Does NOFORN mean "Foreign intelligence agencies are not involved in the activities described by this document" or "Foreign intelligence agencies should not be shown or given access to this document"?
NOFORN means no foreigners are allowed to see this document.
It says nothing at all about the "activities described by this document".
Really? So you think the general population... most of which are using their cell phones while driving are smart enough to make intelligent decisions themselves... even though the whole reason this is being brought up is due to the overwhelming evidence to the contrary?
So, what's the "overwhelming evidence to the contrary"?
More traffic fatalities? Nope, traffic fatalities (both on an absolute basis and per mile travelled) have been trending down for several decades, and are at or near all-time lows.
Alas for the busybodies, there isn't really all that much evidence (outside the lab) that the use of cellphones is causing calamities on our highways...
As for the timeline, Todt died on February 8, 1942, which was admittedly less than exactly 3 years into the war, but close enough to halfway through for a tossed off comment.
Possibly. However, when you add in the context of "the USSR is out-producing us" to a date only six months after Germany had invaded the USSR, things are a lot less clear. Do remember that there was not clue one that the USSR was outproducing Germany at the beginning of 1942 - not like the Germans did really effective intelligence gathering....
USSR did actually outproduce Germany on a few things, but they just happened to be things that mattered (e.g. rifles and tanks).
True enough. By 1944. Not so true in 1942.
In 1942, the only real advantage the Soviets had was that the KV-1 was a real kick-ass tank, and the T-34 was both very well designed, but had a lot of room for development.
Remember that Stalin didn't really believe that Hitler would attack in 1941. And he didn't really begin preparing for war with Germany till after the fact.
However, it should be noted, in reference to Trucks that they were far more important than just Katyusha chassis. Tanks need a lot of fuel. and spare parts. and ammo. and the food and such for crews. and the supporting infantry. and....
Eisenhower was right when he called the deuce-and-a-half the most important item made for the war....
That infighting crippled German production until half way through the war they realized "oh shit, the USSR is out producing us in just about everything that matters" and put someone competent like Albert Speer in charge, instead of that flamboyant, fat fuck Goering.
A couple of things:
1) Speer didn't get that job "halfway through the war" - more like "seven months after invasion of USSR" or "three months after Pearl Harbor". Note that Germany was still pretty much winning then (Stalingrad was almost a year in the future, North Africa wouldn't be settled for more than a year).
2) Speer didn't replace Goering either. Previous guy was Fritz Todt (what a great name "Hi, I'm Death. MISTER Death to you"....)
3) And it wasn't the USSR that was outproducing Germany then, it was the USA. The USSR wasn't outproducing Germany for a couple more years....
Oddly enough, the article doesn't say anything about anyone being "cleansed" from their city in 1948.
What it does say is that:
A local fisherman Atar Zeinab, 80, said that as a teenager during the final months of fighting in 1948 he helped to collect the Arab dead in the area south of Jaffa.
They were then brought for a quick burial in the cemetery, the areaâ(TM)s main graveyard.
'I carried to the cemetery 60 bodies during a period of three or four months,' he told AFP. 'We used to find the people in the street and most of the time we didnâ(TM)t know who they were.'
He said that the danger of being hit by flying bullets or grenade fragments was such that bodies were dumped one on top of the other in existing family crypts in the cemetery, contrary to Muslim custom.
'We carried them early in the morning or in the night. We put women, children and men in the same place... nobody prayed for these people.
Note that there is no mention as to who did the killing, though the "danger of being hit by flying bullets or grenade fragments" suggests ongoing fighting between the Jews and Palestinians (which means that any particular death was just as likely to be to a Palestinian bullet as a Jewish bullet)....
As I just said in another post [slashdot.org], there's no "internet sales tax", just the ability for states to require internet retailers to collect sales tax on sales to residents. If a state has no sales tax, there will continue to be no sales tax.
And if a business in such a State sells something to someone living in Kenner LA, they'll have to be able to figure sales tax for LA, Jefferson Parish, Kenner, and such sales tax holidays as might be applicable on any particular item at any particular time...
... because some of the subcontractors were forced to shield their counters.
From your citation, there were 5 people so affected, and the exposures could have been as much as 30% low as a result of the 3mm lead shields in question.
Assuming that the five in question were among the six that TFA says got up to 678 mSv, then it's possible that one or more of those five might have gotten ALMOST 1 Sv, which is the single dose (lower) limit for acute radiation sickness.
Assuming, of course, that one or more of those five actually got their total dose in a single exposure, as opposed to over a period of weeks/months.
Researchers at Fukushima Medical University, which has been taking the leading role in the study, have said they do not believe the most recent cases are related to the nuclear crisis.
In a homogenous society like Japan, what would you expect them to say
Perhaps OP should have included the next sentence in the article in question:
They point out that thyroid cancer cases were not found among children hit by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident until four to five years later.
IN other words, check back in a few years, but until then, chill....
