First off, you have never seen me call reporters traitors. Had they paid for this information or out and out helped obtain, and then printed it, I might call them a traitor. BUT, when it is delivered into their hands by somebody else's actions, then I would print it as well, though I DO think that there should be selective publication of this rather than all of it. In particular, greenwald is an American and I believe should be more selective about what he is printing. There is a lot there that is NOT whistle blowing, but out right treason. BUT, that is a different issue.
Where have you seen me calling for doing illegal things in my postings ?
Heck, I believe that Manning should be executed (again, out and out treason combined with whistle blowing).
OTOH, while I do not believe that Assange is a reporter, he is clearly not American and therefore we have no legal battle with him. As such, I do believe that we have a right to extradition of him (though sweden clearly does).
Likewise, I oppose what UK is doing to Glenwald's boyfriend, Miranda. They had no reason to hold him once they recovered the stolen material (which that part was legal in my mind; but it will not matter, snowden will simply leak it out other ways). Obviously, the 5 eyes knew that he had it. But holding him for all of those hours and grilling him was plain wrong.
As to Snowden, in the first set of data releases, I was good with it. It was something that I had been concerned about and have said so on this site and others for many years. After all, unlike most ppl here, I DO have experience on this stuff. Lack of oversight was a serious issue. BUT, Snowden went much further than that. Once he started speaking about how it is done and how we do it on other nations and how we follow terrorists and others, he became a traitor. In fact, all other nations would execute him, or worse, lock him up for life, for having done what he is doing now. Personally, I think that we are out of our mind, but I know why. He holds a lot more information. A LOT MORE. Still, it does not change the current situation. He is a whistle blower (good) and a traitor (bad).
And as to the American spy agency fucking with the rest of the world, hey, I hate to point this out, but all of the nations spy on each other and fuck with it as well. UK, France, Germany, Russia, and China are far worse than what America is today, in terms of messing with the rest of the world. This is common. Even the 5 eyes spy on each other (and then share that information). Canada, Australian, New Zealand, and UK all spy on Americans and others around the world.
Likewise, I have dealt with 1 confirmed Chinese spy, and probably another, already.
is that the transmission lines, cooling, etc. are taken out first. Instead, they would be better to focus ONLY on the reactor, while moving the 'spent fuel' aside. Then by leaving the rest in place, it can be used for natural gas boiler, energy storage, perhaps geo-thermal, or even better would be small nuclear reactors that are designed to burn up the waste. Basically, better to keep the site going and making money, then it is to shut it down and turn it into a pure cost center.
Seriously, how did this help Americans? It DOES help AQ, because now, they know what we know about them. They also learn how we think about them. Point is, Snowden's continued document releases show that he is more traitor than whistle blower and that he does not care. He should be treated as a traitor once brought back here.
The reason for this is evolution. We were all taught that evolution was BP changing, when fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Evolution is based on virus cutting DNA from one mammal, and then injecting it into another. So, what carries those virus around? The biggest carriers are mosquitoes. So, when Bill gates was talking originally about getting rid of all mosquitoes, he was talking about bringing evolution to a crawl, rather than the relatively fast pace that it moves at.
Germany's thorium plant was based on similar work done by General Atomic's Ft. St. Vrain. And clean up on the Ft. St. Vrain was only 2 years and was very low costs. The difference was Germany's design. It was a VERY bad one. It was not because of using thorium. Germany just had bad engineering.
We need money in various areas, but 2 biggies that are being missed are geo-thermal along with thorium fission. I would love to see us allocate 1B for each.
Let's back up here. How much spying on our citizens is going on? Very little. far less than what other nations do. The federal gov. is NOT spying on individual Americans without cause. However, some NSA agents have done so (i.e. LOVEINT), but these ppl should be put in prison.
Now, as to spying on other nations, that is the fed's job. That is part of security. However, the real issue is not that the feds are spying. It is the fact that we have not locked down the data. For example, why are 99% of all emails sent clear text? Just plain foolish.
I worked on this shit under W. And I can tell you that you neo-cons would be screaming that this was all good. The one being crucified is O for the shit that you neo-cons (and in this particular case, myself), did.
If you think that Obama is responsible for this AND you are American educated, then you are far more indicative of a horrible education, combined with neo-con/tea-bagger propaganda.
