Have to agree with you. I can't fall asleep to music: I can narrow focus to just the music (and so be 'relaxing' as opposed to multitasking)...but it hits a certain plateau and from there never reaches sleep. At this point it's the music that's keeping me awake.
Until they push for non-violent, non-contact sports. Then maybe non-compete sports too, so everyone wins..
Slippery slope? Not really, since I've heard people decry the previous sports in the past. Not basketball, but football? wrestling? hockey? Promotes violence amongst children!
I might have missed the point, but as I see it, the blackmail part of this is 'leaking to the world'. If the NSA verifies that the files they suspect stolen are in this, then sure they could try to go after wikileaks people - but with the archive widely disseminated, they'd have forfeited the game as the mirrors releases it in its entirety. The encryption just seems more to prevent premature release, as opposed to pretending the NSA has no idea what they have.
Believe that falls under moral relativism/presentism. Judging history through the lens of today, with the added hubris that today, we are the pinnacle of morality. For all we know, in 100 years we could be judged just as utterly barbaric and immoral, and things we hold right aren't considered such any more.
Of course this is all just a philosophical exercise, since we can't act based on an unknown future's view, nor can we change (or fully know) the past. All you can do is decide: do you reject everything before this generation as the product of moral decadent people; and if not, will you also you separate current works from their creator's beliefs, and judge the work on individual merit.
Welll...technically... wasn't 'peaceful' Alderaan hosting numerous rebel terrorist cells, and while a 'peaceful world' it had arms/supply depots for said rebels. Factor in that a large percentage of the populace joined the Rebellion, its senator was smuggling top secret information to hostiles...
Then when Death Star finally approached the system, a rebel fleet engages its escorts...
Surely a sign of seditious hotspot, and a member of the Axis of Terror that needed quelling. Alderaan may indeed have shot first.
I have. Lot more common in the 90s (you'd see it as a banner ads on download sites for cracked software-and I'm talking porn, not just naked children like some russian nudism thing), but it's still out there. Wouldn't call those sites 'dark internet' either, as an altavista search could pull them up.
More recently, remember that girl that did the 'my life sucks' then suicided? Uncensored autopsy pics got pulled up by Google- CP according to some definitions.
Still, totally agree with grandparent post - stopping the search aspect is like arresting drug buyers on the street rather than going for the dealers or growers. It's a feel-good PR move, but really isn't accomplishing anything. Suppose though as a private entity it's the limit Google *CAN* do - with all the real stuff being 'non-searchable dark internet' to begin with:P
Though..an algorithm. Maa..won't someone think of the flat loliesque porn stars? First Australia now Google...:D
Flash forward 60 years of push-o-war: global drought in the northern and southern hemispheres...with a towering curtain of water banding the equator...
If I remember correctly, china wouldn't sign if they let taiwan sign, and taiwan didn't hold itself accountable for if china signed. If you wanted your IP protected in taiwan you had to do a release/production there (believe some Japanese artists and such would do a limited on just to get protection from companies like SonMay).
End result: it's only illegal if it is prohibited by law, and it (foreign IP) wasn't recognised there.
No clue it's validity, but...like most opinions.. someone somewhere will have done a study supporting it, regardless how ludicrous it seems.
Personal anecdote- when CFLs were first coming out I've watched people mutter 'fuck the environment' when seeing CLFs on the shelf, but they were cheapskates, not actually political about it:D
If for instance someone ELSE uses your email for facebook, and you want to report that to facebook, they demand government ID and the like faxed to them to prove you're you (though how that's relevant to being the owner of the email I will never guess). Also, some korean mmos I've played required you to use your korean social security number to make an account: even locking your gender to your real gender.
Don't forget the backseat driver: "You're too close! Slow down! Why are you only doing 30? You realise this lane ends right?". That's a whole different sort of 'feedback' than wanted.
Think there is some zennish phrase or such about measuring a man by his enemies or such. Pick up a baby out of his crib, typical day. Pick up a baby out of a a burning airplane, hero. It isn't so much the action, but what was overcome to do the action. Stength of will, perseverance, mind over body, face of adversity etc etc etc. From there they glean satisfaction, glory, a sense of accomplishment: I beat that.
That or they are all just loopy masochists. Either or:P
Hm. Think here (Ontario, Canada) a flashing green indicates you have an advanced green, and so can make left turns with impunity, as the oncoming traffic is still at a red. The light flashes green for a few seconds, then goes solid as it's now green for both directions.
