There is some shmuck here in Portland OR with a Segway. He's in the Pearl District and the only time I see him is when it's dusk-dark and he's on it with no lights, no helmet no reflectors that are visable and he rides the damn thing in the middle of the street.
If that's the MO for the Segway rider/driver I'm all for banning them on the streets and sidewalks.
Nimrod is no longer being built. The new Nimrods for the United Kingdom are rebuilds of the Nimrods that were flying.
"British Aerospace was selected as the prime contractor in July 1996 to supply a complete package of 21 mission-equipped Nimrod 2000 aircraft, together with a training system and initial logistic support. A fixed-price contract was awarded in December 1996, under which existing MR Mk 2 aircraft fuselage and empennage structure would be re-lifed and reassembled, with redesigned wings and current technology BR710 turbofan engines."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/eur op e/nimrod_mra4.htm
"Terrorists have above average educations. (it's well documented, so let's not argue)."
Terrorist LEADERS are usually above average in education while thier foot soldiers are typically not.
Tim McVeigh "was very bright, not top of his class, but a solid student. He left school in 1986 and dropped out of college soon after."
Mullah Mohammed Omar "has no formal schooling. His education consists of training sessions at a madrassah, an Islamic school devoted to the study of the principles of Islam and the reading of the Koran."
Yasser Arafat tudied civil engineering at the University of Cairo in Egypt.
Osama bin Laden studied management and economics at King Abdul Aziz University in Jedda.
Khieu Samphan of the Khmer Rouge worked on his doctoral degree in Paris.
Pol Pot flunked out of his electronics scholarship in Paris.
Carlos the Jackal had a talent for languages and had terrorist training at an early age, possibly in Cuba and/or under the supervision of the KGB.
Khalid Mohammed went to college in North Carolina for a while.
Ramzi Yousef studied electrical engineering.
Terry Nichols was a drop-out, loser who couldn't keep a job or a wife.
Zacarias Moussaoui is said to have a masters degree...
Adolf Eichmann flunked out of college, worked as a traveling salesman
Joseph Goebbels studied history and literature at the University of Heidelberg
Hermann Goering was a badass pilot in WW1
Reinhard Heydrich was a military cadet
Heinrich Himmler got a farming diploma from a Munich vo-tech school and later was a chicken farmer
RTGs have been launched many times before into space and have even re-entered the atmosphere of Earth.
http://nuclear.gov/space/space-desc.html
3 American RTGs have done uncontrolled re-entries. The first one from Transit 5BN. This occurred in 1964, prior to the adoption of the full fuel containment design philosophy. The design philosophy at that time was to allow RTGs to burn up in the atmosphere in the event of reentry. his reentry released 17,000 curies of radioactive material into the atmosphere at 75 miles above the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean
http://www.nuclearspace.com/use_in_space.htm
"NASA, the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy are currently working together to develop the technology base for Space Nuclear Reactor Power (SP-100) . This program will develop and demonstrate in ground tests the technology required for space reactor power systems from tens of kilowatts to hundreds of kilowatts. This program will assure sufficient power, at substantially reduced weight, for selected future Earth orbiting spacecraft, a lunar outpost, or piloted Mars missions.
The SP-100 reactor power system is designed to be launched radioactively cold. After mission completion, the reactor will be shut down and stored in space for hundreds of years to ensure fission products decay to safe levels. In the event of accidental reentry, the reactor system will enter intact and remain subcritical so that fission products will no longer be generated or released."
Humans won't be here forever. Just like the dinosaurs and everything else someday humans will be gone. But I can say without any doubt the planet will keep kicking and there will be life on it.
Man could unleash everything it has in one massive orgy of death...nuclear, biological, chemical...
And once the noise dies down a roach will poke it's head up and go look for some food.
People think that for everything to be right and good on Earth time needs to just stop or rewind to some magical point in the past, but that's not how things work. Species and environments come and go, the planet keeps spinning and the climates change. That's the way it's been for billions of years.
With the medium fertility model from the late 90s the UN says it'll hit 11 billion by 2200. Most of that growth is in Asia and Africa with Europe's population declining.
Crop yields have hit a wall yet and there is no reason to think it will hit a wall. Rice, wheat, corn are all increasing in yield without more cropland being used.
