Even worse the amount most were arrested for was legal if they didn't display it in public, but due to the frisking the cops tricked them into pulling it out of their pockets thus displaying it in public.
The other point in that article is that even as the number of stop-and-frisks dropped so too did the murder rate. Sounds like stop-and-frisk causes murders.
Drug laws work fucking awesome. The drug war is a multi-billion dollar business. All those people getting rich by fighting against drugs - they are losing the war but their bank accounts are the real winners.
Product placement is everywhere and it is deliberately not "in your face." Nowadays it is exceptionally rare for something like a the lead in a show to hold a can of coke up to drink with the label perfectly oriented for maximum readability. Instead they just want it in the frame and even deliberately make it only half recognizable.
If you watch The Big Bang Theory they do it all the time, anytime anything with a brand is on screen it is deliberately placed in what looks like a haphazard way - watch for it, things like Pop Chips are pretty common there - the bag will be on the table and you can only see the "Pop" part of the name.
Anyway, my point is that you are still exposed to a shit-ton of advertising, it is even more manipulative than the in your face stuff because they've mastered the art of subtlety.
For me, the deal-breaker with Persona is that it is tied to my email address and exposes that unique identifier to every website that does Persona.. The pro-persona types argue that is a benefit, that people are used to using their email address as a relatively constant identifier.
My argument is that giving the same email address out to every website makes it super-easy for those websites to cross-reference my web usage. Nowadays your email address is the online equivalent of your social-security number for marketers. It is the most useful key in the cyberstalker/marketing databases. All of the cyberstalker companies like BlueKai, Janrain, Scorecard, Doubeclick, etc create phantom profiles of people on the web that just sit dormant until you give one of their partner websites your email address and then they file all that dormant data in with any other data associated with your address.
Some people say, no problem, just create a different email address for every website you visit. Yeah, right. That's no problem at all. The system isn't designed for that. If there were a way to generate a login credential unique to each website so cross-referencing didn't work and it was easy and automatic, then Persona would be useful. As it is now it is only mis-leading, addressing a privacy problem we had 5 years ago but it does nothing to protect us against the current state of the art in privacy invasion.
Lots of Occupy protests were treated respectfully by the police. Until they weren't.
I'm not surprised that you went to two and didn't see a problem. The question is - what happened at the last protests? Those are the protests where the police cracked down so much that the people just gave up.
Just sending a bunch of keywords in email isn't enough - emacs has had a spook function since the 80s so they are kind of used to that stuff by now./ You'll have to act like a crazy-pants terrorist.
To make it really work we need to bring the eternal september to the islamic extremist websites. Everybody go post on those arabic jihadi websites. Uh, does anyone know of any arabic jihadi websites? Or how to read and write arabic?
Screw you Obama for giving Russia, with all their human rights problems like Pussy Riot, the moral high ground here. Screw you for making the US look like a bunch of mean-spirited whiners that have lost their shit because Snowden revealed the emperor has no clothes. It's going to be a long time, if ever, until we get back the home of the free and the land of the brave.
They have a prepared list of links to post - links that include titles and html-formatted href links, not just bare URLs.
They've put this list together so they can just dump it into any conversation with the utter faith that if people would just read all the articles on the other end of the links the conclusion would be completely self-evident. They have little to no commentary about what each link means, its just so obvious that it doesn't need any sort of editorial summarization. The readers are just supposed to knock themselves out proving whatever he thinks his points are for him. No work at all because it is so obvious. No chance of coming to alternate conclusions because it is all so obvious.
Or, there is always the chance that it wasn't prepared ahead of time, they just spent 30+ minutes assembling it on the fly as if the effort of cataloging it all proves it has a straight-forward and obvious meaning.
In either case it is a sign the poster is delusional.
God what a smug lawyered-up non-apology. It is all about deflecting blame and nothing about actually accepting responsibility. Hell, by the end they are practically blaming the victim for not only what they did to him, but for hurting his own cause. It is hard to imagine a more arrogant response.
Do they honestly think such crap will do anything other than fan the flames higher? Does this shit work on anyone?
