Well, it can not be their doing, it must be governments or corrupt bankers or regulation. The free market can adjust around everything! Well, except people.
Phone call? They probably do not even need that. I would not be surprised if they simply send bulk lists to phone companies to be filled in or pay PIs to find out (the FBI has been caught getting around warrant requirements that way).
Yeah, but 'suggestive' is all that is needed to potentially make someone's life difficult. As a society we put a lot of emotional stock in 'red flags' that indicate someone is a threat, and are quick to take very limited information and combine it with some authority or socially reenforced magic 8 ball and conclude that 'something is wrong there'.
It is almost worth having all my other comments nulled out just to mod this up. This is exactly the problem with information being too public. In an ideal world we would all have nothing to hide, but in reality stereotypes and biases are rampant, with plenty of people perfectly happy to make your life miserable for failing to conform to norms they hold.
That is why straw men are such a useful rhetorical device. It is so much easier to get the supporters of your party or platform to dig in their heels and be suspicious when they believe they are fighting something simple and extreme.
I do not see any reason why the BTC protocol itself could not be adapted and adopted with some kind of backing. It really does open up some really good options when it comes to moving tokens around and the push oriented payments could do wonder for combating CC fraud.
Comcast bought up hundreds if not thousands of smaller local ISPs and cobbled their networks together. so hardware policies are highly dependent on where you are and what the history of the local connection is. Even if it is over broadband that Comcast laid down, the back end could be any number of fragments of previous companies.
In general people have a difficult time picturing life different from the one they live. Look at all the arguments over requiring a picture ID for voting, people could not picture how one could live without ID, pointing out all the "things everyone has/done" that require one, yet in some states as much as 10% of the population does not have one.
That assumes that the coins were actually transferred. If they simply walked off with the private keys for the cold storage wallets, they would not need to actually move the coins anywhere, they can just take the whole damn thing.
That tends to be one of the holes in the anti-bank chain of thought, how to get loans. Though the more ironic group are the ones that hate banks because they foreclosed on 'their' house, setting aside that someone else paid for it.
The person might have been talking about asset seizure as part of a criminal investigation, which after the various Silk Road arrests many have focused on as 'government theft' under the idea that money made via commission of a crime is still 'theirs'... or at minimal anything that generates a profit is inherently ethical because it shows demand and if there is demand then it must be ethical.
Thing is we are not talking about subsistence prioritization, we are talking about water's usage in what is essentially a luxury industry, an industry that is driving up the cost of everything else in the process. In this case, if we are going to 'prioritize humans' then that is it, humans will consume as much as they can and leave nothing, so there is no point where humans are 'done' and resources can be diverted for preservation.
As for the poor being hardest hit, that is not the fault of the drought, that is the fault of the middle class. Cheap beef raises water consumption and prices of everything else.
Yeah, but baring the costs of your actions is pretty out of fashion. Right now american ethos is built around the idea of protecting yourself from others and controlling your own fate. However how you impact others is considered their own fault for not stopping you, thus it is considered ethical for the oil industry to do whatever it likes as long as it is its own master and it is the fault of the people hurt by it because they are immorally poor and weak enough to not move.
The EPA actually stopping something? You are kidding, right? They are little more then a rubber stamping boogie man that exists as a political punching bag. For actually protecting the environment from anyone with enough cash they are useless.
Yeah, but you forget how "personal responsibility" works in the US. You would think that the owners and operators of these plants should take personal responsibility for their actions and the damage done by them skirting the rules, but that is not the American ethos. Personal responsibility is your ability to drive your own fate, not how you impact others. Therefor the blame here lies on the people who were too poor to live further away from the tracks. The owners acted ethically since they managed to not be hurt by those pesky laws and still earned a bunch of money.
In the case of the Puritans at least, yes, it is accurate. That 'hostile political climate' was the state preventing the Puritans from enforcing religious law on their communities and refusing to do what they wanted. They were entitled bastards who considered inability to persecute to be persecution. You can see their attitude still rampant in US politics, which is probably why it is so important for people to remember them as seeking freedom.
But the actual threatening, the actual hostile environment? Classic 'how dare you curb our freedom to curb other people's freedoms, we follow god!'.
That was my thought too. This is not exactly a tech savvy organization that did a lot of in house work. If this is not sorted out it could set a worrying precedent that hacking groups that have limited resources can really hurt them, esp since even well funded ones are rarely able to fend off a dedicated attacker with a profit motive or agenda.
That is my thought. Non-profits like this generally depend on the contractors to have done their job right since their limited resources tend to be focused on their mission.
I think they are saying the person was "A"nonymouse, so the self identity. The hacker in question was specifically interested in anti-abortion activism when targeting the site.
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Yeah, but one side has the ability to mysteriously disappear the recordings while the other does not.
Well, it can not be their doing, it must be governments or corrupt bankers or regulation. The free market can adjust around everything! Well, except people.
