Posts by Trigonoceps occipitalis 1593 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2014
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
Tom Clancy
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Robin Morgan
Knowledge is power.
Sir Francis Bacon
So, Georgia, are you servant or master?
It was ever thus:
The greatest test of an engineer is not his technical ingenuity but his ability to persuade those in power who do not want to be persuaded and convince those for whom the evidence of their own eyes is anything but convincing.
Extract from "Plain Words" in The Engineer 2nd October 1959
"The assumption of course is that all terrorists are extremely stupid and will talk openly about their intentions, and with clear reference, on Facebook and Twitter. No doubt Burr and Feinstein are unusually brilliant."
They got that terrorist who was going to bomb Robin Hood Airport - not so clever now, are you?
Oh, its bigger than that. The claim to the British Antarctic Territories rely on the Falkland Island Dependencies. This claim is overlapped by those of Argentina and Chile. (Chile has gone as far as arranging births in within their claim so there are native Antarticians to throw into the bun fight.)
Argentina has form for using international forums to advance their preposterous claim to the Falkland Islands. In 1990 the control for the FI Flight Reporting Region was unilaterally changes to Ushuaia at the behest of Buenos Aires. UK delegate asleep or something.
Actually there was a "thank deity it's closed" element. According to the written procedures my brother had to book lifts 48 hours in advance for emergency replacement of comms hardware at the top of the tower. How many replacements were stored at the top, go on take a guess, 1, 2, 3 or none of the above?
Of course, like most engineers, he made it work (there were, after all, stairs and strong, fit riggers) so the PHB never had to explain to the BT board why Oxford was cut off.
So Kodi has been banned, that means we'll have to look for an alternative. That worked so well for the Kodi iPlayer addon when the BBC pulled the plug. I found an unofficial alternative that is not geolocked.
Foot, bullet, let me introduce you.
(Of course the BBC may be happy to let me "pirate" shows just so long as they have plausible deniability, should I actually be streaming from outside the UK.)
I'm not disputing the fact that there is unlikely to be any "lock in" but space vehicles, satellites and debris are three dimensional. They take a finite time to cross a given area. Your analysis is (slightly) wrong but I don't think the conclusion would be any different.
Any one care to have a go?
It is absolutely necessary:
1. I need to ensure that the adverts I serve are absolutely targeted to inform you about the items you have just bought.
2. My business plan depends on sharing the data I have gathered about you with our absolutely carefully selected (show me the money) partners.
3. There is absolutely no chance, none what so ever, of your data being compromised. It is stored using our own dehanced version of the Caesar cypher behind a fire wall supplied and setup by the NSA.
That was OK, it was riding at the front of the bus that was an existential threat to Mom, apple pie and the American way. Ask Rosa Parks, another icon in the battle for civil rights. I just hope, that had I been there, I would have had the guts to protest against the segregation.
" ... I do have a definite view on US agencies pursuing him in New Zealand."
The USA has the right to pursue alleged criminals out side the USA, just as the alleged criminal has the right to fight this*. There are differing views on the justice of the methods used, and the reaction of the courts/government. I do not yet think that Arkle v Pressdam is the correct response but, I admit, the USA do keep trying to convince me.
*To a greater or lesser extent depending on the fairness of any extradition treaty.
"Wasn't J R Hartley a fairly English (not even British) concept?"
J. R. Hartley is the name of a fictional character in a popular British advertisement promoting the Yellow Pages which was first shown in 1983.
Lifted from Wikipedia but true as I recall. "Fly Fishing" was the name of his book, then out of print, that he was trying to track down. I also recall that real book shops began to stock such a book - part of the advertising campaign or just opportunistic cashing in, I don't know.
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