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Air Force role just 1 piece of DoD's cyber puzzle
Monday - 12/3/2012, 5:16am EST
The Air Force has several new to-do items on its cyber list after a summit of senior civilian and uniformed leaders in November.
But the answer to one of its most intriguing questions — Does anyone have a common understanding of what's encompassed by the word "cyber" in the first place? — remains elusive.
"There are different lines of operation in cyberspace. When some people think of it, they think of the smaller parts of it like what you're doing in your offensive and defensive capabilities, versus what you're doing to build the network and extend the network. That's a different element that we [previously] threw in the same bucket," said Lt. Gen. Michael Basla, the Air Force's chief information officer. "I think we'll draw a clearer line and distinction between what's required to build, operate and maintain the network and what's required to operate on the network. I think operating on the network will be where we coalesce around our definition of cyberspace operations."
The Air Force, Basla said, also needs to gain a better understanding of what the military as a whole will require in terms of cyber capabilities. That question, he told reporters in a media roundtable at the Pentagon on Friday, is dependent on the outcome of ongoing discussions among the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He said he expects the chiefs and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to arrive at decisions later this week that will elucidate the manpower and technology requirements of the military's U.S. Cyber Command going forward.
"We will then understand what those demands are, what our capabilities are and we'll address those gaps," Basla said.
Right people, right training
The recent summit tried to answer these and several other questions, including whether the service is poised to provide the nation with the cyber talent and equipment the military will need in future years and whether Air Force commanders understand the possibilities cyber capabilities can bring to the battlefield.
Lt. Gen. Michael Basla, chief information officer, Air Force
Ensuring the service has the right talent is key to its future. Basla said the Air Force needs to study whether or not its cyber forces are organized properly to support Cyber Command. Currently, he said, performing cyber missions requires contributions from personnel in various functional areas across the Air Force: engineers, intelligence analysts, acquisition experts, network maintainers and many others.
"That's really not how we've done business in the past," he said. "Before, if I was a pilot, I was a pilot. In cyber, it takes a team. Are we properly organized in the Air Force to facilitate that teaming? I think that's the question. Right now we pull from various organizations across the Air Force to put that team together."
That team includes members who are explicitly cyber warriors, however, such as those the Air Force trains in offense and defensive cyber operations at Hurlburt Field in its 39th Information Operations Squadron.
Basla said while the quality of the training the Air Force gives incoming airmen is top-notch, it's far from clear that the Air Force is training enough of them. He said increasing the graduate rate of the service's cyber schoolhouses is probably necessary, but the magnitude of the increase will depend on the "demand signals" the Pentagon sends when it tells the military services more about the future of Cyber Command.
"Right now, we project we'll meet today's demands in the fourth quarter of 2014," he said. "But I expect the demand signal to continue to go up. We're going to have to go expand the throughput rate, and we've got some ideas on how do to do that. We might have to have 24 hour operations, we might need more bed spaces, we might need more instructors and, if that's what it takes, that's what we'll do."
Immersion, discussion for senior leaders
Another objective of the Nov. 15 summit, Basla said, was to raise the awareness of the military's cyber capabilities among the service's senior uniformed leaders. The summit followed an earlier full-day immersion session for commanders at Cyber Command and the National Security Agency at Fort Meade. Md.
"We took graduate-level material and put it in a form that was understandable and could generate a high-level discussion," he said. "We took a whole day in which there was 30 percent presentation on our part and 70 percent discussion among principals at the table. I think we made a huge step from the senior leader perspective."
At more junior levels of the service, Basla said planners and operators already understand that cyber is an important arrow in the military's quiver.
"We have a cyber-operations weapons instructor course at Nellis Air Force Base, just like we have for the fighter force, just like the space force, just like the nuclear force. Now we see a synergy occurring out there between the planners and the operators in our exercises," he said. "It's really amazing and pretty awesome. The planners now recognize that there are options out there for targets. And the targets don't all have to be kinetic."
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Even Rocky Had A Montage
11 comments:
- Radge said...
That's great. The middle one - the pier in Dún Laoghaire?
- 4 January 2012 at 12:10
- Rosie said...
nope. look closer.
- 4 January 2012 at 12:11
- Radge said...
It's bested me, probably one of those situations where I'll be kicking myself. I can only make out the 'Ladies' sign.
- 4 January 2012 at 15:36
- Rosie said...
it's a view of the pigeon houses through the door of the ladies' bathing shelter on the bull wall.
- 4 January 2012 at 15:55
- Radge said...
Kicks self. Been years but I know it.
- 4 January 2012 at 16:27
- Kitty Catastrophe said...
Lovely photos. I still get so excited when I see the deer in Phoenix Park.
- 4 January 2012 at 16:55
- the dublinista said...
Lovely! What camera are you using?
- 5 January 2012 at 17:22
- Rosie said...
me too, Kitty, and i insist on calling them reindeer at christmas. i know they're not, but Andrew once mistook two terriers for rabbits, so i am still the preeminent zoologist in our house.
just the one on my phone, Dubs, which is (i am reliably informed) "the shitty kind of iphone" and a hipstamatic filter, which is (i am reliably informed) an app to make shitty photos look cool.
- 6 January 2012 at 16:05
- National Disgrace said...
'it's a view of the pigeon houses through the door of the ladies' bathing shelter on the bull wall'
A view I know only too well
- 9 January 2012 at 01:44
- conortje said...
