Not very extreme anymore. I just noticed that with the safari extensions, it is just one click away from the safari extensions gallery from being useful and implemented.
I agree that the proper channels are the first thing to try, but beware that there is a massive barrier against speaking out. On the other hand, abuse of power is relatively easy, so you need a huge amount of opposite mass to get anything changed through the normal channels. Examples of this are people who try to report police misconduct through the proper channels, and are met with hostility and indifference at every level.
Whistleblowing, on the other hand, if done right, is a surefire way to get immediate attention to certain items. Sure, the chopper pilots have been cleared beforehand, but their behaviour certainly borders on the "gross neglect" or "carelessness" side. That this comes to light is not necessarily a bad thing and helps to reassert the nastiness of war to all world citizens. Sure, it sows hate, but it also sows validation. Afghans who for ages claimed these sort of attacks were happening now are validated and may feel that at least some justice is present.
This sort of thing would not be necessary if there was a true free press (as Assange notes). If these attacks were regularly shown on television, wikileaks would not get the impact they do now. Free press is necessary for a properly functioning democracy, and the fact that wikileaks can make such an impact is sign that this is not the case.
As for "leaking documents to the enemy", if they are truly worth their salt, they already have the majority of this information anyway, added to some of their own. If they did not have this information, what the hell are you worried about? They then obviously cannot organise well enough to pose any serious security threat.
War is brutal, never "surgical", and it is a good thing this is shown so that the barrier for entering another war increases. Please remember that the life of a US citizen is worth exactly the same as that of a citizen of any other country!
How would you know for sure that the proper channels are being used correctly without leaked documents? The only way to trust is to see someone doing what they told you they would do, not because they say "trust us".
Another vote for NFS here. It is truly shameful that after 60+ years of computing, there is still no interoperable file system around. Network storage is your solution there, although transfer speeds are seriously limiting then.
Ah, but you can say in a subsequent e-mail: "If your shirt was blue, the message is X, if your shirt was red, the message is Y", thereby encrypting information.
>> The country already is ruled by religious law to some extent: thou shall not kill and thou shall not steal. Murder and burglary are against the law.
That is not religious law, that is just common sense. Just because it is mentioned in the bible does not make it religious. Now if the law is _derived_ from the text in the bible, that is religious law.
>>Now, why is it that people like you feel like they should make authoritative statements about things they obviously know nothing about?
Because we have degrees and have to pretend we know much about a wide range of topics to please $boss. It gets to your head, you know... Additionally, regularly using medium-format cameras and film cameras makes one shake their head whenever sentences appear on packaging saying "This UV filter is specially designed for digital cameras". It sounds a little too much like snake oil.
As I understood, the digital sensor is a 6x4.5 sensor, which is a common medium format size. Sure, it isn't the 6x6 that the Hasselblad's were famous for, but it's still medium format. Also what do you mean with "[...] to an optical system that wasn't designed for digital image capture"? An optical system is just that: to guide the light. What sensor you use behind it, be it film or digital, places no additional requirements on the optics.
Phsjt. I use medium format for street, and Hasselblad's have become quite popular as street cameras too. For portraiture and model shoots it's the gold standard, don't be fooled by the hacks in ANTM.. What you're describing sounds more like large format cameras, mainly used (besides press camera models) for landscapes and shooting only several sheets of film.
MF film is not expensive, as you mentioned, and can even be obtained much cheaper online occasionally. developing can be done very cheaply by yourself, and the $500 Epson V700/V750 with a decent film holder will outdo many more expensive non-flatbed scanners (There are custom film-holders with glass available that'll prevent bending of the film in the standard holders. That said, I still can nicely image the grains on my 400 ASA films with this scanner without said film holder). And it can scan large format as well!
Regarding resolution, well, just shoot medium format in 6x7 or 6x9 cm, not the 6x4.5 cm, and you'll get a lot of pixels for free!
You are so not living up to your username, please change that (username or attitude, your choice). Did you ever even see the movie "Gandhi" or research him in any way?
Ok... Let's choose some wars not fought for morals: - War for oil: Iraq - War for revenge: Afghanistan - War for money/resources: Pick your local conflict in Africa
I even am under the impression that WWII was not fought for noble goals either by the "allies"..
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Not very extreme anymore. I just noticed that with the safari extensions, it is just one click away from the safari extensions gallery from being useful and implemented.
nope, not really, but you do need a polarisation filter in front of your lens to capture only one of the two images.
Hmm, you may have to pay that 10% then if you underreported by a factor of infinity.
I agree that the proper channels are the first thing to try, but beware that there is a massive barrier against speaking out. On the other hand, abuse of power is relatively easy, so you need a huge amount of opposite mass to get anything changed through the normal channels. Examples of this are people who try to report police misconduct through the proper channels, and are met with hostility and indifference at every level.
