I have a loaded IMI Jericho setting in a drawer, been cocked with safety off for about 5 months now, 16 rounds of Gold Dot ready to go, not gone off once.
Typically an "assault rifle" is in a flavor of 5.5x mm (2xx caliber) or 7.6x mm (30x caliber).
The 5.5x weapons have a small bullet and a small amount of powder, giving good velocity and a pretty flat trajectory that does it's damage from the speed of the round.
The British, French, Israeli, Austrian, American, Russian "assault rifle" makers are big into this round. It's the new standard for Russia and the old Warsaw Pact and NATO.
You can't hunt for shit with it, no stopping power, the littlest thing will foul up it's course. It's light, it makes noise, it's worthless against anything with any protection.
In Somalia, the UN peacekeepers had problems because the round would pass through the hostile and not deform, the wound channel clots and they keep firing at the peacekeeper.
The other standard "assault rifle" round is the 7.6x. Been used for around a hundred years. US, UK, Soviets, Japanese all used this round in WW2. US used it until 1966 in the M-1, BAR and M-14. It was phased out of most units from 1966 to more recently when it's making a limited come-back.
It's decent for hunting in the.300 Win, 30.06,.308, 7mm, 7 Mag, and even in the.30-.30.
A bigger round, heavy rifle, smaller magazine. The FN-FAL, M-14, M-1 and HK-91/G3 use this round.
It is almost never used in standard criminal enterprises because of the noise, recoil, weight and cost.
So, what is high-power? An M-16/M-4 is crappy for hunting deer, but a.300 Winchester isn't, but a.300 isn't used for criminal activities, so what do you want to ban?
Shotguns have far more muzzle-energy then an M-16's 5.56 NATO, but can't go as far and are smooth-bore so tracing is difficult, want those banned?
What about a semi-auto.45, it's higher power than a 9mm pistol.
Banning "assault rifles" would be like banning "Porn Computers".
Anyway, remeber that his Wife, who assumed his seat after he died was a force for the bill, it made it through the Senate and House and was signed by a Democratic President.
In that case, both sides can be somewhat responsable.
My head isn't an "appendage", nor is anyone elses.
It's one of the three divisions of most arthropods bodies.
Head, Thorax, Abdomen.
I'm not sure what you do, but most people I know don't use thier lips as a sense organ.
The tounge and nose work togeather on taste. The nose does smell, the ears hearing, the eyes sight, the skin and hairs sense touch and other environmental changes.
My lips pretty much hang out, not used much in day to day activities.
What do other mammals use the lips for? Blue Whales for instance.
Well, fellas that kill thier girlfriend and are less noticeable than an Exec with his picture all over the Company portfolio get lower bails than these two.
Like the guy said over in another thread, it's just a "virtual" crime.
Tell that to the Execs who have been on thier perp walks.
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/ny-bzty co 132922483sep13.story?coll=ny%2Dnews%2Dprint
You ever spend a morning in court and get slammed with a $200 million dollar personal bond? That means you have to come up with 40 million in cash, something that ain't that easy when your funds and accounts are frozen.
I've spent a morning in court and getting 3 days in the slammer sucked, I didn't have to come up with serious bond money.
Passenger rail in the US died because for two events.
1. In spring and summer of 1941, George Patton was charged with moving a Armored Division from Georgia to California by road, simulating a response to an invasion and overland movement by road. It took about six weeks to move the unit. The Army General Staff knew that something would have to be done with the surface road system in the US>
2. In the 1950s, President Eisenhower, who had witnessed the German road system first hand, started the ball rolling on development of the US Interstate Highway system to facilitate rapid redeployment of men and material.
In the US freight trains should get first priority, most of the surface cargo transported in the US is transported by rail. Freight trains don't need to go 150, but they do travel at speeds up to 95 MPH.
Rural rail in the US won't work like you propose. How small of towns are going to get stations? How is it going to work? You going to have a train between Mobridge SD and Bismarck ND run 6 times a day?
"If you look at the history of the REA, it made the government far more than it cost - most of the REA loan recipents paid their loans off in full. In addition, the improvement in the infrastructure of the country ALSO paid for the system."
The REA only made a profit because in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s the United States Air Force had missile bases in a number of rural states (ND, SD, WY, MT, MO, etc) which paid for massive amounts of electricity.
Now in those previously AF areas, the power companies are struggling since there are only missile bases in ND and WY now.
The fact that the Tobacco Industry lied in the past isn't being argued.
The fact that Tobacco is a harmful substance when used regularly isn't being argued.
However what I am saying is...
If the Lawyers attempt to Litigate companies that Local/State and Federal Governments, Appeals Courts and Supreme Courts have said should not be regulated anymore than they currently regulated, then there may need to be Legal Protections for said industries.
I don't think that the Tobacco Settlement was propery, I think it will lead to problems in the future.
