It is unfortunate that Japan has to consider rearming itself, but with North Korea's ability to launch (possibly nuclear) missiles at Japan, and China's increasingly belligerent tone in the south china sea, Japans current pacifist constitution cannot stand. It cannot rely on the US to wholly protect her. If we could all take a step back and realize the silliness of it all, the world would be a much nicer place, but we are all jerks to someone else, whether you want to be or not and you do need to protect yourself, lest you get shot bringing words to a gun fight.
That post reflects typical militarist small cockness.
First off, no-one takes the threat of North Korea seriously. They're like a potato in a bar brawl.
Secondly, the worlds largest and most enduring empires were built on diplomacy and trade, not militaristic expansion. In fact, empires based on conquest tended to die shortly after, if not before their first leader did.
The British Empire made its money through trade, it's entire navy was basically there to enable trade. It held onto colonies like India by making friend with the powerful factions and setting them against those who opposed British rule. Same with Rome, it was built by teaching tribes how to speak Latin, not by putting them to the sword. Conversely, how long did the Nazi's rule all of Europe? They did for a time and all through military force.
Japan owes its success to trade and very capable diplomats, if they didn't they'd be like the Philippines with better food.
And the question is "This digital currency is centrally controlled and allows the authorities to monitor every purchase you make."
'What is a credit card?
You are correct.
There, fixed that for you.
We've had easily traceable purchases for some time now, in fact many of you are so enamoured with it you'll actually defend the way credit cards rip you off (Read: merchant service fees).
In fact, with all the dangerous animals in Australia, you're probably much safer in the water...
Crocodiles (the salt water varieties are the really dangerous buggers), stone fish, sea snakes, blue ringed octopuses, box jellyfish, irukandji jellyfish and backpacker murderers can all be found in the water... And dont think you're safe on the beach because the coastal Taipan is one of the most dangerous and aggressive snakes in Oz. Not to mention sting rays buried in the sand.
In fact since moving to the UK, I've felt a sense of ease since the most dangerous creature here is an errant minicabber on the phone.
It should be noted that the largest single entrant type was Australian Citizen (I.E. ex-pats returning back to Oz on a permanent basis) being 16% of all arrivals... Humanitarian visas make up only 1.2% of arrivals and 2.5% of net migration.
It should also be noted that 52% of net migration are temporary visas, So over 120,000 are expected to leave Australia. This brings that number down quite a bit. The largest subgroup of permanent visas by net migration are still Kiwi's (New Zealanders) with subclass 444 taking up 17.6% of net migration. In terms of raw people that is 41,000 staying in Oz.
The majority of permanent migration in Australia is skilled or family. This certainly puts the fear mongering over immigration into perspective. Australia is to be destroyed by 5,000 people? If that were remotely true, we'd deserve it for being that weak.
Keep going, Australia! Committing economic suicide makes it better for everyone else. Thanks for taking one for the team!
Hi, this is what happens when ideologically driven ultra conservatives get into power. Abbott and the Coalition were elected on a platform of hate and fear of the previous guys that centred around an anti-immigration stance. Basically what Trump is doing now but with less pizzazz, money and bad hairpieces.
Remember that as you see Trump's name on any voting card. Australia is your warning.
And you're quite right about the economic side effects but that is par for the course, the Coalition has been dedicated to fucking up the Australian economy since September 2013. This is hardly the first step they've taken to make the economy worse.
Yep, Valve is undoubtedly the 800 pound gorilla in the room here... And Valve considers Steam's competitors to be physical sales and smaller game stores like GOG rather than consoles.
This is Microsoft finally admitting that their consoles are trying to emulate the PC... badly. Sony is doing the same thing, just not admitting it. The last generation of consoles were lacklustre. The Nintendo DS was the top selling console of the last generation, its because it's casual. Not that there's anything wrong with casual games, despite being a dedicated gamer, casual games are the ones I can enjoy with my non-gamer friends so the old Wii (last generation) gets dragged out, no-one cares that the games are 5 or more years old now.
The Xbone and the PS4 did not offer anything new. Worse yet they are huge loss leaders that take years to get into the black (to make more money than it costs to build them) let alone to pay back all the R&D. The hardware is outdated before it hits the shelves as they use chips from AMD and NVidia (3 years of R&D means the experimental chip they got when they started is last years chip when they release) and they are still limited in the types of games they can have. PC gaming remains the dominant gaming platform precisely because it doesn't have many restrictions... not to mention Steam and GOG.
