Perhaps my age is showing, but back in my day it was sort of rare for someone, like me, with a Finance degree to get an MBA. We might go on to a Masters in the same discipline, or a sister discipline, like Logistics or Statistics, AKA a "Real Master's," if a higher degree were our like. The MBA candidates were people with Science, Engineering, even Music degrees who wanted to go into business.
Now, with that background laid, I can say from experience with MBA students that I would not hire 99% of those I met in school for anything. What they were being taught in the 1990s was like the high school version of a general business degree, and their professors were quite defensive of this approach, saying that they could not be expected* to do the level of work as a student in a BS Business Administration Program because they were not from business backgrounds. Which was a head scratcher, since most of my peers were straight out of high school (I had some civilian and military work background before finishing).
*Logistics was the exception. The UTK Logistics Department pulled no punches for the MBAs and they were expected to do Master's level work.
Military operations of ALL sorts are dangerous. . . You train and train and have safety procedures to mitigate things, but every so often Murphy's Law causes an accident.
There is a reason that the day I graduated from flight school, they told us to look at every face in the class, one of us would be dead inside of a year.
Three weeks later, one of my classmates died in a C-130 crash. It's a risk that military people accept: you CAN'T do military ops AND have complete safety. ..
Nobody said anything like that when I graduated from Rucker in 1986. Nobody I knew was injured or died in a helicopter until Desert Storm.
On October 11, 1989, the USS El Paso was conducting a live fire exercise off the east coast of the United States using the Phalanx against a target drone. The drone was successfully engaged, but as the drone fell to the sea, the CIWS re-engaged it as a continued threat to the El Paso. Rounds from the Phalanx struck the bridge of the USS Iwo Jima, killing one officer and injuring a petty officer.
Those navy vessels are dangerous places to work, even in practice.
Here we have prison to punish people. It doesn't exist as a means to control risk by controlling dangerous people. We've collectively decided that we should put people in cells(and let them be raped) like it's telling 5 year olds to stand in the corner.
On your last point, it would be real nice if all these high priced (compared to what they would be paid for any other work) guards were actually preventing contraban and assaults in the prisons, but they seem to facilitate that more than preventing it.
On the overall point, reasons why people are sent to prison and how long they are sentenced are all over the place and change over time. The individual in question here already had one stay in prison on a similar charge. Maybe Hammond should count his blessings that he did not steal the same sort of information Christopher Boyce passed to the Soviets in the 1970s. Boyce stayed in jail for about 24 years, not including the portion where he escaped from Lompoc.
The Weathermen had a wide range of sentences, from probation (Rudd, Ayers, and Dohrn) to commuted sentences (Matt Steen) to 17 months (Silas Bissell). One bomber from that era I am researching now, who was not in Weatherman but rather a Yippie associate of Abbie Hoffman, served 40 months and took more substantial precautions to avoid harming anybody than Weather ever collectively thought of. Then there are the air piracy cases that ranged from not guilty by reason of temporary insanity, to decades in Cuban prison followed by years in American prison.
Is ten years excessive for this? I would lean that way, but it seems the first taste did not take so he probably should be locked up somewhere for longer than 24 months.
Honestly, with the addition of locks to cockpit doors and passenger awareness of the problem, we can roll the rest back to pre 9/11 levels. It worked just fine for the most part, and the locks and passengers no longer being instructed to sit quietly and enjoy the stopover in Cuba would have taken care of 9/11 just fine.
That was not one mentioned in Skies, but it is one that El Al implemented back around then and, as you say, one of the most effective measures enacted. Arming pilots is another effective layer of security too (mentioned in the book).
I tend to lean your way on that too. Airlines, buss lines, etc. should be responsible for the security of their own equipment and customers (after said customers are off the street, out of the government airport, and into the airplanes, of course).
In Brendan I. Koerner's The Skies Belong To Us he touched on that trend beginning in 1972, when some airlines were beginning their own security measures. That all went out the window and the feds took over after the threat by hijackers of Southern Airways flight 49 threatened to crash the plane into the reactor building of Oak Ridge National Labs.
