Right, but to me the disconnect appears to be the unwillingness to accept that this information is now in the public domain. I'm not sure what's gained, other than a false sense of control, by requiring your employees to stick their heads in the sand. This will drive intelligent people away from service to their country.
((as far as the "Collateral Murder" video is concerned, I'd agree that editing information should fall outside WikiLeaks' purview. I would argue, however, that allowing this to detract from the core concept of the organization is quite a red herring.))
Have they passed on a rationale for this behavior? It seems weird that a defense organization would voluntarily handicap their employees in this manner.
"Don't you go reading the information your opponents, and everyone else in the world, have free access to."
Actually, it seems insane. They're basically stating that the protocols in place to protect the intelligence organization are more important than the intelligence organization itself. That's some seriously Orwellian shit right there.
My point was just that essentially everything, even in a well designed and rigorous K-12 curriculum, is highly reductive or false.
I have drawn the conclusion that the fact of human-alien contact at this time is probably the least understood and least recognized major force that will shape the future of the human species during the twenty-first century and beyond. I do believe that not only are we being impacted by alien intelligence at this time, I believe we have probably been impacted throughout the entire history of human culture.
I do think that eventually we will understand that our relationship with beings from other worlds or other "zones of reality" goes back to the very beginning of our sense of time. I think that’s going to be one of the most extraordinary and perhaps devastating discoveries in all of human history. We will discover that practically everything we know is wrong, that actually reality is a lot more amazing than we thought.
1) the myth doesn't revolve around a bullet fired straight into the air, just into the air, since
2) it would be impossible as a matter of practice for anyone to actually fire a bullet straight up without mechanical assistance
which is exactly what they had. Measuring the terminal velocity of a falling bullet was a pointless exercise since it's a situation that would never actually occur except in a lab. Or, I guess, if you dropped the bullet off the Empire State Building =p
Right, but you're missing my point entirely. They were testing the "myth" that a bullet fired into the air could come down with enough force to kill someone. They tested this by simulating a bullet being fired and returning straight up and down.
- They're changing the myth to suit their experiment, not basing their experiment on the myth
- They're ignoring the body of preexisting documented evidence
What they really tested was the "penny dropped off the Empire State building" myth, which I think they covered before?
They're kind of hit-and-miss in the science department. The most glaring example to me was their "can a bullet fired into the air come down with enough force to kill" episode.
I think they briefly mentioned at the end that there was something called a ballistic trajectory that might influence things. And that there had been several recorded cases of bullets coming down with enough force to kill someone.
The Nobel Peace Prize means absolutely nothing now. It was blatantly given to someone who had not earned it and did not deserve it, and that person is Barack Obama.
Are you kidding? He won the award chiefly for not being George Bush. In fact, you could go a bit further and think of the medal as being awarded to the American public for electing a sane adult for a change (please don't tell me that GWB was the absolute brightest mind the conservatives had to work with).
Oh and if you don't like it why not invent your own explosive compound and then react in horror to the destruction it causes by establishing your own peace prize.
What's that? You can't? Well, maybe your tears are volatile.
if your idea of programming is "editing" a couple of "scripts", then you're not a programmer.
This little religious war gets trotted out every few months, and it always devolves into one final comment to the effect that if you're not using a sewing needle and a lodestone to flip the ones and zeroes manually then you're an effete momma's boy.
Wanting something to be harder than it needs to be doesn't make you a professional or a "true" anything, it makes you a masochist.
The problem is that, on one side, Palin is a walking, talking stereotype of how the left views the right, and on the other side every redneck with MILF fantasies wants to nail her.
I actually feel sorry for her. Were we better people she would have quietly sunk to an anonymous level of middle management that matched her talents a long time ago.
I'm just an artist so I am unsure how hard it is to code, but this is the only web site I visit that consistently displays wrong in IE, Firefox, AND Opera. Nerds need to fix shit.
It's not that difficult, but programming tends to attract people who can focus intently on one thing to the detriment of everything else. It's actually something of a requirement for certain projects. Unfortunately this almost always leads to tunnel vision and loss of the "big picture", which is what you're seeing here. Someone is working out a cool or novel approach (at least in their view) and doesn't have the perspective or management to ask if it is, in fact, working.
It seems like any technologically developing country with a large internal market (HINT: INDIA) would be the death of the Western R&D business model sooner rather than later.