Sounds like Microsoft wants to cut it's hardware R&D by just using off the shelf components and letting the OS handle the differences... erm... like a PC. Cant see it working.
Had you read what I wrote, you'd have seen that there was no lane change, hence the weird situation. I'm not attempting to defend anyone, just explain based on my reading.
Had you read the article, you would have seen that there was a lane change.
The damage happened on the front side quarter, that means the car was hit at an angle as it crossed the path of another vehicle.
We're talking about an S class, not an A class here (Americans, a Mercedes A class is a hatch similar to a Golf or Focus). An S class goes for serious money, so this is more about saying the car is "hand crafted" rather than built by robots. Its the same thing with food, a sandwich made by a "Sandwitch Artisan" goes for more than one you get out of a vending machine.
Its not just Mercedes either. The VR38DETT found in the R35 Nissan GTR is hand assembled in a clean room (IIRC Lambo and Ferrari engines are the same).
If the google car had right of way, traffic laws in your area are fucked up. A car changing lanes does not have right of way. The damage was to the left wheel and front bumper, this means it was hit on the side.
This highlights just how badly autonomous vehicles handle unexpected situations. The driver was expected to intervene at this point but according to the article, he thought the bus would let him in. A defensive driver should know that isn't the case unless the other driver has communicated it to you. They also know a bus will never let you in.
Realistically, the accident occurred because the driver wasn't doing his job.
However the race to the bottom seems to be mostly a US thing with some European airlines going out of business doing the same thing.
If you fly with full service Asian airlines then air travel becomes a much better experience. I'd even list Virgin Australia and COPA as good airlines to fly long haul.
Of course getting people to pay more because of size opens up a whole can of worms. Would tall people pay more for extra leg room, or small people get a discount?
Sounds like you're unfamiliar with airlines. Would you like some help?
If airlines were allowed to charge by the KG they will pick a stupidly low weight like 40 KG for adults (because our research indicates this is the optimum weight) and then charge per KG extra. Same will happen with any size measurement.
Only if you aren't paying enough for the 'better' classes.
or consistently flying crappy airlines.
I'm looking forward to a Singapore Airlines flight from Perth to London later this week. 5.5 hours PER-SIN, 14 hours SIN-LHR. It doesn't bother me as much because it's Singapore. Good food, 19" wide seats in economy, top notch service and good IFE's as well as 30 KG checked luggage IN ECONOMY with no Krisflyer status (I've got Krisflyer Silver so I get an extra 10 KG on top of that).
Its only really US/Western airlines that practice the whole "sit down, strap in and shut up" school of running an airline, even flying COPA to South America was positively brilliant in comparison.
In fact, Singapore is the only frequent flyer program I actually am a member of.
Ghandi's "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Gandhi's struggle would have turned out very, very differently had he been dealing with Hitler or Stalin or Mao instead of the British Empire. His methods only work against an adversary who has at least SOME heart or nobility you can leverage and exploit.
Not necessarily. Remember that India was pretty far from England, so the British empire had to spend huge amounts of funds to police India with British forces rather than local forces (which was the preferred method of the British Empire). China can only control Tibet because they're right next door, controlling Ghana would be a different kettle of fish due to the expense of keeping soldiers stationed overseas, not to mention serious morale problems.
Violent resistance also doesn't guarantee results. The Irish had rebellions for hundreds of years before the British allowed them to vote out of the empire. A more brutal opponent who cares less about trade than control would just keep smacking them down (see: Russia and Georgia/Ossetia ).
All rebellions, violent or otherwise work on the same principle. Make it too expensive for a foreign empire or despotic domestic power to stay. Non violent means are harder, but pay better dividends when they work (violent rebellions tend to be destructive and result in militaristic leaders taking power).
It also helped that the British Empire was a parliamentary democracy and had been since the 1700's and that their overseas operations were essentially run as corporations.
That in a nutshell is the difference. Conservatives are a "fuck you, I've got mine" mentality whereas liberals are more of a "we're all in the together, let's make it work" mentality.
