That's a hell of a blast radius.
Yup it seems off by at least an order of magnitude --ie even for a theoretical maximum of 100 megatons.
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#142Something weird-looking about France and Germany there...
Ah, you guys are no fun. Sheesh. HN is no place for lighthearted banter apparently. I wear my downvotes with pride.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
For those not familiar, Steve Jackson Games makes RPGs and were nearly driven out of business due to a secret service raid[1] done in response to the "GURPS Cyberpunk" book (described by the secret service as "a manual for computer crime") they were working on. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sundevil
"This raid is often wrongly attributed to Operation Sundevil, a nation-wide crackdown on ‘illegal computer hacking activities’ that was occurring about this time." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS_Cyberpunk#.E2.80.9CThe_b...
I actually saw that and forgot to update the link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U...
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#144Bruce Schneier calls this the "war on the unexpected". If you take average people, who aren't experts at security / investigating / etc, and you tell these people "if you see something, say something", then you're going to get a ridiculous amount of false positives. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_war_on_th... Everything "unusual" becomes suspicious. See a guy taking photos at an airport? Must be a…
This is exactly the problem, as I have myself experienced firsthand. The 'problem' is that all of us - everyone - has a number of ways in which their life is 'unusual'. Aberrant (deviating from the norm) is not inherently suspicious, because everyone is aberrant in some aspects of their life. Nobody is truly 'normal'. In fact, if you thoroughly investigated someone and found nothing that was 'abnormal'[0] in some way…
In fact, if you thoroughly investigated someone and found nothing that was 'abnormal' in some way, that would be suspicious!
I've heard spies are sometimes caught this way. Their life-profile is so deliberately normal that, having no quirks, they actually do stand out as such.
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#145"I am not planning any nuclear attacks as my centrifuges are on the fritz and I have been unable to procure switches accurate enough to get a good implosion out of my C4 detonators. Also, it turns out that my ICBM designs are prohibitively expensive, and the Russians will not let me have access to their launch sites for some reason."
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#146Devil's Advocate: You are a nontechnical person and stumble upon what appear to be plans for a terrorist attack. You talk to the person about it and they say "Don't worry. is computer game". A great exploration of this is the 30 Rock episode where Tina Fey reports her neighbor for what ends up being a plan to get on the show 'The Amazing Race'. The problem is, not knowing any better, you feel obligated to report the…
Why do you feel obligated to report the activity?
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd love to know why this is down voted, because it is unequivocally true. Nearly all letting agents (probably all?) in the UK vet potential tenants and will run various forms of check, including credit checks. They will also ask for previous addresses, and if previously renting, will demand a reference from the previous agency and landlord.
(Not legal advice.) Someone giving you a bad reference, or refusing to give a reference, because you won a legal case against them is generally the kind of thing that could get another legal case started.
On what grounds? If the previous landlord gives truthful reference (i.e. no slander and nothing illegal) when asked, including the trouble they had to go through to evict you, there's nothing to sue them over.
But that information alone would be very useful input for my decision on whether to lent to you or not.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
For anyone else in this situation who is not aware, by default an Assured Shorthold Tenancy (which you probably have if you're renting all of a self-contained dwelling) becomes a statutory periodic tenancy (i.e., usually, rolling monthly on the same terms) at the end of the initial contract period - this requires no action on the part of anyone involved so you can politely tell the agents where to stick their £100+ b…
This is interesting. I've always been given, along with an initial rental agreement, a letter dated for the end of the tenancy that asks me to leave the property. It was my understanding that this is enough for the agent to easily eject you at the end of the agreement period unless you follow what they want.
Serving you notice before you've even moved in sounds like a pretty shady practise to me, and one that I'd be inclined to challenge before I signed anything.
If they attempt that sorts of trick before you've even paid them a penny, that doesn't bode well for the rest of the tenancy in my opinion!
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#149This seems relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc Title is "Dont Talk to Police" from 2008. Henry Smith should probably watch it.
I love this video so much, a while back I made a Bitly link to make it easy to remember and share to my friends when out-and-about.
bit.ly/dont_talk_to_police
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
What did the court say when they applied for a possession order?
To be fair, they just gave me my marching orders and said they'd proceed to eviction if I didn't scram - and scram I did, as the place was falling down anyway.
So, the ol' bluff a college student because they don't know better.