Russia alone from that list has the ability to destroy the US/Canadian infrastructure.
China, France, UK, DPRK, India, Pakistan togeather don't have the ability to destroy 1/4th of the US warfighting and communications infrastructure for fighting a nuclear war.
Also, depending on the CEP, you need multiple warheads to take out a target. The rule of thumb from the Cold War was 3 1.5 MT warheads PER US Silo, South Dakota had 150 Minuteman II silos, so roughly 450 Soviet warheads were aimed at South Dakota's fields alone.
No, the only nation other than the United States with anything close to a MAD deterence capability is Russia. China, UK, France and DPRK have limited capabilities compared to the US/Russia.
Israel, India, Pakistan and others have very limited power projection ablities compared to the other Nuclear Powers.
The disaster recovery's issues lie with the New Orleans and State's lack of preperation, not the Federal Government. 205 buses that belong to the City of New Orleans, that could have carried 13,000 people away were left in thier lots and are now sunk.
"Other federal and state officials pointed to Louisiana's failure to measure up to national disaster response standards, noting that the federal plan advises state and local emergency managers not to expect federal aid for 72 to 96 hours, and base their own preparedness efforts on the need to be self-sufficient for at least that period. "Fundamentally the first breakdown occurred at the local level," said one state official who works with FEMA. 'Did the city have the situational awareness of what was going on within its borders? The answer was no."
Measuring from the passage of the storm from the target area -- say 1500 hours on Monday, The Plan would therefore expect federal aid at the earliest at midday Thursday. Does this excuse any bureaucratic errors that we will find to have been made? No. But it should put the federal response in perspective.
Read through ANNEX I: HURRICANES - PREPAREDNESS (PHASE I: TRAINING, EXERCISES AND EDUCATION) and count the number of times New Orleans dropped the ball on this.
Yep. For people that live outside the US or people that didn't pay attention in Government class in the US, the power for dealing with this is always in the State's hand. The Federal Government built the levees but the power and responsability for requesting funding and for preparing for a disaster is the job of the State.
The National Guards belong to the States until they are Federalized, the NG units in the War on Terror outside the US are Federalized, but the NG units used for guarding airports or disaster ops are State run.
FEMA exists to superceed the US Constitution as to what the Federal Government can do, but FEMA has never used all of it's power.
Louisiana also is different governmentally than other States.
Louisiana is the only state whose legal system is based on Roman, Spanish, and French civil law as opposed to English common law. Technically, it is known as "Civil Law," or the "Civilian System."
Byzantine structure of New Orleans politics requires separate governing boards for each levee that is built. The boards get to approve or deny Army Corps of Engineers plans, new levees require new boards and new elections, every election has a system of run-off elections and has to have funding approved.
Mayor Nagin rails against the government for their slow response. Yet, if there is fingerpointing to be done, it has to rest with the local government. If they wanted people out, they should have provided ways for them to get out. They are aware of the tens of thousands of indigents that live in their city. They knew that many live pay check to pay check, having no transportation and immense extended families.
They have only a 1200-1400 police in New Orleans. The Los Angeles Police Department (usually known as the LAPD) is the police department of the City of Los Angeles, California. It is one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the world with over 9,000 officers and 3,000 civilian staff, covering an area of 467 sq miles with a population of around 3.4 million with another 7,000 or so in the LA County Sheriff. New Orleans is 180 sq miles, 1.337 million in the metro area, 500,000 in the city proper. Many men will not serve in the police department due to the rampant corruption which continued inspite of reforms in the late 1990s.
Firstly, thats from Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton Advisor during the Bill Clinton administration, not exactly a neutral third party journalistic source.
February 17, 1995
An Army Corps of Engineers "hit list" of recommended budget cuts would eliminate new flood-control programs in some of the nation's most flood-prone spots - where recent disasters have left thousands homeless and cost the federal government millions in emergency aid.
Clinton administration officials argue that the flood-control efforts are local projects, not national, and should be paid for by local taxes.
Nationwide, the administration proposes cutting 98 new projects in 35 states and Puerto Rico, for an estimated savings of $29 million in 1996.
June 23, 1995
A hurricane project, approved and financed since 1965, to protect more than 140,000 West Bank residents east of the Harvey Canal is in jeopardy.
