Holy shit, the video doesn't just claim to be supported by the organization; it contains zero hint that it's a parody, at all. It looks very authentic...
When you can't tell the difference between parody and reality, you have to ask yourself if maybe reality have gotten too crazy...
Potentially more abuse prone than the H1B visa. Diploma mills are already a reality in many parts of the world, adding a green card as an incentive and the potential for abuse is immense.
Diploma mills aren't accredited... If they are they are typically more than mere mills:)
How would knowing about he order have affected anything?
What possible purpose could that gag order have served? It's not like Snowden or the rest of the world didn't know to stop trusting Lavabit.
The only motivation I can see is an attempt to avoid public outcry that is a gross abuse of power. The like of which is only seen in dictatorships under the heading of "political stability".
I guess we all knew the US had serious corruption issues, now the question is if anyone will be held accountable for this.
(I'm kidding of course: nobody will be held accountable, this is was free speech being suppressed not availability of fire arms)
Yeah, it's ridiculous that charged under the Espionage Act, clearly he did not intend to aid the enemy...
What enemy by the way, are we at war? I can't remember...
The goal with plea bargains is save court time, money, resources.
If your are locking someone up for more than 6 months, the money saved short term in the court case, is nothing compared to the cost of keeping someone incarcerated. Nor does the cost compare to the financial effects to the person who is locked up.
Plea bargains for minor traffic accidents and small things is fine. For cases that dramatically affects someones life, you don't compromise quality of judgement for a few bucks saved short term.
Laws were violated by the government installed to uphold them...
There is a very big difference between killing a bad guy and responsible public disclosure of government secrets..
After all it's just information.. yes, some information can be sensitive, but it rarely kills people. And in this case Snowden took many steps to be responsible about the disclosure. Read up on that last part.
There are in fact many cases where you can violate the law in order to protest some injustice.. It's called civil disobedience.
And if done responsibly, without weapons, in orderly fashion, without resorting to violence, then it is indeed an honorable manner to protest injustice.
There is absolutely no reason to throw the book at people for peaceful civil disobedience, regardless of whether or not you agree with them.
(I'm well, aware Snowdens actions can't be classified as civil disobedience; I'm exemplifying how one can honorably violate the law)
Justice is also not served by hamstringing the jury. The jury absolutely should be able to consider all aspects including whether it was in the public interest
Yep, better to die than to take the risk of dying...
Many immune deceases Chron's, UC, etc. aren't likely going to kill you. Full experimental immune system reboot might be a bit risky for those patients:)
- when people believe they can achieve risk avoidance, they completely fail at risk management
That argument goes both ways... take the question of whether or not colonoscopy is useful for screening cancer.
Avoiding or seeking to minimize risk is not easy... Please tell me what level of risk one should accept for diagnosis and treatment of annoying but largely manageable deceases like Chron's, UC, etc. ?
1/300 for major complication and possible disability? Or 1/10 ? or 1/10000 ?
It's super hard as a patient to know whether or not you should let a doctor do a procedure. I largely figure they aren't affected by financial incentives, yet, doctors can't help but be affected by the mindset of their specialization.
if you lose your phone they cannot use ApplePay without being able to use the fingerprint reader
Fingerprints are good for keeping you kids from buying stuff, but won't stop a motivated attacker any more than a pin code...
But right now, anything other than stupid credit cards with numbers you can read and use online, is super safer because attackers always target the weakest sheep.
So, this is a fancy RFID tag then? Basically, you wave your radio-barcode through the induction field and the payment terminal then goes online using the ring's serial number instead of your credit card number?
Ooh, future.
Don't be surprised if it turns out this thing does one-time-tokens or something like that... Meaning the thief will have to shake your hand and use the token immediately.
"I think a judge could take into account the usefulness of having had that national debate."
Under current laws, such an argument would not be allowed in front of a jury. Snowden have stated that he would return and face a jury of his peers if they were allowed to consider the utility of the public debate.
Let me guess--you're perfectly fine with abortion and a womyn's right to choose, but removing a murderous psychopath from society is "barbaric," right?
I'm not female so I reserve the right to not have an opinion about abortion.
Obviously, there is a line somewhere between fertilization and birth, but where I have no clue. And I respectfully leave the technicalities of defining such line to domain experts. As for whether or not all abortion should be prohibited on a precautionary principle, I leave that discussion to women in general, as I will never have to face such a dilemma on my body.
I assume your from one of those countries that brought things like the Guilotine, drawing and quartering, flaying or necklacing into practice.
