We're now well into the age of biometric monitoring, and this is raising huge obstacles in the face of traditional spycraft; if your spy travels on a biometric passport, then simply replacing their passport with a new one won't hide their identity from the border authorities of the nation they're visiting. Indeed, the zealous attempts of anti-terrorist security agencies to make it difficult or impossible to disguise your identity may cause extensive blowback on HUMINT operations by their governments' intelligence agencies. What does it imply about the future of espionage if a given agent can only operate in a given target nation under one identity?
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The BBC ran an article the other day suggesting that US olympians don't get financial support from their federations, and instead rely on commercial sponsorship.
Kind of. The U.S. Olympic Committee is funded by commercial sponsorships and TV rights sales. And they give out the various bits of funding for some of the sports. Like Gymnastics. They don't cover all sports with funding however. However they do pay the expenses for all of the athletes who are actually part of the games.
nobody gets to the olympics without the gubmint's help anyway
uncle sam deserves a cut
There are a lot of talented, successful athletes who agree with me -- because they want to give something back. They know they didn't -- look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so fit. There are a lot of fit people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great trainer somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a gold medal -- you didn't earn that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the athletes could make money off the Internet.
The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don't do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.
the thing that irked me about this speech wasn't the "you didn't build that" as much as the "Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet."
that isn't why the internet was created at all!!
Whoa whoa hold on. When I took issue with that in the President thread I was history's worst fucking monster. Also every mook with a wikipedia tab open was suddenly Mister Internet History Major, talking to me like I thought gopher was an animal.
that is because i have descretely pushed off the mantle of "token conservative, act like an asshole to me" to you
i am now "that guy who i disagree with most of what he says, but can't figure out why"
We need a new conservative regular around here. I need to get in on this liberal ambivalence shit you've worked out.
Not to dig up old history, but there are a few things wrong with the recollection of events in here.
*eyes narrow*
Carry on.
Nobody with a Toby avatar can be all that conservative!
I bet you don't even prefer the status quo vs. change for the sake of changing.
The BBC ran an article the other day suggesting that US olympians don't get financial support from their federations, and instead rely on commercial sponsorship.
This is pretty much true. We don't have any assistance outside of having some training facilities for most of our Olympic sports. There also are rarely organized groups supporting them. This is why Colbert put in the money helped make sure we had a speed skating team in '10 winter olympics and such.
It makes you wonder how many potential medallists there are in the US that just never get the opportunity.
I remember Mark Cavendish saying the thing that kept him in cycling was that UK Sport paid him a salary for two years to train and compete. Otherwise he'd be a bank manager right now.
There was a US archer last time who seriously struggled to get to the trials because airfare. I'm not sure if the person was even able to make Beijing.
We're now well into the age of biometric monitoring, and this is raising huge obstacles in the face of traditional spycraft; if your spy travels on a biometric passport, then simply replacing their passport with a new one won't hide their identity from the border authorities of the nation they're visiting. Indeed, the zealous attempts of anti-terrorist security agencies to make it difficult or impossible to disguise your identity may cause extensive blowback on HUMINT operations by their governments' intelligence agencies. What does it imply about the future of espionage if a given agent can only operate in a given target nation under one identity?
Cross the border without going through border control with fake papers indicating you're a native?
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
Ira Glass is an Atheist
Therefore he hates God
Therefore he hates America
I will also be fixing my house when I buy it. I'm handy because my dad apparently was trained by the air force on how to build houses or something.
I could fix pretty much everything but electrical if I needed to. Though I'd rather attempt electrical than plumbing. Fuck plumbing.
Electrical scares the ever loving piss out of me.
You're basically tooling around with magic murder death wires.
I've changed two light switches in my life and felt the need to update my will before each one.
Electricity is nothing to ever be afraid of - just know that it travels downward all the time, turn off the breakers on the circuits you are working on, and know the different between your hot, your ground and your neutral.
That said, whenever doing anything trickier than a can light or a wall outlet, best have an electrician do it.
