I did? Excuse me? I think your lack of comprehension did that. I made no statement on the subject. What I said was that situations like that, where "what to do" is completely visible, on the surface of the event, without any context are not all that common.
Shit what did the police say to him? Stop going around macing people in situations where he doesn't have all the facts. If you somehow think that comparing this to another situation where someone acted with the best of intentions, but without enough context, and fucked up in the process makes them "equivalent", then I must say that.... I know that word, and I don't think it means what you think it means.
Its nice when things are so black and white. Things seldom are.
Let me tell you another story of a "Super Hero". She is a hair dresser most days, but on her day off, she got involved and helped an old lady who was taken advantage of by a car dealer. She drove that lady down to the dealership, when her own family wouldn't, and gave them holy hell. She even went back the next day, crying and pleading with them to make right with the old woman. A true american....oh wait....
Thats right, that woman was my grandmother. Oh and they "took advantage of her" by doing some body work on her car, fixing it up, and somehow not magically predicting that the fuel pump was going to die 3 weeks later, at which point, they told her that it wasn't worth fixing. Then what did these bastards do? Well, after she told them to junk it, and couldn't find the title.... they did her a favor (afterall, the service manager was a friend of the family) and found someone who would take it for junk without the title.
Real bastards eh? Well after she watched some TV and heard some guy saying he would pay $400 for a junked car, decided that they had screwed her and they got $400 that she should have gotten. It doesn't help that she is 87 and sometimes looses it a bit. Hell, the day after she went down to the dealership to give them hell, she was telling my mother and I how she had been laying around the house in bed for two whole days.
My grandmother is totally wrong in this deal, doesn't really remember what happened very well (she doesn't remember telling them it was ok to junk it, though we all know she did, we talked with her about it before she did it), but, she doesn't know that. She is heading into senile at the ripe old age of 87.
However, the wanna be super hero, she is in her 20s and while well meaning, got involved without understanding the whole story, and went way overboard, got her all riled up, and completely embarrassed a long time friend of the family at his work.
Knowing what to do when three guys are beating the snot out of one guy is easy, and its sad that more people are not willing to stand up. However, thats a rare and fantastic situation that doesn't come up every day. Real situations are far more complex.
Incompetence? From the people who allowed the tail to wag the dog so long that we built a military so many times bigger than we ever needed, that we go around playing world police with it...on our own dime?
Yah, "competence" is exactly what I would expect from a people so gullible that they get dragged into conflicts all over the globe every few years.
Thats interesting and points out something that I missed...
Monitoring is great for looking for broken systems.... however.... it will never be enough to catch an intelligent adversary, who is actively gaming it (unless he doesn't understand the game he is playing, or makes a mistake).
You are always limited by manpower, because someone has to act on alarms. Humans can and will act according to how the environment dictates. You either have enough people to investigate and log evidence on every single alert, or you must tune alerts/ignore alerts.
Even then, it only works if the monitors that you setup to flag issues catches something that the next adversary is going to try, and that whatever he is doing can be verified to fraudulent with the type of investigation that the people investigating alerts will catch.
They read the book and said "Well its fiction, but what a great idea". At this point, I think we have to hope they haven't read 1984 yet, it is absolutely imperative that we keep any copies of it away from those dimwits in the DHS, to allow them to get ideas from it (especially since they are likely to see it as "working out in the end").
I could have sworn it was a rather worthless term that exists solely as an epitaph to toss at any suggestion that there are things internationally that we should avoid involving ourselves in.
All I ever said was that war has been unnecessary and not defensive. Since when is not going to war, isolationism? Is war the only way in which "we" can interact with the world...or the only effective way? Thats silly. There is a fair distance between not going to war frivolously and isolating the country.
Exactly. However, not everyone understands that and a lot of people who don't get this.
Its also nearly impossible to get to this point if management doesn't understand the process that is needed and buys in to making everyone play ball.
I remember seeing presentations by a specific monitoring team of positions past. They presented how the decision was made to "just turn everything on". After several years they had hundreds of alerts a day... way too many to even think of turning on paging... and it was another 4 years before they got to the point that they had management buy in to take it seriously, turn on paging, and make people work with the monitoring group to tune down the alerts.
All the while management kept going on about what tools they were using, and looking at different ones etc.... all the time...it was a process issue and a lack of management buy in to work with the tool they had that really hamstrung the whole process.
