I didn't say it WAS a copyright infringement. It is a copyright issue. The kind of topic TD covers. And whether or not it is an infringement, it isn't any more or less so based on which candidate is doing it.
Point 5: you feel that 9.8 m/s^2 force holding you to the ground don't you? That's proof of the rocket's acceleration. If you're complaining about the infinite stack, I would point out that an infinite length can have one end to it. So there could be one tortoise that is the start of an infinite stack. According to Miksch's Law, if a string has one end, then it has another end. I conjecture that it's the number of tortoises in between the two ends that is infinite. QED. :-)
Point 6: what other source of power, according to YOUR theory could maintain the rocket's thrust for such a long time? Not puny chemical rockets. Not even nuclear (nook-you-lar) power.
It is important to have all of this well thought out. If you're not trying to make public policy, or sell something, then why would anyone need junk science?
All viewpoints should be welcome. Otherwise we end up with an echo chamber limited to sane, rational viewpoints.
My new junk science research conclusively shows that: 1. the sun rises in the west 2. the earth is a flat disk 3. the sun, moon and stars rotate around the disk 4. the disk is on the back of an infinite stack of tortoises 5. the final tortoise of that infinite stack is propelled by a rocket at 9.8 m/s^2 giving the illusion of gravity 6. the rocket is powered by perpetual motion machine
Politicians should make public policy based on these scientific results.
If you are skeptical and try to refute this, I'll sue! Waaaaaah!
Re: I imagine a future when we've had enough of this.
Corporate-police collusion will be presumed
Everyone is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty,
It's not collusion.
MERGER ANNOUNCEMENT: AT&T to acquire law enforcement.
Today, AT&T announced its intention to acquire all law enforcement for an undisclosed amount.
To make future law enforcement easier and more flexible, guilt will be presumed instead of innocence. The accused will bear the burden of proving innocence.
Now the opposite is true and we're filling our
prisons up with innocent convicts.
We have For Profit prisons.
This is in addition to Secret:
courts, warrants, laws, court orders, arrests, trials, convictions, and secret prisons. But for profit prisons(!).
The education system needs to produce the correct balance of graduates who are destined to populate the prisons and others who will be the worker drones to pay for the for profit prisons.
This will be a necessary change to the economy in case the military industrial complex revenue is ever in danger.
(Remember the lesson of Snowden. No matter how bad you think it might be, reality is that it is already worse!)
After the flood subsided, God promised that next time it would be by fire and not by water. :-) And the symbol of that is the rainbow.
In the case of AT&T, government, and many other parties that are literally creating the Sci Fi dystopia of our nightmares, I don't know if fire would be enough. Maybe eternal fire so that they don't rise from the ashes.
Having a modem was a requirement in the dial up days.
Now, having a VPN may be a basic necessity when signing up with any ISP. Instead of trusting your ISP, who once was considered worth trusting, you'll vest that trust in the VPN provider. Or use TOR over your VPN. :-) To keep your VPN from knowing the contents of your connections.
Next after that, having several VPNs, and (not yet written) software that randomly directs your connections over one of the several different VPNs.
VPNs through other VPNs?
Who knows what else you'll need after that. Some kind of meta-network built on top of everything I just described.
A mini Linux computer should have TWO ethernet jacks. Some project ideas are harder to implement without two ethernet jacks.
Software could bridge the two ethernet jacks so that all packets flow transparently between them as if it were an ordinary cable. Thus, it can be placed inline between the wall jack and an unsuspecting office PC. Call it a "hard drive optimizer" or something like that. The user is supposed to install it.
The device can look for interesting traffic passing through, and log it.
Later, at convenient times, the device can phone home with data. The phone home part can be made to look pretty innocent. It could use the MAC address and IP address of the PC that it already knows it's attached to. Be sure not to stomp on ports or connections that might be ongoing from the PC. It would also make sure response packetes to it's own connections do not make it back to the PC it sits in front of. Make simple, innocent HTTPS connections to the mother ship and ex filtrate the data collected.
