Not impossible, just a dismal failure. A bunch of people left over from the hippie movement attempted to form communes. Where are they now? They collapsed for the same reason communism always collapses. There is no incentive to do work, and people get bitter at having to carry their lazy comrades. The former commune dwellers then became "progressives" because they know that communism WILL work as long as EVERYONE is forced to participate.
If communism worked, all of the progressives/communists would be living together in peace and happiness in communist communities all over the nation. It doesn't.
When Chinese industries burn coal without all of the scrubbers on the smoke stacks, huge amounts of solid particulates, are released into the atmosphere. This will in turn block more sunlight from reaching the surface, thus contributing a cooling effect.
The Church committee hearings in the late 1970s revealed extensive details about the multi-decade long MK Ultra program, including a trove of 20,000 related documents. Do Congressional hearings not count as "official reports"? It was also revealed that thousands of other documents related to the program had been destroyed.
Are you so brainwashed on the government Kool Aid that you can't even exercise your critical thinking skills and make a cursory examination of widely available and mostly undisputed evidence?
If you're so naive as to believe the absurdities published in official government reports, go stick your nose up a bureaucrat's ass. I'm sure it will smell like a rose garden to you.
Not sure if you're making fun of conspiracy theorists or making fun of people who call others conspiracy theorists?
What you describe was put into law by the 2012 NDAA. There isn't even a "judge" required.
Government says: "You're a terrorist!" The evidence is secret so you have no right to examine or challenge it. You have no right to legal counsel, no right to ever see a judge or jury, and it's off to prison you go for as long as the government says. Or maybe they just kill you, which they also claim the power to do.
It doesn't exactly describe how his involvement was discovered from the standpoint of criminal investigation.
Assume Reuters contacted the authorities. Then, the FBI and the Reuters IT staff were able to find out that Keys's ID was used. What's the next step to discovering this dialogue with the hacker? Were they both so clueless as to communicate via g-mail or something?
Are you attempting to elaborate on the reality of the situation, endorsing the policies that have created it or both?
Jobs don't belong to anyone, but a nation is defined by geographical borders and a population which mostly lives inside those borders. The government of that nation SHOULD be enacting policies which represent the best interests of the population. Allowing the nation's borders to be overrun with immigrants is hardly in the best interests of the majority of the population. Forcing domestic businesses to adhere to specific labor standards and environmental practices and then opening the borders to products made in places which have no such standards is not in the best interests of the population either. How about FAIR trade and a labor market with a real supply/demand dynamic?
You politically-correct fanatics are worse than witch hunters, religious inquisitors or McCarthyists. Looking for evidence of "racism" where it doesn't exist just so you can give your life some meaning by going into attack mode.
The cost has got to be linked back to a PO with the proper authorizing procurement officer's signature. Then, it has to be allocated as an expense which comes out of the budget of the appropriate product group, then tracked down to the individual people manager for tracking purposes and other bureaucratic BS. Not to mention the logistics of finally getting the item delivered to the right person.
Nothing is simple in a large company. Last time I changed offices, I brought a piece of CAT5 cable from home because it wasn't worth the trouble of going through official channels. I like this idea of the vending machines.
Nope. The trailing apostrophe represents only the plural possessive. If you were talking about Mr. Holmes's family owning something, like "The Holmes' dog" that's correct usage.:-)
You think we should just convict him? No trial? No evidence?
I sort of like the idea of due process and AFAIK, it's still the law (at least on paper). The prosecution must gather and present evidence. The accused has the right to examine that evidence, to confront witnesses and to present evidence and witnesses of their own. Then, it is up to a judge and/or jury to address the question of "doubt".
How about the fact that the two parties have worked together to create more and more hurdles for independent candidates and candidates from other parties to gain ballot access? What about the fact that no candidates other than Republicrats are allowed to participate in televised debates? How about the whole plurality voting system (as opposed to IRV or approval voting) which, probably more than anything, allows this power duopoly to persist? A newly elected government took office in January. If this was by the choice of the people, why does the President have 50% approval rating and how can the approval rating of Congress be even lower? The People get to participate in a symbolic ritual, but the whole system is rigged so that nothing really changes.
