Since all four nations have the ability or have had the ability to photograph one another's sensitive areas, they have all agreed not to publish this information in an accurate form civilians or foriegn governments can access.
Since Israel is a small nation with alot of military areas all over, it's one big excusion zone.
Now then, what is the difference between Israel's nuclear program and Iran/Iraq/Libya/North Korea's nuclear program?
Simple, Israel doesn't export nuclear technology. Israel and South Africa jointly developed atomic weapons and tested one in the South Indian Ocean (maybe). South Africa gave up it's weapons in the mid 90s and the Mossad was offing Nuclear Scientists in SA in 93-94.
But even if one doesn't listen to the Zionist News Agencies, tell me one nation or group Israel shares technology with other then the US?
They've done joint small-arms development with the Czechs. They's done armor and anti-tank work with Turkey. They've done MiG-21 upgrade work with Romania and other former WP MiG-21 operators. But no one, not even the most violent Israel haters has accused them of nuclear, chemical or bio weapon export.
Yet with Libya/Iran/Iraq/North Korea/Pakistan and to some extent France and China, it's all about nuclear technology transfers for weaponizing.
For everything Israel has done in the Middle East, or been accused of, they've not used chemical weapons. They've not fired nuclear capable ballistic missiles at 3 or 4 regional neighbors. They've not been running around trying to buy materials for nuclear devices or guns that shoot projectiles hundreds of miles.
Syria and Egypt back in the United Arab Republic days used chemical weapons in Yemen. Iraq used them in the Iran-Iraq war. Iraq tossed FROG and SCUDs at Iran, Isreal, and Saudi Arabia. North Korea has activly tried to take-over South Korea and destabalize Japan.
Israel doesn't have camps in the Negev for training Marxist/Republican/Maoist/Islamist/Anti-West terrorists like North Korea/Iran/Iraq/Libya have had or have.
Actually, the Democrats have been wimpy, spineless little trolls in Congress since the 1996 election.
Standing behind Clinton during his obstruction and stonewalling. Then supporting him after the House voted to Impeach.
The Democrats have been pandering too much to the Labor Unions on the Homeland Security and Airport security Bills as well as attempting to make issues out of non-issues like the Economy.
What should have been a 12-20 seat gain in the House and 4-8 seat gain in the Senate turned into a debacle because the DNC leadership, along with Gephart and Daschle (whom I vote for) got sucked into the world where Terry McAuliffe and the Clintons live, a cloud cockoo land.
The Democratic Party I voted for, my Grandparents, Great-grandparents and Great-great Grandparents voted for is dead. The Clintons and the rest of the elitist leadership killed it.
The Democratic Party doesn't care about the masses, it cares about it's people.
The "Giveaways to corporations and the wealthiest Americans" enabled me and my family to keep hold of some of the family farm after our parents died. Without the Bush Estate-Tax cut we would have had to sell everything and I would have had to pay out $4,500. Now I can go back to College. That attitude by the DNC is what has driven me, someone that only voted Democrat from 1988 to 2000 to put a W in 2004 sticker in the window of the truck.
That is a very simplistic view of the House and Senate.
From Jan 21st 1993 to Jan 8th 1995 the Senate and House were strongly Democrat and a Democrat was President.
The Clinton White House thought that they could run wild in 93-94 with control of both Congress and the White House.
It was very difficult, even with control of the Senate and House to accomplish anything.
Just because a Senator or Representative has a D or an R after thier name DOES NOT mean they will tow a party line.
Look at the Impeachment of Clinton, the Senate was in Republican control and they couldn't get the votes to find him guilty.
Many things in the Senate will take a 2/3rds Majority, which will mean getting 15 or more Democrats to vote thier way.
The House may come up with a Bill that the Senate just doesn't like, it's much harder to get the Senate to agree to a Bill than the House.
Senators are more elite than the Represenatives, even if that house has less power, and Senators are more likely to push thier State's view than a Representative, if you get someone like Hatch to oppose something, it won't pass.
Don't think for a second if the GOP control of both houses will make things a cake walk for the President from a Lawmaking point of view.
It will help with getting Judges and Justices appointed, but laws are another story.
This will violate the Posse Commitatus Act of 1878.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1385.html
Sec. 1385. - Use of Army and Air Force as posse comitatus
Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both
Now if Congress allows this, it's perfectly legal. I doubt it will happen, there are some privacy activists in the Senate and House.
"The original 1878 Posse Comitatus Act was indeed passed with the intent of removing the Army from domestic law enforcement. Posse comitatus means "the power of the county," reflecting the inherent power of the old West county sheriff to call upon a posse of able-bodied men to supplement law enforcement assets and thereby maintain the peace. Following the Civil War, the Army had been used extensively throughout the South to maintain civil order, to enforce the policies of the Reconstruction era, and to ensure that any lingering sentiments of rebellion were crushed. However, in reaching those goals, the Army necessarily became involved in traditional police roles and in enforcing politically volatile Reconstruction-era policies. The stationing of federal troops at political events and polling places under the justification of maintaining domestic order became of increasing concern to Congress, which felt that the Army was becoming politicized and straying from its original national defense mission. The Posse Comitatus Act was passed to remove the Army from civilian law enforcement and to return it to its role of defending the borders of the United States."
