And for once, my sig might just be relevant. Here's hoping (fat chance, with Hillary) that the inauguration speech is strong enough to be historically relevant. Krushchev certainly did a good job.
Thank you for providing the Neocon perspective. It's monstrous of me to say so, but on some level... It's sort of fortunate for us that we may be attacking Iran any day now.
Attacking Iran will ensure that your ideology doesn't just go into a temporary retreat - that it dies a horrible death. We can't afford for it to survive. The actual political center of this country is somewhere between Kucinich and Edwards, when people are surveyed on isolated issues, instead of labelling themselves as conservative/liberal. Neoconservatism has managed to rally the limbic centers of half a dozen single-issue voting blocs to convince the media & pol groupthink that the average person holds beliefs just slightly left of Mussolini.
Okay, Clinton made the country too prosperous, we got greedy, we had it coming. The problem with the American Dream is that we're all dreaming about what we'll do when we're rich. And when you're flying high on internet stocks, perhaps a guy you'd like to have a drink with seems like a good choice for a president.
But we can't afford this stuff any more. Not for a few decades. Not when we have actual, existential crises facing the country, like the nexus of peak oil, the fall of the US dollar as anchor currency, and global warming.
Wouldn't the suspension and the mass of the car prevent anything from coming through to the electronics (which are mounted similarly to the driver, flush to the frame) at 4 G's? At least, on anything less than... well... anything reasonable.
And I'm a HELL of a lot more confident with a ghz IC taking 40G's to the face than a tube. Plastic encased electronics simply aren't that vulnerable to shock.
IN GENERAL: Medical research happens when there's money behind the disease. Once the advance is made and commoditized for great loads of money to the first world (and the research is the main thing priced, not the build construction), it can be exported to the developing world and add value slightly to their firstworld sales numbers, for little extra effort.
If the first world didn't exist, then the developing world wouldn't have the luxury of down-marketting - they would have to get by without the tech being developed, or with the tech being a lot more expensive (somewhere between firstworld and developing world price).
There are of course specific contradictions to this, and the US pharma market has (like most aspects of the US economy) decided to spend more on advertising and profitability than original research...
But in a hypothetical company that puts most money towards research - for a $1 pill to exist for the third world, it has to cost $0.75 to build (yay, profit) and it has to sell to Americans for $75. Otherwise, if they couldn't count on the US market, it would be available for $5 or $10 to the whole world. And if they knew that they couldn't sell enough to make the same return on investment... they wouldn't have developed the drug in the first place.
It's a nuanced point, and so it will never be brought up in the public discourse, ever. The debate will be "Socialized medicine?! We have the best healthcare system evar! It's where rich third world dictators bring their kids," versus people who see the rest of the world not being bled dry by their medical establishments.
It's kind of a reverse tragedy of the commons - the AIDs drugs are going to benefit lots of poor Africans if they are developed, because production cost is virtually nil. But they won't be developed unless they can generate a good return on (their large research) investment by charging the richest nations through the nose.
As the review says, deep-fried soda really doesn't count - you have to preserve the original food as a significant fraction of the fried food, or else you just have soda-flavored fried batter. I wouldn't add a few drops of vanilla to my pancakes and say I had fried vanilla. "Fried ice cream" isn't fried ice cream if the whole thing is simply mixed into a liquid batter beforehand.
To encapsulate a liquid and fry it safely, you need skill. Cherry cordials with a little bit of viscous cherry syrup are the closest most people come to encapsulated liquid confections, but I've had russian "cherry vodka bar" which managed, through some deep magics, to surround abound 10ml of totally liquid liqeur with granular sugar and then chocolate. There has to be an analogous process for frying significant amounts of sweet liquid, even if the reaction takes ten steps. I want to bite into a deep fried rootbeer float and have it dribble down my chin.
We certainly have software that can take a video of static objects and turn it into a 3d scene.
We have, in TFA, software that can take frames of static objects, remove the dynamic objects among them, and leave us with a 3d scene.
We probably have software that can interpolate a static object which is bounding a nonstatic/elastic layer (the shape of a statue under a swaying tarp, the dimensions of a box inside a grocery bag someone is swinging).
We probably do not, however, have software that can efficiently calculate the at-rest dimensions of an elastic, mobile object(Jessica Alba) beneath a nonstatic/elastic layer (clothes). We've just barely reached the point where we can depict the behavior of the squishy, bony, muscular, hairy human body accurately, much less interpolate a hidden body.
