putting it in my/etc/hosts file so I don't relapse:-)
BTW it is slightly evil of you to say
echo '127.0.0.1 slashdot.org' >/etc/hosts
instead of
echo '127.0.0.1 slashdot.org' >>/etc/hosts
Bye everybody! Bruce, you have my full mental support FWIW!
Quadrupling is a 400% increase that would take 40 years at 10% via simple math, and even then it would be right.
No. Much shorter.
Simple math says:
(1+10/100)^y = 4 =>
log (1.10^y) = log(4) =>
y * log(1.10) = log(4) =>
y = log(4) / log(1.10) = 14.54.
After 14.54 years you quadruple; after 15 years you would have a 418% increase.
Didn't they teach you exponentials and logarithmics in high school?
In other news, the UK PM Sir Mortimer Chris (played by David Cameron) said:
"It's all because of the invisible leprechauns. It's true, because I saw it in a film. We have to be much tougher on everything and everybody in order to eradicate this terrible pest. The Snooper's Charter is just the beginning; I'm now working on the draft Wear Your Underpants On The Outside For Hygiene Law (WYUOTOFH law).
Most of my cabinet ministers have agreed with me, and those who haven't (because the leprechauns subverted them) have agreed to be publicly crucified in Wembley stadium to atone for their weirdness and sins.
I have instructed our nuclear submarines to go to code Red. Death to leprechauns. God will save us!"
You're doing it wrong.. Of course the car will only be able to drive *as long as it keeps receiving the official "you're allowed" signal*.
Reminds me of FlexLM license manager program in the '90s. Look at it wrong, and it decides you're trying to tamper with its functions, and kills all legitimate paid for use of the licensed program.
That reminds me of the U.S.A.'s use of treaties and trade agreements.
Heh "sorry, we'll just all have to harmonize our copyright law with Mexico. Oh! they have 100 years post mortem auctoris instead of 70?!? Gosh.. we didn't know"
(That's TPP I believe)
"In other news, this morning during rush hour there was a random glitch in the Car Safety System, not caused by anything like blackmail at all (how dare you suggest such a thing!) which stopped every other car on the autobahn until.. the situation was resolved. Spokespeople said the CSS is very safe, and such glitches will not happen very often again. Possibly."
Just imagine: the police are surveilling you and all you do is push a button and your car's RFID tag says it's an undercover police vehicle with the flag set. This is not the car you're looking for.
There was IIRC one senator or somebody who called for W. Bush to be impeached; I think his name was Kuchinich(sp?). It was on the news (in Europe).
I was a bit surprised that there didn't seem to be any actual impeachment process, almost like "yeah, but Congress is not *really* going to impeach the president for starting a war--that was just for laughs! silly rabbit! Impeachment is only for shoving your <[censored]> in immoral places"
Earth is already a spaceship. The problem is, we have no control over where it's going.
The famous inventor and architect R. Buckminster Fuller has already written a (sufficiently loony) essay/book about this in 1968:
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.
It has pirates in it, too. And the original coining of the word "synergy". But it is much weirder than you may think (IMHO).
I've been thinking about it, and I think even more punishment needs to be dealt out:
The senators or whatever on the security services oversight committee have done the American public a great disservice by increasing Clapper's budget instead of starting an impeachment against him; therefore, they're clearly not up to their task, and their seats at the oversight committee should be given to different senators (probably replace each senator by another one from the same political party is easiest).
No.. I'm a bit unclear about American politics, but I thought that Clapper was an *appointed* official, not an *elected* official. The *elected* officials are supposed to have more power, including the power of oversight and supervision of the *appointed* officials (directors of government organs).
I could be wrong though.. maybe it's different in the USA. Please correct.
I thought the American Way (TM) was to offer him a plea bargain of reduced sentence if he blabs on Keith Alexander's shenanigans
I though the American Way (TM) was to offer Keith Alexander a plea bargain of reduced sentence if he blabs on <his underlings>' shenanigans
(recursive)
In fact, at this point it looks like the vast majority of congress, regardless of aisle position, and the white house didn't really know the extent of what was going on.