All my music gets ripped onto a Firewire HD with iTunes and then I send 1,000 tracks to my iPod to listen too. It never gets shared with anyone, sometimes it ends up in the truck in a CD-R so I can toss it on the dash or on the floor without ruining a real CD.
The CDs then sit in a 300 disk changer or in a 5.56 ammo box for the rare moments when I listen to them through my Paradigms in the living room.
If they screw with me, I'll simply stop buying CDs. I can live with the 8-900 I have. Not like new music is any good.
Well new stuff from the Man in Black is still good.
Yea, make the consumers stop buying your products, then explain that to the share-holders.
"MGM and Scifi put those rumours to rest today by officially announcing a 7th season. It will begin filming next year with a full 22 episodes ordered."
Yea? I remeber when SciFi and Jim Henson annouced more seasons of Farscape and full seasons ordered.
I've been using it on PowerBooks and iMac DV 400s since the day it came out.
At first it was slow, but stable.
10.1 was alot better, I installed that on a 466 Beige G3 upgraded minitower and a 266 All-In-One. Worked fine, rock solid OS X Server 10.1 on the AIO.
10.2 is great on our iMac DV 400, my iMac 800 and my PowerBook 550 and it runs great as a server on the AIO 266.
Some times the wheel comes up, but for an OS that needs rebooting once every 20 days and switched between a wired and wireless network 3-5 times a day, I'll accept the wheel.
Keeping Terminal open gives one the chance to kill an offending app that is slowing everything down.
I've yet to see chicken genes in wheat, maybe I'm not looking hard enough.
US Farmers have been "slaves" of the seed producers for decades. I remeber the new strains every few years that would be hardier and higher yield, and we bought it for planting.
We made good money at the Grain Elevator selling sunflower seed to the area farmers.
The real problem is fear-mongering in the Media about GM food.
All grains have been GM'ed for thousands of years, somethings are sterile now.
Somethings cross-bread with other strains in the wild.
Here is my problem with the backlash against GM crops.
The world population is growing, the bushels or metric ton per acre/hectare needs to increase. Since the late 1960s we've been unable to get that yield to increase much.
Now we have new tools, GM grains that can increase the yields and be supplemented with enriched vitamins and grown in more hostile environments.
But there is a backlash against GM foods. Europe will refuse to buy ag goods if GM is used anywhere.
So in Africa, there will be increased deforestation for more farmland, more people starve, yields remain constant.
I didn't say Dogfights. I didn't say Air Combat Manouvers. I said Fights.
Over the Bekka Valley the IDF defeated the Syria air force with 90 Air to Air kills with zero loses.
"The October 1973 War was marked by a large number of dogfights in which the Israelis prevailed, claiming the destruction of 227 enemy airplanes at a cost of 15 Israeli aircraft."
In the Bekka, the IDF used F-15s and F-16s against well trained Syrian pilots.
I wasn't talking about quad ZSU-23s run by some bedouin, I'm talking about Soviet trained and mentored Syrians, who were not to shabby.
In F-14 fights againt MiG and Su-22s in the Gulf of Sidra, the F-14s won each and every confrontation.
An Iraqi MiG, either 25 or 29, has been credited with knocking down an F/A-18 on the first night of the war, but that isn't offically accepted by the USAF or USN.
http://www.freescottspeicher.com/intel.php
"During Desert Storm, none of the limited information available on coalition personnel lost was linked to the fate of LCDR Speicher. No information during the Gulf war conclusively revealed how LCDR Speicher's aircraft was destroyed. Postwar analysis suggests that LCDR Speicher's Hornet was downed by an Iraqi Air Force aircraft firing an air-to-air missile. LCDR Speicher's aircraft crashed in the desert west of Baghdad."
EMP jammers were developed by the USAF/DARPA after US loses to Vietnamese SA-2s started to be a problem.
The US sent an entire C-141 load of ALQs to Israel in 1973 to combat the new Egyptian and Syrian SAMs, dispite your assesment of the Syrians, which worked quite well.
LGBs and Walleyes (EO) bombs were developed and used in Vietnam, in fact, EO bombs were developed by the United States, United Kingdom and Nazi Germany in 1944-45. Some EO weapons were used against shipping in the Second World War and against bridges in Korea.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/agm-65. ht m Maverick - 1972
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/agm-62. ht m Walleye - 1967
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/agm-84. ht m Harpoon - 1977
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/agm-88. ht m HARM - 1984
In the mid 80s TOWs to defeat reactive armor came on-line, but Desert Storm showed that even TOW-2s could defeat the best armor that the Soviets could build.
