"The protesters have made 16 demands," according to the article, six related to related to supposed infiltration of Tor by government agents, and 10 regarding the Appelbaum ruling and investigation -- including "asking all Tor employees that participated in this investigation to leave" and "the persons behind the JacobAppelbaum.net and the @JakeMustDie and @VictimsOfJake Twitter accounts to come forward and their identities made public."
It sounds like these protesters need to figure out what it is they're protesting. And their demanding that an online accounts should have their "identities made public" sounds a little bit incongruous with Tor's own mission.
Shutting down Tor to protest an attack on Tor sounds like they really haven't thought this thing through, regardless of their agenda. It's not like a one-day boycott of Tor is going to cost Tor money or anything, so it's not really putting any pressure on the elements within the project that they want to force out. Plus, as other people have pointed out, it hurts Tor users more than it hurts the people they want to hurt.
Finally, the dumbness of their manifesto calls into question the validity of their claims. We don't have to worry about the government trying to destroy Tor as long as they're doing such a bang-up job all on their own.
Adolf Hitler, Lennart Poettering, Donald Drumpf. All of german / austrian origin, and all horrible criminals.
But at least Adolf Hitler never used systemd. And few people know that the fuhrer was a terrific dancer, and could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon...two coats!
It's been a long while since Wikileaks was a scruffy little band of freedom fighters. Unfortunately, they've become an outfit used by oligarchs, intelligence services and dictators to settle scores, gain advantage and destroy enemies. And this happened partially because Julian Assange understandably developed something of a martyrdom complex while he was hiding from rape charges and allowed his self-regard to run out of control and is now easily manipulated. It's all pretty predictable if you look at the dramatic arc of the story.
Wikileaks changed the world, and changed along with it, trivializing their mission and becoming what they were trying to defeat. They've been co-opted and are now they're a joke that posts online polls of the US presidential race. They've become Breitbart. They've become Gawker without the accountability. They're just another organization of online trolls.
Corrupt thermometers are taking money from KKKilary KKKlinton in an effort to distract the world from the fact that she's murdered thousands of patriotic Americans in Arkansas who were going to expose the fact that she's actually in a wheelchair.
The conspiracy has now gone beyond just climate scientists. It's now built into the actual instrumentation. TRUE! The laws of physics are complicit, too. Nobody with half a brain would believe a liberal thermometer, anyway.
It would be funny if they found out that it wasn't the cannabis that was easing the pain, but the large bag of pork rinds, Big Gulp and pint of Ben & Jerry's that you chase it with.
For an interesting reason - they put that clause in the contract, in order to make it obvious whether care had been taken to read, digest, and comply with it.
That's right. Things are put into contracts for all sorts of reasons. But it's not a contract until both sides agree to it. This notion that a union gets all this special stuff just because they're a union is ridiculous. What they get, they bargained for. And management agreed to it.
No joke, they literally have to set out lawn chairs and umbrellas at a work site before they can begin. Why? Union mandate.
That "union mandate" you refer to has a name. It's called a "contract". You may not like it, but those were the terms the company management agreed to and signed their names to.
Van Halen famously wrote riders into all their contracts (theirs that word again, "contract") that said the brown M&M's were to be removed from the candy bowl before their shows. Your mortgage with your bank is a contract that says you have to pay your bank several times what your property is worth. The contract most people have with their company says that if they get sick they're allowed to stay home and get better and still get paid. Do you know why most employment contracts say that? Because unions fought (and died) for that right. Do you know why you occasionally get to take a Saturday and Sunday off of work? Why you occasionally get a little vacation? Guess.
Unions have all sorts of things in the contracts they have with companies. And the companies signed all those contracts making it so. If that unionized company you do business with doesn't do a job that you like, find another company and stop whining.
Do these satellites see into basements to find the permanently unemployed underclass of poor people who lost their jobs as soon as Obama was elected and have been unable to find work since?
You might want to check your timeline. Obama took office at the end of January, 2009. There were a million jobs lost in September and October of 2008, before the election took place.
Or maybe you're suggesting that he destroyed the economy before he became president. Somehow. Sort of like how Rudy Guiliani says there were no terrorist attacks on US soil until Obama took office.
The last time Volvo had a big self-driving rollout, it didn't, you know, work out so well. But it was totally because of shabby roads and Americans' inability to paint white lines and in no way the fault of the technology.
People ignore all sorts of warnings. It's how we do. There are still people smoking when every single pack of cigarettes they buy has a big sign that says, "These motherfuckers will kill you dead, dummy, and in a really horrible way". What was the last time anyone "closed cover before striking"? A Texas man sees a sign that says, "No Swimming - Alligators." He immediately says, "Man, fuck that alligator", jumps in the water and is instantly eaten by an alligator.
Chinese-made fireworks have a big-ass label (in English) that says, "Set on ground, light fuse and GET AWAY". Did that stop this guy from putting one in his pants and then blowing himself up? No sir, it did not. Because for human beings, warnings are really just dares.
Interesting. Though your wiki link states that Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia are proposed members. I don't see that the language has ever actually passed in H.R.5782 - Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014 [congress.gov] or other similarly named bills. Do you have a reference?
It goes back before that. It was signed into law in October of 1992.
In 1992, George H.W. Bush signed the FREEDOM Support Act, which also started US economic support of Ukraine.
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Yeah, probably safer to leave that one alone.
There needs to be more investigations into Hillary Clinton. It's not like Congress is busy doing anything else.
It sounds like these protesters need to figure out what it is they're protesting. And their demanding that an online accounts should have their "identities made public" sounds a little bit incongruous with Tor's own mission.
