Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Sceptical Mila is sceptical

So, the rumor that the Wachowski brothers only made one movie ever will be cemented?

Arsebleed

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COPS! In the US, the beat you to death. In the Japan, you must confess.

Two of these hapless suspects confessed to crimes which the National Police Agency was later obligated to omit they had no involvement.

Standard operating procedure over there, I hear.

The AFP's systems, he said, simply aren't configured to report the association between “metadata” and eventual convictions.

Because once the Ministry of Surveillance has flagged a potential problem, and the perp is dragged to the Ministry of Love for debriefing with no further ado, but traces of this chain of action are not kept for later compilation into glossy reports?

Wait, didn't there used to be a legal process somewhere in there before the 21st century?

Somebody is panicking

Looks like China's economy collapse is approaching at flank speed.

Is this like politicians affirming that a 2% tax hike will cost the economy only 2 billion over 10 years instead of the 100+ billion that it really does when all the investments, now forever unseen, are conveniently forgotten?

Je suis Sony!

Now that the US is gearing up to send small arms and Javelin missiles to our Wolfsangel-decorated newfound but discombobulated ukrainian friends to counter "russian agression", the Sony hack MUST ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN PUTIN!

Holy damn, there are not enough random events to hang onto Norks, Putin, Iranians, ISIS, Chinese, Ghaddafi types, whistleblowers and other enemies-du-jour.

WHAT DO! !

Well, the CIA is pretty good in false flag operations and Radio Gleiwitz-like events. Have at it!

I applaud the Outward Urge, but...

"NASA is firmly on a Journey to Mars. Make no mistake, this journey will help guide and define our generation."

No arsehat, your generation will be defined by 10-year-long recession followed by monetary collapse, permanent warfare in foreign lands for no discernible reason, extreme surveillance, a transformation of public forces to unaccountable authoritarian outfits working outside the law, and craven, despicable behaviour of people in public service not seen since the fading days of the roman empire. Whether it will come to a nuclear exchange over a neoconnish to enact "regime change in Moscow" come hell or high water may well be seen very soon indeed.

the horse-trading over cash begins

Meanwhile, a bit further down the road, where the rubber hits it:

DoD Releases Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Proposal:

President Barack Obama today sent Congress a proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Department of Defense budget request of $585.3 billion in discretionary budget authority to fund both base budget programs and Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO). ... As the department rebalances the joint force after 13 years of war, it confronts an uncertain fiscal environment in the absence of congressional action to reverse sequestration (i.e. reductions in the rate of increase, ed.). The geopolitical events of the past year only reinforce the need to resource DoD at the president’s requested funding level as opposed to current law. As the budget makes clear, a return to sequester-level funding would be irresponsible and dangerous, resulting in a force too small and ill equipped to respond to the full range of potential threats to the nation.

Git Along, Little Dogies

If you have "optimized for MS SQL", you are supposed to go to Azure.

It's the name of the game.