--Plus, I'd imagine its easier to pay for / steal WMD creation documentation/instructions than it is to make them from scratch at this point.--
Maybe? Like you said it's all old idea, but seems to be getting less and less expensive and there are other unmentioned uses. I just used the hardest one as an example. Bio weapon manufacturing would be much easier and with the possibility of targeting you genetically, it's seems scary out there.
What good would that do without oversight? But anyhow, I don't think he will get out of it just for videoing that. He'll just get 15 minutes of fame. The real question that I have to ask that I didn't se an answer for: Did he give them permission to play or not?
Can the defense now get the search thrown out because of it? If so, then no they didn't do their job right. I'm really hoping that there is less "bad apples" among the police than there is among the general population. I would think that to be true, yet I also hear of guards getting caught smuggling dope into prisons for money. I have some family members that tell me this happens even more than reported as they are guards. The retirement is good but man I don't think I would want either job. You will probably be criticized pretty often no matter what.
--Actually getting the nuke material is going to be a very large problem right off the bat.--
Nah, just build a breeder reactor and you get Plutonium. That right mix of explosives to make and implosion device and thermonuclear warhead design you wont find in a textbook, at least no specifics.
Enriching Uranium can be made easier with better centrifuge design. The computer controlled machining equipment that could machine to 0.001 inch or 0.001mm is everywhere. A lot of this is being auctioned off to the highest bidder from failed companies. How do you know the machining of the explosives around the outside is critical in that way. I would think dealing with the radio active core would be harder and who is to say it has to be spherical like the fat man bomb. There may be a better shape. Computer modeling can solve a lot of problems.
By I agree, the biological virus concerns are greater, and you have made the way to that even easier with your mention of the PS3, because I don't think the new models will run any other OS. I know the old ones ran Linux.
I think you are on to something. That DOES sound like one of the uses that I was thinking about but didn't want to state specifically here but since you already have:
Yeah, lab work with it is probably the greatest threat. The software is already out there.
Can't we have freedom and safety? We can do that but we all have to do it and make sure it's done. Even if those odds are very low, my intuition is this: People are Unpredictable. So I predict something will happen, but what it will be exactly, is unknown and probably a combination of things will have to happen, but it is one scary thought you provoked.
If someone writes a program, cannot another use it? There is already plenty of software to make both good and bad things. It's all up to the users as usual.
And...I didn't say that was the biggest problems, but to design a working nuke without raising suspicion by testing it physically is a problem computing power can correct.
Like you know some counties may have them and not have tested them like possibly Israel. They probably are just using a design that someone else tested, possibly France that built their nuclear reactor.
Think about China, most electronics comes from there these days. They might sell some of this tech to anyone that doesn't like us.
It's a lot of mights and maybes, but I would want one for CAD/3D work mainly.
It's harder to cook right, because of the low fat content, and an oddball willingness of a man to eat pigs (which seem smart like dogs to me) and not to eat just a dumb eating machine like a goat.
There is lots of things you can get from a goat, or so I have heard, it's just real hard to put up with their temperament sometimes, and the smell, well I guess you could get used to that over time.
We'll I think there may very well be a downside to that. As this stuff gets cheaper, the ability for just anybody to figure out problems increases, and that problem could be how to make bad stuff like nukes, or worse a virus writers dream. Hey, five more years and this will be under $2,000 in the sweet spot possibly. Anyhow, I want one, but maybe they need to only let people run them that have passed a basic test on driving a computer.
I wonder about that too, I wonder if there is some pest or animal that can control it? I wasn't aware that they eat kudzu as there are not that many goat farms around here, but those kudzu roots do live a long time.
As for uses, maybe bio fuel, who knows, it may taste bad to us but might be made into feed for something else like goats. Goat feed, use #1.
There is some of the real stuff growing along the roads out west too, but the THC content is so low that you would probably only get a headache, but if you pick it or go near it on a road side, then the cops will definitely arrest you. I also thought that BC only had the stuff for medical cases? You gotta wonder why just one guy would need tons of this stuff? Being from the south, I think I would rank kudzu above all. It is a useful plant though and maybe there could be a little more uses from it with some research. The ecosystem is a real bad deal. We have already lost the American chestnut to the Chinese chestnut and things like that, but to say "wooooo I really scared", no.
