So Boeing would go into the Air Corps, we could enlist Amazon.com in the WAC. The EFF would be special forces operating behind the Circuit Court lines. And hey, how about Paypal for the "comfort women". Give them a little of their own back....
A fair number of the GPs quotes seem to come from mepja.org, or at least are among those also quoted there.
I find both the original references, and the refutation links interesting.
The first refutation link is to a wiki (wikiquote), which one can imagine being subject to propaganda struggles on popular pages. The second refutation link describes the quote being refuted as from some entirely different sources than the GP's. One can't help but wonder, when a quote is attributed to different sources. Of course, the GP's quotes are from sources obscure enough that researching them becomes more than an idle moment's diversion from work as well.
The parent's CAMERA.org link is to a page debunking a few particular "sources of misinformation". It is hard to tell, from the sidelines, whether they've cherry-picked particular statements that are provably false, or whether they have chosen a small set of examples fitting a larger pattern. The sources quoted, as well as those used for verification, are obscure beyond the idle endeavor.
But in as much as I have no first hand evidence, and no experience with any of the sources or organizations involved, I have no basis to place trust in either side. CAMERA evidently has its stated goals, as described:
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, or CAMERA, a media watchdog founded to combat what was perceived as anti-Israeli press coverage...
...devoted to promoting accurate and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle East.... non-partisan organization, CAMERA takes no position with regard to American or Israeli political issues or with regard to ultimate solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict....Frequently inaccurate and skewed characterizations of Israel and of events in the Middle East may fuel anti-Israel and anti-Jewish prejudice.
I would have more trust if they were an academic organization, or if they were interested in busting myths about both Israelis AND Arabs/Palestinians, instead of being specifically a defense of one side.
And this, really, exhausts how far I'm willing to research a set of topics I have no personal stake or influence in, on whim alone. Someone wants to compensate me for my time, I'd develop more interest in chasing down these quotes.
But it does show that you can trust quotes only as far as your personal knowledge, and your sphere of trust goes.
The link you mention says "several hundred" people were detained until cleared. Estimates of muslim populations in america number were in the millions in 1980, and have grown since then.
Japanese internment was on a scale more like "several tens of thousands" (like 110,000, according to wikipedia), and lacked that "until cleared" bit.... unless you count the internment orders being rescinded in 1945. The percentage of the demographic that were affected is similarly higher for the Japanese than for the Muslims.
The similarities mentioned kinda break down when you look at them.
Took my windows machine to Fry's Electronics for some hardware repair (essentially, replace a bad video card under warranty). Got it back, but the one account on it had lost its password. Yeah, tools/methods exist to take the password off your account, at which point your windows machine is fully accessible. That is... if they have physical possession of the (windows) computer and existing tools, they don't need a keylogger.
I can't say whether their tool would work with whole disk encryption or not (mine wasn't). Would be interested, if someone with knowledge on that could speak up.
Diaspora has the benefit of being Open Source, much anticipated, and security aware. Thus, some number of security flaws have been found.
Diaspora is lucky in that regard. Bugs have lain dormant in even open source code for decades before being discovered. "Open Source" does not guarantee that bugs will become obvious. Open Source does not even guarantee that there will be people looking at the code, only that they CAN.
Might also consider the likes of Chairman Mao, (Karl) Marx, Adam Smith, Gallileo, Keynes, Stallman, and Einstein. There are many, many more people whose influence rings down the ages than simply spiritualists. And since people in power tend to want to stay in power, new ideas of all sorts are threatening.
The two of you do illustrate the debate over whether mathematics is a science or not. That it is a field of knowledge is not disputed. That you cannot apply the scientific method to it - no data to measure, no experiments to perform - seems clear.
Then you get into things like computational mathematics and simulation, and the line begins to gray out a bit...
A flaw in his business planning. He should have had the trademark in his own name, and licensed it to his own company for a nominal consideration.... or sold the trademark to himself before he lost his 51% in the company.
Ah, well. He probably simply wasn't old and paranoid enough when it happened.
So what you're saying is that virtual dollars are constantly being created and destroyed in Economic Space? Forming the basis for a theory of Economic Vacuum Energy? Which itself is a part of Quantum Economics?
You know better than to throw gauntlets down around here!
Just a side note, for other armchair historians: Between Edison's first patent (in 1868) and his last (1933), the number of patents handled by the US Patent Office increased by a full order of magnitude (x10). (ref)
I think that you're right; most of the charges you could bring are civil matters. (Libel, defamation, interference with (employment) contract, yadda yadda.)
Identity Theft itself, though, is fraud where it isn't its own variety of crime (sometimes felony, sometimes misdemeanor). And fraud you CAN bring police in on. You might not get a lot of enthusiasm on their part, especially if you can't hand them a crook and a pile of evidence, because - let's face it - investigation is work. You're personally motivated, they're not.
