better light is irrelevant. Blaming this on Russia is simply an attempt to deflect, eg. It's the Chewbacca defense. Whether or not there are other emails that may somehow show the DNC people to be not so corrupt is like trying to mitigate you murdering someone by pointing to your charitable quirks helping the poor e.g. it's irrelevant to the "crime" committed.
"Shooting the messenger" is a standard practice for corrupt politicians and their supporters.
The Russian defense is so slimy, hearing it makes me want to vote for Trump. If only the guy were sane.
Correct. The Collateral Murder video says the same thing either long or edited. Sarten-X was just trying to make a pro Hillary argument. His other remarks are weak too.
As others have said, it's the content on the emails that is is revealing; the path they took to become public is irrelevant.
Everyone knows if you are searching for something dark, you have to use a light to find it.;)
Actually, the first name applied to this stuff was "missing matter". And many don't like the current term, "dark". Maybe a better one is "invisible matter", but it's too late.
It sounds like dark matter is thought to be made of particles of some sort. Could it instead be a force field of uneven density in space that interacts with the gravitational field in some way? Though the question then would be what causes the field I guess. But maybe that's an easier task.
The way physics think nowadays, fields and particles are the same thing. A particle is a perturbation in a field that is realized.
It's spelled aether, not ether. If you're going to act like you know what you're talking about, at least spell it correctly!
When I first started looking into relativity as a kid, I remember getting stuck on that word. How was one supposed to pronounce that funny character (I mean the ligature æ)? I even tried making both vowel sounds. There was nobody around to ask, and I wasn't comfortable assuming the ether pronunciation. I filed it away, hoping that someday I would get the problem resolved by hearing an authority say the word.
Later in life, I notice everybody using the simplified spelling, and consequently the simple ether pronunciation. Yes, this allows some ambiguity with the chemical (CH3–CH2–O–CH2–CH3), but aside from that, it is a victory of the people against the elite.
More seriously, he made a large number of enormous mistakes, here are the biggest:
1. Looks like his real name was on the goddamn hosting for KAT. Perfect job for an anonymous shell company held by a Russian lawyer, but instead he left a business card on a neat little stand at the crime scene.
2. Not separating his real name completely from his identity as KAT admin OR his casual pseudonym. He should've created a completely new identity for the KAT admin that doesn't touch any others with a 30-foot pole.
3. Apparently he thought Canada was a good place to host the servers safe from the reach of US lawmen. Such a US-unfriendly place this is, that he felt confident storing incriminating info on the server for some reason.
4. Insufficient money laundering. He even could've accepted ad payments in Bitcoin. Really, he put less effort into laundering criminal proceeds than your average 1%er puts into not paying taxes.
5. Being on Facebook never helps.
In short, he was running this operation almost completely in the open, relying only on the assumption that he couldn't be extradited and the obfuscation of naming the company Cryptoneat instead of KickassTorrents Inc. to keep his ass out of prison. Ross "You'll take payment in Bitcoin without a second thought, Mr. Mob Boss? Seems Legit." Ulbricht looks like a genius in comparison.
So, his real sin was being ignorant. Remember that, gang. Do your crimes in such a way so that you won't be embarased on/. post arrest.
Multiple accounts with new advertisers going into a new account each quarter that he doesn't touch the funds of for 2 years. At the end of the two years they get folded into one of his primary accounts, of which he'd want at least 3. Any legit pocket money purchases like fucking iTunes come out of a sub-$5000 account.
Does that period of time, 2 years, have any basis? Or is it just a period you think would be long enough to let the money cool off?
The article is concerned with lookalikes. That's interesting, but what about other kinds of similar people.
There's a concept that there is someone like you in China who has the same kind of living situation, same kind of job, same kind of lover, and so on. These are more interesting.
Once, in Tucson, as I was walking across a street, a car sped up to me and just bearly stopped short of hitting me. The car contained 3 black girls laughing at how they had scared me. (I should note that in Tucson, the weather is good enough for all the windows to be open.) Then the driver realized that they had misidentified me. "Oh, you're not John," she announced. She then quickly apologized and drove off.
I'm white. I never figured out who this "John" was.
A while ago, there were some guys who didn't care about space. They didn't have a space program at all, and they were occupied with day to day concerns like food and finding a girl. Well, one day, without any forewarning, because they didn't have a space program, a rock came out of the sky and killed all of them. This was 65 million years ago.
