Actually I bet the NSA has people working at companies like Intel and Microsoft who get briefed on things like the ME and have some input into how they work.
That post is December 2013. The truth is that I am not using uMatrix anymore, I use uBO in medium mode. With 3rd-party cookies and all plugins blocked by default in browser, this is really what works for me.
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. â" Speech in New York, urging ratification of the U.S. Constitution (1788-06-21)
I'm not even American, and even I know that.
You vote for a President and the President appoints people like Pai. Now, admittedly you can make a case that appointing bureaucrats who can then make rules on the fly is something that people like Hamilton may well have had some issues with. However he definitely wasn't a fan of direct democracy, Classical Athens style.
Funny thing is when AT&T was a monopoly and regulated under common carrier status I remember everyone complaining they were too slow in deploying DSL. Because it turns out a regulated monopoly has no incentive to deploy new technology.
Meanwhile in the UK BT have a monopoly on lines but local loop unbundling means you have multiple choices of DSL provider. And in the UK you don't local government imposed monopolies on cable and fibre.
Which is the real regulatory problem. Of course Pai won't do anything about those. As Louis Rossmann pointed out, if you're going to get rid of NN regulation you should also do something to make it easier for people to set up competing ISPs
Yeah, it reminds of turning on turning on debug printfs in some crippled customer embedded system because the JTAG doesn't work and seeing it's all fubar because the locking also doesn't work.
Lucas wants the Empire to stand for evil, so he tells us that the Emperor and Darth Vader have gone over to the Dark Side and dresses them in black.
But look closer. When Palpatine is still a senator, he says, "The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good." At one point he laments that "the bureaucrats are in charge now."
Palpatine believes that the political order must be manipulated to produce peace and stability. When he mutters, "There is no civility, there is only politics," we see that at heart, he's an esoteric Straussian.
Make no mistake, as emperor, Palpatine is a dictator--but a relatively benign one, like Pinochet. It's a dictatorship people can do business with. They collect taxes and patrol the skies. They try to stop organized crime (in the form of the smuggling rings run by the Hutts). The Empire has virtually no effect on the daily life of the average, law-abiding citizen.
Also, unlike the divine-right Jedi, the Empire is a meritocracy. The Empire runs academies throughout the galaxy (Han Solo begins his career at an Imperial academy), and those who show promise are promoted, often rapidly. In The Empire Strikes Back Captain Piett is quickly promoted to admiral when his predecessor falls down on the job.
And while it's a small point, the Empire's manners and decorum speak well of it. When Darth Vader is forced to employ bounty hunters to track down Han Solo, he refuses to address them by name. Even Boba Fett, the greatest of all trackers, is referred to icily as "bounty hunter." And yet Fett understands the protocol. When he captures Solo, he calls him "Captain Solo." (Whether this is in deference to Han's former rank in the Imperial starfleet, or simply because Han owns and pilots his own ship, we don't know. I suspect it's the former.)
But the most compelling evidence that the Empire isn't evil comes in The Empire Strikes Back when Darth Vader is battling Luke Skywalker. After an exhausting fight, Vader is poised to finish Luke off, but he stays his hand. He tries to convert Luke to the Dark Side with this simple plea: "There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. . . . Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy." It is here we find the real controlling impulse for the Dark Side and the Empire. The Empire doesn't want slaves or destruction or "evil." It wants order.
None of which is to say that the Empire isn't sometimes brutal. In Episode IV, Imperial stormtroopers kill Luke's aunt and uncle and Grand Moff Tarkin orders the destruction of an entire planet, Alderaan. But viewed in context, these acts are less brutal than they initially appear. Poor Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen reach a grisly end, but only after they aid the rebellion by hiding Luke and harboring two fugitive droids. They aren't given due process, but they are traitors.
The destruction of Alderaan is often cited as ipso facto proof of the Empire's "evilness" because it seems like mass murder--planeticide, even. As Tarkin prepares to fire the Death Star, Princess Leia implores him to spare the planet, saying, "Alderaan is peaceful. We have no weapons." Her plea is important, if true.
But the audience has no reason to believe that Leia is telling the truth. In Episode IV, every bit of information she gives the Empire is willfully untrue. In the opening, she tells Darth Vader that she is on a diplomatic mission of mercy, when in fact she is on a spy mission, trying to deliver schematics of the Death Star to the Rebel Alliance. When asked where the Alliance is headquartered, she lies again.
Leia's lies are perfectly defensible--she thinks she's serving the greater good--but they make her wholly unreliable on the question of whether or not Alderaan really is
You have to wonder if it actually trended or whether Google is doing some slacktivism by telling people it trended to try to get them out holding in the cold "TRUMP IS LITERALLY HITLER!1" signs while the Googlers sit in their warm offices eating their free food and patting each other on the back for their social activism.
