Good luck with that -> the higher-end market will be keeping its discrete CPUs / GPUs, if only because it makes dual/quad-CPU/GPU designs easier. Or the fabled 'wall of processors' available in supercomputers.
On a side note, if AMD is willing to introduce multi-CPU capability into its high-end FX consumer line, I'd work to spec it into the machines I build. Dual latest edition FX CPUs...with 32 cores total or whatever...works for me.
Actually, this is a good thing. Women in general weigh less than men, which, when it comes to payload calculations, is something you do care about; neurologically speaking, they are as capable as men. The only downsides are the traditional ones -> should an oddball scenario arise where having that much more extra upper body strength is somehow the difference between life and death (the space station is pushed out of orbit, and you need to realign the Space Shuttle engines feeds with a giant crowbar, or face a fiery re-entry), and gender wars (you absolutely can't have one on a space shuttle / space station...you have a job to do, any strife / problems that arise must be resolved quickly and decisively). I do recall that NASA does not have a spotless track record here: Lisa Nowak. On the plus side, they do tend to eat less than men, and probably consume less air, so if the Space Shuttle somehow is dislodged with a meteor while simultaneously taking out the cafeteria / life support / Soyuz capsule, you actually stand a fair chance of surviving long enough for a new one to arrive.
An interesting take. You're saying that in so far as the iron was unmined, and as such, the actual quantity / quality unknown, the people who accepted it as collateral should not have? This is, of course, assuming that the company had full rights to the iron which others have hinted are based in a somewhat unstable country.
I could see how it could be that way...essentially it's a bluff on a good day, a fraudulent transaction on a bad day. Since you're telling the market that you're good for this much iron, and the market is supposed to react like that information is good, and it's not...that could create all sorts of ripples. Maybe the ore really is worth that much, maybe it isn't...the fact remains, it's ore, i.e. unrefined, and as such, there is no easy way to qualify it like 99% pure iron ingots.
PICARD: Do you see what is happening here, Mister Worf? WORF: Sir? PICARD: This is not unlike a drumhead trial. WORF: I do not understand. PICARD: Five hundred years ago, military officers would upend a drum on the battlefield sit at it and dispense summary justice. Decisions were quick, punishments severe, appeals denied. Those who came to a drumhead were doomed. WORF: But we know there is a traitor here. J'Dan has admitted his guilt. PICARD: That's true, and he will stand for his crimes. WORF: Tarses has all but done the same. PICARD: How? WORF: He refused to answer the question about his Romulan grandfather. PICARD: That is not a crime, Worf. Nor can we infer his guilt because he didn't respond. WORF: Sir, if a man were not afraid of the truth, he would answer. PICARD: Oh, no. We cannot allow ourselves think that. The Seventh Guarantee is one of the most important rights granted by the Federation. We cannot take a fundamental principle of the Constitution and turn it against a citizen. WORF: Sir, the Federation does have enemies. We must seek them out. PICARD: Oh, yes. That's how it starts. But the road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think. Something is wrong here, Mister Worf. I don't like what we have become.
Ah, OCZ, the SSD company with the highest rate of failure I've seen thus far. Granted, the earlier Vertex drives were supposedly responsible for much of that failure, but for the life of me, I cannot understand the popularity of this company.
Possibly, but then, it depends how stupid the people running the corporation are...and to be honest, there may be brighter bulbs at an Green energy festival than what we are seeing here.
Fuck, if I ran a corporation, and found a crapload of artifacts of any significant worth at the site of one of my new buildings, I'd stop all work long enough to cart them off to a professional appraiser / restorer, then mount them in the lobby of the new building with all sorts of plaques when it was finished being built. I'd have the lower area marked off as some sort of museum in exchange for a sweet tax break deal (good for as long as the museum exists...and what is good PR worth?), then I'd add it to my list of accomplishments before the board that year. Something something 'preserver of the arts'...
Actually, that history doesn't belong to us (all), but nice work with the whole broad appeal thing. Works wonders on juries when someone is trying to lift someone else's stuff, but needs to do it in a politically acceptable way. That history would, in theory, belong either to those who found it (assuming it was abandoned / no known descendents), or to the descendents of that piece of history.
But I digress, you're going to find some way to put it into a museum for the masses to gawk at, and setup something akin to a tourist trap / gift shop out front, so let's dispense with lies, shall we?
