It worked pretty well in the 1860's and again in the 1940's. we rode the "repopulation" curve pretty well in the USA and people made VAST SUMS of wealth in both aftermaths.
It's just about time to gear up for the next war... About the time we elect GOP'rs in 2016 because we're annoyed with the current guy and forgot what they caused.
It's more like $35k -$50k yearly for most states... That goes to private companies and powerful unions. Compared with the oh so evil teacher unions that only get $5k-$7k per student. And the police/guard unions threaten VIOLENCE, that you and yours will be victims, if they don't get their raises, because they aren't doing their job of REFORMING criminals.
You'll notice in states that "broke unions" they only prohibited TEACHERS unions from collecting dues... Police and prison guard unions were not effected because they contribute to the "correct" party.
And a growing number of vocal people think THAS A BAD THING.
We have out own right-wing terrorist religion... They just happen to be IN CHARGE of things right now. How many States Legislatures had "emergency sessions" during last weeks "freedom" holiday specifically to pass religious-backed laws on the down low?
He's pleading tolerance for HIS movie, while at the same time ACTIVELY USING HIS CELEBRITY against rights for other people.
It's not like this is his PRIVATE opinion, he's out there making crazy statements about the government if they don't PUNISH, and/or keep punishing, a group his religion calls sinners.
People are showing the exact same "tolerance" for his writing that he is showing for Gay people. Except he is advocating putting people In JAIL, others Just don't want you to watch his movie.
That gives you plenty of bodies to throw at making war! For most of human history, that was probably normal, to lose a large number of males to conflict over resources... Now its about the money!
Manning was just the mail boy who happened upon memos between politicans that were offensive for their contempt of Americans. Manning got involved after incidentally seeing offensive documents. He was only cleared to "pass out the mail". Like a butler who's seen their boss be an ass too many times and speaks out. Still a breech of trust, but not of job performance.
Snowden was PART of the system to PERFORM the spying, and to actually plan and figure out how to violate individuals' rights... He obviously did it for some time. Snowden doesn't get "whistleblower" credit just for turning over things HE TOOK MONEY TO DO FOR YEARS. He is Part of that spying system, "in for a penny, in for a pound" what they do to him is his own fault. He shouldn't be getting any sympathy because he "feels bad about spying on Americans" now.
To be fair, Snowden was a vetted analyst working for the NSA. In earlier days, just SAYING you worked for the NSA got you "visited", and you shut up. From a Cold War perspective, Snowden is WAY out here in the woods, and Obama as Commander-in-Chief has to keep his house in order.
Frankly, its gotten too far already. Somebody with that security clearance shouldn't have been able to leave the country without permission... Snowden SHOULD have been "terminated" at the airport just trying to go to Hong Kong.
The whole thing is sloppy spy craft and should never have gotten to the White House. But now that it IS there, some NSA directors need to "fall on their swords" and new directors need to end this guy...
We already KNEW we were being spied on, Snowden has not provided more than a few details we just didn't happen to know. but fundamentally Snowden is "one of them" and has to be punished to keep the rest in line.
This is still tame... Latin American Presidents would have just "had an accident" during the Cold War for a stunt like this.
If Snowden had true NSA SPYING information, they'd just send an operative to drop him and anybody he talked to. I think he knows something, but only enough to make noise, so like Manning, he's useful to catch as an example. When he stops being a useful example and just a loose end he will "disappear".. Because he WILLINGLY SIGNED UP WITH A SPY AGENCY, and accepted the responsibility for secret clearances, and that's how they handle "leaks".
You cannot file suit agains these because they are SECRET. A suit has to have DEFINATE act toons and personnel. Some lines on a PowerPoint won't cut it.
The NSA and CIA are not "police" and they were chartered outside the Constitution way back in the 50's and 60's when FREEDOM was at its peak! to prove damage, a citizen would have to have a CRIMINAL TRIAL EFFECTED by this illegally obtained information. You only have rights against the government USING illegally obtained information in courts. As these are SPIES, that's not going to happen.
You can fault the Patriot Act for mixing up spy works and anti-terrorist work, and regular police work. as well as mixing up the terminology used improperly by media and regular police to "sound like" they were "national security" agencies. These programs are owned by the NSA and not even subject to the petty FISA court playtime.
