The government provides the mission and funding, the private sector does what it does best.
Bribe senators & congressmen for contracts, inflate the costs to double or triple original estimates, deliver 20 years after spec while milking every dollar they can from the government? So, you want to turn NASA into the Defense Industry II?
At least the defense industry gets a workable budget.
We spend about 3 times as much on intel and spying on our own citizens than space research and capability
When you add in DHS it is 6 times.
A year of one war is almost 9 times the NASA budget.
This does not include all the other crazy defense spending. Even if NASA were completely axed today, it would not take even a tiny dent out of our national deficit. Cutting 'unnecessary' NASA spending is just a way to please ill-informed constituents, and make it look like our elected legislators are working to reign in spending. They are NOT.
As a result there are terrorist groups that can no longer be tracked because they stopped using the communications means used to track them that Snowden helped inform them was vulnerable.
Anyone doing anything illegal, terrorists or otherwise probably already thought their phones were tapped and their internet communications monitored. Any info from Snowden's leaks changes that not one whit.
If the organization has any intelligence, they either seriously encrypted any important comms, so that authorities could see they were talking, but not what they were talking about, or they used channels not monitored. IE, paper and courier or some sort of private radio.
Painting Snowden with an OMG, he helped the terrists brush is simply a way to deflect the focuse from the good he did show us. The government has had it's shitty drawers exposed, and instead of trying to wipe and change, it wants to run and hide behind other things.
Exactly this. Protection through secrecy, like security through obscurity just does not work over the long haul.
An an anecdotal example, when my great-grandmother died, I was five. My parents inherited a small ladies handgun (22 short semi) from her. I did not know, it was kept secret. It was not locked, just stored on the back of a closet shelf under some shoe boxes. One day at 11 or 12, I noticed two identical shoe boxes in my parents closet were sitting at different heights. Being the curious soul I was, I investigated, and found the handgun in a box with a small amount of ammunition. Playing with it later nearly blew my hand off.
Secrecy gives a false sense of security, and also promotes lies and egos. It does not further security.
If they do, do you think it would be used for the people? No, it would be used as leverage to further their own agenda by pulling the congress critter's strings.
I may head up that way just to see this launch. I have never watched any launch, and manned launches occur nowhere near me. This is a big rocket, and a night launch to boot, so if anyone knows the area and good spots to view I would appreciate it. The next trick is getting my GF to go along for something that may be weather cancelled/delayed and that she has little to no interest in.
I like AMD now for budget builds. I loved AMD when they were smacking intel. However, this line of chip names has to end soon. There just that many more cool sounding pieces of heavy construction equipment.
The New Phenom VIII x16, based on Suction Excavator technology!
or
From the new Skip Loader core comes the AMD Skippy x8!
or
Our new Pipelayer core provides all the uumph you need to penetrate difficult projects.
I do not think every dime of profit is exploitative. I do however think that personal and corporate greed allow for far more egregious acts than a moral or ethical person would normally commit. A mass of blind stockholders who are looking to fatten their portfolios does not care nor want to hear about the deplorable working conditions on an african gold mine, or the environmental tragedy of the commons that occurs with many business practices.
This is NOT to say that all business practices are bad, or that capitalism is corrupt. However, even companies that have a philanthropic arm, often focus that philanthropy in areas that will not directly affect their business. Do you see the Gates Foundation fighting software patents? Do you see Exxon funding fracking clean up projects?
Government regulation exists to prevent destructive practices. However, corporate power is such that regulation is mostly just to keep the peons happy at work.
Yes, every business takes a risk, and it is within their purview to try to minimize that risk using ethical means. Not all do. I say this as a business owner myself. My ability to have a roof over my head and eat is dependant on my utility in deriving a profit from the skills of myself and others. Every day I am faced with dilemmas that pit etics against razor thin profits.
So, please do not presume to read my thoughts on capitalism, or put words in my mouth.
Perhaps we should not have policy that tend to push people into worse situations. It may not really the homeowners fault that they lost their house if cognitive function decreases with financial stress.
I counter with the fact that capitalism requires the opposite. In the search for profit, a corporation does not care who or what it exploits, even if it is a lack of 'financial smarts'.
