FWIW, the practical reason that pigs are neither kosher nor halal is trichinosis. Pigs are omnivores and get trichinosis from meat already infected with the worm. Camels are herbivores so are very unlikely to carry the trichinosis worm.
many spam use BCC so that you don't know what email address the spam was sent to...
It is always possible to figure out the delivery address by looking at the raw headers on the email message. The receiving system knows what the address is, else it could not deliver it to you in the first place, and they all record it somewhere, usually in one of the Received: lines.
You may feel you have too much to lose by taking action. But the least you can do is be entirely supportive of the people who do take action.
It seems like whenever someone does take action, everybody and his brother comes up with a reason to say that the guy who did take action didn't do it the "right" way. Fuck those guys. Nobody is perfect, people like Snowden, Assange, Manning, Drake, etc are all flawed human beings. But they did put their lives on the line for US. The least we can do is support them in that.
N.B. this isn't directed you personally, just a general statement to everyone who feels they can't take the risk themselves, at least you can speak out in support of the people who do take the risks.
> Within a couple of years, the US media will be using "activist" as a synonym for "terrorist".
I am hoping and praying that it gets revealed that the NSA was feeding the FBI information as part of the nationwide crackdown on Occupy protesters. It's bad enough the FBI was involved but if the NSA can be proven to have directly fucked with a political movement like that, then the all pretense of defending against terrorism will be gone.
If it becomes effective I can't imagine that Bob the liquor store thief will invest in a 3d printer, learn how to run one
Its like you didn't even read what I wrote. If 3D printers become as ubiquitous as laser printers have then it isn't a case of investing in one just to print guns.
Compare it to counterfeit money. Now that everybody and his brother has a printer, the rates of home-counterfeiting have skyrocketed because it is just so easy to click "print" and get a passable $5 bill.
I am loving this stuff - six-strikes and traffic snooping. It so obviously sucks that it is driving the market for VPNs to levels of hyper competition. And I lurve me a VPN because it mixes all my traffic with everybody else on the same egress node which is just great for "hiding in the crowd" while you browse the web without cookies (and other trackers).
Thanks to six-strikes I'm paying less than $4/month for VPN access that gets me my choice of exit nodes in about 10 different countries and 5 simultaneous VPN'd devices - great for stopping verizon, et al from sniffing my cellphone web-browsing too.
What keeps people from manufacturing firearms in their garages isn't the lack of means. It's that they don't have any reason to do so and/or they don't want to be arrested. Printed firearms won't change that equation.
What will change that equation is tighter gun control laws. Most people don't have reason to do it now is because gun access is easy, even a felon can buy a gun at a gun-show or on the street even if he's not legally permitted to own it.
If gun control gets effective then gun printing will become a lot more popular, especially if it gets to the point where 3D printers are as ubiquitous as laser printers have been for the last 10 years.
One important note about the H1B program that rarely gets any press is that while there is a legal requirement to hire qualified citizens before considering an H1B holder, there is zero money allocated to enforce that requirement.
It only gets enforced in cases like this where someone who was blatantly passed over in favor of an H1B holder who pushes on their own to see it enforced. To the best of my incomplete knowledge there has been a total of 1 enforcement actions by the DoJ regarding this sort of rule breaking during the entire ~2 decades of H1B visas.
on the planet where folks that have a key "grinder" tend to also be the folks that would obey said instruction
That happens to be the same planet where you can just put a little piece of tape over the DND message, maybe write something on the tape so it looks like a label, and then nobody is the wiser.
Or just go to a place like yelp to find locksmiths that don't care.
I like my plan, better: All Elected Officials serve two terms: the first in office, and the second in jail, based on what they did during the first. And no "country club prisons. . . "
That's pretty much what happens in pseudo-deomcracies that are still mostly controlled by the rule of man instead of the rule of law. For example, the phillippines and pakistan.
The reason being is when you have the words pedophile and Bitcoin in the same new story over and over again whether it's true or not it forms a subconscious association in the viewers mind. It's classical conditioning.
