Actually, the US military has spent billions of dollars to reduce collateral damage. Thats why the US has developed laser guided bombs and EO guided weapons and JDAMs and that is why the US is developing the small diameter bomb series.
"The Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) is half the weight of the smallest bomb the Air Force uses today, the 500-pound Mark 82. It uses a 250 pound-class warhead that has demonstrated penetration of more than 6 feet of reinforced concrete. Utilizing a smaller weapon improves aircraft load-out and mission effectiveness. The size and accuracy of small diameter bombs allows aircraft to carry more munitions to more targets and strike them more effectively with less collateral damage. Because of its capabilities, the Small Diameter Bomb system is an important element of the Air Force's Global Strike Task Force."
"The Small Smart Bomb is a 250 pound weapon that has the same penetration capabilities as a 2000lb BLU-109, but with only 50 pounds of explosive. The 250 pound-class warhead that has demonstrated penetration of more than 6 feet of reinforced concrete. "
Thats the exactly the problem with the Global Climate Change movement.
If anyone looks at any data beyond CO2/Greenhouse gases causing climate change they are called idiot, crank, jerk, etc.
The above poster linked to a number of sites on solar climate data, if you'd looked at them, are not about Mars, but about the Sun, and because they are not about human activity you throw them out.
MS mice came from HP. There was a fella that posted on here in the late 90s who was at HP, on his home page there was a link to "Stuff I Play With That You'll Never Be Able To Get" and there was a pict of the HP optical mouse, which was the classic MS Optical Mouse.
"If you take a look at where we're going with innovation, what we have in the pipeline, I'm very excited. The output of our innovation is great," says Ballmer. "We won the desktop. We won the server. We will win the Web. We will move fast, we will get there. We will win the Web."
They won the server? How the hell do they figure they won the server? And how does one "win the Web"? You might win webbased email, or search engines, but how do you "win the web"?
Birds are evolved from dinosaurs. Well, not all dinosaurs for sure, but birds are generally considered to have evolved from theropod dinosaurs. Specifically, birds are members of Maniraptora, a group of theropods which includes dromaeosaurs and oviraptorids.
A dinosaur, is not a Species but a Superorder.
The Ice Ages were threats to the plains of Africa because the Ice Ages created overall global climate changes many times greater than what we are dealing with now as the Ice Ages ebbed and flowed, even in Africa the effects would be great as the oceans rose and fell in coastal levels.
There is very little chance the Earth would be uninhabitable, even if Global Warming was the worst we figure it could be and we popped all the nukes in the World and there was an outbreak of some terrible virus at the same time, there would still be inhabitable places and humans which survived.
"Graph showing roughly 1000 years of temperature in the northern hemisphere. It is based on combined data from ice layers, corals, trees, etc. The 20th Century's one degree Fahrenheit warming stands out dramatically."
Thats the type of graph that's the problem. Picking data points that prove the argument isn't science. It's making shit up to get the grade or win the arguement.
"It is based on combined data from ice layers, corals, trees, etc." What the hell is the "etc" Thermometers perhaps? We don't know.
"There is an extreme correlation between CO2 and temperature. There is no doubt about the severity of our CO2 spike, nor its cause."
CO2 is going up at the same time the Climate changes. That DOES NOT mean that CO2 is causing the Climate change.
In 998 when the Vikings go a Vik'ing over to Greenland, the planet is warmer by many accounts...
"In the 960s Erik the Red, a fiery Norwegian, was exiled from his home in Norway. He went to Iceland, where he married Thjodhildur. He was later banished from there for three years. Erik headed west and discovered a land with an inviting fjord landscape and fertile, green valleys. He was greatly impressed by the land's resources, and he returned to Iceland and spoke about this land, which he called "the green land"'.