Whenever you have a monitoring or backup solution, it must be regularly tested to ensure a responsive psychology (as well as proper device operation).
They should have had 1 or 2 fake funny trades per month, and if the people who got the alert messages didn't respond, they should have been punished or fired.
Nah, you don't need to punish or fire them in the traditional sense.
All you need is to have some mandatory meetings that kick off to investigate, document, etc. Just make missing them a pain in the balls for the people who should have caught it, and they will make sure it doesn't happen again. Getting fired sucks.... facing repetitive ball busting hell is much worst and an excellent motivating factor.
But also.... thats not enough, and might not even be the right problem. You have to ask, why did they miss them?
Did they miss them because they were fucking off or just didn't care? Ok.... well thats one issue.
Did they miss them because the system catches so much shit, that the alarms are worthless? Thats a whole different issue.
I mean, technically, you could just alert on everything all the time.... send thousands of alerts a day. You will catch the problems... but... it wont matter because the people can't possibly keep up.
We had some issues with swap monitoring. Why? We started out a bit naive and just set thresholds. Lo and Behold, Linux systems will swap stuff out just to increase cache sometimes. We would have hosts with 80% swap usage that... were not swapping in or out and had 90% free memory. So, people were getting pages, alot, often. If we let that just go on...eventually.... no matter how vigilant you try to be... people will start to ignore it...then some day...its going to take a machine down.
Monitoring is great, and you are right but... you have to make sure you are addressing the actual cause rather than a symptom of a larger problem.
They will have years to plan, train, and equip, no matter what you do. Because "they" are not real. "They" are not the cohesive group, and no pronoun is going to make "them" into one. A terrorist attack could happen today, tomorow, next week. Nothing anybody does is every going to change that fact. Period. 100% waste of time and money.
The main reason another one hasn't happened? Simple.... there just are not that many people trying, and those few that are, are not even competent, or are FBI plots, setup for no other reason than to appear effective.
> You have to have testicals to get a date, let alone get her pregnant.
He said to the happily married man. Enjoy your delusions genius.
> Now can we get back to the discussion on the technological aspects of throwable robots, instead of your lame, pot-induced demonstration of how out of touch > with reality you are?
I was somehow stopping you from discussing something else? Am I making you hit reply?
So sorry about that, I will try to remember there are people out there who are so retarded that they think the "Fight them there" BS actually did anything useful.
Ignoring? Who said ignore? I just said that is where the bright line for the use of ANY military force should be, and should set the goal of that force.
If they can't survive as an institution without war, then they shouldn't survive as an institution.
"If the Axis plans had succeed the world, other that the US and maybe Canada (much of South America was already sympathetic to Germany), would have been controlled by three countries who worked together."
Right right...if it had worked, if they could have held it together long enough to solidify their hold. If they even continued to be allies. Most of the world is quite a lot of area to occupy. Hell, many government's today can barely be said to occupy their own nation, but you think worldwide dominance by less entities than can be counted on one hand, then, I think I have a bridge in Brooklyn you should consider buying too.
It may have taken time, they may have gotten further, but, I see little that tells me their plan had much chance of working, and even if it had worked, long term, probably wouldn't have been nearly as bad as all that anyway. Once the war is over, you still have to govern.
> A similar thing nearly happened during the Cold War with USSR wanting Europe, Africa and the Middle East and China wanting Asia. Is it so far fetched that > two Communist countries would act in concert against the last major Capitalist country in the world?
Nearly eh? You still buy the whole Communist vs Capitalist BS too eh? Interesting. It is far fetched that any country will exist long with any real ideology.
The cold war was never driven by much more than the delusion on each side that the other was seriously planning to wipe the other out. If we were in Russia 30 years ago, you don't think you would hear people worried that the Capitalist nations would gang up together on the communists? The entire cold war was little more than an infantile pissing match, for which BOTH sides should be deeply ashamed.
Who said anything about isolationism? Since when is not murdering people for political reasons "isolationism"?
Also, why would we just assume that such a scenario, which has never really been the case in the world, is likely or plausible? It seems to me that the entire argument rests on the paranoid notion that the entire rest of the world can be convinced to act together on anything, much less turning down large swaths of business.
