so the fact that the US government was clumsy and incompetant in it's attempt to ruin a man's life for daring to expose the coverup of mass murder by American soldiers is ok, because they were clumsy and incompetent
First things first. I never said ruining a man's life through lies and innuendo was ok, and I dare you to show me where I did. What I said is that it was substantially different than the Russian attempt to systematically repress free speech around the globe through the UN and various treaties.
Further, if by "mass murder" you are referring to the Apache video, the US government made no move against Assange or Wikileaks at that time. Also, that's not murder. That's war. Murder involves intent to kill innocents. There is no evidence that the crew involved intended to kill civilians, despite the whining and howling from the anti-US crowd.
The rumored rape accusation plants didn't occur until much later, when Wikileaks put in motion the plan to pour out hundreds of thousands of classified US government documents into the internet, and therefore into the hands of the US's enemies.
While unsavory, the (alleged) response of the US is fairly mild compared to what many nations would do to protect their secrets. Part of me wonders if there are secrets from other countries he has not released because he knows someone would put a bullet in him. Or Polonium 210...
Actually, I was primarily thinking about Texas itself as self-sufficient. But if we include the other red states, I don't think we would have a problem with ports and food.
BTW, Texas would have a lot more available water (at least in some parts, like the hill country) if the land were managed better. Much of the hill country was valuable ranch land, but is now choked with cedar, which draws an enormous amount of water from the ground. Wildfires kept the cedar population naturally under control before white men came. After clearing much of the cedar from a ranch, springs and streams have actually been found to flow again.
I recognize the parallels in what you say, in that both instances feature nations seeking to bar the transfer of information deemed dangerous or damaging to their national interests and image. That being said, there is a distinct difference between what the former Soviet Union is branding "information weapons" and "aggression" and what Wikileaks did.
- The Sovie^h^h^h^h^h^h^h Russia is trying to prevent the spread of information and ideas for which they are not the author. The US is trying to prevent the spread of information for which they are the author, and which is arguably "theirs".
- The Russians (and those thinking like them) are trying to curb vague, general speech. The US is seeking to prevent the spread of very specific documents.
- The US didn't go to the UN to have Wikileaks branded a "weapon", an "aggressor", or a "big, bad, meanie", or anything. The extent of the response has been, if rumor is to be believed, back-room discussions with other governments, minor saber-rattling, and nasty gossip and accusations which went nowhere. In essence, I believe the US government has reached the realization that dealing with the leaked documents would be less painful the public relations disaster (and likely impossibility) of trying to squash Wikileaks. The Russians don't care how this looks, since their goal is to control how it looks in the end.
I'm thinking that Texas has all the food, ports, capital, and fossil energy they need at the moment (wind power is being developed; the environment would be fair-to-good for solar as well), and is red as can be.
Maybe instead of bombing them or infecting them with a worm, we should notify MS and the BSA that Iran is using pirated copies of windows in their nuclear program. The subsequent audit will slow their nuke operation to a crawl!
Small vs. large shitstorm is largely a matter of location and perspective. If you are in Israel in the 1973 war, and Arabs are storming your country, the time to use nukes is close at hand.
That's evidence that the code is looking for something specific. It is not proof that that "something specific" is the Bushehr plant.
That being said, many of the experts presume that Bushehr is the target, and they are probably correct, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. It could also be targeting one or more of the centrifuge plants, or some other, possibly still secret facility.
Seriously, wanting to persue peaceful nuclear power isn't an issue.
That's not the real issue here.
Hell, if they wanted warheads they could just BUY them.
Even if they could do so without the transaction somehow gummed up by the CIA, the Mossad, et al, buying nukes on the black market doesn't solve the problem from Iran's point of view. Iran wants to be able to homebrew these things and grow an arsenal. Buying the goods premade is more suited to a terrorist organization; a) bent on destruction of a specific target, and/or blackmail, b) without the resources (land, modern, standing armed forces, especially air & air defense) to build and protect fixed facilities.
Human souls are supposedly weighed down by original sin, and baptism rectifies that. I don't believe the topic of animal souls is addressed in Catholicism. I could be wrong. However, since apparently no other animal disobeyed God and ate the apple of knowledge in the Garden they still don't need baptism, with or without souls. (Insert image here of an ancient apple tree surrounded by 6,000 years of uneaten apples.)
Huge crime organizations exist because they take advantage of government interference. The Prohibition effectively created the market Al Capone made millions serving.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if there were a ream of confidentiality documents that all corporate officers have to sign. Perhaps also a non-compete agreement as well. These folks have access to lots of info, technical and otherwise, that would be potentially devastating if leaked outside the company.
That being said, this sort of bickering isn't unusual when a high ranking player leaves one company and goes to work for a competitor. See Microsoft/Google, and various others. HP will get some money and assurances from Oracle, and that will be that. I'd expect that part of the courtship between Oracle and Hurd involved legal types surveying what potential obligations and fallout there might be, and before now they have already calculated that estimate into the cost of hiring him.