I don't think that it's right to go after gun and ammunition makers when Federal and State courts and Houses have said it's cool, then to sue the crap out of them in Criminal Court. In the case of guns, it's a clear case of suing the Industry into bankruptcy since the Federal Government won't weaken the 2nd Amendment.
GM is not held responsable for vehicular manslaughter, so why should Glock be held reponsable for manslaughter with a firearm?
"The reason for this is when an nuclear device is detonated, the primary effect is a burst of Gamma radiation."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/intro/nuke-rad ia tion.htm
If you are talking about a Fission device, yea there is more radiation due to the ineffective nature of that detonation, in a Fission-Fusion or Fission-Fusion-Fuison the radiation percentage is much lower.
"Within a millisecond after detonation, the diameter of the fireball from a 1 megaton (Mt) air burst is 150 m. This increases to a maximum of 2200 m within 10 seconds."
So you have a ball of plasma at starcore temps and pressures for a few milliseconds starting out at around 100 meters and then it will expand outward on and in the target rock.
"About 5% of the energy released in a nuclear air burst is transmitted in the form of initial neutron and gamma radiation."
"In addition to the natural radiation dangers which will confront the space traveler, we must also consider manmade perils which may exist during time of war. In particular, the use of nuclear weapons may pose a serious problem to manned military space operations. The singular emergence of man as the most vulnerable component of a space-weapon system becomes dramatically apparent when nuclear weapon effects in space are contrasted with the effects which occur within the Earth's atmosphere.
When a nuclear weapon is detonated close to the Earth's surface the density of the air is sufficient to attenuate nuclear radiation (neutrons and gamma rays) to such a degree that the effects of these radiations are generally less important than the effects of blast and thermal radiation. The relative magnitudes of blast, thermal and nuclear radiation effects are shown in figure 1 for a nominal fission weapon (20 kilotons) at sea level."
"First, in the absence of an atmosphere, blast disappears completely.
Second, thermal radiation, as usually defined, also disappears. There is no longer any air for the blast wave to heat and much higher frequency radiation is emitted from the weapon itself."
You have an asteroid, you have something that have a multimillion degree ball of plasma going off at or near the surface, there will be structural damage and degredation of the asteriods form.
Say you pierce the surface of the target rock or ice/rock object even a few tens of meters, and blow up a subsurface device, it's going to be bad for the rock.
Tobaccoo companies did lie. However, because the Congress and the Supreme Court failed to put Tobacco under the control of the FDA to the satisfaction of the Lawyers, the Lawyers attempted to Legislate through Litigation.
Do car makers get sued for drunk drivers? Do they get sued for hit and runs? No, then why should gun makers be sued?
Car makers know that some of thier cars are used in hit and runs and they DO NOT GET SUED.
Well, I think that there is a need for Special Legal Priviliges is a good thing.
You make a product that is NOT defective, you make a product that in the hands of those acting in a proper way IS NOT dangerous.
Someone takes said product and uses it improperly. Someone pushes for you to be held on criminal charges. The courts say that there is no criminal neglect on the part of your company.
So what happens? A bunch of lawyers decide to make your product go away through litigation. They get togeather and sue the living shit out of you and your company.
It happened with the tobacco companies, it's happening with the gun industry, and it's about to happen with companies that make food with fat in it.
I'll bet that if Congress says computer and OS makers don't have to put DRM in hardware/software the RIAA and MPAA will take Dell, Apple, Gateway, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, etc to court so fast with a brigade of lawyers it'll make your head spin.
If they want to go after Remington and Nabisco, you think Dell and Apple are safe?
Soviets and US had some experiance at using nuclear devices for moving Earth and simulating an earthquake.
http://nuketesting.enviroweb.org/hew/Usa/Tests/S to rax.html
"Up to a point, the more deeply buried an explosive charge is, the larger the crater it will make. Beyond this point much of the material is thrown with insufficient force to clear the crater and falls back in, reducing the final size. At the optimal crater depth though quite a lot of material actually ends up back in the crater bottom. This is an advantage for a Plowshare-type crater experiment since much of the radioactivity gets returned to the crater and buried. The radiation release (as measured in terms of I-131, the most important from human health risks) was 880,000 curies, about equivalent to a 3-4 kt atmospheric fission test.
Sedan was detonated at what was estimated to be the optimal crater depth in alluvial soil. 12 million tons of soil and rock were lifted into the air, 8 million tons of it falling outside the crater. The final crater was 1280 feet wide and 320 feet deep. The force of the detonation released seismic energy equivalent to an earthquake magnitude of 4.75 on the Richter Scale. The device used was similar to that used in Dominic Bluestone and Swanee and was thus a variant of the W-56 high yield missile warhead. The device had a fusion yield of 70%. The Sedan device had a diameter of 17.1 inches, a length of 38 inches, and a weight of 467.9 lb."
