He has grossly mishandled huge numbers of documents classified "secret". A "secret" classification is one of the lowest (least sensitive) defined.
There is a crime here, but it is far less than treason.
It is in fact far less than the crime involved in outing Valerie Plame, for which no individual was punished, even though it compromised a covert CIA front
I'm sure we will find some creative ways around this as well, in fact I bet some enterprising folks will market these in the same way that fake urine is sold to defeat drug tests
So great was the devastation brought about by the war that estimates put the reduction of population in the German states at about 15% to 30%. Some regions were affected much more than others. For example, Württemberg lost three-quarters of its population during the war. In the territory of Brandenburg, the losses had amounted to half, while in some areas an estimated two-thirds of the population died. The male population of the German states was reduced by almost half. The population of the Czech lands declined by a third due to war, disease, famine and the expulsion of Protestant Czechs. Much of the destruction of civilian lives and property was caused by the cruelty and greed of mercenary soldiers, many of whom were rich commanders and poor soldiers. Villages were especially easy prey to the marauding armies. Those that survived, like the small village of Drais near Mainz would take almost a hundred years to recover. The Swedish armies alone may have destroyed up to 2,000 castles, 18,000 villages and 1,500 towns in Germany, one-third of all German towns. The war caused serious dislocations to both the economies and populations of central Europe, but may have done no more than seriously exacerbate changes that had begun earlier.
There is a reason behind the rise of secularism in Europe and of the general ideology of the European Enlightenment. The 17th and 18th century knew full well what demons could be unleashed by religious conflict.
Keep this history in mind when faced with claims that atheism has resulted in more horrors than religion.
Since when was money more important that a fun job and fulfilling career?
Wealth is worshiped in America as the ultimate metric of success and social accomplishment.
People who are not wealthy, according to common mythology, are unmotivated losers.
Our culture and public policy are all about piling accolades on the wealthy. Bill Gates is admired not because of his prowess in software, but due to his wealth.
Only a very unusual person will buck the prevailing culture to pursue other goals.
Scientists and engineers are, in this way, akin to religious ascetics.
We imported most of our scientists. We can thank Hitler and Mussolini for our scientific talent. Einstein, Fermi, many other came here.
In the twentieth century flows of intellectual capital increased from trickles to torrents, measured not just in individuals but in dozens and hundreds of scientists. Some migrated to take advantage of professional opportunity, for instance abandoning the backlog of academic jobs in Germany for the growing academic and industrial research system in the United States early in the century. But many scientists were uprooted either as victims of political persecution or as spoils of war claimed by victorious nations. The rise of fascism in the 1930s drove hundreds of scientists from Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Italy, including many of the leading lights of European science. Over thirty nations took in émigrés, but most went to Britain or the United States. Their colleagues tried to find academic jobs for them, whether out of obligation or opportunity, and often succeeded despite the Great Depression and anti-Semitism.
Anti-immigrant sentiment, anti-intellectualism, and declining opportunities in the US as opposed to other immigrant destinations has diminished this desirable in-migration. The same factors that discourage native-born citizens from entering technical professions also discourage immigrants
As an Aussie who enjoys cheap and effective universal health care, I cannot for the life of me understand why Americans are not outraged by that sort of bullshit.
Americans have been trained to show outrage at paying taxes, government spending, and any encroachment of the government on a for-profit business.
Most Americans never travel outside of the USA, and have no clue how other industrialized countries are run, and in particular have no idea of how other countries manage to provide better healthcare for their population at a fraction of the USA's cost.
If you watched what passes for television news in this country, you might understand the American mindset more
With Julia, everything came back to her own sexuality. As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness. Unlike Winston, she had grasped the inner meaning of the Party's sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party's control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship. The way she put it was:
'When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simpIy sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?'
if you are a government official or rich enough to have your own security people travel with you, you get an officially sanctioned bypass. It's literally in the rules.
Apparently these rules did nothing to help Senator Ted Kennedy from being placed on the no-fly list.
If you think about it, being able to publicly harass selected wealthy and politically powerful individuals is an excellent way for a budding police state to demonstrate its power.
The company hired the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency to protect the new workers and harass the strikers.
Baldwin-Felts had a reputation for aggressive strike breaking. Agents shone searchlights on the tent villages at night and fired bullets into the tents at random, occasionally killing and maiming people. They used an improvised armored car, mounted with a machine gun the union called the "Death Special," to patrol the camp's perimeters. The steel-covered car was built in the CF&I plant in Pueblo, Colorado from the chassis of a large touring sedan. Frequent sniper attacks on the tent colonies drove the miners to dig pits beneath the tents where they and their families could be better protected.
Private corporations would contract out their security functions to firms like Baldwin-Felts and Pinkerton, with results similar to those described in the Ludlow Massacre.
This is the reality behind the libertarian fantasy of a weakened government unable to protect the citizens at large, coupled with wealthy corporations able to hire what is in effect a privatized police force.
Zug, Switzerland. For four decades, the Swiss flag that flies in front of Crypto AG has lured customers from around the world to this company in the lake dis- [words missing] most sensitive diplomatic and military communications value Switzerland's reputation for business secrecy and political neutrality. Some 120 nations have bought their encryption machines here.