I suspect you are right. We certainly don't have any evidence they accomplished any major incursion. There is the Iranian centrifuge story, but I have my doubts about it, and we don't really have any reliable details.
I *do* have experience in assessing state governments' level of technological prowess, and it is beyond pitiful. Basically, they pay for everything, and if nobody is offering, there is no internal means to accomplish anything. I should clarify my "assessment" is way old by now, but I would guess this is still valid with the current state of the game.
Are the federal agencies similar to the state ones? Probably. They have the same kind of people.
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Perhaps there is nothing but early civilizations. Maybe they don't survive themselves for one reason or another. And even in the future, civilizations will always be "early" ones.
They failed to mention that Amazon now owns Quidsi and the sub brands since 2010
Good catch.
https://www.quidsi.com/brands Businesses of an industry tend to agglomerate over time - like planets forming from dust and asteroids. There's even a math formula to predict the distribution member sizes tend to. Someone else probably can explain this. I can't. Except for monopolistic implications, in most industries, this is not such a bad thing. Size often makes for efficiency.
(I should note, however, in the news media industry, it's definitely a bad thing. We get deprived of alternative points of view.)
... felt like a scam, I paid 30% more somewhere else rather than give them my payment info (I was worried I'd get subscribed to something).
Anytime you give your payment info to another party online, you are taking some risk. Even a trusted recipient can be insecure with the data. But that risk can be managed. (Read up on the subject if you need to. You can always just use a card with only a small balance.)
And by "subscribed to something" do you mean a recurrent automatic withdrawal from your money? If so, has that happened to you before? Did you try to correct it?
Also, those New Yorkers should be glad they at least have a government that lights the streets. I've been trying for years to get some streetlights fixed here in Kansas City, Kansas. (Just for accuracy, I should say, I've been partially successful. Most of the lights I've complained about are now fixed. Most but not all.)
This is the questionnaire, http://dcf.psychiatry.ufl.edu/...
A horizontal line is so insecure! I try to at least wiggle the stylus a little.
You stole my signature, thief!
One of my customers is a very high person in the telecom industry (who will go unnamed); he makes deals in the billions. I noticed he signs his name with a simple swish, not much more than a line. I figured if he can do it, so can I. Life is short. Now, I sign my name with a quick bumped line. So far, and it's been years, I haven't had a problem with it.
...takes an active role in seeking out and quelling extremism ... Saudi Arabia does.
Saudi Arabia itself is Sunni Islam extremism. If it quells non-government extremism, it's either anti- ruling family, Shia, or some differing other Sunni sect.
When he was pouring money into luxury fixtures for Atlantic City casinos, the Wall Street Journal ran an article showing how dumb this was. (I don't have access to their archives.) The point is that, in financial circles, Trump was known to be dumb at business long ago. The low-brow public sees something different, though.
I'm now awaiting your casino. I'm sure you can show everyone how it's done and not have it as a failing venture when there's an over-abundance and the economy hasn't been doing shit hot for the last 8 years. Oh and I'm guessing you're american, so you'll be doing that on a declining wage front.
I never ran a big legal casino, but when I was a kid, I ran a poker game. It does, indeed, make lots of money. I imagine a casino is just scaling up the operation.
Basically, the house takes a cut. Eventually, this amounts to taking everything.
Modern casinos, like Trump's, prey on dumb people's dreams. It's not ethical. If you want to see the effects, look at the faces of people leaving casinos.
Besides, nobody pays attention to the few protest ballots that are cast. If you are lucky, the story of protest votes may merit a brief article under weird news.
These aren't "good points" at all. Or at lay their irrelevant. Now that the DNC Chairman has resigned, even though the DNC had not confirmed the veracity of the emails, we can reasonably deduce they are true.
Whether or not there is other evidence painting the DNC in a better light is irrelevant. Blaming this on Russia is simply an attempt to deflect, eg. It's the Chewbacca defense. Whether or not there are other emails that may somehow show the DNC people to be not so corrupt is like trying to mitigate you murdering someone by pointing to your charitable quirks helping the poor e.g. it's irrelevant to the "crime" committed.
"Shooting the messenger" is a standard practice for corrupt politicians and their supporters.
The Russian defense is so slimy, hearing it makes me want to vote for Trump. If only the guy were sane.
