Who do you think hit the Ukrainian power network the other week? Who do you think regularly attacks Ukrainian government web sites? Who do you think allows the army of Russian trolls located in St. Petersburg to remain active to spew their nonsense?
If anyone is surprised the Russians don't respond to close down hackers emanating from within their borders, they've been living under a rock for the last decade. This is what Russia is now known for, other than collapsing economy and a ruble not far behind. They have nothing else and the only way to take their minds off the problems Heir Putin has created is to blame someone, anyone, for their self-inflicted problems.
After all, they need to do something to cover up the roughly 2,000 dead Russian soldiers who have died invading Ukraine, the money they're losing as Putin tries to prop up the dictator Assad, not to mention the terrorists in East Ukraine who have literally destroyed everything they touch. As Russia begins to run out of money towards the end of this year, be prepared for an even bigger onslaught of trolls as their desperation becomes frenetic.
The same for the Bible since there are many different versions, not to mention the Old and New Testaments or the many books the Vatican refuses to acknowledge as part of its history, such as the Gospel of Mary.
If one could get into the underground Vatican library and root around for one day, the amount of contradictory material and hidden treasures of Catholic doctrine being butchered would be very enlightening.
I know someone who's sister does translations of old Latin and has been to the library. According to her, if you don't know the exact title of the book or manuscript you are looking for, the librarians play dumb.
If you do give them the correct name, they get it for you. You are not allowed to go to the shelf/drawer/whatever to get it, presumably so you can't see what else they have hidden.
Shooting him would be much more efficient and certainly less expensive than shipping him home. With the deficit being what it is, every dime saved is a good thing.
Isn't that where someone is already going to a specific destination and you ask if you can come along, giving them a small amount to cover the cost of gas?
Or is the new fantasy version where you actively contact someone to take you a specific location that person would otherwise not have been going to, sending up a situation where you are required to pay them for their time and effort and they are required to include this money as income on their taxes since they are operating a business?
I keep trying to respond to your inquiry but the crappy Linux system running the show claims I'm not logged in.
In short, you dared speak evil about Linux and since this is a Linux-based site, anything factual about the many failings of Linux is not want the fanboys will tolerate.
They only want to hear how great it is to endlessly fiddle with config files so their bog standard sound card will work, or how many hours you had to spend tweaking your system so your cursor will go into the text box by hitting Tab.
Public housing is strait up corporate welfare. Its asking you and I to cover the cost of housing a labor force for the 1%ers
So public housing is like Obamneycare which is corporate welfare since people are forced to hand over their money to a private company whether they want to or not. Got it.
Though I do agree with your assessment of forced liquidation. I said the same thing about J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, et al. Instead of them being given $700 billion of taxpayer money to pay out their bonuses, they should have been left to fail, the pieces then picked up by the survivors, which is how a capitalist/free market society should operate.
Instead, the taxpayer has been subsidizing them while being told, "Fuck you" any time the mention of them saying "Thank You" for us protecting them from their own incompetence is brought up.
So you want a technological solution to solve a human-induced problem created by technology?
I guess using the 2 pounds of gray matter rattling around in one's skull is too obvious a solution.
Screw technology, let people maim or kill themselves. If they're too stupid to be aware of their surroundings, nature will take its course.
This is no different than our ancestors from tens of thousands of years ago who didn't keep an eye out for dangers around them. They were removed from the gene pool.
Faced with a shrinking budget and poor economic conditions, . ..
This can't be right. Every Russian troll everywhere will tell you there is nothing wrong in Russia. The sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and theft of Crimea are having no effect. Everything is fine.
Yet these same trolls can't explain why their banks keep failing, why their biggest quasi-bank, VEB, needs $13 billion to keep itself afloat, why every other week another article comes out, such as this one, saying more and more programs are getting cut or eliminated, why pensioners are having their money allowance reduced, or why, based on current projections, Russia will run out of money before the end of 2016.
Corrupt fascist oligarchs such as Putin will tend to have this effect on a country, especially when the mothers of the Russian soldiers killed invading Ukraine are not allowed to talk about their son's deaths because deaths of soldiers during "peace time" are state secrets.
The longer Russia keeps invading and attacking its neighbors, the more it keeps trying to bully its neighbors, the longer sanctions will stay. The trolls can whine all they want about the sanctions not having any effect, but the louder they squeal the more one knows they're hurting.
