Actually I have only read some of the online versions, and some bits of the US Army Improvised Munitions Manual (1969) which probably provided a fair amount of source material.
I wish I had read the real book, always meant to check it out. Maybe that wasn't a good example but, I have heard many times this theory that it was intended to kill the people who tried it, and I just never bought it. It always seemed plausible enough that errors or bad procedures were more the result of lack of QA than actual malicious intent. (and no,,I don't consider revolution to be malicious)
I dunno, I think you give the guy who put the cookbook together a bit too much credit. If anything it was a collection that was put together from book learning and inexperience. Sure, anybody can look up the reaction and figure out how to make nitroglycerin. Doing it safely on the other hand isn't something that a lot of people (even some who did it) can speak to.
Getting high from banana peels is a perfect example. It wasn't new in the cookbook. It was a hoax printed in a Princeton newspaper. The author of the book got ahold of it and included it in his book. Hardly some grand conspiracy, just, ignorance, inexperience, and lack of source checking.
And its fine to have little care for a subculture or to think some plants may be dangerous. I am perfectly happy to have all manner of academic discussion over the usefulness and or dangerous of any plant. However, as soon as that crosses the line from discussion about how you or I think and into putting people in shackles and removing them from normal society, I have a huge problem with that. Its not something for which I will ever personally forgive the organizations which engage in the practice.
But its true, I always point out to people when they talk of wikileaks possibly outing people who worked with the US troops.... those people are the ones that, if we were in the same situation as Afghanistan or Iraq, would be the ones we are calling enemy collaborators. Would a german troop cry over outing of french resistance? Its all relative, but, the person working against his own people to help foreign invaders deserves what he gets.
Of course, situations are rarely as simple as a pithy comment makes them. As long as an oppressive government can paint a malcontent as "working against his own people to help foreign invaders", then they have a moral justification for atrocity. Right?
This is pretty much just what government's do. Shit, I have a friend in jail because he used to sell a plant that grew out of the ground. Moral justification for atrocity is the bread and butter of any government. As long as people continue to accept the output of some byzantine system as "us", they can pretty much always get away with doing these things.
My point, if anything is, that its ALWAYS little more than a word game. Its just a matter of defining who is "us" and who is "them". That's what they do, and combine that with a consistent flow of pay checks, and you can get anything done, whether that is wholesale execution and extermination, or simply its more palatable cousin, locking people away for 5,10,20 years at a time.
As soon as you break off a group of people and say "these people are harmful to 'us'", then whatever "we" have to do to them is... self defense. The key is always to take away the person's status as "us", since "we" are always the good guys.
Dude, not everyone who knows La Marsaillez is french....some of us had to study a second language in high school, and actually enjoyed it. Also, I happen to be an American who doubts that this would have happened, I think people give the "3rd Reich" way way too much credit.
In time, I have little doubt that the resistance wouldn't have won out. Totalitarian states may be able to handle areas with a few dispersed cities, but to rule over all of Europe and push into Asia and Africa? Just because it works for a little while doesn't mean it wont fall apart in another decade or so.
Wolfenstien 3d (original).... you start out in a cell, with a dead gaurds body at your feet, and a knife and pistol in your hands.... as if the fact that they wear uniforms with swastikas and yell at you in german wasn't enough.... they also already captured you and you killed a gaurd to escape.. you need more justification to leave a trail of kraut bodies?
"Let's March! Let's March! Until their impure blood, waters our fields" (it flows a lot better in french)
But its true, I always point out to people when they talk of wikileaks possibly outing people who worked with the US troops.... those people are the ones that, if we were in the same situation as Afghanistan or Iraq, would be the ones we are calling enemy collaborators. Would a german troop cry over outing of french resistance? Its all relative, but, the person working against his own people to help foreign invaders deserves what he gets.
People are going to gamble, whether you pass laws against it or not.... case in point. I used to run a "friendly game" (no rake) at my house. I know people who run professional games... where it is illegal. You think this is going to kill online poker? No way. Hell there is a bitcoin poker room out there.... good luck regulating that.