As Havelock Vetinari would say, sometimes it matters less that someone is lying, and more about why that person is lying. There are very few humans alive that do not have something they are not ashamed of, and would prefer not to relive in the court of public opinion; however, this is not the only reason for dissembling, hence the quandary.
Now, looking at things from an outside angle, and at a distance, here's what we have: on one hand, the NSA provides a valuable service breaking codes and so on that, in times of major war, help our side tremendously; on the other hand, we have what are, no doubt, one of numerous overzealous programs which, having seen the light of day, now must be brought before someone like the Supreme Court (whose Constitutional batting average is looking a little thin), to see if the 'best liars that money can buy' can somehow find some vague reinterpretation of some clause in said Constitution that somehow allows for the continued sanctioning and operation of these programs. Now, the NSA is playing the national security card which, in the past decade, has been a fairly strong trump card, usually defeating anything else...but word has already gotten out that they are indiscriminately surveying the whole of Verizon, an incredibly large telecom which has, no doubt, more lawyers / doctors / engineers / the wealthy / NYC screenwriters / etc. as its customers than something tiny, like Boost, and who, having found out that their privileged conversations may not have been privileged, more so that the crackpots they've made fun of as a past time for the last several decades were right...they might be a tad unhappy. I know that if I were an ACLU lawyer, and I found out that the NSA had been running a virtual tap on my cellphone for the last three months without any kind of warrant, I'd be declaring an open hunting season. If I were the wealthy, I'd wonder if every failure I'd had the last several months might somehow be connected to someone listening in, and tipping my hand; I'd take perverse notice that Congress has allowed itself, with some rather frightening speed, the ability to do inner trading without any kind of punishment, and that they do have access to all sorts of regular intelligence reports. If I were a doctor, I'd be incredibly annoyed that I'd spent thousands of dollars on HIPAA certified processes and software, only to see the whole doctor / patient relationship completely sidestepped in one moment.
It's not often that a national security agency manages to make so many powerful people in so many countries look so foolish and naive in their trust, but when it does, I'm sure it stokes it a fire.
Because it's something that tends to arouse strong emotions in people...who wants to explain to their 8 year old son or daughter why dad is pitching a tent, or why mom doesn't let the plumber slap her ass like in the movies? Like it or not, people are more de-sensitized to violence than they are to sexual situations; and that makes some people uncomfortable. They seek not to understand their emotions, and come to some peace with them, but to wall them off or control them; their final plan is a human race that looks like the Vulcan race...except with less emotion. Since this is liable to backfire (emotions are hideously strong, and those who claim to successfully control them are usually most subordinate to them), we are all going to suffer for it.
Well, it's an attempt at population control, albeit in the name of morality. Kind of silly once you throw some science into things, and take a closer look at the current state of the human genome (one more major war / enough minor wars, all future descendent of mankind will genetically...interesting (said the way House says something when he comes across a patient with several genetic diseases all co-morbid in the same individual)). But then this is politics, where science, let alone truth, is a secondary objective to trouncing your opponents. Britain will probably, like the US, feel relieved at having finally achieved its population control, and thus, a chance at lightening the burden on the modern welfare state...only to watch in several generations as genetic illnesses multiply uncontrolled among the populace, and new cults arise out of darkness proclaiming to have special knowledge of the eugenics needed to save people. Their top genetic researchers / engineers will realize the mistake in population control too late, and, become consigned to their fates, as the brain power of their nation rapidly collapses under the onslaught of the diseases. Their future progeny will be no smarter than celery stalks, but that's okay, as they won't live long enough to see their first birthday....
Hmm, we'll see. Their house of Lords is always worth a quick read, and could probably read between the lines of this proposal and quash it faster than our Senate could.
Indeed. It'll be wonderful when they start charging extra for this service because *ding * ding* ding* censorship is, surprisingly, not free, so the costs will need to be offloaded somewhere, either in the form of a rate hike for customers, or money from the taxpayers. But I'm sure the UK has loads of money to spare, won't miss a few pouinds here and there, right? Doing well this global recession, right?
Apples and oranges. SPAM is sending information to people who are not looking for it, whereas this is preventing people from finding information when they are looking for it (unless they call their ISP and presumably say something to the effect of 'yes, please turn on the wank service for me, I need some TLC from Fiona and her five friends.')