The Clinton administration is holding back a Corps of Engineers report recommending that the $120 million project proceed. Unless that report is forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget, Congress cannot authorize money for the project, U.S. Rep. William Jefferson's office said Thursday.
The Bush admin isn't the only Presidental adminsitration to cut corners down in LA when it comes to levees
"A man-made diamond is not the same thing as a synthetic diamond regardless of any structural equivalence; one comes from nature, the other from man."
Yes, they are the same thing. A diamond which has sat in a Kimberlite pipe for 2 billion years and a diamond grown in a lab in Virgina are the same thing. An in-virtro fertilized human and a naturally fertilized human are the same thing.
There is nothing at all "better" or more "valuable" about a South African Diamond or a Lab grown Diamond. We shouldn't think of them as different because they are not.
If someday machines can make fine clothing and tailor them as well as an experienced tailor to a user's satisfaction we shouldn't differentiate between them either.
I'm a casual gamer in WoW and in general. 60th level warrior on Uther. I'm not "Uber" but as a casual on and off again WoW player I'm capable of all the hardcore stuff and do it. PvP raid, battlegrounds, MC, etc.
No money? There'll be money, Branson and his Corporation didn't just toss money into this blindly. Branson might have wanted to, but at some point bean counters had to sign off on it and in that signing off was market research.
Branson and Virgin say there are enough people willing to shell out what it takes. You are saying without a shread of evidence that there aren't.
I bet there are enough wealthy folks to justify this
The Allies at the end of WW1 (US/UK/Canada/Japan) invaded Russia and held sections of Russia against the Communists into 1920. There were spirited armed conflicts between the Allies and the Red Government through this period.
So it's kind of misleading to say that Communist states weren't the enemy until after WW2 when in fact there was fighting agains Communism at home and abroad throughout the interwar period.
Also PPC chips in the F/A-18E/F for a variety of systems, I think they are 200-400 MHz models if I remember correctly, my manual on it is...in a pile of books somewhere.
I bought it, played some of the single player, that was cool.
Logged on to Xbox Live and wasn't really excited by the multiplayer. All my friends who played Halo alot are back to Halo 1 on the Xbox, Halo2 is dead to them.
However, Russia didn't learn a darned thing the first time they built a Shuttle.
Buran didn't learn a thing from Shuttle. And they'll still be burning tax dollars on the lots and lots of R&D they'll be doing for Kliper. And the EU hasn't been any better at getting a program out on time/on budget then the US, in some instances (CV Charles de Gaulle, Eurofighter Typhoon, Brimstone, Trigat, SA80) worse than large American military/aerospace programs even when heavily funded.
In the US, at least in most of the Great Plains, civilization isn't encroaching, it's retreating.
Look at western Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas, while the population is growing, in South Dakota for example the population is back to where it was in the 1920 census, the small towns which were the ranching and farming centers are dying, land is going fallow and the population increases are into the cities. For my South Dakota example, the people are moving to the Black Hills area around Rapid City and to the Sioux Falls area.
They could put big fences, walls around 100,000-200,000 acres in the middle of western Nebraska and not displace a human being.
Earth is within the galaxy, in the middle along the plane and in about the middle of the arms branching out. So even with space craft, we've not been able to get far enough from the plane to see the Milky Way properly.
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No, since the Senate did not ratify it, we can not legally honor it in the United States. We can follow our own guidelines, but can't honor the CTBT.
No, thats far from true.
Russia alone from that list has the ability to destroy the US/Canadian infrastructure.
China, France, UK, DPRK, India, Pakistan togeather don't have the ability to destroy 1/4th of the US warfighting and communications infrastructure for fighting a nuclear war.
Also, depending on the CEP, you need multiple warheads to take out a target. The rule of thumb from the Cold War was 3 1.5 MT warheads PER US Silo, South Dakota had 150 Minuteman II silos, so roughly 450 Soviet warheads were aimed at South Dakota's fields alone.
No, the only nation other than the United States with anything close to a MAD deterence capability is Russia. China, UK, France and DPRK have limited capabilities compared to the US/Russia.
Israel, India, Pakistan and others have very limited power projection ablities compared to the other Nuclear Powers.
The vast majority of the Great Plains and Great Basin are pretty much immune to natural disasters.
There might be a tornado, ice storm, blizzard, but thats it for hundreds of thousands of square miles.