It's not the numbers that are the problem, it's how efficently we use the land.
Look at the United States. There is very efficent farming practices and so the majority of the population can move to urban areas and leave vast tracks of the interior nearly empty.
While the population of the United States increases the number of people farming and the amount of land for farming decreases.
Some of the practices aren't that bright and shiny like the factory farming of chickens and pigs, but there is an ag revolution going on and just like the Industrial Revolution's start things get efficent and dirty and over time they clean up as new technology is emplaced.
Compare the polution output of a 1903 factory to say a new Intel fab or the Saturn, DC or Toyota plants constructed in the last 10 years.
Maintaining that pace would have resulted in 24 launches.
However 14 were scheduled for 1986
However the weather doesn't help launches.
In 1986 there were two hurricaine which would have disrupted Shuttle launches.
Bonnie in June and Charley in August
If one looks at previous launch schedules they'd bunched two launches togeather in the same month before.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/space/chal le nger/1761160
""NASA's drive to achieve a launch schedule of 24 flights per year created pressure throughout the agency that directly contributed to unsafe launch operations," the report said."
"In establishing the schedule, NASA had not provided adequate resources for its attainment. As a result, the capabilities of the system were strained by the modest nine-mission rate of 1985, and the evidence suggests that NASA would not have been able to accomplish the 14 flights scheduled for 1986. These are the major conclusions of a Commission examination of the pressures and problems attendant upon the accelerated launch schedule."
"The capabilities of the system were stretched to the limit to support the flight rate in winter 1985/1986. Projections into the spring and summer of 1986 showed a clear trend; the system, as it existed, would have been unable to deliver crew training software for scheduled flights by the designated dates. The result would have been an unacceptable compression of the time available for the crews to accomplish their required training.
Spare parts are in critically short supply. The Shuttle program made a conscious decision to postpone spare parts procurements in favor of budget items of perceived higher priority. Lack of spare parts would likely have limited flight operations in 1986."
"The '67 war was a war of agression launched by the Israelis in a territory grabbing exercise..."
Umm, not exactly true.
Following the Israeli-French-British attempt to grab the Sinai in the 50s there had been a UN peace-keeping force along the Suez and in Sinai.
October and November 1966, terrorist activity originating in Syria and Jordan, began to rise. There were also continuous Syrian artillery attacks on the kibbutz located below the Golan Heights. In April 1967, Israel decided to respond aerially by attacking Syrian emplacements on the Golan Heights. On April 7, there was an air-battle during which Israel downed six Syrian aircraft.
Soviets then passed false intelligence information to the Egyptians, claiming that Israel was massing troops to strike at Syria. Israel denied these claims, and UN ground observers confirmed Israeli claims.
In May, 1967, President Nasser, requested the withdrawal of UN forces from Egyptian territory, mobilized units in the Sinai, and closed the Gulf of Aqaba to Israel.
On May 14, Nasser ordered a withdrawal of the United Nations Emergency Forces (UNEF)
May 15: Three Egyptian army divisions and 600 tanks roll into the Sinai.
May 17: Cairo Radio's Voice of the Arabs: "All Egypt is now prepared to plunge into total war which will put an end to Israel."
May 18: Voice of the Arabs announces: "As of today, there no longer exists an international emergency force to protect Israel. We shall exercise patience no more. We shall not complain any more to the UN about Israel. The sole method we shall apply against Israel is a total war which will result in the extermination of Zionist existence."
On May 18, Egypt announced a blockade of all goods bound to and from Israel through the Straits of Tiran. Israel had held since 1957 that another Egyptian blockade of the Tiran Straits would justify Israeli military action to maintain free access to the port of Eilat.
May 20: Syria's defence minister (ex president) Hafez el-Assad says: "Our forces are now ready not only to repulse the aggression but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian army, with its finger on the trigger, is united..."
On May 23, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson* publicly reaffirmed that the Gulf of Aqaba was an international waterway and declared that a blockade of Israeli shipping was illegal. In accordance with U.S. wishes, the Israeli cabinet voted five days later to withhold military action. Johnson says - "If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed."
May 27: Nasser: "Our basic objection will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight."
