This is consistent with a DDoS attack on their routers,
I honestly didn't think they had more than one. Considering how few people there are allowed to leave the country - physically or digitally - I really expected there would be only one router. They have only one neighbor who they share a land border with who will talk with them, so they likely don't really have a way to set up a redundant second route.
You, for owning and running it. You may then have a claim against Google if you can find fault or negligence. And yes, you'll have to have insurance just like you do now. If you lend your car to your friend to drive, you're still on the hook to insure the car for damage it can do to others, you just might have a legal claim to recoup from the friend.
You'd think the people who use Thepiratebay and people who use Adblock would be pretty much the same. For years I had no idea that Youtube even showed 30 second ads before videos.
Yeah, okay, they learned all about that,
No, they learned a bunch: not everything. There's much more still to learn..
If that is the justification for the ISS
No one claimed it was a stepping stone to mars. It has given vast amounts of research into what it takes to run a long term habitation in space. Given the transit time to mars, that is rather important.
I expect that eventually you'll get more than you think you bargained for.
So far you've told me to be afraid and backed it up with the word of those with a strong vested interest in bolstering their own power. If there really is a threat, you can convince me better than that.
My grandfather died a couple of years ago. It wasn't tragic: he was 93. He was Jewish and lived and fought through WWII. There was a real existential threat there. The islamic terrorists are not.
So people who want to pass more laws to give themselves more power are claiming a threat that they could only save us from by passing more laws to give themselves more power. OK. I totally believe them then.
The same sort of people also said how terribly important it was to invade Iraq because of WMDs. Turns out they lied.
Sadly for this naive view, Snowden didn't blow any actual whistles, he just dumped a ton of documents and ran.
This is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Also, perfect is the enemy of good. If one expects someone in his position to be utterly perfect in every way, then you'll still be languishing in the dark. As a Brit, I'm glad this happened. GCHQ can go screw themselves, frankly. They had no business spying on all of us and if they've made their own lives harder---it's their fault.
I'd rather take a few more ciminals than big brother.
I went through Heathrow recently. Apart from being a pain in the arse to get to and one of the worlds most miserable airports, the security seemed OK. It was moderately busy so they had the metal detector cranked way down on sensitivity and they sopped requiring shoe removal years ago.
It seems your opinion is that there are attacks or attacks just waiting to happen.
You can't prove the absence of anything: therefore it's impossible to disprove what you say. Therefore I can only concluse that what you say is not really a useful point of view to hold.
Do you have any evidence that we're about to be drowned in terrorists?
That much of Europe has probably been almost lulled into the level of complacency that will make a truly horrifying attack possible?
You know that Europe has had terrorists in the past, right? People lie Eta and the IRA?
No, that just shows that the Intent, Capability, and Opportunity haven't yet aligned to result in an incident or attack... that you know of.
So there have been mysterious plane hijackings which have been hushed up and so nobody knows about them?
Security is better than it has ever been on aeroplanes, primarily because the passengers now seem to delight in beating seven bells out of attampted bombers and then trussing them up like a turkey with spare seat belts.
All you've done is provide evidence of some pilot's eye getting damaged.
You have failed to provide any evidence about how you need eyes to fly a plane OR any evidence about crashes due to pilots being unable to see.
I have never even heard anyone suggest that the ISS was a stepping-stone to exploration of outer space, much less is there a plausible argument that such a claim could be true.
I have: operating some kind of habitat in space is deeply non trivial. The ISS has allowed them to learn a lot about that aspect of it.
What the fuck is NASA now, fucking Instagram?
Yes, because a close up photograph of the rings of Saturn is totally equivalent to an iphone photo of a bunch of bearded hipsters, rendered in sepia print.
Keep touchscreens away from cars. Back in the good old days I could reach down and adjust the air temperature with a slider and fan speed with a knob without taking my eyes off the road. Now I have to navigate menus and read text for the same task.
In America we hardly have unions any more...
I didn't realize that 11.3% of the US workforce hardly exists.
Every year that number goes down or at best stays the same. Either way every year the unions give up a little more of what little power they have. Bargaining is supposed to be a give-and-take procedure where labor gets some of what they want and management gets some of what they want. Yet every time labor comes to the table management further diminishes their clout. With union enrollment this low it is very easy for management to say "we'll just hire non-union replacements for you" and labor knows that they can do it.
Coincidentally, when was the last time you got more than a token raise or a meaningful increase in your benefits? This is what happens when all the power shifts back away from the worker.
What is algebra, exactly? Is it one of those three-cornered things? -- J.M. Barrie