The whole global warming debate is as confusing as ever.
No. it isn't. As a scientist I can firmly conclude Global warming is happening, its caused by human activities, and we need to stop it as it contributes to an array of very devastating consequences.
there was no "pause" in global warming.
Of course not. destructive climate events don't have a pause or prorogue feature, especially when no immediate action has been taken by some of the largest offenders to curb or reduce emissions.
this may be off topic but bear with me here. Many slashdotters and general public alike either 'believe' in or don't 'believe in' climate change. climate change isn't a belief. Nothing about the current state of CO2 emissions or polar water levels care about your convictions or beliefs. Climate change is a scientifically observed and confirmed phenomenon that, despite the american tendency to do so, requires no foundation of belief. It isn't a superstition. You either understand the concept of climate change as it is occurring, or you refuse through ignorance or foolhardiness
Gentlemen it cannot be understated just how morose and purile our competitors are. When gazing into the sound runes to build our auditory stage of power and wisdom to obey your every utterance, we ensure the glyphs we've created in the language our tribes wrote millennia ago are in fact purified in the basking glow. this glow, which emanates from the third eyes of our laureate engineering continuum is a holy projection of the very notion of every sound that could be or has ever been uttered from the mouths of mankind. Siri, the cumbersome blind shitlord of the tortured mac user, is no more a competitor to our brand than an idle pebble on a playground. Google itself, we have determined through our pure truth, is to sound and hounds no more distinguished than a window sucking illiterate toddler mumbling nonsense in the corner of a cut rate kindergarten in a rough side of town.
Losing nearly a billion dollars over an 8 year period, firing four-thousand permanent staff, and being dead last in search and browser rankings will do strange things to you. Steve Ballmer shoulders some of the blame for the nosedive with his nearly cult-like adherence to the redmond ethos of embrace-extend-extinguish in the face of a brand like linux that just can't be killed with it. But to think after 15 years as other slash dotters have commented that this will make any significant dent in the status quo is self-defeating at best.
SSH gives windows users the ability to do real work, and thats a controversial sentiment but in most large corporations admins that handle LAMP, percona, or hadoop do it from a windows machine by company policy. Microsoft doesn't understand that outside of email and office, the real juggernauts of industry are so far removed from redmonds product line it may as well be a different language entirely. conceding a pittance, this ssh, and promising to commit code to openssh do two things. One, they add continued relevance to windows in an office environment that otherwise is the next prime target to be extinguished as quickly as the home market for windows. Two, they provide code to openssh not because they have any particular valuable insight to add to the project which has handled itself just fine for 15 years, but because they need to ensure their openssh implementation actually works with other well-established and quite serviceable implementations. So don't expect any real innovation.
im on level 2 of the second chapter, (after Andriod slays appel and levels up to katkit.) Following the wall of ancients should get you to the end portal so you can advance to the next level.
Mozilla 1998: we want the internet to remain a free and open forum and in this spirit align our software to freedom and the user. the users choice and voice will be come top priority in our products, and we will write the mozilla 10 point manifesto to ensure we always take this into account. Mozilla 2015: We want the internet to make payments on our car loans and help achieve the goal of replacing all 4 tires on the bentley twice a year. We believe, legitimately believe, that users want tiles to show them advertisements. we think they like having a video chat app in their browser and we want to make sure corporations understand what is possible when targeted advertising and a morally bankrupt moneytrain brand come together to abuse their users trust and appreciation. We are completely deaf to the fact that adblock and noscript exist and are extremely popular plugins for our hobbled shitwreck advertising platform masquerading as a browser. Hail satan.
caused by export restrictions mandated by the U.S. government during the Clinton administration.
So this assertion arrives at one of two uncomfortable conclusions.
1. US intelligence agencies have had the ability to exploit this for more than a decade
2. US intelligence agencies, having understood advances in computing to be inevitable, carved a backdoor and did some wishful thinking.
Either way the internet is starting to realize not all well-intentioned backward compatibility that also includes an unfortunate downgrade in security is done in altruistic or neutral capacity. Shell companies and paid researchers can and have in the past intentionally rendered well constructed algorythms and crypto effectively optional in the name of compatibility and their product. Ephemeral ECC for example, although cited by reseachers as a means to avoid this kind of attack, is suspect. The NIST elliptic curves have now been tainted by Snowdens revelations as well. the SSH 2 implementation of the 25519 curve, by Aris of the libssh project, attempts to address the problem of divergences in elliptic-curve cryptography by proposing a safer alternative that doesnâ(TM)t implement the mysterious constants common among other schemes.
Similar peaks in the past hundred years have all been quickly followed by crashes.
statistical historical trends, the bedrock of science rears its ugly head oncemore...
