salawat

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by salawat 2y ago
Murder for your cause is already viable. The variable is scale. See making profit for United Healthcare.
872.
by salawat 2y ago
What? Someone likes Lackadaisy. Nothing wrong with that.
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by salawat 2y ago
>in that day and hour all the prosperity and beauty and delight of Omelas would wither and be destroyed. ...and nothing of positive value would be lost. For a paradise predisposed on the infliction of suffering on another is ill-gotten,
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by salawat 2y ago
...I'm bereft of words. The nominative determinism here is awe inspiring. A company known as Sauron is designing a system that is being billed as a protective measure, and the clientele are current members of the tech elite. ...Jesus.
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by salawat 2y ago
Two forms of justice are being referred to but using the same notation which fails to convey meaning. There's justice as she is implemented justice; likely being referenced by follow on poster as being impossible to fight for for a poo
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by salawat 2y ago
Better idea: Don't use someone elses thing, until you have read and understand the damn thing. Once you have done that, either pin it to that piece at that revision, and never update as long as it does what you need, or just bloody re-
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by salawat 2y ago
You're being a bit disingenuous here. The legal system fears jury nullification because of precedent, and the complete clusterfuck a nullification makes of interpreting common law. Judges and lawyers basically have to ignore everything
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by salawat 2y ago
CMS is far from authoritative on what it takes to keep a particular individual under. The practitioner is ultimately the one with authoritative knowledge. CMS is not in the operating theater. Now if what we need is to deal with a rash of in
879.
by salawat 2y ago
You forgot: d) Stop the anaesthesia and continue the procedure with you regaining consciousness.
880.
by salawat 2y ago
Insurance is an attempt at statistical multiplexing of a financial resource whose profit taking mechanism is investment of float, and management of spread, leading to perverse incentives when it comes time to actually pay out. As statistica
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by salawat 2y ago
I second this. That kind of trickery is absolutely obvious to the judiciary, and as of yet Katz hasn't been overturned, even if it has been at times pointedly ignored.
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by salawat 2y ago
Bodes fine for social cohesiveness. Only people for who it doesn't bode well are those that knowingly go out of their way to go above and beyond trying to kill people via denying them necessities like medical care. Now... Once that get
883.
by salawat 2y ago
How about 14 random people, randomly selected? That's a full Jury, a Judge, and an Executioner, worth of people. Not endorsing the practice, merely pointing out that to put someone to death in the U.S. defined notion of due process, no
884.
by salawat 2y ago
It isn't "inadvertently justified" if it was intentionally done. Patriot Act and CALEA specifically mandated the building in of these backdooring capabilities to all telecommunications equipment. Look up "Lawful Intercep
885.
by salawat 2y ago
> Being a frustrated minority does not excuse violence. -Random Internet comment in response to the colonial uprising and Declaration of Independence, circa 1776
886.
by salawat 2y ago
The problem is the law requiring the backdoor. If you build a door, people are going to figure out how to use it. Anyone could have told you this is an inevitable outcome. Countless, in fact, did, and it was ignored. Reap the God blessed wh
887.
by salawat 2y ago
I mean, they aren't lying. The part they aren't saying out poud is that by "secure" they mean for their business partners against you, the end user trying to use the device you bought in ways they would rather you not.
888.
by salawat 2y ago
Click-thru EULA's can be done away with with the flick of a pen.
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by salawat 2y ago
>We give rabies shots to dogs and cats constantly, why do humans have to jump through hoops to get it? Because even vaccinations are not universally without risk of complication. See my last cat I had to put to sleep due to complications
890.
by salawat 2y ago
You say that as if there's nothing that can be done about that. As it turns out, bad ethics can be turned into a one way trip to not being able to operate in respectable business circles. Remember, the race to the bottom does have an a
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by salawat 2y ago
There was a lot of to the contrary pressure at the time here. Many have burned a lot of karma being shouted down by everyone else, and a bunch of people here would likely handwave it all as being political anyway. Really nothing much left
892.
by salawat 2y ago
More legitimate than the last Trump presidency that saw Trump granting pardons to convicted fraudsters like Michael Liberty; and while this escalation by Biden isn't right, given the circumstances and rhetoric of the President elect, I
893.
by salawat 2y ago
Turning the tables: If what he is concerned about is whataboutism to you, then what you are worried about is also whataboutism to him. Both can be safely discarded from one another's consideration. ...That is, unless you're willin
894.
by salawat 2y ago
How in God's green Earth do you think giving everyone a static IPv6 address guaranteed somehow by the government would help mitigate privacy issues ? You literally just handed aggregators yet another primary key for data aggregation.
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by salawat 2y ago
...First, when there is somewhere to go to get away from religious persecution, that is a more or less a rational gamble. Second, are you really condescendingly equating compulsive gambling with escaping societal scale persecution or stri
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by salawat 2y ago
I mean... It's as easy as getting SSL certs and importing them into a trust store/adding them to a directory. The hard part is getting the people you want to establish a trust relationship with to give you a copy of their key. W
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by salawat 2y ago
QA is the responsibility of everyone . The department you know as QA, are merely the team dedicated full time to cause of trying to provide and augment everyone's capability to manage their contribution to the overall Quality equation
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by salawat 2y ago
The problem with that analogy is that the cert issuer isn't a mere component of the car, but the entire car in this instance. That cert being trustworthy is the entire point. When I was in schooling getting filled in on Web of Trust, I
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by salawat 2y ago
So... Think of it like this. All of us have tried to shield users from having to develop or maintain their own trust networks. It's a hell of a lot of work. And it isn't sexy. These CA's are basically that implementation. The
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by salawat 2y ago
...Don't underestimate the things to be learned studying a septic system.

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