In the 1980s, I lived on base. A bunch us did. For simplicity, I will say we invested in an RC plane. It was gasoline powered and the guy with the radio needed a HAM license. We didn't care. We crashed that thing until it could fly no more. In fact, there were temporary rules about it.
Point being, there was no magical group preventing our bad behavior. I'm pretty sure we did not even join a club. We did for rockets, but we were kinda worse with those.
I suppose it will only complicate things if I mention that I own two firearms which one can call assault weapons. There is a bit of effort that goes into such. I suppose they'd be confused that none of them are used for criminal activity. Even statistically... You're more likely to harm yourself with the sheets on your bed.
I am pretty old. Even if I notice those companies, I am gonna forget long before the media is done playing. I do remember a few, but that is actually by accident and not by choice. I can recognize WB cartoons. Some of them...
At this point. I have heard all sots of excuses for it. It has never been repeated. The odds of it being from an intelligent source, are REALLY fucking low. If they were gonna send us something, they'd probably send something with more bits, unless they figured we could (and would) decode it from that. Dunno but I bet any aliens sending messages aren't stupid. They're gonna make it easy to decode. Call it a hunch...
Yeah, just a hunch... I could be wrong and an advanced alien species could be sending messages but making them difficult to decrypt because they're just jerks like that. Damned aliens.
I dunno but. as a kinda objective viewpoint, it's like the lowest 3% and the highest 3% are filtered to get extra amplification. I don't even know. I'm not kidding. I go to bed at night and I know why everyone is mad. I even took some extra time to figure out why you're yelling at each other.
I get up, in the morning, and I don't even know. At one point in time, one side declared themselves better than the other side and that all other negative reports are true and all other positive reports are false - and then there's a group that tries to give it some exactness, and they try to remove biases. They might just as well color with crayons. They're not helping, not even a little.
So, you've got insane A and insane B. You go ahead and assign whatever values you want to either. I'm pretty sure you're all insane.
No, really... I'm pretty sure you're all insane. Some sane voices poke through the noise but it's not easy to spot them. I don't know what happened. I woke up one day, and the Earth was kinda crazy. It actually hasn't improved. It's pretty much still crazy.
I like how you attempt to twist the end. You call it a hopelessly naive retard.
You know what? I maintain that a person without hope is the lowest point of humanity. If you don't have hope, why bother commenting?
Nah... I have hope in humanity. Really, I do. I just figure it's probably going to *actually* be several hundred generations. If we can live that long, I have hope.
I've seen this a few times, as I read the thread. Paper may not reflect the same spectrum as ink does, regardless of the reflected wavelengths that your eyeball is able to receive. What is yellow to you may not be the same to a machine that is able to receive more of the spectrum than your eyeballs can.
That's about as clear as mud and I'm not sure it's your fault - however, I think I now understand. It is unlikely for them all to come together and make SuperGoBot 9000 and rule the universe and not enough bots would join them to become a SuperGoBot 9000, even if they tried to.
I have one more question (that I know of - maybe more)...
Let's say some of the others agree to band together - I think the UKians call that a coalition. They can then present as the coalition and majority, correct?
Now, if they band together with enough to have a greater majority - can May's party *also* band with the remainders (whomever they may be) and form a larger coalition and thus go to the queen and ask her blessing and get their leader appointed as PM?
I am not talking about political feasibility of such - I'm talking about the actual rules. Let's say May's party was the majority - just for clarification as to my question. Now, another group of parties decided to band together and form a coalition, which puts them in position to propose the PM because they now have a majority, due to their joining forces like Power Rangers.
At that point, assuming there are some MPs remaining - that belong to other parties, could May's party form Ultrabot Extreme 4000 by joining with them and offering a bigger coalition?
