Ain't just Islam, Christianity (or take any religion of your liking) would react the same way if it had the political backing
It does react the same way - just look at the way Christian groups react to various political things from abortion, to gay marriage, to pre-marital sex, to competition from other religions.
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it's more then that. The FBI collects information with the purpose of prosecution. The justice department and the FISA court also operate under that principle - information collected is to stand in court. Intelligence collection is about finding information, not about making a case. As such, the information available for the wiretap might not be good enough to convince a panel of judges. Having a a wiretap dismiss means all the information goes "bye-bye" and can have a snowball effect on the rest of the cases emerging from it. That's one of the reason they are oposed to it.
here's where I disagree. It's a question of resource management. You're right
Turning the clean water issue into an engineering challenge means you can bypass all that crap & distribute the solution directly to the villagers who need it. Yet you can spend lots of resources finding solutions to problems that can easily be solved with current technology while ignoring engineering problems for which we do not have a solution presently. I'll refer you to Paul O'Neil's book "The Price of Freedom" which came out in 2004. Toward the end he discussed the plans he had proposed for clean water access in Africa based on what is currently available, and in a way that removes large government spending/involvement from the process (i.e reduces the opportunity for corruption).
Again, I'm not minimizing the necessity for access to clean water. I'm just suggesting that rather then thinking of inventing new ways to get to water, we think of new ways to make the water we can already get to available to people. I don't think that's selfish. I just think that if you have limited resources, you should use them in such a way as to maximize returns rather then in ways that duplicate what is already available.
Now please explain to me why we need this bullcrap draconian security theatre to board a plane, but we don't need it at all those locations I listed above? I dare you. Simple. You can't take a 7/11 into a building. You can crash a plane into a building. And if the plane is full of kerosene, you can create a lot of damage and pain.
you can debate if in the post 9/11 world planes, especially US planes, can still be highjacked. I would suggest that they cannot. But if a plane was to be highjacked by terrorists, we already know what they plan to do with it. That's the reason for all the security.
This is just the same old "gateway crime" argument, which, if history is any example, will inevitably be scientifically proven false by statistical studies showing (perhaps a correlation, but) no causation.
I would not be so quick to dismiss this. there is a little bit of difference between home brew piracy (what you are doing at home) and for profit piracy (what the guy supplying the Kenyan at the corner of 43rd and Broadway is doing). Generally speaking, suppliers of pirated movies/cds are part of criminal gangs. It might not lead to a suitcase bomb, but it might very well lead to drug smuggling and/or other crimes.
that's what I would like to see. DARPA's list. Of course, that's probably classified.
as for the NSF's list, "access to clean water" is not so much an egineering challenge as a bureacratic and resource management challenge. Same with preventing nuclear terror. I would much rather add "creating a functioning AI" (though not sure this is engineering), improve baterry techology, and redesign propulsion methods.
everything is explained by dark matter. Universe heavier then we think it should be? dark matter. can't figure out the big bang? dark matter. I bet soon enought someone will figure out a way to tie dark matter to the cables in the middle east that got cut the other day.
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It does react the same way - just look at the way Christian groups react to various political things from abortion, to gay marriage, to pre-marital sex, to competition from other religions.
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it's more then that. The FBI collects information with the purpose of prosecution. The justice department and the FISA court also operate under that principle - information collected is to stand in court. Intelligence collection is about finding information, not about making a case. As such, the information available for the wiretap might not be good enough to convince a panel of judges. Having a a wiretap dismiss means all the information goes "bye-bye" and can have a snowball effect on the rest of the cases emerging from it. That's one of the reason they are oposed to it.
here's where I disagree. It's a question of resource management. You're right
Turning the clean water issue into an engineering challenge means you can bypass all that crap & distribute the solution directly to the villagers who need it. Yet you can spend lots of resources finding solutions to problems that can easily be solved with current technology while ignoring engineering problems for which we do not have a solution presently. I'll refer you to Paul O'Neil's book "The Price of Freedom" which came out in 2004. Toward the end he discussed the plans he had proposed for clean water access in Africa based on what is currently available, and in a way that removes large government spending/involvement from the process (i.e reduces the opportunity for corruption).Again, I'm not minimizing the necessity for access to clean water. I'm just suggesting that rather then thinking of inventing new ways to get to water, we think of new ways to make the water we can already get to available to people. I don't think that's selfish. I just think that if you have limited resources, you should use them in such a way as to maximize returns rather then in ways that duplicate what is already available.
you can debate if in the post 9/11 world planes, especially US planes, can still be highjacked. I would suggest that they cannot. But if a plane was to be highjacked by terrorists, we already know what they plan to do with it. That's the reason for all the security.
I would not be so quick to dismiss this. there is a little bit of difference between home brew piracy (what you are doing at home) and for profit piracy (what the guy supplying the Kenyan at the corner of 43rd and Broadway is doing). Generally speaking, suppliers of pirated movies/cds are part of criminal gangs. It might not lead to a suitcase bomb, but it might very well lead to drug smuggling and/or other crimes.
about the NSF yearly budget each month... or there about.
that's what I would like to see. DARPA's list. Of course, that's probably classified. as for the NSF's list, "access to clean water" is not so much an egineering challenge as a bureacratic and resource management challenge. Same with preventing nuclear terror. I would much rather add "creating a functioning AI" (though not sure this is engineering), improve baterry techology, and redesign propulsion methods.
I bet I can do cross it in 12 parsecs.
everything is explained by dark matter. Universe heavier then we think it should be? dark matter. can't figure out the big bang? dark matter. I bet soon enought someone will figure out a way to tie dark matter to the cables in the middle east that got cut the other day.