>At least the guy who did this has to be worried about a >large, well funded, high tech government using its > resources to track him down and capture him.
Based on that track record he has nothing to worry about. I would be more worried about the 100's of upset customers who will be shipped off to gitmo for 2 years while they determine what they are guilty of.:p
Also the fact that Saddam for example came into power within his lifetime, while Kim is a second generation nutjob and most of the population are drinking the koolaid at this stage.
Sanctions in such a case probably wouldn't work against NK as many believe already that NK is the best country in the world and it is only the Evil third world country the USA run by an evil dictator that is stopping the rest of the world from giving NK food.
with that mindset it is doubtful they would back down because of sanctions. If anything a cornered rat is more dangerous.
My story was rejected earlier but this apppears to be real story and this story is somewhat tied into it.
A lot of the more Famous YT'ers have been getting revenue for thier work from various places. One of those a vlogger called littleloca.
In a recent video littleloca was complaining that too many people where cheating and pushing her down off the popular pages (most viewed/most discussed/etc).
Another vlogger posted a video about how littleloca herself had cheated for some time and was still cheating. In fact she got money for cheating.
Now the proof video appeared in top rated videos and then suddenly disappeared. If you check the stats it should still be visible but isn't. A large number of similar "cheater!" videos also disappeared.
If you subscribe to the director of the accusation video and check the subscriptions you will see that the video has been flagged by YouTube in such a way that it never shows up in your subscriptions either unless you directly click on the directors name.
It appears that youtube are doing this to a large number of videos to hide any videos that may put YouTube in a bad light from appearing. But it is done in such a way that you would obviously notice it.
Basically, another form of clickfraud and poor way to hush it up. I am surprised google haven't done anything about it.
In regards to point 3 as I recall it the Patriot act was released was released to the senators at some silly time before it was to be ruled on making it almost impossible to read it.
I have a number of users subscriptions to shows I miss. Every week that person more of less disappears and thier vids disappear. So I have to go looking again.
Well some of the accounts now still show the shows but you won't find them via the search engine in youtube. For example I have just watched the last 3 daily shows on youtube this morning.
The only way I can see them being caught now is a) Someone reports them. b) they get moved up to the most viewed/subscriptions/rated. Although they can be disabled.
and that doesn't rule out privately shared videos.
> looking forward to this election shaking up the entire political establishment.
I guess you missed the law they changed a few months back that allowed free gerrymandering. Between that and diebold I can't see any serious shakeup happening.
> It's one of the least stealthy processes on the planet.
Actually it isn't. There are lots of ways pass laws without your senators knowing about it. Some examples.
1. Tack said law to as a rider to a bill that would get political suicide if you denied the bill.
2. Make the bill excessively long and boring or extremly hard to read (Torture bill amendment was a pain to read).
3. release the bill at stupid times to be ruled on so when least expected to get contested.
4. release 4 or 5 similar bills at different times with the same stuff.
These have been obvious tactics before. You are right though in that it takes more then one person to get the bill through, but with recent mess of suspension of haebus corpus you have to wonder wtf is going on with this administration.
Iraq was not a cakewalk. Saddam didn't put up any resistance whatsoever except for his PR person claiming Americans where spontaneously combusting. Your war didn't end with the "Mission Accomplished".
The insurgents where always there, the US is fighting mainly Iraqi people (many of whom used to be in the army). Granted there are some religous nutjobs and AQ to but to say that is the core group the US is fighting is laughable.
Also ask yourself if Saddams regime was so evil why did the US put most of the Saddams government back into the administration of the country for some time.
Lets not get started on Afghanistan. Conspiracies aside going into that country was just so the US felt better hitting something. I mean look at it now. US have put the Northern Alliance into power who have a worse track record then the Taliban, US didn't remove the taliban from the country and after the *mission accomplished* only the capital city of the country is anyway civil. The rest of the country is business as usual with musicians being killed, etc. Drugs exports from the country has balloned and the Northern Alliance where making $5K-$25K a head rounding up strangers/hobos off the street and handing them over to the Americans for a reward claiming they were Taliban.
actually he never really inferred that at all. Even without WMD Iraq is no cakewalk (as we see in present day).
The intel for WMD is allegely supposed to have come from Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi who was tortured after being reditioned. He later claimed he lied under torture.
> They also make up for their lack of understanding of your > problem when you call a customer support line outsourced > to India and it takes 14 hours on the phone to get your > issue solved.