Technically, I am also a citizen of a country that uses parliamentary governance. However, it wasn't on the citizenship exam and Canada is not, as far as I know, exactly the same as the UK is. I am, first and foremost, a USian. That means I'm a simple man, one who gets confused easily. It also means I own both a pickup and a number of firearms. So, treat me like I'm mentally retarded and unable to understand the complexities of foreign governments. 'Cause it's kinda true.
On second thought, I now know what they're talking about. Because encryption is to be banned, they'll need their own protocol to support this, right? So, we now can surmise was UKIP really means.
Also, I should really tick the box to post anonymously.
This is true. I often ignore posts from Anonymous Coward. It depends on how much time I have. If I don't have much time, I mentally filter them out. If I have time, I read them. Oftentimes, they don't say much that is worth my time. So, I sometimes miss out on good posts, but I consider it worth it.
I don't know. I mean, I am pretty sure they can make it illegal. They can make farting illegal. It's not smart and it's impossible to effectively prohibit it, but they can make it illegal.
At the same time, laws don't really prevent anything. They just provide a means of punishment and may be selectively enforced. People still rape and murder, after all.
So, they can make it illegal, methinks. It'd be stupid, but they can do it.
See? That's why we should keep encryption but ensure the government has the keys to decrypt all messages. The government will keep those keys private and will only decrypt the messages after getting a warrant and due process will be maintained.
It's obvious, people!
(Do I need to point out that this post is in jest? Yes, yes I do.)
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So they're assuming we're idiots?
Hmm.... That actually has potential.
Thanks! That's what I was thinking BUT...
I was thinking - and this has NOTHING to do with the current situation, this is to help me make sure I know the rules.
Let's say the "majority" can come up with 28%. The next majority would be able to come up with 27%. Two more groups exist. They are at 25 and 20%.
Hell, break that down so that there's a dozen different numbers to add up to a majority.
Can that happen, and what will they do?
(I have got so many questions, sorry.)
In the 1980s, I lived on base. A bunch us did. For simplicity, I will say we invested in an RC plane. It was gasoline powered and the guy with the radio needed a HAM license. We didn't care. We crashed that thing until it could fly no more. In fact, there were temporary rules about it.
Point being, there was no magical group preventing our bad behavior. I'm pretty sure we did not even join a club. We did for rockets, but we were kinda worse with those.
You were pretty wrong.
$70K? You're high. I can get you two Thompsons, for that. Hell, I can get you three and still make a profit.
I suppose it will only complicate things if I mention that I own two firearms which one can call assault weapons. There is a bit of effort that goes into such. I suppose they'd be confused that none of them are used for criminal activity. Even statistically... You're more likely to harm yourself with the sheets on your bed.
You're supposed to dance a jig and where clothing with themed colors. It's in the contract.
I am pretty old. Even if I notice those companies, I am gonna forget long before the media is done playing. I do remember a few, but that is actually by accident and not by choice. I can recognize WB cartoons. Some of them...
Well... Not with that attitude they don't.
At this point. I have heard all sots of excuses for it. It has never been repeated. The odds of it being from an intelligent source, are REALLY fucking low. If they were gonna send us something, they'd probably send something with more bits, unless they figured we could (and would) decode it from that. Dunno but I bet any aliens sending messages aren't stupid. They're gonna make it easy to decode. Call it a hunch...
Yeah, just a hunch... I could be wrong and an advanced alien species could be sending messages but making them difficult to decrypt because they're just jerks like that. Damned aliens.
I dunno but. as a kinda objective viewpoint, it's like the lowest 3% and the highest 3% are filtered to get extra amplification. I don't even know. I'm not kidding. I go to bed at night and I know why everyone is mad. I even took some extra time to figure out why you're yelling at each other.
I get up, in the morning, and I don't even know. At one point in time, one side declared themselves better than the other side and that all other negative reports are true and all other positive reports are false - and then there's a group that tries to give it some exactness, and they try to remove biases. They might just as well color with crayons. They're not helping, not even a little.
So, you've got insane A and insane B. You go ahead and assign whatever values you want to either. I'm pretty sure you're all insane.
