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Nuclear Warhead Blueprints On Smugglers' Computers
imrehg links to a story at the Guardian which begins "Blueprints for a sophisticated and compact nuclear warhead have been found in the computers of the world's most notorious nuclear-smuggling racket, according to a leading US researcher. The digital designs, found in heavily encrypted computer files in Switzerland, are believed to be in the possession of the US authorities and of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna, but investigators fear they could have been extensively copied and sold to 'rogue' states via the nuclear black market." Reader this great guy links to the New York Times article on the discovery, and asks "Given that
Khan's revelations were made in early 2004, does that mean it took the IAEA
1-2 years to brute-force the encryption?"
Energy will always be expensive for two reasons, capitalism and greed. Some would say they are one and the same.
when you criticize all of its faults in a vacuum of anything else happening in the world at the time
but this sort of analysis is essentially useless, if your aim is to actually better the world
if you're just kicking around the usa, well then fine, that's an international pasttime at this point. but aren't you interested in actually making the world a better place? (one would assume you would be, with your critical eye towards international events)
so now, for you to graduate to high school level analytical thinking, your next homework project is: analyze the usa's actions in context, rather than a vacuum
maybe, just maybe, you'll find yourself criticizing the actions of some other players in the world. and then, beleive it or not, you might actually be using your critical eye for the betterment of the world, for progress, for a neutral unbiased view of human failures
or... you could just stick with looking at american failures, which again, that's fine. but that's getting to be a tired empty game at this point, doncha think?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
What? Do you want to give cheap energy to everyone? Oh, the horror! Next time you will want everyone to eat everyday and have a decent house to live in. What are you, some terrible communist?
There are far to many people on this planet. Check out the enviromental destruction in places such as africa, brazil , east asia to plant food crops and on a lesser scale housing. Look at how little natural enviroment is left in places such as western europe and the USA not to mention the amount of energy 6 billion people consume - and hence the amount of CO2 produced.
You pig ignorant jackass.