The old story about NATO not having enough ATGWs to take out all the Soviet/WP tanks was just that, a story.
"Consider that USSR has huge air fleets matching those of US in number, quality."
Quality? In one on one fights between F-16/F-15s/F-14s/F-18s and MiG-29s there have been Zero F-16/F-15 loses.
In the Bekka against MiG-25s, 23s, 21s - Typical 80s Soviet Fighter/Strikers - The IDF with 15/16s had no trouble defeating the very well trained Syrian AF.
"Comparing the lesser regimes with USSR is plain silly. Do you *really* think that Seoul, Israel, West Germany alone or Saudi Arabia armies could stand a chance against the Soviets in a confilct?"
Soviet Doctrine is the Doctrine used by Soviet Client States. Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Egypt, Cuba, China, Somalia, Ethiopia, East Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia, etc.
When I say that US/NATO systems are designed to exploit Soviet Doctrine in Korea, the Golan, Sinai, and Iraq, I mean that the United States/NATO fought or observed in those places and molded tactics and equipment to exploit percived weaknesses in those tactics.
Vietnam was a COIN war - Soviet Doctrine didn't come into play (much) because there were few set-piece battles. Same as Afghanistan for the Soviets.
The US did fight Cuba for 2 days in 1983, but not much can be learned from that other than that the UH-60A could take a hell of a lot of damage and keep flying.
I did skip CAP, deep strike (F-15E, FB-111, F-117, B-52s with Popeye/Walleye) capabilities for NATO and similar but less effective systems for the WP.
NATO systems like Harrier, Jaguar, A-10, AH-64, Cobra didn't need Air Superiority as they would operate a NOE.
For every Spensnaz running around behind NATO lines there would be an SAS/Delta/Ranger/Royal Marine running around behind the WP lines.
The 3rd ACR and 1st Cav on the Inter-German border would have given the Soviet Guards Army a serious run for it's money.
I also skipped armor and mech infantry because I was looking more at the set-up the poster above me gave, infantry, tanks, arty.
The EU would be an easy nut to crack. French nukes are limited to cruise missiles and some IRBMs. British nukes are limited to Trident and some free-fall bombs. They'd not use them on home soil.
France has 16 Rafales (nice plane!) on a single carrier with very limited air defence. UK has some Harriers on a single carrier. 4-5 US CVBGs would eliminate the bulk of the EU carrier force in 18 hours with limited losses.
Assume the UK doesn't fly it's Tridents, the French will have to use Mirage 2000Ds with Apache nuclear missiles to pierce a US carrier battlegroup, a tough job even with Rafale CAP.
Since Israel is smaller, with more able fighters and nearly as many Multi-Role than the entire EU, along with much more flight training and more capable EW gear, a more robust SAM density would make it tougher to crack than the EU.
This is a great example of why money is thrown away hand over fist in Public Schools due to this Digital Divide BS.
"Secretaries trying to record attendance on an old 486 and printing report cards on a dot-matrix."
Why the hell would someone need anything more than a 486 to enter attendance or grade information in a public school setting?
The dot matrix is there because the District, State and sometimes the Feds all want a copy. The State can't take it in electronic format anymore cause the State or ESD threw away it's mainframe and terminal emulation solution for a bunch of Dells running 17 databases that can't talk to eachother cause someone thought the mainframe was too old. Of course it had uptime in years, but it was big and loud and didn't have a Pentium chip.
Terrible amounts of money are thrown away at K-12s so they can stay ahead of the "Digital Divide". It's a waste.
It's an attempt to create an issue for which there is no need in order to throw money at a problem that does not exsist.
Let's take India.
1.05 billion people according to the CIA World Factbook 2002 with a 1.51 % growth rate.
Because of various descriminations against female births there is widspread abortion of female fetuses and you are 1.05 men for every women.
There are 61 deaths for every 1,000 live births, giving it a developing country IMR.
"India's economy encompasses traditional village farming, modern agriculture, handicrafts, a wide range of modern industries, and a multitude of support services. About a quarter of the population is too poor to be able to afford an adequate diet."
Any time the UN thinks there is a problem, I worry. The UN caused all sorts of problems in Bangladesh from the wells dug which are naturally contaminated with arsenic.
Developing nations need to solve problems of literacy, physical infrastructure, and other social problems way before they spend any money on non-issues like the "digital divide".
"On July 26, 2002, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Edward C. "Pete" Aldridge, Jr., signed a memorandum directing the U.S. Army to take prudent and deliberate actions to bring about an orderly termination of the Crusader program. In the memo, the Army was directed to ensure that current technology development continues either as part of an indirect fire technology demonstration or as part of other transformational programs. On the same day, Secretary Aldridge provided Congress with the Army's Indirect Fires Report and a reprogramming request to transfer $32 million from Crusader to new variants of the Future Combat Systems (FCS). Congress has approved the reprogramming request. "
It does, if it's possible to achive. Which hasn't happened for the Russians since 1945 and hasn't happened for the Chinese since the winter of 1950-51.
