You make some interesting points, though I am not sure how they support your claim that Russia is not a European country.
For example, you call Russia expansionist (presumably because of the Crimea & Siberia invasions) yet you do not consider the massive Brittish, French, Spanish, and the Dutch colonies all over the World; hell, the US of A used to be a British colony, does that make the UK non-European?)
You mention some wars that evidently make Russia an outsider, yet when I look at how many conflicts there were at the time (e.g. here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_ Europe#19th_century ) it actually makes Russia fit into the European tinderbox rather nicely, wouldn't you say? I fail to see why just because Russia has occupied Poland makes it any less European; Germany has also occupied Poland, England has occupied France, Sweden has occupied Norway... what's so special about Poland?
Additionally, your cultural origins claim is also not convincing, since Byzantine empire was the Greek part of the Roman empire IIRC and Scandinavia can be considered 'European' enough.
Overall I agree with you that Putin is not exactly the guy that inspires trust, but I would rather wait and see, or even extend the welcoming hand (like Germany did to Poland and the Baltics several years ago), instead of dismissing Russia outright.
And why not? From my recollection of European history, before 1918 Russia was an integral part of Europe. Russia's kings were genetically related to the rest of the European monarchy and constantly forming alliances with multiple European countries (you might recall that Russia was a key component of Bismarck's realpolitik). Even after the commies came to power, Russia continued to maintain reasonable relations with most of it's neighbors.
Surely, with the communist nonsense in Russia on the decline it should be welcomed back into the 'family' and eventually (once the economies are comparable) into the European Union.
I fail to see why anyone in Europe would object to being friends with Russia. Care to enlighten me?
Just because they are students...
they still deserve to get paid if someone ripped of their source code (if that is what happened). And just because the student codes get paid $5.15/hour does not mean the theif that made millions with the stolen code should only pay them $5.15
I can tell that your ability to read and comprehend an argument is rivaled only by your epistemological erudition still struggling to climb out of your mother's basement.
You can be helped, but I am not the one to do it. (sorry)
You 'deal' with them by pitting them against each-other, yet not letting either one of them win, and even making it easier for the new guys to join the 'fight.' When these companies compete, the prices go down, the services and innovations go up, and everybody wins!
Someone mentioned the word Trillions earlier on, and I believe this is just at the lower end of how much the consumers will lose if the current spectrum assignment model persits.
Class action lawsuits is one way to level the playing field and make companies care about their consumers by going after the only thing they understand: their bottom lines.
After all, the companies have massive legal departments, paid 24/7 access to the Congress with the ability to (re)write the laws, they can drag out even the most solidly grounded lawsuits forever through the appeals process and wait for the victim to go bankrupt with all those legal and court fees. Any individual claims that do get through all the way are likely to be small, and will not impact the profit margins at all.
Consequently, limiting class-action suits, along with court-awarded damages and restitution is a horrible idea; corporations would be able to literally kill thousands and still turn a profit!
By that logic, it's ok for police officers to break into your house or car in order to see if there's anything illegal inside.
No, but it's OK for them to look through your car's window. Or listen for rape screams on their route. This is what they are doing here in the digital world out there. There is no break-in done during spying on you, you don't notice it and don't even know it.
No, it isn't admissible in court, but it does give them a good idea of where to direct their limited resources for legal evidence collection. And this is wrong how, exactly? As long as they are not out to get you personally (and they are not, RTFA), there is nothing wrong in looking for generic signs of a crime among the public, then directing their legal attention to the troubled area and looking for real.
I for one welcome our Democratic identity theft rings-supporting, fraudulent housing transactions-endorcing, Internet pharmacy fraud-protecting, automobile insurance fraud-defending, and health-care-related fraud-enabling Overloards? On behalf of all the criminals concerned with their privacy, a Big Thank You to Patrick Leahy!
In all seriousness, is the Senator aware that none of that info collected could be used to convict anyone, or that you cannot even use it to get a warrant, and all it does is tell the officers where to focus their limited resources for legal evidence collection? First Stevens with his internet tubes, now Leahy with his Criminal Privacy protections.
There is very little chance that Rove is getting any info that way, so your suggestion fits well with the other kooky theories I have listed.
Rove's real accomplishment is seeing the nature of a 'liberal' mind, and taking advantage of it. Rove noticed that the liberals are mentally weak by virtue of having a 'Think of the children' mindset.
What this means is that each liberal has a single issue over which she will give up her (and everyone else's) life, rights, liberty, and property. It it's essence, liberalism states that all humans are evil, lecherous, dirty creatures, and hence need the Big Daddy/Big Government to take care of them. Liberals do not believe in individuals making their own decisions and hence demand laws that punish and forbid individual creativity, free speech, entrepreneurship, independence, competition, meritocratic approach.
So all that Rove did was develop a way for the conservatives to put all the liberal skullfuckery to good use for the time being (and of course it backfired; you cannot make deals with the devil, then just walk away a saint).
...but I am worried that in 10-20 years my kids would have to sneak across the border to Canada to do "the jobs Canadians will not do," just to escape the excruciating poverty, violence, and corruption that I see growing stronger by the day in this 'Land of the Free' here.
