[Beskargam]

maybe if congress did its job in an honorable manner. . .

[LordMelvin]

Bills like these are like Dracula: they need to be decapitated and then staked to the ground through their hearts to prevent them from coming back.

And, much like Dracula, when light exposes such bills, they hide into the dark waiting for you to go to sleep before striking. Probably when something else catches collective attention, such as NDAA in New Year's Eve.

Except that that's a conceit of the liberal media. Any research into the original sources will show up the scene in Stoker's book where Dracula was up and moving around in the streets of London at high noon.

maybe if congress did its job in an honorable manner. . .

Oh, come on, try to base your statements in something vaguely resembling reality. No, I'm not directing that towards the dracula-related discussion. Just the 'honorable politician' bit.

[deathfun]

maybe if congress did its job in an honorable manner. . .

Congress
Opposite to Progress

Just an old joke that this sentence reminded me of

[BengalTiger]

Well, on TUE there's a protest against ACTA in Warsaw, Poland.

Anonymous already seems to be pretty busy with sejm.gov.pl ...

[Kszyhu]

Oh yeah, their support was crucial in stopping SOPA, so it will work here, too... oh, wait. Honestly, I don't know what they're trying to accomplish here.

[redsniper]

Anonymous? Accomplish? No no... Some men just want to watch the world burn.

[Nuke]

as a lord and master of the nihilistic un-order of killer evil earth-murderers (yes, nuke 'em), i sort of understand where anonymous is coming from. we have had thousands of years to get it right. the one thing we have not tried is to involk a voluntary nuclear holocaust. in that survivors of said nuclear holocaust will see their fallen empire and come up with new ideas about how to order their society. so that future generations do not forget what we will unleash, it is neccisary to have lingering radiation to remind them, therefore rods from god type installations probably are not suited to the job. in the event of our total extinction the next intelegent species should be able to detect background radiation and find the history of our dead civilization in their fossil record and will learn from it.

[Klaustrophobia]

anonymous is a group of ****ing loosers who try to delude themselves into thinking their lives are worth **** by "hacking" sites of people that represent "the man."  i put hacking in quotes because i'm not sure you can really call a DDoS attack hacking.  and that's all i've ever heard of them doing.

[Bobboau]

they do properly hack sites, granted it is typically script kiddie type stuff, but it is technically hacking.

[Nuke]

as much as i agree with them in principal, their effectiveness leaves something to be desired. to me hacking requires actual ingenuity instead of running pre-existing scripts downloaded from the net. though you could legally define them as hackers.

[Actium]

well, the DDOS attack ,they used against the sites to effectivly take em down, are indeed very simple. And yes, there are scripts and tools for that, so everyone can do that.  Thats not really hacking, its just making sure that the server is to busy with the DDOS attacks, so it doesnt answer anymore to normal requests. You just need a lot people to do that (they had about 5000 as far i heard).

[Klaustrophobia]

but in the end all it does is block a website for a short while.  and requires constant effort from their end to do it.  as for agreeing with them on principle, they don't have any.  they just go after whatever high-profile thing they can to create the biggest fuss possible. 


.... wait, that was nuke that said that wasn't it?  nevermind. 

[Grizzly]

Its technically online rioting.

[Nuke]

as for agreeing with them on principle, they don't have any.

exactly! now you understand. join us and we can detonate glorious weapons together.
</lame attempt to fill a n.u.k.e.-'e.m. cabinet positions with actual nuclear engineers>

[Klaustrophobia]

i'm almost ashamed to admit this, but i know little more about weapons than any other normal guy.  power reactors is my area.

[Bobboau]

you get the whole implosion->super-critical mass->extreme runaway reaction thing right? if so I'm sure you know the math well enough that you would be able to build one if you were time traveled into 1940 and accidentally killed Oppenheimer during your entry.

[Klaustrophobia]

well yeah i know the basic physics of it, which is why i said the bit about an average person.  most generally intelligent people can grasp that, but the actual engineering of constructing such a device is rather more tricky.  and the math (if done right and not just crude approximations) is retardedly involved.

[Bobboau]

I think you would have a considerable advantage over the average person.

[Nuke]

sometimes i question how many failed detonation attempts occurred before the trinity test, and were subsequently covered up by the government. the very naim trinity may seem to indicate that there may have been 2 tests prior to that. i very much doubt they got it right the first time. the fact that they didnt even bother to test little boy rings fishy to me (the "it is so simple its guaranteed to work" thing just doesn't seem like how you would proceed with weapons testing). leads be to believe that maybe they conducted a little bit more science and fine tuning than they led us to believe.

I think you would have a considerable advantage over the average person.

i think as far as engineering goes the hardest part is the enrichment process. once you have weapons grade material it becomes a basic mechanical problem. or at least thats how i understood it.

[Bobboau]

yeah, from what I understand if you have uranium that is enriched enough you could simply take two chunks and smash them together really hard with your hands and they'd go off.