Unregulated gambling exists, and will continue to exist no matter what you do, so really, yours is the false choice. No gambling was never on the table. Its regulated gambling with diminished unregulated, or its totally unregulated. There is your choice.
I will note... the old "Italian Lotto", had better percentage payouts and better odds of winning than ANY state lotto. They typically took in a rake of between 20-40%,... most state lottos take 50, and then tax you on the income. That is a piss poor payout schedule for any gambler....a huge rip off.
Well it comes down to trust. You may trust the fact that people wont abuse the information, lest they go to federal pound me in the ass prison.
Realize, this is little more than a matter of policy. If they suddenly decide that they need it? How about if accessing it is a "matter of national security"? A claim that doesn't even have to be justified to anyone if the right person claims it.
How about we realize that FISA courts, the ones that were talked about in the old warrantless wiretapping scandal. They were instituted AFTER there were ABUSES. A fact that is lost in the whole "but its national security" smoke screen. The simple fact is, once information or access to information is there for someone, you have to trust them not just to not abuse it today, but into the future.
What I trust, is that they will find excuses to make exceptions and will expand their reach through those exceptions until they can do anything they want. That is what I trust.
I never really considered how common this might be but, my wife and I do the same thing. Actually, it all started when we picked up a "comedo extractor" at the store. Makes it much easier to pop zits without damaging the skin too badly, and its kind of fun to use. She gets the raw end of the deal though, because my skin is much clearer than hers, and I get many less of them.
I know its true, and I almost might do the same but... I don't have to. This laptop is so old and used, and has enough issues now on its own, I could have it replaced easily. The "|" only works sometimes, the left and right arrow keys are dead. The CDROM stopped working a long time ago, have to use the docking station because the power cord doesn't work, and I have tried replacements to no avail (actually one works, it looks like HPs new model power cords that are said to work on this laptop don't fit quite right)
Plus I think its just old enough that by policy they will replace it....
but I have it on a doc, sometimes I get mad and even hook up an external keyboard and mouse.... why?
Because I hate the idea of waiting weeks, being without my laptop, and then having to rebuild it when it gets here because I use a linux desktop and they don't support that.
I don't believe there are currently any onion routers on the moon and... tor connections typically have plenty of latency, no need to add a lunar round trip anywhere in the circuits.
I would disagree if one was to say there is no faith. The difference is where and why faith is placed. There is no faith placed in any one scientist.
So yes, I have to take it on faith that wave functions and most of QM describes something that is born out in experimental evidence. Mostly because I haven't studied it and the math required to do much with it, and I have no equipment with which to test. However, I don't have to trust any one persons experiment, and in fact, if someone else is able to show that its non-reproducible, then it is called into question.
There is some amount of faith but, its faith in an open and auditable process, often known as the "Scientific Method".
Religious faith on the other hand, is faith that what some guy said in a book is the truth. Its faith in some line of priests or the words of a long dead man. Faith in things that can't be proven. Statements that cannot be falsified and are not open to questioning and standards of reproducibility.
if I think QM is wrong, I can devise a falsifiable test designed to prove it wrong, and if my test works, and can be reproduced by others, then thats totally legitimate. How do I devise a test to falsify the statement that "jesus is lord" or "people live on after death"? It is faith in a much less open, system which can't be audited or tested.
Thank you captain technicality. And if I shoot a bullet through your skull, I didn't rip your brain to shreds, the bullet did. How important is that distinction for you in that situation?
Um.... how about if she is a naturist, and they are, then none of this is going to bother them.
You know, not everybody joins the nudist groups just to see other people naked. You know some of us can be naked or around naked people without making a big deal about it...really... its not that big a deal.
I suppose if you are so distracted and preoccupied with the fact that other people are naked, the clothing free worksite is not a good fit for you.