Just because Rove was smart enough to get the republican base out during the last few elections does not mean he holds the key to America. Your suggestion of such makes about as much sense as those that claimed Clinton was flying in cocaine as a governor, that Bush masterminded 9/11, or that Al Gore egged on the Oklahoma city bombers to hide the alien autopsy.
Actually, you should welcome the technology since it gives you the best privacy possible: the privacy of a fly in a dungpile. Everyone has plenty of dirty little secrets, so unless you are some kind of a radical political figure, a troublemaker, or a chomo, you really do have nothing to worry about.
Also, I would rather be listened in by a computer grepping for a keylist of words than a human that can flip out and either going postal on my ass or abusing the info she got (raiding my fishing spot, posting a pic/address on my children to a paedophilia blog, or whatever).
Sitting at home? Well, perhaps we better build some summer camps where the little autistic tykes learn some life skills such as paying attention, social interaction, and concentration, eh?
Showers will not help you clean the internal organs. Adding some antiseptic to your blood will, however. Alcohol is a nice antiseptic, hense twice-daily shots of vodka or whisky are highly recommended.
Since ethanol can dissolve many lipids, heavy drinking can also help you remove extra cholesterol buildup.
The best time to sterilize your heart and combat cholesterol is right before driving to work. If you drink right before you get into the car and your commute is less than 30 minutes, the breathalyzer will be negative should you be pulled over!
You are right, but you miss the real point of REAL ID:
A single Federal database aggregating all the personal info they could ever want. Hence the barcode is a database key to the record here and does not need to be secure (since you get a record with a picture pulled up and can compare to the person (also gets the weight, eye color, hair color, age and height, and probably fingerprint and DNA samples at some point in the future).
In fact, the plastic ID here is really not even needed. If you had a barcode tattooed on your wrist or even tell them your name and number, this would work just as well.
What he found after breaking in does not justify him breaking in! I agree that he should have reported those abuse images to the authorities, but in general, ex post facto justifications are almost never good:
"so I did kill the guy, but he turned out to be a child molester" -- Should you be going around killing people in the hopes you eventually catch one?
"so I raped that girl, but she liked me in the end" -- should you be going around... you get the point I think.
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It's the university's, since their network people allow ARP broadcasts to cross subnets.
Where are the Pirate Bay kiddies on this? Wouldn't that fit their idea of all the information belonging to 'the people?'
Or does it only apply to stealing popular movies and music?
You make some interesting points, though I am not sure how they support your claim that Russia is not a European country.
_ Europe#19th_century ) it actually makes Russia fit into the European tinderbox rather nicely, wouldn't you say? I fail to see why just because Russia has occupied Poland makes it any less European; Germany has also occupied Poland, England has occupied France, Sweden has occupied Norway... what's so special about Poland?
For example, you call Russia expansionist (presumably because of the Crimea & Siberia invasions) yet you do not consider the massive Brittish, French, Spanish, and the Dutch colonies all over the World; hell, the US of A used to be a British colony, does that make the UK non-European?)
You mention some wars that evidently make Russia an outsider, yet when I look at how many conflicts there were at the time (e.g. here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in
Additionally, your cultural origins claim is also not convincing, since Byzantine empire was the Greek part of the Roman empire IIRC and Scandinavia can be considered 'European' enough.
Overall I agree with you that Putin is not exactly the guy that inspires trust, but I would rather wait and see, or even extend the welcoming hand (like Germany did to Poland and the Baltics several years ago), instead of dismissing Russia outright.
And why not? From my recollection of European history, before 1918 Russia was an integral part of Europe. Russia's kings were genetically related to the rest of the European monarchy and constantly forming alliances with multiple European countries (you might recall that Russia was a key component of Bismarck's realpolitik). Even after the commies came to power, Russia continued to maintain reasonable relations with most of it's neighbors.
Surely, with the communist nonsense in Russia on the decline it should be welcomed back into the 'family' and eventually (once the economies are comparable) into the European Union.
I fail to see why anyone in Europe would object to being friends with Russia. Care to enlighten me?
I think one must be at least 13 to post on Slashdot.
The GP must have stumbled into a missile silo or a black 'copter NSA base!
Just because they are students...
they still deserve to get paid if someone ripped of their source code (if that is what happened). And just because the student codes get paid $5.15/hour does not mean the theif that made millions with the stolen code should only pay them $5.15
I can tell that your ability to read and comprehend an argument is rivaled only by your epistemological erudition still struggling to climb out of your mother's basement.
You can be helped, but I am not the one to do it. (sorry)
You 'deal' with them by pitting them against each-other, yet not letting either one of them win, and even making it easier for the new guys to join the 'fight.' When these companies compete, the prices go down, the services and innovations go up, and everybody wins!
Someone mentioned the word Trillions earlier on, and I believe this is just at the lower end of how much the consumers will lose if the current spectrum assignment model persits.
Class action lawsuits is one way to level the playing field and make companies care about their consumers by going after the only thing they understand: their bottom lines.
