Keep in mind that a modern nuclear device is alot like a very high quality timepiece. Very tight tolerances, everything must work together or it fails. Sure they are robust enough to be carried around in an aircraft (all the missing American devices were aircraft delivered bombs), fall and then be triggered, but if something deteriorates and fails then the device isn't going to work.
You know in a film where there is a nuclear device its quite stupid to spend those last seconds trying to decode something or cut a wire, just get something heavy and start beating the hell out of the explosives surrounding the core. Pull all the wires because of that core doesn't compress or doesn't compress right, the nuke isn't going to go off or at the worst it's going to fizzle.
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No, I wasn't being funny, we talked about it in the geek heavy office here before I posted.
And who the hell uses a device straight out from your body like your "lift your arm and hold it" experiment?
People prop, put at an angle, hold against things, so yea whining that 1.5 pounds is too heavy is just that, whining.
No, unlike Limbaugh who uses them as a scapegoat all the time I picked them because they have a long history of loving the unions, communism and giving cheap ad rates to radicals like Moveon.org
So it'd be better if it came from a pseudo-communist Democratic shilling rags?
Reason has been named one of the best english language magazines twice in the last 10 years.
I work in K-12 education and have for the last 15 years, sorry to burst your bubble but it takes a moderate or right-wing news source to critically look at public education, the Unions and administration. Reason will look at it, so might the Atlantic but the New York Times sure isn't going to.
Caring about the environment really is something a society does when it has become fat and has excess.
Seriously, if the US needed the energy in the Western US and Alaska, Zions would be a strip mine, they'd be drilling off Oregon and ANWR would have a pipeline running through it.
Except that non-democratic societies like the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China have far worse environmental records than industrialized democracies and republics.
Yea, I mean from home on say Facebook. I know that right now if I post something political that my boss or the agency head doesn't agree with, it'll come up in conversation a day or two down the road.
They aren't friended with me and I don't facebook at work, but they keep eyes on it.
Really? It did? The poster said that speeds have decreased in the last 20-30, I started with the speed limits going to 55 or lower in 1974 because thats the time frame we are talking about.
Did the poster ever say "average speed limit" nope. He talked about speed limits period, which have increased in the last 20-30 years.
We aren't talking about average commutes or total time stuck on the freeway but speed limits.
When I made the crack about gun rights for metric I was joking anyway.
I think the US should be metric all over, but I'm fine with it being English and I like a mile vs a km when I'm planning a trip or driving.
I had the chance to live in Germany back in the 90s (four of my great-grandparents came from eastern Germany back around 1900, which is good because their relatives who stayed there ended up in mass graves and ovens), but I went back to the US because I like what we have here, flawed as it may be. Right now only other country I'd live in would be Israel.
Gun ownership isn't about crime, its just another right like trial by jury, speech and all that.
I was just saying that I'd accept the US finishing the switch to metric (which we started before most countries in Europe), and Europe can get the right to owning guns.
So if that is the right number, than the population is between 316-321 million. If we go to the super high estimate of 20 million, then we have a population of between 325 and 330 million, still a long ways from your 350 million figure.
Yea, its spring time here in Alaska and I'm in a built-up area so now its like the Monte Carlo Grand Prix. The street speed limits are 50 unless otherwise posted so if you aren't going 60 you are getting run down and flipped off.
There is a difference between criminal charges and being responsible for a death.
If I cross the street in a city at a crosswalk and I'm run over the person that hit me might not face criminal charges but will be held for civil damages.
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They've put Avengers in places that they feel need SAM coverage. Like DC, and wherever the G8 are meeting.
Keep in mind that a modern nuclear device is alot like a very high quality timepiece. Very tight tolerances, everything must work together or it fails. Sure they are robust enough to be carried around in an aircraft (all the missing American devices were aircraft delivered bombs), fall and then be triggered, but if something deteriorates and fails then the device isn't going to work.
You know in a film where there is a nuclear device its quite stupid to spend those last seconds trying to decode something or cut a wire, just get something heavy and start beating the hell out of the explosives surrounding the core. Pull all the wires because of that core doesn't compress or doesn't compress right, the nuke isn't going to go off or at the worst it's going to fizzle.
No, I wasn't being funny, we talked about it in the geek heavy office here before I posted.
And who the hell uses a device straight out from your body like your "lift your arm and hold it" experiment?
People prop, put at an angle, hold against things, so yea whining that 1.5 pounds is too heavy is just that, whining.
I agree with it.
