Sunday, April 5, 2009

asymmetric threats

http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/psds2/

let me give an example:

"Countering today’s asymmetric threats, which can occur at any time and place..."

i can't even read that whole sentence without getting angry. 'asymmetric???' asymmetric! as in, one group of people has printing presses and infinite power, which they use to destroy the lives of helpless, ignorant people with no money and no idea what's going on... yeah, that's 'asymmetric.' one group has all the power, the other group has nothing whatsoever, i'd call that asymmetric. i can't even read sentences like that. what the hell is the word 'asymmetric' SUPPOSED to mean in a sentence like that? asymmetric, as in, we go over to iraq and kill a bunch of civilians, who, once again, can't fight back? yeah, that's pretty asymmetric too. i see lots of asymmetric things going on in the world today. many of them are being done by the very same government that claims to be my protector. and they're being done to the very people who are supposedly being protected. 'hey! i'm protecting you! that's why i'm spying on your window 24 hours a day!' when the systems exist, a sociopath will always 'hack' them somehow and use them to do things other than just 'protect.' even if there really was somebody who sincerely and innocently wanted to use the military systems to just 'protect' the citizens of the usa, some other government employee will just use his knowledge/privileges to use the system for petty, personal reasons - even if SOME of the government employees really imagine that the system exists for some honest, legitimate purpose. spying on our own civilians.

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