As others have said, it's the content on the emails that is is revealing; the path they took to become public is irrelevant.
Everyone knows if you are searching for something dark, you have to use a light to find it. ;)
Actually, the first name applied to this stuff was "missing matter". And many don't like the current term, "dark". Maybe a better one is "invisible matter", but it's too late.
It sounds like dark matter is thought to be made of particles of some sort. Could it instead be a force field of uneven density in space that interacts with the gravitational field in some way? Though the question then would be what causes the field I guess. But maybe that's an easier task.
The way physics think nowadays, fields and particles are the same thing. A particle is a perturbation in a field that is realized.
It's spelled aether, not ether. If you're going to act like you know what you're talking about, at least spell it correctly!
When I first started looking into relativity as a kid, I remember getting stuck on that word. How was one supposed to pronounce that funny character (I mean the ligature æ)? I even tried making both vowel sounds. There was nobody around to ask, and I wasn't comfortable assuming the ether pronunciation. I filed it away, hoping that someday I would get the problem resolved by hearing an authority say the word.
Later in life, I notice everybody using the simplified spelling, and consequently the simple ether pronunciation. Yes, this allows some ambiguity with the chemical (CH3–CH2–O–CH2–CH3), but aside from that, it is a victory of the people against the elite.
But it's up to you. You can spell it ether way.
More seriously, he made a large number of enormous mistakes, here are the biggest:
1. Looks like his real name was on the goddamn hosting for KAT. Perfect job for an anonymous shell company held by a Russian lawyer, but instead he left a business card on a neat little stand at the crime scene.
2. Not separating his real name completely from his identity as KAT admin OR his casual pseudonym. He should've created a completely new identity for the KAT admin that doesn't touch any others with a 30-foot pole.
3. Apparently he thought Canada was a good place to host the servers safe from the reach of US lawmen. Such a US-unfriendly place this is, that he felt confident storing incriminating info on the server for some reason.
4. Insufficient money laundering. He even could've accepted ad payments in Bitcoin. Really, he put less effort into laundering criminal proceeds than your average 1%er puts into not paying taxes.
5. Being on Facebook never helps.
In short, he was running this operation almost completely in the open, relying only on the assumption that he couldn't be extradited and the obfuscation of naming the company Cryptoneat instead of KickassTorrents Inc. to keep his ass out of prison. Ross "You'll take payment in Bitcoin without a second thought, Mr. Mob Boss? Seems Legit." Ulbricht looks like a genius in comparison.
So, his real sin was being ignorant. Remember that, gang. Do your crimes in such a way so that you won't be embarased on /. post arrest.
He was a complete nerd and had to look up "money laundering" in a dictionary.
There's a coin laundry right by my house! I can't believe this goes on right in front of everybody!
Multiple accounts with new advertisers going into a new account each quarter that he doesn't touch the funds of for 2 years. At the end of the two years they get folded into one of his primary accounts, of which he'd want at least 3. Any legit pocket money purchases like fucking iTunes come out of a sub-$5000 account.
Does that period of time, 2 years, have any basis? Or is it just a period you think would be long enough to let the money cool off?
There's a concept that there is someone like you in China who has the same kind of living situation, same kind of job, same kind of lover, and so on. These are more interesting.
I'm white. I never figured out who this "John" was.
NASA...budget ... is 0.5% of the federal ...
A while ago, there were some guys who didn't care about space. They didn't have a space program at all, and they were occupied with day to day concerns like food and finding a girl. Well, one day, without any forewarning, because they didn't have a space program, a rock came out of the sky and killed all of them. This was 65 million years ago.
Anyhow, there are other illustrations of NSA's ineptitude.
They can't hack for shit.
I suspect you are right. We certainly don't have any evidence they accomplished any major incursion. There is the Iranian centrifuge story, but I have my doubts about it, and we don't really have any reliable details.
I *do* have experience in assessing state governments' level of technological prowess, and it is beyond pitiful. Basically, they pay for everything, and if nobody is offering, there is no internal means to accomplish anything. I should clarify my "assessment" is way old by now, but I would guess this is still valid with the current state of the game.
Are the federal agencies similar to the state ones? Probably. They have the same kind of people.
The marketing monster in Elon overwhelmed the cautious scientist, and he killed a loyal subject.