We've got a nice little ball of patents acting like the Tar Baby (look it up, kids), enveloping all who dare approach. The "success" of this model, however, depends on everyone agreeing to the same set of rules. The first time an American doctor tells a patient "They can cure that in Asia" will be the signal to dump every single one of your stocks.
Even at a very young age I realized that boxing was a far more practical and effective discipline.
It seems to me that the "effectiveness" of any martial art has everything to do with the particular instructor's point of view. Some emphasize the "martial" more than the "art", and vice versa. The most striking example of this for me was a fencing class I took years ago where the instructor devoted half of each class to what was basically dirty street fighting with a rapier. Useless in a practical sense, and entirely contrary to the spirit of the sport, but it was exactly as much fun as it sounds.
I think you could just say that Fundamentalists are outbreeding rationalists and be correct for any population on earth.
We need to wake up and realize that religious fundamentalism of every stripe is the root cause of most of the world's problems, and then effectively deal with it.
You're right, FOSS types never sue anyone for violating a license.
That was the opposite of what I was trying to get across. The BSA increases the visibility of license compliance as a serious issue (a good thing for FOSS), while being total thugs about it (also a good thing for FOSS). It's win/win.
No, FOSS types love the BSA. Not only are they "vigorous" in promoting license compliance, but they're a walking billboard for the pitfalls of closed source/proprietary software.
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For "heading south" read "starting to think for themselves."
I know it's a reality, but that doesn't make it logical.
In a perfectly logical reality we would be (at our kindest) sterilizing people incapable of empathy.
((please imagine a significant look delivered at you over lowered eyeglasses. Maybe a slightly raised eyebrow.))
Would you mind stopping that noise?
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riv: 47 EE 74 54 E4 77 4C C9 B8 96 0C 7B 59 F4 C1 4D
pub: C2 D4 AA F3 19 35 50 19 AF 99 D4 4E 2B 58 CA 29 25 2C 89 12 3D 11 D6 21 8F 40 B1 38 CA B2 9B 71 01 F3 AE B7 2A 97 50 19
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n: E1 3A 7E BC 3A CC EB 1C B5 6C C8 60 FC AB DB 6A 04 8C 55 E1
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Is that you, Mrs. Streisand?
Right, but to me the disconnect appears to be the unwillingness to accept that this information is now in the public domain. I'm not sure what's gained, other than a false sense of control, by requiring your employees to stick their heads in the sand. This will drive intelligent people away from service to their country.
((as far as the "Collateral Murder" video is concerned, I'd agree that editing information should fall outside WikiLeaks' purview. I would argue, however, that allowing this to detract from the core concept of the organization is quite a red herring.))
Have they passed on a rationale for this behavior? It seems weird that a defense organization would voluntarily handicap their employees in this manner.
"Don't you go reading the information your opponents, and everyone else in the world, have free access to."
Actually, it seems insane. They're basically stating that the protocols in place to protect the intelligence organization are more important than the intelligence organization itself. That's some seriously Orwellian shit right there.
Is that line from him? I'll be damned if I can find an attribution anywhere.
My point was just that essentially everything, even in a well designed and rigorous K-12 curriculum, is highly reductive or false.
I have drawn the conclusion that the fact of human-alien contact at this time is probably the least understood and least recognized major force that will shape the future of the human species during the twenty-first century and beyond. I do believe that not only are we being impacted by alien intelligence at this time, I believe we have probably been impacted throughout the entire history of human culture.
I do think that eventually we will understand that our relationship with beings from other worlds or other "zones of reality" goes back to the very beginning of our sense of time. I think that’s going to be one of the most extraordinary and perhaps devastating discoveries in all of human history. We will discover that practically everything we know is wrong, that actually reality is a lot more amazing than we thought.
For one thing, science is hard.
I think the term "relentlessly tedious" might be a better description.
Right, but you aren't getting that
1) the myth doesn't revolve around a bullet fired straight into the air, just into the air, since
2) it would be impossible as a matter of practice for anyone to actually fire a bullet straight up without mechanical assistance
which is exactly what they had. Measuring the terminal velocity of a falling bullet was a pointless exercise since it's a situation that would never actually occur except in a lab. Or, I guess, if you dropped the bullet off the Empire State Building =p
Right, but you're missing my point entirely. They were testing the "myth" that a bullet fired into the air could come down with enough force to kill someone. They tested this by simulating a bullet being fired and returning straight up and down.
