Similarly, "I'm sick of sellingneckties allday long" sends a completelydifferentattitudeand set ofsignalsto your imagination than does "I want to run a charterfishing boatinHoneyHarbor."
The problem is that, as Roberta Wohlstetter pointed out half a century ago in her study of Pearl Harbor, separating out the really important signals from all the "noise" in the system is only easy to do after the fact, particularly when the U.S. government has now assembled a database of an astonishing number of 700, 000 individuals it suspects of ties to terrorism.