US prosecutes Chinese Generals and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commanders on the slimmest, "guilt by implication and association" pretexts.
No, the USA "brings charges against" these guys. "Prosecution" requires a trial before a Judge and Jury. Which in turns requires a defendant who is PRESENT for the trial. We have no legal provision for Trial in Absentia in the USA (hence Kerry saying Snowden should "come back to the US to stand trial").
whatever they understood about SIGINT, the Nazis were pwned [wikipedia.org] by the English-speaking world
The Nazis had, at best, a limited grasp on SIGINT. They came up with a world-class solution, then stopped development, since their then-current ideas were so perfect noone would be able to crack them.
Someone should have explained to them that signals security is an ongoing process, not an idea....
Well, apparently the Germans figured out that the spying wasn't "discovered", so much as "leaked by Snowden".
Alas, without names, dates, actual evidence, it's pretty hard to turn "Snowden said..." into actual prosecution and prison sentences and all that.
Especially if it turns out that the guilty parties are in the USA, and have been the whole time. Do you REALLY think we're going to extradite our intelligence analysts to Germany to stand trial?
"technically a nearby gamma ray burst would fry just half the planet. with any luck it would be antarctica or somewhere similar."
I think the andromeda galaxy is visible from more than just the polar regions, so it could fry whatever side of the planet is facing it at the time.
The phrase "a nearby gamma ray burst" does not actually imply "the andromeda galaxy", even though this particular (non-)event originated in Andromeda (well, actually this non-event originated in a computer on Earth, since it appears to be a misinterpretation of data, not an actual event).
Note also that "with any luck it would be antarctica" does not disagree with "it could fry whatever side of the planet is facing it at the time'....
or that a person is ethical while not subscribing at the very least to the basic, most fundamental human rights.
I'm curious. What, exactly, are the "basic, most fundamental human rights"?
And what is ethical about each of them?
Also, do you think that Christianity had anything to do with your list of "basic, fundamental human rights"? If so, do you concede the possibility that people who grew up in Muslim/Hindu/Taoist societies might define "basic, most fundamental human rights" differently than you? If not, why do you believe that these "basic, fundamental human rights" are universal in nature, but NOT recognized the world over as "basic, fundamental human rights"?
Do you believe that different people might think different things are ethical?
The google car without manual controls doesn't have a way for you to tell it to stop moving at any point. As reported (though perhaps incorrectly) there is only a start and stop button
You don't suppose, do you, that the "Stop button" you mentioned might not be a way to tell the car to, well, "stop moving at any point", do you?
you will find if you talk to citizens of other countries, like Germany and Canada and France, that they also care about these issues, and care that the NSA, GCHQ and others have spied on them.
Just curious, did any of those citizens of other countries say that it was wrong for THEIR country's intelligence agencies to spy on people from other countries?
or convincing you to willingly give up private information
You seem unaware that if you volunteer your private information to the interwebs, it becomes public.
IOW, if you don't like Facebook, don't use it. Noone is making you start a Facebook page (well, I should qualify that: noone has ever tried to force ME to make a Facebook page. Maybe I'm special, and the rest of you lot are held at gunpoint until you have your Facebook page set up).
Hmm, as I recall China managed ~100 million since WW2. Which makes it number one of all time, I think. The USSR was number 2, the Germans (in ww2) were number 3, we may be number 4 (though there's a strong case to be made for Vietnam, and a weaker one for North Korea).
Regardless of my actual ethnicity or religion, if my last name ended in...berg I wouldn't go anywhere near Iran.
The Iranians have problems with German names?
Hint: "berg" is German for "hill" (as opposed to "burg" which is German for "city"). Any association you might have between Judaism and "berg" is really an association between Germans and "berg".
It's not like the guy sitting in the seat is the actual "driver" of an autonomous car.
And it's not like anyone is actually required to sit in that seat.
Note that if an "autonomous car" that requires someone to sit in the driver's seat and pay attention, you might as well not bother making it autonomous. If I have to pay as much attention as if I were the real driver, I might as well drive it myself, since the act of driving at least helps me keep my attention on the traffic.