Greenland is an ag region in some parts. Now, we have an extreme correlation between Vikings and tempertature. All the models of the time take this into account, so that when the Vikings decline in the 1200s and the global temprature goes back down and Greenland ices over and Iceland gets more icy, the extreme correlation between Vikings and Global Climate is proven.
So today, since CO2 is entering the atmo and the temp is going up a bit, all our models focus on that. It's bad science pure and simple. It's worse science because anyone who looks at other data, like the increased output of the Sun, they are pointed at and called Heretic!
For a "science" the study of Global Climate change is far, far too editorialized in scientific journals, look at how Lomborg was treated in regards to the Skeptical Environmentalist
And programers. I've heard there are at least 300-400 people working at Intel on intergration with Apple at the hardware and software level, including programing tools. AMD doesn't have the resources to devote to a niche player like Apple in that regard.
Well, some of the dinosaurs made it. They are called Birds and many, many other families of reptiles from the Age of the Dinosaurs made it, I have one living in my apartment, a Iguanidae, who can be traced in the fossil record back about 300 million years.
The big Dinosaurs were already fading at 65 MYA, the contients were shifting and climates were changing. In fact we don't know if the climate change and impacts whacked the dinosaurs, they might have simply been up for an extinction, or it could have been viral, we don't know for sure.
As a species, we've faced FAR more dire threats than this global warming/global climate change period. How about all the Glacial periods over the last 2 million years? Or how about being a moderately intelligent ape with some rough tools living on the plains of Africa?
Compare what Humanity had to go through during the Ice Ages from 40,000 to 10,000 years ago to this. We can split and fuse the atom now. We could take a good number of people off the Planet if we wanted to and there was a reason for it.
This is not the most dire threat that has faced man by any stretch of the imagination.
Well, it's not going to happen in the next 20 years. Even if the Feds threw 100 billion at it, it's not going to happen.
The aviation industry, military, plastics and road building sectors all need it for various things. Throwing money at it isn't going to solve our dependancy between now and 2018.
NASA spends this money in part to keep sections of the National aerospace industry operating. If they back off of things like manned space, big engines, that sector would quickly shutdown and we'd lose it completely.
Besides, the Federal Government doesn't look for oil, oil companies do. If the Feds handed this out to the oil companies, it would vanish. We know where the majority of the oil is and where the majority of the oil shale and oil sands are, we don't need to explore to the tune of 100 billion dollars.
Public places were quieter? No they weren't. Cars were louder, airplanes were louder, people talked outloud, machinery was louder, typewriters are louder than a PC keyboard.
US News and World Report and Newsweek are both running interesting articles on how personal tape players are a major contributor [US News] to early hearing loss [Newsweek]. According the US News article, an increasing number of people are now living in "noisy" environments that is only made worse by blocking it out with even louder music. The article also suggests that listening to music for one hour a day is considered safe. So now you have a choice... go deaf early or go insane listening to your coworkers chatter."
Nothing new hear, we've been getting this since at least 1980. There are likely stories about how the photograph, motion picture "talkie", transister radio and lord knows whatelse cause problems.
US, UK, France, China have boomers that work. Russia has boomers too, but because of budgets no one is sure if they can or do deploy them for cruises and if they did, if the gear would actually work.
The Chinese boomers are likewise known to be iffy for a deployment, but not as iffy as the Russian boomers or SSGNs.
Israel has a cruise missile system that is thought to be nuclear capable from thier diesel-electric submarines.
What the American people think about deterrence and how the military and civilian leadership think about deterrence are two different things.
The US public isn't in an uproar about the threat of a single city, or multiple cities being destroyed by the DPRK as a result of US/RoK defenses of the RoK and the friction between the US and DPRK over nukes.
Therefore, I don't think that one or even fifteen nukes are a deterrence in this day and age.
For people that don't look at nuclear weapons from a military standpoint. Here is some info on CEP, this is vital to understanding the capablities of various nuclear weapon delivery devices.
"For example, an ICBM warhead with a CEP of 100 meters will impact within 100 meters of the target point in at least 50 percent of all attempts.