This is going to slow the NSA collecting information down just how much? All they have to do is spy on a few more EU offices. EU offices don't seem to be taking the thing very seriously anyway if they were acting do "surprised" about it.
of course they would be ARM, Apple has spent the last 5 years building their own house to optimize the default ARM cores into their A-series SoC. Intel would just be a fab... for Apple, they would gain 2 generations of size decreases overnight over any other ARM provider if they got on the same lines as Intel's best chips. For Intel, it's not such a great deal because Apple would only be paying for manufacturing time, on a per lot basis, not engineering overhead or profit, and Intel has crazy markup for their processors over the actual "manufacturing" costs.
unfortunately AMD doesn't have quality or volume resources that could keep up with Apple's demands. AMD's integrated stuff is so much better "rounded" for performance and cost than Intels... but Apple is "premium" so they are stuck building around Intels faster CPUs... but weaker, more locked in overall package.
the problem using Intel is the same as using Samsung. Intel is too big for a company as big as Apple to "punish" if they screw up. Intel had it's chance at ARM with Xscale and bowed out. There's no way Apple is taking APPLE"S ARM processors back to them and "just hoping" Intel won't jerk them around even worse than Samsung... Intel used to jerk around Microsoft just for kicks when it suited them.
The only problem with TSMC is that TSMC likes being INDEPENDENT. they don't want to dedicate brand new factories JUST for Apple, they want to grow where they choose. What Apple is offering is a "golden cage" and TSMC really doesn't want to be in the position FOXCONN finds itself in during the slump times of year when Apple doesn't need manufacturing "blitz" and just leaves them hanging with no work, and no working AHEAD because it's "secret". They also don't want to be worse than Foxconn piss off their existing customers that are smaller volume but loyal.
Realistically, show of hands who thought the USA ever shut down spying on other countries from during the Cold War? These Europeans are so silly and naive they thought the USA closed up spy shop just cause the Comminist countries fell? I mean that's so naive as to be dangerous for politics and military. These guys are too content coasting on NATO treaties for security arrangements in the area that the USA does the lion's share of the operations on.
But to think for a minute the USA isn't spying on you is just silly.
That said, back in the 1970's if the USA thought you were openly harboring a spy, we'd have just "accidented" you mr from Bolivia. I'm sure Ecuador is starting to feel the "coup de Tate" pressure from tge CIA right about now too.
It's not a very exciting or relevant list. Most of it is whining.
Complaining about languages or toolsets is just a "first world problem" in that 25% of Americans are lucky to vacuum offices one day and shovel dirt the next... Have some friggin perspective being asked to pearl COBOL or Java isn't like cleaning toilets.
On many small places programmers act as sys admin or DBA. But a DBA cannot protect you from a bad update or delete rows statement that programmatically wipes data out because of bad logic. We can go find a backup tape and shut people down while we restore it... That's about it.
Well when they want YOUR BODY, and can support just your head "in a jar" so its not murder, just business, then the rich will just TAKE IT... Like they always do.
How much DOES it really matter? Obviously there are people who's bodies have withered away like Steven hawking, or veterans with their bits blown away in war and they are still conscientiously "whole" people.
So if I can put a head on a new body, can I just attach it to a mechanical one made up of life supporting devices?
The NSA is chartered to be outside the law... They're spies, paid to catch spies... 90% of what they do is illegal.
Their mission is to not get caught... Which means prosecuting "civilian crimes" shouldn't be a priority... Because their primary, most important job, is to not get caught. THAT is what Snowden violated. We've "false flagged" innocent civilian commercial traffic to get lesser threats than him, trying to go to China and Russia would have got whatever transport he was in and everybody he was with killed indiscriminately in the Cold War days... Kid is making too much mockery.
Come on, during the Cold War this stuff was commonplace. Everybody was spying on everybody else... Political espionage in the 60's - 80's was elevated to an art form, even in polite circles.
The NSA never needed wiretaps, they were SPIES. The problem is that the Patriot Act opened the gates to regular (police and FBI) law enforcement having access to shared toys the NSA and CIA used to use, but more importantly the TRAINING regime shifted to using spying and subterfuge rather than direct investigation and face time with citizens. The biggest shift is that Peace Officers went from being people on the street we knew, to lions that pick off the weak critters in the night.