He's only worth more to me alive if he knows that *I* am worth more to him alive.
When I was hunting in the Frontiers of Dark Age of Camelot (lo! these many years ago), there were a few people like that. But not many, even on my own side....
As an analogy, what would happen to a company that after years of design and testing released A FLYING CAR!!!! But play down the fact that this car could only perform vertical flight limited to 6 feet high whilst in your own driveway, solely to facilitate under car maintenance? Sure it flies, and it is useful, but it don't quite meet all those expectations.
Bad analogy. Noone would market a car as a "flying car" is the only flight it could do is lift up enough to make it easier to change the oil.
Given that this idiot was still stewing over not getting to go on a carnival ride with his friends 16 years after the fact (apparently, the little shit was too short to meet the minimum height requirement - you remember those "you must be this tall to ride this ride" signs), I can well believe he came across as a whackjob.
So, the six people who died in Santa Barbara were targeted because they shit on Rodger? I don't think so.
/agree. What's really sad is that this pathetic dude managed to pretty much fail even at executing his revenge on the world.
1) the successful part - he knifed his roommates. Why he disliked his roommates is not clear, since he didn't actually have to room with anyone, much less people he disliked.
2) Go to Alpha Phi and start killing the sorority babes. Alas, the Alpha Phi's didn't notice him knocking on the door, so they never opened it up so he could kill them all.
So, 3) kill random people till the SWAT team ended it. He killed a couple of girls (not Alpha Phi's), then he killed some kid. Ran into a few people (with his car), wounded others (with his gun), generally made an ass of himself.
Then shot himself....
So, his master plan, in the end, led him to kill his roommates and then shoot people at random, because the people he really wanted to kill didn't even notice him going on a shooting spree till it was over....
Then there was the NASA committee that concluded that an orbiting x-ray telescope would be of little value. This delayed the eventual launch of the first x-ray telescope by half a decade
Who cares??? We slowed something down by a whole FIVE YEARS! It's not like this encompassed someone's entire career or anything. Or even most of someone's career.
Well, except for the guy who got run over by a truck during the five year delay. His career was pretty much ruined. Of course, being run over by a truck pretty much ruins your career even if there is an X-Ray telescope already in operation....
ethanol releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that was taken out of the atmosphere to grow the crop that led to the ethanol. There is no net increase of CO2, as there is with fossil fuels.
So, how much fossil fuel is used to grow & harvest the corn? And then there's the whole "distill it" part. Not sure how much energy is used to distill corn liquor as opposed to gasoline....
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No, the USA "brings charges against" these guys. "Prosecution" requires a trial before a Judge and Jury. Which in turns requires a defendant who is PRESENT for the trial. We have no legal provision for Trial in Absentia in the USA (hence Kerry saying Snowden should "come back to the US to stand trial").
The Nazis had, at best, a limited grasp on SIGINT. They came up with a world-class solution, then stopped development, since their then-current ideas were so perfect noone would be able to crack them.
Someone should have explained to them that signals security is an ongoing process, not an idea....
No, they don't really want "legal recourse". They want revenge. Punish those guys! What, they didn't do anything illegal? Tough! Punish them anyway!!!
Well, apparently the Germans figured out that the spying wasn't "discovered", so much as "leaked by Snowden".
Alas, without names, dates, actual evidence, it's pretty hard to turn "Snowden said..." into actual prosecution and prison sentences and all that.
Especially if it turns out that the guilty parties are in the USA, and have been the whole time. Do you REALLY think we're going to extradite our intelligence analysts to Germany to stand trial?
The phrase "a nearby gamma ray burst" does not actually imply "the andromeda galaxy", even though this particular (non-)event originated in Andromeda (well, actually this non-event originated in a computer on Earth, since it appears to be a misinterpretation of data, not an actual event).
Note also that "with any luck it would be antarctica" does not disagree with "it could fry whatever side of the planet is facing it at the time'....
I'm curious. What, exactly, are the "basic, most fundamental human rights"?
And what is ethical about each of them?