One wonders what it would cost to develop such software to the satisfaction of a pervert, compared to what it would cost to simply fund a movie where the pervert getstodothis.
Not at all - they post guards in order to attempt to make such escape impossible.
They believe prisoners have a right to try. Just as the accused in a crime has the right to make his case, without the court coming after him for perjury if he insists on his innocence and is found guilty.
Ever read Les Miserables?
The legal interpretation exists so that no man convicted of simply stealing a loaf of bread can be put in prison for 19 years after also being convicted of 3 failed escape attempts.
But given the performance of a sturdy, dense, streamlined 1.5 ton automobile put up against primary jet engine exhaust, and the fact that cessnas and sailplanes rely on large, weakly loaded wings + control surfaces in order to generate their lift... I would feel pretty confident in predicting that attempting to enter a turbulence cone a half mile (perhaps significantly more) behind the 747 in these planes would result in a large "snap" followed by a plane chassis that has lost interest in the 747, and is now pursuing horizons that are more firmly grounded in stiff reality.
In Eve Online, my corp has had 3 honeymoons, 1 proposal, 2 babies, 5 new houses, one Navy-deployment, and 3 SO's convinced to start playing in the last year. That I know about. We're all male (endgame in Eve is about 95% male, 45% Euro, 45% NA), but we're certainly not shutins. While there will always be socially inept 16 year old nerds who play the game to prevent themselves from pulling a Columbine, they are finding it very difficult to keep up a majority in any game, even the twitchiest of shooters. The stereotype is dead.
I've been led to the top of the CAL Desert Combat ladder multiple seasons by a 12 year old boy whose voice was changing, with an 80 year old college professor on point in a tank, 3 married guys offering close air support, and 6 high-school/college guys for infantry support.
I've seen the drama surrounding the romantic involvement of an 40 year old female alliance leader with a 45 year old married male clan leader in Lineage II throw a pall over the alliance's community.
I've seen a 30 year old wildly successful Hong Kong commodities trader become so obsessed with an MMO that eventually, after losing millions of Prudential's dollars and almost his wife, he cried his way out of the game's politics and came back a year later as a fulltime pit boss for a gold-farming operation.
I'm currently listening to the alliance radio show of a 40 year old ex-con that with a southern twang that you can barely hear over the gravel in his baritone, wherein he's discussing which rolling paper is best and methods of oral sex to use on his wife, who also plays Eve online, and will be back in a few weeks. Meanwhile, I'm responding to a mother that finds his content objectionable, and discussing internet libertarianism and the expectation of free speech (innocence be damned) that prevails in online chat.
Whether your character is male or female is a purely personal matter of aesthetics, and how much you feel like role playing: None, and it could go either way (my circumstance, I pick whatever fits a cool name I find that hasn't been taken). A little bit, and you're probably going to put yourself in the place of your character and associate their gender with yourself. A lot, and we're back to it going either way - someone who feels comfortable walking a mile in stilletto mocassins is going to go ahead and do it regardless of their gender.
Or if you want it really high, think about something like this: http://compositetower.com/index.html Light enough that it's not going to destroy your house if it falls down.
While an mp3 or video decoder license mentioned might be inappropriate for Ubuntu The Free OS in its basic form, Dell has a responsibility to package it with Ubuntu The OEM Desktop, and if need be, pay for it.
Whatever responsibility the employee had internally, it had the effect of causing the company to steal money. You go after the company for stealing money, the company can do whatever it wants with the employee, including criminal negligence.
A few class action suits with serious punitive penalties assessed on the retailer advertising the lower price (in retailer-created rebates) would not be out of turn here.
Hydropower is an on-demand resource. You can spin up a turbine in seconds. If you're not using the peak power, it builds up in a lake. Pumped hydro, flow batteries, and molten salt batteries are on-demand energy storage as well. Charge them up when you're short on demand, discharge them when demand peaks.
When you incorporate storage, diversify the power production into different types and locations of renewables (the wind does blow at night), and you throw in low-efficiency intergrid trading of power, it's entirely possible to use distributed power generation productively. None of those things are done on a large enough scale right now - net metering is currently just a huge headache for power engineers, brought on by PR departments and Congress, and a net drain on efficiency. But things are changing, and will continue to change with the continued advancements in sustainable technology and the continued rise of the green political movement, which (while certainly a strong force in Europe now) will be piercing the US' collective consciousness and actually translate into changing our behavior, sometime in the next two or three years.
