Might I suggest we crowd source spoofing anti US articles to give DHS something to think about?
And you suggest this because.... what? You think that the next bunch of jackals, like these guys, that actually pulls off their attack won't kill anyone you care about?
You don't think that the indwelling bureaucratic inertia against taking action even in the face of blatant provocation, like Major Nidal Hasan, doesn't slow things down enough?
Of course, someday you might have some bragging rights - "You hear about the Oklahoma bombing? Killed 198, wounded 680. Yep. FBI would've figured it out and stopped it if it wasn't for me and my homies." Charming.
Of course, you could also have an international impact since the US also shares intelligence with other countries. Think of the pride you'll have as you wonder, were they spending time on your nonsense when they missed the message that could've helped stop something like this:
To those of you who still have your heads in the sand: Do you at least begin to see now, that the so-called "war on terror" is a bad joke, because the so-called "terrorists" have already won -- and our own government are now the terrorists?
This shit has got to stop. NOW.
I think you've hit on an important problem in human development. Even though the US Government and the various states arrest and convict people in the US for terrorism related offenses month after month, year after year, people like you claim that terrorist don't really exist, that it is the US government that is the terrorist against its own people. Terrorists and their supporters (like the bunch below) make use of Facebook, Youtube, and other social media, but it is the government that is "in the wrong" to look there to see what they are up to. You seem to have a problem with willful disbelief. And yet Americans continue to enjoy the same rights they've had - they travel where they want, work where they want, vote for who they want, worship or not the god of their choice, speak and write as they always have.
These sorts of arrests and convictions are going on all the time. Why don't you try "borking" the guys planning them instead of the guys trying to stop them?
"You have to make people feel safe" - This is a quote from a friend's mother, shortly after 9/11, in response to the absurd increase in airport security procedures. As long as people are willing to trade freedom for security, DHS and its ilk will prosper.
The American security services will be needed as long as there are extremists planning attacks, like in the most recent set of convictions below. This goes on month after month, year after year. And for all of the civil rights theater, Americans continue to travel where they want, vote for who they want, live where they want, and speak or publish as they always have. The same voices that chide Americans as cowards for wanting reasonable precautions to make it less likely that terrorists will deliver truck bombs to malls or attempt another 9/11 seem to come from people who wet themselves at the idea of a Federal employee reading the newspaper or viewing Facebook.* Oh the humanity! An FBI agent might read the profile of another Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan! And by the way - Benjamin Franklin's Committee of Secret Correspondence authorized opening other people's private mail for intelligence purposes during the Revolutionary War.
Three members of a home-grown terror ring who conspired to attack the Quantico U.S. Marine Corps base and foreign targets were sentenced Friday to between 15 and 45 years in federal prison.
Hysen Sherifi, 27, will serve 45 years in prison; Ziyad Yaghi, 23, got nearly 32 years; and Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, 24, was sentenced to 15 years. They faced the possibility of life in prison. Each said they would appeal their convictions and claimed innocence. Dozens of members of Raleigh's Muslim community made the five-hour round-trip to coastal New Bern to witness the hearing for the men who supporters believe were unjustly convicted. . . .
Hassan used his Facebook account and Internet forums to post his own comments and videos by others encouraging Muslims to fight nonbelievers and Muslims who did not agree with their desire to establish mandatory religious law, prosecutors said. . ..
"You're prosecuting Islam. The judge should be sitting here with the government," Aly Hassan said, pointing to the prosecutors.
Yaghi was convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism and conspiracy to carry out attacks overseas. Sherifi was convicted of both crimes, two counts of firearms possession, and conspiracy to kill federal officers or employees for plotting the Quantico attack. Hassan was convicted of providing material support to terrorists, but acquitted of a charge of conspiracy to carry out attacks overseas.
* The same Federal government that some think should be given all power over our health care system - the power of life and death.
the 1%-ers don't have to follows those laws. you should have been born with money, that's all.
To get down to brass tacks, everyone is stuck following the laws of physics - you don't have a choice, and money doesn't help.
