I'm very happy thank you very much, no need to leave the wife over it. It is just a observation I've made over the years of post-secondary schooling and work experience, that the ones who reach higher seem to want to reach even high still. And do not seem to want to stop reaching up.
Considering they're wealthier, healthier, with more upwards social mobility, more respected, and more in charge of their life... I'd have to go with more educated. You know, just at a guess.
The higher up they get the more they are not happy with what they have and always want more. Don't ask me how I know.
Manning wilfully decided to copy data he knew were considered secret and privileged information that should not be passed on, and passed it on to foreign individuals.
No matter what country the first and last part of that sentence is still treason. If he had found something that was wrong, there are appropriate channels to funnel information to the proper people to handle it, within your own country. Instead of broadcasting it out to every foreign nation in the world wouldn't you agree?
He did not copy specific examples of "dishonourable" deeds, he copied as much data as he could. He also passed it to foreign individuals, which is treason. IF he without came across data that proved something illegal was going on, there are legal, appropriate channels to file individual complaints to, without broadcasting everything indiscriminately to the rest of the world.
One method is legal, and does not land you in court for treason, and one is treason. Its pretty simple.
Invalid argument, one there is no international law requiring one to "out" their country, quite the opposite really.
Secondly, 23 people were executed by the Nuremberg trails, all of them in a position of authority to issue the orders, and in a position to refuse. People who were under them (such as doctors and soldiers) who carried out the orders but did not have the authority to order anyone to do anything, did not get executed.
they go about pounding the words "honor" "loyalty" and "integrity"
To the service and to the country by following the orders you are given, and respecting the chain of command, not by exposing secret documents for the entire world to see. That is treason.
Taking personal responsibility for yourself and upholding yourself to the commitments you make is a important thing in life.
If you feel the contract is not valid do not sign the dotted line. Otherwise all your doing is proving you have no personal responsibility in your own actions and you clearly should not be treated as a responsible adult.
You sign away your rights and freedoms when you join the military. You, as a grunt, such as Manning, have signed their lives away willingly to do what the Army asks them to do. And to follow orders.
Unless punishable by a international war crime trial due to following the order, its the duty of everyone who volunteers to join the military to carry out their orders to the t, and not to question them.
Everyone has known this for centuries about the military, and if you, like Manning cannot man up to your obligations you agreed to when you signed the dotted line to serve your country, when you violate the trust they put in you by acting like a traitor, well you deserve to be punished under the full extent of the law. It is not your place to decide when transparency is to be applied or not.
It's like banning hunting, just because you feel its wrong to kill wildlife, without looking at the fact that the only reason the various Wildlife Departments in Canada and in the States make over 80% of their revenue to fund conservation projects through licensing fees for hunting (and fishing although significantly less percentage wise of income) and that wildlife populations have actually been on a steep rise between that and the pro-hunting conservation groups hunters donate to.
Doing something, and actually making a difference can be two very different things, sadly people think a feel good method is worth doing. When in the case of blood diamonds all its doing is spreading the corruption across international boarders.
What we really need is real regulation to prevent this kind of transfer of guilt from one country to the next. But that would require a rather large amount of effort on the part of companies, nations and the UN, so it would never actually happen.
Politicians, Customs officials, Police Officers tend to get cuts, otherwise no it probably does nothing to help the average resident of Sierra Leone.
This whole "anti-blood diamond" thing is just a feel good situation. Most causes are, but that doesn't stop people in believing that they help. Maybe one day they'll wake up and smell the coffee.
It has made some impact in the blood diamond trade, and while diamonds are not "fungible", as you say, they certainly have no inherent value. Metals can often be traced back to their source as well.
You do realize that it has made zero impact, other then spread corruption to the near by countries that get bought off to claim its theirs instead of the "conflict zone" beside them. Sierra Leone didn't go from exporting no diamonds at all to exporting over 100$ million a years worth in half a decade by mining them themselves you know.
The Germans, both before and after the war, including von Braun, claimed that their work would not have been possible without Robert Goddard's work in the 1920's and 1930's that was published.
