The NSA's job is signals intelligence, phones and computers are exactly what NSA does. Even the summary makes it clear that the NSA might be doing to citizens what the NSA does.
Ever since ECHELON chatter started 10-12 years ago, does anyone really think that the UK–USA Security Agreement nations hasn't been doing this?
The problem is that it'd be hard to track everyone at once, even with super computers and satellites like LACROSSE there are just too many people to track, so they can probably actively track a few thousand to a million people.
If they want to look up where anyone else is, they can hit phone location, email IP, social media logs, international and domestic flight, rail and mass transit tickets and easy passes.
Example - yesterday I traveled from Portland to Tacoma via Amtrak with a ticket (that would be in a database), I flew from Seatac to Anchorage and used a Passport for ID which was scanned. It would be trivial for NSA to know when I traveled, where I am and even what time my card paid for parking here in Alaska.
Nor did the United States, during the War of 1812 Canada wasn't a nation and none of the Generals or units of the British Army who burned Washington DC were Canadian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bladensburg#British Foot (Infantry) 1st Battalion, 4th (King's Own) Regiment of Foot - English 21st Regiment (Royal North British Fusiliers) - English with some Scots 1st Battalion, 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot - English 85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers)(Light Infantry) - English Royal Marines 2nd Battalion, commanded by Major Malcolm Companies of Colonial Marines from 3rd Battalion, commanded by Major Lewis Composite battalion (formed from ship-based Marines) commanded by Captain Robyns
The only units that can be considered the least bit "Canadian" are Companies of Colonial Marines from 3rd Battalion, commanded by Major Lewis and some of the Composite Battalion
Napoleon didn't have the Americas on the run, nor China, India, Africa, Ottoman Empire nor the Persian Empire, so his impact on the world is a little overstated.
Remember that the US almost declared war on France at the same time they declared war on the United Kingdom in 1812. The US wasn't scared of France then.
I never said they could go into orbit, I said NASA should have funded an orbital system. Scaled is already working on a suborbital spaceplane and Burt Rutan said he wants to build an orbital structure.
With the technologies available in the 1960s all the research done on the lunar samples and from orbit showed the Moon to be a dead, worthless rock in space.
The Mercury program was about increasing heavy lift to Low-Earth Orbit, the Gemini program was about working and maneuvering in Low-Earth Orbit while Apollo was about getting very large loads into Low-Earth Orbit and to the Moon.
Of all those programs, Gemini is the one we should have continued, an affordable and maneuverable system that could stay up for two weeks, more of a sports car in space while the Soyuz is a remote controlled car.
The current collapsed of NASA's manned space flight program isn't the fault of Bush, or Obama, it's the fault of NASA, since Challenger failed NASA has screwed up every attempt to make a successor to Shuttle. The day Scaled Composites flew to space, NASA should have sunk a billion dollars (one shuttle flight) into Scaled Composites to build an orbital space craft. But NASA didn't just like NASA never got a super-heavy lift rocket off the ground despite Congress telling them to in 1987 or NASA balling up two shuttle replacement programs in the 1990s.
It's being kept that way? That is completely wrong, the US, France, Pakistan, Italy and others intervened under a NATO resolution, tried to negotiate, tried to decapitate the forces destroying Somalia. Somalia, like Afghanistan is a place so fundamentally ruined right now there doesn't have to be anything keeping the status quo and there is no way to simply fix it.
Thats great and everything, but the US, French, British, South Africans aren't the only destabilizing influence, following decolonization in Africa the Soviets dumped thousands of tanks, thousands of aircraft, tens of thousands of large caliber weapons and millions of guns into Africa from 1960 through 1989.
For the region http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etheopia#Mengistu_Era "In 1977, there was the Ogaden War, when Somalia captured the part of the Ogaden region, but Ethiopia was able to recapture the Ogaden after receiving military aid from the USSR, Cuba, South Yemen, East Germany and North Korea, including around 15,000 Cuban combat troops."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia#Communist_rule "By 1978, the Somali troops were ultimately pushed out of the Ogaden. This shift in support by the Soviet Union motivated the Barre government to seek allies elsewhere. It eventually settled on Russia's Cold War arch-rival, the United States, which had been courting the Somali government for some time. All in all, Somalia's initial friendship with the Soviet Union and later partnership with the United States enabled it to build the largest army in Africa."
So the Soviets backed Somalia and loaded them with weapons, then Somalia starts to lose, the Soviets dump weapons into Ethiopia and the US back the Somalis, but all you care to cite are sources blaming it on the US.