"The site for the Chagan shot was the dry bed of the Chagan River on the edge of the Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS) in Kazakhstan. The shot location was chosen so that the crater lip would form a dam in the river during its period of high flow in the spring. The crater formed by the Chagan explosion had a diameter of 408 m and a depth of 100 m. A major lake (10,000,000 m 3 ) was quickly formed behind the 20-35 m high upraised lip. Shortly after the explosion, earthmoving equipment was used to cut a channel through the lip so that water from the river could enter the crater.
Spring melt soon filled the crater with 6.4 million m^3 of water, and the reservoir behind the crater was filled with 10 million m^3 of water. These reservoirs are known informally as Lake Chagan or Lake Balapan. Subsidence of the crater slopes subsequently reduced the crater storage capacity by about 25%. A few years later, a water-control structure was built on the left bank of the river to control water levels in the reservoirs. Both reservoirs exist today in substantially the same form and are still used to provide water for cattle in the area. Efrim P. Slavskiy, Minister of the Medium Machine Building Ministry (the ministry responsible for the entire Soviet nuclear weapons program)was reported to have been the first person to have taken a swim in the crater lake."
Upwards of 30% of Allied casualties in the ETO in 1943-1945 were from fratricide.
You put a British Army Warrior IFV next to a Soviet BMP-2 and then look at it through FLIR at night through smoke, sleet/rail and clouds and tell me how the AH-64s and A-10s were suposed to get 100% of the targets ID'ed right.
It's not like Command and Conquer out there, you don't have to hold an extra key down to target friendlies.
The situation with the Canadians in Afghanistan was a screw up, and the pilots you will note are not flying anymore, so it's game over for them.
As for the Chinese Embassy, it's funny how that PGM targeted the wing of the building with the Intelligence Attaches isn't it?
The UN Security Council hasn't ordered Israel out of the West Bank or Golan.
The General Assembly has, which is about the same as the Washington D.C. City Council telling the world what to do.
Israel's right to exsist is a Security Council matter. All the resolutions about Iraq are Security Council matters.
The difference on the matter of combat death insurance is - American, Israeli, Jordanian, Russian, Canadian CIVILIANS don't get paid for blowing up malls and pizza places, Palestinian Terrorist families are paid by Iraq for doing this thing.
"IMHO, an apache helicopter shelling and firing rockets at apartment buildings and hospitals is no better than unleashing nerve gas in a subway station."
There is a world of difference, sorry you don't understand.
No, what I am saying is that both sides are no equal.
No matter what Israel does, they are not a destablizing terrorist state.
Look at what happened today.
"Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a group of Israelis leaving Friday night prayer services in the Jewish Quarter of Hebron killing at eleven people and wounding 14.
As security forces rushed to evacuate the wounded they came under heavy sniper fire and hand grenades were thrown at them in what an army officer called a complex ambush. The attack came from terrorists situated in the Abu Sneineh neighborhood overlooking the Jewish Quarter in the divided West Bank city."
Israel does not have "Zionists" come to the Negev and train in camps to export Zionism. Jews typically don't take aircraft hostage, blow them up or fly them into buildings. Israel hasn't been accused of shipping sensative nuclear, chemical or biological goods or information to other nations. Israel didn't try and flood the Persian Gulf with oil, nor did they set fire to more than 900 oil wells. Israel hasn't chucked rockets or missiles into Saudi Arabia.
Israel is better than Syria, Iraq and Hezbollah, they don't export terror or fund terror groups or use chemical weapons on the battlefield or civilians.
No Agent Orange wasn't a nice magic substance, but it was not a domestic or battlefield chemical weapon like VX, Sarin, Mustard or Zyklon-B are.
"That Israel is no better than its neighbours, as they are all a load of gung-ho vengance seekers. They start a conflict, they use the previous conflict as a reason. It escalates, it goes on and on and on, it's the cycle of violence."
Really? Is that why Israel returned the Sinai? Is that why Israel attempted to return 97% of the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority in Dec of 2000?
Iraq pays the family of a suicide bomber up to $20,000 after the bomber kills Jews. Israel doesn't pay IDF soldiers a bonus for killings.
That alone leads me to think that Israel might be more trustworthy.
Well, I can see you don't know the history of the Middle East nor the causes of the Israeli invasion of Southern Lebannon or the occupation.
To make it quick and simple - Hezbollah was shelling the north of Israel, Hezbollah was sending murder teams into Israel and killing women and children. The Christians in Lebannon involved in a Civil War against the Syrian backed Muslems asked for Israeli involvement, Israel became involved. Israel and the Christian militias did go over-board a few times, but Syria was and is using Lebannon as a Poppy and Hash production area and the Bekka was an invasion route into the north of Israel.
The United States did not and has not used chemical weapons in a battlefield role since the First World War. Agent Orange was not a chemical weapon anymore than Roundup is. I guess that if I use Roundup on a thistle I am a violator of the Geneva Conventions on Chemical Weapons.
