B-2A Spirits and F-22A Raptors do fly high, the B-2A has very high lift and low drag and it gets to 40,000 or 50,000 feet easily. I talked about the F-22A up above in a post.
The F-117A doesn't fly at nap of the earth, simply because it doesn't have radar to allow it to avoid the groud in front of it, and because it's high drag and low thrust.
The old F-111 Aardvarks did fly at very high speed at low altitude, but that was a swing-wing with huge engines and afterburners.
For things like laser guided bombs, normal bombs, air to surface missiles, you need some altitude to get some distance for your tosses and launches.
I'd argue about the "altitude has not been a viable defense since 1960 when Francis Gary Powers had his U-2 shot out from underneath him." Since the SR-71 was designed after that and it's high altitude, as is the replacement for the U-2, the TR-1, and the F-15 has very, very good high altitude abilities, as do the Russian Su-27, MiG-31 and to a lesser extent the F-18 and MiG-29.
If you are in a plane at altitude, it's much harder for the missile to get you if you have manouvered because the missile usually has used it's fuel during the boost stage and is now coasting. You also have more time to react, fire counter-measures and to move, while at low altitude, if a...ohh...SA-12 or Rapier gets you, you might hear a tone and look up, then the missile explodes.
If AA guns are useless against high flying aircraft, how did B-17s, B-29s and Lancasters get knocked down by German and Japanese flak during the second world war?
The F-22A is also about high altitude and high speed.
While the F-22 has a lower radar and infrared cross-section than most production aircraft, it hasn't sacrificed performance to gain that cross section like the F-117A did.
A recent piece by Jane's on the future of combat fighter tactics talks about advantages the F-22A has.
http://www.janes.com/aerospace/military/news/idr /i dr010529_1_n.shtml
"Earlier this year, F-22 chief test pilot Paul Metz confirmed that the F-22's speed and altitude capability acts as a booster stage for the common-or-garden AMRAAM. At M1.5 and at greater altitude than the target (the F-22 has a very fast climb rate and a service ceiling well above 50,000ft), AMRAAM's range is 50% greater than is the case in a subsonic, same-altitude launch."
Since the USAF and US Navy are working on a number of Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicle projects, that if succesful, will be used to replace the F-117A in the SEAD (Supression of Enemy Air Defences) role, that was demonstrated in Jan of 1991 during the Gulf War. Even with an ad hoc "stealth detector" it will be very hard to track and shoot down hordes of uninhabited LO aircraft and missiles intent on knocking out your air defence infrastructure.
In the Gulf War, the first wave of Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles carried strips of Mylar instead of explosives. These missiles blew up over substations and shorted them out, depriving the local radar a few moments of power till backups could be started, letting the F-117s and F-15Es through the air defences, I'm sure if someone comes up with another defence, planners will have a way to take them out to, a defence system is as only good as it's power source.
The Command and Control complexes would be good for data warehousing and other secure storage. Metal/pressure rated concreate about 60 feet down, with emergency escape route and it's isolated inside another structure so blasts and earthquakes won't disrupt it too much.
But silos wouldn't be. Most of the old silos in the US and Former Soviet Republics had thier lids removed for a spell (18 monthes) I think so that spy sats and "Open Sky" recon planes could fly over and make sure there were no missiles in there. The Russian flights over the US were conducted by Polish registered EC-135s and E-8s (Boeing 707s). Then the silos were blown up.
Some of the old silos (Titan IIs, and Minuteman I & IIs) were de-militarized before the START I treaty called for the measures listed above.
Some of the posters talked about the silos being below the water table. In western South Dakota, where I lived half a mile from a Minuteman II (that's 3 150 kiloton warheads and at least 5 Soviet warheads aimed at it) the watertable was at 330 feet down. Alot deeper than the silo was.
Of course your milage might vary on water table...but in the Dakotas and eastern Wyoming...those silos and Command and Control centers should be nice and dry.
Wow, milage does vary, because my Windows 98SE box was horrible. Crashing, memory leaks, and it was a bear to get Win98SE or NT 4 to install right with my Intel Pro10/100 NIC and my Soundblaster card.
But Win2000 installed just fine, and it's been more stable that Win 98. However, niether of them are close to OS X, like the article says.
