You seem to be under the delusion that a polluted toxic environment can somehow sustain a healthy economy as it's population starts dying from cancer, at all ages and with the accompanying rise in birth defects. Eventually that population base collapses and, hmm, what computers sustain the illusion of an economy without a human population base.
Humans evolved under a range of specific environmental conditions, sufficiently alter those environmental from the conditions which can safely sustain a human population and you have extinction and zero economy. The environment is a logical sane part of any economy to think it is not is utterly totally psychophathicaly insane.
I did, did you not check where they did their research and how they conducted it. Although not complete in details indications where that Pew Research Centre did it on Face book. They also did not state why the research was conducted or who paid for it.
So in that case the problem is with the law, the courts and the police. Failure to legally prosecute and imprison and thus resolving the issue with straight forward dismissal.
That is totally wrong. You can fund science and ask a stupid question and then get a stupid answer, then twist that stupid answer into something it is not.
In this case earth cyclic weather change. Well that is utterly meaningless, as it can only really occur due to external circumstance ie solar output and orbital mechanics. Catch is both of those do not explain major ice ages. Which look to be driven by probability based co-incidental major geological events (a series of major earthquakes and major volcanoes at near the same time, which due to probability can be hundreds of thousands or millions of years apart, basically random through extreme complexity) or dust clouds driven by spacial events, as well as major celestial impacts.
Life can of course have an impact, as a result of run away species explosion but these of course are again not cyclic. So here the stupid question is, are there cyclic weather events, the answer yes, stellar output and orbital mechanics. This well then be trotted out as the reason for the current event, even though science has already substantiated that it is not.
Reality is of course we house billions in coastal cities, even if this where a cyclic event we logically should take every means possible to circumvent it and sustain the current sea over the full life of our human society, else those billions will be seeking what is the apparent social cyclic event, of the public execution of those who caused and or allowed the problems to occur.
Unless the argument is that a black hole can sustain a a dense field of sub-atomic particles in high speed orbit near the event horizon in a toroidal form collapsing at the poles. So the answer to what happens to an astronaut who falls into a black hole, well, that depends upon whether it is near the black holes equator or it's poles.
Nobody does it more than Fox not-News corp. In fact in reality they outspend everyone else by ten to one. They provide free airtime for the craziest right views that other political groups would have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy.
As for your child molester theory, everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. If any teacher was proven guilty of child molestation in a court of law they would be in prison and really rather easy to fire. So what you are saying is news organisation particularly Fox not-News ramping up the fear factor spreads guilty upon accusation news far and wide and do everything possible to support any attack against teachers as long as they are unionised teacher and no private for profit, I don't know, what are they really going to call those unqualified, minimum wage, trainers.
More accurately in this case 47% of Facebook users who are willing to do surveys on Facebook get their 'internet' news from Facebook shared likes ie they must already be demographically be aligned with the people sharing news with them. Hmm, is Facebook trying to hint that paid for news likes can tilt their audience into the closed loop world of corporate advertising as news? Is Facebook trying to claim they are the Shepard and they have a flock ready to fleece?
Enrich Unions WTF?. Yeah, look at all the multi-millionaire and billionaire unionist. Don't be jealous because your employer screws you over and unionist enjoy a measure of protection, better wages and better working conditions. Join a bloody union or are you afraid that you'll be singled out and are too cowardly to stand up for yourself and your fellow workers.
Your honour, integrity and honesty are never ever beyond your control. To abandon those is not to be a puppet but a sell out, a honourable liar without integrity. That is always in your control and always your choice. No, cog, Obama is a co-conspirator and a betrayer of all he pretended to stand for.
You sound just like some idiot child but it's OK mommy because everyone does it. Hacking into computers and interfering with computer networks is a criminal act, it should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, end of story.
Right now various security agencies around the globe should be having their heads handed to them on a platter for the incompetence in securing their countries essential infrastructure. They should now, each and every individual be required to prove that they were not individually corrupted by a foreign intelligence agency into circumventing their countries computer security and just fired for gross incompetence and prevented from ever working for the government again. Of course those security amateurs are also screwed when it comes to working for private industry computer security as they have only proven their incompetence.
Many countries gave the carrot to employ computer security specialist to secure their countries computer systems. Now should come the stick. Many countries intelligence services and police forces failed to prevent or detect that major security intrusions and hence more heads should roll. Want you systems secure then the very first thing you do is fire those who failed at it and replace them with others with the knowledge that should they fail they will be fired.
