Why the hell would they? It's a fantasy movie that just happens to be set in a computer. Hint: Computer Scientist would point out that you can't actually put yourself in a computer..
For the same reason the movie "The Core" had a science advisor.
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Summary is in error, Jim Higgins DID cite the original article, unless he's edited his post since the original story (Is that possible? I don't use google groups). There's absolutely nothing wrong with this behavior, and Righthaven should be punished for blatant abuse of the judicial system.
Eh, that's because there are really only two forms of war that can effectively defeat an insurgency.
Total War, and the subsequent genocide of the native population, is a proven effective military tactic that will eliminate an insurgency. It is completely within our power to accomplish, even without the use of large-scale munitions (I.E. Nukes) - but it's also the sort of thing I'm glad the politicians are forbidding. It's a pretty monstrous thing to do.
Winning Hearts and Minds - I know the phrase is synonymous with failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it's the only other proven effective way of successfully resolving a war. I.E. Germany, Japan, and Italy post-WWII, the populations were successfully convinced that we had their best intentions at heart, accepted the reconstruction, and are now both outstanding members of the international community.
We've also failed at this an awful lot. It's tricky to pull off, and I doubt we can pull it off in Iran either.
The US military forces were\are geared up to fight a conventional army, and are capable of doing that spectacularly. The actual invasion and neutralization of the conventional armed forces of Iraq and Afghanistan were unbelievably effective. The actual invasion of Iraq took a little over a month to complete (March 19 to April 30) and was an uncontested success.
The occupation and subsequent insurgency is pretty FUBAR though.
Similarly, destroying the conventional military forces of Iran is within the capabilities of the US without question. It's the competence of our leadership to clean up the mess once we're done having the real war that is in question.
The Lawyer's account of his conditions aren't all that bad, but lend themselves to abuse.
Sleep deprivation is the most common charge levied against them, as it would be entirely legal and plausible under the conditions for "prevention of injury" watch. Taking everything at face value wouldn't be "harsh" in my mind for a convicted criminal, but this is pre-trial holding, and it has been going on for longer than many prisoners entire sentence. Note that the government has already passed the statutorial limit of a Speedy Trial, and his lawyer has filed a Motion to dismiss all charges
I think the main argument will be the existence of classified documents revealing the existence of illegal activities by the United States, along with him leaking documents "according to his conscience" instead of, say, for monetary gain or in direct support of an opposing government.
This is probably enough to get the death penalty off the table, and might persuade the tribunal to assign a sentence that allows him the possibility of leaving jail before he dies.
You're not the only one on/. with military service, I spent four years in, made it to Afghanistan and Iraq during that time, and became pretty familiar with small arms fire. Yes, an RPG can sink a fairly large civilian boat with one shot, they're not armored, and oil or other explosive cargo is far too common to just ignore.
One RPG might also fail to sink the ship, it's a matter of luck. That might be a risk you're willing to take, but it's not one shipping owners are willing to take.
You're thinking like a military man, think like a civilian. Most civilian crews don't have extensive training like a Marine does, they don't have body armor, and if they routinely fight off pirates, civilians are going to die.
That's bad for the crew members, they're dead. That's bad for the owners, their ship may be damaged or destroyed in the firefight, they're liable for the death of their crew, their insurance goes up. Overall it's very bad economics.
So what do they do? Lobby their governments for more naval protection in piracy-affected areas. That's what you're there for. Have fun rushing onto pirate boats and killing people if that's what makes ya happy.
Ships are "Strongly discouraged" from using firearms, but allowed to do so if the company and\or host country deems it necessary. See paragraph 16.7
From my googling, exactly what weapons you're allowed to dock with depends entirely on the individual ports. Ports along the Horn of Africa might well say "sure, dock with some heavy guns mounted on your ship." - while San Francisco might say, "Hell no" to the exact same guns.
Meanwhile, small arms are NOT sufficient to deter piracy. One lucky hit with an RPG could down pretty much any civilian ship (especially one with hazardous cargo, oil/gas/anything explosive really), would you, as a civilian crew member aboard a shipping vessel who doesn't stand much of any risk in the situation be willing to die to protect someone else's millions?