That means, that in the USA there's an organization (NSA) with a budget of billions, with no effective oversight, that specializes in (industrial) espionage on everyone in the world.
You're right, but that is not the issue here. The official mechanism consists of "sneaky and devious three-letter-organization" together with "independent oversight committee of important US congress members".
The surprise is, that when the oversight committee was publicly shown (by Snowden) to have been lied to, they didn't immediately start impeachment procedure against Clapper (because he embarrassed their oversight powers; not because of anything particularly devious that the NSA did) but rather INCREASED THE NSA BUDGET. THAT's a surprise.
Doesn't US Congress have the power to put Clapper in custody, assemble a group of congresspeople to form an impeachment procedure committee, and investigate whether he really lied to them (in which case he can stay in jail for a few years and gets fired)?
If so, then just complaining and gesturing to the president seems counter-productive, because it undermines their own powers that they already have. And, being congresspeople, they probably LIKE their powers.
Because they're "capitalist pigs", or because they're haram?
Never mind either case, you're on the watchlist now, Bob.--Meat packaging lobbyist group of America
Just the data is not very useful in itself, but the last couple of decades have also seen great progress in Machine Learning, Bayesian statistics, Neural Networks etc. etc.
There is precedent in the Amsterdam city archive keeping track of what religion everyone had. That was also only data collection, with only beneficial purpose. Then the government ahem "changed", and they sent a group of SSers over to write down where all the Jews lived.
If he did, the Republicans would then claim that Obama is deliberately sabotaging the NSA and jeopardizing national security. To the Republicans, every move Obama makes is wrong, no matter what move that may be.
The Republicans? Oh yeah, that was some kind of political party in the 20th century; like the Whigs. or was that the 19th.
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Yeah, but the downside of that would be, you know, people in their function of "Grand Inquisitor" could audit what went on.
putting it in my /etc/hosts file so I don't relapse :-)
/etc/hosts
/etc/hosts
BTW it is slightly evil of you to say
echo '127.0.0.1 slashdot.org' >
instead of
echo '127.0.0.1 slashdot.org' >>
Bye everybody! Bruce, you have my full mental support FWIW!
No. Much shorter.
.
Simple math says:
(1+10/100)^y = 4 =>
log (1.10^y) = log(4) =>
y * log(1.10) = log(4) =>
y = log(4) / log(1.10) = 14.54
After 14.54 years you quadruple; after 15 years you would have a 418% increase.
Didn't they teach you exponentials and logarithmics in high school?
In other news, the UK PM Sir Mortimer Chris (played by David Cameron) said:
"It's all because of the invisible leprechauns. It's true, because I saw it in a film. We have to be much tougher on everything and everybody in order to eradicate this terrible pest. The Snooper's Charter is just the beginning; I'm now working on the draft Wear Your Underpants On The Outside For Hygiene Law (WYUOTOFH law).
Most of my cabinet ministers have agreed with me, and those who haven't (because the leprechauns subverted them) have agreed to be publicly crucified in Wembley stadium to atone for their weirdness and sins.
I have instructed our nuclear submarines to go to code Red. Death to leprechauns. God will save us!"
I thought GM was in dire straits due to the financial crisis of 2008, and had to think of ways to sell *more* cars to the public, rather than *less*.
Yes Stenvar, you're exactly right. Oh and for your own safety and well-being, be sure to never ever visit Europe. Thanks! ;-)
You're doing it wrong.. Of course the car will only be able to drive *as long as it keeps receiving the official "you're allowed" signal*.
Reminds me of FlexLM license manager program in the '90s. Look at it wrong, and it decides you're trying to tamper with its functions, and kills all legitimate paid for use of the licensed program.