The hunt should be only to detect, capture and prosecute as many individuals as possible, for the criminal acts they committed. As obviously the US will blatantly shirk their responsibility for extradition of those individuals (even when they were committing the same criminal acts inside of the US against US citizens) should be black flagged and apprehended as soon as they cross international borders.
This is no shits and giggles matter, this is 10 years to life imprisonment and deservedly so. It is entirely criminal and should be treated as such. First comes message interception. Then comes blackmail and extortion to make maximum use of it. Then comes murder to keep it secure. Once you start down that criminal path, each little step only becomes a tiny change in policy and before you know it you are murdering people for their resources.
They can also simply close the account and destroy the bitcoins, meaning the remaining bitcoins will be worth slightly more. We all of course know exactly what they are going to do. They will play with the IRS and use those bitcoins in various criminal investigations to catch people foolish enough to now use them.
I trust an international standard, audited by government and approved by motor insurance companies. That last part is the most important, if those greedy bastards feel their money is safe with the automated vehicle, why shouldn't I;D.
Add warmth in deep cold water and you get sky rocketing growth and your heat exchange fails. Coat your heat exchanger with sufficiently toxic products to prevent growth and you not only limit heat exchange but you also pollute the environment. The commute is now also a huge problem especially in stormy whether, you limit you possible work force to those who will accept being trapped at your whim or the weather's whim. Salt corrosion will occur through out the vessel, water vapour droplets generated through wind turbulence (not evaporation) are very salty (as a result of partial evaporation) and will be a permanent nightmare to block, clean, prevent corrosion.
This has nothing to do with cooling as pumping the water would be car cheaper and everything to do with what is becoming a rather douchy company simply cheating on property taxes. Of course this will blow up in their faces when, it comes to supplying energy to the thing, removing waste especially sewerage, supply fresh water and food, especially during extended inclement weather and one power disruption and profits gone.
Note also I would have to side with coastal inhabitants who complained that they hunk of junk spoiled their view and who demanded a block to the permanent mooring unless it was far enough out to sea not to obstruct or interfere with their view.
Here's what you do. Electric vehicle for the everyday city commute and local shopping. When you need to go further, with the money you save on the electric vehicle, you hire a top end motor vehicle and enjoy yourself. For those that travel all day, obviously neat stuff like companies with induction charging stations, parking meters with induction charging (pay for park and charge at the same time. All that is require is a government led standard for induction charging connection, receiver and connecter, as well as limited secured data transfer to initiate and bill the charge and the park.
Of course never to forget, 20 minutes is not a long time to charge the car, if you have also stopped for lunch;).
It's called "The straw that broke the camels back", the camel always remembers that last straw and who put it their and tends to forget all the others that piled on there.
Basically Uncle Tom Obama the choom gang coward looks far far worse because he promised time and time again to be far far better than his predecessors and instead, well, history has proven that while he is a skilled teleprompter reader his actions prove him to be a far right sycophant.
As for the individual, mouthing off is mouthing off, when he actually tried to commit the crime is the only time he should be arrested. Cause trouble in another country, provide them with the evidence and let them choose how to deal with it. Don't be same lame arsed douche hunting a promotion and screw everything up to feed your ego and corrupt justice. What a bloody asshat. Chances are they knew the guy was just bullshitting and chicken out, so they went with the illegal evidence rather than getting a warrant based upon that evidence to gather legal evidence. Now comes the big waste of tax payer dollars for nothing.
The funny thing about it now, is the claim by Homeland security that they need to keep the documents as they might contain evidence of crimes but and here's the 'big butt', according to the warrant that would have been obtained illegal and would be thrown out in a court of law.
So no attempt at justice, straight up internal persecution of whistle blowers that the Uncle Tom Obama administration has become globally well known for. With full intent to break the law by the Department of Homeland Security to achieve it.
Well technically speaking, it would be likely the fault of the specific Government Consumer Protection Authority, whose jobs it is to monitor claims about products and if it finds them false, seek fiscal redress for the risk it puts the public too and ensure the public are warned. The end consumer should never really be put in this position because reality is the only find the failure when they try to apply the product and seeking legal redress can be all too late. I find it all too annoying to get product after product that fails to achieve the levels of performance claimed and really like the idea of an agency that puts the breaks on this, by bankrupting deceitful company after deceitful company as well as those companies executive teams.