To be fair, I've found a number of articles that conclude the opposite (No strong evidence of a correlation between resources and student achievement) - I.E. http://epa.sagepub.com/content/19/2/141.abstract from the University of Rochester.
I admit, you might have a point. - I don't actually have access to the full text of any of these articles, so I can't really judge them.
A variety of scientific studies have been done, most of which conclude that there is a statistically significant relationship between school funding and student achievement.
From what I can tell, there exists a point of diminishing returns where throwing more money at a school won't solve any more of its problems, but if you have a district that is significantly poorer than average, and no state funding, its students are going to suffer from the lack of resources.
I know a few home-schooled people, and if I had to generalize (though it is unfair to do so, I admit) - they tend to perform a little better academically, but perform a little worse socially.
This is anecdotal experience with a very small group I met in college, and have remained friends with over the years.
Overall, it's not much worse for your social life than having the personality type that posts on/. frequently.
Ever have a moment where someone explains something, and you think, "huh, I should have realized that ages ago, it just makes so much sense."
You just did that for me. I've always been on the fence in regards to the whole hate crime laws issue, figuring both sides had pretty good points and not really convinced wholeheartedly for either one. That's not the case anymore.
This idea that a group of civilians can enact violent revolution hasn't been valid for the past few decades. Dictators tend to have a monopoly on force in a country, they command the loyalty of military and police forces inside the country, and remain in power because no other force in the country has the capability to oust them.
I.E. Even if there were free elections in Zimbabwe, and the people DID elect someone other than this monster, he could simply say, "No." and carry on with his business.
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Naturally, there's the flip side of this, foreign interference producing a government even WORSE than the last one. The list of Western-inspired coups that produced shitty governments in the end is pretty long, but without foreign assistance, rebel groups don't really stand a chance to create meaningful change.
It's Mr. Greenwald's fault, though perhaps not yours if you honestly don't see the difference. The way you say things does make an impact upon how people perceive them, especially if they're not curious enough to find out the whole story for themselves.
TFA is pretty clearly attempting to cast Lamo in the worst light possible. I, personally, leap to the conclusion of schizophrenia when I hear someone described as mentally ill, especially when combined with the words "involuntarily committed." The diagnosis of Aspergers was actually something of a shock.
And that's just it, it's not just my biases, it's intentionally writing the article to trigger those biases that is intellectual dishonest.
While I wouldn't describe it as "standard treatment" it's definitely something the military does.
While I was in the Air Force it was called "Corrective Custody" and was something of a boogy-man NCO's told stories about to frighten the younger troops into behaving, and represents the most extreme non-judicial punishment a commander is allowed to give to his troops.
Any time I ever heard of it actually being implemented it only lasted around a week to a month, and it got rolled out when a base commander wanted to make an example out of someone. I.E. if someone is such a discipline problem they're getting administratively discharged, and they want to make the dude's last month hell so no-one else gets any bright ideas about getting out of their contract early.
Lamo has been diagnosed Aspergers disorder, which makes the article, and yourself, consistently describing him as "Mentally ill" pretty dishonest, intellectually.
The phrase mentally ill tends to carry a lot more negative connotations than Aspergers, especially here on/.
"numerous individuals in the Boston area, including MIT students who (due at least in part to Lamo's prior accusations) have been the subject of WikiLeaks-related probes by the FBI."
So yes, we can pretty unambiguously state that there ARE other sources, or at best accessories, that need to be protected by not releasing the chat logs.
Considering what has happened to the one source that DID get implicated, Bradly Manning is being held in the most inhumane and unconstitutional conditions imaginable, it's not just a fine show of journalistic integrity they're showing by not releasing the chat logs, it's a fine show of basic human dignity.
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what's up with spelling it "Amerika?"
Is that like a shoutout to the whole "Amerikkka" meme?
Just a generic counter-cultural "America bad" thing?
I've seen a couple people do it that way, but honestly don't know what it's supposed to mean.
Note that I have no idea what that reason is, only that it would be the same one.
Why the hell would they? It's a fantasy movie that just happens to be set in a computer. Hint: Computer Scientist would point out that you can't actually put yourself in a computer. .
For the same reason the movie "The Core" had a science advisor.
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While the work was reproduced in total, it was for nonprofit purposes, and probably increased the potential value of the copyrighted work - as the link would result in more pageviews of the article.
