1. That planets with intelligent life are RF emitters.
2. That planets with intelligent life will remain planets with intelligent life,
3. That as tech advances, intelligent life will continue to emit sufficient RF to be detectable at interstellar distances.
We don't have real numbers for ANY of those values, making any calculation of odds unworkable. Me. . . I'll play the PowerBall: at least those odds are calculatable. . . (grin)
Bingo. ANY exercise has VERY detailed Rules of Engagement. The first being, that actual weapon firing is disabled. You can track and target all you want, but if the Weapons Interlock for the system is not engaged. . ..nothing will even load, much less fire. And it takes at LEAST two people in separate locations to do things nearly simultaneously. They could be as little as a few feet apart, but the idea is no ONE person can unlock. . .
Military operations of ALL sorts are dangerous. . . You train and train and have safety procedures to mitigate things, but every so often Murphy's Law causes an accident.
There is a reason that the day I graduated from flight school, they told us to look at every face in the class, one of us would be dead inside of a year.
Three weeks later, one of my classmates died in a C-130 crash. It's a risk that military people accept: you CAN'T do military ops AND have complete safety. . .
You're making a fundamental error: you're assuming that the US Political Spectrum is the same as the rest of the planet.
That is far from the reality: the US spectrum is decidedly to the right of most other nations. What is considered Conservative in most countries is center-left at best in the US. . .
Think of it as the Fahrenheit scale of Politics. . .
Two: massive requirements base to develop specification for development and implementation: The PPACA was 1800+ pages, and the associated regulations are 10,000+ pages, and are STILL changing. Can't develop without a spec and design, with big parts of requirements still changing.
Three: inadequate testing. The above-referenced link states that security testing BEGAN in August 2013, less than two months before rollout. There's no mention of load testing. UPDATE: There WAS load testing, Radio reports say it was tested with a 1000-user simultaneous load. EXPECTED was 60K simultaneous users. . .
However, the only CONCRETE numbers I've found say it crashed at several hundred simultaneous users. . ..
Four: Integration issues. The Obamacare Exchange system combines data from numerous agencies and systems, and integrating between them is always a difficult task.
Five: Identity-management. This is in parallel to Integration, somehow all identities need to be federated into a single overarching system.
Twenty-three (now 25) months, even with a top-flight team, would simply not be enough to do this: this is a 5-7 year job. . .
Can't speak to LIFESPAN of Kindles, but recently bought a lot of 80 re-conditioned Kindle 3G's, and am finding about a 5% failure rate out of the box.
And, while not a Kindle,I have a first-flight Nook Color reader (~ 2 1/2 years old), and the battery performance is off significantly, to the point where it requires daily charging. Of course, it's backlit, color, and is a walled-garden Android minitablet, so the charge cycle is going to be a lot higher than an e-Ink Kindle. . .
OF course, it ALSO means they are prevented from developing a modern economy and advancing the their production structure to no longer BEING a poor, underdeveloped nation. That doesn't seem to be a consideration.
No matter, we'll just keep using them for manually recycling electronic refuse, dumping toxins, etc. Nothing to see here, move along, move along. . .
It's the same way at higher levels and higher clearances: I accepted a job some years back, as a task and team lead to hire and train up some newbie security types.
For that, they paid me $125K. (I've got nearly 30 years of experience). Then I found out, that some of the sub-contractors I was training were making 137K. Needless to say, after pointing that out to my management, they weren't interested in doing anything about it, in fact, they told me that **MY** cost was stretching them. I left a month or so later. . .
You say you can't cut food costs ?? You can't buy basic foods in bulk, and cook your own meal, instead of that overpriced microwaveable entree ? You SURE you must hit Starbucks, you can't brew a pot of coffee at home ?? As noted by others, it's not tough at all: cut the pre-made and the name brands, and you've probably ALREADY saved 20-30%. Coupon. Buy on sale, and stock up. It's simple, rational, and WORKS. . .
It does ? Why do Canadians often come to the States for treatment ? Why does the Elderly death rate in Britain start climbing, late in the summer, and start going down again after the new Fiscal Year starts ??