And give up the chance to eventually become a state service, complete with bailouts and government protection from crimes? Surely not! There's a waiting list of companies who are trying to get into that fabled situation...where they are considered so important (i.e. well-known, popular) that the state must come to the rescue and nationalize them for all that is good. And in doing so, all former and future crimes become an issue of sovereign immunity, complete with taxpayer-funded defense.
Was I drunk the day that everyone signed away their freedoms? Did someone forge my signature on various documents to give rise to these monstrosities? When did I exchange freedom for security, and call it a fair trade? What is with these weak spirited responses condoning the yoke that beckons to the grave?
The home of the brave indeed. More like the home of the scared. The home of the frightened. The home of adult children threatened by the dark shadows cast by the bogie men they conjured up in the first place to protect them, bogie men that many of them never wanted. What happened to this country, that started off so strong, with such valiant leaders, only to end up like this...I fear it would take the resurrection of your forefathers to restore some valor to those frames. Yes, yes, we know you can fight wars, and win them...but it's been a while since you've fought one for the right reason. So here's one that you're scared of -> fighting one of your own creations, not on a battlefield filled with foreign enemies that you know nothing about, but on the court grounds of the land that you love so dear, over the laws that were setup to protect you if you but say the word 'No,' and yet, sadly, many of you cannot. You're scared, because you're not sure you can win this battle, when every other battle, until now, has been ducks in a barrel; you have to take a stand, if only on an issue, and there might be some repercussions for it. Better to choose the cowards way out, and remain silent, right? Then you can celebrate with everyone else after the battle has been won, without ever exposing yourselves...
Who says we don't experiment on humans? Remember, to various groups inside humanity, many people outside the group are experimental fodder.
Consider the various religious who, at times, might view those of other religions / non-religions to lack that something special, and thus, fall short of the privileges of full citizen of whatever; however, they might still be deemed as having some value as test subjects; the same may be said from the other side, that of atheism, whereby the religious are seen are brain-damaged and incapable of simple right / wrong logic; still, they would make valuable test subjects.
On a grander scale, consider the often-times psychopathic actions of various persons or companies; a brand name company that decides to save on testing by performing only the minimum to get past the FDA, only to find their medicines promote cardiac infarctions; was this not an experiment, albeit on a grander scale? What of a generic drug company, that certified that for all intents and purposes, it has faithfully copied a brand-name drug that has fallen outside of patent protection, albeit using a new process that introduces adulterants, and thus side effects? Was this not an experiment?
What have we learned from human experimentation, except that the most powerful computers and simulations in existence are still coming up short when it comes to predicting some of the horrible outcomes of some of these candidates / lots?
It means they're still trying to figure out exactly what information has been leaked. The easiest way to counter a leak is to find out what has been leaked, then work off of that model; it looks silly if they spin a story saying that it's all for terrorism while someone is waiting to release a video of the NSA director saluting a flag with a swastika in his office, and personal memos talking of a 'glorious cleansing.' The people are already conditioned to want to believe that it's all a lie; however, proving the government wrong multiple times tends to break that conditioning.
Snowden has supposedly since disappeared, so he's either out of the country (smart), or in a private interrogation room (a definite possibility), being taken apart. They'll want to know exactly what he knows, so that they can form a reaction plan based off of it. Little details matter.
Then those who can be ruled by authority will respect that; and those who cannot by ruled by authority will laugh when you attempt to use similar means on them. Rule by authority tends to work only on authoritarians -> they're bred to give their loyalty to the strongest being in the room, and to adopt the same values, etc. This is why, say, Gandhi, would be incredibly hard to bend, but your average security guard will drop to his knees in seconds.
Hmm. So the US has a bunch of (read: social, not electronic) network people who are using their connections and relative powerlessness to forge a common base, then Katamari Damacy everyone nearby, adding them to the ball before anyone notices. That'll happen.
Would actually fit the authoritarian personality type, though. Short on patience, respect 'mah authority,' very angry...the shoe does fit. And the more they are resisted, the angrier they get. You can't get more Beta in personality than this.
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Good luck with that -> the higher-end market will be keeping its discrete CPUs / GPUs, if only because it makes dual/quad-CPU/GPU designs easier. Or the fabled 'wall of processors' available in supercomputers.
On a side note, if AMD is willing to introduce multi-CPU capability into its high-end FX consumer line, I'd work to spec it into the machines I build. Dual latest edition FX CPUs...with 32 cores total or whatever...works for me.
