First off, what nation are you from? Because chances are good that it spies on ALL OF ITS FRIENDS.
As to the USA, how exactly do you think that we knew about 5 different pending attacks on Europe that were stopped?
Do you honestly believe that it was only through humint? Nope.
BUT, I doubt that we are going to tell you exactly how we do it either. Sadly, Snowden has helped out Chinese spies and terrorists all over the world. This will hurt the west a great deal.
Just so that you know, every nation spies on each other. That should be apparent with the Brazilian knowledge. That is why the UN never got a 'law' to say that nations may not spy on each other.
First off, most of the military is right out in the open. There are SMALL funds that are black, but more than 95% of the budget is in the open. As to NSA's budget, here you go. You will see that we spend 10B on NSA. THAT is not much at all. In fact, our entire blackbudget is less than 53B. That is what we use to figure out what terrorists, and hostile nations such as China, are up to. Basically, it allows us to stay OUT of war, or at the least minimize it, rather than putting us into deep war.
And had Snowden simply released information about spying on Americans or even the budget (which was also bad), he might be considers a whistle blower. All of the rest is a disaster.
That is really cool (no pun intended). Developing, or even re-developing, advanced technology will always help your nation. And this rocket is about a LH2/LOX engine, which does not help the military. So, this is about a civil process, which is of more use.
skip that. Go with Switch LEDs. They can go in the same places, costs just a bit more, and will last a lot longer, but uses a fraction of the electricity.
Seriously, you can get a 60 watt switch LED lamp bulb for $13 from earth LED. Switch has a residential lifetime, and a commercial 5 year warranty. philips has only a residential 3 years. The cheap chinese bulbs such as lights of America, feits and GE, will warranty for 5 years, but will not honor these. I have had 2 LEDs burn out and LoA and GE both said that I had to send in money to replace them, that was far more than what I paid originally.
Switch LEDs are made in the west, use philips LEDs and most importantly, are the ONLY ones that handle the heat properly. As such, these can go into not just lamps, but any light fixture. OTOH, none of the others can do that.
We should kill off the subsidies for the solar, and instead, focus it on storage, along with clean safe thorium nukes. The storage can be of many different types, but one that is going to make a huge splash is EOS energy storage.
In addition, we should require that all buildings below 5 stories to have on-site AE energy generated equal to 95-100% of the HVAC energy. In doing that, it will discourage new daytime increases, esp. during the summer. And it does not require a subsidy.
I u are in the US, Look at your bill. it is already done that way.
The issue is that power companies still want their profits. They make better profits by having increasing demands which leads to new power plants. Solar is putting a dent in this. USA should be focusing on storage, along with cheap safe nuke power (i.e. thorium), and perhaps geo-thermal. The other issue is that we NEED to quit subsidizing solar for current homes, and simply require that on-site AE provide 95-100% energy of the HVAC system for new buildings under 5 stories. If we do the first, then it allows utilities to buffer microgrids, while providing decent base-load power.
And the second item stops the bulk of new energy demands, while lowering what buildings use (given the choice of insulating better and using geo-thermal HVAC vs. adding more expensive solar panels, builders will do the first).
Developing 100% new tech IS expensive. Building 1 offs is a great deal cheaper. No doubt about it. BUT, SpaceX's costs WILL RISE as they move from 1 offs to new R&D.
SpaceX is counting on NASA restarting NERVA, but the neo-cons continue to derail a number of things and oddly, that is one of them. Not surprising, they have help from a number of illiterate dems to block the funding. Only Obama is keeping this going. BUT, with a change in CONgress, he may not be able to, and SpaceX will very likely step forward to do this work. Again, it will NOT be cheap.
Seriously, they should be working hard to bring back manufacturing to America. Obama is, but the DOD should insist on all of their communications, including phones and networks, being made in the west. Just as China blocks goods from the west based on defense needs, we should be doing the same. This should include our telcos, utilities, etc. Ideally, we should push other western nations to do the same.
