28072 pts ยท May 1, 2015
As far as I know this doesn't stop malicious actors from tracking you, because they still have logs of which towers your IMEI connects to. All it does is reduce the precision of the location lock somewhat. The only real defense against being surveilled through your mobile is to stick it in a faraday bag. Or not bring one.
There isn't a growing divide among voters. 70% of Democratic voters are polled as having an unfavorable view of Israel, and that number is going up. The growing divide is between Americans and the people who take money from a genocidal terrorist state that kills innocent children for flying kites.
Granted there are good people, but they aren't the ones controlling the *party*. For example it is blatantly obvious that a majority of Americans condemn the genocide in Gaza, and yet, how many long-time DNC members have promised to stop selling weapons to Israel.
Hegseth and Dump are very clear on the fact that they don't want women in the military at all. They will resort to any level of cruelty and maltreatment to make that happen.
I am increasingly of the opinion that there is no Democratic Party. The existing "Democrats" don't serve America's interest, they serve the same people that Republicans do, they just do it quietly behind closed doors so that we have the *illusion* that our votes matter.
Some estimates go as high as 40!...Yeah. It's horrifying. Ukraine should and must defend its home land, I don't blame them at all. But what Putin is doing to his own people is just mind blowing.
The founders absolutely did consider the possibility of the government running amok and no longer serving the people. In fact it was the second thing they thought of, the solution being that the people's right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.We aren't quite there yet. However If things don't correct course with the elections in November, then I don't see any other remedy
Gotta disagree with you there. He's probably already had at least one stroke. Making decisions with no connection with observable reality doesn't seem to be a deal breaker to his cult. Death should slow him down in a way that mere brain damage has not.
I only care to the extent that stress is a major contributor to heart failure.
A word of advice. If you're going to play the "pull and thrash violently" game (which many dogs love!), also make sure to teach and regularly reinforce the "drop" command. You need to be able to get whatever they have away from them if it's something they shouldn't have.
The inability of the replicator to create living things seems like it might not be an engineering problem, but an ETHICS problem. Otherwise you could use it to create diseases, insects, dangerous vermin, entire cloned body parts, who knows what. Every species that invents the replicator might have just decided: you know what it's just not worth the trouble. You're not allowed to replicate living cells, done.
They seem to be different kinds of memory. If a transport takes longer than mere seconds, everybody starts freaking out about "losing the pattern" and "enhancing the buffer". Scotty managing to survive in a transporter buffer for 20 years was seen as an impossible engineering miracle. Versus, the stability of replicator patterns in memory seems to be a non issue, they get re-used for years and years and nobody blinks an eye.
You can't spell "maintenance" without "bulldozing everything to the ground and rebuilding it in a useless gaudy way that nobody asked for".
Thus the birth of "parts kits" where you buy something that is 2 tool steps away from being a functional lower receiver, but because you do those 2 steps yourself it counts as manufactured instead of purchased. Wild stuff.
All the journalists at the Pentagon walked out, together, when the rules changed to make their job stupid. The press covering the President could do the same. There is nothing prestigious or laudable about covering the excretions of a rude, senile, lying, tyrant.
I'd say this is more due to a lack of imagination from the people who wrote the clause on Treason rather than any moral integrity on the part of Rump. "Has knowingly and systemically violated the Constitution and directed others to do so on his behalf" should qualify.
I don't know if Rump and his sycophants understand the fact that the USA has a volunteer military. Everybody has signed up. Not all for the same reason, but, they chose to be there.Cuz there sure won't be a lot of volunteers next year after they see how this administration will ignore their needs, abuse their loyalty, and probably send them to die for no reason in the middle east.
Please excuse my age, but what does "be a GIF" mean in this context? It's still an MP4 video file, not a GIF...
Not completely true. He renovated the Reflecting Pool, and it instantly starting growing pond scum.
Are fish SCUBA divers? Cuz... they have apparatus to breath underwater, and it's self contained, so...
