Yet why is the NY Times -- the so-called "paper of record" -- repeating blindly government propaganda about how important it is to keep the program alive?
Because if they refused to parrot this !@#$, the gov't would cut off their access to newsworthy "anonymous sources" leaks.
I can't read the NYT anymore without a snide, sneering expression on my face. "Chyaaa, right!" comes to mind. The crap they spout about Ukraine, Russia, and Putin is revolting, not to mention pretty pathetically done. Read what NYT says, then find hundreds of others who actually tell you what went on and who the players are and what their agenda is. NYT comes up looking stupid every time.
Re: Re: Re: European Union run by a bunch of mucousa munching morons.
I'm convinced this's just potential advertisers annoyed that they have to pay top dollar to Google because G. produces the best results for their money and it wouldn't have gone as far if they'd have gone with G.'s competitors. In other words cheap, penny pinching idiots who think they shouldn't have to pay so much for what G. can do for them. Welcome to capitalism, idiots.
Instead, they run to politicos who'll whore themselves with our legal system to fix it for them. G. should raise their prices for having to put up with their whining, not to mention having to pay lawyers to try to educate the idiots and politicos attacking them.
Translation: "That means actively attacking certain values."
C'mon David, don't mince terms. You're embarking on a Holy War, a Crusade of sorts, aimed at anyone who disagrees with your vision of what Britain should be and what it should stand for. I thought Britain was a democracy, but I see you've had enough of that farcical charade.
The word for that is tyranny. I look forward to seeing you hanging by your feet from a meathook. Have a short life.
I mean, has it never occurred to you that maybe the British people want Britain to change because they don't like the way Britain does many things? Most of us are very happy with many changes that have happened in our lifetimes, but you think the brakes need to be applied, because change is bad.
they have been "a passively tolerant society" for too long, as in "weak and decadent".
That statement speaks volumes. "Passively tolerant" == "weak and decadent." Perhaps Britain would have been better off if it had lost the Battle of Britain. Be careful what you wish for.
I always believed that in a democracy the people decided which way to go, but you're saying it would be better if the elected representatives of that democracy just hands down marching orders which prescribe the correct course, and the rest go to the tower? Seig heil!
I am so SICK of you red team vs. blue team partisan idiots! Who is it that's desperate to keep the NSA's illegal ability to spy on all of you despite the 4th amendment? That would be the leader of the senate, Mitch McConnell, GOP!
The Queen's speech is actually written by the government in power. She just reads it. I don't understand why they still want to do it that way (as in "Royalty?!? WTF for?!?"), but that's their problem.
Lots of people think British royalty are entertaining, so maybe it's justifiable PR. It brings in the marks (or dollars).
Re: That they outsmarted our best, and that our best was careless and inobservant
... is not only our most likely scenario ... but is also the worst possible scenario.
I question just about everything you said there. "Our best" back then, along with pretty much everyone else, understood that the chances of getting killed in a terrorist attack in continental USA was miniscule compared to other far more likely ways of being killed (traffic accidents). Hence, the authorities knew that they needn't bother much about that possibility and were free to fight the far more personally satisfying Drug War instead. Add to that all the agencies were hoarding intel, not sharing, and any sufficiently annoyed teenager could walk rings around them, and had been for years (cf. Columbine).
Bin Laden pulled 9/11 because it could be done easily with very little money and minimal training (they signed up for flying lessons; they didn't bother learning how to land).
If the feds weren't so preoccupied with the Drug War, they might have found time to actually protect the country from terrorist attacks. After all, 9/11 was not the first attack on the towers. They'd already failed (?) with a prior truck bomb attack. Oh well.
What if the driver's interface in an automobile were copyrighted forcing every mfgr to design their own? People used to automatic transmissions can't drive standards, ffs. This has foiled carjackings!
Don't think about ignition point of propane. Instead, imagine a vehicle filled with propane vapour. Just opening the door could trigger a small spark of static electricity, turning said vehicle into a bomb.
It took a long time for us to twig to the fact that cars turning into infernos at gas stations were being set off because said vehicles were being filled by people who were fiddling with their keys or digging into the vehicle for something while fuel was being loaded.
Oregon still won't let you pump your own gas. I'm not sure that's wrong thinking, considering the potentials involved. Not that your average pump jockey is that much better, but I'd prefer to be at the till paying if it did decide the time was right.
Re: Want to know what else pressure cookers have been used for?
In fact, they have cooked so many more pot roasts than bombs ...
The last I heard, there are two handguns (?) for every US citizen. How many of them are used in the commission of a crime? Just as vanishingly small a percentage. What are cops absolutely paranoid about? Guns. Reach for your cellphone or your wallet, and they'll shoot you assuming you're going for a gun.
Cops are very good at over-reacting. It takes very little to get them to do it. I often wonder if it's in the job description.
So what happens if it was a flaw in how the browser showed his balance?
All it would take is one of your people trying what he reported he did using what he said he used. Can they do it too? This's pretty basic science. Can you replicate the reported flaw, as the flaw was reported to work? If not, you're done. You needn't even say thank you.
This shouldn't take much time out of your precious day, especially if it might cost your bosses [mb]illions.
Instead, he's treated like a thief and lawyers are sicced on him? Bad form.
Methinks Apple's walled garden is a far greater problem wrt individual privacy than Facebook's (mis)management of individual privacy, but everybody *loves iBaubles*, so can't go after Apple. FB's next on the list, along with Google.
Can't be seen to be attacking the cult of Jobs! Google's fair game though.