Sigh. Chinese leaders are in a cold war with the west. The attack would not be against America, but against the entire west.
And when you are in a cold war, using cheap economics means to bring the west to their knees is dirt cheap compared to a hot war.
That metadata does not just show us terrorists. It shows us spies. The trick is to know who is contacting whom. Did the metadata help directly with this? Maybe. Most likely not. However, NSA is not going to announce that it did. They do not want everything out.
The NSA is doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing. Who is NOT doing what they should be doing, were some employees who were fired and more importantly, CONgress, who pulled back their oversight back in the 00s so that they would not be held responsible.
NSA had nothing to do with the Iraq issue. That was W/neo-cons. And if you think that China is NOT attempting to destroy the west economically, then you really are stupid.
Subprime did not even come CLOSE to destroying the economy. It slowed us down terribly, but destroy the economy? Nope.
Think back to 9/11. Think back to that and the next day. Now make things WORSE . Take away sewage and water. Take away banks. Stop delivery trucks. Stop the trains and hospitals. Stop the electricity. Now, make it last no less than 30 days, though probably more.
And you think that what W/neo-cons did to our economy will come even CLOSE to what China can and more importantly, is attempting to do?
raptor is a family of methane/LOX engines. The first one is 1/3 of the size of F1. It is designed for the upper stages as well as landing on the moon and mars.
the free market gave us ULA and the massive profits that they have. That is because MBA's took over the business sense of those companies. Elon Musk has kept out MBA's and focused on tasks and engineering.
so what? NASA built on what DOD did; which built on what NAZI's did; which built on what Goddard did.
What is your point? NASA will continue to push envelopes for new frontiers (assuming that tea baggers can not gut NASA), while private new space will make this cheap to do.
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actually wrong. Snowden had worked for the CIA prior, not the NSA. He had worked WITH the NSA, but not for.
First off, what nation are you from? Because chances are good that it spies on ALL OF ITS FRIENDS.
As to the USA, how exactly do you think that we knew about 5 different pending attacks on Europe that were stopped?
Do you honestly believe that it was only through humint? Nope.
BUT, I doubt that we are going to tell you exactly how we do it either. Sadly, Snowden has helped out Chinese spies and terrorists all over the world. This will hurt the west a great deal.
One last thing: google for '5 eyes'.
Just so that you know, every nation spies on each other. That should be apparent with the Brazilian knowledge. That is why the UN never got a 'law' to say that nations may not spy on each other.
First off, most of the military is right out in the open. There are SMALL funds that are black, but more than 95% of the budget is in the open. As to NSA's budget, here you go. You will see that we spend 10B on NSA. THAT is not much at all. In fact, our entire blackbudget is less than 53B. That is what we use to figure out what terrorists, and hostile nations such as China, are up to. Basically, it allows us to stay OUT of war, or at the least minimize it, rather than putting us into deep war.
And had Snowden simply released information about spying on Americans or even the budget (which was also bad), he might be considers a whistle blower. All of the rest is a disaster.
That is really cool (no pun intended). Developing, or even re-developing, advanced technology will always help your nation. And this rocket is about a LH2/LOX engine, which does not help the military. So, this is about a civil process, which is of more use.
really? Has any building been attacked in your city since 9-11? Believe me that AQ and others have been trying hard to do so.
skip that. Go with Switch LEDs. They can go in the same places, costs just a bit more, and will last a lot longer, but uses a fraction of the electricity.
skip them. Buy the switch LEDs. They are 13/bulb, but a great warranty and backed by a real company.
Seriously, you can get a 60 watt switch LED lamp bulb for $13 from earth LED. Switch has a residential lifetime, and a commercial 5 year warranty. philips has only a residential 3 years. The cheap chinese bulbs such as lights of America, feits and GE, will warranty for 5 years, but will not honor these. I have had 2 LEDs burn out and LoA and GE both said that I had to send in money to replace them, that was far more than what I paid originally.
Switch LEDs are made in the west, use philips LEDs and most importantly, are the ONLY ones that handle the heat properly. As such, these can go into not just lamps, but any light fixture. OTOH, none of the others can do that.
