A hero does not run away to a foreign power and hide behind their skirts. Mr. Stone is exactly correct: "I don't doubt that Snowden was courageous and did what he did for what he thought were good reasons. But I think he was unduly arrogant, didn't understand the limitations of his own knowledge and basically decided to usurp the authority of a democracy." Snowden is all three of those things. If he had stood up and said "I have information and I believe this is wrong" then maybe he would be worth praising. Instead he stole reams of data, ran away, and only admitted what he had done when the media had already outed him. Pathetic.
As for irony: "Snowden explained his actions saying: "I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things [surveillance on its citizens]... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded..." and yet he ran to China and then Russia. I guess since he is special it doesn't matter what those countries do to their own citizens.
Except for the fact that Northrop had no space business to speak of until they bought TRW a couple of years ago exactly for that reason. And that was for satellites. The others are right. It is a new market and Northrop wants a big piece of it. This is made more obvious by the fact that they had a 40 percent stake in the company originally.
That's not necessarily true. My company went through this same dance a year and a half ago. The individual shareholders mean squat. It's the institutional investors that count and unfortunately all they care about is money. Disney's unique culture and history don't even factor into the equation. Just like the Comcast bid, when my company recieved the public offer for a stock swap for the company after private negotiations fell through, the board of directors denied it outright because they felt it 'undervalued the company'. 6 months later after the bid had been raised twice they were suddenly singing a different tune about 'synergy' and how wonderful the new company would be. I'm sure they were greedily eyeing their portfolios as well. So say good-bye Disney. It was nice knowing you.
An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician find themselves in an anecdote, indeed an anecdote quite similar to many that you have no doubt already heard.
After some observations and rough calculations the engineer realizes the situation and starts laughing.
A few minutes later the physicist understands too and chuckles to himself happily, as he now has enough experimental evidence to publish a paper.
This leaves the mathematician somewhat perplexed, as he had observed right away that he was the subject of an anecdote, and deduced quite rapidly the presence of humor from similar anecdotes, but considers this anecdote to be too trivial a corollary to be significant, let alone funny.
A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer were asked to review this mathematical problem. In a high school gym, all the girls in the class were lined up against one wall, and all the boys against the opposite wall. Then, every ten seconds, they walked toward each other until they were half the previous distance apart. The mathematician, physicist, and engineer were asked, " When will the girls and boys meet?" The mathematician said, " Never." The physicist said, " In an infinite amount of time." The engineer said, " Well... in about two minutes, they'll be close enough for all practical purposes."
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A hero does not run away to a foreign power and hide behind their skirts. Mr. Stone is exactly correct: "I don't doubt that Snowden was courageous and did what he did for what he thought were good reasons. But I think he was unduly arrogant, didn't understand the limitations of his own knowledge and basically decided to usurp the authority of a democracy." Snowden is all three of those things. If he had stood up and said "I have information and I believe this is wrong" then maybe he would be worth praising. Instead he stole reams of data, ran away, and only admitted what he had done when the media had already outed him. Pathetic. As for irony: "Snowden explained his actions saying: "I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things [surveillance on its citizens] ... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded ..." and yet he ran to China and then Russia. I guess since he is special it doesn't matter what those countries do to their own citizens.
Except for the fact that Northrop had no space business to speak of until they bought TRW a couple of years ago exactly for that reason. And that was for satellites. The others are right. It is a new market and Northrop wants a big piece of it. This is made more obvious by the fact that they had a 40 percent stake in the company originally.
Heh. What? You've never heard of the Pompidou Centre in France? :)
I thought PJ was still the editor of GrokLaw. Who's in charge now?
That's not necessarily true. My company went through this same dance a year and a half ago. The individual shareholders mean squat. It's the institutional investors that count and unfortunately all they care about is money. Disney's unique culture and history don't even factor into the equation. Just like the Comcast bid, when my company recieved the public offer for a stock swap for the company after private negotiations fell through, the board of directors denied it outright because they felt it 'undervalued the company'. 6 months later after the bid had been raised twice they were suddenly singing a different tune about 'synergy' and how wonderful the new company would be. I'm sure they were greedily eyeing their portfolios as well. So say good-bye Disney. It was nice knowing you.
An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician find themselves in an anecdote, indeed an anecdote quite similar to many that you have no doubt already heard. After some observations and rough calculations the engineer realizes the situation and starts laughing. A few minutes later the physicist understands too and chuckles to himself happily, as he now has enough experimental evidence to publish a paper. This leaves the mathematician somewhat perplexed, as he had observed right away that he was the subject of an anecdote, and deduced quite rapidly the presence of humor from similar anecdotes, but considers this anecdote to be too trivial a corollary to be significant, let alone funny.
A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer were asked to review this mathematical problem. In a high school gym, all the girls in the class were lined up against one wall, and all the boys against the opposite wall. Then, every ten seconds, they walked toward each other until they were half the previous distance apart. The mathematician, physicist, and engineer were asked, " When will the girls and boys meet?" The mathematician said, " Never." The physicist said, " In an infinite amount of time." The engineer said, " Well... in about two minutes, they'll be close enough for all practical purposes."