I saw a thing about how the 4 days of data were the 4 days where there was no commerical flights in the United States, and the people doing the work were tracking the effects from military transports (C-141, C-17, C-5, C-130). And since there were more defined single contrails they could look at the effect in a controled environment.
But I've not read this article, so I could be talking out my ass.
The West-side Light Rail in Portland cost several billion dollars.
This is my two cents about Government funded work.
For every penny the government spends on a project like this, someone is getting work, a job, etc.
For the Light Rail in Portland, there are local survey teams, earthmovers, concreate people, electrical workers, artists, contractors all getting to work. The trains come from the Czech Republic, so we get to throw some money at them that should have gone there during the Marshall Plan.
It's not like welfare where the money goes into a blackhole.
And I think now that it's a good time for a state government like Florida's to spend some money on infrastructure, good lord they need it.
It's the perfect place for high speed trains. Throw up a couple new nuke plants for the power.
That would be like spilling a beer on the floor and having nanobots put it back togeather in my glass molecule by molecule in the exact same place it was.
I have a beer. I drink it. I urinate. The glass sits by the bowl. The bowl isn't flushed for 30 years. Then a nanobot is going to put it back togeather? And it's going to taste the same?
I really can't see that happening or being possible.
I looked over the stuff at Alcor, to me it looks like L Ron Hubbard stuff.
If nanotech pans out and scientists acquire better understanding of tomatos doesn't mean my red sauce is going to jump back on the vine and get bigger.
"Hogg is a member of Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the largest organization supplying cryonics services. When he dies, his body will be immediately packed in ice and flown to Scottsdale, Ariz., where his head will be surgically removed, injected with preservatives, placed in a large metal vat and cooled in liquid nitrogen. Hogg believes the sub-zero temperatures will preserve his mind -- thoughts, feelings, memories, knowledge -- until medical and scientific advances can bring him back to life."
If you loose bloodflow to the old Brain, you start to lose functionality up there.
So these idiots think that after they die, and pumped full of chemicals, then frozen, then thawed out someday and having future mojo done to them they will hve thoughts and feelings still?
Wow.
"No one can say whether it will work or not," Hogg said. "It's an unknown."
"As long as the service of being cryogenically preserved is a commodity, unsubsidized by the government or most insurance, the rich, prominent, and powerful will be the people self selected to undergo the service. "
Then the rich, prominent and powerful will the be dumbasses sending Cryonics Salespeople's kids to Private schools and allowing the salespeople to buy better cars and homes.
I think we should outlaw cryonics the same way we go after quackery in the medical profession.
When someone wakes up and has a massivly inflated bankaccount and throws the World's Markets into chaos, we can talk about legislation and switching economic systems.
Must we make something that right now has a 100 percent failure rate a state supported medical service?
If we are making anything a state supported service, it should be the clipping of toe nails.
Written by a 10th Division Major and it illustrates what modern peacekeeping is like. It also touches on post disaster operations in the United States following a hurricane and talks some about the Canadian problems in Somalia. Everything takes place outside of Mog.
2. Then in May of 1993 Continue Hope started. This moved the command from the United States to the United Nations. The UN decided to start Nation Building and wanted to use Somalia as the textbook writting testbed.
It was a failure.
"A lack of decisiveness, cohesion, and command and control by the undermanned U.N. mission (half the strength of UNITAF, with some 20,000 personnel) and a series of armed clashes between U.S./U.N. forces and the SNA created a virtual state of war and undermined the effectiveness of the U.N. operation. Confusion over the dual-command relationship between the U.S. and UNOSOM II was another complicating factor, with a U.S. general officer serving as both the U.N. deputy forces commander and commander of U.S. forces. "
Through the summer it got worse and worse. US Marines returned AK AAA with 20mm fire, keeping the locals from attacking the Marines, then when the Pakistanis replaced Marines, the Pakistanis were ambushed and slaughtered. That brought in Delta and lead to the Day of the Rangers which killed 18 Americans and a thousand Somalis.
If the Clinton Administration had any experiance, they might have seen that the fight was out of Mog after the Day of the Rangers, but instead the Administration called for the pullout of Americans from Somalia under pressure from Congress.
The UN stayed in Somalia, supported by US ships and aircraft, but without ground troops. Finally in 1995 the UN pulled out of Somalia.
The arms in theatre on the Clan side were left overs from the Marxist government there. The arms on the American side would have been there no matter what.
The DoD doesn't buy extra M-4s for a peacekeeping action.
I honestly don't think "peace" is the best thing for each and every situation.