MITM attacks may also be possible. Especially if you can persuade the user to insert a USB stick that installs a new trusted root CA cert.
The device can try to launch phishing or other attacks against the PC, but without introducing any of that traffic onto the rest of the office's network.
This project could be enhanced by having a transparent network proxy so that all HTTP requests for images return Lol Cat images of the same dimensions.
Youngsters can have all sorts of fun with an inexpensive toy like this. Not to mention the education potential.
A killer may have a valid justification, at least in his own mind.
But there are social norms. There are a few, specific reasons that society generally accepts as justification for killing.
There are other norms about what is acceptable speech. Surely an idea, like a policy idea can be fashioned in a way that is not hate speech. That said, others can take offense to anything that anyone says. But again there are norms. This particular post, nor your post above it would be considered hate speech by most people.
I suppose a religion can express its doctrines. Nobody should be forced to listen. Probably adherents of any sane religion would accept that nobody should be forced to listen.
You raise interesting questions that make things less clear cut. But clearly speech advocating violence or diminished rights against any group should be a problem.
I do think hate speech and political speech are two different things. And neither one should be labeled as the other. Expressing policy ideas can be done in a coherent manner, using complete sentences, and not be hate speech. It's been done for ages.
> Funny how disagreeing with anything the left says is hate speech now.
I think hate speech has a definition. Even the name of it is a very brief definition. If I were to try to sum it up, I would say it is speech that is hateful, threatening or discriminatory towards identifiable groups of people -- whether minorities or not. For example, it is also possible to have hate speech against a majority group.
It has nothing to do with 'right' or 'left'.
If you want to spew hate towards certain groups, then go find your own 'safe zone' to spew it. Good luck trying to get the victims or targets of your hate to come into your 'safe zone'.
You can disagree with people without having to engage in hate speech. If you don't know the difference, then shut up.
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Re: I refute you thus:
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Re: Re: Shouldn't we welcome all viewpoints?
Point 6: what other source of power, according to YOUR theory could maintain the rocket's thrust for such a long time? Not puny chemical rockets. Not even nuclear (nook-you-lar) power.
It is important to have all of this well thought out. If you're not trying to make public policy, or sell something, then why would anyone need junk science?
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Re:
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Re: Re: I don't get it
They'll bust down the door and come in, warrant or no.
Your honor! There were exigent circumstances!
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Shouldn't we welcome all viewpoints?
My new junk science research conclusively shows that:
1. the sun rises in the west
2. the earth is a flat disk
3. the sun, moon and stars rotate around the disk
4. the disk is on the back of an infinite stack of tortoises
5. the final tortoise of that infinite stack is propelled by a rocket at 9.8 m/s^2 giving the illusion of gravity
6. the rocket is powered by perpetual motion machine
Politicians should make public policy based on these scientific results.
If you are skeptical and try to refute this, I'll sue! Waaaaaah!
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Re: Not a Bug
DRM is supposed to keep you from seeing the content, and its working.
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Re:
It's an actual copyright issue.
Just because it belongs to a certain political party doesn't make it any less or any more of a copyright infringement.
You only call it nitpicking because it is your candidate.
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Investigations
In a legitimate investigation there are no doubt multiple ways to deal with encrypted communications.
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An easier solution
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what it might be about
Maybe it's also about keeping 'for profit' prisons full.
Fewer vacant cells means more revenue. Higher profits. Executive bonuses. Increased shareholder value. What's not to like?
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Re: I imagine a future when we've had enough of this.
It's not collusion.
MERGER ANNOUNCEMENT: AT&T to acquire law enforcement.
Today, AT&T announced its intention to acquire all law enforcement for an undisclosed amount.
To make future law enforcement easier and more flexible, guilt will be presumed instead of innocence. The accused will bear the burden of proving innocence.
We have For Profit prisons.
This is in addition to Secret: courts, warrants, laws, court orders, arrests, trials, convictions, and secret prisons. But for profit prisons(!).