Actually, this is a good thing. Women in general weigh less than men, which, when it comes to payload calculations, is something you do care about; neurologically speaking, they are as capable as men. The only downsides are the traditional ones -> should an oddball scenario arise where having that much more extra upper body strength is somehow the difference between life and death (the space station is pushed out of orbit, and you need to realign the Space Shuttle engines feeds with a giant crowbar, or face a fiery re-entry), and gender wars (you absolutely can't have one on a space shuttle / space station...you have a job to do, any strife / problems that arise must be resolved quickly and decisively). I do recall that NASA does not have a spotless track record here: Lisa Nowak. On the plus side, they do tend to eat less than men, and probably consume less air, so if the Space Shuttle somehow is dislodged with a meteor while simultaneously taking out the cafeteria / life support / Soyuz capsule, you actually stand a fair chance of surviving long enough for a new one to arrive.
An interesting take. You're saying that in so far as the iron was unmined, and as such, the actual quantity / quality unknown, the people who accepted it as collateral should not have? This is, of course, assuming that the company had full rights to the iron which others have hinted are based in a somewhat unstable country.
I could see how it could be that way...essentially it's a bluff on a good day, a fraudulent transaction on a bad day. Since you're telling the market that you're good for this much iron, and the market is supposed to react like that information is good, and it's not...that could create all sorts of ripples. Maybe the ore really is worth that much, maybe it isn't...the fact remains, it's ore, i.e. unrefined, and as such, there is no easy way to qualify it like 99% pure iron ingots.
PICARD: Do you see what is happening here, Mister Worf?
WORF: Sir?
PICARD: This is not unlike a drumhead trial.
WORF: I do not understand.
PICARD: Five hundred years ago, military officers would upend a drum on the battlefield sit at it and dispense summary justice. Decisions were quick, punishments severe, appeals denied. Those who came to a drumhead were doomed.
WORF: But we know there is a traitor here. J'Dan has admitted his guilt.
PICARD: That's true, and he will stand for his crimes.
WORF: Tarses has all but done the same.
PICARD: How?
WORF: He refused to answer the question about his Romulan grandfather.
PICARD: That is not a crime, Worf. Nor can we infer his guilt because he didn't respond.
WORF: Sir, if a man were not afraid of the truth, he would answer.
PICARD: Oh, no. We cannot allow ourselves think that. The Seventh Guarantee is one of the most important rights granted by the Federation. We cannot take a fundamental principle of the Constitution and turn it against a citizen.
WORF: Sir, the Federation does have enemies. We must seek them out.
PICARD: Oh, yes. That's how it starts. But the road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think. Something is wrong here, Mister Worf. I don't like what we have become.
Thank you. There is just far too much stupidity / evil in the human race for certain things to ever be on the table.
Ah, OCZ, the SSD company with the highest rate of failure I've seen thus far. Granted, the earlier Vertex drives were supposedly responsible for much of that failure, but for the life of me, I cannot understand the popularity of this company.
Now Corsair on the other hand...;-)
Possibly, but then, it depends how stupid the people running the corporation are...and to be honest, there may be brighter bulbs at an Green energy festival than what we are seeing here.
Fuck, if I ran a corporation, and found a crapload of artifacts of any significant worth at the site of one of my new buildings, I'd stop all work long enough to cart them off to a professional appraiser / restorer, then mount them in the lobby of the new building with all sorts of plaques when it was finished being built. I'd have the lower area marked off as some sort of museum in exchange for a sweet tax break deal (good for as long as the museum exists...and what is good PR worth?), then I'd add it to my list of accomplishments before the board that year. Something something 'preserver of the arts'...
Actually, that history doesn't belong to us (all), but nice work with the whole broad appeal thing. Works wonders on juries when someone is trying to lift someone else's stuff, but needs to do it in a politically acceptable way. That history would, in theory, belong either to those who found it (assuming it was abandoned / no known descendents), or to the descendents of that piece of history.
But I digress, you're going to find some way to put it into a museum for the masses to gawk at, and setup something akin to a tourist trap / gift shop out front, so let's dispense with lies, shall we?
As Havelock Vetinari would say, sometimes it matters less that someone is lying, and more about why that person is lying. There are very few humans alive that do not have something they are not ashamed of, and would prefer not to relive in the court of public opinion; however, this is not the only reason for dissembling, hence the quandary.
