Re: list of people censored on lists.debian.org
On 2020-03-15 11:58, Zenaan Harkness wrote: So is it fair to assume then that you agree with all the resignations (RMS), knee-bending (Torvalds), and turmoil (openSUSE and many others)? It is of course your right to agree with such treatment of various founders, as we have witnessed a fair bit of in recent times. Good lessons for future founders (to enshrine their "broflake" power CoCs before the snowflakes have a chance to usurp power and damage the founders). Long term, I believe this is a functional parting of the ways between humans with different preferred ways of being in this world. The CoC for those of robust temperament, is a different CoC to those of snowflake temperament. Empiricaly, we observe that projects with a CoC suffer bitrot, which bitrot is likely to prove fatal in the long run. Need a CoC that is hostile to snowflakes, and outright bans social justice warriors in total.
Re: Ryacko
Thanks for being a good sport gym. Most here are cranky, old as dirt, oh and the hateful message let alone weird nonsense just saying. Tax payers money at work I guess :-( Original Message On Mar 15, 2020, 1:14 PM, jim bell wrote: > On Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 04:04:00 PM PST, Cecilia Tanaka > wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2020, 19:27 rooty wrote: > >> Anyone heard from ryacko. He went dark and just wondering what happened > >>Maybe did you call him "super old" or say you are richer than him, even being >>a bot. > > b*tch. > >>I annoyed Jim about his weight, saying it is perfectly regular for USA, >>because received a private message talking about "public fat shaming" and >>trying to prove me that 60 years old is too much time for living. Sorry, >>Jim. Another person had sent me the stupid message. > > No, due to my spam-folder misdirection, I haven't actually yet read about the > original "weight" email, although I just read your (unnecessary) apology for > it. Doesn't bother me. There are plenty of FALSE things that I can be upset > about; no point at being upset at TRUE things! > > Jim Bell
Sweden Fines Google for Telling Website Owners About Censorship of Content - [MINISTRY]
The Ministry in force. Sweden Fines Google for Telling Website Owners About Censorship of Content https://sputniknews.com/europe/202003161078580947-sweden-fines-google-for-telling-website-owners-about-censorship-of-content--reports/ According to Sweden’s Data Protection Authority (the Datainspektionen), the fine is punishment for the search engine giant’s failure to remove search results ordered to be blocked three years ago. Sweden’s Datainspektionen has fined google 75 million Swedish kronor (equivalent to about €7 million or $7.74 million) for failure to comply with the data protection watchdog’s instructions, the government agency has said in a statement. https://www.datainspektionen.se/nyheter/the-swedish-data-protection-authority-imposes-administrative-fine-on-google/ According to the regulator, which is affiliated with Sweden’s Ministry of Justice, Google violated the terms of the ‘right-to-be-forgotten rule’, a EU-mandated regulation introduced in 2014 allowing individuals to request the removal of potentially harmful private information from popping up in internet searches and directories. Datainspektionen says an internal audit has shown that Google has failed to “properly remove” two search results which were ordered to be delisted back in 2017, making either “too narrow” an interpretation of what content needed to be removed, or failing to remove a link to content “without undue delay.” The watchdog has also slapped Google with a cease-and-desist order for its practice of notifying website owners of a delisting request, arguing that this practice defeats the purpose of link removal in the first place. “In its delisting request form Google states that the site-owner will be notified of the request in a way that might result in individuals refraining from exercising their right to request delisting, thereby undermining the effectiveness of this right,” Olle Pettersson, legal advisor to the watchdog, said in a statement. Effectively, if Google complies, website owners will no longer be informed if URLs to certain web pages are delinked upon a user’s request. Google has promised to appeal the fine, with a spokesperson for the company saying that the tech giant “disagree[s] with this decision on principle and plan[s] to appeal.” Google has three weeks to appeal. https://www.androidcentral.com/sweden-fines-google-8-million-violating-right-be-forgotten-law
Matt Blaze is an idiot
You act in accordance for the plans you have and prepared for. This idea that moving people to a safe and sanitary location to continue working wouldn't be viable is idiotic if that was the only option available. Clearly no one prepared for anything, all attempts at planning were just fantasizing, and I wonder how he even manages function on a day to day basis. https://nitter.net/mattblaze/status/1239599508545310722 It occurs to me that most of the cold war emergency "continuity of government" planning was focused on the logistics of getting people together at a "safe" (but probably cramped) alternate workplace, and almost none of it on facilitating people working from home in isolation.
