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Sigh, I was pointing out that it isn't the victims fault, it is always the rapists fault, I'm not putting it on rapists to stop raping, I'm putting it on society to stop them and not blame the victim. It doesn't matter what a woman wears, how drunk she is, where she is, if she's married to the person or not it's not their fault it's the rapists fault. If a man does not have consent or if the woman is incapable of giving consent then it's rape. If a man seriously cannot control himself, then that man should be incarcerated to protect both themselves and everyone else from their actions. We're getting a little off the big brother topic though, I suggest if you want to continue this you start another topic on the subject

You may expect it on twitter but this is the view I formed from watching the news and reading statements made by actual UKIP candidates, plus I didn't accuse anyone of rape I said they think it's OK, perhaps that was a bit strong so I'll amend it, they and their supporters don't seem to think rape is as big an issue as it's made out to be. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/07/ukip-candidate-roger-helmer-newark-seeks-clarify-rape-comments No rapists shouldn't rape, end of argument. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/30/ukip-donor-says-women-cannot-be-raped-by-husbands Well that's just idiocy, you get married because you love the person you're marrying, it's not a license to grant you sex when you feel like it. However animal rape, that's serious http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-30578607 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-candidate-gay-donkey-tried-to-rape-my-horse-9940230.html OK he was probably just having a joke, but still. he's standing for parliament. As for child abuse well there's this http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/12/nigel-farage-russell-brand-children-question-time_n_6315138.html http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/question-time-nigel-farage-said-4796301 Much as I think Russell Brand is an idiot and prone to exaggeration he doesn't strike me as a liar. No twitter, you'll notice, and I believe UKIP have taken steps to address some of the worse excesses, but they do seem to attract a certain type of supporter/candidate and the gaffes are still coming in. But strangely, any publicity seems to be good publicity for UKIP, I get rather dismayed by the number of people who appear and uncritically support them when one of their candidates for running the country comes out with some absurdity. Please note my prior comments about the other parties still stand. As for the Lib Dems having no choice, we're in the run up to an election, they have nothing to lose by standing up for their core principles and everything to gain, so what if their coalition partners get angry, they've blocked legislation that went against their principles before, but for the last couple of years they may as well have been puppets on strings. They are nodding along with the Conservatives over things like removing £300million from the legal aid budget with no prior impact assessment, meaning those at the bottom of the heap have to rely on the charity of lawyers working for free to get justice. Several attempts to restrict the Judicial Revue process, which is the only means the man in the street has to hold the authorities to account, this is going to the Lords for the third time, hopefully they'll block it again. Nodding through DRIP because 'terrorism'. They haven't made a single sound regarding the latest Conservative outburst about banning encryption to deny terrorists a safe means of communication despite the minor detail that it will kill e-commerce in the UK and turn us into a technological 3rd world... if we're lucky. So unless the Lib Dems get their sh*t together pretty damn quick I see no reason they should be trusted with the reins of power either.

And the latest piece of idiocy is that the government want to ban encryption that the security services can't read, despite the minor detail that this will destroy eCommerce, eBanking, business vpn's, personal vpn's, access to many social media sites, any site that requires a log in - like this one, wikipedia ... the list goes on This madness has to stop I will not be governed by knee jerk politics of fear, anyone in the UK there's an election coming up, please don't vote for this clown http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/13/cameron-ban-encryption-digital-britain-online-shopping-banking-messaging-terror oo just spotted this, I may have spoken too soon http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/13/politics-meet-technology/?ncid=rss But seriously please don't vote for the Conservatives And labour are just as bad, remember ID cards ? And the Lib Dems seem to have lost their way nodding through DRIP, a number of other human rights removals & recently the bill to gut Judicial Revue, lets hope the Lords boot it out for a third time. You can't really slide a piece of paper between them to tell them apart nowadays And UKIP will return us to a pastoral idyll ... a racist, homophobic, sexist, extreme right, 1940 style, child beating, rape isn't so bad, BNP with better publicity, closed border, pastoral idyll where everyone will have full employment because nothing will work and everything will have to be done by hand. Hello rickets & scurvy, we missed you. Abstention is going to put either one or a coalition of these idiots in charge so please vote, just for anyone else but these. --EDIT-- I do suggest grabbing a copy of PGP if you haven't already as that's definitely going to be a Government target

Simple solution, accidentally drop it in the microwave if your employer tries to make you wear one, preferably the one at work

A somewhat belated Merry Christmas, I'm afraid I was ill, so I didn't get online much.

YAY Paid employment! Congratulations Biker

24/7 monitoring is something you do to animals, convicted criminals, small children and things that might explode if they aren't watched. It says one thing, it says I don't trust whatever or whoever it is I'm watching. If someone doesn't trust me then they are free to fuck off elsewhere where they don't have to see me, they're not free to watch every move I make. If the government doesn't trust me then they can put me in prison, not turn the entire UK into one around me.

I think I understand, however the premise of a perfect machine still has to be rooted in the world it exists in. which is inherently imperfect as if it were not there would be no need for the machine and the question would be moot. By choice I am a law abiding person, the choice may be illusory, there are times I wonder, but it's all I've got. Take that choice away, even with a "perfect machine" and I cease to be a law abiding person, I'm reduced to being a puppet or a slave, a condition I would rebel against. I don't care if this is the answer you wanted, I would have given this answer regardless. As for being forced into an answer, I gave the same answer every time quite willingly, the premise was changed to invalidate the reasoning and I still gave the same answer willingly and never once changed my position. But as I answered correctly do I get a shiny thing ? -- EDIT -- Reminds me of one of my favourite TV shows from my childhood "The Prisoner" I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

Ok it adapts, I'll skip nimbly over the idea that the machine is adapting to laws made by humans who are not perfect by any means and can actually make laws which contradict themselves, for example privileged private communications between lawyers and client are, possibly 'were' now, protected by law but RIPA allows the police to intercept any that are made electronically without needing a warrant, that no judge would ever grant in a million years, we'll just ignore all that and assume the machine is always right. So now we've moved the goalposts, do I now want my life sorted through by a machine ? Absolutely not Why ? Principle, if we can have a perfect machine then I can object because I simply don't like the idea and that is enough of a reason. I'm being painted into a corner where there is only one answer and in any such situations my response will always be the same and always has been the same, I will dig my heels in and you will never get the answer that you want. The goalposts can be moved as far as you like, the machine can be as perfect as you want it, I will never agree to it.