There's a reason former Soviet bloc countries have embraced the freedoms of the West rather than the repression of Soviet Russia. They know all too well the indignities and injustice served upon them by Russia. Witness the deportations of Tartars from Crimea, the daily raids on Tartar homes to see if there is any "subversive" material, the refusal by the Russians to allow Tartars to speak their own language or have their own schools.
Russia will suffer until it either dies or changes. Unfortunately the Russian people are too stupid to make change happen.
of private industry doing it better than government. Sitting around for two years doing nothing and still getting paid. What a job.
Sounds a lot like insurance companies. Force people to pay up but never do the thing you've been paid to do. The greatest scam on Earth, next to religion.
Don't worry Seattle taxpayers, this private company will use as much of your tax dollars as it takes to get the job done.
Which is precisely why Iran getting nuclear weapons would be a good thing. It would deter Israel from its constant aggression and would bring some semblance of stability to the Middle East since neither would want to do anything stupid to tick the other off.
So then I was correct in what I said. You driving around in an insecure car endangers the rest of us. The same thing with not having a more secure lock on your business which drives up my insurance costs.
Why is it a bad thing to force upgrades in the name of security here?
The six year old car you are driving is not as secure as a car produced this year. You are required to upgrade.
The lock on your door is not as secure as today's locks. In the interest of security to your business you must change all locks on your premises.
Yes, these involve physical items and cost, but the concept is the same. What business is it of Microsoft, or Alphabet (Google), or Mozilla if someone is using an insecure piece of software? It's not their system.
Whatever happened to letting people decide how they manage their systems? Are we again dragging out the canard that developers or companies know more than the user considering every iteration of all three products don't simply fix bugs but break things, including the UI, or remove features people used.
In my opinion, if an organisation is taking action to prevent you from speaking freely then it's a freedom of speech issue.
Your opinion is wrong. The Constitution, where the whole freedom of speech comes from, is only talking about the government's ability to censor speech.
The Constitution is silent when it comes to companies or organizations who are free to impose almost any rule regarding speech they want.
I don't run my tank dry. At around half a tank I fill up though I do occasionally run it lower. I check my mileage each time and for a combination of city and local driving I can get between 30 -34 mpg (manufacturer says 29 in city driving).
On the highway, in steady traffic at 70 mph I can get at or very close to 40 mpg which is what the manufacturer says I should get.
I used 38 mpg for my 3,500 mile trip because I had extra weight and I was doing 75 at times when in Kansas which cut down on my mileage.
You can't do the 4-5 hour non-stop run you can do in a ICE car.
You can't? Funny, if I really wanted to I could go close to 500 miles in my car (2010 Hyundai). 14 gallon tank @ 38/mpg = 532 miles.
That's driving at a steady 70 mph the whole time.
I recently drove 3,500 miles round trip and while I could have gone longer in between fuel stops, I chose to fill up at around a half tank. In each case I was well over 200 miles and it only took me 5 minutes total to top off.
That's why I said at least. I'm being very conservative. Obviously in places such as New York, LA, San Francisco or Chicago people will waste significantly more money on insurance, but that is balanced against people who will waste significantly less in other parts of the country.
For instance, my car insurance is less than $500/year. Over 40 years that's only $20K I'm wasting and that isn't the entire time I would be driving.
Insurance is the biggest scam perpetrated against humanity since religion. It's nothing but a scare tactic to make one believe they need to throw their money away or something bad will happen.
On average, most people in the U.S. will lose, over their lifetime, at least $250K to insurance. That's money which will never be recovered or used for more worthwhile endeavors such as food, clothing or housing. It's gone. Forever. And you gained no benefit for it.
Good grief. Trying to get anything done is SAP is already a nightmare. Now they're going to give their convoluted instructions to people who will, sorry for the wording, mindlessly follow them to the bitter end and claim everything is okay?
I used to joke that for being a German company, SAP didn't make very efficient software. I can only imagine how much worse it will now become.
put enough shots in the air and one of them is going to hit.
Except if you're a storm trooper. Then, no matter how many of your troops are firing, not a single one will hit one person standing at the base of the loading ramp beneath the Millennium Falcon
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Who do you think hit the Ukrainian power network the other week? Who do you think regularly attacks Ukrainian government web sites? Who do you think allows the army of Russian trolls located in St. Petersburg to remain active to spew their nonsense?