For that matter, why are so many doctors from Single-payer countries practicing in the States, instead ???
Honestly ? Probably. Federal Contractors have a salary ceiling, and unless brought in specially as consultants, pay tops off in the mid-150s or so. Which in DC Metro, isn't all that much.
Private star-quality talent, there's a much higher earning capability when NOT working for Club Fed. . .
Hate to rain on your parade, but pregnancy is not an illness or a dysfunction. That being said, insurance is willing to pay for birth control if that's what's in the contract. Some employers CHOOSE not to include that in their insurance contracts, often for religious reasons. . .
Stop ALL foreign aid. Means-test ALL transfer payments to individuals. And prohibit the use of proprietary software: MANDATE open-source.
And most importantly, Limit ALL Congressmen to 6 terms max, lifetime, and all Senators to two terms max, lifetime. If it's good enough for the President, it's good enough for them. ..
Indeed, why the criminal charges at all ? Now, I can see CIVIL charges, suing the girls and their parents, but criminality ? Yes, the speech WAS offensive, but unless I'm mistaken the First Amendment was still the law of the land. . .
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Hey, I'm a contractor and I don't eat kittens. . .
Roadkill ? ENTIRELY different question. . . (evil grin)
. . .or the new TSA Initiative.
"No Orifice Left Unprobed"
1. That planets with intelligent life are RF emitters.
2. That planets with intelligent life will remain planets with intelligent life,
3. That as tech advances, intelligent life will continue to emit sufficient RF to be detectable at interstellar distances.
We don't have real numbers for ANY of those values, making any calculation of odds unworkable. Me. . . I'll play the PowerBall: at least those odds are calculatable. . . (grin)
Bingo. ANY exercise has VERY detailed Rules of Engagement. The first being, that actual weapon firing is disabled. You can track and target all you want, but if the Weapons Interlock for the system is not engaged. . . .nothing will even load, much less fire. And it takes at LEAST two people in separate locations to do things nearly simultaneously. They could be as little as a few feet apart, but the idea is no ONE person can unlock. . .
Military operations of ALL sorts are dangerous. . . You train and train and have safety procedures to mitigate things, but every so often Murphy's Law causes an accident.
There is a reason that the day I graduated from flight school, they told us to look at every face in the class, one of us would be dead inside of a year.
Three weeks later, one of my classmates died in a C-130 crash. It's a risk that military people accept: you CAN'T do military ops AND have complete safety. . .
The lawsuit is to try and release "Standard Operating Procedure 303".
Which would make the entire 'net 404. . . .
You're making a fundamental error: you're assuming that the US Political Spectrum is the same as the rest of the planet.
That is far from the reality: the US spectrum is decidedly to the right of most other nations. What is considered Conservative in most countries is center-left at best in the US. . .
Think of it as the Fahrenheit scale of Politics. . .
. . . .that now you can be a suspect for owning a book or DVD. Good thing I never bought a copy of the Constitution . . .
Come now, you KNOW nothing is impossible to anyone who doesn't have to do it themselves. . . .
Silly question, but how can one put out an RFI for a system which did not exist in law until March 23, 2010 ??
Unless, of course, they've ALSO got the Wayback Machine at Stargate Command, excuse me, Cheyenne Mountain. . . .
My previous analysis
Simply:
One: Schedule Fail. Compounded by late award of the contracts to develop/influence:
Contracts Awarded Dec 2011
Two: massive requirements base to develop specification for development and implementation: The PPACA was 1800+ pages, and the associated regulations are 10,000+ pages, and are STILL changing. Can't develop without a spec and design, with big parts of requirements still changing.
Three: inadequate testing. The above-referenced link states that security testing BEGAN in August 2013, less than two months before rollout. There's no mention of load testing. .
UPDATE: There WAS load testing, Radio reports say it was tested with a 1000-user simultaneous load. EXPECTED was 60K simultaneous users. . .