It could be argued that being ordered to hand over documents and such has been a 5th ammendment violation for years, but that horse has already left.
Not quite.
There is a fundamental difference between a physical object (a hard drive, for instance) and something only you know (the password for the hard drive). The legal system can subpoena your physical object to their heart's content, but they can't require you to provide information held only in your head (so, for instance, if they knew the password to the harddrive was written down on a piece of paper stored in your safety deposit box, that's fair game, but they can't force you to tell them that's where the password is, nor can they force you to tell them the password).
12) President Obama was born in Kenya and doesn't have an authentic United States birth certificate
Even assuming this were true, it's of no importance whatsoever - President Obama's mother was an American citizen, therefore her children are American citizens, no matter where they're born.
In Starship Troopers (the book anyway), the bugs were non-sentient. But every time a colony was distressed, the workers bred this "brain bug", and then the problem would magically go away. Then the brain bug became irrelevant to it again.
Might want to reread the book, if you think that was part of it.
Hint: it wasn't. Wasn't part of the movie, either, by the by.
In The Mote In God's Eye, the Moties are led by a political caste, with other castes obeying them, as they went about their political machinacions and wars. The Engineer caste was ungodly brilliant, but otherwise completely mute, and specifically he juxtaposed it against the yabbering schemes of the political class.
Might want to reread Mote in God's Eye, also.
The groups you describe as "castes" were actually subspecies. And the Ruler subspecies didn't do the machinations and politics stuff, their Negotiator subspecies did that part.
Note, for reference, that the Negotiator subspecies was actually a hybrid of the Ruler and Engineer subspecies...
Come to that, the Engineer wasn't especially brilliant - "idiot-savant" was a description used more than once about them.
Does anyone know why schizophrenia svoices always seem to try and cause harm? Why don't the voices tell you to clean your house, volunteer for something, build a house, do something good?
Because you don't need to make excuses for cleaning your house, or volunteering, or doing good in general. If your voices are saying that sort of thing, and your wife says "thank you for cleaning out the garage finally! Let's have a celebratory screw!", you're not going to say "nah, wasn't me, really - the Voices in my head have been nagging me about it for months...or was that you?"
It should be noted that most of those things became issues for the Feds when the FBI was looking for reasons to continue their funding levels. Kidnapping used to be handled just fine by the locals. Ditto Bank robberies. Ditto gang violence. Ditto Organized crime.
And "gun trafficking" wasn't even a crime till the Feds made it one. Ditto "drug smuggling". And "hate crimes".
Counterfeiting I'll give you. Not an FBI job, but the T-men like to keep busy with it.
1. I'll bet you good money you believe in more than 1% of what the government is doing: 1% of the US federal budget is $38 billion, which just about covers either federal law enforcement (including prosecutions) or transportation infrastructure (including air travel, highways, rail, and cargo shipping), but not both. Cut out law enforcement and you might as well not have a legal system.
Note that there is a difference between Federal Law Enforcement and State Law Enforcement in the USA. The overwhelming majority of things most of us think of as "crimes" (y'know, things like robbery, assault, murder, that sort of thing) are actually covered by State Law Enforcement (and Courts) as opposed to Federal Law Enforcement....
Federal Law Enforcement does cover important stuff like Copyright and Patent enforcement, of course - that might be important to you....
Well, you really need to replace "force" with "acceleration" in your explanation. Because if "our gravity applies effectively equal force on both objects", then the smaller object is going to accelerate away from the larger object quite nicely...
If you can see any potential future where you might be at odds with the US you can't just rely on there being a Democrat in the White House at the time, you need Mutually Assured Destruction.
Note that the only President in history to use a nuclear weapon against an enemy was a...Democrat.
Note that the President that ordered the development of nuclear weapons was a...Democrat.
Do US citizens get some sort of sick twisted feeling of satisfaction from this?
Most of them never think about it at all. Anymore than most Cubans think about traffic problems in Nashville (not to imply that there ARE traffic problems in Nashville - don't really know, since I haven't driven through Nashville in ten years) on a regular basis.
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"So, you're saying all that data you're storing was ACCIDENTLY acquired?"
NSA Director James Clapper: "Umm..... "
Better term would be "Chicago Politician"
"Can you say "Daley Machine"? Sure you can..."
NOFORN means no foreigners are allowed to see this document.
It says nothing at all about the "activities described by this document".
Might want to look over State marijuana laws sometime, then.
So, what's the "overwhelming evidence to the contrary"?
More traffic fatalities? Nope, traffic fatalities (both on an absolute basis and per mile travelled) have been trending down for several decades, and are at or near all-time lows.
Alas for the busybodies, there isn't really all that much evidence (outside the lab) that the use of cellphones is causing calamities on our highways...
Possibly. However, when you add in the context of "the USSR is out-producing us" to a date only six months after Germany had invaded the USSR, things are a lot less clear. Do remember that there was not clue one that the USSR was outproducing Germany at the beginning of 1942 - not like the Germans did really effective intelligence gathering....