May 30: Nasser : "The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel."
On May 30, Nasser and King Hussein signed a mutual defense pact which will last 5 years and they establish a join command communications center.
June 4: Iraq joins Nasser's military alliance against Israel.
June 5: Six Day War begins: IDF attacks airfields in Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq.
If this was some great Zionist land-grab, they sure got some help from Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq.
*Remeber that from 1945 - 1967 Republicans didn't support Israel and Democrats did. After 1967 that flip-flops.
If a computer standard for security and software is set with X, Y, Z being the standard and older computers like a P-500 that Grandma uses for email can't run Z, they Grandma has to replace.
It's the same thing as if a car standard for safety and performance was set with ABS, Airbags, Traction-Control. Well Bob's 69 Camaro SS can't be upgraded with any of those things, so Bob has to replace it.
"Many states force you to maintain your car through inspections."
And many don't. 30 have some sort of emission or mechanical. The rest don't.
"Seriously, I'm damn near ready to support legislation requiring companies to at least show best-faith effort to secure their networks and keep up with security patches. People that don't are a menace to the rest of us."
If the auto industry called for legislation to force people to replace thier cars which lack airbags and ABS there'd be a shitstorm.
So what you are saying is, that if someone can't run XP or OS X or the latest RedHat they should be forced to buy a new computer?
It might help my Apple, IBM and Dell stock, but otherwise I don't think it's right.
They are working on laws at the State and Federal levels to protect gun makers from this sort of thing now.
http://www.wtrf.com/home/headlines/289941.html There are currently 23 states with laws that protect firearm makers and dealers. There are 18 other states considering similar legislation.
"There were approximately 10m PDAs sold worldwide in 2002. Of those, around 4m were sold in the United States."
Close, but not right on
"The PDA industry suffered through a difficult year as worldwide shipments totaled 12.1 million units in 2002, a 9.1 percent decline from 2001 results, according to preliminary results from Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner. The industry has been impacted by the slow adoption of PDAs by enterprises, says the research firm."
http://www.mobilevillage.com/news/2003.01.31/pda sa les2002.htm
5.9 million were in the US.
Since around 2/3rds of the households in the US don't have computers and only 1/2 have Internet, it's better to compare PDA use to that number.
They have a nice supply of Uranium and Coal as well as rivers for hydro.
What is really interesting is how developed the North was after WW2 and even after the UN bombing campaign from 50-53 compared to the South at the same time and how striking the differrence is today.
I just read "The Armed Forces of North Korea" by Joseph Bermudez and some other books and reports and I don't think it'd be proper to discount the DPRK's abilities when it comes to Special Forces and Unconventional Warfare.
They've shown a high-level of professionalism when it comes in infiltrating the South and they did pull off the siezure of the USS Pueblo.
Sure the country's electrical grid is dodgy, but so was Israel and Jordan's until the late 80s. The DPRK military doesn't usually have the same electricity or food supply problems that the rest of the country has.
I'd not listen to everything the RoK says, but don't discount them as far as the Pentagon might*. The RoK is heavily infiltrated by the DPRK and I'm sure thier "cyberwar" planning would have agents in the South kick it off from that broadband rich area.
"The KPA (Korean People's Army) is still predominantly an analog and vacuum-tube force," said Alexandre Mansourov, a professor at the Pentagon's Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. "We tend to overestimate the level of information-technology expertise in the North Korean military, and South Korea is especially guilty of this."
That might be true for the majority of thier systems, but the DPRK has been buying modern SAMs ECM, Navigation and other systems from the FSR and China. Some of the more elite units in thier vast special forces have at least Gen 2-3 Night Vision and GPS recievers.
* - I've not read either link yet.
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"Police doctrine varies by department but generally involves hitting your target, so the rounds don't go downrange and hit innocent bystanders."
If you look at the shootouts between Police and criminals when there have been officers or civilians down between the criminals and the police, the police will use high volumes of fire with semi-auto or burst weapons.
Usually the Police use shotguns or 9mm submachine guns in urban settings since they lose energy quickly and don't penetrate walls/cars/doors well. The danger is since the North Hollywood shootout and the loss of officers in Portland and Waco to high power pistols and 5.56 and 5.45mm assault rifles, the police are going to M-4s and M-16s whose rounds will go a long ways and go through houses.
