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Why Are the Best and Brightest Not Flooding DARPA?
David W. White writes "Wired mag's Danger Room carried an article today that highlighted how desperate the US Military's DARPA has become in its attempts to bring in additional brain power. The tactics include filmed testimonials, folders and even playing cards all screaming join DARPA! Where are all the Einsteins who want to be on the cutting edge for the Government?"
I completely agree! And, no, I'm not posting anonymously! First Amendment right, BUSH!
PS: I don't reply to ACs.
Young techies tend to be progressive, as progressive as bush is regressive, as such they absolutely hate the Bush administration.
I sincerely would have enlisted with some arm of the military for the structured experience, but I will not associate myself with the bush government.
I get the feeling that a darpa under Obama will grow and prosper.
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Wow you are set dude! Good luck with all of that. A BS in Math and an MA in Economics - dude you have some good fortune coming your way. Enjoy - yes I am jealous but I will not let that impede my ability to wish yu well.
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The US has yet to purge potential opposition the way the USSR did so many times. Everything is in place but we have yet to go beyond economic assassination. Mass murder starts when the press is really beat down. We are very close, so watch out. After mass murder comes wars of conquest that will make Iraq and Iran look like Italy's North African wars.
I'm curious as to why? A New Zealander believing in the Iraqi and Afghanistani causes?
Kuhn may be popular with the so called 'philosophers' of science, but not too many actual scientists have much use for him or many of his ideas.
I am sure Kuhn fully expected this since his book was critical of scientists. That does not make him wrong, though.
The academy isn't full of a bunch of stodgy old fools who aren't able to keep up with change or adapt to new data or ideas. The academy of today is the same one that has produced many great minds of the past such as Einstein, Turing, and Planck
I'm glad you mentioned Turing because this is rather a propos. IMO, Turing and his ideas are the worse things to have happened to computer science (mod me down as a troll, if you hate Kuhn and/or the free flow of ideas). I am sure you'll disagree on what I have to say but hey, nobody has a monopoly on opinions. Consider that the computer industry is faced with three major crises: software unreliability, low productivity and the parallel programming problem. Guess what? Not one of Turing's supposedly brilliant ideas is of any help. Not a single one! You know why? It's because Turing's ideas are the cause of those crises. Now you may have a different opinion but the academic community is so enfatuated with Turing, that only a world-shaking revolution would displace Turing from his pedestal and replace the old guard with one that does not give a rat's behind about their idol. This is what Kuhn's work is about. Science is like religion and it becomes very entrenched in the status quo. That's too bad because an anti-Turing revolution is precisely what is going to happen to computer science. The time is ripe for a revolution.
Even if your weapon is used in a defensive mode? Remember that battles -- even attacks -- can be defensive in nature.
Recent events have people strictly thinking of the military as a vehicle of attack, but it's also a defensive organization. Without it, we'd have people flowing across our borders uncontrolled to take jobs mowing lawns, working in construction crews, forming violent gangs in Los Angeles...
I wouldn't want this for the US legal system for obvious reasons, but given the extingencies of war, allowing the US military access to industrialized nations' police force interrogation techniques seems reasonable.
And come on, if it were Clinton in Iraq now, and Clinton had listened to his generals, kept a tight reign on contractors, and not fucked up the occupation, would anyone really be complaining that the military was water boarding a half dozen assholes, and making some lesser assholes stand awkwardly for hours? Either one of those still sounds like a huge improvement over an Italian police "talk".