The same reasons that the text of Bills in Congress is often kept closely guarded for months or years until the Bill is formally introduced:
1) Politicians don't want to tout a bill that lowers taxes and saves puppies only to have the puppy provision removed before the Bill reaches a committee. At least if the committee removes it he has someone else to blame.
2) Politicians also don't want to deal with the blowback for unpopular pieces of a bill until they know it actually has to be in there.
This thing is taking years to draft and refine, why would anyone want to be blamed for text that may never make the final version?
Keep in mind that my answer to your question still supports the notion that politicians suck. I do not mean to say their secrecy is justified, merely that there is a reason for it.
Much of these same principles apply to treaties. Either way, at least in the US, the Senate has to ratify any treaty (by two thirds no less) that the President signs. It's not like this could easily be snuck in overnight.
Not necessarily. As a civilization, we have many branching arms of scientific research being explored, which does include some research into Faster-Than-Light travel. There are at least concepts being considered. Not much work is being done on them, but there is at least some.
Would any visiting aliens be more advanced than us? At least in the science of interstellar travel, they certainly would be, but probably not by much. Also, depending upon their priorities as a species, they may or may not have advanced as far as us in any number of other sciences. Also, there are many sciences which (as far as we know) are only relevant to life on earth, so there would certainly be plenty they could learn from us as well.
Plus every marketing manager is going to start looking for some way to make their current product lines appeal to our new alien overlords (customers.... customlords? overmers?) and every credit card company will be delivering them boxes filled with pre-approvals.
These people will all be disappointed though, the aliens just came to get themselves iPads.
There's actually just a request booth sitting outside each ISP's headquarters. You walk in, shut the door behind you, and are greeted with an old moldy SPAM can dangling from a string.
I suppose it would be possible to build a whole second infrastructure across the country for Government agencies and 'critical industries', one that would never necessarily cross lines with any part of the 'insecure' internet. However, I would think the fact that you would need a nationwide infrastructure is what would make it just as insecure as the real thing, as there would be innumerable points for a malicious person to connect in. Also, unless you plan on creating a whole new 'secure' operating system to connect to every computer on this new network, you're still going to be vulnerable if anyone brings in a flash drive or a DVD with a virus.
Oh, and you could NEVER allow wireless connections to this network... that would just be too damn easy.
Pretty much anything sold by Thinkgeek these days is poor quality. Buckyballs are apparently no different.
Agreed, my TV-b-Gone died on me after only ONE nightclub bouncer stomped on it after realizing that I had been turning off their monitors. I would easily pay more for one that could withstand more than ten repeated stomps from steel-toed boots.
There is often-times a lot of overlap, so that the desktop filters are made redundant.
This is only true if your company never has anybody bring in a USB Flash Drive which could have potentially been infected on their home computer or on another company's system.
While such pedantry might score you points with political science nerds
Not really, political science nerds (like myself) classify governments like the US & Britain as Democracies. This is because most sciences (even the social ones) have their own strict definitions that are very different from the strict grammar-nazi definitions of the general population. We do this is because we're not talking to the general population when writing papers.
The whole "It's not a democracy... it's a democratic republic" quip wasn't really met with kudos in my program, but more with "dude, chill out."
Ted Morgan (your link with Allen & Company) worked there long ago at the beginning of his career.
George Tenet, by your own quote, only has links with Allen & Company starting February 2008.
What exactly are you claiming happened? The former A&C grunt who now is CEO of Skyhook went and called up George Tenet (who he has never met, at least not through A&C) to do... what? Make the CIA suddenly interested in signal and cytological intelligence?
You're also forgetting that each agency is allowed to choose its own technology vendors. If the NSA really wants to give a contract to Google then the CIA can't stop them, nor would they care, as they can just give their phone-tracking contract to Skyhook.
I can gather up 2100 people who would give different numbers.
I'm sure you could, but assuming that the study gathered up 2100 people in a rigorously random fashion and you did too, I'd find that unlikely. Margin of error is a function of sample size, not population. A sample of 2100 describes a population of 300 million just as well as 300 thousand. You only need to factor in population size when your population is actually small enough that your sample will make up a significant portion of it.
Now, admittedly, we're severely lacking in detail on how the sample was gathered. So you may still be right. However, I would say that 72% of anybody would probably answer that loaded question in the affirmative so as to keep from looking like a sociopath.
I think at the point that they are using any resources (yours or their own) to make some determination as to what you can/cannot read. That is censorship.
Maybe, but their homes will go one day regardless. So will ours. In many billions of years the sun will expand to a massive giant which will swallow the earth whole before collapsing into a massive black hole.
Sir, I would like the name of the contractor who constructed your home. Longevity like that is something I would love to invest in. Also, do they offer an option which will protect my home from said black hole?
What you're referring to is called a cell membrane which is formed by lipid bilayers. Cell walls are usually more rigid and are located outside of the cell membrane.
However, the parent is still confusing because algae, plants, protozoa, etc. all have different structures of cell walls. He doesn't really specify which specific one(s) are hard for us to explain.