If a unit is in a situation where the opposition is under cover, Police and military doctrine calls for covering fire.
Covering fire is basicly firing off rounds to create noise, to get the badguys heads down to allow other friendlies into a position with better shots.
Suppressing fire is higher volume and more accurate fire to get the badguys into a situation where they can't fire or can't fire accurately so you can move into better positions or overrun thier position.
Most American cops aren't trained with MP-5s or M-4s and do everything with thier pistols, and pistols don't hold 60 rounds.
"Series production of the MP5/10 is slated to begin in mid-1991. A.40 S&W caliber MP5, termed MP5/40, is undergoing development and testing and is expected to enter series production in late 1991"
I've ran a MUSH for about 4 years and I've had some problems with people taking descs/stuff from website/theme stuff and I've had problems with people making all sorts of claims as to thier "rights" when it comes to monitoring situations to make sure there is no cheating/abuse.
What is "mine" what isn't, what rights to I have to keep my work under my control?
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I think Segways are rolling lawsuits.
There is some shmuck here in Portland OR with a Segway. He's in the Pearl District and the only time I see him is when it's dusk-dark and he's on it with no lights, no helmet no reflectors that are visable and he rides the damn thing in the middle of the street.
If that's the MO for the Segway rider/driver I'm all for banning them on the streets and sidewalks.
777, 747, Marlin 130, Boeing 314, Boeing 307 Stratoliner, Lockheed Electra, DC-8. I've always liked the DC-9/MD-80 and 727
Of the Airbuses, the only one that stands out for me is the A-340.
The other Airbuses all seem much too plain when compared to the 737,757,767
Nimrod is no longer being built. The new Nimrods for the United Kingdom are rebuilds of the Nimrods that were flying.
r op e/nimrod_mra4.htm
"British Aerospace was selected as the prime contractor in July 1996 to supply a complete package of 21 mission-equipped Nimrod 2000 aircraft, together with a training system and initial logistic support. A fixed-price contract was awarded in December 1996, under which existing MR Mk 2 aircraft fuselage and empennage structure would be re-lifed and reassembled, with redesigned wings and current technology BR710 turbofan engines."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/eu
"Terrorists have above average educations. (it's well documented, so let's not argue)."
Terrorist LEADERS are usually above average in education while thier foot soldiers are typically not.
Tim McVeigh "was very bright, not top of his class, but a solid student. He left school in 1986 and dropped out of college soon after."
Mullah Mohammed Omar "has no formal schooling. His education consists of training sessions at a madrassah, an Islamic school devoted to the study of the principles of Islam and the reading of the Koran."
Yasser Arafat tudied civil engineering at the University of Cairo in Egypt.
Osama bin Laden studied management and economics at King Abdul Aziz University in Jedda.
Khieu Samphan of the Khmer Rouge worked on his doctoral degree in Paris.
Pol Pot flunked out of his electronics scholarship in Paris.
Carlos the Jackal had a talent for languages and had terrorist training at an early age, possibly in Cuba and/or under the supervision of the KGB.
Khalid Mohammed went to college in North Carolina for a while.
Ramzi Yousef studied electrical engineering.
Terry Nichols was a drop-out, loser who couldn't keep a job or a wife.
Zacarias Moussaoui is said to have a masters degree...
Adolf Eichmann flunked out of college, worked as a traveling salesman
Joseph Goebbels studied history and literature at the University of Heidelberg
Hermann Goering was a badass pilot in WW1
Reinhard Heydrich was a military cadet
Heinrich Himmler got a farming diploma from a Munich vo-tech school and later was a chicken farmer
Adolf Hitler flunked out of art school
RTGs have been launched many times before into space and have even re-entered the atmosphere of Earth.
http://nuclear.gov/space/space-desc.html
3 American RTGs have done uncontrolled re-entries. The first one from Transit 5BN. This occurred in 1964, prior to the adoption of the full fuel containment design philosophy. The design philosophy at that time was to allow RTGs to burn up in the atmosphere in the event of reentry. his reentry released 17,000 curies of radioactive material into the atmosphere at 75 miles above the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean
http://www.nuclearspace.com/use_in_space.htm
"NASA, the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy are currently working together to develop the technology base for Space Nuclear Reactor Power (SP-100) . This program will develop and demonstrate in ground tests the technology required for space reactor power systems from tens of kilowatts to hundreds of kilowatts. This program will assure sufficient power, at substantially reduced weight, for selected future Earth orbiting spacecraft, a lunar outpost, or piloted Mars missions.