This paper analyzes the short-term fallout of trade in goods from Brexit, through potential changes in the trade policies of its main trading partners. We construct the Overall Trade Restrictiveness Index (OTRI) of the UKÃs major trading partners.2 Our analysis shows that in the absence of any trade agreement between the UK and the EU post-Brexit, facing the EU's Most Favored Nation (MFN) tariffs could cause the UK's export of goods to the EU to drop by 2 percent. The impact is not larger because the higher tariffs are placed on the less elastic products that the UK exports, while the lower tariffs are placed on the more elastic products that the UK exports
See also Ruth Lea on the likelihood of a deal and the fact that trading under WTO rules isn't all that bad in the absence of one
The prospects for a bespoke deal are, therefore, reasonably positive. But, if there is no bespoke agreement, then the default position would be that the UK, a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), would trade under WTO rules. The UK would, for example, face the EU Common External Tariff as EU exporters would face the tariffs adopted by the UK. There is, however, convincing evidence that trade can thrive under this regime, given favourable commercial circumstances. Preferential trade deals may oil the wheels of international commerce, but their importance should be kept in perspective. If the commercial circumstances are adverse, trade will not thrive, irrespective of special trade agreements.
...
In the absence of any agreement with the EU, imports from the EU will raise £12.9bn for the Treasury in duties, whilst UK exporters will face £5.2bn in total in tariffs on their exports to the EU. WTO rules on subsidies provide sufficient flexibility for the Government to implement "horizontal" programmes to mitigate the impact of tariffs. Such programmes are economy-wide measures which are not specific to any identifiable industry, and are not tied in principle or in practice to compensating for the exact cost of tariffs on exports.
I.e. as much as you wish for the UK to be devastated because Brits had the temerity to want to have self government, it's very unlikely to happen.
I.e. it turns out independence isn't as expensive as people like you claimed it would be. Make no mistake though, even if it were I'd still support it.
I think the Flat Earthers don't really think the Earth is flat, they just know the average person can't explain coherently why they don't believe it's flat and it's funny making them try.
Send it to all your to people who follow "I fucking love science" on FB but who don't know a damn thing about science and watch them fail to explain why they think Flat Earth Asshole is wrong because they don't know who Eratosthenes was.
Denton is widely known for enduring almost eight years of grueling conditions as an American prisoner of war (POW) in North Vietnam after his jet was shot down in 1965, and being the first of all the POWs that were held captive and finally released by Hanoi to step off an American plane during Operation Homecoming in February 1973. As one of the earliest and highest-ranking officers to be taken prisoner in North Vietnam, Denton was forced by his captors to participate in a 1966 televised propaganda interview which was broadcast in the United States. While answering questions and feigning trouble with the blinding television lights, Denton blinked his eyes in Morse code, spelling the word "TORTURE" -- and confirming for the first time to U.S. Naval Intelligence that American POWs were in fact being tortured.
PuTTY does ANSI terminal emulation. So can watch Star Wars by Telnet in color!
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
If everyone watched movies in the efficient open standard Telnet instead of the bloated and patent encumbered H.264 we'd save 52 Gigatonnes of CO2 per year.
The 1996 chromosomes was removed from the version of the show on Netflix, who claim it was delivered that way by Buena Vista. Basically it wasn't politically incorrect to say that sex is determined by chromosomes then, but it is now.
A segment saying that chromosomes determine one's gender on an episode of the educational children's show "Bill Nye the Science guy," is cut out on the Netflix version.
Netflix did not edit Bill Nye The Science Guy. The series was delivered that way by Buena Vista TV, according to a Netflix spokesperson.
In the original episode, titled "Probability," a young woman told viewers, "I'm a girl. Could have just as easily been a boy, though, because the probability of becoming a girl is always 1 in 2."
"See, inside each of our cells are these things called chromosomes, and they control whether we become a boy or a girl, " the young woman continued. "See, there are only two possibilities: XX, a girl, or XY, a boy."
But in the version of the episode uploaded to Netflix, the segment has been cut entirely. While noncontroversial at the time, the 1996 segment appears to contradict Netflix's new series "Bill Nye Saves the World."
The new show endorses a socially liberal understanding of gender, under which gender is defined by self-identification rather than genetics and there are more than just the two traditional genders.
Other science that liberals want removed from TV and the Internet includes race differences in mean IQ or indeed anything, or anything that casts doubt on the catastrophist view of global warming.
