Foreign governments already know all of this information.
Does Julian Assange have an intelligence operation that is better funded and operated than the CIA, whatever the KGB calls itself these days - even Turkish Intelligence?
Of course not. All of these countries have intelligence agencies superior to Wikileaks and therefore already know all of this. And they all KNOW that they all know.
That's not what they are concerned about. The reason the CIA and these other agencies keep these secrets, in fact generally in an unspoken collusion, is because the main reason for a government classifying information these days is to hide it from ITS OWN CITIZENS.
Use a weather balloon to lift a weather balloon to the edge of space, then have the weather balloon release the weather balloon and then...... uh, go to the pub and have a Bass Ale.
Finally, UK TV might dump all those brain-dead quiz shows where people "know things" and that David Attaboy or whatever and his animal sex preoccupation and move towards more proper explosion-based documentaries like we have in the US.
And the news? Good grief - I watched UK news and the whole time it was just people talking about facts and things. There wasn't a SINGLE ARGUMENT or fight during the entire show. What the hell kind of news reporting is that?
You know what? You wouldn't have batted an eyelash if he had used the same exact depictions but it was supposed to be taking place at a Walmart in Lubbock, not somewhere in Asia.
Why? The difference is that if placed in Walmart in Lubbock, it would have clearly been meant to have been judged as satire and not as a depiction of reality.
Whereas when placed in Asia, it is clearly meant to be judged as satire and not an actual depiction of reality - but the satire is missed by those blinded by a defensive reflex to whine about anything related to a place they have feelings of insecurity, self-consciousness, nationalism or racial pride in.
(Actually in the Lubbock example there would be a few whining idiots from TX complaining that "Lubbock isn't really like that!" but we've learned not give people like that the time of day.
In my experience, most people love nothing more than to complain and complain.
I can't fucking stand people for that reason, and many others which I don't go into here, I don't want to go off on a rant. But like car subwoofers, for example...
Yeah, I know you haven't, I was referring more to the "yous" out there who were taking a different opinion than yours, which I was going:one step further" than. Inartfully worded, my apologies.
I'll take it a step further. if the names named are US servicemembers, and details of their exploits infuriate civilians, or encourage their enemies, and civilians or the US's enemies use the data and kill them... I DON'T FUCKING CARE.
Assange has NO requirement of loyalty to either side in the conflict. If Assange got information on the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden and published it, and US used it to kill him, would you complain?
Of course not.
Because you've bought into the lie that the US is the "good guys" and the Taliban are the "bad guys." Assange has no duty to buy into the "US #1 !!!" hype. He can present reality and let both sides deal with the consequences of their actions.
The truth is, there ARE NO GOOD GUYS, and if you need a bad guy, both sides qualify. The Taliban qualifies because they're theocratic sexist murdering thugs who want to take their country back into the dark ages.
The US is also the bad guy because they are murdering thugs who CREATED THE TALIBAN IN THE FIRST PLACE as a useful tool. NOT to spread freedom and democracy, NOT to "nation build," but rather as a short-sighted (and now clearly bad) tactic in a continuing grab to control everything. To "advance US interests" which has nothing to do with freedom, and everything to do with hoarding resources, being the biggest and baddest power, and protecting our wealthiest classes' sources of income.
And so we have been the ENEMY of freedom repeatedly, toppling stable governments, overthrowing DEMOCRACIES to install dictators, all at the behest of fruit companies, oil companies, whoever else, etc.
We are BOTH bad guys fighting each other, and if anything the Taliban is less of a problem because they only want to turn their OWN region into a shithole, and are just trying to get us to leave the area, whereas we are trying to run the world.
I say all of this as a person who has several relatives who are military, who have fought over there. They bought the lie, they signed on to be a pawn for the imperialistic death machine, and if they get killed it's their own damned fault.
Or, maybe it's because it that consumers, whether through intelligence or the current economy, are no longer buying into the "you have to repurchase everything you own every 4 to 5 years and get the latest format" scheme.
So, you invented Illudium Pu-36 and get a 20 year patent. You spend ten years defending that patent, and get very little out of it because you're too small to get good licensing deals, too small to effectively fight off infringers, etc.
Meanwhile, they after a few years patent every concievable use of it. You're boxed in now. You can spend all your time fighting them. Some of their patents are very obvious, others have prior art, but you have to prove that in court and you can't afford to.