Everyone kept trying to use solid type propellants, it was Goddard who realized liquid was better, and his early work to find the best chemical mix for liquid rocket propellants is still more or less the one used today for many rocket applications. The idea of using liquid O2 engines was his, he originally used gasoline as it was available easily at the time as the main fuel source.
No one else, other then one who claimed AFTER Goddard published his work tried liquid fueled rockets, and he claimed to have done it decades before but without any sort of publication, and the fact he waited till after Goddard published to make the claim, most people consider him full of sh*t.
The V-1 was a jet engine, not a rocket. But the V2, used a ethonol (easier for the Germans to obtain as they needed all the gasoline and diesel for their military vehicles) as a primary fuel source, but the liquid oxygen was directly copied from Goddard's work. von Bruan, copied Goddard's work directly for the initial Aggregate rocket series, of which the V2 is version 4 (German designation in the war was A4 not V2, as that was the allied designation).
Just about everyone in space exploration and Rocketry gives Goddard the credit for where we are today, the only people who don't, are the laymen who have no idea what the history of rocketry has been like the last few hundred years since the Chinese started it.
You raise spending, so you raise taxes, you raise spending again, so you raise taxes again. That is pretty much how we got into the mess of income taxes and sales taxes in North America in the first place.
the rocket-propelled missile (invented by Germany; copied by us).
No Robert Goddard, a American developed modern rocketry, just the US military was not interested at the time, but the Germans learned of his work and copied his work on liquid fuelled designs to build their rockets.
But then Athens was not a "Democracy" by that definition, because not everyone was considered a citizen. Women could not vote, slaves could not vote, foreigners (even if they had been born in Athens) could not vote, nor could the poor.
Somewhat right, somewhat wrong, only male land owners could be considered citizens after serving military service. During the time that was the method Athens actually grew in power and worked well.
When citizen requirements were relaxed and they allowed non-land owners to vote, that is when they started to crumble. Mainly because, politics turned into what politics today are about, what is best for ME not what is best for others.
Slaves in Ancient Greece, are more alike to indentured servitude over what is now known as slavery, such as what happened in the US, and other parts of the world. They were treated as family, and when bought were taken into the new Master's home to the same kind of welcome a new bride would receive. They could own there own land, make their own income (paid a sort of fixed "tax" towards their owner) etc. There was also commonly followed values for slaves, and they could buy their freedom from their masters. Male slaves were typically tradesmen, while the women were domestic servants. Slaves talking back to their owners was a common thought, and undue punishment of a slave meant punishment of the owner.
However for slaves that were captured in war (such as the surrendering armies) they typically were forced to work in much more hostile conditions (such as the mines) and were not treated well.
Considering NASA has thought there was water on the moon with more or less reasonable doubt since 1999 during the Lunar Prospector mission, and every space agency since has devoted lots of time validating that data, and trying to come up with ways to get more, I don't see how they had a "vision" as it was a world wide vision for over a couple of decades, with NASA finding evidence of water over a decade ago.
Yes because getting there, planting a flag, and building a land based communication array on Earth are achievements. When you define goals like that, obviously its hard to fail.
Also, it detected water using the M3 from Brown University and the JPL. The Indian produced equipment on it scientifically, and technologically was a joke, and the only new things observed in the mission was done with either American or European equipment on board.
Also note, when they attempted to use the mini-SAR radar system that ESA put onto the craft to check for water, the Indian's didn't even point it towards the moon!
In the end, the data it collected was only confirmation from the results from the NASA Lunar Prospector which detected water as well. 10 years before the Chandrayaan was launched.
they charged me $400 because they'd gone and renewed my contract without telling me... they refused to refund it,
I told them that I would not pay, they cited that I had "extended my contract" over a phone conversation when I "upgraded" my services, which for the year and a bit I had the phone I never called them for anything, on a phone that I had paid full price for in Europe and brought over by the way. Any ways they said they had records of the phone conversation proving I upgraded my services, they tossed me around to multiple people, till I got to a "manager", he repeated the same.