This is more a problem with the company in question rather then Indians. For example I was taught by an Indian in India (via internet) for my SCJP1.4 exam (Whizlabs). The guy knew his stuff inside and out and was an exceptional teacher. By the same regards we have Indian SW engineers working with us in India and they are again exceptional at what they do. I would put their skills far above quite a few people who work local to us yet get a fraction of what people earn here.
Then you have the flipside of the coin like Dell where I ring up with an issue with a wireless keyboard (base station) and when I explain about plugging the base station in they tell me that I shouldn't have to because its wireless. 3 people and 30 minutes later and I end up with a person telling to ring a different company for a problem that originated with Dell as a solution to a brand new machine thats not working as expected.
Dell is generally the main example of poor indian tech support. I suspect they are buying from the bottom of the barrel when it comes support home users.
> Sales of cheesy 80s videos collections have skyrocketed thanks to YouTube,
Although I've watched more then I bought. I did buy "My Name is Kim Sam Soon" on DVD after watching a few episodes on YouTube.
TV stations are already starting to come around as well. I noticed a lot of the US TV stations now show thier tv shows on thier websites. For example I can watch Heroes+Jerico legally online for free.
I think the sooner the media groups embrace the model the better it will work out for everyone.
YouTube does take down copyright material but it has to be reported or they have to see it. Not sure why Daily show clips appear everywhere (probably too many posting them) but still is pulled.
Heroes and Lost for example got pulled the day after they were posted. WOW South park got pulled a few days after posting but only because a large majority of the WOW players were probably spamming. I have also seen comments like "Content removed as owner is MTV" and similar.
Likewise with google video. You can get (c) material there too but generally harder to find and that's only because more people use youtube.
I wouldn't class them as the same either as Youtube is used as a social system as well. You can talk about the videos, subscribe to favorites, users, keywords, channels.
1. Nothing will come of it. Based on Bushes last promises in relation to space and how much funding has been cut and given to Iraq.
2. If anything ever comes of it even money says that it goes to one of his "no-bid" friends whos money can be traced back to them. TBH I am surprised the administration hasn't been pulled up on profiteering.
As I mentioned elsewhere this is probably being done to just show off for the November elections. Problem is that space geeks have long memories.
"I mean FUCKING HELL. If any other president had said this most of you asshats would be having fucking orgasam on the spot."
He doesn't exactly have a track record of being honest.
But lets pull him up on the record. 2004 Says he will complete ISS by 2010 but cuts funding to it the year after. Says that Americans will walk on the moon by 2020 but again funding cut. Claimed that CEV would be active by 2008 yet Nasa are only receiving tenders this year.
Its nothing but smoke and mirrors for the November elections and to draw people away from how badly the econmy is doing and how much money is being pissed away to fund wars.
NK isn't coming over the border anytime soon. In order to send in troops they would have to send them via the sea or air. Both well patrolled. If they threw over a nuke for the heck of it they would guarantee that all gloves would be off in relation to SK, USA and Japan. China would end up not getting involved.
I just hope to god no one in the US government thinks the way you do.
First up NK have a pact with China. You nuke NK your looking at worst a return strike from China, at best serious economic reprocussions from China (and they have the power to fuck with your economy).
Secondly doing so would make you a pariah to the rest of the world. You think the world hates you now? Killing that many innocent people means you looking at a world of hurt from everyone who can hit back.
You would set the example for every nut job dictator to strike. Heck, unless you completly nuke NK you can't guarantee that NK won't hit back.
I believe when you log in you see the opposing team as the terrorists and yourself as an American solider. So clearly there are no terrorists playing this game? Or maybe everyone is?!
Actually they don't. I have been to China. All they asked from me for the visa was a photo and name and address and length of stay. I didn't even get a visa stamp in my passport.
Did you know that the Christian right got Bush to sign into law that actually restricts child welfare from protecting the rights of the child. I'm not making this up.
I recommend you watch the documentry "God's next Army" (Engish/Channel 4). After watching it research the people+groups discussed in it and see for links to the current Bush administration.
Sounds like script kiddies to me. If they where anyway serious black hats they would of STFU and not said anything to anyone. Instead its the usual gloating and bragging that is akin to the script kiddie.
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>At least the guy who did this has to be worried about a
:p
>large, well funded, high tech government using its
> resources to track him down and capture him.
Based on that track record he has nothing to worry about. I would be more worried about the 100's of upset customers who will be shipped off to gitmo for 2 years while they determine what they are guilty of.
