Re: A De-strossing Article!
"anyone got any bat's blood?"
You'd never get the stain out of the parchment.
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"but at least they haven't tried to impose any large-scale censorship operations like many of the others would have"
An overt regime of censorship is something tangible that can be fought. A better idea would be to put the fear of God NSA into everyone and get them to censor themselves. Who would they fight against then eh?
Oh....
I've had a good old search around, and you're right - I can't find a single legitimate reference to Goebbels actually having said this, it appears I am repeating oft quoted propoganda. Shame on me.
In my search I came across a lot of stuff he _did_ say, it's worth a read..
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
However, he seemed so insistent that copyright infringement was actually theft I decided to put the terms together into a search engine to see if anyone, anywhere, anywhen had ever been charged, convicted or even to have been whispered as condoning 'copyright theft' and guess what...nothing.
"criminal charge for copyright theft" = lots of articles on copyright infringement.
So, brain-dead troll is obviously brain-dead.
"The police state that because Nominet receive fees for domains, they are receiving proceeds from a crime when that domain is used for "illegal" purposes"
That's not a defensible position in a court of law - Nominet should have stumped up the cash for lawyers or started a fund.
I mean, if I use my car in a ram-raid, and my the insurance company is making money from me using that car 'they are receiving proceeds from a crime when that car is used for "illegal" purposes
Actually I have changed the world in my own small way, but I think I should point out to you that continuing to suggest that if you cannot save the entire world with a single act then you simply shouldn't bother is simply defeatist.
I'm not objecting to you having this opinion of course, it just comes across as limited in scope fwiw.
Perhaps I should say to you: If you want to live in an idealist world in 25 years, then you should start now.
The only thing I actually have control over in any real sense is how I react and deal with things that occur to me in life.
To my mind, not rolling over and kissing the governments arse *is* something that is in my control.
To the properly prepared mind, opportunities to further your intentions will always present themselves. I have no illusions that I can somehow single-handedly put the world to rights, but I will do what I can, when I can.
If *everyone* did the same thing, I believe that might add up to slightly more than a hill of beans.
"strict legal framework that prohibits accessing information related to the innocent online activities of US citizens."
Newspeak translation : So, we collect it but are prohibited from 'accessing' it. Oh, and it only relates to 'innocent' online activities, and how will we know they are innocent unless we put them under the microscope?
Laymans English : We collect everything, access everything, and we are the law, so it can't be illegal. So you all you whinging commies terrorists can go fuck yourselves. We will have the video of it from your hacked laptop webcam to use against you, so fill your boots. CommieTerrorist bastards.
I had to complain to HSBC credit card support about this* a few years back.
When it happened again I escalated it to their manager who told me that they had been trained now and should be adopting new processes.
Next time it happened they called and gave me a number to call that I knew was their number so we could discuss things - but they still wanted me to verify stuff on my CC that was hard to keep track of even with my statement in front of me! So I suggested that next time they call we exchange bits of info that only each other would know.
Now that's what they do each time they need to call. They give me one part of my info, I give them the rest.
So sometimes they learn.
Mind you, I don't know who programs their systems because once I had to go back into a shop to buy the load of bread that I forgot and it got flagged, yet when I bought a £7k motorbike it went through without a blip - go figure.
*this = the 'bank' calling me to ask me personal questions
"However, I still have a rudimentary duty of care - checking oil, checking tyre pressures etc.
Unfortunately now what the 'great unwashed' are looking for in IT is the same as in any other area of their lives - absolution of responsibility."
Totally agree. After all, who crashes into the tree if the brakes fail?
Absolution of responsibility is not actually possible when it comes to your own safety - all you are doing is saying to the world "look at me, I am not in control of myself - please do it for me" (just with a more arrogant tone)
Great idea...instead of a series of rapidly disappearing flashing images when people FF the adverts on their SKY/Tivo boxes etc. if the advertisers just put a static screen up for 30 seconds I bet people would still notice what it was advertising etc. even though they are wizzing past it.
Surely the hosting company would have entered into some kind of legal agreement with Wiki to rent them a server. I'm pretty sure that data protection should prevent you from advertsing who your customers are/were and which servers they are using etc.
What's to stop them selling an HSBC international transaction server next time? Even though it's been wiped clean if they try and sell it as such surely it's breaking confidentiality at the very least?
I'm prepared to be corrected :)
When was it never about the money for a business?
In a capitalist society the only way to make your feelings truly felt is to vote with your wallet.
If the million or so people who marched in London to object the Iraq war had instead decided to take a month off work, buy no unnecessary petrol, and buy only basic food-stuffs (no frivolous items) then you would truly have seen a reaction* from parliament.
*probably would have branded them all econo-terrorists or something, but you know what I mean.
" "highly classified UK intelligence documents"."
This is the bit that's really confusing me. The Uk Gov keep going on about how Snowden has all these top security uk documents, but didn't he just dump a large part of the NSA database?
At what point did he access UK GCHQ servers?
This all smells to high heaven, and I personally think that the uk spooks just wanted to know what the US spooks knew about them (they don't tell each other *everything* obviously).
As a bonus they get loads of US-centric stuff too to boost their own intel. All the while they are dressing this up as some kind of crime by Snowden against the UK. They haven't said that exactly, but that seems to be the impression they are trying to portray.
This one has got me thinking since I've ingested in the past (when I gave up smoking).
It's hard to get hard and fast figures, but averaging all the info out I think it would take around 15-30mg of THC to be considered a 'single' medical dose (of decent quality I presume). I would think that this would get a 'non toker' pretty stoned for around 2-3 hours. Again, hard to be precise but this sounds reasonable.
I've also looked up what is going to be available in Colorado as the poster above mentioned. Again, hard to get specific info, but it seems that products are being marketed as being anywhere between 50-250mg per item, even if it is just a chocolate sweet.
I found one online shop in colorado that apparently won some award in 2010 (@Kushcon)for strongest edible at around 48mg.
If sweets are being made that can be 250mg, then I think the risk of children eating them is quite real. I have no idea what effect it would have on a 5 year old to ingest enough THC to knock out a hardened stoner, but it does seem to be something the 'pro legalisation' people should take into account - otherwise it will be banned again as fast as you can say 'whinging mothers'.
Considering some of the other lyrics in that song, I felt the final verse to be rather fitting (if aimed at certain entities)..
"You invade my space
Make me feel disgraced
And you just don't give a damn
If I had my way
If I had my say
I'd like to see you hang "
If they haven't been powered up for a long time you may be disappointed.
Old chips had pnp layers with large depletion zones. Powering up removed these zones and allowed current to flow.
Over time, the depletions zones can actually get so large that when it draws enough power to ovecome them, the chip fries :(
Matt, I have no objections whatsoever to you holding whatever political stance you like and voicing that opinion on here. If I have an objection, it is simply the way in which you go about it. You ascribe words and motives to people without knowing the first thing about them.
If you stayed away from the ad hominem attacks and stuck to the points you are trying to make it would make reading your posts a little less grating. Make of that what you will.
Here, have a pint and chill out a bit.
"So Google are actually saying that what UK users do on US servers is subject to US law."
I performed a traceroute to www.google.co.uk earlier today and got a wonderfully low 32ms response time.
That server farm is *not* in the US.
I also know that different 'Google's for different countries deliver different results for the same searches based on laws in those countries, which means that they are offering a bespoke service to each country.
In my book that means the UK Google servers are operating under UK law.