"... in other news, the sysadmin of "infowars.com" has been unmasked as a Reptilian agent for Agenda 21, a previously unknown terrorist organization. More news at 11."
I think GP owns a domain name selling company. Otherwise the statement would indeed be retarded, but I'll go ahead and give him the benefit of doubt: he's a shrewd businessman!
It still wouldn't make any sense. If that's the basis of law, pretty soon every country will have its own name for seas in the neighbourhood and chartmakers will be having a field day, producing charts that are different for each country. Followed right by the arms manufacturers.
Yes. The wind blows pretty much year-round over the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea. Even The Netherlands, who still sit on a large supply of natural gas, is building windparks as fast as they can get them operational - and they're on the wrong side of the British Isles for wind. The major problem with the western side of Brittain is probably water depth. That's why the North Sea is quite attractive, because deep water platforms are NOT cheap enough to compete with more conventional methods of power production.
As of 2023, the Dutch wind turbines now being built will produce 4450 megawatts per year. The aim is to reduce cost by 40% in 2020 with respect to the current pricing and it looks like they'll be able to reach that: they have standard 700 MW "plugging platforms" that are provided to the builders of the turbines to reduce cost. It is also assumed that the turbines to be installed will have a standard capacity of 10MW per turbine very soon (right now 4-8 MW), reducing cost per Kw/h as well.
Charts for 2015 show different OPEX and CAPEX figures depending on where the turbines are built, ranging from pretty good to pretty expensive (source) .
Best CAPEX/OPEX per Kw = 2500 and 125, with an estimated "full load hours" figure of 4200, giving a cost of 0,115 euro per Kw/h for sea-based windfarms (11,5 ct/w). Land-based wind is much cheaper (by about 40%), which means that to be competitive the cost needs to go down by that amount specifically for the "sea-based" part of the installation.
A number of mitochondrial diseases are due to mutations in a very small set of genes, due to their immediate lethality. They sound like prime candidates for a fix.
However, there is a much simpler solution, which is prenatal testing and early abortion. As the foetus isn't going to survive for a long time anyway, this will not change much in final outcomes right now, and will provide a solution for everyone, instead of the extremely expensive and uncertain germline modification that will only be available to a handful of people in the richtest countries.
They will be, by the categorical collapse between the two, alone.
You can't differentiate yourself from an animal now, but are gracefully protected by theistic concepts such as "rights". What happens when the lack of scientific basis for that becomes widely obvious?
"rights" are not "theistic" concepts at all. Rather, they are concessions obtained by the weaker group from the ruling group through violence, or the threat of it. Animals will get rights just the same when they claim them... which won't happen anytime soon. Which means that "animal rights" aren't rights, despite the name. They are duties imposes on humans by other humans. That alone should tell you that nothing of note will happen to our concept of rights no matter what genetics says.
I have one like that right now! And for additional security, the paper backup is watermarked and uses special inks to prove validity to other people. I can even exchange them directly with everyone and they give me goods in exchange.
... How much did the qubes researcher, or anyone, pay for this software?
I think it's the same as with the OpenSSL library: sure, it may be buggy and unsafe. But would you rather do without? And those complaining don't *have* to use Xen, or OpenSSL: they can always use commercial software. And I have to say that the trackrecord of the Xen solution vs. the commercial solutions is pretty good.
Dissing developers who put in time and effort to help others is insulting to the entire OS community. Point out mistakes, sure. Report bugs, sure. But dissing them this way just to make yourself look better? Yuck.
Yep - if they see the harbour going up in flames? That didn't happen (yet) so no reporting. Demonstration outside your office? Better not discuss it - it's officially not happening. Corrupt officials? Don't exist. Only when Beijing wants to set some examples, and you damn well better not report on Xi Yin Ping's family or you suffer the consequences. Poison in the water? Beijing reports it's very good to drink, better not do original research and actually drink it. Although you can drink it, you can't report the results.
