NSA, FBI and other alphabet agencies were unable to provide even one single case where all this surveillance helped prevent an attack.
You haven't been paying attention. Every few weeks there's a story about an arrest of a group of bomb makers or other terrorists - usually with a batch of defective chemicals supplied by a gov't planted agent.
What Nixon did wrong was (1) alienate the press (2) get caught doing wrong. Foul play that would have been swept under the rug for Kennedy or Clinton was publicized ad nauseam by Nixon's rabid detractors.
I have had a doctor make a mistake on me, and it cost me weeks of pain (fortunately, no permanent damage.) The pain was entirely unnecessary; the doctor was ignorant.
Doctors are not omniscient, and by living in my body I can be quite familiar with it. Blindly following a doctor's advice can be as destructive as never following it.
Look at how maps changed over the course of the 20th century. Countries defeated in war by the U.S. became countries again; countries defeated by the USSR became either part of the USSR or occupied by the USSR military, and stayed that way until the end of the cold war.
The threat of totalitarian communism was and is real, and the "threat" from western democracies is a hallucination from loons like you.
Many of the hippies who claimed "peace and love" were actually enemy sympathizers. Remember "Ho Ho Ho, Ho Chi Minh. The NLF is gonna win!" ? Those hippies now in power have not changed their anti-American bias, they've just gotten better at hiding it.
Have you taken a look at people funding Democrats? Soros, who thinks that destruction is fun? Various Middle Eastern countries, whose four top goals are to kill Israelis, Jews, Americans, and Christians? Wake up and see the party of slavery, poverty, and murder.
What you said, and more. People born before 1950 should remember that there were real spies stealing real military secrets that could have, and in some cases probably did, result in American deaths. Snowden appears not to have been entirely able to distinguish that sort of secret material from safer stuff.
Government domestic spying has become egregious, and by exposing that in a manner that stays in the news, Snowden has advanced freedom. Whether the balance of the effect of his actions will be positive will probably never be known.
It is beyond question that what he did was dishonest, in violation of legally binding agreements he made with his employers, and in a narrow sense treasonous. Let's hope the net result is better government behavior, not a doubling down on domestic spying.
0.1 times fainter, or 1.0/1.1 ~= 0.90909 times as bright. There is a problem in that colloquially a linear scale is assumed for small percentages, and with that assumption 10% fainter means 0.9 times as bright.
Judging the group based on the actions of individuals is straight up racism.
So if one six-year-old sings, it's racist to say all six-year-olds sing? Idiot.
More to the point, you are attempting to degrade the concept of racism by applying it inappropriately. I'm baffled as to what your underlying political motive is, but it's obviously not good. Distorting the language is never an innocent action.
The dissenters' statements agree in principle with the majority but cite reasons that the majority's opinion is in error in this case, i.e. that there was reasonable cause to call in the dog and that the delay was not excessive.
For any sort of digital audio radio system to work, the incoming S/N ratio must be greater than about 18 dB. Any lower than that, and no amount of error correction can fix the corrupted bits.
People who are now in deep fringe areas will lose radio entirely until either much stronger or much closer transmitters are put into operation.
Nazis and communists have a common desire to control the general population in a roughly similar fashion. They are so far removed from a free society that their differences are inconsequential.
The US Democrats are and always have been closer to communism that the Republicans. It is not by chance that Bernie Sanders caucuses with the Democrats.
The repeated attempts to overturn Obamacare have the same status as repeatedly trying to stop a serial rapist, except that stopping Obamacare is far more important. Complaining about not giving up after one failure, is profoundly immoral.
Northrop was developing "flying wing" aircraft in the 1930s, and the YB-35 flew on June 25, 1946. Germany also worked on similar aircraft in that period, but to imply that later US development of "flying wing" planes stemmed from Nazi research is contrary to fact. Yes, the control of such craft is more difficult, but no, it does not really need high speed computers - control systems just don't need to be fast and complicated just because it's a flying wing.
