...and very expensive, very long turnaround time (TAT) airframes. The problem with betting all of your money on one technology is your prospective enemy only has one technology to defeat - and in this case once stealth technology is defeated those very expensive, very high TAT airframes are instantly vulnerable to relatively cheap missiles with far lower TATs. Perhaps the finest example - and apropos, given that it was also a form of "stealth" technology that was eventually rendered useless - of assuming your technology is and will remain superior is Enigma.
There is another facet to this decision: Were I a strategic planner, I would be far more concerned by the fact that India did not choose to purchase highly "stealthy" airframes of whatever manufacture. It is a fact that India has benefited as much as the PRC has from the Republican and neoliberal Democratic effort to weaken America strategically and tactically through exporting dual-use technology (to include the computational power to model everything and anything and, far worse, by offshoring the heart and soul of any nation's true arsenal: The technology of mass manufacture.).
Consequently India's aircraft selection causes me to wonder if India can themselves defeat stealth technology...or if they have reason to believe that someone else will...or has. Knowing a technology is or will soon be obsolete junk has affected many a buying decision, and they do have a neighbor that was quick to use their gifted technology to accomplish the non-trivial task of shooting a satellite down.
(Note: It is rather a shame that the greed of America's right was so obviously America's one and only weakness...to think that it has been used to transform us into Mao's "paper tiger" is both tragically sad and infuriating.)
Whereas it used to be "democratic capitalism" vs. "totalitarian communism", what we see now is the merger of the two ideologies into "totalitarian capitalism".
It means we can be violently sexually assaulted while trying to board trains, board airlines.
Worries me, that so many think that being frisked is sex. I mean, what if they're right? Since I only get frisked by male TSA agents, does that mean that I'm gay?
Man, I just can't get enough of these "The energy crisis is solved!" stories. I've loved them since I was a kid in the 60s. Funny, how we're still gulping that oil though.
The science in this arena has a more difficult time than in most others as it has an additional hurdle to overcome beyond the science itself: Vested interests.
What with Big Carbon playing Pope Urban VIII to alternative energy's Galileo, any progress is significant.
...might do well. Something like "In the event we sell out to a larger firm, we will so advise you and give you the opportunity to destroy your data before any external party can access it; we will resist all government intrusion to the limits of the law; we will forbid even our investors from accessing your data; we will never sell your name or your data - any of your personal information - to a third party; we will ask you before we solicit your interest in other products we may offer in the future; we will remain above politics and never take an action designed to advantage one ideology or another; we will not replicate your data beyond what is required to secure your data for your use; we will immediately destroy all traces of your data to include your contact information upon validated request (hence the requirement for two email addresses and double-confirmation of intent to destroy); in the event that government or a third-party accesses your data through illegal means we will immediately inform you as soon as we become aware of that fact; in the event that a legal effort to access your data becomes apparent to us we will so inform you; we will provide you with the means of encrypting your data so that it is unreadable even to us....".
Me, I look at "the cloud" as a surefire way of compromising yourself and your business...particularly if the corporation is publicly-held. I have seen no indication that selling shares enhances the ethics of a business; quite the contrary.
If you want government to think about something, you strategically emplace words and phrases likely to trigger their interest...comes from a background rich in FLR-9s, I suppose. Of course in a venue such as/., that might be a bit of a wasted effort; the site is a "trigger-rich" environment. And there is no way to prove one way or the other if you have had any effect; in fact, my simply thinking that the approach might be a useful tool may be naught more than an indication of megalomania.
lollll...whatever; in any event, you might amuse an analyst - and believe me when I say they are likely appreciative of a break from the tedium.
I hear you. Those tourists and athletes should be forced to purchase medical gases for breathing, too; by keeping the air clean and allowing just anyone to breathe it, the government poses a direct threat to existing industries as well as the free market.
Except that genomics has as of yet proven minimally useful for drug development. Until they actually develop significant amounts of homegrown technology (which, to be fair, they are actually doing in the bioinformatics arena, as opposed to sequencing), I'm not convinced that they're that much of a threat.