So basically we're partying like it's 1989: you're stuck with reports on Xi Yin Ping's visit to Zambia, the local weather (24/7 sunny, blue sky - and don't you dare complain about smog), and party meetings. Which is the standard fare on the official channels nobody bothers to watch. I predict even more business for VPN providers.
Creating backups is soooooo last millenium... it's all in the cloud now and these "big data" NoSQL solutions are failsafe. Or failproof. Or whatever. The data is not lost, it's just missing in action - it may even show up one day all by itself.
We're also getting vaccinated at an earlier age with more vaccins. Could it be that the vaccine cocktail has even more beneficial side effects than we already know? That's going to be a body blow to the anti-vaxxers if it's true.
(Anyone else WTFing over this weird "EM radiation" phobia that the unusually-stupid sub-faction of the fearmongers made up? It's often interesting, the kinds of hobgoblins that people-who-want-to-panic invent, but this one is downright weird. Why did they think it would take off? And then how is it that they were they right that it would take off?!? Why are so many people, who you'd think are only slightly stupid, adopting this religion? What's the appeal?)
It is the opening salvo of the Vampire Wars. When they have convinced everyone that EM radiation is harmful and we should all live undergound and never be exposed to the sun again, they will come out in the open and rule us. Hah! We're on to your nefarious plan, vampires! And I will keep a UV-light handy at all times!
Given the fact he announced he was going to suicide on twitter, it doesn't seem unreasonable. I don't think he streamed the suicide itself, but it wouldn't actually surprise me either.
but for FUCK'S SAKE, dude, what would you do if you were beaten by the cops. TWICE.
you miss his point entirely. sucks to be your ignorant ass.
very sorry for ian. I can only imagine the horror he felt when all he believed came crashing down.
I've known long since that the police are not my friend, and I have been beaten up (once) by them. As an activist, it's part of the way things work and part of the things you want to change. But yeah, I've you've always been taught that the police are your friends and suddenly the gloves come off, it's a shock.
Normally, people re-evaluate their position, think things through and start looking for explanations. They may radicalize and turn to people like Marx and Lenin who long ago explained why the police work the way they do, like Malcolm X. Or they may consider them "bad apples" and try to follow the judicial process, realizing slowly that that won't work, and then build a movement for change, like Martin Luther King. Or they may retreat into alternative policies and withdraw from society. Or they may shrug, say "yeah, life sucks sometimes" and go on with it - like most people.
And then we have people, who appear to have lived a very sheltered life, that get so pissed off that someone dared to touch *them* (the rulers of the universe) that they suicide just to make a point. Well, point taken, but a) some of us were already aware of the fact that police violence is not limited to criminals and b) in todays news it's not going to make a lasting impression, given the fact someone just upped the ante by shooting more than 10 police officers. That's a suicide too, but with a bigger frontpage.
I looked at the twitter stream. Maybe one single tweet that could be considered racist if you really worked at it, and didn't take it for an epithet used by someone about to commit suicide who may not have had them all together at the time. A lot of his older tweets seem those of someone who cared for the world, was engaged, didn't like racist policies, retweeted tweets about police violence and condemned it, etc.
Not true. Let's get the ball rolling for Gary Johnson. Any issues that you might have can be overlooked when you consider that he is not Hillary or Trump.
By that reasoning you could vote in Ctulhu and it would be an improvement. I think I'd rather have Trump. At least he's human.
Hey, that could be a cool presidential poster: "Vote for X - at least (s)he's human!"
The social media in China are full of pump-and-dump scams, scaremongering, way overblown claims, false accusations and paranoid trips into the realm of fantasy (last week I read through an article that was removed from github of all places, about how Xi Jinping had an illegitimate brother that he later had killed). And it creates a vicious feedback cycle when newspapers copy the rumours from the social media pages as news, which then gets recycled with more fanciful additions as "published in the newspapers".
