The guard at the desk at work doesn't have my clearance either, but he can see when my RFID badge activates the reader and lets me in or if it fails and beeps annoyingly. There are hundreds of thousands of cleared individuals like me, let alone how many off-duty and retired police officers, active duty and retired military, and other trusted individuals who should not be searched and probed every time they fly like it's the first the government has scrutinized them.
On a somewhat related note, I have a pet peeve. I have a CI (counter intelligence) polygraph as part of my clearance, and part of the questions focus on links to terrorism. I passed, so the federal government is sufficiently convinced that I am not a terrorist to give me access to sensitive information. So why does another branch of the federal government still check me for weapons when I get on a plane? Why can't I show my standard IC badge and go through security?
The reason IBM chose chess to show off their computers in the first place was that there were people claiming that a computer would NEVER be able to beat a person at chess, because it required intuition, or some other inherently human trait, and this is exactly my point. Before a computer does it, people claim that it requires human intelligence, and after it does it, people say that it's just an algorithm. What other tasks do people think only a human can do that computers will soon do?
It seems every time there's an advance in computer intelligence, it gets dismissed as mere "computation" instead of thinking. Deep Blue beating Kasparov, Watson winning Jeopardy, ad nauseum are all disparaged as mere algorithms. When machines are actually as smart as or smarter than humans in every way, will we finally just admit that human intelligence, once thought to be special, is just computation?
I won't argue much of what you say, but you seem to be intimating that Iran is NOT making an atomic weapon and are enriching Uranium to 20% for purely peaceful use in power plants. By several estimates I've seen, Iran's several thousand centrifuges can make a few atom bombs' worth in a few years, and it's possible they have one or more by now. I hope you're also aware that said power plants make Plutonium, which can of course be used in atomic weapons. If they're only interested in peaceful purposes, what are they going to do with all that Plutonium, and why have they refused international inspectors? I'm sure they felt threatened by having US troops on either side of them and being called part of the Axis of Evil, but that doesn't mean they aren't making an atomic weapon, and it doesn't mean they wouldn't use it or let it get into the hands of someone who would. There's a very real threat of nuclear proliferation here, all rhetoric aside.
It's still used in military comms. Over is when you're done with your part of the conversation, and Out is when you're completely done. In the movies, that gets mangled to Over and Out.
I mean, what does the US or Israel gain by unleashing stuxnet? If they want to stop the program, it would be far better to attack it.
What? It would be better to conduct a military strike on a sovereign nation, than conduct a non-attributable cyber attack? How exactly would that be better?
It's in Israel's and the US's interests for Iran to complete the program
Um, no. With Iran's wacky govt regularly saying things like they want to wipe Israel off the map, and actively supporting a wide range of terrorist groups that have attacked both the US and Israel, it's hardly ideal to let them have a nuke, from the US's perspective.
because then Iran is the evil one with WMDs and the West was forced to act in the name of world peace.
And since when has the US attacked a nuclear nation? Not a smart thing to do. If Iran has even one nuke and is threatened, they will most certainly use it. Then the US will be blamed both for not stopping it, and for instigating their use of it. Far better for Iran not to have one in the first place, from the US's point of view, and even better still not to take any credit for stopping it.
This is the same playbook used by Kim Jong Il, and it works beautifully.
Iran is not North Korea. And NK has several weapons and the capability to make more. Your argument seems to reverse itself here, since now that NK has nukes it has more bargaining power. Why would Iran intentionally stymie its own attempt at creating more bargaining power? Why would they go out of their way to write a worm to sabotage their own equipment, hide the fact that their equipment is sabotaged for over a year, and downplay the effects in the media? Just so they can look foolish? You need to work on your conspiracy theories.
You want a citation for a quote that sounds crazy to both you and me? The President has said come crazy shit, but not everyone thinks it's crazy. The point is that each side has people who think they're nuts, and there is no universal standard of reasonable political stance. Those calling for gun control like the Brady Bill sound just as crazy to me as Beck et al, but plenty of otherwise rational people think it's perfectly reasonable.
Pot, meet kettle. Have you not listened to Democrats? The extreme left is just as crazy as the extreme right, and each side underestimates just how far to the extreme the other one goes, while painting themselves as moderates.
