Couldn't tell you. Probably because when confronted they go "oops" and hand the information over to the people who have the authority to review the information for declassification, and it gets declassified.
All the more reason to believe that the people who stole and released the information didn't even try to do the right thing.
They're just about to release a new DirecTivo and have cowed DISH in court. TiVo doesn't want third-party competition in satellite. But because the cable companies were doing non-infringing competitive DVR boxes, TiVo was the third-party, so it wanted this access.
A business just isn't a real business until you can see the hypocrisy crusting around its mouth.
2. It's against Australian law to reveal the secrets of Australia's allies.
3. He has an absolute obligation as a human being not to put other human beings in danger when there are other avenues to address the problem. This is especially pertinent, since his argument for releasing the information was that it shows his adversaries doing exactly that as well.
That's why you don't ask them. You ask someone else who has the power to put them in jail.
This is what the source of the information should have done. Instead of burning a CD and sneaking it out, he should have gone to the Inspector General at the level above the unit that had the illegally classified information and reported its existence. And kept walking up the chain until he was sending letters to the President, who is the direct source of the rules for classifying information.
He did none of that. Assange did nothing even remotely like that. Both of them conspired to do the stupidest possible thing, because neither of them could stand existing without the glory of doing the stupidest possible thing. Both of them decided instead to do exactly the thing the enemy wanted most: release a pile of legally classified information because mixed into it were small segments of illegally classified information.
The part about releasing information that can get people killed should probably be avoided, as well. Sort of throws a hypocritical blanket over the effort.
You are correct. If the information had no other reason to be classified, the person who classified it would be breaking the law. And there are procedures spelled out in the law for declassifying the information in a manner that maintains the secrecy of those portions that should remain classified.
However, Assange is not the messenger. He revealed classified information without following the legal procedure to do so. In the process he broke the law against declassifying information inappropriately. He also, because of his haste and lack of reasonability, allowed information that should have remained classified to be revealed.
Assange is a criminal idiot and deserves any punishment he gets.
Information is also classified when you want to perform atrocities or "its not good for morale", or its dissemination will cause the main plan not to work.
It is specifically against the law to classify something for such a reason.
There are legal procedures to have such things declassified.
Assange didn't want to go through those procedures, because it wouldn't make him famous. He's finding out that he made a mistake in choosing fame over doing the right thing.
You think you have the right to 'liberate' someone? Like you 'liberated' Iraq?
I'll tell the French they were wrong to help America shuck the King, then.
Seriously, you think that starving an entire nation under a monomaniacal dictator-monarch is something we or anyone else in the world should allow?
Iraq is not a parallel example; GW Bush was not a liberator, he was a political criminal who used war to threaten the Saudis and Iranians, and in the process just proved what kind of person he really is.
Go back into your hole in the shire and leave the world to people who understand it.
North Korea's artillery, and its nukes, are not a sufficient deterrent.
The only thing keeping it alive is China. And the only reason we don't liberate North Korea is that it would cause a shooting war with China, which, if it were democratic, would join with us.
Freeing Tibet is the world's problem, just as much as imprisoning Tibet is China's problem.
Taiwan wants to be free of China, but can't even discuss it without getting China's saber rattled at it.
If they've found this in all colonies they've studied that have collapsed
and
if they've found it in no thriving colonies
then...
as far as science goes, it's reasonable to conclude that this correlation is the cause. You could do an experiment where you introduce the two diseases into a healthy colony and watch it die, if you want.
Can we use the disease to push back the onslaught of the killer bees invading up north?
What you want to do is infect all bee colonies south of a line of non-africanized hives with these substances and exterminate them, and then reintroduce non-africanized bees to the cleared regions.
BTW, they don't so much invade as inveigle. The africanized bees interbreed with the local populations. That's why they're "africanized" and not just "african".
Then why does North Korea still exist? Why is Tibet not free? Taiwan?
We may be trading with them. We may even be their main source of income and innovation. But we're also still each other's worst enemy, still armed to the teeth, and still targeting each other.
It's an ideal that is especially resonant with the people elevated to an unstable social standing by party affiliation, who need tyrannical rules against free speech to keep them there.
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Couldn't tell you. Probably because when confronted they go "oops" and hand the information over to the people who have the authority to review the information for declassification, and it gets declassified.
All the more reason to believe that the people who stole and released the information didn't even try to do the right thing.
But TiVo doesn't want that.
They're just about to release a new DirecTivo and have cowed DISH in court. TiVo doesn't want third-party competition in satellite. But because the cable companies were doing non-infringing competitive DVR boxes, TiVo was the third-party, so it wanted this access.
A business just isn't a real business until you can see the hypocrisy crusting around its mouth.
No. This is different. It's legal.
1. The USA can drop him out of a plane over the Atlantic Ocean. How he gets there will probably never be known.
2. If Australia wants to let the U.S. take the trouble, it can. And apparently is.
1. In this case it's the right thing.
2. It's against Australian law to reveal the secrets of Australia's allies.
3. He has an absolute obligation as a human being not to put other human beings in danger when there are other avenues to address the problem. This is especially pertinent, since his argument for releasing the information was that it shows his adversaries doing exactly that as well.