Seriously, even a geek should be able to handle 1.5 pounds in a device without it overtasking them.
Yes, its meaningless, a better look at the size would be looking at the number of employees, if one needs one quick number.
MS - 93,000
Apple - 34,300
And another couple big techs
Intel - 83,500
Google - 19,835
IBM - 399,400
Where is Bimmer the car? I've never heard that term in the US.
Looking quick on Google, apparently in the BMW community, good for them.
Well I'm in Alaska and its a 278ms ping from here.
No, unlike Limbaugh who uses them as a scapegoat all the time I picked them because they have a long history of loving the unions, communism and giving cheap ad rates to radicals like Moveon.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_The_New_York_Times
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_york_times#Controversy_and_criticism
And once more, opinion pieces are just that, opinion pieces or blogs that aren't the official editorial stance or focus of the paper.
Find me a NYT story that is critical of NEA and the major state teacher unions and I'll apologize for defaming the "Newspaper of Record."
Opinion peace isn't the same as the organization going after an entity.
Maybe the NYT is moderate enough to be critical, I just tossed up an example. Didn't have time to look further cause I'm at an Education conference ;)
So it'd be better if it came from a pseudo-communist Democratic shilling rags?
Reason has been named one of the best english language magazines twice in the last 10 years.
I work in K-12 education and have for the last 15 years, sorry to burst your bubble but it takes a moderate or right-wing news source to critically look at public education, the Unions and administration. Reason will look at it, so might the Atlantic but the New York Times sure isn't going to.
Caring about the environment really is something a society does when it has become fat and has excess.
Seriously, if the US needed the energy in the Western US and Alaska, Zions would be a strip mine, they'd be drilling off Oregon and ANWR would have a pipeline running through it.
Except that non-democratic societies like the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China have far worse environmental records than industrialized democracies and republics.
Yea, I mean from home on say Facebook. I know that right now if I post something political that my boss or the agency head doesn't agree with, it'll come up in conversation a day or two down the road.
They aren't friended with me and I don't facebook at work, but they keep eyes on it.
Really? It did? The poster said that speeds have decreased in the last 20-30, I started with the speed limits going to 55 or lower in 1974 because thats the time frame we are talking about.
Did the poster ever say "average speed limit" nope. He talked about speed limits period, which have increased in the last 20-30 years.
We aren't talking about average commutes or total time stuck on the freeway but speed limits.
When I made the crack about gun rights for metric I was joking anyway.
I think the US should be metric all over, but I'm fine with it being English and I like a mile vs a km when I'm planning a trip or driving.
I had the chance to live in Germany back in the 90s (four of my great-grandparents came from eastern Germany back around 1900, which is good because their relatives who stayed there ended up in mass graves and ovens), but I went back to the US because I like what we have here, flawed as it may be. Right now only other country I'd live in would be Israel.
Gun ownership isn't about crime, its just another right like trial by jury, speech and all that.
I was just saying that I'd accept the US finishing the switch to metric (which we started before most countries in Europe), and Europe can get the right to owning guns.
The US Census projects the running count and takes into account illegals.
But lets say it doesn't.
The current estimate is between 10 and 11 million illegals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/us/31immig.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt
So if that is the right number, than the population is between 316-321 million. If we go to the super high estimate of 20 million, then we have a population of between 325 and 330 million, still a long ways from your 350 million figure.
Speed limits have decreased in the last 20-30 years? What crack are you smoking?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_States
For approximately thirteen years (1974–1987), no speed limit in the United States exceeded 55 mph.
Now there are no states with a maximum speed limit of 55.
Yes a cop car cruising in traffic does slow traffic down and it bunches up traffic alot.
I'll accept the metric system here in the US if the EU accepts the right to own and bear arms.
Yea, its spring time here in Alaska and I'm in a built-up area so now its like the Monte Carlo Grand Prix. The street speed limits are 50 unless otherwise posted so if you aren't going 60 you are getting run down and flipped off.
There is a difference between criminal charges and being responsible for a death.
If I cross the street in a city at a crosswalk and I'm run over the person that hit me might not face criminal charges but will be held for civil damages.
Not all roads in the US are super wide and even when they are theres alot of accidents caused from crossing the median.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate
11.2 deaths per 100,000
1.27 deaths per 100,000,000 miles driven
http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
The US has between 305 and 310 million people and "in 2006, there were nearly 203 million licensed drivers in the United States."
http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/pubs/pl08021/fig4_3.cfm