It's easy to hit something once. When what you're trying to hit it with is moving at a basic set speed which may not allow enough change to compensate for the spin, then it becomes more difficult. Then, you have to think of it as closing velocity.... you get one shot, and that's pretty much it. If you miss, the first impact does nothing for you. The warhead part isn't going to be able to turn around, race ahead of the object, turn back around, and hit it in that hole (or try to) again.
I really don't think this would be as easy as you think it would be.
Actually, if he made the statement they weren't his, they became abandoned property. If it was abandoned property and they felt it had been used in the commission of a crime... well... there yah go.
Yes, because economics of scale show that it simply can't work that way. Wait....
The problem in the US isn't our size, it's that a portion of the country who has no idea of what citizenship, patriotism, or responsibility means is now the base of one of the political parties, and is doing everything it can to emulate insurgents with the goal of destroying us as a nation. If "secession" ever comes up as a possible alternative, you are no longer working for the betterment of the United States or it's citizens.
Curious to know who the fuck made us God to say who can have nuclear energy or not. You want to bitch and whine that the Iranians are flexing their cyberattack muscles, well, too fucking bad; we started it. You simply want to make some stupid fucking excuse as to why you are right, and they are wrong; that's something you really shouldn't do when you haven't taken the high road.
I'd suggest you are wrong. It's people like you, who are willing to defend murdering sociopaths, that caused this problem in the first place. THE reason Iran hates us today is because of what a bunch of sociopaths did to the country back in 1953. Sadly, sociopaths never seem to fucking learn.
I don't know if you noticed, but that revolution in 1979 was to overthrow the Shah... who we supported, and to kick our ass out (because we supported the Shah). Now, do i remember Carter abandoning the Shah? No, because it didn't happen. The Shah was here in the US when all the crap came down for medical treatment.
I think its a lot less hatred of Jews than it is hatred for people who act like duochebags all the time, stealing their land, assassinating their leaders, murdering their children, and basically acting more like that group of Germans you brought up than they should... all the while causing more and more problems for the US (where i live) because, again, they seem to prefer being douchebags instead of acting like civilized people.
Me personally... i don't give a fuck what religion they are; if they act like little assholes all the time, then that's what they are.
On the other hand, maybe, just maybe, Chinese ingenuity will come up with a way to keep the Osprey from falling out of the sky and killing people (something we can't seem to be able to do). Once they fix that little glitch, maybe we can steal the plans back.
Ok, but I still stand by my prior assertion. If belief in "the Illuminati" is sufficient for having someone detained, then so should watching Fox News. Additionally, anyone who believes Obama is any different from Bush should also be committed. So that should cover about 98% of the country right there.
...and yet, that wasn't the reason. Psych holds like this are used when a person appears to be a threat to themselves or others. Actively talking about "starting the revolution" because he was tired of waiting SHOULD be a sign that someone is a potential threat to others. Normally someone making such threats would be arrested, but from the chain of events, it appears they showed up, made the assessment that this guy was less a wannabe-terrorist, and more of a mental case, and gave him the benefit of the doubt by calling for a psych hold and evaluation.
I stand by my prior assessment that your prior assessment is flawed because you seem to be working off erroneous assumptions based on very biased, ideologically driven, misinformation being put out prior to a lawsuit to benefit the person who started the ball rolling on all of this by making threats to start a revolution.
You left out the part that the only reason the cops came for him is because of a government program that is targeting ex-military monitoring everything they are posting on-line "just in case."
It's an operation designed to find lone wolf type terrorists, not one designed specifically to target ex-military.
What you have here is an individual who made loud enough rants against the government they got the notice they so desperately wanted, in such a way as they were deemed to be a possible threat to others, who after normal a normal psychiatric hold was deemed not to be as mentally unstable as they initially thought he was, then some ideological conservative anti-government group pushing him to sue the government and inflate this incident to some big bad conspiracy theory... like conservatives just have to do anymore because they seem to be devoid of normal cognitive reasoning.
Oh.. and, of course, now all the other anti-government conspiracy nutcases are jumping on the bandwagon.
The complaint names two Chesterfield County police officers, two Chesterfield County social workers, one Chesterfield County psychotherapist and up to 10 unnamed people who may be FBI or Secret Service agents.