Re: 283,549 Road Users Deaths for 2020, Compared to 6,685 Coronoavirus Deaths
On 3/16/20 6:41 AM, John Young wrote: > 283,549 Road Users Deaths for 2020, Compared to 6,685 Coronoavirus Deaths > > 1,354,840 Road Users Deaths in 2019 > > https://extranet.who.int/roadsafety/death-on-the-roads/ +1 They're using the initial mortality statistics of a FLU variant (without trying to sound callous) 'at-risk die-off', and never following up with the stats that show a huge drop off in deaths after-that-fact illustrating this is really just another flu ... without a vaccine for that at-risk cohort. Tens of thousands of people died from the Flu and it's complications in the US alone last year and there was no talk of Quarantine, or comparisons to Ebola, Malaria and the Plague. Personally I believe that fearmongering is INTENTIONALLY BEING DONE as a form of: A> Hybrid Economic War on China because tariffs and sanctions simply don't work when the nation targeted makes or is a major part of the supply chain for EVERYTHING YOU NEED on a daily basis, from clothes to cars to food, and B> It essentially enforces mandatory "Disaster Capitalism" globally, plus C> The media simply ran out of "terrorists" to panic us about and everyone's sort of bored with Trump's "Stupid Act" [See my Ps], and since the media's owners got VERY USED TO making HUGE amounts of money sensationalizing those things, they had to find something else... That something else is "Be afraid of each other" The rich are going to get richer beyond their wildest dreams and stand as close together as they like... while the rest of us live in fear of each other. Rr "When I say something that you might think is a gaffe, it's on purpose. It's not a gaffe." ~Donald Trump explains, in so many words, that most Americans are stupider than he is and actually believe his idiotic statements. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
283,549 Road Users Deaths for 2020, Compared to 6,685 Coronoavirus Deaths
283,549 Road Users Deaths for 2020, Compared to 6,685 Coronoavirus Deaths 1,354,840 Road Users Deaths in 2019 https://extranet.who.int/roadsafety/death-on-the-roads/
Proof: COVID-19 is NOT a bioweapon -- Re: How to Spread Coronavirus on National Media
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 09:43:05AM -0400, John Young wrote: > Fauci Touches Face with Hand on National Media, Trump Touches Mic Emulated by > Fauci and Several Attendees, No Recommended Distance Between Any of Them, > Trump Handshakes, One Elbow Bump, What Can Go Wrong? > > https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETEtcxzWAAECPfW?format=jpg=small The Ministry insists that COVID-19 is absolutely NOT a bioweapon. Just don't Yandex for Charles Lieber: FTR, COVID-19 is definitely NOT a bioweapon developed by a Jewish scientist from Harvard who was recently awarded the Israeli "Wolf Prize" for his work! Jews Panic Over Accusations that the Coronavirus Pandemic is a Jewish Plot http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/jews-panic-over-accusations-that-the-coronavirus-pandemic-is-a-jewish-plot/ .. There is also the strange case of Charles Lieber, a Jewish scientist from Harvard, who was arrested this past January for lying about his connections to a research lab located in Wuhan. As we already know, Wuhan was the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Lieber was specifically involved in doing various types of research and development within the fields of neurobiology and nanotechnology. What the exact nature of his work was, is not quite known but his arrest and connection to Wuhan raises a number of serious questions. Lieber was previously given an Israeli award for his work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._Lieber https://www.npr.org/2020/01/28/800442646/acclaimed-harvard-scientist-is-arrested-accused-of-lying-about-ties-to-china https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/01/professor-charles-lieber-receives-israels-wolf-prize/ ... https://www.timesofisrael.com/conspiracy-theory-that-jews-created-virus-spreads-on-social-media-adl-says/ Iran’s deputy health minister catches coronavirus as outbreak causes shortage of masks and medicine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyRRsttna9k Coronavirus: Iran says 23 MPs have disease http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjDu7aLGPs ...
Re: Crypt Tech: Upuaut and Djedi - Spying the Cheops
Scanning the Cheops http://www.scanpyramids.org/
Crypt Tech: Upuaut and Djedi - Spying the Cheops
http://www.cheops.org/ http://emhotep.net/2012/03/07/locations/lower-egypt/giza-plateau-lower-egypt/the-djedi-project-the-next-generation-in-robotic-archaeology/
Party like its ...
Here a little thing I created.