No, really... I'm pretty sure you're all insane. Some sane voices poke through the noise but it's not easy to spot them. I don't know what happened. I woke up one day, and the Earth was kinda crazy. It actually hasn't improved. It's pretty much still crazy.
I like how you attempt to twist the end. You call it a hopelessly naive retard.
You know what? I maintain that a person without hope is the lowest point of humanity. If you don't have hope, why bother commenting?
Nah... I have hope in humanity. Really, I do. I just figure it's probably going to *actually* be several hundred generations. If we can live that long, I have hope.
No, I wasn't. The last time I looked, I was a boomer. 1957 was my birth year.
That helps my understanding exactly none. :-(
That's probably my fault.
I've seen this a few times, as I read the thread. Paper may not reflect the same spectrum as ink does, regardless of the reflected wavelengths that your eyeball is able to receive. What is yellow to you may not be the same to a machine that is able to receive more of the spectrum than your eyeballs can.
A copier which possibly retained a high resolution scan of the original.
I am pretty much as far left as a lefty ever lefted.
Have you actually read the material she leaked? You might want to. You're making the left look even sillier. Really, read it.
> They can't mandate that fire only be capable of burning non-living things.
Well, I'm pretty sure they could. I'm just also sure that it'd be futile. They can declare the tide to be illegal. It won't help, but they can do it.
That's about as clear as mud and I'm not sure it's your fault - however, I think I now understand. It is unlikely for them all to come together and make SuperGoBot 9000 and rule the universe and not enough bots would join them to become a SuperGoBot 9000, even if they tried to.
Thanks!
I have one more question (that I know of - maybe more)...
Let's say some of the others agree to band together - I think the UKians call that a coalition. They can then present as the coalition and majority, correct?
Now, if they band together with enough to have a greater majority - can May's party *also* band with the remainders (whomever they may be) and form a larger coalition and thus go to the queen and ask her blessing and get their leader appointed as PM?
I am not talking about political feasibility of such - I'm talking about the actual rules. Let's say May's party was the majority - just for clarification as to my question. Now, another group of parties decided to band together and form a coalition, which puts them in position to propose the PM because they now have a majority, due to their joining forces like Power Rangers.
At that point, assuming there are some MPs remaining - that belong to other parties, could May's party form Ultrabot Extreme 4000 by joining with them and offering a bigger coalition?
Technically, I am also a citizen of a country that uses parliamentary governance. However, it wasn't on the citizenship exam and Canada is not, as far as I know, exactly the same as the UK is. I am, first and foremost, a USian. That means I'm a simple man, one who gets confused easily. It also means I own both a pickup and a number of firearms. So, treat me like I'm mentally retarded and unable to understand the complexities of foreign governments. 'Cause it's kinda true.
Wait... Wait...
On second thought, I now know what they're talking about. Because encryption is to be banned, they'll need their own protocol to support this, right? So, we now can surmise was UKIP really means.
Also, I should really tick the box to post anonymously.
IPv6 is fake news!
I kinda want to apologize for this post, but I'm still gonna post it.
This is true. I often ignore posts from Anonymous Coward. It depends on how much time I have. If I don't have much time, I mentally filter them out. If I have time, I read them. Oftentimes, they don't say much that is worth my time. So, I sometimes miss out on good posts, but I consider it worth it.
I don't know. I mean, I am pretty sure they can make it illegal. They can make farting illegal. It's not smart and it's impossible to effectively prohibit it, but they can make it illegal.
At the same time, laws don't really prevent anything. They just provide a means of punishment and may be selectively enforced. People still rape and murder, after all.
So, they can make it illegal, methinks. It'd be stupid, but they can do it.
See? That's why we should keep encryption but ensure the government has the keys to decrypt all messages. The government will keep those keys private and will only decrypt the messages after getting a warrant and due process will be maintained.
It's obvious, people!
(Do I need to point out that this post is in jest? Yes, yes I do.)