"Only if you accept the modified definition of chemical weapons put forth by the United States when we signed on to the Geneva Convention (50 years late, of course)"
Not exactly, but kind of.
http://www.zarc.com/english/chemical/genevaproto co l.html June 17, 1925 PROTOCOL FOR THE PROHIBITION OF THE USE IN WAR OF ASPHYXIATING, POISONOUS OR OTHER GASES, AND OF BACTERIOLOGICAL METHODS OF WARFARE
At the end of World War I, the victorious Allies decided to reaffirm in the Versailles Treaty (1919) the prewar prohibition of the use of poisonous gases (see Introduction) and to forbid Germany to manufacture or import them. Similar provisions were included in the peace treaties with Austria, Bulgaria, and Hungary.
Drawing upon the language of these peace treaties, the United States - at the Washington Disarmament Conference of 1922 -- took the initiative of introducing a similar provision into a treaty on submarines and noxious gases. The U.S. Senate gave its advice and consent to ratification of this treaty without a dissenting vote. It never entered into force, however, since French ratification was necessary, and France objected to the submarine provisions."
"Before World War II the protocol was ratified by many countries, including all the great powers except the United States and Japan. When they ratified or acceded to the protocol, some nations -- including the United Kingdom, France, and the USSR -- declared that it would cease to be binding on them if their enemies, or the allies of their enemies, failed to respect the prohibitions of the protocol. Although Italy was a party to the protocol, it used poison gas in the Ethiopian war. Nevertheless, the protocol was generally observed in World War II." "Vietnam was a situation created by the US Imperialism."
Bonk! Vietnam was a situation created by French Imperialism and it became a proxy struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States.
"See, you're digging back 50 years, why, a mere 30 years ago, we were gassing and destabilizing South Veitnam."
The US did not "gas" South Vietnam. CNN tried to pull that and they had to admit it was BS.
The US did work in South Vietnam, but no one should think that it was the Big Bad Imperialists fighting the Good Wholesome Peoples of Vietnam.
The North and the Communists acted every bit as badly as the United States and France did down there. After the North broke the Paris Peace Accords and took the South by force of arms, it wasn't all love and hugs.
Israel did not take over Palestine. The UN Mandate mandated that it be split 60-40 in favor of the Arabs and the Jews, Lebannon, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trans-Jordan and everyone else decided to take it all over and "push the Jews into the sea." They lost.
Then in '67 Jordan, Syria and Egypt had everything set up for a suprise attack, but Israel jumped them first. That is why the West Bank, Sinai and Golan were lost.
The only time since 1917-18 that the United States used chemical weapons in combat was when a US transport in Italy was sunk and the gas escaped from the burning/sinking ship, and those chemicals affected Allied soldiers and sailors.
North Korea's destablization of the region isn't distant.
In 1976 2 American soldiers on thier side of the DMZ were attacked and hacked to death by DPRK soldiers with axes.
Since 1954 more than 1,000 Americans have been killed in combat by the DPRK at or near the DMZ.
US, Japanese, and South Koreans have been taken prisoner, ships attacked and aircraft shot down.
Hundreds of Japanese and South Koreas have been kidnapped by North Korea.
http://www.kdvamerica.org/CombatChronology.html
"North Korea attempted to assassinate R.O.K. President Chun Doo-hwan while he was visiting Myanmar. North Korean terrorists planted time bombs at the Aungsan Mausoleum where a R.O.K. delegation was waiting for the arrival of the president. The bombing killed 17 Korean Officials including several cabinet ministers, and wounded 14 others. It was revealed that three North Korean terrorists (1 NK Army Major and 2 Army Sr. Lts.) had been involved and they were acting under the direct order of Kim jong-il."
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I have a loaded IMI Jericho setting in a drawer, been cocked with safety off for about 5 months now, 16 rounds of Gold Dot ready to go, not gone off once.
I'm going to reply to myself with a link or two.
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.223 - about the same as 5.56 NATO - the round that the Bushmaster the DC "Sniper" used.
f ir e/308wibal.htm
http://www.remington.com/ammo/ammofr.htm
http://www.remington.com/ammo/centerfire/remcfa
http://www.remington.com/ammo/ballistics/center
That's
3300 FPS at the Muzzle from a 24 inch barrel.
1200 Foot/pounds of energy at the muzzle
http://www.remington.com/ammo/ballistics/center
That's a 7.62 - about the same as 7.62 NATO - the round that snipers and deer hunters use alot.
Slower off the start - 2800 FPS
More than twice the muzzle energy - 2600 ft/lbs
And even more telling are the numbers at 300 yards
1640 in the 308 vs 522 in the 223.
So, what you going to ban?
Sports rifles that help making hunting a 29 billion dollar a year business?
Or lighter rounds that have much lower power?
What is an assault rifle?
.300 Win, 30.06, .308, 7mm, 7 Mag, and even in the .30-.30.
.300 Winchester isn't, but a .300 isn't used for criminal activities, so what do you want to ban?
.45, it's higher power than a 9mm pistol.
What is a hunting rifle?
