... the initial dose is so small it seems it couldn't possibly have any effect.
Possible is a word that shouldn't be thrown around lightly in science and medicine, especially in the phrase, "couldn't possibly" when you are referring to things like this. Unimaginably small doses of things can kill people, depending on the person's sensitivity. Botulism toxin is lethal on the order of 10^-9 g/kg.
...Have we forgotten that the NSA mole in the IETF, Steve Kent... Have we forgotten that Steve Kent had the NSA (via the FBI) investigate me for *treason* for posting the PPP CHAP internet-draft circa 1991?
Of course there must be some proof of these allegations? It seems pretty unlikely that a charge of treason would come about based on what is described.
On the other hand this is posted on the internet, so it must be true.
The problem with that "normal progression" is that it requires significant structural changes to happen before it will be useful. I'm not sure that I see any incremental advantage accruing.
If you bother to follow the news, you know that the US military saw both its budget and headcount greatly decrease in the 1990s, increase in the 2000s, and it is currently set to significantly decrease again over the next decade.
Since those staffing level changes are a fact, and the changes in payrolls and procurement are as well, it seems pretty clear that your original premise is flawed. The NSA and TSA continue to exist at current levels because they serve a useful purpose. If they didn't they would almost certainly be cut as well. At least in the case of the NSA that seems pretty unlikely it will be significantly cut any time soon since the importance of intelligence information is increasing, and the medium for much of the information is going to be communications and signals intelligence.
The Patriot Act keeps being reauthorized since the reason it was passed hasn't gone away. It was known at the start of this that it would likely be decades before it did. You can thank the Islamist extremists.
The brand, "Committee for State Security" is currently available.
Actually KGB is still in active use by one of the original KGB organizations in Belarus. The founder of the Soviet Union's original secret police, the dreaded Cheka, was Felix "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky who was born in Belarus. From what I hear they keep the "old traditions" going there.
There has been plenty of time since the Patriot Act was passed to read and revisit it. Other than relatively minor tuning it is still on the books. Although it is possible that candidate Obama was misleading the country on his intent, it could be that his views evolved with new information.
Could you add some details to that? Why do you think a military officer would be less inclined to follow the law than a civilian? Besides that, do you realize that there is a strong ethic of being apolitical in the US military? Is you position simply antimilitary?
The meaning is the "improved" versions are not necessarily better, and sometimes worse. I can think of various books, equipment, or pieces of software that became less useful after revision. The idea has been expressed by many people before. One notable quote from the realm of Computer Science is this:
"ALGOL 60 inspired many languages that followed it. C. A. R. Hoare remarked: "Here is a language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors but also on nearly all its successors" -- ALGOL
You may have to refactor your thinking since the story is about Germany. That is the same Germany that is trying to abandon nuclear power for wind power. I think there is a lot of wind on the subject.
Why don't you make that when the Cuban people are free? I can't see certain parts of Europe and the Arab League lightening up on Israel any time soon in the UN. Some people really go off the rails on the subject.
The current congress has closed door sessions as well, not to mention classified reports from the intelligence agencies to Congress. That is how Wyden knew to ask the question to try to move his political agenda forward. Besides, if Clapper had answered that way it would have been a tipoff unless it was a commonly used phrase, which I doubt it is. Congress knew the truth, so it is hard to claim this was a lie.
You have no idea how funny that post is considering the context. You should try listening to that speech sometime. It isn't very long, and people love to quote it, specifically one or two sentences that distort the entire message of the speech. Since I might remove it from my.sig, here is the link.
No, what that shows is that you may not be aware of the closed door sessions where classified matters are openly discussed, as well as the classified reports from the intelligence agencies to Congress. Only some of what goes on in the classified briefings makes it into the open. Wyden knew what was going on because of the classified briefings and tried to leverage that into an inappropriate disclosure to server his political goals. I don't deny the obvious so much as disregard the false. Your list probably has nothing on it that is illegal under American law and much hyperbole.
The problem you apparently have is that you aren't following the arguments in context. Try doing that. If you don't then of course the world is going to be confusing. If something confuses you then start higher in the thread to see if you can follow the arguments, like this thread. If you bother to read it you will see that I'm not the one that raised the topic of Communists and Nazis, but only replied to it. If you think that someone else can raise a topic and I can't reply to that same topic, then you are very badly confused indeed.
The terrorist threat has been amplified by a corporate media and government that like it better when we're all scared to death because we're more compliant.
Compliant with what? Who is "scared to death"? I see people keep making those claims while every declares, "I ain't 'fraid of no terrorist!" I don't see the wider population as living in fear of terrorism. Apparently one can't rationally decide it is better to prevent mass slaughter and bombings, it can only be done wrongly in fear because slaughter and bombings aren't so bad.
People choking on meat is essentially a random accident. Conspiracies to commit violence aren't. Should the FBI stop investigating bank robberies until choking deaths drop? The reason terrorism isn't a bigger problem in the US is because hundreds of people have been arrested, convicted, and sent to prison for terrorism related offenses. Did the power of the KKK wilt due to negligence, or anti-Klan laws and prosecution?