The SP-100 reactor power system is designed to be launched radioactively cold. After mission completion, the reactor will be shut down and stored in space for hundreds of years to ensure fission products decay to safe levels. In the event of accidental reentry, the reactor system will enter intact and remain subcritical so that fission products will no longer be generated or released."
http://www.nuclearspace.com/facts_about_rtg.htm
"The environment WILL be destroyed."
Which environment? All of them?
Humans won't be here forever. Just like the dinosaurs and everything else someday humans will be gone. But I can say without any doubt the planet will keep kicking and there will be life on it.
Man could unleash everything it has in one massive orgy of death...nuclear, biological, chemical...
And once the noise dies down a roach will poke it's head up and go look for some food.
People think that for everything to be right and good on Earth time needs to just stop or rewind to some magical point in the past, but that's not how things work. Species and environments come and go, the planet keeps spinning and the climates change. That's the way it's been for billions of years.
With the medium fertility model from the late 90s the UN says it'll hit 11 billion by 2200. Most of that growth is in Asia and Africa with Europe's population declining.
Crop yields have hit a wall yet and there is no reason to think it will hit a wall. Rice, wheat, corn are all increasing in yield without more cropland being used.
It's not the numbers that are the problem, it's how efficently we use the land.
Look at the United States. There is very efficent farming practices and so the majority of the population can move to urban areas and leave vast tracks of the interior nearly empty.
While the population of the United States increases the number of people farming and the amount of land for farming decreases.
Some of the practices aren't that bright and shiny like the factory farming of chickens and pigs, but there is an ag revolution going on and just like the Industrial Revolution's start things get efficent and dirty and over time they clean up as new technology is emplaced.
Compare the polution output of a 1903 factory to say a new Intel fab or the Saturn, DC or Toyota plants constructed in the last 10 years.
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The idea is to use a nuclear reactor to provide the heat for breaking up fossil fuels or water to free the hydrogen
http://www.uic.com.au/nip73.htm
http://www.senate.gov/~craig/releases/pr032603a
Maintaining that pace would have resulted in 24 launches.
l le nger/1761160
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However 14 were scheduled for 1986
However the weather doesn't help launches.
In 1986 there were two hurricaine which would have disrupted Shuttle launches.
Bonnie in June and Charley in August
If one looks at previous launch schedules they'd bunched two launches togeather in the same month before.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/space/cha
""NASA's drive to achieve a launch schedule of 24 flights per year created pressure throughout the agency that directly contributed to unsafe launch operations," the report said."
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51
"In establishing the schedule, NASA had not provided adequate resources for its attainment. As a result, the capabilities of the system were strained by the modest nine-mission rate of 1985, and the evidence suggests that NASA would not have been able to accomplish the 14 flights scheduled for 1986. These are the major conclusions of a Commission examination of the pressures and problems attendant upon the accelerated launch schedule."
"The capabilities of the system were stretched to the limit to support the flight rate in winter 1985/1986. Projections into the spring and summer of 1986 showed a clear trend; the system, as it existed, would have been unable to deliver crew training software for scheduled flights by the designated dates. The result would have been an unacceptable compression of the time available for the crews to accomplish their required training.
Spare parts are in critically short supply. The Shuttle program made a conscious decision to postpone spare parts procurements in favor of budget items of perceived higher priority. Lack of spare parts would likely have limited flight operations in 1986."
"In 1986, we were on a 20+launch pace."
In 1984 there were five launches
In 1985 there were nine launches
To do 20+ in 1986 would have more than doubled the number of flights
In 1988 there were two launches
In 1989 there were five launches
In 1990 there were six launches
In 1991 there were six launches
In 1992 there were eight launches
10 years?