It's a positive feedback loop. The richer you get, the more people around you are willing to sacrifice their moral compass in order to serve you. At the same time "consequences" have almost no meaning when you can buy entire teams of lawyers to protect you, and you are distanced from the results of anything you do by middlemen and agents...who, as noted, are financially motivated to keep you happy.Lack of morals + manipulation + disregard for consequences => antisocial personality disorder
It doesn't help that Gotham's prison system apparently has the moral and institutional integrity of a starving dog in a butcher's shop. Batman keeps putting in the hours to hand these people over to the police, they get tossed in prison, and then 2 days later they break out because their henchmen smuggled them in a pneumatic jackhammer or something.
Earth:Luna distance increases by 3.8cm per year. It wouldn't escape completely because the tidal forces that are affecting its movement would eventually reach equilibirium. But there's not enough time for that to happen, the warranty on our star expires before that. The Sun is on the "turn into a red giant" trajectory rather than the "collapse into supernova" trajectory, but Earth is slagged either way.
Doesn't this prove that the system is being abused by police who watch it in realtime instead of using it for its intended automated functions?
Something to think about, in Russia, police do random traffic stops to search people's devices for VPNs and banned social media. Just because something is digital does not mean it won't become the target of a crackdown by a fascist government.
Seeing where we are at currently, the bible telling priests that they are not allowed to molest children was an essential and necessary verse. Let's put that back in.
Aromatic? Like, somebody who doesn't take showers?Okay time for bed
It's worth reminding the Americans in the audience that they aren't Rump's missiles. They're YOUR missiles. That you paid for with your taxes. This schmuck happens to sit in the big chair at the moment, but nothing around him belongs to him. Treating our national assets like his personal playbox is a core pat of why he is such a colossal fuckup.
95B$ per year to maintain the nukes. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61362 For comparison, in 2025 the government pulled in 5.3T$ in revenue (that's our REAL budget), which means nukes are about 1.7% of our spending. It's not zero, but also not even remotely our biggest line item.
Does this guy have kids? Did he make his wife go back to work the day after she gave birth? He's obviously full of shit, just trying to determine if he's also full of the other Republican trademark: Hypocrisy.
As far as I know this doesn't stop malicious actors from tracking you, because they still have logs of which towers your IMEI connects to. All it does is reduce the precision of the location lock somewhat. The only real defense against being surveilled through your mobile is to stick it in a faraday bag. Or not bring one.
There isn't a growing divide among voters. 70% of Democratic voters are polled as having an unfavorable view of Israel, and that number is going up. The growing divide is between Americans and the people who take money from a genocidal terrorist state that kills innocent children for flying kites.
Granted there are good people, but they aren't the ones controlling the *party*. For example it is blatantly obvious that a majority of Americans condemn the genocide in Gaza, and yet, how many long-time DNC members have promised to stop selling weapons to Israel.
Hegseth and Dump are very clear on the fact that they don't want women in the military at all. They will resort to any level of cruelty and maltreatment to make that happen.
I am increasingly of the opinion that there is no Democratic Party. The existing "Democrats" don't serve America's interest, they serve the same people that Republicans do, they just do it quietly behind closed doors so that we have the *illusion* that our votes matter.
Some estimates go as high as 40!
...
Yeah. It's horrifying. Ukraine should and must defend its home land, I don't blame them at all. But what Putin is doing to his own people is just mind blowing.
The founders absolutely did consider the possibility of the government running amok and no longer serving the people. In fact it was the second thing they thought of, the solution being that the people's right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
We aren't quite there yet. However If things don't correct course with the elections in November, then I don't see any other remedy
Gotta disagree with you there. He's probably already had at least one stroke. Making decisions with no connection with observable reality doesn't seem to be a deal breaker to his cult. Death should slow him down in a way that mere brain damage has not.
I only care to the extent that stress is a major contributor to heart failure.
A word of advice. If you're going to play the "pull and thrash violently" game (which many dogs love!), also make sure to teach and regularly reinforce the "drop" command. You need to be able to get whatever they have away from them if it's something they shouldn't have.