Is a 100% tax on income appropriate, it really depends upon how that income was generated and the level of social harm it caused. It that tax at 100% of income destructive, no not when it penalised destructive forms of income generation. So does it make the economy and society when it is applied like that, of course. Logic can be selectively applied in many ways to create any point of argument ie by that view 300% tax on income generated can be usefully applied to prevent income generation by very unacceptable methods.
Now tax for example the idea of burning petrol, perhaps you would consider doing within your own garage whilst you are in their monitoring the impact upon the living environment within that garage. Think it's a bad idea, well, under what licence is it acceptable to pollute the greater environment. Just because people live on main through fairs does not entitle the rest of society to arbitrarily pollute that environment to levels of extreme unhealth. So is petrol tax that curbs people's willingness to pollute the environment regressive, absolutely not, it helps to create a healthier environment for all members of society. What benefit to society to have that extra 30 cents in their pocket for every gallon of gas, when it is likely to kill them and every member of the family with cancer. So which is the most regressive burning of fossil fuels or taxes on fossil fuels to curb their use. How high should that tax be, hmm, logically in the end, high enough to end their use.
Taxes don't hurt the economy, that's a right wing furphy, taxes just hurt the insatiable greed of the rich, just like having to pay for stuff instead of being able to steal it. Taxes kick the economy along because the government spends the money rather than sitting on it. Growth comes from spending rather than clumping in stagnant pools where slime try to outgrowth each others obesity.
If Oregon is serious about better balancing the budget they should start shifting more responsibilities from local government back to state government and substantively cut back on administrative costs, policing, schools, fire brigade are all services that could save enormous amounts with just one point of administration versus hundreds. So property taxes could be divided between state and local.
Well, when you stop and think about it, turning their own methods against them might prove effective. Think of the RIAA/MPAA, troll lawyers, how about turning some of those nasty folk against the trolls ie you keep what you kill. Let them start tracking down an suing the trolls that plant false information in wikipedia and they can keep say half the damages they gain.
You miss the point. When they are working for an overseas government, they are a criminal end of story. Compared to what Gary Mckinnon was doing the US government was involved in global organised crime and if those involved were caught and prosecuted as justice would demand, would result in several millennia of prison sentences. Criminals are criminals, save the 'but we are special' and allowed to break every other countries laws, as an excuse for all the people to US has killed globally to feed corporate greed.
Dude, I'm Australian, and I'm trying to make sure what ever colour branded, animal mascoted US government is the current puppet of choice doesn't export that corporate insanity to Australia via corrupt trade agreements. So Uncle Tom or Mr Crazy Pants, who gives a crap, if it wasn't for the even crazier Tea Baggers that Mr Crazy Pants would have been saddled with, you couldn't tell the difference.
That seems silly. I use libre office and if the document needs to travel simply do it in the doc format, one that very early version of M$ Office can open. In fact I achieve greater compatibility by doing that rather than using the latest versions of M$ Office as that can create enormous problems and confusion with earlier version of M$ Office because of people expecting compatibility that is missing. So internal only documents are in open office format and external documents are in M$ Office format/early version compatible back to 98. In fact I found that far easier to manage with Libre Office than with M$ Office (you often forget to ask what version of M$ Office, you just stuff about with it wasn't saved properly, it was broken in transit etc very bloody annoying). Want to save in doc, xls just set it as default.
Your assumptions that the vacuum of space also includes a vacuum of existing political power and regulation seems rather childish and wishful thinking. Along the lines of the crazy logic, that because 100% of the planets that we have investigate in the surface water zone, the rest of the galaxy is uninhabited. When humanity has investigated say 100 planets in this zone and found them to lack life, get back to me.
As for intelligent life, as an intelligent species advances so it life span increase, eventually substantively this enforces social stability. Think of all your grand parents, great grandparents, great great grandparents, great great great grandparents (ps not backward peasants but those born of technologically advanced societies) not only being alive but socially and politically active. Once they get passed the self destructive hump (both individuals and society), they are likely to last a very, very, very long time.
You spy during war, in peace time you commit criminal acts and computer network crime. Remember the hue and cry over Gary McKinnon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon, meanwhile the big bag of dicks that is NSA/CIA. What will the US government do when under due process and investigation foreign governments start issuing extradition request for NSA/CIA agents who have committed criminal acts under existing extradition treaties. How far will the US government allow the rule of law to collapse in order to what?