Encyclopedias are only a starting point; you don't cite them in your paper, or in court. You go for their sources for your real research.
Not only do I completely agree with you for the reason you specify, but also academic honesty really demands this approach. The encyclopedia has only aggregated information for you, the actual knowledge/article/paper actually came from someone else, not the encyclopedia. The original source for information should be the one getting the credit, not the aggregating service.
I have to say, Jeffrey Morris is a fine, upstanding citizen who would never sleep with any canine, urinate in any non-toilet receptacle, or collaborate with terrorists. Jeffrey Morris smells like fresh petunias and lavender. Jeffrey Morris's girlfriend is an absolutely delightful person.
FTFY
Ha ha, my plan to shut down/. is practically complete!!!
My High School did a mock revolutionary war battle every year. The freshmen and sophomores are the grunts, with a few of the more motivated ones acting as commanders. The juniors/seniors act as "referees" who decide what losses the individual groups of soldiers take during each sortie (the "weapons fire" is really just the kids pointing sticks at each other and going 'pow' or sometimes launching a water balloon from a slingshot).
Honestly, it's a fun day had by all, and it is reasonably educational when you consider that each side is collaborating on its own battle strategy, tactics, ambushes (our nearby park is basically a large valley that has a LOT of open land AND a lot of interesting terrain). Then, of course, just seeing it all in action from the high ground as hundreds of students march, 'sortie', scramble, regroup, retreat, etc is just really impressive. I believe there were some years where there were even deserters and defectors.
I guess my point is that it is possible to educate children with these sorts of tools without exposing them to the harsher side of it. Admittedly, the terrorist attack from TFA sounds a bit extreme, and the teacher definitely seems to be acting in bad taste. I guess I don't really have a point, I just wanted to nostalgia.:)
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The same reasons that the text of Bills in Congress is often kept closely guarded for months or years until the Bill is formally introduced:
1) Politicians don't want to tout a bill that lowers taxes and saves puppies only to have the puppy provision removed before the Bill reaches a committee. At least if the committee removes it he has someone else to blame.
2) Politicians also don't want to deal with the blowback for unpopular pieces of a bill until they know it actually has to be in there.
This thing is taking years to draft and refine, why would anyone want to be blamed for text that may never make the final version?
Keep in mind that my answer to your question still supports the notion that politicians suck. I do not mean to say their secrecy is justified, merely that there is a reason for it.
Much of these same principles apply to treaties. Either way, at least in the US, the Senate has to ratify any treaty (by two thirds no less) that the President signs. It's not like this could easily be snuck in overnight.
There are only so many such images available for use
Not if they use images of Lady Gaga
Except the idea only works if the answer isn't always Lady Gaga
A long time ago (I guess around the time of Star Wars Episode I) my friends owned Microsith.com
Awww, that used to be my homepage. I found it unbelievably entertaining. Oh nostalgia.
More land used at the very least. The general trend worldwide is that humans keep clearing land, not replanting it.
More importantly, who dropped a tin can there... and is there a string attached leading to another galaxy?
In other words, we'd be like insects to them.
Not necessarily. As a civilization, we have many branching arms of scientific research being explored, which does include some research into Faster-Than-Light travel. There are at least concepts being considered. Not much work is being done on them, but there is at least some.
Would any visiting aliens be more advanced than us? At least in the science of interstellar travel, they certainly would be, but probably not by much. Also, depending upon their priorities as a species, they may or may not have advanced as far as us in any number of other sciences. Also, there are many sciences which (as far as we know) are only relevant to life on earth, so there would certainly be plenty they could learn from us as well.
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Plus every marketing manager is going to start looking for some way to make their current product lines appeal to our new alien overlords (customers.... customlords? overmers?) and every credit card company will be delivering them boxes filled with pre-approvals.
These people will all be disappointed though, the aliens just came to get themselves iPads.
There's actually just a request booth sitting outside each ISP's headquarters. You walk in, shut the door behind you, and are greeted with an old moldy SPAM can dangling from a string.
I suppose it would be possible to build a whole second infrastructure across the country for Government agencies and 'critical industries', one that would never necessarily cross lines with any part of the 'insecure' internet. However, I would think the fact that you would need a nationwide infrastructure is what would make it just as insecure as the real thing, as there would be innumerable points for a malicious person to connect in. Also, unless you plan on creating a whole new 'secure' operating system to connect to every computer on this new network, you're still going to be vulnerable if anyone brings in a flash drive or a DVD with a virus.
Oh, and you could NEVER allow wireless connections to this network... that would just be too damn easy.
Pretty much anything sold by Thinkgeek these days is poor quality. Buckyballs are apparently no different.
Agreed, my TV-b-Gone died on me after only ONE nightclub bouncer stomped on it after realizing that I had been turning off their monitors. I would easily pay more for one that could withstand more than ten repeated stomps from steel-toed boots.
There is often-times a lot of overlap, so that the desktop filters are made redundant.