The US government can search without a warrant, so physical security is limited.
A warrant does not magically embue a SQL command with the ability to search the log files of millions of individually owned computers. If it did, the NSA would not be centralizing as much of this information as they can get their hands on.
What is needed is a boundary on who that intelligence is passed on to and used, not how much is gathered.
When it is all collected in one easy to query database the only "boundary" that prevents misuse is the laws of man.
When it remains distributed across the internet in the possession of only those are concerned with the creation and use of the data the "boundary" that prevents misuse is the laws of physics.
I'll take the laws of physics over the laws of man any day of the week.
It's clear the spreading of disbelief is the real motivator here. Kill in the name of God.
You have that backwards, it is to use God to backstop their arguments for killing. Happens in basically every country with significant religious population. Every session of congress opens with a christian prayer but that doesn't mean congress writes laws (and declares war) in the name of God.
> The trick is to hide in plain sight. Most of the time if you seem legit and do nothing obvious you're flying below the radar.
Hiding in plain sight simply doesn't work when there is a permanent recording of everything you do. You might not trip some pattern detector today, but if you have any proximity to any events of interest then the NSA will be focusing on everything they've ever recorded you doing.
Just look at Snowden - for over a decade he anonymously posted to multiple websites with the username TheTrueHOOHA but no one paid any attention to him, he was "below the radar." But now everybody and their brother is digging up everything he ever wrote with that username. Crap he wrote when he was 17 is now under the microscope.
FLAC also includes error detection - each frame has as 16-bit crc and the file header includes an md5 hash of raw audio data. Doesn't help with repairing corruption but at least you can detect it and avoid playing the corrupt frames as ear-splitting noise unlike wav.
Yeah, he mostly read it wrong. It should be read horizontally, but what it does show is that Nader drew roughly equally from both D & R - 1% of each. Each side cancelling out the other.
.And those that stayed to fight could be correctly described as "militants", no?
Wow. So now the people fighting against the people we are ostensibly fighting are also legitimate targets. I thought the administration's redefinition of militant was entirely bogus, but you've taken it a level I never would have even conceived of.
If they are willing to do things like define all military age males as militants to avoid admitting to civilian casualties from drone attacks you know they don't have a problem redefining pretty much any word in order to avoid being held accountable to the people.
Ah, yes because he said "we could probably do better" it's instantly terrible and doomed.
That is not what he wrote at all. It is right there for all of us to read. And this from the person who complained about being tired of bad arguments? Did you really mean being tired of resorting to bad arguments?
"Wayland remoting will probably look a like a higher-performance version of VNC,"
Sounds like you are mixing up panel update speed with refresh rate. If the panel updates at 60Hz or 120Hz it really minimizes the impact of a low frame rate / refresh.
I'm typing this on a 48Hz DLP projector - DLP is super fast with the redraw times, like 400Hz but I am driving it at 48Hz (because I use my pc to watch a lot of 24fps movies). This 48Hz 120" display is at least as snappy as my 60Hz LCD monitors - and you would expect a larger display to have more motion judder because the amount of linear movement that can happen during 1 refresh is larger the larger the display. What would be fractions of an inch on a 22" monitor is multiple inches on a 120" screen.
I remember laughing my ass off a while back when one of the CEOs in the long line of CEOs at HP said that the stock market is an objective measure of a company's performance. That was a little bit before the dotcom crash IIRC.
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Even worse the amount most were arrested for was legal if they didn't display it in public, but due to the frisking the cops tricked them into pulling it out of their pockets thus displaying it in public.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/stop-and-risk-trojan-horse-marijuana-arrests-article-1.1352324
The other point in that article is that even as the number of stop-and-frisks dropped so too did the murder rate. Sounds like stop-and-frisk causes murders.
Drug laws work fucking awesome. The drug war is a multi-billion dollar business. All those people getting rich by fighting against drugs - they are losing the war but their bank accounts are the real winners.
Product placement is everywhere and it is deliberately not "in your face." Nowadays it is exceptionally rare for something like a the lead in a show to hold a can of coke up to drink with the label perfectly oriented for maximum readability. Instead they just want it in the frame and even deliberately make it only half recognizable.