Total BS. NSA is NOT traitorous. They have been asked to connect the dots WRT terrorists. That is what they did. The issue here is that we did NOT put in decent safeguards. NSA is not traitorous. Individuals within NSA, who chose to spy on Americans without cause, are the traitors. Likewise, so is manning and snowden. And snowden continues to get worse.
Sadly, there is a strong truth to what you are saying. We are no where near as bad as China, Iran, venezuela, Germany, Italy, etc. in terms of spying on our citizens. IOW, nearly all other nations are closer to 'nazi' than is America.
However, there is no doubt that America IS controlled by businesses and wealthy, which really is as close to fascism as it comes.
LOL; Yeah, lets see. The USA spies on less than.01% of their citizens, and yet, it is nazi america, while China, germany, india, etc attempt to spy on 100% of their citizens and other nations, but they are free. Yup, makes sense their comrade.
EXACTLY. Their email will still be clear-text, which is how foolish these ppl are. Heck, they still have a boat load of chinese networking equipment in their telcos.
The fact that India is worried about the routing and not the security of the content and continue to run Windows, tells me that they have fools in their gov. IT.
Give me a break. All nations spy on each other. The 5 eyes spy on each other to some degree (but share the intel; IOW, we know that we are spying on each other). Hell, the Germans and French know that we spied on them as they spied on the rest of the west.
The problem becomes when you have a nation like China that is spying on everybody but working fervishly to block all others.
This explains why so many nations are behind.
Instead of worrying about the routing, they should be pushing for all clients to encrypt the contents (not web-based either). Worse, they should be getting off windows and Macs, and moving to Open Source such as Linux and BSD. In addition, the hardware should be produced in their own nations with Logic chips from their nation or the west, instead of China. The bios should be openbios on flash ram that was produced local.
But focusing on the server shows how poorly thought out their IT is.
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First off, you have never seen me call reporters traitors. Had they paid for this information or out and out helped obtain, and then printed it, I might call them a traitor. BUT, when it is delivered into their hands by somebody else's actions, then I would print it as well, though I DO think that there should be selective publication of this rather than all of it. In particular, greenwald is an American and I believe should be more selective about what he is printing. There is a lot there that is NOT whistle blowing, but out right treason. BUT, that is a different issue.
Where have you seen me calling for doing illegal things in my postings ?
Heck, I believe that Manning should be executed (again, out and out treason combined with whistle blowing).
OTOH, while I do not believe that Assange is a reporter, he is clearly not American and therefore we have no legal battle with him. As such, I do believe that we have a right to extradition of him (though sweden clearly does).
Likewise, I oppose what UK is doing to Glenwald's boyfriend, Miranda. They had no reason to hold him once they recovered the stolen material (which that part was legal in my mind; but it will not matter, snowden will simply leak it out other ways). Obviously, the 5 eyes knew that he had it. But holding him for all of those hours and grilling him was plain wrong.
As to Snowden, in the first set of data releases, I was good with it. It was something that I had been concerned about and have said so on this site and others for many years. After all, unlike most ppl here, I DO have experience on this stuff. Lack of oversight was a serious issue. BUT, Snowden went much further than that. Once he started speaking about how it is done and how we do it on other nations and how we follow terrorists and others, he became a traitor. In fact, all other nations would execute him, or worse, lock him up for life, for having done what he is doing now. Personally, I think that we are out of our mind, but I know why. He holds a lot more information. A LOT MORE. Still, it does not change the current situation. He is a whistle blower (good) and a traitor (bad).
And as to the American spy agency fucking with the rest of the world, hey, I hate to point this out, but all of the nations spy on each other and fuck with it as well. UK, France, Germany, Russia, and China are far worse than what America is today, in terms of messing with the rest of the world. This is common. Even the 5 eyes spy on each other (and then share that information). Canada, Australian, New Zealand, and UK all spy on Americans and others around the world. Likewise, I have dealt with 1 confirmed Chinese spy, and probably another, already.
LOL; Sometimes, I really hate chrome's spell checker combined with my words, but they do produce some interesting writing.
Stenography is what is interesting.
is that the transmission lines, cooling, etc. are taken out first. Instead, they would be better to focus ONLY on the reactor, while moving the 'spent fuel' aside. Then by leaving the rest in place, it can be used for natural gas boiler, energy storage, perhaps geo-thermal, or even better would be small nuclear reactors that are designed to burn up the waste. Basically, better to keep the site going and making money, then it is to shut it down and turn it into a pure cost center.