The problem with segway wasn't that the difficult-to-imagine technology didn't work, the problem was that the hypesters claimed that a stand-up 10mph scooter would revolutionize the transportation industry.
If EEstor's difficult-to-imagine technology does work with the stats they've gave us, there's no question that it will revolutionize at least a narrow part of the transportation industry. With its absurd power and charge, and its better-than-lithium claimed energy density, it would make serial hybrids the order of the day. Right now, you can only really utilize regnerative braking by either adding on tens of thousands of dollars (and hundreds of kilograms) in batteries for a plug-in hybrid or EV, or add on tens of thousands of dollars and hundreds of kilograms for current supercaps as a side-system in your serial hybrid.
Full-on regen braking at light weight and low cost would lift low-speed stop-start mileage drastically, make serial hybrids a standard choice, bring lightweight electric bikes into vogue, and loads of other things.
Most chem/phys geeks that I've read believe this isn't going to work, but EEstor is frustratingly persistent for a pump-and-dump scheme.
A good portion of us don't want to do illegal things with it. We want to be able to PLAY the HD content we pay for on whatever display device we so choose, not muck about with attempting to store it.
There are devices that one can buy, but shelling out an extra $300 just to be able to enjoy cable TV that we're renting a box for, on the DIY 1080p projector we designed a controller for (but couldn't afford $10k for an HDCP license for), is ridiculous.
There are plenty of non-HDCP-compliant set owners out there that have a reason to buy a highly illegal device, that would be judged legitimate even by someone so far down the spectrum of copyright ideology that they believe DVRs aren't covered under fair use. This is wrong. A mobster burning down my home is just as wrong as having to pay another mobster to keep my home from being burned down.
I want an easy crack on sourceforge, and I want it years ago.
There are plenty of nonviolent offenses that require jail time as a deterrent. Perjury is one.
We wouldn't have any problems with jail capacity if we took two seconds of our time to reconsider our drug policies, minus moral crusades manufactured to turn a vague Puritan urge to deny pleasurable experiences into election victories. They are damaging a large portion of our society, and the tens of billions of dollars that we would save directly could go into actually catching criminals who hurt other people, whether with guns or by breaking oaths, whether of truth or secrecy; Not to mention perhaps attempting to help those who found themselves vulnerable to dangerous addictions.
This is the Dubya NSA/CIA/ETC - the career spies that weren't willing to shut up and follow orders are gone. Machiavellian ambition matched only by incompetence: That's what you're dealing with.
The Cold Warriors weren't stupid. They were seeking heavily guarded secrets about the machinations of a superpower. The stakes were, officially, the fate of freedom itself, not a building here or there. The best and the brightest. Those who never succeeded against an intelligent adversary were fired, or for the real spying, killed. But tell me that someone who 'fails to catch a terrorist plot' by attempting to find suspicious brown people is going to face any real accountability, ever. This war needs no victory, because defeat is impossible. It wouldn't really matter if the Directorate was increasingly brazen in deciding who to assassinate(which we do, officially, do now), because even on an agency level, they really can't lose face until 2009, no matter how often they fail. There will always be targets, and so there will always be work, and so they will always be heroes defending our safety. This is the culture of the War on Terror.
We the nation kidnap people around the world and torture them, And then WE THE PEOPLE find out about it, through these monsters' incompetence - resulting in a medium-sized PR war between those that believe in human rights and those who don't, that's eventually lost because Mat Lauer needs an exclusive next week, no matter how much NBC News has to suck up to the administration. Then, the fact that we kidnap and torture people becomes passe, becomes something that people occasionally bitch about, but essentially accept.
What makes you think a domestic assassination would be any different?
I say this as someone normally allergic to tinhattery: Never put anything past these people. They will always surprise you with yet another step towards totalitarian fascism, something unthinkable yesterday, which will be mildly distasteful tomorrow.
That appears to be a cave cricket, family Rhaphidophoridae.
They do not weave webs, that I am aware of, and the particular species that infests my house do not chirp. Furthermore, they move very differently from most large spiders - they rarely move more than a foot without hopping at least some, and they can hop about two feet maximum. In a somewhat interesting(in an evolutionary sense) instinct, they often hop towards motion, which combined with their tendency to lie completely still afterward, presumably throws off cave predators better than hopping away.
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And for once, my sig might just be relevant. Here's hoping (fat chance, with Hillary) that the inauguration speech is strong enough to be historically relevant. Krushchev certainly did a good job.
