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If they could restrain themselves, the government would have no need to do that.

If there is no enemy to a power, one must be created. Otherwise people will call for that power to be diluted, since it is obviously not necessary.

False flag operations abound in intelligence work. One notable, proven one is https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/COINTELPRO

So while the bad guys did bad, the other bad guys also do bad. Just because the government does good things does not mean it should be held blameless when it overreaches its authority.

They wouldn't exist if the terrorists left us alone.

You don't know much about intelligence works then. When there is no real enemy, one is frequently manufactured in order to consolidate power by those at the top. The ones to blame are those who continue to support the political status quo. They're the ones who either vote for the same people, or refuse to vote at all. To pull from a previous discussion, Lulz is responsible in part for the response by the government. However, the people culpable for the policy are those who make the reactive policy, and ultimately the US populace in general who put them into power.

It's entirely likely that there exist hacker groups who have been or will be used, directly or indirectly, by intelligence services in order to justify measures they wish to put into place.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/COINTELPRO is but one example of this.

To put it another way, this statement is both as true and false as the above quote from your post: Terrorists wouldn't exist if we left them alone.

Exactly. To make the Twitter example more concrete the OpenMicroBlogging protocol and Identi.ca service exist, but they are much, much less popular than Twitter purely due to the fact that they cannot beat Twitter's network effects.

Exactly. To make the Twitter example more concrete the OpenMicroBlogging protocol and Identi.ca service exist, but they are much, much less popular than Twitter purely due to the fact that they cannot beat Twitter's network effects.

Actually Scandinavia as a noun is a perfectly valid use of the word.

Just like Oceania is used to describe the regions around the country of Australia which are not part of the country of Australia but border on the continent of Australasia and the Pacific Region.

One may say it's also similar to the Arctic. Also not a country but a perfectly valid noun describing a region.

Actually Scandinavia as a noun is a perfectly valid use of the word.

Just like Oceania is used to describe the regions around the country of Australia which are not part of the country of Australia but border on the continent of Australasia and the Pacific Region.

One may say it's also similar to the Arctic. Also not a country but a perfectly valid noun describing a region.

hey, dumb ass, I just went outside, asked my neighbors - they are going to vote for the next income/corporate tax cut in 2012. 50% cut. We can't wait till 2014, the canton is going to vote to reduce the income taxes ... to 0.

I don't think you really live in Switzerland, as you know so little about the country. Are you still living in Russia?

Firstly, the Swiss government sector is certainly not small, it spends a third of the country's GDP (32%) on services like compulsory, universal healthcare covering not just every Swiss citizen but everyone who resides in Switzerland for longer than 3 months.

Swiss insurers are forbidden from discriminating against pre-existing conditions, and they are not allowed to make a profit on the basic health insurance plan.

Swiss regulation, government control, socialism!! :-)

Secondly, the average Swiss tax burden (29.4%) is higher than that in the US. (!)

So good luck convincing the rest of the country that Switzerland needs to abandon their current very high level of civilization, in favour of your ridiculous 0% tax proposal. Do you think Swiss citizens like free-loaders like you?

Thirdly, if you really keep your investments in gold then my condolences: in the past year the price of gold dropped from a peak of 1450 Franken down to the current 1300 Franken price - a more than 10% reduction in your purchasing power, in a single year.

hey, dumb ass, I just went outside, asked my neighbors - they are going to vote for the next income/corporate tax cut in 2012. 50% cut. We can't wait till 2014, the canton is going to vote to reduce the income taxes ... to 0.

I don't think you really live in Switzerland, as you know so little about the country. Are you still living in Russia?

Firstly, the Swiss government sector is certainly not small, it spends a third of the country's GDP (32%) on services like compulsory, universal healthcare covering not just every Swiss citizen but everyone who resides in Switzerland for longer than 3 months.

Swiss insurers are forbidden from discriminating against pre-existing conditions, and they are not allowed to make a profit on the basic health insurance plan.

Swiss regulation, government control, socialism!! :-)

Secondly, the average Swiss tax burden (29.4%) is higher than that in the US. (!)

So good luck convincing the rest of the country that Switzerland needs to abandon their current very high level of civilization, in favour of your ridiculous 0% tax proposal. Do you think Swiss citizens like free-loaders like you?

