And just what facts are you using to support the claim "overwhelming perception in the business world that to get anything done you have to use Microsoft products"? Open Source alternatives are just another choice available to those who are responsible for maintaining and building their systems. Replacing current applications with open source alternatives can be a daunting task for both medium and large sized corporations. Things like re-training the existing in-house IT staff, re-training existing users, deciding exactly which combination of open source applications are capable of fulfilling existing functionality, converting existing application data, and a reluctance to risk violating licensing requirements which can be open to liberal interpretations and are constantly being challenged today in court. Even when Open Source licenses are upheld in court it still means legal expenses for both parties of the dispute. By now people know there are open source applications but choosing open source to support a "cause" or "movement" or to just to stick it to MS can be reckless.
Did you not read me previous posts where I mentioned that the government agencies with the capabilities needed to track down threats actually need a serious threat in order to justify using their resources? The Lulz script kiddies are hardly a threat worthy of using substantial assets to track down. The Lulz morons identified so far were identified by the first tier of the local government agencies responsible for dealing with Internet crimes. And another hacking group outed some others just for the hell of it. Lulz has used LOIC tools made by someone else to enable and army of 13 year olds into playing "super hacker". Their SQL injection attacks have only been successful due to sloppy programming and poor system administration, and one of their Sony attacks exploited a bug in Apache that was patched over 16 months ago, a bug Lulz did not discover or figure out how to exploit themselves. And if Sony has not shit canned everyone in their IT department from the CIO down to the person managing the system backups they are just asking for further problems. And why don't you take a look into the ThinThread system and it's offspring and see exactly what type of capabilities the NSA is capable of using.
"Can you imagine how the US would react to a foreign nation that wants to establish a military presence within its borders and dictate how it should be governed?"
Not well. Of course the US has no need for any foreign military bases unlike quite a few countries in the world. If any foreign military wanted to force the issue they should remember that the US public is armed better than the military when it comes to ground fighting. The governments currently hosting a military presence usually denounce the bases in public but in private beg the military to stay. If any country in the world demanded that the US leave they would. All this would require is an agreement between the hosting government and it's citizens to make the request. The US would have no choice and would leave. Of course any country that did this better hope they don't need any US military support in the future because chances are the only assistance from the US would be a friendly worded diplomatic note wishing them good luck and future prosperity.
"we simply refuse to leave other nations alone"
100% horseshit. The US gets hammered when it gets involved and gets just as hammered when it doesn't get involved. I am personally rooting for a military non-interference policy for any situation located more than 500 miles outside of the US borders. Let the rest of the world take care of their own problems for a change. If nothing else it would be highly entertaining to see what happens.
"When these folks exposed the US diplomatic corps and the banks and *nothing happened to them*
The government didn't have to expend much effort to catch the person responsible for releasing that data. I do believe they have the poor fellow under guard at the moment awaiting his opportunity to proclaim his innocence and I would put that in the "something happening" category. As far as using ad hominems goes the majority of the posts on this entire thread have used just that to justify the claim that every police officer in Texas is a corrupt moron. It's amazing how fast people can condemn thousands of people simply by looking through a couple of e-mail messages.
"the NSA has consistently failed to catch most hackers in any security exercise." Please provide the source of the facts that support this statement.
The only thing l now about how our government works is that as a single entity it barely works at all. However, there are some sections that work very well indeed. Of course for more information about these sections you need to obtain a SCI rated security clearance. I don't understand IT? How would you know from the content of this post? Granted I have only been working in IT for 26 years but I am always willing to learn something new.
I know why don't we just start an armed insurrection against the government? Last man standing makes the rules. Survival of the fittest personified. The US public is better armed than the US military when it comes to ground fighting and would make those amateurs in the middle east look like a woman's knitting group. Or on second thought maybe people could just stop blaming all their problems on the government and start taking responsibility for their own lives instead of standing around constantly moaning and bitching about all of the inequities in life.
And you are a total idiot if you actually believe these guys can't be tracked down with ease by the NSA or any other affiliated security service. So far these morons are just petty nuisances but eventually they will cross a line that pisses off the wrong person who has both the resources and authority to take action. Anyway the government most likely already knows who some of these guys are but why stop them when they can just keep tabs on them and collect data on their activities for later use? And by the way genius how do you know the CIA, FBI, or Interpol has not successfully tracked down people? You actually think these organizations are going to issue a press release and reveal their capabilities to the world?