Now, that's not to say a crash is imminent experts disagree on the Q-value's reliability.
s/experts/investors/. Laszlo Birinyi is an investor, but for all intents and purposes economics shouldn't be misconstrued as a science. most of it is, at best, premised on laughably distorted statistics designed to reduce uncertainty among investors and promote open trading on stock exchanges. The employment of utterly bullshit mathematics in the art of economics is the reason high speed trading systems have the ability to "undo" sales or purchases with impunity. Large firms also have this ability because without such a control feature markets could be plunged into a dark age from which no amount of bailout would save the cloistered elite. Economics is the sack of magic chicken bones that investors wave over the market and quickly dismiss once wrack and ruin occur as "events that could not have been foreseen."
TL;DR: Federal oversight agency orders federal railroad system to implement safety system identified by federal investigators to have been a mitigating factor in this collision, after federal lawmakers gut funding for federal rail line.
We care about this not because of the horrific loss of life or because of the ramifications of revealing the US to be a sinking ship of credit downgrades and crumbling infrastructure. We care about this accident because federal state and local lawmakers both for and against support of a public rail system dodged a bullet because they use that train regularly. the Amtrak stretch that collapsed under the burden of bureaucratic fasting could have been carrying a senator from his cloistered mcmansion to his cloistered chamber in Washington DC. That fact alone will see that this lapse in judgement is never again to be repeated. Until it is, and in which case the next incident of mass fatality due to blind ignorance and willful endangerment will be judged according to its plutocratic impact.
As a member of the GCHQ I should take time to explain this to my fellow britons and the international community as a whole. You see, whilst portrayed to be a loveable middle-class eccentric bunch the average pint-pounding football-chanting briton, or as we know them 'bastard' isnt to be trusted with so much as a modicum of personal freedom. We've learned nearly every citizen to be a terrorist on some level (children are actually just very small terrorists.) and have taken great measures to protect actual god fearing pension clutching cloistered elite, whom we've found to be the real true citizenry of our great nation. So, in summation, Everything from VAT to the automated system of bollards and yes, even the chavs we strategically scatter along each and every mode of public transit charged with tactically dispersing vom, is part of this plan. Naturally retroactive immunity from prosecutorial oversight was necessary as in order to obtain critical knowledge of terrorisms. the knowledge that you, yes you, Chester Cleveston on Ellington road, have thrice now failed to finish a pint of Boddingtons because the foamy bit at the bottom puts you off, helps keep normal godfearing patriots of the jack accidentally gifting you a pint despite knowing full well you're a salaried man and can easily afford his own. So, in summation, should you be at this moment to have found yourself with a monocle perched upon your cheek then disregard this 'news.' However if you've just finished your sixth chesterfield and are at this moment urinating on a police car, you'll find solace and comfort in knowing we're here to protect you from Darryl Mansclover, working at the Lydsgate post office, who every morning puts lemon as well as milk in his tea in keeping with his savage tradition of domestic terrorism.
Unless and until we figure out how to prevent these little nuggets of plastic and steel from ending up in landfills and pacific garbage gyres, this needs to stop. These things not only generate an incredibly poor facimile of tea and coffee, but they cant be easily recycled. Vendors have also explored the concept of typing these things to DRM, meaning your coffee becomes a proprietary experience thats determined solely by a manufacturing conglomerate.
Just because we can, doesnt mean we should. Take a step back and -- if youre in the united states-- try brewing coffee with an american made coffee maker from Chemex. the thing is a work of art that lets you brew what you want, how you want. And at the end of the brewing the leftovers are completely biodegradeable.
pop music is 'given up' because it targets a demographic of youth as a branding and marketing driver. Bieber sells the idea of manufactured sex appeal to young women, while angsty pop rock sells the idea of rebellion and individuality through consumption to boys. LMFAO and Pitbull are just clever branded advertising for premium alcoholic spirits and luxury apparel/vehicles. They set a standard outside of childhood that no self-respecting adult would entertain.
30somethings are a very difficult democraphic to market anything to. Pop themes like true love, freedom, rebellion, and partying fall on the deaf ears of millenials who've seen systemic police corruption and racism as a tool of an increasingly totalitarian state basically wipe the concepts out. Miley Cyrus' magical transformation into some glam rocker didnt shock us because we didnt grow up caring about the moral majority and conservative culture war dogma.
fox: if you stay for 2 more years of this 20 year old cultural dead horse we will pay you 14 million dollars. Shearer: I want to be creative, to exercise my creative talent on other projects besides a few bit part voices. fox: sure, you can do other projects. Shearer: like what did you have in mind fox: what if we added a new simpsons character Shearer: thats still the simpsons. Fox...whats your point..
The American Civil Liberties Union has long maintained that the authorities invoke the border exception rule to the warrant requirement to build cases when they don't have probable cause to get a warrant.
shocking enough, the border rule works up to 200 miles inland. People often forget law enforcement agents are not your friends, and generally do not have your best interest in mind. they can and do lie, falsify evidence, and purjor themselves on witness stands. They will rifle through suitcases and backpacks without a warrant, in the hopes you forget about that right. They will strike, kick, and even kill you for attempting to exercise rights or hold them accountable. Prosecutors and DA's offices care more about a successful conviction than a fair one, and so will often target a suspect with a litany of flimsy charges and lengthy jail time. The hope is that you accept a plea-bargain, convict yourself, and save everyone the discomfort of learning how many of these charges will not stand up in court.
for those who havent kept pace with them, Mozilla jumped the shark years ago. First it was search engine preference for google, then bing, then actual targeted fucking advertisement in the tiles window. The browser, by default, sends all your page calls to google under the auspices of reportable attack page detection. Beguilingly Mozilla started including a video chat system in the browser, while users and devs alike were shunned and ignored as they complained about the ever increasing ram and disk footprint. The mozilla manifesto is effectively fucking worthless...