It won't happen anywhere in the world, unless you are talking about battlefield missiles and China pointing them at Taiwan, which I'm not.
No one outside of the Chinese are going to have 300 howitzers, but for shits and grins lets say they do.
Soviet Doctrine is to line them up wheel to wheel in a phase-line that's been surveyed and to toss round after round at the Yankee pigs while T-72s and T-80s roll across in an advancing line.
Sounds swell, but it won't work.
In the 1970s the US Army in Europe came up with Air-Land Battle which was designed to counter this plan.
You take some Apache and Kiowa Warriors (soon RAH-66s) and swoop in Hellfiring the crap out of the tanks, then you zap some of the supporting infantry and softer AAA and mobile SAMs with Hydra-70 rockets while the A-10s Maverick the advancing line and F-16s throw HARMs at the AAA and SAMs dumb enough to light up thier radars.
As soon as the D-30s open up, it's go time, the M-109s counter battery fire and scoot before the first rounds impact, then without a surveyed position form up and counter battery fire more while the MLRS's throw some bomblet love in the direction of the Red Arty.
In 10 minutes 70% of the static Soviet Doctrine guns are foil.
Most conventional USSR units were NOT nuclear armed, tactical nuclear weapons were closely controled by the Communist Party and the Red Army.
I'm not talking about blind-faith, Iraq was a very viable opponent on Jan 14 1991, but they made grave tactical mistakes, driven from the Soviet, Chinese and East German advisors and thier own experiance in dealing with American equipment in the Iran-Iraq War.
Air-Land battle, with combined arms operations and movement destroyed Soviet Doctrine formations, units and hardware.
Soviet Doctrine calls for close management from a higher headquarters, when that is cut off, the army withers and dies. Soviet Doctrine and equipment does not allow for mobile combat formations that can move quickly, the US/NATO doctrine does.
M-1A2, M-2, AH-64, H-56, A-10, F-16, M-109, MLRS, MAV, M-60A3, M-113A3, F-117 and F-15E are all desgined/upgraded to exploit faults in Soviet Doctrine as illustrated in Korea, the Golan, Sinai, Inter-Germany observations and Iraq.
The only nation-state that could give the US a run for the money is Communist China. Russia could at a nuclear level, but not a conventional level.
Israel would be a tougher nut to crack than the EU.
No rights by the rules that govern warfare, no rights to a trial, no rights to an arrest.
Like a spy, a combatant not in a uniform is subject to summary execution on the field of battle.
The CIA can't kill a head of State, but otherwise it may operate as a government agency would in a time of war. Although, a CIA agent not in uniform is also subject to the same rules reguarding a combatant not in uniform.
OSS, German Intelligence, MI6, DIA, SAS, SBS, NVKD, CIA, FBI, KGB all organizations operated and killed people in theatres of battle and neutral nations before, during and after World War Two. Dead agents on all sides involved during the Cold War.
Israel gets this technology because it, unlike Syria, Jordan, Egypt or Saudi Arabia, has an industrial capacitiy and a healthy research and development environment.
The United States part in THEL is 20% of the R&D budget, same as the US part in the Popeye long-range missile. The US funded Arrow to the tune of 80% because Israel wasn't an ABM signatory and could work on some things the US was treaty-bound not to work on.
Israel has made some serious technological advances in Agriculture, Desal, Military Avionics, Artillery, Small Arms, Computer Science without US assistance.
Remeber that Israel developed nuclear weapons in a partnership with South Africa, not the United States.
And do not forget that in the late 40s and early 50s the USSR, France, Czech and United Kingdom supported Israel while the United States supported Iran and Jordan.
It wasn't until the 1973 war that the United States threw it's support behind Israel, a point at which most of the Israeli industry was already developing.
As for World Peace, all it does is keep the status quo, which is not always a good thing.
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US/UK/Israel/France all have an understanding.
Since all four nations have the ability or have had the ability to photograph one another's sensitive areas, they have all agreed not to publish this information in an accurate form civilians or foriegn governments can access.
Since Israel is a small nation with alot of military areas all over, it's one big excusion zone.
Now then, what is the difference between Israel's nuclear program and Iran/Iraq/Libya/North Korea's nuclear program?
Simple, Israel doesn't export nuclear technology. Israel and South Africa jointly developed atomic weapons and tested one in the South Indian Ocean (maybe). South Africa gave up it's weapons in the mid 90s and the Mossad was offing Nuclear Scientists in SA in 93-94.
But even if one doesn't listen to the Zionist News Agencies, tell me one nation or group Israel shares technology with other then the US?
They've done joint small-arms development with the Czechs. They's done armor and anti-tank work with Turkey. They've done MiG-21 upgrade work with Romania and other former WP MiG-21 operators. But no one, not even the most violent Israel haters has accused them of nuclear, chemical or bio weapon export.