Your patent expires. They still have years left on theirs and make a billion. Meanwhile they are creating new slight variations of every patent to effectively REpatent the same shit. Most get through because patent examiners are clueless, and nobody wants to fight them in court.
You know what really pisses me off? I have all of these video games on my computer, and when I press the space bar, my on-screen character doesn't type a space at all. In fact, it usually fires a weapon of some kind.
This is totally unacceptable. A space bar should be a space bar! If not, you're confusing me!
(In fact, I got so used to the video games that one day when I got an email from my boss that infuriated me, that was the last straw, I tried to respond by using my keyboard to jump onto my desk, dash across the room, blast a hole in his office door and blow his head off. Instead I accidentally ended up typing an email response. When will this madness end? SOMEONE needs to control these things!)
And even if you don't want to do it at the airport, easy enough to have someone at the airport call you to know when your selected flight takes off, and maybe a couple of other spotters along the way.
And all of this presumes that if you're a terrorist who wants to shoot an airliner out of the sky, you have a particular desire to choose a specific plane. There may be reasons to do that, but you can terrify people just as well if not better by simply choosing a known flight path and choosing randomly.
Why was the plane targeted? NOBODY KNOWS! YOU COULD BE NEXT!
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If it is available, accessible to Wikileaks, then others already have it. Period.
Foreign governments already know all of this information.
Does Julian Assange have an intelligence operation that is better funded and operated than the CIA, whatever the KGB calls itself these days - even Turkish Intelligence?
Of course not. All of these countries have intelligence agencies superior to Wikileaks and therefore already know all of this. And they all KNOW that they all know.
That's not what they are concerned about.
The reason the CIA and these other agencies keep these secrets, in fact generally in an unspoken collusion, is because the main reason for a government classifying information these days is to hide it from ITS OWN CITIZENS.
Terror on planes is extremely rare.
A cross-country ride on a Greyhound, on the other hand, is by definition always terror.
Lol, I personally was thinking of opting out of the scanning and then just making little moans and "oh yeah baby, that's it" sounds as I was groped.
Make the TSA fuckers afraid to do the groping. I think that's the key to end this. EVERYONE demand a pat down, and then "enjoy" it loudly.
The procedure would be abandoned within the week.
"Oh yeah man, Mr TSA agent, I can tell you've had experience... you're so much better than the others..."
(I'm counting on a hope that fat authoritarian cheeto-eating post office rejects at the TSA are also homophobes.)
We have naught to dread but dread itself.
Who says the two are mutually exclusive?
..is take this technique meta.
Use a weather balloon to lift a weather balloon to the edge of space, then have the weather balloon release the weather balloon and then... ... uh, go to the pub and have a Bass Ale.
Hell, even R&D companies don't have R&D Departments anymore.
Remember Bell Labs? Didn't IBM recently ditch a lot of R&D? Etc.
Finally, UK TV might dump all those brain-dead quiz shows where people "know things" and that David Attaboy or whatever and his animal sex preoccupation and move towards more proper explosion-based documentaries like we have in the US.
And the news? Good grief - I watched UK news and the whole time it was just people talking about facts and things. There wasn't a SINGLE ARGUMENT or fight during the entire show. What the hell kind of news reporting is that?
Not to mention it was originally only supposed to temporarily prohibit violating the monopoly FOR PROFIT.
You know what?
You wouldn't have batted an eyelash if he had used the same exact depictions but it was supposed to be taking place at a Walmart in Lubbock, not somewhere in Asia.
Why? The difference is that if placed in Walmart in Lubbock, it would have clearly been meant to have been judged as satire and not as a depiction of reality.
Whereas when placed in Asia, it is clearly meant to be judged as satire and not an actual depiction of reality - but the satire is missed by those blinded by a defensive reflex to whine about anything related to a place they have feelings of insecurity, self-consciousness, nationalism or racial pride in.
(Actually in the Lubbock example there would be a few whining idiots from TX complaining that "Lubbock isn't really like that!" but we've learned not give people like that the time of day.
But why we ARE more productive? How is productivity measured?
Not from the employee's point of view, but from the employer's.
If you are the most productive worker from the employer's point of view, you are LESS productive for yourself.
Most productive means least well compensated for the value you produce.
In my experience, most people love nothing more than to complain and complain.
I can't fucking stand people for that reason, and many others which I don't go into here, I don't want to go off on a rant. But like car subwoofers, for example...