The courts have ruled time and time again that not all speech is protected. For example, I can't yell fire in a crowed movie theatre. Nor can I publicly say things that are not true and will cause you physical/emotional/financial damage.
Spam email/voice mail/IM/Whatever are not constitutionally protected. 'Hot XXX girls and boys" is not speech, it's advertising and solicitation, both of which it's perfectly legal to block at the mail level and at the phone level. I have unsolicited caller block on my phone, am I infringing on the Right of Speech? No I am not.
Gun ownership is one thing, but no where in the Constitution and Bill of Rights do I see anything about Congress not infringing on one's right to advertise.
Maybe there's not been a strike at MS because...this is going to shock you.
They are not Unionized!
"How do you think you got your shiny new ride, and your cool apt. during our last big ecomomic boom? On the back of Microsoft. Whether you used their products or not, they legitimized client/server and internet development."
Actually I got my shiny new ride the same way my family has been getting them for the last 90 years, from wheat farming, and the prices havn't gotten better because of MS.
""I never use MS products, I only use blah-blah-blah to write software". What do you think the users that buy from your e-commerce store use? What do the IT drones that use your intranet apps use? That's right, suckas: Microsoft products."
The IT drones in my area use Linux/Novell/Apple. Sorry. But yes...I am posting this from IE 5 for the Mac...so you are right...Microsoft is as important, perhaps more important than the very Sun that gives Earth light.
As for Sun/Apple/IBM/Netscaple blowing it...no, unfair business practices from MS had nothing to do with the downfall of Java/Netscape/OS2...naw...nothing.
I think this model would work great if it allowed access to *every* song made. A SuperJukebox, or an Jukebox Super Highway if you will.
Heck, I'd even accept some copy protection on the songs from the JSH, if that means I could get songs from out of print, or pick songs from albums that I don't want.
But it's not going to be that easy, not at first. What this will do is kill Napster. Fine, Napster is alot like a 1850s abolitionist movement, in that they are doing something quasi-legal while calling it a right. Napster had a flawed model and it got into it with the Recording Industry, now it's draging out it's death. The sharing of files that you don't know any media of isn't legal in most of the Industrialized World at this time. That's the fact of it, and Napster was a conduit for piracy.
CmdrTaco says "the users pay you *and* for the bandwidth to share the songs they already bought"...That's not completely accurate. How many people that used Napster have downloaded something they don't own on a physical media? I know I have. That's against the rules in the current system, at least in the system that Napster argued about. Personally if I was Napster I would have yelled about that fair home use law, and the fact that monitoring the sharing of files is invasion of privacy, but no they didn't do that.
I've thought from the start that Napster should have cut a deal with the corps to be thier digital music distribution channel, but it didn't happen that way, instead the RIAA and Napster got nasty with each other and the Napster users are hurt.
But on the Good side, someone else will know not to make the same mistakes as Napster, and eventually, a stable file exchange system will develop.
I love the Mach 3. I also love my Panasonic bazzilon RPM wet/dry electric. But the blades/foils for my Panasonic go dull faster than my Mach 3.
Sure the blades for the Mach 3 are pricey, they were pricey on the Sensor too, but they last forever. I shave about 4 times a week (working in a basement lets me get by with scruffy) and my blades last about 3-4 monthes. Not only do they last forever, they do a good job shaving.
I seriously disagree with the "21st century arrogant westerner" label. A GPS reciever is only a tool, like a map.
Now, if you are clueless, even a GPS can't help you. Myself, I like a good map, because I almost always know which was in North. When I can convince my GF that we "need" a GPS, I'll get one, and in the mean time I will consider what it's going to do to my mind.
Other than being more background radiation, I doubt it will do much.
If you want quiet, get a Power Mac G4 and run OS X, OS X Server, SUSE for PPC or Yellow Dog Linux.
If you want *really* quiet, get an iMac or a G4 Cube and run any of the OSes listed above.
Since every Mac comes with Firewire now, you've got unlimited drive expandability even with the closed cases of the iMac or Cube. The Cube can take a Radeon card if you are in to gaming. The Cube and iMac can also take a gigabyte of RAM.
