Yes, but as I wrote above, it should not be. It's an example of a risky project (a new design of rocket) having to rely on the strongly risk adverse to continue. It's why commercial space technology is not going to advance much without some government backing. Even just insurance like the nuclear power industry gets from the government could be enough to make a difference and allow a few failures on the path to success instead of something nowhere near as good as we could rent from the Russians. So they are old engines, that's one bit of risk reduced but there's plenty of new things in that rocket design.
Personally, I've met very few police that believed in
Since this has been going on for far too long with little sign of a clue, I'm sorry but since you escalated to very childish insults I do have to suggest getting out a bit more, talking to a few people, growing up a bit mentally and maybe reading a fucking non-fiction book instead of watching science fiction videos. There's no "strawman" required when the things you've written have so little connection with the current situation and appear to be right out of a movie instead.
But after all there is a big step between a car bomb and a car accident
Assassination is assassination. The example I gave was of a Chilean agent carrying out an assassination in Washington D.C. a few years ago - if you hadn't even heard of that then why are you bothering to discuss governments arranging assassinations whether overt or covert?
They probably will but they shouldn't have serious problems just because of a failed launch. You can't progress in something difficult if every setback is seen as a showstopper, which I suppose is why governments have been prepared to pay the price of an occasional rocket failure while private enterprise has been steering clear of funding it up till now. Nobody went broke over Apollo 1. This is nowhere near as serious.
Do you actually believe they couldn't simply have the police guarding their exit
Do you really think spooks want professional law enforcement to watch while they carry out extralegal operations? Many Police actually think laws are worth enforcing and don't want to see a "might makes right" system such as in China or Soviet Russian - they demand "inconvenient" things like due process.
The truly amusing thing here is you are being critical of someone's suspicions of a conspiracy but suggesting a Pinochet style system in it's place - we're not yet anywhere near the stage of setting off car bombs in Washington to silence inconvenient people. You've accused someone of having a wild fantasy and suggested something far wilder.
If they are not a student group the University has the right to tell them to fuck off, just as you'd have to same right to tell them to get out of your house. Even if they were a student group and they are doing something the University has the right to call it off just as you would have the right to shut down a party in your house where your kids invited a thousand people off Facebook.
The constitution doesn't come into it at all. It just means they can't be dragged off to jail for speaking, it doesn't mean no conditions on room hire.
So says the guy in San Francisco waiting for an earthquake, the midwest waiting for a tornado, or even as far north as New York waiting for a hurricane?
So? The remember that the SCO line in SCO vs IBM on linux was pushed hard by the hack that reported Amityville Horror as fact and she was taken seriously. Entertainment as news is how it is now so autism conspiracy theories would not be enough to remove credibility in the media industry. In case that wasn't clear enough, we may see some major red flags being raised here but that's not enough to stop a reporter being taken seriously, especially if it can be used to push a political barrow. If she makes enough fuss her next job will probably be in a "Think Tank".
If they want to scare her they wake her up in the middle of the night with 4 people in her bedroom
That sort of thing leads to amusing (or tragic) tangles with armed professional law enforcement, and the toy soldiers do not cope well with such situations.
Look, this isn't what hacking looks like, unless it's being done by a 14yo who installed VNC on your machine and is just fucking with you
From what Snowden released that seems to be the mentality of parts of the sprawling outsourced clusterfuck that is the NSA, right up to the top with an operations room based on a fucking TV show and laid out by a Hollywood set designer.
If I were a government spook and I was trying to crack a reporter's computer, I would use an off-the-shelf exploit, not something that pointed straight back at the government
See Polonium poisoning as the least subtle current way of a government (Russian government obviously) deliberately doing something that points back to them as a fear tactic. This could be a more subtle way of "sending a message".