Summary is in error, Jim Higgins DID cite the original article, unless he's edited his post since the original story (Is that possible? I don't use google groups). There's absolutely nothing wrong with this behavior, and Righthaven should be punished for blatant abuse of the judicial system.
Eh, that's because there are really only two forms of war that can effectively defeat an insurgency.
Total War, and the subsequent genocide of the native population, is a proven effective military tactic that will eliminate an insurgency. It is completely within our power to accomplish, even without the use of large-scale munitions (I.E. Nukes) - but it's also the sort of thing I'm glad the politicians are forbidding. It's a pretty monstrous thing to do.
Winning Hearts and Minds - I know the phrase is synonymous with failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it's the only other proven effective way of successfully resolving a war. I.E. Germany, Japan, and Italy post-WWII, the populations were successfully convinced that we had their best intentions at heart, accepted the reconstruction, and are now both outstanding members of the international community.
We've also failed at this an awful lot. It's tricky to pull off, and I doubt we can pull it off in Iran either.
The US military forces were\are geared up to fight a conventional army, and are capable of doing that spectacularly. The actual invasion and neutralization of the conventional armed forces of Iraq and Afghanistan were unbelievably effective. The actual invasion of Iraq took a little over a month to complete (March 19 to April 30) and was an uncontested success.
The occupation and subsequent insurgency is pretty FUBAR though.
Similarly, destroying the conventional military forces of Iran is within the capabilities of the US without question. It's the competence of our leadership to clean up the mess once we're done having the real war that is in question.
The Lawyer's account of his conditions aren't all that bad, but lend themselves to abuse.
Sleep deprivation is the most common charge levied against them, as it would be entirely legal and plausible under the conditions for "prevention of injury" watch. Taking everything at face value wouldn't be "harsh" in my mind for a convicted criminal, but this is pre-trial holding, and it has been going on for longer than many prisoners entire sentence. Note that the government has already passed the statutorial limit of a Speedy Trial, and his lawyer has filed a Motion to dismiss all charges
I think the main argument will be the existence of classified documents revealing the existence of illegal activities by the United States, along with him leaking documents "according to his conscience" instead of, say, for monetary gain or in direct support of an opposing government.
This is probably enough to get the death penalty off the table, and might persuade the tribunal to assign a sentence that allows him the possibility of leaving jail before he dies.
You're not the only one on /. with military service, I spent four years in, made it to Afghanistan and Iraq during that time, and became pretty familiar with small arms fire. Yes, an RPG can sink a fairly large civilian boat with one shot, they're not armored, and oil or other explosive cargo is far too common to just ignore.
One RPG might also fail to sink the ship, it's a matter of luck. That might be a risk you're willing to take, but it's not one shipping owners are willing to take.
You're thinking like a military man, think like a civilian. Most civilian crews don't have extensive training like a Marine does, they don't have body armor, and if they routinely fight off pirates, civilians are going to die.
That's bad for the crew members, they're dead. That's bad for the owners, their ship may be damaged or destroyed in the firefight, they're liable for the death of their crew, their insurance goes up. Overall it's very bad economics.
So what do they do? Lobby their governments for more naval protection in piracy-affected areas. That's what you're there for. Have fun rushing onto pirate boats and killing people if that's what makes ya happy.
http://www.stlucia.gov.lc/nemp/agreements/ISPS_Code_en.pdf
Ships are "Strongly discouraged" from using firearms, but allowed to do so if the company and\or host country deems it necessary. See paragraph 16.7
From my googling, exactly what weapons you're allowed to dock with depends entirely on the individual ports. Ports along the Horn of Africa might well say "sure, dock with some heavy guns mounted on your ship." - while San Francisco might say, "Hell no" to the exact same guns.
Meanwhile, small arms are NOT sufficient to deter piracy. One lucky hit with an RPG could down pretty much any civilian ship (especially one with hazardous cargo, oil/gas/anything explosive really), would you, as a civilian crew member aboard a shipping vessel who doesn't stand much of any risk in the situation be willing to die to protect someone else's millions?
Now Fuck off.
There are all kinds of international laws and regulations that prevent civilian ships from being armed.
I mean, you could arm them properly, they'd just be denied entry into most ports on the planet.