Ended up telling them to either provide the recording of my consent for being put on a contract WITHOUT getting a new phone or changing services, or I get a lawyer involved. He said "it would cost more to pay a lawyer then pay the contract termination fee". I replied that he was right, but its a matter of principle and the CRTC will be involved and that I had recorded the entire conversation with them that day for the Lawyer to use against them. Ended up only paying the final month I was in.
They really spineless because none of it will stand up in court, and the judge will side with you for damages beyond your lawyers fees in the end.
We had a monolithic, now we are back to 3 distinct branches under the Canadian Forces banner. The Canadian Army, The Royal Canadian Navy, and the Royal Canadian Air Force!
I think most up here would agree that our monolithic form of running our military was one giant mistake. It was after all a way to consolidate and strip our military into a much smaller sized force, due to political reasons. Which is why the current government jumped at the chance to make them distinct again, as it was the other party who merged them with a lot of resistance as the Forces did not want to be joined, I might add.
Your DoD is just a size issue, from a outlooker's perspective, there are 2,927,754 people under the DoD umbrella, both Active and Reserve Duty, but there are a mere 127,954 over here. Even percentage wise compared to population, your DoD is over twice as large as ours.
Your confusing Singapore who requires foreigner women who wish to give birth in Singapore to get permission (mainly have a legal way out for the government not to grant the children citizenship) with China.
In China you only need permission to give birth to more then one Child. Its a standard government form.
Heck even she has siblings (note plural not singular) who they themselves have more then one child. Legally, using the exemptions already legally allowed there.
As for having only one child, a lot of it is cost related. Since parents can devote the share of expenses only onto one child, prices for some services in China (such as day care and tutoring) are priced accordingly. So having more then one child can still be a burden even with the rule changes that have been happening since nearly the start of the one child policy.
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I'm very happy thank you very much, no need to leave the wife over it. It is just a observation I've made over the years of post-secondary schooling and work experience, that the ones who reach higher seem to want to reach even high still. And do not seem to want to stop reaching up.
The DoD pays for most of MIT's research.
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Wont work, they've been trying for decades .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaks
Considering they're wealthier, healthier, with more upwards social mobility, more respected, and more in charge of their life... I'd have to go with more educated. You know, just at a guess.
The higher up they get the more they are not happy with what they have and always want more. Don't ask me how I know.
Manning wilfully decided to copy data he knew were considered secret and privileged information that should not be passed on, and passed it on to foreign individuals.
No matter what country the first and last part of that sentence is still treason. If he had found something that was wrong, there are appropriate channels to funnel information to the proper people to handle it, within your own country. Instead of broadcasting it out to every foreign nation in the world wouldn't you agree?
He did not copy specific examples of "dishonourable" deeds, he copied as much data as he could. He also passed it to foreign individuals, which is treason. IF he without came across data that proved something illegal was going on, there are legal, appropriate channels to file individual complaints to, without broadcasting everything indiscriminately to the rest of the world.
One method is legal, and does not land you in court for treason, and one is treason. Its pretty simple.
Invalid argument, one there is no international law requiring one to "out" their country, quite the opposite really.
Secondly, 23 people were executed by the Nuremberg trails, all of them in a position of authority to issue the orders, and in a position to refuse. People who were under them (such as doctors and soldiers) who carried out the orders but did not have the authority to order anyone to do anything, did not get executed.
they go about pounding the words "honor" "loyalty" and "integrity"
To the service and to the country by following the orders you are given, and respecting the chain of command, not by exposing secret documents for the entire world to see. That is treason.
Taking personal responsibility for yourself and upholding yourself to the commitments you make is a important thing in life.
If you feel the contract is not valid do not sign the dotted line. Otherwise all your doing is proving you have no personal responsibility in your own actions and you clearly should not be treated as a responsible adult.
You sign away your rights and freedoms when you join the military. You, as a grunt, such as Manning, have signed their lives away willingly to do what the Army asks them to do. And to follow orders.