Exactly. Whenever some fool suggests that government should ban ammunition instead of guns, I suggest that they bring a case of ammo across the border and try to convince U.S. customs that it doesn't fall under the classification of "arms". Every country in the world treats ammunition as "arms" from an import/export and regulatory standpoint.
It's going to be a struggle for government to implement a ban that covers only a certain class of semi-auto rifles and accessories. A full ban on ammunition? They'd probably do it if they could, but I don't see it happening anytime in the near term.
"Well, they're out of patent protection, aren't they?"
That's an interesting question. Rifles of the same basic design are/were manufactured all over the Soviet Bloc and even in Egypt and China. There were so many manufacturers, I sort of assumed the design was an open standard. I did some searching however, and apparently that's not the case:
Who do you think killed JFK? A lone guy with a P.O.S. bolt action Italian rifle that wasn't even sighted in properly, firing from a bad angle, who managed to fire 3 shots in 5 seconds and score 2 hits on a moving target? Not only is that impossible, any idiot that watches the film of the assassination can clearly see that at least one shot was fired from the front.
I don't know who killed JFK or why, I don't know where Barack Obama was born and I don't know the story behind 9-11. I DO know that the officially sanctioned government versions of these events are BS and a cursory examination of openly available evidence and government statements reveals many obvious flaws in the official narrative.
Wrong. As long as you are recording in a public place where people have no reasonable expectation of privacy, you can publish the video on YouTube or broadcast it on a TV news network without the consent of the people being filmed.
The exception is advertising. You can't take a picture of someone and then use the image as part of an ad campaign for your new product. That would require consent.
"If you don't have the permission of the person you are not allowed to take that photo or shoot that video."
Nonsense. You can take photos and videos of anyone provided that it is in a public place where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. It only requires a release if you plan to use it for commercial purposes.
I think it's generally acceptable to append an 's' as a plural of an acronym. Even in cases where it would not make sense if the acronym was expanded.
For instance, when it's more than one Attorney General the plural is "Attorneys General", but I've seen "AGs" used plenty of times to mean the same thing.
Well said. Seems like the natural evolution of a company is to keep moving marketers and bean counters into positions of authority, gradually killing whatever innovative capacity the company had.
It's tough to imagine Lotus marketing a product "better" than someone else. The first "Excel" was certainly no better than Lotus 1-2-3, but MS managed to market Lotus into obscurity.
"...who got the $$$ that millions of american lost by "investing" in Silicon Valley companies?"
The big banks who did the under-writing of the IPOs for these over-hyped companies and the early shareholders (sometimes the same banks doing the IPO) who sold out before the reality of the company's prospects became apparent.
We need government to stop companies from dumping their losses on government? That makes no sense. How about we take wealth and power away from the government so they are in no position to cover losses or hand out favors at all?
Imagine a federal government that was given 8% of annual GDP (roughly $1.2 trillion) to perform its duties and constrained by a balanced budget law. Let's see them do an $800 billion bailout of their banker friends on that budget.
I see, so "global warming" is going to result in a new ice age? Fancy that. If this is supposed to be caused by large amounts of water from ice melt flowing into the ocean, where is the water for those new massive ice sheets going to come from? The linked URL states that all of Canada was under ice during that period. Such a huge accumulation of ice will dramatically lower sea levels. What's the prediction then? This is so much BS. I'll keep my pick-axes ready though in case I need to tunnel through the ice to get out of my house.
Slashdot Mirror
"Pure communism has been shown impossible? "
Not impossible, just a dismal failure. A bunch of people left over from the hippie movement attempted to form communes. Where are they now? They collapsed for the same reason communism always collapses. There is no incentive to do work, and people get bitter at having to carry their lazy comrades.
The former commune dwellers then became "progressives" because they know that communism WILL work as long as EVERYONE is forced to participate.