What if they simply avoid competing by patenting the sequence for Caucasians and then pulling an Apple and suing us out of existence?;^)
They go putting their people before the profits of the multinationals, and the multinationals will relocate to Mars or Venus...with Corporate America leading the way.
You answered your own question - except I wouldn't call it a "natural" tendency since humans are supposed to be "social animals" and the intent of those who practice capitalism as the few practice it in America is destructive of society...is, in fact, intended to enable the few to feed on the many.
I’m excited to announce that Small Society, a highly respected mobile agency, is joining the @WalmartLabs mobile team. Small Society embodies what has made us successful in 2011 and will help us accelerate that success in 2012.
There likely is an ulterior motive in this: Some of the media sources (uh...is Murdoch still on AP's board of directors?) and politicians (uh...all of 'em?) don't like the fact that it is so easy to prove that they're either lying now or lied at some point in the past. I.e., they'd like to eliminate your ability to pull both versions of "the truth" up and show them to the deluded.
I don't...guess if I'm right, that will tell you something.
There is another angle that involves creeping capitalism, the ability to hire unlimited numbers of lawyers, and the outright ownership of the highest court in the land: Once this precedent is set, how long before Google et al have to pay a fee to show previews and even links to content?
And finally...me, I'm not thrilled about a central clearinghouse for news distribution; the possibilities for censorship are absolutely disgusting.
...now they can add a line of accessories for the doll, starting out with a briefcase and a subpoena. Well, as long as they don't make the briefcase resemble an iPhone in any way.
Rome has been sacked several times. Attributing the fall of Rome to one of these events is poppycock.
Interesting....to rephrase your statement in more immediate terms "The house has burned down several times; attributing the house burning down to a failure to prevent the house from burning down is poppycock."
So since you think that this kind of post is meaningless and a waste of time, why don't you skip reading it and posting about it? You could spend your time marveling about how smart you are, and spare the rest of us having to read or reply to your drivel. You are wrong and we don't really care what you think, so STFU.
In case it's not perfectly clear at this point, this is a personal attack. You're welcome.
I rather hate to have to explain it to you as the very need attenuates your "personal attack" into nothingness, but my point is we develop the technology and then lose the opportunity to profit from it because the greed at the top will seek the higher profit margins available through utilizing the cheaper labor of the PRC instead of seeking to ensure the safety and security - the long term survival - of the United States of America.
But to retrieve something of value to you from your "personal attack", you may nonetheless consider me to be seriously emotionally wounded by your comment.
It is true that it took the powerful and wealthy of Rome more than a day to destroy any real loyalty to their government - but again, you're referencing the Roman Empire. The fall of Rome itself came with unseemly speed when Rome's economic underclass opened the Salarian Gate for the Visigoths.
Hence my comment that "Rome wasn't built in a day - but it took about a day to fall.". The moral of the story, of course, is that you allow greed to weaken your nation and disillusion your populace at your own peril, for when the big day comes the safest place in the empire won't be safe enough.
They have to dumb down both of them to control them both. Good for the vendor, but the society?
Me, I don't think a society which manages to make their citizens an interchangeable commodity with a well-defined but artificially limited set of skills that match a narrow range of "appliances" is going to be "cutting-edge" in anything; rather, as a monoculture they - and their "appliances" - will be sitting ducks for the electronic version of Phytophthora infestans just as Ireland - and the potato - were in 1845.
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...and very expensive, very long turnaround time (TAT) airframes. The problem with betting all of your money on one technology is your prospective enemy only has one technology to defeat - and in this case once stealth technology is defeated those very expensive, very high TAT airframes are instantly vulnerable to relatively cheap missiles with far lower TATs. Perhaps the finest example - and apropos, given that it was also a form of "stealth" technology that was eventually rendered useless - of assuming your technology is and will remain superior is Enigma .