Love these! Is there no end to your flippin' talents :-) Hope everything is okay - been ages since I heard from you - did you get my e mail?
- 12 January 2012 at 22:32
- Rosie said...
glad to see you're still with us, Disgrace. i'd assumed that following your last missive you'd had a change of heart and set up camp on Dame St.
Conor, if you could leave comments here once in a while gently reminding me to catch up on all the things i love and don't make enough time for, i'd live a better life. x
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McAfee Security founder says he's now out of Belize, eluding investigators (Updated)
UPDATE: Many sites have pointed out that Vice Magazine, which is accompanying John McAfee as he runs away from Belizean law enforcement, seems to have accidentally revealed his location taken by an accompanying reporter. Based on the location data in the photo's metadata (EXIF), at least at the time of that photo, he was in Guatemala, just over the border from Belize. For what it's worth, McAfee now claims that the Guatemala GPS location was fake, too. In any case for all folks who want a little more privacy with their photos, here's some tips from Lifehacker. Still, McAfee adds: "I do not believe that Vice will remain with me further. Again, my apologies."
A few weeks ago, founder of McAfee Security John McAfee (he no longer has any connection to the company), was named by Belizean authorities as a "person of interest" in the murder of another American expatriate also living in the Central American country. Since then, McAfee has been on the lam, somehow managing to evade authorities in a country with 300,000 residents living in an area slightly smaller than Massachusetts.
After rumors of his arrest on his own website over the weekend, McAfee now reports that he is "safe" and outside of Belize for the moment, but he plans on returning.
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He is still so young for a big man. I feel he has loads of potential and I have to imagine he will only get better. I am sure as with every player he has negatives, but I am predicting we got a steal with him.
http://www.nola.com/hornets/index.ss..._river_defaultJust the look, the wild hair, the menacing scowl, the fiery eyes, the 7-foot frame, all conspire to paint a rather disquieting portrait of New Orleans Hornets center Robin Lopez.
Who is this rather ominous appearing individual who will anchor the middle on both ends of the floor for the Hornets this season?
Hornets Coach Monty Williams sees the hair, the appearance, the countenance and envisions the kind of basketball player he hopes will fill a void the team has had at the five position since Williams took over as coach in 2010.
"I see a guy who has tremendous size, defensive oriented, got some skill on the block has a pretty good IQ for the game and has a lot of passion," Williams said. "Sometimes that gets in the way a little bit. But it's a good thing. It's not negative or selfish. And he'll admit he's not your average NBA guy. But I kind of like that.
"So many guys in the NBA are cookie-cutout. One guy puts on those stupid glasses, everybody's putting them on. The next thing they'll be carrying canes to the games as fashion pacemakers. It's getting out of hand with all that. He's a guy who kind of walks on his own and doesn't care what people thing."
Label the 24-year-old Lopez eccentric, if you will. It seems to fit.
Yet the 7-foot, 255 pound Lopez, who's twin brother Brook plays the same position for the Brooklyn Nets, is off the court a thoughtful, soft-spoken, articulate, sometimes tempestuous individual who indeed marches to the beat of his own, singular drummer.
He is still so young for a big man. I feel he has loads of potential and I have to imagine he will only get better. I am sure as with every player he has negatives, but I am predicting we got a steal with him.
I'd sit and have a beer with coach and I don't even drink. He'd always get 100% out of me on that court. A man's man.One guy puts on those stupid glasses, everybody's putting them on. The next thing they'll be carrying canes to the games as fashion pacemakers.
Well that should put to bed all the silly notions that Lopez wasn't brought in to start at center. The arguments over that or if the Hornets even needed to go after a starting center this year were rather funny.
Does this mean Anderson is starting at the 3 or becoming the teams 6th man??
Im really interested to see where Warrick fits in and how many minutes. He has some skills/length/athleticism the Hornets could use.
I don't about him doing his on thing.
I doubt Warrick gets any minutes. He's not a SF and there are 3 better PFs on the team. He can't defend perimeter players or shoot from the perimeter.
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Al Jefferson - James Posey - Aaron McKie - Shaun Livingston
Huh? I haven't followed Robin much, but I always thought he was a defensive player who didn't have much of an offensive game. For those that know his game well, does he have a low-post game that I don't know about?"I don't think it will be hard," said Williams, who believes Lopez gives the Hornets a pair of critical attributes in the middle the team has lacked: defensive intensity and a consistent offensive threat. "It could be hard on some days, but that's just the league. I know what he wants, so it doesn't bother me at all.
The 2009-2010 Lopez is a starting caliber center. Good in the pick n roll since he can make an open jumper, energetic, and solid rebounder.
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Let's just hope Lopez never has to guard Monty Williams.
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Why people think Warrick won't contribute this year or get playing time is ridiculous. Warrick is a veteran player with some hop to his game, and Monty believe in playing a lot of players, Warrick will be a contributor off the bench this year.
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
Military-Industrial Complex makes the world worse (Score:4, Informative)by billstewart (78916) on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @11:20PM (#43661615) Journal
It's not like law enforcement and the prison business aren't also in drastic need of reform; there's no excuse for the US to have more people in jail than the Soviet Union did. But all the world's militaries are making their own countries worse for their own people, making them worse for their enemies, forcing their neighbors to beef up their militaries, and the US and Russia are still threatening to blow up the world with nuclear weapons. Militaries are an excuse for governments to have power over their own people, and to give lucrative contracts to their politically connected friends, and defense contractors are happy to contribute to whatever politicians will give them the most business, regardless of how bad they are on other topics.