University of San Diego
http://pfr.sagepub.com/content/9/1/91.abstract
University of Chicago
http://rer.sagepub.com/content/66/3/361.abstract
To be fair, I've found a number of articles that conclude the opposite (No strong evidence of a correlation between resources and student achievement) - I.E. http://epa.sagepub.com/content/19/2/141.abstract from the University of Rochester.
I admit, you might have a point. - I don't actually have access to the full text of any of these articles, so I can't really judge them.
A variety of scientific studies have been done, most of which conclude that there is a statistically significant relationship between school funding and student achievement.
From what I can tell, there exists a point of diminishing returns where throwing more money at a school won't solve any more of its problems, but if you have a district that is significantly poorer than average, and no state funding, its students are going to suffer from the lack of resources.
I've been googling for the past half-hour trying to figure that out.
It has something to do with the filtration system. Beyond that I'm at a loss.
I know a few home-schooled people, and if I had to generalize (though it is unfair to do so, I admit) - they tend to perform a little better academically, but perform a little worse socially.
This is anecdotal experience with a very small group I met in college, and have remained friends with over the years.
Overall, it's not much worse for your social life than having the personality type that posts on /. frequently.
Ever have a moment where someone explains something, and you think, "huh, I should have realized that ages ago, it just makes so much sense."
You just did that for me. I've always been on the fence in regards to the whole hate crime laws issue, figuring both sides had pretty good points and not really convinced wholeheartedly for either one. That's not the case anymore.
Read up on exactly what Mugabe is doing
This idea that a group of civilians can enact violent revolution hasn't been valid for the past few decades. Dictators tend to have a monopoly on force in a country, they command the loyalty of military and police forces inside the country, and remain in power because no other force in the country has the capability to oust them.
I.E. Even if there were free elections in Zimbabwe, and the people DID elect someone other than this monster, he could simply say, "No." and carry on with his business.
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Naturally, there's the flip side of this, foreign interference producing a government even WORSE than the last one. The list of Western-inspired coups that produced shitty governments in the end is pretty long, but without foreign assistance, rebel groups don't really stand a chance to create meaningful change.
Disregard this, I spoke only reading that single article. From this:
http://utdocuments.blogspot.com/2010/06/email-exchange-with-wireds-kevin.html
It seems he's already passed on the whole of the logs to the Army and FBI, he's not protecting jack.
It's Mr. Greenwald's fault, though perhaps not yours if you honestly don't see the difference. The way you say things does make an impact upon how people perceive them, especially if they're not curious enough to find out the whole story for themselves.
TFA is pretty clearly attempting to cast Lamo in the worst light possible. I, personally, leap to the conclusion of schizophrenia when I hear someone described as mentally ill, especially when combined with the words "involuntarily committed." The diagnosis of Aspergers was actually something of a shock.
And that's just it, it's not just my biases, it's intentionally writing the article to trigger those biases that is intellectual dishonest.
While I wouldn't describe it as "standard treatment" it's definitely something the military does.
While I was in the Air Force it was called "Corrective Custody" and was something of a boogy-man NCO's told stories about to frighten the younger troops into behaving, and represents the most extreme non-judicial punishment a commander is allowed to give to his troops.
Any time I ever heard of it actually being implemented it only lasted around a week to a month, and it got rolled out when a base commander wanted to make an example out of someone. I.E. if someone is such a discipline problem they're getting administratively discharged, and they want to make the dude's last month hell so no-one else gets any bright ideas about getting out of their contract early.
Lamo has been diagnosed Aspergers disorder, which makes the article, and yourself, consistently describing him as "Mentally ill" pretty dishonest, intellectually.
The phrase mentally ill tends to carry a lot more negative connotations than Aspergers, especially here on /.
The Article specifically cites:
"numerous individuals in the Boston area, including MIT students who (due at least in part to Lamo's prior accusations) have been the subject of WikiLeaks-related probes by the FBI."
So yes, we can pretty unambiguously state that there ARE other sources, or at best accessories, that need to be protected by not releasing the chat logs.
Considering what has happened to the one source that DID get implicated, Bradly Manning is being held in the most inhumane and unconstitutional conditions imaginable, it's not just a fine show of journalistic integrity they're showing by not releasing the chat logs, it's a fine show of basic human dignity.