Just not going to happen, this is the sort of thinking that made sense back when a thousand mile radius was basically the entire world for all intents and purposes, the world is just too large for unification. Frankly, I doubt the US is going to be able to keep it together for more than another generation.... it is just too much under one tent.
Hopefully we can send all the DEA to the fucking unemployment line within the next few years since, once they legalize pot (which is the vast majority of illegal drug users... more than the next big 3 combined).
Aside from that... just don't include me in your "We". I am disgusted that I even have to pay for a dime of any of this warmongering BS. I am not commited at all, if it were up to me the operative words on ending the wars would be "immediate, and complete". Out of afghanistan, out of Iraq. Hell....out of Korea. Been an utter waste of our money for generations.
No commitment here. And nobody willing to die for this government is "my boy".
Let me try to explain it a different way. My credit card was no longer valid, and I never got the notice that was supposed to tell me this.
So I get my notice in the mail, call them, and take care of the toll, fix the account. Honest mistake, all set right? Nope. Because then a month later, I get a notice that I never paid the fine, which has now been doubled.
Of course, the obmudsman, in reply to my disgusted apeal, told me that thats what any company does if you don't pay them on time, you can't expect to keep the lights on without paying, and paying late fees if you don't pay on time.
I am reminded of this now as.... just last month I lost my secondary wallet (bus pass and a credit card) on the bus and had to cancel a credit card. Turns out it was the card that my colocated server was charged on.
Funny, they never shut me off, they just sent me a notice that the card was declined, and when I paid them, all done. I didn't have to pay them, then seperately appeal or deal with any fines. Not even a phone call to one person, just a web form. However, with the MA Fast Lane it was one call to one person, then I had to call a whole different number to deal with the fine... where they though tnothing of charging punative penalties on a fine that really, was little more than an already corrected honest mistake.
Are they "Capital W Wrong?" no.... they make the rules, its their system but.... its bad customer service, and its a blatant attempt to capitalize on people's mistakes.
Then again, maybe they changed it recently? It could very well have been me going off on the Ombudsman about the fact that they already were correlating incidents and cars and thus had everything they needed to streamline this that got them to do it? Beats me, I don't drive that much anymore.
Actually... based on how they do it just over the line in MA, I bet there is a more subtle play going on.
Here, if a transponder stops working, or there is an account problem (happened to me) they treat it just like any other unpaid toll. They take a picture, and send you a ticket in the mail. This part is key you see. Now you call them up, and the process is now dealing with a ticket. They can't help you, and have no incentive to because its not collected and dealt with by the same people.
So I could call up, pay the tolls, and fix my account. However, I still had to, seperately, appeal the ticket... which they get to send via snail mail and put an unreasonably short time period on, at which point they get to tack on penalties which were intended for fraudulent users of the service.... and just because the original ticket was an account error thats been taken care of is, in their mind, no good reason to do away with the penalties for not paying them within 21 days.
On top of all this, you must file a written appeal, and then.... call them back repeatedly to see if they have answered it yet.
Basically....they have designed the system for maximum bilk, and the last thing they want is you getting an early warning that there is a red white and blue cock locked onto your ass.
Going around asking "Is X a National Security Threat" is the biggest security threat of them all. In fact, the very concept of National Security is a security threat.
At least I am not the lone crackpot saying it. Its going to take them a while. Frankly, I don't expect the people who want this are really in power, nor out there trying to make this happen but, they sure are bending over backwards to get things ready for the people who will happily grab the reigns and try to predict 1000 years of their own rule....again....
I was talking with our main Solaris guy and telling him we need to get better with our workflow because I thought I must be months behind on adding new Solaris servers to monitoring and need an updated list from him to see if we were missing any. Thats when he informed me that I wasn't behind, we just weren't getting requests for new Solaris machines anymore.
20 times more people get killed in car accidents in US every year but fighting "war on cars" does not offer the same kinds of opportunities for dictatorial power,
Actually.... no sooner did cities and towns say they needed money than I noticed a sudden surge in cars pulled over by the side of the road, which hasn't stopped. Suddenly unmarked cars are pulling people over, seems you can't drive more than 2 miles without seeing someone pulled over anymore. I am pretty sure the war on car drivers as a way to justify jobs has begun in full earnest.
Exactly why I have said our constitution is worth little more than toilet paper and should be replaced, it places far too few restrictions on the power of government to run amok, especially outside of our borders.