Thank you for providing the Neocon perspective. It's monstrous of me to say so, but on some level... It's sort of fortunate for us that we may be attacking Iran any day now.
Attacking Iran will ensure that your ideology doesn't just go into a temporary retreat - that it dies a horrible death. We can't afford for it to survive. The actual political center of this country is somewhere between Kucinich and Edwards, when people are surveyed on isolated issues, instead of labelling themselves as conservative/liberal. Neoconservatism has managed to rally the limbic centers of half a dozen single-issue voting blocs to convince the media & pol groupthink that the average person holds beliefs just slightly left of Mussolini.
Okay, Clinton made the country too prosperous, we got greedy, we had it coming. The problem with the American Dream is that we're all dreaming about what we'll do when we're rich. And when you're flying high on internet stocks, perhaps a guy you'd like to have a drink with seems like a good choice for a president.
But we can't afford this stuff any more. Not for a few decades. Not when we have actual, existential crises facing the country, like the nexus of peak oil, the fall of the US dollar as anchor currency, and global warming.
Wouldn't the suspension and the mass of the car prevent anything from coming through to the electronics (which are mounted similarly to the driver, flush to the frame) at 4 G's? At least, on anything less than... well... anything reasonable.
And I'm a HELL of a lot more confident with a ghz IC taking 40G's to the face than a tube. Plastic encased electronics simply aren't that vulnerable to shock.
Of course, all this presupposes that you rely on the free market to generate medical research, for all its evils.
IN GENERAL:
Medical research happens when there's money behind the disease. Once the advance is made and commoditized for great loads of money to the first world (and the research is the main thing priced, not the build construction), it can be exported to the developing world and add value slightly to their firstworld sales numbers, for little extra effort.
If the first world didn't exist, then the developing world wouldn't have the luxury of down-marketting - they would have to get by without the tech being developed, or with the tech being a lot more expensive (somewhere between firstworld and developing world price).
There are of course specific contradictions to this, and the US pharma market has (like most aspects of the US economy) decided to spend more on advertising and profitability than original research...
But in a hypothetical company that puts most money towards research - for a $1 pill to exist for the third world, it has to cost $0.75 to build (yay, profit) and it has to sell to Americans for $75. Otherwise, if they couldn't count on the US market, it would be available for $5 or $10 to the whole world. And if they knew that they couldn't sell enough to make the same return on investment... they wouldn't have developed the drug in the first place.
It's a nuanced point, and so it will never be brought up in the public discourse, ever. The debate will be "Socialized medicine?! We have the best healthcare system evar! It's where rich third world dictators bring their kids," versus people who see the rest of the world not being bled dry by their medical establishments.
It's kind of a reverse tragedy of the commons - the AIDs drugs are going to benefit lots of poor Africans if they are developed, because production cost is virtually nil. But they won't be developed unless they can generate a good return on (their large research) investment by charging the richest nations through the nose.
By the way, I know just who to ask.
As the review says, deep-fried soda really doesn't count - you have to preserve the original food as a significant fraction of the fried food, or else you just have soda-flavored fried batter. I wouldn't add a few drops of vanilla to my pancakes and say I had fried vanilla. "Fried ice cream" isn't fried ice cream if the whole thing is simply mixed into a liquid batter beforehand.
To encapsulate a liquid and fry it safely, you need skill . Cherry cordials with a little bit of viscous cherry syrup are the closest most people come to encapsulated liquid confections, but I've had russian "cherry vodka bar" which managed, through some deep magics, to surround abound 10ml of totally liquid liqeur with granular sugar and then chocolate. There has to be an analogous process for frying significant amounts of sweet liquid, even if the reaction takes ten steps. I want to bite into a deep fried rootbeer float and have it dribble down my chin.
We certainly have software that can take a video of static objects and turn it into a 3d scene.
We have, in TFA, software that can take frames of static objects, remove the dynamic objects among them, and leave us with a 3d scene.
We probably have software that can interpolate a static object which is bounding a nonstatic/elastic layer (the shape of a statue under a swaying tarp, the dimensions of a box inside a grocery bag someone is swinging).
We probably do not, however, have software that can efficiently calculate the at-rest dimensions of an elastic, mobile object(Jessica Alba) beneath a nonstatic/elastic layer (clothes). We've just barely reached the point where we can depict the behavior of the squishy, bony, muscular, hairy human body accurately, much less interpolate a hidden body.
One wonders what it would cost to develop such software to the satisfaction of a pervert, compared to what it would cost to simply fund a movie where the pervert gets to do this.
