Now throw in that he's offered his services to foreign countries in identifying NSA intrusions into their country. He namely offered his services to Brazil and Germany in exchange for asylum.
I think the better question is, how the heck are our GPS satellites working if we apparently don't know how to calculate the Earth's gravitational pull correctly? I'm surprised we haven't shot a satellite into space using seemingly perfectly correct calculations.
The flutes are made of wood (reed). It's entirely possible that there could be larvae of invasive insects in them. Not defending the destruction, but it's not as stupid as it sounds.
That was pretty hilarious. But that speaks to the same point. Keeping your enemy unaware of your true force size can be a significant advantage. In fact the commander of that Canadian team is considered the sole liberator of a Dutch town and at one point captured almost 100 German soldiers on his own. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Major
Numbers aren't everything.;)
Military considerations are the lowest reason why we "lost" that war. I put lost in quotes because we signed a peace treaty and two years later the NVA invaded after we had left, so technically we didn't lose. The US won pretty much ever tactical and strategic battle in that war. The problem was, the Viet Cong and great propaganda. The Tet Offensive was a huge military debacle for the Viet Cong. After that they basically lost the ability to wage any sizeable resistance. But it was an amazing media coup for them. The American public and others increasingly gained the perception that we were losing the war.
Canadian Special forces managed to hold off tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers during the Korean War. Hill 227 in the Korean War was held by 20 French Canadian special forces for three days against two Chinese divisions (roughly 14,000 men). That's what, 1:700 ratio?
I think you're opinion of the rate of genocide is faulty because it seems like you're looking at only a very narrow window of history. As noted by your linked wiki article, "The difficulty, as Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn pointed out in their early study, is that such historical records as exist are ambiguous and undependable. While history today is generally written with some fealty to 'objective' facts, most previous accounts aimed rather to praise the writer's patron (normally the leader) and to emphasize the superiority of one's own gods and religious beliefs." The Chinese were very big on this, and you may remember from history class the large purges of books, etc in China at varying dynastic transitions. If you've read any of the classical Chinese histories like Romance of the Three Kingdoms (not entirely historically accurate) there is a good deal of killing of enemies. It was common practice in China to kill entire families because on person was a traitor. And when I say family, I don't mean mom, dad and the kids. We're talking anyone brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents.
I think your portrayal of China as "less violent" is where you got stuck with the noble savage line.
So you're only beef with the US towards China was that we supported the wrong bad guy? Or are you also mad we supported the democratic South Korean government and the same version in Vietnam? Because both of those seem silly on a couple levels.
I'm sorry my ancestors carried infectious diseases that they weren't able to protect against? I'm not excusing certain actions that happened during early colonization and later in history; but don't try to lump the large native deaths all under those despicable actions. That majority died from diseases through incidental contact.
Yellow journalism is sensationalist journalism. It is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.
http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-yellow-journalism.htm
Apparently you missed the chapter in your high school history class on yellow journalism and the rise of it in the late 19th to early 20th century. I'll forgive you for not knowing that Ben Franklin frequently wrote false editorials and gossip pieces to sell his newspapers as well.
Current thinking on any HDD storage as an archive is that with ideal conditions the drive would be able to retain data for 10-15 years. That number get's pushed to 25-30 years if it was brand new, zeroed, and written to once. There's no confirmation bias here, there's millions of pieces of paper that have lasted over 30 years with probably far more punishment than the ideal condition disk. Just go to your library and I'm sure you'll find plenty of books there that are over 30 years old. Those hundreds of year old Bibles are home runs and their life span is exponentially greater than what we think the data on these disks will last.
Because a flood, war, catch-all for everything else you couldn't think of couldn't do the same amount of harm to a HDD or SDD. The natural decay of paper archives is so much slower than that of digital media it's laughable. We still have copies of the Bible from hundreds of years ago. I'd love to see an HDD or SDD last that long.
All I know is that BAF's Fighter-X2 program highlighted the ability of using the new aircraft in carrier based operations. Which is probably why they went initially with the F/A-18 over the Gripen, even though at the end of the evaluations the Gripen had been placed ahead of the Hornet and Rafale by the BAF (primarily because of costs). The only reason the F/A-18 wasn't committed to was because when Rousseff selected them, they couldn't push forward due to financial constraints.