I've already met people who claimed bitcoin only exists to facilitate money laundering, that there are no other uses at all. They were rendered speechless when I pointed out that the EFF accepts donations denominated in bitcoins. Too bad being speechless meant they could not retract their claims either, the argument just came to a standstill.
The Better Business Bureau has a mechanism to take complaints and give the business a way to respond and resolve the issues.
The BBB is a scam, they just have really good marketing like DeBeers quality marketing.
The way it works is that dues-paying BBB members get to have their records wiped of any unresolved complaints after a certain period, usually about a year although it varies between BBB offices. Non-members do not get their records wiped under any circumstances. So when a disgruntled customer files a BBB complaint about a non-member business, the BBB uses that as a marketing tool to get that business to start paying dues.
The end result is that you can only trust BBB records of non-members, because they never get wiped, while a dues-paying BBB "member in good standing" may have hundreds of unresolved complaints that have simply expired. Occasionally a BBB office will "fire" a really egregious dues-paying member, but AFAIK there is no consistent set of rules across all BBB offices for when, if ever, that is required.
In order to be a valid contract, there has to be "consideration" on both sides.
What is the "consideration" given to the patient, in exchange for giving up copyright? Clearly it isn't dentistry, since that could be had elsewhere without the requirement of waiving copyright.
What? Of course it was the dentistry service. Why do you think consideration must be unique? If that were the case, then paying the dentist with money would not be consideration since just about everybody has money.
If the NSA cannot even accurately profile somebody they are about to give an award to and predict his response, what good are they?
Really? That is such bullshit. He wasn't being profiled in the first place, accurately or not. He was receiving an award for the work he did
Your argument assumes the NSA's goal is fascism, which if it were, we would have a lot more evidence of actual fascism - rather than just the potential for fascism.
If it were the feds, wouldn't it be easier to pay a thug to do a random carjacking? A home invasion gone wrong? Shot by SWAT in a drug raid at the wrong address?
I'm not going to speak to the larger question of how true the theory is, but to this question there is a good reason why not. If they can make it look like the crash was completely the driver's fault then that would eliminate any question of it being a government hit. All those other options involve third parties that, exactly as you postulated, could be hired to do the hit.
I am glad to live in a place (Central Europe) where there are seasons, and not the same thing all over the year.
As someone who spent the first 20 years of his life in an area without significant seasonal changes and the next 20 years in areas with major seasonal changes I can definitely say that seasons are vastly overrated.
Having near perfect weather every day is about the least horrible curse I can think of.
However where I live the distance between residences is about 0.5 mile, and if they create a mailbox cluster it would be about 3 miles away. Do you want to drive for 12 minutes to just get useless ads? If they go ahead with this method, I would be tempted to cancel mail service.
For a lot of years now I've used private mailboxes instead of USPS and it is great. It costs about the same as a mailbox at the post office but you get extra services like they automatically throw out obvious junk mail, they'll text you when you get a package (and sign for it and the put it in a locker which you can access 24/7 instead of having it left unattended on your doorstep). One place I've used will even open your mail, scan it and email a copy to you on a per-envelope basis. Plus, you get the benefit of not using your residential address everywhere which makes it much harder for anyone with a grudge to come knocking on your door.
On the other hand I found it extremely difficult to cancel USPS delivery to my street address. It got to the point where I just let the mailbox fill up with so much junk mail that the delivery guy couldn't stuff any more in.
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I've known both kinds, even in the same family. The kids would tattle on dad for ordering pepperoni pizza.
FWIW, the practical reason that pigs are neither kosher nor halal is trichinosis. Pigs are omnivores and get trichinosis from meat already infected with the worm. Camels are herbivores so are very unlikely to carry the trichinosis worm.
many spam use BCC so that you don't know what email address the spam was sent to...
It is always possible to figure out the delivery address by looking at the raw headers on the email message. The receiving system knows what the address is, else it could not deliver it to you in the first place, and they all record it somewhere, usually in one of the Received: lines.