An example would be Panama. The government was corrupt, refused to allow the elected leaders take power, started to imprision people that spoke out and finally started to murder civilians and foriegn nationals. So when each and ever political card is played, a Government needs to have the tool of War.
Back to Somalia - Who on the American side made money?
United Technologies got to replace the UH-60s lost within the next couple years, so they made some money. The bandage makers and medical companies got to replenish the stocks for the US forces, so they made some money. The ammo makers got to make more ammo, but all in all, I don't think the arguement is there for the Somali situation and the Day of the Rangers being a textbook Military-Industrial-Complex driven conflict.
The Soviet Union sure didn't make a mint from suppling the Third-World with AKs and RPGs.
And no politician's campaign chest was emboldened by supporters of the Somali comapaign.
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Actually, Desert Shield took along time because M-1 tanks and M-2 APCs are fucking heavy and it takes along time to get them between Fort Hood Texas and Saudi Arabia.
A C-5A can only carry 1 M-1 at a time or 2 M-2s.
So to move a battalion to the Gulf it would take 14 C-5s for the M-1s. And 8 for the M-2s.
The US had to move 1.8 million tons of supplies to the Gulf before the war could start. And 126,000 vehicles and 350,000 tons of munitions.
Just not from Apple, but from third parties shipping the cards.
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USB 1.1 - Mac OS 8.6, 9.x or newer USB 2.0 - Mac OS X or newer
"USB 2.0 Hi-Speed support is only available on Mac OS X at this time. When running on Mac OS X systems, USB 2.0 Hi-Speed will have a data transfer rate of up to 480 Mbits/s (Hi-Speed). When running on the Mac OS 8.6 and Mac OS 9.x USB will have data transfer rates of 12Mb/s (Full-Speed) and 1.5Mb/s (Low-Speed) peripherals."
WP is currently used by the US and NATO for "marking targets".
Foreward Air Control OA-10 Warthogs, Kiowa Warriors, F-18s and other types use WP fired from 2.75 inch rockets to establish smoke on a target as a visual identifier for follow-on Close Air Support from fixed and rotary wing aircraft. WP is used because it burns well, and burns even in damp conditions.
"The X-15 was carried to an altitude of 12,000 meters (40,000 feet) under the wing of a Boeing B-52 bomber. During one test, it attained an altitude of over 108 kilometers (67 miles), flying so high that it functioned more as a spacecraft than an airplane. In 1967 it reached Mach 6.72 (7,297 kilometers or 4,534 miles per hour). "
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-60/ co ver.html
It's been covered time and time again that a car isn't subject to the same protections as a home.
When they put a black box under my Aeron Chair, then I'll be upset.
You show me where it says anything about cars, carriages, stagecoaches, veleocepeds, motorcycles, horses, goats, travois or buckboards in the Constitution, Decleration of Independance, Articles of Confederation or Magna Carta and then I'll see a point where this isn't right from that point of view.
Until then I will say again.
This is a bad idea, but it's not a Civil Rights issue.
Now I don't think this technology is a good idea, but comeon.
This has NOTHING to do with the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, nor does it have anything to do with the Articles of Confederation or Decleration of Independance.
You might be disillustioned, but try to keep this in context.
It's about technology working for the insurance companies and the police, not about civil rights.
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I saw a thing about how the 4 days of data were the 4 days where there was no commerical flights in the United States, and the people doing the work were tracking the effects from military transports (C-141, C-17, C-5, C-130). And since there were more defined single contrails they could look at the effect in a controled environment.
But I've not read this article, so I could be talking out my ass.
Only several billion dollars?
That is cheap.
The West-side Light Rail in Portland cost several billion dollars.
This is my two cents about Government funded work.
For every penny the government spends on a project like this, someone is getting work, a job, etc.
For the Light Rail in Portland, there are local survey teams, earthmovers, concreate people, electrical workers, artists, contractors all getting to work. The trains come from the Czech Republic, so we get to throw some money at them that should have gone there during the Marshall Plan.
It's not like welfare where the money goes into a blackhole.
And I think now that it's a good time for a state government like Florida's to spend some money on infrastructure, good lord they need it.
It's the perfect place for high speed trains. Throw up a couple new nuke plants for the power.
That would be like spilling a beer on the floor and having nanobots put it back togeather in my glass molecule by molecule in the exact same place it was.
I have a beer. I drink it. I urinate. The glass sits by the bowl. The bowl isn't flushed for 30 years. Then a nanobot is going to put it back togeather? And it's going to taste the same?
I really can't see that happening or being possible.
I looked over the stuff at Alcor, to me it looks like L Ron Hubbard stuff.
Even if nanotech pans out.
Dead tissue is dead tissue.