It just might be cost effective soon. Just a few years ago 100 NM was the longest you could make this stuff in quantity. Now it's up to 1000 NM. That's just barely enough to make fabric and maybe wire.
The real point is, for lack of what could be termed a colonial war, was happening in between the so called peace between the great wars. So it's a little better in lives lost due to threat. Watch out for the military threat in this in the future. Nukes are spreading exponentially to other countries. This can only lead to one conclusion if not stopped.
--Say what you will about nuclear weapons but they are probably the only reason that humanity hasn't fought World War III yet.--
Yeah, yet. Wait and see. Exponential growth is taking place in the number of countries that posses them. WWIII is still the largest threat that I see, if this economic collapse keeps going, and the brake lines have been cut on top of a mountain or would you prefer the spiral of death analogy?
It's very confusing to me. These guys say they are the only tier III in the US according to ATAC whoever they are? Apparently there are no level IV's that outsource. So I would think your statement to be correct. --haven't reached the scale where you can geographically diversify your operations-- means probably don't need above Tier II and their own backups.
Now, you really need both a laptop and desktop if your are into CAD or the graphic arts. The fastest laptops are not faster than the fastest desktops, but there is an even more important reason; screen real estate. If you need a work station, then you need one. I dunno maybe one could be made to fold out like a piece of Origami in the future with screens thin as paper but I wouldn't bet on it.
--Here's my solution to not being fired. Make yourself damn good at solving the difficult customer problems no one else can solve. Do it so that customers and executives at your own company request you by name (executives at a customer knowing you by name can help here too).--
This may work but it pisses off upper management. They will get jealous of you being called instead of them. That's the other way it can go in smaller outfits.
--Jesus freaking Christ, can't companies do employee evaluations at all?--
I appears that they can't. I haven't seen one in a long time that even had a clue as to who did what. It's just whether you are liked or not and not what results you produce.
The action here is simple. The enemy of my enemy is temporarily my friend. M$ go get them or better yet fix your damn security. The last few days have spun some heads, that's for sure.
My eye can tell a difference in quality for sure. I doubt if my hearing could now though. It takes a lot of practice even if you are good to get to that level, but you are right some will blow any amount of money and end up broke. I don't know if there are pawn shops in the UK, but around here, you can find many cheap instruments there. They can be a hole to throw money as well as anything else like property. There are still places in small town US where you can live like a king if you go to the city for about 20 years to make your money and then come back. I ended up selling all of my instruments, Alto Sax, Clarinet, various Electric stuff. Now I just have one el cheapo Flat Top which is probably the thing I play worst, but you know everybody wants to play a guitar right? And if you know three chords? We'll you know the rest.
Getting back on topic, the suicide rate at least the successful ones are middle aged 40's and 50's. When you get there, your future seems more limited I guess especially if you loose a job, right here in the supposed land of opportunity.
I would know what to do with it if I had it. The first thing I would do is pay down debt after taxes of course, AND since it's a buyers' market, I would get some property. 100 acres with a home in the middle would make me real happy.
Since playing the lottery is a slim to none chance, I figure I will wait for someone else to buy me a winning ticket out of the goodness of their heart.
We'll anyhow the pipe dream is over, back to survival mode.
About the horn thing, couldn't you get one for $3,000? I would have to be a professional musician to throw down more than that on any instrument. Maybe kettle drums or a grand piano would cost way more than $10,000, but you know something that can be packed around can usually be had for $3,000.
Relationships, good health, meaningful work, a clear conscience - these things contribute more to happiness than possessions do.
Usually if you are working at least there is an income source that can be tied to money and the same for health. The more money you have the healthier you can be if you want to be.
But...you also bring up a valid point about relationships and clear conscience, yeah more really can't buy that, but just the appearance of friendship by fair weather friends. This can depress people that aren't equipped to deal with it, I guess. As some have got their money through devious means to say the least, they might have a problem there, I don't really know.
Let me ask you this:
If you woke up this morning and found $10,000 in your lap, would you be happier or sadder? I know which I would be.
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--Plus, I'd imagine its easier to pay for / steal WMD creation documentation/instructions than it is to make them from scratch at this point.--
Maybe? Like you said it's all old idea, but seems to be getting less and less expensive and there are other unmentioned uses. I just used the hardest one as an example. Bio weapon manufacturing would be much easier and with the possibility of targeting you genetically, it's seems scary out there.