So someone felt threatened enough by the above post to mark it flamebait? That very strongly reinforces my suggestion that it wouldn't be considered a job for "real men" by someone defrosted from 1970. What kind of weakling would think the opinion above is coming on too strong? Face it kids (ie. too young to remember when there were many women in CS/IT), it's soft indoor work with a bit of thinking so saying it's something better suited for big strong men is ridiculous. If it's the thinking bit that is supposed to be the big deal that's even more ridiculous - not much of IT is at the physics doctoral thesis level and women can do that stuff, let alone the lesser tasks that most of the people reading this site do.
Programming, analysis, and such would be considered men's work
Only it wasn't. Admiral Grace Hopper wasn't doing the "men's work" of commanding a vessel, she was doing the "women's work" of programming, analysis, and such - just like the women in Bletchley Park and similar of the same generation. If it was considered "men's work" I doubt the Navy would have employed her in that role.
Face it, we work indoors, at keyboards, dealing with what is almost always very simple mathematics, rarely even simple calculus required - it's not so very different is it?
We're talking about the 1980s. Sexism, racism, nepotism and a lot besides was pretty blatant. Employers were happy to take workers that wouldn't get pregnant and didn't want to finish early to pick the kids up from school. They also wanted people just like them so not just a boys club but boys that resembled the founders - making it a bit tough for serious grown men coming in from other industries as well. As for your second bit, WTF did that baggage come from?
Because suddenly there was money in it, and as a consequence it squeezed the women out of the profession. I even put it in bold. Do I need a BLINK tag?
Time and a stable employer is needed for such stuff. Saddam had a few of his nuclear experts executed for taking too long and that sort of thing is going to be taken into account in the real world outside of Tom Clancy novels.
both the terms "ISIS" and "ISIL" were being used interchangeably to refer to the organization
Because it's a translation, I've got no idea why we are not just calling them Daash. As for them doing serious accelerated microbiological research to weaponize Ebola, we're pretty damn lucky that this is reality and not a Tom Clancy novel with infinite instant experts aren't we? Where are they going to find an Ebola expert who isn't already very busy?
Maybe it's just the same reason quiet and sparsely populated areas send their military doctors to New York to get gunshot would experience and their firemen to California for the wild fires. Where better to get experience in dealing with a difficult epidemic than Ebola wards in Africa today? Sure they are playing politics but I doubt that's all there is to it - and frankly the Reds under the Beds bullshit about Cuba is just looking childish these days considering some of the regimes the USA will trade with. Then there's the obvious, analogised as helping the people at the other end of the floor put out a fire before it spreads to your apartment. Attempting to close borders didn't work in 1919 and it's certainly not going to work today.
Simpler than that. Women were training for CS/IT and not getting jobs. Word got around. Babbling about brain behaviour is fairly pointless since there used to be plenty of women in the field and nobody noticed anything odd back then.
SCHOOLING is just about the only way to get past HR in a company big enough to have people dedicated to that role. Even an engineering degree plus IT experience is not seen as acceptable in comparison with a recent CS/IT/IS/I* graduate by many HR people, so the people that you would actually be working for don't even get to know you exist. Certs can bypass that in some places but not others.
No mystery - suddenly there was money in it and the women were squeezed out of the profession. Even as a male I got to notice the depressing bit in the late 1980s where there were still a lot of women training in CS/IT but hardly anyone was employing them. As I've written here many times, I've seen more women even in heavy engineering, mining etc roles than in IT. However it is rather amusing to see some here trying to justify how women are not suited for what was historically considered "women's work" - we're sitting inside at keyboards FFS and would be considered sissies by someone defrosted from 1970.
An analogy is of course an analogy - so "good morning" is not the same as "I took the initiative" - yet you accuse ME of not being an English speaker and I've now got to explain something very simple to you! Your silly suggestion that he was taking full credit relies on ignoring context just like an assumption that "good morning" means the person stating it MADE IT GOOD, which would be ignoring context in just as silly a way. It's a way of conveying how utterly ridiculous a stretch it is to turn that quote into something along the lines of Al Gore inventing the internet. Cocaine addled former DJ's may be able to get away with that sort of thing in the name of entertainment, but from anyone else it just looks like the babblings of an idiot and I suggest not bringing yourself down to that level even if it's a current cheer for your team.