Yet with Libya/Iran/Iraq/North Korea/Pakistan and to some extent France and China, it's all about nuclear technology transfers for weaponizing.
For everything Israel has done in the Middle East, or been accused of, they've not used chemical weapons. They've not fired nuclear capable ballistic missiles at 3 or 4 regional neighbors. They've not been running around trying to buy materials for nuclear devices or guns that shoot projectiles hundreds of miles.
Syria and Egypt back in the United Arab Republic days used chemical weapons in Yemen. Iraq used them in the Iran-Iraq war. Iraq tossed FROG and SCUDs at Iran, Isreal, and Saudi Arabia. North Korea has activly tried to take-over South Korea and destabalize Japan.
Israel doesn't have camps in the Negev for training Marxist/Republican/Maoist/Islamist/Anti-West terrorists like North Korea/Iran/Iraq/Libya have had or have.
I'm a little guy.
36K a year working tech support in Portland OR.
My last surviving parent died in early March. She had been running the family farm that'd been in the family since 1952.
Before G.W. Bush - Estate (Death) Tax would have left me with $12,250 from the Estate.
Since G. W. Bush - Estate (Death) Tax left me with the money to finish college and hopefully build a strawbale home in 2003.
So personally, I feel the President's tax cuts are helping that little guy.
Yep.
/. is when they came out with hardware or sued someone.
Back in the day, the only time you'd see an Apple on the front of
Now I'm getting my update news here. Scary.
Rosanne Barr.
Ellen DeGeneres.
The cast of Golden Girls.
Actually, the Democrats have been wimpy, spineless little trolls in Congress since the 1996 election.
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Standing behind Clinton during his obstruction and stonewalling. Then supporting him after the House voted to Impeach.
The Democrats have been pandering too much to the Labor Unions on the Homeland Security and Airport security Bills as well as attempting to make issues out of non-issues like the Economy.
What should have been a 12-20 seat gain in the House and 4-8 seat gain in the Senate turned into a debacle because the DNC leadership, along with Gephart and Daschle (whom I vote for) got sucked into the world where Terry McAuliffe and the Clintons live, a cloud cockoo land.
The Democratic Party I voted for, my Grandparents, Great-grandparents and Great-great Grandparents voted for is dead. The Clintons and the rest of the elitist leadership killed it.
The Democratic Party doesn't care about the masses, it cares about it's people.
The "Giveaways to corporations and the wealthiest Americans" enabled me and my family to keep hold of some of the family farm after our parents died. Without the Bush Estate-Tax cut we would have had to sell everything and I would have had to pay out $4,500. Now I can go back to College. That attitude by the DNC is what has driven me, someone that only voted Democrat from 1988 to 2000 to put a W in 2004 sticker in the window of the truck.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A
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http://www.solai.com/forum/articles/tnoah-1.htm
That is a very simplistic view of the House and Senate.
From Jan 21st 1993 to Jan 8th 1995 the Senate and House were strongly Democrat and a Democrat was President.
The Clinton White House thought that they could run wild in 93-94 with control of both Congress and the White House.
It was very difficult, even with control of the Senate and House to accomplish anything.
Just because a Senator or Representative has a D or an R after thier name DOES NOT mean they will tow a party line.
Look at the Impeachment of Clinton, the Senate was in Republican control and they couldn't get the votes to find him guilty.
Many things in the Senate will take a 2/3rds Majority, which will mean getting 15 or more Democrats to vote thier way.
The House may come up with a Bill that the Senate just doesn't like, it's much harder to get the Senate to agree to a Bill than the House.
Senators are more elite than the Represenatives, even if that house has less power, and Senators are more likely to push thier State's view than a Representative, if you get someone like Hatch to oppose something, it won't pass.
Don't think for a second if the GOP control of both houses will make things a cake walk for the President from a Lawmaking point of view.
It will help with getting Judges and Justices appointed, but laws are another story.
This will violate the Posse Commitatus Act of 1878.
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http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1385.html
Sec. 1385. - Use of Army and Air Force as posse comitatus
Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both
Now if Congress allows this, it's perfectly legal. I doubt it will happen, there are some privacy activists in the Senate and House.
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/article
"The original 1878 Posse Comitatus Act was indeed passed with the intent of removing the Army from domestic law enforcement. Posse comitatus means "the power of the county," reflecting the inherent power of the old West county sheriff to call upon a posse of able-bodied men to supplement law enforcement assets and thereby maintain the peace. Following the Civil War, the Army had been used extensively throughout the South to maintain civil order, to enforce the policies of the Reconstruction era, and to ensure that any lingering sentiments of rebellion were crushed. However, in reaching those goals, the Army necessarily became involved in traditional police roles and in enforcing politically volatile Reconstruction-era policies. The stationing of federal troops at political events and polling places under the justification of maintaining domestic order became of increasing concern to Congress, which felt that the Army was becoming politicized and straying from its original national defense mission. The Posse Comitatus Act was passed to remove the Army from civilian law enforcement and to return it to its role of defending the borders of the United States."
http://www.dojgov.net/posse_comitatus_act.htm
http://law.wustl.edu/WULQ/75-2/752-10.html
Exactly.