I often wonder how that would work, obviously, local law will apply but...
they do a lot of drug testing at some jobs, I often wonder.... what if you just considered a "clean test" as much of a failure as being a heorin junky and hired only people who tested positive for pot?
I mean, discrimination is discrimination right? If I can discriminate based on the content of ones urine chemistry then I can discriminate right?
There is a difference between teasing a wild tiger, and acknowledging it for what it is.... a beast that will kill you for a snack.
Recognizing what it is and advocating avoiding, or even killing it or driving it out of the area where you live is one thing. Its quite another to to just offer it a snack.
How about you take your philosophy to heart. Clearly you never go above the speed limit, at all, not even 1 mph. Because, you live in a republic and it would be some moral failing to actually transgess one of its holy laws. If you were here in MA and your wife asked you to spank her because it turns her on, would you say "no honey, that would be domestic assault here in MA, and I don't want to break the law".
If so then, I salute you and your utter lack of hypocrisy.
From the same FAQ answer: "keep in mind that, any port or ports can be opened by the relay operator"
Of course, by default, p2p services tend to be blocked, but, even looking at the original article mentions that many p2p programs present problems for anonymity, even with tor. Also, these programs tend to open ALOT of connections.... which tends to be a problem.
They also tend to be services that are more likely to cause problems for exit node operators.
All that said, like the FAQ says, any operator of an exit node can turn any or all of these on.
I don't know how many of these have working exit nodes for them, but in any case, its a pretty "soft block".
Now, if they went around slapping any node that did allow these as a "bad exit", then it would be a different story... but so far.... I have only seen that for some pretty suspect setups that made people really uneasy (specifically there was one that only allowed exits on a bunch of the unencrypted ports for various protocols like imap and pop)
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Actually I have only read some of the online versions, and some bits of the US Army Improvised Munitions Manual (1969) which probably provided a fair amount of source material.
I wish I had read the real book, always meant to check it out. Maybe that wasn't a good example but, I have heard many times this theory that it was intended to kill the people who tried it, and I just never bought it. It always seemed plausible enough that errors or bad procedures were more the result of lack of QA than actual malicious intent. (and no,,I don't consider revolution to be malicious)
My god just use pgp already.
I dunno, I think you give the guy who put the cookbook together a bit too much credit. If anything it was a collection that was put together from book learning and inexperience. Sure, anybody can look up the reaction and figure out how to make nitroglycerin. Doing it safely on the other hand isn't something that a lot of people (even some who did it) can speak to.
Getting high from banana peels is a perfect example. It wasn't new in the cookbook. It was a hoax printed in a Princeton newspaper. The author of the book got ahold of it and included it in his book. Hardly some grand conspiracy, just, ignorance, inexperience, and lack of source checking.
And its fine to have little care for a subculture or to think some plants may be dangerous. I am perfectly happy to have all manner of academic discussion over the usefulness and or dangerous of any plant. However, as soon as that crosses the line from discussion about how you or I think and into putting people in shackles and removing them from normal society, I have a huge problem with that. Its not something for which I will ever personally forgive the organizations which engage in the practice.
But its true, I always point out to people when they talk of wikileaks possibly outing people who worked with the US troops.... those people are the ones that, if we were in the same situation as Afghanistan or Iraq, would be the ones we are calling enemy collaborators. Would a german troop cry over outing of french resistance? Its all relative, but, the person working against his own people to help foreign invaders deserves what he gets.
Of course, situations are rarely as simple as a pithy comment makes them. As long as an oppressive government can paint a malcontent as "working against his own people to help foreign invaders", then they have a moral justification for atrocity. Right?
This is pretty much just what government's do. Shit, I have a friend in jail because he used to sell a plant that grew out of the ground. Moral justification for atrocity is the bread and butter of any government. As long as people continue to accept the output of some byzantine system as "us", they can pretty much always get away with doing these things.