... they call in social workers and a psychotherapist..... and other people who "could be" FBI or Secret Service... or simply workers at whatever institution he was held at for a week.
You could argue that the defense budget should take a hit to pay for other stuff, but there are people out there that might argue that the government has no business paying out for programs it wasn't created to manage. The armed forces were something that the government was created to handle, and while waste should be curtailed, you can't argue that just because it gets a lot of money, that now completely separate programs deserve that money as well. It's like giving my kid who mowed the lawn 20 bucks and then my other kids complaining that I am not giving them 20 bucks for the finger painting business that I never asked them to start.
...and those people arguing that would be the same as you, not understanding the reality of our original founders intent, even when it's spelled out for them.
Excerpts from Article 1, section 8:
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
Yes, that's right... no standing army, let alone marines or air force. Our government wasn't created to manage our military, at least the way our military is at this time. In fact, it explicitly forbids it. Our government was created with the idea of a national militia, that would be called up in case of an insurrection, or an invasion.... basically a national guard, controlled by the states, but who's structure and training regiment is defines on the national level so everyone is well trained.
Now, those programs you don't think our government was created to manage: the preamble of the Constitution is considered the driving theme behind the work, and it's position is considered often in legal arguments, especially by SCOTUS (well, used to be... it's hard to see that with some of the newer reversals of precedence that the Roberts court has presided over).
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Now, i could be wrong... but there i don't see mention of "worldwide military empire" in there.
It comes back to this: we are spending more than the entire rest of the world on our military and national defense. We loose ten times more people each year in driving accidents than we have in the last decade from terrorists and wars combined; yet we've spent ~10-12 trillion on national defense, plus another 2-3 trillion on two wars... and.. how much to improve driving safety? And now, we're loosing key elements of our infrastructure because we have basically a bunch of cowards who don't feel safe unless we spend all that money on the military, even though it's quit possible we'll loose many more lives without this infrastructure.
We really have our priorities fucked up, and largely because we have ignorant cowards where we need leaders, and just ignorant cowards as citizens.
It's only a "free market" when it doesn't stop "free marketers" from getting everything they want, in the manner they want it, for the cost they want to pay for it. What "free marketers" never seem to get is: the "free market" has no morals.
First, the page you've chose to use adjusts the numbers to the current exchange rate. There is a caveat on the page itself saying: "These results can vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of each country's currency."
Second, at 682 billion a year, the numbers are low to very low. The numbers are only the DoD budget, and spending for Afghanistan an Iraq. It ignores all military project spending outside of those, like the 20 billion tucked away in the DoEnergy for nuclear weapons, Another 8-10 billion "slush fund" of misc. spending not in the budget, or the DoD numbers, another 8-10 billion from the State Department, 120+ billion in Veterans Affairs... here's a nice little breakdown of it: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175361/ (although it's for 2012, the numbers only get a bit bigger as time goes on).
But here's the big part that so many people seem to miss: the countries on the list. To anyone, other than a hysterical coward, they do not pose a military risk to the US. China would be flat out stupid to engage us militarily, as we're one of the main driving forces behind its economy. Russia, in reality, has become a fairly dependable ally in NATO. Yes, there's some things we do they don't like, and the difference is they stand up to us and tell us instead of roll over. The rest? Allies or partners.
Too bad for the summary that "Joe the plumber" wasn't actually "Joe," but Sam; wasn't actually a plumber, but an apprentice plumber (not licensed); and at the time of the question that made him a conservative darling, was outright lying (the business wasn't up for sale, he couldn't have afforded it even if it was, nor could he have run it because he wasn't a plumber).
All that aside, we should be reforming out high schools and advanced learning to be more similar to Germany, where people who want to pursue academic careers can get to college, and people who want to pursue vocational careers can get into technical schools. High school is where that really begins, where people start building interests that will stick with them for life.
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It's easy to hit something once. When what you're trying to hit it with is moving at a basic set speed which may not allow enough change to compensate for the spin, then it becomes more difficult. Then, you have to think of it as closing velocity.... you get one shot, and that's pretty much it. If you miss, the first impact does nothing for you. The warhead part isn't going to be able to turn around, race ahead of the object, turn back around, and hit it in that hole (or try to) again.