The Gripen is an air superiority fighter, the Hornet/Super Hornet is a multirole fighter. The Hornet is by nature of it's purpose not as good as the Gripen for the specific task of air-to-air combat. If you compare the Gripen to the Eagle/Strike Eagle or the Raptor the in close dog fighting is comparable (the Raptor wins every time though when at range against the Gripen).
Not really sure what Brazil's intended roles were for the new aircraft, but the Gripen is much more limited and is designed from a defense perspective. The Super Hornet is more capable in a variety of roles. I have read that Brazil was looking for a carrier based aircraft and last I checked the Gripen is not carrier capable. The Super Hornet is. There is a Sea Gripen but it is a proposed model and does not exist yet.
Computers get faster and more powerful every day. It's not that difficult in today's age to have a computer that can crunch these numbers and it's only getting easier. If you can't get a singular computer, distributing the processing power out to other computers is not an incredibly difficult task today. SETI does this and then their are the malicious bot nets made of multiple infected computers that can do it.
Is there little we can do to stop it? Maybe. But that doesn't mean you give up, lay down, and go full monty. We have a current drive to make the internet less anonymous, part of this is fueled by the anti-bullying sentiments of late (and I'm disparaging the attempt to prevent bullying). But if you want to have this beautiful world of shared computing experiences, anonymity on the net is a must if you want to preserve some modicum of privacy. HuffPost, Facebook, Google, they want to know you not your online persona.
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Last I checked, when spies in any country are discovered they're arrested.
Now throw in that he's offered his services to foreign countries in identifying NSA intrusions into their country. He namely offered his services to Brazil and Germany in exchange for asylum.
I tried this and ended up with a closet full of dead puppies...
I think the better question is, how the heck are our GPS satellites working if we apparently don't know how to calculate the Earth's gravitational pull correctly? I'm surprised we haven't shot a satellite into space using seemingly perfectly correct calculations.
It's $99 PLUS the cost of the frame (ie the glasses).
The flutes are made of wood (reed). It's entirely possible that there could be larvae of invasive insects in them. Not defending the destruction, but it's not as stupid as it sounds.
That was pretty hilarious. But that speaks to the same point. Keeping your enemy unaware of your true force size can be a significant advantage. In fact the commander of that Canadian team is considered the sole liberator of a Dutch town and at one point captured almost 100 German soldiers on his own. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Major Numbers aren't everything. ;)
Pakistan is more like Laos or Cambodia, if you're doing analogies.
Military considerations are the lowest reason why we "lost" that war. I put lost in quotes because we signed a peace treaty and two years later the NVA invaded after we had left, so technically we didn't lose. The US won pretty much ever tactical and strategic battle in that war. The problem was, the Viet Cong and great propaganda. The Tet Offensive was a huge military debacle for the Viet Cong. After that they basically lost the ability to wage any sizeable resistance. But it was an amazing media coup for them. The American public and others increasingly gained the perception that we were losing the war.
Canadian Special forces managed to hold off tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers during the Korean War. Hill 227 in the Korean War was held by 20 French Canadian special forces for three days against two Chinese divisions (roughly 14,000 men). That's what, 1:700 ratio?
I think you're opinion of the rate of genocide is faulty because it seems like you're looking at only a very narrow window of history. As noted by your linked wiki article, "The difficulty, as Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn pointed out in their early study, is that such historical records as exist are ambiguous and undependable. While history today is generally written with some fealty to 'objective' facts, most previous accounts aimed rather to praise the writer's patron (normally the leader) and to emphasize the superiority of one's own gods and religious beliefs." The Chinese were very big on this, and you may remember from history class the large purges of books, etc in China at varying dynastic transitions. If you've read any of the classical Chinese histories like Romance of the Three Kingdoms (not entirely historically accurate) there is a good deal of killing of enemies. It was common practice in China to kill entire families because on person was a traitor. And when I say family, I don't mean mom, dad and the kids. We're talking anyone brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents. I think your portrayal of China as "less violent" is where you got stuck with the noble savage line.