Put simply, there was a shit sandwich served for lunch. Conservatives want you to eat the whole sandwich whilst they go to Micky D's. Liberals want to make sure everyone eats an equal slice of the sandwich and then everyone can go to Burger King.
It would help here, if she didn't actually lie all the time. For example, coming up with evolving excuses about her private email server and why she couldn't be bothered to comply with US law on classified information and the handling of email for public business.
To be 100% fair, find me a politician that doesn't like though their backsides.
GWB lied to start a war, lying about a private email server seems kind of small time.
Not that I'm condoning lying, backstabbing politicians mind you, just adding some perspective. I've always believed in the old joke that politicians should serve two terms, one in office and the other in jail.
While I'd be the LAST one to exonerate the misdeeds of my own United States...for all those decrying the "US controls the internet" and all the painting of the US as some sort of malignant capitalist force in the world generally: understand that your actual choice ISN'T the US vs whatever utopia you have cooked up in your head where governments aren't power-hungry monsters and commerce is run by the pleasant hippy guy down at your local co-op who gives you free snacks and coffee "for whatever you feel is fair, dude".
No, the ACTUAL choices in the world we live in are:
- the US
- China
- maybe Russia...as your superpowers.
As much as the US is deeply flawed in many ways, it's still orders of magnitude more benign than the alternatives.
Swap Russia for the EU.
Whilst they're slow to act, they are a force to reckon with once roused. They are the single largest economic bloc and are definitely a super power militarily.
Russia has lost superpower status and has fallen in to the BRIC group of minor powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China).
microsoft, google, and facebook are u.s. companies... datamining users for fun and profit and for government goodwill is not country-specific.
Yes, but Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft are all Companies, therefore any action they take is doubleplus(R) good(TM). Baidu is partially state owned by the Chinese, therefore that is Baaaaad.
It seems like you're starting to de-capitalise comrade, report to the neared Rand centre for re-education citizen.
A big part of the issue is that voters demand 'total security' from their governments - Citizens expect to be wrapped in a big, warm security blanket. You can't have total security and total liberty, so the governments dispense with liberty. Voters don't mind because hey, their kids are 'safe.'
And the irony is that it does nothing to make them safe. Criminals will still have guns and strong encryption, and the people now have less liberty.
The really incorrect thing about that statement is that very, very few criminals here in Oz have guns. Certainly not the ones who the average person would meet in a dark alley. Its comforting knowing that if a crim gets the jump on me, he wont be armed with anything that I couldn't fight back against or be used against me if I leg it.
Some of Nissan's Leaf cars can be easily hacked, allowing their heating and air-conditioning systems to be hijacked, according to [Troy Hunt,] a prominent security researcher
It was actually Troy's brother, Mike who discovered the vulnerability.
How is this any different than a regular ICE car having remote start? Those have been pitched as "get the car warmed up inside and out before stepping outside!" deals for ages now.
That's a perfectly accepted use case now. The problem is the app/IoT side. Currently, it uses your keyfob to "authenticate" the request.
This.
Also, the HVAC should not be able to access anything but the HVAC system and the physical controls should override any remote settings. But that's just crazy talk.
Why would you have a remote control feature on a car enabled at ALL?
For people who live in properly hot or cold areas, being able to heat or cool your car down to a sensible temprature before getting in is a godsend. Especially if you live in a humid area and need to demist your windows when it gets as low as 16 degrees C.
The question is, where's the smart money? What do we short? there must be something smart to do right now, everyone knows it's bursting.
Xanax and Ammunition?
If it were that obvious where the best place to invest was, everyone would be in to it.
During a bust, I hold onto my cash until it's over. Last housing bust we had where houses in Perth shed $100,000 after the GFC hit, those with a few hundred grand in cash cleaned up.
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BTW where could I buy one?
In just about any electronics bazaar in SE Asia.
I got an 1800/2100 MHz jammer in a store near MBK in Bangkok. Illegal to even posses in Oz, but I wasn't an idiot with it so I never had to worry.
The thing about jammers is that they actually take a minute or two to start working.
The only thing I would add is that if all Mr Nicholl wanted to do was silence the cellphones, he could've left the jammer in the bag.
Bringing it into plain view ratchets it up a notch to, "I am making a point here. Look at me!"
