I think it's illegal to send him any money due to him being an enemy of the state.
American problems.
Readit Newsmmjaa commented on The Feds Get Permission to Seize Edward Snowden's Book Profits reason.com/2019/12/18/the... · Posted by u/buboard
mmjaa commented on The Feds Get Permission to Seize Edward Snowden's Book Profits reason.com/2019/12/18/the... · Posted by u/buboard
Edward Snowden just gave me permission to steal and distribute this book. Have fun
I'm cool with that. I will steal it, for sure, and make sure it gets read.
mmjaa commented on The Feds Get Permission to Seize Edward Snowden's Book Profits reason.com/2019/12/18/the... · Posted by u/buboard
To be fair, Snowden was given access to a lot of stuff because he promised not to reveal them outside of the chain of command. He did, and claimed that the chain was broken and the people needed to know. Fine. The government didn't even try to ban the the book (it would have been impossible anyway.)
But, why should he profit ??
This is not about Snowden.
This is about the SIGNIFICANT crimes against humanity and war crimes that he - and others - have put their lives on the line to reveal to the general public.
You (we) are being lied to about the activities of our governments in the Western sphere. They started WORLD WAR THREE, and wish to keep this fact from you.
And, they are laying in the conditions required for a repressive, totalitarian regime - and working as hard as they can, at all costs, to ensure that civil society does not have what it needs to counter their actions.
If you value the future freedom of your children, you WILL inform yourself about what the 5-eyes New World Order are doing, in your name, to ensure that the Western societies maintain dominance and control over humanity. It is that serious.
mmjaa commented on An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/danso
You can download your google data at https://takeout.google.com/
Not sure if this is only for EU citizens.
Yeah, its better than nothing but that's still not quite as simple as just having a database I can copy off my own phone with all the details.
mmjaa commented on An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/danso
I wish I had this data, myself. I mean, my own personal data - it would be so incredibly useful for me to be able to go back through the last years and see my location and tracking data. I could finally get those timesheets updated with correct details ..
But, alas, no. Its not available to me. Only third parties can access it.
This is a terrible situation.
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Strong motherfucking opinion warning.
South Australia is the driest state in the driest continent. It's the most perfect place for solar power. Australia as-a-whole is a perfect place for solar power.
A university lecturer of mine got one of the first solar panel installations in South Australia, it was mentioned in the local Adelaide paper, that's how much of a big deal it was. This was around 20 years ago. Twenty years!
South Australia (still) has some of the highest priced electricity in the world. There's been talk of privatization as the cause of this, which has been somewhat debunked[0], and the primarily agreed reason for the high prices is what's referred to as "gold-plating of the network" in which there was an agreement that the 'poles and wires' companies could not lose money on any infrastructure investment they committed to - the regulator would allow them continually increase the prices they charge in order to cover the cost of the infrastructure investment[1][2][3].
So, despite how perfect Australia is for solar power, private or commercial, despite the fact that solar panels have been getting commercially installed on private homes for 20-odd years, and despite the networks being given carte-blanche for infrastructure investment, somehow, Australia is un-prepared for a flood of solar power.
The various organizations that are meant to be on top of this shit have been asleep at the wheel for fucking YEARS. This was highlighted by the big power failure in South Australia in 2016 when a number of wind farms shut down due to 'safety settings' being set at overly paranoid parameters, which was a problem that had already been solved in Europe (the frustrating irony of this is that the wind farms were being blamed for the power failure, when the actual situation was that the wind farms could have PREVENTED it, if their configurations were 'best practice' - the problems in the electricity network that caused the wind farms to trip were powerful winds that took down some big-arse transmission lines)[4][5]
Australia's issues with renewable energy are entirely of their own making. And it's far more likely attributable to incompetence than malice. I'd almost prefer it was malice because malice comes and goes. Incompetence is systemic.
Off on a tangent, here's my 10-years of electricity usage / costs investigation: http://electricity.atcf.com.au/economics/
[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-25/fact-check-does-priva...
[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-02/senate-inquiry-to-pro...
[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-25/grattan-urges-consume...
[3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-04/energy-policy-solar-e...
[4] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-28/wind-farm-settings-to...
[5] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/19/south-au...
Australia's energy problems are a symptom of a much larger issue.
Australia is run by mining magnates and an energy oligarchy. Its government has very little concern for the future of the country - having sold most of it, out from under the Australian citizens - and its political class is hell-bent on cashing in. Australians should stop being so shocked about the impropriety of the nation and start paying more attention.
This is the nation that watched the Great Barrier Reef die in front of its eyes, for the sake of a few smashed avocados. Its the nation that got away with its genocide, while the world wasn't watching. Its a nation which glorifies war criminals as heroes and hides its political dissidents behind secret courts and non-public processes.
Its political system was specifically designed to allow only the ruling classes to wield power - the riffraff of the general population will never get what they want from their government, if big changes are required to get them.
Doesn't this just result in more dead fish, starved to death, because they spent all their energy flocking to a reef that can't sustain them?
mmjaa commented on The Language Agnostic, All-Purpose, Incredible, Makefile blog.mindlessness.life/ma... · Posted by u/tannhaeuser
Make is great, and I wish more people would use it in place of whatever monstrosity is en vogue this week.
However, there is one thing which Make absolutely cannot handle, and that is file names with spaces. If you have any risk of encountering these without any possibility of renaming them, you’ll sadly have to give up on using Make; it just won’t work.
This is why I find detox to be such a handy tool:
Detox has solved endless amounts of hassle...
People often forget that foreign governments are targeting USA and US persons abroad. There isn't another move left but to have surveillance tools and ingest a lot of data. If the advantage is lost, it will be someone else having it.
This also extends to military things. It'd be nice if we all cooperated as countries and built a space elevator. But that's a child's fantasy, in the end there's a power dilemma.
The thing with surveillance / war industry / etc. is there isn't a better alternative. It's not about being bullheaded and mean - it's about the very real threat of losing dominance and having foreign powers boss you around. This has happened to many countries throughout the history of civilization.
Instead of complaining about surveillance in intelligence, which likely doesn't relate to you, why not complain about "normal" civil liberties in a criminal law context - for instance, stricter rules around stored data. Other things include better social benefits, affordable housing, better representation as consumer (e.g. right to repair)?
I bet security will mean a lot more when the system being protected helps the common person more. :)
Hint: it doesn't benefit you one bit.