We should kill off the subsidies for the solar, and instead, focus it on storage, along with clean safe thorium nukes. The storage can be of many different types, but one that is going to make a huge splash is EOS energy storage.
In addition, we should require that all buildings below 5 stories to have on-site AE energy generated equal to 95-100% of the HVAC energy. In doing that, it will discourage new daytime increases, esp. during the summer. And it does not require a subsidy.
actually, the physics and engineering are trivial.
It is the economics that is not.
I u are in the US, Look at your bill. it is already done that way.
The issue is that power companies still want their profits. They make better profits by having increasing demands which leads to new power plants. Solar is putting a dent in this. USA should be focusing on storage, along with cheap safe nuke power (i.e. thorium), and perhaps geo-thermal. The other issue is that we NEED to quit subsidizing solar for current homes, and simply require that on-site AE provide 95-100% energy of the HVAC system for new buildings under 5 stories. If we do the first, then it allows utilities to buffer microgrids, while providing decent base-load power.
And the second item stops the bulk of new energy demands, while lowering what buildings use (given the choice of insulating better and using geo-thermal HVAC vs. adding more expensive solar panels, builders will do the first).
Just because this guy and others are selling them, does not mean that they did the work.
by dumping on our markets and destroying our supply lines, they are in control. You obviously have not learned lessons from the original cold war.
it is the destruction of our companies that is doing that.
Developing 100% new tech IS expensive. Building 1 offs is a great deal cheaper. No doubt about it. BUT, SpaceX's costs WILL RISE as they move from 1 offs to new R&D. SpaceX is counting on NASA restarting NERVA, but the neo-cons continue to derail a number of things and oddly, that is one of them. Not surprising, they have help from a number of illiterate dems to block the funding. Only Obama is keeping this going. BUT, with a change in CONgress, he may not be able to, and SpaceX will very likely step forward to do this work. Again, it will NOT be cheap.
Seriously, they should be working hard to bring back manufacturing to America. Obama is, but the DOD should insist on all of their communications, including phones and networks, being made in the west. Just as China blocks goods from the west based on defense needs, we should be doing the same. This should include our telcos, utilities, etc. Ideally, we should push other western nations to do the same.
Sigh. Chinese leaders are in a cold war with the west. The attack would not be against America, but against the entire west.
And when you are in a cold war, using cheap economics means to bring the west to their knees is dirt cheap compared to a hot war.
That metadata does not just show us terrorists. It shows us spies. The trick is to know who is contacting whom. Did the metadata help directly with this? Maybe. Most likely not. However, NSA is not going to announce that it did. They do not want everything out.
The NSA is doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing. Who is NOT doing what they should be doing, were some employees who were fired and more importantly, CONgress, who pulled back their oversight back in the 00s so that they would not be held responsible.
NSA had nothing to do with the Iraq issue. That was W/neo-cons. And if you think that China is NOT attempting to destroy the west economically, then you really are stupid.
Subprime did not even come CLOSE to destroying the economy. It slowed us down terribly, but destroy the economy? Nope.
Think back to 9/11. Think back to that and the next day. Now make things WORSE . Take away sewage and water. Take away banks. Stop delivery trucks. Stop the trains and hospitals. Stop the electricity. Now, make it last no less than 30 days, though probably more.
And you think that what W/neo-cons did to our economy will come even CLOSE to what China can and more importantly, is attempting to do?
raptor is a family of methane/LOX engines. The first one is 1/3 of the size of F1. It is designed for the upper stages as well as landing on the moon and mars.
the free market gave us ULA and the massive profits that they have. That is because MBA's took over the business sense of those companies. Elon Musk has kept out MBA's and focused on tasks and engineering.
so what? NASA built on what DOD did; which built on what NAZI's did; which built on what Goddard did.
What is your point? NASA will continue to push envelopes for new frontiers (assuming that tea baggers can not gut NASA), while private new space will make this cheap to do.