02 The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible.
not when you bundle digital restrictions management with your browser and only offer the truly open one as an 'option'
04 Individuals security and privacy on the Internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.
quit enabling googles malware system, and stop enabling targeted ads by default.
05 Individuals must have the ability to shape the Internet and their own experiences on it.
thats the direct antithesis of DRM. same goes for point 06 on interoperability.
07 Free and open source software promotes the development of the Internet as a public resource.
but DRM does not.
08 Transparent community-based processes promote participation, accountability and trust.
I dont remember hearing a goddamn thing about you adding DRM or targeted ads before you just decided to do it.
It's no secret that Internet Explorer has always been criticized for its poor security
Internet Explorer has been the glue eating knuckle dragging window sucking pants shitting punching bag of the internet since its inception. you wrote it into the OS, used it as a kudgel to wail on more successful standards, and turned it into nothing more than a driftwood barge upon which to load other more useful browsers.
Microsoft is trying to tackle this problem more effectively and make sure that users consider it at least as good as Chrome and Firefox.
Then stop calling it a microsoft product. Your brand has a tainted legacy of failure, malevolent disingenuity and disappointment. for that matter, stop trying to solve problems that have been settled for nearly a decade.
most of the changes it made to the new browser makes it much more secure than Internet Explorer.
No one on the internet has in recent memory used Internet Explorer as the litmus for security. And whenever you do it, inevitably it turns out to be a bold-faced lie with a grabastic scramble of patching and downplaying to follow.
There is more protection against trickery, app containers are used as the sandbox mechanism, and protection against memory corruption is better.
what the fuck is trickery, sandboxes are something you ripped off from more successful browsers and software projects, and your 30 year track record of piss poor memory protection seems to betray a sense of illigitimacy.
Philip Zimbardo isnt doing science on this, hes regurgitating talking points from evangelical american christian leadership. porn addiction, insufficient masculinity, and "the vidja games" are all bitchcraft perfected by the likes of James Dobson and focus on the family as surrogates for their collective concern that america is "changing" and they dont like it.
the excessive use of video games and online pornography is pushing young men into a crisis of masculinity that leaves them bored at school, disinterested in human contact, and opting out of society.
Bullshit. Kids are bored at school because schools have been redesigned into standardized testing mills that cater to the lowest common denominator through inadequate funding and overzealous administrators. Theyre 'disinterested in human contact' because every single friend and acquaintence is manifest immediately in this neat new tool called the internet, and its generally only a pocket away. Theyre not opting out of society, theyre opting out of your idea of society. two failed wars have left them with limbless parents and friends that sit in the basement and eat cold canned raviolis. An entire generation has been shunned from the labour market because the adults they trust squandered through greed and hubris the future of society. And things they dont care about like abortion, gay marriage bans, and contraception have suddenly and inexplicably become the only thing in the last decade theyre forced to care about. theyre opting out because your pepperidge farm andy roony wank fest does not exist while a world of perpetual debt under minimum wage absolutely does.
although much progress has been made to detect the faulty kitchen microwave anomaly, we're still working here at parkes and bleien to track down the source of other mysterious goings-on. If anyone can help, we've compiled a small list: Break Room: haunting aroma of reheated fish curry despite signage clearly posted warning employees not to microwave fish, kevin. Parking lot: unexplained vehicles parked across multiple lines despite the lines clearly demarkating the area in which we park our cars, and dont leave them strewn across the lot like some B-roll from Mad Max, kevin. strange noises in the physics lab: popping, clicking, whistling and humming are often registered anomalies in this area as well as the pop culture television movie soundtrack "frozen" being sung in a low, baratone voice while others are clearly trying to work here, just so you know, because grant money doesnt grow on trees kevin and no one wants to "build a snowman" so just keep it to yourself.
manager: Holy cow, cancel that last order! the woman ordering says we need to send 911 immediately. there seems to be some kind of emergency. cook: she probably ordered the barbecue pizza. people usually want an ambulance after eating that. manager: no she says shes being held hostage! cook: must be the honey sriracha pizza then. people usually describe that one as a demanding, life threatening experience.
as a senior administrative manager for a large health insurance company I see no reason why customers are boggled over these codes. Any schoolboy (provided your school wasn't free) could decypher this kind of billing. Anyhow, to clarify: Code 105: we've run out of those little salmon things on the yacht in the hamptons. naturally we would call upon customers for this expense. Code 127: truffle spread in the lounging room of the manor has expired. normally we do not assess this fee, however since we've gone to the trouble to obviously dispatch a manservant for fresh baguettes, this must be accounted for. Code 164: The good luck brandy in the maybach has been found to clash with the petit fours and as such we will need to purchase a reisling instead. Part of this fee goes to jet fuel for the arduous trip to germany. CPT codes: 87481, 87491, 87798: These are the inventory numbers for the delightful new mercedes we intend to purchase after returning from germany. The autobahn really is delightful you know.