Much of the rest of the 99% are getting tired of hearing about the "1%" in every topic under any slim pretext. Don't you have any other axes to grind? Elves that are too tall? Beer with no fizz? Fake Japanese products? Navel lint? Hot grits? I mean really.....
Gaaah, why must people say wrong things on Slashdot?... You can read a well written article by Glenn Greenwald here if you wish to know more.
Actually you've stumbled onto one of the reasons people say wrong things on Slashdot - Glenn Greewald. Greenwald often brings up points worthy of discussion, but his perspective is typically from such fringe political position that they effectively become wrong, or bordering on nutty. He leads many people astray, not unlike Chomsky.
I compliment you on your answer. Until I read your post, it appeared that they were working with some form of bolonium laced with unobtainium to make their claims.
Seeing your answer makes me thing some people might also find this helpful:
It's bizarre how perverted the discussion has become due to the focus on deficit and debt.... Stop worrying about the deficit or the debt. They are meaningless, red herrings.
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In its most basic form, it's just this: Some countries in Europe have way too much debt, and now they risk not being able to pay it all back. Simple!
There's more to it than that, of course, but when people talk about the "crisis," what they're worried about is that a big, scary, flashpoint event will happen -- like one or more of the eurozone countries defaulting on its debts -- causing investors to panic and triggering a massive banking shock.
The possibility also looms that one or more countries will pull out of the eurozone -- the 17-nation bloc that use the euro currency, which has been around since 1999. Should any of the eurozone nations drop out of this group, it could lead to a rash of bank failures in Europe, and possibly in the United States as well. Under these circumstances, people and businesses who need money might not be able to get any. We'd be looking at depression for Europe and recession for the rest of the world. Some people argue that an orderly, controlled eurozone break-up would be a good thing for certain struggling debtor nations. Still, even this relatively benign scenario carries economic fallout for Europe and maybe beyond.
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
The reason everyone is freaking out now is that while some eurozone countries are relatively sound from an economic standpoint, other countries are way over-leveraged, meaning they have too much debt relative to the size of their economies. And the troubles of a few countries could end up affecting everyone, yoked together under one currency for the last decade -- even though their economies functioned according to different habits and enjoyed very different degrees of financial health.
Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain -- gathered under the unfortunate acronym PIIGS -- are some of the most highly leveraged eurozone countries, and most people think that if a disaster happens, it will start with one of them. Italy's debt is 121 percent the size of its economy. For Ireland, that figure is 109 percent. In Greece, it's 165 percent.
The PIIGS took different paths to this scenario. Ireland, for example, underwent a massive real estate bubble, and its banks sustained giant losses. The Irish government wound up rescuing its banks, and now the country is burdened under a huge debt load.
Spain, which now has a 22 percent unemployment rate, also experienced a huge housing bubble. The country didn't indulge in excessive borrowing -- rather, it ended up with high deficits because it couldn't collect enough tax revenue to cover its expenses.
Greece, on the other hand, not only borrowed beyond its means, but exacerbated the problem with lots of overspending, little economic production to make up the difference, and some creative bookkeeping to prevent eurozone authorities from realizing the true extent of the situation.
The deficits weren't piling up everywhere. Countries with strong economies like Germany and France were keeping their output high and their debt at a manageable level. But when 17 nations use the same currency, trouble spreads quickly.
Now that the size of the PIIGS' debt has become clear, investors are getting more and more reluctant to buy bonds from European countries, since many of those countries are heavily in debt -- and the ones that aren't in debt look like they might have to assume responsibility for the ones that are. Investors don't want to put their money into bonds if they think they might not eventually get that money back. And
As a non-American, the US is viewed as repressive, & we all assume the dictatorship bit will come soon (not that it's really needed). More & more the US is looking like 1920's Germany.
If you actually believe that nonsense it would seem that either your education system or media has failed you, unless you are a "progressive", in which case the problem is fringe politics.