Thirdly, if you really keep your investments in gold then my condolences: in the past year the price of gold dropped from a peak of 1450 Franken down to the current 1300 Franken price - a more than 10% reduction in your purchasing power, in a single year.

frequent bank crashes and panics where depositors lost all their "hard money", recessions, periods of high unemployment and periods of deflation.

- wrong. The bank runs, etc., they were equally spread out throughout the 19 century, they were contained to specific banks, not to the entire banking institution, [...]

Liar.

The panic of 1873 was triggered by bank failures that snowballed into a full-blown banking crisis that quickly crashed the stock market and then spilled over into the real economy and caused a real depression that lasted several years with peak unemployment of 14%: .

Effects in the U.S.

The failure of the Jay Cooke bank, followed quickly by that of Henry Clews, set off a chain reaction of bank failures and temporarily closed the New York stock market. Factories began to lay off workers as the United States slipped into depression. The effects of the panic were quickly felt in New York, more slowly in Chicago, Virginia City, Nevada and San Francisco.[11][12]

The New York Stock Exchange closed for ten days starting September 20. Of the country's 364 railroads, 89 went bankrupt. A total of 18,000 businesses failed between 1873 and 1875. Unemployment reached 14% by 1876. Construction work halted, wages were cut, real estate values fell and corporate profits vanished.[13]

Tens of thousands of US families lost their entire life savings - there was no FDIC nor any Fed-of-last-resort in those years yet, so people were completely unprotected against bank crashes.

Many innocent people lost their entire savings and committed suicide after such crashes - it was a cruel, heartless dog-eats-dog "hard money" system.

And you really want those times to come back? Do you also want to bring back slavery, public lashings, witch trials, fiefdoms and nobility? The history of mankind produced centuries full of cruelty, you have a wide selection to pick from.

frequent bank crashes and panics where depositors lost all their "hard money", recessions, periods of high unemployment and periods of deflation.

- wrong. The bank runs, etc., they were equally spread out throughout the 19 century, they were contained to specific banks, not to the entire banking institution, [...]

Liar.

The panic of 1873 was triggered by bank failures that snowballed into a full-blown banking crisis that quickly crashed the stock market and then spilled over into the real economy and caused a real depression that lasted several years with peak unemployment of 14%: .

Effects in the U.S.

The failure of the Jay Cooke bank, followed quickly by that of Henry Clews, set off a chain reaction of bank failures and temporarily closed the New York stock market. Factories began to lay off workers as the United States slipped into depression. The effects of the panic were quickly felt in New York, more slowly in Chicago, Virginia City, Nevada and San Francisco.[11][12]

The New York Stock Exchange closed for ten days starting September 20. Of the country's 364 railroads, 89 went bankrupt. A total of 18,000 businesses failed between 1873 and 1875. Unemployment reached 14% by 1876. Construction work halted, wages were cut, real estate values fell and corporate profits vanished.[13]

Tens of thousands of US families lost their entire life savings - there was no FDIC nor any Fed-of-last-resort in those years yet, so people were completely unprotected against bank crashes.

Many innocent people lost their entire savings and committed suicide after such crashes - it was a cruel, heartless dog-eats-dog "hard money" system.

And you really want those times to come back? Do you also want to bring back slavery, public lashings, witch trials, fiefdoms and nobility? The history of mankind produced centuries full of cruelty, you have a wide selection to pick from.

I'm fairy sure the guys from Star Wreck could make an awesome funny Star Wars movie too (but currently they're busy with a new original movie Iron Sky, I can't wait to see the result!), but there are other great low budget fan movies out there, just search for Star Wars Revelations, it's pretty decent (including FX) and they had a shoestring budget too. Look and learn George...

I'm fairy sure the guys from Star Wreck could make an awesome funny Star Wars movie too (but currently they're busy with a new original movie Iron Sky, I can't wait to see the result!), but there are other great low budget fan movies out there, just search for Star Wars Revelations, it's pretty decent (including FX) and they had a shoestring budget too. Look and learn George...

Bullshit.

At 4 hours 10 minutes and 5 seconds absolute time, the autopilot and the auto-thrust systems disengaged. The pilot made a left nose-up input, as the plane began rolling to the right. The plane's stall warning sounded twice.