Phrases are transcribed from things like:
"Government agencies like the NSA have illegally spied on countless americans without a warrant and continue to violate our constitutional right to free speech as well as privacy"
to:
"Isis anchor baby bombs are protected from harming american patrio-tastic freedom time parades using secret 007 spy gear to thwart kenyan muslim abortion terrorists who hate our freedom"
"In case the police come busting in" is a condition typically followed by a hailstorm of bullets here in the United States. Afterwards, assuming you have a winning complexion, charges are fabricated and officers exhonorated.
Our prosecution also works similar to a firehose. Typically if youre arrested for loitering or driving while black, youll be charged with resisting arrest and a large slew of other charges that may not even apply to your specific encounter. Once in jail a member of the prosecution team will approach you with a laundry list of offenses and the threat of decades of years in jail. Mercifully they will offer a plea bargain that, should you choose to simply plead guilty, youll only spend a fraction of that time in prison. If you cant afford a lawyer, and dont have a firm grasp of legal proceedings yourself, this option is generally chosen.
Wiping the contents of your laptop, or refusing to give a password in the US, is generally met with unfavourable consequences. Indefinite forcible detention at border checkpoints without charges, for example, befell moxy marlinspike. computing chicanery in general that goes beyond the relm of 'good consumer' will find you hounded to the end of your days, as was the case of the late Aaron Schwartz. Given my options, id rather feign ignorance than quietly activate a duress payload.
Minuteman III nuclear missile: Due to an unsigned integer bug, missile resets to the year 1900 and targets Grover Clevelands presbyterian ministry as part of the clandestine war on christmas US Presidential Limousine: Function call returns a flawed short int that causes the vehicle to lose entropy in its timekeeping, routinely deploying countermeasures and refusing to operate in the presence of a black president. UCLA Scheduling mainframe: strconv slurps an undersized signed int, causing date/time tracking problems and resulting in comfortable, plausible and very useful class scheduling to occur. Russian RT-23 Molodets missile: timer returns a null or negative value, resulting in an active launch thats aborted by sergei usually after he has his first cup of coffee...but sometimes after the paper.
As an oil and gas industry professional I dont see anything wrong here. What Pennsylvania is complaining about is their own hubris and greed. Friendly patrio-tastic drilling companies asked kindly if they could carefully remove oils and gasses in the fight against terrorism and to prevent the war on christmas. Once informed citizens understood both gasses and oils had to be removed from the ground in order for jesus to love them and no child to be left behind, companies reluctantly did that which was most needful at the time. It was difficult, but we removed gasses and oils, and converted them to fresh clean and definitely not unhealthy gasoline to power freedom loving americans SUV's and trucks. But after a time, Pennsylvanians became greedy.
2-Butoxyethanol...no more, no less. We promised 2 of them to help invigorate the spleen and whiten teeth. But whats next? 4? 5? god forbid 8 Butoxyethanols?! We're being squeezed to death here.
As a member of the law enforcement community I believe i can shed light on exactly what stingray is, and why we use it. American citizens are awful, vile creatures and you dont truly understand what theyre capable of until youve dealt with their "freedoms." In the US we routinely deal with conditions where Americans have the horrible ability to speak out against their government without fear of any reprisal. Police are routinely restrained in their duty. Criminal americans (which is all of them really) will even stage massive protests against totally accidental deaths of horrible criminals. Law Enforcement is just here to protect and serve, and we do it with tazer tickles and freedom massages from our fun time riot batons.
The stingray helps us learn what horrors the evil american has in store for us, so that we can dial in the proper caliber on our learning pistols and protect all that is good and wholesome about starbucks and jesus. We have to use super secret courts because evil americans sometimes demand to know all our plans to protect freedom (which they hate.)
Two years after snowdens revelations we're seeing a reality come to pass. After the NSA swept its most damning indictments under the rug, after congress gave a sigh and a shrug and stifled a syrupy belch from the afternoons filet mignon lunch, we still see this change. After the TV spotlights were turned back to fashion trends, civil unrest, diet pills and other nonesuch this persisted despite the best effort. and its extremely unfortunate
Instead of watching discourse spread and meaningful legislation come to pass we're watching a largely uninformed electorate occasionally mistake snowden for assange on national television, and the elected officials with whom our protection they are charged bungle through bills that dont really do much of anything. We're seeing the alternative that no nation wants, and that alternative is a two-tier us-versus-them system in which groups of dedicated hackers fight back. It sets the stage for good-versus-bad and the determinant for this assertion to eventually become the existence of crypto or passwords and ones general willingness to divulge them in the face of overwhelming yet unconstitutional authoritarian presence.
expect 3 letter government organizations to get frustrated, and angry, very quickly. Aaron Schwartz was a prime example of how, in the future, citizens who act to protect themselves with crypto and security will face the bureaucratic version of biblical retribution in the form of endless charges, indefinite espionage, and a litany of convictable offenses that would result in a lifetime of imprisonment for anyone who dares not to divulge their password.