Freedom of speech rights my ass. Occupy doesn't know what their rights are and what they mean, how to deliver a message, or how to work for change. Instead, they come across as a bunch of posers and whiners squatting in the parks and demanding the right to squat there for the rest of their lives while they wait for the world to change itself just because they discovered the world isn't fair.
Despite that, Occupy was the news story of the year to me. It was a brief spark of hope dashed by the incompetence of self-styled "victims" who insult those who know what actual oppression is.
The Occupy movement in the US is essentially the political equivalent of bitcoint: It takes large amounts of valuable time and energy and produces seeming random outputs that are claimed to be valuable but which in fact are largely useless despite the claims of their respective supporters.
When are the feminists going to speak out on the abuse of women that’s happening at the hands of the Occupy crowd? Rapes and sexual assaults are rampant among the Occupy movement in cities across the nation. According to ABC News, this past Saturday night a 23-year-old reported being raped by a 50-year-old inside a tent at Occupy Philadelphia. Similarly, a 14-year-old child was allegedly raped at Occupy Dallas. And at Occupy Cleveland, a 19-year-old told police she was raped after sharing a tent with an unknown man. After reporting her rape at Occupy Baltimore, a young woman claimed occupiers refused to help find her attacker. Now reports of rape and attempted rape in Zuccotti Park are surfacing. These are just the ones that were reported.
In addition to rapists, suicidal folks are causing emotional distress within the movement. After a 32-year-old man shot himself inside his tent at Occupy Burlington, Vermont protesters were so traumatized that they readily agreed to pack up and end their demonstration.
Besides rapes and suicides, occupiers have injured women in the midst of their shameless attempts to grab attention. A couple weeks ago, I attended Americans for Prosperity’s “Defending the American Dream” Summit, which was crashed by Occupy D.C. I was able to depart safely, with my frightened guests in tow, as protesters hissed vile remarks in our direction. Others weren’t that lucky. The Daily Caller reports that an elderly woman was pushed down the stairs during the occupiers’ stampede into the convention center. Not one protester stopped to help her, even as she lay in pain from severe injuries to her wrists, ankles, and legs.
During a time when most city governments have having a very difficult time financially, the Occupy movment jacked up the costs. It cost Oakland CA about $2.4 million, LA is looking at $2.3 million, with some more big bills coming in shortly. Many other cities are in a similar position.
A number of "Occupy" site around the world was hit by revelations that
Killing the mayor and city council isn't necessarily terrorism. It could be outright rebellion. Not all violent action is terrorism.
You apparently missed the point of the discussion, and in essence I think you'll agree with me. The GP post was trying to blur the distinction between civil disobedience and terrorism, which is a common bit of rhetorical foolishness and fuzzy thinking on Slashdot. I think you'll agree that outright rebellion isn't civil disobedience either. Murdering a mayor and city council might be a horrific crime, an act of terrorism, an act of rebellion, it might even be an accident of war, but it certainly isn't civil disobedience as understood in the United States.
Religion supports terrorism, it needs to be banned.
The militant atheist Communists of Russia and China actively suppressed religion through arrest, imprisonment, seizure of church property, and other measures*, and along the way managed kill around 100,000,000 people (far more than actual terrorists), set off arms races and wars around the world, and threaten to return again in many parts of the world. Maybe we can start off by banning them.
To defeat terrorism, we/must/ defeat all forms of communication at all costs.
Not at all. Twitter is a form of mass media, like radio, TV, or newspapers. Denying specific terrorist groups the continued ability to leverage mass media is a reasonable strategy, and doesn't require destroying the entire infrastructure. Twitter as 100,000,000 users. If you take away the 5 or so identified terrorist group accounts, the other 999,999,995 users will continue tweeting away quite happily.
People use infrastructure. Terrorists are people. Therefore terrorists use infrastructure. Therefore we must destroy infrastructure.
You gotta love that kind of reasoning.
As of October, Twitter had 100,000,000 active users. Denying something like 5 accounts to continue using Twitter means that the other 999,999,995 users are still using Twitter, and none of Twitter's servers have been effected. That doesn't really constitute "destroying infrastructure". You've gone way off the tracks here with your "reasoning".