In fact, I see this research being used by corporations to further target those with poverty related financial issues.
"Filling out long forms, preparing for a lengthy interview, deciphering new rules," should be minimized on the basis of this research."
In a way this is already what usurious, poverty feeding companies like pay day/title loans, rent-to-own, and 'everyone rides' used car lots do. They make it easy and quick, so you do not have to think about it. Then their customers get screwed.
Assuming about 25 percent deductions from tax, lets say a family of three with two adults works 60 hours a week at minimum wage. That leaves about $1125/month. Lets assume after a well budgeted list of expenses there is $150 left that is spent poorly with little going into savings. Now say junior needs oral surgery, and there is no insurance to cover. The dentist is willing to do it for $100 a month, so they think they can swing it.
All is fine until something happens. They are already living month to month, with little credit and little in savings. Then the car needs a transmission, or the mothers part time job disappears until she can find something else. They HAVE to have the care to get to work, they have to pay the rent. So dad does the only thing he sees as possible, gets a pay-day or car title loan. That takes care of things for a month, but now they are behind the curve and have one more bill. From here it simply spirals downward.
And no one cares. "You shouldn't have bought those sodas every day", says the middle class man. "You are just poor and lazy," says the rich man. "We don't want your welfare abusing, food stamp selling ass adding more burden to our taxes," say both.
Where does it end? Possibly with dad a drunk, or in prison for domestic abuse or selling drugs/robbery, junior in a gang, and mom wondering where her dreams went.
This seems like it utilizes swarm/schooling behavior. This is fine if all the members obey the same basic rules. That however would require all cars to be autonomous, not just some.
As we work with that kind of technology you have to add multiple cameras to your computer, precisely calibrate them and point them at the right angle.... We have it in the lab, we know how to make it work and we're looking at the ecosystem of devices and their capability to support it in order to make a decision when we might think about bringing something like that to market."
It requires laptop manufacturers to place two cheap webcams in the lid instead of one, and the appropriate software. We have it in the lab and would like to launch. We are currently in liaison with our armies of attorneys and MBAS to make sure that all our patents, copyrights and other vendor lock in is correctly set up to maximize corporate profit at the expense of consumer flexibility and satisfaction. Only one the attorneys are done will we bring the product to market.
Why the FCC does not mandate interoperability like we do with landlines I will never understand.
Money talks and bullshit walks. And who has the money?
That said, Ting FTW!
I have been a Ting customer for about 6 months now and it is good. Coverage is a little lacking in some areas that I go, but that is sprints fault, hopefully they will build out more. I just brought my girlfriend over from verizon onto my account. She was grandfathered unlimited until she got a new phone/contract and using 3gb data a month at about $80. Before her charging port broke, I got her weaned down to ~500MB data by using Wifi at home and work and scheduling certain things to only do when wifi is available.
Now, on ting, both of us together pay about $50. Less if it is a light usage month. Plus you can bring over sprint devices, and they do not care if you flash over stuff. I fixed my GFs old DINC2 which is not a bad phone, and I am trying to flash it over now.
At first Ting's billing was a bit confusing, as they pre-billed for expected usage, then at the end of the month refunded or billed additionally depending on usage and billed for taxes/fees. Now it is an entirely post-pay system. You pay at the end of the month for what you used.
....if you want my taxes to pay for 9/10 of a kid's university, I'm going to ask for proof he is capable and willing to study.
Until it is your kid trying to get into university. Maybe not yours per se, but millions of other parents whose attitude is, "I pay taxes for this, let my spoiled brat in."
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The government provides the mission and funding, the private sector does what it does best.
Bribe senators & congressmen for contracts, inflate the costs to double or triple original estimates, deliver 20 years after spec while milking every dollar they can from the government? So, you want to turn NASA into the Defense Industry II?
At least the defense industry gets a workable budget.
2013 Estimated NASA budget : $17,000,000,000 - http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/632697main_NASA_FY13_Budget_Summary-508.pdf
Estimated cost of one year of the afghan war: $109,500,000,000 - http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gNQ3JbWwd6t-PzkuECkRJvsAlNkA
FY 2013 Intelligence Budget: $52,000,000,000 - http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/inside-the-2013-us-intelligence-black-budget/420/
DHS 2013 Budget: $54,807,277,000 - http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/mgmt/dhs-budget-in-brief-fy2013.pdf
We spend about 3 times as much on intel and spying on our own citizens than space research and capability
When you add in DHS it is 6 times.