Yes, not every hero wears a cape.
It is unfortunate that Japan has to consider rearming itself, but with North Korea's ability to launch (possibly nuclear) missiles at Japan, and China's increasingly belligerent tone in the south china sea, Japans current pacifist constitution cannot stand. It cannot rely on the US to wholly protect her. If we could all take a step back and realize the silliness of it all, the world would be a much nicer place, but we are all jerks to someone else, whether you want to be or not and you do need to protect yourself, lest you get shot bringing words to a gun fight.
That post reflects typical militarist small cockness.
First off, no-one takes the threat of North Korea seriously. They're like a potato in a bar brawl.
Secondly, the worlds largest and most enduring empires were built on diplomacy and trade, not militaristic expansion. In fact, empires based on conquest tended to die shortly after, if not before their first leader did.
The British Empire made its money through trade, it's entire navy was basically there to enable trade. It held onto colonies like India by making friend with the powerful factions and setting them against those who opposed British rule. Same with Rome, it was built by teaching tribes how to speak Latin, not by putting them to the sword. Conversely, how long did the Nazi's rule all of Europe? They did for a time and all through military force.
Japan owes its success to trade and very capable diplomats, if they didn't they'd be like the Philippines with better food.
I'll take Missing The Point for 800 Alex!
And the question is "This digital currency is centrally controlled and allows the authorities to monitor every purchase you make."
'What is a credit card?
You are correct.
There, fixed that for you.
We've had easily traceable purchases for some time now, in fact many of you are so enamoured with it you'll actually defend the way credit cards rip you off (Read: merchant service fees).
They're wayyy more likely to be killed by a cow than by a sharks.
http://thenewdaily.com.au/news...
In fact, with all the dangerous animals in Australia, you're probably much safer in the water...
Crocodiles (the salt water varieties are the really dangerous buggers), stone fish, sea snakes, blue ringed octopuses, box jellyfish, irukandji jellyfish and backpacker murderers can all be found in the water... And dont think you're safe on the beach because the coastal Taipan is one of the most dangerous and aggressive snakes in Oz. Not to mention sting rays buried in the sand.
In fact since moving to the UK, I've felt a sense of ease since the most dangerous creature here is an errant minicabber on the phone.
There are 24 million people in Australia. We take over 200,000 migrants (net) a year.
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats...
It should be noted that the largest single entrant type was Australian Citizen (I.E. ex-pats returning back to Oz on a permanent basis) being 16% of all arrivals... Humanitarian visas make up only 1.2% of arrivals and 2.5% of net migration. It should also be noted that 52% of net migration are temporary visas, So over 120,000 are expected to leave Australia. This brings that number down quite a bit. The largest subgroup of permanent visas by net migration are still Kiwi's (New Zealanders) with subclass 444 taking up 17.6% of net migration. In terms of raw people that is 41,000 staying in Oz. The majority of permanent migration in Australia is skilled or family. This certainly puts the fear mongering over immigration into perspective. Australia is to be destroyed by 5,000 people? If that were remotely true, we'd deserve it for being that weak.
Keep going, Australia! Committing economic suicide makes it better for everyone else. Thanks for taking one for the team!
Hi, this is what happens when ideologically driven ultra conservatives get into power. Abbott and the Coalition were elected on a platform of hate and fear of the previous guys that centred around an anti-immigration stance. Basically what Trump is doing now but with less pizzazz, money and bad hairpieces.
Remember that as you see Trump's name on any voting card. Australia is your warning.
And you're quite right about the economic side effects but that is par for the course, the Coalition has been dedicated to fucking up the Australian economy since September 2013. This is hardly the first step they've taken to make the economy worse.
Yep, Valve is undoubtedly the 800 pound gorilla in the room here... And Valve considers Steam's competitors to be physical sales and smaller game stores like GOG rather than consoles.
This is Microsoft finally admitting that their consoles are trying to emulate the PC... badly. Sony is doing the same thing, just not admitting it. The last generation of consoles were lacklustre. The Nintendo DS was the top selling console of the last generation, its because it's casual. Not that there's anything wrong with casual games, despite being a dedicated gamer, casual games are the ones I can enjoy with my non-gamer friends so the old Wii (last generation) gets dragged out, no-one cares that the games are 5 or more years old now.