If communism worked, all of the progressives/communists would be living together in peace and happiness in communist communities all over the nation. It doesn't.
When Chinese industries burn coal without all of the scrubbers on the smoke stacks, huge amounts of solid particulates, are released into the atmosphere. This will in turn block more sunlight from reaching the surface, thus contributing a cooling effect.
Nobody can possibly be this ignorant. Are you a paid government troll by any chance?
Project echelon has been widely reported on by a number of mainstream news sources. Do you think CBS news qualifies as a bastion of "tinfoil hattery"?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-164651.html
The Church committee hearings in the late 1970s revealed extensive details about the multi-decade long MK Ultra program, including a trove of 20,000 related documents. Do Congressional hearings not count as "official reports"? It was also revealed that thousands of other documents related to the program had been destroyed.
Are you so brainwashed on the government Kool Aid that you can't even exercise your critical thinking skills and make a cursory examination of widely available and mostly undisputed evidence?
If you're so naive as to believe the absurdities published in official government reports, go stick your nose up a bureaucrat's ass. I'm sure it will smell like a rose garden to you.
Not sure if you're making fun of conspiracy theorists or making fun of people who call others conspiracy theorists?
What you describe was put into law by the 2012 NDAA. There isn't even a "judge" required.
Government says: "You're a terrorist!" The evidence is secret so you have no right to examine or challenge it. You have no right to legal counsel, no right to ever see a judge or jury, and it's off to prison you go for as long as the government says. Or maybe they just kill you, which they also claim the power to do.
It doesn't exactly describe how his involvement was discovered from the standpoint of criminal investigation.
Assume Reuters contacted the authorities. Then, the FBI and the Reuters IT staff were able to find out that Keys's ID was used. What's the next step to discovering this dialogue with the hacker? Were they both so clueless as to communicate via g-mail or something?
Are you attempting to elaborate on the reality of the situation, endorsing the policies that have created it or both?
Jobs don't belong to anyone, but a nation is defined by geographical borders and a population which mostly lives inside those borders. The government of that nation SHOULD be enacting policies which represent the best interests of the population. Allowing the nation's borders to be overrun with immigrants is hardly in the best interests of the majority of the population. Forcing domestic businesses to adhere to specific labor standards and environmental practices and then opening the borders to products made in places which have no such standards is not in the best interests of the population either. How about FAIR trade and a labor market with a real supply/demand dynamic?
You politically-correct fanatics are worse than witch hunters, religious inquisitors or McCarthyists. Looking for evidence of "racism" where it doesn't exist just so you can give your life some meaning by going into attack mode.
The cost has got to be linked back to a PO with the proper authorizing procurement officer's signature. Then, it has to be allocated as an expense which comes out of the budget of the appropriate product group, then tracked down to the individual people manager for tracking purposes and other bureaucratic BS. Not to mention the logistics of finally getting the item delivered to the right person.
Nothing is simple in a large company. Last time I changed offices, I brought a piece of CAT5 cable from home because it wasn't worth the trouble of going through official channels. I like this idea of the vending machines.
Ohh. BTW It is "Holmes' "
Nope. The trailing apostrophe represents only the plural possessive. If you were talking about Mr. Holmes's family owning something, like "The Holmes' dog" that's correct usage. :-)
You think we should just convict him? No trial? No evidence?
I sort of like the idea of due process and AFAIK, it's still the law (at least on paper). The prosecution must gather and present evidence. The accused has the right to examine that evidence, to confront witnesses and to present evidence and witnesses of their own. Then, it is up to a judge and/or jury to address the question of "doubt".
How about the fact that the two parties have worked together to create more and more hurdles for independent candidates and candidates from other parties to gain ballot access? What about the fact that no candidates other than Republicrats are allowed to participate in televised debates? How about the whole plurality voting system (as opposed to IRV or approval voting) which, probably more than anything, allows this power duopoly to persist?