But I don't feel so bad, I never signed the stupid thing anyway.
Enemy troops on the global battlefield? Drink much cool-aide do you?
Allowing the government to declare a global battlefield and murder whoever they please without any manner of due process is an insult to the very core of liberty.
These people are not now, and never were an existential threat to this country. There is not now, and never has been, any real justification for declaring a ridiculous, unending global war against these insignificant mosquitos on the ass of world culture, who can barely get a plot together, and 90% of the time seem to need FBI help to find their way out of a paper bag.
Wake me up when they muster a 9/11 a day for a few weeks...then you have an enemy worth declaring a war on.
Until then, its just excuses for power tripping judge dread wannabes going around murdering people, which is the ultimate denial of civil rights and due process, no matter where you live, all while swearing to uphold a constitution that demands due process to defend liberty.
yes but, the constitution doesn't just grant citizens the right to a fair trial. This was an execution without due process. It doesn't matter where it happened, or who did it, as long as it was done by agents of this government, they should be subject to its laws, and its constitution demands due process. There is no war in yemen by any recognized definition of the word.
Your choice to refer to organized crime as asymmetric warfare is amusing.
So what...anything you can imagine some way to apply the word "war" to, magically makes whatever you want to do ok? Are there no standards? Just whoever they want to kill, as long as they can concoct a good story, its ok, as long as that story says "war"?
Where is the oversight in that? Oversight is more important than killing your "enemies", especially when you are so large and poweful that, at their height, they are little more than a mosquito biting at your ass.
So we had some problems with how Nagios stock plugins interact with Solaris Zpools...under certain circumstances, it can read a filesystem as full even when it has plenty of space (less than half full). In looking for a solution, I found a check on the exchange that was written to use the zpool tools to check. I found a minor bug in the check, fixed it, deployed it, and sent a patch to the original author.
His reply? He thanked me, but informed me that it was of no use to him anymore as his company migrated everything off of Solaris rather than deal with Oracle.
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I did? Excuse me? I think your lack of comprehension did that. I made no statement on the subject. What I said was that situations like that, where "what to do" is completely visible, on the surface of the event, without any context are not all that common.
Shit what did the police say to him? Stop going around macing people in situations where he doesn't have all the facts. If you somehow think that comparing this to another situation where someone acted with the best of intentions, but without enough context, and fucked up in the process makes them "equivalent", then I must say that.... I know that word, and I don't think it means what you think it means.
Its nice when things are so black and white. Things seldom are.
Let me tell you another story of a "Super Hero". She is a hair dresser most days, but on her day off, she got involved and helped an old lady who was taken advantage of by a car dealer. She drove that lady down to the dealership, when her own family wouldn't, and gave them holy hell. She even went back the next day, crying and pleading with them to make right with the old woman. A true american....oh wait....
Thats right, that woman was my grandmother. Oh and they "took advantage of her" by doing some body work on her car, fixing it up, and somehow not magically predicting that the fuel pump was going to die 3 weeks later, at which point, they told her that it wasn't worth fixing. Then what did these bastards do? Well, after she told them to junk it, and couldn't find the title.... they did her a favor (afterall, the service manager was a friend of the family) and found someone who would take it for junk without the title.
Real bastards eh? Well after she watched some TV and heard some guy saying he would pay $400 for a junked car, decided that they had screwed her and they got $400 that she should have gotten. It doesn't help that she is 87 and sometimes looses it a bit. Hell, the day after she went down to the dealership to give them hell, she was telling my mother and I how she had been laying around the house in bed for two whole days.
My grandmother is totally wrong in this deal, doesn't really remember what happened very well (she doesn't remember telling them it was ok to junk it, though we all know she did, we talked with her about it before she did it), but, she doesn't know that. She is heading into senile at the ripe old age of 87.
However, the wanna be super hero, she is in her 20s and while well meaning, got involved without understanding the whole story, and went way overboard, got her all riled up, and completely embarrassed a long time friend of the family at his work.
Knowing what to do when three guys are beating the snot out of one guy is easy, and its sad that more people are not willing to stand up. However, thats a rare and fantastic situation that doesn't come up every day. Real situations are far more complex.
Incompetence? From the people who allowed the tail to wag the dog so long that we built a military so many times bigger than we ever needed, that we go around playing world police with it...on our own dime?