My point, if anything is, that its ALWAYS little more than a word game. Its just a matter of defining who is "us" and who is "them". That's what they do, and combine that with a consistent flow of pay checks, and you can get anything done, whether that is wholesale execution and extermination, or simply its more palatable cousin, locking people away for 5,10,20 years at a time.
As soon as you break off a group of people and say "these people are harmful to 'us'", then whatever "we" have to do to them is... self defense. The key is always to take away the person's status as "us", since "we" are always the good guys.
Dude, not everyone who knows La Marsaillez is french....some of us had to study a second language in high school, and actually enjoyed it. Also, I happen to be an American who doubts that this would have happened, I think people give the "3rd Reich" way way too much credit.
In time, I have little doubt that the resistance wouldn't have won out. Totalitarian states may be able to handle areas with a few dispersed cities, but to rule over all of Europe and push into Asia and Africa? Just because it works for a little while doesn't mean it wont fall apart in another decade or so.
Wolfenstien 3d (original).... you start out in a cell, with a dead gaurds body at your feet, and a knife and pistol in your hands.... as if the fact that they wear uniforms with swastikas and yell at you in german wasn't enough.... they also already captured you and you killed a gaurd to escape.. you need more justification to leave a trail of kraut bodies?
Heh right out of the French National Anthem....
"Let's March! Let's March! Until their impure blood, waters our fields"
(it flows a lot better in french)
But its true, I always point out to people when they talk of wikileaks possibly outing people who worked with the US troops.... those people are the ones that, if we were in the same situation as Afghanistan or Iraq, would be the ones we are calling enemy collaborators. Would a german troop cry over outing of french resistance? Its all relative, but, the person working against his own people to help foreign invaders deserves what he gets.
But you don't get that choice.
People are going to gamble, whether you pass laws against it or not.... case in point. I used to run a "friendly game" (no rake) at my house. I know people who run professional games... where it is illegal. You think this is going to kill online poker? No way. Hell there is a bitcoin poker room out there.... good luck regulating that.
Unregulated gambling exists, and will continue to exist no matter what you do, so really, yours is the false choice. No gambling was never on the table. Its regulated gambling with diminished unregulated, or its totally unregulated. There is your choice.
I will note... the old "Italian Lotto", had better percentage payouts and better odds of winning than ANY state lotto. They typically took in a rake of between 20-40%,... most state lottos take 50, and then tax you on the income. That is a piss poor payout schedule for any gambler....a huge rip off.
Well it comes down to trust. You may trust the fact that people wont abuse the information, lest they go to federal pound me in the ass prison.
Realize, this is little more than a matter of policy. If they suddenly decide that they need it? How about if accessing it is a "matter of national security"? A claim that doesn't even have to be justified to anyone if the right person claims it.
How about we realize that FISA courts, the ones that were talked about in the old warrantless wiretapping scandal. They were instituted AFTER there were ABUSES. A fact that is lost in the whole "but its national security" smoke screen. The simple fact is, once information or access to information is there for someone, you have to trust them not just to not abuse it today, but into the future.
What I trust, is that they will find excuses to make exceptions and will expand their reach through those exceptions until they can do anything they want. That is what I trust.
I never really considered how common this might be but, my wife and I do the same thing. Actually, it all started when we picked up a "comedo extractor" at the store. Makes it much easier to pop zits without damaging the skin too badly, and its kind of fun to use. She gets the raw end of the deal though, because my skin is much clearer than hers, and I get many less of them.
I know its true, and I almost might do the same but... I don't have to. This laptop is so old and used, and has enough issues now on its own, I could have it replaced easily. The "|" only works sometimes, the left and right arrow keys are dead. The CDROM stopped working a long time ago, have to use the docking station because the power cord doesn't work, and I have tried replacements to no avail (actually one works, it looks like HPs new model power cords that are said to work on this laptop don't fit quite right)
Plus I think its just old enough that by policy they will replace it....
but I have it on a doc, sometimes I get mad and even hook up an external keyboard and mouse.... why?
Because I hate the idea of waiting weeks, being without my laptop, and then having to rebuild it when it gets here because I use a linux desktop and they don't support that.