- They're changing the myth to suit their experiment, not basing their experiment on the myth
- They're ignoring the body of preexisting documented evidence
What they really tested was the "penny dropped off the Empire State building" myth, which I think they covered before?
They're kind of hit-and-miss in the science department. The most glaring example to me was their "can a bullet fired into the air come down with enough force to kill" episode.
I think they briefly mentioned at the end that there was something called a ballistic trajectory that might influence things. And that there had been several recorded cases of bullets coming down with enough force to kill someone.
wtf guys?
The Nobel Peace Prize means absolutely nothing now. It was blatantly given to someone who had not earned it and did not deserve it, and that person is Barack Obama.
Are you kidding? He won the award chiefly for not being George Bush. In fact, you could go a bit further and think of the medal as being awarded to the American public for electing a sane adult for a change (please don't tell me that GWB was the absolute brightest mind the conservatives had to work with).
Oh and if you don't like it why not invent your own explosive compound and then react in horror to the destruction it causes by establishing your own peace prize.
What's that? You can't? Well, maybe your tears are volatile.
I had to learn COBOL in order to keep your paychecks coming in, but I'm not proud of it.
if your idea of programming is "editing" a couple of "scripts", then you're not a programmer.
This little religious war gets trotted out every few months, and it always devolves into one final comment to the effect that if you're not using a sewing needle and a lodestone to flip the ones and zeroes manually then you're an effete momma's boy.
Wanting something to be harder than it needs to be doesn't make you a professional or a "true" anything, it makes you a masochist.
The problem is that, on one side, Palin is a walking, talking stereotype of how the left views the right, and on the other side every redneck with MILF fantasies wants to nail her.
I actually feel sorry for her. Were we better people she would have quietly sunk to an anonymous level of middle management that matched her talents a long time ago.
I'm just an artist so I am unsure how hard it is to code, but this is the only web site I visit that consistently displays wrong in IE, Firefox, AND Opera. Nerds need to fix shit.
It's not that difficult, but programming tends to attract people who can focus intently on one thing to the detriment of everything else. It's actually something of a requirement for certain projects. Unfortunately this almost always leads to tunnel vision and loss of the "big picture", which is what you're seeing here. Someone is working out a cool or novel approach (at least in their view) and doesn't have the perspective or management to ask if it is, in fact, working.
It seems like any technologically developing country with a large internal market (HINT: INDIA) would be the death of the Western R&D business model sooner rather than later.
We've got a nice little ball of patents acting like the Tar Baby (look it up, kids), enveloping all who dare approach. The "success" of this model, however, depends on everyone agreeing to the same set of rules. The first time an American doctor tells a patient "They can cure that in Asia" will be the signal to dump every single one of your stocks.
They do have Al-Jazeera, which everyone in the West supports as a bastion of free speech in an otherwise despotic corner of the world RIGHT GUYS?
Even at a very young age I realized that boxing was a far more practical and effective discipline.
It seems to me that the "effectiveness" of any martial art has everything to do with the particular instructor's point of view. Some emphasize the "martial" more than the "art", and vice versa. The most striking example of this for me was a fencing class I took years ago where the instructor devoted half of each class to what was basically dirty street fighting with a rapier. Useless in a practical sense, and entirely contrary to the spirit of the sport, but it was exactly as much fun as it sounds.
They will find those responsible and kill them. Or find a group of people that are likely responsible and kill them.
Or find a group of people they'd like to be responsible and kill them.
I think you could just say that Fundamentalists are outbreeding rationalists and be correct for any population on earth.
We need to wake up and realize that religious fundamentalism of every stripe is the root cause of most of the world's problems, and then effectively deal with it.
You're right, FOSS types never sue anyone for violating a license.
That was the opposite of what I was trying to get across. The BSA increases the visibility of license compliance as a serious issue (a good thing for FOSS), while being total thugs about it (also a good thing for FOSS). It's win/win.
No, FOSS types love the BSA. Not only are they "vigorous" in promoting license compliance, but they're a walking billboard for the pitfalls of closed source/proprietary software.
Except that tasks become increasingly difficult the more nerds you throw at them, not less. 500 engineers makes a project harder than 200.