Not at all - they post guards in order to attempt to make such escape impossible.
They believe prisoners have a right to try. Just as the accused in a crime has the right to make his case, without the court coming after him for perjury if he insists on his innocence and is found guilty.
Ever read Les Miserables?
The legal interpretation exists so that no man convicted of simply stealing a loaf of bread can be put in prison for 19 years after also being convicted of 3 failed escape attempts.
And I quite like Mexico's philosophy on the policy
Google says:
Mexico's law does that, but escaping from [certain] US prisons will draw charges and if convicted, tack a few years onto your sentence.
No qualifications at all...
But given the performance of a sturdy, dense, streamlined 1.5 ton automobile put up against primary jet engine exhaust, and the fact that cessnas and sailplanes rely on large, weakly loaded wings + control surfaces in order to generate their lift... I would feel pretty confident in predicting that attempting to enter a turbulence cone a half mile (perhaps significantly more) behind the 747 in these planes would result in a large "snap" followed by a plane chassis that has lost interest in the 747, and is now pursuing horizons that are more firmly grounded in stiff reality.
In Eve Online, my corp has had 3 honeymoons, 1 proposal, 2 babies, 5 new houses, one Navy-deployment, and 3 SO's convinced to start playing in the last year. That I know about. We're all male (endgame in Eve is about 95% male, 45% Euro, 45% NA), but we're certainly not shutins. While there will always be socially inept 16 year old nerds who play the game to prevent themselves from pulling a Columbine, they are finding it very difficult to keep up a majority in any game, even the twitchiest of shooters. The stereotype is dead.
I've been led to the top of the CAL Desert Combat ladder multiple seasons by a 12 year old boy whose voice was changing, with an 80 year old college professor on point in a tank, 3 married guys offering close air support, and 6 high-school/college guys for infantry support.
I've seen the drama surrounding the romantic involvement of an 40 year old female alliance leader with a 45 year old married male clan leader in Lineage II throw a pall over the alliance's community.
I've seen a 30 year old wildly successful Hong Kong commodities trader become so obsessed with an MMO that eventually, after losing millions of Prudential's dollars and almost his wife, he cried his way out of the game's politics and came back a year later as a fulltime pit boss for a gold-farming operation.
I'm currently listening to the alliance radio show of a 40 year old ex-con that with a southern twang that you can barely hear over the gravel in his baritone, wherein he's discussing which rolling paper is best and methods of oral sex to use on his wife, who also plays Eve online, and will be back in a few weeks. Meanwhile, I'm responding to a mother that finds his content objectionable, and discussing internet libertarianism and the expectation of free speech (innocence be damned) that prevails in online chat.
Whether your character is male or female is a purely personal matter of aesthetics, and how much you feel like role playing: None, and it could go either way (my circumstance, I pick whatever fits a cool name I find that hasn't been taken). A little bit, and you're probably going to put yourself in the place of your character and associate their gender with yourself. A lot, and we're back to it going either way - someone who feels comfortable walking a mile in stilletto mocassins is going to go ahead and do it regardless of their gender.
Or if you want it really high, think about something like this:
http://compositetower.com/index.html
Light enough that it's not going to destroy your house if it falls down.
While an mp3 or video decoder license mentioned might be inappropriate for Ubuntu The Free OS in its basic form, Dell has a responsibility to package it with Ubuntu The OEM Desktop, and if need be, pay for it.
If the tubes are pressurized fluid fuel, then they will equalize perfectly well, gravity or no gravity.
Whatever responsibility the employee had internally, it had the effect of causing the company to steal money. You go after the company for stealing money, the company can do whatever it wants with the employee, including criminal negligence.
A few class action suits with serious punitive penalties assessed on the retailer advertising the lower price (in retailer-created rebates) would not be out of turn here.
Hydropower is an on-demand resource. You can spin up a turbine in seconds. If you're not using the peak power, it builds up in a lake. Pumped hydro, flow batteries, and molten salt batteries are on-demand energy storage as well. Charge them up when you're short on demand, discharge them when demand peaks.
When you incorporate storage, diversify the power production into different types and locations of renewables (the wind does blow at night), and you throw in low-efficiency intergrid trading of power, it's entirely possible to use distributed power generation productively. None of those things are done on a large enough scale right now - net metering is currently just a huge headache for power engineers, brought on by PR departments and Congress, and a net drain on efficiency. But things are changing, and will continue to change with the continued advancements in sustainable technology and the continued rise of the green political movement, which (while certainly a strong force in Europe now) will be piercing the US' collective consciousness and actually translate into changing our behavior, sometime in the next two or three years.
