They're not LEO's, but they're sure as hell trained to act like them. THAT is the problem. They're not trained to look for dangers, they're trained on how to confront and cow passengers into following the asinine rules. Because the rules are paramount to EVERYTHING.
Aye. I'll sometimes toss in some soy sauce, too. Frozen veggies make a great addition about halfway through boiling the noodles (peas, carrots, beans, stuff that boils well). Sometimes adding a can of tuna is good too, after cooking when you're mixing it all together.
All kinds of great ways to enjoy your mac & "cheese" ;)
I humbly suggest the instructor retitle it "Kick the Crap Dinner". It'd piss Kraft off to no end, and I can't imagine how it'd be legally actionable. Especially if it can ride in on a wave of publicity after this stunt.
Personal responsibility? Shitty luck? What's that? Someone's responsible, and it could never be me. I'm entitled to an entirely safe existence no matter what boneheaded crap I do, damnit. It's the American way!
The problem is that people used those sub-domains for all kinds of things. I have a "subdomain" like was seized that I use to connect to my computers at home when I'm away. I'm sure many people run various game servers or have other hobbies that may not just be web pages, and you're defending the right of the government to unilaterally stop all of those useful services with no evidence or trial?
Hell, any one of those subdomains could have had hundreds of thousands of pages. YOU DON'T KNOW. The way the DNS system works, those subdomains were all on different IPs, so yes, there were 84,000 people who had their connection to DNS cut off suddenly.
I don't know if you're playing Devil's Advocate or just a myopic, uneducated asshole, but there is no defense for seizing the domain with no evidence that even the preponderance or even a significant fraction of the subdomains were participating in anything illegal, much less without a trial.
This story didn't say that the breaking of encryption was legal. Just that it wasn't criminal. They could still be open to and lose civil lawsuits. It's just that the government is stepping out of direct prosecution.
He had the benefit of the doubt the first time. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." He proved he was incompetent once. I'm not holding out high hopes he's going to magically become more competent.
These CEOs and such are all golf buddies. It has nothing to do with skill or talent. It's all in who you know.
So you're saying that we shouldn't question the government ever? And that people who see things going wrong should just keep their head low and ignore it?
I'd think so, as long as you did it legally and filled it back up with personal money and not on the government's dime. If they allow personal use, they allow personal use.
Re: "If Sony can't kill off interest in the PS3 by playing whac-a-mole with jailbreak code"
Sure it will. I'm not buying any more games for my PS3 due to this crap. And they make their money off of sales of the games.
It's bad enough that they're trying to extend the lifetime of the consoles past their traditional 5-year period. It's killing PC gaming, and it's slowing down hardware and software development across the board. And now they're trying to lock it down further.
I wouldn't say that the press controls the people. But it should inform them. Control is a scary word, and it's more akin to what the government is doing to the press by scaring it into silence.
Relevant pullquote:
"But I had evidence right there in my hands that supported a different story," Gellately explains. "There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn't the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors."
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: No, Mike as usual you are wrong from the start..
Your point? It still won't bring down a plane. NO edged weapon will bring down a plane. We started locking and reinforcing cockpit doors. That was the ONLY response needed to 9/11. It's done. Why are we doing anything else?
I think that it's really more indicative of the natural feelings of people, how these communities behave.
The average non-sociopath has strong feelings of right and wrong, and it's cross-cultural. These online community actions are simply the expression of those feelings. If they feel that someone is taking advantage of others (Scientology) they fight against it. But it's not for kicks, it's not just "because". It's got a social reason behind it.
It's also why a bunch of people randomly decided to help some guy celebrate his 90th birthday. Being altruistic is a good feeling (again, for non-sociopaths). Helping others because you can is natural.
We seem to forget that underneath all this, we're all still very human. There's nothing "odd" about any of this behavior if you actually understand people and their motivations beyond purely fiscal pressures.
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Re: Not to be too condescending but...
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Re: Pro Tip
All kinds of great ways to enjoy your mac & "cheese" ;)
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Retitling the class
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Responsibility
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Monsanto?
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Hell, any one of those subdomains could have had hundreds of thousands of pages. YOU DON'T KNOW. The way the DNS system works, those subdomains were all on different IPs, so yes, there were 84,000 people who had their connection to DNS cut off suddenly.
I don't know if you're playing Devil's Advocate or just a myopic, uneducated asshole, but there is no defense for seizing the domain with no evidence that even the preponderance or even a significant fraction of the subdomains were participating in anything illegal, much less without a trial.
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Civil vs Criminal
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Ex-reader
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These CEOs and such are all golf buddies. It has nothing to do with skill or talent. It's all in who you know.
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I've got some reading for you:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392
If you don't stand up for what's right right now, you won't get the chance to in the future.
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Re: proper use
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Re: "If Sony can't kill off interest in the PS3 by playing whac-a-mole with jailbreak code"
It's bad enough that they're trying to extend the lifetime of the consoles past their traditional 5-year period. It's killing PC gaming, and it's slowing down hardware and software development across the board. And now they're trying to lock it down further.
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Amicus curiæ
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Socialist Nationalism
Relevant pullquote:
"But I had evidence right there in my hands that supported a different story," Gellately explains. "There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn't the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors."
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Re: Finally, someone gets it....
Wait, no... it's proof that it really is a FUCKTON of money being spent to prevent pretty much nothing.
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Humanity showing through
The average non-sociopath has strong feelings of right and wrong, and it's cross-cultural. These online community actions are simply the expression of those feelings. If they feel that someone is taking advantage of others (Scientology) they fight against it. But it's not for kicks, it's not just "because". It's got a social reason behind it.
It's also why a bunch of people randomly decided to help some guy celebrate his 90th birthday. Being altruistic is a good feeling (again, for non-sociopaths). Helping others because you can is natural.
We seem to forget that underneath all this, we're all still very human. There's nothing "odd" about any of this behavior if you actually understand people and their motivations beyond purely fiscal pressures.
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