At a million square feet, the mammoth $2 billion structure will be one-third larger than the US Capitol and will use the same amount of energy as every house in Salt Lake City combined.
...
Lacking adequate space and power at its city-sized Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters, the NSA is also completing work on another data archive, this one in San Antonio, Texas, which will be nearly the size of the Alamodome.
Now, if only the NSA released their specs in terms of Libraries of Congress....
The history of flu vaccination suggests other reasons to doubt claims that it dramatically reduces mortality. In 2004, for example, vaccine production fell behind, causing a 40 percent drop in immunization rates. Yet mortality did not rise. In addition, vaccine “mismatches” occurred in 1968 and 1997: in both years, the vaccine that had been produced in the summer protected against one set of viruses, but come winter, a different set was circulating. In effect, nobody was vaccinated. Yet death rates from all causes, including flu and the various illnesses it can exacerbate, did not budge.
That magical polio vaccine, which is now being given in Nigeria in the form of a nasal spray (just like the current influenza vaccine being given out now) has mutated and been responsible for causing the current outbreak there.
Everyone who got the polio vaccine in the US has been exposed to SV 40, one of many viruses in vaccines that have been found to cause cancer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvsXrVkjyz4
When you get a vaccine you are getting many unknown viruses, proteins and random DNA fragments that are grown with the vaccine in whatever substance is used. There has never been a study of long term effects on what these can do to you.
The nutrient solution for the vaccine consists of cancerous cells from animals and "we do not know if there could be an allergic reaction".
But more importantly, some people fear that the risk of cancer could be increased by injecting the cells.
The vaccine - as Johannes Löwer, president of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, has pointed out - can also cause worse side effects than the actual swine flu virus.
Wodrag also described people’s fear of the pandemic as an "orchestration": “It is great business for the pharmaceutical industry,” he told the ‘Neuen Presse’.
Swine flu is not very different from normal flu. “On the contrary if you look at the number of cases it is nothing compared to a normal flu outbreak,” he added.
But please fearmonger about the plague and polio without looking at any associated risks with getting vaccinated for everything that may make most people sick for a few days.
Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.
What you don't understand is that part of the CIA has ALWAYS had an investment arm, even before the CIA and OSS existed. The CIA was born out of the private intelligence networks already well established by Wall Street, hence why so many of the early CIA was filled and run by Ivy League schools and Yale's Skull and Bones crowd.
The second round of funding into Facebook ($US12.7 million) came from venture capital firm Accel Partners. Its manager James Breyer was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm established by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1999. One of the company's key areas of expertise are in "data mining technologies".
Since 1947 the CIA and other intelligence activities have been more and more privatized. They have always used front companies. Search for the Northwoods Documents, which were authored in the late 1950's.
Many have argued that E.O 12333 privatized a lot of intelligence work. Read Confessions of an Economic Hitman if you want to know one reason why they do this.
This is really only news to people who don't pay attention.
The right question is who cares when the NSA is spending $2 billion just on the structure for a building (1 million square feet big) to house computers which will do who knows what for signals intelligence. Not to mention another facility in San Antonio being built which will be the size of the Alomodome.
Let's not care about that but nitpick over something ~1% the size and far less destructive to our liberties.
Read the termination without prior notification part again. It says they can lock anyone out at any time for no reason other than that they feel like doing it.
Exactly. It means they can ban you without proof as long as they "feel" you may have broken a rule.
When I quit WoW I decided to sell all of my gold. A day after selling the gold I was told I was banned for doing things against the essence of Warcraft. It didn't specifically mention selling gold or any cheat, just Warcraft's essence.
It was the best ban I've received in any game to tell the truth.
The insert on FluMist, which is being given to all healthcare workers states:
FluMist® recipients should avoid close contact with immunocompromised individuals for at least 21 days.
Why would it say that? Since it is not a killed virus, it can stay in the nasal passage for 3 weeks and easily shed and infect others. Health care workers spend a lot of their time with people who have compromised immune systems. I thought the point of vaccination was to not spread it, yet they'll be doing that by using this vaccine. Many hospitals around the country have recognized this and won't be giving FluMist to their workers.
Not only that, but it is completely pointless to vaccinate now. Most predict the flu season to peak soon, much earlier than normal. It takes close to a month for a vaccine to give you immunity. During that time you can easily catch and spread the flu.
Ads for Ghost Rider really enhanced people's experience of Battlefield 2142.
Watching Will Smith get his "vintage" Converse All-Stars in I, Robot really helped me become immersed in the future and illusion of a dystopian future (not to mention the 100's of other ads in that movie).
