Perhaps China isn't planning to beat you militarily. They seem to be doing quite well at destroying your economy without firing a single round. Encouraging you to burn more money on this c**p is just what they want.
And who says it's China you need to worry about? It's probably somewhere that nobody has even thought of...
The map does not include the UK. The US funded the IRA for a long time and only claims to have stopped once they found that other terrorists were not too fond of them. How many civilians did the IRA kill before they were persuaded to give up because the policy had changed?
That wasn't the CIA or even US government policy you say? Sure...
Saddam did not do a thing to the US and never had the ability to send Scuds beyond his immediate neighbours. If he had WMDs and stuff, someone would have dug them up before the illegal invasion. There was nothing there and those at the top knew it and lied about it.
Iran has some Chinese stuff that is not much better. Most of its aggression is used against its own people and a few countries around it. Politicians complain when idiots confuse nuclear power plants with bombs and protest against them. Now they do the same with Iran. Stupid!
North Korea seems to be the odd one out here. Not only does their leadership really hate us but they are actually doing more than just trying to protect themselves, Their problem is that they have spent so long destroying their part of the country in revenge for not being able to destroy it all that they have no great power beyond a huge conventional military that doubtless has so many commissars and secret agents that it makes Stalin's Soviet army seem like a bunch of hippies on a day out.
Keep an eye out for danger. That is what they get a lot of money for. If you keep lying about what we know is untrue, how will we know when the danger is real?
What kind of paper do you use in newspaper where you live?
A lot of/. readers will be familiar with termites. These handy creatures will put your paper through the natural recycling process as soon as they can get at it. If you don't have termites, there will be plenty other bugs willing to do the job and "bugs" goes from beetles to bacteria.
When I see 3rd world waste tips on the TV, there always seems to be fires burning. I imagine this may happen on landfills nearer home. That takes very little time either. If paper is left in a hole and gets wet, it will break down really quick too. It's biological...
You cannot be guilty (or innocent) of an investigation. You might be innocent of the charge but that is not the question. Did they impede an official investigation?
What would happen if someone saw the police taking pictures and measuring stuff (an investiagtion) and went over and delibarately got in their way because they are an idiot?
They would be liable to be arrested even though they had nothing to do with what was being investigated. They were impeding an official investigation.
Why should Google be exempt? I like Google and usetheir stuff. I don't think $25k is a big deal to them anyway.
I have heard one paranoid assertion about IP6 which said that the reason it was being pushed so enthusiastically is that every device in the world will gets its own address. With a GUID on all traffic, everything is traceable and MAFIAA and the spooks are happy.
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Does anybody at the company you work for have that kind of access to customer data?
Yes
Can you ensure they won't abuse that access?
No, but I can tell you that if they do, they will have a bad time.
Will your company hand over the data every time some official turns up with any scrap of paper demanding access?
I have seen Middle ranking police officers try and be turned down flat by very junior people. Normal police know better and senior ones don't go out much. If you want stuff, you will go through the whole process of law. I have my doubts that spooks do that though...
I am not too worried that Google has some poems and a 25% written novel of mine. It does not have my medical records or anything remotely private. The US concept of privacy does not match that of many other places. We are supposed to have a "safe harbour" agreement with the USA. Nobody believes in it. The only data that seems to make its way accross the Atlantic if from Airlines and perhaps the banks. People know that we have to sort those leaks out too.
Some people in the USA seem to think that the rest of the world owes them eternal hosannas for something that their great grandparents did.,BR>
Some people outside the USA think that just as you can no longer blame Germans for what was done there up to 1945, you do not thank people in the US for what their country reluctantly got into in 1941.
The USA has no jurisdiction anywhere outside its own territories. Having people who have broken no laws in their own countries (which are supposed to be allies not vassals) forcibly taken to the USA for show trials should be compared to that misused concept of "terrorism".
When I was 6, my father got a job in Nigeria. I remember being the only person in school (pupils or staff) who was not a Nigerian. After a couple of days, I learned that there was a racial divide there and I was asked which group I wanted to include myself in. I had the choice of Hausa or Yoruba. As I had already made friends with a couple of Hausa kids, I stuck with them. Can you guess what kind of a conflict I had entered? I was picking which team I would be in in playground football games!
Whenever someone talks to me about being in a minority, I tell them "been there, done that". Those kids were no different from me although they did use me as a pronunciation guide in their English classes. There will be people my age there with black skins and Scottish accents!
The main possibly racist points in the article seem to be
(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.
(11) The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites.
I cannot think of any valid explanation for 10g but I would want to see statistics for 11 and I am sure that there will be people who could explain them away anyway. He did not give any references I saw so he wasn't even trying. Your kids don't need references but an article does.
Perhaps opponents of this will just start to encourage encryption of all communications - even if they have "nothing to hide". As has been said many times before, it would be a bit like sealing the envelopes containing your personal and business correspondence.
The fact that your constitution is newer means that it is more likely to take into account things that have happened since the 18th century.