There are a few countries out there without armies. Costa Rica got rid of theirs back in the 1800s, not because they're any more peace-loving than everybody else, but because their president realized that the primary functions of a Latin American military were to steal land from the Indians (already done!) and to overthrow the civilian president (which he didn't want to happen to him.) Most of the others are countries in civil war, where there's no single official army.
Re:Military-Industrial Complex makes the world wor (Score:5, Interesting)
Ironically, here in Norway May 8. has since WWII been the Liberation Day, where we've celebrated the liberation of Norway from the nazis, and peace in general.
We've never had any tradition for military parades etc. But for some reason they've now all of a sudden decided to put the Veterans Day on May 8. too. So now the Liberation day is full of military personell and vehicles all over the capital. I do agree the Veterans should have their day, but I do not think it fitting to choose the Liberation Day for that purpose.
In Norwegian http://www.nrk.no/ytring/ta-frigjoringsdagen-tilbake-1.11017478 [www.nrk.no]
Via Google translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrk.no%2Fytring%2Fta-frigjoringsdagen-tilbake-1.11017478 [google.com]
Re:Military-Industrial Complex makes the world wor (Score:4, Insightful)
Ironically, here in Norway May 8. has since WWII been the Liberation Day, where we've celebrated the liberation of Norway from the nazis, and peace in general.
We've never had any tradition for military parades etc. But for some reason they've now all of a sudden decided to put the Veterans Day on May 8. too. So now the Liberation day is full of military personell and vehicles all over the capital. I do agree the Veterans should have their day, but I do not think it fitting to choose the Liberation Day for that purpose.
Weren't the veterans the ones who liberated you from the nazis?
Weren't the veterans the ones who liberated you from the nazis?
Aren't Christmas and Easter about the same guy anyway?
I'd probably start with law enforcement and prison reform, which would make it easier to work on up the chain:
The big problem we have in the US is that we have companies making cash from punishing people. In fact 48 states have an agreement promising 90% bed occupancy rates in their prisons/jails, or they pay fines by the day. The money going to those firms then goes to lobbyists, and then campaigns. If you are a judge in most of the US, you are forced to convict in cases, or your opponent next election
Most of the problems, such as a bloated military budget, private prisons and environmental regulation, stem purely from corporate money going to political donations. The public sector can't donate to campaigns, so politicians want everything privatized and the public sector evicerated to the point where none of it works. So strong campaign finance reform should be the number one goal for everyone and would probably solve all the problems on the list.
by KermodeBear (738243) on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @08:25PM (#43670867) Homepage
As an aside - and please don't take this as a personal attack, because it isn't - whenever I hear the phrase "Military-Industrial Complex" I always hear it in some hippie's voice and add a "DUDE!" or "MAN!" onto the end.
Re:Military-Industrial Complex makes the world wor (Score:5, Informative)
As an aside - and please don't take this as a personal attack, because it isn't - whenever I hear the phrase "Military-Industrial Complex" I always hear it in some hippie's voice and add a "DUDE!" or "MAN!" onto the end.
One such hippie: former Republican president of the U.S., General Dwight D. Eisenhower. From his farewell address:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
YouTube [youtube.com]
Transcript [ourdocuments.gov]
The original long-haired hippy. He only became president to avoid going to Vietnam.
Re:Military-Industrial Complex makes the world wor (Score:4, Interesting)
In one draft of the speech it was "the military-industrial-congressional complex". To bad Ike didn't leave that in.
I know there are only twelve votes right now, so I hope "Education" is just an outlier in this poll at the moment.
If you think Education is in need of reform, you need to check out the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress).
It is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas,
and it confirms what evidence based educators already know: we have been making slow and steady progress, year after year. Never
have we "g
Re:Education??? You are being lied to. (Score:5, Informative)by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @04:33AM (#43663007)
I voted based on my own country's need for education reform, not the US's. The polls really should be either more specific, or less US-specific.
Exactly. How you voted depends very much on where you live. I'm from Canada, and I kind of had a hard time determining which one to choose. There's a lot of griping about our healthcare but personally I think we do pretty well. Our education system seems to work pretty well. Law enforcement and corrections has some problems but seems to be not completely insane as in other countries. In the end, I chose infrastructure/ Public Works. I think the major problem with a lot of infrastructure (at least as it di
Re: Education??? You are being lied to. (Score:3, Insightful)by Anonymous Coward
When schools in Tennessee and the Bible belt still teach that man and dinosuars coexisted, that the great flood killed the dinosaurs, that the earth is six thousand years old, and use religious texts as legitimate education tools, education needs some looking in to...
NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress)
*Assessment: a.k.a. "tell me how you measure me and I'll tell you how I'll behave" (a.k.a. learning not for the knowledge/skills/thinking but to pass the exams and get that damn-piece-of-paper-the-dumb-HR/recruiters-keep-so-dear-but-useless-in-any-other-way-especially-as-toilet-paper).
* Couple this with "No kids left behind" - a.k.a. "no kid allowed to get ahead" [slashdot.org] (see the reference to the need to "dumb-down their instruction").