Back on topic, the NSA is something regular folks never really will ever deal with. The NSA and CIA play hunches and probabilities all the time...basing lots of actions on race, sex, income, religion, Slashdot posts, etc... Knowing that all that data just adds dice to the "probability your crazy pool" none of it STOPS YOU from being the bad guy who rolls all '1' to give the worst outcome today... But odds are you aren't that guy out of 300 million. REGULAR POLICE have no business first having access to that info because its ILLEGAL, and second have no training or the psych profile to handle knowing such things about people. Lots of people have traits of serial killers, even multiple traits... But serial killers are still a small fraction of actual people with bad traits. Regular people as police aren't trained and conditioned mentally to understand that. So all this data collection is worse than meaningless because they really are not capable of processing it properly.
Self replicating machines don't have to be intelligent. Even if they only replicate some kind of marker or beacon to plant as they go. The only way to get ahead of the sheer numbers is to spend time planting seeds and signposts with directions to the other habitable planets. Give races something to shoot for and see if they show up.
Lucas totally retcon'd both runs of Droids comics from the 80's and 90's. the two never meet before events (80's version) and are sent straight to Captain Antillies (so no gap or the 90's version)
If I recall some dubious sources in EU-land... Droids in Star Wars are similar to Dune, but less extreme. There were smarter Droids like 1,000 years ago that rebelled, but since then Droids were specifically designed not to become sentient. Droids have a series of "motivators" with "opposing" functions that enforce their thinking rules. (That was from some of the Droids kits, similar to Asimov... But of course designing any module that can tell "right and wrong" for a robot is considerably more complex than making one that can evolve) Building droids without such safeguards is highly illegal... Even droid armies are built with central hubs because they would rather lose the army than win.
There is a subplot in the EU that R2-D2 and C3PO are anomalies for the usual droids. They are both "victims" of a father-son hacking project so that they barely fit their design specs. And neither Anakin nor Luke had the regular maintenance done so they have been going a long time (although C3PO gets wiped a few times)
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It worked pretty well in the 1860's and again in the 1940's. we rode the "repopulation" curve pretty well in the USA and people made VAST SUMS of wealth in both aftermaths.
It's just about time to gear up for the next war... About the time we elect GOP'rs in 2016 because we're annoyed with the current guy and forgot what they caused.
It's more like $35k -$50k yearly for most states... That goes to private companies and powerful unions. Compared with the oh so evil teacher unions that only get $5k-$7k per student. And the police/guard unions threaten VIOLENCE, that you and yours will be victims, if they don't get their raises, because they aren't doing their job of REFORMING criminals.
You'll notice in states that "broke unions" they only prohibited TEACHERS unions from collecting dues... Police and prison guard unions were not effected because they contribute to the "correct" party.
And a growing number of vocal people think THAS A BAD THING.
We have out own right-wing terrorist religion... They just happen to be IN CHARGE of things right now. How many States Legislatures had "emergency sessions" during last weeks "freedom" holiday specifically to pass religious-backed laws on the down low?
He's pleading tolerance for HIS movie, while at the same time ACTIVELY USING HIS CELEBRITY against rights for other people.
It's not like this is his PRIVATE opinion, he's out there making crazy statements about the government if they don't PUNISH, and/or keep punishing, a group his religion calls sinners.
People are showing the exact same "tolerance" for his writing that he is showing for Gay people. Except he is advocating putting people In JAIL, others Just don't want you to watch his movie.
That gives you plenty of bodies to throw at making war! For most of human history, that was probably normal, to lose a large number of males to conflict over resources... Now its about the money!
Manning was just the mail boy who happened upon memos between politicans that were offensive for their contempt of Americans. Manning got involved after incidentally seeing offensive documents. He was only cleared to "pass out the mail". Like a butler who's seen their boss be an ass too many times and speaks out. Still a breech of trust, but not of job performance.
Snowden was PART of the system to PERFORM the spying, and to actually plan and figure out how to violate individuals' rights... He obviously did it for some time. Snowden doesn't get "whistleblower" credit just for turning over things HE TOOK MONEY TO DO FOR YEARS. He is Part of that spying system, "in for a penny, in for a pound" what they do to him is his own fault. He shouldn't be getting any sympathy because he "feels bad about spying on Americans" now.