SW-4158-3990-6116
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I would like to stress that even if we did get more conservative posters, Goobert and Spoolio would be grandfathered in as my favorite conservatives
Like I would be ready to dismiss the politics of the other posters but if either one showed up they'd flash an all-black Executive Membership card and I'd whisk them to the front of the line to get lectured about how Taxes Are Patriotism and Reagan Was Stupid ahead of everyone else
TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
GUI it is time to start training for when FILTHY BASS DROPS become Olympic event!
As you trainer, I will have you up at CRACK OF NOON to drink eggs and carry heavy wubs until you want to die! You will bring GREAT HONOR to your family and country!
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
Let's play "Ludious Psychically Guesses Details about News Stories Only from the Headlines!!!""
GUI it is time to start training for when FILTHY BASS DROPS become Olympic event!
As you trainer, I will have you up at CRACK OF NOON to drink eggs and carry heavy wubs until you want to die! You will bring GREAT HONOR to your family and country!
this is basically the best post that has ever been made
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TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
I would like to stress that even if we did get more conservative posters, Goobert and Spoolio would be grandfathered in as my favorite conservatives
Like I would be ready to dismiss the politics of the other posters but if either one showed up they'd flash an all-black Executive Membership card and I'd whisk them to the front of the line to get lectured about how Taxes Are Patriotism and Reagan Was Stupid ahead of everyone else
GUI it is time to start training for when FILTHY BASS DROPS become Olympic event!
As you trainer, I will have you up at CRACK OF NOON to drink eggs and carry heavy wubs until you want to die! You will bring GREAT HONOR to your family and country!
Bench pressing an iron bar with a subwoofer attached on each end
"THESE ARE ONLY 8s. YOU WANT THE GOLD YOU'D BETTER BE PRESSING PORTED 15s."
work was lame because i had to spend most of the day in the warehouse which is not climate controlled. moving around pallets of computers and stripping out the RAM, HDD's, optical drives, sound cards (yes, that old) and cmos batteries. it was pretty tiring and also there was so much dust from these ancient computers that it was like, coagulating my sweat. i had gross, booger-like chunks and strands of dust all over my arms and even my neck. fucking nasty shit. o well. life's a bitch.
on the way home there was a very cute girl and she sat in the corner seat in the back- you know, where you have to side step out because there are other chairs in front of your legs? and she sits down and this teenager sits next to her. and he starts flirting with her in a slurred voice, and she's answering politely (but very obviously disinterested). it becomes apparent to me very quickly that this dude is high as fuck on benzos. he has a bunch of soft pretzel bites with nacho cheese and he keeps nodding off and dropping them. at one point he starts licking the lid slowly, his tongue lolling out while he tries to stay upright. soon he starts slouching as he nods off. the girl looks p uncomfortable, so i look at her and give her a little thumbs up with an inquisitive face and she smiles and nods that she's fine. finally i stood up and said "are you ok? can i help?" and she kind of glanced over at him and said no, i'm ok. and i knew part of it was she didn't want to escalate things by changing seats because as high as he was this dude was ghetto as fuck. i stuck around for a couple more blocks, got one last thumbs up from her and then got off the bus.
i don't make a habit of beating up drug addicts but sometimes it's tempting.
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Kind of. The U.S. Olympic Committee is funded by commercial sponsorships and TV rights sales. And they give out the various bits of funding for some of the sports. Like Gymnastics. They don't cover all sports with funding however. However they do pay the expenses for all of the athletes who are actually part of the games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgrcotUpbww&feature=player_embedded#t=10s
I'm a misanthrolope.
There was a US archer last time who seriously struggled to get to the trials because airfare. I'm not sure if the person was even able to make Beijing.
misantrollololololope
Why did I crack up at this
Why is it so funny
Cross the border without going through border control with fake papers indicating you're a native?
Therefore he hates God
Therefore he hates America
So I am not unAmerican. I am a PATRIOT.