This is only true if your company never has anybody bring in a USB Flash Drive which could have potentially been infected on their home computer or on another company's system.
While such pedantry might score you points with political science nerds
Not really, political science nerds (like myself) classify governments like the US & Britain as Democracies. This is because most sciences (even the social ones) have their own strict definitions that are very different from the strict grammar-nazi definitions of the general population. We do this is because we're not talking to the general population when writing papers.
The whole "It's not a democracy... it's a democratic republic" quip wasn't really met with kudos in my program, but more with "dude, chill out."
Ted Morgan (your link with Allen & Company) worked there long ago at the beginning of his career.
George Tenet, by your own quote, only has links with Allen & Company starting February 2008.
What exactly are you claiming happened? The former A&C grunt who now is CEO of Skyhook went and called up George Tenet (who he has never met, at least not through A&C) to do... what? Make the CIA suddenly interested in signal and cytological intelligence?
You're also forgetting that each agency is allowed to choose its own technology vendors. If the NSA really wants to give a contract to Google then the CIA can't stop them, nor would they care, as they can just give their phone-tracking contract to Skyhook.
Sigh. It's only slightly newer
The first definition is circa mid-13th century. If you compare that to 1701 then it's well over twice as old.
Sorry, just nitpicking your usage of "only slightly." :P
I can gather up 2100 people who would give different numbers.
I'm sure you could, but assuming that the study gathered up 2100 people in a rigorously random fashion and you did too, I'd find that unlikely. Margin of error is a function of sample size, not population. A sample of 2100 describes a population of 300 million just as well as 300 thousand. You only need to factor in population size when your population is actually small enough that your sample will make up a significant portion of it.
Now, admittedly, we're severely lacking in detail on how the sample was gathered. So you may still be right. However, I would say that 72% of anybody would probably answer that loaded question in the affirmative so as to keep from looking like a sociopath.
I think at the point that they are using any resources (yours or their own) to make some determination as to what you can/cannot read. That is censorship.
Maybe, but their homes will go one day regardless. So will ours. In many billions of years the sun will expand to a massive giant which will swallow the earth whole before collapsing into a massive black hole.
Sir, I would like the name of the contractor who constructed your home. Longevity like that is something I would love to invest in. Also, do they offer an option which will protect my home from said black hole?
It goes back longer than that. Hell, even the crowds that went to see MLK Jr weren't the first to organize a protest or march at the National Mall.
Coxey's Army
What you're referring to is called a cell membrane which is formed by lipid bilayers. Cell walls are usually more rigid and are located outside of the cell membrane.
However, the parent is still confusing because algae, plants, protozoa, etc. all have different structures of cell walls. He doesn't really specify which specific one(s) are hard for us to explain.
Encyclopedias are only a starting point; you don't cite them in your paper, or in court. You go for their sources for your real research.
Not only do I completely agree with you for the reason you specify, but also academic honesty really demands this approach. The encyclopedia has only aggregated information for you, the actual knowledge/article/paper actually came from someone else, not the encyclopedia. The original source for information should be the one getting the credit, not the aggregating service.
Are you enough of an expert in Czech Law to tell us for certain that they do not demand registration of other copyrighted materials in some way?
Is it fair to complain about a system if you don't know it very well?
If they adhere to the international treaties that they signed decades ago, then they don't.
dogs and eyeballs and boots are better. You need lots of them and each one has to be thinking and looking on their own.
I would like to purchase some of these thinking boots you have in your possession.
I have to say, Jeffrey Morris is a fine, upstanding citizen who would never sleep with any canine, urinate in any non-toilet receptacle, or collaborate with terrorists. Jeffrey Morris smells like fresh petunias and lavender. Jeffrey Morris's girlfriend is an absolutely delightful person.
FTFY
Ha ha, my plan to shut down /. is practically complete!!!
Ha ha! You have been thwarted!
Which would win in a fight, the Millennium Falcon or the Enterprise?
Neither. The interdicting legal injunction would travel instantaneously across space to stop the battle from taking place.
My High School did a mock revolutionary war battle every year. The freshmen and sophomores are the grunts, with a few of the more motivated ones acting as commanders. The juniors/seniors act as "referees" who decide what losses the individual groups of soldiers take during each sortie (the "weapons fire" is really just the kids pointing sticks at each other and going 'pow' or sometimes launching a water balloon from a slingshot).
Honestly, it's a fun day had by all, and it is reasonably educational when you consider that each side is collaborating on its own battle strategy, tactics, ambushes (our nearby park is basically a large valley that has a LOT of open land AND a lot of interesting terrain). Then, of course, just seeing it all in action from the high ground as hundreds of students march, 'sortie', scramble, regroup, retreat, etc is just really impressive. I believe there were some years where there were even deserters and defectors.
I guess my point is that it is possible to educate children with these sorts of tools without exposing them to the harsher side of it. Admittedly, the terrorist attack from TFA sounds a bit extreme, and the teacher definitely seems to be acting in bad taste. I guess I don't really have a point, I just wanted to nostalgia. :)