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You seem to be under the delusion that a polluted toxic environment can somehow sustain a healthy economy as it's population starts dying from cancer, at all ages and with the accompanying rise in birth defects. Eventually that population base collapses and, hmm, what computers sustain the illusion of an economy without a human population base.
Humans evolved under a range of specific environmental conditions, sufficiently alter those environmental from the conditions which can safely sustain a human population and you have extinction and zero economy. The environment is a logical sane part of any economy to think it is not is utterly totally psychophathicaly insane.
I did, did you not check where they did their research and how they conducted it. Although not complete in details indications where that Pew Research Centre did it on Face book. They also did not state why the research was conducted or who paid for it.
So in that case the problem is with the law, the courts and the police. Failure to legally prosecute and imprison and thus resolving the issue with straight forward dismissal.
That is totally wrong. You can fund science and ask a stupid question and then get a stupid answer, then twist that stupid answer into something it is not.
In this case earth cyclic weather change. Well that is utterly meaningless, as it can only really occur due to external circumstance ie solar output and orbital mechanics. Catch is both of those do not explain major ice ages. Which look to be driven by probability based co-incidental major geological events (a series of major earthquakes and major volcanoes at near the same time, which due to probability can be hundreds of thousands or millions of years apart, basically random through extreme complexity) or dust clouds driven by spacial events, as well as major celestial impacts.
Life can of course have an impact, as a result of run away species explosion but these of course are again not cyclic. So here the stupid question is, are there cyclic weather events, the answer yes, stellar output and orbital mechanics. This well then be trotted out as the reason for the current event, even though science has already substantiated that it is not.
Reality is of course we house billions in coastal cities, even if this where a cyclic event we logically should take every means possible to circumvent it and sustain the current sea over the full life of our human society, else those billions will be seeking what is the apparent social cyclic event, of the public execution of those who caused and or allowed the problems to occur.
Unless the argument is that a black hole can sustain a a dense field of sub-atomic particles in high speed orbit near the event horizon in a toroidal form collapsing at the poles. So the answer to what happens to an astronaut who falls into a black hole, well, that depends upon whether it is near the black holes equator or it's poles.
Nobody does it more than Fox not-News corp. In fact in reality they outspend everyone else by ten to one. They provide free airtime for the craziest right views that other political groups would have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy.
As for your child molester theory, everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. If any teacher was proven guilty of child molestation in a court of law they would be in prison and really rather easy to fire. So what you are saying is news organisation particularly Fox not-News ramping up the fear factor spreads guilty upon accusation news far and wide and do everything possible to support any attack against teachers as long as they are unionised teacher and no private for profit, I don't know, what are they really going to call those unqualified, minimum wage, trainers.
More accurately in this case 47% of Facebook users who are willing to do surveys on Facebook get their 'internet' news from Facebook shared likes ie they must already be demographically be aligned with the people sharing news with them. Hmm, is Facebook trying to hint that paid for news likes can tilt their audience into the closed loop world of corporate advertising as news? Is Facebook trying to claim they are the Shepard and they have a flock ready to fleece?
Enrich Unions WTF?. Yeah, look at all the multi-millionaire and billionaire unionist. Don't be jealous because your employer screws you over and unionist enjoy a measure of protection, better wages and better working conditions. Join a bloody union or are you afraid that you'll be singled out and are too cowardly to stand up for yourself and your fellow workers.
Your honour, integrity and honesty are never ever beyond your control. To abandon those is not to be a puppet but a sell out, a honourable liar without integrity. That is always in your control and always your choice. No, cog, Obama is a co-conspirator and a betrayer of all he pretended to stand for.
You sound just like some idiot child but it's OK mommy because everyone does it. Hacking into computers and interfering with computer networks is a criminal act, it should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, end of story.
Right now various security agencies around the globe should be having their heads handed to them on a platter for the incompetence in securing their countries essential infrastructure. They should now, each and every individual be required to prove that they were not individually corrupted by a foreign intelligence agency into circumventing their countries computer security and just fired for gross incompetence and prevented from ever working for the government again. Of course those security amateurs are also screwed when it comes to working for private industry computer security as they have only proven their incompetence.
Many countries gave the carrot to employ computer security specialist to secure their countries computer systems. Now should come the stick. Many countries intelligence services and police forces failed to prevent or detect that major security intrusions and hence more heads should roll. Want you systems secure then the very first thing you do is fire those who failed at it and replace them with others with the knowledge that should they fail they will be fired.
