> Im definitely glad that Snowden exposed what he did, and we have seen some tiny data regulation reforms, like GDPR, which aren't nearly enough yet, but I honestly think Snowden is a bit of a traitor.

Uh, the GDPR is an EU law, and doesn't apply to the US. So at best Europe had data reforms but the US is still doing the same thing as before.

I doubt it. We're never going to see a public facing reprimand of internal organizations within an intelligence agency, because secrecy and compartmentalization of how they work. There were many, many congress representatives that were outraged by the surveillance, people I'd highly doubt that they'd let the surveillance continue.

A lot of it depends on how they were stored. If they were stored on a high quality master or digitally odds are the original content had more colors than the old TVs could even show you.

Old NTSC TV had a relatively narrow range of colors (color space) it could support. When we switched to HD we got a much wider range of colors. 4K has an even wider one. Many old TVs shows were stored with a wider color space than old NTSC TVs could display, so when you saw them on your old NTSC TV, it "clipped" the colors to what the TV could show. Which could have lead to them looking washed out.

Many old TV shows have been remastered for the streaming age, and now that we have TVs that can show us all the colors the show was originally created with, we get to see them. Some shows have even had the colors "corrected" to make them look more realistic/vibrant on modern TVs.

Gives, there is no war in Ba Sing Se vibes.

I worked in MOA for almost a decade. It's very rarely cold in the morning. The place is massive and it doesn't have enough down time to get cold. The coolest it would get would be the morning after Christmas. Winter and empty for over 24 hours. Perfectly warm by noon. The amount of lights and electricity on top of body heat, ovens and grills from restaurants and the food courts, the heat from the rides, the sun coming through the skylights... It's more than enough to keep things warm for a long time.

Thanks for the detailed answer, I learned some new things!

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Originally my thinking was more along the lines of, why *Taiwan*? Why haven't similar countries in SEA done the same as Taiwan? Some have cheaper labour, some have world-class tech talent, all are geographically almost identical to Taiwan.

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What did Taiwan do that, e.g.: Mainland China couldn't? Or SG, Japan, Malaysia, etc.?

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So 3 reasons:

1. Gamma correction - old school tube TVs work differently than modern LCD/LED screens. Specifically in the way the pixels represent color intensity. With modern screens, there is a mostly linear relationship between the pixel value and the actual color being seen so red 200 is twice as red as red 100. With tube TVs there was a curve, so red 200 might be 3 times as red as red 100, so you'd need to adjust the value down so that it looks right on the screen.

2. A lot of animation was done by hand - a lot of older animation was drawn on physical media, photographed, then assembled into a video reel. This means that the physical color palette used was restricted to what the artists had available at the time. The process used today is almost entirely digital and software can create basically any color you could ever want.

3. Style - in a lot of cases, the darker coloring was a stylistic choice. For example, scooby doo has very dark coloring to add to the mystery/horror atmosphere presented by the show. This is still done in some modern cartoons & animated shows.

Yeah but I hate that fake stuff lol. They wouldn’t be able to make it so that as soon as you press the gas it goes back to normal fuel mapping?

Basically, the FISA court (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) has a classified ruling that spying on American citizens by the NSA was totally legit because...reasons. That you are not allowed to know. That where (and still are) probably not constitutional, but they're going to do it anyway.

Don't think too hard about the fact that your government is spying on you, that nobody has seen the inside of a jail after mass theft of American assets in 2008, that we are engaged is massive spending to foreign governments while US citizens struggle to buy food and gas, etc.

Instead, be very afraid of Jan 6/BLM/Trump/Antifa/whatever. Those are the issues that really matter. /s

I mean compared to other cigarette smokers, maybe you got the edge up.

I thought the same with cloves, btw.

Still miss those and black and milds.

To add to what has already been said in this thread, Snowden also revealed the NSA didn’t just spy on US citizens but also spied on other countries, in particular they had very strong surveillance on Brazil, I remember it created some uproar at the time in the country(I am from Brazil), but I don’t know what was done about it. Anyway it’s reasonable to expect that the NSA can have access to your info even if you’re not American.

I only pointed it out because it's not a great blanket statement because it gives the impression that there is something inherent about email that means it is stored as plaintext. I fully agree that security is hard, and securing against a government while operating within their jurisdiction is just about impossible, but your email may not be stored in plain text.

Just as an example, ProtonMail offers encrypted email with protection that is good enough right up to the point that a major nation-state takes a very strong interest in you. They're based in Switzerland as a means to make it more difficult to compel access to user data. Nothing is impossible, of course.

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At a recent wine tasting in Serbia, they said the barrels are burned on the inside and that provides protection against rot (as well as adding flavours). They also said they can only use the barrels for 2 years before the wine has extracted all the compounds it needs from the wood, at which point they sell them to whisky distillers.

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He was dismissive of the chances of Russia invading Ukraine until they, you know....invaded Ukraine. Then he shut up for a bit.

Now he's back, offering very specific criticisms of Western governments and veryyyyyyy vague criticisms of what might be the Russian government.

They go on sale all the time. I got the base game plus all expansions at the time for like $50

Didn't he shed light on the hacker tools that were developed using US tax payer money?

Most tow truck drivers do this legally anyway. They steal your car cuz a sign said it was ok, then drive it a mile away and charge you a ridiculous amount to get it back. They’re truly predatory scum.

I smoked menthol cigarettes for nearly a decade. Thought my breath was always fresh and kissable. I was not correct.

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This isn't entirely true. He was traveling through Russia to South America when his US passport was revoked. He never initially planned to stay in Russia (but yes, has since then become a Russian citizen).

Since then he's been pretty quiet about Russia, sure, but since his life depends on it, it's kind of hard to be all that critical.

And the way they were talking made it seem like there wasn't much of an approval or limitation process for these methods.

Its quite literally "I wonder what my X is doing on her computer right now........ lets find out :D"

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