--We need more whistle blowers out there.--
What good would that do without oversight? But anyhow, I don't think he will get out of it just for videoing that. He'll just get 15 minutes of fame. The real question that I have to ask that I didn't se an answer for: Did he give them permission to play or not?
Can the defense now get the search thrown out because of it? If so, then no they didn't do their job right. I'm really hoping that there is less "bad apples" among the police than there is among the general population. I would think that to be true, yet I also hear of guards getting caught smuggling dope into prisons for money. I have some family members that tell me this happens even more than reported as they are guards. The retirement is good but man I don't think I would want either job. You will probably be criticized pretty often no matter what.
--Actually getting the nuke material is going to be a very large problem right off the bat.--
Nah, just build a breeder reactor and you get Plutonium. That right mix of explosives to make and implosion device and thermonuclear warhead design you wont find in a textbook, at least no specifics.
Enriching Uranium can be made easier with better centrifuge design. The computer controlled machining equipment that could machine to 0.001 inch or 0.001mm is everywhere. A lot of this is being auctioned off to the highest bidder from failed companies. How do you know the machining of the explosives around the outside is critical in that way. I would think dealing with the radio active core would be harder and who is to say it has to be spherical like the fat man bomb. There may be a better shape. Computer modeling can solve a lot of problems.
By I agree, the biological virus concerns are greater, and you have made the way to that even easier with your mention of the PS3, because I don't think the new models will run any other OS. I know the old ones ran Linux.
I think you are on to something. That DOES sound like one of the uses that I was thinking about but didn't want to state specifically here but since you already have:
Yeah, lab work with it is probably the greatest threat. The software is already out there.
Can't we have freedom and safety? We can do that but we all have to do it and make sure it's done. Even if those odds are very low, my intuition is this: People are Unpredictable. So I predict something will happen, but what it will be exactly, is unknown and probably a combination of things will have to happen, but it is one scary thought you provoked.
If someone writes a program, cannot another use it? There is already plenty of software to make both good and bad things. It's all up to the users as usual.
And...I didn't say that was the biggest problems, but to design a working nuke without raising suspicion by testing it physically is a problem computing power can correct.
Like you know some counties may have them and not have tested them like possibly Israel. They probably are just using a design that someone else tested, possibly France that built their nuclear reactor.
Think about China, most electronics comes from there these days. They might sell some of this tech to anyone that doesn't like us.
It's a lot of mights and maybes, but I would want one for CAD/3D work mainly.
Fox? Now that's really bad.
It's harder to cook right, because of the low fat content, and an oddball willingness of a man to eat pigs (which seem smart like dogs to me) and not to eat just a dumb eating machine like a goat.
There is lots of things you can get from a goat, or so I have heard, it's just real hard to put up with their temperament sometimes, and the smell, well I guess you could get used to that over time.
We'll I think there may very well be a downside to that. As this stuff gets cheaper, the ability for just anybody to figure out problems increases, and that problem could be how to make bad stuff like nukes, or worse a virus writers dream. Hey, five more years and this will be under $2,000 in the sweet spot possibly. Anyhow, I want one, but maybe they need to only let people run them that have passed a basic test on driving a computer.
I wonder about that too, I wonder if there is some pest or animal that can control it? I wasn't aware that they eat kudzu as there are not that many goat farms around here, but those kudzu roots do live a long time.
As for uses, maybe bio fuel, who knows, it may taste bad to us but might be made into feed for something else like goats. Goat feed, use #1.
There is some of the real stuff growing along the roads out west too, but the THC content is so low that you would probably only get a headache, but if you pick it or go near it on a road side, then the cops will definitely arrest you. I also thought that BC only had the stuff for medical cases? You gotta wonder why just one guy would need tons of this stuff? Being from the south, I think I would rank kudzu above all. It is a useful plant though and maybe there could be a little more uses from it with some research. The ecosystem is a real bad deal. We have already lost the American chestnut to the Chinese chestnut and things like that, but to say "wooooo I really scared", no.
It just might be cost effective soon. Just a few years ago 100 NM was the longest you could make this stuff in quantity. Now it's up to 1000 NM. That's just barely enough to make fabric and maybe wire.