4G is suposed to have "peak data rates of up to approximately 100 Mbit/s for high mobility such as mobile access and up to approximately 1 Gbit/s for low mobility such as nomadic/local wireless access, according to the ITU requirements."
LTE advanced release 8 currently supports up to 300 Mbit/s maximum
Food - if he hasn't had food delivered to his bowl by 11-11.15 am, he will walk out into the kitchen and start clawing at the refrigerator. If he is given food he doesn't like, he will nudge the bowl to the edge of his perch, then flip it onto the floor with his foot knowing he will now get new food.
Defecation - The Iguana is house broken, if for some reason he can't get to where he usually defecates, he will go behind the human toilet on the linoleum, with one exception. If I (his original adopter) go away for a week or so, when I return the Iguana will spend about a month trying to defecate in my shoes. Not on them, not on or in anyone else's, he will sniff out my shoes or boots, position his vent so he can defecate right in them.
Doing something wrong - If he his verbally chastised for "doing something wrong", and returned to his perch, he will spend 30-60 minutes observing the humans, then will try to do the exact same thing but by taking a route that is different and more out of the way. If he was caught charging across the middle of a room, the second time he will skirt the edge of the room by crawling near the walls.
Empathy - When I was recovering from an operation once, he spent 10 days of his awake time staring at me while I recovered from the operation. Once when he had escaped outside and was running around, my wife fell while trying to corral him and broke her arm, upon her fall he immediately stopped his "rampage" and was standing next to her, as she was now unconscious, sniffing her with his tongue.
Cats - My wife has two cats, the Iguana hadn't been around cats for about 12 years when he had to meet her cats. A week after moving in he did three things, he took over one of their favorite window basking spots and a cat bed they liked. Then he chased one of the cats around the house in a bizarre low speed chase, chasing one of the cats up a cat tree. The second cat had gotten out of the way on a leather rocking chair, the Iguana hit the chair with his tail to make it rock, looked the cat in the eye for a moment, then turned away. Two years later he still chases the first cat and is friendly with the second cat, even allowing it to sit near him in the evenings.
No, President Obama could have had some spine and cut some military procurements that are spiraling out of control, the Bush White House did it to the Future Combat System, Comanche, Paladin, DD-21.
But President Obama keeps shoveling money into bad programs like KC-46, JSF, DD-1000, LCS.
Don't blame Bush for NASA's failing and Congress's inability to fund it properly, Republicans generally support NASA stronger than Democrats because states with heavy NASA presence generally vote Republican (Florida, Texas) and NASA goes hand in hand with military spending.
If you look at NASA spending and NASA foes in Congress its almost always cut by Democrats even during the Apollo era. Walter Mondale was the biggest foe of Apollo and personally made it his mission to cut funding to NASA
"This item involves a fundamental and profound decision about the future direction of the manned space flight era. This is, in fact, the next moon-type program. I believe it would be unconscionable to embark on a project of such staggering cost when many of our citizens are malnourished, when our rivers and lakes are polluted, and when our cities and rural areas are dying. What are our values? What do we think is more important?"
"Mondale then offered his amendment again, as he sought to delete the $110 million for the Shuttle/station as an appropriation."
Once Johnson got the Presidency, NASA started being defunded, then it goes up under Reagan, Bush, down and up and down under Clinton and up under Bush.
The Interstate Highway System was always about strategic mobility in North America with a secondary role of commercial road network.
That's why it's name is - Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
Eisenhower was involved in the first motorized convoy across the US, the 1919 Army Convoy on the Lincoln Highway, it took 4 months to get across the US by road.
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The NSA's job is signals intelligence, phones and computers are exactly what NSA does. Even the summary makes it clear that the NSA might be doing to citizens what the NSA does.
And this is nothing at all new.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence)
And Crime 101.
Ever since ECHELON chatter started 10-12 years ago, does anyone really think that the UK–USA Security Agreement nations hasn't been doing this?
The problem is that it'd be hard to track everyone at once, even with super computers and satellites like LACROSSE there are just too many people to track, so they can probably actively track a few thousand to a million people.
If they want to look up where anyone else is, they can hit phone location, email IP, social media logs, international and domestic flight, rail and mass transit tickets and easy passes.
Example - yesterday I traveled from Portland to Tacoma via Amtrak with a ticket (that would be in a database), I flew from Seatac to Anchorage and used a Passport for ID which was scanned. It would be trivial for NSA to know when I traveled, where I am and even what time my card paid for parking here in Alaska.
The Mitrokhin Archive has very good documentation of KGB, Stasi and other Soviet Bloc manipulation of the Leftist movements in NATO countries.