> NSA letter. Where the hell have you been?
Actually it is an NSL although NSA Letter is a pretty apropos freudian slip.
> You first!
You may feel you have too much to lose by taking action. But the least you can do is be entirely supportive of the people who do take action.
It seems like whenever someone does take action, everybody and his brother comes up with a reason to say that the guy who did take action didn't do it the "right" way. Fuck those guys. Nobody is perfect, people like Snowden, Assange, Manning, Drake, etc are all flawed human beings. But they did put their lives on the line for US. The least we can do is support them in that.
N.B. this isn't directed you personally, just a general statement to everyone who feels they can't take the risk themselves, at least you can speak out in support of the people who do take the risks.
> Within a couple of years, the US media will be using "activist" as a synonym for "terrorist".
I am hoping and praying that it gets revealed that the NSA was feeding the FBI information as part of the nationwide crackdown on Occupy protesters. It's bad enough the FBI was involved but if the NSA can be proven to have directly fucked with a political movement like that, then the all pretense of defending against terrorism will be gone.
If it becomes effective I can't imagine that Bob the liquor store thief will invest in a 3d printer, learn how to run one
Its like you didn't even read what I wrote. If 3D printers become as ubiquitous as laser printers have then it isn't a case of investing in one just to print guns.
Compare it to counterfeit money. Now that everybody and his brother has a printer, the rates of home-counterfeiting have skyrocketed because it is just so easy to click "print" and get a passable $5 bill.
> Guns are really easy to make.
Not as easy as downloading a design and pressing "print."
The NSA is watching everybody. Not much I can do about them. What I can do is avoid ending up in a bazillion commercial databases like BlueKai.
I am loving this stuff - six-strikes and traffic snooping. It so obviously sucks that it is driving the market for VPNs to levels of hyper competition. And I lurve me a VPN because it mixes all my traffic with everybody else on the same egress node which is just great for "hiding in the crowd" while you browse the web without cookies (and other trackers).
Thanks to six-strikes I'm paying less than $4/month for VPN access that gets me my choice of exit nodes in about 10 different countries and 5 simultaneous VPN'd devices - great for stopping verizon, et al from sniffing my cellphone web-browsing too.
What keeps people from manufacturing firearms in their garages isn't the lack of means. It's that they don't have any reason to do so and/or they don't want to be arrested. Printed firearms won't change that equation.
What will change that equation is tighter gun control laws. Most people don't have reason to do it now is because gun access is easy, even a felon can buy a gun at a gun-show or on the street even if he's not legally permitted to own it.
If gun control gets effective then gun printing will become a lot more popular, especially if it gets to the point where 3D printers are as ubiquitous as laser printers have been for the last 10 years.
Those keywords mean they're postings to meet the legal obligation of advertising for a position before bringing someone in on a work visa.
Sometimes, they don't even post the jobs at all. Keeps those pesky citizens from applying and creating more makework.
One important note about the H1B program that rarely gets any press is that while there is a legal requirement to hire qualified citizens before considering an H1B holder, there is zero money allocated to enforce that requirement.
It only gets enforced in cases like this where someone who was blatantly passed over in favor of an H1B holder who pushes on their own to see it enforced. To the best of my incomplete knowledge there has been a total of 1 enforcement actions by the DoJ regarding this sort of rule breaking during the entire ~2 decades of H1B visas.
on the planet where folks that have a key "grinder" tend to also be the folks that would obey said instruction
That happens to be the same planet where you can just put a little piece of tape over the DND message, maybe write something on the tape so it looks like a label, and then nobody is the wiser.
Or just go to a place like yelp to find locksmiths that don't care.
And as we all knew would inevitably be the case, the DEA has been GETTING data from NSA intercepts and laundering it.
