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U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011
Walter Francis writes "The U.S. Navy has apparently been busy. They have been focusing heavily on the next generation of weapons and propulsion systems, including Microwave, Laser, and Electromagnetic-Kinetic weapons, more commonly known as railguns. What specifically surprised me was the fact that the Navy plans to deploy these systems as early as 2011, on their DD(X) frigates. The range of these rail guns is estimated to be over 250 miles."
"Is it so hard to put a URL inside an A HREF?"
I'm sorry to be off-topic in replying to your sig, but I felt the need to answer. I don't post with HREF very often. It is not because it is hard or because it is time consuming, afterall I used to write web pages for a living. Rather, I do it because of all the goatse links out there. Let them see the URL before they click it. Can they do it with HREF? Sure, in an extra couple of steps.
In short, please don't belittle a choice like that when there are people doing it out of consideration, not laziness.
"Derp de derp."
What browser are you using that doesn't allow you to see the URL before you click on it?
Safari. Which is why I use Mozilla as much as possible.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
"Yabut...why cant you just mouse over the HREF'd URL to see what the real URL is, before you click it?"
I dunno, never said it couldn't.
"Derp de derp."
Two steps, true, but only one extra keystroke: [A HREF="paste"]paste[/a], as in:
0 7&mode=thread&tid=103&tid=126&tid= 99 for a link to this article.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/22/18392
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
As I recall, the French were also in Vietnam; prior to the US getting involved. What happened there? Besides, I don't give a shit if you think we're "boorish and uncivilized"; especially when the only reason France (as part of the security council) didn't agree with going to war because of the vast amounts of debt owed to it by Iraq....and the possible payout afterwards. Even now that Hussein is out of power France wants in on the action to recoup some of it's losses prior to the war by "helping with reconstruction". NOW who's boorish? No wonder people hate you. You claim to embrace some form of democracy (or republicanism, whatever) while expecting to expend as little effort as possible to maintain it without outside assistance. Blech. Whatever.
[SIG] Remember Mattel handheld games?
just coincidently, and I haven't seen it yet, but that's one of the aspects to moores new film I was just reading about. Like how much "free will" is really involved? He is showing (using his hometown of flint michigan as an example) how the recruiters specifically go into economically devasted areas and recruit there, knowing the kids don't have as much local opportunity for any sort of work that might actually pay anything or provide "benefits", etc. FWIW. I've heard it from a ton of young guys I have known who have gone in, "it's a job" "I'll get college out of it" and etc, going way back to before nam. Well, to be fair about it, back then it was more prudent(in some ways) to volunteer than get drafted, then you at least got the temporary illusion you might actually get to do something you might be interested in. I would say there's something to it, as witness the focus of their TV advertising that you see for "joining up".