99.9% of what intelligence agencies do is actually analyst, not spies. The covert(operations) side of the house is a completely different world from what I have read.
It would not be on the web - it would be on SIPRnet, the governments own secure IP network that (at least in theory) doesn't touch the public web.
I expect that they will actually have multiple different systems. Top Secret really isn't all that secret. It's once you get to eyes only levels above that things are interesting.
They have been up to some interesting things. Sharing information really isn't the CIA or NSA's normal routine.This is a organization that still calls spies "collaborators" after all.
I do know that they also have a Wiki system up for sharing information. It's going to make tracking down leaks much much harder, but it will help eliminate the kind of intellegence gotcha's that hurt us on 9/11. Some of the other restrictions - thoose in laws will still be a issue, but hopefully this well help address things.
Don't look for the domestic groups to get too involved though - the chain of evidence rules would restrict them too much, which is a shame.
Hmm. Who is more like GWB - Politician who has not sponsored a single bill on his own. - Person who hired one of the most manipulative old hands in the senate. - Person with only one election ever to a state wide office? - Person who voted for the bridge to nowhere?
or
- Person who has been a pain in the side of corrupt officials in both parties. - Person who was literally tortured for his country - Person who opposed Rumsfeld for years before he was kicked out by the administration. - Person who pushed for the strategy in Iraq that has resulted in the level of violence being lower then it was pre-war.
Obama has exactly the same qualifications that Bush did. Ziltch. Nada. That means he will be just as dependant on Biden as Bush was on Cheney. Are you really stupid enough to think that party is really the only thing that matters?
Yep. It's solid. There is a subtle shift going on here - Democrats are going to try and compare Barak's experience against Palins. That will backfire in the long run as they suddenly remember that people don't vote for down ticket candidates - only the top. And Barak has roughly the same experience as the VP.
Too bad your post is incorrect as others have noticed. That being said, I have never heard of Palin before today, but the more interviews I watch. the more I read, the more I like her. She has strong libertarian roots, has made a point to go after Ted Stevens - and the bridge to nowhere that Obama also voted for. What makes it more impressive is that she is in the same party. Finally a candidate not afraid to go after corruption at home, not just on the other side.
The difference is that McCain doesn't need a VP to be president for him. Obama does.
Not to call into question the dietWhy are we talking about electing another candidate with absolutely no experience into the big office? (to say nothing of the Veep office). Cheney used Bush's inexperience to grab power. Biden will do the same. Both will make the exact same mistakes, and the American people are idiots for thinking that getting elected to the senate once is all the qualifications needed for the presidency.
I definitely like the chances of a hybrid OSS solution like Zimbra, above that of Notes. The reality still is that holding one's business hostage to either IBM or Microsoft is just sketchy, and by the time the need comes around for a Notes/Exchange platform pretty much the entire IT needs to be scrapped for a small company.
Instead, Look at Zimbra. Start with OSS, go sponsored if you need it, and the company can pay for it. Plus no IBM or Microsoft hanging over your head.
Just as a question, but are you sure you havn't drunk the cool-aide? Being a state senator, and voting present whenever a controversial bill came up, and only being in the senate for 3 years is a laughable experience record. It makes GWB look seasoned for the Presidency.
One would have thought that people would have learned after voting for GWB, a man with no experience, but here they are doing it a second time.
It's not exactly clear, but it sounds like the nano-particles make the electrolysis process more effective. The idea is that you would fill the car with distilled water, and get hydrogen from a self sustaining hydrogen burn.
He tends to oscillate based on whomever gave him credit last (cynic) and based on how well we are doing in Iraq (Since Iraq is doing about infinitively better then last year at the time, the rhetoric is toned down). Nevertheless, I am not one to disregard a view point from someone whose party I don't like if it's clueful, and his work seems very very clueful.
I highly recommend this video by Thomas Barnett. He is highly partisan (Democrat), but some really good ideas from a party not known for them: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/33
op trying to impose democracy. I don't know of any government that has successfully imposed democracy on another country.
West Germany, by the United States and the UK 1944. Japan, by the United States, 1945. Turkey, 1945-1950
Need I go on?
Both of these states were far further from democracy then the Arab states are now. "They [Negroes|Asian Folk|Northerners|Southerners|Jews|Spicks|Pollacks|Ragheads] arn't ready for englightenement" has always been the excuse of those who think they are better then the indigs.
Everyone is focusing on the commercialism, but that's not what has been the death of American storytelling. (Let's face it, Star Wars could have been the American epic). Simply put it's Lucas himself. He had a brilliant idea (space fighters like just plain old air fighters, plus a dash of hidden fortress) and a ton of time to rewrite it into something that didn't suck (and friends who were honest enough to tell him it did).