If you want really, really, really quiet, get a PowerBook G4 and slap a 19 or 21 inch CRT on it. I like the Mitsubishi 91
The ISS is research into how to construct massive modular constructs in low gravity.
I know thats hard for alot of people to understand, but thats what the ISS is, it's a test bed for future construction and components that will be used later on. If someday we wanted to send men to Mars, or large unmanned probes to the outer planets or nearby solar systems, there needs to be background knowledge of how to build these things in orbit.
(Yea, I know I said nearby solar systems and I know how long it'll take for probes to get there, but it is a recently stated "vision" of NASA that in the near future we will send probes to the nearby stars.)
Do you think the first Intel CPU fabs were cheap and easy to build? Do you think they were constructed on time and on budget? The IIS is like any new contruction, over budget and over time.
Yes, probes are cheaper, but there is something about having a human there...that can't be equaled by a mechanical probe.
As for Tito, he sounds like a typical rich SOB that didn't get the treatment he wanted on his vacation.
I'll play opera music and let him take pictures out my window and let him do the dishes at my place for alot less than 20 million dollars.
DaimlerChrysler isn't building and marketing the Unimog in the US for an SUV, it's a medium duty truck to compete with the Isuzu/General Motors medium duty truck.
I used an Unimog in Israel, one with a flat bed and a crane, nice work truck...but it's not SUV. They've been built since the early 50s and are really stout trucks. But the MB diesel in the Unimog, which will be the diesel in the new Dodge Ram trucks isn't near as nice as the Isuzu diesel that GM is putting in the new HD series Chevy and GM 2500/3500 trucks.
http://www.mercedes-benz.com/e/ecars/unimog/defa ul t.htm
In the US it's going to be sold through Freightliner...not the usual stop for the Soccer Mom looking for a truck.
Privacy is a right, privacy along goes hand in hand with Liberty, and Liberty is protected in the Constitution of the United States numerous times.
Had there been no Privacy, there could have been no Revolt against the United Kingdom in 1775.
As for the ownership of Firearms, yes, that too is a right, laid out in the Constitution of the United States as well. Any right held by a Democratic-Republic, even your right to life, has been "invented", most of them invented in the last 300 years. Like the right to vote, the right to own land, the right for women to vote, the right for women not to be bought and sold like livestock, the right not to be enslaved.
If you look upon the Bible for your basic rights, like in Genesis for example, you will not find many rights at all. Was there a right to life? No, there was not. Was there even freedom of worship? No, there was not.
While The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance, Liberty also must include Privacy, for every absolute government is at heart a tyranny, and only through privacy can the people avoid being ruled by a tyranny.
Well, theres a lot of documentation out there about the Fire, and nothing points to metor strikes.
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/fire.html
"The summer of 1871 was very dry, leaving the ground parched and the wooden city vulnerable. On Sunday evening, October 8, 1871, just after nine o'clock, a fire broke out in the barn behind the home of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary at 13 DeKoven Street. How the fire started is still unknown today, but an O'Leary cow often gets the credit. "
"And we have had a few, chicago fire killed a lot of people, and that was a bunch of small "meteor strikes accorss the whole midwest US, fires it caused killed a entire town in wisconson, someone remind me of the name, but the death count was over 1500. Estimated death count for all those areas involved in what is collectively called the great chicago fire is like 15,000 - 25,000. But I could be mixing facts on that one."
When? When did metor strikes across the midwest kill people?
Last I heard the Great Chicago Fire wasn't startd by a metor or Mrs. O'Leary's cow.
As for tunguska, I thought it was in a desolate part of Siberia, so far off the beaten path, it was monthes or years till it was investigated.
And the strike in the Saudi desert. The Wabar meteorite impact site in the Empty Quarter (Ar-Rub' Al-Khali) desert of Saudi Arabia was in 1863. And they don't call the Empty Quarter, the empty quarter because it's 3/4 empty, it's empty because no one lives there. I still think an average of 3,000 a year is very, very, very high for deaths by metor.
Perhaps the LS-120 didn't take off, because in my experiance with the LS-120 drives, they suck.
