Now Feinstein is screwing up national security

[Bigjake]

I was all but ready to waterboard the poor guy too, but then he demonstrated a working knowledge of Orwell.

There's still hope for the lad, even though he's irritatingly math competent 

"oceania has always been at war with eastasia" 

[Viking]

I was all but ready to waterboard the poor guy too, but then he demonstrated a working knowledge of Orwell.

There's still hope for the lad, even though he's irritatingly math competent 

"oceania has always been at war with eastasia" 

Chocolate rations have been increased from 20 to 30 grams!
Now, where's my bottle of Victory Gin...

[KD5NRH]

Isn't it true that if your vector space has only 0,2,5 in it,

Been too long since I sat through a class; is it absolutely necessary that the vector space contain 0?  With only two elements, one added to itself would then only be able to equal the other.

[Physics]

Been too long since I sat through a class; is it absolutely necessary that the vector space contain 0?  With only two elements, one added to itself would then only be able to equal the other.

Yeah, I think 0 has to be in the space.  At least, that's what one of my mathematician friends said when I had this conversation with him.  He was saying that 0 is in every vector space.   

[FTA84]

Removed for silliness

[Nitrogen]

Removed for silliness

I wish SFO would remove Diane Fienstien for silliness.

[Phyphor]

:|  I know at least a few of you guys understand what I'm saying.  Your buddy would know, vector spaces are taught in linear algebra courses. 

I got it.

I do appreciate the 1984 reference though, as I read that for the first time not too long ago. 

And Feinstein, she will never cease to amaze me.  Stupidity knows no bounds, apparently.  That woman needs to be voted off the island. 

Her idiocy is non-quantifiable.  People talked about drawing energy from the quantum vacuum but I think they need to learn how to power our world with stupidity.  It's most certainly a renewable resource and there sure as hell is enough of it.
 

[Uncle Bubba]

Sorry I meant that for the 2+2=5 [/hijack]

Gotcha. I thought you were referring to the "guzintas". I've read 1984 and couldn't recall it being in there (for good reason, it ain't), and was confused because I was channeling Jethro Bodine with that bit.

[Uncle Bubba]

People talked about drawing energy from the quantum vacuum but I think they need to learn how to power our world with stupidity.  It's most certainly a renewable resource and there sure as hell is enough of it.
 

Hear Hear!

[Werewolf]

:|  I know at least a few of you guys understand what I'm saying.  Your buddy would know, vector spaces are taught in linear algebra courses.

A few for sure.

Now if you really want to blow their minds start talking non-euclidean geometry.

[Cliff47]

You do and you clean it up!!

[RocketMan]

Here is an update on the story.  The U.S. was forced to admit its use of the base for attacks on Pakistani militants from within Pakistan.  The reporting in the story calls Feinstein's statement in the meeting a "blooper".   

From FoxNews:

Feinstein's Blurt Leads to U.S. Confirmation That It Uses Pakistani Air Base

The Senate intelligence committee chairwoman claims to have learned from open sources that the U.S. was operating unmanned drones on a Pakistani air base, something the U.S. had denied -- until her blooper.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's blurt during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last week forced the U.S. intelligence and military community to acknowledge on Thursday that the U.S. is targeting Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives using unmanned drones based in Pakistan.

The senator's slip sent reporters into overdrive and led to the discovery of a 2006 picture provided by Google Earth that appears to show Predator drones at Shamsi air base 200 miles southwest of Quetta.

A senior U.S. official confirmed to FOX News that Pakistani leaders -- despite their public protests and denials -- have been giving the U.S. some targets in the tribal areas of their own enemies, and have given the U.S. blanket permission to go after any "Arabs" in those areas because they are assumed to be Al Qaeda operatives.


The complete story is here:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/19/feinstein-blurt-lets-fly-confirmation-use-pakistani-air-base/

[Physics]

Here is an update on the story.  The U.S. was forced to admit its use of the base for attacks on Pakistani militants from within Pakistan.  The reporting in the story calls Feinstein's statement in the meeting a "blooper".   

From FoxNews:

Feinstein's Blurt Leads to U.S. Confirmation That It Uses Pakistani Air Base

The Senate intelligence committee chairwoman claims to have learned from open sources that the U.S. was operating unmanned drones on a Pakistani air base, something the U.S. had denied -- until her blooper.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's blurt during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last week forced the U.S. intelligence and military community to acknowledge on Thursday that the U.S. is targeting Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives using unmanned drones based in Pakistan.

The senator's slip sent reporters into overdrive and led to the discovery of a 2006 picture provided by Google Earth that appears to show Predator drones at Shamsi air base 200 miles southwest of Quetta.

A senior U.S. official confirmed to FOX News that Pakistani leaders -- despite their public protests and denials -- have been giving the U.S. some targets in the tribal areas of their own enemies, and have given the U.S. blanket permission to go after any "Arabs" in those areas because they are assumed to be Al Qaeda operatives.


The complete story is here:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/19/feinstein-blurt-lets-fly-confirmation-use-pakistani-air-base/

Ouch.  Stupid, stupid, stupid.