Another important thing to remember about CEP is that if 50 percent of rounds land inside the circle, then 50 percent land outside it! Generally, if CEP is n meters 50 percent of rounds land within n meters of the target, 43 percent between n and twice that distance and 7 percent between two and three times that distance. If misses were exactly normally distributed as in this theory, then the proportion of rounds that land farther than three times the CEP from the target is less than 0.2%."
Your American Minuteman and SLBMs have a CEP under 10m with GPS and 50-75, without GPS, the French M-45s, which will be considerablly more accurate than anything Chinese or DPRK has a CEP of 350m. Against a hardended target, 350m with a 350kt warhead is of questionabl effectivness.
True on UK/French nukes, especially the UK's Tridents, however they don't have that many in the general scheme of things. Four Vanguard class with 16 SLBMs each, that'd kill alot of people in city bursts, but in the scheme of MAD, it's a minor threat.
"The British-designed warheads are thought to be selectable between 0.3 kt, 5-10 kt and 100 kt; the yields obtained using either the unboosted primary, the boosted primary, or the entire "physics package". Although it owns the warheads, the United Kingdom does not actually own the missiles; instead it leased 58 missiles from the United States government and these are exchanged when requiring maintenance with missiles from the United States Navy's own pool."
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17,600 pounds for short range, most runs were carried out with 2000-500 pounds of bombs in the ETO and MTO.
Actually, the US military has spent billions of dollars to reduce collateral damage. Thats why the US has developed laser guided bombs and EO guided weapons and JDAMs and that is why the US is developing the small diameter bomb series.
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/mu
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/mu
"The Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) is half the weight of the smallest bomb the Air Force uses today, the 500-pound Mark 82. It uses a 250 pound-class warhead that has demonstrated penetration of more than 6 feet of reinforced concrete. Utilizing a smaller weapon improves aircraft load-out and mission effectiveness. The size and accuracy of small diameter bombs allows aircraft to carry more munitions to more targets and strike them more effectively with less collateral damage. Because of its capabilities, the Small Diameter Bomb system is an important element of the Air Force's Global Strike Task Force."
"The Small Smart Bomb is a 250 pound weapon that has the same penetration capabilities as a 2000lb BLU-109, but with only 50 pounds of explosive. The 250 pound-class warhead that has demonstrated penetration of more than 6 feet of reinforced concrete. "
Heh.
Thats the exactly the problem with the Global Climate Change movement.
If anyone looks at any data beyond CO2/Greenhouse gases causing climate change they are called idiot, crank, jerk, etc.
The above poster linked to a number of sites on solar climate data, if you'd looked at them, are not about Mars, but about the Sun, and because they are not about human activity you throw them out.
Why?
It's a tiny, tiny, tiny niche in regards to how many people know about it.
Sticking with MP3 as a buzzword and as the single format is easier for Apple.
I hold a counter-theory, that it is due to the decline in Vikings worldwide since 1300.
However, the climatological data tells us ZERO about how many Typhoons and Hurricanes there have been for thousands of years.
It was at the time.
When DVD players first started coming out, the two biggest movies in DVD format were AFO and Fifth Element.
Alot of other good movies were on Divx for a while.
MS mice came from HP. There was a fella that posted on here in the late 90s who was at HP, on his home page there was a link to "Stuff I Play With That You'll Never Be Able To Get" and there was a pict of the HP optical mouse, which was the classic MS Optical Mouse.
I doubt they have any idea what's going on in MS.
"If you take a look at where we're going with innovation, what we have in the pipeline, I'm very excited. The output of our innovation is great," says Ballmer. "We won the desktop. We won the server. We will win the Web. We will move fast, we will get there. We will win the Web."
They won the server? How the hell do they figure they won the server? And how does one "win the Web"? You might win webbased email, or search engines, but how do you "win the web"?