Shutting down Tor to protest an attack on Tor sounds like they really haven't thought this thing through, regardless of their agenda. It's not like a one-day boycott of Tor is going to cost Tor money or anything, so it's not really putting any pressure on the elements within the project that they want to force out. Plus, as other people have pointed out, it hurts Tor users more than it hurts the people they want to hurt.
Finally, the dumbness of their manifesto calls into question the validity of their claims. We don't have to worry about the government trying to destroy Tor as long as they're doing such a bang-up job all on their own.
But at least Adolf Hitler never used systemd. And few people know that the fuhrer was a terrific dancer, and could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon...two coats!
https://youtu.be/D6llaZefJDc
It's been a long while since Wikileaks was a scruffy little band of freedom fighters. Unfortunately, they've become an outfit used by oligarchs, intelligence services and dictators to settle scores, gain advantage and destroy enemies. And this happened partially because Julian Assange understandably developed something of a martyrdom complex while he was hiding from rape charges and allowed his self-regard to run out of control and is now easily manipulated. It's all pretty predictable if you look at the dramatic arc of the story.
Wikileaks changed the world, and changed along with it, trivializing their mission and becoming what they were trying to defeat. They've been co-opted and are now they're a joke that posts online polls of the US presidential race. They've become Breitbart. They've become Gawker without the accountability. They're just another organization of online trolls.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
And his great great grandson played Dominic Toretto in the Fast and Furious movies.
I guess the '70 Dodge Charger doesn't fall far from the tree, but it doesn't run on peanut oil, unfortunately.
Corrupt thermometers are taking money from KKKilary KKKlinton in an effort to distract the world from the fact that she's murdered thousands of patriotic Americans in Arkansas who were going to expose the fact that she's actually in a wheelchair.
The conspiracy has now gone beyond just climate scientists. It's now built into the actual instrumentation. TRUE! The laws of physics are complicit, too. Nobody with half a brain would believe a liberal thermometer, anyway.
It'll be like Uber for Amazon tech teams!
It would be funny if they found out that it wasn't the cannabis that was easing the pain, but the large bag of pork rinds, Big Gulp and pint of Ben & Jerry's that you chase it with.
Most people aren't idiots.
But they're a vocal minority.
That's right. Things are put into contracts for all sorts of reasons. But it's not a contract until both sides agree to it. This notion that a union gets all this special stuff just because they're a union is ridiculous. What they get, they bargained for. And management agreed to it.
So if I understand the story correctly, Uber drivers are like Uber for workers.
We are all Uber now. The gig economy will set us all free from the horrors of prosperity.
That "union mandate" you refer to has a name. It's called a "contract". You may not like it, but those were the terms the company management agreed to and signed their names to.
Van Halen famously wrote riders into all their contracts (theirs that word again, "contract") that said the brown M&M's were to be removed from the candy bowl before their shows. Your mortgage with your bank is a contract that says you have to pay your bank several times what your property is worth. The contract most people have with their company says that if they get sick they're allowed to stay home and get better and still get paid. Do you know why most employment contracts say that? Because unions fought (and died) for that right. Do you know why you occasionally get to take a Saturday and Sunday off of work? Why you occasionally get a little vacation? Guess.
Unions have all sorts of things in the contracts they have with companies. And the companies signed all those contracts making it so. If that unionized company you do business with doesn't do a job that you like, find another company and stop whining.
Step 3 is, "We'll pay you in bitcoins so you can buy heroin on the dark net."
Step 4 is, "We'll send you heroin by drone."
Step 5 is, "Windows 11 is $5000/month and comes with free heroin."
My roof faces Zeta Reticuli.
This will be the Uber of solar roofs. It's a game changer.
Living here in Vault 81, I'm pretty sure there's no danger from plasma bombs in the atmosphere.
You might want to check your timeline. Obama took office at the end of January, 2009. There were a million jobs lost in September and October of 2008, before the election took place.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/0...
Or maybe you're suggesting that he destroyed the economy before he became president. Somehow. Sort of like how Rudy Guiliani says there were no terrorist attacks on US soil until Obama took office.
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
This may cut into the market for Slovenian "supermodels".
Now I can deny having actually played GTA V for 368 hours. "It was the guy who hacked my account, honey!"
The last time Volvo had a big self-driving rollout, it didn't, you know, work out so well. But it was totally because of shabby roads and Americans' inability to paint white lines and in no way the fault of the technology.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
I prefer the porter-scale roll-out. Maybe in IPA-scale roll-out on a hot day. Because that's the way I roll out.
People ignore all sorts of warnings. It's how we do. There are still people smoking when every single pack of cigarettes they buy has a big sign that says, "These motherfuckers will kill you dead, dummy, and in a really horrible way". What was the last time anyone "closed cover before striking"? A Texas man sees a sign that says, "No Swimming - Alligators." He immediately says, "Man, fuck that alligator", jumps in the water and is instantly eaten by an alligator.
http://www.unilad.co.uk/video/...
Chinese-made fireworks have a big-ass label (in English) that says, "Set on ground, light fuse and GET AWAY". Did that stop this guy from putting one in his pants and then blowing himself up? No sir, it did not. Because for human beings, warnings are really just dares.
https://youtu.be/8Yagjf5B2tw
It goes back before that. It was signed into law in October of 1992.
In 1992, George H.W. Bush signed the FREEDOM Support Act, which also started US economic support of Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And the United States continues to support Ukraine membership in NATO.
Since 1994, when Ukraine established relations with NATO, and since 2008, when the Bush administration voiced support for Ukraine joining NATO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Since then, the official US designation for Ukraine is a "major non-NATO ally" (MSNA):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...