..and here we have the front forks, as soon as the London eye closes we're putting it here, still looking for a chain and a rear wheel....

I understand it's a thought experiment, perhaps I expressed myself badly There is a perfect machine in a box capable of making judgements about what is suspicious behaviour and what isn't, it never makes a mistake, it's infallible. How it does this isn't important, it could apply a set of rules, use heuristics and statistical analysis and if the result is over some threshold it triggers a warning, or some mechanical mechanism tosses a coin and triggers a warning on heads, the important thing is it is never wrong. Would I be in favour of such a thing ? No. Why not ? 1 - The machine is perfect it never makes a mistake, at this moment in time, six months from now behaviour which is currently deemed suspicious may be deemed to be ok and vice versa, the box is sealed, tamper proof, perfect and cannot be updated to monitor these changed conditions. If it could be updated that would violate your tamper proof requirement. What is suspicious or acceptable changes all the time, in the UK couple of years ago gay people couldn't have any kind of officially sanctioned relationship now they can get married, two unrelated people of the same gender communicating with each other several times a day for non work related reasons would at one time have been regarded as extremely suspicious, now no. A couple of years ago the idea of an organisation hoovering up every bit of data on the internet and every electronic communication without a warrant 'just in case they need to look at it one day' would be a huge civil rights violation, then the UK government passed DRIPA and it's all hunky dory. Things change, the perfect box can't or it couldn't be perfect, if it responds to changes in legislation then that is effectively tampering by the state. 2 - The machine is perfect and never makes a mistake, however it's monitoring a human population, humans make mistakes all the time, I sure as hell do, some of those mistakes will look suspicious and trigger the machine, anyone the machine points a finger at will have one hell of a job proving their innocence. The machine effectively reverses the presumption of innocence as it never makes a mistake and it's identified someone who has done something suspicious then passed this result on to fallible flawed humans to investigate further who, after seeing a couple of hundred correct identifications, won't look so hard for evidence to the contrary, unless somehow they too are made perfect. A single such incorrect identification would invalidate the whole premise of the perfect machine looking for suspicious behaviour, given what it's monitoring, such a misidentification is guaranteed. A perfect monitor demands perfection from the population being monitored, if you have such perfection you don't need the machine and if you don't have such perfection then the machine won't do what you want it to and it's results cannot be regarded as infallible, so it's not worth having the machine. Then of course there are the griefers who would look at what such a machine does and alter their behaviour to ensure it triggered on them, just to say 'up yours' in as loud a voice as possible.

Then again, no it still wouldn't be acceptable. It would be a panopticon, you would never be sure if your behaviour would trigger it so you would alter your behaviour to suit and never know if this alteration would in itself be viewed as suspicious, it would chill free speech, stifle expression, kill innovation and be a governments wet dream. As for sealed and inspected for tampering with no external access I personally guarantee the only people who wouldn't be able to access these black boxes would be the people being monitored. Governments and security services would be in them every 5 minutes 'tweaking' the parameters to take account of new or repealed legislation or simply to ensure that the people they think should be targeted are targeted, if governments and security services couldn't do this then they simply wouldn't install them.

Something like the ones the UK government tried to set up in 2012 & 2013 ? ..and are presumably still trying to set up they're just lacking a manufactured 'emergency' to let them ram the legislation through without opposition No it wouldn't be acceptable

Personally I'd say that's close enough to a tie to say they both won

That's a point, is TDM still classed as a mod now it's standalone ? Maybe it should be renamed ?

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Also check file permissions for the folder, I set mine so I have full control rights

Found an account on twitter that looks interesting called Steampunk Tendencies https://twitter.com/Steampunk_T Website - http://www.steampunktendencies.com/ They're also on Facebook but I'm not and you need to log in to see it Some samples of images from them Matias Pogliaga - Photo: Horacio Casadey - Retouching: Sergey Brezhnev https://twitter.com/Steampunk_T/status/537096119747375104 Astronomical Clock 1540, Munster, Westfalen, Paulusdom Photographer: Groenling https://twitter.com/Steampunk_T/status/537429345107976193

The hair dryer thing was temporary, so at a wild guess when it's cold there's a dry joint with an intermittent or high resistance connection, raising the temperature with the hair dryer makes the everything expand slightly closing the connection hence the solid green, turning the PC on may even keep the temperature high enough in the PSU to keep the fault from recurring but as soon as it's turned off and goes cold it'll fail again.

Nice mission, had a few issues but lots a fun --EDIT-- Scratch that as you've updated the file

Holy sh*t we landed on a comet

Personally I'm not seeing it as a problem but I'm a long time thief player, I acknowledge that newbies to TDM can have a hard time figuring things out hence my request that any implementation be made optional

Anyone care to share their experience of setting up & using PGP or TOR for us newbies ?

My only thought, for me it's fine as it is, if this is implemented can it be made optional so those of us who don't want it don't have to have it

I find the special bbcode thing inserts html codes for < br > & < p >, easier to add [ spoiler ] [ /spoiler ] tags