VoA? The CIA-controlled pieces of shit that flooded the airwaves with official support messages for the Prague Spring and the Basra Uprising, only to then decry the resulting slaughters of innocents?
The same VoA that was infiltrated by the KGB and the GRU, resulting in the death and imprisonment for dissidents who wrote letters to be published there? The VoA that is now illegally broadcast in the US and territories and on the Internet, in direct violation of laws stating that no military propaganda operations should be directed by the US military at US citizens?
Fuck'em. Seriously.
Also, fuck your propaganda and your mealy-mouthed "interest of humanity" bullshit. It would be in the interest of humanity if you fuckers could find a way to somehow reduce your nuclear arsenal and your military spending to sane levels and just leave everyone else right the fuck alone.
Not that I have anything against the people in the US of A, mind you - it's just that I'm really tired of this born-dead American empire of yours.
The operational secrecy seems un-compromised. It's not like someone provided Jihadi forum admins with a banhammer target list. I AM glad this has been exposed, mind you.
I happen to live outside the US, you see, so I really do not appreciate the thought that the US military might be taking an active, covert role in my country's political and social dialogue.
In addition, there are tens of thousands reported missing, tens or hundreds of thousands of refugees in temporary shelter and the weather is cooling rapidly and bringing a chance of snow. Did I mention rolling blackouts, blocked roads and ongoing earthquakes?
"Experimental" should tell you a lot about how safe that is. Molten sodium is absolutely scary stuff to work with - it eats through steel or concrete, goes boom when exposed to water...
Any reactor design that requires active cooling is unsafe. Otoh, I am not convinced by the experiments in "shutting down" (i.e. stopping the fission in) these reactors and allowing convection cooling to take over for a while. What if a secondary coolant pipe ruptures?
My bet for the near future is on the Russian lead-bismuth design. Not very efficient (thermally) but with a lot fewer reliability problems due to lower temps involved and chemically-safe primary coolant.
Both, unfortunately, have a positive void coefficient. Scary, in itself, but a bit less scary for lead-bismuth.
If you drain a CANDU, the rods melt, the pool of molten uranium or MOX goes critical all over again and you're still fucked, as the containment simply ignites/melts at those temps.
The pebbles in a pebble bed reactor are ceramic-covered graphite - if you somehow lose the helium (some proposed designs have no containment vessel) and the graphite ignites, you get Chernobyl all over again. Dust from all those pebbles rubbing together is an issue, cracking of the ceramic outer layer under thermal stress is an issue. Lack of experience in operating such reactors is an even greater issue.
Granted. But then, what IS the requirement? Who decides who the enemies of the United States of America are? Is there a published list, that honest citizens may avoid treason?
Umm. No. Actually, they will have to demonstrate that, point at some enemy who received that data directly or indirectly. If they fail, Manning will "only" be on the hook for lesser offenses.
My guess is that the prosecution actually stuck that at the top of the list hoping to trade it for an admission of guilt on the other charges.
Microsoft gets an implicitly license to your stuff. Note this doesnt encumber the employee in any way - they can sell and license their stuff too. But Microsoft can use it with no royalties. After all, were funding it indirectly. Its only fair. [...] I understand Bill put them inplace himself.
Fuck Bill and fuck the horse he rode in on. This is exploitation pure and simple, with a side of extortion. What you make on your own time is your own, unless you want to live in communism.
This "indirect funding" you speak of is bullshit. It's not like MS employees are living on company property like those at Foxconn or eating three-a-day at the company-run mess hall or take their kids to the Microsoft school (now that's a scary thought).
We need to aggressively move forward in a proactive manner on this one, guys, so let's call a kickoff meeting to identify key stakeholders and brainstorm strategy. I have a three-hour slot open next Friday afternoon.
If it can be mis-used, it will be mis-used. You admit as much with that one word, "necessarily".
I shudder to think what would happen to a problem child if word got out among his/her colleagues - more abuse and ostracism, of the kind you yourself have no doubt experienced, as evidenced by the emotionally-charged language you are using. Jackass? Seriously?
I was a problem child myself, in many ways. I often wish I had found more people interested in educating me properly. I never wish I had been lojacked "for my own good".
What risk? Are you talking about pre-crime, maybe? Are you seriously suggesting that having school, police and courts tag some children as "at risk of becoming institutionalized" is a good thing?
In any sane society, it should be clear-cut: guilty or innocent.
None of this "risk" thing that somehow is justification for treating innocent (yes, I am using the legal meaning of the term and so should you) children (ditto) in exactly the same way as felons and criminals on parole are treated?
And boy, were they http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/aaron_hbgary_com/9464.html>poking. Trying to distribute a compromised LOIC? That alone could have gotten a lot of people angry.
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I mean what I say. We were deep within Moscow's sphere of influence for a while after 1990. Some neighboring countries and territories still are.
VoA? The CIA-controlled pieces of shit that flooded the airwaves with official support messages for the Prague Spring and the Basra Uprising, only to then decry the resulting slaughters of innocents?
The same VoA that was infiltrated by the KGB and the GRU, resulting in the death and imprisonment for dissidents who wrote letters to be published there? The VoA that is now illegally broadcast in the US and territories and on the Internet, in direct violation of laws stating that no military propaganda operations should be directed by the US military at US citizens?
Fuck'em. Seriously.