Like a green left-arrow, but with permission to go straight through as well.
Just make yellow lights have a mandatory length of time that's not too short.. say 7 seconds in towns and 11 or so on highways, and allow them to be adjusted LONGER for conditions, but never shorter.
Curiously: doesn't google via advertisments, monetize videos? Do they not have an agreement with the uploader that they (the uploader) has rights to the video, and are allowing google to run the ads? So couldn't google make a claim for interference, akin to tortious interference? Now couple with how many views a fresh video of an accident can accrue... that sounds like damages to me.
How the hell can you even test the students on it then? Anything that starts with an I.D. doing it would be right.
Q: How did life appear on earth?
A: A wizard did it
Q: Planets, continents, animals, telemarketers. What order were they created in?
A: Simultaneously, but in various times periods with artificial evidence of age.
If they can't specify a specific faith of it, or belief, anything beyond 'something made stuff' seems... well... unfalsifiable, incapable of being tested. What do you teach and how do you mark? Worst part is if the children were capable of choosing which to 'learn'... plenty would go the route of 'least homework and tests'.
If it's best left ambiguous, wouldn't it be better served offloaded to their churches to give them their respective dogma? Where it could be done in great detail, without wasting school time and money? It's not even exposure to alternate beliefs then if you can't espouse said beliefs in class but must remain generic. Plus, if they don't go to their respective churchs, do they really have their respective beliefs? (Think most religions have you attend some building for some service or another, at least occasionally.)
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Have to agree with you. I can't fall asleep to music: I can narrow focus to just the music (and so be 'relaxing' as opposed to multitasking)...but it hits a certain plateau and from there never reaches sleep. At this point it's the music that's keeping me awake.
For background noise, just leave a fan on.
Until they push for non-violent, non-contact sports. Then maybe non-compete sports too, so everyone wins..
Slippery slope? Not really, since I've heard people decry the previous sports in the past. Not basketball, but football? wrestling? hockey? Promotes violence amongst children!
Isreal could stand to gain...but depending which rebel faction would rise to the top afterwords, it could be a loss. A nice western-puppet though...
Well as long as it's over the internet then there is no expectation of privacy so it's all good right?
Just a quick guess... but prisoners have more than one organ?
Right, but to what end? Leak it themselves?
I might have missed the point, but as I see it, the blackmail part of this is 'leaking to the world'. If the NSA verifies that the files they suspect stolen are in this, then sure they could try to go after wikileaks people - but with the archive widely disseminated, they'd have forfeited the game as the mirrors releases it in its entirety. The encryption just seems more to prevent premature release, as opposed to pretending the NSA has no idea what they have.
This just feels like it's moving into 'end game'.
*snicker* took a moment to click, but good one
cue Veggie Rights
But is it still regicide if you weren't a subject?
Oh no! Don't take Quebec! Take ANYWHERE but Quebec you barbarians you!
:P
Psst. any chance you can take Harper while you're at it too? We'll add in a few dozen cases of maple syrup and bacon
Believe that falls under moral relativism/presentism. Judging history through the lens of today, with the added hubris that today, we are the pinnacle of morality.
For all we know, in 100 years we could be judged just as utterly barbaric and immoral, and things we hold right aren't considered such any more.
Of course this is all just a philosophical exercise, since we can't act based on an unknown future's view, nor can we change (or fully know) the past. All you can do is decide: do you reject everything before this generation as the product of moral decadent people; and if not, will you also you separate current works from their creator's beliefs, and judge the work on individual merit.
Welll...technically... wasn't 'peaceful' Alderaan hosting numerous rebel terrorist cells, and while a 'peaceful world' it had arms/supply depots for said rebels. Factor in that a large percentage of the populace joined the Rebellion, its senator was smuggling top secret information to hostiles...
Then when Death Star finally approached the system, a rebel fleet engages its escorts...
Surely a sign of seditious hotspot, and a member of the Axis of Terror that needed quelling. Alderaan may indeed have shot first.
*still trying to figure which one of those are circumvented by 'kaltrops' . Slows glacial advancement by 1/2 ? :P
I have. Lot more common in the 90s (you'd see it as a banner ads on download sites for cracked software-and I'm talking porn, not just naked children like some russian nudism thing), but it's still out there. Wouldn't call those sites 'dark internet' either, as an altavista search could pull them up.