If you get over the semantic of Reform == "bipartisan deal between the elites
No, look at the NAEP before you put it down. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assessment_of_Educational_Progress [wikipedia.org] http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ [ed.gov]
One of the main reasons that the NAEP is valid is that it only measures statistically valid aggregates, and not individual schools, teachers and students, and it's not used to reward and punish them (although there's political pressure to change that).
I don't think education is in dire need of reform. I think we have a dire need to end poverty in this cou
Re:Education??? You are being lied to. (Score:4, Insightful)
Yes, it's worth spending some time on the NAEP web site looking over the data. That is, if you like data, rather than fads and buzzwords.
They've been testing since about 1972, as I recall. During that time, the results have been on a remarkably level curve, with a slight upward trend.
One of the most striking trends is that the achievement of hispanic and especially black students has been going up dramatically, although it doesn't show up in the overall trend curves. So maybe all that affirmative action had some effect. Too bad we're going back to segregation again.
Another interesting thing about the NAEP web site is their comparison of charter schools with public schools. The NAEP is one of the few testing organizations that has statistically and scientifically valid results. They found that charter schools were worse overall than public schools, although a few charter schools were better. (That's when you pick the charter schools that can be validly compared, not the ones that select their students, kick out the problem kids, and have gobs of money from right-wing foundations.)
If you know this much, you probably know about Diane Ravitch, who was assistant secretary of education under both GHW Bush and Bill Clinton. Ravitch said that she started out believing that the solution was charter schools, privatization, high-stakes testing, and getting rid of the unions. But when she looked at the data, all those trendy conservative solutions weren't working. That's the difference between a scientist and an ideologue. A scientist admits it when she's wrong. An ideologue just gets more data to cherry-pick.
Ravitch said that the one factor that most strongly affects educational achievement is family income. So you can throw out all these studies that don't correct for family income.
If you want kids to succeed in school, you have to eliminate poverty, which was one of our national goals from about the time of FDR to GHW Bush. That all ended with Bill Clinton, and his End Welfare as we Know It sellout (Google "Peter Edelman"). So it's not a Democratic/Republican issue. Gee, funny thing, when politicians have to pander to billionaires and corporations in order to get money for their attack ads every election, the Democrats and Republicans both turn into scumbags.
Maybe the great American education system of the second half of the 20th century was an anomaly. We won WWII in large part by science and technology, so after the war boosting science and technology education was actually patriotic. We were competing with the Soviets, who had one of the best education systems in the world, particularly in science. Now there's no public sentiment in the US for broad education any more. Those corporations don't need to put American kids through college. They can hire cheaper employees from abroad.
Right now, the best way for a non-wealthy kid to get an education is to join the military. What does that tell you about America?
None of them (Score:5, Funny)by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @11:26PM (#43661659)I think all of those are covered pretty well, actually. Oh wait, you're talking about the U.S., aren't you? lol, good luck with that.
No contest, surely. (Score:2, Informative)
Health. The USA gets worse outcomes with twice the GDP expenditure of any other OECD country.
Re:No contest, surely. (Score:5, Informative)
Health. The USA gets worse outcomes with twice the GDP expenditure of any other OECD country.
Re:No contest, surely. (Score:5, Insightful)by rgmoore (133276) <email@example.com> on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @01:13AM (#43662223) Homepage
But the problems with our health spending are not primarily in the public sector. Those other countries that have more efficient healthcare than we do have more of their healthcare run by the government, and there's a fairly strong correlation between cost effectiveness and government control. Within the US, the the government is generally more cost effective than the private sector. Within the government sector, the most efficient provider is the VA, which runs its own hospitals rather than just being a glorified insurance company. There's every reason to think that our healthcare system would be improved by turning more of it over to the government.
I'm sorry, can you please give an example where the government is more cost effective than the private sector? I sure can't think of one. If the government is so much more cost effective than the private sector then their profit margins must be ridiculously high! Oh wait, they're in debt up to our eyeballs...
Private education is cheaper and more effective than public education.
Private charity is more effective with less funds than public handouts.
UPS and FedEx are cheaper and faster (for comparable services
example already given (Score:4, Informative)by Geoffrey.landis (926948) on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @09:16AM (#43664235) Homepage
But the problems with our health spending are not primarily in the public sector. Those other countries that have more efficient healthcare than we do have more of their healthcare run by the government, and there's a fairly strong correlation between cost effectiveness and government control. Within the US, the the government is generally more cost effective than the private sector. Within the government sector, the most efficient provider is the VA, which runs its own hospitals rather than just being a glorified insurance company. There's every reason to think that our healthcare system would be improved by turning more of it over to the government.
I'm sorry, can you please give an example where the government is more cost effective than the private sector?
Sure: health care,
Uh, didn't you actually read the post you are responding to?
Re:No contest, surely. (Score:5, Informative)
Not sure about the other two examples, but you can't ship anything using UPS or FedEx for $0.44. In fact the USPS is so efficient that both FedEx and UPS use it for last mile service in many cases.
Not sure about the other two examples, but you can't ship anything using UPS or FedEx for $0.44. In fact the USPS is so efficient that both FedEx and UPS use it for last mile service in many cases.
Actually, you can't send a letter with USPS for $0.44 either -- rate is now $0.46. But your point still stands even with the extra 2 pennies.
Not sure about the other two examples, but you can't ship anything using UPS or FedEx for $0.44.
Of course, it's ILLEGAL for UPS or FedEx to deliver First Class Mail, which is the only thing the USPS will deliver for $0.44 (or whatever it it these days - I'm still using Forever stamps from years ago too).