'Though the Xbox doesn't have the number one market share, it is the top target for hackers,
This phrase says everything.
It does have the number one market share for paid online subscriptions, which means it'll be a big target for phishers. Xbox live accounts have real value, which means it will be a target for hackers and phishers.
Entropy, how can I explain it? I'll take it frame by frame it, to have you all jumping, shouting saying it. Let's just say that it's a measure of disorder, in a system that is closed, like with a border. It's sorta, like a, well a measurement of randomness, proposed in 1850 by a German, but wait I digress. "What the fuck is entropy?", I here the people still exclaiming, it seems I gotta start the explaining.
You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break? You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake. But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true, if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new.
That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y, the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die. Order from disorder is a scientific rarity, allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity. Did I say rarity? I meant impossibility, at least in a closed system there will always be more entropy. That's entropy and I hope that you're all down with it, if you are here's your membership.
Chorus You down with entropy? Yeah, you know me! (x3) Who's down with entropy? Every last homey!
Verse 2 Defining entropy as disorder's not complete, 'cause disorder as a definition doesn't cover heat. So my first definition I would now like to withdraw, and offer one that fits thermodynamics second law. First we need to understand that entropy is energy, energy that can't be used to state it more specifically. In a closed system entropy always goes up, that's the second law, now you know what's up.
You can't win, you can't break even, you can't leave the game, 'cause entropy will take it all 'though it seems a shame. The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state, that entropy must increase and not dissipate.
Creationists always try to use the second law, to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw. The second law is quite precise about where it applies, only in a closed system must the entropy count rise. The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun, so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun! That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about, you're now down with a discount.
Don't worry, I'm sure it was with money the government borrowed at interest from a bank which was bailed out by the government months before with money borrowed at interest from a different bank. That money was then giving to this person to produce nothing of use, instead of him working at a manufacturing job, which only exist at your local restaurant or shipping center.
You mean like C-SPAN where you can watch congress debate but its so annoyingly boring that no one watches it?
C-span is awesome if you know when to watch. Most bills and debates are exceedingly boring but there are many which were the exact opposite. I skipped work to watch the debate on the $700 billion banking take over bill. Recently I watched the hearing on HR1207, which is a bill to audit the federal reserve. It was entertaining watching some congressmen, like Alan Grayson grill these officials.
They always have public officials on for call-ins. Recently Michael Chertoff was on and was asked amazing questions for 10 minutes before they stopped taking calls. It was the first time I've seen them stop questions so early as the usual format is 10 minutes with the host, then 50 minutes of calls.
One of my favorite youtube channels was CSPAN Junkie, but it was taken down under dubious reasons in early August. It had 1000's of videos of great clips only from C-SPAN.
What you forget is that every time these companies consolidate it is approved by all the regulating bodies of the government, whether it be the FCC or FTC.
These companies have yet to do what you've said they will do on a large scale although there is supposedly nothing stopping them. What is stopping them is their customers. People won't stand for it. If you allow the government to regulate the internet in this way it opens the door to these companies lobbying the government to change the rules in their favor.
The net neutrality regulation proposals as they stand now are good, but it opens the door for more regulations in the future. Don't say it won't happen because it has in every other industry.
The consumers are the ones who should be demanding net neutrality. If you allow the government to do it you are immasculating the consumer and ensuring a future of shitty internet.
Considering that a mobile phone is always in your pocket and being moved around, isn't there a way to tap the kinetic energy to send small recharges to the battery throughout the day. This won't be enough to never have to charge, but may delay the time between charges enough to make it worthwhile...
Like Rolex watches or something.
I don't need more excuses to throw people's cell phones out of windows.
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The Soviets were no Nazi's when it came to record keeping. In fact it was so bad people would disappear from photographs!
The NSA already has Google beat.
At a million square feet, the mammoth $2 billion structure will be one-third larger than the US Capitol and will use the same amount of energy as every house in Salt Lake City combined.
...
Lacking adequate space and power at its city-sized Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters, the NSA is also completing work on another data archive, this one in San Antonio, Texas, which will be nearly the size of the Alamodome.
Now, if only the NSA released their specs in terms of Libraries of Congress....
This is an influenza virus we're talking about. There are plenty of studies showing that getting vaccinated for influenza is completely pointless.
Please read this story in The Atlantic.
