Journal Journal: Burn, Baby, Burn! 1
"Sustainability" is, as far as I can see, a project designed to keep this culture - this lifestyle - afloat. The modern human economy is an engine of mass destruction. Of course, I am conflicted about this. I live at the heart of this machine; like you, I am a beneficiary of it. If it falls apart, I will probably suffer, and I don't want to.
Journal Journal: Gimme Gimme Penicillin! 3
China 'seals off' town after man dies of bubonic plague
"A Chinese town has been sealed off and 151 people placed in quarantine since last week after a man died of bubonic plague, state media said Tuesday.
The 30,000 people living in Yumen in the northwestern province of Gansu are not being allowed to leave, and police at roadblocks on its perimeter are telling motorists to find alternative routes, state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) said.
Journal Journal: Property is Moral Opposite of Liberty 10
Think about that, while you make absolute positions...
Journal Journal: Wall St. Journal Embraces Osama Bin Laden Doctrine
Comment Re:Hmm (Score 0) 322
MOD PARENT UP ^
Comment Re:Best Wishes ! (Score -1) 322
Unify Windows?
With a HAMMER!
Journal Journal: Was the Internet Created for Covert Domestic Surveillance?
"From its creation by DoD contracts and grants to research institutions, there have been aspersions cast by those easily dismissed as "fringe" commentators, on the nefarious, or at least covert, motivation to create the Internet. Conspiracy theory may have been met by reality in recent months with now commonplace reporting, first by Wikileaks and later, in the more extensive
Submission + - Was the Internet Originally Created for Covert Domestic Surveillance?
Jeremiah Cornelius writes: From its creation by DoD contracts and grants to research institutions, there have been aspersions cast by those easily dismissed as "fringe" commentators, on the nefarious, or at least covert, motivation to create the Internet. Conspiracy theory may have been met by reality in recent months with now commonplace reporting, first by Wikileaks and later, in the more extensive Edward Snowden revelations. It is still almost canon, that NSA mass-surveillance and warrantless information analysis occurred through coopting the burgeoning Internet, and diverting traffic in a way that is counter to the ideals of its creators and promoters. But what if the social, commercial Internet were always intended as a sort of giant honeypot? The idea would still seem farfetched, if it weren't recently disclosed by William Binney that the NSA is recording 80% of all US phone conversations — not simply metadata. Closer examination of the record shows that ARPAnet was being used to clandestinely gather information on the legitimate activities of US citizens — and transmit the information to the US Army Intelligence Command NSA — as far back as 1968! According to articles published in 1975 by MIT in "The Tech":
"via the ARPANET, a computer network connecting more than 50 government agencies and universities throughout the country. The network is funded by the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)... The information, according to intelligence sources, was transferred and stored at the headquarters of the National Security Agency (NSA), at Fort Meade, Maryland. The Army files were transmitted on the ARPANET in about January 1972, sources say, more than two years after the material — and the data banks maintained at the [Army's] Fort Holabird facility — were ordered destroyed."
MIT officials were worried 40 years ago, about this abuse of interconnected TCP communications and the complicity of their own research scientists. These concerns arose at the height of the Watergate fallout and downfall of President Nixon for illegal wiretapping and information theft allegations. The danger of Government "record keeping" was outlined by Senator Sam Ervin, in an address to MIT that was also profiled in the same publication. Clearly, this did not begin in the last decade, and clearly pre-dates the 2001 "Global War on Terror" pretext. It is important to remember, the NSA was an almost unknown agency at this time, and was chartered to strictly forbid intel on US citizens and those dwelling within US borders.
"via the ARPANET, a computer network connecting more than 50 government agencies and universities throughout the country. The network is funded by the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)... The information, according to intelligence sources, was transferred and stored at the headquarters of the National Security Agency (NSA), at Fort Meade, Maryland. The Army files were transmitted on the ARPANET in about January 1972, sources say, more than two years after the material — and the data banks maintained at the [Army's] Fort Holabird facility — were ordered destroyed."
MIT officials were worried 40 years ago, about this abuse of interconnected TCP communications and the complicity of their own research scientists. These concerns arose at the height of the Watergate fallout and downfall of President Nixon for illegal wiretapping and information theft allegations. The danger of Government "record keeping" was outlined by Senator Sam Ervin, in an address to MIT that was also profiled in the same publication. Clearly, this did not begin in the last decade, and clearly pre-dates the 2001 "Global War on Terror" pretext. It is important to remember, the NSA was an almost unknown agency at this time, and was chartered to strictly forbid intel on US citizens and those dwelling within US borders.
Comment Re:Feminist here (Score 1) 962
"Men too" is not an answer, because the harassment and threats that women face is disproportionate to what men face.
No, men face actual violence rather than mere threats. Have you seen assault numbers broken down by gender? Murder numbers?
How old where you when you first feared to be raped?
12, since you ask. I had to fight off four attackers. Luckily they were too focussed on achieving penetration to actually work out how to immobilise me.
A significant portion of women in the western world has endured sexual abuse and probably still bears the scars of that.
So I'm meant to do what about it exactly?
Yes, men are also abused. It is a problem, but it's nowhere as common and nowhere as socially acceptable.
Abuse of women is not socially acceptable where I live, where I work, where I go out at night. Maybe you should move to a better country.
Then again, maybe I should. Abuse of men is socially acceptable, when it's merely verbal.
Your experience is not the same as those of the opposite gender.
Deal with it.
I can and do deal with it. I'm just fucked off with the pretense that women have it so much worse.
Comment Re:Pft (Score 1) 962
He probably wouldn't have reported it. Men don't usually report minor (in the sense of no visible physical injury) incidents of assault and battery unless they were looking for any ammunition they could use against someone (i.e. they really hate the attacker and want to get back at them).
Yeah, I didn't report the assault I received from a woman in the workplace.
I did make notes of the incident and keep them offsite, for fear that she'd complain about me for my response to the assault - I turned and told her that if she did that again I'd punch her in the face.
She didn't report it, so I didn't bother to report it either. She was a very sexist person though.
Comment Re:Pft (Score 1) 962
There's no territory in the world where it's illegal to carry a modest-size knife.
Comment Re:Super-collider (Score 1) 219
Will they have to buy a new one every year?
No, but the first one will turn out to be a cheap knockoff with out of date hardware that only gets a tenth of the advertised resolution and fails to work when it's cloudy outside.
Also the user manual will be so bad, they won't figure out how to use it until 2045.
Comment Re:Dismantle DHS (Score 1) 190
When you have an Empire, you must distinguish the "Homeland" from the "Colonies".
Comment Re:Pft (Score 1) 962
Oh, so you're normal are you? I guess that makes the rest of us the fucking freaks?
Fuck you and your normality.