Also, fuck your propaganda and your mealy-mouthed "interest of humanity" bullshit. It would be in the interest of humanity if you fuckers could find a way to somehow reduce your nuclear arsenal and your military spending to sane levels and just leave everyone else right the fuck alone.
Not that I have anything against the people in the US of A, mind you - it's just that I'm really tired of this born-dead American empire of yours.
Direct US influence was not all that extensive in my country for at least 30 of the past 50 years, what with the Iron Curtain and everything.
I think you are mistaken. It's operation Kunduz Kandy you're probably thinking of.
The operational secrecy seems un-compromised. It's not like someone provided Jihadi forum admins with a banhammer target list. I AM glad this has been exposed, mind you.
I happen to live outside the US, you see, so I really do not appreciate the thought that the US military might be taking an active, covert role in my country's political and social dialogue.
What would you want it to be called? "Operation Naked Truth"?
Oh, wait... that didn't come out right.
Maybe it's because the truth of the actual situation is not conducive to a good night's sleep if you actually live in Japan.
Today, at approximately 10am, we observed 400mSv/h at the inland side of the Unit 3 reactor building and 100mSv/h at the inland side of the Unit 4 reactor building.
In addition, there are tens of thousands reported missing, tens or hundreds of thousands of refugees in temporary shelter and the weather is cooling rapidly and bringing a chance of snow. Did I mention rolling blackouts, blocked roads and ongoing earthquakes?
Let's hope so. A generation of angry, disenfranchised young men is just what the US of A needs right now.
"Experimental" should tell you a lot about how safe that is. Molten sodium is absolutely scary stuff to work with - it eats through steel or concrete, goes boom when exposed to water...
Any reactor design that requires active cooling is unsafe. Otoh, I am not convinced by the experiments in "shutting down" (i.e. stopping the fission in) these reactors and allowing convection cooling to take over for a while. What if a secondary coolant pipe ruptures?
My bet for the near future is on the Russian lead-bismuth design. Not very efficient (thermally) but with a lot fewer reliability problems due to lower temps involved and chemically-safe primary coolant.
Both, unfortunately, have a positive void coefficient. Scary, in itself, but a bit less scary for lead-bismuth.
No. Not really.
If you drain a CANDU, the rods melt, the pool of molten uranium or MOX goes critical all over again and you're still fucked, as the containment simply ignites/melts at those temps.
The pebbles in a pebble bed reactor are ceramic-covered graphite - if you somehow lose the helium (some proposed designs have no containment vessel) and the graphite ignites, you get Chernobyl all over again. Dust from all those pebbles rubbing together is an issue, cracking of the ceramic outer layer under thermal stress is an issue. Lack of experience in operating such reactors is an even greater issue.
A what? Piss off to ebaumsworld, will ya?
Direct democracy does indeed make for very slow government and infrequent law-making. Many people would call that a feature, not a bug.
Granted. But then, what IS the requirement? Who decides who the enemies of the United States of America are? Is there a published list, that honest citizens may avoid treason?
Truman? Is that you?
Umm. No. Actually, they will have to demonstrate that, point at some enemy who received that data directly or indirectly. If they fail, Manning will "only" be on the hook for lesser offenses.
My guess is that the prosecution actually stuck that at the top of the list hoping to trade it for an admission of guilt on the other charges.
Ah, but which group? Remember, the US is not at war with any other country on Earth, at this point in time.
It'll be interesting to watch the prosecution try to weasel out of this simple question.
Dunno. Sic mercs on them, maybe? Plausible deniability is a sweet thing.
Microsoft gets an implicitly license to your stuff. Note this doesnt encumber the employee in any way - they can sell and license their stuff too. But Microsoft can use it with no royalties. After all, were funding it indirectly. Its only fair. [...] I understand Bill put them inplace himself.
Fuck Bill and fuck the horse he rode in on. This is exploitation pure and simple, with a side of extortion. What you make on your own time is your own, unless you want to live in communism.
This "indirect funding" you speak of is bullshit. It's not like MS employees are living on company property like those at Foxconn or eating three-a-day at the company-run mess hall or take their kids to the Microsoft school (now that's a scary thought).
We need to aggressively move forward in a proactive manner on this one, guys, so let's call a kickoff meeting to identify key stakeholders and brainstorm strategy. I have a three-hour slot open next Friday afternoon.
A day late and a dollar short, as ever.
Not necessarily in stead of jail.
If it can be mis-used, it will be mis-used. You admit as much with that one word, "necessarily".
I shudder to think what would happen to a problem child if word got out among his/her colleagues - more abuse and ostracism, of the kind you yourself have no doubt experienced, as evidenced by the emotionally-charged language you are using. Jackass? Seriously?
I was a problem child myself, in many ways. I often wish I had found more people interested in educating me properly. I never wish I had been lojacked "for my own good".
What risk? Are you talking about pre-crime, maybe? Are you seriously suggesting that having school, police and courts tag some children as "at risk of becoming institutionalized" is a good thing?
In any sane society, it should be clear-cut: guilty or innocent.
None of this "risk" thing that somehow is justification for treating innocent (yes, I am using the legal meaning of the term and so should you) children (ditto) in exactly the same way as felons and criminals on parole are treated?
And boy, were they http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/aaron_hbgary_com/9464.html>poking. Trying to distribute a compromised LOIC? That alone could have gotten a lot of people angry.