We started getting SuperDrives in 98 when the iMac came out, and they might last 3 monthes and then the drive was dead. And boy those drives were slow. Even reading old floppy drives...they were slow. We tried them for about a year, then gave up on them and started to buy cheap little VST floppy drives that didn't require a power brick like the SuperDrives.
The US Navy is still doing this. At the end of Blind Man's Bluff - upstairs somewhere, the author talks about the fact that a couple (2-3) Navy subs that have been specially modified with diving chambers keep getting Presidental Unit Citations for classified missions, every year. Since the Subs that first tapped these lines were specially modified and got PUCs for classified missions...the author suspects it's still going on.
I think the Navy also did it in the Barrets Sea to the north of Murmansk as well.
It's really interesting how the Navy thought to tap into cable. A Navy Officer remebered boating with his dad on the Mississippi and seeing signs that marked cable runs under water, so he talked head of Naval Operations into sending subs in to see if the Russians had the same sort of signs. They did and the rest is history.
I know this is off topic but I'd like to point some things out about how El Presidante "handled China".
First off, the recent fun with China happened because an American recon aircraft in International Airspace was intercepted by a reckless pilot and hit. Then as the aircraft radioed for emergency landing clearance, in accordance with numerous air transport treaties that the PRC and the USA have signed, the clearance was denied and then the crew was held.
Look here on Janes for some background
http://www.janes.com/defence/air_forces/news/mis c/ ep3_010518_1_n.shtml
Secondly - The PRC holds that everything in the South China Sea, including the Spratly Islands, which are closer to the Philippines. They also occupy the Paracel Islands which has been part of Vietnam since the early 1900s, and invaded Vietnam early in 1980, Afghanistan style...only to be beat back. So in short, the PRC is attempting Pacific expansion in the same way Japan did in the 1930s and early 40s. Taiwan is threatened with hundreds of short-range missiles, and the United States, and Europe if they took Taiwan's side are threatened with atomic weapons by China.
Lastly - The PRC is responsable for wildly violent outbursts against pro-Democracy, Islamic, Tibetian, or other religous groups that make Waco or even Kosovo and the airwar against Serbia look like picnics.
Bush...much as I dislike him, did a very good job with China, giving in to the demands of expansionist nations will never work, the world learned that after Chamberlin's 'Peace in our Time' speech.
That's me, being off topic.
On topic, I think the U.S. should set up a launching facility on the Atlantic Coast of Brazil, where we still have 40 some years on a WW2 lease...at...Natal I think it is. Where the planes in the 40s and 50s jumped from S.A to North Africa. So we'd be closer to the Equator. Maybe it'll happen after the FTAA happens.
I think it's a good idea, Apple and the others that invested in Samsung a few years ago (99 I think) will reap the rewards of thier investments.
I recall - can't remember where or provide a line - But I think that LCD production will surpass CRTs in '03-'04.
So I can buy LCDs from Apple and they are not selling CRTs...so what? That doesn't mean that every Macintosh has to come with one of those LCDs. There are convertors to hook up a standard CRT...like the 19" Mitsubishi I have on my G4 533.
Personally...I like the idea of one cable from my case to my screen...but I already had the CRT...so I didn't buy an LCD...
But flaming Apple for such a minor component change is just that, flaming them.
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B-2A Spirits and F-22A Raptors do fly high, the B-2A has very high lift and low drag and it gets to 40,000 or 50,000 feet easily. I talked about the F-22A up above in a post.
The F-117A doesn't fly at nap of the earth, simply because it doesn't have radar to allow it to avoid the groud in front of it, and because it's high drag and low thrust.
The old F-111 Aardvarks did fly at very high speed at low altitude, but that was a swing-wing with huge engines and afterburners.
For things like laser guided bombs, normal bombs, air to surface missiles, you need some altitude to get some distance for your tosses and launches.
I'd argue about the "altitude has not been a viable defense since 1960 when Francis Gary Powers had his U-2 shot out from underneath him." Since the SR-71 was designed after that and it's high altitude, as is the replacement for the U-2, the TR-1, and the F-15 has very, very good high altitude abilities, as do the Russian Su-27, MiG-31 and to a lesser extent the F-18 and MiG-29.