Now, looking at things from an outside angle, and at a distance, here's what we have: on one hand, the NSA provides a valuable service breaking codes and so on that, in times of major war, help our side tremendously; on the other hand, we have what are, no doubt, one of numerous overzealous programs which, having seen the light of day, now must be brought before someone like the Supreme Court (whose Constitutional batting average is looking a little thin), to see if the 'best liars that money can buy' can somehow find some vague reinterpretation of some clause in said Constitution that somehow allows for the continued sanctioning and operation of these programs. Now, the NSA is playing the national security card which, in the past decade, has been a fairly strong trump card, usually defeating anything else...but word has already gotten out that they are indiscriminately surveying the whole of Verizon, an incredibly large telecom which has, no doubt, more lawyers / doctors / engineers / the wealthy / NYC screenwriters / etc. as its customers than something tiny, like Boost, and who, having found out that their privileged conversations may not have been privileged, more so that the crackpots they've made fun of as a past time for the last several decades were right...they might be a tad unhappy. I know that if I were an ACLU lawyer, and I found out that the NSA had been running a virtual tap on my cellphone for the last three months without any kind of warrant, I'd be declaring an open hunting season. If I were the wealthy, I'd wonder if every failure I'd had the last several months might somehow be connected to someone listening in, and tipping my hand; I'd take perverse notice that Congress has allowed itself, with some rather frightening speed, the ability to do inner trading without any kind of punishment, and that they do have access to all sorts of regular intelligence reports. If I were a doctor, I'd be incredibly annoyed that I'd spent thousands of dollars on HIPAA certified processes and software, only to see the whole doctor / patient relationship completely sidestepped in one moment.
It's not often that a national security agency manages to make so many powerful people in so many countries look so foolish and naive in their trust, but when it does, I'm sure it stokes it a fire.
Because it's something that tends to arouse strong emotions in people...who wants to explain to their 8 year old son or daughter why dad is pitching a tent, or why mom doesn't let the plumber slap her ass like in the movies? Like it or not, people are more de-sensitized to violence than they are to sexual situations; and that makes some people uncomfortable. They seek not to understand their emotions, and come to some peace with them, but to wall them off or control them; their final plan is a human race that looks like the Vulcan race...except with less emotion. Since this is liable to backfire (emotions are hideously strong, and those who claim to successfully control them are usually most subordinate to them), we are all going to suffer for it.
Well, it's an attempt at population control, albeit in the name of morality. Kind of silly once you throw some science into things, and take a closer look at the current state of the human genome (one more major war / enough minor wars, all future descendent of mankind will genetically...interesting (said the way House says something when he comes across a patient with several genetic diseases all co-morbid in the same individual)). But then this is politics, where science, let alone truth, is a secondary objective to trouncing your opponents. Britain will probably, like the US, feel relieved at having finally achieved its population control, and thus, a chance at lightening the burden on the modern welfare state...only to watch in several generations as genetic illnesses multiply uncontrolled among the populace, and new cults arise out of darkness proclaiming to have special knowledge of the eugenics needed to save people. Their top genetic researchers / engineers will realize the mistake in population control too late, and, become consigned to their fates, as the brain power of their nation rapidly collapses under the onslaught of the diseases. Their future progeny will be no smarter than celery stalks, but that's okay, as they won't live long enough to see their first birthday....
Hmm, we'll see. Their house of Lords is always worth a quick read, and could probably read between the lines of this proposal and quash it faster than our Senate could.
Can I get anything from the PRISM IP address block censored? I just don't want my kids getting involved in government spy business.
Indeed. It'll be wonderful when they start charging extra for this service because *ding * ding* ding* censorship is, surprisingly, not free, so the costs will need to be offloaded somewhere, either in the form of a rate hike for customers, or money from the taxpayers. But I'm sure the UK has loads of money to spare, won't miss a few pouinds here and there, right? Doing well this global recession, right?
Because people are apparently too stupid to invest five minutes in deciding whether or not they want to censor information for themselves.
How about this, all who want to wear blinders may do so, they get no say over whether their neighbor should wear them.
Apples and oranges. SPAM is sending information to people who are not looking for it, whereas this is preventing people from finding information when they are looking for it (unless they call their ISP and presumably say something to the effect of 'yes, please turn on the wank service for me, I need some TLC from Fiona and her five friends.')