To be fair, Snowden was a vetted analyst working for the NSA. In earlier days, just SAYING you worked for the NSA got you "visited", and you shut up. From a Cold War perspective, Snowden is WAY out here in the woods, and Obama as Commander-in-Chief has to keep his house in order.
Frankly, its gotten too far already. Somebody with that security clearance shouldn't have been able to leave the country without permission... Snowden SHOULD have been "terminated" at the airport just trying to go to Hong Kong.
The whole thing is sloppy spy craft and should never have gotten to the White House. But now that it IS there, some NSA directors need to "fall on their swords" and new directors need to end this guy...
We already KNEW we were being spied on, Snowden has not provided more than a few details we just didn't happen to know. but fundamentally Snowden is "one of them" and has to be punished to keep the rest in line.
This is still tame... Latin American Presidents would have just "had an accident" during the Cold War for a stunt like this.
If Snowden had true NSA SPYING information, they'd just send an operative to drop him and anybody he talked to. I think he knows something, but only enough to make noise, so like Manning, he's useful to catch as an example. When he stops being a useful example and just a loose end he will "disappear".. Because he WILLINGLY SIGNED UP WITH A SPY AGENCY, and accepted the responsibility for secret clearances, and that's how they handle "leaks".
You cannot file suit agains these because they are SECRET. A suit has to have DEFINATE act toons and personnel. Some lines on a PowerPoint won't cut it.
The NSA and CIA are not "police" and they were chartered outside the Constitution way back in the 50's and 60's when FREEDOM was at its peak! to prove damage, a citizen would have to have a CRIMINAL TRIAL EFFECTED by this illegally obtained information. You only have rights against the government USING illegally obtained information in courts. As these are SPIES, that's not going to happen.
You can fault the Patriot Act for mixing up spy works and anti-terrorist work, and regular police work. as well as mixing up the terminology used improperly by media and regular police to "sound like" they were "national security" agencies. These programs are owned by the NSA and not even subject to the petty FISA court playtime.
This is going to slow the NSA collecting information down just how much? All they have to do is spy on a few more EU offices. EU offices don't seem to be taking the thing very seriously anyway if they were acting do "surprised" about it.
of course they would be ARM, Apple has spent the last 5 years building their own house to optimize the default ARM cores into their A-series SoC. Intel would just be a fab... for Apple, they would gain 2 generations of size decreases overnight over any other ARM provider if they got on the same lines as Intel's best chips. For Intel, it's not such a great deal because Apple would only be paying for manufacturing time, on a per lot basis, not engineering overhead or profit, and Intel has crazy markup for their processors over the actual "manufacturing" costs.
unfortunately AMD doesn't have quality or volume resources that could keep up with Apple's demands. AMD's integrated stuff is so much better "rounded" for performance and cost than Intels... but Apple is "premium" so they are stuck building around Intels faster CPUs... but weaker, more locked in overall package.
the problem using Intel is the same as using Samsung. Intel is too big for a company as big as Apple to "punish" if they screw up. Intel had it's chance at ARM with Xscale and bowed out. There's no way Apple is taking APPLE"S ARM processors back to them and "just hoping" Intel won't jerk them around even worse than Samsung... Intel used to jerk around Microsoft just for kicks when it suited them.
The only problem with TSMC is that TSMC likes being INDEPENDENT. they don't want to dedicate brand new factories JUST for Apple, they want to grow where they choose. What Apple is offering is a "golden cage" and TSMC really doesn't want to be in the position FOXCONN finds itself in during the slump times of year when Apple doesn't need manufacturing "blitz" and just leaves them hanging with no work, and no working AHEAD because it's "secret". They also don't want to be worse than Foxconn piss off their existing customers that are smaller volume but loyal.
Realistically, show of hands who thought the USA ever shut down spying on other countries from during the Cold War? These Europeans are so silly and naive they thought the USA closed up spy shop just cause the Comminist countries fell? I mean that's so naive as to be dangerous for politics and military. These guys are too content coasting on NATO treaties for security arrangements in the area that the USA does the lion's share of the operations on.
But to think for a minute the USA isn't spying on you is just silly.
