In the Netherlands, a man was recently controlled by police ( routine identity control, the police need not even give a reason for the control, but that is another chapter of the nascent-police-state discussion ). He carried € 30,000 in a plastic bag with him, and could not provide immediate proof for the money's origin. He was arrested. Only after a couple of day, when nobody could prove the money's illegal origin, he was released. Without the money, which remained at the police precincts. Injustice ? Yes. Police state ? Yes. But this anecdote adds another bit of momentum to Stallman's plea.
to India, and to ISRO. Excellent engineering. I am genuinely glad for them to have succeeded here. The more countries master this, the better it is for the exploration of space, for technology, and maybe even for peace: engineers employed at carrying out TMI are not working on, say, ICMBs and their ballistics. Goes true also for China, Russia, the US.
I am the original poster. Snowden never alleged that this is against Dutch law. The newspaper that published this ( in the very early morning hours, btw, they did not wait for daybreak and people getting out of bed ) alleges it. So do I. I read the law that governs the AIVD's activities. This is clearly outside of the framework set by that law: "... and [ is allowed ] to infiltrate organizations which endanger national or public security...". Now, an internet forum is not an "organization which endangers national or public security", unless you live in Iran, North Korea or China.
That is a tough one both for 20-ers and 50-ers or 60-ers. For the rest of TFA, you have a point. At some point in my career ( recently ), I simply decided to never retire. As a software engineer, I had the best idea of my career only last summer, and I am 46. Plenty of potential ahead.
second this. This is my second business in a row that equips all its IT workers with a Dell Latitude laptop of their own choice. If we need more computing power, we are free to order a Precision work station. I take my laptop anywhere, and am sure to be able to upgrade it whenever I need: more RAM, extra HD, other NIC, you name it. IT hardware maintenance personnel love the things. Yes, they're ugly - so what ? At home I have a very good-looking Asus K53 that gives me the black screen every 20 to 40 days, I have a love-hate relationship with it. The Dell laptop just runs, on and on and on an on.
Well, you are on to something here. I live and work in a German-language country. As a matter of fact, using the word "nazi" is simply not done here. People cringe if and when I literally translate "grammar Nazi" or "spelling Nazi" into German, even this long after the war. So I use "grammar taliban" or "spelling fundamentalist" instead. That has the strange property of making people smile uncontrollably. Va comprende, Charles...
just pulled the most recent english-language wikipedia dump, and made elasticsearch ( via the wikipedia river plugin ) run over it. 13.9 million entries now on a small server, answering times ~ couple-of-millisecond order. elasticsearch rocks !
The biggest problem with the reactions upon my post is that most of them fail to see I meant it as a joke. When I first heard the "proof" ( from a catholic priest ) I almost fell off my chair with laughter. But jeez, are you guys one bunch of humorless dry-balls....
... that God does not exist. We all know God is almighty, and that he created the Universe. What is the summit of being almighty ? That is: being able to do anything in spite of the largest possible handicap. What is the largest possible handicap ? To not exist. God, now, is sheer actuality: no possibility in him remains unactualized. ( If it were not so, he would not be perfect, and we all know he is perfect. If he were not so, he would not be God, and our argument would be somewhat moot. ) Hence, the possibility of him not to exist does not remain a mere possibility: he actualizes it. Hence and therefore, he does not exist.
I was born in a monarchy. Although it was one of the symbolic ones, in Europe, when I became a republican later on in life ( disclaimer: no, european republicans are in no way related to their US namesakes, and quite often are rather leftist or left-leaning ), I remarked how opposed to true social progress monarchists can be. Beware !
... for having frequented them in France. The French Neo-Reactionaries are, quite often, staunch arch-catholics and rather vehement racists, who often glorify one form or another of fascism. They are a rancid bunch, IMHO.
The US is being gently pushed ( nudged ) into a beginning of rrelevance. Has already been going on for a couple of years: computer technology, aerospace tech, politics. NSA scandal accelerated it. The sun is going down over US America.
currencies don't and can't exist in a vacuum outside the framework of rule of law with zero transparency and accountability
Oh yes they can. Was the case for centuries and centuries during the Roman Republic. Any coin would be traded on the basis of the instantaneous value of its gold, silver or copper part. If you wished to pay in, say, Greek statera or Seleucid Antiochian gold coins, the city-state in Greece or the Seleucid empire had no say in and no overview over the transaction. It was a private deal between a private person ( you ) and some private merchant. Only the Roman emperors began to draw control over currency towards them, e.g. Diocletian managed to force a ( then much-needed ) devaluation of the Roman sestertius, something that would have been impossible under the Republic.
This is also a reply to all the other replies to my post. I only said that we are out of the LEGAL hassle. Of course we are being tapped and spied upon, just like anyone else. And of course we can use the C language, Unix, and so on. Of course we read and comment papers written by US-American scientists. We only don't do business with the USA anymore.
Don't host anything in the USA. Don't use USA-based cloud services. Don't do business with USA companies. At my employer's, the national R & D institute of a smaller European country, we already don't anymore. Business keeps on going as usual. We live as if the USA would not exist. Can we be subject to surveillance, or eavesdropped upon ? Of course. But we are out of the legal hassle. As simple as that.
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In the Netherlands, a man was recently controlled by police ( routine identity control, the police need not even give a reason for the control, but that is another chapter of the nascent-police-state discussion ). He carried € 30,000 in a plastic bag with him, and could not provide immediate proof for the money's origin. He was arrested. Only after a couple of day, when nobody could prove the money's illegal origin, he was released. Without the money, which remained at the police precincts. Injustice ? Yes. Police state ? Yes. But this anecdote adds another bit of momentum to Stallman's plea.