I hate antelopes too.
Always running across the plains like "Look at me! I'm an antelope! I enjoy NPR podcasts!"
May a lioness devour them all.
and there was a time when this american life did this I used to believe
and ira glass talks about how he doesn't really believe anything
start at 5:30 ish to like 8:15 (but you don't have to listen to all that to get the gist)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/378/this-i-used-to-believe?act=0#play
it is so good
I think I feel a lot like this
Frontman for Yo La Tengo.
The BNP /hard right groups in the UK love the Sikh too.
Edit - what a bad post to accidentally discover the soft keyboard on the Nexus 7 has a smiley key
That is the best show.
Strangely.
Electricity is nothing to ever be afraid of - just know that it travels downward all the time, turn off the breakers on the circuits you are working on, and know the different between your hot, your ground and your neutral.
That said, whenever doing anything trickier than a can light or a wall outlet, best have an electrician do it.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
was it anything like american pickers
cause i love american pickers
Have a gallon of gullibility with your hubris, skippy. Hope it keeps you cool in hell.
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Breakin' 3: Olympic Boondoggle
I would like to stress that even if we did get more conservative posters, Goobert and Spoolio would be grandfathered in as my favorite conservatives
Like I would be ready to dismiss the politics of the other posters but if either one showed up they'd flash an all-black Executive Membership card and I'd whisk them to the front of the line to get lectured about how Taxes Are Patriotism and Reagan Was Stupid ahead of everyone else
Membership has its motherfucking privileges
@spool32 @gooey
As you trainer, I will have you up at CRACK OF NOON to drink eggs and carry heavy wubs until you want to die! You will bring GREAT HONOR to your family and country!
Lightning kills 1 outside of NASCAR Rally.
Prediction: Bet he wasn't black.
I was hit with no less than 10 dubstep moments between the trailers, commercials and the movie itself.
dubstep is taking over, and I am shaking my stick at it.
I am an old.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
this is basically the best post that has ever been made
I'm just glad it's become so pop that there's finally a sizable backlash being generated among the scenes I frequent
dap dis desc
/dap
Bench pressing an iron bar with a subwoofer attached on each end
"THESE ARE ONLY 8s. YOU WANT THE GOLD YOU'D BETTER BE PRESSING PORTED 15s."
I can play this game too.
Prediction: I bet he wasn't a meteorologist.
work was lame because i had to spend most of the day in the warehouse which is not climate controlled. moving around pallets of computers and stripping out the RAM, HDD's, optical drives, sound cards (yes, that old) and cmos batteries. it was pretty tiring and also there was so much dust from these ancient computers that it was like, coagulating my sweat. i had gross, booger-like chunks and strands of dust all over my arms and even my neck. fucking nasty shit. o well. life's a bitch.
on the way home there was a very cute girl and she sat in the corner seat in the back- you know, where you have to side step out because there are other chairs in front of your legs? and she sits down and this teenager sits next to her. and he starts flirting with her in a slurred voice, and she's answering politely (but very obviously disinterested). it becomes apparent to me very quickly that this dude is high as fuck on benzos. he has a bunch of soft pretzel bites with nacho cheese and he keeps nodding off and dropping them. at one point he starts licking the lid slowly, his tongue lolling out while he tries to stay upright. soon he starts slouching as he nods off. the girl looks p uncomfortable, so i look at her and give her a little thumbs up with an inquisitive face and she smiles and nods that she's fine. finally i stood up and said "are you ok? can i help?" and she kind of glanced over at him and said no, i'm ok. and i knew part of it was she didn't want to escalate things by changing seats because as high as he was this dude was ghetto as fuck. i stuck around for a couple more blocks, got one last thumbs up from her and then got off the bus.
i don't make a habit of beating up drug addicts but sometimes it's tempting.
dsc/gui wins gold in filthy bass drop doubles
useless sports like diving replaced with bass exploding
neon sunglasses required for event entrance
opening ceremony bass drops crack earth in half