I don't believe there are currently any onion routers on the moon and... tor connections typically have plenty of latency, no need to add a lunar round trip anywhere in the circuits.
I would disagree if one was to say there is no faith. The difference is where and why faith is placed. There is no faith placed in any one scientist.
So yes, I have to take it on faith that wave functions and most of QM describes something that is born out in experimental evidence. Mostly because I haven't studied it and the math required to do much with it, and I have no equipment with which to test. However, I don't have to trust any one persons experiment, and in fact, if someone else is able to show that its non-reproducible, then it is called into question.
There is some amount of faith but, its faith in an open and auditable process, often known as the "Scientific Method".
Religious faith on the other hand, is faith that what some guy said in a book is the truth. Its faith in some line of priests or the words of a long dead man. Faith in things that can't be proven. Statements that cannot be falsified and are not open to questioning and standards of reproducibility.
if I think QM is wrong, I can devise a falsifiable test designed to prove it wrong, and if my test works, and can be reproduced by others, then thats totally legitimate. How do I devise a test to falsify the statement that "jesus is lord" or "people live on after death"? It is faith in a much less open, system which can't be audited or tested.
Thank you captain technicality. And if I shoot a bullet through your skull, I didn't rip your brain to shreds, the bullet did. How important is that distinction for you in that situation?
Um.... how about if she is a naturist, and they are, then none of this is going to bother them.
You know, not everybody joins the nudist groups just to see other people naked. You know some of us can be naked or around naked people without making a big deal about it...really... its not that big a deal.
I suppose if you are so distracted and preoccupied with the fact that other people are naked, the clothing free worksite is not a good fit for you.
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I often wonder how that would work, obviously, local law will apply but...
they do a lot of drug testing at some jobs, I often wonder.... what if you just considered a "clean test" as much of a failure as being a heorin junky and hired only people who tested positive for pot?
I mean, discrimination is discrimination right? If I can discriminate based on the content of ones urine chemistry then I can discriminate right?
> Since they offer a figure, they are obviously referring to some kind of metric.
94.5% of all figures have no metric associated with them.
I will note though.... 60% isn't terribly exact. 60. is far more exact, as is 60.0
They only reported 1 significant figure!
Because the freedom to do or say only what other people approve of is no freedom worth calling such.
All people brainwash their children.
I doubt it, he didn't say anything negative about any of the other semitic people... like arabs.
There is a difference between teasing a wild tiger, and acknowledging it for what it is.... a beast that will kill you for a snack.
Recognizing what it is and advocating avoiding, or even killing it or driving it out of the area where you live is one thing. Its quite another to to just offer it a snack.
How about you take your philosophy to heart. Clearly you never go above the speed limit, at all, not even 1 mph. Because, you live in a republic and it would be some moral failing to actually transgess one of its holy laws. If you were here in MA and your wife asked you to spank her because it turns her on, would you say "no honey, that would be domestic assault here in MA, and I don't want to break the law".
If so then, I salute you and your utter lack of hypocrisy.
Also....
Just for one service...this took all of another 10 seconds to find:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea
You think other services don't have similar problems?
From the same FAQ answer:
"keep in mind that, any port or ports can be opened by the relay operator"
Of course, by default, p2p services tend to be blocked, but, even looking at the original article mentions that many p2p programs present problems for anonymity, even with tor. Also, these programs tend to open ALOT of connections.... which tends to be a problem.
They also tend to be services that are more likely to cause problems for exit node operators.
All that said, like the FAQ says, any operator of an exit node can turn any or all of these on.
I don't know how many of these have working exit nodes for them, but in any case, its a pretty "soft block".
Now, if they went around slapping any node that did allow these as a "bad exit", then it would be a different story... but so far.... I have only seen that for some pretty suspect setups that made people really uneasy (specifically there was one that only allowed exits on a bunch of the unencrypted ports for various protocols like imap and pop)