There ARE Lamarkian mechanisms at work, such as retroviruses. Just because not all acquired characteristics, like scars and lost limbs, are not heritable, does not mean that none are. Mothers pass non-genetic material through the womb and through breast milk for instance.
Their offices are named after Tolkein places too. The office in Tyson's Corner VA is Rivendell. They have lego models of the death star and toy Deloreans out on display, along with beer in the fridge. It's a typical dot-com silicon valley tech company, selling an overpriced and sexy looking but less than useful visualization software. We use it at work here. I'm less than impressed.
That's great. But considering GPS is only accurate to about 100m, and mine frequently puts me several hundred meters to a few miles away, how would you match up the pothole logs to actual locations?
The Cocaine Importation Agency also made a cat/listening device. They put a cat under, installed a bug inside of it, and put the antenna in its tail. It was supposed to wander across the street and eavesdrop on the Soviet Embassy, IIRC, and it cost a few million in research. After the surgery, the cat was a little woozy and got hit by a car immediately after release, and the program was scrapped.
Strictly and literally speaking, one does NOT have to learn to crawl before one learns to walk. In the ancestral environment (and in some places today), mothers did not put their babies on the dirty, dangerous ground where babies are likely to put dirty and potentially dangerous bugs in their mouths. Once their legs developed, they could walk. Some babies today do not crawl first, but go straight from sitting to walking. Crawling, it seems, is an ad hoc non-natural form of locomotion some babies figure out while they wait for their legs to develop so they can walk. Seems pedantic, but it calls into question the metaphor of "having to learn to crawl before you can walk."
2009 - BARACK OBAMA for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
What's extraordinary is that people think he actually did anything to deserve this in the first two weeks of his presidency which was when he was nominated.
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The guard at the desk at work doesn't have my clearance either, but he can see when my RFID badge activates the reader and lets me in or if it fails and beeps annoyingly. There are hundreds of thousands of cleared individuals like me, let alone how many off-duty and retired police officers, active duty and retired military, and other trusted individuals who should not be searched and probed every time they fly like it's the first the government has scrutinized them.
The badge has an RFID, and I can use it to badge into DIA, CIA, NSA, etc. TSA can't figure out how to install a standard RFID scanner?
That's the courts, not TSA.
On a somewhat related note, I have a pet peeve. I have a CI (counter intelligence) polygraph as part of my clearance, and part of the questions focus on links to terrorism. I passed, so the federal government is sufficiently convinced that I am not a terrorist to give me access to sensitive information. So why does another branch of the federal government still check me for weapons when I get on a plane? Why can't I show my standard IC badge and go through security?
Other organizations that lobby Congress aren't trained in psychological operations and federally barred from using that training on American citizens.
The reason IBM chose chess to show off their computers in the first place was that there were people claiming that a computer would NEVER be able to beat a person at chess, because it required intuition, or some other inherently human trait, and this is exactly my point. Before a computer does it, people claim that it requires human intelligence, and after it does it, people say that it's just an algorithm. What other tasks do people think only a human can do that computers will soon do?
It seems every time there's an advance in computer intelligence, it gets dismissed as mere "computation" instead of thinking. Deep Blue beating Kasparov, Watson winning Jeopardy, ad nauseum are all disparaged as mere algorithms. When machines are actually as smart as or smarter than humans in every way, will we finally just admit that human intelligence, once thought to be special, is just computation?
I won't argue much of what you say, but you seem to be intimating that Iran is NOT making an atomic weapon and are enriching Uranium to 20% for purely peaceful use in power plants. By several estimates I've seen, Iran's several thousand centrifuges can make a few atom bombs' worth in a few years, and it's possible they have one or more by now. I hope you're also aware that said power plants make Plutonium, which can of course be used in atomic weapons. If they're only interested in peaceful purposes, what are they going to do with all that Plutonium, and why have they refused international inspectors? I'm sure they felt threatened by having US troops on either side of them and being called part of the Axis of Evil, but that doesn't mean they aren't making an atomic weapon, and it doesn't mean they wouldn't use it or let it get into the hands of someone who would. There's a very real threat of nuclear proliferation here, all rhetoric aside.
