Just had it pointed out to me "luser" was just internet slang, and not really an insult. Sorry I got a little defensive after that.
For me, "national security" is anything a nation needs to prosper and survive, including national medical care, education, ensuring a healthy job market and that there's infrastructure for everyone to get food, water, information, and from place to place. A lot of my emphasis is on the intelligence aspects of national security, because I started off and got hooked on the subject while reading military history and ex-spook/spy memoirs. I'm fascinated by the economic side of things and think it's under represented, and we need more/better education (at least in the U.S.) that's gauged to a realistic job market and caters to the individual's actual capabilities. I generally don't talk about that part because I only understand it in the broadest terms, and the best I can do is try to listen to the experts in that field and people who are smarter than me. And then there's separating policy from politics... I hope that helps clarify some. Sorry again for assuming that your question was insincere/attacking. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 10, 2015, at 10:23, Michael Best <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yep. Thought tacit acknowledgment in first answer was clear, but like it was > lost in translation as too often happens with email. My fault. Ad hominem > anticipation was in response to the bombing comment. > >> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Georgi Guninski <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 10:14:57AM -0400, Michael Best wrote: >> > Here's the windup... and the pitch... >> > It looks like it's gonna be an ad hominem! >> > Best doesn't swing at it. Ball one. >> > >> >> In case you can't understand the question, are you this?: >> https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek >> According to: >> http://www.dailydot.com/politics/cryptome-ip-leak-john-young-michael-best/ >