If you watch The Big Bang Theory they do it all the time, anytime anything with a brand is on screen it is deliberately placed in what looks like a haphazard way - watch for it, things like Pop Chips are pretty common there - the bag will be on the table and you can only see the "Pop" part of the name.
Anyway, my point is that you are still exposed to a shit-ton of advertising, it is even more manipulative than the in your face stuff because they've mastered the art of subtlety.
For me, the deal-breaker with Persona is that it is tied to my email address and exposes that unique identifier to every website that does Persona.. The pro-persona types argue that is a benefit, that people are used to using their email address as a relatively constant identifier.
My argument is that giving the same email address out to every website makes it super-easy for those websites to cross-reference my web usage. Nowadays your email address is the online equivalent of your social-security number for marketers. It is the most useful key in the cyberstalker/marketing databases. All of the cyberstalker companies like BlueKai, Janrain, Scorecard, Doubeclick, etc create phantom profiles of people on the web that just sit dormant until you give one of their partner websites your email address and then they file all that dormant data in with any other data associated with your address.
Some people say, no problem, just create a different email address for every website you visit. Yeah, right. That's no problem at all. The system isn't designed for that. If there were a way to generate a login credential unique to each website so cross-referencing didn't work and it was easy and automatic, then Persona would be useful. As it is now it is only mis-leading, addressing a privacy problem we had 5 years ago but it does nothing to protect us against the current state of the art in privacy invasion.
Lots of Occupy protests were treated respectfully by the police.
Until they weren't.
I'm not surprised that you went to two and didn't see a problem. The question is - what happened at the last protests? Those are the protests where the police cracked down so much that the people just gave up.
Just sending a bunch of keywords in email isn't enough - emacs has had a spook function since the 80s so they are kind of used to that stuff by now./ You'll have to act like a crazy-pants terrorist.
To make it really work we need to bring the eternal september to the islamic extremist websites. Everybody go post on those arabic jihadi websites. Uh, does anyone know of any arabic jihadi websites? Or how to read and write arabic?
Screw you Obama for giving Russia, with all their human rights problems like Pussy Riot, the moral high ground here. Screw you for making the US look like a bunch of mean-spirited whiners that have lost their shit because Snowden revealed the emperor has no clothes. It's going to be a long time, if ever, until we get back the home of the free and the land of the brave.
You know how to tell when someone is a nutter?
They have a prepared list of links to post - links that include titles and html-formatted href links, not just bare URLs.
They've put this list together so they can just dump it into any conversation with the utter faith that if people would just read all the articles on the other end of the links the conclusion would be completely self-evident. They have little to no commentary about what each link means, its just so obvious that it doesn't need any sort of editorial summarization. The readers are just supposed to knock themselves out proving whatever he thinks his points are for him. No work at all because it is so obvious. No chance of coming to alternate conclusions because it is all so obvious.
Or, there is always the chance that it wasn't prepared ahead of time, they just spent 30+ minutes assembling it on the fly as if the effort of cataloging it all proves it has a straight-forward and obvious meaning.
In either case it is a sign the poster is delusional.
God what a smug lawyered-up non-apology. It is all about deflecting blame and nothing about actually accepting responsibility. Hell, by the end they are practically blaming the victim for not only what they did to him, but for hurting his own cause. It is hard to imagine a more arrogant response.
Do they honestly think such crap will do anything other than fan the flames higher? Does this shit work on anyone?
The US government can search without a warrant, so physical security is limited.
A warrant does not magically embue a SQL command with the ability to search the log files of millions of individually owned computers. If it did, the NSA would not be centralizing as much of this information as they can get their hands on.
What is needed is a boundary on who that intelligence is passed on to and used, not how much is gathered.
When it is all collected in one easy to query database the only "boundary" that prevents misuse is the laws of man.
When it remains distributed across the internet in the possession of only those are concerned with the creation and use of the data the "boundary" that prevents misuse is the laws of physics.
