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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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GamerChic000
Australia3 Posts
On January 31 2017 11:42 JimmiC wrote: I'm not remotely flexible, I can't come anywhere close to touching my toes. I have been trying for the last little bit to improve by trying to touch my toes. But it doesn't seem to be helping much. Are there other stretches I can do to help? Well, first you have to visit your doctor and check if you're okay to put pressure on your back for stretching exercises. If all is good you can do the sit and reach (you sit on the floor with your legs mildly apart and your just push forward a little bit at a time. don;t force it, just "jabbing" motions.) Do this regularly and you can see that you will improve little by little. Also try to do the cross reach (left hand to right foot, right hand to left foot). but again, don't force it. light "jabbing" motions. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11839 Posts
And, as i said, you are going to have to do it for a long time before you notice any change. On the positive side, once you achieve some flexibility, it also stays with you for a long time without any effort. I did a lot of sports in my teens, kind of stopped when going to university, and am still pretty flexible. | ||
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SpiritoftheTunA
United States20903 Posts
On January 29 2017 02:30 Frudgey wrote: Putting more thought into it, I see why we don't practice cannibalism. That said, I still think we could use dead bodies for something. Like instead of cremating or burying our dead, why don't we try to use them for fertilizer or something. So I guess the question is, how much would things change if we valued practicality over sentimentality? if we lacked sentiments, to what ends would our practicality go towards? mass reproduction? we'd probably get to the self-sustaining launch arcologies (ala simcity 2k) stage of human development faster (or at all) and start colonizing across space faster? but with no sentimental enjoyment to be derived from it | ||
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Uldridge
Belgium5160 Posts
As a sidenote, this pain is just short burning jabs every time you go from bent to stretched position. In sessions with therapist he literally grabbed my leg when it was stretched (was lying on my back), pushed it as far to me as he could (or as my body allowed) and then held it for several seconds. THAT pain was ... almost unbearable. | ||
Liquid`Drone
Norway28797 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Uldridge
Belgium5160 Posts
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On February 01 2017 10:18 Thieving Magpie wrote: If we started talking about killing the president, would the NSA take a video game website that seriously? Probably. I guess it'd have to start getting pretty specific in methods before they actually act on it, but with the right keywords I would think it'd trigger their automated search engine. At some point it'd be elevated to manual curation and then it'd be a matter of whether you can trick a human. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On February 01 2017 13:26 Thieving Magpie wrote: So what if different terrorist groups started having a cross site discussion. You'd post at forum A, they'd respond in forum B, and you have a loop of like 10 forums that you all know the sequence to understand what the chat is about. I would think there are much more efficient and less cumbersome ways of encrypting your communication. | ||
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
On February 01 2017 13:35 Cascade wrote: I would think there are much more efficient and less cumbersome ways of encrypting your communication. True... But are there more cumbersome but *cheaper* ways? Like, does the NSA track pigeon movement? | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On February 01 2017 15:25 Thieving Magpie wrote: True... But are there more cumbersome but *cheaper* ways? Like, does the NSA track pigeon movement? I was more thinking of encrypting messages with a public key, post the encrypted messages (which will be complete gibberish, impossible to find with any search algorithms) anywhere and give the private key only to the trusted people, preferably through actual mail or other non-NSA traceable way. You can do that for free in less than a minute if you know a bit of unix. Problem of course is how to transfer the private key, but you'd have the same problem with a secret in the order you read the forums, that you assume is known only to your trusted people but not the NSA. | ||
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Epishade
United States2267 Posts
On February 01 2017 10:18 Thieving Magpie wrote: If we started talking about killing the president, would the NSA take a video game website that seriously? Yes. We have agents everywhere. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18292 Posts
On February 01 2017 13:26 Thieving Magpie wrote: So what if different terrorist groups started having a cross site discussion. You'd post at forum A, they'd respond in forum B, and you have a loop of like 10 forums that you all know the sequence to understand what the chat is about. That would be a form of steganography. But what exactly is your point, that terrorists can use public forums to coordinate? Yup, they could. But in most cases it's far easier to just send an encrypted message. Steganography is mostly used when you want to send a secret message without anybody knowing there even was a message at all. Its secrecy lies in that you need to know how to find it in otherwise mundane letter/picture/video. With cryptography you don't mind people knowing that you sent something secret, you just don't want anybody to know what it says. | ||
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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
you stretch the real plan across all the forums and make it visible/understandable to those who know those trigger words(each forum will also have its own plan). NSA won't know shit because you'll have different parts in one forum while other parts of your plan be in another forum. OBFUSCATION ftw!. | ||
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Oshuy
Netherlands529 Posts
On February 01 2017 17:15 Acrofales wrote: That would be a form of steganography. But what exactly is your point, that terrorists can use public forums to coordinate? Yup, they could. But in most cases it's far easier to just send an encrypted message. Steganography is mostly used when you want to send a secret message without anybody knowing there even was a message at all. Its secrecy lies in that you need to know how to find it in otherwise mundane letter/picture/video. With cryptography you don't mind people knowing that you sent something secret, you just don't want anybody to know what it says. For a terrorist action, some form of stegano is probably needed. If any of your contacts has already been singled out as a suspect and you start sending encrypted messages to others in your cell, crypto will only allow you to prevent the specifics from being found out. Depending on the perceived threat, you will still be tracked down and under surveillance the old fashioned way. Keeping the specifics unknown may be enough if you plan to move fast and don't intend to survive, but better to stay hidden from the start. Some Tor equivalent, some lighter stegano provide some help. | ||
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