But behind that flag, America's National Security Agency hid what may be the intelligence sting of the century. For years, NSA secretly rigged Crypto AG machines so that U.S. eavesdroppers could easily break their codes, according to former company employees whose story is supported by company documents.
The Baltimore Sun, About December 4, 1995, pp. 9-11.
"... take my chances with the possibility of theft."
Compare the chance of a mugging and the average amount of cash in your wallet you would lose
Compare the chance of a mugging and the average amount the crook could charge to your card(s) before you can report it. Maybe you will be able to halt the credit card theft at the regulatory limit of $50, but with debit cards you might not be so lucky.
Now compare the chance of online fraud ("identity theft") or skimmers at an ATM (or other non-intrusive theft) and the potential loss of thousands of dollars along with the value of your time in correcting the fraud
I think carrying lots of cash is less risky than using debit or credit cards for transactions.
No holiday time, no sick leave, no maternity leave, no restrictions on hours worked, no mandated breaks, few health and safety regulations, can be fired without notice or reason, can legally discriminate, etc. It is like working in the third world. Between this and health care the US is low on my list of places I wish to work.
Spoken like someone who's never worked in the US.
Spoken like an American who has never held one of the millions of low-paid jobs making up the bulk of the US workforce.
Starving public universities and transportation will turn the US into a 3rd world country. We've been seeing this for the last 30 years of relative economic decline, export of skilled jobs and declining public health statistics (compared to all other industrialized countries).
The elites will always find the money to finance surveillance systems - it helps protect them against the mobs. They may privatize portions of the surveillance state to avoid accountability, but you better believe it will be the last thing to go.
Too much information compressed into a very short advert (or "ad" on this side of the Atlantic) caused the neural system to go haywire and the TV viewer to explode in a horrid disgusting death.
"There are no ways you can keep your liberties from being trampled upon by looking for clever technological hacks..."
Unfortunately, a personal firearm is just another useless "technological hacks". Rambo types may fantasize about keeping the Feds at bay with their arsenal of hunting weapons, but the reality is that no firearm you can legally purchase in any part of the USA (including so-called "assault rifles") is going to do jack shit when you are targeted by the Feds.
Pedro Santa-Clara and Rossen Valkanov published the results of their work in "The Presidential Puzzle: Political Cycles and the Stock Market," which was featured in The Journal of Finance in October of 2003. The duo analyzed stock market returns using Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) indexes, including the value-weighted and equal-weighted portfolios. CRSP portfolios track the major market indexes and are created according to clear, unbiased, systematic processes. As such, they are widely used as a foundation for academic research.
Unlike most studies, which are based on total returns, Santa-Clara and Valkanov based their efforts on the average excess return of the indexes over the return of the three-month Treasury bill. The results were striking. When a Republican president held office, the value-weighted return delivered nearly a 2% premium over the T-bill. When a Democrat held office, the premium was nearly 11%. While the 9% difference clearly favors the Democrats, the results from the equal-weighted portfolio were even more telling, with a 16%+ result in favor of the Democrats.
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"Treason" my ass
He has grossly mishandled huge numbers of documents classified "secret". A "secret" classification is one of the lowest (least sensitive) defined.
There is a crime here, but it is far less than treason.
It is in fact far less than the crime involved in outing Valerie Plame, for which no individual was punished, even though it compromised a covert CIA front
In the last few years some very creative ways to defeat fingerprint biometric systems have been devised:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/16/gummi_bears_defeat_fingerprint_sensors/
I'm sure we will find some creative ways around this as well, in fact I bet some enterprising folks will market these in the same way that fake urine is sold to defeat drug tests
A better example is the Thirty Years War:
from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_years_war
There is a reason behind the rise of secularism in Europe and of the general ideology of the European Enlightenment. The 17th and 18th century knew full well what demons could be unleashed by religious conflict.
Keep this history in mind when faced with claims that atheism has resulted in more horrors than religion.
This shows the benefits of teacher tenure (and the much maligned teacher unions).
Allowing teachers to be fired with the same ease as non-union private sector employees *will* result in spades of purely political firings
You can allow some less than capable teachers to keep tenured jobs, or you can allow every teacher to be afraid of being fired for political reasons.
The former hurts the education of children taught by incompetent teachers.
The latter affects the education of *all* children, as even excellent teachers will be fearful of losing their jobs
Since when was money more important that a fun job and fulfilling career?
Wealth is worshiped in America as the ultimate metric of success and social accomplishment.
People who are not wealthy, according to common mythology, are unmotivated losers.
Our culture and public policy are all about piling accolades on the wealthy. Bill Gates is admired not because of his prowess in software, but due to his wealth.
Only a very unusual person will buck the prevailing culture to pursue other goals.
Scientists and engineers are, in this way, akin to religious ascetics.