There is another facet to this decision: Were I a strategic planner, I would be far more concerned by the fact that India did not choose to purchase highly "stealthy" airframes of whatever manufacture. It is a fact that India has benefited as much as the PRC has from the Republican and neoliberal Democratic effort to weaken America strategically and tactically through exporting dual-use technology (to include the computational power to model everything and anything and, far worse, by offshoring the heart and soul of any nation's true arsenal: The technology of mass manufacture.).
Consequently India's aircraft selection causes me to wonder if India can themselves defeat stealth technology...or if they have reason to believe that someone else will...or has. Knowing a technology is or will soon be obsolete junk has affected many a buying decision, and they do have a neighbor that was quick to use their gifted technology to accomplish the non-trivial task of shooting a satellite down.
(Note: It is rather a shame that the greed of America's right was so obviously America's one and only weakness...to think that it has been used to transform us into Mao's "paper tiger" is both tragically sad and infuriating.)
Whereas it used to be "democratic capitalism" vs. "totalitarian communism", what we see now is the merger of the two ideologies into "totalitarian capitalism".
It means we can be violently sexually assaulted while trying to board trains, board airlines.
Worries me, that so many think that being frisked is sex. I mean, what if they're right? Since I only get frisked by male TSA agents, does that mean that I'm gay?
Ramona Fricosu indulged in mortgage fraud. Only the banks, the ratings agencies, and Wall Street are allowed to do that.
So you think the successful Republican efforts to block conservation and alternative energy research post-OPEC oil embargo - to include Reagan ripping Carter's solar panels off the roof of the White House - had nothing to do with Big Carbon's wishes?
Interesting perspective.
Man, I just can't get enough of these "The energy crisis is solved!" stories. I've loved them since I was a kid in the 60s. Funny, how we're still gulping that oil though.
The science in this arena has a more difficult time than in most others as it has an additional hurdle to overcome beyond the science itself: Vested interests.
What with Big Carbon playing Pope Urban VIII to alternative energy's Galileo, any progress is significant.
...might do well. Something like "In the event we sell out to a larger firm, we will so advise you and give you the opportunity to destroy your data before any external party can access it; we will resist all government intrusion to the limits of the law; we will forbid even our investors from accessing your data; we will never sell your name or your data - any of your personal information - to a third party; we will ask you before we solicit your interest in other products we may offer in the future; we will remain above politics and never take an action designed to advantage one ideology or another; we will not replicate your data beyond what is required to secure your data for your use; we will immediately destroy all traces of your data to include your contact information upon validated request (hence the requirement for two email addresses and double-confirmation of intent to destroy); in the event that government or a third-party accesses your data through illegal means we will immediately inform you as soon as we become aware of that fact; in the event that a legal effort to access your data becomes apparent to us we will so inform you; we will provide you with the means of encrypting your data so that it is unreadable even to us....".
Me, I look at "the cloud" as a surefire way of compromising yourself and your business...particularly if the corporation is publicly-held. I have seen no indication that selling shares enhances the ethics of a business; quite the contrary.
If you want government to think about something, you strategically emplace words and phrases likely to trigger their interest...comes from a background rich in FLR-9s, I suppose. Of course in a venue such as /., that might be a bit of a wasted effort; the site is a "trigger-rich" environment. And there is no way to prove one way or the other if you have had any effect; in fact, my simply thinking that the approach might be a useful tool may be naught more than an indication of megalomania.
lollll...whatever; in any event, you might amuse an analyst - and believe me when I say they are likely appreciative of a break from the tedium.
I hear you. Those tourists and athletes should be forced to purchase medical gases for breathing, too; by keeping the air clean and allowing just anyone to breathe it, the government poses a direct threat to existing industries as well as the free market.
Except that genomics has as of yet proven minimally useful for drug development. Until they actually develop significant amounts of homegrown technology (which, to be fair, they are actually doing in the bioinformatics arena, as opposed to sequencing), I'm not convinced that they're that much of a threat.