The education system needs to produce the correct balance of graduates who are destined to populate the prisons and others who will be the worker drones to pay for the for profit prisons.
This will be a necessary change to the economy in case the military industrial complex revenue is ever in danger.
(Remember the lesson of Snowden. No matter how bad you think it might be, reality is that it is already worse!)
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Re:
In the case of AT&T, government, and many other parties that are literally creating the Sci Fi dystopia of our nightmares, I don't know if fire would be enough. Maybe eternal fire so that they don't rise from the ashes.
On the post: New Docs Detail How AT&T Planned To Profit Massively By Helping Law Enforcement Spy On The Public
VPNs may become the new ISPs
Now, having a VPN may be a basic necessity when signing up with any ISP. Instead of trusting your ISP, who once was considered worth trusting, you'll vest that trust in the VPN provider. Or use TOR over your VPN. :-) To keep your VPN from knowing the contents of your connections.
Next after that, having several VPNs, and (not yet written) software that randomly directs your connections over one of the several different VPNs.
VPNs through other VPNs?
Who knows what else you'll need after that. Some kind of meta-network built on top of everything I just described.
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Mini Linux boxes need to have two ethernet jacks
Software could bridge the two ethernet jacks so that all packets flow transparently between them as if it were an ordinary cable. Thus, it can be placed inline between the wall jack and an unsuspecting office PC. Call it a "hard drive optimizer" or something like that. The user is supposed to install it.
The device can look for interesting traffic passing through, and log it.
Later, at convenient times, the device can phone home with data. The phone home part can be made to look pretty innocent. It could use the MAC address and IP address of the PC that it already knows it's attached to. Be sure not to stomp on ports or connections that might be ongoing from the PC. It would also make sure response packetes to it's own connections do not make it back to the PC it sits in front of. Make simple, innocent HTTPS connections to the mother ship and ex filtrate the data collected.
MITM attacks may also be possible. Especially if you can persuade the user to insert a USB stick that installs a new trusted root CA cert.
The device can try to launch phishing or other attacks against the PC, but without introducing any of that traffic onto the rest of the office's network.
This project could be enhanced by having a transparent network proxy so that all HTTP requests for images return Lol Cat images of the same dimensions.
Youngsters can have all sorts of fun with an inexpensive toy like this. Not to mention the education potential.
I like it.
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Re: Re:
I don't think Trump will lose because of any cheating.
Any cheating that may be going on has probably been upgraded to 21st century standards and techniques.
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Re: Re: Zuckerberg will do anything for money.
There are others too. Prenda lawyers. Etc.
Just generalize it. Prostitutes will do anything for money. All the crude "wh" word would be more appropriate.
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Re: Re:
But there are social norms. There are a few, specific reasons that society generally accepts as justification for killing.
There are other norms about what is acceptable speech. Surely an idea, like a policy idea can be fashioned in a way that is not hate speech. That said, others can take offense to anything that anyone says. But again there are norms. This particular post, nor your post above it would be considered hate speech by most people.
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Re: Re: Re: HATE speech
You raise interesting questions that make things less clear cut. But clearly speech advocating violence or diminished rights against any group should be a problem.
I do think hate speech and political speech are two different things. And neither one should be labeled as the other. Expressing policy ideas can be done in a coherent manner, using complete sentences, and not be hate speech. It's been done for ages.
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Re:
On the post: Zuckerberg Momentarily Curbs 'Hate Speech' Moderation Stupidity At Facebook To Reinstate Posts By Donald Trump
Re: HATE speech
I think hate speech has a definition. Even the name of it is a very brief definition. If I were to try to sum it up, I would say it is speech that is hateful, threatening or discriminatory towards identifiable groups of people -- whether minorities or not. For example, it is also possible to have hate speech against a majority group.
It has nothing to do with 'right' or 'left'.
If you want to spew hate towards certain groups, then go find your own 'safe zone' to spew it. Good luck trying to get the victims or targets of your hate to come into your 'safe zone'.
You can disagree with people without having to engage in hate speech. If you don't know the difference, then shut up.
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