This is _exactly_ the situation that this society came up with a new agreement to avoid. E.g. Presumption of innocence, and Habeas corpus to mention two.
They do take it seriously. It's just like the Nigerian prince scams. The insanity acts as a filter. What you get out the other side doesn't know or doesn't care that they are being misused.
Most of the electricity being used in the Wisconsin winter is going to be for heating. The best dollar ROI is typically weather stripping and insulating followed by using a heat pump ( preferably ground looped ), and of course the best choice might just be a rocket mass heater.
Amazon needs move product to make money. If others will not physically move that product to the US, then they'll have to do it. More expensive is better than none at all.
"The first rule of Fight Club is : You don't talk about Fight Club." -Tyler
You get into the gang by sharing an existential threat to the group. Be it killing someone to get into a gang, be it telling your life's secrets while lying naked in a coffin ( http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol... ), attaining seat at the MAD ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction ) table by stocking nuclear weapons, or signing on to a hot new scrappy startup for just enough to live paycheck to paycheck and keep frozen burritos on the breakfast table.
When the sharks circle, they tend to go after the weaker pray spices rather than those able to draw serious repercussions. The consumer as chum. Line employees are next. Then maybe a scape goat or two.
Lots of managers use the phrases 'by whatever means necessary', 'it must be done', 'just ship it', "we'll fix it later", and M.V.P. . The naive will say that "management just doesn't understand!". To someone who is paying attention this is building a cut out of responsibility.
In the Kabuki theater of corporate politics this often suffices for blame shedding. Remember the goal is to accept garner credit for good things and blame shed the bad things, helping things get done a product to be made or whatever is ancillary to the individuals goals in the modern company due to the average length of employment being so very low.
"All this has happened before, and will happen again." -cylon
The arc of development is clear. This is only a small beginning step.
Existing boats are an easy low risk low cost platform to develop on. Expect air, submersible, and larger surface units with the same capabilities within time.
Thought no sexy, the same sort of technology will be used in logistics. Some argue the truck and the liberty ship won world war II. Automated over the beach resupply without paying for air assets would be a large cost savings and allow resupply of larger and heavier inventory items like bulk fuel, food, aircraft parts and tanks.
I'd rather have them focus more on content and less on spelling. Especially when we are talking about the procedures for avoiding killing lots of people. Priorities are important in life.
tldr; The mission is to avoid aggravating the local population any more than necessary, and they may be angry for good and valid reasons. Hurting/shooting people tends to anger people and turn the military presence there untenable(costly in material and lives).
okay, I mixed in a some background from other publications in the tldr, but whatever.
of course : " One of the serious problems in planning the fight against American doctrine, is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine... "
- From a Soviet Junior Lt's Notebook
If the big government effect was large then California, with the most people in it should be the most corrupt. Check out Mississippi. With a paltry 2.9 million people it should be a bucolic bastion of upstanding government... And Alaska, with only 0.7 Million people must be the shining light of sanity in our world... ( ranks 5th in corruption, remember senator Ted Stevens? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Stevens )
1) business-friendly == 6 newly formulated rule books writen by the corporations will allow the corporations to help themselves to state resources without much in the way to stop them. Think about just a few. a) selling off state parks, b) no more minimum wage, c) no more pollution laws and California mandated MPG ratings for trucks. d) Smog everywhere... remember http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich , niether will the new states. Contaminating ground water will be a new business right.
3) Ease traffic congestion : Two ways this works out. a) free markets logic on cars. Toll ways, road privatization, time of use based pricing etc. or b) free up the environmental regulations to start building more lanes on all the highways everywhere (though that doesn't really help).
If it was done well then maybe the 6 states would be a good thing. More likely than not it is simply a way shake up the political apple cart so some people can get more apples than they had before.
(speaking from second hand knowledge) They don't go into much of the really interesting detail in the paper. The awesome part of all of that was that everything an application required to function was under it's own tree, you never had any question of providence, or if the shared libraries would work right on the given release of the OS you might be using. And it worked from any node on the global network. This problem has been solved, most people didn't get the memo.
"I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further." - DV