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I'd want presence overhead, eyes on the target, at a minimum. some jet noise to give folks pause. It could well have been that there could be no clear opportunity to drop, but the bad guys didn't...

The three examples were carefully planned out operations, days to months in advance. Not really applicable to the Benghazi situation.

It is fair to ask we we didn't try to help those folks. Why we...

We know after the fact that the next attack was within hours. We didn't know that then. I am interested in hearing about the decision making that day.

If his design was used by foreign terrorists to bypass security even after the government approves its release (which would have to be under some sort of dual use thing) he could be liable. You are...

When you do make technology available for export that is dual use, under ITAR you are responsible if out is used nefariously by foreigners.

Anyone who thinks this will make guns readily available hasn't set up a printer recently

That's a better name for it

You clearly don't understand what Swift Boating is.

The M1 is the mechanized fist of an angry god that smites all before it

We need to leak the fact that we now have technology to redirect the missile in flight and have it strike Beijing. Make this China's problem and there will be a quick solution.

I noticed no colon polyps or impactions or lost keys were detected by TSA. More training needed. Obviously.

By the way, I was on this flight...
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2778

Not funny. Detecting prostate cancer is serious business.

Heh

I use a two monitor setup with my laptop on my desk, so I'll often have all kinds of toolbars displayed on one screen while I write on the other. Then when I unhook it and go on travel, when I...

A more aquatic example is on a boat you could put a little tab on a sturdy keel designed such that it would flutter at the right frequency to excite the keel's structural fundamental frequency and...

I agree with Hanley. The guy is succinctly summing up his life, explaining his rationale, and closing all of his personal accounts with folks plus and minus. He made me understand his decision...

I'm in the middle of a research project which is focused on attempting to Model Everything and Predict for a very narrow domain. I read The Black Swan specifically to inform myself on this sort of...

He has a new book out which says you can identify fragility. The prologue, in which he nicely bolded the answer in broad brush to your doubts.
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/prologue.pdf


At...

Taleb and Krugman converge in thought on this one. Same paper in my reply to Norm.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html?hp

Excerpt...you can just read the bold.

His prescriptions are broad in nature and require a lot of detail to apply to particular instances, obviously.

So which ones do you disagree with?

By the way, Krugman didn't predict the...

Yep, Taleb takes a huge shot at the reward system, particularly of bonuses.

A list of rules to go by.
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/talebs-rules.html

You mean like the big brains at Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Washington Mutual, Wachovia, Citigroup, and AIG that all saw the crash coming and behaved appropriately? They...

So what do you do when the Nobel Prize winners disagree with each other? |:)

Neither had Scholes until he did. Similarly, the skipper of the Titanic had never run into anything until he did.

I will give Scholes points for putting his reputation and money where his Nobel...

So did Scholes, until he lost $5B and almost crashed the financial system.

From the article...

Tassib showed that risk wasn't priced into lots of markets that imploded, including the 2008 crash...

That's kind of the reason I was interested in opinions. The author of The Black Swan takes any number of Nobel Prize in Economics winners to the woodshed. For example, Myron Scholes won the Nobel...

Beemp...I just finished Black Swan and am interested in your take on it, if you've read it. If you haven't then you should. Provocative, and pertinent to the article you referenced.

Me-me-me-me-me-me-me!

A silver lining to this man's incarceration and release is that we've learned more about you, Phillip. I am thankful for that.

I am pretty sure the answer involves Schrodinger's Cat.

You did, if you think he is.

Just echoing Mr. LaPierre.

Did you know that as a Commanding Officer, for the period 2011 - 2012 I was prohibited from asking if one of my sailors owns a private weapon in order to ascertain if he...

I we clearly need more guns at the shooting range to prevent this sort of thing.

Either of you guys read The Black Swan? The book about probabilities, not the one about psycho ballerinas.

...stores anecdote away for future use...

what was the answering you we're hoping for? That people would indeed cry out to control high speed vehicles that kill groups of people on a regular basis? I thinking you were hoping someone would...

Your HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE assumes a world where someone could go on killing sprees of four or five per year for a decade or two before you ever get to the congressional hearing. That only occurs with...

The car comparison is painfully wrong. Address my four points, and throw in the fact that we have a national highway safety organization, and that you are required to be insured to have one and so...

Didn't the Germans bomb pearl harbor?

I know what you were saying. If you had repeated massacres every month or so by people with super high speed vehicles, YES there would be serious questions going on as to whether something needs to...

I went back and listened to the video, and the heckler didn't even try to answer the question, he just blurted out something about the 2nd amendment. Essentially what he was saying was, "Tough s**t,...

The gun advocates behaved like the Jerry Jones church nuts who protest funerals. They.simply.couldnt.keep.their.mouths.shut.

Four points. First, if there was a trend of such things occurring every few months for years on end as with assault weapons, I ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE you that exactly such sort of questions would...

It was a testimony in hearings, not a trial.

Who else should speak if not the victims? Why would you prevent the victims from being heard? In what other dialog do you exclude the people most...

My dog's name is Skeet.

Bad choice?

Any load of any realistic value will result in deflection, whether the load is taken in bending of the arch or in compression of the arch. It is impossible to have it be otherwise. You can, however,...

First, voter ID is not a good analogy. Having your vote miscounted and getting shot in the head are pretty far apart on the scale of effects.

Second, it is not an either/or. Assault weapons don't...

Wayne LaPierre used the tragedy as an opportunity to convince good people they need guns (available at your local gun store! On sale now!) in order to defend yourself from the bad people that we sell...

Not true. You could have a relatively weak arch with concrete buttresses as end supports, and all the load is taken in compression in the arch. Or you can have a sturdy arch with the ends weakly...

Heading out the door. Linked provided in above post. Cheers.

Link for you...
http://www.ct.gov/despp/cwp/view.asp?A=4226&Q=517284


http://www.texasgopvote.com/issues/stop-big-government/connecticut-state-police-clarify-sandy-hook-weapons-questions-005049

If you google around a bit, you'll find lots of frothing about an AR-15 not being used (I just tried it) but eventually if you're discerning about the sources, you'll get a statement from the...