There is *also* news that is picked up about corruption, or other abuses, that would otherwise have never shown. Since it's no problem *under this law* when newspapers investigate the story and publish based on that, this law doesn't really hurt that. There are loads of other laws already in place to do just that:)
Yup. Non-anonymous posts from posters with decent karma (which you can get quite fast) start at +2. That means it takes more than just one moderator to remove them from view. Now, if you upset 3 moderators, you probably deserved it. I browse at -1 and it's a cesspool.
To discuss "The Palestinians" in the context of the ancient history is rather farfetched - under the Ottoman empire it is difficult to say whether the Palestinians identified themselves as Palestinians . Going into detail on your examples, Safed 1517 seems to be a case of anti-semitism during wartime, in the case of 1660 Tiberias/Safed it was the Druze who attacked, for reasons not immediately apparent. In modern times, Druze do not identify as Palestinians. Hebron 1834... was a case of a day of rape and pillage by an army after a 5 months siege, in which there were a grand total of 12 casualties. Calling that a massacre seems more a propaganda piece than a massacre. especially as the Arab population suffered over 500 casualties during that same day. But they don't really count in your examples, do they?
The 1929 riots are more interesting. To quote wikipedia: "The Shaw Commission found that the fundamental cause of the violence "without which in our opinion disturbances either would not occurred or would not have been little more than a local riot, is the Arab feeling of animosity and hostility towards the Jews consequent upon the disappointment of their political and national aspirations and fear for their economic future."[ It also attributed the cause as being Arab fears of Jewish immigrants "not only as a menace to their livelihood but as a possible overlord of the future."
With the benefit of hindsight we might say they had a point.
When Israel entirely withdrew from all Gaza settlements in 2005, they were immediately met with an increase of violence, not less.
Is that so strange? It is quite obvious to all involved why Israel withdrew: it would make it possible to stall peace negotiations for much longer, it would bottle the Palestines up in West Gaza, a much smaller area than the original plans show, and holding the settlements was politically impossible if Israel wanted to keep up relations with the rest of the world. This was realized by the Palestines as well.
So is there *any* reason to believe the Palestinians -- the same people who overwhelmingly support the government that holds this kind of shit [youtube.com] at their schools -- would stop attacking civilians if the settlements are disbanded?
There are loads of reasons to think that the attacks will *never* stop until the settlements are disbanded, for several reasons. 1) the settlers are responsible for a lot of violence themselves. They are a huge part of the problem as they depend economically on the conflict. They do not want peace and do everything possible to stir up trouble. Shutting down the settlements would be a very small first step in normalizing the situation. 2) the settlements use up a lot of water which is scarce in the area. They are connected by roads that the rest of the inhabitants are barred from even crossing, and occupy strategic areas with fertile lands. 3) It is a visible reminder of the fact the population is controlled by outside soldiers. Removing the settlements won't stop the attacks on civilians (although it will stop attacks on settlements), but it is at least a start towards a solution.
As for Hamas, yeah, they're wankers. It's not as if Israeli politicians are immune to the hatred though: rabbi Dov Lior (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Lior) is at least as big a wanker as any member of Hamas.
The common thread for all these phone home vulnerabilities are all going to servers in China.
Nothing really happens there without the government's knowledge, and probable support.
There is a nice Chinese saying (Tian gao, Huangdi yuan) that basically says "Heaven is high and the emperor is far away". It's still very much in vogue. It means most Chinese know that as long as they don't draw attention, they can do a lot of things you might get arrested for - but won't. Demonstrating on Tianmen square is a good way to get that attention, but just being one of a gazillion small electric shops isn't.
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence.
Slashdot Mirror
"... in other news, the sysadmin of "infowars.com" has been unmasked as a Reptilian agent for Agenda 21, a previously unknown terrorist organization. More news at 11."
Nice try.
Should have included reptilians.
+1 for effort.