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The whole global warming debate is as confusing as ever.
No. it isn't. As a scientist I can firmly conclude Global warming is happening, its caused by human activities, and we need to stop it as it contributes to an array of very devastating consequences.
there was no "pause" in global warming.
Of course not. destructive climate events don't have a pause or prorogue feature, especially when no immediate action has been taken by some of the largest offenders to curb or reduce emissions.
this may be off topic but bear with me here. Many slashdotters and general public alike either 'believe' in or don't 'believe in' climate change. climate change isn't a belief. Nothing about the current state of CO2 emissions or polar water levels care about your convictions or beliefs. Climate change is a scientifically observed and confirmed phenomenon that, despite the american tendency to do so, requires no foundation of belief. It isn't a superstition. You either understand the concept of climate change as it is occurring, or you refuse through ignorance or foolhardiness
Gentlemen it cannot be understated just how morose and purile our competitors are. When gazing into the sound runes to build our auditory stage of power and wisdom to obey your every utterance, we ensure the glyphs we've created in the language our tribes wrote millennia ago are in fact purified in the basking glow. this glow, which emanates from the third eyes of our laureate engineering continuum is a holy projection of the very notion of every sound that could be or has ever been uttered from the mouths of mankind. Siri, the cumbersome blind shitlord of the tortured mac user, is no more a competitor to our brand than an idle pebble on a playground. Google itself, we have determined through our pure truth, is to sound and hounds no more distinguished than a window sucking illiterate toddler mumbling nonsense in the corner of a cut rate kindergarten in a rough side of town.
Losing nearly a billion dollars over an 8 year period, firing four-thousand permanent staff, and being dead last in search and browser rankings will do strange things to you. Steve Ballmer shoulders some of the blame for the nosedive with his nearly cult-like adherence to the redmond ethos of embrace-extend-extinguish in the face of a brand like linux that just can't be killed with it. But to think after 15 years as other slash dotters have commented that this will make any significant dent in the status quo is self-defeating at best.
SSH gives windows users the ability to do real work, and thats a controversial sentiment but in most large corporations admins that handle LAMP, percona, or hadoop do it from a windows machine by company policy. Microsoft doesn't understand that outside of email and office, the real juggernauts of industry are so far removed from redmonds product line it may as well be a different language entirely. conceding a pittance, this ssh, and promising to commit code to openssh do two things. One, they add continued relevance to windows in an office environment that otherwise is the next prime target to be extinguished as quickly as the home market for windows. Two, they provide code to openssh not because they have any particular valuable insight to add to the project which has handled itself just fine for 15 years, but because they need to ensure their openssh implementation actually works with other well-established and quite serviceable implementations. So don't expect any real innovation.
im on level 2 of the second chapter, (after Andriod slays appel and levels up to katkit.) Following the wall of ancients should get you to the end portal so you can advance to the next level.
Mozilla 1998: we want the internet to remain a free and open forum and in this spirit align our software to freedom and the user. the users choice and voice will be come top priority in our products, and we will write the mozilla 10 point manifesto to ensure we always take this into account.
Mozilla 2015: We want the internet to make payments on our car loans and help achieve the goal of replacing all 4 tires on the bentley twice a year. We believe, legitimately believe, that users want tiles to show them advertisements. we think they like having a video chat app in their browser and we want to make sure corporations understand what is possible when targeted advertising and a morally bankrupt moneytrain brand come together to abuse their users trust and appreciation. We are completely deaf to the fact that adblock and noscript exist and are extremely popular plugins for our hobbled shitwreck advertising platform masquerading as a browser. Hail satan.
caused by export restrictions mandated by the U.S. government during the Clinton administration.
So this assertion arrives at one of two uncomfortable conclusions.
1. US intelligence agencies have had the ability to exploit this for more than a decade
2. US intelligence agencies, having understood advances in computing to be inevitable, carved a backdoor and did some wishful thinking.
Either way the internet is starting to realize not all well-intentioned backward compatibility that also includes an unfortunate downgrade in security is done in altruistic or neutral capacity. Shell companies and paid researchers can and have in the past intentionally rendered well constructed algorythms and crypto effectively optional in the name of compatibility and their product. Ephemeral ECC for example, although cited by reseachers as a means to avoid this kind of attack, is suspect. The NIST elliptic curves have now been tainted by Snowdens revelations as well. the SSH 2 implementation of the 25519 curve, by Aris of the libssh project, attempts to address the problem of divergences in elliptic-curve cryptography by proposing a safer alternative that doesnâ(TM)t implement the mysterious constants common among other schemes.
Similar peaks in the past hundred years have all been quickly followed by crashes.
statistical historical trends, the bedrock of science rears its ugly head oncemore...