As I recall, the US didn't allow the Imperial Japanese or Nazi Germans to directly transmit from American radio stations in WW2. Did that constitute destroying the American radio infrastructure too?
Yes Twitter is and can be used for protest and civil disobedience ^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C Terrorism.
Civil disobedience is getting arrested for refusing to leave the Mayor's office. Terrorism is killing the mayor and city council.
Civil disobedience is trespassing on corporate property. Terrorism is blowing up the house of the CEO, killing her and her family.
Civil disobedience is guerilla theater that gets you arrested for blocking traffic. Terrorism is flying a plane into the World Trade Center, or a truck bomb at the mall.
Anyone more gifted than the mentally impaired shouldn't be confused about the difference between civil disobedience and terrorism. If what you are doing is resulting in large numbers of other people dying, it isn't likely to be civil disobedience.
Anything that yields a crop of puns this good must surely be fabricated.
I'm not sure that I fully take your meaning. Are you suggesting that they need to spin up manufacturing? Or are you trying to gin up a controversy because you think this yarn about cotton transistors is made up out of whole cloth? If it really works, there could be enormous potential in high-speed communications and backplanes, interfacing to fibre, and switching fabrics, for example. This could be an interesting investment opportunity. If it takes off, they'll need some good marketing, and a spokesman. I think that guy from the Matrix would be perfect! What was his name..... Agent Smith.... Hugo something?
Over the years I've spoken with many electrical engineers and software engineers, and heard much technical lore, but a cotton transistor? That is a yarn worthy of a prize.
One hundred people have been arrested as part of an undercover sting investigation into the largest known commercial child pornography business ever uncovered, U.S. government officials said today.
The two-year investigation began with Landslide Productions Inc., a Fort Worth, Texas, company owned by Thomas and Janice Reedy. Authorities said the company was at the center of an international child pornography business that distributed lewd pictures of children having sex to subscribers over the Internet. . . . .
Landslide grossed as much as $1.4 million in one month alone, the profits coming from monthly fees viewers paid to access child pornography Web sites, authorities said. Called Operation Avalanche, the undercover operation was based on intelligence developed from the Landslide investigation and encompassed 30 federally funded task forces formed to combat Internet crimes against children.
"During an Operation Avalanche search, we found a collection of videotapes produced by a suspect depicting the sexual abuse of several young girls. One of the girls was only 4 years old," said Chief Postal Inspector Kenneth C. Weaver.
The Reedys were convicted last year on charges that included sexual exploitation of minors and distribution of child pornography. A federal judge on Monday sentenced Thomas Reedy, 37, to life in prison and his 32-year-old wife, Janice, to 14 years in prison. . . ..
OMG! OMG! Think of the children
Maybe it's better if you, specifically, didn't. I'm not sure the outcome would be good for anybody.
Pedophiles should be seeking help instead of seeking children or pictures of children.
The Black Book of Communism is one of those rare books that really matters. It is the first systematic and comparative analysis of the "crimes, terror and repression" that accompanied Communism everywhere and that seemed to define its "genetic code." The book's centerpiece is a relentlessly documented narrative of political violence and repression in the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, drawing on extensive archival materials made available to researchers since the collapse of Communist rule in 1991. But The Black Book also contains absorbing accounts of Communist repression in Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Third World. . . . .
The chapters on the Soviet Union and China are as powerful as they are in large part because their authors, Nicolas Werth and Jean-Louis Margolin, avoid excessive polemics and allow the evidence to simply speak for itself. If anything, Werth is excessively conservative in his estimates, drawing almost exclusively from not always reliable "official" party and state archival materials to verify politically--inspired deaths and incarcerations in the Soviet Union. Despite the limits of this method, Werth concludes that the Bolshevik regime was responsible, directly or indirectly, for the deaths of 20 million people between 1918 and 1956, and for the imprisonment in camps of millions more. He demolishes the notion of a good Lenin and a bad Stalin by showing that terror defined the Soviet regime from its inception. And he concludes that there is no basis for the claim that the terror of the 1930s was driven by overzealous Party and police officials acting independently of orders.