Birds are evolved from dinosaurs. Well, not all dinosaurs for sure, but birds are generally considered to have evolved from theropod dinosaurs. Specifically, birds are members of Maniraptora, a group of theropods which includes dromaeosaurs and oviraptorids.
A dinosaur, is not a Species but a Superorder.
The Ice Ages were threats to the plains of Africa because the Ice Ages created overall global climate changes many times greater than what we are dealing with now as the Ice Ages ebbed and flowed, even in Africa the effects would be great as the oceans rose and fell in coastal levels.
There is very little chance the Earth would be uninhabitable, even if Global Warming was the worst we figure it could be and we popped all the nukes in the World and there was an outbreak of some terrible virus at the same time, there would still be inhabitable places and humans which survived.
"Graph showing roughly 1000 years of temperature in the northern hemisphere. It is based on combined data from ice layers, corals, trees, etc. The 20th Century's one degree Fahrenheit warming stands out dramatically."
Thats the type of graph that's the problem. Picking data points that prove the argument isn't science. It's making shit up to get the grade or win the arguement.
"It is based on combined data from ice layers, corals, trees, etc." What the hell is the "etc" Thermometers perhaps? We don't know.
"There is an extreme correlation between CO2 and temperature. There is no doubt about the severity of our CO2 spike, nor its cause."
CO2 is going up at the same time the Climate changes. That DOES NOT mean that CO2 is causing the Climate change.
In 998 when the Vikings go a Vik'ing over to Greenland, the planet is warmer by many accounts...
"In the 960s Erik the Red, a fiery Norwegian, was exiled from his home in Norway. He went to Iceland, where he married Thjodhildur. He was later banished from there for three years. Erik headed west and discovered a land with an inviting fjord landscape and fertile, green valleys. He was greatly impressed by the land's resources, and he returned to Iceland and spoke about this land, which he called "the green land"'.
Greenland is an ag region in some parts. Now, we have an extreme correlation between Vikings and tempertature. All the models of the time take this into account, so that when the Vikings decline in the 1200s and the global temprature goes back down and Greenland ices over and Iceland gets more icy, the extreme correlation between Vikings and Global Climate is proven.
So today, since CO2 is entering the atmo and the temp is going up a bit, all our models focus on that. It's bad science pure and simple. It's worse science because anyone who looks at other data, like the increased output of the Sun, they are pointed at and called Heretic!
For a "science" the study of Global Climate change is far, far too editorialized in scientific journals, look at how Lomborg was treated in regards to the Skeptical Environmentalist
And programers. I've heard there are at least 300-400 people working at Intel on intergration with Apple at the hardware and software level, including programing tools. AMD doesn't have the resources to devote to a niche player like Apple in that regard.
Well, some of the dinosaurs made it. They are called Birds and many, many other families of reptiles from the Age of the Dinosaurs made it, I have one living in my apartment, a Iguanidae, who can be traced in the fossil record back about 300 million years.
The big Dinosaurs were already fading at 65 MYA, the contients were shifting and climates were changing. In fact we don't know if the climate change and impacts whacked the dinosaurs, they might have simply been up for an extinction, or it could have been viral, we don't know for sure.
As a species, we've faced FAR more dire threats than this global warming/global climate change period. How about all the Glacial periods over the last 2 million years? Or how about being a moderately intelligent ape with some rough tools living on the plains of Africa?
Compare what Humanity had to go through during the Ice Ages from 40,000 to 10,000 years ago to this. We can split and fuse the atom now. We could take a good number of people off the Planet if we wanted to and there was a reason for it.
This is not the most dire threat that has faced man by any stretch of the imagination.
Well, it's not going to happen in the next 20 years. Even if the Feds threw 100 billion at it, it's not going to happen.
The aviation industry, military, plastics and road building sectors all need it for various things. Throwing money at it isn't going to solve our dependancy between now and 2018.
