This field manual was never classified. The entire world saw it at the same time that it became US doctrine.
Perhaps you should actually read the thing instead of relying on the wildly inaccurate summary from wikileaks. Here are some quotes from the field manual:
Insurgencies arise when the government is unable or unwilling to redress the demands of important social groups. These groups band together and begin to use violence to change the governmentâ(TM)s position. Insurgencies are often a coalition of disparate forces united by their common enmity for the government. To be successful, an insurgency must develop unifying leadership, doctrine, organization, and strategy. Only the seeds of these elements exist when an insurgency begins; the insurgents must continually nurture and provide the necessary care if the insurgency is to mature and succeed.
Insurgencies succeed by mobilizing human and materiel resources to provide both active and passive support for their programs, operations, and goals. Mobilization produces workers and fighters, raises funds, and acquires the necessary weapons, equipment, and supplies. Mobilization grows out of intense, popular dissatisfaction with existing political and social conditions. The active supporters of the insurgency consider these conditions intolerable. The insurgent leadership articulates its dissatisfaction, places the blame on government, and offers an alternative. The insurgent leadership then provides organizational and management skills to transform disaffected people into an effective force for political action. Ultimately, the insurgents need the active support of a majority of the politically active people and the passive acquiescence of the general populace.
Psychological Operations: To defeat an insurgency, the HN government must retain or regain the confidence and support of its people. The objective of an IDAD [internal defense and development] program is not to kill or even capture the insurgents. It is to convince them to abandon a hopeless or worthless cause and support the HN government. PSYOP must therefore be an integral and vital part of an IDAD program. SF soldiers may have to educate their HN counterparts in the value and role of PSYOP in FID. They must then advise and assist HN forces in developing and implementing an effective PSYOP program. Thats the type of stuff that's in there. Explaining how insurgencies are caused because insurgents are put in a bad position, and the solution is to fix the bad position they're in.
After you've read this one, find some of the infantry tactics field manuals (They're all unclassified, and available straight from the US Government).
They're actually much more graphic.
In summary, you should really read the source, rather than trust the abstract pulled from it by a website who's main goal is to sensationalize things to gain advertising revenue.
You beat me to it. Using molten metal as a weapon isn't really Clark's idea. The only thing that Clark added to the equation was using magnets to propel the molten metal. We've been using molten metal created by shaped charges as a penetrator in rockets and missiles since World War II. Replacing the slug with a warhead is the next logical step when you get a working railgun.
I'm pretty sure the hippies don't want you destroying the habitat of all those cave dwelling creatures, so you're going to have to find some place else to live.
Oh, I forgot, cave-dwelling creatures generally aren't cute and cuddly, so hippies don't care about them.
I think a more apt comparison would be:
"And I think you'll see that thanks to the fact that everything I own is either bolted to the floor or inside a vault, the fact that I leave my windows unlatched is not a critical security issue."
Imagined answers (continued):
>We've been looking for a few satellites to test out our new ground based anti-satellite missiles and lasers on. Yours look like they're just the right size!
uhhh.... let me get back to you on that price.
I would have much rather seen Take Two continue with their contempt of court case (which looked pretty strong) and get this attention whore thrown in jail. The guy acts like a madman when he gets on the subject of violent games and has a long history of frivolous lawsuits against the gaming industry, so I can't imagine it would have been difficult for them to succeed in their second filing.
I work for a 45,000 employee defense contractor/technology company. At my site we are forbidden from using IE because of security issues and must use firefox or some other browser.
Our corporate HR website, which we must use to do our performance evaluations, benefits changes, and other administrivia doesn't work (actually rejects, won't even try to work) with anything other than IE.
WTF?
How this will reduce power usage? The same amount of heat is going to be generated by the computer equipment, it's going to get transferred out by the oil much better than traditional air cooling, but then the oil will still be transferring the heat to the server room. It's not like the oil is making energy disappear, it's just holding on to more of it and moving it away from the computer faster. The heat will still eventually be moved to the air in the server room, which will still need to be cooled to avoid overheating.
Why aren't the Music Labels who are offering the payola being fined as well? If the police see a drug deal, both the buyer and the seller will be arrested. How is this any different?