Unless punishable by a international war crime trial due to following the order, its the duty of everyone who volunteers to join the military to carry out their orders to the t, and not to question them.
Everyone has known this for centuries about the military, and if you, like Manning cannot man up to your obligations you agreed to when you signed the dotted line to serve your country, when you violate the trust they put in you by acting like a traitor, well you deserve to be punished under the full extent of the law. It is not your place to decide when transparency is to be applied or not.
It's like banning hunting, just because you feel its wrong to kill wildlife, without looking at the fact that the only reason the various Wildlife Departments in Canada and in the States make over 80% of their revenue to fund conservation projects through licensing fees for hunting (and fishing although significantly less percentage wise of income) and that wildlife populations have actually been on a steep rise between that and the pro-hunting conservation groups hunters donate to.
Doing something, and actually making a difference can be two very different things, sadly people think a feel good method is worth doing. When in the case of blood diamonds all its doing is spreading the corruption across international boarders.
What we really need is real regulation to prevent this kind of transfer of guilt from one country to the next. But that would require a rather large amount of effort on the part of companies, nations and the UN, so it would never actually happen.
Want to live in that kind of shit hole, please your welcomed to defect to North Korea or Cuba at any time.
Otherwise, screw off and die in some dark hole where no one will hear from you again.
Politicians, Customs officials, Police Officers tend to get cuts, otherwise no it probably does nothing to help the average resident of Sierra Leone.
This whole "anti-blood diamond" thing is just a feel good situation. Most causes are, but that doesn't stop people in believing that they help. Maybe one day they'll wake up and smell the coffee.
It has made some impact in the blood diamond trade, and while diamonds are not "fungible", as you say, they certainly have no inherent value. Metals can often be traced back to their source as well.
You do realize that it has made zero impact, other then spread corruption to the near by countries that get bought off to claim its theirs instead of the "conflict zone" beside them. Sierra Leone didn't go from exporting no diamonds at all to exporting over 100$ million a years worth in half a decade by mining them themselves you know.
The Germans, both before and after the war, including von Braun, claimed that their work would not have been possible without Robert Goddard's work in the 1920's and 1930's that was published.
Everyone kept trying to use solid type propellants, it was Goddard who realized liquid was better, and his early work to find the best chemical mix for liquid rocket propellants is still more or less the one used today for many rocket applications. The idea of using liquid O2 engines was his, he originally used gasoline as it was available easily at the time as the main fuel source.
No one else, other then one who claimed AFTER Goddard published his work tried liquid fueled rockets, and he claimed to have done it decades before but without any sort of publication, and the fact he waited till after Goddard published to make the claim, most people consider him full of sh*t.
The V-1 was a jet engine, not a rocket. But the V2, used a ethonol (easier for the Germans to obtain as they needed all the gasoline and diesel for their military vehicles) as a primary fuel source, but the liquid oxygen was directly copied from Goddard's work. von Bruan, copied Goddard's work directly for the initial Aggregate rocket series, of which the V2 is version 4 (German designation in the war was A4 not V2, as that was the allied designation).
Just about everyone in space exploration and Rocketry gives Goddard the credit for where we are today, the only people who don't, are the laymen who have no idea what the history of rocketry has been like the last few hundred years since the Chinese started it.
You raise spending, so you raise taxes, you raise spending again, so you raise taxes again. That is pretty much how we got into the mess of income taxes and sales taxes in North America in the first place.
the rocket-propelled missile (invented by Germany; copied by us).
No Robert Goddard, a American developed modern rocketry, just the US military was not interested at the time, but the Germans learned of his work and copied his work on liquid fuelled designs to build their rockets.
But then Athens was not a "Democracy" by that definition, because not everyone was considered a citizen. Women could not vote, slaves could not vote, foreigners (even if they had been born in Athens) could not vote, nor could the poor.
Somewhat right, somewhat wrong, only male land owners could be considered citizens after serving military service. During the time that was the method Athens actually grew in power and worked well.