The hunt should be only to detect, capture and prosecute as many individuals as possible, for the criminal acts they committed. As obviously the US will blatantly shirk their responsibility for extradition of those individuals (even when they were committing the same criminal acts inside of the US against US citizens) should be black flagged and apprehended as soon as they cross international borders.
This is no shits and giggles matter, this is 10 years to life imprisonment and deservedly so. It is entirely criminal and should be treated as such. First comes message interception. Then comes blackmail and extortion to make maximum use of it. Then comes murder to keep it secure. Once you start down that criminal path, each little step only becomes a tiny change in policy and before you know it you are murdering people for their resources.
They can also simply close the account and destroy the bitcoins, meaning the remaining bitcoins will be worth slightly more. We all of course know exactly what they are going to do. They will play with the IRS and use those bitcoins in various criminal investigations to catch people foolish enough to now use them.
I trust an international standard, audited by government and approved by motor insurance companies. That last part is the most important, if those greedy bastards feel their money is safe with the automated vehicle, why shouldn't I ;D.
Add warmth in deep cold water and you get sky rocketing growth and your heat exchange fails. Coat your heat exchanger with sufficiently toxic products to prevent growth and you not only limit heat exchange but you also pollute the environment. The commute is now also a huge problem especially in stormy whether, you limit you possible work force to those who will accept being trapped at your whim or the weather's whim. Salt corrosion will occur through out the vessel, water vapour droplets generated through wind turbulence (not evaporation) are very salty (as a result of partial evaporation) and will be a permanent nightmare to block, clean, prevent corrosion.
This has nothing to do with cooling as pumping the water would be car cheaper and everything to do with what is becoming a rather douchy company simply cheating on property taxes. Of course this will blow up in their faces when, it comes to supplying energy to the thing, removing waste especially sewerage, supply fresh water and food, especially during extended inclement weather and one power disruption and profits gone.
Note also I would have to side with coastal inhabitants who complained that they hunk of junk spoiled their view and who demanded a block to the permanent mooring unless it was far enough out to sea not to obstruct or interfere with their view.
Here's what you do. Electric vehicle for the everyday city commute and local shopping. When you need to go further, with the money you save on the electric vehicle, you hire a top end motor vehicle and enjoy yourself. For those that travel all day, obviously neat stuff like companies with induction charging stations, parking meters with induction charging (pay for park and charge at the same time. All that is require is a government led standard for induction charging connection, receiver and connecter, as well as limited secured data transfer to initiate and bill the charge and the park.
Of course never to forget, 20 minutes is not a long time to charge the car, if you have also stopped for lunch ;).
It's called "The straw that broke the camels back", the camel always remembers that last straw and who put it their and tends to forget all the others that piled on there.
Basically Uncle Tom Obama the choom gang coward looks far far worse because he promised time and time again to be far far better than his predecessors and instead, well, history has proven that while he is a skilled teleprompter reader his actions prove him to be a far right sycophant.
As for the individual, mouthing off is mouthing off, when he actually tried to commit the crime is the only time he should be arrested. Cause trouble in another country, provide them with the evidence and let them choose how to deal with it. Don't be same lame arsed douche hunting a promotion and screw everything up to feed your ego and corrupt justice. What a bloody asshat. Chances are they knew the guy was just bullshitting and chicken out, so they went with the illegal evidence rather than getting a warrant based upon that evidence to gather legal evidence. Now comes the big waste of tax payer dollars for nothing.
The funny thing about it now, is the claim by Homeland security that they need to keep the documents as they might contain evidence of crimes but and here's the 'big butt', according to the warrant that would have been obtained illegal and would be thrown out in a court of law.
So no attempt at justice, straight up internal persecution of whistle blowers that the Uncle Tom Obama administration has become globally well known for. With full intent to break the law by the Department of Homeland Security to achieve it.
Well technically speaking, it would be likely the fault of the specific Government Consumer Protection Authority, whose jobs it is to monitor claims about products and if it finds them false, seek fiscal redress for the risk it puts the public too and ensure the public are warned. The end consumer should never really be put in this position because reality is the only find the failure when they try to apply the product and seeking legal redress can be all too late. I find it all too annoying to get product after product that fails to achieve the levels of performance claimed and really like the idea of an agency that puts the breaks on this, by bankrupting deceitful company after deceitful company as well as those companies executive teams.
