Sounds more like private industry cannot do anything right. Admittedly, the U.S. Gov. isn't holding the gun to their head properly. Given all the rules and regulations, it is more the case of they have to hold the gun properly and in a non-threatening manner with the bullets kept by a different agency than that holding the gun.
You are aware that Physics is a very, very large field and being an expert on the narrow subject that got him a PhD doesn't make him an expert on most other areas, yes?
You have hit the nail, guns to gun-nuts ARE love toys. They like to take them out and clean and caress them. They like the vibration and noise it makes when it goes off. The scent of gunpowder sends them into transports of delight. And they get to feel like Men, able to strut around knowing their piece is there to make them feel safe, and they keep it very close to their other piece in a holster.
Of course in a real fight, they'll be the first one with their ass shot off because any terrorist or robber intent on killing opposition will see them reach for their piece and that will be the end of the gun-nut's love affair.
Unless there is not quite enough energy available in the right amount of time to get the train all the way up the hill. It would be stuck part of the way up and one must use energy to keep it there or immediately roll that sucker back.
The question isn't whether members of the public are doing it, the question was whether any arm of government was doing it. If any arm of the U.S. government were to do it and it were discovered, there'd be no end to controversy and probably law suits.
DARPA doesn't tell you how to conduct you research, it either funds you or does not. In this case, DARPA was willing to fund a study that either supported or debunked a claim about their bureaucracy polluting social media. The authors were quite up front about what they were studying in the abstract of their paper.
You are thinking like a scientist. If you think like a terrorist, then smallpox sounds like it would be much more scary to a population than an outbreak of the common cold, even if the latter were to kill more people. Dirty bombs are similar. Actual dead: nil, actual payoff: large.
Unless it was terror by airport security or airport employees.
And Daesh has been targeting Egypt because they figure all they need to do is ignite the Muslim Brotherhood sycophants and then Egypt will be theirs...to have and to hold...until Death takes them all.
"oversized military" yeah, the U.S. should let China suck down Taiwan like they did Tibet. There's no reason they should be part of China's fascist empire. S. Korea? Sheesh, turn them into N. Korea and the U.S. won't have to compete with them any longer. And while the U.S. is at it, it should let China control Japan's sea lanes, what does the U.S. need with a Japan. Eastern Europe would be best left to Putin and his little green men, no one wants an Eastern Europe part of the world economy, let Putin do for them what he's done for Russia (and Ukraine and Georgia)...hell, let him have the Baltic states back again, the West doesn't need them. While the U.S. is at it, it should turn the MidEast over to those nice civilized Arab and Persians. There's no need for a stable oil supply. N. Africa should be left to Daesh to shit on as they please. The rest of Africa could also be turned over to the Chinese for "investment".
Getting stuff into space isn't the hard problem. The hard problem is the months it takes to get to the asteroid belt, find the ones with stuff we want, and then push those lumps back here or mine it there and ship it back here.
Now, how about you do some serious thinking and calculate the energy it would take to do the job. Also calculate the missing techno whizzies we'll need to do the job (hint, there's not a lot of gravity up there to rely upon). Regarding the energy, it isn't enough to get something whizzy out to the asteroid belt, you'll be wanting either some mining equipment (not air breathing, mind you, space is deficient in that respect from what I gather). No want mining equipment, then you must move your space rocks here....errr...to be mined. I'm just guessing but you probably don't want to send the rocks directly to Earth as the atmosphere tends to heat them up into flaming Big Balls-O-Fire (cue Killer). Now that you have your rocks orbiting Earth, assuming you could slow them down from the fast velocity you'll need to get them here, you'll be wanting to avoid all those satellites we have up there as their owners would get pissed if they went splat.
And get back to us when you've all that worked out...shouldn't take you more than an afternoon.
President Obama nominated him for this position. I think we must ask why the Obama Administration is happy with such a lenient judge for patent trolls.
" It takes a huge, huge amount of the entire U.S. economy to pay for itself."
Would this be the 2/3 of the budget that goes for entitlements? That 2/3s? You do recall the entitlements, yes? SS so Grandma doesn't move in with you, Medicare so she's not siphoning your bank account to pay for her prescriptions. With respect to the other 1/3, about 1/2 of that is military. Their job is not to cede the sea lanes to those nice Chinese. Keeping Iran from causing even more havoc in the mideast, keeping Israel from being fed to the muslim fanatics, etc. The rest goes for keeping your water safe, your air breathable, making sure Joe's Bait and Drug Emporium isn't pasting slick labels on your over the counter meds and using it to get rid of their leftover worm entrails. It used for keeping the car companies' airbags from taking your face off. It keeps the national standards companies rely upon to put accurate information those bottles of stuff you consume. It keeps the guardrails from being built out of aluminum. When your parents get kidnapped and whacked, the FBI is there to find the perps. And so on...
The cost of government is relatively cheap. The people, on the other hand, want all the government they can lay their hands on. Personally, I think Grandma would live long and prosper if she could move in with you. Won't you show her how much you care?