The stall warnings stopped, as all airspeed indications were now considered invalid due to the high angle of attack. Roughly 20 seconds later, the pilot decreased the plane's pitch slightly, air speed indications became valid and the stall warning sounded again.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447#Findings_from_the_flight_data_recorder

Uh, you're a bit late. See: Prison-industrial complex. For extra fun, see this news item: judges being bribed to send people jail.

That's okay. I'm still working my way through Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series myself. But saying you'll never be able to get to those others... isn't that a bit hysterical? Sure, you may only be on the seventh book of the series, but the author died, there is light at the end of the tunnel!

Democrats want to regulate business and free individuals. Republicans want to free businesses and regulate individuals.

If only it were that simple.

Want to own a gun?
Want to smoke (cigarettes)?
Want to buy a "violent" video game?

Both sides of the aisle take certain liberties with our personal... liberties.
They all have their own "view" of the world, what's best is when we limit their ability to actually screw us over, usually through gridlock. Though even that's becoming less useful as the parties are starting to agree on how to screw us over. (See Patriot Act, TSA, NSA)

How many different spins of the Waynes murder do we need, truly? Seems that DC's imagination is all but dried out.

huh? how the hell is that supposed to work? You can't stop a company growing in size.

Can we stop https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fed

So they invented checkpointing?

The title made me think it would be about a way of getting rid of unwanted nanodevices in the environment - maybe some sort of vacuum combined with a filter. Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" has the problems of unwanted nano-machines as one of its themes.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Neal_Stephenson

From your source, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/funds-fs.html : Claims resulting from nuclear accidents are covered under Price-Anderson; for that reason, all property and liability insurance policies issued in the U.S. exclude nuclear accidents.

Also, the Price-Anderson Act which you refer to is a pooling of funds, a form of self-insurance, which isn't the same as complete coverage insurance through a third-party private insurer. Though it's still a form of (partial) insurance, so make of that what you will. The main point being that taxpayers, the ones who benefit from electricity but don't receive profits from its sale, are the main party responsible for the consequences of accidents.

Who is paying the superfund clean-up costs (e.g. Hanford or 3-Mile Island)? Hint: it's not ANI, like you imply. Until the mid-1990s, most of the funding came from a tax on the petroleum and chemical industries, reflecting the polluter pays principle, and Congress yielded to corporate pressure. We're both guilty of a little ignorance and perhaps even FUD; and I could certainly become better informed on this topic.

Nothing is stopping you from publishing raw objects over HTTP, although I guess your point is that a web browser is not designed to display such data in a way that is useful to the user without a server deciding how they go together in a document. That said, some REST APIs do throw around raw objects (as JSON or other formats).

The other, not necessarily separate, idea you have is, if I understand you correctly, to separate addressing from physical location, so URIs do not need to include where to get the information requested. I like that idea (see my sig), but implementing it is much harder than implementing HTTP. For one, the data still needs to live somewhere (well, on one or more machines). Now most people have always-on internet connections, so they could host their own data, but still a lot of people have laptops or simply turn off their desktops, so serving their own data is not feasible. Hence the reliance on servers.

The web, Javascript (with its various strange quirks) especially, is a good example of worse is better development: it's popular not because it is well-designed, but because it is simple. The openness of the web allows for a lot of creativity in how it is sued.

What are the odds that this iCloud service isn't run OSX server at it's core?

It shouldn't matter because Apple as a company (nowadays) isn't as interested in dogfooding for the sake of it... that's a position popularized by Microsoft, which proudly proclaimed their OS as better than the competition (Ballmer still doesn't allow iPhones or Google services in his household, for example)... which brought on the hotmail conversion debacle and the Danger dataloss fiasco.

Apple makes no such (unrealistic) claims, so they have no such expectations to meet.

It's is the same it's always been: you develop against the worst browser that has significant penetration. From 2001-2008 this was IE6 and you were stuck with it, now that IE6 has finally dropped below 5% (my arbitrary cutoff) I can simply ignore it, and get mad at IE7 instead. Chrome 6 vs 12? Firefox 3.6 vs 4? Who gives a shit! As long as the IEs lag so far behind everyone else, they are the roadblocks and causes of confusion in web development. Not the minor differences between the actual modern browsers.

Continually at War with some group, product, or idea since 1941.

Perhaps we should be a bit more honest and just revert the Department of Defense back to the Department of War.