Some modern high speed aircraft use computer control because the aerodynamic configuration that gives the highest performance is inherently badly unstable.
Over the years, there has been debate about the morality of using the results of vicious Nazi human experiments, mostly in the realm of psychology, I guess that's another of Hitler's toys.
Here's a technique to add to your social tools: at the first hint of an inappropriate level of bullying, leave the group. There are plenty of people who don't respond to intellectual challenges with physical violence; choose your friends from among those.
Be gentle. Offer improved techniques as suggestions, or even just as possible alternatives. An approach from pretended ignorance can be useful, such as "I've never been able to repair a wall smoothly. Does heating the patch make it better? Does the package say how much to heat it?"
Young Earthers are a case of willful blindness, and you're right not to waste your time arguing with them.
I'd argue that fame is not a component of achievement, nor a result of intelligence. Fame is shallow, and in the final analysis it's just a measure of popularity among average people.
The world is material; it's made up of physical things. Controlling physical things is not far from the essence of achievement, and wealth is frequently a cause of and the result of controlling physical things. That wealth, if honestly obtained, is a sign of achievement, and great wealth is a great achievement. The other things you mention are very limited in scope, wealth is not.
There's a definite western capitalistic/materialistic bias in the study's assumption.
As opposed to a bias toward things that don't exist (immaterial) or that have no measurable value (anti-capitalistic).
The citation is wholly inadequate. For one thing, divorce rate and intelligence are related (probably not linearly), and should not be considered independent variables. For another, the test in question was an Armed Forces qualification test, which would attract an atypical test population, not generalizable to humanity at large.
Feigned stupidity, like on TV, is fun to watch. Real stupidity is painful to watch, and the deeper the stupidity, the deeper the pain. There is no joy to be had in the observation of people destroying their lives, especially when you know that damage will eventually impinge on you.
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You haven't been paying attention. Every few weeks there's a story about an arrest of a group of bomb makers or other terrorists - usually with a batch of defective chemicals supplied by a gov't planted agent.
What Nixon did wrong was (1) alienate the press (2) get caught doing wrong. Foul play that would have been swept under the rug for Kennedy or Clinton was publicized ad nauseam by Nixon's rabid detractors.
I bet you think a woman can be partially pregnant.
I have had a doctor make a mistake on me, and it cost me weeks of pain (fortunately, no permanent damage.) The pain was entirely unnecessary; the doctor was ignorant.
Doctors are not omniscient, and by living in my body I can be quite familiar with it. Blindly following a doctor's advice can be as destructive as never following it.
Look at how maps changed over the course of the 20th century. Countries defeated in war by the U.S. became countries again; countries defeated by the USSR became either part of the USSR or occupied by the USSR military, and stayed that way until the end of the cold war.
The threat of totalitarian communism was and is real, and the "threat" from western democracies is a hallucination from loons like you.
Relative to the general population, things have gotten worse for young blacks in the last 50 years.
Many of the hippies who claimed "peace and love" were actually enemy sympathizers. Remember "Ho Ho Ho, Ho Chi Minh. The NLF is gonna win!" ? Those hippies now in power have not changed their anti-American bias, they've just gotten better at hiding it.
Do you include in your "braiinwashing" the Berlin Wall? The suppression of the revolt in Hungary?
Have you taken a look at people funding Democrats? Soros, who thinks that destruction is fun? Various Middle Eastern countries, whose four top goals are to kill Israelis, Jews, Americans, and Christians? Wake up and see the party of slavery, poverty, and murder.
What you said, and more. People born before 1950 should remember that there were real spies stealing real military secrets that could have, and in some cases probably did, result in American deaths. Snowden appears not to have been entirely able to distinguish that sort of secret material from safer stuff.
Government domestic spying has become egregious, and by exposing that in a manner that stays in the news, Snowden has advanced freedom. Whether the balance of the effect of his actions will be positive will probably never be known.
