I'm sure subsidies are somewhat wrapped up in the $13Trillion in US national debt. Most of which was brought about by the Bush 2 administration who had direct ties to the oil industry.
There is no debt. Fractional reserve banking is based on fiat paper with no hard currency backing. Go ahead and believe the FED stooges,they will be laughing all the way to their bank while you sit in a cave near a smokey camp fire. Mommy I'm hungry.
The debt is LARGER.
Deficit is all people talk about and often confuse with the debt. The total debt is higher but when we had a "surplus" instead of using that to pay down the debt, the public thought we were in the green again !?#@!
You can't ignore your mortgage because you stopped going in the hole every month!
As far as this national debt blabbing its hype - because it was a non-starter before 2009. During WWII the deficit was much higher; although, we had a real GDP back then. Also, the total debt was lower back then... but then now we monopolize the new gold standard: the US dollar -- that is until it gets so weak that it loses status or more nations allow OIL to be purchased in euros. We may have gone off gold, but we realistically traded it for OIL we didn't have but was sold in dollars...
When the government borrows money from a private corporation (the FED), whose motto is "more profit" the government loses with greater losses in the long term. The national debt would be more controllable if the government printed its own currency, backed by precious metals, and borrowed against itself at 0% interest.
The taxes paid by the FF industry...dwarf the subsidies they receive, however.
Any evidence to back this up? Or are you just guessing?
There are more tax deductions for corporations than for individuals, on top of subsidies. Break the political-corporate financial bond, if you can, and there may be some equity (don't hold your breath).
You must be confused. Education does not affect one's ability to not get fooled in the first place, so there's no reason to under-rate it as you do.
True, education does not affect one's ability to be fooled, but experience does. I have had the pleasure to work with engineers, the first year it was "I'm the engineer" and I say, "I've been working here for the last ten years". The second or third year there seems to be a mutual agreement that we could learn from each other except for the fact that I already knew this. The fourth year seems to be the one that the engineer seeks my input prior to starting a project to ensure that it does not conflict with operational demands. I really don't like breaking engineers in, it's always sore on the egos, theirs not mine. Besides "beyond my grasp", the point is that experiential education is more effective than book learning. Once you are in the "field" book learning is just a baseline and not how the real world works.
The story I read said that any four of these seven must get together at one of these bases. That seems to indicate that each one has half of the key. Two of them, if they were the right two, could do it. But having four out of seven guarantees that you have at least one copy of both halves.
Don't forget the two complete sets that I have in a shoe box next to my underwear.
This is a big, fat, hairy deterrent to developing nuclear arms. "This terrorist nuke came from (spin the wheel on hated regimes du jour!) Dumfucistan! Dumfucistan, here's a million tons of conventional ordinance dropped on the head of each and every last goat-herder inside your borders and summary execution for your Prime Minister For Life and all his family! Congratulations, Dumfucistan! Meanwhile, Pakistan, we're still all good friends, right? It wasn't your rogue intelligence service that slipped Osama a nuke on the sly, right? It would be a shame if we spun the wheel and it turned up "Pakistan", right?
Look at your history books, specifically all the regimes supported by the U.S. for the last 50 years, a great majority of them are no longer our allies, just our enemies. What does that tell you about American Foreign Policy?
US federal government agencies are inept when it comes to a lot of things. (No political bias intended). Take a look at recent defense acquisition programs, business and wall street regulation... The virtues of "strong leadership [and] careful planning" seem to be in short supply thoughout the system.
'Although US nuclear forensics capabilities are substantial and can be improved, right now they are fragile, under-resourced and, in some respects, deteriorating,'
Fifteen years ago they had full capabilities, but only five years later their capacity was cut in half. Then, in 2005 they found that their capabilities were down to 25%. Today they are working at 12.5% effectiveness. At this point their capabilities are so degraded they have no idea what will be left in 2015.
I don't think there would be a nuking just knee-jerk unless people are SURE they know the real culprits.
You state your position succinctly in the first three words. "I don't think". Why do you "believe" that it will be a big player war? Look at all the whack jobs out there with nukes. Pakistan, India, Israel, Flying Spaghetti Monster knows which Arab faction wants/ has/ is willing to buy a nuke of any yield, did I forget to mention that Pakistan is an Islamic state? How about Russia (proper) vs. the Chechens/ Ukraines/ any other break-away state. Putin, Rasputin what's the difference?
I'm sure a lot of countries would love to see the US, China, and Russia all go at it
China goes after Taiwan; Israel goes after Saudia Arabia; Russia goes after Alaska/ Canada; China expands their sphere of influence absorbing Australia, then what?
... and there is little to no command infrastructure left to fire off smaller tac weapons.
The command structure is already in place regardless of who's left. Deadhand, Mutually Assured Destruction, Nuclear Winter/ drastic change in the Earth's environment/ tectonic plate movement.
And what if (I hate theoretical possibilities), what if there is sentient life out there? Whether good or bad, how will they respond? Then what? When you are no longer a child, it is time to put away childish things.
Oh, after a weapon is "used" there is a entire recipe of isotope signatures that can yield all sorts of information about the weapon design, source of the pit, yield, efficiency, etc... We got very good at that back in the 50's and 60's.