An increase in acid rain appears to be unlikely to be a problem, as the perturbation to the global sulphur cycle by these stratospheric emissions is quite small (natural volcanic emissions are ~50 MtS/yr, and industrial emissions are much larger).
Delivering between 1 and 5 MtS/yr to the stratosphere is feasible. The mass involved is less than a tenth of the current annual payload of the global air transportation, and commercial transport aircraft already reach the lower stratosphere. Methods of delivering the required mass to the stratosphere depend on the required delivery altitude, assuming that the highest required altitude would be that needed to access the lower tropical stratosphere, about 20 km, then the most cost-effective delivery method would probably be a custom built fl eet of aircraft, although rockets, aircraft/rocket combinations, artillery and balloons have all been suggested. Very rough cost estimates based on existing aircraft and artillery technology suggest that costs would be of the order of 3 to 30 $/kg putting the total annual cost at 10s of billion dollars (US National Academy of Science 1992; Keith 2000; Blackstock et al. 2009). The environmental impacts of the delivery system itself would of course also need to be carefully considered.
The particulates are, if anything, countering the warming
We need global regulations to establish a minimum particulate output for diesel engines to stop people using particulate filters./s
Actually I wonder if you could use high sulphur jet fuel to introduce sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere to do geoengineering.
The Royal Society did a report on geoengineering here which mentions sulphate aerosols - basically the SO2 forms droplets which increase the albedo and cool the planet
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, in the US the NSA would just send a National Security Letter to Intel
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/what-its-like-to-get-a-national-security-letter
Actually I bet the NSA has people working at companies like Intel and Microsoft who get briefed on things like the ME and have some input into how they work.
uBlock Origin does all the things uMatrix does now
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/umatrix-help.388516/#post-2620652
That post is December 2013. The truth is that I am not using uMatrix anymore, I use uBO in medium mode. With 3rd-party cookies and all plugins blocked by default in browser, this is really what works for me.
Details here -
http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/10/dnsmessenger-sec-campaign.html
There's no need to for that kind of language.
Opera used to be great back in the 12.x days. Then they switched rendering engines and lost all the features that made it better than Chrome.
Interestingly there are attempts to recreate the Opera 12.x UI features in other browsers, Vivaldi and Otter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)#See_also
The US isn't a democracy, it's a representative Republic.
http://thefederalistpapers.org...
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. â" Speech in New York, urging ratification of the U.S. Constitution (1788-06-21)
I'm not even American, and even I know that.
You vote for a President and the President appoints people like Pai. Now, admittedly you can make a case that appointing bureaucrats who can then make rules on the fly is something that people like Hamilton may well have had some issues with. However he definitely wasn't a fan of direct democracy, Classical Athens style.
Funny thing is when AT&T was a monopoly and regulated under common carrier status I remember everyone complaining they were too slow in deploying DSL. Because it turns out a regulated monopoly has no incentive to deploy new technology.
Meanwhile in the UK BT have a monopoly on lines but local loop unbundling means you have multiple choices of DSL provider. And in the UK you don't local government imposed monopolies on cable and fibre.
Which is the real regulatory problem. Of course Pai won't do anything about those. As Louis Rossmann pointed out, if you're going to get rid of NN regulation you should also do something to make it easier for people to set up competing ISPs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yeah, it reminds of turning on turning on debug printfs in some crippled customer embedded system because the JTAG doesn't work and seeing it's all fubar because the locking also doesn't work.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/...
Lucas wants the Empire to stand for evil, so he tells us that the Emperor and Darth Vader have gone over to the Dark Side and dresses them in black.
But look closer. When Palpatine is still a senator, he says, "The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good." At one point he laments that "the bureaucrats are in charge now."
Palpatine believes that the political order must be manipulated to produce peace and stability. When he mutters, "There is no civility, there is only politics," we see that at heart, he's an esoteric Straussian.
Make no mistake, as emperor, Palpatine is a dictator--but a relatively benign one, like Pinochet. It's a dictatorship people can do business with. They collect taxes and patrol the skies. They try to stop organized crime (in the form of the smuggling rings run by the Hutts). The Empire has virtually no effect on the daily life of the average, law-abiding citizen.
Also, unlike the divine-right Jedi, the Empire is a meritocracy. The Empire runs academies throughout the galaxy (Han Solo begins his career at an Imperial academy), and those who show promise are promoted, often rapidly. In The Empire Strikes Back Captain Piett is quickly promoted to admiral when his predecessor falls down on the job.