Yah, "competence" is exactly what I would expect from a people so gullible that they get dragged into conflicts all over the globe every few years.
Thats interesting and points out something that I missed...
Monitoring is great for looking for broken systems.... however.... it will never be enough to catch an intelligent adversary, who is actively gaming it (unless he doesn't understand the game he is playing, or makes a mistake).
You are always limited by manpower, because someone has to act on alarms. Humans can and will act according to how the environment dictates. You either have enough people to investigate and log evidence on every single alert, or you must tune alerts/ignore alerts.
Even then, it only works if the monitors that you setup to flag issues catches something that the next adversary is going to try, and that whatever he is doing can be verified to fraudulent with the type of investigation that the people investigating alerts will catch.
They read the book and said "Well its fiction, but what a great idea". At this point, I think we have to hope they haven't read 1984 yet, it is absolutely imperative that we keep any copies of it away from those dimwits in the DHS, to allow them to get ideas from it (especially since they are likely to see it as "working out in the end").
I could have sworn it was a rather worthless term that exists solely as an epitaph to toss at any suggestion that there are things internationally that we should avoid involving ourselves in.
All I ever said was that war has been unnecessary and not defensive. Since when is not going to war, isolationism? Is war the only way in which "we" can interact with the world...or the only effective way? Thats silly. There is a fair distance between not going to war frivolously and isolating the country.
Exactly. However, not everyone understands that and a lot of people who don't get this.
Its also nearly impossible to get to this point if management doesn't understand the process that is needed and buys in to making everyone play ball.
I remember seeing presentations by a specific monitoring team of positions past. They presented how the decision was made to "just turn everything on". After several years they had hundreds of alerts a day... way too many to even think of turning on paging... and it was another 4 years before they got to the point that they had management buy in to take it seriously, turn on paging, and make people work with the monitoring group to tune down the alerts.
All the while management kept going on about what tools they were using, and looking at different ones etc.... all the time...it was a process issue and a lack of management buy in to work with the tool they had that really hamstrung the whole process.
Whenever you have a monitoring or backup solution, it must be regularly tested to ensure a responsive psychology (as well as proper device operation).
They should have had 1 or 2 fake funny trades per month, and if the people who got the alert messages didn't respond, they should have been punished or fired.
Nah, you don't need to punish or fire them in the traditional sense.
All you need is to have some mandatory meetings that kick off to investigate, document, etc. Just make missing them a pain in the balls for the people who should have caught it, and they will make sure it doesn't happen again. Getting fired sucks.... facing repetitive ball busting hell is much worst and an excellent motivating factor.
But also.... thats not enough, and might not even be the right problem. You have to ask, why did they miss them?
Did they miss them because they were fucking off or just didn't care? Ok.... well thats one issue.
Did they miss them because the system catches so much shit, that the alarms are worthless? Thats a whole different issue.
I mean, technically, you could just alert on everything all the time.... send thousands of alerts a day. You will catch the problems... but... it wont matter because the people can't possibly keep up.
We had some issues with swap monitoring. Why? We started out a bit naive and just set thresholds. Lo and Behold, Linux systems will swap stuff out just to increase cache sometimes. We would have hosts with 80% swap usage that... were not swapping in or out and had 90% free memory. So, people were getting pages, alot, often. If we let that just go on...eventually.... no matter how vigilant you try to be... people will start to ignore it...then some day...its going to take a machine down.
Monitoring is great, and you are right but... you have to make sure you are addressing the actual cause rather than a symptom of a larger problem.
ROTFL you think they can be stopped? ROTFL.
They will have years to plan, train, and equip, no matter what you do. Because "they" are not real. "They" are not the cohesive group, and no pronoun is going to make "them" into one. A terrorist attack could happen today, tomorow, next week. Nothing anybody does is every going to change that fact. Period. 100% waste of time and money.
The main reason another one hasn't happened? Simple.... there just are not that many people trying, and those few that are, are not even competent, or are FBI plots, setup for no other reason than to appear effective.
> You have to have testicals to get a date, let alone get her pregnant.
He said to the happily married man. Enjoy your delusions genius.
> Now can we get back to the discussion on the technological aspects of throwable robots, instead of your lame, pot-induced demonstration of how out of touch
> with reality you are?
I was somehow stopping you from discussing something else? Am I making you hit reply?