Now, that's not to say a crash is imminent experts disagree on the Q-value's reliability.
s/experts/investors/. Laszlo Birinyi is an investor, but for all intents and purposes economics shouldn't be misconstrued as a science. most of it is, at best, premised on laughably distorted statistics designed to reduce uncertainty among investors and promote open trading on stock exchanges. The employment of utterly bullshit mathematics in the art of economics is the reason high speed trading systems have the ability to "undo" sales or purchases with impunity. Large firms also have this ability because without such a control feature markets could be plunged into a dark age from which no amount of bailout would save the cloistered elite. Economics is the sack of magic chicken bones that investors wave over the market and quickly dismiss once wrack and ruin occur as "events that could not have been foreseen."
TL;DR: Federal oversight agency orders federal railroad system to implement safety system identified by federal investigators to have been a mitigating factor in this collision, after federal lawmakers gut funding for federal rail line.
We care about this not because of the horrific loss of life or because of the ramifications of revealing the US to be a sinking ship of credit downgrades and crumbling infrastructure. We care about this accident because federal state and local lawmakers both for and against support of a public rail system dodged a bullet because they use that train regularly. the Amtrak stretch that collapsed under the burden of bureaucratic fasting could have been carrying a senator from his cloistered mcmansion to his cloistered chamber in Washington DC. That fact alone will see that this lapse in judgement is never again to be repeated. Until it is, and in which case the next incident of mass fatality due to blind ignorance and willful endangerment will be judged according to its plutocratic impact.
As a member of the GCHQ I should take time to explain this to my fellow britons and the international community as a whole. You see, whilst portrayed to be a loveable middle-class eccentric bunch the average pint-pounding football-chanting briton, or as we know them 'bastard' isnt to be trusted with so much as a modicum of personal freedom. We've learned nearly every citizen to be a terrorist on some level (children are actually just very small terrorists.) and have taken great measures to protect actual god fearing pension clutching cloistered elite, whom we've found to be the real true citizenry of our great nation. So, in summation, Everything from VAT to the automated system of bollards and yes, even the chavs we strategically scatter along each and every mode of public transit charged with tactically dispersing vom, is part of this plan. Naturally retroactive immunity from prosecutorial oversight was necessary as in order to obtain critical knowledge of terrorisms. the knowledge that you, yes you, Chester Cleveston on Ellington road, have thrice now failed to finish a pint of Boddingtons because the foamy bit at the bottom puts you off, helps keep normal godfearing patriots of the jack accidentally gifting you a pint despite knowing full well you're a salaried man and can easily afford his own. So, in summation, should you be at this moment to have found yourself with a monocle perched upon your cheek then disregard this 'news.' However if you've just finished your sixth chesterfield and are at this moment urinating on a police car, you'll find solace and comfort in knowing we're here to protect you from Darryl Mansclover, working at the Lydsgate post office, who every morning puts lemon as well as milk in his tea in keeping with his savage tradition of domestic terrorism.
Unless and until we figure out how to prevent these little nuggets of plastic and steel from ending up in landfills and pacific garbage gyres, this needs to stop. These things not only generate an incredibly poor facimile of tea and coffee, but they cant be easily recycled. Vendors have also explored the concept of typing these things to DRM, meaning your coffee becomes a proprietary experience thats determined solely by a manufacturing conglomerate.
Just because we can, doesnt mean we should. Take a step back and -- if youre in the united states-- try brewing coffee with an american made coffee maker from Chemex. the thing is a work of art that lets you brew what you want, how you want. And at the end of the brewing the leftovers are completely biodegradeable.
pop music is 'given up' because it targets a demographic of youth as a branding and marketing driver. Bieber sells the idea of manufactured sex appeal to young women, while angsty pop rock sells the idea of rebellion and individuality through consumption to boys. LMFAO and Pitbull are just clever branded advertising for premium alcoholic spirits and luxury apparel/vehicles. They set a standard outside of childhood that no self-respecting adult would entertain.
30somethings are a very difficult democraphic to market anything to. Pop themes like true love, freedom, rebellion, and partying fall on the deaf ears of millenials who've seen systemic police corruption and racism as a tool of an increasingly totalitarian state basically wipe the concepts out. Miley Cyrus' magical transformation into some glam rocker didnt shock us because we didnt grow up caring about the moral majority and conservative culture war dogma.
fox: if you stay for 2 more years of this 20 year old cultural dead horse we will pay you 14 million dollars.
Shearer: I want to be creative, to exercise my creative talent on other projects besides a few bit part voices.
fox: sure, you can do other projects.
Shearer: like what did you have in mind
fox: what if we added a new simpsons character
Shearer: thats still the simpsons.
Fox...whats your point..
