Hopefully the technology will work for us and we havent been hacked in the interim. Here we go. To move on why a book about cybersecurity and cyberwar and why now . For me, its best encapsulated by two quotes. The first is from president obama. He declared that cybersecurity risks posed quote a most serious economic and National Security challenges of the 21st century the second quote is from a former cia director who said quote rarely has something been so important and so talked about with less and less clarity and less apparent understanding. So that cross between something that is in front of me and important but less and less understanding again you can see it in all sorts of different ways and all sorts of different fields. For example 70 of business executives, and not 70 of cto circe s. Oz but executives in general have made some kind of cybersecurity decision for their Company Despite the fact that no Major Business Management Program teaches it as part of the normal responsib
Technology which basically speeds up the natural composting process to a 21 and a batch cycle, so after about 48 hours, it begins producing methane gas and all of the bye gases. And after 21 days, all you have left is an agricultural quality compost, and all of that gas that is collected is transformed into either electricity or cng fuel, so it is a completely closed loop cycle that we have, and we just celebrated the grand opening of our project in san jose, which is 1. 6 megawatts of electricity, about 34,000 tons per year of compost, if i remember correctly, and it is processing 90,000 tons per year of organic waste, so that is just one of our projects, and that is what we do. I want to point out that that is the largest facility of its kind in the world. Yes, it is the largest in the world. The energy that it produces is eligible for inclusion in the renewables portfolio. That is a goal set out by the government of california. Utilities have to use one third of their energy by rene
In 1917, there was no cloture rule at all. The senate functioned entirely by unanimous consent. So how did the senate overcome the determined opposition of 11 isolationist senators who refused to give consent to president wilson to arm ships . Senator walsh made clear that the senate would exercise its Constitutional Authority to reform its practices by a majority vote. I think the majority leader deserves more respect. The senate is not in order and the senate will be in order. The senator from alabama is correct. The senator from kentucky is recognized. Senator walsh made clear the senate would exercise its Constitutional Authority to reform its practices by a simple majority vote. A past senate could not take away the right of the future senate by tying the hands of the new senate. He said a majority may adopt the rules in the first place. It is preposterous to assume they can deny the right to change them. What he said made good sense. [captioning performed by national captioning i
In his 2004 Democratic Convention speech, a speech that got me involved in politics. He said that we worship an awesome god in the blue states. Then there was his address to reverend jim walliss call to a renewal conference in 2006, a speech that i was honored to work with him in the Senate Office and he developed a template for how this president would engage issues. In that speech, then senator obama declared that, our failure as progressives to tap into the moral underpinnings of this nation is not just rhetorical. Our fear of getting preachy may also lead us to discount the role that values and culture play in some of our most urgent social problems. He went on to say individual churches are sponsoring day care programs, building senior centers, helping ex offenders reclaim their lives and rebuilding the gulf coast in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. And he concluded, the question is, how do we build on these partnerships between religious and secular people of goodwill . It wil
And to data protection. The present case as reported in the media is also likely to reenforce the concerns of e. U. Citizens regarding the use of their personal data online and in the cloud. Already in 2012, 70 of e. U. Citizens were concerned that their personal data held by companies could be used by a purpose other than the one for which it was collected. The prism case as reported in the media also highlights the difference between the European Union and the United States. Whereas in the u. S. System only u. S. Citizens and residents benefit from constitutional safeguards, in the European Union everyones personal data and the confidentiality of their communications are recognized and protected as fundamental rights irrespective of their nationality. While reports are particularly worrisome colleagues, commissioner, 500 million european citizens were very shocked last week to find that a foreign nation has unlimited access to every intimate detail of their private life. It was the p