Nor did the United States, during the War of 1812 Canada wasn't a nation and none of the Generals or units of the British Army who burned Washington DC were Canadian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ross_(general) - Anglo-Irish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cockburn - English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bladensburg#British
Foot (Infantry)
1st Battalion, 4th (King's Own) Regiment of Foot - English
21st Regiment (Royal North British Fusiliers) - English with some Scots
1st Battalion, 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot - English
85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers)(Light Infantry) - English
Royal Marines
2nd Battalion, commanded by Major Malcolm
Companies of Colonial Marines from 3rd Battalion, commanded by Major Lewis
Composite battalion (formed from ship-based Marines) commanded by Captain Robyns
The only units that can be considered the least bit "Canadian" are Companies of Colonial Marines from 3rd Battalion, commanded by Major Lewis and some of the Composite Battalion
Napoleon didn't have the Americas on the run, nor China, India, Africa, Ottoman Empire nor the Persian Empire, so his impact on the world is a little overstated.
Remember that the US almost declared war on France at the same time they declared war on the United Kingdom in 1812. The US wasn't scared of France then.
I never said they could go into orbit, I said NASA should have funded an orbital system. Scaled is already working on a suborbital spaceplane and Burt Rutan said he wants to build an orbital structure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipThree
Boeing, Grumman, Northrop, Martin were all AIRCRAFT companies in 1961 yet all made bids on Apollo.
http://www.ehartwell.com/LM/SCATOrganization.htm
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4205/app-f.html
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/app-e.htm
McDonnell Aircraft was prime contractor for both Mercury and Gemini.
Scaled had already built a technology demonstrator for NASA in the 1990s, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X#Flight_testing
Maybe you should work on learning about the history of commercial contractors and the US space program a little.
There was no reason to go back.
With the technologies available in the 1960s all the research done on the lunar samples and from orbit showed the Moon to be a dead, worthless rock in space.
The Mercury program was about increasing heavy lift to Low-Earth Orbit, the Gemini program was about working and maneuvering in Low-Earth Orbit while Apollo was about getting very large loads into Low-Earth Orbit and to the Moon.
Of all those programs, Gemini is the one we should have continued, an affordable and maneuverable system that could stay up for two weeks, more of a sports car in space while the Soyuz is a remote controlled car.
The current collapsed of NASA's manned space flight program isn't the fault of Bush, or Obama, it's the fault of NASA, since Challenger failed NASA has screwed up every attempt to make a successor to Shuttle. The day Scaled Composites flew to space, NASA should have sunk a billion dollars (one shuttle flight) into Scaled Composites to build an orbital space craft. But NASA didn't just like NASA never got a super-heavy lift rocket off the ground despite Congress telling them to in 1987 or NASA balling up two shuttle replacement programs in the 1990s.
The B-52 was designed in a hotel over a weekend with sketches on the notepad in the room and calculations done on a roll of toilet paper.
I've seen designers comment on it in documentaries, but the official Boeing history of it's design weekend leaves that bit out.
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/b52-strat/b52_50th/design.htm
You got me grandpa. Now watch one of the double digits is going to come stumbling out of their grave.
Quiet down youngster.
The US under President Bush sent forces in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Civil_War#United_Nations_intervention_.281992.E2.80.931995.29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNOSOM_I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNOSOM_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNITAF
It's being kept that way? That is completely wrong, the US, France, Pakistan, Italy and others intervened under a NATO resolution, tried to negotiate, tried to decapitate the forces destroying Somalia. Somalia, like Afghanistan is a place so fundamentally ruined right now there doesn't have to be anything keeping the status quo and there is no way to simply fix it.
Thats great and everything, but the US, French, British, South Africans aren't the only destabilizing influence, following decolonization in Africa the Soviets dumped thousands of tanks, thousands of aircraft, tens of thousands of large caliber weapons and millions of guns into Africa from 1960 through 1989.
For the region
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etheopia#Mengistu_Era
"In 1977, there was the Ogaden War, when Somalia captured the part of the Ogaden region, but Ethiopia was able to recapture the Ogaden after receiving military aid from the USSR, Cuba, South Yemen, East Germany and North Korea, including around 15,000 Cuban combat troops."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia#Communist_rule
"By 1978, the Somali troops were ultimately pushed out of the Ogaden. This shift in support by the Soviet Union motivated the Barre government to seek allies elsewhere. It eventually settled on Russia's Cold War arch-rival, the United States, which had been courting the Somali government for some time. All in all, Somalia's initial friendship with the Soviet Union and later partnership with the United States enabled it to build the largest army in Africa."
