Intelligence analyst from JIEDDO here. True there are other household chemicals that can be used in IEDs. But Ammonium Nitrate is produced in such mass quantities that it provides a ready source of IED material. There are caches found with 20,000 lbs plus of AN, and it's produced just over the border in Pakistan by several fertilizer companies. If the fertilizer companies were to switch to something else, it would put a damper on the sheer size of the IED problem. Yes, over time they could switch, and we'll follow suit and limit the availability of that chemical next. But we're not going to throw our hands up and do nothing because there are "way too many household chemicals."
I don't want to accuse you of cherry picking, but Wikipedia says it is a disease that covers a large geographic region, and says nothing about it having to affect a large proportion of the population. It also specifically says H1N1 is a pandemic in the first paragraph. Dictionary.com says pretty much the same thing. Just saying.
Thank you so much for your uninformed opinions. A pandemic, if you could be bothered to look it up, is a disease that spreads across large areas. It has nothing to do with how many die. SARS, H1N1, Swine Flu, et al are all pandemics.
Go fuck yourself. The indicators were all there before, but only made sense in retrospect. There is a constant massive stream of message traffic every day pointing to terrorist attacks (some of which are thwarted, BTW, for which we get no credit). And the FBI and CIA were forbidden to talk to each other due to Intelligence Oversight restrictions put in place after the debacle in the 60s where Johnson was using intelligence assests to track US citizens.
But a threat that consists of one person making some primitive ricin in his garage on a weekend would not justify the response. Why not stage a more sophisticated attack that would justify the kind of response Obama supposedly wants?
NSA and CYBERCOM are two different commands who have one leader at the moment. NSA has one mission and CYBERCOM has another. NSA is not abandoning theirs.
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Intelligence analyst from JIEDDO here. True there are other household chemicals that can be used in IEDs. But Ammonium Nitrate is produced in such mass quantities that it provides a ready source of IED material. There are caches found with 20,000 lbs plus of AN, and it's produced just over the border in Pakistan by several fertilizer companies. If the fertilizer companies were to switch to something else, it would put a damper on the sheer size of the IED problem. Yes, over time they could switch, and we'll follow suit and limit the availability of that chemical next. But we're not going to throw our hands up and do nothing because there are "way too many household chemicals."
Let's compromise and just play Angry Birds Space!
I think you're completely wrong. It makes you feel nauseated.
Does it come with bourbon?
Reading is hard. Let's go shopping!
I don't want to accuse you of cherry picking, but Wikipedia says it is a disease that covers a large geographic region, and says nothing about it having to affect a large proportion of the population. It also specifically says H1N1 is a pandemic in the first paragraph. Dictionary.com says pretty much the same thing. Just saying.
Thank you so much for your uninformed opinions. A pandemic, if you could be bothered to look it up, is a disease that spreads across large areas. It has nothing to do with how many die. SARS, H1N1, Swine Flu, et al are all pandemics.
2) Intelligence failures.
Go fuck yourself. The indicators were all there before, but only made sense in retrospect. There is a constant massive stream of message traffic every day pointing to terrorist attacks (some of which are thwarted, BTW, for which we get no credit). And the FBI and CIA were forbidden to talk to each other due to Intelligence Oversight restrictions put in place after the debacle in the 60s where Johnson was using intelligence assests to track US citizens.
I'm not the only one with a typo in the first sentence.
Clearly that's a type in the title. It should read, "Motorola Loses ITC Case Against Antagonist Apple for Proximity Sensor Patents".
The anthrax attacks were in 2001 and the DC sniper attacks were in 2002. Hardly coincidental and hardly a pattern.
They also said that Marcellus Wallace threw a man out of a window for giving Mia a foot massage.
Post a source, or STFU.
But a threat that consists of one person making some primitive ricin in his garage on a weekend would not justify the response. Why not stage a more sophisticated attack that would justify the kind of response Obama supposedly wants?
something else.... more 'theater' for another cause supporting the loss of freedom and liberty.... or both.
If you were going to stage an attack to justify a response, why would you have a letter sent with crudely made ricin? Doesn't make a lot of sense.
No, I have not noticed. Do you have a source for this claim?
No, the President does not get chemical attacks every day. Please try not to confuse a fictional novel with reality. Thanks.
OTOH, Microsoft Works was curiously non-descriptive.
I think he meant getting laid without paying for it, as bizarre as that seems.
Give yourself one whoosh and lose 10,000 XP.
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
NSA and CYBERCOM are two different commands who have one leader at the moment. NSA has one mission and CYBERCOM has another. NSA is not abandoning theirs.
Stuxnet was an attack, not espionage so yes it does work in this scenario. Oh, and you're an idiot.
Man, at least get the meme right. Somebody set up us the bomb, not set us up the bomb. Sheesh!
If you want to kill multiple birds, then wind turbines are the answer.
/ducks
Well, the gun Dolphins won't be too much of a danger unless they're right on you, thanks to underwater ballistics. The knifers, oh shit.
Do knives have longer ranges underwater?