Zing! nice one.
Well done sir! It's not often I see a "+2, Troll" score :)
I think GP owns a domain name selling company. Otherwise the statement would indeed be retarded, but I'll go ahead and give him the benefit of doubt: he's a shrewd businessman!
It still wouldn't make any sense. If that's the basis of law, pretty soon every country will have its own name for seas in the neighbourhood and chartmakers will be having a field day, producing charts that are different for each country. Followed right by the arms manufacturers.
(Is off-shore wind practical yet?)
Yes. The wind blows pretty much year-round over the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea. Even The Netherlands, who still sit on a large supply of natural gas, is building windparks as fast as they can get them operational - and they're on the wrong side of the British Isles for wind. The major problem with the western side of Brittain is probably water depth. That's why the North Sea is quite attractive, because deep water platforms are NOT cheap enough to compete with more conventional methods of power production.
As of 2023, the Dutch wind turbines now being built will produce 4450 megawatts per year. The aim is to reduce cost by 40% in 2020 with respect to the current pricing and it looks like they'll be able to reach that: they have standard 700 MW "plugging platforms" that are provided to the builders of the turbines to reduce cost. It is also assumed that the turbines to be installed will have a standard capacity of 10MW per turbine very soon (right now 4-8 MW), reducing cost per Kw/h as well.
Charts for 2015 show different OPEX and CAPEX figures depending on where the turbines are built, ranging from pretty good to pretty expensive (source) .
Best CAPEX/OPEX per Kw = 2500 and 125, with an estimated "full load hours" figure of 4200, giving a cost of 0,115 euro per Kw/h for sea-based windfarms (11,5 ct/w). Land-based wind is much cheaper (by about 40%), which means that to be competitive the cost needs to go down by that amount specifically for the "sea-based" part of the installation.
A number of mitochondrial diseases are due to mutations in a very small set of genes, due to their immediate lethality. They sound like prime candidates for a fix.
However, there is a much simpler solution, which is prenatal testing and early abortion. As the foetus isn't going to survive for a long time anyway, this will not change much in final outcomes right now, and will provide a solution for everyone, instead of the extremely expensive and uncertain germline modification that will only be available to a handful of people in the richtest countries.
They will be, by the categorical collapse between the two, alone.
You can't differentiate yourself from an animal now, but are gracefully protected by theistic concepts such as "rights". What happens when the lack of scientific basis for that becomes widely obvious?
"rights" are not "theistic" concepts at all. Rather, they are concessions obtained by the weaker group from the ruling group through violence, or the threat of it. Animals will get rights just the same when they claim them... which won't happen anytime soon. Which means that "animal rights" aren't rights, despite the name. They are duties imposes on humans by other humans. That alone should tell you that nothing of note will happen to our concept of rights no matter what genetics says.
I have one like that right now! And for additional security, the paper backup is watermarked and uses special inks to prove validity to other people. I can even exchange them directly with everyone and they give me goods in exchange.
Bitcoin has sure come a long way!
... How much did the qubes researcher, or anyone, pay for this software?
I think it's the same as with the OpenSSL library: sure, it may be buggy and unsafe. But would you rather do without? And those complaining don't *have* to use Xen, or OpenSSL: they can always use commercial software. And I have to say that the trackrecord of the Xen solution vs. the commercial solutions is pretty good.
Dissing developers who put in time and effort to help others is insulting to the entire OS community. Point out mistakes, sure. Report bugs, sure. But dissing them this way just to make yourself look better? Yuck.
Yep - if they see the harbour going up in flames? That didn't happen (yet) so no reporting.
Demonstration outside your office? Better not discuss it - it's officially not happening.
Corrupt officials? Don't exist. Only when Beijing wants to set some examples, and you damn well better not report on Xi Yin Ping's family or you suffer the consequences.
Poison in the water? Beijing reports it's very good to drink, better not do original research and actually drink it. Although you can drink it, you can't report the results.
