You are probably working with dozens of people that would sell out for the right trigger. The job of law enforcement should be to catch the criminals that offer the triggers instead of the lazy job of just locking up the greedy.
It could be something as grubby as the rumoured infighting between Saudi and Israeli aligned factions in the intelligence community that led to that employee being targeted instead of crafting a sting for a different vunerable employee. Or it could be random. Either way someone just chose that fish in the barrel to shoot as a bit of lazy policing with a manufactured crime.
Would they love to know it enough to track this guy down (which would require high level access just to find out what he can get to) and then make him an offer? It's not looking very likely. This is looking like someone lazy locking up the greedy. With careful selection of the type of sting you could probably catch well over a quarter of the adult population that way.
You are using your imagination far too much here - it was an internal operation looking for someone gullible to boost arrest figures or something and no foreign nation was involved at all. What could be done with the plans is entirely irrelevant because nobody was actually trying to get them - they were trying to get the person who had access to the plans. A lot of people are potentially for sale with the right offer (even infamously the man the carrier is named after who took a very large bribe from the Indonesian government), the job of these agents should be to make sure nobody gets near the thousands of vunerable staff instead of locking them all up for being vunerable.
The "bozo" wasn't doing the contacting. He was contacted. Contacted by a lazy agent who wanted to lock people up for being greedy and gullible instead of doing their job and keeping foreign powers from getting to the many greedy and gullible people that are going to be in the system whether you like it or not.
Recall that everyone in the fucking NSA, CIA etc etc who wants a position with a challenge sought out a job which game them access to exceptional number of secrets. If we want people to put the pieces together we need to give them access to them.
There doesn't need to be. The US nuclear industry ate it's own children by lobbying against the Thorium R&D, which had a knockon with other R&D being dropped, and has doomed itself to irrelevance. Unless something comes in from the military side (eg. a small reactor idea based on military technology from a Californian startup) or technology is imported from somewhere else it has no future.
Cool story - but a bit of a plot hole with the "Clean Air Act" and so on which will lose you any older readers or anyone with a loose grasp on recent history. It could sell though, people didn't think it was too ridiculous for CERN to create a black hole to kill the Pope, so your ridiculous idea may get some traction as an airport novel.
Yes it is - it's an argument that all drilling should be done properly and penalties should apply when it is not done properly. There's a bit of a gold rush mentality at the moment and plenty of shortcuts.
The chances of a foreign government contacting a random security cleared employee and asking to buy information is likely to be incredibly low per lifetime of each employee. Also consider that the Egyptians are both not in the market for an aircraft carrier and have enough relations with the US that they would never endanger them by doing something so obvious as building a copy of a US aircraft carrier. This "sting" is just a case of going looking for someone guilty of being stupid and greedy instead of the more difficult operation of trying to catch a real criminal. It's just some dangerously ambitious prick deciding to shoot fish in a barrel to get a list of achievements - that's the one with the "thought process behind that brilliant idea" - present a stupid get rich quick scheme to catch the stupid.
How did that military service as the price for military issue gun ownership go? You didn't do it? Oh so you've twisted that amendment so that it's a right without responsibility - what a clever little coward you are. It's pathetic that a sporting club full of cowards who cannot properly manage their sport have bought so much influence in Washington.
Hot water to drive the expansion. Cold water as the compressor. Similar to the most simple example of the refridgeration cycle in the form of the kerosene fridge with ammonia as the working fluid, only it's solar thermal instead of a flame and a much bigger tank of cold water.
Their state mandated monopolies are in danger of being exposed to the cold winds of capitalism. If they push their prices up too far with inflated "network charges" and other things that have been producing record profits they can face a response of consumers dropping entirely from the grid and not buying from them anymore. Some are scared. Some can't think beyond what they are having for lunch and are in for a GM style shock (where did those Japanese cars come from? I thought the government was there to stop that sort of thing!).
That's sometimes when you find that a project is too large and needs to be divided into sub-projects and need to allocate more resources to the bottlenecks. If someone is doing all of X which depends on Y and Z that they are also doing you can sometimes farm Y and Z out to others. Feedback loops can be a delay on some things, but a lot of stuff can be divided up so you have a lot of people working on it without treading on each others feet and duplicating efforts.
It was baked into the religion for the same reasons as the ten commandments - to produce a society that was more than barbarism. It's harder for the unscrupulous to work their slaves to death if they have people looking over their shoulder demanding that nobody works 7 days a week.
How many people actually agree to working free overtime during negotiations with potential employers?
Just about everyone who gets the job when the market is tight. Twenty percent unemployment of registered professional engineers where I live and imported guest workers are still allowed due to a "shortage". I've got a job but I'm pissed off that we're losing a generation of people that spent years studying with little to look forward to other than part time jobs making coffee.
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You are probably working with dozens of people that would sell out for the right trigger. The job of law enforcement should be to catch the criminals that offer the triggers instead of the lazy job of just locking up the greedy.
Are you suggesting it's not illegal to get someone to take photos of classified documents and sell them to you? Yet you are calling me the idiot?
It could be something as grubby as the rumoured infighting between Saudi and Israeli aligned factions in the intelligence community that led to that employee being targeted instead of crafting a sting for a different vunerable employee. Or it could be random. Either way someone just chose that fish in the barrel to shoot as a bit of lazy policing with a manufactured crime.