And anything that both UPS/FedEx and the USPS can both legally deliver, UPS and FedEx do cheaper.
The price to the consumer is not the same as the total cost. It likely costs the USPS roughly the same amount to deliver a package as it does UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc. That you pay a lot less than that is not a marker of efficiency; on the contrary, it is a marker of the distortions in price as a consequence of Congress meddling with the USPS, which is supposedly a "private" company. Moreover, the USPS should be charging the other carriers for that last-mile delivery; if they're not charging what it costs to
I'm sorry . .
UPS and FedEx are cheaper and faster (for comparable services) than the USPS.
Actually, I suppose it is I who should apologize -- if an apology is the proper way to introduce a contrary view. When shipping a document last week I found USPS to be the best option whether I needed overnight delivery or just a simple delivery/signature confirmation. Priority mail flat-rate packages also frequently beat UPS and FedEx for smallish stuff -- particularly if it's dense. You should comparison-shop.
Re:No contest, surely. (Score:5, Insightful)by wirelessjb (806759) on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @03:04PM (#43667609)
I'm sorry, can you please give an example where the government is more cost effective than the private sector? I sure can't think of one. If the government is so much more cost effective than the private sector then their profit margins must be ridiculously high! Oh wait, they're in debt up to our eyeballs...
Private education is cheaper and more effective than public education. Private charity is more effective with less funds than public handouts. UPS and FedEx are cheaper and faster (for comparable services) than the USPS. Need I go on?
I keep typing and erasing replies to this, knowing that my points won't hit home. As long as there are a lot of voters that believe that there is no place for government in providing services and investing in the future, things are not going to get better. The other fallacies in the quotation above are equally dismaying; the government doesn't provide services with a profit motive. Government debt is not inherently a bad thing (anyone who compares public debt to a credit card is ill informed). Public education and other services do not threaten private education or private donations, but believing that they are mutually exclusive is a red herring and dangerous. I'm in the USA, but I don't think these ideas are uniquely applicable to my country.
Re:No contest, surely. (Score:4, Insightful)
Government debt is not inherently a bad thing (anyone who compares public debt to a credit card is ill informed).
Because we can just print more money to pay it off. Why, we can even mint 15 $1T coins and deposit them with the treasury, and Wham! There goes our debt. And fortunately, that has absolutely no effect on the value of the dollar, or the dollar's position as the international standard currency. And if there's one thing history teaches us, it's that no regime has ever fallen because it spent itself into mountainous debt that it was unable to crawl back out of.
A government without debt is a government that isn't investing in its future. Government debt is money that the public is borrowing from *themselves*. So it's not like an underwater mortgage, or a credit card. As long as a government balances its debt with the rate of inflation (which in the US, despite repeated cries of doom, has been at historic lows for a long time), the debt can serve to help drive the economy. If the inflation rate stays low, that means that creditors believe that the government is bei
There are two factors you are ignoring in proclaiming the greatness of government-run health facilities:
1. Quality. The military healthcare system is notorious for its terrible (or, at the very least, wildly inconsistent) quality of service and outcomes.
2. Confounding variables. There are examples of facilities (e.g. in India) which are not state-run yet achieve decent outcomes at much more reasonable prices.
I'm assuming this poll is about the country the respondent is in and not necessarily the USA.
I think the state exists to protect people from the initiation of force. For them to do that they must first stop harming us. This means stop confiscating wealth from us, which means they will need to stop spending money on education, health etc. and insteads leave that up to individual communities via voluntary means.
All the other options depend on reliable transportation, communication, and power to operate effectively.
Our transportation, communication, and power function 'well enough' for everything else to operate effectively already. Not to say they are perfect or good or even decent, just that you can have good education and research, good healthcare, a fair justice system, a reasonably sized military, and address environmental concerns with the infrastructure we have today.
Problem is, they aren't future-proof.
What about peak-oil?
That should be addressed by the public sector, because the private one only cares about the next quarter.
Why education might win this (Score:2, Interesting)by Anonymous Coward
Education might win this if people think like I did: Educate people, and all the other problems get solved.
Note, education doesn't just mean dumping facts into brains. It means instilling integrity, which is the hard part.
I don't see it happening. It's possible to prune the branches of this ugly tree, but truly good education would axe the problems at the root.
Now, this is my opinion and I know it's controversial; but tell the unions to pound sand. Tenure? Bite me. Complex rules for teacher evaluation
Note, education doesn't just mean dumping facts into brains.
But that's all our public schools are good for in the US! How else are we going to train a nation of Jeopardy! players?
law enforcement (Score:4, Insightful)
Law enforcement and the justice system needs an overhaul. Long delays for trials, a system where you must show up in person to defend trivial offenses or even ENTER YOUR PLEA, even if you don't live in the same state, one where your own state won't help defend you but they'll help arrest you for outstanding warrants or FTAs. That's a system where it can be more expensive to defend your innocence than to falsely admit guilt. One where you can call up a clerk and they literally won't give any assistance at all because "they aren't allowed to give legal advice". A system so complex and full of contradictions you need a degree to understand it, and even then a lot of it is up to interpretation. A system where laws are intentionally set against social norms (speed limit) or are ridiculously outdated with the only purpose to rob people for the purpose of filling coffers (speed cameras in a school zone near a high school).