So sorry about that, I will try to remember there are people out there who are so retarded that they think the "Fight them there" BS actually did anything useful.
Ignoring? Who said ignore? I just said that is where the bright line for the use of ANY military force should be, and should set the goal of that force.
If they can't survive as an institution without war, then they shouldn't survive as an institution.
"If the Axis plans had succeed the world, other that the US and maybe Canada (much of South America was already sympathetic to Germany), would have been controlled by three countries who worked together."
Right right...if it had worked, if they could have held it together long enough to solidify their hold. If they even continued to be allies. Most of the world is quite a lot of area to occupy. Hell, many government's today can barely be said to occupy their own nation, but you think worldwide dominance by less entities than can be counted on one hand, then, I think I have a bridge in Brooklyn you should consider buying too.
It may have taken time, they may have gotten further, but, I see little that tells me their plan had much chance of working, and even if it had worked, long term, probably wouldn't have been nearly as bad as all that anyway. Once the war is over, you still have to govern.
> A similar thing nearly happened during the Cold War with USSR wanting Europe, Africa and the Middle East and China wanting Asia. Is it so far fetched that
> two Communist countries would act in concert against the last major Capitalist country in the world?
Nearly eh? You still buy the whole Communist vs Capitalist BS too eh? Interesting. It is far fetched that any country will exist long with any real ideology.
The cold war was never driven by much more than the delusion on each side that the other was seriously planning to wipe the other out. If we were in Russia 30 years ago, you don't think you would hear people worried that the Capitalist nations would gang up together on the communists? The entire cold war was little more than an infantile pissing match, for which BOTH sides should be deeply ashamed.
Who said anything about isolationism? Since when is not murdering people for political reasons "isolationism"?
Also, why would we just assume that such a scenario, which has never really been the case in the world, is likely or plausible? It seems to me that the entire argument rests on the paranoid notion that the entire rest of the world can be convinced to act together on anything, much less turning down large swaths of business.
Just not going to happen, this is the sort of thinking that made sense back when a thousand mile radius was basically the entire world for all intents and purposes, the world is just too large for unification. Frankly, I doubt the US is going to be able to keep it together for more than another generation.... it is just too much under one tent.
Hopefully we can send all the DEA to the fucking unemployment line within the next few years since, once they legalize pot (which is the vast majority of illegal drug users... more than the next big 3 combined).
Aside from that... just don't include me in your "We". I am disgusted that I even have to pay for a dime of any of this warmongering BS. I am not commited at all, if it were up to me the operative words on ending the wars would be "immediate, and complete". Out of afghanistan, out of Iraq. Hell....out of Korea. Been an utter waste of our money for generations.
No commitment here. And nobody willing to die for this government is "my boy".
-Steve
Its hard to see why they need this since they haven't actually needed to DEFEND this country since um.... they were fighting with muskets.
Seems they would get a lot more bang for their buck by not fighting wars than coming up with all these better ways to do it.
This was all of like 2 years ago.
Let me try to explain it a different way. My credit card was no longer valid, and I never got the notice that was supposed to tell me this.
So I get my notice in the mail, call them, and take care of the toll, fix the account. Honest mistake, all set right? Nope. Because then a month later, I get a notice that I never paid the fine, which has now been doubled.
Of course, the obmudsman, in reply to my disgusted apeal, told me that thats what any company does if you don't pay them on time, you can't expect to keep the lights on without paying, and paying late fees if you don't pay on time.
I am reminded of this now as.... just last month I lost my secondary wallet (bus pass and a credit card) on the bus and had to cancel a credit card. Turns out it was the card that my colocated server was charged on.
Funny, they never shut me off, they just sent me a notice that the card was declined, and when I paid them, all done. I didn't have to pay them, then seperately appeal or deal with any fines. Not even a phone call to one person, just a web form. However, with the MA Fast Lane it was one call to one person, then I had to call a whole different number to deal with the fine... where they though tnothing of charging punative penalties on a fine that really, was little more than an already corrected honest mistake.
Are they "Capital W Wrong?" no.... they make the rules, its their system but.... its bad customer service, and its a blatant attempt to capitalize on people's mistakes.
Then again, maybe they changed it recently? It could very well have been me going off on the Ombudsman about the fact that they already were correlating incidents and cars and thus had everything they needed to streamline this that got them to do it? Beats me, I don't drive that much anymore.