If you are in a plane at altitude, it's much harder for the missile to get you if you have manouvered because the missile usually has used it's fuel during the boost stage and is now coasting. You also have more time to react, fire counter-measures and to move, while at low altitude, if a...ohh...SA-12 or Rapier gets you, you might hear a tone and look up, then the missile explodes.
If AA guns are useless against high flying aircraft, how did B-17s, B-29s and Lancasters get knocked down by German and Japanese flak during the second world war?
The F-22A isn't just about stealth.
r /i dr010529_1_n.shtml
The F-22A is also about high altitude and high speed.
While the F-22 has a lower radar and infrared cross-section than most production aircraft, it hasn't sacrificed performance to gain that cross section like the F-117A did.
A recent piece by Jane's on the future of combat fighter tactics talks about advantages the F-22A has.
http://www.janes.com/aerospace/military/news/id
"Earlier this year, F-22 chief test pilot Paul Metz confirmed that the F-22's speed and altitude capability acts as a booster stage for the common-or-garden AMRAAM. At M1.5 and at greater altitude than the target (the F-22 has a very fast climb rate and a service ceiling well above 50,000ft), AMRAAM's range is 50% greater than is the case in a subsonic, same-altitude launch."
Since the USAF and US Navy are working on a number of Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicle projects, that if succesful, will be used to replace the F-117A in the SEAD (Supression of Enemy Air Defences) role, that was demonstrated in Jan of 1991 during the Gulf War. Even with an ad hoc "stealth detector" it will be very hard to track and shoot down hordes of uninhabited LO aircraft and missiles intent on knocking out your air defence infrastructure.
In the Gulf War, the first wave of Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles carried strips of Mylar instead of explosives. These missiles blew up over substations and shorted them out, depriving the local radar a few moments of power till backups could be started, letting the F-117s and F-15Es through the air defences, I'm sure if someone comes up with another defence, planners will have a way to take them out to, a defence system is as only good as it's power source.
The Command and Control complexes would be good for data warehousing and other secure storage. Metal/pressure rated concreate about 60 feet down, with emergency escape route and it's isolated inside another structure so blasts and earthquakes won't disrupt it too much.
But silos wouldn't be. Most of the old silos in the US and Former Soviet Republics had thier lids removed for a spell (18 monthes) I think so that spy sats and "Open Sky" recon planes could fly over and make sure there were no missiles in there. The Russian flights over the US were conducted by Polish registered EC-135s and E-8s (Boeing 707s). Then the silos were blown up.
Some of the old silos (Titan IIs, and Minuteman I & IIs) were de-militarized before the START I treaty called for the measures listed above.
Some of the posters talked about the silos being below the water table. In western South Dakota, where I lived half a mile from a Minuteman II (that's 3 150 kiloton warheads and at least 5 Soviet warheads aimed at it) the watertable was at 330 feet down. Alot deeper than the silo was.
Of course your milage might vary on water table...but in the Dakotas and eastern Wyoming...those silos and Command and Control centers should be nice and dry.
Wow, milage does vary, because my Windows 98SE box was horrible. Crashing, memory leaks, and it was a bear to get Win98SE or NT 4 to install right with my Intel Pro10/100 NIC and my Soundblaster card.
But Win2000 installed just fine, and it's been more stable that Win 98. However, niether of them are close to OS X, like the article says.
The courts have ruled time and time again that not all speech is protected. For example, I can't yell fire in a crowed movie theatre. Nor can I publicly say things that are not true and will cause you physical/emotional/financial damage.
Spam email/voice mail/IM/Whatever are not constitutionally protected. 'Hot XXX girls and boys" is not speech, it's advertising and solicitation, both of which it's perfectly legal to block at the mail level and at the phone level. I have unsolicited caller block on my phone, am I infringing on the Right of Speech? No I am not.
Gun ownership is one thing, but no where in the Constitution and Bill of Rights do I see anything about Congress not infringing on one's right to advertise.
Maybe there's not been a strike at MS because...this is going to shock you.
They are not Unionized!
"How do you think you got your shiny new ride, and your cool apt. during our last big ecomomic boom? On the back of Microsoft. Whether you used their products or not, they legitimized client/server and internet development."
Actually I got my shiny new ride the same way my family has been getting them for the last 90 years, from wheat farming, and the prices havn't gotten better because of MS.