So basically we're partying like it's 1989: you're stuck with reports on Xi Yin Ping's visit to Zambia, the local weather (24/7 sunny, blue sky - and don't you dare complain about smog), and party meetings. Which is the standard fare on the official channels nobody bothers to watch. I predict even more business for VPN providers.
Creating backups is soooooo last millenium... it's all in the cloud now and these "big data" NoSQL solutions are failsafe. Or failproof. Or whatever. The data is not lost, it's just missing in action - it may even show up one day all by itself.
We're also getting vaccinated at an earlier age with more vaccins. Could it be that the vaccine cocktail has even more beneficial side effects than we already know? That's going to be a body blow to the anti-vaxxers if it's true.
(Anyone else WTFing over this weird "EM radiation" phobia that the unusually-stupid sub-faction of the fearmongers made up? It's often interesting, the kinds of hobgoblins that people-who-want-to-panic invent, but this one is downright weird. Why did they think it would take off? And then how is it that they were they right that it would take off?!? Why are so many people, who you'd think are only slightly stupid, adopting this religion? What's the appeal?)
It is the opening salvo of the Vampire Wars. When they have convinced everyone that EM radiation is harmful and we should all live undergound and never be exposed to the sun again, they will come out in the open and rule us. Hah! We're on to your nefarious plan, vampires! And I will keep a UV-light handy at all times!
Given the fact he announced he was going to suicide on twitter, it doesn't seem unreasonable. I don't think he streamed the suicide itself, but it wouldn't actually surprise me either.
I didn't know ian. obviously you didn't either.
but for FUCK'S SAKE, dude, what would you do if you were beaten by the cops. TWICE.
you miss his point entirely. sucks to be your ignorant ass.
very sorry for ian. I can only imagine the horror he felt when all he believed came crashing down.
I've known long since that the police are not my friend, and I have been beaten up (once) by them. As an activist, it's part of the way things work and part of the things you want to change. But yeah, I've you've always been taught that the police are your friends and suddenly the gloves come off, it's a shock.
Normally, people re-evaluate their position, think things through and start looking for explanations. They may radicalize and turn to people like Marx and Lenin who long ago explained why the police work the way they do, like Malcolm X. Or they may consider them "bad apples" and try to follow the judicial process, realizing slowly that that won't work, and then build a movement for change, like Martin Luther King. Or they may retreat into alternative policies and withdraw from society. Or they may shrug, say "yeah, life sucks sometimes" and go on with it - like most people.
And then we have people, who appear to have lived a very sheltered life, that get so pissed off that someone dared to touch *them* (the rulers of the universe) that they suicide just to make a point. Well, point taken, but a) some of us were already aware of the fact that police violence is not limited to criminals and b) in todays news it's not going to make a lasting impression, given the fact someone just upped the ante by shooting more than 10 police officers. That's a suicide too, but with a bigger frontpage.
I looked at the twitter stream. Maybe one single tweet that could be considered racist if you really worked at it, and didn't take it for an epithet used by someone about to commit suicide who may not have had them all together at the time. A lot of his older tweets seem those of someone who cared for the world, was engaged, didn't like racist policies, retweeted tweets about police violence and condemned it, etc.
Your -1 is well-deserved.
Not true. Let's get the ball rolling for Gary Johnson. Any issues that you might have can be overlooked when you consider that he is not Hillary or Trump.
By that reasoning you could vote in Ctulhu and it would be an improvement. I think I'd rather have Trump. At least he's human.
Hey, that could be a cool presidential poster: "Vote for X - at least (s)he's human!"
The social media in China are full of pump-and-dump scams, scaremongering, way overblown claims, false accusations and paranoid trips into the realm of fantasy (last week I read through an article that was removed from github of all places, about how Xi Jinping had an illegitimate brother that he later had killed). And it creates a vicious feedback cycle when newspapers copy the rumours from the social media pages as news, which then gets recycled with more fanciful additions as "published in the newspapers".