Is a 100% tax on income appropriate, it really depends upon how that income was generated and the level of social harm it caused. It that tax at 100% of income destructive, no not when it penalised destructive forms of income generation. So does it make the economy and society when it is applied like that, of course. Logic can be selectively applied in many ways to create any point of argument ie by that view 300% tax on income generated can be usefully applied to prevent income generation by very unacceptable methods.
Now tax for example the idea of burning petrol, perhaps you would consider doing within your own garage whilst you are in their monitoring the impact upon the living environment within that garage. Think it's a bad idea, well, under what licence is it acceptable to pollute the greater environment. Just because people live on main through fairs does not entitle the rest of society to arbitrarily pollute that environment to levels of extreme unhealth. So is petrol tax that curbs people's willingness to pollute the environment regressive, absolutely not, it helps to create a healthier environment for all members of society. What benefit to society to have that extra 30 cents in their pocket for every gallon of gas, when it is likely to kill them and every member of the family with cancer. So which is the most regressive burning of fossil fuels or taxes on fossil fuels to curb their use. How high should that tax be, hmm, logically in the end, high enough to end their use.
Taxes don't hurt the economy, that's a right wing furphy, taxes just hurt the insatiable greed of the rich, just like having to pay for stuff instead of being able to steal it. Taxes kick the economy along because the government spends the money rather than sitting on it. Growth comes from spending rather than clumping in stagnant pools where slime try to outgrowth each others obesity.
If Oregon is serious about better balancing the budget they should start shifting more responsibilities from local government back to state government and substantively cut back on administrative costs, policing, schools, fire brigade are all services that could save enormous amounts with just one point of administration versus hundreds. So property taxes could be divided between state and local.
Well, when you stop and think about it, turning their own methods against them might prove effective. Think of the RIAA/MPAA, troll lawyers, how about turning some of those nasty folk against the trolls ie you keep what you kill. Let them start tracking down an suing the trolls that plant false information in wikipedia and they can keep say half the damages they gain.
You miss the point. When they are working for an overseas government, they are a criminal end of story. Compared to what Gary Mckinnon was doing the US government was involved in global organised crime and if those involved were caught and prosecuted as justice would demand, would result in several millennia of prison sentences. Criminals are criminals, save the 'but we are special' and allowed to break every other countries laws, as an excuse for all the people to US has killed globally to feed corporate greed.
Dude, I'm Australian, and I'm trying to make sure what ever colour branded, animal mascoted US government is the current puppet of choice doesn't export that corporate insanity to Australia via corrupt trade agreements. So Uncle Tom or Mr Crazy Pants, who gives a crap, if it wasn't for the even crazier Tea Baggers that Mr Crazy Pants would have been saddled with, you couldn't tell the difference.
That seems silly. I use libre office and if the document needs to travel simply do it in the doc format, one that very early version of M$ Office can open. In fact I achieve greater compatibility by doing that rather than using the latest versions of M$ Office as that can create enormous problems and confusion with earlier version of M$ Office because of people expecting compatibility that is missing. So internal only documents are in open office format and external documents are in M$ Office format/early version compatible back to 98. In fact I found that far easier to manage with Libre Office than with M$ Office (you often forget to ask what version of M$ Office, you just stuff about with it wasn't saved properly, it was broken in transit etc very bloody annoying). Want to save in doc, xls just set it as default.
Your assumptions that the vacuum of space also includes a vacuum of existing political power and regulation seems rather childish and wishful thinking. Along the lines of the crazy logic, that because 100% of the planets that we have investigate in the surface water zone, the rest of the galaxy is uninhabited. When humanity has investigated say 100 planets in this zone and found them to lack life, get back to me.
As for intelligent life, as an intelligent species advances so it life span increase, eventually substantively this enforces social stability. Think of all your grand parents, great grandparents, great great grandparents, great great great grandparents (ps not backward peasants but those born of technologically advanced societies) not only being alive but socially and politically active. Once they get passed the self destructive hump (both individuals and society), they are likely to last a very, very, very long time.
You spy during war, in peace time you commit criminal acts and computer network crime. Remember the hue and cry over Gary McKinnon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon, meanwhile the big bag of dicks that is NSA/CIA. What will the US government do when under due process and investigation foreign governments start issuing extradition request for NSA/CIA agents who have committed criminal acts under existing extradition treaties. How far will the US government allow the rule of law to collapse in order to what?