The definition of highway robbery now means I got pulled over for doing something trivial that people violate on a daily basis (such as speeding when the flow of traffic is over the speed limit) and given a completely unfair and expensive ticket ($115 for 1 mph over the speed limit), rather than being robbed by actual criminals.
Military and law enforcement reform need to come first because there are not only harmful but unbelievably wasteful programs there (the various Wars on Abstract Concepts at home and abroad, e.g. Terror and Drugs) which, when trimmed, would free up the money needed to properly reform the rest. Military and law enforcement are the first priorities of a government, the first things you need to have in place to have a government at all, but once those functions are handled satisfactorily, any excess going into
U.S. Census Bureau (Score:4, Funny)by ctrl-alt-canc (977108) on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @04:25AM (#43662969)Slashdot polls are more accurate.
Being from Norway, where things are a bit different than eg. the US, I chose from the "most likely to kill us"-list; that being the Environment.
A dumb public is an easily manipulated public (Score:5, Interesting)by wickerprints (1094741) on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @05:20AM (#43663207)
Education is the only option in the list which, if addressed properly, would lead to resolution or improvement of ALL the other options. How?
Educational level correlates with better awareness of one's health. If kids are taught from a young age to eat well in school (rather than left by the parents to just sit in front of the indoctrination box called the TV, watching endless advertisements for snacks and candy and fast food), we wouldn't be having an obesity and diabetes epidemic. Revitalize the school lunch programs, bring back mandatory physical education, and health education. Furthermore, educational level is a predictor of adult income levels, and the higher your income, the less you are forced to eat cheap processed fast foods as your main source of nutrition.
Education reduces crime and poverty rates, leading to less need for law enforcement, jails, and alleviates the overburdened court system. It also equalizes access to the legal system, which has become exorbitantly costly.
Education creates the engineers who build public works and infrastructure. With better education comes increased income and tax revenue, resulting in more monies to pay for such projects.
Education creates the scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technologists who run the space program, but education among ALL citizens more crucially increases AWARENESS of the importance of the role of such people in building the economy for future generations. Even if you don't go into a STEM career, having more than a GED-level education will show you the value of such positions in society.
Education reduces the need for large military forces. Smarter people don't fight wars because they don't GET into wars. Wars are fought because the people who have a political and/or financial interest to create conflict and profit off it, incite war through strategic foreign policy decisions. They manipulate and foment paranoia and fear in the public, in order to achieve their goals. Afghanistan and Iraq are the product of decades of foreign policy masterminded by Big Oil, using various excuses such as anti-communism and anti-terrorism, to justify spilling blood for their own profit. If people were better educated, they would be less susceptible to believing the lies that their government feeds them.
Education brings about scientific literacy and critical thinking skills, again allowing people to resist propaganda from climate change deniers (who are, like the military example above, shills from big business interests who are solely focused on short-term profit and are happy to destroy the environment for centuries to come as long as it makes them rich in their lifetime). If you lack those critical thinking skills, you won't know how to formulate questions about the world around you in a scientific and objective manner, and you won't be able to understand why scientific reasoning is fundamentally superior to religious, dogmatic, or ideological reasoning.
The only reason why we have so many problems in this world is because too many people are too damn stupid to know they are being manipulated by those who are in power. And the reason they are stupid is because they are KEPT that way by those in power. The LAST thing the government wants to do is make its citizens smart enough to question its motives and hold them and their campaign backers accountable. All they need from the people is to make them smart enough to turn on their TVs to watch Fox News, and know how to tap a touchscreen voting machine--and that's only until they figure out a way to eliminate the need for them to vote at all.
I find this interesting given that fewer people had college education at the height of NASA, building of the national infrastructure, or the creation of this country than we have now. Yet you don't hear many politicians talking about principle core reasoning like they did when we founded this country, instead we have "beliefs". We could build highways across the whole country when high school was "good enough". How many senior managers started their "entry level" professional positions without bachelors
I agree that education is a critical issue. I disagree that it's in the direst need of reform. Our schools aren't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but they are generally capable of providing a basic education to those that choose to make full use of it.
With better education comes increased income and tax revenue, resulting in more monies to pay for such projects.
I have to take issue with this argument. As recent trends have shown, not just in the US but in many other countries, what you can actually get with a highly educated population is not everybody becoming rich, but rather lots of highly educated peop
I think you would have a hard time demonstrating that "educated" people are less susceptible to brainwashing and propaganda than uneducated people. At least based on what passes for "education" these days. Maybe a "reformed" education system could actually focus on development of critical thinking and problem solving skills. That's not what we have today however.
The current government-run system teaches respect and acceptance of authority. Sit in rows, stand in line, move when the bell rings, obey the t
The problem with your thesis is that it looks at correlation and infers causation. This is the fallacy that has driven "education reform" for decades and continues to drive educational outcomes downward. It is the same fallacy that created the previous housing bubble. Home ownership does not give a person responsibility; it used to take responsibility in order to own home. Likewise, education doesn't cause any of the things you say it does. Unfortunately, the causal relationships are in many cases very
On the one hand, the military-industrial complex is bankrupting the country, spending staggering amounts of money on planes that have never been used and brand new tanks that the Army doesn't even want. For some reason, people who are adamantly opposed to domestic pork have no problems with military pork.
On the other hand, law enforcement problems mean that small-fry potheads are in some cases going to prison for life while the bankers who launder $2 billion of drug money and aid arms deals with Iran get what amounts to no punishment whatsoever. For some other reason, people who advocate law and order have no problems with massive crime if it's committed by their friends.