Typically an "assault rifle" is in a flavor of 5.5x mm (2xx caliber) or 7.6x mm (30x caliber).
The 5.5x weapons have a small bullet and a small amount of powder, giving good velocity and a pretty flat trajectory that does it's damage from the speed of the round.
The British, French, Israeli, Austrian, American, Russian "assault rifle" makers are big into this round. It's the new standard for Russia and the old Warsaw Pact and NATO.
You can't hunt for shit with it, no stopping power, the littlest thing will foul up it's course. It's light, it makes noise, it's worthless against anything with any protection.
In Somalia, the UN peacekeepers had problems because the round would pass through the hostile and not deform, the wound channel clots and they keep firing at the peacekeeper.
The other standard "assault rifle" round is the 7.6x. Been used for around a hundred years. US, UK, Soviets, Japanese all used this round in WW2. US used it until 1966 in the M-1, BAR and M-14. It was phased out of most units from 1966 to more recently when it's making a limited come-back.
It's decent for hunting in the
A bigger round, heavy rifle, smaller magazine. The FN-FAL, M-14, M-1 and HK-91/G3 use this round.
It is almost never used in standard criminal enterprises because of the noise, recoil, weight and cost.
So, what is high-power? An M-16/M-4 is crappy for hunting deer, but a
Shotguns have far more muzzle-energy then an M-16's 5.56 NATO, but can't go as far and are smooth-bore so tracing is difficult, want those banned?
What about a semi-auto
Banning "assault rifles" would be like banning "Porn Computers".
A California Republican.
Anyway, remeber that his Wife, who assumed his seat after he died was a force for the bill, it made it through the Senate and House and was signed by a Democratic President.
In that case, both sides can be somewhat responsable.
My head isn't an "appendage", nor is anyone elses.
It's one of the three divisions of most arthropods bodies.
Head, Thorax, Abdomen.
I'm not sure what you do, but most people I know don't use thier lips as a sense organ.
The tounge and nose work togeather on taste. The nose does smell, the ears hearing, the eyes sight, the skin and hairs sense touch and other environmental changes.
My lips pretty much hang out, not used much in day to day activities.
What do other mammals use the lips for? Blue Whales for instance.
I didn't see retirement there in the Bill of Rights.
If people put all their eggs in the basket of Tyco/Enron/WorldComm/Global Crossing and lost it all, boo hoo.
Diversify people.
I'm sorry, but NO white collar crime is as bad as a rape or murder.
"Taking a chunk of life from many many people should be considered equivalent to taking all the life of a few people."
Alright, so then you are for the life long jailing of Drug Dealers and Drug Smugglers? In Texas then you'd support the execution of Drug Dealers?
I'm right there with you then, fry the Execs and the Drug Dealers. Multiple counts of Cocaine Distribution=Life in Prison or Execution.
Selling X at a Rave, death.
Inflating stock price and making a profit before SEC comes in, death.
Works for me.
Well, fellas that kill thier girlfriend and are less noticeable than an Exec with his picture all over the Company portfolio get lower bails than these two.
Like the guy said over in another thread, it's just a "virtual" crime.
So, if one were to manipulate a bank so that they had a million dollars now, since that is "virtual" it shouldn't be illegal?
By that measure, most of what Enron did was "virtual". Insider Trading and stock price manipulation is "virtual".
Pointing a gun at someone when the pointer has no intention of firing is a "virtual" crime. There's no assault or endangerment, it's "virtual".
The rich who break laws are rewarded?
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Tell that to the Execs who have been on thier perp walks.
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/ny-bzt
You ever spend a morning in court and get slammed with a $200 million dollar personal bond? That means you have to come up with 40 million in cash, something that ain't that easy when your funds and accounts are frozen.
I've spent a morning in court and getting 3 days in the slammer sucked, I didn't have to come up with serious bond money.
The West side light rail in PDX sure made the Highway 26 free and open during the commutes...
Actually, it didn't help one bit.
Passenger rail in the US died because for two events.
1. In spring and summer of 1941, George Patton was charged with moving a Armored Division from Georgia to California by road, simulating a response to an invasion and overland movement by road. It took about six weeks to move the unit. The Army General Staff knew that something would have to be done with the surface road system in the US>
2. In the 1950s, President Eisenhower, who had witnessed the German road system first hand, started the ball rolling on development of the US Interstate Highway system to facilitate rapid redeployment of men and material.
In the US freight trains should get first priority, most of the surface cargo transported in the US is transported by rail. Freight trains don't need to go 150, but they do travel at speeds up to 95 MPH.
Rural rail in the US won't work like you propose. How small of towns are going to get stations? How is it going to work? You going to have a train between Mobridge SD and Bismarck ND run 6 times a day?
"If you look at the history of the REA, it made the government far more than it cost - most of the REA loan recipents paid their loans off in full. In addition, the improvement in the infrastructure of the country ALSO paid for the system."