On a more serious note, I though the next big project was going to be a linear accelerator. Anybody know why they picked the round one over the straight one?
Slap on a little crowd sourcing and *POOF* all done.
"We wonder why other countries hate us? I love that! We have a game show in our country called "Survivor." Thats a GAME in our country!...You can win a million dollars for surviving on a place where people already live! Do you realize what kind of message that sends? Not a good one!"
The "Curb Your Enthusiasm" episode examining the interaction between various survivors is very thought provoking. And gut bustingly funny too.
How is this distinctly more efficient than simply using sunlight to warm water, which evaporates, and collecting the fresh water that condenses? Desalination plants work like this, except they tend to use energy from some other source to boil the incoming seawater.
That is generally what I was wondering. And you don't have to actually boil the water, a proper dome will allow the water to evaporate, collect on the inner surface, and drip down sides for collection. Problem there is the large size you need for it to collect enough to be useful.
Just a thought, but I think you would want to be going through the court to get that information, not the police.
Slashdot is magic:
From Oakland - "Additional time is required to answer your public records request. We need to search for, collect, or examine a large number of records (Government Code Section 6253(c)(2)). "
First answer I got of any kind from any LEO in California.
Just a thought, but I think you would want to be going through the court to get that information, not the police.
Trying to figure out that minefield too. It took a while to get through the federal system (SFPD performed the arrest with the FBI, he was housed in the Oakland City Jail until his federal bail hearing). Now I have a bunch of good info, but the earliest document is five days after his arrest.
LAPD and NYPD are locked in an epic struggle to see which department can be a bigger waste of taxpayer money.
Don't forget SFPD! I've been trying to get *any* record of a particular arrest from 1986. The guy plead guilty too (the he really did it way, with a really good lawyer, not the way we usually read about) and I can't even get an answer to my requests using their email, even to the district stations.
Don't forget biker gangs --scenes from Sons of Anarchy clearly show them putting all their cellphones in a basket (in a separate room) before they conduct their meetings. I think that most technically-savvy people are aware cellphones are modern-day tracking/listening/viewing devices. The byline should've read:...securities services know foreign intelligence agencies...
That is a good example from fiction drawn from reality. In another comment I mentioned organized crime too.
Actually quite refreshing as manifestos go. For some reason most folk do not remember that the Communist Manifesto was much more that the ten bullet points found at the end of Chapter 2. The later Fascist Manifesto is a long-winded shameless ripoff of the ten bullet points too, but the sections were labeled and points numbered.
Somewhere along the way Mr. Snowden did not find the manifesto template that was perfected before him.
British securities services fear foreign intelligence agencies have developed the ability to turn mobile devices such as phones and tablets into bugs without the owner's knowledge, allowing them to eavesdrop on confidential meetings.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if GCHQ were doing it as well... (but are afraid that the others will find out about it)
It is so old and well known that I would guess most organized crime and terrorist organizations have been practicing this for years too.
British securities services fear foreign intelligence agencies have developed the ability to turn mobile devices such as phones and tablets into bugs without the owner's knowledge, allowing them to eavesdrop on confidential meetings.
This is positively ancient. Just so happens the elected officials are finally beginning to use the precautions that have been used in the military and other corners of government for quite some time.
Oh look, a noninvasive and effective approach to preventing bombings; It's almost as someone competent got hired.
If the objective is to catch idiots who do not do their research, it is a great approach. A shade better than catching them after they blow themselves up. Is not going to catch anybody serious who collects his waste and disposes it elsewhere, like down the drain of a rival.
Except that nobody's getting arrested on the basis of their drains.
Oh look, a noninvasive and effective approach to preventing bombings; It's almost as someone competent got hired.
If the objective is to catch idiots who do not do their research, it is a great approach. A shade better than catching them after they blow themselves up. Is not going to catch anybody serious who collects his waste and disposes it elsewhere, like down the drain of a rival.
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I've been hearing this for DECADES and it never happens.
Perhaps my age is showing, but back in my day it was sort of rare for someone, like me, with a Finance degree to get an MBA. We might go on to a Masters in the same discipline, or a sister discipline, like Logistics or Statistics, AKA a "Real Master's," if a higher degree were our like. The MBA candidates were people with Science, Engineering, even Music degrees who wanted to go into business.