I voted education, but then again I live in Canada. Since this is a mostly US centric site I sort of assumed that Healthcare would win out as something obvious.
Then again perhaps education is just messed up everywhere.
I guess I could see voting education in the US with all the weirdo divergent curriculum with a 5000 year old bearded zombie Jesus riding a velociraptor to defeat the gay abortionists or whatever...
From a Canadian perspective, sort of the same thing, but much less so. It still has to do with religion and education, but it is more about the administration VS the actual curriculum I think. Where I live there are TWO boards of education that run in parallel, a "public" system and a "Catholic" system, which is also public in every sense of the word, only that everything about it is based on Catholic beliefs. The reason it exists is of course in the fog of time, and was something established back in the 1800's. Anyway the cost of maintaining two boards is stupid. The fact that public money is going to a subset of the population to a religion is stupid. Everything about it is stupid, and the only reason it still exists is that politicians are afraid if they even talk about it every single Catholic will vote against them and they will lose (it has already happened once). On top of that, the teachers Union is CRAZY. Not only do they have their own rules that exist no where else which are nuts, but just like the Catholics, they seem to threaten strike at the drop of the hat, parents don't want their kids at home, and again have the politicians over a barrel, so they basically give them whatever they want for as long as living memory exists.
Anyway not saying I have all the answers, but the system is clearly broken, and needs some work. Two things need to happen, both of which will be wildly unpopular politically. 1) Get rid of the Catholic school board, or at the very least give them ZERO public money (at which time the problem will take care of itself), and 2) Do not capitulate to Teacher Union demands. Make them take a hit just like every other Public Service sector (apart of Healthcare which is something else entirely), and if they decide to strike, let them for as long as they want. Loose a year and see how Teachers hold up to Politicians as far a popularity goes. As for the crazy union rules, not much can be done about that, or I don't know enough about it to know. Perhaps expand union powers, to allow another competing Union to be established... (can you even have competing unions? I have no idea.)
As for Healthcare in Canada, the big this is that it is too expensive, and it getting disproportionally more expensive every year. We cannot support that kind of growth forever. Again it is a very unpopular political fight as the doctors and nurses will all make TV ads about the politicians making you sick and trying to kill you etc... and how they are only there to work selflessly day and night to save your life etc... and we have a lot of old voters, which are easily swayed in this regard. However 6-8% increases year over year, forever will not work. Salaries need to take a hit, simple as that.
Though in listing what I would consider the two biggest issues we have, it is becoming obvious that the biggest problems we have are the ones that politicians simply do not want to touch with a 10ft pole as they are super unpopular. These are also issues that are not new, they have been around for a very long time, and it isn't like no one knows about them, however historically the same problem, politicians don't want to take any action on these sensitive issues. I guess that is the difference between an actual "leader" and just another "politician" looking for election.
One of the best 'Ha Ha, Seriously' suggestions is that Congress Critter should be required to wear NASCAR-style sponsor stickers whenever in session or speaking in public / on TV
By reform, do you mean restructuring or cuts?
Without election reform, term limits, and changes to the "perks" (like being exempt from some laws) given to elected officials the rest doesn't matter. We can't reform any of those areas without good people in office, and right now the system is rigged to keep good people out.
It gives me some hope that most others also selected education. I didn't even read the rest. Educate people and the rest will follow.
by DaveAtFraud (460127) on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @10:28AM (#43664861) Homepage Journal
We need to move away from robbing one group to heap benefits on another. Instead of people being entreprenurial and industrious we seem to focus our energies on how this group, that group or some other collection of people deserves someone else's money that they have done nothing to earn except become adept at lobbying and/or painting themselves as some kind of victim.
We have set the bar far too low for taking money from someone who has earned it and giving to someone who has done nothing except cry about how they need it. I have more respect for pick pockets who use their skills to pilfer their victim's money. At least they are honest about their thievery.
by Errol backfiring (1280012) on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @11:05AM (#43665175) JournalThe thing that is hindering everything else is our money system. We should have a money system that forbids speculation, and where money is created by a democratic power source for actual value, NOT created out of thin air by some (central) bank. That would save healthcare, the environment, and no recession needs to be "solved" by the military either.
'nuff said.
Subject says it all...
Legislative, Executive and Legal (Score:4, Informative)by Archangel Michael (180766) on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @12:27PM (#43665903) Journal
If the government fixed itself, the other things that the government is in charge of would get fixed. Problem is, too many people "believe" in the political "process", when it clearly hasn't worked.
Moving the power from Federal, to local would help, rather than the current trend of the other way around.
The government's massive 40+ year intervention into the healthcare system has been an unmitigated disaster. Skyrocketing costs leave millions of people unable to afford the most basic services. Quality of results lagging behind the rest of the world. A massive insurance industry which sucks profits out of the system but provides very little in the way of value. Government programs doomed for bankruptcy, etc. etc.
Government has absolutely ruined the U.S. healthcare system. Time for them to get out and l
Did it ever occur to you that there is no developed country in the world in which the government has left the health care system to the free market?
In other words, you can't point to a working model. (Try Switzerland. Make my day.)
Even Adam Smith said that health care was a proper role of the government. He knew about epidemics.
And the election system needs to get a complete cleanup. The current system makes it next to impossible to get anything done unless you have a crapload of money and buy your position in one of the two big parties.
The public sector (is) in direst need of reform.
