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by mpyne 12y ago
Guantanamo is (now, just) a military detainee facility, something which is permitted under international law for states undergoing armed conflict. In the U.S.'s case, they've been in a long running armed conflict with Al Qaeda and
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by mpyne 12y ago
> why is it OK for the West to support regime that kills Ukrainian civilians en masse. Why do you try to imply that identifying pro-Putin shills is equivalent to supporting "a [Ukrainian] regime that kills Ukrainian civilians en mas
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by mpyne 12y ago
> the NSA is busy de-anonymizing any blogger or any other internet user they wish bypassing the systems of law and democracy entirely. Western governments routinely de-anonymize citizens. E.g. when a serial killer finally gets tracked do
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by mpyne 12y ago
> I value not being placed in a position where I have to follow orders or go to prison above adding credibility to my criticisms. Fair enough, just don't be surprised when people properly reject your uninformed opinions about someth
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by mpyne 12y ago
> "If you think the military is awful, sign up!" Why would anyone ever do that? So they could prove it for themselves, and be able to explain from a position of authority as to why the military is awful. My experience from the
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by mpyne 12y ago
Orwell's answer to this is interesting, for those who haven't read it.
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by mpyne 12y ago
You were downvoted, but my experience (submarine fleet, USN) mirrored yours. Likewise I wouldn't even know where to begin to describe it, so much of what I learned was tacit knowledge. Though I wouldn't necessarily use the reserve
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by mpyne 12y ago
You seem to imply that I haven't heard of this. Does this contradict anything I said and if so, how? Before you answer, you might want to compare "biological half-life" with "radiological half-life" (as they are usu
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by mpyne 12y ago
Well the mantle of the Earth (including its radioactive components that power plate tectonics) is literally pouring forth into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean (in the valleys of the mid-Atlantic Ridge) and that seems to have not caused not
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by mpyne 12y ago
Not to mention all the sunken Soviet/Russian submarines (most of which have two nuclear reactors instead of one).
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by mpyne 12y ago
You simply move up the half-merge of each lane to suit. It's rather clearly explained in the diagram, where you can see it does end in one and only one lane actively in use. You'd do the "merge half of each lane" part
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by mpyne 12y ago
Now if only we can get Russia to the same low standards Ukraine demonstrated in eventually acknowledging its level of responsibility (in this case, via the Russian-organized resistance movement). Because if your working theory is "UKRA
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by mpyne 12y ago
5) Best scale model imitation of the US space shuttle. 6) first failed Mars probe (and second, and third, and fourth, and fifth...) It's possible to commemorate LANDING A MAN ON THE MOON, on its anniversary, without it necessarily havi
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by mpyne 12y ago
> The construct "military resupply targeted" still doesn't add up, the plane was flying on 33000 ft(1) (which is the cruising altitude, obviously not even intending to land) and no plane cruising at the high altitude is de
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by mpyne 12y ago
It's true that there were a ton of civilian planes there, but it's not necessarily true that it means the SA-11 set was continuously turned on and tracking civilian flights (as that's a great way to get a HARM missile up your
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by mpyne 12y ago
Indeed, it's a known problem area for the Federal government. http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR430.html
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by mpyne 12y ago
The Navy has something called "COOL" which tries to map civilian certifications to equivalent Navy ratings and NECs, https://www.cool.navy.mil/ But I'm not sure how well it helps in practice, nor on whether o
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by mpyne 12y ago
I'll note with the nuclear power example that they don't simply hire ex-military, they hire from a very specific subset of Navy nuclear propulsion workers. Even being good at following orders isn't going to help you get your
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by mpyne 12y ago
I would propose that if Linux were truly broken, then LibreSSL portable (the "safe" replacement for OpenSSL) shouldn't be released for it. Plain and simple. If, on the other hand, an actual official release of LibreSSL portab
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by mpyne 12y ago
Well the personnel problems with the military go far beyond the timing of benefits alone, unfortunately. As it stands the military actually has great difficulty retaining people past 10 years. Many military communities are chronically und
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by mpyne 12y ago
That's true, but the parent comment never claimed that, only that missing arguments are assigned the value 0 in the resultant struct.
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Why can't people just stop being jerks? While that's a noble question, you might as well ask why can't the universe simply not advance to its entropic heat death... or why cars and homes are still sold with locks on the
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by mpyne 12y ago
Oh, there's tons of much better methods that would be more than good enough. Adobe even provides specific redaction features that drill down within the PDF data itself to make sure that nothing gets drawn under a redaction block, it
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by mpyne 12y ago
I think that was still a year or so before news stories started coming out about government "redacted" documents that were not actually redacted. A lot of the NSA-related documents released after redaction were certainly run throu
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by mpyne 12y ago
I've had my wife throw items at me. It definitely felt like an attack as opposed to mere threats or menacing.
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by mpyne 12y ago
It's just as appealing as watching self-organizing behavior in ants. But I'm not an ant or a honeybee and I see no reason to think of my fellow humans as worker drones as opposed to a more familial social patterning. Even the elep
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by mpyne 12y ago
Probably back on Earth (or whatever their homeworld is). Besides the issue of being theatrically-fulfilling, the nature of something like Starfleet would tend to select against having truly stupid/lazy people there. Even the modern (an
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by mpyne 12y ago
The interaction between OpenSSH portable and LibreSSL portable is especially amusing.
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by mpyne 12y ago
> If Firefox has vulnerabilities in the source right now, you do little to protect yourself by compiling on your own. You do more to protect yourself than taking the same vulnerable source and compiling it with Mozilla's "repro
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by mpyne 12y ago
Bitcoin has tons of reasons to appreciate it, especially technically. That doesn't by itself make it a good idea to actually use, of course, but you'd have to be blind to miss the wonder of what Bitcoin brought to technology.

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