I doubt those were invented in Denmark... But quiet confident we imported many such customs back in medieval times. Particularly for hunting witches, etc..
Honestly, though I don't feel honor bound by practices from hundreds of years ago.
In fact I think it's quiet acceptable to change ones practices and opinions.
But what if the USB flash drives were somehow attached to a turtle that was trained to swim back to the nearest airport?
Homing pigeons would me much faster... And we could use them as pets inside the cabin:)
Once in trouble you just open the window and set the pigeons free... What could possibly go wrong...
A dedicated lane for self-driving buses, vans, and taxis would be even cheaper.
Yeah, dedicated bus lanes could be rolled out in a matter of weeks, with nothing more than a few new road signs...
I don't even think they would need to be self-driving... And in China they ought to have the political power to do it.
Nobody is going to seriously complain in China...
If number of buses increased dramatically and all bus routes became bus-only lanes, they might even solve the smog and traffic issues they have.
All you'll see is piracy... which still exists because content providers doesn't have the same catalogs as in the US... It's often very hard to get a show legitimately.. Personally, I gave up piracy years ago, when Netflix and HBO became available in Europe. But if the catalog was to shrink or just not expand dramatically, there is no stopping piracy... People aren't going to buy DVDs...
The courts were very lenient on him, so no harm was done.
3 years suspended sentence is not lenient... This is a European country... Where unlike the US, doing a crime is not a life ending event.
On topic, "counterfeit police badge" is very bad... That said, I don't see how they got a search warrant in the first place, so he could probably go after them on the fact that such search warrant shouldn't have been issued.
Yeah, besides... How will destroying all known samples prevent the case of "cardboard box in a refrigerator" that we don't know about...
If that storage method was a surprise, the clearly efforts to burn all stored samples wouldn't have included that one..
Obviously, though we really should increase control, regulation and security around these things.
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Holy shit, the video doesn't just claim to be supported by the organization; it contains zero hint that it's a parody, at all. It looks very authentic...
When you can't tell the difference between parody and reality, you have to ask yourself if maybe reality have gotten too crazy...
Potentially more abuse prone than the H1B visa. Diploma mills are already a reality in many parts of the world, adding a green card as an incentive and the potential for abuse is immense.
Diploma mills aren't accredited... If they are they are typically more than mere mills :)
Combating repeat offenders with longer prison sentences, ie. essentially locking them up... is not a solution.
This is so misguided on so many levels, I don't even know where to start.
How would knowing about he order have affected anything?
What possible purpose could that gag order have served? It's not like Snowden or the rest of the world didn't know to stop trusting Lavabit.
The only motivation I can see is an attempt to avoid public outcry that is a gross abuse of power. The like of which is only seen in dictatorships under the heading of "political stability".
I guess we all knew the US had serious corruption issues, now the question is if anyone will be held accountable for this.
(I'm kidding of course: nobody will be held accountable, this is was free speech being suppressed not availability of fire arms)
...the Espionage Act...
Yeah, it's ridiculous that charged under the Espionage Act, clearly he did not intend to aid the enemy...
What enemy by the way, are we at war? I can't remember...
For cases that dramatically affects someones life, you don't compromise quality of judgement for a few bucks saved short term.
Well, in American you do... But not so much in the civilized world.
The goal with plea bargains is save court time, money, resources.
If your are locking someone up for more than 6 months, the money saved short term in the court case, is nothing compared to the cost of keeping someone incarcerated. Nor does the cost compare to the financial effects to the person who is locked up.
Plea bargains for minor traffic accidents and small things is fine. For cases that dramatically affects someones life, you don't compromise quality of judgement for a few bucks saved short term.
That's why vigilantism is illegal.
Laws were violated by the government installed to uphold them...
There is a very big difference between killing a bad guy and responsible public disclosure of government secrets..
After all it's just information.. yes, some information can be sensitive, but it rarely kills people. And in this case Snowden took many steps to be responsible about the disclosure. Read up on that last part.
There are in fact many cases where you can violate the law in order to protest some injustice.. It's called civil disobedience.
And if done responsibly, without weapons, in orderly fashion, without resorting to violence, then it is indeed an honorable manner to protest injustice.
There is absolutely no reason to throw the book at people for peaceful civil disobedience, regardless of whether or not you agree with them.
(I'm well, aware Snowdens actions can't be classified as civil disobedience; I'm exemplifying how one can honorably violate the law)
Justice is also not served by hamstringing the jury. The jury absolutely should be able to consider all aspects including whether it was in the public interest
Strongly agree :)
Yep, better to die than to take the risk of dying...