That is Italy-specific, within the legal framework of the ( much-needed ) fight against the mafia and camorra.
to India, and to ISRO. Excellent engineering. I am genuinely glad for them to have succeeded here. The more countries master this, the better it is for the exploration of space, for technology, and maybe even for peace: engineers employed at carrying out TMI are not working on, say, ICMBs and their ballistics. Goes true also for China, Russia, the US.
I am the original poster. Snowden never alleged that this is against Dutch law. The newspaper that published this ( in the very early morning hours, btw, they did not wait for daybreak and people getting out of bed ) alleges it. So do I. I read the law that governs the AIVD's activities. This is clearly outside of the framework set by that law: "... and [ is allowed ] to infiltrate organizations which endanger national or public security...". Now, an internet forum is not an "organization which endangers national or public security", unless you live in Iran, North Korea or China.
That is a tough one both for 20-ers and 50-ers or 60-ers. For the rest of TFA, you have a point. At some point in my career ( recently ), I simply decided to never retire. As a software engineer, I had the best idea of my career only last summer, and I am 46. Plenty of potential ahead.
Second this. On the semantic search thing, we are generating ideas in-house right now. Contact me if you have an idea for better UI.
second this. This is my second business in a row that equips all its IT workers with a Dell Latitude laptop of their own choice. If we need more computing power, we are free to order a Precision work station. I take my laptop anywhere, and am sure to be able to upgrade it whenever I need: more RAM, extra HD, other NIC, you name it. IT hardware maintenance personnel love the things. Yes, they're ugly - so what ? At home I have a very good-looking Asus K53 that gives me the black screen every 20 to 40 days, I have a love-hate relationship with it. The Dell laptop just runs, on and on and on an on.
Well, you are on to something here. I live and work in a German-language country. As a matter of fact, using the word "nazi" is simply not done here. People cringe if and when I literally translate "grammar Nazi" or "spelling Nazi" into German, even this long after the war. So I use "grammar taliban" or "spelling fundamentalist" instead. That has the strange property of making people smile uncontrollably. Va comprende, Charles...
just pulled the most recent english-language wikipedia dump, and made elasticsearch ( via the wikipedia river plugin ) run over it. 13.9 million entries now on a small server, answering times ~ couple-of-millisecond order. elasticsearch rocks !
...and there won't even be neither turkey nor booze, over here in Europe *g
Moore's law is not coming back from the grave, or is it ?
...the other white trash.
The biggest problem with the reactions upon my post is that most of them fail to see I meant it as a joke. When I first heard the "proof" ( from a catholic priest ) I almost fell off my chair with laughter. But jeez, are you guys one bunch of humorless dry-balls....
... that God does not exist. We all know God is almighty, and that he created the Universe. What is the summit of being almighty ? That is: being able to do anything in spite of the largest possible handicap. What is the largest possible handicap ? To not exist. God, now, is sheer actuality: no possibility in him remains unactualized. ( If it were not so, he would not be perfect, and we all know he is perfect. If he were not so, he would not be God, and our argument would be somewhat moot. ) Hence, the possibility of him not to exist does not remain a mere possibility: he actualizes it. Hence and therefore, he does not exist.
( Free after Thomas of Aquinas )
Indeed, now there is some guy to steer well clear of...
I was born in a monarchy. Although it was one of the symbolic ones, in Europe, when I became a republican later on in life ( disclaimer: no, european republicans are in no way related to their US namesakes, and quite often are rather leftist or left-leaning ), I remarked how opposed to true social progress monarchists can be. Beware !
... for having frequented them in France. The French Neo-Reactionaries are, quite often, staunch arch-catholics and rather vehement racists, who often glorify one form or another of fascism. They are a rancid bunch, IMHO.
There is no such fucking thing as a "standard operating system for the Raspberry Pi". That is fucking nonsense, as is all of TFA.
The picture credit with the article says "Teerawut Punsorn". Strange name. Is that Indian ? "Punsorn" is an anagram of "porn sun", BTW....
The US is being gently pushed ( nudged ) into a beginning of rrelevance. Has already been going on for a couple of years: computer technology, aerospace tech, politics. NSA scandal accelerated it. The sun is going down over US America.
See my answer above. I only meant doing business, not using US-sourced tech.
currencies don't and can't exist in a vacuum outside the framework of rule of law with zero transparency and accountability
Oh yes they can. Was the case for centuries and centuries during the Roman Republic. Any coin would be traded on the basis of the instantaneous value of its gold, silver or copper part. If you wished to pay in, say, Greek statera or Seleucid Antiochian gold coins, the city-state in Greece or the Seleucid empire had no say in and no overview over the transaction. It was a private deal between a private person ( you ) and some private merchant. Only the Roman emperors began to draw control over currency towards them, e.g. Diocletian managed to force a ( then much-needed ) devaluation of the Roman sestertius, something that would have been impossible under the Republic.
This is also a reply to all the other replies to my post. I only said that we are out of the LEGAL hassle. Of course we are being tapped and spied upon, just like anyone else. And of course we can use the C language, Unix, and so on. Of course we read and comment papers written by US-American scientists. We only don't do business with the USA anymore.
Try to update a hashtable AND scrape old entries in that same hashtable, at a rate of 100,000 / 5 minutes, on a phone. Just try.
Don't host anything in the USA. Don't use USA-based cloud services. Don't do business with USA companies. At my employer's, the national R & D institute of a smaller European country, we already don't anymore. Business keeps on going as usual. We live as if the USA would not exist. Can we be subject to surveillance, or eavesdropped upon ? Of course. But we are out of the legal hassle. As simple as that.