If nanotech pans out and scientists acquire better understanding of tomatos doesn't mean my red sauce is going to jump back on the vine and get bigger.
These people are idiots.
"Hogg is a member of Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the largest organization supplying cryonics services. When he dies, his body will be immediately packed in ice and flown to Scottsdale, Ariz., where his head will be surgically removed, injected with preservatives, placed in a large metal vat and cooled in liquid nitrogen. Hogg believes the sub-zero temperatures will preserve his mind -- thoughts, feelings, memories, knowledge -- until medical and scientific advances can bring him back to life."
If you loose bloodflow to the old Brain, you start to lose functionality up there.
So these idiots think that after they die, and pumped full of chemicals, then frozen, then thawed out someday and having future mojo done to them they will hve thoughts and feelings still?
Wow.
"No one can say whether it will work or not," Hogg said. "It's an unknown."
I know. It's not going to work Hogg.
Baseball in also popular in Mexico, Cuba and Japan.
The Boston Red Sox are also cursed by another dead baseball player.
Ted Williams dropped out of Baseball during the Korean War to fly fighters for the United States Marines, taking away from his baseball career.
So if I get frozen in North Korea it'll work?
Cryonics will fail in any society.
At this point in the evolution of the science.
"As long as the service of being cryogenically preserved is a commodity, unsubsidized by the government or most insurance, the rich, prominent, and powerful will be the people self selected to undergo the service. "
Then the rich, prominent and powerful will the be dumbasses sending Cryonics Salespeople's kids to Private schools and allowing the salespeople to buy better cars and homes.
I think we should outlaw cryonics the same way we go after quackery in the medical profession.
When someone wakes up and has a massivly inflated bankaccount and throws the World's Markets into chaos, we can talk about legislation and switching economic systems.
Must we make something that right now has a 100 percent failure rate a state supported medical service?
If we are making anything a state supported service, it should be the clipping of toe nails.
OK, now I know to wait till 2004 to get a 65 inch Misubishi.
Actually, I wish they would stay dead.
There was nothing less fun than having to find OEM Trident drivers for a crappy Windows 95A desktop.
Good lord how we hated on the board Trident video.
The contracts for hardware were in exsistance long before the Somali action started.
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The motives, well there are two main phases in the Somali operation that are very different.
1. Restore Hope - that was the support of the NGOs providing aid to the people in Somalia. A great book on this is Somalia on $5 a Day
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/08914174
Written by a 10th Division Major and it illustrates what modern peacekeeping is like. It also touches on post disaster operations in the United States following a hurricane and talks some about the Canadian problems in Somalia. Everything takes place outside of Mog.
2. Then in May of 1993 Continue Hope started. This moved the command from the United States to the United Nations. The UN decided to start Nation Building and wanted to use Somalia as the textbook writting testbed.
It was a failure.
"A lack of decisiveness, cohesion, and command and control by the undermanned U.N. mission (half the strength of UNITAF, with some 20,000 personnel) and a series of armed clashes between U.S./U.N. forces and the SNA created a virtual state of war and undermined the effectiveness of the U.N. operation. Confusion over the dual-command relationship between the U.S. and UNOSOM II was another complicating factor, with a U.S. general officer serving as both the U.N. deputy forces commander and commander of U.S. forces. "
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/continue_hop
Through the summer it got worse and worse. US Marines returned AK AAA with 20mm fire, keeping the locals from attacking the Marines, then when the Pakistanis replaced Marines, the Pakistanis were ambushed and slaughtered. That brought in Delta and lead to the Day of the Rangers which killed 18 Americans and a thousand Somalis.
If the Clinton Administration had any experiance, they might have seen that the fight was out of Mog after the Day of the Rangers, but instead the Administration called for the pullout of Americans from Somalia under pressure from Congress.
The UN stayed in Somalia, supported by US ships and aircraft, but without ground troops. Finally in 1995 the UN pulled out of Somalia.
Well in Somalia, no one really made any money.
Perhaps the NGOs providing aid to the region did.
The arms in theatre on the Clan side were left overs from the Marxist government there. The arms on the American side would have been there no matter what.
The DoD doesn't buy extra M-4s for a peacekeeping action.
I honestly don't think "peace" is the best thing for each and every situation.
An example would be Panama. The government was corrupt, refused to allow the elected leaders take power, started to imprision people that spoke out and finally started to murder civilians and foriegn nationals. So when each and ever political card is played, a Government needs to have the tool of War.
Back to Somalia - Who on the American side made money?
United Technologies got to replace the UH-60s lost within the next couple years, so they made some money. The bandage makers and medical companies got to replenish the stocks for the US forces, so they made some money. The ammo makers got to make more ammo, but all in all, I don't think the arguement is there for the Somali situation and the Day of the Rangers being a textbook Military-Industrial-Complex driven conflict.