All my music gets ripped onto a Firewire HD with iTunes and then I send 1,000 tracks to my iPod to listen too. It never gets shared with anyone, sometimes it ends up in the truck in a CD-R so I can toss it on the dash or on the floor without ruining a real CD.
The CDs then sit in a 300 disk changer or in a 5.56 ammo box for the rare moments when I listen to them through my Paradigms in the living room.
If they screw with me, I'll simply stop buying CDs. I can live with the 8-900 I have. Not like new music is any good.
Well new stuff from the Man in Black is still good.
Yea, make the consumers stop buying your products, then explain that to the share-holders.
"MGM and Scifi put those rumours to rest today by officially announcing a 7th season. It will begin filming next year with a full 22 episodes ordered."
Yea? I remeber when SciFi and Jim Henson annouced more seasons of Farscape and full seasons ordered.
I've been using it on PowerBooks and iMac DV 400s since the day it came out.
At first it was slow, but stable.
10.1 was alot better, I installed that on a 466 Beige G3 upgraded minitower and a 266 All-In-One. Worked fine, rock solid OS X Server 10.1 on the AIO.
10.2 is great on our iMac DV 400, my iMac 800 and my PowerBook 550 and it runs great as a server on the AIO 266.
Some times the wheel comes up, but for an OS that needs rebooting once every 20 days and switched between a wired and wireless network 3-5 times a day, I'll accept the wheel.
Keeping Terminal open gives one the chance to kill an offending app that is slowing everything down.
I'm a farmer's son too.
I've yet to see chicken genes in wheat, maybe I'm not looking hard enough.
US Farmers have been "slaves" of the seed producers for decades. I remeber the new strains every few years that would be hardier and higher yield, and we bought it for planting.
We made good money at the Grain Elevator selling sunflower seed to the area farmers.
The real problem is fear-mongering in the Media about GM food.
All grains have been GM'ed for thousands of years, somethings are sterile now.
Somethings cross-bread with other strains in the wild.
Here is my problem with the backlash against GM crops.
The world population is growing, the bushels or metric ton per acre/hectare needs to increase. Since the late 1960s we've been unable to get that yield to increase much.
Now we have new tools, GM grains that can increase the yields and be supplemented with enriched vitamins and grown in more hostile environments.
But there is a backlash against GM foods. Europe will refuse to buy ag goods if GM is used anywhere.
So in Africa, there will be increased deforestation for more farmland, more people starve, yields remain constant.
I didn't say Dogfights. I didn't say Air Combat Manouvers. I said Fights.
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Over the Bekka Valley the IDF defeated the Syria air force with 90 Air to Air kills with zero loses.
"The October 1973 War was marked by a large number of dogfights in which the Israelis prevailed, claiming the destruction of 227 enemy airplanes at a cost of 15 Israeli aircraft."
In the Bekka, the IDF used F-15s and F-16s against well trained Syrian pilots.
I wasn't talking about quad ZSU-23s run by some bedouin, I'm talking about Soviet trained and mentored Syrians, who were not to shabby.
In F-14 fights againt MiG and Su-22s in the Gulf of Sidra, the F-14s won each and every confrontation.
An Iraqi MiG, either 25 or 29, has been credited with knocking down an F/A-18 on the first night of the war, but that isn't offically accepted by the USAF or USN.
http://www.freescottspeicher.com/intel.php
"During Desert Storm, none of the limited information available on coalition personnel lost was linked to the fate of LCDR Speicher. No information during the Gulf war conclusively revealed how LCDR Speicher's aircraft was destroyed. Postwar analysis suggests that LCDR Speicher's Hornet was downed by an Iraqi Air Force aircraft firing an air-to-air missile. LCDR Speicher's aircraft crashed in the desert west of Baghdad."
EMP jammers were developed by the USAF/DARPA after US loses to Vietnamese SA-2s started to be a problem.
The US sent an entire C-141 load of ALQs to Israel in 1973 to combat the new Egyptian and Syrian SAMs, dispite your assesment of the Syrians, which worked quite well.
LGBs and Walleyes (EO) bombs were developed and used in Vietnam, in fact, EO bombs were developed by the United States, United Kingdom and Nazi Germany in 1944-45. Some EO weapons were used against shipping in the Second World War and against bridges in Korea.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/agm-65
Maverick - 1972
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/agm-62
Walleye - 1967
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/agm-84
Harpoon - 1977
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/agm-88
HARM - 1984
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/agm-
Shrike - 1962
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/tow.htm
TOW - 1970
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/agm-
Hellfire - 1982
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/equip/an-
ALQ-99 - 1970s
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/index.
Most of the current generation Laser Guided Bombs were in service from 1976 through the 80s.
