Coordinated Information Apparatus Battlefield Earth

Red Hat is still pretty independent. Call them Big Purple Hat on a forum or Reddit and you'll get Red Hat engineers bristling.

How about if I call them DeadRat? Is that OK?

Why would you say it doesn't?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_deities

It might be or it might not, but my god that article sucked. Way too general, and not specific enough. The picture was obviously wrong, If you encrypt an image, it looks like the option on the right produced by perfect randomness. You could not tell the difference between the two. Unless they are using some really dumb encryption method that highly depends on perfect randomness somehow. I'm not aware of what that might be, but no one should use it. Obviously even if this is a source of perfect randomness, you can of course Man in the middle the data and subtly shift it without anyone being able to tell.

Hit dogs holler. You're a redneck, hillbilly Yankee. I have no ill will towards hillbillies or rednecks, they are certainly in my family, but they don't accept me as one of them. I'm from the Yankee branch of the tree.

You won't let us come in the front and seemingly only door known to ever exist. Fine, good. Good and great. That solves the problem forever. you've suitably defeated us squarely. We know of no other way to achieve our goals than a peaceful, upfront takeover of a company. We shall take our mayflower ships and leave from your shores. We Yankee pilgrims know how to leave the Netherlands when we aren't wanted.

A most impressive explanation why buses don't have or need seat belts. Thanx.

I'm told that another reason not to need seat belts is that the COG on a bus is such that it's almost impossible to topple one even by T-Boning it.

Yeah, their slaughtering of possibly tens of thousands of protesters was clearly a sign of upcoming concessions.

Dictators lose when they make concessions. They stay in power when they double down. That's the hard lesson of a hundred years or so of dipshits becoming big boss by military coup or revolution. Those who put absolutely every penny into propaganda and oppression tend to hang on to power the longest.

And given what the IRGC and the regime have done to the Iranian people and how much they're loved in the rest of the world, staying in power is literally a life-or-death matter for them. The day the regime falls, we'll see all the Ayatollahs and minions hanging from trees.

We likely won't.

They made it very clear that they are monitoring and restricting Internet access, and the fact that even during an active war they went on to sentence and hang protesters makes it abundantly clear what will happen to anyone sharing information with the world that they'd rather not see on the world news.

North Korea calls itself the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Does that mean it's a democratic country?

North Korea's name give me examples of two of my rules. First, I strongly believe that any nation that calls itself a "People's Republic" cares nothing about their citizens and second that any nation that feels the need to tell the world that it's democratic isn't. And, from what I've seen over the years about North Korea gives me no reason to change my mind.

You need to be able to pay for talent, and often that's antithetical to union philosophy.

My father worked in the retail grocery industry in LA in the '50s and '60s. Always in union shops, and once he'd established himself the never worked for scale. He always negotiated a higher rate and his bosses will willing to negotiate because his reputation was that good. Eventually, he moved up into management, but he kept his union membership for the medical and pension benefits. I might add that as he was now management, he was no longer expected to honor strikes or picket lines and the union never bothered him about it because that was now part of his job.

Thanks to my severance package, I can't collect unemployment right now, so I'm not counted.

And that right there is one of the dirty little tricks that the DOL's been using for the last several decades to keep the unemployment statistics artificially low: they don't count how many people are out of work or looking for jobs, they only count how many people are getting unemployment payments. And, if your unemployment benefits run out, you're considered to have left the workforce and are no longer counted even if you're still looking for a job.

That might be true if the reason was insufficient buses to get them all to school and back home at the same time, but it's not. If that were he reason, Junior High and High School would end an hour earlier than they do. The reason they start earlier is to make their school day one hour longer than Elementary School. And. the last time it was tried, it was so hated that it didn't even last one full year. Why do you think it would be different now?

I've never seen generators on cell towers, and the batteries last a few hours. They're meant to cover the occasional western world power outage, not a major one.

Yeah, but no shrimp or mixed fiber fabrics.

No, you're mixing up Orthodox Judaism and God Fearing Christianity. Shrimp, of course, is non-Kosher, like all shellfish. Mixing two fibers is forbidden twice, in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. It doesn't say why, but it may refer to various pagan customs that were well enough known at the time that they didn't need to be spelled out. However, in both places it specifies wool and linen, meaning that blends of other fibers is OK. If you're curious, you can find more detail here.