Also the fact that Saddam for example came into power within his lifetime, while Kim is a second generation nutjob and most of the population are drinking the koolaid at this stage.
Sanctions in such a case probably wouldn't work against NK as many believe already that NK is the best country in the world and it is only the Evil third world country the USA run by an evil dictator that is stopping the rest of the world from giving NK food.
with that mindset it is doubtful they would back down because of sanctions. If anything a cornered rat is more dangerous.
My story was rejected earlier but this apppears to be real story and this story is somewhat tied into it.
A lot of the more Famous YT'ers have been getting revenue for thier work from various places. One of those a vlogger called littleloca.
In a recent video littleloca was complaining that too many people where cheating and pushing her down off the popular pages (most viewed/most discussed/etc).
Another vlogger posted a video about how littleloca herself had cheated for some time and was still cheating. In fact she got money for cheating.
Now the proof video appeared in top rated videos and then suddenly disappeared. If you check the stats it should still be visible but isn't. A large number of similar "cheater!" videos also disappeared.
If you subscribe to the director of the accusation video and check the subscriptions you will see that the video has been flagged by YouTube in such a way that it never shows up in your subscriptions either unless you directly click on the directors name.
It appears that youtube are doing this to a large number of videos to hide any videos that may put YouTube in a bad light from appearing. But it is done in such a way that you would obviously notice it.
Basically, another form of clickfraud and poor way to hush it up. I am surprised google haven't done anything about it.
Funny.. Actually that is more of less the story told in China.
I think the difference is that PSYOPS is not allowed do work within domestic areas.
Although I vaguely recall Rumsfeld reversing that or saying that there was no way they could 100% stop Americans from drinking the PSYOP koolaid.
In regards to point 3 as I recall it the Patriot act was released was released to the senators at some silly time before it was to be ruled on making it almost impossible to read it.
I have a number of users subscriptions to shows I miss. Every week that person more of less disappears and thier vids disappear. So I have to go looking again.
Well some of the accounts now still show the shows but you won't find them via the search engine in youtube. For example I have just watched the last 3 daily shows on youtube this morning.
The only way I can see them being caught now is
a) Someone reports them.
b) they get moved up to the most viewed/subscriptions/rated. Although they can be disabled.
and that doesn't rule out privately shared videos.
> looking forward to this election shaking up the entire political establishment.
I guess you missed the law they changed a few months back that allowed free gerrymandering. Between that and diebold I can't see any serious shakeup happening.
> It's one of the least stealthy processes on the planet.
Actually it isn't. There are lots of ways pass laws without your senators knowing about it. Some examples.
1. Tack said law to as a rider to a bill that would get political suicide if you denied the bill.
2. Make the bill excessively long and boring or extremly hard to read (Torture bill amendment was a pain to read).
3. release the bill at stupid times to be ruled on so when least expected to get contested.
4. release 4 or 5 similar bills at different times with the same stuff.
These have been obvious tactics before. You are right though in that it takes more then one person to get the bill through, but with recent mess of suspension of haebus corpus you have to wonder wtf is going on with this administration.
Iraq was not a cakewalk. Saddam didn't put up any resistance whatsoever except for his PR person claiming Americans where spontaneously combusting. Your war didn't end with the "Mission Accomplished".
The insurgents where always there, the US is fighting mainly Iraqi people (many of whom used to be in the army). Granted there are some religous nutjobs and AQ to but to say that is the core group the US is fighting is laughable.
Also ask yourself if Saddams regime was so evil why did the US put most of the Saddams government back into the administration of the country for some time.
Lets not get started on Afghanistan. Conspiracies aside going into that country was just so the US felt better hitting something. I mean look at it now. US have put the Northern Alliance into power who have a worse track record then the Taliban, US didn't remove the taliban from the country and after the *mission accomplished* only the capital city of the country is anyway civil. The rest of the country is business as usual with musicians being killed, etc. Drugs exports from the country has balloned and the Northern Alliance where making $5K-$25K a head rounding up strangers/hobos off the street and handing them over to the Americans for a reward claiming they were Taliban.
actually he never really inferred that at all. Even without WMD Iraq is no cakewalk (as we see in present day).
The intel for WMD is allegely supposed to have come from Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi who was tortured after being reditioned. He later claimed he lied under torture.
> They also make up for their lack of understanding of your
> problem when you call a customer support line outsourced
> to India and it takes 14 hours on the phone to get your
> issue solved.