What's happened since then is that we have learned that no, George Lucas still sucks as a writer if he doesn't have 123 drafts, and the best editors in Hollywood (both film and written word). We also learned that he has no respect for the views of the fans (can you imagine what would have happened in PJ treated LoTR the way Lucas has treated the Star Wars community?). That's not to say that the fans are all knowing and powerful (I mean you Trek fans in particular) but the Mythology took root while Lucas was busy with Young Indiana.
Nevermind that the prequels took what sucked in the original draft of star wars, and brought it back to life, with predictable results.
If Lucas cares about telling a story, instead of making money or engaging in ego masturbation, he would bring in a real show runniner in the form of a JMS, or Eick, or Moore to run the story.
Please do yourself a favor, and go read even a basic history of the start of the cold war and World War II. I recommend "The Making of the hydrogen Bomb" and "Dark Sun". Among other things you will find out:
That Stalin had started a nuclear program well before the end of World War II.
That American fear of Stalin was very well justified.
That there was not just one or two, but more spies then you could shake a stick at in the Manhatten Project.
That this was not just a fortunate occurrence for the USSR.
This kind of mindless rhetorical "The US hated the USSR, so the cold war was justified" crap is tragic in the extreme. We had a 4 year window to get rid of nuclear weapons. That window closed when the USSR blockaded Berlin, and refused International control... and the rest of mankind has suffered ever since.
Amen. The parties exist for one reason, and one reason only. To make you think that the other party is evil beyond belief, and only by giving them money and power will you escape having Hitler in Power.
What can I say. It works. Witness 99% of the posts on slashdot.
Since you spun your arguement in a way that the feeble minded b0ts on slashdot will agree with, let me flip the arguement around: If Canonical put a add in Google and said: "Microsoft sells your secrets to the NSA, and engages in anti-competitive practices" and Google yanked it, would you still agree.
So what happens if the DNC, or RNC, which are after all political corporations and have their respective party named trademarked forbid Google from displaying any advertising that critiques them.
All of the paranoia, all of the rhetoric, all of te tin foil goes away once it's the other side being muzzled, instead of yours. More proof (as if any where needed) of the complete lack of principles from most of the political slashdot crew.
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99.9% of what intelligence agencies do is actually analyst, not spies. The covert(operations) side of the house is a completely different world from what I have read.
It would not be on the web - it would be on SIPRnet, the governments own secure IP network that (at least in theory) doesn't touch the public web.
I expect that they will actually have multiple different systems. Top Secret really isn't all that secret. It's once you get to eyes only levels above that things are interesting.
Clearly you have never met any intelligence analysts. More and more they tend to be younger geeks.
They have been up to some interesting things. Sharing information really isn't the CIA or NSA's normal routine.This is a organization that still calls spies "collaborators" after all.
I do know that they also have a Wiki system up for sharing information. It's going to make tracking down leaks much much harder, but it will help eliminate the kind of intellegence gotcha's that hurt us on 9/11. Some of the other restrictions - thoose in laws will still be a issue, but hopefully this well help address things.
Don't look for the domestic groups to get too involved though - the chain of evidence rules would restrict them too much, which is a shame.
They at least had multiple terms as governer. You can get sick of "experience" but in reality, Obama has yet to do anything at all.
Good for speaches... Good for action? Who knows. Given his broken promises on campaign finance reform, iraq and intellegence, probably not.
Hmm. Who is more like GWB
- Politician who has not sponsored a single bill on his own.
- Person who hired one of the most manipulative old hands in the senate.
- Person with only one election ever to a state wide office?
- Person who voted for the bridge to nowhere?
or
- Person who has been a pain in the side of corrupt officials in both parties.
- Person who was literally tortured for his country
- Person who opposed Rumsfeld for years before he was kicked out by the administration.
- Person who pushed for the strategy in Iraq that has resulted in the level of violence being lower then it was pre-war.
Obama has exactly the same qualifications that Bush did. Ziltch. Nada. That means he will be just as dependant on Biden as Bush was on Cheney. Are you really stupid enough to think that party is really the only thing that matters?
Yep. It's solid. There is a subtle shift going on here - Democrats are going to try and compare Barak's experience against Palins. That will backfire in the long run as they suddenly remember that people don't vote for down ticket candidates - only the top. And Barak has roughly the same experience as the VP.
Too bad your post is incorrect as others have noticed. That being said, I have never heard of Palin before today, but the more interviews I watch. the more I read, the more I like her. She has strong libertarian roots, has made a point to go after Ted Stevens - and the bridge to nowhere that Obama also voted for. What makes it more impressive is that she is in the same party. Finally a candidate not afraid to go after corruption at home, not just on the other side.
The difference is that McCain doesn't need a VP to be president for him. Obama does.