And give up the chance to eventually become a state service, complete with bailouts and government protection from crimes? Surely not! There's a waiting list of companies who are trying to get into that fabled situation...where they are considered so important (i.e. well-known, popular) that the state must come to the rescue and nationalize them for all that is good. And in doing so, all former and future crimes become an issue of sovereign immunity, complete with taxpayer-funded defense.
In involves a time machine and contraceptive...the Time Lords are presumably working on the solution.
Wait, your question was 'how do we opt out,' not 'how do we keep the stupid from spreading.'
Was I drunk the day that everyone signed away their freedoms? Did someone forge my signature on various documents to give rise to these monstrosities? When did I exchange freedom for security, and call it a fair trade? What is with these weak spirited responses condoning the yoke that beckons to the grave?
The home of the brave indeed. More like the home of the scared. The home of the frightened. The home of adult children threatened by the dark shadows cast by the bogie men they conjured up in the first place to protect them, bogie men that many of them never wanted. What happened to this country, that started off so strong, with such valiant leaders, only to end up like this...I fear it would take the resurrection of your forefathers to restore some valor to those frames. Yes, yes, we know you can fight wars, and win them...but it's been a while since you've fought one for the right reason. So here's one that you're scared of -> fighting one of your own creations, not on a battlefield filled with foreign enemies that you know nothing about, but on the court grounds of the land that you love so dear, over the laws that were setup to protect you if you but say the word 'No,' and yet, sadly, many of you cannot. You're scared, because you're not sure you can win this battle, when every other battle, until now, has been ducks in a barrel; you have to take a stand, if only on an issue, and there might be some repercussions for it. Better to choose the cowards way out, and remain silent, right? Then you can celebrate with everyone else after the battle has been won, without ever exposing yourselves...
Who says we don't experiment on humans? Remember, to various groups inside humanity, many people outside the group are experimental fodder.
Consider the various religious who, at times, might view those of other religions / non-religions to lack that something special, and thus, fall short of the privileges of full citizen of whatever; however, they might still be deemed as having some value as test subjects; the same may be said from the other side, that of atheism, whereby the religious are seen are brain-damaged and incapable of simple right / wrong logic; still, they would make valuable test subjects.
On a grander scale, consider the often-times psychopathic actions of various persons or companies; a brand name company that decides to save on testing by performing only the minimum to get past the FDA, only to find their medicines promote cardiac infarctions; was this not an experiment, albeit on a grander scale? What of a generic drug company, that certified that for all intents and purposes, it has faithfully copied a brand-name drug that has fallen outside of patent protection, albeit using a new process that introduces adulterants, and thus side effects? Was this not an experiment?
What have we learned from human experimentation, except that the most powerful computers and simulations in existence are still coming up short when it comes to predicting some of the horrible outcomes of some of these candidates / lots?
It means they're still trying to figure out exactly what information has been leaked. The easiest way to counter a leak is to find out what has been leaked, then work off of that model; it looks silly if they spin a story saying that it's all for terrorism while someone is waiting to release a video of the NSA director saluting a flag with a swastika in his office, and personal memos talking of a 'glorious cleansing.' The people are already conditioned to want to believe that it's all a lie; however, proving the government wrong multiple times tends to break that conditioning.
Snowden has supposedly since disappeared, so he's either out of the country (smart), or in a private interrogation room (a definite possibility), being taken apart. They'll want to know exactly what he knows, so that they can form a reaction plan based off of it. Little details matter.
Then those who can be ruled by authority will respect that; and those who cannot by ruled by authority will laugh when you attempt to use similar means on them. Rule by authority tends to work only on authoritarians -> they're bred to give their loyalty to the strongest being in the room, and to adopt the same values, etc. This is why, say, Gandhi, would be incredibly hard to bend, but your average security guard will drop to his knees in seconds.
Nonsense...the speculation will be that she is a beard.
Hmm. So the US has a bunch of (read: social, not electronic) network people who are using their connections and relative powerlessness to forge a common base, then Katamari Damacy everyone nearby, adding them to the ball before anyone notices. That'll happen.
Would actually fit the authoritarian personality type, though. Short on patience, respect 'mah authority,' very angry...the shoe does fit. And the more they are resisted, the angrier they get. You can't get more Beta in personality than this.
The majority of Americans would be okay with forced re-education camps provided they were told they'd never be put into them.