This is more a problem with the company in question rather then Indians. For example I was taught by an Indian in India (via internet) for my SCJP1.4 exam (Whizlabs). The guy knew his stuff inside and out and was an exceptional teacher. By the same regards we have Indian SW engineers working with us in India and they are again exceptional at what they do. I would put their skills far above quite a few people who work local to us yet get a fraction of what people earn here.
Then you have the flipside of the coin like Dell where I ring up with an issue with a wireless keyboard (base station) and when I explain about plugging the base station in they tell me that I shouldn't have to because its wireless. 3 people and 30 minutes later and I end up with a person telling to ring a different company for a problem that originated with Dell as a solution to a brand new machine thats not working as expected.
Dell is generally the main example of poor indian tech support. I suspect they are buying from the bottom of the barrel when it comes support home users.
Why throw the junk mail away when you can do this instead.
u nk_the_junk
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=j
> Sales of cheesy 80s videos collections have skyrocketed thanks to YouTube,
Although I've watched more then I bought. I did buy "My Name is Kim Sam Soon" on DVD after watching a few episodes on YouTube.
TV stations are already starting to come around as well. I noticed a lot of the US TV stations now show thier tv shows on thier websites. For example I can watch Heroes+Jerico legally online for free.
I think the sooner the media groups embrace the model the better it will work out for everyone.
YouTube does take down copyright material but it has to be reported or they have to see it. Not sure why Daily show clips appear everywhere (probably too many posting them) but still is pulled.
Heroes and Lost for example got pulled the day after they were posted. WOW South park got pulled a few days after posting but only because a large majority of the WOW players were probably spamming. I have also seen comments like "Content removed as owner is MTV" and similar.
Likewise with google video. You can get (c) material there too but generally harder to find and that's only because more people use youtube.
I wouldn't class them as the same either as Youtube is used as a social system as well. You can talk about the videos, subscribe to favorites, users, keywords, channels.
If you report the content it gets nuked. So the issue isn't that they aren't stopping it but the community itself is not stopping it.
Here is what I think.
1. Nothing will come of it. Based on Bushes last promises in relation to space and how much funding has been cut and given to Iraq.
2. If anything ever comes of it even money says that it goes to one of his "no-bid" friends whos money can be traced back to them. TBH I am surprised the administration hasn't been pulled up on profiteering.
As I mentioned elsewhere this is probably being done to just show off for the November elections. Problem is that space geeks have long memories.
"I mean FUCKING HELL. If any other president had said this most of you asshats would be having fucking orgasam on the spot."
He doesn't exactly have a track record of being honest.
But lets pull him up on the record.
2004
Says he will complete ISS by 2010 but cuts funding to it the year after.
Says that Americans will walk on the moon by 2020 but again funding cut.
Claimed that CEV would be active by 2008 yet Nasa are only receiving tenders this year.
Its nothing but smoke and mirrors for the November elections and to draw people away from how badly the econmy is doing and how much money is being pissed away to fund wars.
NK isn't coming over the border anytime soon. In order to send in troops they would have to send them via the sea or air. Both well patrolled. If they threw over a nuke for the heck of it they would guarantee that all gloves would be off in relation to SK, USA and Japan. China would end up not getting involved.
I just hope to god no one in the US government thinks the way you do.
First up NK have a pact with China. You nuke NK your looking at worst a return strike from China, at best serious economic reprocussions from China (and they have the power to fuck with your economy).
Secondly doing so would make you a pariah to the rest of the world. You think the world hates you now? Killing that many innocent people means you looking at a world of hurt from everyone who can hit back.
You would set the example for every nut job dictator to strike. Heck, unless you completly nuke NK you can't guarantee that NK won't hit back.
Exactly.. here is a nice video to put the whole thing in perspective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcBV-cXVWFw
I believe when you log in you see the opposing team as the terrorists and yourself as an American solider. So clearly there are no terrorists playing this game? Or maybe everyone is?!
> Or China. See, they claim the same thing.
Actually they don't. I have been to China. All they asked from me for the visa was a photo and name and address and length of stay. I didn't even get a visa stamp in my passport.
Did you know that the Christian right got Bush to sign into law that actually restricts child welfare from protecting the rights of the child. I'm not making this up.
I recommend you watch the documentry "God's next Army" (Engish/Channel 4). After watching it research the people+groups discussed in it and see for links to the current Bush administration.
You'll see the money then.
Sounds like script kiddies to me. If they where anyway serious black hats they would of STFU and not said anything to anyone. Instead its the usual gloating and bragging that is akin to the script kiddie.