If by unchanged you mean doubled/tripled in size sure...
So you're only beef with the US towards China was that we supported the wrong bad guy? Or are you also mad we supported the democratic South Korean government and the same version in Vietnam? Because both of those seem silly on a couple levels.
I'm sorry my ancestors carried infectious diseases that they weren't able to protect against? I'm not excusing certain actions that happened during early colonization and later in history; but don't try to lump the large native deaths all under those despicable actions. That majority died from diseases through incidental contact.
Yellow journalism is sensationalist journalism. It is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-yellow-journalism.htm
What are you talking about? This is the Qin Dynasty's are of control. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Qin_empire_210_BCE.png http://www.chinatownconnection.com/images/qindynastymap.gif You can see the outline of current People's Republic of China. Now compare that to the Yuan Empire: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hekc7k3TR_c/TVVDWj_yIXI/AAAAAAAAAAM/wuJB5xwNSfk/s1600/64939-004-0AE0DF2F.gif China was primarily land based, but don't mistake that for not being imperialistic or expansionist. You need to really go back and reread the history on that region.
That was a Russian airport though.
Apparently you missed the chapter in your high school history class on yellow journalism and the rise of it in the late 19th to early 20th century. I'll forgive you for not knowing that Ben Franklin frequently wrote false editorials and gossip pieces to sell his newspapers as well.
Current thinking on any HDD storage as an archive is that with ideal conditions the drive would be able to retain data for 10-15 years. That number get's pushed to 25-30 years if it was brand new, zeroed, and written to once. There's no confirmation bias here, there's millions of pieces of paper that have lasted over 30 years with probably far more punishment than the ideal condition disk. Just go to your library and I'm sure you'll find plenty of books there that are over 30 years old. Those hundreds of year old Bibles are home runs and their life span is exponentially greater than what we think the data on these disks will last.
Because a flood, war, catch-all for everything else you couldn't think of couldn't do the same amount of harm to a HDD or SDD. The natural decay of paper archives is so much slower than that of digital media it's laughable. We still have copies of the Bible from hundreds of years ago. I'd love to see an HDD or SDD last that long.
All I know is that BAF's Fighter-X2 program highlighted the ability of using the new aircraft in carrier based operations. Which is probably why they went initially with the F/A-18 over the Gripen, even though at the end of the evaluations the Gripen had been placed ahead of the Hornet and Rafale by the BAF (primarily because of costs). The only reason the F/A-18 wasn't committed to was because when Rousseff selected them, they couldn't push forward due to financial constraints.
It's only in the proposal stage from what I've read.
They should've, the Rafale can be deployed to carriers and Brazil was looking at that.
The Gripen is an air superiority fighter, the Hornet/Super Hornet is a multirole fighter. The Hornet is by nature of it's purpose not as good as the Gripen for the specific task of air-to-air combat. If you compare the Gripen to the Eagle/Strike Eagle or the Raptor the in close dog fighting is comparable (the Raptor wins every time though when at range against the Gripen). Not really sure what Brazil's intended roles were for the new aircraft, but the Gripen is much more limited and is designed from a defense perspective. The Super Hornet is more capable in a variety of roles. I have read that Brazil was looking for a carrier based aircraft and last I checked the Gripen is not carrier capable. The Super Hornet is. There is a Sea Gripen but it is a proposed model and does not exist yet.
Computers get faster and more powerful every day. It's not that difficult in today's age to have a computer that can crunch these numbers and it's only getting easier. If you can't get a singular computer, distributing the processing power out to other computers is not an incredibly difficult task today. SETI does this and then their are the malicious bot nets made of multiple infected computers that can do it. Is there little we can do to stop it? Maybe. But that doesn't mean you give up, lay down, and go full monty. We have a current drive to make the internet less anonymous, part of this is fueled by the anti-bullying sentiments of late (and I'm disparaging the attempt to prevent bullying). But if you want to have this beautiful world of shared computing experiences, anonymity on the net is a must if you want to preserve some modicum of privacy. HuffPost, Facebook, Google, they want to know you not your online persona.