I'd certainly like to know. I've got a decent chunk of change sitting in my retirement accounts that i could throw one hell of a world-ending party with.
Judging by the number of times that Commodore has been liquidated and sold, I don't really see how new company releasing computers under an old (albeit famous) name which it bought the rights to is much news...
Awesome, glad to see that Sony's PR department has at least changed tactics from "blatantly lieing in press releases to counteract bad reviews" to "trying to convince people that all those bad reviews don't matter."
Hopefully one day, they'll change tactics again to "making a reasonably priced product that people actually want to buy" to avoid all the bad press to begin with. Dodging bullets is a lot easier when there aren't any heading towards you.
I agree that it would be a good idea in the situation that you're proposing, where it's a pay service and full version software, then Adobe would effectivley be providing a centralized "floating licence" server to allow those who purchase a license to use the full version software from anywhere they can connect to their server. However, Adobe is planning on a version of the software even more stripped down than Photoshop Elements and releasing it as an ad-supported free service. This is why i used the comparison to picasa and gimp, They're not as powerful as Photoshop, but they're free and get the job done. (picasa has simple to use image editing software in addition to their hosting service. My father likes using it because the UI is very intuitive and it doesn't require much technical understanding of either photography or image editing.)
Seems like it will be an interesting experiment in software as a service, but media editing seems to be a bad fit for the "software as an online service" model due to the high bandwidth & processing demands. The math has to be done either on the user's end (which would be bad for folks with low spec systems, who i see as the primary target for this business model) or on Adobe's systems (which will cost them money, decreasing their bottom line). Anyone with experience in the field have any compelling reasons why one would chose to use adobe's online photoshop rather than just using picasa or gimp?
Are you saying that the.toCapitalized() method would change the string itself from ("hello") to ("Hello") or it would return a new string?
I mean would the method be declared public void toCapitalized() or public String toCapitalized() ? I was assuming that he wanted the former, which is impossible with an immutable string. The latter trivial would be trivial to implement as a utility method and has little to do with the underlying design decision to make strings immutable, which is why i assumed that the AC was focusing his complaints on the actual class design, rather than the utility methods associated with it. It's silly to complain about a lack of a utility function, they're easy to implement and no class is going to have every single one that you want. Where's my public String toLeet() to change ("hello") into ("h3LL0")? Complaining about overall design makes more sense, that's why I was focusing on that.
Java Strings can't capitalize themselves for security and performance reasons. Immutable strings prevent people from mucking with the string's contents while you aren't paying attention (from another thread, or in a subclass of String), and having a constant fixed length prevents unnecessary memory allocation. The class is also implemented as final for these reasons. StringBuffer is the class that should implement the capatalize() function, but unfortunatley it's missing there too. =P
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We've been using molten metal as a weapon since World War II. The most prevalant example is probably the shaped charge rocked fired by RPG-7's.
You beat me to it. Using molten metal as a weapon isn't really Clark's idea. The only thing that Clark added to the equation was using magnets to propel the molten metal. We've been using molten metal created by shaped charges as a penetrator in rockets and missiles since World War II. Replacing the slug with a warhead is the next logical step when you get a working railgun.
I'm pretty sure the hippies don't want you destroying the habitat of all those cave dwelling creatures, so you're going to have to find some place else to live.
Oh, I forgot, cave-dwelling creatures generally aren't cute and cuddly, so hippies don't care about them.
Carry on.
What about the severe beatings handed out by older brothers? A few good shots to the head could easily account for those missing IQ points.
I think a more apt comparison would be: "And I think you'll see that thanks to the fact that everything I own is either bolted to the floor or inside a vault, the fact that I leave my windows unlatched is not a critical security issue."
Imagined answers (continued): >We've been looking for a few satellites to test out our new ground based anti-satellite missiles and lasers on. Yours look like they're just the right size! uhhh.... let me get back to you on that price.
Because governments award contracts to the lowest bidder, not the lowest bidder capable of doing the job correctly.
I would have much rather seen Take Two continue with their contempt of court case (which looked pretty strong) and get this attention whore thrown in jail. The guy acts like a madman when he gets on the subject of violent games and has a long history of frivolous lawsuits against the gaming industry, so I can't imagine it would have been difficult for them to succeed in their second filing.