They do make specific objections that have nothing to do with jealousy, but have a lot to do with cultural differences.
You're being far too generous. Europeans have no trouble with using Google as their go to search engine. European politicos have a lot of problems with Google being Europeans' go to search engine.
Europeans en mass may be more culturally sophisticated wrt us (debatable), but their politicos are no better than our politicos. The latter are just doing what their nature tells them they can get away with. They're the problem, just as our politicos are our problem so very often.
Why Europeans aren't telling their politicos to shut up about this may be a cultural problem they might like to consider. Why're EU politicos so hell bent on attacking SillyValley corps when EU users love SillyValley, hmm? There seems to be a bit of a disconnect there between the two.
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Because if they refused to parrot this !@#$, the gov't would cut off their access to newsworthy "anonymous sources" leaks.
I can't read the NYT anymore without a snide, sneering expression on my face. "Chyaaa, right!" comes to mind. The crap they spout about Ukraine, Russia, and Putin is revolting, not to mention pretty pathetically done. Read what NYT says, then find hundreds of others who actually tell you what went on and who the players are and what their agenda is. NYT comes up looking stupid every time.
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Re: Re: Re: European Union run by a bunch of mucousa munching morons.
Instead, they run to politicos who'll whore themselves with our legal system to fix it for them. G. should raise their prices for having to put up with their whining, not to mention having to pay lawyers to try to educate the idiots and politicos attacking them.
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"That means actively promoting certain values. "
C'mon David, don't mince terms. You're embarking on a Holy War, a Crusade of sorts, aimed at anyone who disagrees with your vision of what Britain should be and what it should stand for. I thought Britain was a democracy, but I see you've had enough of that farcical charade.
The word for that is tyranny. I look forward to seeing you hanging by your feet from a meathook. Have a short life.
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Re: sharia
That statement speaks volumes. "Passively tolerant" == "weak and decadent." Perhaps Britain would have been better off if it had lost the Battle of Britain. Be careful what you wish for.
I always believed that in a democracy the people decided which way to go, but you're saying it would be better if the elected representatives of that democracy just hands down marching orders which prescribe the correct course, and the rest go to the tower? Seig heil!
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Re: Re: Re: "Social cohesion"
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Re: Re: Re: "Social cohesion"
Just die already, you silly twat!
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Re: the queen is really hitler
Lots of people think British royalty are entertaining, so maybe it's justifiable PR. It brings in the marks (or dollars).
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Re: Re: Who could possibly have seen this coming?
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Re: Estimated commercial achievements?
Brian Krebs is well worth watching. He really gets it.
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Re: That they outsmarted our best, and that our best was careless and inobservant
I question just about everything you said there. "Our best" back then, along with pretty much everyone else, understood that the chances of getting killed in a terrorist attack in continental USA was miniscule compared to other far more likely ways of being killed (traffic accidents). Hence, the authorities knew that they needn't bother much about that possibility and were free to fight the far more personally satisfying Drug War instead. Add to that all the agencies were hoarding intel, not sharing, and any sufficiently annoyed teenager could walk rings around them, and had been for years (cf. Columbine).
Bin Laden pulled 9/11 because it could be done easily with very little money and minimal training (they signed up for flying lessons; they didn't bother learning how to land).
If the feds weren't so preoccupied with the Drug War, they might have found time to actually protect the country from terrorist attacks. After all, 9/11 was not the first attack on the towers. They'd already failed (?) with a prior truck bomb attack. Oh well.
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Re: We need better analogies
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It took a long time for us to twig to the fact that cars turning into infernos at gas stations were being set off because said vehicles were being filled by people who were fiddling with their keys or digging into the vehicle for something while fuel was being loaded.
Oregon still won't let you pump your own gas. I'm not sure that's wrong thinking, considering the potentials involved. Not that your average pump jockey is that much better, but I'd prefer to be at the till paying if it did decide the time was right.
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Re: Re: Not an overreaction...
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Re: Want to know what else pressure cookers have been used for?
The last I heard, there are two handguns (?) for every US citizen. How many of them are used in the commission of a crime? Just as vanishingly small a percentage. What are cops absolutely paranoid about? Guns. Reach for your cellphone or your wallet, and they'll shoot you assuming you're going for a gun.
Cops are very good at over-reacting. It takes very little to get them to do it. I often wonder if it's in the job description.
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Perhaps he fessed up just to avoid the hundreds of dollars towing and impound fees he'd have had to spring for to get it back.
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FTFY.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Last Saturday's Slashdot post....
All it would take is one of your people trying what he reported he did using what he said he used. Can they do it too? This's pretty basic science. Can you replicate the reported flaw, as the flaw was reported to work? If not, you're done. You needn't even say thank you.
This shouldn't take much time out of your precious day, especially if it might cost your bosses [mb]illions.
Instead, he's treated like a thief and lawyers are sicced on him? Bad form.
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Can't be seen to be attacking the cult of Jobs! Google's fair game though.
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Re: I'm not so sure
You're being far too generous. Europeans have no trouble with using Google as their go to search engine. European politicos have a lot of problems with Google being Europeans' go to search engine.
Europeans en mass may be more culturally sophisticated wrt us (debatable), but their politicos are no better than our politicos. The latter are just doing what their nature tells them they can get away with. They're the problem, just as our politicos are our problem so very often.
Why Europeans aren't telling their politicos to shut up about this may be a cultural problem they might like to consider. Why're EU politicos so hell bent on attacking SillyValley corps when EU users love SillyValley, hmm? There seems to be a bit of a disconnect there between the two.
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