There was some point in 2014 where this was done on a couple of occasions, and it got out into the public domain. I'll just say that this practice lasted for a month or two.
If you were expecting some kind Brit/American welcome where you got a hotel room for 90-to-180 days in Germany today? Well.....it won't happen.
You get a fest-tent type operation, or a old military barracks....that is marginally kept sanitary.
My view of this 'saga' over Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira...the guy who took Top Secret info and moved it over to some open-source file system?
Most people interpret the story to be that Teixeira was an intelligence background guy in the Air Guard. Well...NO. After boo camp, he went to the communications school, and learned the basic trade of keeping servers up and operational. In simple terms....the intelligence folks rely upon the communication technicians to ensure the systems are backed-up and functional.....24 hours a day.
I worked in an office for about five years that bridged the two unique fields. The comm guy needs to focus on operational status....not the value or purpose of the intelligence data. The intelligence guy needs to focus on the purpose and value of the intelligence data....reaching a 'best-guess' estimation. Neither needs to get in the way of their purpose/mission.
Teixeira, from reports I read this week....was warned (in counseling forms) on three occasions....to focus on his purpose, and he simply kept going back to the purpose/value of the intelligence data.
In the 1990s, you just never saw that 'stuck-on' type of behavior.....people understood their role in the big picture of getting a job done.
After they wrote the first counseling form, in a pretty blunt way....that should have been enough. He seems compulsive about going right back to the same 'habit'.
What'll happen here with the 'kid'? I'm guessing by the time they do the charges, and attempt to make this a minor public attention thing....the 'kid' gets 12 years in prison, and leaves around the nine year point.
What make this odd? He didn't do it for money, fame, or to take down US government. This is going trigger a lot of 'soul-searching'....because it doesn't fit the past 100-odd cases.
1. The average American kid has around 2,160 days of school (from first-grade to twelfth-grade). If you take out sick-days and skipped-school days, it's around 2,000. If you take out the last 10 days of each school year where you mostly sit around and BS....with no real accomplishments, it's closer to 1,880 days of value. If you take out the snow-days and teacher-missing days....it gets down to about 1,850 days.
To me, it begs the question....with all this sex-chatter and trans-stuff going on....shouldn't we subtract another 400 days of value, and admit almost one-third of the 12 years were of no value at all?
2. I watched around 10 minutes of Senator Fetterman chatter this week. There was around 20-percent of what he said....that made sense....the less was much less so.
At the current pace of things, I think he'd make a fine President, and we deserve someone like him.
3. If you tried to get a straight answer from federal and state folks on the actual number of undercover agents, and informers....it's probably in the range of 150,000 across the 50 states.
4. Seems with some people that the first priority in bumping into someone....is to get their business of 'gender' identified. With me, I'm trying assess their intelligence-level, and if they are a half-wit.
5. There is some discussion going on about artificial intelligence, and how news companies will eventually have a ability to identify each single person, and to build a AI situation where everyone gets their own personal view of the news....from one source.
So you could have a 3-line story about a guy being killed by his drug-crazed girlfriend at 2 AM....with a argument over her cooking, and he was mostly remembered for his kindness toward dogs.....to be rewritten in 120-odd ways.
6. Fake hysteria....probably is more entertaining, than it is being serious.
After all this Bud-Lite chatter....I sat this week and reviewed the typical German beer commercials.
In about 90-percent of cases....there's some scene of a mountain stream, and 30 seconds of calm chatter about the effort to make a pure beer. Occasionally, it'll be a beach scene, with the calm chatter.
The other 10-percent of German beer commercials? Mostly light humor (what both men and women would laugh about).
The Heineken folks? They typically do a comedy-type situation....30 seconds....something that the typical beer drinker would be amused about.
If any of them had gone the trans route? It would have had to be amusing and I don't think the trans community would be happy over the use of their brand to sell beer in a funny way....at least in Europe.
This past week, I attempted to watch the 'Q-C' series off Netflix.
First, it's a four episode series.....45 minutes each.
I would say they had this idea of doing a 50-percent piece where experts (historians) talk in the background to explain the moment in history and what is recorded history. The other 50-percent is actors chatting and giving their view of the moment.
In most of these historical pieces done in this manner....it's about 75-percent with the historians and 25-percent with actors simply going through the sequences, without a lot of chatting/dialog.
The Queen displayed being 'black' (African)? Well....in the case of Cleopatra....she was Arab/Greek.....not black. It's funny....over and over, the production team insist that Egypt is Africa, and thus the queen is black. It's simply a untrue statement.
What I would suggest....it would have made sense to do one 75-to-90 minute historical piece....instead of four episodes of 45-minutes each.
I admit....I gave up about 10 minutes into episode two.
I won't dump on this to a severe nature, but they spent a lot of money for what should have been a low-budget historical documentary.
First, I think most will have evolved into a private-club operation where you need membership cards. That means a security entry point as you enter. No membership (tied to your credit card)....no entry.
Second, as you conclude your trip....it'll involve a security guy checking your receipt and bag.
Third, I think a number of grocery operations will be out of a warehouse situation, where they come by and deliver what you ordered....keeping you out of their warehouse as much as possible.
Fourth, I think from the remaining stores trying to run as a public operation....prices will be inflated by as much as fifty percent because of theft problems....making them less desirable to shop at.
Finally, 'red' states probably will put very serious laws into effect where 14-day stays in jail will be a fairly common thing for retail theft. This will eventually convince people to pack up and move out of these states.