I am aware of the earlier attempts to create a flying wing design but since then the advances in computer and fly by wire technology was responsible for it's re-emergence. Even the F-117 was very difficult if not impossible to be flown manually and relied heavily on fly by wire systems just to maintain a stable flight. The B2 also relies on fly by wire to keep those planes in the air. I suspect in the very near future just about all combat aircraft will not require a pilot just like the current drone systems.
Sadly evidence is does not matter in today's information age. Accusations sprinkled with a little conspiracy theory and the "truth" becomes self evident to those looking to use the information to support their personal viewpoints and opinions.
Copy your shit to a USB drive and send via mail to 100's of media related organizations. Chances are at least a few of them will take it from there and continue to distribute the info.
My only point is that people are still conducting this type of research for purely research purposes and not commercial applications at this time. In their efforts to make the model programmable whose to say they won't run into problems that end up leading them in an entirely different direction in their research.
"they're respectively 2nd worst and the worst US president in history" You evidently have not taken a good look at presidential history. The public feelings toward the Presidents in the past make today's criticisms look like love letters. Some of the Presidents we consider great today were despised when they actually held the office.
Anti-Semitism has nothing to do with conflicts in religious doctrine it is just a time honered way to segregate a small group of people who happen to be reletively successful in the business world. They made the perfect scapegoat for Hitler and the Arabs have taken the lead in making sure this strategy continues. Point out the successful Jews and tell the proles they are the reason they are poor and then let nature take it's course. The same pattern has been used throughout history. Of course the Arabs ran into a small problem when they repeatedly got their asses kicked but they have changed from using tanks and soldiers to using the "Palestinian" ordinance.
How do you know what you can and can't do with this type of architecture if you don't make an attempt to turn whiteboard theories into real world proof? They are not building this thing to run Windows it is a research tool.
I think in one of your previous post you mentioned the fuselage geometry of the F-117 was known by certain governments but the geometry is not the key characteristic in providing stealth capabilities. After WW2 the allies found German plans for a flying wing aircraft that looked very similar to the B2 geometry. Of course the development of that design never happened because of the German defeat but the basic radar geometry has been around for a while. To provide the stealth characteristics required the technology to reduce the thermal signature by using specialized jet exhaust designs, composite materials, and the specialized paint capable of absorbing the radar hits that the geometry alone couldn't deflect. One thing that puzzles me is that there has been no mention of anyone developing a method to thwart the stealth capabilities. Usually weaknesses in most weapon systems are eventually found and exploited to provide effective counter measures. Sorry for rambling on but I find this topic very interesting.
China won't be able to attempt any asteroid capture until after the US or another western country develops the necessary tech for them to appropriate. And before you crown China as the future ruler of the world you might want to look into the current problems they are encountering. They have went from posting large trade surpluses to posting trade deficits, inflation is increasing faster then they can correct with their currency manipulation making their exports more expensive which negates the main reason their economy has prospered, their reliance on US food imports have increased by a factor of 5 over the past 6 years, and the US represents 1/3 of China's exports and if push comes to shove they offer nothing the US cannot create domestically or get from somewhere else. The predictions of them surpassing the US are always based on best case and optimal scenarios while the US gets judged on the worst case scenarios. And by the way the US is still #1 for GDP and they are also still the leading manufacturer. The gaps may be shrinking but that is inevitable because of the emergence of countries who have finally got their internal problems under control and can start them focusing their efforts on the International market.
I saw a documentary on the F-117 project and it generated a surprising number of UFO sightings during testing. When the F-117 was used in the first Iraq war they had remarkable successes but the US Air Command wasn't even sure the stealth capabilities would be effective against a air defense system like they were facing. I'm sure the military tested the hell out of it but outside of computer simulations I seriously doubt they tested it against an air defense network as large and layered as the Iraqis had in place at the time. As a consequence they used other fighters to trigger and profile the Iraqi radar coverage prior to the F-117 attacks so they could exploit the small coverage gaps created where the multiple radar coverage spheres intersected with one another. You are correct in saying that taking out air defense radars prior to an attack usually just lets the intended target know where you are going to attack. The F-117 stealth systems helped alleviate this problem. A lot of people don't realize that the Iraqi air defense system used modern and top of the line Soviet, Chinese, and French hardware and was an extremely capable system. I imagine the Russian and Chinese military were a little irritated about how ineffective their hardware was against the capabilities displayed by the US.