From page 2:
The history of flu vaccination suggests other reasons to doubt claims that it dramatically reduces mortality. In 2004, for example, vaccine production fell behind, causing a 40 percent drop in immunization rates. Yet mortality did not rise. In addition, vaccine “mismatches” occurred in 1968 and 1997: in both years, the vaccine that had been produced in the summer protected against one set of viruses, but come winter, a different set was circulating. In effect, nobody was vaccinated. Yet death rates from all causes, including flu and the various illnesses it can exacerbate, did not budge.
That magical polio vaccine, which is now being given in Nigeria in the form of a nasal spray (just like the current influenza vaccine being given out now) has mutated and been responsible for causing the current outbreak there.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-08-14-nigeria-polio_N.htm
Everyone who got the polio vaccine in the US has been exposed to SV 40, one of many viruses in vaccines that have been found to cause cancer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvsXrVkjyz4
When you get a vaccine you are getting many unknown viruses, proteins and random DNA fragments that are grown with the vaccine in whatever substance is used. There has never been a study of long term effects on what these can do to you.
Doctors in Germany have been warning about this.
The nutrient solution for the vaccine consists of cancerous cells from animals and "we do not know if there could be an allergic reaction".
But more importantly, some people fear that the risk of cancer could be increased by injecting the cells.
The vaccine - as Johannes Löwer, president of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, has pointed out - can also cause worse side effects than the actual swine flu virus.
Wodrag also described people’s fear of the pandemic as an "orchestration": “It is great business for the pharmaceutical industry,” he told the ‘Neuen Presse’.
Swine flu is not very different from normal flu. “On the contrary if you look at the number of cases it is nothing compared to a normal flu outbreak,” he added.
But please fearmonger about the plague and polio without looking at any associated risks with getting vaccinated for everything that may make most people sick for a few days.
And people on facebook thought i was joking when I said my interests are: "Giving away personal data to the NSA."
Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.
Robin Cook in the Guardian.
What you don't understand is that part of the CIA has ALWAYS had an investment arm, even before the CIA and OSS existed. The CIA was born out of the private intelligence networks already well established by Wall Street, hence why so many of the early CIA was filled and run by Ivy League schools and Yale's Skull and Bones crowd.
The funny thing is Facebook has long since been implicated as being funded indirectly by In-Q-Tel.
The second round of funding into Facebook ($US12.7 million) came from venture capital firm Accel Partners. Its manager James Breyer was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm established by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1999. One of the company's key areas of expertise are in "data mining technologies".
Since 1947 the CIA and other intelligence activities have been more and more privatized. They have always used front companies. Search for the Northwoods Documents, which were authored in the late 1950's.
Many have argued that E.O 12333 privatized a lot of intelligence work. Read Confessions of an Economic Hitman if you want to know one reason why they do this.
This is really only news to people who don't pay attention.
Half-Life did use the Q2 engine.
It actually used the Quake engine which was modified with some parts of the Quake2 codebase. The modified Quake engine was known as Quakeworld.
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Quake_Engine_Hierarchy
The right question is who cares when the NSA is spending $2 billion just on the structure for a building (1 million square feet big) to house computers which will do who knows what for signals intelligence. Not to mention another facility in San Antonio being built which will be the size of the Alomodome.
Let's not care about that but nitpick over something ~1% the size and far less destructive to our liberties.
Everything important to say about Earth can be summed up in two words.
Is 'manbearpig' three words, one word or two halves of a word? ;)
It depends on how 'super cereal' you are!
The submitter obviously didn't know the way to San Jose and instead of admitting he was wrong changed the song.
Read the termination without prior notification part again. It says they can lock anyone out at any time for no reason other than that they feel like doing it.
Exactly. It means they can ban you without proof as long as they "feel" you may have broken a rule.
When I quit WoW I decided to sell all of my gold. A day after selling the gold I was told I was banned for doing things against the essence of Warcraft. It didn't specifically mention selling gold or any cheat, just Warcraft's essence.
It was the best ban I've received in any game to tell the truth.
The insert on FluMist, which is being given to all healthcare workers states:
FluMist® recipients should avoid close contact with immunocompromised individuals for at least 21 days.
Why would it say that? Since it is not a killed virus, it can stay in the nasal passage for 3 weeks and easily shed and infect others. Health care workers spend a lot of their time with people who have compromised immune systems. I thought the point of vaccination was to not spread it, yet they'll be doing that by using this vaccine. Many hospitals around the country have recognized this and won't be giving FluMist to their workers.
Not only that, but it is completely pointless to vaccinate now. Most predict the flu season to peak soon, much earlier than normal. It takes close to a month for a vaccine to give you immunity. During that time you can easily catch and spread the flu.
Yes, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH and WAR IS PEACE.
Ads for Ghost Rider really enhanced people's experience of Battlefield 2142.