And while it's a small point, the Empire's manners and decorum speak well of it. When Darth Vader is forced to employ bounty hunters to track down Han Solo, he refuses to address them by name. Even Boba Fett, the greatest of all trackers, is referred to icily as "bounty hunter." And yet Fett understands the protocol. When he captures Solo, he calls him "Captain Solo." (Whether this is in deference to Han's former rank in the Imperial starfleet, or simply because Han owns and pilots his own ship, we don't know. I suspect it's the former.)
But the most compelling evidence that the Empire isn't evil comes in The Empire Strikes Back when Darth Vader is battling Luke Skywalker. After an exhausting fight, Vader is poised to finish Luke off, but he stays his hand. He tries to convert Luke to the Dark Side with this simple plea: "There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. . . . Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy." It is here we find the real controlling impulse for the Dark Side and the Empire. The Empire doesn't want slaves or destruction or "evil." It wants order.
None of which is to say that the Empire isn't sometimes brutal. In Episode IV, Imperial stormtroopers kill Luke's aunt and uncle and Grand Moff Tarkin orders the destruction of an entire planet, Alderaan. But viewed in context, these acts are less brutal than they initially appear. Poor Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen reach a grisly end, but only after they aid the rebellion by hiding Luke and harboring two fugitive droids. They aren't given due process, but they are traitors.
The destruction of Alderaan is often cited as ipso facto proof of the Empire's "evilness" because it seems like mass murder--planeticide, even. As Tarkin prepares to fire the Death Star, Princess Leia implores him to spare the planet, saying, "Alderaan is peaceful. We have no weapons." Her plea is important, if true.
But the audience has no reason to believe that Leia is telling the truth. In Episode IV, every bit of information she gives the Empire is willfully untrue. In the opening, she tells Darth Vader that she is on a diplomatic mission of mercy, when in fact she is on a spy mission, trying to deliver schematics of the Death Star to the Rebel Alliance. When asked where the Alliance is headquartered, she lies again.
Leia's lies are perfectly defensible--she thinks she's serving the greater good--but they make her wholly unreliable on the question of whether or not Alderaan really is
to To other side. get the
Why did the multithreaded chicken cross the road?
other to side. To the get
You have to wonder if it actually trended or whether Google is doing some slacktivism by telling people it trended to try to get them out holding in the cold "TRUMP IS LITERALLY HITLER!1" signs while the Googlers sit in their warm offices eating their free food and patting each other on the back for their social activism.
World Bank report here
http://documents.worldbank.org...
This paper analyzes the short-term fallout of trade in goods from Brexit, through potential changes in the trade policies of its main trading partners. We construct the Overall Trade Restrictiveness Index (OTRI) of the UKÃs major trading partners.2 Our analysis shows that in the absence of any trade agreement between the UK and the EU post-Brexit, facing the EU's Most Favored Nation (MFN) tariffs could cause the UK's export of goods to the EU to drop by 2 percent. The impact is not larger because the higher tariffs are placed on the less elastic products that the UK exports, while the lower tariffs are placed on the more elastic products that the UK exports
See also Ruth Lea on the likelihood of a deal and the fact that trading under WTO rules isn't all that bad in the absence of one
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/...
The prospects for a bespoke deal are, therefore, reasonably positive. But, if there is no bespoke agreement, then the default position would be that the UK, a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), would trade under WTO rules. The UK would, for example, face the EU Common External Tariff as EU exporters would face the tariffs adopted by the UK. There is, however, convincing evidence that trade can thrive under this regime, given favourable commercial circumstances. Preferential trade deals may oil the wheels of international commerce, but their importance should be kept in perspective. If the commercial circumstances are adverse, trade will not thrive, irrespective of special trade agreements.
...
In the absence of any agreement with the EU, imports from the EU will raise £12.9bn for the Treasury in duties, whilst UK exporters will face £5.2bn in total in tariffs on their exports to the EU.
WTO rules on subsidies provide sufficient flexibility for the Government to implement "horizontal" programmes to mitigate the impact of tariffs. Such programmes are economy-wide measures which are not specific to any identifiable industry, and are not tied in principle or in practice to compensating for the exact cost of tariffs on exports.
I.e. as much as you wish for the UK to be devastated because Brits had the temerity to want to have self government, it's very unlikely to happen.
I.e. it turns out independence isn't as expensive as people like you claimed it would be. Make no mistake though, even if it were I'd still support it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I think the Flat Earthers don't really think the Earth is flat, they just know the average person can't explain coherently why they don't believe it's flat and it's funny making them try.
Also this song is catchy -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Send it to all your to people who follow "I fucking love science" on FB but who don't know a damn thing about science and watch them fail to explain why they think Flat Earth Asshole is wrong because they don't know who Eratosthenes was.
Q: How do I know when my gender fluid needs changing?