The REA only made a profit because in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s the United States Air Force had missile bases in a number of rural states (ND, SD, WY, MT, MO, etc) which paid for massive amounts of electricity.
Now in those previously AF areas, the power companies are struggling since there are only missile bases in ND and WY now.
"One 500 pound piece of gravel at 15,000 MPH will hit like a 15KT nuke."
500 pound satillites re-entering the atmo don't cause nuclear sized detonations.
And besides, if you have a bunch of 100-500 pound rocks instead of 1 gigarock, alot more of the little rocks will burn up.
The fact that the Tobacco Industry lied in the past isn't being argued.
The fact that Tobacco is a harmful substance when used regularly isn't being argued.
However what I am saying is...
If the Lawyers attempt to Litigate companies that Local/State and Federal Governments, Appeals Courts and Supreme Courts have said should not be regulated anymore than they currently regulated, then there may need to be Legal Protections for said industries.
I don't think that the Tobacco Settlement was propery, I think it will lead to problems in the future.
I don't think that it's right to go after gun and ammunition makers when Federal and State courts and Houses have said it's cool, then to sue the crap out of them in Criminal Court. In the case of guns, it's a clear case of suing the Industry into bankruptcy since the Federal Government won't weaken the 2nd Amendment.
GM is not held responsable for vehicular manslaughter, so why should Glock be held reponsable for manslaughter with a firearm?
"The reason for this is when an nuclear device is detonated, the primary effect is a burst of Gamma radiation."
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/intro/nuke-ra
If you are talking about a Fission device, yea there is more radiation due to the ineffective nature of that detonation, in a Fission-Fusion or Fission-Fusion-Fuison the radiation percentage is much lower.
"Within a millisecond after detonation, the diameter of the fireball from a 1 megaton (Mt) air burst is 150 m. This increases to a maximum of 2200 m within 10 seconds."
So you have a ball of plasma at starcore temps and pressures for a few milliseconds starting out at around 100 meters and then it will expand outward on and in the target rock.
"About 5% of the energy released in a nuclear air burst is transmitted in the form of initial neutron and gamma radiation."
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/congh
"In addition to the natural radiation dangers which will confront the space traveler, we must also consider manmade perils which may exist during time of war. In particular, the use of nuclear weapons may pose a serious problem to manned military space operations. The singular emergence of man as the most vulnerable component of a space-weapon system becomes dramatically apparent when nuclear weapon effects in space are contrasted with the effects which occur within the Earth's atmosphere.
When a nuclear weapon is detonated close to the Earth's surface the density of the air is sufficient to attenuate nuclear radiation (neutrons and gamma rays) to such a degree that the effects of these radiations are generally less important than the effects of blast and thermal radiation. The relative magnitudes of blast, thermal and nuclear radiation effects are shown in figure 1 for a nominal fission weapon (20 kilotons) at sea level."
"First, in the absence of an atmosphere, blast disappears completely.
Second, thermal radiation, as usually defined, also disappears. There is no longer any air for the blast wave to heat and much higher frequency radiation is emitted from the weapon itself."
You have an asteroid, you have something that have a multimillion degree ball of plasma going off at or near the surface, there will be structural damage and degredation of the asteriods form.
Say you pierce the surface of the target rock or ice/rock object even a few tens of meters, and blow up a subsurface device, it's going to be bad for the rock.
Tobaccoo companies did lie. However, because the Congress and the Supreme Court failed to put Tobacco under the control of the FDA to the satisfaction of the Lawyers, the Lawyers attempted to Legislate through Litigation.
Do car makers get sued for drunk drivers? Do they get sued for hit and runs? No, then why should gun makers be sued?
Car makers know that some of thier cars are used in hit and runs and they DO NOT GET SUED.
Well, I think that there is a need for Special Legal Priviliges is a good thing.
You make a product that is NOT defective, you make a product that in the hands of those acting in a proper way IS NOT dangerous.
Someone takes said product and uses it improperly. Someone pushes for you to be held on criminal charges. The courts say that there is no criminal neglect on the part of your company.
So what happens? A bunch of lawyers decide to make your product go away through litigation. They get togeather and sue the living shit out of you and your company.
It happened with the tobacco companies, it's happening with the gun industry, and it's about to happen with companies that make food with fat in it.
I'll bet that if Congress says computer and OS makers don't have to put DRM in hardware/software the RIAA and MPAA will take Dell, Apple, Gateway, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, etc to court so fast with a brigade of lawyers it'll make your head spin.
If they want to go after Remington and Nabisco, you think Dell and Apple are safe?
I don't know if I agree with the scientists.
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Soviets and US had some experiance at using nuclear devices for moving Earth and simulating an earthquake.
http://nuketesting.enviroweb.org/hew/Usa/Tests/
"Up to a point, the more deeply buried an explosive charge is, the larger the crater it will make. Beyond this point much of the material is thrown with insufficient force to clear the crater and falls back in, reducing the final size. At the optimal crater depth though quite a lot of material actually ends up back in the crater bottom. This is an advantage for a Plowshare-type crater experiment since much of the radioactivity gets returned to the crater and buried. The radiation release (as measured in terms of I-131, the most important from human health risks) was 880,000 curies, about equivalent to a 3-4 kt atmospheric fission test.
