Thomas Polgar, the last CIA station chief in Vietnam, died in March at the age of 92. His obit is in today’s New York Times. And here's Polgar himself, remembering the fall of Saigon. As well as, in this brief aside, the war criminal Henry Kissinger.
One day I had an opportunity to ask Mr. Kissinger what he thought of our intelligence. Not speaking of Vietnam, but generally. He was getting this big flow of intelligence from CIA world wide at the time. What did he think of the value of it? And he thought for a moment and then he said, "Well, when it supports my policy, it’s very useful." And I think we are here at the heart of the problem. It is that American policy is not formulated in response to what the intelligence shows. We first formulate the policy and then we try to find the intelligence to support it.
It is interesting to speculate what might have happened if Truman had decided to let the country continue to bumble along, as it had somehow since 1776, without any "intelligence" agency at all. No Shah of Iran, hence no hostage crisis and no Ronald Reagan. No U2, hence no refreezing of the Cold War. No Bay of Pigs, hence no Cuban Missile Crisis. No arming of the Taliban, to teach those Russians a lesson. No Weapons of Mass Destruction, hence no The list goes on and on. The CIA stands in relation to the White House as the drug dealer stands to the addict.
"In a world, where Truth is forbidden... Where Justice - is a threat... and Treason means having the courage to do what's Right... Sometimes, there's a chance for one man to make a difference, and risk it all... So others can reach the summit and see the light."
Kay is either an arrogant asshat or an aspberger's victim. Either way, he hasn't demonstrated an interest in collaborating on a solution for the whole forest, over the pure vision of his one, true tree.
From the previous message in the thread, to which Linus was reacting:
It has come to our attention that a system running a specific user space init program will not boot if you add "debug" to the kernel command line. What happens is that the user space tool parses the kernel command line, and if it sees "debug" it will spit out so much information that the system fails to boot. This basically renders the "debug" option for the kernel useless.
This bug has been reported to the developers of said tool here:
"Generic terms are generic, not the first user owns them."
That is, the "debug" statement on the *kernel* command line is not owned by the kernel just because it was the first user of it, and they refuse to fix their bug.
I don't care if Kay wrote "Jesus 2.0". He broke kernel debugging for all development and responded to this with arrogant platitudes based on architecture principle, rather than join with cooperative interest to seek a solution.
Linus was restrained, in response to such a "community contributor". This is the Linux kernel, not Oxford dons, vying for college chairs.
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Thomas Polgar, the last CIA station chief in Vietnam, died in March at the age of 92. His obit is in today’s New York Times. And here's Polgar himself, remembering the fall of Saigon. As well as, in this brief aside, the war criminal Henry Kissinger.
One day I had an opportunity to ask Mr. Kissinger what he thought of our intelligence. Not speaking of Vietnam, but generally. He was getting this big flow of intelligence from CIA world wide at the time. What did he think of the value of it? And he thought for a moment and then he said, "Well, when it supports my policy, it’s very useful." And I think we are here at the heart of the problem. It is that American policy is not formulated in response to what the intelligence shows. We first formulate the policy and then we try to find the intelligence to support it.
It is interesting to speculate what might have happened if Truman had decided to let the country continue to bumble along, as it had somehow since 1776, without any "intelligence" agency at all. No Shah of Iran, hence no hostage crisis and no Ronald Reagan. No U2, hence no refreezing of the Cold War. No Bay of Pigs, hence no Cuban Missile Crisis. No arming of the Taliban, to teach those Russians a lesson. No Weapons of Mass Destruction, hence no The list goes on and on. The CIA stands in relation to the White House as the drug dealer stands to the addict.
Don LaFontaine:
"In a world, where Truth is forbidden... Where Justice - is a threat... and Treason means having the courage to do what's Right...
Sometimes, there's a chance for one man to make a difference, and risk it all... So others can reach the summit and see the light."
This summer, is the summer of.. Snowden.
NSA - Just following orders, like the SS did!
AND, there are lots of other interesting moons out that way. good to establish a precedent that this far out exploration can be done.
Why don't the US ask Russia which one they're going to, and beg for a lift.
It's been working for the local service...
I wish systemd would have gotten a kick when they proclaimed that you can't have a seperate /usr partition.
Is that true? systemd requires /usr in / ? I used to part all to hell, across spindles - when that was a significant performance issue.
It also made versioning backups of some trees really simple, with cpio, etc.
For those of us lacking in perspective on how Fun! kernel debugging is, here is a voice from the MS side of things. Dangerous curveballs ahead.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf
OK. That was GREAT!
I never thought I'd see the day when Slashdot would post such blatant and sensationalist anti-Linux FUD. What planet is this? How did I get here?
Three letter answer: NSA.
A kid'll use Ubuntu, too.
Wouldn't you?
Bob is my hope.
Cue George Costanza.
Kay is either an arrogant asshat or an aspberger's victim. Either way, he hasn't demonstrated an interest in collaborating on a solution for the whole forest, over the pure vision of his one, true tree.
Without Linus, Linux is doomed.
From the previous message in the thread, to which Linus was reacting:
It has come to our attention that a system running a specific user
space init program will not boot if you add "debug" to the kernel
command line. What happens is that the user space tool parses the
kernel command line, and if it sees "debug" it will spit out so much
information that the system fails to boot. This basically renders the
"debug" option for the kernel useless.
This bug has been reported to the developers of said tool
here:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/s...
The response is:
"Generic terms are generic, not the first user owns them."
That is, the "debug" statement on the *kernel* command line is not
owned by the kernel just because it was the first user of it, and
they refuse to fix their bug.
I don't care if Kay wrote "Jesus 2.0". He broke kernel debugging for all development and responded to this with arrogant platitudes based on architecture principle, rather than join with cooperative interest to seek a solution.
Linus was restrained, in response to such a "community contributor". This is the Linux kernel, not Oxford dons, vying for college chairs.
Oh, how you DO babble-on!
Is the new clock metric, or the old English units of measure?
Giving up sex for more office hours.
Bad things happen.
Eich? Yech!
He now needs to figure out how to remove the flashing, pink-neon "CLOSET CASE" sign, from his forehead.
Can we hack the bootloader?
There's the trick!
Oh. I was looking for some resources on the 'net, to help with my WindowMaker configuration, and found this funny site by a kid in Holland, Michigan.
You drive a silver Camry, on Sunset, don't you?
Will it run XBMC?
That, or I just keep my FireCore ATV2.
I think maybe the results of pilot efforts might be looked to, before mandating all development go to this model, based on reference architecture...
Naked Lunch, by William S Burroughs.
"the only adventure left is to destroy society..."
Remember kids! Lights that are timed for 35 MPH are also timed for 70!
I am no longer "family friendly" thinkin' bout that ladies legs!