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Yes, but as I wrote above, it should not be. It's an example of a risky project (a new design of rocket) having to rely on the strongly risk adverse to continue. It's why commercial space technology is not going to advance much without some government backing. Even just insurance like the nuclear power industry gets from the government could be enough to make a difference and allow a few failures on the path to success instead of something nowhere near as good as we could rent from the Russians.
So they are old engines, that's one bit of risk reduced but there's plenty of new things in that rocket design.
Since this has been going on for far too long with little sign of a clue, I'm sorry but since you escalated to very childish insults I do have to suggest getting out a bit more, talking to a few people, growing up a bit mentally and maybe reading a fucking non-fiction book instead of watching science fiction videos. There's no "strawman" required when the things you've written have so little connection with the current situation and appear to be right out of a movie instead.
Assassination is assassination. The example I gave was of a Chilean agent carrying out an assassination in Washington D.C. a few years ago - if you hadn't even heard of that then why are you bothering to discuss governments arranging assassinations whether overt or covert?
They probably will but they shouldn't have serious problems just because of a failed launch. You can't progress in something difficult if every setback is seen as a showstopper, which I suppose is why governments have been prepared to pay the price of an occasional rocket failure while private enterprise has been steering clear of funding it up till now.
Nobody went broke over Apollo 1. This is nowhere near as serious.
Do you really think spooks want professional law enforcement to watch while they carry out extralegal operations? Many Police actually think laws are worth enforcing and don't want to see a "might makes right" system such as in China or Soviet Russian - they demand "inconvenient" things like due process.
The truly amusing thing here is you are being critical of someone's suspicions of a conspiracy but suggesting a Pinochet style system in it's place - we're not yet anywhere near the stage of setting off car bombs in Washington to silence inconvenient people. You've accused someone of having a wild fantasy and suggested something far wilder.
If they are not a student group the University has the right to tell them to fuck off, just as you'd have to same right to tell them to get out of your house. Even if they were a student group and they are doing something the University has the right to call it off just as you would have the right to shut down a party in your house where your kids invited a thousand people off Facebook.
The constitution doesn't come into it at all. It just means they can't be dragged off to jail for speaking, it doesn't mean no conditions on room hire.
So says the guy in San Francisco waiting for an earthquake, the midwest waiting for a tornado, or even as far north as New York waiting for a hurricane?
Because they are seeking attention.
So? The remember that the SCO line in SCO vs IBM on linux was pushed hard by the hack that reported Amityville Horror as fact and she was taken seriously. Entertainment as news is how it is now so autism conspiracy theories would not be enough to remove credibility in the media industry.
In case that wasn't clear enough, we may see some major red flags being raised here but that's not enough to stop a reporter being taken seriously, especially if it can be used to push a political barrow. If she makes enough fuss her next job will probably be in a "Think Tank".
That sort of thing leads to amusing (or tragic) tangles with armed professional law enforcement, and the toy soldiers do not cope well with such situations.
From what Snowden released that seems to be the mentality of parts of the sprawling outsourced clusterfuck that is the NSA, right up to the top with an operations room based on a fucking TV show and laid out by a Hollywood set designer.
Looks like I should have read the message above before I used the Polonium analogy as well.
See Polonium poisoning as the least subtle current way of a government (Russian government obviously) deliberately doing something that points back to them as a fear tactic. This could be a more subtle way of "sending a message".
So someone felt threatened enough by the above post to mark it flamebait? That very strongly reinforces my suggestion that it wouldn't be considered a job for "real men" by someone defrosted from 1970. What kind of weakling would think the opinion above is coming on too strong?
Face it kids (ie. too young to remember when there were many women in CS/IT), it's soft indoor work with a bit of thinking so saying it's something better suited for big strong men is ridiculous. If it's the thinking bit that is supposed to be the big deal that's even more ridiculous - not much of IT is at the physics doctoral thesis level and women can do that stuff, let alone the lesser tasks that most of the people reading this site do.