Would they love to know it enough to track this guy down (which would require high level access just to find out what he can get to) and then make him an offer? It's not looking very likely.
This is looking like someone lazy locking up the greedy. With careful selection of the type of sting you could probably catch well over a quarter of the adult population that way.
You are using your imagination far too much here - it was an internal operation looking for someone gullible to boost arrest figures or something and no foreign nation was involved at all. What could be done with the plans is entirely irrelevant because nobody was actually trying to get them - they were trying to get the person who had access to the plans.
A lot of people are potentially for sale with the right offer (even infamously the man the carrier is named after who took a very large bribe from the Indonesian government), the job of these agents should be to make sure nobody gets near the thousands of vunerable staff instead of locking them all up for being vunerable.
The "bozo" wasn't doing the contacting. He was contacted. Contacted by a lazy agent who wanted to lock people up for being greedy and gullible instead of doing their job and keeping foreign powers from getting to the many greedy and gullible people that are going to be in the system whether you like it or not.
Recall that everyone in the fucking NSA, CIA etc etc who wants a position with a challenge sought out a job which game them access to exceptional number of secrets.
If we want people to put the pieces together we need to give them access to them.
There doesn't need to be. The US nuclear industry ate it's own children by lobbying against the Thorium R&D, which had a knockon with other R&D being dropped, and has doomed itself to irrelevance. Unless something comes in from the military side (eg. a small reactor idea based on military technology from a Californian startup) or technology is imported from somewhere else it has no future.
Good point, it reminds me of this amusing allegation about the CIA being involved in Australian environmental protest.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-20/palmer-says-green-groups-funded-by-cia/3901920
Cool story - but a bit of a plot hole with the "Clean Air Act" and so on which will lose you any older readers or anyone with a loose grasp on recent history.
It could sell though, people didn't think it was too ridiculous for CERN to create a black hole to kill the Pope, so your ridiculous idea may get some traction as an airport novel.
That's Commie talk! The Libertarian view is that they can pay for their own lawyers.
Your roads are made out of "refinery wastes". It really depends on exactly what chemical it is, what it does and where it gets to doesn't it?
Yes it is - it's an argument that all drilling should be done properly and penalties should apply when it is not done properly. There's a bit of a gold rush mentality at the moment and plenty of shortcuts.
However when you have goals other than giving your lawyers something to do it's not so clear cut.
The chances of a foreign government contacting a random security cleared employee and asking to buy information is likely to be incredibly low per lifetime of each employee. Also consider that the Egyptians are both not in the market for an aircraft carrier and have enough relations with the US that they would never endanger them by doing something so obvious as building a copy of a US aircraft carrier. This "sting" is just a case of going looking for someone guilty of being stupid and greedy instead of the more difficult operation of trying to catch a real criminal.
It's just some dangerously ambitious prick deciding to shoot fish in a barrel to get a list of achievements - that's the one with the "thought process behind that brilliant idea" - present a stupid get rich quick scheme to catch the stupid.
How convenient. No responsibility required. Carry on then, maybe cut that flag into strips to clean your guns since it's not doing anything useful.
Authoritarian politics tends to reduce itself to Kafka jokes after a while. Arbitrary madness is easier than proper governance.
How did that military service as the price for military issue gun ownership go? You didn't do it? Oh so you've twisted that amendment so that it's a right without responsibility - what a clever little coward you are.
It's pathetic that a sporting club full of cowards who cannot properly manage their sport have bought so much influence in Washington.
Hot water to drive the expansion. Cold water as the compressor. Similar to the most simple example of the refridgeration cycle in the form of the kerosene fridge with ammonia as the working fluid, only it's solar thermal instead of a flame and a much bigger tank of cold water.
So they can walk out at 10am without consequence?
Of course, you seem to suggest, daddy can always find them another job.
Please be serious instead of this stupid little game where you roleplay a reactionary aristocrat.
Their state mandated monopolies are in danger of being exposed to the cold winds of capitalism. If they push their prices up too far with inflated "network charges" and other things that have been producing record profits they can face a response of consumers dropping entirely from the grid and not buying from them anymore. Some are scared. Some can't think beyond what they are having for lunch and are in for a GM style shock (where did those Japanese cars come from? I thought the government was there to stop that sort of thing!).
That's sometimes when you find that a project is too large and needs to be divided into sub-projects and need to allocate more resources to the bottlenecks.
If someone is doing all of X which depends on Y and Z that they are also doing you can sometimes farm Y and Z out to others. Feedback loops can be a delay on some things, but a lot of stuff can be divided up so you have a lot of people working on it without treading on each others feet and duplicating efforts.
It was baked into the religion for the same reasons as the ten commandments - to produce a society that was more than barbarism. It's harder for the unscrupulous to work their slaves to death if they have people looking over their shoulder demanding that nobody works 7 days a week.
Just about everyone who gets the job when the market is tight.
Twenty percent unemployment of registered professional engineers where I live and imported guest workers are still allowed due to a "shortage". I've got a job but I'm pissed off that we're losing a generation of people that spent years studying with little to look forward to other than part time jobs making coffee.
Should be:
(but not much of it for the situation)
The above post comes across as critical to the poster when I'm really trying to be critical of a widespread lazy industry practice.