Phone call? They probably do not even need that. I would not be surprised if they simply send bulk lists to phone companies to be filled in or pay PIs to find out (the FBI has been caught getting around warrant requirements that way).
Yeah, but 'suggestive' is all that is needed to potentially make someone's life difficult. As a society we put a lot of emotional stock in 'red flags' that indicate someone is a threat, and are quick to take very limited information and combine it with some authority or socially reenforced magic 8 ball and conclude that 'something is wrong there'.
It is almost worth having all my other comments nulled out just to mod this up. This is exactly the problem with information being too public. In an ideal world we would all have nothing to hide, but in reality stereotypes and biases are rampant, with plenty of people perfectly happy to make your life miserable for failing to conform to norms they hold.
That is why straw men are such a useful rhetorical device. It is so much easier to get the supporters of your party or platform to dig in their heels and be suspicious when they believe they are fighting something simple and extreme.
I am thinking to a while back when gun owners were outraged at the idea of the addresses of anyone with a registered fire arm being made public.
Even if you are not ashamed of what you are doing, one can still fear potential repercussions and thus 'outed' sounds about right.
Reasonably minds rarely make the claim that only people who agree with them are reasonable.
I do not see any reason why the BTC protocol itself could not be adapted and adopted with some kind of backing. It really does open up some really good options when it comes to moving tokens around and the push oriented payments could do wonder for combating CC fraud.
Comcast bought up hundreds if not thousands of smaller local ISPs and cobbled their networks together. so hardware policies are highly dependent on where you are and what the history of the local connection is. Even if it is over broadband that Comcast laid down, the back end could be any number of fragments of previous companies.
And they are generally the same judges. When a context changes, reinterpretation and upholding are in the eye of the beholder.
In general people have a difficult time picturing life different from the one they live. Look at all the arguments over requiring a picture ID for voting, people could not picture how one could live without ID, pointing out all the "things everyone has/done" that require one, yet in some states as much as 10% of the population does not have one.
That assumes that the coins were actually transferred. If they simply walked off with the private keys for the cold storage wallets, they would not need to actually move the coins anywhere, they can just take the whole damn thing.
That tends to be one of the holes in the anti-bank chain of thought, how to get loans. Though the more ironic group are the ones that hate banks because they foreclosed on 'their' house, setting aside that someone else paid for it.
The person might have been talking about asset seizure as part of a criminal investigation, which after the various Silk Road arrests many have focused on as 'government theft' under the idea that money made via commission of a crime is still 'theirs'... or at minimal anything that generates a profit is inherently ethical because it shows demand and if there is demand then it must be ethical.
Thing is we are not talking about subsistence prioritization, we are talking about water's usage in what is essentially a luxury industry, an industry that is driving up the cost of everything else in the process. In this case, if we are going to 'prioritize humans' then that is it, humans will consume as much as they can and leave nothing, so there is no point where humans are 'done' and resources can be diverted for preservation.
As for the poor being hardest hit, that is not the fault of the drought, that is the fault of the middle class. Cheap beef raises water consumption and prices of everything else.
Go to a library.
Yeah, but baring the costs of your actions is pretty out of fashion. Right now american ethos is built around the idea of protecting yourself from others and controlling your own fate. However how you impact others is considered their own fault for not stopping you, thus it is considered ethical for the oil industry to do whatever it likes as long as it is its own master and it is the fault of the people hurt by it because they are immorally poor and weak enough to not move.
The EPA actually stopping something? You are kidding, right? They are little more then a rubber stamping boogie man that exists as a political punching bag. For actually protecting the environment from anyone with enough cash they are useless.
Yeah, but you forget how "personal responsibility" works in the US. You would think that the owners and operators of these plants should take personal responsibility for their actions and the damage done by them skirting the rules, but that is not the American ethos. Personal responsibility is your ability to drive your own fate, not how you impact others. Therefor the blame here lies on the people who were too poor to live further away from the tracks. The owners acted ethically since they managed to not be hurt by those pesky laws and still earned a bunch of money.
In the case of the Puritans at least, yes, it is accurate. That 'hostile political climate' was the state preventing the Puritans from enforcing religious law on their communities and refusing to do what they wanted. They were entitled bastards who considered inability to persecute to be persecution. You can see their attitude still rampant in US politics, which is probably why it is so important for people to remember them as seeking freedom.
But the actual threatening, the actual hostile environment? Classic 'how dare you curb our freedom to curb other people's freedoms, we follow god!'.
When someone actually develops a replacement for C, then maybe we can talk about it going away, but so far that has not happened.
That was my thought too. This is not exactly a tech savvy organization that did a lot of in house work. If this is not sorted out it could set a worrying precedent that hacking groups that have limited resources can really hurt them, esp since even well funded ones are rarely able to fend off a dedicated attacker with a profit motive or agenda.
That is my thought. Non-profits like this generally depend on the contractors to have done their job right since their limited resources tend to be focused on their mission.
I think they are saying the person was "A"nonymouse, so the self identity. The hacker in question was specifically interested in anti-abortion activism when targeting the site.