I really don't think this would be as easy as you think it would be.
Call your doctor and tell hm the pretty little pills aren't working anymore, the voices have returned.
Actually, if he made the statement they weren't his, they became abandoned property. If it was abandoned property and they felt it had been used in the commission of a crime... well... there yah go.
.... and here i was annoyed and thought free agency was going to ruin football.
Time's certainly are changing.
There Will Be.. Paper Cuts!!!!!
Wait... paperless what? Frak me, another great title shot to hell.
We knew how to for a long while, unfortunately, it's become the meme of some in the past 30 years to see working together as the ultimate form of sin.
Yes, because economics of scale show that it simply can't work that way. Wait....
The problem in the US isn't our size, it's that a portion of the country who has no idea of what citizenship, patriotism, or responsibility means is now the base of one of the political parties, and is doing everything it can to emulate insurgents with the goal of destroying us as a nation. If "secession" ever comes up as a possible alternative, you are no longer working for the betterment of the United States or it's citizens.
They can have whatever weapons/technology they can develop. You're trying to make an excuse for the US being dicks to them, again.
Curious to know who the fuck made us God to say who can have nuclear energy or not. You want to bitch and whine that the Iranians are flexing their cyberattack muscles, well, too fucking bad; we started it. You simply want to make some stupid fucking excuse as to why you are right, and they are wrong; that's something you really shouldn't do when you haven't taken the high road.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2021.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK
I'd suggest you are wrong. It's people like you, who are willing to defend murdering sociopaths, that caused this problem in the first place. THE reason Iran hates us today is because of what a bunch of sociopaths did to the country back in 1953. Sadly, sociopaths never seem to fucking learn.
I don't know if you noticed, but that revolution in 1979 was to overthrow the Shah... who we supported, and to kick our ass out (because we supported the Shah). Now, do i remember Carter abandoning the Shah? No, because it didn't happen. The Shah was here in the US when all the crap came down for medical treatment.
http://www.businessinsider.com/study-watching-fox-news-makes-you-less-informed-than-watching-no-news-at-all-2012-5
....just saying.
I think its a lot less hatred of Jews than it is hatred for people who act like duochebags all the time, stealing their land, assassinating their leaders, murdering their children, and basically acting more like that group of Germans you brought up than they should... all the while causing more and more problems for the US (where i live) because, again, they seem to prefer being douchebags instead of acting like civilized people.
Me personally... i don't give a fuck what religion they are; if they act like little assholes all the time, then that's what they are.
Actually, if they create a fighter with the performance of the F-35, it wouldn't be a problem at all... as the F-35 is massively expensive http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/03/f-35-the-most-expensive-fighter-jet-ever-built/, taking years longer to develop http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-27/lockheed-s-troubled-f-35-said-to-be-unscathed-in-budget.html, and still can barely get off the ground http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/feature/135080/f_35-reality-check-10-years-on-(part-1).html. It is a heaping pile of shith that we didn't need, and don't need, and may never get, and is sucking taxpayer money down like a drunk sailor in Subic bay.
On the other hand, maybe, just maybe, Chinese ingenuity will come up with a way to keep the Osprey from falling out of the sky and killing people (something we can't seem to be able to do). Once they fix that little glitch, maybe we can steal the plans back.
Ok, but I still stand by my prior assertion. If belief in "the Illuminati" is sufficient for having someone detained, then so should watching Fox News. Additionally, anyone who believes Obama is any different from Bush should also be committed. So that should cover about 98% of the country right there.
I stand by my prior assessment that your prior assessment is flawed because you seem to be working off erroneous assumptions based on very biased, ideologically driven, misinformation being put out prior to a lawsuit to benefit the person who started the ball rolling on all of this by making threats to start a revolution.
You left out the part that the only reason the cops came for him is because of a government program that is targeting ex-military monitoring everything they are posting on-line "just in case."
It's an operation designed to find lone wolf type terrorists, not one designed specifically to target ex-military.
What you have here is an individual who made loud enough rants against the government they got the notice they so desperately wanted, in such a way as they were deemed to be a possible threat to others, who after normal a normal psychiatric hold was deemed not to be as mentally unstable as they initially thought he was, then some ideological conservative anti-government group pushing him to sue the government and inflate this incident to some big bad conspiracy theory... like conservatives just have to do anymore because they seem to be devoid of normal cognitive reasoning.