I work for a 45,000 employee defense contractor/technology company. At my site we are forbidden from using IE because of security issues and must use firefox or some other browser. Our corporate HR website, which we must use to do our performance evaluations, benefits changes, and other administrivia doesn't work (actually rejects, won't even try to work) with anything other than IE. WTF?
Yeah, but the English and the French hate each other, the Americans and the Russians.... Oh, wait, nevermind.
How this will reduce power usage? The same amount of heat is going to be generated by the computer equipment, it's going to get transferred out by the oil much better than traditional air cooling, but then the oil will still be transferring the heat to the server room. It's not like the oil is making energy disappear, it's just holding on to more of it and moving it away from the computer faster. The heat will still eventually be moved to the air in the server room, which will still need to be cooled to avoid overheating.
If they're as accurate at predicting storms on the sun as they are here on earth, I'll believe them when it's happening.
Yeah, the carpet's cheap, but shipping rates to the moon are a bit steep.
Why aren't the Music Labels who are offering the payola being fined as well? If the police see a drug deal, both the buyer and the seller will be arrested. How is this any different?
I'd certainly like to know. I've got a decent chunk of change sitting in my retirement accounts that i could throw one hell of a world-ending party with.
Judging by the number of times that Commodore has been liquidated and sold, I don't really see how new company releasing computers under an old (albeit famous) name which it bought the rights to is much news...
Awesome, glad to see that Sony's PR department has at least changed tactics from "blatantly lieing in press releases to counteract bad reviews" to "trying to convince people that all those bad reviews don't matter."
Hopefully one day, they'll change tactics again to "making a reasonably priced product that people actually want to buy" to avoid all the bad press to begin with. Dodging bullets is a lot easier when there aren't any heading towards you.
I agree that it would be a good idea in the situation that you're proposing, where it's a pay service and full version software, then Adobe would effectivley be providing a centralized "floating licence" server to allow those who purchase a license to use the full version software from anywhere they can connect to their server. However, Adobe is planning on a version of the software even more stripped down than Photoshop Elements and releasing it as an ad-supported free service. This is why i used the comparison to picasa and gimp, They're not as powerful as Photoshop, but they're free and get the job done. (picasa has simple to use image editing software in addition to their hosting service. My father likes using it because the UI is very intuitive and it doesn't require much technical understanding of either photography or image editing.)
Lying about having a Liberal Arts degree.... that's a new level of desperation. ;)
Seems like it will be an interesting experiment in software as a service, but media editing seems to be a bad fit for the "software as an online service" model due to the high bandwidth & processing demands. The math has to be done either on the user's end (which would be bad for folks with low spec systems, who i see as the primary target for this business model) or on Adobe's systems (which will cost them money, decreasing their bottom line). Anyone with experience in the field have any compelling reasons why one would chose to use adobe's online photoshop rather than just using picasa or gimp?
I think you mean Boston :)
Are you saying that the .toCapitalized() method would change the string itself from ("hello") to ("Hello") or it would return a new string?
I mean would the method be declared public void toCapitalized() or public String toCapitalized() ? I was assuming that he wanted the former, which is impossible with an immutable string. The latter trivial would be trivial to implement as a utility method and has little to do with the underlying design decision to make strings immutable, which is why i assumed that the AC was focusing his complaints on the actual class design, rather than the utility methods associated with it. It's silly to complain about a lack of a utility function, they're easy to implement and no class is going to have every single one that you want. Where's my public String toLeet() to change ("hello") into ("h3LL0")? Complaining about overall design makes more sense, that's why I was focusing on that.
Java Strings can't capitalize themselves for security and performance reasons. Immutable strings prevent people from mucking with the string's contents while you aren't paying attention (from another thread, or in a subclass of String), and having a constant fixed length prevents unnecessary memory allocation. The class is also implemented as final for these reasons. StringBuffer is the class that should implement the capatalize() function, but unfortunatley it's missing there too. =P
Here are some facts, you should try using them when you post, It makes you sound more intelligent. The only category the US leads in is budget. ( I'm ignoring the Navy figures, they appear to be including decommissioned ships in their counts, I do not consider a floating museum to be of short term strategic military value.)