:P
:D
More recently, remember that girl that did the 'my life sucks' then suicided? Uncensored autopsy pics got pulled up by Google- CP according to some definitions.
Still, totally agree with grandparent post - stopping the search aspect is like arresting drug buyers on the street rather than going for the dealers or growers. It's a feel-good PR move, but really isn't accomplishing anything. Suppose though as a private entity it's the limit Google *CAN* do - with all the real stuff being 'non-searchable dark internet' to begin with
Though..an algorithm. Maa..won't someone think of the flat loliesque porn stars? First Australia now Google...
Flash forward 60 years of push-o-war: global drought in the northern and southern hemispheres...with a towering curtain of water banding the equator...
It wasn't illegal. Signatories to IP agreements.
If I remember correctly, china wouldn't sign if they let taiwan sign, and taiwan didn't hold itself accountable for if china signed. If you wanted your IP protected in taiwan you had to do a release/production there (believe some Japanese artists and such would do a limited on just to get protection from companies like SonMay).
End result: it's only illegal if it is prohibited by law, and it (foreign IP) wasn't recognised there.
Here ya go: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/04/26/1218453110
:D
(Google search: conservatives stigma 'green' environmentalism hate CFL )
No clue it's validity, but...like most opinions.. someone somewhere will have done a study supporting it, regardless how ludicrous it seems.
Personal anecdote- when CFLs were first coming out I've watched people mutter 'fuck the environment' when seeing CLFs on the shelf, but they were cheapskates, not actually political about it
Why is it seeming so farfetched?
If for instance someone ELSE uses your email for facebook, and you want to report that to facebook, they demand government ID and the like faxed to them to prove you're you (though how that's relevant to being the owner of the email I will never guess). Also, some korean mmos I've played required you to use your korean social security number to make an account: even locking your gender to your real gender.
It's been done/required.
Already done :P
Don't forget the backseat driver: "You're too close! Slow down! Why are you only doing 30? You realise this lane ends right?".
That's a whole different sort of 'feedback' than wanted.
Think there is some zennish phrase or such about measuring a man by his enemies or such.
:P
Pick up a baby out of his crib, typical day. Pick up a baby out of a a burning airplane, hero. It isn't so much the action, but what was overcome to do the action. Stength of will, perseverance, mind over body, face of adversity etc etc etc. From there they glean satisfaction, glory, a sense of accomplishment: I beat that.
That or they are all just loopy masochists. Either or
Luckily, the UK won the War of Independence and no longer have to listen to the prattle of uppity colonists and their opinions on 'legal rights' :P
Hm. Think here (Ontario, Canada) a flashing green indicates you have an advanced green, and so can make left turns with impunity, as the oncoming traffic is still at a red. The light flashes green for a few seconds, then goes solid as it's now green for both directions.
Like a green left-arrow, but with permission to go straight through as well.
Just make yellow lights have a mandatory length of time that's not too short.. say 7 seconds in towns and 11 or so on highways, and allow them to be adjusted LONGER for conditions, but never shorter.
Curiously: doesn't google via advertisments, monetize videos? Do they not have an agreement with the uploader that they (the uploader) has rights to the video, and are allowing google to run the ads? So couldn't google make a claim for interference, akin to tortious interference? Now couple with how many views a fresh video of an accident can accrue... that sounds like damages to me.
How the hell can you even test the students on it then? Anything that starts with an I.D. doing it would be right.
Q: How did life appear on earth?
A: A wizard did it
Q: Planets, continents, animals, telemarketers. What order were they created in?
A: Simultaneously, but in various times periods with artificial evidence of age.
If they can't specify a specific faith of it, or belief, anything beyond 'something made stuff' seems... well... unfalsifiable, incapable of being tested. What do you teach and how do you mark? Worst part is if the children were capable of choosing which to 'learn'... plenty would go the route of 'least homework and tests'.
If it's best left ambiguous, wouldn't it be better served offloaded to their churches to give them their respective dogma? Where it could be done in great detail, without wasting school time and money? It's not even exposure to alternate beliefs then if you can't espouse said beliefs in class but must remain generic. Plus, if they don't go to their respective churchs, do they really have their respective beliefs? (Think most religions have you attend some building for some service or another, at least occasionally.)