[A telephone company, for instance, can tell which team is winning the Super Bowl] simply by looking at how many people are making phone calls at any given time, ... The National Security Agency uses this technique to monitor calls in Afghanistan or Pakistan, to try to predict an impending terrorist attack. |
[Discovery's mission was] a very nice Christmas present, ... Santa Claus has been very, very good to NASA, no lumps of coal in their stocking. |
As recently as Desert Storm, they thought advanced communications was a fax machine. |
As with every other weapon, there is no reason to hope that it is going to work perfectly all of the time. |
Back in the old days, 15 years ago, they caught them in nets. It was very undignified. |
false sense of security |
For a Predator, it certainly did make a pretty good size bang. Normally one thinks of the warhead on the Hellfire (missile) destroying the contents of the building rather than destroying the building. |
For the first 10 months of 2005, IED attacks accounted for 43 percent of U.S. fatalities in Iraq. |
General Atomics has recognized that it's a rapidly evolving field, and the race is to the swift. |
Having any kind of a gap, whether it's three years or longer, between the shuttles and the CEV is really dangerous. It might make sense to an accountant, but not to a space cadet. |
Historically, the Marines were recruiting warriors, and the Army was recruiting people looking for a good career move, ... Well, if you are recruiting warriors, Iraq is what you have been waiting for. But right now, Iraq doesn't look like such a good career move. |
I don't know where the agency runs its operations from, but certainly here in the United States. None of that is being done line-of-sight in theater. |
I don't think they're going to move a base to Florida because the governor is the president's brother. |
I just don't think we've got this thing figured out yet. And I can't detect that we've set in motion a process for figuring it out. |
I think it is going to strengthen the perception that we've rounded up a bunch of bystanders - that we just rounded up a bunch of Muslims to torment them. |