Fortunately, we have an abundance of data to send, including educational material.that exists explicitly for the purpose of educating people who don't know our language, and we have people that have studied language construction extensively, and have created systems for communicating with both the deaf and blind. Assuming there is overlap in our sensory ranges, this would be a peace of cake if the distance to cover is Ancient Egyptian.
If they don't have humans involved, they will still probably have quite a bit of sensory output, and most likely, some form of communications with their headquarters. The amount of money involved would easily justify the expenditures for a nice monitoring system, and the cargo might not even be readily accessible to unauthorized humans.
Maybe if you are spying on an inquiry about your spying, you should take extra measures to not be caught doing so, or just not do it in the first place.
There are actually plenty of ways to get information outside of spying, and that's where practically all of the useful information comes from. It's called open source intelligence.
That old defense. Only those in the know the real truth, and we just need to trust them. If that's the case, they should provide some evidence of that fact. Otherwise, I'm going to assume that spying hasn't changed in the last few decades, and most of the secrecy for their operations are to hide their gross incompetence.
I seem to remember the spies in the CIA almost ending the world because of incompetent meddling in Cuba. It's a pretty tall order to claim that spies have lowered the body count, especially since they tend to be run by warmongers.
The US should remove its electronic spying capabilities because they are internally insecure? I'm not sure to follow you here. It doesn't make any sense, and looks more like a half-assessed excuse to support your conclusion (The NSA should be destroyed no matter what) than anything else.
We spy on absolutely everything. Three are, without a doubt, agents acting on behalf of Russia, China, Al-Quaeda, and most crime syndicates withing the organization with access to at least as much as Snowden was able to get. That is a far bigger threat than any of these parties possess on their own.
I think the general citizen benefits from the US global hegemony of the last 50 years. I'm sure they don't "feel" like it, but that's the problem of living in a rich country and feeling entitled about it. You end up forgetting the true source of the success to rely so much on.
Our spy agencies have created the majority of the threats we face today. If we could stop enforcing the whims of the cronies at any cost, the general public would probably be in a better economic state without so much state backed corporate espionage and politically motivated coups. Perhaps we'd be less dominant, but I strongly prefer simply having a higher standard of living and being safer over being AMERICA NUMBER 1!
Oh yeah, no exaggeration here!
There isn't. We know of at least one attempt to undermine security standards, and that they have allowed US systems to remain unpatched for vulnerabilities in order to use against unnamed adversaries.
Your argument is that Big Brother isn't a bother if you don't go against it. That's not much of a consolation. They can and will use those same techniques against political opponents, and with enough dirt on everybody and a legal system in which everyone regularly commits serious crimes in their daily life, political opponents can be silenced.
SO... as they use data mining to shrink the "drag-net", we may all have more freedom.
Yes, WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
The NSA is an enormous liability with horrible internal security. It yields virtually nothing useful to the general citizens, and it's actions have jeopardized secure encryption globally. So, yes, I would suggest getting rid of an enormous liability that provides us with nothing useful.
Yes, because the reason that we aren't spying on them is because they are co-conspirators in our spying (five eyes). Our combined spying apparatus are thus spying on the whole world.
And it's not really in our interest to do as much spying as we do or engage in as many wars as we do. If we want to act in the interest of the US public, we would destroy the NSA and not leave a single brick standing.
I don't know about you, but I would prefer more nuance to the role of government agencies than a moronic bumper sticker. Also, I want te NSA fired anyway. It is most likely the biggest threat to national security by quite a margin.
While I'm sure that this will this is quite an accomplishment, this doesn't seem to be a superconductor world record, just a world record that involved a superconductor. A world record for a superconductor would be one with unprecedented stability or superconductivity closer to room temperature than ever before.
You do realize that the problem you experienced was likely due to your ISP refusing to do the proper upgrades so they could either extort Netflix for your business or pitch their own to you, right?
Not going to disagree, but that's the only really clear trend I have heard about. Someone else cited that they found marijuana metabolites in the systems of drivers in accidents more often, but said metabolites have long half-lives, so it doesn't indicate driving while stoned.
Yes, suicide with dependent children would be irresponsible. However, that's mostly because it is child abandonment in addition to suicide. Furthermore, suicide by firearm is a method disproportionately used by men, who are typically not the primary homemakers. Not saying it doesn't happen, but we don't have an endemic of orphans made from suicide by firearms.
We don't live in the disconnected libertarian fantasy land, where no one affects anyone else.