It's a false comparison.
The problem with segway wasn't that the difficult-to-imagine technology didn't work, the problem was that the hypesters claimed that a stand-up 10mph scooter would revolutionize the transportation industry.
If EEstor's difficult-to-imagine technology does work with the stats they've gave us, there's no question that it will revolutionize at least a narrow part of the transportation industry. With its absurd power and charge, and its better-than-lithium claimed energy density, it would make serial hybrids the order of the day. Right now, you can only really utilize regnerative braking by either adding on tens of thousands of dollars (and hundreds of kilograms) in batteries for a plug-in hybrid or EV, or add on tens of thousands of dollars and hundreds of kilograms for current supercaps as a side-system in your serial hybrid.
Full-on regen braking at light weight and low cost would lift low-speed stop-start mileage drastically, make serial hybrids a standard choice, bring lightweight electric bikes into vogue, and loads of other things.
Most chem/phys geeks that I've read believe this isn't going to work, but EEstor is frustratingly persistent for a pump-and-dump scheme.
A meme is born.
A good portion of us don't want to do illegal things with it. We want to be able to PLAY the HD content we pay for on whatever display device we so choose, not muck about with attempting to store it.
There are devices that one can buy, but shelling out an extra $300 just to be able to enjoy cable TV that we're renting a box for, on the DIY 1080p projector we designed a controller for (but couldn't afford $10k for an HDCP license for), is ridiculous.
There are plenty of non-HDCP-compliant set owners out there that have a reason to buy a highly illegal device, that would be judged legitimate even by someone so far down the spectrum of copyright ideology that they believe DVRs aren't covered under fair use. This is wrong. A mobster burning down my home is just as wrong as having to pay another mobster to keep my home from being burned down.
I want an easy crack on sourceforge, and I want it years ago.
There are plenty of nonviolent offenses that require jail time as a deterrent. Perjury is one.
We wouldn't have any problems with jail capacity if we took two seconds of our time to reconsider our drug policies, minus moral crusades manufactured to turn a vague Puritan urge to deny pleasurable experiences into election victories. They are damaging a large portion of our society, and the tens of billions of dollars that we would save directly could go into actually catching criminals who hurt other people, whether with guns or by breaking oaths, whether of truth or secrecy; Not to mention perhaps attempting to help those who found themselves vulnerable to dangerous addictions.
This is the Dubya NSA/CIA/ETC - the career spies that weren't willing to shut up and follow orders are gone. Machiavellian ambition matched only by incompetence: That's what you're dealing with.
The Cold Warriors weren't stupid. They were seeking heavily guarded secrets about the machinations of a superpower. The stakes were, officially, the fate of freedom itself, not a building here or there. The best and the brightest. Those who never succeeded against an intelligent adversary were fired, or for the real spying, killed. But tell me that someone who 'fails to catch a terrorist plot' by attempting to find suspicious brown people is going to face any real accountability, ever. This war needs no victory, because defeat is impossible. It wouldn't really matter if the Directorate was increasingly brazen in deciding who to assassinate(which we do, officially, do now), because even on an agency level, they really can't lose face until 2009, no matter how often they fail. There will always be targets, and so there will always be work, and so they will always be heroes defending our safety. This is the culture of the War on Terror.
We the nation kidnap people around the world and torture them,
And then WE THE PEOPLE find out about it, through these monsters' incompetence - resulting in a medium-sized PR war between those that believe in human rights and those who don't, that's eventually lost because Mat Lauer needs an exclusive next week, no matter how much NBC News has to suck up to the administration. Then, the fact that we kidnap and torture people becomes passe, becomes something that people occasionally bitch about, but essentially accept.
What makes you think a domestic assassination would be any different?
I say this as someone normally allergic to tinhattery: Never put anything past these people. They will always surprise you with yet another step towards totalitarian fascism, something unthinkable yesterday, which will be mildly distasteful tomorrow.
That appears to be a cave cricket, family Rhaphidophoridae.
They do not weave webs, that I am aware of, and the particular species that infests my house do not chirp. Furthermore, they move very differently from most large spiders - they rarely move more than a foot without hopping at least some, and they can hop about two feet maximum. In a somewhat interesting(in an evolutionary sense) instinct, they often hop towards motion, which combined with their tendency to lie completely still afterward, presumably throws off cave predators better than hopping away.