The Xbone and the PS4 did not offer anything new. Worse yet they are huge loss leaders that take years to get into the black (to make more money than it costs to build them) let alone to pay back all the R&D. The hardware is outdated before it hits the shelves as they use chips from AMD and NVidia (3 years of R&D means the experimental chip they got when they started is last years chip when they release) and they are still limited in the types of games they can have. PC gaming remains the dominant gaming platform precisely because it doesn't have many restrictions... not to mention Steam and GOG. Sounds like Microsoft wants to cut it's hardware R&D by just using off the shelf components and letting the OS handle the differences... erm... like a PC. Cant see it working.
A car changing lanes does not have right of way.
Had you read what I wrote, you'd have seen that there was no lane change, hence the weird situation. I'm not attempting to defend anyone, just explain based on my reading.
Had you read the article, you would have seen that there was a lane change.
The damage happened on the front side quarter, that means the car was hit at an angle as it crossed the path of another vehicle.
You're laughing, but it's serious.
We're talking about an S class, not an A class here (Americans, a Mercedes A class is a hatch similar to a Golf or Focus). An S class goes for serious money, so this is more about saying the car is "hand crafted" rather than built by robots. Its the same thing with food, a sandwich made by a "Sandwitch Artisan" goes for more than one you get out of a vending machine.
Its not just Mercedes either. The VR38DETT found in the R35 Nissan GTR is hand assembled in a clean room (IIRC Lambo and Ferrari engines are the same).
If the google car had right of way, traffic laws in your area are fucked up. A car changing lanes does not have right of way. The damage was to the left wheel and front bumper, this means it was hit on the side.
This highlights just how badly autonomous vehicles handle unexpected situations. The driver was expected to intervene at this point but according to the article, he thought the bus would let him in. A defensive driver should know that isn't the case unless the other driver has communicated it to you. They also know a bus will never let you in.
Realistically, the accident occurred because the driver wasn't doing his job.
They already do this. Kids pay less than adults...
Which is why they make a 13 yr old pay a full adult fare... because kids stop growing at 12 right, guys, right?
Your sig is applicable here.
However the race to the bottom seems to be mostly a US thing with some European airlines going out of business doing the same thing.
If you fly with full service Asian airlines then air travel becomes a much better experience. I'd even list Virgin Australia and COPA as good airlines to fly long haul.
Of course getting people to pay more because of size opens up a whole can of worms. Would tall people pay more for extra leg room, or small people get a discount?
Sounds like you're unfamiliar with airlines. Would you like some help?
If airlines were allowed to charge by the KG they will pick a stupidly low weight like 40 KG for adults (because our research indicates this is the optimum weight) and then charge per KG extra. Same will happen with any size measurement.
Only if you aren't paying enough for the 'better' classes.
or consistently flying crappy airlines.
I'm looking forward to a Singapore Airlines flight from Perth to London later this week. 5.5 hours PER-SIN, 14 hours SIN-LHR. It doesn't bother me as much because it's Singapore. Good food, 19" wide seats in economy, top notch service and good IFE's as well as 30 KG checked luggage IN ECONOMY with no Krisflyer status (I've got Krisflyer Silver so I get an extra 10 KG on top of that).
Its only really US/Western airlines that practice the whole "sit down, strap in and shut up" school of running an airline, even flying COPA to South America was positively brilliant in comparison.
In fact, Singapore is the only frequent flyer program I actually am a member of.
Gandhi's struggle would have turned out very, very differently had he been dealing with Hitler or Stalin or Mao instead of the British Empire. His methods only work against an adversary who has at least SOME heart or nobility you can leverage and exploit.
Not necessarily. Remember that India was pretty far from England, so the British empire had to spend huge amounts of funds to police India with British forces rather than local forces (which was the preferred method of the British Empire). China can only control Tibet because they're right next door, controlling Ghana would be a different kettle of fish due to the expense of keeping soldiers stationed overseas, not to mention serious morale problems.
Violent resistance also doesn't guarantee results. The Irish had rebellions for hundreds of years before the British allowed them to vote out of the empire. A more brutal opponent who cares less about trade than control would just keep smacking them down (see: Russia and Georgia/Ossetia ).