Sedan was detonated at what was estimated to be the optimal crater depth in alluvial soil. 12 million tons of soil and rock were lifted into the air, 8 million tons of it falling outside the crater. The final crater was 1280 feet wide and 320 feet deep. The force of the detonation released seismic energy equivalent to an earthquake magnitude of 4.75 on the Richter Scale. The device used was similar to that used in Dominic Bluestone and Swanee and was thus a variant of the W-56 high yield missile warhead. The device had a fusion yield of 70%. The Sedan device had a diameter of 17.1 inches, a length of 38 inches, and a weight of 467.9 lb."
http://nuketesting.enviroweb.org/hew/Russia/Sov
5 to 7 KT does this
"The site for the Chagan shot was the dry bed of the Chagan River on the edge of the Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS) in Kazakhstan. The shot location was chosen so that the crater lip would form a dam in the river during its period of high flow in the spring. The crater formed by the Chagan explosion had a diameter of 408 m and a depth of 100 m. A major lake (10,000,000 m 3 ) was quickly formed behind the 20-35 m high upraised lip. Shortly after the explosion, earthmoving equipment was used to cut a channel through the lip so that water from the river could enter the crater.
Spring melt soon filled the crater with 6.4 million m^3 of water, and the reservoir behind the crater was filled with 10 million m^3 of water. These reservoirs are known informally as Lake Chagan or Lake Balapan. Subsidence of the crater slopes subsequently reduced the crater storage capacity by about 25%. A few years later, a water-control structure was built on the left bank of the river to control water levels in the reservoirs. Both reservoirs exist today in substantially the same form and are still used to provide water for cattle in the area. Efrim P. Slavskiy, Minister of the Medium Machine Building Ministry (the ministry responsible for the entire Soviet nuclear weapons program)was reported to have been the first person to have taken a swim in the crater lake."
Why do TV Engineers get the right to limit the end users ability to record something, which is covered under the Home Fair Use Act?
Upwards of 30% of Allied casualties in the ETO in 1943-1945 were from fratricide.
You put a British Army Warrior IFV next to a Soviet BMP-2 and then look at it through FLIR at night through smoke, sleet/rail and clouds and tell me how the AH-64s and A-10s were suposed to get 100% of the targets ID'ed right.
It's not like Command and Conquer out there, you don't have to hold an extra key down to target friendlies.
The situation with the Canadians in Afghanistan was a screw up, and the pilots you will note are not flying anymore, so it's game over for them.
As for the Chinese Embassy, it's funny how that PGM targeted the wing of the building with the Intelligence Attaches isn't it?
Maybe it had crappy graphics because it's from the early 1980s.
Now my 2.4 GHz phone can cut out my GF's Airport and screw up my PC's display with a single call from my drunky buddy.
The UN Security Council hasn't ordered Israel out of the West Bank or Golan.
The General Assembly has, which is about the same as the Washington D.C. City Council telling the world what to do.
Israel's right to exsist is a Security Council matter. All the resolutions about Iraq are Security Council matters.
The difference on the matter of combat death insurance is - American, Israeli, Jordanian, Russian, Canadian CIVILIANS don't get paid for blowing up malls and pizza places, Palestinian Terrorist families are paid by Iraq for doing this thing.
"IMHO, an apache helicopter shelling and firing rockets at apartment buildings and hospitals is no better than unleashing nerve gas in a subway station."
There is a world of difference, sorry you don't understand.
No, what I am saying is that both sides are no equal.
No matter what Israel does, they are not a destablizing terrorist state.
Look at what happened today.
"Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a group of Israelis leaving Friday night prayer services in the Jewish Quarter of Hebron killing at eleven people and wounding 14.
As security forces rushed to evacuate the wounded they came under heavy sniper fire and hand grenades were thrown at them in what an army officer called a complex ambush. The attack came from terrorists situated in the Abu Sneineh neighborhood overlooking the Jewish Quarter in the divided West Bank city."
Israel does not have "Zionists" come to the Negev and train in camps to export Zionism. Jews typically don't take aircraft hostage, blow them up or fly them into buildings. Israel hasn't been accused of shipping sensative nuclear, chemical or biological goods or information to other nations. Israel didn't try and flood the Persian Gulf with oil, nor did they set fire to more than 900 oil wells. Israel hasn't chucked rockets or missiles into Saudi Arabia.
Israel is better than Syria, Iraq and Hezbollah, they don't export terror or fund terror groups or use chemical weapons on the battlefield or civilians.
No Agent Orange wasn't a nice magic substance, but it was not a domestic or battlefield chemical weapon like VX, Sarin, Mustard or Zyklon-B are.