Actually... based on how they do it just over the line in MA, I bet there is a more subtle play going on.
Here, if a transponder stops working, or there is an account problem (happened to me) they treat it just like any other unpaid toll. They take a picture, and send you a ticket in the mail. This part is key you see. Now you call them up, and the process is now dealing with a ticket. They can't help you, and have no incentive to because its not collected and dealt with by the same people.
So I could call up, pay the tolls, and fix my account. However, I still had to, seperately, appeal the ticket... which they get to send via snail mail and put an unreasonably short time period on, at which point they get to tack on penalties which were intended for fraudulent users of the service.... and just because the original ticket was an account error thats been taken care of is, in their mind, no good reason to do away with the penalties for not paying them within 21 days.
On top of all this, you must file a written appeal, and then.... call them back repeatedly to see if they have answered it yet.
Basically....they have designed the system for maximum bilk, and the last thing they want is you getting an early warning that there is a red white and blue cock locked onto your ass.
Required.... I am familiar with that word, but I do not believe it means what you think it means.
I don't see where any such "requirement" to deliver extra-judicial killing came from. What made this required? Why was anything "required"?
Going around asking "Is X a National Security Threat" is the biggest security threat of them all. In fact, the very concept of National Security is a security threat.
At least I am not the lone crackpot saying it. Its going to take them a while. Frankly, I don't expect the people who want this are really in power, nor out there trying to make this happen but, they sure are bending over backwards to get things ready for the people who will happily grab the reigns and try to predict 1000 years of their own rule....again....
I was talking with our main Solaris guy and telling him we need to get better with our workflow because I thought I must be months behind on adding new Solaris servers to monitoring and need an updated list from him to see if we were missing any. Thats when he informed me that I wasn't behind, we just weren't getting requests for new Solaris machines anymore.
Actually.... no sooner did cities and towns say they needed money than I noticed a sudden surge in cars pulled over by the side of the road, which hasn't stopped. Suddenly unmarked cars are pulling people over, seems you can't drive more than 2 miles without seeing someone pulled over anymore. I am pretty sure the war on car drivers as a way to justify jobs has begun in full earnest.
Exactly why I have said our constitution is worth little more than toilet paper and should be replaced, it places far too few restrictions on the power of government to run amok, especially outside of our borders.
But I don't feel so bad, I never signed the stupid thing anyway.
Enemy troops on the global battlefield? Drink much cool-aide do you?
Allowing the government to declare a global battlefield and murder whoever they please without any manner of due process is an insult to the very core of liberty.
These people are not now, and never were an existential threat to this country. There is not now, and never has been, any real justification for declaring a ridiculous, unending global war against these insignificant mosquitos on the ass of world culture, who can barely get a plot together, and 90% of the time seem to need FBI help to find their way out of a paper bag.
Wake me up when they muster a 9/11 a day for a few weeks...then you have an enemy worth declaring a war on.
Until then, its just excuses for power tripping judge dread wannabes going around murdering people, which is the ultimate denial of civil rights and due process, no matter where you live, all while swearing to uphold a constitution that demands due process to defend liberty.
They disgrace us, and legitimize the enemy.
yes but, the constitution doesn't just grant citizens the right to a fair trial. This was an execution without due process. It doesn't matter where it happened, or who did it, as long as it was done by agents of this government, they should be subject to its laws, and its constitution demands due process. There is no war in yemen by any recognized definition of the word.
Your choice to refer to organized crime as asymmetric warfare is amusing.
So what...anything you can imagine some way to apply the word "war" to, magically makes whatever you want to do ok? Are there no standards? Just whoever they want to kill, as long as they can concoct a good story, its ok, as long as that story says "war"?
Where is the oversight in that? Oversight is more important than killing your "enemies", especially when you are so large and poweful that, at their height, they are little more than a mosquito biting at your ass.
So we had some problems with how Nagios stock plugins interact with Solaris Zpools...under certain circumstances, it can read a filesystem as full even when it has plenty of space (less than half full). In looking for a solution, I found a check on the exchange that was written to use the zpool tools to check. I found a minor bug in the check, fixed it, deployed it, and sent a patch to the original author.
His reply? He thanked me, but informed me that it was of no use to him anymore as his company migrated everything off of Solaris rather than deal with Oracle.
So I would say yes, this sounds about right.