You just made my friggin' day. Normally, I'd be obliged to snort a beverage on my keyboard, thus ruining it, but I am without a drink at the moment. So, as a substitute, I'll simply smash it.
it doesn't make sense to 'try to rape' someone or molest
That statement is true for pretty much every case of rape or other form of sexual assault, no matter who does it, but they seem to do it anyway. I'm not saying he did it, I'm just saying that your line of reasoning is weak.
It looks like there are a few hundred dials, switches, and controls in the cockpit. Let's say you have a plane with about a hundred seats. Mount a few dials and switches at each seat and crowdsource your cockpit crew. Hold a lottery to see who gets the yoke. What could possibly go wrong?
Plus, they could crowdsource all their DBA needs here on slashdot.
The basic process goes like this: Heat h2o until good and hot, but not boiling (about 150 deg f.), mix in grains, let sit a hour or 2 or 3, drain resulting liquid off the spent grains, boil liquid, cool it, pitch yeast, allow to ferment.
Initial boiling kills anything in the water used to make the beer, the alcohol from fermentation helps prevent subsequent infection from most other microorganisms. Other more herbal ingredients (hops, for instance) can add other antimicrobial properties. There is a period of time after boiling and before the yeast has established itself when other organisms could infect the beer.
That being said, technically speaking, you can make beer without boiling it.
Impossible to say without seeing the design, but my guess is no. To me, "infrastructure design fail" implies the architect foolishly designed single points of failure into the plan.
What happened here would likely be an "infrastructure fail", or possibly a "maintenance fail".
The system was built with redundancies and backup storage. It was hailed as being able to suffer a failure to one part but continue uninterrupted service because standby parts or systems would take over. But when the memory card failed Wednesday, a fallback that attempted to shoulder the load began reporting multiple errors, Nixon said.
Cheap solution problem? Possibly. Infrastructure design fail? Possibly, but not likely. Couldn't critique it without seeing their setup, but it sounds like they designed some redundancy in. I wonder what kind of "memory card" failed. From the description, it sounds like it might be a cache module.
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Eliminate the lies and propaganda, and my guess is there will be no more news anywhere, ever.
so the fact that the US government was clumsy and incompetant in it's attempt to ruin a man's life for daring to expose the coverup of mass murder by American soldiers is ok, because they were clumsy and incompetent
First things first. I never said ruining a man's life through lies and innuendo was ok, and I dare you to show me where I did. What I said is that it was substantially different than the Russian attempt to systematically repress free speech around the globe through the UN and various treaties.
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Further, if by "mass murder" you are referring to the Apache video, the US government made no move against Assange or Wikileaks at that time. Also, that's not murder. That's war. Murder involves intent to kill innocents. There is no evidence that the crew involved intended to kill civilians, despite the whining and howling from the anti-US crowd.
The rumored rape accusation plants didn't occur until much later, when Wikileaks put in motion the plan to pour out hundreds of thousands of classified US government documents into the internet, and therefore into the hands of the US's enemies.
While unsavory, the (alleged) response of the US is fairly mild compared to what many nations would do to protect their secrets. Part of me wonders if there are secrets from other countries he has not released because he knows someone would put a bullet in him. Or Polonium 210
Actually, I was primarily thinking about Texas itself as self-sufficient. But if we include the other red states, I don't think we would have a problem with ports and food.
BTW, Texas would have a lot more available water (at least in some parts, like the hill country) if the land were managed better. Much of the hill country was valuable ranch land, but is now choked with cedar, which draws an enormous amount of water from the ground. Wildfires kept the cedar population naturally under control before white men came. After clearing much of the cedar from a ranch, springs and streams have actually been found to flow again.
I recognize the parallels in what you say, in that both instances feature nations seeking to bar the transfer of information deemed dangerous or damaging to their national interests and image. That being said, there is a distinct difference between what the former Soviet Union is branding "information weapons" and "aggression" and what Wikileaks did.
- The Sovie^h^h^h^h^h^h^h Russia is trying to prevent the spread of information and ideas for which they are not the author. The US is trying to prevent the spread of information for which they are the author, and which is arguably "theirs".
- The Russians (and those thinking like them) are trying to curb vague, general speech. The US is seeking to prevent the spread of very specific documents.
- The US didn't go to the UN to have Wikileaks branded a "weapon", an "aggressor", or a "big, bad, meanie", or anything. The extent of the response has been, if rumor is to be believed, back-room discussions with other governments, minor saber-rattling, and nasty gossip and accusations which went nowhere. In essence, I believe the US government has reached the realization that dealing with the leaked documents would be less painful the public relations disaster (and likely impossibility) of trying to squash Wikileaks. The Russians don't care how this looks, since their goal is to control how it looks in the end.
I'm thinking that Texas has all the food, ports, capital, and fossil energy they need at the moment (wind power is being developed; the environment would be fair-to-good for solar as well), and is red as can be.