The average city based Chinese citizens are making more money today but that is also creating rising inflation that even the Chinese government can not correct by manipulating their currency. This inflation is making their exports more expensive and damaging the only competitive advantage China has ever possessed which is cheap labor. China has went from trade surpluses to posting trade a deficient for the first time in almost 15 years. To add insult to injury they have also increased their food imports by a factor of 5 over the past 6 years from the US alone. The US represents nearly 1/3 of their export market and when the US economy suffers problems so does theirs.
"You claim the oil companies will kill this but you totally misunderstand them. They will be more than happy to refine hydrogen on a massive scale and bring it to stations just like today for the many, many people who cannot or will not put all this equipment together. They don't care if it's cheap because they will still make some profit on it."
Exactly. The oil corporations have more than enough capital to expand into the alternative energy market. They are most likely watching developments closely to determine which method offers the best rate of return.
The Pakistanis loudly criticize the drone operations but if they were really that upset it they could attempt to shoot down any drones in their airspace. The US would not retaliate with counter strikes against the Pakistani military attempting to shoot down the drones. The US would could also limit the number of drone operations by only being used for only critical operations that could not be accomplished by other means. Plus drones are a hell of a lot cheaper to replace than F-16's or other attack aircraft. The current vulnerabilities can also be addressed by modifying flight profiles. However, I am also sure that they are developing a new generation of drones with stealth capabilities similar to the F-22 or F-117 and it's possible they might have already deployed drones with stealth capabilities without people knowing, The helicopter that crashed during the Osama operation reveled stealth capabilities that nobody had ever seen before. Despite of all the US faults they are capable of maintaining secrecy some of the time. The F-117 took the world by surprise when they finally unveiled this aircraft that had been under development for nearly 20 years. Another non-stealth safeguard would include modifying attack profiles to limit the ability to identify them and eliminate loitering in an area looking for possible targets like they currently do. Another strategy for hiding drone activity would be compromise air defenses with jamming technology before a drone operation is launched.
If they didn't want drones in their airspace they shouldn't have invited the US to the party with their unparalleled incompetence in suppressing the rebel elements in their midst. The groups committing terrorist attacks against their own people and foreigners have always had a very easy way to make both the soldiers and the drones disappear by temporarily suspending all of their violence for a period of 12-16 months. This means 0 attacks against civilians and military targets. If this was to happen in Afghanistan and Pakistan the US would jump at the opportunity to leave. After they get rid of the foreign militaries the extremist can get back to killing one another in peace without fear because there is absolutely no way the US or NATO would ever re-commit their forces after they leave. This same opportunity has also been available to Iraq as well. 12-16 months of no violence and they can be free of any outside interference. The extremist groups could use this time to re-arm and recruit more fighters so when the foreign interlopers leave they are ready to hit the ground running.
The US didn't cut their funding because the US government was not funding them in the first place. It was the private Corporations providing hosting and donation portal services that bailed on them. And given the uncertainty and the possible legal ramifications of participating in any way with the distribution of classified government documents convinced most corporations to avoid the potential risk. It took months for the government to finally realize they had no legal standing to bring charges against those peripherally involved in supporting the release of this information. And Assange has been doing a fine job discrediting himself without any help from any government agency. One question I have not heard addressed is how Wiki leaks got away with charging money for the information submitted to them? I can see trying to recoup operating costs through donations but he was shaking down the major news outlets for money before allowing them access to the information. If the whole purpose was to make information freely available to everyone why didn't Wiki leaks just drop all of the documents online for anyone to download? Why did it need to be parceled piecemeal?
The US may have threatened and huffed and puffed but they did not take any actions against Wiki leaks. They did apply for warrants to get access to some e-mail accounts when they were investigating the source of the leaks. Any security service that does not at least investigate actions like this would be negligent. The only person they have charged is Manning and they had ample reason to do so in this case and even Manning will get his day in court to refute the charges. And it is not the US justice system harassing Assange. If the US was really interested in doing anything to him he would have already had his fatal car crash, committed suicide, or been killed in some other "accidental" incident.