The Soviet Union sure didn't make a mint from suppling the Third-World with AKs and RPGs.
And no politician's campaign chest was emboldened by supporters of the Somali comapaign.
You are correct sir.
I got all confusled.
So it's be even more trips of C-5s.
In the Desert Storm phase, M-1s were being airlifted, then a C-5 crashed in Germany because of a tired crew and from then on they were sealifted.
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Actually, Desert Shield took along time because M-1 tanks and M-2 APCs are fucking heavy and it takes along time to get them between Fort Hood Texas and Saudi Arabia.
A C-5A can only carry 1 M-1 at a time or 2 M-2s.
So to move a battalion to the Gulf it would take 14 C-5s for the M-1s. And 8 for the M-2s.
The US had to move 1.8 million tons of supplies to the Gulf before the war could start. And 126,000 vehicles and 350,000 tons of munitions.
The Gulf War's active phase lasted from Jan 17th to Feb 28th 1991. Other after actions happened up to Feb 2-3rd 1991.
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An example of a short modern war might be better illustrated in Grenada or Panama.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/urgent_fury.
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With the build up to Desert Storm, the Gulf War goes from August 2nd 1990 to Feb 28th 1991.
In Somalia no one "won".
The United States did pull out it's forces, but the United Nations Mission (Pakistan, Qatar, Italy) remained.
The United States Embassy remained.
By the Day of the Rangers, the United States was already starting a draw-down in the region.
The Somalia people lost, the Clans lost, the United Nations lost, the United States lost soldiers, the Canadians broke up it's Para Regiment.
There were no winners in that conflict.
It's alot quieter than the Deere tractors I've worked with.
Alot quiter than a Detroit or Cat diesel.
There is USB2.0 support in Mac OS X.
Just not from Apple, but from third parties shipping the cards.
http://www.orangemicro.com/OrangeUSBPCI.html
USB 1.1 - Mac OS 8.6, 9.x or newer
USB 2.0 - Mac OS X or newer
"USB 2.0 Hi-Speed support is only available on Mac OS X at this time. When running on Mac OS X systems, USB 2.0 Hi-Speed will have a data transfer rate of up to 480 Mbits/s (Hi-Speed). When running on the Mac OS 8.6 and Mac OS 9.x USB will have data transfer rates of 12Mb/s (Full-Speed) and 1.5Mb/s (Low-Speed) peripherals."
WP is currently used by the US and NATO for "marking targets".
Foreward Air Control OA-10 Warthogs, Kiowa Warriors, F-18s and other types use WP fired from 2.75 inch rockets to establish smoke on a target as a visual identifier for follow-on Close Air Support from fixed and rotary wing aircraft. WP is used because it burns well, and burns even in damp conditions.
You should be thinking instead about the X-15.
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http://www.x15.com/program.html
"The X-15 was carried to an altitude of 12,000 meters (40,000 feet) under the wing of a Boeing B-52 bomber. During one test, it attained an altitude of over 108 kilometers (67 miles), flying so high that it functioned more as a spacecraft than an airplane. In 1967 it reached Mach 6.72 (7,297 kilometers or 4,534 miles per hour). "
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-60
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/modern_flight/mf
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/x15a2.htm
It's been covered time and time again that a car isn't subject to the same protections as a home.
When they put a black box under my Aeron Chair, then I'll be upset.
You show me where it says anything about cars, carriages, stagecoaches, veleocepeds, motorcycles, horses, goats, travois or buckboards in the Constitution, Decleration of Independance, Articles of Confederation or Magna Carta and then I'll see a point where this isn't right from that point of view.
Until then I will say again.
This is a bad idea, but it's not a Civil Rights issue.
Now I don't think this technology is a good idea, but comeon.
This has NOTHING to do with the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, nor does it have anything to do with the Articles of Confederation or Decleration of Independance.
You might be disillustioned, but try to keep this in context.
It's about technology working for the insurance companies and the police, not about civil rights.
I imagine it won't be long till it's a standard feature on new cars.
I doubt it'll be retroactive to older cars, even seatbelt laws don't effect cars that didn't have them, nor did center tail-lights.
I imgine it'll be 2006 models that ship with this technology.
Another stupid Soandso Day.
Blah.
I get paid, that's thanks enough.
World would be better with no appreciation days.
Many German U-Boats were actually built for longer range missions.
Alot of operations took place around South America, the West Coast of Africa and even in the Indian Ocean.
The Germans also lacked radar detectors for centimeter wave radars until after 1943.