When citizen requirements were relaxed and they allowed non-land owners to vote, that is when they started to crumble. Mainly because, politics turned into what politics today are about, what is best for ME not what is best for others.
Slaves in Ancient Greece, are more alike to indentured servitude over what is now known as slavery, such as what happened in the US, and other parts of the world. They were treated as family, and when bought were taken into the new Master's home to the same kind of welcome a new bride would receive. They could own there own land, make their own income (paid a sort of fixed "tax" towards their owner) etc. There was also commonly followed values for slaves, and they could buy their freedom from their masters. Male slaves were typically tradesmen, while the women were domestic servants. Slaves talking back to their owners was a common thought, and undue punishment of a slave meant punishment of the owner.
However for slaves that were captured in war (such as the surrendering armies) they typically were forced to work in much more hostile conditions (such as the mines) and were not treated well.
Considering NASA has thought there was water on the moon with more or less reasonable doubt since 1999 during the Lunar Prospector mission, and every space agency since has devoted lots of time validating that data, and trying to come up with ways to get more, I don't see how they had a "vision" as it was a world wide vision for over a couple of decades, with NASA finding evidence of water over a decade ago.
So I don't see your point?
Yes because getting there, planting a flag, and building a land based communication array on Earth are achievements. When you define goals like that, obviously its hard to fail.
Also, it detected water using the M3 from Brown University and the JPL. The Indian produced equipment on it scientifically, and technologically was a joke, and the only new things observed in the mission was done with either American or European equipment on board.
Also note, when they attempted to use the mini-SAR radar system that ESA put onto the craft to check for water, the Indian's didn't even point it towards the moon!
In the end, the data it collected was only confirmation from the results from the NASA Lunar Prospector which detected water as well. 10 years before the Chandrayaan was launched.
they charged me $400 because they'd gone and renewed my contract without telling me... they refused to refund it,
I told them that I would not pay, they cited that I had "extended my contract" over a phone conversation when I "upgraded" my services, which for the year and a bit I had the phone I never called them for anything, on a phone that I had paid full price for in Europe and brought over by the way. Any ways they said they had records of the phone conversation proving I upgraded my services, they tossed me around to multiple people, till I got to a "manager", he repeated the same.
Ended up telling them to either provide the recording of my consent for being put on a contract WITHOUT getting a new phone or changing services, or I get a lawyer involved. He said "it would cost more to pay a lawyer then pay the contract termination fee". I replied that he was right, but its a matter of principle and the CRTC will be involved and that I had recorded the entire conversation with them that day for the Lawyer to use against them. Ended up only paying the final month I was in.
They really spineless because none of it will stand up in court, and the judge will side with you for damages beyond your lawyers fees in the end.
We had a monolithic, now we are back to 3 distinct branches under the Canadian Forces banner. The Canadian Army, The Royal Canadian Navy, and the Royal Canadian Air Force!
I think most up here would agree that our monolithic form of running our military was one giant mistake. It was after all a way to consolidate and strip our military into a much smaller sized force, due to political reasons. Which is why the current government jumped at the chance to make them distinct again, as it was the other party who merged them with a lot of resistance as the Forces did not want to be joined, I might add.
Your DoD is just a size issue, from a outlooker's perspective, there are 2,927,754 people under the DoD umbrella, both Active and Reserve Duty, but there are a mere 127,954 over here. Even percentage wise compared to population, your DoD is over twice as large as ours.
Your confusing Singapore who requires foreigner women who wish to give birth in Singapore to get permission (mainly have a legal way out for the government not to grant the children citizenship) with China.
In China you only need permission to give birth to more then one Child. Its a standard government form.
Other then my wife? Plenty actually.
Heck even she has siblings (note plural not singular) who they themselves have more then one child. Legally, using the exemptions already legally allowed there.
As for having only one child, a lot of it is cost related. Since parents can devote the share of expenses only onto one child, prices for some services in China (such as day care and tutoring) are priced accordingly. So having more then one child can still be a burden even with the rule changes that have been happening since nearly the start of the one child policy.
Well in that case ... Go Canada!