It's still used in military comms. Over is when you're done with your part of the conversation, and Out is when you're completely done. In the movies, that gets mangled to Over and Out.
I mean, what does the US or Israel gain by unleashing stuxnet? If they want to stop the program, it would be far better to attack it.
What? It would be better to conduct a military strike on a sovereign nation, than conduct a non-attributable cyber attack? How exactly would that be better?
It's in Israel's and the US's interests for Iran to complete the program
Um, no. With Iran's wacky govt regularly saying things like they want to wipe Israel off the map, and actively supporting a wide range of terrorist groups that have attacked both the US and Israel, it's hardly ideal to let them have a nuke, from the US's perspective.
because then Iran is the evil one with WMDs and the West was forced to act in the name of world peace.
And since when has the US attacked a nuclear nation? Not a smart thing to do. If Iran has even one nuke and is threatened, they will most certainly use it. Then the US will be blamed both for not stopping it, and for instigating their use of it. Far better for Iran not to have one in the first place, from the US's point of view, and even better still not to take any credit for stopping it.
This is the same playbook used by Kim Jong Il, and it works beautifully.
Iran is not North Korea. And NK has several weapons and the capability to make more. Your argument seems to reverse itself here, since now that NK has nukes it has more bargaining power. Why would Iran intentionally stymie its own attempt at creating more bargaining power? Why would they go out of their way to write a worm to sabotage their own equipment, hide the fact that their equipment is sabotaged for over a year, and downplay the effects in the media? Just so they can look foolish? You need to work on your conspiracy theories.
Did Iran suddenly become an Arab country or something?
You want a citation for a quote that sounds crazy to both you and me? The President has said come crazy shit, but not everyone thinks it's crazy. The point is that each side has people who think they're nuts, and there is no universal standard of reasonable political stance. Those calling for gun control like the Brady Bill sound just as crazy to me as Beck et al, but plenty of otherwise rational people think it's perfectly reasonable.
Pot, meet kettle. Have you not listened to Democrats? The extreme left is just as crazy as the extreme right, and each side underestimates just how far to the extreme the other one goes, while painting themselves as moderates.
No, it will say, "You have no chance to survive make your time," in its robotic voice.
There ARE Lamarkian mechanisms at work, such as retroviruses. Just because not all acquired characteristics, like scars and lost limbs, are not heritable, does not mean that none are. Mothers pass non-genetic material through the womb and through breast milk for instance.
What about Linden Dollars? Those are still worth something, right? Right?
Their offices are named after Tolkein places too. The office in Tyson's Corner VA is Rivendell. They have lego models of the death star and toy Deloreans out on display, along with beer in the fridge. It's a typical dot-com silicon valley tech company, selling an overpriced and sexy looking but less than useful visualization software. We use it at work here. I'm less than impressed.
That's great. But considering GPS is only accurate to about 100m, and mine frequently puts me several hundred meters to a few miles away, how would you match up the pothole logs to actual locations?
The Cocaine Importation Agency also made a cat/listening device. They put a cat under, installed a bug inside of it, and put the antenna in its tail. It was supposed to wander across the street and eavesdrop on the Soviet Embassy, IIRC, and it cost a few million in research. After the surgery, the cat was a little woozy and got hit by a car immediately after release, and the program was scrapped.
No way. This doesn't begin to compare to what Obama did in the first two weeks of his presidency.
Strictly and literally speaking, one does NOT have to learn to crawl before one learns to walk. In the ancestral environment (and in some places today), mothers did not put their babies on the dirty, dangerous ground where babies are likely to put dirty and potentially dangerous bugs in their mouths. Once their legs developed, they could walk. Some babies today do not crawl first, but go straight from sitting to walking. Crawling, it seems, is an ad hoc non-natural form of locomotion some babies figure out while they wait for their legs to develop so they can walk. Seems pedantic, but it calls into question the metaphor of "having to learn to crawl before you can walk."
Not sure if this is a joke, but flamethrowers use napalm.
2009 - BARACK OBAMA for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
What's extraordinary is that people think he actually did anything to deserve this in the first two weeks of his presidency which was when he was nominated.
Or a blog, or myspace.
And Whoosh sounds just like douche.. Give yourself one.
Don't look now buddy, but your participle is dangling.