It is beyond question that what he did was dishonest, in violation of legally binding agreements he made with his employers, and in a narrow sense treasonous. Let's hope the net result is better government behavior, not a doubling down on domestic spying.
0.1 times fainter, or 1.0/1.1 ~= 0.90909 times as bright. There is a problem in that colloquially a linear scale is assumed for small percentages, and with that assumption 10% fainter means 0.9 times as bright.
Are you a paid promoter, or are you a victim of the hoax?
So if one six-year-old sings, it's racist to say all six-year-olds sing? Idiot.
More to the point, you are attempting to degrade the concept of racism by applying it inappropriately. I'm baffled as to what your underlying political motive is, but it's obviously not good. Distorting the language is never an innocent action.
The dissenters' statements agree in principle with the majority but cite reasons that the majority's opinion is in error in this case, i.e. that there was reasonable cause to call in the dog and that the delay was not excessive.
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For any sort of digital audio radio system to work, the incoming S/N ratio must be greater than about 18 dB. Any lower than that, and no amount of error correction can fix the corrupted bits.
People who are now in deep fringe areas will lose radio entirely until either much stronger or much closer transmitters are put into operation.
Nazis and communists have a common desire to control the general population in a roughly similar fashion. They are so far removed from a free society that their differences are inconsequential.
The US Democrats are and always have been closer to communism that the Republicans. It is not by chance that Bernie Sanders caucuses with the Democrats.
The repeated attempts to overturn Obamacare have the same status as repeatedly trying to stop a serial rapist, except that stopping Obamacare is far more important. Complaining about not giving up after one failure, is profoundly immoral.
Northrop was developing "flying wing" aircraft in the 1930s, and the YB-35 flew on June 25, 1946. Germany also worked on similar aircraft in that period, but to imply that later US development of "flying wing" planes stemmed from Nazi research is contrary to fact. Yes, the control of such craft is more difficult, but no, it does not really need high speed computers - control systems just don't need to be fast and complicated just because it's a flying wing.
Some modern high speed aircraft use computer control because the aerodynamic configuration that gives the highest performance is inherently badly unstable.
Over the years, there has been debate about the morality of using the results of vicious Nazi human experiments, mostly in the realm of psychology, I guess that's another of Hitler's toys.
Your level of intelligence is indicated by your use of a sexual insult early in your rant.
I've known people who identified themselves as stupid.
Here's a technique to add to your social tools: at the first hint of an inappropriate level of bullying, leave the group. There are plenty of people who don't respond to intellectual challenges with physical violence; choose your friends from among those.
Be gentle. Offer improved techniques as suggestions, or even just as possible alternatives. An approach from pretended ignorance can be useful, such as "I've never been able to repair a wall smoothly. Does heating the patch make it better? Does the package say how much to heat it?"
Young Earthers are a case of willful blindness, and you're right not to waste your time arguing with them.
I'd argue that fame is not a component of achievement, nor a result of intelligence. Fame is shallow, and in the final analysis it's just a measure of popularity among average people.
The world is material; it's made up of physical things. Controlling physical things is not far from the essence of achievement, and wealth is frequently a cause of and the result of controlling physical things. That wealth, if honestly obtained, is a sign of achievement, and great wealth is a great achievement. The other things you mention are very limited in scope, wealth is not.
As opposed to a bias toward things that don't exist (immaterial) or that have no measurable value (anti-capitalistic).
The citation is wholly inadequate. For one thing, divorce rate and intelligence are related (probably not linearly), and should not be considered independent variables. For another, the test in question was an Armed Forces qualification test, which would attract an atypical test population, not generalizable to humanity at large.
Feigned stupidity, like on TV, is fun to watch. Real stupidity is painful to watch, and the deeper the stupidity, the deeper the pain. There is no joy to be had in the observation of people destroying their lives, especially when you know that damage will eventually impinge on you.