I'll take the laws of physics over the laws of man any day of the week.
It's clear the spreading of disbelief is the real motivator here. Kill in the name of God.
You have that backwards, it is to use God to backstop their arguments for killing. Happens in basically every country with significant religious population. Every session of congress opens with a christian prayer but that doesn't mean congress writes laws (and declares war) in the name of God.
Wait their currency is actually called... "PHP"? O.o
And their terrorists are MILFs.
> The trick is to hide in plain sight. Most of the time if you seem legit and do nothing obvious you're flying below the radar.
Hiding in plain sight simply doesn't work when there is a permanent recording of everything you do. You might not trip some pattern detector today, but if you have any proximity to any events of interest then the NSA will be focusing on everything they've ever recorded you doing.
Just look at Snowden - for over a decade he anonymously posted to multiple websites with the username TheTrueHOOHA but no one paid any attention to him, he was "below the radar." But now everybody and their brother is digging up everything he ever wrote with that username. Crap he wrote when he was 17 is now under the microscope.
I'd look at the spectrals on those "lossless" files you bought. Plenty of music on bandcamp was quite clearly converted to flac from MPs.
Here is software that makes it pretty easy to check:
http://en.true-audio.com/Tau_Analyzer_-_CD_Authenticity_Detector
FLAC also includes error detection - each frame has as 16-bit crc and the file header includes an md5 hash of raw audio data. Doesn't help with repairing corruption but at least you can detect it and avoid playing the corrupt frames as ear-splitting noise unlike wav.
Try yourself, read Dole Across and Bush Down and tell me how that works.
Dole across: 4 + 93 + 0 + 1 = 98%
The remaining 2% can explained by rounding errors and people who voted for another candidate.
Bush down: reading down is not a valid interpretation
. I voted for Perot, but would never vote for Nader.
Since you seem to have a problem separating your vote from everybody else's vote, I suspect this thread has reached its useful lifespan.
Yeah, he mostly read it wrong. It should be read horizontally, but what it does show is that Nader drew roughly equally from both D & R - 1% of each. Each side cancelling out the other.
> Well, we did have 8 years of President Bush as a result of a third party candidate bleeding votes away from Gore...
http://my.firedoglake.com/jest/2012/08/26/debunking-pathological-myths-of-the-2000-election-part-1-cnn-exit-polls-prove-that-nader-did-not-cost-gore-fl/
You have a strange definition of "asses handed to us", in general.
In Vietnam they call it the "American War" and you know what? They are not particularly pissed about it.
You know why? Because they fucking won.
.And those that stayed to fight could be correctly described as "militants", no?
Wow. So now the people fighting against the people we are ostensibly fighting are also legitimate targets. I thought the administration's redefinition of militant was entirely bogus, but you've taken it a level I never would have even conceived of.
If they are willing to do things like define all military age males as militants to avoid admitting to civilian casualties from drone attacks you know they don't have a problem redefining pretty much any word in order to avoid being held accountable to the people.
Ah, yes because he said "we could probably do better" it's instantly terrible and doomed.
That is not what he wrote at all. It is right there for all of us to read. And this from the person who complained about being tired of bad arguments? Did you really mean being tired of resorting to bad arguments?
"Wayland remoting will probably look a like a higher-performance version of VNC,"
Sounds like you are mixing up panel update speed with refresh rate. If the panel updates at 60Hz or 120Hz it really minimizes the impact of a low frame rate / refresh.
I'm typing this on a 48Hz DLP projector - DLP is super fast with the redraw times, like 400Hz but I am driving it at 48Hz (because I use my pc to watch a lot of 24fps movies). This 48Hz 120" display is at least as snappy as my 60Hz LCD monitors - and you would expect a larger display to have more motion judder because the amount of linear movement that can happen during 1 refresh is larger the larger the display. What would be fractions of an inch on a 22" monitor is multiple inches on a 120" screen.
+1
I remember laughing my ass off a while back when one of the CEOs in the long line of CEOs at HP said that the stock market is an objective measure of a company's performance. That was a little bit before the dotcom crash IIRC.