All rebellions, violent or otherwise work on the same principle. Make it too expensive for a foreign empire or despotic domestic power to stay. Non violent means are harder, but pay better dividends when they work (violent rebellions tend to be destructive and result in militaristic leaders taking power).
It also helped that the British Empire was a parliamentary democracy and had been since the 1700's and that their overseas operations were essentially run as corporations.
That in a nutshell is the difference. Conservatives are a "fuck you, I've got mine" mentality whereas liberals are more of a "we're all in the together, let's make it work" mentality.
Put simply, there was a shit sandwich served for lunch. Conservatives want you to eat the whole sandwich whilst they go to Micky D's. Liberals want to make sure everyone eats an equal slice of the sandwich and then everyone can go to Burger King.
It would help here, if she didn't actually lie all the time. For example, coming up with evolving excuses about her private email server and why she couldn't be bothered to comply with US law on classified information and the handling of email for public business.
To be 100% fair, find me a politician that doesn't like though their backsides.
GWB lied to start a war, lying about a private email server seems kind of small time.
Not that I'm condoning lying, backstabbing politicians mind you, just adding some perspective. I've always believed in the old joke that politicians should serve two terms, one in office and the other in jail.
While I'd be the LAST one to exonerate the misdeeds of my own United States...for all those decrying the "US controls the internet" and all the painting of the US as some sort of malignant capitalist force in the world generally: understand that your actual choice ISN'T the US vs whatever utopia you have cooked up in your head where governments aren't power-hungry monsters and commerce is run by the pleasant hippy guy down at your local co-op who gives you free snacks and coffee "for whatever you feel is fair, dude".
No, the ACTUAL choices in the world we live in are: ...as your superpowers.
- the US
- China
- maybe Russia
As much as the US is deeply flawed in many ways, it's still orders of magnitude more benign than the alternatives.
Swap Russia for the EU.
Whilst they're slow to act, they are a force to reckon with once roused. They are the single largest economic bloc and are definitely a super power militarily.
Russia has lost superpower status and has fallen in to the BRIC group of minor powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China).
microsoft, google, and facebook are u.s. companies... datamining users for fun and profit and for government goodwill is not country-specific.
Yes, but Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft are all Companies, therefore any action they take is doubleplus(R) good(TM). Baidu is partially state owned by the Chinese, therefore that is Baaaaad.
It seems like you're starting to de-capitalise comrade, report to the neared Rand centre for re-education citizen.
A big part of the issue is that voters demand 'total security' from their governments - Citizens expect to be wrapped in a big, warm security blanket. You can't have total security and total liberty, so the governments dispense with liberty. Voters don't mind because hey, their kids are 'safe.'
And the irony is that it does nothing to make them safe. Criminals will still have guns and strong encryption, and the people now have less liberty.
The really incorrect thing about that statement is that very, very few criminals here in Oz have guns. Certainly not the ones who the average person would meet in a dark alley. Its comforting knowing that if a crim gets the jump on me, he wont be armed with anything that I couldn't fight back against or be used against me if I leg it.
It was actually Troy's brother, Mike who discovered the vulnerability.
How is this any different than a regular ICE car having remote start? Those have been pitched as "get the car warmed up inside and out before stepping outside!" deals for ages now.
That's a perfectly accepted use case now. The problem is the app/IoT side. Currently, it uses your keyfob to "authenticate" the request.
This.
Also, the HVAC should not be able to access anything but the HVAC system and the physical controls should override any remote settings. But that's just crazy talk.
Why would you have a remote control feature on a car enabled at ALL?
For people who live in properly hot or cold areas, being able to heat or cool your car down to a sensible temprature before getting in is a godsend. Especially if you live in a humid area and need to demist your windows when it gets as low as 16 degrees C.
Also see this informative picture.
I used to drive a manual with a metal gear stick knob, I have the H-pattern permanently burned into my palm as a result.
The question is, where's the smart money? What do we short? there must be something smart to do right now, everyone knows it's bursting.
Xanax and Ammunition?
If it were that obvious where the best place to invest was, everyone would be in to it.
During a bust, I hold onto my cash until it's over. Last housing bust we had where houses in Perth shed $100,000 after the GFC hit, those with a few hundred grand in cash cleaned up.