There is *also* news that is picked up about corruption, or other abuses, that would otherwise have never shown. Since it's no problem *under this law* when newspapers investigate the story and publish based on that, this law doesn't really hurt that. There are loads of other laws already in place to do just that :)
Yup. Non-anonymous posts from posters with decent karma (which you can get quite fast) start at +2. That means it takes more than just one moderator to remove them from view. Now, if you upset 3 moderators, you probably deserved it. I browse at -1 and it's a cesspool.
To discuss "The Palestinians" in the context of the ancient history is rather farfetched - under the Ottoman empire it is difficult to say whether the Palestinians identified themselves as Palestinians . Going into detail on your examples, Safed 1517 seems to be a case of anti-semitism during wartime, in the case of 1660 Tiberias/Safed it was the Druze who attacked, for reasons not immediately apparent. In modern times, Druze do not identify as Palestinians. Hebron 1834... was a case of a day of rape and pillage by an army after a 5 months siege, in which there were a grand total of 12 casualties. Calling that a massacre seems more a propaganda piece than a massacre. especially as the Arab population suffered over 500 casualties during that same day. But they don't really count in your examples, do they?
The 1929 riots are more interesting. To quote wikipedia: "The Shaw Commission found that the fundamental cause of the violence "without which in our opinion disturbances either would not occurred or would not have been little more than a local riot, is the Arab feeling of animosity and hostility towards the Jews consequent upon the disappointment of their political and national aspirations and fear for their economic future."[ It also attributed the cause as being Arab fears of Jewish immigrants "not only as a menace to their livelihood but as a possible overlord of the future."
With the benefit of hindsight we might say they had a point.
When Israel entirely withdrew from all Gaza settlements in 2005, they were immediately met with an increase of violence, not less.
Is that so strange? It is quite obvious to all involved why Israel withdrew: it would make it possible to stall peace negotiations for much longer, it would bottle the Palestines up in West Gaza, a much smaller area than the original plans show, and holding the settlements was politically impossible if Israel wanted to keep up relations with the rest of the world. This was realized by the Palestines as well.
So is there *any* reason to believe the Palestinians -- the same people who overwhelmingly support the government that holds this kind of shit [youtube.com] at their schools -- would stop attacking civilians if the settlements are disbanded?
There are loads of reasons to think that the attacks will *never* stop until the settlements are disbanded, for several reasons.
1) the settlers are responsible for a lot of violence themselves. They are a huge part of the problem as they depend economically on the conflict. They do not want peace and do everything possible to stir up trouble. Shutting down the settlements would be a very small first step in normalizing the situation.
2) the settlements use up a lot of water which is scarce in the area. They are connected by roads that the rest of the inhabitants are barred from even crossing, and occupy strategic areas with fertile lands.
3) It is a visible reminder of the fact the population is controlled by outside soldiers.
Removing the settlements won't stop the attacks on civilians (although it will stop attacks on settlements), but it is at least a start towards a solution.
As for Hamas, yeah, they're wankers. It's not as if Israeli politicians are immune to the hatred though: rabbi Dov Lior (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Lior) is at least as big a wanker as any member of Hamas.
The common thread for all these phone home vulnerabilities are all going to servers in China.
Nothing really happens there without the government's knowledge, and probable support.
There is a nice Chinese saying (Tian gao, Huangdi yuan) that basically says "Heaven is high and the emperor is far away". It's still very much in vogue. It means most Chinese know that as long as they don't draw attention, they can do a lot of things you might get arrested for - but won't. Demonstrating on Tianmen square is a good way to get that attention, but just being one of a gazillion small electric shops isn't.
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence.
I was worried. I mean, with this headline on slashdot slightly below this article, you could get worried. But I'm happy to hear I don't have to worry.
Yeah, nukes tend to do that.