So the Soviets backed Somalia and loaded them with weapons, then Somalia starts to lose, the Soviets dump weapons into Ethiopia and the US back the Somalis, but all you care to cite are sources blaming it on the US.
The Vikings didn't invent that business practice, the Mayans did it 500 years before the Vikings and the Aegean and Sardinian pirates predate them
The hell you can't save a file to the iPad.
If you took 5-10 minutes and installed some apps, even free ones, you can do all the things you say you can't do on an iPad.
Just because you don't have the patience or knowledge to do something doesn't mean it can't be done.
US Navy routinely tapped Soviet and likely still taps Russian Federation undersea communication cables.
This is the boat that most likely does it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter_(SSN-23)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells
That include platform fragmentation?
I really want that!
Even their "4G" networks aren't 4G.
4G is suposed to have "peak data rates of up to approximately 100 Mbit/s for high mobility such as mobile access and up to approximately 1 Gbit/s for low mobility such as nomadic/local wireless access, according to the ITU requirements."
LTE advanced release 8 currently supports up to 300 Mbit/s maximum
Food - if he hasn't had food delivered to his bowl by 11-11.15 am, he will walk out into the kitchen and start clawing at the refrigerator.
If he is given food he doesn't like, he will nudge the bowl to the edge of his perch, then flip it onto the floor with his foot knowing he will now get new food.
Defecation - The Iguana is house broken, if for some reason he can't get to where he usually defecates, he will go behind the human toilet on the linoleum, with one exception.
If I (his original adopter) go away for a week or so, when I return the Iguana will spend about a month trying to defecate in my shoes. Not on them, not on or in anyone else's, he will sniff out my shoes or boots, position his vent so he can defecate right in them.
Doing something wrong - If he his verbally chastised for "doing something wrong", and returned to his perch, he will spend 30-60 minutes observing the humans, then will try to do the exact same thing but by taking a route that is different and more out of the way. If he was caught charging across the middle of a room, the second time he will skirt the edge of the room by crawling near the walls.
Empathy - When I was recovering from an operation once, he spent 10 days of his awake time staring at me while I recovered from the operation.
Once when he had escaped outside and was running around, my wife fell while trying to corral him and broke her arm, upon her fall he immediately stopped his "rampage" and was standing next to her, as she was now unconscious, sniffing her with his tongue.
Cats - My wife has two cats, the Iguana hadn't been around cats for about 12 years when he had to meet her cats. A week after moving in he did three things, he took over one of their favorite window basking spots and a cat bed they liked. Then he chased one of the cats around the house in a bizarre low speed chase, chasing one of the cats up a cat tree. The second cat had gotten out of the way on a leather rocking chair, the Iguana hit the chair with his tail to make it rock, looked the cat in the eye for a moment, then turned away. Two years later he still chases the first cat and is friendly with the second cat, even allowing it to sit near him in the evenings.
Ted Stevens is dead.
Nope, NASA funding kept going up during the Iraq War.
This and a lack of a Shuttle replacement is 100% because of NASA's inability to innovate and manage a program.
No, President Obama could have had some spine and cut some military procurements that are spiraling out of control, the Bush White House did it to the Future Combat System, Comanche, Paladin, DD-21.
But President Obama keeps shoveling money into bad programs like KC-46, JSF, DD-1000, LCS.
Don't blame Bush for NASA's failing and Congress's inability to fund it properly, Republicans generally support NASA stronger than Democrats because states with heavy NASA presence generally vote Republican (Florida, Texas) and NASA goes hand in hand with military spending.
If you look at NASA spending and NASA foes in Congress its almost always cut by Democrats even during the Apollo era. Walter Mondale was the biggest foe of Apollo and personally made it his mission to cut funding to NASA
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/ch4.htm
"This item involves a fundamental and profound decision about the future direction of the manned space flight era. This is, in fact, the next moon-type program. I believe it would be unconscionable to embark on a project of such staggering cost when many of our citizens are malnourished, when our rivers and lakes are polluted, and when our cities and rural areas are dying. What are our values? What do we think is more important?"
"Mondale then offered his amendment again, as he sought to delete the $110 million for the Shuttle/station as an appropriation."
Once Johnson got the Presidency, NASA started being defunded, then it goes up under Reagan, Bush, down and up and down under Clinton and up under Bush.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_budget_linegraph_BH.PNG
The Interstate Highway System was always about strategic mobility in North America with a secondary role of commercial road network.
That's why it's name is - Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
Eisenhower was involved in the first motorized convoy across the US, the 1919 Army Convoy on the Lincoln Highway, it took 4 months to get across the US by road.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcontinental_Motor_Convoy