Likewise, Margolin's chapter on China shows that the crimes of Maoism are rooted in ideological hubris and a denial of the humanity of political or class "enemies." Margolin demonstrates that Mao committed crimes unprecedented in Chinese history, and damaged the nation in everything from economics to ethics. The devastating consequences of Mao's rule: 65 million lost lives. Perhaps the deepest reason The Black Book has sparked controversy is that it argues Communism is as intrinsically perverse as Nazism. Editor Stephane Courtois argues that Communist crimes, like Nazi ones, partake of the desire to eliminate groups of people on the basis of their origins, not because of any individual culpability or responsibility. He denies that Communism's crimes have any right to be excused or qualified because they were committed in the name of egalitarian principles. Courtois shows that Communism is an exterminationist ideology which selects its enemies on the basis of class...
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Might I suggest we crowd source spoofing anti US articles to give DHS something to think about?
And you suggest this because.... what? You think that the next bunch of jackals, like these guys, that actually pulls off their attack won't kill anyone you care about?
3 Men in NC Terror Ring Get 15-45 Years in Prison (You do realize that this sort of thing goes on month after month, year after year, right?)
You don't think that the indwelling bureaucratic inertia against taking action even in the face of blatant provocation, like Major Nidal Hasan, doesn't slow things down enough?
Fort Hood Gunman Who Killed 12, Wounded 30 Survived Gun Battle
Of course, someday you might have some bragging rights - "You hear about the Oklahoma bombing? Killed 198, wounded 680. Yep. FBI would've figured it out and stopped it if it wasn't for me and my homies." Charming.
Of course, you could also have an international impact since the US also shares intelligence with other countries. Think of the pride you'll have as you wonder, were they spending time on your nonsense when they missed the message that could've helped stop something like this:
Stockholm blasts: Sweden probes 'terrorist attack'
In reality, I think you would have little impact. You also seem to be providing evidence of being a tool, and not in the good MIT way.
Hear, hear.
To those of you who still have your heads in the sand: Do you at least begin to see now, that the so-called "war on terror" is a bad joke, because the so-called "terrorists" have already won -- and our own government are now the terrorists?
This shit has got to stop. NOW.
I think you've hit on an important problem in human development. Even though the US Government and the various states arrest and convict people in the US for terrorism related offenses month after month, year after year, people like you claim that terrorist don't really exist, that it is the US government that is the terrorist against its own people. Terrorists and their supporters (like the bunch below) make use of Facebook, Youtube, and other social media, but it is the government that is "in the wrong" to look there to see what they are up to. You seem to have a problem with willful disbelief. And yet Americans continue to enjoy the same rights they've had - they travel where they want, work where they want, vote for who they want, worship or not the god of their choice, speak and write as they always have.
Most recent conviction: 3 Men in NC Terror Ring Get 15-45 Years in Prison
Won't you feel special when a few of these groups don't get caught before their attacks? Especially if it killed friends or family?
3 Men in NC Terror Ring Get 15-45 Years in Prison
These sorts of arrests and convictions are going on all the time. Why don't you try "borking" the guys planning them instead of the guys trying to stop them?
As long as people are willing to trade freedom for illusion of security, DHS and its ilk will prosper.
There, FTFY.
TSA finds 4 guns per day at airports
Do you have anything to fix that? Or are you going to keep living your illusion?
And the latest conviction: 3 Men in NC Terror Ring Get 15-45 Years in Prison
"You have to make people feel safe" - This is a quote from a friend's mother, shortly after 9/11, in response to the absurd increase in airport security procedures. As long as people are willing to trade freedom for security, DHS and its ilk will prosper.
TSA finds 4 guns per day at airports (Wouldn't it be absurd to let those guns on the planes?)
