I have always wanted to barbecue penguins.

After all, they have invaded certain parts of the world, such that no other species hardly exist.

This is clearly not right. I would be doing my part to guard against this invasive species.

Yes and no and sort of. Examples.

We're not losing the art of making fire, gunpowder, IC engines, many things.

Consider. I have wikipedia, 90+gb, on a device. (kiwix.org) worried about the end of the world because of solar flares? Put that device in a tin can, along with a solar panel, seal the tin can.  Done. Wikipedia survives solar flares.

I thought about the bio issues but did not include them, yet the answer is likely the same. Until and unless people take control of such things, and put the knowledge in permanent blockchains not secreted by one government or another, high levels of risk exist, both in the possible events that may happen, and in the response to them.

The closest modern day analogy to the fanatical Muslim extremist might is the kamikaze Japanese fighters and pilots of world war II. Both internalized a political theology which guided their actions.

I think it is reasonable to not allow Islam the "benefit of the doubt" as a religion, which is given to religions, when it comes to Islam's political machinations. One large part of that is and will continue to be terror.

Any who claim different are either foolish or practicing Takiyya.

Neither asteroids nor Carrington/EMF events represent certain total civilization killers.

Asteroids vary in size and hence in effect, widely. There are countless more 100 meter sized rocks that are a threat than 1 km sized. In all cases, though, they are fairly easily handled 10-100 years in advance. It's fairly true to say they cannot be diverted or destroyed on the final swing inbound even with the largest hydrogen bombs. Also we have not developed delivery systems to handle these threats. ICBMs won't do it.

EMF threats from enemy nation states have known radius in which electronics is destroyed. Infrastructure can be hardened, few or no nations have done that. Recently Trump ordered it for the USA.

Carrington events AFAIK do not present a known scale of intensity, because we understand solar thermodynamics very poorly at this time. These events might affect a part of the planet, or the largest part, depending on several factors. Hardened infrastructure is the solution here, even if a country does not have an enemy that presents a nuclear threat.

It does appear that the alarmists of climate doom, their paid Internet posters and their countless sock puppets, are a pretty cheap investment to keep the public from actually thinking their way through realistic wide scale threat scenarios and likelihoods.

I suspect that what this means is that The People, having taken Money into their own hands with bitcoin and crypto, next will have to take direct control of these various real world risks. For example, they'll / we'll need to blockchain solar data, climate data, asteroid path and orbit calculation. Because if we can't trust governments with the climate issues, which does seem well proven, there are some other things we cannot trust them with.

That in turn has implications for various political parties who claim, "Trust us. We'll take care of xyzzy..."

That's obsolete talk by the walking dead zombies of the past, but when will it be realized and actualized?

Note that we ARE NOT TOLD to worry about asteroids destroying the Earth, or about Carrington/EMF events. I conclude that not only are the only SOLUTIONS presented for consideration are those amendable to corruption, but the only PROBLEMS we are told to worry about are those amendable to corruption.

Actually, cats are the compulsive killers.

All they left of my pet white mouse was the tail...

I feel much safer, knowing that billions of years in the future, when our Sun has became a red giant star, whose diameter is beyond the orbit of the Earth, and the Earth has burned to a cinder, that our data will no longer be stored.

It will NOT BE STORED FOREVER.

Trick words, and phrases designed to lull you into complacency, are what you have here.

Rest assured, the ONLY options which are presented for consideration are those amendable to corruption...

You mean they got caught storing the contacts without permission, so they had to admit to that, but they have not been caught storing the passwords, so they have not admitted to storing them?

I might need one of those MAGA hats.

I know this. There might be some of those metrosexual pansy-waist coffee shops where you get disrespected if you wore one.

But around here, and I suspect pretty much anywhere, that would never happen in a bar.

But our country is still hot!

http://weknowmemes.com/2015/07/40-gorgeous-examples-of-america-the-beautiful/

I have friends in communist countries, but they are more practical and just consider
"Government" as a necessary evil, yes, as communist. They are NOT ideologues.

Those tend to exist in countries not yet turned into Evil Empires.

The faulty sensor has been confirmed. Realistically there is no way pilots of a third world third rate airline should be expected to have training on these types of recovery procedures. There's a reason they are called "third rate."

After I downloaded a flashlight app and it wanted access to my contacts, I stopped believing all of these clowns.

The rule.

They assure us we can trust them.

===> We can't trust them.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/innovation/why-does-a-torch-app-need-to-access-my-contacts-list-1.3082618

Here is the paper from 1985 not going through a privacy-wall directly contrary to the ideals of the writer.

https://www.chaum.com/publications/Security_Wthout_Identification.html

I cut the cable/satellite connection ten years ago.

There's been a minor inconvenience now and then with someone wanting to watch a football or basketball show, but aside from that it's totally positive.

Now I find it easy to identify people who at home have some news channel on nonstop. They are programmed drones in a fishtank.

What the company does with your info does not have to be what they claim they do with your info.

No, afraid it wasn't.

TO READ THE ARTICLE YOU AGREE TO BE SPAMMED AT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS.


So to read an article about privacy, we have to agree to give away privacy?

Are you the fucking idiot?

If you are right, just send your donations to me. It makes more sense than what you said, so how can you go wrong?

I love this chart!