NASA spends this money in part to keep sections of the National aerospace industry operating. If they back off of things like manned space, big engines, that sector would quickly shutdown and we'd lose it completely.
Besides, the Federal Government doesn't look for oil, oil companies do. If the Feds handed this out to the oil companies, it would vanish. We know where the majority of the oil is and where the majority of the oil shale and oil sands are, we don't need to explore to the tune of 100 billion dollars.
I'm hearing closer to 4.5-5 billion for the whole fab during the whole ramp up from my buddies at Intel here in Oregon.
Figure about as much as an Aircraft Carrier's base price is.
Nope. Intel isn't Union. GM and Ford are Union and that's crushing them in terms of pensions right now.
Healthcare and pension is going to be big agains Intel, but not as big as it is when dealing with the UAW.
Public places were quieter?
No they weren't. Cars were louder, airplanes were louder, people talked outloud, machinery was louder, typewriters are louder than a PC keyboard.
Is the Walkman Generation Going Deaf?
US News and World Report and Newsweek are both running interesting articles on how personal tape players are a major contributor [US News] to early hearing loss [Newsweek]. According the US News article, an increasing number of people are now living in "noisy" environments that is only made worse by blocking it out with even louder music. The article also suggests that listening to music for one hour a day is considered safe. So now you have a choice... go deaf early or go insane listening to your coworkers chatter."
Nothing new hear, we've been getting this since at least 1980. There are likely stories about how the photograph, motion picture "talkie", transister radio and lord knows whatelse cause problems.
US, UK, France, China have boomers that work. Russia has boomers too, but because of budgets no one is sure if they can or do deploy them for cruises and if they did, if the gear would actually work.
The Chinese boomers are likewise known to be iffy for a deployment, but not as iffy as the Russian boomers or SSGNs.
Israel has a cruise missile system that is thought to be nuclear capable from thier diesel-electric submarines.
Because Katrina was caused by President Bush's domestic policy.
And because the flooding was caused by President Bush's domestic policy.
Right.
What the American people think about deterrence and how the military and civilian leadership think about deterrence are two different things.
The US public isn't in an uproar about the threat of a single city, or multiple cities being destroyed by the DPRK as a result of US/RoK defenses of the RoK and the friction between the US and DPRK over nukes.
Therefore, I don't think that one or even fifteen nukes are a deterrence in this day and age.
For people that don't look at nuclear weapons from a military standpoint. Here is some info on CEP, this is vital to understanding the capablities of various nuclear weapon delivery devices.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_error_proba
"For example, an ICBM warhead with a CEP of 100 meters will impact within 100 meters of the target point in at least 50 percent of all attempts.
Another important thing to remember about CEP is that if 50 percent of rounds land inside the circle, then 50 percent land outside it! Generally, if CEP is n meters 50 percent of rounds land within n meters of the target, 43 percent between n and twice that distance and 7 percent between two and three times that distance. If misses were exactly normally distributed as in this theory, then the proportion of rounds that land farther than three times the CEP from the target is less than 0.2%."
Your American Minuteman and SLBMs have a CEP under 10m with GPS and 50-75, without GPS, the French M-45s, which will be considerablly more accurate than anything Chinese or DPRK has a CEP of 350m. Against a hardended target, 350m with a 350kt warhead is of questionabl effectivness.
True on UK/French nukes, especially the UK's Tridents, however they don't have that many in the general scheme of things. Four Vanguard class with 16 SLBMs each, that'd kill alot of people in city bursts, but in the scheme of MAD, it's a minor threat.
"The British-designed warheads are thought to be selectable between 0.3 kt, 5-10 kt and 100 kt; the yields obtained using either the unboosted primary, the boosted primary, or the entire "physics package". Although it owns the warheads, the United Kingdom does not actually own the missiles; instead it leased 58 missiles from the United States government and these are exchanged when requiring maintenance with missiles from the United States Navy's own pool."