A: When the tranny starts to make an irritating noise.
No! It shows Apple Corporation are saying all Chinese people look alike to them.
Which makes them RACISTS!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Denton is widely known for enduring almost eight years of grueling conditions as an American prisoner of war (POW) in North Vietnam after his jet was shot down in 1965, and being the first of all the POWs that were held captive and finally released by Hanoi to step off an American plane during Operation Homecoming in February 1973. As one of the earliest and highest-ranking officers to be taken prisoner in North Vietnam, Denton was forced by his captors to participate in a 1966 televised propaganda interview which was broadcast in the United States. While answering questions and feigning trouble with the blinding television lights, Denton blinked his eyes in Morse code, spelling the word "TORTURE" -- and confirming for the first time to U.S. Naval Intelligence that American POWs were in fact being tortured.
You could say you're a nerf herder. Geeks will get the reference, normies will assume it's some sort of agricultural job.
I refer you to my earlier comment quoting the exact part of the pdf I linked to explaining why this is not an issue.
PuTTY does ANSI terminal emulation. So can watch Star Wars by Telnet in color!
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
If everyone watched movies in the efficient open standard Telnet instead of the bloated and patent encumbered H.264 we'd save 52 Gigatonnes of CO2 per year.
It's from Porter Industries, with fancy new headquarters in the basement of Lubyanka Square, Moscow.
PorterPass : At least you know the NSA won't be spying on your passwords!
Back in 1996 Bill Nye was saying, correctly, that sex is determined by chromosomes
http://thefederalist.com/2017/...
By 2017 he was teaming up with Rachel Bloom for this masterpiece about gender fluidity
https://genius.com/Rachel-bloo...
The 1996 chromosomes was removed from the version of the show on Netflix, who claim it was delivered that way by Buena Vista. Basically it wasn't politically incorrect to say that sex is determined by chromosomes then, but it is now.
http://freebeacon.com/culture/...
A segment saying that chromosomes determine one's gender on an episode of the educational children's show "Bill Nye the Science guy," is cut out on the Netflix version.
Netflix did not edit Bill Nye The Science Guy. The series was delivered that way by Buena Vista TV, according to a Netflix spokesperson.
In the original episode, titled "Probability," a young woman told viewers, "I'm a girl. Could have just as easily been a boy, though, because the probability of becoming a girl is always 1 in 2."
"See, inside each of our cells are these things called chromosomes, and they control whether we become a boy or a girl, " the young woman continued. "See, there are only two possibilities: XX, a girl, or XY, a boy."
But in the version of the episode uploaded to Netflix, the segment has been cut entirely. While noncontroversial at the time, the 1996 segment appears to contradict Netflix's new series "Bill Nye Saves the World."
The new show endorses a socially liberal understanding of gender, under which gender is defined by self-identification rather than genetics and there are more than just the two traditional genders.
Other science that liberals want removed from TV and the Internet includes race differences in mean IQ or indeed anything, or anything that casts doubt on the catastrophist view of global warming.
If you look on page 48 of the pdf you'll see
https://royalsociety.org/~/med...
An increase in acid rain appears to be unlikely to be a problem, as the perturbation to the global sulphur cycle by these stratospheric emissions is quite small (natural volcanic emissions
are ~50 MtS/yr, and industrial emissions are much larger).
Delivering between 1 and 5 MtS/yr to the stratosphere is feasible. The mass involved is less than a tenth of the current annual payload of the global air transportation, and commercial transport aircraft already reach the lower stratosphere. Methods of delivering the required mass to the stratosphere depend on the required delivery altitude, assuming that the highest required altitude would be that needed to access the lower tropical stratosphere, about 20 km, then the most cost-effective delivery method would probably be a custom built fl eet of aircraft, although rockets, aircraft/rocket combinations, artillery and balloons have all been suggested. Very rough cost estimates based on existing aircraft and artillery technology suggest that costs would be of the order of 3 to 30 $/kg putting the total annual cost at 10s of billion dollars (US National Academy of Science 1992; Keith 2000; Blackstock et al. 2009). The environmental impacts of the delivery system itself would of course also need to be carefully considered.
The particulates are, if anything, countering the warming
We need global regulations to establish a minimum particulate output for diesel engines to stop people using particulate filters. /s
Actually I wonder if you could use high sulphur jet fuel to introduce sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere to do geoengineering.
The Royal Society did a report on geoengineering here which mentions sulphate aerosols - basically the SO2 forms droplets which increase the albedo and cool the planet
https://royalsociety.org/topic...
https://royalsociety.org/~/med...
People that say this will all get lynched after Judgement Day. Tell people you work on a farm.