A year of one war is almost 9 times the NASA budget.
This does not include all the other crazy defense spending. Even if NASA were completely axed today, it would not take even a tiny dent out of our national deficit. Cutting 'unnecessary' NASA spending is just a way to please ill-informed constituents, and make it look like our elected legislators are working to reign in spending. They are NOT.
As a result there are terrorist groups that can no longer be tracked because they stopped using the communications means used to track them that Snowden helped inform them was vulnerable.
Anyone doing anything illegal, terrorists or otherwise probably already thought their phones were tapped and their internet communications monitored. Any info from Snowden's leaks changes that not one whit.
If the organization has any intelligence, they either seriously encrypted any important comms, so that authorities could see they were talking, but not what they were talking about, or they used channels not monitored. IE, paper and courier or some sort of private radio.
Painting Snowden with an OMG, he helped the terrists brush is simply a way to deflect the focuse from the good he did show us. The government has had it's shitty drawers exposed, and instead of trying to wipe and change, it wants to run and hide behind other things.
Patented Suit
Will be forked: Linux 95 and Linux nt 3
An an anecdotal example, when my great-grandmother died, I was five. My parents inherited a small ladies handgun (22 short semi) from her. I did not know, it was kept secret. It was not locked, just stored on the back of a closet shelf under some shoe boxes. One day at 11 or 12, I noticed two identical shoe boxes in my parents closet were sitting at different heights. Being the curious soul I was, I investigated, and found the handgun in a box with a small amount of ammunition. Playing with it later nearly blew my hand off.
Secrecy gives a false sense of security, and also promotes lies and egos. It does not further security.
If they do, do you think it would be used for the people? No, it would be used as leverage to further their own agenda by pulling the congress critter's strings.
Personally, I'm switching careers from IT to pest control.
It is an easy career change. You deal with bugs in both professions.
I may head up that way just to see this launch. I have never watched any launch, and manned launches occur nowhere near me. This is a big rocket, and a night launch to boot, so if anyone knows the area and good spots to view I would appreciate it. The next trick is getting my GF to go along for something that may be weather cancelled/delayed and that she has little to no interest in.
Or make things that stick together.
I like AMD now for budget builds. I loved AMD when they were smacking intel. However, this line of chip names has to end soon. There just that many more cool sounding pieces of heavy construction equipment.
The New Phenom VIII x16, based on Suction Excavator technology!
or
From the new Skip Loader core comes the AMD Skippy x8!
or
Our new Pipelayer core provides all the uumph you need to penetrate difficult projects.
These just don't have the same ring.
This is NOT to say that all business practices are bad, or that capitalism is corrupt. However, even companies that have a philanthropic arm, often focus that philanthropy in areas that will not directly affect their business. Do you see the Gates Foundation fighting software patents? Do you see Exxon funding fracking clean up projects?
Government regulation exists to prevent destructive practices. However, corporate power is such that regulation is mostly just to keep the peons happy at work.
Yes, every business takes a risk, and it is within their purview to try to minimize that risk using ethical means. Not all do. I say this as a business owner myself. My ability to have a roof over my head and eat is dependant on my utility in deriving a profit from the skills of myself and others. Every day I am faced with dilemmas that pit etics against razor thin profits.
So, please do not presume to read my thoughts on capitalism, or put words in my mouth.
Perhaps we should not have policy that tend to push people into worse situations. It may not really the homeowners fault that they lost their house if cognitive function decreases with financial stress.
I counter with the fact that capitalism requires the opposite. In the search for profit, a corporation does not care who or what it exploits, even if it is a lack of 'financial smarts'.
In fact, I see this research being used by corporations to further target those with poverty related financial issues.
"Filling out long forms, preparing for a lengthy interview, deciphering new rules," should be minimized on the basis of this research."
