Hong Kong is part of, but not the same as, the rest of China. Its local government is largely autonomous, operates its own border controls and customs service, and issues its own currency. If there's censorship, it's well hidden, as the local media tend to be quite critical of Beijing. HK is also outside the Great Firewall of China.
I've observed for myself on multiple occasions that Falun Gong post flyers and hold public gatherings freely in Hong Kong. You don't see that happening in Shenzhen.
If you watch CSI/NCIS they use information like this all the time without warrants so people believe that as much as they believe the government can scan photos and match/identify faces.
Spot on.
This is why I've quit watching such programmes. (To my regret, as I enjoyed the NCIS characters sometimes.) They are nothing more than cheerleading for the National Intelligence State.
Also, I'm more of the mind to develop technology and acquire wealth and resources so that I can one day actually have influence in the world, because I'll be more vested in the system that I currently want to protest but who knows how I'll feel by then.
Once they return to their positions of wealth and privilege in civilian life, and their hand-picked successors assume their places in the halls of power, you mean?
Oh, yeah, I'm sure that they're *very* worried about what happens then.
I'm sorry, was there a point to all this? Other than that you're apparently all up in the air over some little splinter group that would never field candidates in an election in any case?
The Petraeus business had nothing to do with being legal or not.
You cannot have a national director of intelligence sleeping around with the hired help, it turns him into a liability.
BTW, if he'd started the affair while still on active duty, he'd be liable for prosecution under the CMJ. (And while we're on the subject... It always seemed awfully fishy to me that everyone accepts the word of his biographer/paramour that the funny business didn't start until after he'd retired from active military service.)
Yes, they're monitoring calls that originate outside the US, just not calls whose caller and receiver are both outside the US...
Woohoo! Car analogy time:
I live in Sweden. (Glad Nationaldag till er alla!) My parents live in the US. (Happy D-Day anniversary, y'all.) My daughter lives in Australia. (Sorry, honey, I guess you just get a rainy day today.)
If I drive to visit my parents, the NSA get to watch my car, very place it goes, every moment of the trip, from the time I pull out of my garage in Stockholm until the time I park there again...
If, OTOH, I drive to visit my daughter, the NSA say they're completely uninterested in me or my car, even if I drive through the US to get there.
(So if this makes everything clear, why am I now scratching my head, and saying, "Uh, yeah. Right"?)
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Hong Kong is part of, but not the same as, the rest of China. Its local government is largely autonomous, operates its own border controls and customs service, and issues its own currency. If there's censorship, it's well hidden, as the local media tend to be quite critical of Beijing. HK is also outside the Great Firewall of China.
I've observed for myself on multiple occasions that Falun Gong post flyers and hold public gatherings freely in Hong Kong. You don't see that happening in Shenzhen.
Find yourself a well-padded sponsor who appears to share your political views.
From the way you go on about it in such gooey detail, it sounds like you're getting kind of excited yourself.
I call Troll.
If you watch CSI/NCIS they use information like this all the time without warrants so people believe that as much as they believe the government can scan photos and match/identify faces.
Spot on.
This is why I've quit watching such programmes. (To my regret, as I enjoyed the NCIS characters sometimes.) They are nothing more than cheerleading for the National Intelligence State.
Also, I'm more of the mind to develop technology and acquire wealth and resources so that I can one day actually have influence in the world, because I'll be more vested in the system that I currently want to protest but who knows how I'll feel by then.
Good luck with that.
We must bring all the divided factions of Slashdot into one big divided faction!
Our PCs have plenty of CPU cores that most of the time are 'bored'....
Just because you don't actually utilise your hardware, don't assume that the rest of don't, either.
"w/" has been in use since before computers became common. Next time, find something to complain about.
Do you think you can learn a new joke in time for your 13th birthday?
i've manipulated literally 10^6 rows in excel 2007 and windows 7
Right, I think I read about this great achievement somewhere recently. Might have been on Slashdot, can't recall for sure.
...there may be some ppl attempting to "manage" Microsoft's reputation (downwards) too.
That'd be a bit like "managing" water to be wet, don't you think?
Brave words from someone whose handle is about 1.5 decades behind Clever on the Hip-o-meter.
But since you've brought up the subject, my nick is a koan. When you understand it, you'll have achieved Illumination.
Once they return to their positions of wealth and privilege in civilian life, and their hand-picked successors assume their places in the halls of power, you mean?
Oh, yeah, I'm sure that they're *very* worried about what happens then.
You've little experience with organisations, then.
despair.com be ->-> thataway
I don't know what type of router you have but many do have scheduling capabilities.
BINGO.
A freaking consumer-grade Netgear router does this!!
(I can verify first-hand, as I just bought one about a week and a half ago.)
My kingdom for a mod point.
If it's not that big a deal, then you kids can just leave that metadata at home when you go over to play at Jimmy's.
He's certainly slimmer than Speer.
Göring is the gent in white on our left in the photo. Speer is on the other side of AH, to our right.
But thanks for playing.
title="The correct time according to your computer's timezone settings"
That wasn't so hard.
I'm sorry, was there a point to all this? Other than that you're apparently all up in the air over some little splinter group that would never field candidates in an election in any case?
What a fucking waste of time.
The Petraeus business had nothing to do with being legal or not.
You cannot have a national director of intelligence sleeping around with the hired help, it turns him into a liability.
BTW, if he'd started the affair while still on active duty, he'd be liable for prosecution under the CMJ. (And while we're on the subject... It always seemed awfully fishy to me that everyone accepts the word of his biographer/paramour that the funny business didn't start until after he'd retired from active military service.)
Its not as if jews weren't citizens of germany back in the second world war.
Not to nitpick, but--at least, according to the Nuremburg Laws--they were not.
Yes, they're monitoring calls that originate outside the US, just not calls whose caller and receiver are both outside the US...
Woohoo! Car analogy time:
I live in Sweden. (Glad Nationaldag till er alla!) My parents live in the US. (Happy D-Day anniversary, y'all.) My daughter lives in Australia. (Sorry, honey, I guess you just get a rainy day today.)
If I drive to visit my parents, the NSA get to watch my car, very place it goes, every moment of the trip, from the time I pull out of my garage in Stockholm until the time I park there again...
If, OTOH, I drive to visit my daughter, the NSA say they're completely uninterested in me or my car, even if I drive through the US to get there.
(So if this makes everything clear, why am I now scratching my head, and saying, "Uh, yeah. Right"?)
I could hardly get through the summary without puking.
Maybe it's some weird attempt at trolling, but I'm not hopeful.