I like my plan, better: All Elected Officials serve two terms: the first in office, and the second in jail, based on what they did during the first. And no "country club prisons. . . "
That's pretty much what happens in pseudo-deomcracies that are still mostly controlled by the rule of man instead of the rule of law. For example, the phillippines and pakistan.
They just have to convince enough people that it ought to be illegal. Which was the OP's entire point.
The reason being is when you have the words pedophile and Bitcoin in the same new story over and over again whether it's true or not it forms a subconscious association in the viewers mind. It's classical conditioning.
I've already met people who claimed bitcoin only exists to facilitate money laundering, that there are no other uses at all. They were rendered speechless when I pointed out that the EFF accepts donations denominated in bitcoins. Too bad being speechless meant they could not retract their claims either, the argument just came to a standstill.
The Better Business Bureau has a mechanism to take complaints and give the business a way to respond and resolve the issues.
The BBB is a scam, they just have really good marketing like DeBeers quality marketing.
The way it works is that dues-paying BBB members get to have their records wiped of any unresolved complaints after a certain period, usually about a year although it varies between BBB offices. Non-members do not get their records wiped under any circumstances. So when a disgruntled customer files a BBB complaint about a non-member business, the BBB uses that as a marketing tool to get that business to start paying dues.
The end result is that you can only trust BBB records of non-members, because they never get wiped, while a dues-paying BBB "member in good standing" may have hundreds of unresolved complaints that have simply expired. Occasionally a BBB office will "fire" a really egregious dues-paying member, but AFAIK there is no consistent set of rules across all BBB offices for when, if ever, that is required.
In order to be a valid contract, there has to be "consideration" on both sides.
What is the "consideration" given to the patient, in exchange for giving up copyright? Clearly it isn't dentistry, since that could be had elsewhere without the requirement of waiving copyright.
What? Of course it was the dentistry service. Why do you think consideration must be unique? If that were the case, then paying the dentist with money would not be consideration since just about everybody has money.
If the NSA cannot even accurately profile somebody they are about to give an award to and predict his response, what good are they?
Really? That is such bullshit. He wasn't being profiled in the first place, accurately or not. He was receiving an award for the work he did
Your argument assumes the NSA's goal is fascism, which if it were, we would have a lot more evidence of actual fascism - rather than just the potential for fascism.
If it were the feds, wouldn't it be easier to pay a thug to do a random carjacking? A home invasion gone wrong? Shot by SWAT in a drug raid at the wrong address?
I'm not going to speak to the larger question of how true the theory is, but to this question there is a good reason why not. If they can make it look like the crash was completely the driver's fault then that would eliminate any question of it being a government hit. All those other options involve third parties that, exactly as you postulated, could be hired to do the hit.
I am glad to live in a place (Central Europe) where there are seasons, and not the same thing all over the year.
As someone who spent the first 20 years of his life in an area without significant seasonal changes and the next 20 years in areas with major seasonal changes I can definitely say that seasons are vastly overrated.
Having near perfect weather every day is about the least horrible curse I can think of.
However where I live the distance between residences is about 0.5 mile, and if they create a mailbox cluster it would be about 3 miles away. Do you want to drive for 12 minutes to just get useless ads? If they go ahead with this method, I would be tempted to cancel mail service.
For a lot of years now I've used private mailboxes instead of USPS and it is great. It costs about the same as a mailbox at the post office but you get extra services like they automatically throw out obvious junk mail, they'll text you when you get a package (and sign for it and the put it in a locker which you can access 24/7 instead of having it left unattended on your doorstep). One place I've used will even open your mail, scan it and email a copy to you on a per-envelope basis. Plus, you get the benefit of not using your residential address everywhere which makes it much harder for anyone with a grudge to come knocking on your door.
On the other hand I found it extremely difficult to cancel USPS delivery to my street address. It got to the point where I just let the mailbox fill up with so much junk mail that the delivery guy couldn't stuff any more in.
why defund the NSA, the NSA actually has a legimate mission
The ammendment is about defunding the part that spies on americans, not the entire organization. It is an achievable and reasonable goal.