You cannot eat just one.
It is time to drop this terrible profit-driven heatlhcare model completely in this country. Fewer people get good care every year, and the people at the top who are in charge of denying care get more rewards every year as a result. The profit motive does not lead to good or accessible care; the rest of the world knows this and it is time the US wakes up to that obvious fact.
Ultimately, this terrible system is part of what keeps the US unemployment rate up. Plenty of people who are looking for work wo
the politicians are posing and making it impossible for civil servants to do their jobs.
What the USA needs, first and foremost, is STRONG campaign finance reform, following the models found in other first-world nations like Canada. Once you have that, much of the other pieces start to fall into place...
See above.


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Col. Darron Wright thought he knew who the bad guys were on his first deployment to Iraq. They were Sunni Muslim insurgents giving his soldiers hell in the communities around Saddam Husseins hometown.
During his last Iraq tour six years later with a Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker brigade, Wright found himself sharing tea and meals with leaders of some of the same groups men he blamed for those early fatal attacks on American soldiers and vicious assaults on Iraqi civilians.
This dude had so much blood on his hands, Wright, 44, remembered from a 2010 meeting with one sheik. And here I am shaking his hand, breaking bread. That was awkward for me.
Thats what success looked like at the close of a confusing war: Bringing former enemies to your side and moving on for the sake of a fresh start.
Wright, now a senior officer in Lewis-McChords 7th Infantry Division, chronicled the Armys hard-earned lessons in a new memoir, Iraq Full Circle and in an interview with The News Tribune.
The DuPont father of three and 28-year-Army veteran aimed to present something different from all the many military memoirs from Iraq a complete look at the war as seen through his three deployments between 2003 and 2010.
He jokingly says the title should be a play on the Clint Eastwood western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Americas experience in Iraq was more like The Ugly, the Bad and the Good, he says.
For the most part, Wright contends the Army adapted to a kind of war its civilian leaders did not expect when they launched the mission to topple Saddams government almost 10 year ago. He says he left Iraq with his head held high and hope for the countrys future.
As a military, our job is done, he said.
But his book is not a boosterish ode to military success. He faults senior civilian leaders for misrepresenting the dangers in Iraq and for disbanding an Iraqi army that the American taxpayer would have to pay to rebuild.
Hes critical of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who in 2004 insisted in the face of rising sectarian attacks that any remaining violence is due to thugs, gangs and terrorists.
This statement was patently false, Wright contends, arguing the defense secretary was in denial about the state of the war.
His book begins at a final training exercise just before the war that revealed how unprepared American troops were for a long-running insurgency. That drill took place against a fictional army called the Krasnovians that could out-think and out-gun any U.S. force.
They were a mechanized foe that would have been a good model for Iraq if Saddam had maintained a well-trained and equipped military.
Instead, the Iraqi forces of 2003 melted away. Insurgents and trained foreign fighters took up arms against U.S. troops and blended into the civilian population.
We thought it was going to be like Desert Storm, Wright said, referring to the 1991 Iraq invasion in which U.S. forces did not stick around long enough for an insurgency to develop.
His first Iraq tour was in 2003-04 with the 4th Infantry Division under the command of then Maj. Gen. Ray Odierno.
His unit, the 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, became one of the best known units of that period. Its commander, a rising star named Lt. Col. Nate Sassaman, lost his post when an Army inquiry revealed he told soldiers to withhold information in an investigation into the death of an Iraqi detainee. Hes sometimes held up in the press as an example of a commander alienating the Iraqi population by making short-sighted decisions and using too much force.
On one hand, Wright noted that force brought immediate results. On the other hand, a heavy footprint made enemies among Iraqi civilians. Wright contends that using force was all the Army knew how to do at that point of the war.
Through no fault of our own, we were doing more to disrespect and alienate the population than we were to garner their support, he writes. Bottom line: We were figuring out this war on the fly.
The picture is complicated by Sassamans embrace of civilian-centered programs later championed by Gen. David Petraeus, such as hosting local elections and doling out projects to improve the quality of life in friendly communities.
Those innovations, Wright suggests, show that soldiers on the ground were finding the right way out of Iraq years before Pentagon doctrine caught up with them.
Wright returned to Iraq in 2005-06 for a mission he remembers as exceedingly violent. American troops did not have enough resources to clear, hold and build in contested areas.
What really wore you down was this was at the height of the sectarian violence. The Baghdad morgue, they couldnt put any more bodies in there, he said in an interview.
Wrights last tour in Iraq took place with Lewis-McChords 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. He found a changed Iraq in that 2009-10 Stryker deployment.
He said U.S. surge forces in 2007-08 tipped the scales to let Iraqi institutions develop. By then, Iraqi security forces were more capable.
He rolled out of Baghdad for a mission now known as the last combat patrol in August 2010 and lit up a cigar once he hit Kuwait.
It was a proud day for me and all of us, he wrote. I was just glad it was over.
Today, Wright has a role in the oversight and training of Lewis-McChords main combat units. The 7th Infantry Division has one Stryker brigade in Afghanistan now.
Wright says hes nurturing enlisted soldiers and officers who can share combat lessons with younger troops who might not deploy for a war in the foreseeable future. He spent 17 years in the Army before his first combat deployment, and the military could be heading into a similar era.
The big lesson from Iraq, he said, is that senior officers must insist on planning for what happens after an invasion.
Youve got to think about the end game.