Only it wasn't. Admiral Grace Hopper wasn't doing the "men's work" of commanding a vessel, she was doing the "women's work" of programming, analysis, and such - just like the women in Bletchley Park and similar of the same generation.
If it was considered "men's work" I doubt the Navy would have employed her in that role.
Face it, we work indoors, at keyboards, dealing with what is almost always very simple mathematics, rarely even simple calculus required - it's not so very different is it?
We're talking about the 1980s. Sexism, racism, nepotism and a lot besides was pretty blatant. Employers were happy to take workers that wouldn't get pregnant and didn't want to finish early to pick the kids up from school. They also wanted people just like them so not just a boys club but boys that resembled the founders - making it a bit tough for serious grown men coming in from other industries as well.
As for your second bit, WTF did that baggage come from?
To get that far you may need to get past a HR person that has never heard of github but they have a clipboard with "CS" on it, which often sucks.
Because suddenly there was money in it, and as a consequence it squeezed the women out of the profession. I even put it in bold. Do I need a BLINK tag?
Time and a stable employer is needed for such stuff. Saddam had a few of his nuclear experts executed for taking too long and that sort of thing is going to be taken into account in the real world outside of Tom Clancy novels.
Because it's a translation, I've got no idea why we are not just calling them Daash.
As for them doing serious accelerated microbiological research to weaponize Ebola, we're pretty damn lucky that this is reality and not a Tom Clancy novel with infinite instant experts aren't we? Where are they going to find an Ebola expert who isn't already very busy?
Maybe it's just the same reason quiet and sparsely populated areas send their military doctors to New York to get gunshot would experience and their firemen to California for the wild fires. Where better to get experience in dealing with a difficult epidemic than Ebola wards in Africa today? Sure they are playing politics but I doubt that's all there is to it - and frankly the Reds under the Beds bullshit about Cuba is just looking childish these days considering some of the regimes the USA will trade with.
Then there's the obvious, analogised as helping the people at the other end of the floor put out a fire before it spreads to your apartment. Attempting to close borders didn't work in 1919 and it's certainly not going to work today.
Simpler than that.
Women were training for CS/IT and not getting jobs. Word got around.
Babbling about brain behaviour is fairly pointless since there used to be plenty of women in the field and nobody noticed anything odd back then.
SCHOOLING is just about the only way to get past HR in a company big enough to have people dedicated to that role. Even an engineering degree plus IT experience is not seen as acceptable in comparison with a recent CS/IT/IS/I* graduate by many HR people, so the people that you would actually be working for don't even get to know you exist.
Certs can bypass that in some places but not others.
No mystery - suddenly there was money in it and the women were squeezed out of the profession. Even as a male I got to notice the depressing bit in the late 1980s where there were still a lot of women training in CS/IT but hardly anyone was employing them. As I've written here many times, I've seen more women even in heavy engineering, mining etc roles than in IT.
However it is rather amusing to see some here trying to justify how women are not suited for what was historically considered "women's work" - we're sitting inside at keyboards FFS and would be considered sissies by someone defrosted from 1970.
It appears I have to stop putting multiple points in a sentence in this place.
An analogy is of course an analogy - so "good morning" is not the same as "I took the initiative" - yet you accuse ME of not being an English speaker and I've now got to explain something very simple to you!
Your silly suggestion that he was taking full credit relies on ignoring context just like an assumption that "good morning" means the person stating it MADE IT GOOD, which would be ignoring context in just as silly a way. It's a way of conveying how utterly ridiculous a stretch it is to turn that quote into something along the lines of Al Gore inventing the internet. Cocaine addled former DJ's may be able to get away with that sort of thing in the name of entertainment, but from anyone else it just looks like the babblings of an idiot and I suggest not bringing yourself down to that level even if it's a current cheer for your team.