In a way this is already what usurious, poverty feeding companies like pay day/title loans, rent-to-own, and 'everyone rides' used car lots do. They make it easy and quick, so you do not have to think about it. Then their customers get screwed.
Assuming about 25 percent deductions from tax, lets say a family of three with two adults works 60 hours a week at minimum wage. That leaves about $1125/month. Lets assume after a well budgeted list of expenses there is $150 left that is spent poorly with little going into savings. Now say junior needs oral surgery, and there is no insurance to cover. The dentist is willing to do it for $100 a month, so they think they can swing it.
All is fine until something happens. They are already living month to month, with little credit and little in savings. Then the car needs a transmission, or the mothers part time job disappears until she can find something else. They HAVE to have the care to get to work, they have to pay the rent. So dad does the only thing he sees as possible, gets a pay-day or car title loan. That takes care of things for a month, but now they are behind the curve and have one more bill. From here it simply spirals downward.
And no one cares. "You shouldn't have bought those sodas every day", says the middle class man. "You are just poor and lazy," says the rich man. "We don't want your welfare abusing, food stamp selling ass adding more burden to our taxes," say both.
Where does it end? Possibly with dad a drunk, or in prison for domestic abuse or selling drugs/robbery, junior in a gang, and mom wondering where her dreams went.
What the point of a trojan leading asteroids into Urectum is, I am not sure, but it sounds like...
"Dammit Jim, I'm a physician, not your proctologist."
This seems like it utilizes swarm/schooling behavior. This is fine if all the members obey the same basic rules. That however would require all cars to be autonomous, not just some.
As we work with that kind of technology you have to add multiple cameras to your computer, precisely calibrate them and point them at the right angle. ... We have it in the lab, we know how to make it work and we're looking at the ecosystem of devices and their capability to support it in order to make a decision when we might think about bringing something like that to market."
It requires laptop manufacturers to place two cheap webcams in the lid instead of one, and the appropriate software. We have it in the lab and would like to launch. We are currently in liaison with our armies of attorneys and MBAS to make sure that all our patents, copyrights and other vendor lock in is correctly set up to maximize corporate profit at the expense of consumer flexibility and satisfaction. Only one the attorneys are done will we bring the product to market.
Maybe he had some help from Ram Jam? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R044sleOW6I
GTFY
Maybe a percentage of that was FBI agents infiltrating The Silk Road?
Why the FCC does not mandate interoperability like we do with landlines I will never understand.
Money talks and bullshit walks. And who has the money?
That said, Ting FTW!
I have been a Ting customer for about 6 months now and it is good. Coverage is a little lacking in some areas that I go, but that is sprints fault, hopefully they will build out more. I just brought my girlfriend over from verizon onto my account. She was grandfathered unlimited until she got a new phone/contract and using 3gb data a month at about $80. Before her charging port broke, I got her weaned down to ~500MB data by using Wifi at home and work and scheduling certain things to only do when wifi is available.
Now, on ting, both of us together pay about $50. Less if it is a light usage month. Plus you can bring over sprint devices, and they do not care if you flash over stuff. I fixed my GFs old DINC2 which is not a bad phone, and I am trying to flash it over now.
At first Ting's billing was a bit confusing, as they pre-billed for expected usage, then at the end of the month refunded or billed additionally depending on usage and billed for taxes/fees. Now it is an entirely post-pay system. You pay at the end of the month for what you used.
Meant to say secure but was rushing.
Of course, nothing is really anonymous. It is just a cat and mouse game.
Nothing is really anonymous either. Just look at all the 'hacked' exchanges or a 51% attack.
...penis stuck to electrocuting device.
Don't be ridiculous! Picking your nose is unsightly, but hardly terrorism. OTOH, what the HELL, do you want that PRESSURE COOKER FOR! HUH?!
To put my fucking boogers in dumbass. :-D
But, but we've always been at war with Eastasia. Behind the scenes I think it's called PERPWAR, filed next to LOVEINT, and POWERGREED.
....if you want my taxes to pay for 9/10 of a kid's university, I'm going to ask for proof he is capable and willing to study.
Until it is your kid trying to get into university. Maybe not yours per se, but millions of other parents whose attitude is, "I pay taxes for this, let my spoiled brat in."