28 January 1986 STS-51-L - Challenger launch failure
29 Sep 1988 STS-26 Spacecraft: Discovery launch
The Shuttle launches really hit thier peak from 1990-1993
"The '67 war was a war of agression launched by the Israelis in a territory grabbing exercise..."
Umm, not exactly true.
Following the Israeli-French-British attempt to grab the Sinai in the 50s there had been a UN peace-keeping force along the Suez and in Sinai.
October and November 1966, terrorist activity originating in Syria and Jordan, began to rise. There were also continuous Syrian artillery attacks on the kibbutz located below the Golan Heights. In April 1967, Israel decided to respond aerially by attacking Syrian emplacements on the Golan Heights. On April 7, there was an air-battle during which Israel downed six Syrian aircraft.
Soviets then passed false intelligence information to the Egyptians, claiming that Israel was massing troops to strike at Syria. Israel denied these claims, and UN ground observers confirmed Israeli claims.
In May, 1967, President Nasser, requested the withdrawal of UN forces from Egyptian territory, mobilized units in the Sinai, and closed the Gulf of Aqaba to Israel.
On May 14, Nasser ordered a withdrawal of the United Nations Emergency Forces (UNEF)
May 15: Three Egyptian army divisions and 600 tanks roll into the Sinai.
May 17: Cairo Radio's Voice of the Arabs: "All Egypt is now prepared to plunge into total war which will put an end to Israel."
May 18: Voice of the Arabs announces: "As of today, there no longer exists an international emergency force to protect Israel. We shall exercise patience no more. We shall not complain any more to the UN about Israel. The sole method we shall apply against Israel is a total war which will result in the extermination of Zionist existence."
On May 18, Egypt announced a blockade of all goods bound to and from Israel through the Straits of Tiran. Israel had held since 1957 that another Egyptian blockade of the Tiran Straits would justify Israeli military action to maintain free access to the port of Eilat.
May 20: Syria's defence minister (ex president) Hafez el-Assad says: "Our forces are now ready not only to repulse the aggression but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian army, with its finger on the trigger, is united..."
On May 23, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson* publicly reaffirmed that the Gulf of Aqaba was an international waterway and declared that a blockade of Israeli shipping was illegal. In accordance with U.S. wishes, the Israeli cabinet voted five days later to withhold military action. Johnson says - "If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed."
May 27: Nasser: "Our basic objection will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight."
May 30: Nasser : "The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel."
On May 30, Nasser and King Hussein signed a mutual defense pact which will last 5 years and they establish a join command communications center.
June 4: Iraq joins Nasser's military alliance against Israel.
June 5: Six Day War begins: IDF attacks airfields in Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq.
If this was some great Zionist land-grab, they sure got some help from Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq.
*Remeber that from 1945 - 1967 Republicans didn't support Israel and Democrats did. After 1967 that flip-flops.
It's not apples and oranges.
If a computer standard for security and software is set with X, Y, Z being the standard and older computers like a P-500 that Grandma uses for email can't run Z, they Grandma has to replace.
It's the same thing as if a car standard for safety and performance was set with ABS, Airbags, Traction-Control. Well Bob's 69 Camaro SS can't be upgraded with any of those things, so Bob has to replace it.
"Many states force you to maintain your car through inspections."
And many don't. 30 have some sort of emission or mechanical. The rest don't.
"Seriously, I'm damn near ready to support legislation requiring companies to at least show best-faith effort to secure their networks and keep up with security patches. People that don't are a menace to the rest of us."
If the auto industry called for legislation to force people to replace thier cars which lack airbags and ABS there'd be a shitstorm.
So what you are saying is, that if someone can't run XP or OS X or the latest RedHat they should be forced to buy a new computer?
It might help my Apple, IBM and Dell stock, but otherwise I don't think it's right.
They are working on laws at the State and Federal levels to protect gun makers from this sort of thing now.
http://www.wtrf.com/home/headlines/289941.html
There are currently 23 states with laws that protect firearm makers and dealers. There are 18 other states considering similar legislation.
"If you can afford to spend $5000 on computer-related stuff, you're rich."
TiBook 550 MHz - $2200
Garmin GPS - $189
Cell phone - $50
iPod - $300
Camera - $200
$2939
I made 27,000 after taxes last year. That's *not* rich.