The fact that it was not put into place by infallible individuals long ago means that you might be able to change it significantly without someone having to do comparative textual analysis like theologians do on the Bible.
Will it cause you any trouble if it turns out that the people who played major parts in its creation were not perfect and had issues? I suspect not. I have seen some people squirm when they learn that some of their "founding fathers" kept slaves, had affairs, questionable business dealings and were not purer than the driven snow.
Various people in my country's history were extremely dodgy. That is history. I would like some better ones nowadays though.
Because there are many things to see and do.
Because holidaymakers and everyone else have a much lower chance of being shot there.
Because the food is better.
Because it is not stuffed quite so full of idiots who feel that the world owes them its unquestioning obedience.
Because they not only have right wing politicians like yours, they have left wing ones which you don't. (Democrats are centre-right)
Because, with one partial exception, they don't use junk medieval measurement systems.
I understand that they are quite happy if the foreigners in question are white anglo saxon christians with plenty of money and politics that would be considered very extreme right-wing elsewhere.
They might even consider them for state governor if they have done enough bodybuilding.
I work in IT in a hospital. We are seriously enthusiastic about security. Sometimes our users need a little encouragement though. Any job I apply for in the future will probably be in the same sort of place so I not only have to take this stuff seriously, I have to be seen to take it seriously.
The problem with this all is that I tend to ensure against my contingencies having contingencies!.
Actually, it is probably simpler for me. I am in the UK. We have a few more laws than you about data confidentiality. I would just tell them what parts of the UK and EU data protection laws they were breaking by asking the question in the first place...
My solution is to first try and assume that this was a test of my attitude towards IT security, I point out that as someone who has worked in IT for a long time, I am well aware that sharing passwords is a bad thing and doubtless against their IT policies as well.
If that does not work, I offer to log in for them.
If that fails, I let them see what is there and then change the password if that won't get me into trouble.
My final solution is to unfriend everyone and let the account wither. Perhaps I will start a new account and perhaps not. Google Plus is more interesting anyway.
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That is why there is such a thing as a footbridge. Or are they only known outside where you live?
There is a difference between questioning and dissent - unless you are intolerant.
Science needs everything questioned. It does not need the very basis of arithmetic, like 1+1=2, denied. That would be silly.
In the UK, one of the things that can happen is you commit suicide.
Perhaps China isn't planning to beat you militarily. They seem to be doing quite well at destroying your economy without firing a single round. Encouraging you to burn more money on this c**p is just what they want.
And who says it's China you need to worry about? It's probably somewhere that nobody has even thought of...
The map does not include the UK. The US funded the IRA for a long time and only claims to have stopped once they found that other terrorists were not too fond of them. How many civilians did the IRA kill before they were persuaded to give up because the policy had changed?
That wasn't the CIA or even US government policy you say? Sure...
Suddam, Iran, or NoKo
Saddam did not do a thing to the US and never had the ability to send Scuds beyond his immediate neighbours. If he had WMDs and stuff, someone would have dug them up before the illegal invasion. There was nothing there and those at the top knew it and lied about it.
Iran has some Chinese stuff that is not much better. Most of its aggression is used against its own people and a few countries around it. Politicians complain when idiots confuse nuclear power plants with bombs and protest against them. Now they do the same with Iran. Stupid!
North Korea seems to be the odd one out here. Not only does their leadership really hate us but they are actually doing more than just trying to protect themselves, Their problem is that they have spent so long destroying their part of the country in revenge for not being able to destroy it all that they have no great power beyond a huge conventional military that doubtless has so many commissars and secret agents that it makes Stalin's Soviet army seem like a bunch of hippies on a day out.
Keep an eye out for danger. That is what they get a lot of money for. If you keep lying about what we know is untrue, how will we know when the danger is real?
The majority of the country does not control a business nor have a vote in a union
Then join a union. Then you will have just such a vote.
What kind of paper do you use in newspaper where you live?
A lot of /. readers will be familiar with termites. These handy creatures will put your paper through the natural recycling process as soon as they can get at it. If you don't have termites, there will be plenty other bugs willing to do the job and "bugs" goes from beetles to bacteria.
When I see 3rd world waste tips on the TV, there always seems to be fires burning. I imagine this may happen on landfills nearer home. That takes very little time either. If paper is left in a hole and gets wet, it will break down really quick too. It's biological...
You cannot be guilty (or innocent) of an investigation. You might be innocent of the charge but that is not the question. Did they impede an official investigation?
What would happen if someone saw the police taking pictures and measuring stuff (an investiagtion) and went over and delibarately got in their way because they are an idiot?
They would be liable to be arrested even though they had nothing to do with what was being investigated. They were impeding an official investigation.
Why should Google be exempt? I like Google and usetheir stuff. I don't think $25k is a big deal to them anyway.
I have heard one paranoid assertion about IP6 which said that the reason it was being pushed so enthusiastically is that every device in the world will gets its own address. With a GUID on all traffic, everything is traceable and MAFIAA and the spooks are happy.
discuss
My understanding is that not everyone in the USA has a SIM in their phone. Am I correct?