"That Israel is no better than its neighbours, as they are all a load of gung-ho vengance seekers. They start a conflict, they use the previous conflict as a reason. It escalates, it goes on and on and on, it's the cycle of violence."
Really? Is that why Israel returned the Sinai? Is that why Israel attempted to return 97% of the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority in Dec of 2000?
Iraq pays the family of a suicide bomber up to $20,000 after the bomber kills Jews. Israel doesn't pay IDF soldiers a bonus for killings.
That alone leads me to think that Israel might be more trustworthy.
Well, I can see you don't know the history of the Middle East nor the causes of the Israeli invasion of Southern Lebannon or the occupation.
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To make it quick and simple - Hezbollah was shelling the north of Israel, Hezbollah was sending murder teams into Israel and killing women and children. The Christians in Lebannon involved in a Civil War against the Syrian backed Muslems asked for Israeli involvement, Israel became involved. Israel and the Christian militias did go over-board a few times, but Syria was and is using Lebannon as a Poppy and Hash production area and the Bekka was an invasion route into the north of Israel.
The United States did not and has not used chemical weapons in a battlefield role since the First World War. Agent Orange was not a chemical weapon anymore than Roundup is. I guess that if I use Roundup on a thistle I am a violator of the Geneva Conventions on Chemical Weapons.
"Only if you accept the modified definition of chemical weapons put forth by the United States when we signed on to the Geneva Convention (50 years late, of course)"
Not exactly, but kind of.
http://www.zarc.com/english/chemical/genevaprot
June 17, 1925
PROTOCOL FOR THE PROHIBITION OF THE USE IN WAR OF ASPHYXIATING, POISONOUS OR OTHER GASES, AND OF BACTERIOLOGICAL METHODS OF WARFARE
At the end of World War I, the victorious Allies decided to reaffirm in the Versailles Treaty (1919) the prewar prohibition of the use of poisonous gases (see Introduction) and to forbid Germany to manufacture or import them. Similar provisions were included in the peace treaties with Austria, Bulgaria, and Hungary.
Drawing upon the language of these peace treaties, the United States - at the Washington Disarmament Conference of 1922 -- took the initiative of introducing a similar provision into a treaty on submarines and noxious gases. The U.S. Senate gave its advice and consent to ratification of this treaty without a dissenting vote. It never entered into force, however, since French ratification was necessary, and France objected to the submarine provisions."
"Before World War II the protocol was ratified by many countries, including all the great powers except the United States and Japan. When they ratified or acceded to the protocol, some nations -- including the United Kingdom, France, and the USSR -- declared that it would cease to be binding on them if their enemies, or the allies of their enemies, failed to respect the prohibitions of the protocol. Although Italy was a party to the protocol, it used poison gas in the Ethiopian war. Nevertheless, the protocol was generally observed in World War II."
"Vietnam was a situation created by the US Imperialism."
Bonk! Vietnam was a situation created by French Imperialism and it became a proxy struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States.
"See, you're digging back 50 years, why, a mere 30 years ago, we were gassing and destabilizing South Veitnam."
The US did not "gas" South Vietnam. CNN tried to pull that and they had to admit it was BS.
The US did work in South Vietnam, but no one should think that it was the Big Bad Imperialists fighting the Good Wholesome Peoples of Vietnam.
The North and the Communists acted every bit as badly as the United States and France did down there. After the North broke the Paris Peace Accords and took the South by force of arms, it wasn't all love and hugs.
Israel did not take over Palestine. The UN Mandate mandated that it be split 60-40 in favor of the Arabs and the Jews, Lebannon, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trans-Jordan and everyone else decided to take it all over and "push the Jews into the sea." They lost.
Then in '67 Jordan, Syria and Egypt had everything set up for a suprise attack, but Israel jumped them first. That is why the West Bank, Sinai and Golan were lost.
The only time since 1917-18 that the United States used chemical weapons in combat was when a US transport in Italy was sunk and the gas escaped from the burning/sinking ship, and those chemicals affected Allied soldiers and sailors.
North Korea's destablization of the region isn't distant.
In 1976 2 American soldiers on thier side of the DMZ were attacked and hacked to death by DPRK soldiers with axes.
Since 1954 more than 1,000 Americans have been killed in combat by the DPRK at or near the DMZ.
US, Japanese, and South Koreans have been taken prisoner, ships attacked and aircraft shot down.
Hundreds of Japanese and South Koreas have been kidnapped by North Korea.
http://www.kdvamerica.org/CombatChronology.html
"North Korea attempted to assassinate R.O.K. President Chun Doo-hwan while he was visiting Myanmar. North Korean terrorists planted time bombs at the Aungsan Mausoleum where a R.O.K. delegation was waiting for the arrival of the president. The bombing killed 17 Korean Officials including several cabinet ministers, and wounded 14 others. It was revealed that three North Korean terrorists (1 NK Army Major and 2 Army Sr. Lts.) had been involved and they were acting under the direct order of Kim jong-il."