No, but we do live in a world that will still function in our absence, and we generally value the choice and freedom of individuals outside of causing direct harm to others. I would consider it immoral to demand that someone live against their own will.
Unless there was no reason to select against it, like if foods containing vitamin C had been available to an extent that there was rarely a shortage of it when there was an excess of glucose.
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Sooo... Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was kind of right?
Fortunately, we have an abundance of data to send, including educational material.that exists explicitly for the purpose of educating people who don't know our language, and we have people that have studied language construction extensively, and have created systems for communicating with both the deaf and blind. Assuming there is overlap in our sensory ranges, this would be a peace of cake if the distance to cover is Ancient Egyptian.
If they don't have humans involved, they will still probably have quite a bit of sensory output, and most likely, some form of communications with their headquarters. The amount of money involved would easily justify the expenditures for a nice monitoring system, and the cargo might not even be readily accessible to unauthorized humans.
Maybe if you are spying on an inquiry about your spying, you should take extra measures to not be caught doing so, or just not do it in the first place.
BBC = British Broadcasting Corporation
PREVENTING such actions would be within the purview of national security, but COMMITTING those actions certainly isn't.
There are actually plenty of ways to get information outside of spying, and that's where practically all of the useful information comes from. It's called open source intelligence.
That old defense. Only those in the know the real truth, and we just need to trust them. If that's the case, they should provide some evidence of that fact. Otherwise, I'm going to assume that spying hasn't changed in the last few decades, and most of the secrecy for their operations are to hide their gross incompetence.
Argumentum ad populum is a logical fallacy for a reason.
I seem to remember the spies in the CIA almost ending the world because of incompetent meddling in Cuba. It's a pretty tall order to claim that spies have lowered the body count, especially since they tend to be run by warmongers.
Let's say we can the NSA and China and Russia get those 'advantages.' Will that affect average citizens in a meaningful way? Probably not.
We spy on absolutely everything. Three are, without a doubt, agents acting on behalf of Russia, China, Al-Quaeda, and most crime syndicates withing the organization with access to at least as much as Snowden was able to get. That is a far bigger threat than any of these parties possess on their own.
Our spy agencies have created the majority of the threats we face today. If we could stop enforcing the whims of the cronies at any cost, the general public would probably be in a better economic state without so much state backed corporate espionage and politically motivated coups. Perhaps we'd be less dominant, but I strongly prefer simply having a higher standard of living and being safer over being AMERICA NUMBER 1!
There isn't. We know of at least one attempt to undermine security standards, and that they have allowed US systems to remain unpatched for vulnerabilities in order to use against unnamed adversaries.
Yes, WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
The NSA is an enormous liability with horrible internal security. It yields virtually nothing useful to the general citizens, and it's actions have jeopardized secure encryption globally. So, yes, I would suggest getting rid of an enormous liability that provides us with nothing useful.
Yes, because the reason that we aren't spying on them is because they are co-conspirators in our spying (five eyes). Our combined spying apparatus are thus spying on the whole world.
And it's not really in our interest to do as much spying as we do or engage in as many wars as we do. If we want to act in the interest of the US public, we would destroy the NSA and not leave a single brick standing.
I don't know about you, but I would prefer more nuance to the role of government agencies than a moronic bumper sticker. Also, I want te NSA fired anyway. It is most likely the biggest threat to national security by quite a margin.
Perhaps the question is how could Google do all that much worse?
While I'm sure that this will this is quite an accomplishment, this doesn't seem to be a superconductor world record, just a world record that involved a superconductor. A world record for a superconductor would be one with unprecedented stability or superconductivity closer to room temperature than ever before.
You do realize that the problem you experienced was likely due to your ISP refusing to do the proper upgrades so they could either extort Netflix for your business or pitch their own to you, right?
Not going to disagree, but that's the only really clear trend I have heard about. Someone else cited that they found marijuana metabolites in the systems of drivers in accidents more often, but said metabolites have long half-lives, so it doesn't indicate driving while stoned.
No, but we do live in a world that will still function in our absence, and we generally value the choice and freedom of individuals outside of causing direct harm to others. I would consider it immoral to demand that someone live against their own will.
That's the value, not the debt accrued.
Unless there was no reason to select against it, like if foods containing vitamin C had been available to an extent that there was rarely a shortage of it when there was an excess of glucose.
It's amazing how much functionality the liver has. At times, it feels more accurate to claim that a human is a parasite attached to a liver.