Well, unless you live on the West Coast or the Upper Great Plains.
Then our gas comes from California, Alaksa, Wyoming, Colorado and Canada.
If you live in Alaska or Hawaii, you don't get squat from the oil terminals at NO.
Bullshit.
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The disaster recovery's issues lie with the New Orleans and State's lack of preperation, not the Federal Government. 205 buses that belong to the City of New Orleans, that could have carried 13,000 people away were left in thier lots and are now sunk.
http://www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?portal=46&tab
"Other federal and state officials pointed to Louisiana's failure to measure up to national disaster response standards, noting that the federal plan advises state and local emergency managers not to expect federal aid for 72 to 96 hours, and base their own preparedness efforts on the need to be self-sufficient for at least that period. "Fundamentally the first breakdown occurred at the local level," said one state official who works with FEMA. 'Did the city have the situational awareness of what was going on within its borders? The answer was no."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
Measuring from the passage of the storm from the target area -- say 1500 hours on Monday, The Plan would therefore expect federal aid at the earliest at midday Thursday. Does this excuse any bureaucratic errors that we will find to have been made? No. But it should put the federal response in perspective.
Read through ANNEX I: HURRICANES - PREPAREDNESS (PHASE I: TRAINING, EXERCISES AND EDUCATION) and count the number of times New Orleans dropped the ball on this.
Yep. For people that live outside the US or people that didn't pay attention in Government class in the US, the power for dealing with this is always in the State's hand. The Federal Government built the levees but the power and responsability for requesting funding and for preparing for a disaster is the job of the State.
The National Guards belong to the States until they are Federalized, the NG units in the War on Terror outside the US are Federalized, but the NG units used for guarding airports or disaster ops are State run.
FEMA exists to superceed the US Constitution as to what the Federal Government can do, but FEMA has never used all of it's power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fema
Louisiana also is different governmentally than other States.
Louisiana is the only state whose legal system is based on Roman, Spanish, and French civil law as opposed to English common law. Technically, it is known as "Civil Law," or the "Civilian System."
Byzantine structure of New Orleans politics requires separate governing boards for each levee that is built. The boards get to approve or deny Army Corps of Engineers plans, new levees require new boards and new elections, every election has a system of run-off elections and has to have funding approved.
Mayor Nagin rails against the government for their slow response. Yet, if there is fingerpointing to be done, it has to rest with the local government. If they wanted people out, they should have provided ways for them to get out. They are aware of the tens of thousands of indigents that live in their city. They knew that many live pay check to pay check, having no transportation and immense extended families.
They have only a 1200-1400 police in New Orleans. The Los Angeles Police Department (usually known as the LAPD) is the police department of the City of Los Angeles, California. It is one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the world with over 9,000 officers and 3,000 civilian staff, covering an area of 467 sq miles with a population of around 3.4 million with another 7,000 or so in the LA County Sheriff. New Orleans is 180 sq miles, 1.337 million in the metro area, 500,000 in the city proper. Many men will not serve in the police department due to the rampant corruption which continued inspite of reforms in the late 1990s.
Firstly, thats from Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton Advisor during the Bill Clinton administration, not exactly a neutral third party journalistic source.
February 17, 1995
An Army Corps of Engineers "hit list" of recommended budget cuts would eliminate new flood-control programs in some of the nation's most flood-prone spots - where recent disasters have left thousands homeless and cost the federal government millions in emergency aid.
Clinton administration officials argue that the flood-control efforts are local projects, not national, and should be paid for by local taxes.
Nationwide, the administration proposes cutting 98 new projects in 35 states and Puerto Rico, for an estimated savings of $29 million in 1996.
June 23, 1995
A hurricane project, approved and financed since 1965, to protect more than 140,000 West Bank residents east of the Harvey Canal is in jeopardy.
The Clinton administration is holding back a Corps of Engineers report recommending that the $120 million project proceed. Unless that report is forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget, Congress cannot authorize money for the project, U.S. Rep. William Jefferson's office said Thursday.
The Bush admin isn't the only Presidental adminsitration to cut corners down in LA when it comes to levees
"A man-made diamond is not the same thing as a synthetic diamond regardless of any structural equivalence; one comes from nature, the other from man."
Yes, they are the same thing. A diamond which has sat in a Kimberlite pipe for 2 billion years and a diamond grown in a lab in Virgina are the same thing. An in-virtro fertilized human and a naturally fertilized human are the same thing.