If anyone is surprised the Russians don't respond to close down hackers emanating from within their borders, they've been living under a rock for the last decade. This is what Russia is now known for, other than collapsing economy and a ruble not far behind. They have nothing else and the only way to take their minds off the problems Heir Putin has created is to blame someone, anyone, for their self-inflicted problems.
After all, they need to do something to cover up the roughly 2,000 dead Russian soldiers who have died invading Ukraine, the money they're losing as Putin tries to prop up the dictator Assad, not to mention the terrorists in East Ukraine who have literally destroyed everything they touch. As Russia begins to run out of money towards the end of this year, be prepared for an even bigger onslaught of trolls as their desperation becomes frenetic.
The same for the Bible since there are many different versions, not to mention the Old and New Testaments or the many books the Vatican refuses to acknowledge as part of its history, such as the Gospel of Mary.
If one could get into the underground Vatican library and root around for one day, the amount of contradictory material and hidden treasures of Catholic doctrine being butchered would be very enlightening.
I know someone who's sister does translations of old Latin and has been to the library. According to her, if you don't know the exact title of the book or manuscript you are looking for, the librarians play dumb.
If you do give them the correct name, they get it for you. You are not allowed to go to the shelf/drawer/whatever to get it, presumably so you can't see what else they have hidden.
How about just being deported?
Shooting him would be much more efficient and certainly less expensive than shipping him home. With the deficit being what it is, every dime saved is a good thing.
Isn't that where someone is already going to a specific destination and you ask if you can come along, giving them a small amount to cover the cost of gas?
Or is the new fantasy version where you actively contact someone to take you a specific location that person would otherwise not have been going to, sending up a situation where you are required to pay them for their time and effort and they are required to include this money as income on their taxes since they are operating a business?
I keep trying to respond to your inquiry but the crappy Linux system running the show claims I'm not logged in.
In short, you dared speak evil about Linux and since this is a Linux-based site, anything factual about the many failings of Linux is not want the fanboys will tolerate.
They only want to hear how great it is to endlessly fiddle with config files so their bog standard sound card will work, or how many hours you had to spend tweaking your system so your cursor will go into the text box by hitting Tab.
Public housing is strait up corporate welfare. Its asking you and I to cover the cost of housing a labor force for the 1%ers
So public housing is like Obamneycare which is corporate welfare since people are forced to hand over their money to a private company whether they want to or not. Got it.
Though I do agree with your assessment of forced liquidation. I said the same thing about J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, et al. Instead of them being given $700 billion of taxpayer money to pay out their bonuses, they should have been left to fail, the pieces then picked up by the survivors, which is how a capitalist/free market society should operate.
Instead, the taxpayer has been subsidizing them while being told, "Fuck you" any time the mention of them saying "Thank You" for us protecting them from their own incompetence is brought up.
So you want a technological solution to solve a human-induced problem created by technology?
I guess using the 2 pounds of gray matter rattling around in one's skull is too obvious a solution.
Screw technology, let people maim or kill themselves. If they're too stupid to be aware of their surroundings, nature will take its course.
This is no different than our ancestors from tens of thousands of years ago who didn't keep an eye out for dangers around them. They were removed from the gene pool.
Faced with a shrinking budget and poor economic conditions, . . .
This can't be right. Every Russian troll everywhere will tell you there is nothing wrong in Russia. The sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and theft of Crimea are having no effect. Everything is fine.
Yet these same trolls can't explain why their banks keep failing, why their biggest quasi-bank, VEB, needs $13 billion to keep itself afloat, why every other week another article comes out, such as this one, saying more and more programs are getting cut or eliminated, why pensioners are having their money allowance reduced, or why, based on current projections, Russia will run out of money before the end of 2016.
Corrupt fascist oligarchs such as Putin will tend to have this effect on a country, especially when the mothers of the Russian soldiers killed invading Ukraine are not allowed to talk about their son's deaths because deaths of soldiers during "peace time" are state secrets.
The longer Russia keeps invading and attacking its neighbors, the more it keeps trying to bully its neighbors, the longer sanctions will stay. The trolls can whine all they want about the sanctions not having any effect, but the louder they squeal the more one knows they're hurting.
There's a reason former Soviet bloc countries have embraced the freedoms of the West rather than the repression of Soviet Russia. They know all too well the indignities and injustice served upon them by Russia. Witness the deportations of Tartars from Crimea, the daily raids on Tartar homes to see if there is any "subversive" material, the refusal by the Russians to allow Tartars to speak their own language or have their own schools.