In the end, though, we don't have enough information. He's been suspended "pending proof", but we don't know if it's a "protective suspension" by a sympathetic manager, or a hostile one. If he's had a good working relationship with the company and management, then he can probably get away with bringing them on the inside of "find out who really did it". If a hostile one, lawyering up before anything else happens IS the right action; evidence presented by a lawyer is almost certain to be better considered than from someone they're already hostile to. A consultation with a lawyer about what to do isn't going to cost a lot, and won't involve a retainer unless/until you feel you actually need one.
However, if you're bringing a lawyer in on things, you want to do every single bit as much of the leg-work as you possibly can. Anything your lawyer does, he'll bill you for, and that includes listening to you describe what you want him to do, by phone or in person.
And unlike the music industry there are currently no major laws with regard to publishing which force authors to support one company that has been granted a monopoly.
Could you describe which music industry monopoly-granting laws you speak of? Last I saw, the RIAA was not itself a publishing company, but rather an organization supported by a number of music publishing companies. When someone gets sued "by the RIAA", the names on the court documents are those of individual copyright holders.
Now, the individual companies almost always insist on contracts assigning such copyrights to themselves when talking with performing artists, but that's a different issue. You can still, to my knowledge, make music in your garage then try to sell it in the Apple music store or something.
Sorry, no, the fact that you don't have the bucks to take on RIAA or MPAA in court, or to out-spend them in Washington, is not an excuse.
In military cases, this is the origin of asymmetrical warfare: guerilla warfare, terrorism, human shields, etc. One side has disproportionately greater resources. The other side has no realistic chance of effecting change through any usual methods, and sees little to lose by using unconventional methods.
"It is not an excuse" is only said by those with something to lose.
Execs of most companies are liable to shareholders (and CEOs to boards of directors) as well. For instance, Patricia Dunn of HP. HP eventually settled with California on the wiretap charges, but Dunn got booted^H^H^H^H^H^H "resigned".
It is hard to assign personal liability to corporate actions, but like with Enron (Jeffrey Skilling) does occasionally happen.
So don't be anticipating lots of exec jail time. Crippling fines might happen, though.
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So Boeing would go into the Air Corps, we could enlist Amazon.com in the WAC. The EFF would be special forces operating behind the Circuit Court lines. And hey, how about Paypal for the "comfort women". Give them a little of their own back....
A fair number of the GPs quotes seem to come from mepja.org, or at least are among those also quoted there.
I find both the original references, and the refutation links interesting.
The first refutation link is to a wiki (wikiquote), which one can imagine being subject to propaganda struggles on popular pages. The second refutation link describes the quote being refuted as from some entirely different sources than the GP's. One can't help but wonder, when a quote is attributed to different sources. Of course, the GP's quotes are from sources obscure enough that researching them becomes more than an idle moment's diversion from work as well.
The parent's CAMERA.org link is to a page debunking a few particular "sources of misinformation". It is hard to tell, from the sidelines, whether they've cherry-picked particular statements that are provably false, or whether they have chosen a small set of examples fitting a larger pattern. The sources quoted, as well as those used for verification, are obscure beyond the idle endeavor.
But in as much as I have no first hand evidence, and no experience with any of the sources or organizations involved, I have no basis to place trust in either side. CAMERA evidently has its stated goals, as described:
Columbia Journalism Review
CAMERA's stated policies.
I would have more trust if they were an academic organization, or if they were interested in busting myths about both Israelis AND Arabs/Palestinians, instead of being specifically a defense of one side.
And this, really, exhausts how far I'm willing to research a set of topics I have no personal stake or influence in, on whim alone. Someone wants to compensate me for my time, I'd develop more interest in chasing down these quotes.
But it does show that you can trust quotes only as far as your personal knowledge, and your sphere of trust goes.
The link you mention says "several hundred" people were detained until cleared. Estimates of muslim populations in america number were in the millions in 1980, and have grown since then.
Japanese internment was on a scale more like "several tens of thousands" (like 110,000, according to wikipedia), and lacked that "until cleared" bit. ... unless you count the internment orders being rescinded in 1945. The percentage of the demographic that were affected is similarly higher for the Japanese than for the Muslims.
The similarities mentioned kinda break down when you look at them.
I don't think that plummeting to his death was the kind of segue that he was hoping for.
Took my windows machine to Fry's Electronics for some hardware repair (essentially, replace a bad video card under warranty). Got it back, but the one account on it had lost its password. Yeah, tools/methods exist to take the password off your account, at which point your windows machine is fully accessible. That is... if they have physical possession of the (windows) computer and existing tools, they don't need a keylogger.
I can't say whether their tool would work with whole disk encryption or not (mine wasn't). Would be interested, if someone with knowledge on that could speak up.
> scan the media for known viruses
FTFY, thereby illustrating the flaw in considering it "not that big a deal".
Should have used Jello-brand gelatin! Sets in only a short time, especially when placed in a refrigerator.