Does anybody at the company you work for have that kind of access to customer data?
Yes
Can you ensure they won't abuse that access?
No, but I can tell you that if they do, they will have a bad time.
Will your company hand over the data every time some official turns up with any scrap of paper demanding access?
I have seen Middle ranking police officers try and be turned down flat by very junior people. Normal police know better and senior ones don't go out much. If you want stuff, you will go through the whole process of law. I have my doubts that spooks do that though...
I am not too worried that Google has some poems and a 25% written novel of mine. It does not have my medical records or anything remotely private. The US concept of privacy does not match that of many other places. We are supposed to have a "safe harbour" agreement with the USA. Nobody believes in it. The only data that seems to make its way accross the Atlantic if from Airlines and perhaps the banks. People know that we have to sort those leaks out too.
Reassuringly, that comment now shows up as +5 informative. I don't know if your comment helped but it is the one at -1.
Well done ./!
Probably not. Life is dangerous enough without getting shot in the land of the BCS.
Some people in the USA seem to think that the rest of the world owes them eternal hosannas for something that their great grandparents did.,BR> Some people outside the USA think that just as you can no longer blame Germans for what was done there up to 1945, you do not thank people in the US for what their country reluctantly got into in 1941.
The USA has no jurisdiction anywhere outside its own territories. Having people who have broken no laws in their own countries (which are supposed to be allies not vassals) forcibly taken to the USA for show trials should be compared to that misused concept of "terrorism".
When I was 6, my father got a job in Nigeria. I remember being the only person in school (pupils or staff) who was not a Nigerian. After a couple of days, I learned that there was a racial divide there and I was asked which group I wanted to include myself in. I had the choice of Hausa or Yoruba. As I had already made friends with a couple of Hausa kids, I stuck with them. Can you guess what kind of a conflict I had entered? I was picking which team I would be in in playground football games!
Whenever someone talks to me about being in a minority, I tell them "been there, done that". Those kids were no different from me although they did use me as a pronunciation guide in their English classes. There will be people my age there with black skins and Scottish accents!
The main possibly racist points in the article seem to be
(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.
(11) The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites.
I cannot think of any valid explanation for 10g but I would want to see statistics for 11 and I am sure that there will be people who could explain them away anyway. He did not give any references I saw so he wasn't even trying. Your kids don't need references but an article does.
Perhaps opponents of this will just start to encourage encryption of all communications - even if they have "nothing to hide". As has been said many times before, it would be a bit like sealing the envelopes containing your personal and business correspondence.
"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him."
Cardinal Richelieu
It doesn't seem to be working too well any more.
The fact that your constitution is newer means that it is more likely to take into account things that have happened since the 18th century.
The fact that it was not put into place by infallible individuals long ago means that you might be able to change it significantly without someone having to do comparative textual analysis like theologians do on the Bible.
Will it cause you any trouble if it turns out that the people who played major parts in its creation were not perfect and had issues? I suspect not. I have seen some people squirm when they learn that some of their "founding fathers" kept slaves, had affairs, questionable business dealings and were not purer than the driven snow.
Various people in my country's history were extremely dodgy. That is history. I would like some better ones nowadays though.
that she is really glad she is in the USA where there is a 200 year old document based on 300 year old philosophies to protect her liberty.
Because there are many things to see and do.
Because holidaymakers and everyone else have a much lower chance of being shot there.
Because the food is better.
Because it is not stuffed quite so full of idiots who feel that the world owes them its unquestioning obedience.
Because they not only have right wing politicians like yours, they have left wing ones which you don't. (Democrats are centre-right)
Because, with one partial exception, they don't use junk medieval measurement systems.
Is that a good start?
I understand that they are quite happy if the foreigners in question are white anglo saxon christians with plenty of money and politics that would be considered very extreme right-wing elsewhere.
They might even consider them for state governor if they have done enough bodybuilding.
My FB profile has nothing on it.
I work in IT in a hospital. We are seriously enthusiastic about security. Sometimes our users need a little encouragement though. Any job I apply for in the future will probably be in the same sort of place so I not only have to take this stuff seriously, I have to be seen to take it seriously.
The problem with this all is that I tend to ensure against my contingencies having contingencies!.
Actually, it is probably simpler for me. I am in the UK. We have a few more laws than you about data confidentiality. I would just tell them what parts of the UK and EU data protection laws they were breaking by asking the question in the first place...
My solution is to first try and assume that this was a test of my attitude towards IT security, I point out that as someone who has worked in IT for a long time, I am well aware that sharing passwords is a bad thing and doubtless against their IT policies as well.
If that does not work, I offer to log in for them.
If that fails, I let them see what is there and then change the password if that won't get me into trouble.
My final solution is to unfriend everyone and let the account wither. Perhaps I will start a new account and perhaps not. Google Plus is more interesting anyway.