What is really being said is that all the fissile material has decayed to such an extent that it all points to the U.S.; where's your technology now?
It's nice to see the hacker community making a move to acknowledge its roots. Social engineering is the oldest and easily the most challenging/rewarding form of real hacking.
What's more gratifying, beating the password out of a hash after weeks of brute force or having the mark just tell you in a five-minute phone call?
Wait until the Chinese (or name your ethnic group here) get a load of this. The sophistication of the American haxorz is limited by the human languages they speak.
Seriously. This is supposed to be a contest, a challenge of information security.
No point in fighting a war of wits with the unarmed.
After reading Kevin Mitnick's "The Art of Deception", I now firmly believe in P.T. Barnum's adage that there is a sucker born every minute. The fact the Fools, Boobs and Idiots were possibly out finessed by some kid/ tween/ teen/ adolescent in information harvesting goes to show you that BA's, MA's and PHD's are probably over-rated. Just like that/. article somewhere else in this compendium states.
What good is it going to do for one country to take up the space mop if other countries keep using it as a dump?
Easy, kick it back down stairs where it came from. Keep doing it until they (being those that are called them) get the idea to assist in paying for the cleanup. Just like dog owners picking up after their dogs.
Maybe some international body could charge a property tax on birds up there and use it to fund regular garbage collections, a bit like local councils down on earth.
Why? The insurance recovery fee would do more than make up the difference. A $100 million satellite that goes bad because of a $1500 circuit board can be re-activated if somebody could get to the satellite either physically or by remote tele-presence. The ISS can be setup as a base of operations, but a commercial space station would be better.
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So much for that wind generated heating system.
I'm sure subsidies are somewhat wrapped up in the $13Trillion in US national debt. Most of which was brought about by the Bush 2 administration who had direct ties to the oil industry.
There is no debt. Fractional reserve banking is based on fiat paper with no hard currency backing. Go ahead and believe the FED stooges,they will be laughing all the way to their bank while you sit in a cave near a smokey camp fire. Mommy I'm hungry.
The debt is LARGER. Deficit is all people talk about and often confuse with the debt. The total debt is higher but when we had a "surplus" instead of using that to pay down the debt, the public thought we were in the green again !?#@! You can't ignore your mortgage because you stopped going in the hole every month!
As far as this national debt blabbing its hype - because it was a non-starter before 2009. During WWII the deficit was much higher; although, we had a real GDP back then. Also, the total debt was lower back then... but then now we monopolize the new gold standard: the US dollar -- that is until it gets so weak that it loses status or more nations allow OIL to be purchased in euros. We may have gone off gold, but we realistically traded it for OIL we didn't have but was sold in dollars...
When the government borrows money from a private corporation (the FED), whose motto is "more profit" the government loses with greater losses in the long term.
The national debt would be more controllable if the government printed its own currency, backed by precious metals, and borrowed against itself at 0% interest.
The taxes paid by the FF industry...dwarf the subsidies they receive, however.
Any evidence to back this up? Or are you just guessing?
There are more tax deductions for corporations than for individuals, on top of subsidies. Break the political-corporate financial bond, if you can, and there may be some equity (don't hold your breath).
You must be confused. Education does not affect one's ability to not get fooled in the first place, so there's no reason to under-rate it as you do.
True, education does not affect one's ability to be fooled, but experience does.
I have had the pleasure to work with engineers, the first year it was "I'm the engineer" and I say, "I've been working here for the last ten years". The second or third year there seems to be a mutual agreement that we could learn from each other except for the fact that I already knew this. The fourth year seems to be the one that the engineer seeks my input prior to starting a project to ensure that it does not conflict with operational demands.
I really don't like breaking engineers in, it's always sore on the egos, theirs not mine.
Besides "beyond my grasp", the point is that experiential education is more effective than book learning. Once you are in the "field" book learning is just a baseline and not how the real world works.
Yup. Poor disaster planning.
More like typical disaster planning.
The story I read said that any four of these seven must get together at one of these bases. That seems to indicate that each one has half of the key. Two of them, if they were the right two, could do it. But having four out of seven guarantees that you have at least one copy of both halves.
Don't forget the two complete sets that I have in a shoe box next to my underwear.
ok.
three men, one pakistani, one iraqi, and one america detonate a bomb with nuclear material traced to russia.
who do we nuke in retaliation?
and in which order?
That's easy, the Greys from Zeta Retculi, chaaa.
This is a big, fat, hairy deterrent to developing nuclear arms. "This terrorist nuke came from (spin the wheel on hated regimes du jour!) Dumfucistan! Dumfucistan, here's a million tons of conventional ordinance dropped on the head of each and every last goat-herder inside your borders and summary execution for your Prime Minister For Life and all his family! Congratulations, Dumfucistan! Meanwhile, Pakistan, we're still all good friends, right? It wasn't your rogue intelligence service that slipped Osama a nuke on the sly, right? It would be a shame if we spun the wheel and it turned up "Pakistan", right?