The books should be e-books, but I continue to see little tykes get off the bus, kneehigh to a grasshopper but schlepping a book backsack bigger than they are.
I second the call for investing in school infrastructure. In particular, states need to equalize the tax dollars spent on schools, they need to get off that property tax or at least make the property tax spent equably across the state.
And teach the sprogs competency in English, a foreign language (any will do), Math, Science, and History. Computing they can pick up later after they've been taught to think for themselves and have the abstraction capabilities firmly planted.
Yep, steel production has not progressed much in 4000 years. Those alloys we have now, those ancient peoples must sure have had them. Those modern techniques in steel production, hey, they had water wheels, what else did they need run a modern plant.
Metallurgy? Ever hear of it? Science, math? Ring a bell?
Trump is mostly all wrong. NATO is cheap to afford and without it, the U.S. will be paying much more for defense as it must then go it alone.
Trump has no solutions, at least he hasn't fielded any. Saying he'll shake things up is not a policy nor a solution. Acting like bull in a china shop will damage the U.S. The things he thinks are true will be damaging if he could ever get them past Congress, which he won't since the Dems will probably take the Senate.
The rest of your post is simply nonsensical raving. It is what I'd expect out of someone who thinks Trump is a good idea.
The price of natural gas is what is fucking American coal miners. And talk to the people of Norfolk, Va. or Rhode Island about rising sea levels due to CO2. Countries are now tripping over themselves to use the new and improved Northern sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific. Even China is getting into the act.
Even if you don't believe in global warming, look at the coral reefs bleaching because CO2 is making the oceans acidic. This is the base of the food chain. If you think coal miners have problems now, wait another 20-30 years.
According to NYT, Icahn is worth about $20 Billion. He's more or less a leech and tried to get Apple to make several stupid moves. If he's sold Apple, is it because he thinks he can make more somewhere else. And he's just come out for Trump. Trump claims to be worth $10 Billion. Given his long distance relationship with truth, I'd guess it is closer to $1 Billion or below.
"I seriously doubt they took the phone outside of an FBI facility to perform the hack, which implies that someone was brought in to the FBI facility to perform the hack"
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Sounds more like private industry cannot do anything right. Admittedly, the U.S. Gov. isn't holding the gun to their head properly. Given all the rules and regulations, it is more the case of they have to hold the gun properly and in a non-threatening manner with the bullets kept by a different agency than that holding the gun.
Nope, you can get them on ebay for under $10, and you can get a 8" floppy controller for under $50.
You are aware that Physics is a very, very large field and being an expert on the narrow subject that got him a PhD doesn't make him an expert on most other areas, yes?
You have hit the nail, guns to gun-nuts ARE love toys. They like to take them out and clean and caress them. They like the vibration and noise it makes when it goes off. The scent of gunpowder sends them into transports of delight. And they get to feel like Men, able to strut around knowing their piece is there to make them feel safe, and they keep it very close to their other piece in a holster.
Of course in a real fight, they'll be the first one with their ass shot off because any terrorist or robber intent on killing opposition will see them reach for their piece and that will be the end of the gun-nut's love affair.
Unless there is not quite enough energy available in the right amount of time to get the train all the way up the hill. It would be stuck part of the way up and one must use energy to keep it there or immediately roll that sucker back.
The question isn't whether members of the public are doing it, the question was whether any arm of government was doing it. If any arm of the U.S. government were to do it and it were discovered, there'd be no end to controversy and probably law suits.
DARPA doesn't tell you how to conduct you research, it either funds you or does not. In this case, DARPA was willing to fund a study that either supported or debunked a claim about their bureaucracy polluting social media. The authors were quite up front about what they were studying in the abstract of their paper.
You are thinking like a scientist. If you think like a terrorist, then smallpox sounds like it would be much more scary to a population than an outbreak of the common cold, even if the latter were to kill more people. Dirty bombs are similar. Actual dead: nil, actual payoff: large.
More accurately, ancient aliens, they can travel time, y'know. Where's the greek guy with the electric hair to explain all this?
Unless it was terror by airport security or airport employees.
And Daesh has been targeting Egypt because they figure all they need to do is ignite the Muslim Brotherhood sycophants and then Egypt will be theirs...to have and to hold...until Death takes them all.
"Apple is another company that seems likely to be at it's peak"
Wow!!! Are you from the future?
"oversized military" yeah, the U.S. should let China suck down Taiwan like they did Tibet. There's no reason they should be part of China's fascist empire. S. Korea? Sheesh, turn them into N. Korea and the U.S. won't have to compete with them any longer. And while the U.S. is at it, it should let China control Japan's sea lanes, what does the U.S. need with a Japan. Eastern Europe would be best left to Putin and his little green men, no one wants an Eastern Europe part of the world economy, let Putin do for them what he's done for Russia (and Ukraine and Georgia)...hell, let him have the Baltic states back again, the West doesn't need them. While the U.S. is at it, it should turn the MidEast over to those nice civilized Arab and Persians. There's no need for a stable oil supply. N. Africa should be left to Daesh to shit on as they please. The rest of Africa could also be turned over to the Chinese for "investment".