"There were approximately 10m PDAs sold worldwide in 2002. Of those, around 4m were sold in the United States."
a sa les2002.htm
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Close, but not right on
"The PDA industry suffered through a difficult year as worldwide shipments totaled 12.1 million units in 2002, a 9.1 percent decline from 2001 results, according to preliminary results from Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner. The industry has been impacted by the slow adoption of PDAs by enterprises, says the research firm."
http://www.mobilevillage.com/news/2003.01.31/pd
5.9 million were in the US.
Since around 2/3rds of the households in the US don't have computers and only 1/2 have Internet, it's better to compare PDA use to that number.
http://www.techpolicybank.org/2002commercerepor
"Very few people carry around a PDA, GPS, computer, and cell phone."
Every day I go to work or school I take a Canon digital camera, Garmin GPS, TiBook, iPod and Cell phone and I'm not rich.
They have a nice supply of Uranium and Coal as well as rivers for hydro.
What is really interesting is how developed the North was after WW2 and even after the UN bombing campaign from 50-53 compared to the South at the same time and how striking the differrence is today.
I just read "The Armed Forces of North Korea" by Joseph Bermudez and some other books and reports and I don't think it'd be proper to discount the DPRK's abilities when it comes to Special Forces and Unconventional Warfare.
They've shown a high-level of professionalism when it comes in infiltrating the South and they did pull off the siezure of the USS Pueblo.
Sure the country's electrical grid is dodgy, but so was Israel and Jordan's until the late 80s. The DPRK military doesn't usually have the same electricity or food supply problems that the rest of the country has.
I'd not listen to everything the RoK says, but don't discount them as far as the Pentagon might*. The RoK is heavily infiltrated by the DPRK and I'm sure thier "cyberwar" planning would have agents in the South kick it off from that broadband rich area.
"The KPA (Korean People's Army) is still predominantly an analog and vacuum-tube force," said Alexandre Mansourov, a professor at the Pentagon's Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. "We tend to overestimate the level of information-technology expertise in the North Korean military, and South Korea is especially guilty of this."
That might be true for the majority of thier systems, but the DPRK has been buying modern SAMs ECM, Navigation and other systems from the FSR and China. Some of the more elite units in thier vast special forces have at least Gen 2-3 Night Vision and GPS recievers.
* - I've not read either link yet.
"Police doctrine varies by department but generally involves hitting your target, so the rounds don't go downrange and hit innocent bystanders."
If you look at the shootouts between Police and criminals when there have been officers or civilians down between the criminals and the police, the police will use high volumes of fire with semi-auto or burst weapons.
Usually the Police use shotguns or 9mm submachine guns in urban settings since they lose energy quickly and don't penetrate walls/cars/doors well. The danger is since the North Hollywood shootout and the loss of officers in Portland and Waco to high power pistols and 5.56 and 5.45mm assault rifles, the police are going to M-4s and M-16s whose rounds will go a long ways and go through houses.
If a unit is in a situation where the opposition is under cover, Police and military doctrine calls for covering fire.
Covering fire is basicly firing off rounds to create noise, to get the badguys heads down to allow other friendlies into a position with better shots.
Suppressing fire is higher volume and more accurate fire to get the badguys into a situation where they can't fire or can't fire accurately so you can move into better positions or overrun thier position.
Most American cops aren't trained with MP-5s or M-4s and do everything with thier pistols, and pistols don't hold 60 rounds.
"Series production of the MP5/10 is slated to begin in mid-1991. A .40 S&W caliber MP5, termed MP5/40, is undergoing development and testing and is expected to enter series production in late 1991"
Thats an outdated website
Yep this is a small carrier.
Smaller than the amphib assault ships the Navy has.
The only current aircraft one could operate off this would be A-4s, Harriers, Hawkeye AWACS, Trackers, and helos.
I've ran a MUSH for about 4 years and I've had some problems with people taking descs/stuff from website/theme stuff and I've had problems with people making all sorts of claims as to thier "rights" when it comes to monitoring situations to make sure there is no cheating/abuse.
What is "mine" what isn't, what rights to I have to keep my work under my control?