I can only agree. Just take a look at all the (FOSS/non-FOSS) projects that currently use Qt (from wikipedia):

Qt is most notably used in Autodesk Maya, Dassault DraftSight, Google Earth, KDE, Adobe Photoshop Album, the European Space Agency, OPIE, Siemens, Volvo, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Skype, VLC media player, Samsung, Philips, Panasonic, VirtualBox and Mathematica.

Maybe it will be developed by other people, but it's probably safe to say that it won't die so soon.

PS: Skype uses Qt? Could be interesting to see what Microsoft will do about that...

Take a look here. The share of people that visit Wikipedia using Windows felt from nearly 90% at April 2009 to 80.46% at April 2010. That is not because of an anomalous month, the share was falling for the entire year, and is accelerating.

I know, the plural of anedonte is not data, and everything, but there are very few public accesible raw numbers on usage at the net. Wikipedia is no small site, and it ought to have some correlation to the total population.

In fact, it's happening now. There are companies that will install the array for you, maintain the array for you, and monitor the array's performance for you, all at no cost to you -- instead, they split the profit from your electric-bill savings with you.

Those installers are probably profiting more from the State's SREC (essentially a tax on energy companies not producing minimum ratio of power from solar) program than from the value of the electricity produced. If the market for solar panel installation were competitive, these companies would be paying the homeowner for the use of their real estate and the homeowner would not pay for any of the electricity generated.

See:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Solar_Renewable_Energy_Certificates
http://www.srectrade.com/background.php

I've seen several articles now about how much water is in the center of the moon, calling in to question this theory about the origin of the moon. I've never liked this origin theory, anyway. The large gravity well of a bigger object pulled in a smaller object. Boom, easy stuff. And how in the universe can someone talk about how unlikely it is that other planets would have moons, when our own solar system has several planets with moons? A quick google search reveals this image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Moons_of_solar_system_v7.jpg/800px-Moons_of_solar_system_v7.jpg

I vote for Mark! He is an excellent and awesome technical fellow that has impressed me a number of times. It's time for Microsoft to learn from Google; let the engineers take control again.

No word yet if Nathanial Hawthorne's estate will be suing this author for copyright infringement.

Oh, wait. That's in the public domain.

Another precursor of computer development is Konrad Zuse and his work on his Z serie of machine (a series of binary floating point computer with increasing programability, reaching peak with the Z3 being Turing complete).

It's interesting because unlike all the precursors mentioned in TFA, it was not some secret monster developed by intelligence services to crack codes, but a publicly available project with practical industrial applications (to ease the massive calculation in some engineering fields).

Yes, the world was a happy and peaceful place without any problems and then the white man came an destroyed the diets in all of these countries. Couldn't possibly be that life sucked and vitamin A just isn't very common in some regions, no, that is impossible.

- 19 century USA calls, says you are wrong.

There was deflation at the time, dollar was gaining value, prices were dropping,

You are quite wrong about historic facts. Firstly, even measured in norminal price levels you are wrong: check the historic inflation rate for the US.

The period of 1800-1900 was evidently not "deflation at the time".

The dollar was gaining in value, firstly because almost every other civilized country on the western hemisphere was growing at that time, secondly because it was backed by an inflating supply of gold (the US was one of the biggest gold producers at the time), thirdly because the US had a very rapid influx of population, lots of migrating workers eager to increase the international value of the fixed supply of dollars.

Take away the increasing supply in gold backed by gold mines and take away the increasing value of exports fuelled by cheap immigrants you get a stagnating economy: for example France, the last holdout with the gold standard after the Great Depression, was the slowest to recover from the Great Depression.

Well, it's not like the potato blight is serious or anything.

Let's ship all the diseased potatoes to them.

Did you know to this day 20% of Belarus's farmland is unusable?

No, and you didn't know either because it isn't true. The original BBC story states that 20% of Belarus was contaminated by Chernobyl fallout. Much of that land (probably everything aside from a bit that lies within the Chernobyl exclusion zone) is being used.

So tell me how do you plan on making all of the land usable again?

You can always reuse such land for industrial purposes. Or plant a crop that aggressively absorbs cesium or other problem isotopes.

Iirc the US has now done this at a Federal level with the SPEECH Act, however that only protects against libel cases where there would be an obvious 1st amendments defence in the US for the same "libel".