Seriously, how did this help Americans? It DOES help AQ, because now, they know what we know about them. They also learn how we think about them. Point is, Snowden's continued document releases show that he is more traitor than whistle blower and that he does not care. He should be treated as a traitor once brought back here.
The reason for this is evolution. We were all taught that evolution was BP changing, when fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Evolution is based on virus cutting DNA from one mammal, and then injecting it into another. So, what carries those virus around? The biggest carriers are mosquitoes. So, when Bill gates was talking originally about getting rid of all mosquitoes, he was talking about bringing evolution to a crawl, rather than the relatively fast pace that it moves at.
then sue the pants off of whomever decides that they have the fucking rights to shot my RC plane out of the air.
They will simply outsource it India and China. Time to remove IBM from the fed and state payrolls.
Germany's thorium plant was based on similar work done by General Atomic's Ft. St. Vrain. And clean up on the Ft. St. Vrain was only 2 years and was very low costs. The difference was Germany's design. It was a VERY bad one. It was not because of using thorium. Germany just had bad engineering.
We need money in various areas, but 2 biggies that are being missed are geo-thermal along with thorium fission. I would love to see us allocate 1B for each.
Let's back up here. How much spying on our citizens is going on? Very little. far less than what other nations do. The federal gov. is NOT spying on individual Americans without cause. However, some NSA agents have done so (i.e. LOVEINT), but these ppl should be put in prison.
Now, as to spying on other nations, that is the fed's job. That is part of security. However, the real issue is not that the feds are spying. It is the fact that we have not locked down the data. For example, why are 99% of all emails sent clear text? Just plain foolish.
Wrong. It is exactly what China's famous firewall does.
Pretty much. Had they REALLY been concerned about security, they would be pushing encryption of the email as opposed to keeping it cleartext.
I worked on this shit under W. And I can tell you that you neo-cons would be screaming that this was all good. The one being crucified is O for the shit that you neo-cons (and in this particular case, myself), did.
If you think that Obama is responsible for this AND you are American educated, then you are far more indicative of a horrible education, combined with neo-con/tea-bagger propaganda.
That is true. Of course, for a nation to jump over to China is just about as stupid as you can get, but hey, that is up to India.
Total BS. NSA is NOT traitorous. They have been asked to connect the dots WRT terrorists. That is what they did. The issue here is that we did NOT put in decent safeguards. NSA is not traitorous. Individuals within NSA, who chose to spy on Americans without cause, are the traitors. Likewise, so is manning and snowden. And snowden continues to get worse.
Sadly, there is a strong truth to what you are saying. We are no where near as bad as China, Iran, venezuela, Germany, Italy, etc. in terms of spying on our citizens. IOW, nearly all other nations are closer to 'nazi' than is America.
However, there is no doubt that America IS controlled by businesses and wealthy, which really is as close to fascism as it comes.
LOL; Yeah, lets see. The USA spies on less than .01% of their citizens, and yet, it is nazi america, while China, germany, india, etc attempt to spy on 100% of their citizens and other nations, but they are free. Yup, makes sense their comrade.
EXACTLY. Their email will still be clear-text, which is how foolish these ppl are. Heck, they still have a boat load of chinese networking equipment in their telcos.
The fact that India is worried about the routing and not the security of the content and continue to run Windows, tells me that they have fools in their gov. IT.
Not really. Any place that they can tap will be scoped. And yes, they will be spying on our embassies if they have an opportunity.
Give me a break. All nations spy on each other. The 5 eyes spy on each other to some degree (but share the intel; IOW, we know that we are spying on each other). Hell, the Germans and French know that we spied on them as they spied on the rest of the west.
The problem becomes when you have a nation like China that is spying on everybody but working fervishly to block all others.
This explains why so many nations are behind.
Instead of worrying about the routing, they should be pushing for all clients to encrypt the contents (not web-based either). Worse, they should be getting off windows and Macs, and moving to Open Source such as Linux and BSD. In addition, the hardware should be produced in their own nations with Logic chips from their nation or the west, instead of China. The bios should be openbios on flash ram that was produced local.
But focusing on the server shows how poorly thought out their IT is.