The American security services will be needed as long as there are extremists planning attacks, like in the most recent set of convictions below. This goes on month after month, year after year. And for all of the civil rights theater, Americans continue to travel where they want, vote for who they want, live where they want, and speak or publish as they always have. The same voices that chide Americans as cowards for wanting reasonable precautions to make it less likely that terrorists will deliver truck bombs to malls or attempt another 9/11 seem to come from people who wet themselves at the idea of a Federal employee reading the newspaper or viewing Facebook.* Oh the humanity! An FBI agent might read the profile of another Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan! And by the way - Benjamin Franklin's Committee of Secret Correspondence authorized opening other people's private mail for intelligence purposes during the Revolutionary War.
3 Men in NC Terror Ring Get 15-45 Years in Prison
* The same Federal government that some think should be given all power over our health care system - the power of life and death.
the 1%-ers don't have to follows those laws. you should have been born with money, that's all.
To get down to brass tacks, everyone is stuck following the laws of physics - you don't have a choice, and money doesn't help.
Much of the rest of the 99% are getting tired of hearing about the "1%" in every topic under any slim pretext. Don't you have any other axes to grind? Elves that are too tall? Beer with no fizz? Fake Japanese products? Navel lint? Hot grits? I mean really.....
Gaaah, why must people say wrong things on Slashdot? ... You can read a well written article by Glenn Greenwald here if you wish to know more.
Actually you've stumbled onto one of the reasons people say wrong things on Slashdot - Glenn Greewald. Greenwald often brings up points worthy of discussion, but his perspective is typically from such fringe political position that they effectively become wrong, or bordering on nutty. He leads many people astray, not unlike Chomsky.
I compliment you on your answer. Until I read your post, it appeared that they were working with some form of bolonium laced with unobtainium to make their claims.
Seeing your answer makes me thing some people might also find this helpful:
BEC - What is it and where did the idea come from?
or this..
Bose–Einstein condensation
So the standard of living in Sweden is higher than Kenya?
Perhaps having nuclear weapons is a sign that a country is oppressive ?
Let's see....
India
France
United Kingdom
United States
No, that doesn't seem to correlate.
It's bizarre how perverted the discussion has become due to the focus on deficit and debt. ...
Stop worrying about the deficit or the debt. They are meaningless, red herrings.
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As a non-American, the US is viewed as repressive, & we all assume the dictatorship bit will come soon (not that it's really needed). More & more the US is looking like 1920's Germany.
If you actually believe that nonsense it would seem that either your education system or media has failed you, unless you are a "progressive", in which case the problem is fringe politics.
I like your use of the royal "we" though.
Freedom of speech is dead in Australia
As an American, I can assure you that you are absolutely correct.
Patriotism is bigotry.
Little wonder.
You both asked:
I'm surprised you didn't include Occupy
and answered your own question:
Freedom of speech rights my ass. Occupy doesn't know what their rights are and what they mean, how to deliver a message, or how to work for change. Instead, they come across as a bunch of posers and whiners squatting in the parks and demanding the right to squat there for the rest of their lives while they wait for the world to change itself just because they discovered the world isn't fair.
Despite that, Occupy was the news story of the year to me. It was a brief spark of hope dashed by the incompetence of self-styled "victims" who insult those who know what actual oppression is.
The Occupy movement in the US is essentially the political equivalent of bitcoint: It takes large amounts of valuable time and energy and produces seeming random outputs that are claimed to be valuable but which in fact are largely useless despite the claims of their respective supporters.
Excellent: “Daily Show” on class divisions at Occupy Wall Street
Occupy’s Misogyny
Despite claiming to represent the 99%, Occupy Wall Street managed to cost at least 91 people their jobs: Milk Street Cafe, FiDi eatery that lost business due to Occupy Wall Street barricades, to close for good
During a time when most city governments have having a very difficult time financially, the Occupy movment jacked up the costs. It cost Oakland CA about $2.4 million, LA is looking at $2.3 million, with some more big bills coming in shortly. Many other cities are in a similar position.