After all, the companies have massive legal departments, paid 24/7 access to the Congress with the ability to (re)write the laws, they can drag out even the most solidly grounded lawsuits forever through the appeals process and wait for the victim to go bankrupt with all those legal and court fees. Any individual claims that do get through all the way are likely to be small, and will not impact the profit margins at all.
Consequently, limiting class-action suits, along with court-awarded damages and restitution is a horrible idea; corporations would be able to literally kill thousands and still turn a profit!
By that logic, it's ok for police officers to break into your house or car in order to see if there's anything illegal inside.
No, but it's OK for them to look through your car's window. Or listen for rape screams on their route. This is what they are doing here in the digital world out there. There is no break-in done during spying on you, you don't notice it and don't even know it.
No, it isn't admissible in court, but it does give them a good idea of where to direct their limited resources for legal evidence collection.
And this is wrong how, exactly? As long as they are not out to get you personally (and they are not, RTFA), there is nothing wrong in looking for generic signs of a crime among the public, then directing their legal attention to the troubled area and looking for real.
I for one welcome our Democratic identity theft rings-supporting, fraudulent housing transactions-endorcing, Internet pharmacy fraud-protecting, automobile insurance fraud-defending, and health-care-related fraud-enabling Overloards? On behalf of all the criminals concerned with their privacy, a Big Thank You to Patrick Leahy!
In all seriousness, is the Senator aware that none of that info collected could be used to convict anyone, or that you cannot even use it to get a warrant, and all it does is tell the officers where to focus their limited resources for legal evidence collection? First Stevens with his internet tubes, now Leahy with his Criminal Privacy protections.
There is very little chance that Rove is getting any info that way, so your suggestion fits well with the other kooky theories I have listed.
Rove's real accomplishment is seeing the nature of a 'liberal' mind, and taking advantage of it. Rove noticed that the liberals are mentally weak by virtue of having a 'Think of the children' mindset.
What this means is that each liberal has a single issue over which she will give up her (and everyone else's) life, rights, liberty, and property. It it's essence, liberalism states that all humans are evil, lecherous, dirty creatures, and hence need the Big Daddy/Big Government to take care of them. Liberals do not believe in individuals making their own decisions and hence demand laws that punish and forbid individual creativity, free speech, entrepreneurship, independence, competition, meritocratic approach.
So all that Rove did was develop a way for the conservatives to put all the liberal skullfuckery to good use for the time being (and of course it backfired; you cannot make deals with the devil, then just walk away a saint).
What are you planning to do if she shows up, exactly?
It is just plain silly trying to intimidata a civilian over the intertubes. Grow up already.
...but I am worried that in 10-20 years my kids would have to sneak across the border to Canada to do "the jobs Canadians will not do," just to escape the excruciating poverty, violence, and corruption that I see growing stronger by the day in this 'Land of the Free' here.
Harry Potter fans?
Just because Rove was smart enough to get the republican base out during the last few elections does not mean he holds the key to America. Your suggestion of such makes about as much sense as those that claimed Clinton was flying in cocaine as a governor, that Bush masterminded 9/11, or that Al Gore egged on the Oklahoma city bombers to hide the alien autopsy.
Tinfoil goes on your head, not up your ass.
Actually, you should welcome the technology since it gives you the best privacy possible: the privacy of a fly in a dungpile. Everyone has plenty of dirty little secrets, so unless you are some kind of a radical political figure, a troublemaker, or a chomo, you really do have nothing to worry about.
Also, I would rather be listened in by a computer grepping for a keylist of words than a human that can flip out and either going postal on my ass or abusing the info she got (raiding my fishing spot, posting a pic/address on my children to a paedophilia blog, or whatever).
Sitting at home? Well, perhaps we better build some summer camps where the little autistic tykes learn some life skills such as paying attention, social interaction, and concentration, eh?
*ducks*
http colon slash slash slash dot dot org slash enter?
Can't outrun ze bullet, Comrade!
Showers will not help you clean the internal organs. Adding some antiseptic to your blood will, however. Alcohol is a nice antiseptic, hense twice-daily shots of vodka or whisky are highly recommended.
Since ethanol can dissolve many lipids, heavy drinking can also help you remove extra cholesterol buildup.
The best time to sterilize your heart and combat cholesterol is right before driving to work. If you drink right before you get into the car and your commute is less than 30 minutes, the breathalyzer will be negative should you be pulled over!
Real IT staff sleep at work, yic.
You are right, but you miss the real point of REAL ID:
A single Federal database aggregating all the personal info they could ever want. Hence the barcode is a database key to the record here and does not need to be secure (since you get a record with a picture pulled up and can compare to the person (also gets the weight, eye color, hair color, age and height, and probably fingerprint and DNA samples at some point in the future).
In fact, the plastic ID here is really not even needed. If you had a barcode tattooed on your wrist or even tell them your name and number, this would work just as well.
What he found after breaking in does not justify him breaking in! I agree that he should have reported those abuse images to the authorities, but in general, ex post facto justifications are almost never good:
"so I did kill the guy, but he turned out to be a child molester" -- Should you be going around killing people in the hopes you eventually catch one?
"so I raped that girl, but she liked me in the end" -- should you be going around... you get the point I think.