The inability of the replicator to create living things seems like it might not be an engineering problem, but an ETHICS problem. Otherwise you could use it to create diseases, insects, dangerous vermin, entire cloned body parts, who knows what. Every species that invents the replicator might have just decided: you know what it's just not worth the trouble. You're not allowed to replicate living cells, done.
They seem to be different kinds of memory. If a transport takes longer than mere seconds, everybody starts freaking out about "losing the pattern" and "enhancing the buffer". Scotty managing to survive in a transporter buffer for 20 years was seen as an impossible engineering miracle. Versus, the stability of replicator patterns in memory seems to be a non issue, they get re-used for years and years and nobody blinks an eye.
You can't spell "maintenance" without "bulldozing everything to the ground and rebuilding it in a useless gaudy way that nobody asked for".
Thus the birth of "parts kits" where you buy something that is 2 tool steps away from being a functional lower receiver, but because you do those 2 steps yourself it counts as manufactured instead of purchased. Wild stuff.
All the journalists at the Pentagon walked out, together, when the rules changed to make their job stupid. The press covering the President could do the same. There is nothing prestigious or laudable about covering the excretions of a rude, senile, lying, tyrant.
I'd say this is more due to a lack of imagination from the people who wrote the clause on Treason rather than any moral integrity on the part of Rump. "Has knowingly and systemically violated the Constitution and directed others to do so on his behalf" should qualify.
I don't know if Rump and his sycophants understand the fact that the USA has a volunteer military. Everybody has signed up. Not all for the same reason, but, they chose to be there.
Cuz there sure won't be a lot of volunteers next year after they see how this administration will ignore their needs, abuse their loyalty, and probably send them to die for no reason in the middle east.
Please excuse my age, but what does "be a GIF" mean in this context? It's still an MP4 video file, not a GIF...
Not completely true. He renovated the Reflecting Pool, and it instantly starting growing pond scum.
Are fish SCUBA divers? Cuz... they have apparatus to breath underwater, and it's self contained, so...
It's a positive feedback loop. The richer you get, the more people around you are willing to sacrifice their moral compass in order to serve you. At the same time "consequences" have almost no meaning when you can buy entire teams of lawyers to protect you, and you are distanced from the results of anything you do by middlemen and agents...who, as noted, are financially motivated to keep you happy.
Lack of morals + manipulation + disregard for consequences => antisocial personality disorder
It doesn't help that Gotham's prison system apparently has the moral and institutional integrity of a starving dog in a butcher's shop. Batman keeps putting in the hours to hand these people over to the police, they get tossed in prison, and then 2 days later they break out because their henchmen smuggled them in a pneumatic jackhammer or something.
Earth:Luna distance increases by 3.8cm per year. It wouldn't escape completely because the tidal forces that are affecting its movement would eventually reach equilibirium. But there's not enough time for that to happen, the warranty on our star expires before that. The Sun is on the "turn into a red giant" trajectory rather than the "collapse into supernova" trajectory, but Earth is slagged either way.
Doesn't this prove that the system is being abused by police who watch it in realtime instead of using it for its intended automated functions?
Something to think about, in Russia, police do random traffic stops to search people's devices for VPNs and banned social media. Just because something is digital does not mean it won't become the target of a crackdown by a fascist government.
Seeing where we are at currently, the bible telling priests that they are not allowed to molest children was an essential and necessary verse. Let's put that back in.
Aromatic? Like, somebody who doesn't take showers?
Okay time for bed
It's worth reminding the Americans in the audience that they aren't Rump's missiles. They're YOUR missiles. That you paid for with your taxes. This schmuck happens to sit in the big chair at the moment, but nothing around him belongs to him. Treating our national assets like his personal playbox is a core pat of why he is such a colossal fuckup.
95B$ per year to maintain the nukes. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61362
For comparison, in 2025 the government pulled in 5.3T$ in revenue (that's our REAL budget), which means nukes are about 1.7% of our spending. It's not zero, but also not even remotely our biggest line item.
Does this guy have kids? Did he make his wife go back to work the day after she gave birth? He's obviously full of shit, just trying to determine if he's also full of the other Republican trademark: Hypocrisy.