Also, do you think that Christianity had anything to do with your list of "basic, fundamental human rights"? If so, do you concede the possibility that people who grew up in Muslim/Hindu/Taoist societies might define "basic, most fundamental human rights" differently than you? If not, why do you believe that these "basic, fundamental human rights" are universal in nature, but NOT recognized the world over as "basic, fundamental human rights"?
Do you believe that different people might think different things are ethical?
You don't suppose, do you, that the "Stop button" you mentioned might not be a way to tell the car to, well, "stop moving at any point", do you?
Just curious, did any of those citizens of other countries say that it was wrong for THEIR country's intelligence agencies to spy on people from other countries?
You seem unaware that if you volunteer your private information to the interwebs, it becomes public.
IOW, if you don't like Facebook, don't use it. Noone is making you start a Facebook page (well, I should qualify that: noone has ever tried to force ME to make a Facebook page. Maybe I'm special, and the rest of you lot are held at gunpoint until you have your Facebook page set up).
Hmm, as I recall China managed ~100 million since WW2. Which makes it number one of all time, I think. The USSR was number 2, the Germans (in ww2) were number 3, we may be number 4 (though there's a strong case to be made for Vietnam, and a weaker one for North Korea).
The Iranians have problems with German names?
Hint: "berg" is German for "hill" (as opposed to "burg" which is German for "city"). Any association you might have between Judaism and "berg" is really an association between Germans and "berg".
Umm, weapons grade Pu/U have half-lives measured in tens of thousands of years (Pu) to hundreds of millions of years (U).
And neither should properly be considered "waste". Both can be used as fuel for nuclear reactors.
If yes, the vehicle is NOT autonomous.
It's not like the guy sitting in the seat is the actual "driver" of an autonomous car.
And it's not like anyone is actually required to sit in that seat.
Note that if an "autonomous car" that requires someone to sit in the driver's seat and pay attention, you might as well not bother making it autonomous. If I have to pay as much attention as if I were the real driver, I might as well drive it myself, since the act of driving at least helps me keep my attention on the traffic.
He's only worth more to me alive if he knows that *I* am worth more to him alive.
When I was hunting in the Frontiers of Dark Age of Camelot (lo! these many years ago), there were a few people like that. But not many, even on my own side....
They were saying the same thing 1000 years ago.
And 2000 years ago....
Because he's not worth any XP alive?
Talking about it will not prevent it from happening again.
Bad analogy. Noone would market a car as a "flying car" is the only flight it could do is lift up enough to make it easier to change the oil.
Given that this idiot was still stewing over not getting to go on a carnival ride with his friends 16 years after the fact (apparently, the little shit was too short to meet the minimum height requirement - you remember those "you must be this tall to ride this ride" signs), I can well believe he came across as a whackjob.
/agree. What's really sad is that this pathetic dude managed to pretty much fail even at executing his revenge on the world.
1) the successful part - he knifed his roommates. Why he disliked his roommates is not clear, since he didn't actually have to room with anyone, much less people he disliked.
2) Go to Alpha Phi and start killing the sorority babes. Alas, the Alpha Phi's didn't notice him knocking on the door, so they never opened it up so he could kill them all.
So, 3) kill random people till the SWAT team ended it. He killed a couple of girls (not Alpha Phi's), then he killed some kid. Ran into a few people (with his car), wounded others (with his gun), generally made an ass of himself.
Then shot himself....
So, his master plan, in the end, led him to kill his roommates and then shoot people at random, because the people he really wanted to kill didn't even notice him going on a shooting spree till it was over....
From TFS:
Who cares??? We slowed something down by a whole FIVE YEARS! It's not like this encompassed someone's entire career or anything. Or even most of someone's career.
Well, except for the guy who got run over by a truck during the five year delay. His career was pretty much ruined. Of course, being run over by a truck pretty much ruins your career even if there is an X-Ray telescope already in operation....
Tell them politely "I already have a Church, thank you". Doesn't matter if you do or don't, that works.
So, how much fossil fuel is used to grow & harvest the corn? And then there's the whole "distill it" part. Not sure how much energy is used to distill corn liquor as opposed to gasoline....