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And just what facts are you using to support the claim "overwhelming perception in the business world that to get anything done you have to use Microsoft products"? Open Source alternatives are just another choice available to those who are responsible for maintaining and building their systems. Replacing current applications with open source alternatives can be a daunting task for both medium and large sized corporations. Things like re-training the existing in-house IT staff, re-training existing users, deciding exactly which combination of open source applications are capable of fulfilling existing functionality, converting existing application data, and a reluctance to risk violating licensing requirements which can be open to liberal interpretations and are constantly being challenged today in court. Even when Open Source licenses are upheld in court it still means legal expenses for both parties of the dispute. By now people know there are open source applications but choosing open source to support a "cause" or "movement" or to just to stick it to MS can be reckless.
Did you not read me previous posts where I mentioned that the government agencies with the capabilities needed to track down threats actually need a serious threat in order to justify using their resources? The Lulz script kiddies are hardly a threat worthy of using substantial assets to track down. The Lulz morons identified so far were identified by the first tier of the local government agencies responsible for dealing with Internet crimes. And another hacking group outed some others just for the hell of it. Lulz has used LOIC tools made by someone else to enable and army of 13 year olds into playing "super hacker". Their SQL injection attacks have only been successful due to sloppy programming and poor system administration, and one of their Sony attacks exploited a bug in Apache that was patched over 16 months ago, a bug Lulz did not discover or figure out how to exploit themselves. And if Sony has not shit canned everyone in their IT department from the CIO down to the person managing the system backups they are just asking for further problems. And why don't you take a look into the ThinThread system and it's offspring and see exactly what type of capabilities the NSA is capable of using.
"Can you imagine how the US would react to a foreign nation that wants to establish a military presence within its borders and dictate how it should be governed?" Not well. Of course the US has no need for any foreign military bases unlike quite a few countries in the world. If any foreign military wanted to force the issue they should remember that the US public is armed better than the military when it comes to ground fighting. The governments currently hosting a military presence usually denounce the bases in public but in private beg the military to stay. If any country in the world demanded that the US leave they would. All this would require is an agreement between the hosting government and it's citizens to make the request. The US would have no choice and would leave. Of course any country that did this better hope they don't need any US military support in the future because chances are the only assistance from the US would be a friendly worded diplomatic note wishing them good luck and future prosperity. "we simply refuse to leave other nations alone" 100% horseshit. The US gets hammered when it gets involved and gets just as hammered when it doesn't get involved. I am personally rooting for a military non-interference policy for any situation located more than 500 miles outside of the US borders. Let the rest of the world take care of their own problems for a change. If nothing else it would be highly entertaining to see what happens.
"When these folks exposed the US diplomatic corps and the banks and *nothing happened to them* The government didn't have to expend much effort to catch the person responsible for releasing that data. I do believe they have the poor fellow under guard at the moment awaiting his opportunity to proclaim his innocence and I would put that in the "something happening" category. As far as using ad hominems goes the majority of the posts on this entire thread have used just that to justify the claim that every police officer in Texas is a corrupt moron. It's amazing how fast people can condemn thousands of people simply by looking through a couple of e-mail messages.
"the NSA has consistently failed to catch most hackers in any security exercise." Please provide the source of the facts that support this statement. The only thing l now about how our government works is that as a single entity it barely works at all. However, there are some sections that work very well indeed. Of course for more information about these sections you need to obtain a SCI rated security clearance. I don't understand IT? How would you know from the content of this post? Granted I have only been working in IT for 26 years but I am always willing to learn something new.
I know why don't we just start an armed insurrection against the government? Last man standing makes the rules. Survival of the fittest personified. The US public is better armed than the US military when it comes to ground fighting and would make those amateurs in the middle east look like a woman's knitting group. Or on second thought maybe people could just stop blaming all their problems on the government and start taking responsibility for their own lives instead of standing around constantly moaning and bitching about all of the inequities in life.
And you are a total idiot if you actually believe these guys can't be tracked down with ease by the NSA or any other affiliated security service. So far these morons are just petty nuisances but eventually they will cross a line that pisses off the wrong person who has both the resources and authority to take action. Anyway the government most likely already knows who some of these guys are but why stop them when they can just keep tabs on them and collect data on their activities for later use? And by the way genius how do you know the CIA, FBI, or Interpol has not successfully tracked down people? You actually think these organizations are going to issue a press release and reveal their capabilities to the world?