Not to call into question the dietWhy are we talking about electing another candidate with absolutely no experience into the big office? (to say nothing of the Veep office). Cheney used Bush's inexperience to grab power. Biden will do the same. Both will make the exact same mistakes, and the American people are idiots for thinking that getting elected to the senate once is all the qualifications needed for the presidency.
I definitely like the chances of a hybrid OSS solution like Zimbra, above that of Notes. The reality still is that holding one's business hostage to either IBM or Microsoft is just sketchy, and by the time the need comes around for a Notes/Exchange platform pretty much the entire IT needs to be scrapped for a small company.
Instead, Look at Zimbra. Start with OSS, go sponsored if you need it, and the company can pay for it. Plus no IBM or Microsoft hanging over your head.
Actually, the latest polls have McCain beating Obama by the same margin he beats Hillary. Thanks for playing.
Obama has more experience in public service,
Just as a question, but are you sure you havn't drunk the cool-aide? Being a state senator, and voting present whenever a controversial bill came up, and only being in the senate for 3 years is a laughable experience record. It makes GWB look seasoned for the Presidency.
One would have thought that people would have learned after voting for GWB, a man with no experience, but here they are doing it a second time.
It's not exactly clear, but it sounds like the nano-particles make the electrolysis process more effective. The idea is that you would fill the car with distilled water, and get hydrogen from a self sustaining hydrogen burn.
He tends to oscillate based on whomever gave him credit last (cynic) and based on how well we are doing in Iraq (Since Iraq is doing about infinitively better then last year at the time, the rhetoric is toned down). Nevertheless, I am not one to disregard a view point from someone whose party I don't like if it's clueful, and his work seems very very clueful.
Freedom for Slaves. And that was just the start.
*oh wait* you mean you forgot that the KKK was the paramilitary arm of the Democratic party?
Mark Twain. Huck Finn. Nough said.
As for a decent left wing party, why? Where on earth has it worked before?
I highly recommend this video by Thomas Barnett. He is highly partisan (Democrat), but some really good ideas from a party not known for them:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/33
op trying to impose democracy. I don't know of any government that has successfully imposed democracy on another country.
West Germany, by the United States and the UK 1944.
Japan, by the United States, 1945.
Turkey, 1945-1950
Need I go on?
Both of these states were far further from democracy then the Arab states are now. "They [Negroes|Asian Folk|Northerners|Southerners|Jews|Spicks|Pollacks|Ragheads] arn't ready for englightenement" has always been the excuse of those who think they are better then the indigs.
Everyone is focusing on the commercialism, but that's not what has been the death of American storytelling. (Let's face it, Star Wars could have been the American epic). Simply put it's Lucas himself. He had a brilliant idea (space fighters like just plain old air fighters, plus a dash of hidden fortress) and a ton of time to rewrite it into something that didn't suck (and friends who were honest enough to tell him it did).
What's happened since then is that we have learned that no, George Lucas still sucks as a writer if he doesn't have 123 drafts, and the best editors in Hollywood (both film and written word). We also learned that he has no respect for the views of the fans (can you imagine what would have happened in PJ treated LoTR the way Lucas has treated the Star Wars community?). That's not to say that the fans are all knowing and powerful (I mean you Trek fans in particular) but the Mythology took root while Lucas was busy with Young Indiana.
Nevermind that the prequels took what sucked in the original draft of star wars, and brought it back to life, with predictable results.
If Lucas cares about telling a story, instead of making money or engaging in ego masturbation, he would bring in a real show runniner in the form of a JMS, or Eick, or Moore to run the story.
This kind of mindless rhetorical "The US hated the USSR, so the cold war was justified" crap is tragic in the extreme. We had a 4 year window to get rid of nuclear weapons. That window closed when the USSR blockaded Berlin, and refused International control... and the rest of mankind has suffered ever since.
I did.You are the one who missed the fact that copyright law doesn't apply in this situation, and it is muzzling pure and simple
Amen. The parties exist for one reason, and one reason only. To make you think that the other party is evil beyond belief, and only by giving them money and power will you escape having Hitler in Power.
What can I say. It works. Witness 99% of the posts on slashdot.
Since you spun your arguement in a way that the feeble minded b0ts on slashdot will agree with, let me flip the arguement around:
If Canonical put a add in Google and said:
"Microsoft sells your secrets to the NSA, and engages in anti-competitive practices" and Google yanked it, would you still agree.
Careful. Your biases are showing.
So what happens if the DNC, or RNC, which are after all political corporations and have their respective party named trademarked forbid Google from displaying any advertising that critiques them.
All of the paranoia, all of the rhetoric, all of te tin foil goes away once it's the other side being muzzled, instead of yours. More proof (as if any where needed) of the complete lack of principles from most of the political slashdot crew.
Don't give up on it. Winters Heart and the last one are actually very well worth reading.