So, most of the jamming and smart bombs stuff and gadets I adore were in the ETO from the 70s on.
Hybrid grains like new strains of Hard Red Spring Wheat have been sterile for decades.
Germany, Italy and Japan were invaded. Germany's industrial wealth, patents and military technology were taken. Japan was bombed into a scorch-mark.
Italy, Greece, Western Germany and Japan were given puppet-governements, and were all given billions of dollars to rebuild.
How are Germany, Italy and Japan doing now?
TOWs were in Europe from the early 70s on.
In the mid 80s TOWs to defeat reactive armor came on-line, but Desert Storm showed that even TOW-2s could defeat the best armor that the Soviets could build.
The old story about NATO not having enough ATGWs to take out all the Soviet/WP tanks was just that, a story.
"Consider that USSR has huge air fleets matching those of US in number, quality."
Quality? In one on one fights between F-16/F-15s/F-14s/F-18s and MiG-29s there have been Zero F-16/F-15 loses.
In the Bekka against MiG-25s, 23s, 21s - Typical 80s Soviet Fighter/Strikers - The IDF with 15/16s had no trouble defeating the very well trained Syrian AF.
"Comparing the lesser regimes with USSR is plain silly. Do you *really* think that Seoul, Israel, West Germany alone or Saudi Arabia armies could stand a chance against the Soviets in a confilct?"
Soviet Doctrine is the Doctrine used by Soviet Client States. Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Egypt, Cuba, China, Somalia, Ethiopia, East Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia, etc.
When I say that US/NATO systems are designed to exploit Soviet Doctrine in Korea, the Golan, Sinai, and Iraq, I mean that the United States/NATO fought or observed in those places and molded tactics and equipment to exploit percived weaknesses in those tactics.
Vietnam was a COIN war - Soviet Doctrine didn't come into play (much) because there were few set-piece battles. Same as Afghanistan for the Soviets.
The US did fight Cuba for 2 days in 1983, but not much can be learned from that other than that the UH-60A could take a hell of a lot of damage and keep flying.
I did skip CAP, deep strike (F-15E, FB-111, F-117, B-52s with Popeye/Walleye) capabilities for NATO and similar but less effective systems for the WP.
NATO systems like Harrier, Jaguar, A-10, AH-64, Cobra didn't need Air Superiority as they would operate a NOE.
For every Spensnaz running around behind NATO lines there would be an SAS/Delta/Ranger/Royal Marine running around behind the WP lines.
The 3rd ACR and 1st Cav on the Inter-German border would have given the Soviet Guards Army a serious run for it's money.
I also skipped armor and mech infantry because I was looking more at the set-up the poster above me gave, infantry, tanks, arty.
The EU would be an easy nut to crack. French nukes are limited to cruise missiles and some IRBMs. British nukes are limited to Trident and some free-fall bombs. They'd not use them on home soil.
France has 16 Rafales (nice plane!) on a single carrier with very limited air defence. UK has some Harriers on a single carrier. 4-5 US CVBGs would eliminate the bulk of the EU carrier force in 18 hours with limited losses.
Assume the UK doesn't fly it's Tridents, the French will have to use Mirage 2000Ds with Apache nuclear missiles to pierce a US carrier battlegroup, a tough job even with Rafale CAP.
Since Israel is smaller, with more able fighters and nearly as many Multi-Role than the entire EU, along with much more flight training and more capable EW gear, a more robust SAM density would make it tougher to crack than the EU.
This is a great example of why money is thrown away hand over fist in Public Schools due to this Digital Divide BS.
"Secretaries trying to record attendance on an old 486 and printing report cards on a dot-matrix."
Why the hell would someone need anything more than a 486 to enter attendance or grade information in a public school setting?
The dot matrix is there because the District, State and sometimes the Feds all want a copy. The State can't take it in electronic format anymore cause the State or ESD threw away it's mainframe and terminal emulation solution for a bunch of Dells running 17 databases that can't talk to eachother cause someone thought the mainframe was too old. Of course it had uptime in years, but it was big and loud and didn't have a Pentium chip.
Terrible amounts of money are thrown away at K-12s so they can stay ahead of the "Digital Divide". It's a waste.
The "Digital Divide" is nothing but a non-issue.
It's an attempt to create an issue for which there is no need in order to throw money at a problem that does not exsist.
Let's take India.
1.05 billion people according to the CIA World Factbook 2002 with a 1.51 % growth rate.
Because of various descriminations against female births there is widspread abortion of female fetuses and you are 1.05 men for every women.
There are 61 deaths for every 1,000 live births, giving it a developing country IMR.
"India's economy encompasses traditional village farming, modern agriculture, handicrafts, a wide range of modern industries, and a multitude of support services. About a quarter of the population is too poor to be able to afford an adequate diet."
Any time the UN thinks there is a problem, I worry. The UN caused all sorts of problems in Bangladesh from the wells dug which are naturally contaminated with arsenic.