A newly elected government took office in January. If this was by the choice of the people, why does the President have 50% approval rating and how can the approval rating of Congress be even lower?
The People get to participate in a symbolic ritual, but the whole system is rigged so that nothing really changes.
Exactly.
Whenever some fool suggests that government should ban ammunition instead of guns, I suggest that they bring a case of ammo across the border and try to convince U.S. customs that it doesn't fall under the classification of "arms".
Every country in the world treats ammunition as "arms" from an import/export and regulatory standpoint.
It's going to be a struggle for government to implement a ban that covers only a certain class of semi-auto rifles and accessories. A full ban on ammunition? They'd probably do it if they could, but I don't see it happening anytime in the near term.
"Well, they're out of patent protection, aren't they?"
That's an interesting question. Rifles of the same basic design are/were manufactured all over the Soviet Bloc and even in Egypt and China. There were so many manufacturers, I sort of assumed the design was an open standard. I did some searching however, and apparently that's not the case:
http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2009/10/russia-to-defend-ak-47-assault-rifle-copyright
Arsenal Inc. of Nevada claims to be the "exclusive licensed US manufacturer".
Members of PETA hacked the game to make the human the villain and the monkey the hero.
Oh, wait...
Who do you think killed JFK? A lone guy with a P.O.S. bolt action Italian rifle that wasn't even sighted in properly, firing from a bad angle, who managed to fire 3 shots in 5 seconds and score 2 hits on a moving target? Not only is that impossible, any idiot that watches the film of the assassination can clearly see that at least one shot was fired from the front.
I don't know who killed JFK or why, I don't know where Barack Obama was born and I don't know the story behind 9-11.
I DO know that the officially sanctioned government versions of these events are BS and a cursory examination of openly available evidence and government statements reveals many obvious flaws in the official narrative.
Wrong. As long as you are recording in a public place where people have no reasonable expectation of privacy, you can publish the video on YouTube or broadcast it on a TV news network without the consent of the people being filmed.
The exception is advertising. You can't take a picture of someone and then use the image as part of an ad campaign for your new product. That would require consent.
"If you don't have the permission of the person you are not allowed to take that photo or shoot that video."
Nonsense. You can take photos and videos of anyone provided that it is in a public place where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. It only requires a release if you plan to use it for commercial purposes.
I think it's generally acceptable to append an 's' as a plural of an acronym. Even in cases where it would not make sense if the acronym was expanded.
For instance, when it's more than one Attorney General the plural is "Attorneys General", but I've seen "AGs" used plenty of times to mean the same thing.
Well said. Seems like the natural evolution of a company is to keep moving marketers and bean counters into positions of authority, gradually killing whatever innovative capacity the company had.
It's tough to imagine Lotus marketing a product "better" than someone else. The first "Excel" was certainly no better than Lotus 1-2-3, but MS managed to market Lotus into obscurity.
"...who got the $$$ that millions of american lost by "investing" in Silicon Valley companies?"
The big banks who did the under-writing of the IPOs for these over-hyped companies and the early shareholders (sometimes the same banks doing the IPO) who sold out before the reality of the company's prospects became apparent.
We need government to stop companies from dumping their losses on government? That makes no sense. How about we take wealth and power away from the government so they are in no position to cover losses or hand out favors at all?
Imagine a federal government that was given 8% of annual GDP (roughly $1.2 trillion) to perform its duties and constrained by a balanced budget law. Let's see them do an $800 billion bailout of their banker friends on that budget.
Revisionist propaganda designed to contort history in order to conform to modern notions of political correctness.
White people & culture = evil
I see, so "global warming" is going to result in a new ice age? Fancy that. If this is supposed to be caused by large amounts of water from ice melt flowing into the ocean, where is the water for those new massive ice sheets going to come from? The linked URL states that all of Canada was under ice during that period. Such a huge accumulation of ice will dramatically lower sea levels. What's the prediction then?
This is so much BS. I'll keep my pick-axes ready though in case I need to tunnel through the ice to get out of my house.