And why should a NON-US citizen give a flying fuck if releasing the truth hurts the US position?
Yeah, I know you haven't, I was referring more to the "yous" out there who were taking a different opinion than yours, which I was going :one step further" than.
Inartfully worded, my apologies.
I'll take it a step further. if the names named are US servicemembers, and details of their exploits infuriate civilians, or encourage their enemies, and civilians or the US's enemies use the data and kill them...
I DON'T FUCKING CARE.
Assange has NO requirement of loyalty to either side in the conflict. If Assange got information on the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden and published it, and US used it to kill him, would you complain?
Of course not.
Because you've bought into the lie that the US is the "good guys" and the Taliban are the "bad guys." Assange has no duty to buy into the "US #1 !!!" hype. He can present reality and let both sides deal with the consequences of their actions.
The truth is, there ARE NO GOOD GUYS, and if you need a bad guy, both sides qualify. The Taliban qualifies because they're theocratic sexist murdering thugs who want to take their country back into the dark ages.
The US is also the bad guy because they are murdering thugs who CREATED THE TALIBAN IN THE FIRST PLACE as a useful tool. NOT to spread freedom and democracy, NOT to "nation build," but rather as a short-sighted (and now clearly bad) tactic in a continuing grab to control everything. To "advance US interests" which has nothing to do with freedom, and everything to do with hoarding resources, being the biggest and baddest power, and protecting our wealthiest classes' sources of income.
And so we have been the ENEMY of freedom repeatedly, toppling stable governments, overthrowing DEMOCRACIES to install dictators, all at the behest of fruit companies, oil companies, whoever else, etc.
We are BOTH bad guys fighting each other, and if anything the Taliban is less of a problem because they only want to turn their OWN region into a shithole, and are just trying to get us to leave the area, whereas we are trying to run the world.
I say all of this as a person who has several relatives who are military, who have fought over there. They bought the lie, they signed on to be a pawn for the imperialistic death machine, and if they get killed it's their own damned fault.
Or, maybe it's because it that consumers, whether through intelligence or the current economy, are no longer buying into the "you have to repurchase everything you own every 4 to 5 years and get the latest format" scheme.
They used to say that about copyrights.
So, you invented Illudium Pu-36 and get a 20 year patent.
You spend ten years defending that patent, and get very little out of it because you're too small to get good licensing deals, too small to effectively fight off infringers, etc.
Meanwhile, they after a few years patent every concievable use of it. You're boxed in now. You can spend all your time fighting them. Some of their patents are very obvious, others have prior art, but you have to prove that in court and you can't afford to.
Your patent expires. They still have years left on theirs and make a billion. Meanwhile they are creating new slight variations of every patent to effectively REpatent the same shit. Most get through because patent examiners are clueless, and nobody wants to fight them in court.
Rinse, repeat.
and often when they do do something.
<appalachia>The hell you talkin' about?!?!?!</appalachia>
"Yes, even Apple users."
I'm not so sure. They're the ones always saying that it's not appropriate.
You know what really pisses me off? I have all of these video games on my computer, and when I press the space bar, my on-screen character doesn't type a space at all. In fact, it usually fires a weapon of some kind.
This is totally unacceptable. A space bar should be a space bar! If not, you're confusing me!
(In fact, I got so used to the video games that one day when I got an email from my boss that infuriated me, that was the last straw, I tried to respond by using my keyboard to jump onto my desk, dash across the room, blast a hole in his office door and blow his head off. Instead I accidentally ended up typing an email response. When will this madness end? SOMEONE needs to control these things!)
And even if you don't want to do it at the airport, easy enough to have someone at the airport call you to know when your selected flight takes off, and maybe a couple of other spotters along the way.
And all of this presumes that if you're a terrorist who wants to shoot an airliner out of the sky, you have a particular desire to choose a specific plane. There may be reasons to do that, but you can terrify people just as well if not better by simply choosing a known flight path and choosing randomly.
Why was the plane targeted? NOBODY KNOWS! YOU COULD BE NEXT!
BOO!
Makes me wonder if there's room for an Auschwitz Guard role playing game.
Death Camp Tycoon?
I am honestly wondering if it might actually be possible to create a compelling (and of course controversial) work of art around that concept.
I actually think it might be possible. Some of the best art totally fucks with people's heads. Inspiring outrage can be a valid artistic goal.