Many immune deceases Chron's, UC, etc. aren't likely going to kill you. Full experimental immune system reboot might be a bit risky for those patients :)
- when people believe they can achieve risk avoidance, they completely fail at risk management
That argument goes both ways... take the question of whether or not colonoscopy is useful for screening cancer.
Avoiding or seeking to minimize risk is not easy... Please tell me what level of risk one should accept for diagnosis and treatment of annoying but largely manageable deceases like Chron's, UC, etc. ?
1/300 for major complication and possible disability? Or 1/10 ? or 1/10000 ?
It's super hard as a patient to know whether or not you should let a doctor do a procedure. I largely figure they aren't affected by financial incentives, yet, doctors can't help but be affected by the mindset of their specialization.
It's also very cold... I wonder what that does for batteries :)
On topic: Norway gets a lot of things right!
if you lose your phone they cannot use ApplePay without being able to use the fingerprint reader
Fingerprints are good for keeping you kids from buying stuff, but won't stop a motivated attacker any more than a pin code...
But right now, anything other than stupid credit cards with numbers you can read and use online, is super safer because attackers always target the weakest sheep.
So, this is a fancy RFID tag then? Basically, you wave your radio-barcode through the induction field and the payment terminal then goes online using the ring's serial number instead of your credit card number?
Ooh, future.
Don't be surprised if it turns out this thing does one-time-tokens or something like that... Meaning the thief will have to shake your hand and use the token immediately.
China, Russia, yes... EU, US, please provide some evidence.
Oh, and we didn't really know that Russia did it before it was proven.
As far the deal cutting part that is bullshit. Justice is not served by some deal under the table! Whether or not you agree what with happened.
"I think a judge could take into account the usefulness of having had that national debate."
Under current laws, such an argument would not be allowed in front of a jury. Snowden have stated that he would return and face a jury of his peers if they were allowed to consider the utility of the public debate.
Let me guess--you're perfectly fine with abortion and a womyn's right to choose, but removing a murderous psychopath from society is "barbaric," right?
I'm not female so I reserve the right to not have an opinion about abortion.
Obviously, there is a line somewhere between fertilization and birth, but where I have no clue. And I respectfully leave the technicalities of defining such line to domain experts. As for whether or not all abortion should be prohibited on a precautionary principle, I leave that discussion to women in general, as I will never have to face such a dilemma on my body.
I assume your from one of those countries that brought things like the Guilotine, drawing and quartering, flaying or necklacing into practice.
I doubt those were invented in Denmark... But quiet confident we imported many such customs back in medieval times. Particularly for hunting witches, etc..
Honestly, though I don't feel honor bound by practices from hundreds of years ago.
In fact I think it's quiet acceptable to change ones practices and opinions.
So how is that relevant? (answer: it's not)
Fair point...
Not true - the OP said ORANGE :)
Yeah, it was really stupid to paint the box black :)
But what if the USB flash drives were somehow attached to a turtle that was trained to swim back to the nearest airport?
Homing pigeons would me much faster... And we could use them as pets inside the cabin :)
Once in trouble you just open the window and set the pigeons free... What could possibly go wrong...
A dedicated lane for self-driving buses, vans, and taxis would be even cheaper.
Yeah, dedicated bus lanes could be rolled out in a matter of weeks, with nothing more than a few new road signs...
I don't even think they would need to be self-driving... And in China they ought to have the political power to do it.
Nobody is going to seriously complain in China...
If number of buses increased dramatically and all bus routes became bus-only lanes, they might even solve the smog and traffic issues they have.
All you'll see is piracy... which still exists because content providers doesn't have the same catalogs as in the US... It's often very hard to get a show legitimately..
Personally, I gave up piracy years ago, when Netflix and HBO became available in Europe. But if the catalog was to shrink or just not expand dramatically, there is no stopping piracy... People aren't going to buy DVDs...
The courts were very lenient on him, so no harm was done.
3 years suspended sentence is not lenient... This is a European country... Where unlike the US, doing a crime is not a life ending event.
On topic, "counterfeit police badge" is very bad... That said, I don't see how they got a search warrant in the first place, so he could probably go after them on the fact that such search warrant shouldn't have been issued.
Yeah, besides... How will destroying all known samples prevent the case of "cardboard box in a refrigerator" that we don't know about...
If that storage method was a surprise, the clearly efforts to burn all stored samples wouldn't have included that one..
Obviously, though we really should increase control, regulation and security around these things.