Russia will suffer until it either dies or changes. Unfortunately the Russian people are too stupid to make change happen.
of private industry doing it better than government. Sitting around for two years doing nothing and still getting paid. What a job.
Sounds a lot like insurance companies. Force people to pay up but never do the thing you've been paid to do. The greatest scam on Earth, next to religion.
Don't worry Seattle taxpayers, this private company will use as much of your tax dollars as it takes to get the job done.
The 9th Amendment to the Constitution covers privacy. No need to invoke the Declaration since it has no legal standing.
Which is precisely why Iran getting nuclear weapons would be a good thing. It would deter Israel from its constant aggression and would bring some semblance of stability to the Middle East since neither would want to do anything stupid to tick the other off.
So then I was correct in what I said. You driving around in an insecure car endangers the rest of us. The same thing with not having a more secure lock on your business which drives up my insurance costs.
Thanks a lot you infected cur.
Why is it a bad thing to force upgrades in the name of security here?
The six year old car you are driving is not as secure as a car produced this year. You are required to upgrade.
The lock on your door is not as secure as today's locks. In the interest of security to your business you must change all locks on your premises.
Yes, these involve physical items and cost, but the concept is the same. What business is it of Microsoft, or Alphabet (Google), or Mozilla if someone is using an insecure piece of software? It's not their system.
Whatever happened to letting people decide how they manage their systems? Are we again dragging out the canard that developers or companies know more than the user considering every iteration of all three products don't simply fix bugs but break things, including the UI, or remove features people used.
So is stealing someone else's goods but I don't hear you whining about that.
And with Republicans you have to nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
What are you whining about? This is just another example of private industry doing it better than the government.
In my opinion, if an organisation is taking action to prevent you from speaking freely then it's a freedom of speech issue.
Your opinion is wrong. The Constitution, where the whole freedom of speech comes from, is only talking about the government's ability to censor speech.
The Constitution is silent when it comes to companies or organizations who are free to impose almost any rule regarding speech they want.
I'm sure the other taxi services in Seattle are unionized, there is no reason for the Uber taxi service not to have the same.
And this is why I don't contribute organizations which help people. They're not worth the effort.
I don't run my tank dry. At around half a tank I fill up though I do occasionally run it lower. I check my mileage each time and for a combination of city and local driving I can get between 30 -34 mpg (manufacturer says 29 in city driving).
On the highway, in steady traffic at 70 mph I can get at or very close to 40 mpg which is what the manufacturer says I should get.
I used 38 mpg for my 3,500 mile trip because I had extra weight and I was doing 75 at times when in Kansas which cut down on my mileage.
You can't do the 4-5 hour non-stop run you can do in a ICE car.
You can't? Funny, if I really wanted to I could go close to 500 miles in my car (2010 Hyundai). 14 gallon tank @ 38/mpg = 532 miles.
That's driving at a steady 70 mph the whole time.
I recently drove 3,500 miles round trip and while I could have gone longer in between fuel stops, I chose to fill up at around a half tank. In each case I was well over 200 miles and it only took me 5 minutes total to top off.
That's why I said at least. I'm being very conservative. Obviously in places such as New York, LA, San Francisco or Chicago people will waste significantly more money on insurance, but that is balanced against people who will waste significantly less in other parts of the country.
For instance, my car insurance is less than $500/year. Over 40 years that's only $20K I'm wasting and that isn't the entire time I would be driving.
Insurance is the biggest scam perpetrated against humanity since religion. It's nothing but a scare tactic to make one believe they need to throw their money away or something bad will happen.
On average, most people in the U.S. will lose, over their lifetime, at least $250K to insurance. That's money which will never be recovered or used for more worthwhile endeavors such as food, clothing or housing. It's gone. Forever. And you gained no benefit for it.
What a scam.
Good grief. Trying to get anything done is SAP is already a nightmare. Now they're going to give their convoluted instructions to people who will, sorry for the wording, mindlessly follow them to the bitter end and claim everything is okay?
I used to joke that for being a German company, SAP didn't make very efficient software. I can only imagine how much worse it will now become.
put enough shots in the air and one of them is going to hit.
Except if you're a storm trooper. Then, no matter how many of your troops are firing, not a single one will hit one person standing at the base of the loading ramp beneath the Millennium Falcon