Watching Will Smith get his "vintage" Converse All-Stars in I, Robot really helped me become immersed in the future and illusion of a dystopian future (not to mention the 100's of other ads in that movie).
Not only that but the Xbox is the only console with anything of value to target (Xbox Live accounts).
What's the point of hacking someone's Wii? Are you going to change their weather information or change someone's Mii to look like Hitler?
'Though the Xbox doesn't have the number one market share, it is the top target for hackers,
This phrase says everything.
It does have the number one market share for paid online subscriptions, which means it'll be a big target for phishers. Xbox live accounts have real value, which means it will be a target for hackers and phishers.
Entropy, how can I explain it? I'll take it frame by frame it,
to have you all jumping, shouting saying it.
Let's just say that it's a measure of disorder,
in a system that is closed, like with a border.
It's sorta, like a, well a measurement of randomness,
proposed in 1850 by a German, but wait I digress.
"What the fuck is entropy?", I here the people still exclaiming,
it seems I gotta start the explaining.
You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break?
You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake.
But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true,
if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new.
That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y,
the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die.
Order from disorder is a scientific rarity,
allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity.
Did I say rarity? I meant impossibility,
at least in a closed system there will always be more entropy.
That's entropy and I hope that you're all down with it,
if you are here's your membership.
Chorus
You down with entropy?
Yeah, you know me! (x3)
Who's down with entropy?
Every last homey!
Verse 2
Defining entropy as disorder's not complete,
'cause disorder as a definition doesn't cover heat.
So my first definition I would now like to withdraw,
and offer one that fits thermodynamics second law.
First we need to understand that entropy is energy,
energy that can't be used to state it more specifically.
In a closed system entropy always goes up,
that's the second law, now you know what's up.
You can't win, you can't break even, you can't leave the game,
'cause entropy will take it all 'though it seems a shame.
The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state,
that entropy must increase and not dissipate.
Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!
That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about,
you're now down with a discount.
Chorus
Trash Talk
Hit it!
Doomsday, kick it in!
-MC Hawking
Seriously, someone got PAID to find this out?
Don't worry, I'm sure it was with money the government borrowed at interest from a bank which was bailed out by the government months before with money borrowed at interest from a different bank. That money was then giving to this person to produce nothing of use, instead of him working at a manufacturing job, which only exist at your local restaurant or shipping center.
Is that you Nanci Pelosi?
I thought she was the specimen.
I'm sorry in advance to any Ardipithecus Ramidus I may have offended by associating you with Nancy Pelosi.
Is that you Nanci Pelosi?
I thought she was the specimen.
You mean like C-SPAN where you can watch congress debate but its so annoyingly boring that no one watches it?
C-span is awesome if you know when to watch. Most bills and debates are exceedingly boring but there are many which were the exact opposite. I skipped work to watch the debate on the $700 billion banking take over bill. Recently I watched the hearing on HR1207, which is a bill to audit the federal reserve. It was entertaining watching some congressmen, like Alan Grayson grill these officials.
They always have public officials on for call-ins. Recently Michael Chertoff was on and was asked amazing questions for 10 minutes before they stopped taking calls. It was the first time I've seen them stop questions so early as the usual format is 10 minutes with the host, then 50 minutes of calls.
One of my favorite youtube channels was CSPAN Junkie, but it was taken down under dubious reasons in early August. It had 1000's of videos of great clips only from C-SPAN.
What you forget is that every time these companies consolidate it is approved by all the regulating bodies of the government, whether it be the FCC or FTC.
These companies have yet to do what you've said they will do on a large scale although there is supposedly nothing stopping them. What is stopping them is their customers. People won't stand for it. If you allow the government to regulate the internet in this way it opens the door to these companies lobbying the government to change the rules in their favor.
The net neutrality regulation proposals as they stand now are good, but it opens the door for more regulations in the future. Don't say it won't happen because it has in every other industry.
The consumers are the ones who should be demanding net neutrality. If you allow the government to do it you are immasculating the consumer and ensuring a future of shitty internet.
Considering that a mobile phone is always in your pocket and being moved around, isn't there a way to tap the kinetic energy to send small recharges to the battery throughout the day. This won't be enough to never have to charge, but may delay the time between charges enough to make it worthwhile...
Like Rolex watches or something.
I don't need more excuses to throw people's cell phones out of windows.
Surprisingly, the amount of porn he downloaded in terms of Library's of Congress is missing!
Yes, assuming that they used a private contractor to design and build it which is probably the case.
...Ben Affleck starred.
We're boned.
So you were the guy who saw it.