The American Civil Liberties Union has long maintained that the authorities invoke the border exception rule to the warrant requirement to build cases when they don't have probable cause to get a warrant.
shocking enough, the border rule works up to 200 miles inland. People often forget law enforcement agents are not your friends, and generally do not have your best interest in mind. they can and do lie, falsify evidence, and purjor themselves on witness stands. They will rifle through suitcases and backpacks without a warrant, in the hopes you forget about that right. They will strike, kick, and even kill you for attempting to exercise rights or hold them accountable. Prosecutors and DA's offices care more about a successful conviction than a fair one, and so will often target a suspect with a litany of flimsy charges and lengthy jail time. The hope is that you accept a plea-bargain, convict yourself, and save everyone the discomfort of learning how many of these charges will not stand up in court.
02 The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible.
not when you bundle digital restrictions management with your browser and only offer the truly open one as an 'option'
04 Individuals security and privacy on the Internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.
quit enabling googles malware system, and stop enabling targeted ads by default.
05 Individuals must have the ability to shape the Internet and their own experiences on it.
thats the direct antithesis of DRM. same goes for point 06 on interoperability.
07 Free and open source software promotes the development of the Internet as a public resource.
but DRM does not.
08 Transparent community-based processes promote participation, accountability and trust.
I dont remember hearing a goddamn thing about you adding DRM or targeted ads before you just decided to do it.
It's no secret that Internet Explorer has always been criticized for its poor security
Internet Explorer has been the glue eating knuckle dragging window sucking pants shitting punching bag of the internet since its inception. you wrote it into the OS, used it as a kudgel to wail on more successful standards, and turned it into nothing more than a driftwood barge upon which to load other more useful browsers.
Microsoft is trying to tackle this problem more effectively and make sure that users consider it at least as good as Chrome and Firefox.
Then stop calling it a microsoft product. Your brand has a tainted legacy of failure, malevolent disingenuity and disappointment. for that matter, stop trying to solve problems that have been settled for nearly a decade.
most of the changes it made to the new browser makes it much more secure than Internet Explorer.
No one on the internet has in recent memory used Internet Explorer as the litmus for security. And whenever you do it, inevitably it turns out to be a bold-faced lie with a grabastic scramble of patching and downplaying to follow.
There is more protection against trickery, app containers are used as the sandbox mechanism, and protection against memory corruption is better.
what the fuck is trickery, sandboxes are something you ripped off from more successful browsers and software projects, and your 30 year track record of piss poor memory protection seems to betray a sense of illigitimacy.
the excessive use of video games and online pornography is pushing young men into a crisis of masculinity that leaves them bored at school, disinterested in human contact, and opting out of society.
Bullshit. Kids are bored at school because schools have been redesigned into standardized testing mills that cater to the lowest common denominator through inadequate funding and overzealous administrators. Theyre 'disinterested in human contact' because every single friend and acquaintence is manifest immediately in this neat new tool called the internet, and its generally only a pocket away. Theyre not opting out of society, theyre opting out of your idea of society. two failed wars have left them with limbless parents and friends that sit in the basement and eat cold canned raviolis. An entire generation has been shunned from the labour market because the adults they trust squandered through greed and hubris the future of society. And things they dont care about like abortion, gay marriage bans, and contraception have suddenly and inexplicably become the only thing in the last decade theyre forced to care about. theyre opting out because your pepperidge farm andy roony wank fest does not exist while a world of perpetual debt under minimum wage absolutely does.
although much progress has been made to detect the faulty kitchen microwave anomaly, we're still working here at parkes and bleien to track down the source of other mysterious goings-on. If anyone can help, we've compiled a small list:
Break Room: haunting aroma of reheated fish curry despite signage clearly posted warning employees not to microwave fish, kevin.
Parking lot: unexplained vehicles parked across multiple lines despite the lines clearly demarkating the area in which we park our cars, and dont leave them strewn across the lot like some B-roll from Mad Max, kevin.
strange noises in the physics lab: popping, clicking, whistling and humming are often registered anomalies in this area as well as the pop culture television movie soundtrack "frozen" being sung in a low, baratone voice while others are clearly trying to work here, just so you know, because grant money doesnt grow on trees kevin and no one wants to "build a snowman" so just keep it to yourself.
manager: Holy cow, cancel that last order! the woman ordering says we need to send 911 immediately. there seems to be some kind of emergency.
cook: she probably ordered the barbecue pizza. people usually want an ambulance after eating that.
manager: no she says shes being held hostage!
cook: must be the honey sriracha pizza then. people usually describe that one as a demanding, life threatening experience.
as a senior administrative manager for a large health insurance company I see no reason why customers are boggled over these codes. Any schoolboy (provided your school wasn't free) could decypher this kind of billing. Anyhow, to clarify:
Code 105: we've run out of those little salmon things on the yacht in the hamptons. naturally we would call upon customers for this expense.
Code 127: truffle spread in the lounging room of the manor has expired. normally we do not assess this fee, however since we've gone to the trouble to obviously dispatch a manservant for fresh baguettes, this must be accounted for.
Code 164: The good luck brandy in the maybach has been found to clash with the petit fours and as such we will need to purchase a reisling instead. Part of this fee goes to jet fuel for the arduous trip to germany.
CPT codes: 87481, 87491, 87798: These are the inventory numbers for the delightful new mercedes we intend to purchase after returning from germany. The autobahn really is delightful you know.