Yep, no need for an oversized military.
"It kills too much software – including the $2700 Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection (basically everything Adobe)."
Count your blessings.
Getting stuff into space isn't the hard problem. The hard problem is the months it takes to get to the asteroid belt, find the ones with stuff we want, and then push those lumps back here or mine it there and ship it back here.
Now, how about you do some serious thinking and calculate the energy it would take to do the job. Also calculate the missing techno whizzies we'll need to do the job (hint, there's not a lot of gravity up there to rely upon). Regarding the energy, it isn't enough to get something whizzy out to the asteroid belt, you'll be wanting either some mining equipment (not air breathing, mind you, space is deficient in that respect from what I gather). No want mining equipment, then you must move your space rocks here....errr...to be mined. I'm just guessing but you probably don't want to send the rocks directly to Earth as the atmosphere tends to heat them up into flaming Big Balls-O-Fire (cue Killer). Now that you have your rocks orbiting Earth, assuming you could slow them down from the fast velocity you'll need to get them here, you'll be wanting to avoid all those satellites we have up there as their owners would get pissed if they went splat.
And get back to us when you've all that worked out...shouldn't take you more than an afternoon.
President Obama nominated him for this position. I think we must ask why the Obama Administration is happy with such a lenient judge for patent trolls.
" It takes a huge, huge amount of the entire U.S. economy to pay for itself."
Would this be the 2/3 of the budget that goes for entitlements? That 2/3s? You do recall the entitlements, yes? SS so Grandma doesn't move in with you, Medicare so she's not siphoning your bank account to pay for her prescriptions. With respect to the other 1/3, about 1/2 of that is military. Their job is not to cede the sea lanes to those nice Chinese. Keeping Iran from causing even more havoc in the mideast, keeping Israel from being fed to the muslim fanatics, etc. The rest goes for keeping your water safe, your air breathable, making sure Joe's Bait and Drug Emporium isn't pasting slick labels on your over the counter meds and using it to get rid of their leftover worm entrails. It used for keeping the car companies' airbags from taking your face off. It keeps the national standards companies rely upon to put accurate information those bottles of stuff you consume. It keeps the guardrails from being built out of aluminum. When your parents get kidnapped and whacked, the FBI is there to find the perps. And so on...
The cost of government is relatively cheap. The people, on the other hand, want all the government they can lay their hands on. Personally, I think Grandma would live long and prosper if she could move in with you. Won't you show her how much you care?
We've already found alien life: cats. For them to be anything other than alien is absurd.
The U.S,. has no trade deals with China. You've been listening to Trump, stop it.
Okay, free will is an illusion. Now decide, would you like to pee now or wait 5 minutes and finish what you are doing?
The books should be e-books, but I continue to see little tykes get off the bus, kneehigh to a grasshopper but schlepping a book backsack bigger than they are.
I second the call for investing in school infrastructure. In particular, states need to equalize the tax dollars spent on schools, they need to get off that property tax or at least make the property tax spent equably across the state.
And teach the sprogs competency in English, a foreign language (any will do), Math, Science, and History. Computing they can pick up later after they've been taught to think for themselves and have the abstraction capabilities firmly planted.
Yep, steel production has not progressed much in 4000 years. Those alloys we have now, those ancient peoples must sure have had them. Those modern techniques in steel production, hey, they had water wheels, what else did they need run a modern plant.
Metallurgy? Ever hear of it? Science, math? Ring a bell?
Trump is mostly all wrong. NATO is cheap to afford and without it, the U.S. will be paying much more for defense as it must then go it alone.
Trump has no solutions, at least he hasn't fielded any. Saying he'll shake things up is not a policy nor a solution. Acting like bull in a china shop will damage the U.S. The things he thinks are true will be damaging if he could ever get them past Congress, which he won't since the Dems will probably take the Senate.
The rest of your post is simply nonsensical raving. It is what I'd expect out of someone who thinks Trump is a good idea.
The price of natural gas is what is fucking American coal miners. And talk to the people of Norfolk, Va. or Rhode Island about rising sea levels due to CO2. Countries are now tripping over themselves to use the new and improved Northern sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific. Even China is getting into the act.
Even if you don't believe in global warming, look at the coral reefs bleaching because CO2 is making the oceans acidic. This is the base of the food chain. If you think coal miners have problems now, wait another 20-30 years.
According to NYT, Icahn is worth about $20 Billion. He's more or less a leech and tried to get Apple to make several stupid moves. If he's sold Apple, is it because he thinks he can make more somewhere else. And he's just come out for Trump. Trump claims to be worth $10 Billion. Given his long distance relationship with truth, I'd guess it is closer to $1 Billion or below.
"I seriously doubt they took the phone outside of an FBI facility to perform the hack, which implies that someone was brought in to the FBI facility to perform the hack"
So, you failed Logic 101, eh?