A number of "Occupy" site around the world was hit by revelations that
Killing the mayor and city council isn't necessarily terrorism. It could be outright rebellion. Not all violent action is terrorism.
You apparently missed the point of the discussion, and in essence I think you'll agree with me. The GP post was trying to blur the distinction between civil disobedience and terrorism, which is a common bit of rhetorical foolishness and fuzzy thinking on Slashdot. I think you'll agree that outright rebellion isn't civil disobedience either. Murdering a mayor and city council might be a horrific crime, an act of terrorism, an act of rebellion, it might even be an accident of war, but it certainly isn't civil disobedience as understood in the United States.
Religion supports terrorism, it needs to be banned.
The militant atheist Communists of Russia and China actively suppressed religion through arrest, imprisonment, seizure of church property, and other measures*, and along the way managed kill around 100,000,000 people (far more than actual terrorists), set off arms races and wars around the world, and threaten to return again in many parts of the world. Maybe we can start off by banning them.
Another troubling development: [The Islamist-Leftist] Allied Menace
*Such as the League of Militant Atheists
To defeat terrorism, we /must/ defeat all forms of communication at all costs.
Not at all. Twitter is a form of mass media, like radio, TV, or newspapers. Denying specific terrorist groups the continued ability to leverage mass media is a reasonable strategy, and doesn't require destroying the entire infrastructure. Twitter as 100,000,000 users. If you take away the 5 or so identified terrorist group accounts, the other 999,999,995 users will continue tweeting away quite happily.
People use infrastructure. Terrorists are people. Therefore terrorists use infrastructure. Therefore we must destroy infrastructure.
You gotta love that kind of reasoning.
As of October, Twitter had 100,000,000 active users. Denying something like 5 accounts to continue using Twitter means that the other 999,999,995 users are still using Twitter, and none of Twitter's servers have been effected. That doesn't really constitute "destroying infrastructure". You've gone way off the tracks here with your "reasoning".
As I recall, the US didn't allow the Imperial Japanese or Nazi Germans to directly transmit from American radio stations in WW2. Did that constitute destroying the American radio infrastructure too?
Yes Twitter is and can be used for protest and civil disobedience ^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C Terrorism.
Civil disobedience is getting arrested for refusing to leave the Mayor's office.
Terrorism is killing the mayor and city council.
Civil disobedience is trespassing on corporate property.
Terrorism is blowing up the house of the CEO, killing her and her family.
Civil disobedience is guerilla theater that gets you arrested for blocking traffic.
Terrorism is flying a plane into the World Trade Center, or a truck bomb at the mall.
Anyone more gifted than the mentally impaired shouldn't be confused about the difference between civil disobedience and terrorism. If what you are doing is resulting in large numbers of other people dying, it isn't likely to be civil disobedience.
Anything that yields a crop of puns this good must surely be fabricated.
I'm not sure that I fully take your meaning. Are you suggesting that they need to spin up manufacturing? Or are you trying to gin up a controversy because you think this yarn about cotton transistors is made up out of whole cloth? If it really works, there could be enormous potential in high-speed communications and backplanes, interfacing to fibre, and switching fabrics, for example. This could be an interesting investment opportunity. If it takes off, they'll need some good marketing, and a spokesman. I think that guy from the Matrix would be perfect! What was his name..... Agent Smith.... Hugo something?
foldingclothes@home*
*With apologies
Over the years I've spoken with many electrical engineers and software engineers, and heard much technical lore, but a cotton transistor? That is a yarn worthy of a prize.
There is no such thing as 'child porn sites' that take any payment.
Really?
Feds: 100 Arrested in Child Porn Bust
OMG! OMG! Think of the children
Maybe it's better if you, specifically, didn't. I'm not sure the outcome would be good for anybody.
Pedophiles should be seeking help instead of seeking children or pictures of children.
Communism killed around 100,000,000 people in the last century.
The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism (Translation by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer) (Review) / (book review)
Author: Daniel J. Mahoney
Intriguing..... intriguing.....