Oh.. and, of course, now all the other anti-government conspiracy nutcases are jumping on the bandwagon.
The complaint names two Chesterfield County police officers, two Chesterfield County social workers, one Chesterfield County psychotherapist and up to 10 unnamed people who may be FBI or Secret Service agents.
You could argue that the defense budget should take a hit to pay for other stuff, but there are people out there that might argue that the government has no business paying out for programs it wasn't created to manage. The armed forces were something that the government was created to handle, and while waste should be curtailed, you can't argue that just because it gets a lot of money, that now completely separate programs deserve that money as well. It's like giving my kid who mowed the lawn 20 bucks and then my other kids complaining that I am not giving them 20 bucks for the finger painting business that I never asked them to start.
Excerpts from Article 1, section 8:
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
Yes, that's right... no standing army, let alone marines or air force. Our government wasn't created to manage our military, at least the way our military is at this time. In fact, it explicitly forbids it. Our government was created with the idea of a national militia, that would be called up in case of an insurrection, or an invasion.... basically a national guard, controlled by the states, but who's structure and training regiment is defines on the national level so everyone is well trained.
Now, those programs you don't think our government was created to manage: the preamble of the Constitution is considered the driving theme behind the work, and it's position is considered often in legal arguments, especially by SCOTUS (well, used to be... it's hard to see that with some of the newer reversals of precedence that the Roberts court has presided over).
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Now, i could be wrong... but there i don't see mention of "worldwide military empire" in there.
It comes back to this: we are spending more than the entire rest of the world on our military and national defense. We loose ten times more people each year in driving accidents than we have in the last decade from terrorists and wars combined; yet we've spent ~10-12 trillion on national defense, plus another 2-3 trillion on two wars... and.. how much to improve driving safety? And now, we're loosing key elements of our infrastructure because we have basically a bunch of cowards who don't feel safe unless we spend all that money on the military, even though it's quit possible we'll loose many more lives without this infrastructure.
We really have our priorities fucked up, and largely because we have ignorant cowards where we need leaders, and just ignorant cowards as citizens.
Duh.
I'd mod you up, but i never have mod points when they matter.
Images.... bad, bad images... must beach brain quickly.
A pox be on you i say!
It's only a "free market" when it doesn't stop "free marketers" from getting everything they want, in the manner they want it, for the cost they want to pay for it. What "free marketers" never seem to get is: the "free market" has no morals.
I'd make the obvious comment about "way to put a spin on it," but.... i just.... can't.
First, the page you've chose to use adjusts the numbers to the current exchange rate. There is a caveat on the page itself saying: "These results can vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of each country's currency."
Second, at 682 billion a year, the numbers are low to very low. The numbers are only the DoD budget, and spending for Afghanistan an Iraq. It ignores all military project spending outside of those, like the 20 billion tucked away in the DoEnergy for nuclear weapons, Another 8-10 billion "slush fund" of misc. spending not in the budget, or the DoD numbers, another 8-10 billion from the State Department, 120+ billion in Veterans Affairs... here's a nice little breakdown of it: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175361/ (although it's for 2012, the numbers only get a bit bigger as time goes on).
But here's the big part that so many people seem to miss: the countries on the list. To anyone, other than a hysterical coward, they do not pose a military risk to the US. China would be flat out stupid to engage us militarily, as we're one of the main driving forces behind its economy. Russia, in reality, has become a fairly dependable ally in NATO. Yes, there's some things we do they don't like, and the difference is they stand up to us and tell us instead of roll over. The rest? Allies or partners.
Too bad for the summary that "Joe the plumber" wasn't actually "Joe," but Sam; wasn't actually a plumber, but an apprentice plumber (not licensed); and at the time of the question that made him a conservative darling, was outright lying (the business wasn't up for sale, he couldn't have afforded it even if it was, nor could he have run it because he wasn't a plumber).
All that aside, we should be reforming out high schools and advanced learning to be more similar to Germany, where people who want to pursue academic careers can get to college, and people who want to pursue vocational careers can get into technical schools. High school is where that really begins, where people start building interests that will stick with them for life.
Yeh.... they even have a saying for that....