Re: Re: Would we call them heroes if they hadn't died?
It's just not especially heroic to die for being offensive.
Defending the right to freedom of speech is heroic, and I think your point of view is offensive. The proper response to speech you disagree with is more speech, not violence or censorship even if self-imposed.
Re: Re: Re: Resorting to threats and/or violence = Admission that your position can't be defended with words
I wish all you religious nutcases would just head off to Armaggedon and have it out together, hopefully killing all of yourselves in the process. That's what you want isn't it, to sit by your king or prophet's side in the hereafter? Why are you still inflicting the world with this Dark Ages smut?
Giordano Bruno's still waiting to hear your apologies. Galileo spits on you for his.
Go on, have your war, and leave the rest of us to carry on with what's left of the Age of Enlightenment. I'm tired of *still* having to share a planet with the likes of all of you. This crap should have been consigned to the dustbin of history centuries ago. I'm sad for each and every one of you that you don't even want to get over it.
If it wasn't Stalin US / USSR relations might have been better.
I don't believe that. Churchill was rabidly anti-communist and suckered the US into going along, and boy did the US go along once it got started. We're only now digging our way out of the hole Churchill dug in Iran with CIA footsoldiers.
Whatever Russia might be up to in Ukraine it cannot be described as terrorism
We described the Taliban as terrorists, and the situations are almost identical.
Taliban ruled Afghanistan was harbouring AQ and bin Laden. Russia spent most of the '90s trying to recover from the collapse of the USSR, and fighting Chechen rebels. What Russia's doing in Ukraine now is trying to protect its naval port on the Black Sea, and protect ethnic Russians from a US & NATO backed puppet regime.
Fails to respond in a timely fashion? I expect that he had a few assignments in law school which needed to be submitted prior to their deadlines, so he must have learned this after graduating. Do lawyers brains shut down once they pass the bar exam? "I passed! Entitlement City, here I am!"
Google, please stop shielding dolts like this. We deserve to know what people like this are up to, and humouring them isn't helping anyone. There was never any need for you to even acknowledge his existence, much less help him dig his hole even deeper.
Not everyone's life is an open book, nor should it be.
Go ahead, Lance. Post your entire family's entire medical history online for all to see. Surely there's no need to hide that. Everyone has a medical history, after all. We're all just human. What could possibly be so special about yours and your family's? What have you got that needs to be hidden from the rest of your peers? This is just simple honesty and courtesy isn't it? Then we can discuss whether we have any need to keep secrets from each other, to keep the bad actors honest. That is, of course, assuming your family hasn't murdered you yet.
I'm amazed that a grown man (assuming LU is his real name, and he's actually male) writing stuff posted on-line in the 21st Century for all to see can be so lazy as to not bother to do any research whatsoever prior to spewing irrational, ignorant bullshit! What a lazy fool. AC above is correct. I expect he's going to wish he'd posted this drivel anonymously real soon.
Being able to decrypt one file using the massive computing power of a data centre is one thing, decrypting millions of files at the same time requires millions of data centres.
Their own reports on the situation admits good crypto stopped them *once*, and they were still able to convict the perp using other methods. They have no need to be able to decrypt everything.
So while crypto may not protect targeted individuals, it does make gathering everything rather useless.
Gathering everything is useless. Making the haystack bigger makes it harder for them to find the needle hidden within it. We're being governed by thick skulled imbeciles who're convinced they're experts, and all they can do when we point out how foolish they're being is insert fingers into ears and go "Can't hear you. La la la ..."
We *all* deserve much better than what these fools are offering everyone.
This is not the second crypto war. It's the same damned war we won and they folded on in the '90s. This is just them demanding a do-over. They resent the fact that those in charge back then folded. Now, they want to resurrect it and continue fighting it. For it to be a new war, they'd have to come up with new arguments for their "point of view", which they haven't! There's nothing new here that wasn't in the last one, other than the fact that those calling for it again are more tyrannical and far less honest, utterly unwilling to accept the reality of the situation!
We need to nuke this until it glows, then salt the ground so this weed doesn't come back to bite us again!
Vinyl and old style tape (not DAT) are analog, which captures the entire frequency spectrum of the performance (assuming perfect recording hardware). Audiophile zealots insist that they can actually hear the long tail, low amplitude components in analog recordings, despite scientific proof that they're well outside the range of human hearing.
Juries have more power than Judges, Magistrates and the prosecution would like them to know about.
In a just world, we could sue Disney for stuffing kids' minds with pap like this (Jiminy Cricket: "When you wish upon a star, ..."). Did you know Walt was a Nazi sympathizer?
i) Anyone even admitting they know about JN will be bounced from the case ASAP, if they're not charged with contempt instead. ii) The best you could hope for would be a hung jury, giving the prosecution a do-over with a new jury. iii) If you manage to avoid those, another jury member will rat you out ("We can't work with him!") and they'll replace you with one of the two alternate jury members.
You should read those stories about judge Kozinski's paper on volochconspiracy.com. The "game" is hopelessly rigged in favour of the prosecution.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How about evidence from computers that are wide open
Windows sucks
Yet is still better than Linux.
Better than Linux at being a malware magnet. Better than Linux at being instantly owned upon being connected to the net. Better than Linux at running craptastic, broken at sale third party software.