That said, back in the 1970's if the USA thought you were openly harboring a spy, we'd have just "accidented" you mr from Bolivia. I'm sure Ecuador is starting to feel the "coup de Tate" pressure from tge CIA right about now too.
It's not a very exciting or relevant list. Most of it is whining.
Complaining about languages or toolsets is just a "first world problem" in that 25% of Americans are lucky to vacuum offices one day and shovel dirt the next... Have some friggin perspective being asked to pearl COBOL or Java isn't like cleaning toilets.
On many small places programmers act as sys admin or DBA. But a DBA cannot protect you from a bad update or delete rows statement that programmatically wipes data out because of bad logic. We can go find a backup tape and shut people down while we restore it... That's about it.
Well when they want YOUR BODY, and can support just your head "in a jar" so its not murder, just business, then the rich will just TAKE IT... Like they always do.
How much DOES it really matter? Obviously there are people who's bodies have withered away like Steven hawking, or veterans with their bits blown away in war and they are still conscientiously "whole" people.
So if I can put a head on a new body, can I just attach it to a mechanical one made up of life supporting devices?
The NSA is chartered to be outside the law... They're spies, paid to catch spies... 90% of what they do is illegal.
Their mission is to not get caught... Which means prosecuting "civilian crimes" shouldn't be a priority... Because their primary, most important job, is to not get caught. THAT is what Snowden violated. We've "false flagged" innocent civilian commercial traffic to get lesser threats than him, trying to go to China and Russia would have got whatever transport he was in and everybody he was with killed indiscriminately in the Cold War days... Kid is making too much mockery.
Come on, during the Cold War this stuff was commonplace. Everybody was spying on everybody else... Political espionage in the 60's - 80's was elevated to an art form, even in polite circles.
The NSA never needed wiretaps, they were SPIES. The problem is that the Patriot Act opened the gates to regular (police and FBI) law enforcement having access to shared toys the NSA and CIA used to use, but more importantly the TRAINING regime shifted to using spying and subterfuge rather than direct investigation and face time with citizens. The biggest shift is that Peace Officers went from being people on the street we knew, to lions that pick off the weak critters in the night.
Back on topic, the NSA is something regular folks never really will ever deal with. The NSA and CIA play hunches and probabilities all the time...basing lots of actions on race, sex, income, religion, Slashdot posts, etc... Knowing that all that data just adds dice to the "probability your crazy pool" none of it STOPS YOU from being the bad guy who rolls all '1' to give the worst outcome today... But odds are you aren't that guy out of 300 million. REGULAR POLICE have no business first having access to that info because its ILLEGAL, and second have no training or the psych profile to handle knowing such things about people. Lots of people have traits of serial killers, even multiple traits... But serial killers are still a small fraction of actual people with bad traits. Regular people as police aren't trained and conditioned mentally to understand that. So all this data collection is worse than meaningless because they really are not capable of processing it properly.
Self replicating machines don't have to be intelligent. Even if they only replicate some kind of marker or beacon to plant as they go. The only way to get ahead of the sheer numbers is to spend time planting seeds and signposts with directions to the other habitable planets. Give races something to shoot for and see if they show up.
They are there for kissing and rescuing and stuff. He's no less sensitive than Nintendo/Mario or Walt Disney.
Lucas totally retcon'd both runs of Droids comics from the 80's and 90's. the two never meet before events (80's version) and are sent straight to Captain Antillies (so no gap or the 90's version)
But they are fun reads.
If I recall some dubious sources in EU-land... Droids in Star Wars are similar to Dune, but less extreme. There were smarter Droids like 1,000 years ago that rebelled, but since then Droids were specifically designed not to become sentient. Droids have a series of "motivators" with "opposing" functions that enforce their thinking rules. (That was from some of the Droids kits, similar to Asimov... But of course designing any module that can tell "right and wrong" for a robot is considerably more complex than making one that can evolve) Building droids without such safeguards is highly illegal... Even droid armies are built with central hubs because they would rather lose the army than win.
There is a subplot in the EU that R2-D2 and C3PO are anomalies for the usual droids. They are both "victims" of a father-son hacking project so that they barely fit their design specs. And neither Anakin nor Luke had the regular maintenance done so they have been going a long time (although C3PO gets wiped a few times)