Diaspora has the benefit of being Open Source, much anticipated, and security aware. Thus, some number of security flaws have been found.
Diaspora is lucky in that regard. Bugs have lain dormant in even open source code for decades before being discovered. "Open Source" does not guarantee that bugs will become obvious. Open Source does not even guarantee that there will be people looking at the code, only that they CAN.
Might also consider the likes of Chairman Mao, (Karl) Marx, Adam Smith, Gallileo, Keynes, Stallman, and Einstein. There are many, many more people whose influence rings down the ages than simply spiritualists. And since people in power tend to want to stay in power, new ideas of all sorts are threatening.
Please retain a sense of civility, both of you.
The two of you do illustrate the debate over whether mathematics is a science or not. That it is a field of knowledge is not disputed. That you cannot apply the scientific method to it - no data to measure, no experiments to perform - seems clear.
Then you get into things like computational mathematics and simulation, and the line begins to gray out a bit...
This is why I waited for the DRM-free version of Civ IV to come out.
Although you have to admit, Boondock Saints did that up right, eh?
Eloquence. This is a weapon of the vocabulary knights. Not as random or as clumsy as your profanity, an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
...And who got as much recognition through the meme of "the artist formerly known as" as from the name he was formerly known as....
A flaw in his business planning. He should have had the trademark in his own name, and licensed it to his own company for a nominal consideration. ... or sold the trademark to himself before he lost his 51% in the company.
Ah, well. He probably simply wasn't old and paranoid enough when it happened.
So what you're saying is that virtual dollars are constantly being created and destroyed in Economic Space? Forming the basis for a theory of Economic Vacuum Energy? Which itself is a part of Quantum Economics?
> Thomas Edison submits (his) last patent
You know better than to throw gauntlets down around here!
Just a side note, for other armchair historians: Between Edison's first patent (in 1868) and his last (1933), the number of patents handled by the US Patent Office increased by a full order of magnitude (x10). (ref)
I think that you're right; most of the charges you could bring are civil matters. (Libel, defamation, interference with (employment) contract, yadda yadda.)
Identity Theft itself, though, is fraud where it isn't its own variety of crime (sometimes felony, sometimes misdemeanor). And fraud you CAN bring police in on. You might not get a lot of enthusiasm on their part, especially if you can't hand them a crook and a pile of evidence, because - let's face it - investigation is work. You're personally motivated, they're not.
In the end, though, we don't have enough information. He's been suspended "pending proof", but we don't know if it's a "protective suspension" by a sympathetic manager, or a hostile one. If he's had a good working relationship with the company and management, then he can probably get away with bringing them on the inside of "find out who really did it". If a hostile one, lawyering up before anything else happens IS the right action; evidence presented by a lawyer is almost certain to be better considered than from someone they're already hostile to. A consultation with a lawyer about what to do isn't going to cost a lot, and won't involve a retainer unless/until you feel you actually need one.
However, if you're bringing a lawyer in on things, you want to do every single bit as much of the leg-work as you possibly can. Anything your lawyer does, he'll bill you for, and that includes listening to you describe what you want him to do, by phone or in person.
Combat Piloting? ... I assumed you meant "during the test"...
> I'm pretty sure they'd give you your pants back.
In a few years, with good behavior. And in the mean time, they'll give you a loaner pair...
Curiously enough, at least one of the pictures on the Sherrif's poster is from the 2009 Comicon, not this year's event.
So how is this "recently spotted"? They kick him out this year, they didn't last year? And it's obvious Comic con security had no issue with him.
And unlike the music industry there are currently no major laws with regard to publishing which force authors to support one company that has been granted a monopoly.
Could you describe which music industry monopoly-granting laws you speak of? Last I saw, the RIAA was not itself a publishing company, but rather an organization supported by a number of music publishing companies. When someone gets sued "by the RIAA", the names on the court documents are those of individual copyright holders.
Now, the individual companies almost always insist on contracts assigning such copyrights to themselves when talking with performing artists, but that's a different issue. You can still, to my knowledge, make music in your garage then try to sell it in the Apple music store or something.
Sorry, no, the fact that you don't have the bucks to take on RIAA or MPAA in court, or to out-spend them in Washington, is not an excuse.
In military cases, this is the origin of asymmetrical warfare: guerilla warfare, terrorism, human shields, etc. One side has disproportionately greater resources. The other side has no realistic chance of effecting change through any usual methods, and sees little to lose by using unconventional methods.
"It is not an excuse" is only said by those with something to lose.
you wouldn't download a car
Not for lack of trying.
Execs of most companies are liable to shareholders (and CEOs to boards of directors) as well. For instance, Patricia Dunn of HP. HP eventually settled with California on the wiretap charges, but Dunn got booted^H^H^H^H^H^H "resigned".
It is hard to assign personal liability to corporate actions, but like with Enron (Jeffrey Skilling) does occasionally happen.
So don't be anticipating lots of exec jail time. Crippling fines might happen, though.