However, in this case, it isn't Twitter that is being sued for libel. The libel case is going on in the UK (technically E+W) and involves UK parties; Twitter is only being brought in as an innocent third party to hand over subscriber details. Twitter will likely have immunity under the SPEECH Act, so can't be sued for defamation in the US (it would probably be protected in the EU as well), but that's not the issue.

What might be more interested it see is whether, if this case gets anywhere, the Court finds that postings on Twitter count as slander or libel - the US doesn't have the distinction any more, but there are suggestions in earlier cases that transient internet postings might count as merely slander.

The US has not been perusing "an isolationist policy", but an imperialist/for profit one. It certainly has never been keeping to itself militarily, if that is what you were implying. Don't take my word for it, one of the most highly decorated Marines (Major General) of his day spelled it out pretty clearly:

"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."

On WW2:

The book is also interesting historically as Butler points out in 1935 that the US is engaging in military war games in the Pacific that are bound to provoke the Japanese.

"The Japanese, a proud people, of course will be pleased beyond expression to see the United States fleet so close to Nippon's shores. Even as pleased as would be the residents of California were they to dimly discern through the morning mist, the Japanese fleet playing at war games off Los Angeles."

"Butler's particular contribution was his recantation, denouncing war on moral grounds after having been a warrior hero and spending most of his life as a military insider. The theme remained vigorously patriotic and nationalistic, decrying imperialism as a disgrace rooted in the greed of a privileged few."

Well, that was expected. A couple of points:

1. As far as I know, it is not seriously disputed that many of the refugees did not leave voluntarily. If you don't know what I'm talking about, please read about Ramle, Lod, Al-Majdal and (more recently) Imwas, Yalo and Bayt Nuba.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Exodus_from_Lydda

If you read Hebrew, I'd also suggest this wikipedia article:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/he/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9F#.D7.91.D7.9E.D7.9C.D7.97.D7.9E.D7.AA_.D7.94.D7.A2.D7.A6.D7.9E.D7.90.D7.95.D7.AA

In most cases that I'm aware of, the bulk of the exodus occurred shortly before or after conquest, which undermines your proposed explanation - if the refugees' motives in leaving were as you propose, then one would expect them to evacuate somewhat ahead of the fighting.

2. There are several proposed explanations for the mass emigration and it's quite plausible that most of the causes suggested had played a part. Can you point out to any study that managed to conclusively quantify the motives of the refugees? Is such a study even possible, being as you wouldn't really expect them to be honest about their motives at the time, if their motives are what you say they were?

3. Returning to the original question of Hamas ideology, the motives that the refugees had are in fact entirely tangential. If we wish to understand why Hamas has the ideology it has, we must ask how the Palestinians perceived their history, rather than ask what actually happened. This is not to say that "what actually happened?" is not an important question in its own right - it certainly is. It's just not as relevant a question to understanding the origins of Hamas' ideology as the question "what did the Palestinians believe about the Nakba?".

Well, that was expected. A couple of points:

1. As far as I know, it is not seriously disputed that many of the refugees did not leave voluntarily. If you don't know what I'm talking about, please read about Ramle, Lod, Al-Majdal and (more recently) Imwas, Yalo and Bayt Nuba.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Exodus_from_Lydda

If you read Hebrew, I'd also suggest this wikipedia article:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/he/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9F#.D7.91.D7.9E.D7.9C.D7.97.D7.9E.D7.AA_.D7.94.D7.A2.D7.A6.D7.9E.D7.90.D7.95.D7.AA

In most cases that I'm aware of, the bulk of the exodus occurred shortly before or after conquest, which undermines your proposed explanation - if the refugees' motives in leaving were as you propose, then one would expect them to evacuate somewhat ahead of the fighting.

2. There are several proposed explanations for the mass emigration and it's quite plausible that most of the causes suggested had played a part. Can you point out to any study that managed to conclusively quantify the motives of the refugees? Is such a study even possible, being as you wouldn't really expect them to be honest about their motives at the time, if their motives are what you say they were?