""I never use MS products, I only use blah-blah-blah to write software". What do you think the users that buy from your e-commerce store use? What do the IT drones that use your intranet apps use? That's right, suckas: Microsoft products."
The IT drones in my area use Linux/Novell/Apple. Sorry. But yes...I am posting this from IE 5 for the Mac...so you are right...Microsoft is as important, perhaps more important than the very Sun that gives Earth light.
As for Sun/Apple/IBM/Netscaple blowing it...no, unfair business practices from MS had nothing to do with the downfall of Java/Netscape/OS2...naw...nothing.
I think this model would work great if it allowed access to *every* song made. A SuperJukebox, or an Jukebox Super Highway if you will.
Heck, I'd even accept some copy protection on the songs from the JSH, if that means I could get songs from out of print, or pick songs from albums that I don't want.
But it's not going to be that easy, not at first. What this will do is kill Napster. Fine, Napster is alot like a 1850s abolitionist movement, in that they are doing something quasi-legal while calling it a right. Napster had a flawed model and it got into it with the Recording Industry, now it's draging out it's death. The sharing of files that you don't know any media of isn't legal in most of the Industrialized World at this time. That's the fact of it, and Napster was a conduit for piracy.
CmdrTaco says "the users pay you *and* for the bandwidth to share the songs they already bought"...That's not completely accurate. How many people that used Napster have downloaded something they don't own on a physical media? I know I have. That's against the rules in the current system, at least in the system that Napster argued about. Personally if I was Napster I would have yelled about that fair home use law, and the fact that monitoring the sharing of files is invasion of privacy, but no they didn't do that.
I've thought from the start that Napster should have cut a deal with the corps to be thier digital music distribution channel, but it didn't happen that way, instead the RIAA and Napster got nasty with each other and the Napster users are hurt.
But on the Good side, someone else will know not to make the same mistakes as Napster, and eventually, a stable file exchange system will develop.
I love the Mach 3. I also love my Panasonic bazzilon RPM wet/dry electric. But the blades/foils for my Panasonic go dull faster than my Mach 3.
Sure the blades for the Mach 3 are pricey, they were pricey on the Sensor too, but they last forever. I shave about 4 times a week (working in a basement lets me get by with scruffy) and my blades last about 3-4 monthes. Not only do they last forever, they do a good job shaving.
I seriously disagree with the "21st century arrogant westerner" label. A GPS reciever is only a tool, like a map.
Now, if you are clueless, even a GPS can't help you. Myself, I like a good map, because I almost always know which was in North. When I can convince my GF that we "need" a GPS, I'll get one, and in the mean time I will consider what it's going to do to my mind.
Other than being more background radiation, I doubt it will do much.
If you want quiet, get a Power Mac G4 and run OS X, OS X Server, SUSE for PPC or Yellow Dog Linux.
If you want *really* quiet, get an iMac or a G4 Cube and run any of the OSes listed above.
Since every Mac comes with Firewire now, you've got unlimited drive expandability even with the closed cases of the iMac or Cube. The Cube can take a Radeon card if you are in to gaming. The Cube and iMac can also take a gigabyte of RAM.
If you want really, really, really quiet, get a PowerBook G4 and slap a 19 or 21 inch CRT on it. I like the Mitsubishi 91
http://www.apple.com/powermac/
http://www.apple.com/imac/
http://www.apple.com/powermaccube/
http://www.apple.com/powerbook/
The ISS is research into how to construct massive modular constructs in low gravity.
I know thats hard for alot of people to understand, but thats what the ISS is, it's a test bed for future construction and components that will be used later on. If someday we wanted to send men to Mars, or large unmanned probes to the outer planets or nearby solar systems, there needs to be background knowledge of how to build these things in orbit.
(Yea, I know I said nearby solar systems and I know how long it'll take for probes to get there, but it is a recently stated "vision" of NASA that in the near future we will send probes to the nearby stars.)
Do you think the first Intel CPU fabs were cheap and easy to build? Do you think they were constructed on time and on budget? The IIS is like any new contruction, over budget and over time.
Yes, probes are cheaper, but there is something about having a human there...that can't be equaled by a mechanical probe.