What if they simply avoid competing by patenting the sequence for Caucasians and then pulling an Apple and suing us out of existence? ;^)
They go putting their people before the profits of the multinationals, and the multinationals will relocate to Mars or Venus...with Corporate America leading the way.
If you ever saw Big Cable going in and out of our FCC offices, you'd know something fishy was going on.
You answered your own question - except I wouldn't call it a "natural" tendency since humans are supposed to be "social animals" and the intent of those who practice capitalism as the few practice it in America is destructive of society...is, in fact, intended to enable the few to feed on the many.
I’m excited to announce that Small Society, a highly respected mobile agency, is joining the @WalmartLabs mobile team. Small Society embodies what has made us successful in 2011 and will help us accelerate that success in 2012.
Like how I snuck this in wayyyyy down here?
There likely is an ulterior motive in this: Some of the media sources (uh...is Murdoch still on AP's board of directors?) and politicians (uh...all of 'em?) don't like the fact that it is so easy to prove that they're either lying now or lied at some point in the past. I.e., they'd like to eliminate your ability to pull both versions of "the truth" up and show them to the deluded.
You think the Wayback Machine will get an exemption?
I don't...guess if I'm right, that will tell you something.
There is another angle that involves creeping capitalism, the ability to hire unlimited numbers of lawyers, and the outright ownership of the highest court in the land: Once this precedent is set, how long before Google et al have to pay a fee to show previews and even links to content?
And finally...me, I'm not thrilled about a central clearinghouse for news distribution; the possibilities for censorship are absolutely disgusting.
...now they can add a line of accessories for the doll, starting out with a briefcase and a subpoena. Well, as long as they don't make the briefcase resemble an iPhone in any way.
Tape 'em to hamsters (be nice and use medical tape), and let the hamsters go.
lolll...you beat me to it, so I most humbly applaud your display of perceptive intellect.
Rome has been sacked several times. Attributing the fall of Rome to one of these events is poppycock.
Interesting....to rephrase your statement in more immediate terms "The house has burned down several times; attributing the house burning down to a failure to prevent the house from burning down is poppycock."
I hasten to add that you can better - or at least personally - employ your fervor at http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu/
So since you think that this kind of post is meaningless and a waste of time, why don't you skip reading it and posting about it? You could spend your time marveling about how smart you are, and spare the rest of us having to read or reply to your drivel. You are wrong and we don't really care what you think, so STFU.
In case it's not perfectly clear at this point, this is a personal attack. You're welcome.
I rather hate to have to explain it to you as the very need attenuates your "personal attack" into nothingness, but my point is we develop the technology and then lose the opportunity to profit from it because the greed at the top will seek the higher profit margins available through utilizing the cheaper labor of the PRC instead of seeking to ensure the safety and security - the long term survival - of the United States of America.
But to retrieve something of value to you from your "personal attack", you may nonetheless consider me to be seriously emotionally wounded by your comment.
Have a nice day.
Why didn't you just submit a blank comment? I derived everything you wanted to - everything you did - say in this comment from your username.
on essentially the same story will be...
It is true that it took the powerful and wealthy of Rome more than a day to destroy any real loyalty to their government - but again, you're referencing the Roman Empire. The fall of Rome itself came with unseemly speed when Rome's economic underclass opened the Salarian Gate for the Visigoths.
Hence my comment that "Rome wasn't built in a day - but it took about a day to fall.". The moral of the story, of course, is that you allow greed to weaken your nation and disillusion your populace at your own peril, for when the big day comes the safest place in the empire won't be safe enough.
They have to dumb down both of them to control them both. Good for the vendor, but the society?
Me, I don't think a society which manages to make their citizens an interchangeable commodity with a well-defined but artificially limited set of skills that match a narrow range of "appliances" is going to be "cutting-edge" in anything; rather, as a monoculture they - and their "appliances" - will be sitting ducks for the electronic version of Phytophthora infestans just as Ireland - and the potato - were in 1845.