There is nothing at all "better" or more "valuable" about a South African Diamond or a Lab grown Diamond. We shouldn't think of them as different because they are not.
If someday machines can make fine clothing and tailor them as well as an experienced tailor to a user's satisfaction we shouldn't differentiate between them either.
Don't agree.
I'm a casual gamer in WoW and in general. 60th level warrior on Uther. I'm not "Uber" but as a casual on and off again WoW player I'm capable of all the hardcore stuff and do it. PvP raid, battlegrounds, MC, etc.
So what is "uber" to you having all Epic gear?
No, we are largely made out of water.
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"Water is the most common molecule in the human body. Fully 87% of human body atoms are either hydrogen or oxygen."
http://www.biology-online.org/9/1_chemical_compos
http://www.eurekah.com/abstract.php?chapid=541&bo
Oh hell, OPEC wishes it had the control that De Beers does.
The oil industry allows wildcat drilling, the Diamond industry quashes wildcat diamond supplies outside of it's control.
Now they are trying to quash synthetic diamonds by getting trade regulators to force synthetic fabricators diamonds as something other than a diamond.
Tinker Tool 2.5 allows you to disable Safari and autoloading pdfs. Also, just right click on a .pdf, get info and change the Open with to Preview.
Not religous by any stretch, but Genesis surely leaves it open for Jews and Christians in regards to life on other planets.
Genesis 1.1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
Discovery of life on Mars or Europa will do zero damage to Torah-New Testament religions.
No money? There'll be money, Branson and his Corporation didn't just toss money into this blindly. Branson might have wanted to, but at some point bean counters had to sign off on it and in that signing off was market research.
Branson and Virgin say there are enough people willing to shell out what it takes. You are saying without a shread of evidence that there aren't.
I bet there are enough wealthy folks to justify this
The Allies at the end of WW1 (US/UK/Canada/Japan) invaded Russia and held sections of Russia against the Communists into 1920. There were spirited armed conflicts between the Allies and the Red Government through this period.
So it's kind of misleading to say that Communist states weren't the enemy until after WW2 when in fact there was fighting agains Communism at home and abroad throughout the interwar period.
Also PPC chips in the F/A-18E/F for a variety of systems, I think they are 200-400 MHz models if I remember correctly, my manual on it is...in a pile of books somewhere.
I bought it, played some of the single player, that was cool.
Logged on to Xbox Live and wasn't really excited by the multiplayer. All my friends who played Halo alot are back to Halo 1 on the Xbox, Halo2 is dead to them.
However, Russia didn't learn a darned thing the first time they built a Shuttle.
Buran didn't learn a thing from Shuttle. And they'll still be burning tax dollars on the lots and lots of R&D they'll be doing for Kliper. And the EU hasn't been any better at getting a program out on time/on budget then the US, in some instances (CV Charles de Gaulle, Eurofighter Typhoon, Brimstone, Trigat, SA80) worse than large American military/aerospace programs even when heavily funded.
In the US, at least in most of the Great Plains, civilization isn't encroaching, it's retreating.
Look at western Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas, while the population is growing, in South Dakota for example the population is back to where it was in the 1920 census, the small towns which were the ranching and farming centers are dying, land is going fallow and the population increases are into the cities. For my South Dakota example, the people are moving to the Black Hills area around Rapid City and to the Sioux Falls area.
They could put big fences, walls around 100,000-200,000 acres in the middle of western Nebraska and not displace a human being.
OK. Think about it for a minute...
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Earth is within the galaxy, in the middle along the plane and in about the middle of the arms branching out. So even with space craft, we've not been able to get far enough from the plane to see the Milky Way properly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Milky_Way_Spir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_way
Or your a troll, might be a troll once I read it close. Either way...
Thats because Harry Knowles is a huge shill for cash. He's given great reviews to films he's been flown to see, like the US Godzilla, and others.
http://filmthreat.com/Features.asp?Id=186
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Knowles
What does the hardware cluster for a realm look like?
Clovis
60 Warrior
Uther
It's a nice case, the photos don't do it justice in regards to how the mess looks from the front. I have one right here next to my G5.
Lian-Li makes the G5 case from what I've read and the V-1200 makes a nice match for my G5