Comment Hook them on your tech. (Score 2) 478
Get them while they're young.
Comment Re:Is it really so outrageous? (Score 1) 853
"They [laws] ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority."
-James Madison
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2939630
Comment Re:Aptitude (Score 1) 769
He also had a "computer science and engineering" degree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_Shahzad
Comment Ever since post-World War 2 (Score 1) 409
We own the world.
Sincerely,
USA
Comment Re:Oh goody (Score 1) 790
Not if $BIGCORP is one of the many "private security" firms that are popping up and expanding currently.
Comment Re:So you think its really that easy? (Score 1) 199
If enough people do this, Facebook will get the message that users are unhappy with this decision, even if deleting the account doesn't protect already-entered data.
By the time Facebook decides to sell off their data, the site might be way past its peak, the way Myspace is now.
Comment About that Gates Foundation: (Score 1) 446
DIANE RAVITCH: “The Billionaires Boys Club” is a discussion of how we’re in a new era of the foundations and their relation to education. We have never in the history of the United States had foundations with the wealth of the Gates Foundation and some of the other billionaire foundations—the Walton Family Foundation, The Broad Foundation. And these three foundations—Gates, Broad and Walton—are committed now to charter schools and to evaluating teachers by test scores. And that’s now the policy of the US Department of Education. We have never seen anything like this, where foundations had the ambition to direct national educational policy, and in fact are succeeding...
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/5/protests
Comment Control (Score 1) 853
A problem with nuclear power is that we'll be at the mercy of corporations to set the price and availability just like they do for oil.
Comment As usual, the discussion is missing the point. (Score 1, Insightful) 465
While I don't play poker and consider it a vapid waste of time and energy better spent on doing something productive, I will say this.
To everyone replying that the government is "wasting time and money" and is suggesting that there more important matters to be concerned with than shutting down internet poker. I will remind all of you of a seldom talked about and suppressed fact about our society.
In a society as civilly disengaged, disillusioned, propagandized, and atomized as ours, the government will be able to get away with continuing and escalating their ongoing efforts to continue shaping society in the current negative direction by keeping up with their current and developing new means of doing what it does: engaging in social control while multinational unaccountable private tyrannies have their way with us.
Comment Re:Greenspan's hubris (Score 1) 496
everybody who indulged in that binge is now dead or dying
Except for the execs from those banks living it up in extravagant lavishness and not in jail or dead, hope as we might.
Submission + - Can nukes fly due to a mistake on a checklist? (youtube.com)
ThEATrE writes: "Hi, in August I read a very popular story and read the lively discussion involving transported nukes from one place to another, and the military claiming it was a "mistake" and we left it at that. Turns out there was a 6 week long investigation of some sort on the matter, and PBS ran a story about it.
I think it's important because the original story posted in August generated a lot of interest and a lot of replies, and it was left off with many questions unanswered.
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October 19, 2007 — PBS News hour
Secratery Wynne of the US Air Force confirmed today that 6 nuke warheads were flown accross the USA in August from Minot AFB, North Dakoda to Barksdale AFB Luisiana and it called it an "unacceptable mistake".
A 6 week investigation that found fault in and resulted in the relieve of several officicers. The Air Force official in charge of the investigation explains at the Pentagon, "the reason they didn't follow these procedures as we discovered, it was again, due to the lack of attention to detail, due to the fact that they, for a variety of reasons they, uh, they were passive in terms of how they should have been following these checklist procedures. Did not apply the riggor, the same standards that we ask all our [indecipherable] to follow through with certain [indecipherable] checklist procedures.
The US Military does not usually comment on incidents involving nuclear weapons. But the Force made a one time exception to US policy in this case.
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The video can be found on youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS6d0aPrL1Q but above is a rough transcription that I think covers much of the facts.
Some things immediately stuck out to me. Particularly that this investigation seems to have been carried out by the military itself, directly or indirectly. And, is this gentleman trying to let me believe, that the transporting of nuclear weapons from one state to another in a B-52, be the result of officers lack of attention to checklists?
It would be interesting to see what light some of /. can shine on this issue that just boomaranged back to us, complete with a full-on investigation. Some of what remains unknown, what exactly are these checklists and procedures? I would like to know what the things I couldn't hear and transcribe were. Although the sound quality of this clip is great, and this man speaks very clearly, two seemingly important parts of his speech are completely inaudible to me.
PS I post this under YRO but discussions can be had on it in other areas, like politics, or science. I was looking for a "military-industrial complex", but I think "The Almighty Buck" fits close enough."
I think it's important because the original story posted in August generated a lot of interest and a lot of replies, and it was left off with many questions unanswered.
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October 19, 2007 — PBS News hour
Secratery Wynne of the US Air Force confirmed today that 6 nuke warheads were flown accross the USA in August from Minot AFB, North Dakoda to Barksdale AFB Luisiana and it called it an "unacceptable mistake".
A 6 week investigation that found fault in and resulted in the relieve of several officicers. The Air Force official in charge of the investigation explains at the Pentagon, "the reason they didn't follow these procedures as we discovered, it was again, due to the lack of attention to detail, due to the fact that they, for a variety of reasons they, uh, they were passive in terms of how they should have been following these checklist procedures. Did not apply the riggor, the same standards that we ask all our [indecipherable] to follow through with certain [indecipherable] checklist procedures.
The US Military does not usually comment on incidents involving nuclear weapons. But the Force made a one time exception to US policy in this case.
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The video can be found on youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS6d0aPrL1Q but above is a rough transcription that I think covers much of the facts.
Some things immediately stuck out to me. Particularly that this investigation seems to have been carried out by the military itself, directly or indirectly. And, is this gentleman trying to let me believe, that the transporting of nuclear weapons from one state to another in a B-52, be the result of officers lack of attention to checklists?
It would be interesting to see what light some of
PS I post this under YRO but discussions can be had on it in other areas, like politics, or science. I was looking for a "military-industrial complex", but I think "The Almighty Buck" fits close enough."