I am aware of the earlier attempts to create a flying wing design but since then the advances in computer and fly by wire technology was responsible for it's re-emergence. Even the F-117 was very difficult if not impossible to be flown manually and relied heavily on fly by wire systems just to maintain a stable flight. The B2 also relies on fly by wire to keep those planes in the air. I suspect in the very near future just about all combat aircraft will not require a pilot just like the current drone systems.
Sadly evidence is does not matter in today's information age. Accusations sprinkled with a little conspiracy theory and the "truth" becomes self evident to those looking to use the information to support their personal viewpoints and opinions.
Copy your shit to a USB drive and send via mail to 100's of media related organizations. Chances are at least a few of them will take it from there and continue to distribute the info.
My only point is that people are still conducting this type of research for purely research purposes and not commercial applications at this time. In their efforts to make the model programmable whose to say they won't run into problems that end up leading them in an entirely different direction in their research.
"they're respectively 2nd worst and the worst US president in history" You evidently have not taken a good look at presidential history. The public feelings toward the Presidents in the past make today's criticisms look like love letters. Some of the Presidents we consider great today were despised when they actually held the office.
Anti-Semitism has nothing to do with conflicts in religious doctrine it is just a time honered way to segregate a small group of people who happen to be reletively successful in the business world. They made the perfect scapegoat for Hitler and the Arabs have taken the lead in making sure this strategy continues. Point out the successful Jews and tell the proles they are the reason they are poor and then let nature take it's course. The same pattern has been used throughout history. Of course the Arabs ran into a small problem when they repeatedly got their asses kicked but they have changed from using tanks and soldiers to using the "Palestinian" ordinance.
How do you know what you can and can't do with this type of architecture if you don't make an attempt to turn whiteboard theories into real world proof? They are not building this thing to run Windows it is a research tool.
These days the CIA is more "military" than the real military. They are the ones orchestrating the drone missions in that area.
I think in one of your previous post you mentioned the fuselage geometry of the F-117 was known by certain governments but the geometry is not the key characteristic in providing stealth capabilities. After WW2 the allies found German plans for a flying wing aircraft that looked very similar to the B2 geometry. Of course the development of that design never happened because of the German defeat but the basic radar geometry has been around for a while. To provide the stealth characteristics required the technology to reduce the thermal signature by using specialized jet exhaust designs, composite materials, and the specialized paint capable of absorbing the radar hits that the geometry alone couldn't deflect. One thing that puzzles me is that there has been no mention of anyone developing a method to thwart the stealth capabilities. Usually weaknesses in most weapon systems are eventually found and exploited to provide effective counter measures. Sorry for rambling on but I find this topic very interesting.
China won't be able to attempt any asteroid capture until after the US or another western country develops the necessary tech for them to appropriate. And before you crown China as the future ruler of the world you might want to look into the current problems they are encountering. They have went from posting large trade surpluses to posting trade deficits, inflation is increasing faster then they can correct with their currency manipulation making their exports more expensive which negates the main reason their economy has prospered, their reliance on US food imports have increased by a factor of 5 over the past 6 years, and the US represents 1/3 of China's exports and if push comes to shove they offer nothing the US cannot create domestically or get from somewhere else. The predictions of them surpassing the US are always based on best case and optimal scenarios while the US gets judged on the worst case scenarios. And by the way the US is still #1 for GDP and they are also still the leading manufacturer. The gaps may be shrinking but that is inevitable because of the emergence of countries who have finally got their internal problems under control and can start them focusing their efforts on the International market.
I saw a documentary on the F-117 project and it generated a surprising number of UFO sightings during testing. When the F-117 was used in the first Iraq war they had remarkable successes but the US Air Command wasn't even sure the stealth capabilities would be effective against a air defense system like they were facing. I'm sure the military tested the hell out of it but outside of computer simulations I seriously doubt they tested it against an air defense network as large and layered as the Iraqis had in place at the time. As a consequence they used other fighters to trigger and profile the Iraqi radar coverage prior to the F-117 attacks so they could exploit the small coverage gaps created where the multiple radar coverage spheres intersected with one another. You are correct in saying that taking out air defense radars prior to an attack usually just lets the intended target know where you are going to attack. The F-117 stealth systems helped alleviate this problem. A lot of people don't realize that the Iraqi air defense system used modern and top of the line Soviet, Chinese, and French hardware and was an extremely capable system. I imagine the Russian and Chinese military were a little irritated about how ineffective their hardware was against the capabilities displayed by the US.