Phrases are transcribed from things like:
"Government agencies like the NSA have illegally spied on countless americans without a warrant and continue to violate our constitutional right to free speech as well as privacy"
to:
"Isis anchor baby bombs are protected from harming american patrio-tastic freedom time parades using secret 007 spy gear to thwart kenyan muslim abortion terrorists who hate our freedom"
"In case the police come busting in" is a condition typically followed by a hailstorm of bullets here in the United States. Afterwards, assuming you have a winning complexion, charges are fabricated and officers exhonorated.
Our prosecution also works similar to a firehose. Typically if youre arrested for loitering or driving while black, youll be charged with resisting arrest and a large slew of other charges that may not even apply to your specific encounter. Once in jail a member of the prosecution team will approach you with a laundry list of offenses and the threat of decades of years in jail. Mercifully they will offer a plea bargain that, should you choose to simply plead guilty, youll only spend a fraction of that time in prison. If you cant afford a lawyer, and dont have a firm grasp of legal proceedings yourself, this option is generally chosen.
Wiping the contents of your laptop, or refusing to give a password in the US, is generally met with unfavourable consequences. Indefinite forcible detention at border checkpoints without charges, for example, befell moxy marlinspike. computing chicanery in general that goes beyond the relm of 'good consumer' will find you hounded to the end of your days, as was the case of the late Aaron Schwartz. Given my options, id rather feign ignorance than quietly activate a duress payload.
Minuteman III nuclear missile: Due to an unsigned integer bug, missile resets to the year 1900 and targets Grover Clevelands presbyterian ministry as part of the clandestine war on christmas
US Presidential Limousine: Function call returns a flawed short int that causes the vehicle to lose entropy in its timekeeping, routinely deploying countermeasures and refusing to operate in the presence of a black president.
UCLA Scheduling mainframe: strconv slurps an undersized signed int, causing date/time tracking problems and resulting in comfortable, plausible and very useful class scheduling to occur.
Russian RT-23 Molodets missile: timer returns a null or negative value, resulting in an active launch thats aborted by sergei usually after he has his first cup of coffee...but sometimes after the paper.
As an oil and gas industry professional I dont see anything wrong here. What Pennsylvania is complaining about is their own hubris and greed. Friendly patrio-tastic drilling companies asked kindly if they could carefully remove oils and gasses in the fight against terrorism and to prevent the war on christmas. Once informed citizens understood both gasses and oils had to be removed from the ground in order for jesus to love them and no child to be left behind, companies reluctantly did that which was most needful at the time. It was difficult, but we removed gasses and oils, and converted them to fresh clean and definitely not unhealthy gasoline to power freedom loving americans SUV's and trucks. But after a time, Pennsylvanians became greedy.
2-Butoxyethanol...no more, no less. We promised 2 of them to help invigorate the spleen and whiten teeth. But whats next? 4? 5? god forbid 8 Butoxyethanols?! We're being squeezed to death here.
As a member of the law enforcement community I believe i can shed light on exactly what stingray is, and why we use it. American citizens are awful, vile creatures and you dont truly understand what theyre capable of until youve dealt with their "freedoms." In the US we routinely deal with conditions where Americans have the horrible ability to speak out against their government without fear of any reprisal. Police are routinely restrained in their duty. Criminal americans (which is all of them really) will even stage massive protests against totally accidental deaths of horrible criminals. Law Enforcement is just here to protect and serve, and we do it with tazer tickles and freedom massages from our fun time riot batons.
The stingray helps us learn what horrors the evil american has in store for us, so that we can dial in the proper caliber on our learning pistols and protect all that is good and wholesome about starbucks and jesus. We have to use super secret courts because evil americans sometimes demand to know all our plans to protect freedom (which they hate.)
Two years after snowdens revelations we're seeing a reality come to pass. After the NSA swept its most damning indictments under the rug, after congress gave a sigh and a shrug and stifled a syrupy belch from the afternoons filet mignon lunch, we still see this change. After the TV spotlights were turned back to fashion trends, civil unrest, diet pills and other nonesuch this persisted despite the best effort. and its extremely unfortunate
Instead of watching discourse spread and meaningful legislation come to pass we're watching a largely uninformed electorate occasionally mistake snowden for assange on national television, and the elected officials with whom our protection they are charged bungle through bills that dont really do much of anything. We're seeing the alternative that no nation wants, and that alternative is a two-tier us-versus-them system in which groups of dedicated hackers fight back. It sets the stage for good-versus-bad and the determinant for this assertion to eventually become the existence of crypto or passwords and ones general willingness to divulge them in the face of overwhelming yet unconstitutional authoritarian presence.
expect 3 letter government organizations to get frustrated, and angry, very quickly. Aaron Schwartz was a prime example of how, in the future, citizens who act to protect themselves with crypto and security will face the bureaucratic version of biblical retribution in the form of endless charges, indefinite espionage, and a litany of convictable offenses that would result in a lifetime of imprisonment for anyone who dares not to divulge their password.