Subterfuge and power grabs by Code of Conduct? Say no to Snow-CoCs - seize the day, deploy your Bro-CoC
Starting a new tech, software or other project? Snowflakes threatening the lifeblood of your will to be bothered at all? Don't wanna get bogged down in Code of Conduct (CoC) politics nor risk the pioneer-sabotaging, community undermining nature of "snowflake" CoC-wielding petty nazis? Then look no further .. than the Bro-CoC! Pre-empt CoC wielding snowflakes from undermining your project and community, and from undermining the founder(s); Set aside the potential for a back door Snow-CoC being inserted into what was "a community". Mandate your Bro-CoC from the start. Yee haw muffaluggerahs :D Here's are some ideas to start, others are earlier in this thread, and no doubt plenty elsewhere: What is No Code of Conduct? https://nocodeofconduct.com/ (Personally I prefer the noun Bro-CoC to No-CoC, but each to his own...) Also note - at least for mailing lists, there's absolutely no reason to not have a minimum of TWO "general discussion" lists - one for Snow-CoCs and the other for Bro-CoCs. Easy peasy. I strongly suggest using the following email list names for your new project: snow-c...@my.project.tld m...@my.project.tld
Carbon Negative?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event Azolla has been deemed a "super-plant" as it can draw down as much as a tonne of nitrogen per acre per year (0.25 kg/m2/yr); this is matched by 6 tonnes per acre of carbon drawdown (1.5 kg/m2/yr). Its ability to use atmospheric nitrogen for growth means that the main limit to its growth is usually the availability of phosphorus: carbon, nitrogen and sulphur being three of the key elements of proteins, and phosphorus being required for DNA, RNA and in energy metabolism. The plant can grow at great speed in favourable conditions – modest warmth and 20 hours of sunlight, both of which were in evidence at the poles during the early Eocene – and can double its biomass over two to three days in such a climate.
Re: Tracing COVID-19 cases with Google Timeline?
https://apnews.com/97dbcb6d4ef71a48d15a7ec5dd7b4c48 [partial quote follows] JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has long been known for its use of technology to track the movements of Palestinian militants. Now, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to use similar technology to stop the movement of the coronavirus. Netanyahu’s Cabinet on Sunday authorized the Shin Bet security agency to use its phone-snooping tactics on coronavirus patients, an official confirmed, despite concerns from civil-liberties advocates that the practice would raise serious privacy issues. The official spoke on condition of anonymity pending an official announcement. Netanyahu announced his plan in a televised address late Saturday, telling the nation that the drastic steps would protect the public’s health, though it would also “entail a certain degree of violation of privacy.” Israel has identified more than 200 cases of the coronavirus. Based on interviews with these patients about their movements, health officials have put out public advisories ordering tens of thousands of people who may have come into contact with them into protective home quarantine. The new plan would use mobile-phone tracking technology to give a far more precise history of an infected person’s movements before they were diagnosed and identify people who might have been exposed. In his address, Netanyahu acknowledged the technology had never been used on civilians. But he said the unprecedented health threat posed by the virus justified its use. For most people, the coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. But for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness. “They are not minor measures. They entail a certain degree of violation of the privacy of those same people, who we will check to see whom they came into contact with while sick and what preceded that. This is an effective tool for locating the virus,” Netanyahu said. The proposal sparked a heated debate over the use of sensitive security technology, who would have access to the information and what exactly would be done with it. Nitzan Horowitz, leader of the liberal opposition party Meretz, said that tracking citizens “using databases and sophisticated technological means are liable to result in a severe violation of privacy and basic civil liberties.” He said any use of the technology must be supervised, with “clear rules” for the use of the information. Netanyahu led a series of discussions Sunday with security and health officials to discuss the matter. Responding to privacy concerns, he said late Sunday he had ordered a number of changes in the plan, including reducing the scope of data that would be gathered and limiting the number of people who could see the information, to protect against misuse. [end of partial quote] On Friday, February 21, 2020, 04:45:16 PM PST, jim bell wrote: I am surprised that when I do a Google search for 'COVID-19 "google timeline" ', I see essentially no results. We all know now what COVID-19 (nCov, Coronavirus) is. From the reports I see, this virus has the unusual characteristic of being very contageous for up to periods of weeks prior to a person's feeling symptoms. That is presumably how a large fraction of a cruise ship became infected. This is quite ominous. If epidemiologists were to ask a patient, "tell us where and when you've been each minute over the last 15 days" the vast majority of these victims wouldn't have a prayer of providing that information. And even worse, finding the other people who were "in that AM/PM at 5:07-5:21 10 days ago" would be essentially impossible. Or potentially dozens of other involved locations, over those 15 days. Before one of you accuses me of "advocating" the use of Google Timeline to track potential cases of COVID-19 by means of Google Timeline, I don't need to "advocate" it. Rather, I simply point out that there are a lot of people out there scared of this virus, and probably be looking for a way to determine if their paths have crossed with a victim, even if that victim wasn't symptomatic for 1-2 weeks after the contact. So at some point, I think there will be discussion of this possibility. The data is already being collected, in all Android phones (is there an Apple equivalent?) In principle, if a new infectee is identified, it would be technically possible to work backwards, figure out where he has been over the relevant period, and find anybody who was close to him during a multi-week period. One reason this could be important is that there may be a drug which might reduce (or, hopefully, eliminate) a person's contageousness if it taken during this pre-symptomatic period. One possibility is an old anti-malarial drug, chloroquine, which I have mentioned before. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550 But if people only begin taking chloroquine when