However, the only CONCRETE numbers I've found say it crashed at several hundred simultaneous users. . .
Four: Integration issues. The Obamacare Exchange system combines data from numerous agencies and systems, and integrating between them is always a difficult task.
Five: Identity-management. This is in parallel to Integration, somehow all identities need to be federated into a single overarching system.
Twenty-three (now 25) months, even with a top-flight team, would simply not be enough to do this: this is a 5-7 year job. . .
Can't speak to LIFESPAN of Kindles, but recently bought a lot of 80 re-conditioned Kindle 3G's, and am finding about a 5% failure rate out of the box.
And, while not a Kindle,I have a first-flight Nook Color reader (~ 2 1/2 years old), and the battery performance is off significantly, to the point where it requires daily charging. Of course, it's backlit, color, and is a walled-garden Android minitablet, so the charge cycle is going to be a lot higher than an e-Ink Kindle. . .
Really ? We've solved the waste-trail of rare earths, or the wearout problems of solar cells ? News to me.
Now, Solar THERMAL generation, that's a different story. . .
For that matter, one of the major sources of Thorium is coal fly-ash. And I'm sure you've heard the buzz on Thorium Reactors. . . .
OF course, it ALSO means they are prevented from developing a modern economy and advancing the their production structure to no longer BEING a poor, underdeveloped nation. That doesn't seem to be a consideration.
No matter, we'll just keep using them for manually recycling electronic refuse, dumping toxins, etc. Nothing to see here, move along, move along. . .
It's the same way at higher levels and higher clearances: I accepted a job some years back, as a task and team lead to hire and train up some newbie security types.
For that, they paid me $125K. (I've got nearly 30 years of experience). Then I found out, that some of the sub-contractors I was training were making 137K. Needless to say, after pointing that out to my management, they weren't interested in doing anything about it, in fact, they told me that **MY** cost was stretching them. I left a month or so later. . .
Actually, it would change things back to the way they were BEFORE the TSA. Private, contractor screeners. No excessive security theater.
You say you can't cut food costs ?? You can't buy basic foods in bulk, and cook your own meal, instead of that overpriced microwaveable entree ? You SURE you must hit Starbucks, you can't brew a pot of coffee at home ?? As noted by others, it's not tough at all: cut the pre-made and the name brands, and you've probably ALREADY saved 20-30%. Coupon. Buy on sale, and stock up. It's simple, rational, and WORKS. . .
It does ? Why do Canadians often come to the States for treatment ? Why does the Elderly death rate in Britain start climbing, late in the summer, and start going down again after the new Fiscal Year starts ??
For that matter, why are so many doctors from Single-payer countries practicing in the States, instead ???
Honestly ? Probably. Federal Contractors have a salary ceiling, and unless brought in specially as consultants, pay tops off in the mid-150s or so. Which in DC Metro, isn't all that much.
Private star-quality talent, there's a much higher earning capability when NOT working for Club Fed. . .
Otherwise known as the "get 9 women pregnant to deliver a baby in one month" method.
And it works about as well in systems development and engineering as it does in obstetrics. . .
Hate to rain on your parade, but pregnancy is not an illness or a dysfunction. That being said, insurance is willing to pay for birth control if that's what's in the contract. Some employers CHOOSE not to include that in their insurance contracts, often for religious reasons. . .
Or even better, apply the O'Rourke Circumcision Principle. All budgets get cut, 10%, off the top.
Stop ALL foreign aid. Means-test ALL transfer payments to individuals. And prohibit the use of proprietary software: MANDATE open-source.
And most importantly, Limit ALL Congressmen to 6 terms max, lifetime, and all Senators to two terms max, lifetime. If it's good enough for the President, it's good enough for them. . .
This is referred to as the "get 9 women pregnant to get a baby in a month" paradigm.
It works about as well in systems development as it does in reality. . . .
Indeed, why the criminal charges at all ? Now, I can see CIVIL charges, suing the girls and their parents, but criminality ? Yes, the speech WAS offensive, but unless I'm mistaken the First Amendment was still the law of the land. . .