The average city based Chinese citizens are making more money today but that is also creating rising inflation that even the Chinese government can not correct by manipulating their currency. This inflation is making their exports more expensive and damaging the only competitive advantage China has ever possessed which is cheap labor. China has went from trade surpluses to posting trade a deficient for the first time in almost 15 years. To add insult to injury they have also increased their food imports by a factor of 5 over the past 6 years from the US alone. The US represents nearly 1/3 of their export market and when the US economy suffers problems so does theirs.
"You claim the oil companies will kill this but you totally misunderstand them. They will be more than happy to refine hydrogen on a massive scale and bring it to stations just like today for the many, many people who cannot or will not put all this equipment together. They don't care if it's cheap because they will still make some profit on it." Exactly. The oil corporations have more than enough capital to expand into the alternative energy market. They are most likely watching developments closely to determine which method offers the best rate of return.
The Pakistanis loudly criticize the drone operations but if they were really that upset it they could attempt to shoot down any drones in their airspace. The US would not retaliate with counter strikes against the Pakistani military attempting to shoot down the drones. The US would could also limit the number of drone operations by only being used for only critical operations that could not be accomplished by other means. Plus drones are a hell of a lot cheaper to replace than F-16's or other attack aircraft. The current vulnerabilities can also be addressed by modifying flight profiles. However, I am also sure that they are developing a new generation of drones with stealth capabilities similar to the F-22 or F-117 and it's possible they might have already deployed drones with stealth capabilities without people knowing, The helicopter that crashed during the Osama operation reveled stealth capabilities that nobody had ever seen before. Despite of all the US faults they are capable of maintaining secrecy some of the time. The F-117 took the world by surprise when they finally unveiled this aircraft that had been under development for nearly 20 years. Another non-stealth safeguard would include modifying attack profiles to limit the ability to identify them and eliminate loitering in an area looking for possible targets like they currently do. Another strategy for hiding drone activity would be compromise air defenses with jamming technology before a drone operation is launched.
If they didn't want drones in their airspace they shouldn't have invited the US to the party with their unparalleled incompetence in suppressing the rebel elements in their midst. The groups committing terrorist attacks against their own people and foreigners have always had a very easy way to make both the soldiers and the drones disappear by temporarily suspending all of their violence for a period of 12-16 months. This means 0 attacks against civilians and military targets. If this was to happen in Afghanistan and Pakistan the US would jump at the opportunity to leave. After they get rid of the foreign militaries the extremist can get back to killing one another in peace without fear because there is absolutely no way the US or NATO would ever re-commit their forces after they leave. This same opportunity has also been available to Iraq as well. 12-16 months of no violence and they can be free of any outside interference. The extremist groups could use this time to re-arm and recruit more fighters so when the foreign interlopers leave they are ready to hit the ground running.
The US doesn't give a shit about VPN. They have the resources to compromise the normal VPN encryption data stream any time they want.
The US didn't cut their funding because the US government was not funding them in the first place. It was the private Corporations providing hosting and donation portal services that bailed on them. And given the uncertainty and the possible legal ramifications of participating in any way with the distribution of classified government documents convinced most corporations to avoid the potential risk. It took months for the government to finally realize they had no legal standing to bring charges against those peripherally involved in supporting the release of this information. And Assange has been doing a fine job discrediting himself without any help from any government agency. One question I have not heard addressed is how Wiki leaks got away with charging money for the information submitted to them? I can see trying to recoup operating costs through donations but he was shaking down the major news outlets for money before allowing them access to the information. If the whole purpose was to make information freely available to everyone why didn't Wiki leaks just drop all of the documents online for anyone to download? Why did it need to be parceled piecemeal?
The US may have threatened and huffed and puffed but they did not take any actions against Wiki leaks. They did apply for warrants to get access to some e-mail accounts when they were investigating the source of the leaks. Any security service that does not at least investigate actions like this would be negligent. The only person they have charged is Manning and they had ample reason to do so in this case and even Manning will get his day in court to refute the charges. And it is not the US justice system harassing Assange. If the US was really interested in doing anything to him he would have already had his fatal car crash, committed suicide, or been killed in some other "accidental" incident.