Heh "sorry, we'll just all have to harmonize our copyright law with Mexico. Oh! they have 100 years post mortem auctoris instead of 70?!? Gosh.. we didn't know"
(That's TPP I believe)
newspaper article:
.. the situation was resolved. Spokespeople said the CSS is very safe, and such glitches will not happen very often again. Possibly."
"In other news, this morning during rush hour there was a random glitch in the Car Safety System, not caused by anything like blackmail at all (how dare you suggest such a thing!) which stopped every other car on the autobahn until
Just imagine: the police are surveilling you and all you do is push a button and your car's RFID tag says it's an undercover police vehicle with the flag set. This is not the car you're looking for.
You have got to be kidding... I like conspiracy theories, but I don't believe THAT, [citation needed].
There was IIRC one senator or somebody who called for W. Bush to be impeached; I think his name was Kuchinich(sp?). It was on the news (in Europe).
I was a bit surprised that there didn't seem to be any actual impeachment process, almost like
"yeah, but Congress is not *really* going to impeach the president for starting a war--that was just for laughs! silly rabbit! Impeachment is only for shoving your <[censored]> in immoral places"
The famous inventor and architect R. Buckminster Fuller has already written a (sufficiently loony) essay/book about this in 1968:
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.
It has pirates in it, too. And the original coining of the word "synergy". But it is much weirder than you may think (IMHO).
I've been thinking about it, and I think even more punishment needs to be dealt out:
The senators or whatever on the security services oversight committee have done the American public a great disservice by increasing Clapper's budget instead of starting an impeachment against him; therefore, they're clearly not up to their task, and their seats at the oversight committee should be given to different senators (probably replace each senator by another one from the same political party is easiest).
No.. I'm a bit unclear about American politics, but I thought that Clapper was an *appointed* official, not an *elected* official. The *elected* officials are supposed to have more power, including the power of oversight and supervision of the *appointed* officials (directors of government organs).
I could be wrong though.. maybe it's different in the USA. Please correct.
I thought the American Way (TM) was to offer him a plea bargain of reduced sentence if he blabs on Keith Alexander's shenanigans
I though the American Way (TM) was to offer Keith Alexander a plea bargain of reduced sentence if he blabs on <his underlings>' shenanigans
(recursive)
That means, that in the USA there's an organization (NSA) with a budget of billions, with no effective oversight, that specializes in (industrial) espionage on everyone in the world.
As a European, I feel so much safer now!
You're right, but that is not the issue here.
The official mechanism consists of "sneaky and devious three-letter-organization" together with "independent oversight committee of important US congress members".
The surprise is, that when the oversight committee was publicly shown (by Snowden) to have been lied to, they didn't immediately start impeachment procedure against Clapper (because he embarrassed their oversight powers; not because of anything particularly devious that the NSA did) but rather INCREASED THE NSA BUDGET. THAT's a surprise.
Doesn't US Congress have the power to put Clapper in custody, assemble a group of congresspeople to form an impeachment procedure committee, and investigate whether he really lied to them (in which case he can stay in jail for a few years and gets fired)?
If so, then just complaining and gesturing to the president seems counter-productive, because it undermines their own powers that they already have. And, being congresspeople, they probably LIKE their powers.
Because they're "capitalist pigs", or because they're haram?
Never mind either case, you're on the watchlist now, Bob.--Meat packaging lobbyist group of America
Just the data is not very useful in itself, but the last couple of decades have also seen great progress in Machine Learning, Bayesian statistics, Neural Networks etc. etc.
There is precedent in the Amsterdam city archive keeping track of what religion everyone had. That was also only data collection, with only beneficial purpose. Then the government ahem "changed", and they sent a group of SSers over to write down where all the Jews lived.
The Republicans? Oh yeah, that was some kind of political party in the 20th century; like the Whigs. or was that the 19th.
Good point. Clearly, you need a new U.S. congress, to repeal those bad laws and install better ones.
Yes. Borat's sister has one.