That's why you don't ask them. You ask someone else who has the power to put them in jail.
This is what the source of the information should have done. Instead of burning a CD and sneaking it out, he should have gone to the Inspector General at the level above the unit that had the illegally classified information and reported its existence. And kept walking up the chain until he was sending letters to the President, who is the direct source of the rules for classifying information.
He did none of that. Assange did nothing even remotely like that. Both of them conspired to do the stupidest possible thing, because neither of them could stand existing without the glory of doing the stupidest possible thing. Both of them decided instead to do exactly the thing the enemy wanted most: release a pile of legally classified information because mixed into it were small segments of illegally classified information.
The part about releasing information that can get people killed should probably be avoided, as well. Sort of throws a hypocritical blanket over the effort.
Assange, and the people he convinces to give him the information, are the ones who don't see the danger in what they're doing.
All they see is a heroic fantasy.
They certainly don't see that there's a legal avenue to attain their goals and punish people who classify information illegally.
It won't be as glorious, but then, it won't get you jailed or hounded into a cave in Sweden, either.
>>I can get behind Wikileaks, but not Assange. He is egotistical tool.[1]
>Citation needed.
1. I said it before.
You are correct. If the information had no other reason to be classified, the person who classified it would be breaking the law. And there are procedures spelled out in the law for declassifying the information in a manner that maintains the secrecy of those portions that should remain classified.
However, Assange is not the messenger. He revealed classified information without following the legal procedure to do so. In the process he broke the law against declassifying information inappropriately. He also, because of his haste and lack of reasonability, allowed information that should have remained classified to be revealed.
Assange is a criminal idiot and deserves any punishment he gets.
Its not really treason since the owner isn't from the US. He's Australian.
1. By that logic, then it's wouldn't really be against the law for America to have Assange killed.
2. It's against Australian law to reveal the secrets of Australia's allies.
Information is also classified when you want to perform atrocities or "its not good for morale", or its dissemination will cause the main plan not to work.
It is specifically against the law to classify something for such a reason.
There are legal procedures to have such things declassified.
Assange didn't want to go through those procedures, because it wouldn't make him famous. He's finding out that he made a mistake in choosing fame over doing the right thing.
Actually I was being facetious. C++ is faster than Java, but slower than C.
"Performance critical" means real-time, and real-time does not mean "fast", and sometimes you have to reset a customer's expectations about that.
performance critical
Did you say "fast"?
In my day, you got a fake Scots accent and you liked it.
You think you have the right to 'liberate' someone? Like you 'liberated' Iraq?
I'll tell the French they were wrong to help America shuck the King, then.
Seriously, you think that starving an entire nation under a monomaniacal dictator-monarch is something we or anyone else in the world should allow?
Iraq is not a parallel example; GW Bush was not a liberator, he was a political criminal who used war to threaten the Saudis and Iranians, and in the process just proved what kind of person he really is.
Go back into your hole in the shire and leave the world to people who understand it.
North Korea's artillery, and its nukes, are not a sufficient deterrent.
The only thing keeping it alive is China. And the only reason we don't liberate North Korea is that it would cause a shooting war with China, which, if it were democratic, would join with us.
Freeing Tibet is the world's problem, just as much as imprisoning Tibet is China's problem.
Taiwan wants to be free of China, but can't even discuss it without getting China's saber rattled at it.
If they've found this in all colonies they've studied that have collapsed
and
if they've found it in no thriving colonies
then...
as far as science goes, it's reasonable to conclude that this correlation is the cause. You could do an experiment where you introduce the two diseases into a healthy colony and watch it die, if you want.
I bet they had control groups.
Can we use the disease to push back the onslaught of the killer bees invading up north?
What you want to do is infect all bee colonies south of a line of non-africanized hives with these substances and exterminate them, and then reintroduce non-africanized bees to the cleared regions.
BTW, they don't so much invade as inveigle. The africanized bees interbreed with the local populations. That's why they're "africanized" and not just "african".
Here's where they are so far: http://www.millennium-ark.net/News_Files/Garden_Seeds/Africanized_bees_map.jpg
And this is what they look like: http://hotoffpress.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/snls2e3-killerbees.jpg
I wonder if there is a way to make lemonade out of this lemon.
no, but they've stumbled across an efficient method to make bee jam
It is if you sell bananas and cane sugar.
Then why does North Korea still exist? Why is Tibet not free? Taiwan?
We may be trading with them. We may even be their main source of income and innovation. But we're also still each other's worst enemy, still armed to the teeth, and still targeting each other.
In America we privatize our Tyranny. Try getting one of your letters questioning the integrity of the GOP read on Fox News some time.
It's an ideal that is especially resonant with the people elevated to an unstable social standing by party affiliation, who need tyrannical rules against free speech to keep them there.