We imported most of our scientists. We can thank Hitler and Mussolini for our scientific talent. Einstein, Fermi, many other came here.
http://science.jrank.org/pages/48899/brain-drains-paperclip-operations.html
Anti-immigrant sentiment, anti-intellectualism, and declining opportunities in the US as opposed to other immigrant destinations has diminished this desirable in-migration. The same factors that discourage native-born citizens from entering technical professions also discourage immigrants
Avian protocols?
Revive canine protocols!
bring back Fidonet
Note that one of the other "targets" on Sarah Palin's map had his home's propane line cut.
Fortunately, no other damage occurred.
The problem isn't guns - it is a political movement that pursues eliminationist goals.
So political disputes are now to be resolved by private armed militia, supporting opposite factions?
If politics in the US turns into a streetfight, there aren't enough cops to issue everyone a bodyguard.
Armed gangs used to settle political disputes? Sort of like Weimar Germany?
Laws only restrain the lawful. Arm up and mobb deep.
What you are describing is a complete breakdown of civil society (think Somalia).
This is not the society we should be planning. This is not the world we should be creating
Americans have been trained to show outrage at paying taxes, government spending, and any encroachment of the government on a for-profit business.
Most Americans never travel outside of the USA, and have no clue how other industrialized countries are run, and in particular have no idea of how other countries manage to provide better healthcare for their population at a fraction of the USA's cost.
If you watched what passes for television news in this country, you might understand the American mindset more
Relevant quote from 1984:
if you are a government official or rich enough to have your own security people travel with you, you get an officially sanctioned bypass. It's literally in the rules.
Apparently these rules did nothing to help Senator Ted Kennedy from being placed on the no-fly list.
If you think about it, being able to publicly harass selected wealthy and politically powerful individuals is an excellent way for a budding police state to demonstrate its power.
send out goons to give me a Rodney King-style beating
Use of privately hired security forces by corporations to murder individuals they oppose is a basic fact of US history:
A bit from the referenced article:
Private corporations would contract out their security functions to firms like Baldwin-Felts and Pinkerton, with results similar to those described in the Ludlow Massacre.
This is the reality behind the libertarian fantasy of a weakened government unable to protect the citizens at large, coupled with wealthy corporations able to hire what is in effect a privatized police force.
Which is why the famed underground comic R. Crumb ("Fritz the Cat") chose to create an illustrated Book of Genesis:
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Genesis-Illustrated-R-Crumb/dp/0393061027
Still available on Amazon. For now at least
Haven't you seen the special registers in stores with signs saying "Illegal Immigrants Only! Pay No Sales Tax!"
Of course illegal immigrants pay no taxes!
Not that this has ever happened before, mind you:
The Baltimore Sun, About December 4, 1995, pp. 9-11.
as found in Cryptome
"nuclear weapons were largely developed by foreign scientists in America."
Meaning people like Enrico Fermi.
"... take my chances with the possibility of theft."
Compare the chance of a mugging and the average amount of cash in your wallet you would lose
Compare the chance of a mugging and the average amount the crook could charge to your card(s) before you can report it. Maybe you will be able to halt the credit card theft at the regulatory limit of $50, but with debit cards you might not be so lucky.
Now compare the chance of online fraud ("identity theft") or skimmers at an ATM (or other non-intrusive theft) and the potential loss of thousands of dollars along with the value of your time in correcting the fraud
I think carrying lots of cash is less risky than using debit or credit cards for transactions.
No holiday time, no sick leave, no maternity leave, no restrictions on hours worked, no mandated breaks, few health and safety regulations, can be fired without notice or reason, can legally discriminate, etc. It is like working in the third world. Between this and health care the US is low on my list of places I wish to work.
Spoken like someone who's never worked in the US.
Spoken like an American who has never held one of the millions of low-paid jobs making up the bulk of the US workforce.
Starving public universities and transportation will turn the US into a 3rd world country. We've been seeing this for the last 30 years of relative economic decline, export of skilled jobs and declining public health statistics (compared to all other industrialized countries).
The elites will always find the money to finance surveillance systems - it helps protect them against the mobs. They may privatize portions of the surveillance state to avoid accountability, but you better believe it will be the last thing to go.
Too much information compressed into a very short advert (or "ad" on this side of the Atlantic) caused the neural system to go haywire and the TV viewer to explode in a horrid disgusting death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blipvert
and
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3083938335651439831#
Science refutes Calvinism and the attendant ideology of success by person effort and willpower.
Not every person who is unsuccessful is willfully indolent - in fact most are doing the best with what they have.
Not everyone who is poor deserves to suffer and die - many are, apart from their genetics, no different than you or I
"There are no ways you can keep your liberties from being trampled upon by looking for clever technological hacks..."
Unfortunately, a personal firearm is just another useless "technological hacks". Rambo types may fantasize about keeping the Feds at bay with their arsenal of hunting weapons, but the reality is that no firearm you can legally purchase in any part of the USA (including so-called "assault rifles") is going to do jack shit when you are targeted by the Feds.
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/08/political-party-democrat-republican-stock-returns.asp
they specifically mention the fact that if you're tagged in an image your boss is contacted
What a great way to get rid of workplace rivals! This will enable a whole new level of viciousness in company politics!
Seriously, it would take very little work and very little risk to completely ruin someone's career.