True enough. By 1944. Not so true in 1942.
In 1942, the only real advantage the Soviets had was that the KV-1 was a real kick-ass tank, and the T-34 was both very well designed, but had a lot of room for development.
Remember that Stalin didn't really believe that Hitler would attack in 1941. And he didn't really begin preparing for war with Germany till after the fact.
However, it should be noted, in reference to Trucks that they were far more important than just Katyusha chassis. Tanks need a lot of fuel. and spare parts. and ammo. and the food and such for crews. and the supporting infantry. and....
Eisenhower was right when he called the deuce-and-a-half the most important item made for the war....
Umm, Pearl Harbor was in 1941. Poland was invaded in 1939. That's not three years apart.
A couple of things:
1) Speer didn't get that job "halfway through the war" - more like "seven months after invasion of USSR" or "three months after Pearl Harbor". Note that Germany was still pretty much winning then (Stalingrad was almost a year in the future, North Africa wouldn't be settled for more than a year).
2) Speer didn't replace Goering either. Previous guy was Fritz Todt (what a great name "Hi, I'm Death. MISTER Death to you"....)
3) And it wasn't the USSR that was outproducing Germany then, it was the USA. The USSR wasn't outproducing Germany for a couple more years....
Won't find me arguing....
Bah, screwed up my html. last sentence of the above should be outside the blockquote.
Oddly enough, the article doesn't say anything about anyone being "cleansed" from their city in 1948.
What it does say is that:
And if a business in such a State sells something to someone living in Kenner LA, they'll have to be able to figure sales tax for LA, Jefferson Parish, Kenner, and such sales tax holidays as might be applicable on any particular item at any particular time...
From your citation, there were 5 people so affected, and the exposures could have been as much as 30% low as a result of the 3mm lead shields in question.
Assuming that the five in question were among the six that TFA says got up to 678 mSv, then it's possible that one or more of those five might have gotten ALMOST 1 Sv, which is the single dose (lower) limit for acute radiation sickness.
Assuming, of course, that one or more of those five actually got their total dose in a single exposure, as opposed to over a period of weeks/months.
Perhaps OP should have included the next sentence in the article in question:
They point out that thyroid cancer cases were not found among children hit by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident until four to five years later.
IN other words, check back in a few years, but until then, chill....
Not quite.
There is a fundamental difference between a physical object (a hard drive, for instance) and something only you know (the password for the hard drive). The legal system can subpoena your physical object to their heart's content, but they can't require you to provide information held only in your head (so, for instance, if they knew the password to the harddrive was written down on a piece of paper stored in your safety deposit box, that's fair game, but they can't force you to tell them that's where the password is, nor can they force you to tell them the password).
Even assuming this were true, it's of no importance whatsoever - President Obama's mother was an American citizen, therefore her children are American citizens, no matter where they're born.
When did "thermonuclear" start meaning "fission"? Last time I cared to look (decades ago), thermonuclear meant FUSION (which doesn't use U/Pu)
Might want to reread the book, if you think that was part of it.
Hint: it wasn't. Wasn't part of the movie, either, by the by.
Might want to reread Mote in God's Eye, also.
The groups you describe as "castes" were actually subspecies. And the Ruler subspecies didn't do the machinations and politics stuff, their Negotiator subspecies did that part.
Note, for reference, that the Negotiator subspecies was actually a hybrid of the Ruler and Engineer subspecies...
Come to that, the Engineer wasn't especially brilliant - "idiot-savant" was a description used more than once about them.
Because you don't need to make excuses for cleaning your house, or volunteering, or doing good in general. If your voices are saying that sort of thing, and your wife says "thank you for cleaning out the garage finally! Let's have a celebratory screw!", you're not going to say "nah, wasn't me, really - the Voices in my head have been nagging me about it for months...or was that you?"
And "gun trafficking" wasn't even a crime till the Feds made it one. Ditto "drug smuggling". And "hate crimes".
Counterfeiting I'll give you. Not an FBI job, but the T-men like to keep busy with it.
Note that there is a difference between Federal Law Enforcement and State Law Enforcement in the USA. The overwhelming majority of things most of us think of as "crimes" (y'know, things like robbery, assault, murder, that sort of thing) are actually covered by State Law Enforcement (and Courts) as opposed to Federal Law Enforcement....
Federal Law Enforcement does cover important stuff like Copyright and Patent enforcement, of course - that might be important to you....
Well, you really need to replace "force" with "acceleration" in your explanation. Because if "our gravity applies effectively equal force on both objects", then the smaller object is going to accelerate away from the larger object quite nicely...
Note that the only President in history to use a nuclear weapon against an enemy was a...Democrat.
Note that the President that ordered the development of nuclear weapons was a...Democrat.
Most of them never think about it at all. Anymore than most Cubans think about traffic problems in Nashville (not to imply that there ARE traffic problems in Nashville - don't really know, since I haven't driven through Nashville in ten years) on a regular basis.