Look at your history books, specifically all the regimes supported by the U.S. for the last 50 years, a great majority of them are no longer our allies, just our enemies. What does that tell you about American Foreign Policy?
US federal government agencies are inept when it comes to a lot of things. (No political bias intended). Take a look at recent defense acquisition programs, business and wall street regulation... The virtues of "strong leadership [and] careful planning" seem to be in short supply thoughout the system.
And who caused that, O'bama? Yeah, right.
'Although US nuclear forensics capabilities are substantial and can be improved, right now they are fragile, under-resourced and, in some respects, deteriorating,' Fifteen years ago they had full capabilities, but only five years later their capacity was cut in half. Then, in 2005 they found that their capabilities were down to 25%. Today they are working at 12.5% effectiveness. At this point their capabilities are so degraded they have no idea what will be left in 2015.
And who caused that, O'bama? Yeah, right.
I imagine that they are looking for neutron ratios and possibly gamma energy levels?
Silly rabbit, that's old hat.
I don't think there would be a nuking just knee-jerk unless people are SURE they know the real culprits.
You state your position succinctly in the first three words. "I don't think". Why do you "believe" that it will be a big player war? Look at all the whack jobs out there with nukes. Pakistan, India, Israel, Flying Spaghetti Monster knows which Arab faction wants/ has/ is willing to buy a nuke of any yield, did I forget to mention that Pakistan is an Islamic state? How about Russia (proper) vs. the Chechens/ Ukraines/ any other break-away state. Putin, Rasputin what's the difference?
I'm sure a lot of countries would love to see the US, China, and Russia all go at it
China goes after Taiwan; Israel goes after Saudia Arabia; Russia goes after Alaska/ Canada; China expands their sphere of influence absorbing Australia, then what?
... and there is little to no command infrastructure left to fire off smaller tac weapons.
The command structure is already in place regardless of who's left. Deadhand, Mutually Assured Destruction, Nuclear Winter/ drastic change in the Earth's environment/ tectonic plate movement.
And what if (I hate theoretical possibilities), what if there is sentient life out there? Whether good or bad, how will they respond? Then what?
When you are no longer a child, it is time to put away childish things.
Personally, I root for the home team regardless. It's a Hobbesian war of all vs. all, not some United Federation of Planets, kid.
Once the thermonuclear device goes prompt critical, all bets are off.
Oh, after a weapon is "used" there is a entire recipe of isotope signatures that can yield all sorts of information about the weapon design, source of the pit, yield, efficiency, etc... We got very good at that back in the 50's and 60's.
What is really being said is that all the fissile material has decayed to such an extent that it all points to the U.S.; where's your technology now?
It's nice to see the hacker community making a move to acknowledge its roots. Social engineering is the oldest and easily the most challenging/rewarding form of real hacking.
What's more gratifying, beating the password out of a hash after weeks of brute force or having the mark just tell you in a five-minute phone call?
Wait until the Chinese (or name your ethnic group here) get a load of this. The sophistication of the American haxorz is limited by the human languages they speak.
Seriously. This is supposed to be a contest, a challenge of information security.
No point in fighting a war of wits with the unarmed.
After reading Kevin Mitnick's "The Art of Deception", I now firmly believe in P.T. Barnum's adage that there is a sucker born every minute. The fact the Fools, Boobs and Idiots were possibly out finessed by some kid/ tween/ teen/ adolescent in information harvesting goes to show you that BA's, MA's and PHD's are probably over-rated. Just like that /. article somewhere else in this compendium states.
The article said something about buried life....Jimmy Hoffa?
Death by a thousand disruptions could be just as effective
What disruption? The service continued to work fine. It was only the status page that reported it was down, which doesn't actually impact the service.
You would be confused too if your firewall was 'erectiflied".
Get off it, you have no alien friends. My alien friends say so.
Anyone claiming to have "alien" friends, probably doesn't have any friends.
Which is another thing.
What good is it going to do for one country to take up the space mop if other countries keep using it as a dump?
Easy, kick it back down stairs where it came from. Keep doing it until they (being those that are called them) get the idea to assist in paying for the cleanup. Just like dog owners picking up after their dogs.
Well, not exactly -- that's where he was arrested, but will he be tried in Slovenia? Or will he be extradited to Spain or the U.S.?
Given just the information in the articles, any of those seems possible to me.
He'll ride over with McKinnon.
Pft... Everyone knows you just need to create a GUI-interface using Visual Basic to track his IP address.
My Linux box has that as an installed feature, so there.
.. a tractor beam, and depending on how wide the beam is, in 24 hrs, an entire strip across the sky could be debris free.
Could also be a national attraction watching things sparkle and burn up as it's doing re-entry.
Come back from the 23rd century, Buck Rogers, in realistic terms, a high tech flypaper would be simpler and cost effective.
Maybe some international body could charge a property tax on birds up there and use it to fund regular garbage collections, a bit like local councils down on earth.
Why? The insurance recovery fee would do more than make up the difference. A $100 million satellite that goes bad because of a $1500 circuit board can be re-activated if somebody could get to the satellite either physically or by remote tele-presence.
The ISS can be setup as a base of operations, but a commercial space station would be better.