i'd be surprised if diplomats from other countries don't talk about each other in as bitchy a manner as the americans do. it seems a bit naive to think having bitchings aired could spark an international incident - if anything it can help communication, now that both parties have a little bit less pretense they can talk more openly and productively.
if diplomats are prone to hurt feelings, they're REALLY in the wrong game.
of course, feigning offense and hurt can be good from a propaganda perspective.
on redaction, observations so far have shown that wikileaks have redacted more information than their traditional press counterparts.
aside from the sheer volume leaked, it seems safety per-leak has actually increased.
there's also the possibility of it still not making its way out of the testing gauntlet - they'll have tested it on tablets, and it'll no doubt run on phones, but if a user has a nightmare of a time getting it to work for their phone, Google suffers and more importantly the users suffer.
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just look at how efficient J Edgar Hoover was :)
haha! virgin.
No one is going to stop a troll, either.
No one is forcing you to read trollish posts.
Personally i like coming here to see who's stirring the shit.
you can expect big changes from a group that are working it all out as they go along...
i'd be surprised if diplomats from other countries don't talk about each other in as bitchy a manner as the americans do. it seems a bit naive to think having bitchings aired could spark an international incident - if anything it can help communication, now that both parties have a little bit less pretense they can talk more openly and productively.
if diplomats are prone to hurt feelings, they're REALLY in the wrong game.
of course, feigning offense and hurt can be good from a propaganda perspective.
on redaction, observations so far have shown that wikileaks have redacted more information than their traditional press counterparts.
aside from the sheer volume leaked, it seems safety per-leak has actually increased.
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12000 pound is a bit out of reach for your average basement-dwelling hacktivist.
it smacks of L Ron Hubbard's billion year sea org contracts... a really large number just to guarantee people don't defy you.
Assange really does need to get his paranoia and narcissism sorted out though - they are the two biggest forces working against Wikileaks right now.
the only music going in this game is by Toto.
the one time i tried a 7z only client (i presume the one made by the 7z people), it sucked badly.
you don't know how often you use shell integration until you lose it, or have to manually add it back in.
it's probably much better now, but i wouldn't know because it's so much quicker to install winrar.
because most PC users, when faced with a .7z file, will download winrar.
and when that happens, it's extra effort for bugger-all (none?) extra compression to make your own archives in 7z. so they end up in rar by default.
there's also the possibility of it still not making its way out of the testing gauntlet - they'll have tested it on tablets, and it'll no doubt run on phones, but if a user has a nightmare of a time getting it to work for their phone, Google suffers and more importantly the users suffer.
i would LOVE to see anonymous sue anybody for trademark infringement :)
or, perhaps i should register "anonymous" as a trademark and then sue random IPs?
not everywhere. and the burden of proof is on the defendant.
in Australia, truth is flat-out not a valid defense. you can still defame someone if you simply publicize something they're known to have done.
what do they lob?
mods = GOP members with no sense of humour.
nose - noose
the earth was quite warm when it was forming.
but i wouldn't want to live there.
people need to learn the difference between skepticism and downright rejection of any view that doesn't match their own.
exactly.
people were like "all the money and effort we spent to fix y2k, and nothing even happened? what a waste!"
it's the rule 34 of politics.
any issue that becomes politicized is doomed to failure.
i'm a fan of "whalecunt" myself.
and with rising sea temperatures, the whales will have less habitat.
>Either we're all already dead, or everything is great
how is that a dichotomy?
we're already dead, and everything is great.
i don't think nature really bothers with a null hypothesis.
maybe when you have a working climate model you can make a statement and know that it is true.
until then piss off.
less people means less CO2 emissions. hmmm.
they're smoking CO2
i'm pretty sure wires will play a major part in distribution of any alternative energy source. we've got plenty of those already built :)