You made a big, and false assumption. When you assume you make an ass....
As to statistics, I understand them just fine, including the fact that the US went to war with the Empire of Japan despite the fact that traffic deaths killed 13x more people in 1941 than were killed at Pearl Harbor. Wouldn't your understanding of statistics would rule that out? On the other hand you apparently have no useful understanding of public policy. Your personal fear or lack of it don't enter into to it.
From what I've seen, the coalition forces were only responsible for deaths in the range of low thousands, the vast majority of which were terrorists or insurgents being killed. The remainder and vast majority of the deaths related to violence were either caused by terrorists, insurgents, or militias. The war crimes were almost entirely the actions of al Qaida or militias.
Now here is a key point - the death rate even at the height of violence was still below the Saddam's long term death rate, and now it is largely done. (There is been a recent upsurge of terrorist violence in Iraq, but it is still below both the peak and Saddams' average.) At this point the fate of the Iraqis is in their hands.
Probably not in the way I expect you mean it, no. The Communists and Nazis imprisoned and killed millions and millions of ordinary citizens for political offenses, being the "wrong" race, ethnic group, or occupation, or even literally randomly. (Communist body count ~ 100,000,000) Guantanamo, which I expect is what you are obliquely referring to, is a POW camp that in 13 years has never even held as many as 750 people total. That isn't 7.5 million, or 750,000, but 750. I believe all of them were foreign, and all were originally thought to have been involved with al Qaida. So that really isn't comparable in any meaningful way.
I think the most interesting thing in your statement is that you seem to be inclined to conflate them.
I take it then that you are part of the continent that prefers for a large body count of your fellow citizens to accumulate before taking action against an enemy that declares hostile intent, and might oppose it even then? Is this more your flavor of "hero"?
The Cuban government oppresses those under its power. If you aren't under its power then it probably can't oppress you. The fact that you aren't under its power and therefore it can't oppress you personally doesn't change the fact that it is a totalitarian government. For whatever it is worth to you, Cuba does have a long history of military adventurism to further the spread of revolution and communism. And there was a shipment of missile related quipment intercepted not long ago on its way from Cuba to North Korea in violation of UN embargos.
You might find those articles I linked to interesting, or maybe not.
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Possible is a word that shouldn't be thrown around lightly in science and medicine, especially in the phrase, "couldn't possibly" when you are referring to things like this. Unimaginably small doses of things can kill people, depending on the person's sensitivity. Botulism toxin is lethal on the order of 10^-9 g/kg.
I don't see any other outcome as reasonable. The one catch is going to be that I'm not sure that this will apply to judicial circuits.
Court Locator - Shows court boundaries.
...Have we forgotten that the NSA mole in the IETF, Steve Kent ...
Have we forgotten that Steve Kent had the NSA (via the FBI) investigate me for *treason* for posting the PPP CHAP internet-draft circa 1991?
Of course there must be some proof of these allegations? It seems pretty unlikely that a charge of treason would come about based on what is described.
On the other hand this is posted on the internet, so it must be true.
The problem with that "normal progression" is that it requires significant structural changes to happen before it will be useful. I'm not sure that I see any incremental advantage accruing.
Quite correct, and your moderation of "troll" is false.
If you bother to follow the news, you know that the US military saw both its budget and headcount greatly decrease in the 1990s, increase in the 2000s, and it is currently set to significantly decrease again over the next decade.
Budget plan would slash Army by 100,000 soldiers
Since those staffing level changes are a fact, and the changes in payrolls and procurement are as well, it seems pretty clear that your original premise is flawed. The NSA and TSA continue to exist at current levels because they serve a useful purpose. If they didn't they would almost certainly be cut as well. At least in the case of the NSA that seems pretty unlikely it will be significantly cut any time soon since the importance of intelligence information is increasing, and the medium for much of the information is going to be communications and signals intelligence.
The Patriot Act keeps being reauthorized since the reason it was passed hasn't gone away. It was known at the start of this that it would likely be decades before it did. You can thank the Islamist extremists.
The brand, "Committee for State Security" is currently available.
Actually KGB is still in active use by one of the original KGB organizations in Belarus. The founder of the Soviet Union's original secret police, the dreaded Cheka, was Felix "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky who was born in Belarus. From what I hear they keep the "old traditions" going there.
There has been plenty of time since the Patriot Act was passed to read and revisit it. Other than relatively minor tuning it is still on the books. Although it is possible that candidate Obama was misleading the country on his intent, it could be that his views evolved with new information.
Could you add some details to that? Why do you think a military officer would be less inclined to follow the law than a civilian? Besides that, do you realize that there is a strong ethic of being apolitical in the US military? Is you position simply antimilitary?
The meaning is the "improved" versions are not necessarily better, and sometimes worse. I can think of various books, equipment, or pieces of software that became less useful after revision. The idea has been expressed by many people before. One notable quote from the realm of Computer Science is this:
"ALGOL 60 inspired many languages that followed it. C. A. R. Hoare remarked: "Here is a language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors but also on nearly all its successors" -- ALGOL
You may have to refactor your thinking since the story is about Germany. That is the same Germany that is trying to abandon nuclear power for wind power. I think there is a lot of wind on the subject.