Developing nations need to solve problems of literacy, physical infrastructure, and other social problems way before they spend any money on non-issues like the "digital divide".
Crusader as planned is dead.
r .h tms /gro und/crusader.htm
Dead and dead.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/crusade
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/system
"On July 26, 2002, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Edward C. "Pete" Aldridge, Jr., signed a memorandum directing the U.S. Army to take prudent and deliberate actions to bring about an orderly termination of the Crusader program. In the memo, the Army was directed to ensure that current technology development continues either as part of an indirect fire technology demonstration or as part of other transformational programs. On the same day, Secretary Aldridge provided Congress with the Army's Indirect Fires Report and a reprogramming request to transfer $32 million from Crusader to new variants of the Future Combat Systems (FCS). Congress has approved the reprogramming request. "
It was flawed and overwieght.
It does, if it's possible to achive. Which hasn't happened for the Russians since 1945 and hasn't happened for the Chinese since the winter of 1950-51.
It won't happen anywhere in the world, unless you are talking about battlefield missiles and China pointing them at Taiwan, which I'm not.
No one outside of the Chinese are going to have 300 howitzers, but for shits and grins lets say they do.
Soviet Doctrine is to line them up wheel to wheel in a phase-line that's been surveyed and to toss round after round at the Yankee pigs while T-72s and T-80s roll across in an advancing line.
Sounds swell, but it won't work.
In the 1970s the US Army in Europe came up with Air-Land Battle which was designed to counter this plan.
You take some Apache and Kiowa Warriors (soon RAH-66s) and swoop in Hellfiring the crap out of the tanks, then you zap some of the supporting infantry and softer AAA and mobile SAMs with Hydra-70 rockets while the A-10s Maverick the advancing line and F-16s throw HARMs at the AAA and SAMs dumb enough to light up thier radars.
As soon as the D-30s open up, it's go time, the M-109s counter battery fire and scoot before the first rounds impact, then without a surveyed position form up and counter battery fire more while the MLRS's throw some bomblet love in the direction of the Red Arty.
In 10 minutes 70% of the static Soviet Doctrine guns are foil.
Most conventional USSR units were NOT nuclear armed, tactical nuclear weapons were closely controled by the Communist Party and the Red Army.
I'm not talking about blind-faith, Iraq was a very viable opponent on Jan 14 1991, but they made grave tactical mistakes, driven from the Soviet, Chinese and East German advisors and thier own experiance in dealing with American equipment in the Iran-Iraq War.
Air-Land battle, with combined arms operations and movement destroyed Soviet Doctrine formations, units and hardware.
Soviet Doctrine calls for close management from a higher headquarters, when that is cut off, the army withers and dies. Soviet Doctrine and equipment does not allow for mobile combat formations that can move quickly, the US/NATO doctrine does.
M-1A2, M-2, AH-64, H-56, A-10, F-16, M-109, MLRS, MAV, M-60A3, M-113A3, F-117 and F-15E are all desgined/upgraded to exploit faults in Soviet Doctrine as illustrated in Korea, the Golan, Sinai, Inter-Germany observations and Iraq.
The only nation-state that could give the US a run for the money is Communist China. Russia could at a nuclear level, but not a conventional level.
Israel would be a tougher nut to crack than the EU.
Paladin is the M-109A6
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http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m109a6.
Crusader was killed, it was over budget, over weight, and too far out to be of any use.
Like the A-12 it deserved to die.
Enemy combatant not in a uniform.
No rights by the rules that govern warfare, no rights to a trial, no rights to an arrest.
Like a spy, a combatant not in a uniform is subject to summary execution on the field of battle.
The CIA can't kill a head of State, but otherwise it may operate as a government agency would in a time of war. Although, a CIA agent not in uniform is also subject to the same rules reguarding a combatant not in uniform.
OSS, German Intelligence, MI6, DIA, SAS, SBS, NVKD, CIA, FBI, KGB all organizations operated and killed people in theatres of battle and neutral nations before, during and after World War Two. Dead agents on all sides involved during the Cold War.
Israel gets this technology because it, unlike Syria, Jordan, Egypt or Saudi Arabia, has an industrial capacitiy and a healthy research and development environment.
The United States part in THEL is 20% of the R&D budget, same as the US part in the Popeye long-range missile. The US funded Arrow to the tune of 80% because Israel wasn't an ABM signatory and could work on some things the US was treaty-bound not to work on.
Israel has made some serious technological advances in Agriculture, Desal, Military Avionics, Artillery, Small Arms, Computer Science without US assistance.
Remeber that Israel developed nuclear weapons in a partnership with South Africa, not the United States.
And do not forget that in the late 40s and early 50s the USSR, France, Czech and United Kingdom supported Israel while the United States supported Iran and Jordan.
It wasn't until the 1973 war that the United States threw it's support behind Israel, a point at which most of the Israeli industry was already developing.
As for World Peace, all it does is keep the status quo, which is not always a good thing.