Whistleblowing, on the other hand, if done right, is a surefire way to get immediate attention to certain items. Sure, the chopper pilots have been cleared beforehand, but their behaviour certainly borders on the "gross neglect" or "carelessness" side. That this comes to light is not necessarily a bad thing and helps to reassert the nastiness of war to all world citizens. Sure, it sows hate, but it also sows validation. Afghans who for ages claimed these sort of attacks were happening now are validated and may feel that at least some justice is present.
This sort of thing would not be necessary if there was a true free press (as Assange notes). If these attacks were regularly shown on television, wikileaks would not get the impact they do now. Free press is necessary for a properly functioning democracy, and the fact that wikileaks can make such an impact is sign that this is not the case.
As for "leaking documents to the enemy", if they are truly worth their salt, they already have the majority of this information anyway, added to some of their own. If they did not have this information, what the hell are you worried about? They then obviously cannot organise well enough to pose any serious security threat.
War is brutal, never "surgical", and it is a good thing this is shown so that the barrier for entering another war increases. Please remember that the life of a US citizen is worth exactly the same as that of a citizen of any other country!
How would you know for sure that the proper channels are being used correctly without leaked documents? The only way to trust is to see someone doing what they told you they would do, not because they say "trust us".
... which is inherently one of the most inefficient things one could do..
7 proxies or 15 billion proxies would not help you a single bit if you still can be identified by your username, Rubber.
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"[...]" - Richard Feynmen
Woah, I did not know there were more than one?
I had no idea you could do that with tar. I will be looking into that for my next mass-transfer problem!
Another vote for NFS here. It is truly shameful that after 60+ years of computing, there is still no interoperable file system around. Network storage is your solution there, although transfer speeds are seriously limiting then.
Except that linux (in my experience) is only able to mount HFS+ read-only.
forgive me for being thick, but is this an "undelete" pun? Perhaps if you guess the first character correctly, you can get that free concert :).
The problem is not the freezing temperature, but the reflectivity of the surface of mercury in frozen state.
Except that it is an A8.
Ah, but you can say in a subsequent e-mail: "If your shirt was blue, the message is X, if your shirt was red, the message is Y", thereby encrypting information.
>> The country already is ruled by religious law to some extent: thou shall not kill and thou shall not steal. Murder and burglary are against the law.
That is not religious law, that is just common sense. Just because it is mentioned in the bible does not make it religious. Now if the law is _derived_ from the text in the bible, that is religious law.
Wasn't there a movie or sliders episode based on that?
>>Now, why is it that people like you feel like they should make authoritative statements about things they obviously know nothing about?
Because we have degrees and have to pretend we know much about a wide range of topics to please $boss. It gets to your head, you know... Additionally, regularly using medium-format cameras and film cameras makes one shake their head whenever sentences appear on packaging saying "This UV filter is specially designed for digital cameras". It sounds a little too much like snake oil.
As I understood, the digital sensor is a 6x4.5 sensor, which is a common medium format size. Sure, it isn't the 6x6 that the Hasselblad's were famous for, but it's still medium format. Also what do you mean with "[...] to an optical system that wasn't designed for digital image capture"? An optical system is just that: to guide the light. What sensor you use behind it, be it film or digital, places no additional requirements on the optics.
Phsjt. I use medium format for street, and Hasselblad's have become quite popular as street cameras too. For portraiture and model shoots it's the gold standard, don't be fooled by the hacks in ANTM..
What you're describing sounds more like large format cameras, mainly used (besides press camera models) for landscapes and shooting only several sheets of film.
MF film is not expensive, as you mentioned, and can even be obtained much cheaper online occasionally. developing can be done very cheaply by yourself, and the $500 Epson V700/V750 with a decent film holder will outdo many more expensive non-flatbed scanners (There are custom film-holders with glass available that'll prevent bending of the film in the standard holders. That said, I still can nicely image the grains on my 400 ASA films with this scanner without said film holder). And it can scan large format as well!
Regarding resolution, well, just shoot medium format in 6x7 or 6x9 cm, not the 6x4.5 cm, and you'll get a lot of pixels for free!
IMHO suing will very quickly get you nowhere. ...Whiney Adobe.
You are so not living up to your username, please change that (username or attitude, your choice). Did you ever even see the movie "Gandhi" or research him in any way?
mod parent into heaven.
Ok... Let's choose some wars not fought for morals:
- War for oil: Iraq
- War for revenge: Afghanistan
- War for money/resources: Pick your local conflict in Africa
I even am under the impression that WWII was not fought for noble goals either by the "allies"..