Why don't you make that when the Cuban people are free? I can't see certain parts of Europe and the Arab League lightening up on Israel any time soon in the UN. Some people really go off the rails on the subject.
Unless the rate of progress speeds up the past might catch up, or even pass us.
Sadly there are too many inventions that are an improvement upon their successors.
I wonder if Porsche could use this for inspiration for a future hybrid solar-human vehicle?
The current congress has closed door sessions as well, not to mention classified reports from the intelligence agencies to Congress. That is how Wyden knew to ask the question to try to move his political agenda forward. Besides, if Clapper had answered that way it would have been a tipoff unless it was a commonly used phrase, which I doubt it is. Congress knew the truth, so it is hard to claim this was a lie.
You have no idea how funny that post is considering the context. You should try listening to that speech sometime. It isn't very long, and people love to quote it, specifically one or two sentences that distort the entire message of the speech. Since I might remove it from my .sig, here is the link.
JFK Secret Societies Speech
No, what that shows is that you may not be aware of the closed door sessions where classified matters are openly discussed, as well as the classified reports from the intelligence agencies to Congress. Only some of what goes on in the classified briefings makes it into the open. Wyden knew what was going on because of the classified briefings and tried to leverage that into an inappropriate disclosure to server his political goals. I don't deny the obvious so much as disregard the false. Your list probably has nothing on it that is illegal under American law and much hyperbole.
The problem you apparently have is that you aren't following the arguments in context. Try doing that. If you don't then of course the world is going to be confusing. If something confuses you then start higher in the thread to see if you can follow the arguments, like this thread. If you bother to read it you will see that I'm not the one that raised the topic of Communists and Nazis, but only replied to it. If you think that someone else can raise a topic and I can't reply to that same topic, then you are very badly confused indeed.
I wonder if those were water buffalo?
The terrorist threat has been amplified by a corporate media and government that like it better when we're all scared to death because we're more compliant.
Compliant with what? Who is "scared to death"? I see people keep making those claims while every declares, "I ain't 'fraid of no terrorist!" I don't see the wider population as living in fear of terrorism. Apparently one can't rationally decide it is better to prevent mass slaughter and bombings, it can only be done wrongly in fear because slaughter and bombings aren't so bad.
People choking on meat is essentially a random accident. Conspiracies to commit violence aren't. Should the FBI stop investigating bank robberies until choking deaths drop? The reason terrorism isn't a bigger problem in the US is because hundreds of people have been arrested, convicted, and sent to prison for terrorism related offenses. Did the power of the KKK wilt due to negligence, or anti-Klan laws and prosecution?
You made a big, and false assumption. When you assume you make an ass ....
As to statistics, I understand them just fine, including the fact that the US went to war with the Empire of Japan despite the fact that traffic deaths killed 13x more people in 1941 than were killed at Pearl Harbor. Wouldn't your understanding of statistics would rule that out? On the other hand you apparently have no useful understanding of public policy. Your personal fear or lack of it don't enter into to it.
From what I've seen, the coalition forces were only responsible for deaths in the range of low thousands, the vast majority of which were terrorists or insurgents being killed. The remainder and vast majority of the deaths related to violence were either caused by terrorists, insurgents, or militias. The war crimes were almost entirely the actions of al Qaida or militias.
Now here is a key point - the death rate even at the height of violence was still below the Saddam's long term death rate, and now it is largely done. (There is been a recent upsurge of terrorist violence in Iraq, but it is still below both the peak and Saddams' average.) At this point the fate of the Iraqis is in their hands.
Probably not in the way I expect you mean it, no. The Communists and Nazis imprisoned and killed millions and millions of ordinary citizens for political offenses, being the "wrong" race, ethnic group, or occupation, or even literally randomly. (Communist body count ~ 100,000,000) Guantanamo, which I expect is what you are obliquely referring to, is a POW camp that in 13 years has never even held as many as 750 people total. That isn't 7.5 million, or 750,000, but 750. I believe all of them were foreign, and all were originally thought to have been involved with al Qaida. So that really isn't comparable in any meaningful way.
I think the most interesting thing in your statement is that you seem to be inclined to conflate them.
I wonder how that one evolved. A billion snakes leapt to their death until ... ?
I take it then that you are part of the continent that prefers for a large body count of your fellow citizens to accumulate before taking action against an enemy that declares hostile intent, and might oppose it even then? Is this more your flavor of "hero"?
The Cuban government oppresses those under its power. If you aren't under its power then it probably can't oppress you. The fact that you aren't under its power and therefore it can't oppress you personally doesn't change the fact that it is a totalitarian government. For whatever it is worth to you, Cuba does have a long history of military adventurism to further the spread of revolution and communism. And there was a shipment of missile related quipment intercepted not long ago on its way from Cuba to North Korea in violation of UN embargos.
You might find those articles I linked to interesting, or maybe not.