Now, with that background laid, I can say from experience with MBA students that I would not hire 99% of those I met in school for anything. What they were being taught in the 1990s was like the high school version of a general business degree, and their professors were quite defensive of this approach, saying that they could not be expected* to do the level of work as a student in a BS Business Administration Program because they were not from business backgrounds. Which was a head scratcher, since most of my peers were straight out of high school (I had some civilian and military work background before finishing).
*Logistics was the exception. The UTK Logistics Department pulled no punches for the MBAs and they were expected to do Master's level work.
Military operations of ALL sorts are dangerous. . . You train and train and have safety procedures to mitigate things, but every so often Murphy's Law causes an accident.
There is a reason that the day I graduated from flight school, they told us to look at every face in the class, one of us would be dead inside of a year.
Three weeks later, one of my classmates died in a C-130 crash. It's a risk that military people accept: you CAN'T do military ops AND have complete safety. . .
Nobody said anything like that when I graduated from Rucker in 1986. Nobody I knew was injured or died in a helicopter until Desert Storm.
Those navy vessels are dangerous places to work, even in practice.
Missed a bit, apologies. Boyce was robbing banks while he was an escaped convict, yet he still only served 24 years.
Here we have prison to punish people. It doesn't exist as a means to control risk by controlling dangerous people. We've collectively decided that we should put people in cells(and let them be raped) like it's telling 5 year olds to stand in the corner.
On your last point, it would be real nice if all these high priced (compared to what they would be paid for any other work) guards were actually preventing contraban and assaults in the prisons, but they seem to facilitate that more than preventing it.
On the overall point, reasons why people are sent to prison and how long they are sentenced are all over the place and change over time. The individual in question here already had one stay in prison on a similar charge. Maybe Hammond should count his blessings that he did not steal the same sort of information Christopher Boyce passed to the Soviets in the 1970s. Boyce stayed in jail for about 24 years, not including the portion where he escaped from Lompoc.
The Weathermen had a wide range of sentences, from probation (Rudd, Ayers, and Dohrn) to commuted sentences (Matt Steen) to 17 months (Silas Bissell). One bomber from that era I am researching now, who was not in Weatherman but rather a Yippie associate of Abbie Hoffman, served 40 months and took more substantial precautions to avoid harming anybody than Weather ever collectively thought of. Then there are the air piracy cases that ranged from not guilty by reason of temporary insanity, to decades in Cuban prison followed by years in American prison.
Is ten years excessive for this? I would lean that way, but it seems the first taste did not take so he probably should be locked up somewhere for longer than 24 months.
Honestly, with the addition of locks to cockpit doors and passenger awareness of the problem, we can roll the rest back to pre 9/11 levels. It worked just fine for the most part, and the locks and passengers no longer being instructed to sit quietly and enjoy the stopover in Cuba would have taken care of 9/11 just fine.
That was not one mentioned in Skies, but it is one that El Al implemented back around then and, as you say, one of the most effective measures enacted. Arming pilots is another effective layer of security too (mentioned in the book).
Fuck 'em. Disband that shit ASAP.
I tend to lean your way on that too. Airlines, buss lines, etc. should be responsible for the security of their own equipment and customers (after said customers are off the street, out of the government airport, and into the airplanes, of course).
In Brendan I. Koerner's The Skies Belong To Us he touched on that trend beginning in 1972, when some airlines were beginning their own security measures. That all went out the window and the feds took over after the threat by hijackers of Southern Airways flight 49 threatened to crash the plane into the reactor building of Oak Ridge National Labs.
hmmm....I wonder where they could build it. Oh - I know. Dallas. The tunnel has been dug so all they have to do is drop in a few magnates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider
On a more serious note, I though the next big project was going to be a linear accelerator. Anybody know why they picked the round one over the straight one?
Slap on a little crowd sourcing and *POOF* all done.
"We wonder why other countries hate us? I love that! We have a game show in our country called "Survivor." Thats a GAME in our country! ...You can win a million dollars for surviving on a place where people already live! Do you realize what kind of message that sends? Not a good one!"