3. Returning to the original question of Hamas ideology, the motives that the refugees had are in fact entirely tangential. If we wish to understand why Hamas has the ideology it has, we must ask how the Palestinians perceived their history, rather than ask what actually happened. This is not to say that "what actually happened?" is not an important question in its own right - it certainly is. It's just not as relevant a question to understanding the origins of Hamas' ideology as the question "what did the Palestinians believe about the Nakba?".

Well, that was expected. A couple of points:

1. As far as I know, it is not seriously disputed that many of the refugees did not leave voluntarily. If you don't know what I'm talking about, please read about Ramle, Lod, Al-Majdal and (more recently) Imwas, Yalo and Bayt Nuba.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Exodus_from_Lydda

If you read Hebrew, I'd also suggest this wikipedia article:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/he/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9F#.D7.91.D7.9E.D7.9C.D7.97.D7.9E.D7.AA_.D7.94.D7.A2.D7.A6.D7.9E.D7.90.D7.95.D7.AA

In most cases that I'm aware of, the bulk of the exodus occurred shortly before or after conquest, which undermines your proposed explanation - if the refugees' motives in leaving were as you propose, then one would expect them to evacuate somewhat ahead of the fighting.

2. There are several proposed explanations for the mass emigration and it's quite plausible that most of the causes suggested had played a part. Can you point out to any study that managed to conclusively quantify the motives of the refugees? Is such a study even possible, being as you wouldn't really expect them to be honest about their motives at the time, if their motives are what you say they were?

3. Returning to the original question of Hamas ideology, the motives that the refugees had are in fact entirely tangential. If we wish to understand why Hamas has the ideology it has, we must ask how the Palestinians perceived their history, rather than ask what actually happened. This is not to say that "what actually happened?" is not an important question in its own right - it certainly is. It's just not as relevant a question to understanding the origins of Hamas' ideology as the question "what did the Palestinians believe about the Nakba?".

I was hoping my wife could buy me a ticket as my retirement present, but looks like I have a wait a couple of years after that

Chinaman says we'll take your money now if you itch to ride.

This time was just over money, but there have been others who cancelled appearances when reminded of political issues. A very timely example is Gil-Scott Heron who passed away May 27, 2011.
From wikipedia:

'In 2010 he was due to play a gig in Tel Aviv, but this attracted criticism from Palestinian groups who stated "Your performance in Israel would be the equivalent to having performed in Sun City during South Africaâ(TM)s apartheid era... We hope that you will not play apartheid Israel." In response he cancelled the gig.'

Being a talented jazz musician and political poet, he undoubtedly had mixed feelings when some labeled him the grandfather of rap. What he did wasn't a thing for the kids, although he reached some of them too. He brought attention to what was going on in South Africa, he's the man who coined the phrase "The revolution will not be televised".

(an early track "Winter in America")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcHOq8i5Pyk

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/05/20115287194489734.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8362518.stm

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Gil-Scott_Heron

WTF? Everything I wrote is pretty much self-evident.

Getting their unclass network breached is a freaking obvious problem.

It is no secret that the military uses RSA tokens all over the place either. It is also no secret that RSA guards the source code at the heart of their authentication system pretty jealousy - not even including it in their SDK. And the idea that RSA tokens may now be duplicable due to the prior theft of that source was in the goddamn HEADLINE of the story here.

On the nature of the unauthorized source actually being deliberate - the government does that all the time.

As for the term "Lockmart" - everybody else in the industry and even some of their own employees use it, the ones who like to tweak the others that have a stick up their ass about it.

Too many federal law enforcement agencies.

Why does each agency needs its own heat packing force? The current system seems incredibly inefficient and prone to abuse. Why can't the FBI do investigative work so NASA can focus on aeronautics, space and ET?

That would be the artificial horizon unless i am mistaken.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Artificial_horizon

Still, that only tells you where the nose is pointing vs the horizon.

AOA is a bit more complicated:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Angle_of_attack

That would be the artificial horizon unless i am mistaken.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Artificial_horizon

Still, that only tells you where the nose is pointing vs the horizon.

AOA is a bit more complicated:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Angle_of_attack

Taking a look at the image of the same location on Wikipedia, I see that they've added "Do Not Climb" stickers on Luxo.

I wonder who was the moron that caused that to happen?

It is possible that they didn't lost the data, and could in fact be getting the wrong data making them act the way they did.

This appears to be the case of Birgenair Flight 301, which crashed and also had a faulty air speed indicator.