I can't believe people still defend Windows(TM) after two decades of its consistent, continued abuse. You're masochists.
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Re: English-only protest
Not these 204 appeasers, or is it collaborators? Good to know.
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Re: Re: Would we call them heroes if they hadn't died?
Defending the right to freedom of speech is heroic, and I think your point of view is offensive. The proper response to speech you disagree with is more speech, not violence or censorship even if self-imposed.
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Re: Re: Re: Resorting to threats and/or violence = Admission that your position can't be defended with words
Giordano Bruno's still waiting to hear your apologies. Galileo spits on you for his.
Go on, have your war, and leave the rest of us to carry on with what's left of the Age of Enlightenment. I'm tired of *still* having to share a planet with the likes of all of you. This crap should have been consigned to the dustbin of history centuries ago. I'm sad for each and every one of you that you don't even want to get over it.
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Liar, liar, pants on fire.
I'll call BS on that. He just described the Tsarnaevs/Boston Bombers, and the US was previously warned (notably *by the Russians*) about them.
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Re: The US had relations with the Russian Tzar.
I don't believe that. Churchill was rabidly anti-communist and suckered the US into going along, and boy did the US go along once it got started. We're only now digging our way out of the hole Churchill dug in Iran with CIA footsoldiers.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: No
Taliban ruled Afghanistan was harbouring AQ and bin Laden. Russia spent most of the '90s trying to recover from the collapse of the USSR, and fighting Chechen rebels. What Russia's doing in Ukraine now is trying to protect its naval port on the Black Sea, and protect ethnic Russians from a US & NATO backed puppet regime.
How soon we forget.
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Re: Re: No
How about if the US gov't declares war on the US gov't? That should give them an adversary that'll keep 'em busy.
Just the gov't, mind you. Keep the rest of us out of it.
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Lawyers. :-P
Google, please stop shielding dolts like this. We deserve to know what people like this are up to, and humouring them isn't helping anyone. There was never any need for you to even acknowledge his existence, much less help him dig his hole even deeper.
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HIPAA.
Go ahead, Lance. Post your entire family's entire medical history online for all to see. Surely there's no need to hide that. Everyone has a medical history, after all. We're all just human. What could possibly be so special about yours and your family's? What have you got that needs to be hidden from the rest of your peers? This is just simple honesty and courtesy isn't it? Then we can discuss whether we have any need to keep secrets from each other, to keep the bad actors honest. That is, of course, assuming your family hasn't murdered you yet.
I'm amazed that a grown man (assuming LU is his real name, and he's actually male) writing stuff posted on-line in the 21st Century for all to see can be so lazy as to not bother to do any research whatsoever prior to spewing irrational, ignorant bullshit! What a lazy fool. AC above is correct. I expect he's going to wish he'd posted this drivel anonymously real soon.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Once you get far out on the tails, any signal has vanishingly small amplitudes, so is indistinguishable from noise in the system.
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Re: The fundamental argument is flawed
I think the British PM should charge them with copyright infringement.
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Re: Re: I'd be crying
Their own reports on the situation admits good crypto stopped them *once*, and they were still able to convict the perp using other methods. They have no need to be able to decrypt everything.
Gathering everything is useless. Making the haystack bigger makes it harder for them to find the needle hidden within it. We're being governed by thick skulled imbeciles who're convinced they're experts, and all they can do when we point out how foolish they're being is insert fingers into ears and go "Can't hear you. La la la ..."
We *all* deserve much better than what these fools are offering everyone.
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"Crypto War 2.0" is a lie!
We need to nuke this until it glows, then salt the ground so this weed doesn't come back to bite us again!
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Re:
Actually, it's all about cutting out the emperors (our elected governments) leaving corporations in charge.
Frying pan, or fire? Decisions, decisions.
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Re: Re: Re:
Vinyl and old style tape (not DAT) are analog, which captures the entire frequency spectrum of the performance (assuming perfect recording hardware). Audiophile zealots insist that they can actually hear the long tail, low amplitude components in analog recordings, despite scientific proof that they're well outside the range of human hearing.
I suspect they envy canines.
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Re: Re:
Orwell didn't anticipate regulatory capture or corporatocracy (not in "1984", at least). He was right about Newspeak.
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Re: Re: Jury nullification.
Perhaps. Meanwhile, you can languish in jail as your lawyer tries to prove judicial overreach.
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Jury nullification.
In a just world, we could sue Disney for stuffing kids' minds with pap like this (Jiminy Cricket: "When you wish upon a star, ..."). Did you know Walt was a Nazi sympathizer?
i) Anyone even admitting they know about JN will be bounced from the case ASAP, if they're not charged with contempt instead.
ii) The best you could hope for would be a hung jury, giving the prosecution a do-over with a new jury.
iii) If you manage to avoid those, another jury member will rat you out ("We can't work with him!") and they'll replace you with one of the two alternate jury members.
You should read those stories about judge Kozinski's paper on volochconspiracy.com. The "game" is hopelessly rigged in favour of the prosecution.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How about evidence from computers that are wide open
Better than Linux at being a malware magnet. Better than Linux at being instantly owned upon being connected to the net. Better than Linux at running craptastic, broken at sale third party software.
I can't believe people still defend Windows(TM) after two decades of its consistent, continued abuse. You're masochists.
"Mouse movement detected, therefore rebooting."
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