The "Curb Your Enthusiasm" episode examining the interaction between various survivors is very thought provoking. And gut bustingly funny too.
How is this distinctly more efficient than simply using sunlight to warm water, which evaporates, and collecting the fresh water that condenses? Desalination plants work like this, except they tend to use energy from some other source to boil the incoming seawater.
That is generally what I was wondering. And you don't have to actually boil the water, a proper dome will allow the water to evaporate, collect on the inner surface, and drip down sides for collection. Problem there is the large size you need for it to collect enough to be useful.
Dr. Sheldon Cooper found that out the odd way, with a different virtual currency.
Going in person is a little rough for me, since I live about 2,480 miles away. Thinking of snailmail next.
Just a thought, but I think you would want to be going through the court to get that information, not the police.
Slashdot is magic: From Oakland - "Additional time is required to answer your public records request. We need to search for, collect, or examine a large number of records (Government Code Section 6253(c)(2)). "
First answer I got of any kind from any LEO in California.
Just a thought, but I think you would want to be going through the court to get that information, not the police.
Trying to figure out that minefield too. It took a while to get through the federal system (SFPD performed the arrest with the FBI, he was housed in the Oakland City Jail until his federal bail hearing). Now I have a bunch of good info, but the earliest document is five days after his arrest.
The days of "a fool and his money are soon venture capital" are taking a siesta. Come back next decade.
No.
You control the block chain, you control all transactions.
And when you control the mail... http://youtu.be/Rg_4z2adv6Q?t=16s
Is replying optional? Or is there some sort of requirement?
You know the score, pal! If you're not a cop, you're "little people."
LAPD and NYPD are locked in an epic struggle to see which department can be a bigger waste of taxpayer money.
Don't forget SFPD! I've been trying to get *any* record of a particular arrest from 1986. The guy plead guilty too (the he really did it way, with a really good lawyer, not the way we usually read about) and I can't even get an answer to my requests using their email, even to the district stations.
Don't forget biker gangs --scenes from Sons of Anarchy clearly show them putting all their cellphones in a basket (in a separate room) before they conduct their meetings. I think that most technically-savvy people are aware cellphones are modern-day tracking/listening/viewing devices. The byline should've read: ...securities services know foreign intelligence agencies...
That is a good example from fiction drawn from reality. In another comment I mentioned organized crime too.
More like a minifesto.
Actually quite refreshing as manifestos go. For some reason most folk do not remember that the Communist Manifesto was much more that the ten bullet points found at the end of Chapter 2. The later Fascist Manifesto is a long-winded shameless ripoff of the ten bullet points too, but the sections were labeled and points numbered. Somewhere along the way Mr. Snowden did not find the manifesto template that was perfected before him.
British securities services fear foreign intelligence agencies have developed the ability to turn mobile devices such as phones and tablets into bugs without the owner's knowledge, allowing them to eavesdrop on confidential meetings.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if GCHQ were doing it as well... (but are afraid that the others will find out about it)
It is so old and well known that I would guess most organized crime and terrorist organizations have been practicing this for years too.
British securities services fear foreign intelligence agencies have developed the ability to turn mobile devices such as phones and tablets into bugs without the owner's knowledge, allowing them to eavesdrop on confidential meetings.
This is positively ancient. Just so happens the elected officials are finally beginning to use the precautions that have been used in the military and other corners of government for quite some time.
Oh look, a noninvasive and effective approach to preventing bombings; It's almost as someone competent got hired.
If the objective is to catch idiots who do not do their research, it is a great approach. A shade better than catching them after they blow themselves up. Is not going to catch anybody serious who collects his waste and disposes it elsewhere, like down the drain of a rival.
Except that nobody's getting arrested on the basis of their drains.
Yet.
Oh look, a noninvasive and effective approach to preventing bombings; It's almost as someone competent got hired.
If the objective is to catch idiots who do not do their research, it is a great approach. A shade better than catching them after they blow themselves up. Is not going to catch anybody serious who collects his waste and disposes it elsewhere, like down the drain of a rival.