--Which cause the military hot-heads over there to spend far too much money on military defenses, while letting the rest of their empire rot.--
Have you heard? We are next.
The real point is, for lack of what could be termed a colonial war, was happening in between the so called peace between the great wars. So it's a little better in lives lost due to threat. Watch out for the military threat in this in the future. Nukes are spreading exponentially to other countries. This can only lead to one conclusion if not stopped.
--Say what you will about nuclear weapons but they are probably the only reason that humanity hasn't fought World War III yet.--
Yeah, yet. Wait and see. Exponential growth is taking place in the number of countries that posses them. WWIII is still the largest threat that I see, if this economic collapse keeps going, and the brake lines have been cut on top of a mountain or would you prefer the spiral of death analogy?
It's very confusing to me. These guys say they are the only tier III in the US according to ATAC whoever they are? Apparently there are no level IV's that outsource. So I would think your statement to be correct. --haven't reached the scale where you can geographically diversify your operations-- means probably don't need above Tier II and their own backups.
http://www.onepartner.com/v3/atac_tier.html
That seems fair enough to me. That would be the way to do it alright, but $700,000 if he can't?
By the look of it, his time ain't worth much either.
Now, you really need both a laptop and desktop if your are into CAD or the graphic arts. The fastest laptops are not faster than the fastest desktops, but there is an even more important reason; screen real estate. If you need a work station, then you need one. I dunno maybe one could be made to fold out like a piece of Origami in the future with screens thin as paper but I wouldn't bet on it.
--Here's my solution to not being fired. Make yourself damn good at solving the difficult customer problems no one else can solve. Do it so that customers and executives at your own company request you by name (executives at a customer knowing you by name can help here too).--
This may work but it pisses off upper management. They will get jealous of you being called instead of them. That's the other way it can go in smaller outfits.
--Jesus freaking Christ, can't companies do employee evaluations at all?--
I appears that they can't. I haven't seen one in a long time that even had a clue as to who did what. It's just whether you are liked or not and not what results you produce.
The action here is simple. The enemy of my enemy is temporarily my friend. M$ go get them or better yet fix your damn security. The last few days have spun some heads, that's for sure.
My eye can tell a difference in quality for sure. I doubt if my hearing could now though. It takes a lot of practice even if you are good to get to that level, but you are right some will blow any amount of money and end up broke. I don't know if there are pawn shops in the UK, but around here, you can find many cheap instruments there. They can be a hole to throw money as well as anything else like property. There are still places in small town US where you can live like a king if you go to the city for about 20 years to make your money and then come back. I ended up selling all of my instruments, Alto Sax, Clarinet, various Electric stuff. Now I just have one el cheapo Flat Top which is probably the thing I play worst, but you know everybody wants to play a guitar right? And if you know three chords? We'll you know the rest.
Getting back on topic, the suicide rate at least the successful ones are middle aged 40's and 50's. When you get there, your future seems more limited I guess especially if you loose a job, right here in the supposed land of opportunity.
I would know what to do with it if I had it. The first thing I would do is pay down debt after taxes of course, AND since it's a buyers' market, I would get some property. 100 acres with a home in the middle would make me real happy.
Since playing the lottery is a slim to none chance, I figure I will wait for someone else to buy me a winning ticket out of the goodness of their heart.
We'll anyhow the pipe dream is over, back to survival mode.
About the horn thing, couldn't you get one for $3,000? I would have to be a professional musician to throw down more than that on any instrument. Maybe kettle drums or a grand piano would cost way more than $10,000, but you know something that can be packed around can usually be had for $3,000.
Relationships, good health, meaningful work, a clear conscience - these things contribute more to happiness than possessions do.
Usually if you are working at least there is an income source that can be tied to money and the same for health. The more money you have the healthier you can be if you want to be.
But...you also bring up a valid point about relationships and clear conscience, yeah more really can't buy that, but just the appearance of friendship by fair weather friends. This can depress people that aren't equipped to deal with it, I guess. As some have got their money through devious means to say the least, they might have a problem there, I don't really know.
Let me ask you this:
If you woke up this morning and found $10,000 in your lap, would you be happier or sadder? I know which I would be.
This seems like an interesting idea that makes sense to me. I wonder if someone already has data on this?