Maybe instead of bombing them or infecting them with a worm, we should notify MS and the BSA that Iran is using pirated copies of windows in their nuclear program. The subsequent audit will slow their nuke operation to a crawl!
Small vs. large shitstorm is largely a matter of location and perspective. If you are in Israel in the 1973 war, and Arabs are storming your country, the time to use nukes is close at hand.
That's evidence that the code is looking for something specific. It is not proof that that "something specific" is the Bushehr plant.
That being said, many of the experts presume that Bushehr is the target, and they are probably correct, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. It could also be targeting one or more of the centrifuge plants, or some other, possibly still secret facility.
Seriously, wanting to persue peaceful nuclear power isn't an issue.
That's not the real issue here.
Hell, if they wanted warheads they could just BUY them.
Even if they could do so without the transaction somehow gummed up by the CIA, the Mossad, et al, buying nukes on the black market doesn't solve the problem from Iran's point of view. Iran wants to be able to homebrew these things and grow an arsenal. Buying the goods premade is more suited to a terrorist organization; a) bent on destruction of a specific target, and/or blackmail, b) without the resources (land, modern, standing armed forces, especially air & air defense) to build and protect fixed facilities.
I'm not sure about fewer crashes, but I'm pretty sure there would be fewer people having sex in cars, except perhaps the real exhibitionist types.
Human souls are supposedly weighed down by original sin, and baptism rectifies that. I don't believe the topic of animal souls is addressed in Catholicism. I could be wrong. However, since apparently no other animal disobeyed God and ate the apple of knowledge in the Garden they still don't need baptism, with or without souls. (Insert image here of an ancient apple tree surrounded by 6,000 years of uneaten apples.)
You've got to be trolling the English majors here to post a reply that is the equivalent of "I saw a dollar walking home". ;)
Huge crime organizations exist because they take advantage of government interference. The Prohibition effectively created the market Al Capone made millions serving.
Simply continuing the string of failures. Think of it as meta-humor.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if there were a ream of confidentiality documents that all corporate officers have to sign. Perhaps also a non-compete agreement as well. These folks have access to lots of info, technical and otherwise, that would be potentially devastating if leaked outside the company.
That being said, this sort of bickering isn't unusual when a high ranking player leaves one company and goes to work for a competitor. See Microsoft/Google, and various others. HP will get some money and assurances from Oracle, and that will be that. I'd expect that part of the courtship between Oracle and Hurd involved legal types surveying what potential obligations and fallout there might be, and before now they have already calculated that estimate into the cost of hiring him.
You just made my friggin' day. Normally, I'd be obliged to snort a beverage on my keyboard, thus ruining it, but I am without a drink at the moment. So, as a substitute, I'll simply smash it.
How is it that a politician is reviewing the evidence in an ongoing police case
Yes! The nerve of those people, getting their grubby little hands on documents that should be secret! Someone ought to put a stop to that!
Isn't that more of a Smoking Gun kind of thing?
Assange got mod points, it looks like ...
it doesn't make sense to 'try to rape' someone or molest
That statement is true for pretty much every case of rape or other form of sexual assault, no matter who does it, but they seem to do it anyway. I'm not saying he did it, I'm just saying that your line of reasoning is weak.
It looks like there are a few hundred dials, switches, and controls in the cockpit. Let's say you have a plane with about a hundred seats. Mount a few dials and switches at each seat and crowdsource your cockpit crew. Hold a lottery to see who gets the yoke. What could possibly go wrong?
Plus, they could crowdsource all their DBA needs here on slashdot.
The basic process goes like this: Heat h2o until good and hot, but not boiling (about 150 deg f.), mix in grains, let sit a hour or 2 or 3, drain resulting liquid off the spent grains, boil liquid, cool it, pitch yeast, allow to ferment.
Initial boiling kills anything in the water used to make the beer, the alcohol from fermentation helps prevent subsequent infection from most other microorganisms. Other more herbal ingredients (hops, for instance) can add other antimicrobial properties. There is a period of time after boiling and before the yeast has established itself when other organisms could infect the beer.
That being said, technically speaking, you can make beer without boiling it.
Impossible to say without seeing the design, but my guess is no. To me, "infrastructure design fail" implies the architect foolishly designed single points of failure into the plan.
What happened here would likely be an "infrastructure fail", or possibly a "maintenance fail".
From the awkward phrasing, my completely uninformed guess is they are referring to a cache module on a controller somewhere.
The system was built with redundancies and backup storage. It was hailed as being able to suffer a failure to one part but continue uninterrupted service because standby parts or systems would take over. But when the memory card failed Wednesday, a fallback that attempted to shoulder the load began reporting multiple errors, Nixon said.
Cheap solution problem? Possibly. Infrastructure design fail? Possibly, but not likely. Couldn't critique it without seeing their setup, but it sounds like they designed some redundancy in. I wonder what kind of "memory card" failed. From the description, it sounds like it might be a cache module.