As for Tito, he sounds like a typical rich SOB that didn't get the treatment he wanted on his vacation.
I'll play opera music and let him take pictures out my window and let him do the dishes at my place for alot less than 20 million dollars.
I'd rather have one with a Duramax 6600.
300 HP and 520 ft/lbs stock with a turbocharger.
Now the Dodges are going to loose thier Cummins Turbodiesels in favor of a DC diesel, not too sure about that, Cummins makes a really good engine.
I don't think the Unimog I used ever made it above 45 though. It was sweet off the road though.
Used one to haul around beehives in Northern Israel in '94.
I see it used in the place of "War Wagons", Suburbans and Excursions with armor plate and armored glass used for VIP operations, prisoner transport.
It could also be used in a patrol mode similar to what the Hummers do in urban areas.
These vehicles would be used in low intensity areas or the rear. Places like Kosovo now, or Somolia in the early 90s.
DaimlerChrysler isn't building and marketing the Unimog in the US for an SUV, it's a medium duty truck to compete with the Isuzu/General Motors medium duty truck.
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I used an Unimog in Israel, one with a flat bed and a crane, nice work truck...but it's not SUV. They've been built since the early 50s and are really stout trucks. But the MB diesel in the Unimog, which will be the diesel in the new Dodge Ram trucks isn't near as nice as the Isuzu diesel that GM is putting in the new HD series Chevy and GM 2500/3500 trucks.
http://www.mercedes-benz.com/e/ecars/unimog/def
In the US it's going to be sold through Freightliner...not the usual stop for the Soccer Mom looking for a truck.
Privacy is a right, privacy along goes hand in hand with Liberty, and Liberty is protected in the Constitution of the United States numerous times.
Had there been no Privacy, there could have been no Revolt against the United Kingdom in 1775.
As for the ownership of Firearms, yes, that too is a right, laid out in the Constitution of the United States as well. Any right held by a Democratic-Republic, even your right to life, has been "invented", most of them invented in the last 300 years. Like the right to vote, the right to own land, the right for women to vote, the right for women not to be bought and sold like livestock, the right not to be enslaved.
If you look upon the Bible for your basic rights, like in Genesis for example, you will not find many rights at all. Was there a right to life? No, there was not. Was there even freedom of worship? No, there was not.
While The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance, Liberty also must include Privacy, for every absolute government is at heart a tyranny, and only through privacy can the people avoid being ruled by a tyranny.
Well, theres a lot of documentation out there about the Fire, and nothing points to metor strikes.
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/fire.html
"The summer of 1871 was very dry, leaving the ground parched and the wooden city vulnerable. On Sunday evening, October 8, 1871, just after nine o'clock, a fire broke out in the barn behind the home of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary at 13 DeKoven Street. How the fire started is still unknown today, but an O'Leary cow often gets the credit. "
"And we have had a few, chicago fire killed a lot of people, and that was a bunch of small "meteor strikes accorss the whole midwest US, fires it caused killed a entire town in wisconson, someone remind me of the name, but the death count was over 1500. Estimated death count for all those areas involved in what is collectively called the great chicago fire is like 15,000 - 25,000. But I could be mixing facts on that one."
When? When did metor strikes across the midwest kill people?
Last I heard the Great Chicago Fire wasn't startd by a metor or Mrs. O'Leary's cow.
As for tunguska, I thought it was in a desolate part of Siberia, so far off the beaten path, it was monthes or years till it was investigated.
And the strike in the Saudi desert. The Wabar meteorite impact site in the Empty Quarter (Ar-Rub' Al-Khali) desert of Saudi Arabia was in 1863. And they don't call the Empty Quarter, the empty quarter because it's 3/4 empty, it's empty because no one lives there. I still think an average of 3,000 a year is very, very, very high for deaths by metor.
When in the last...oh...thousand years have even 1,000 people died from a metorite strike on year?
Personally, I find your figure of 300,000 dying each cenury a little far fetched.
Unless you are counting all the dinosaurs that geeked it when the Big One hit back in 65,000,000 B.C.E.
Perhaps the LS-120 didn't take off, because in my experiance with the LS-120 drives, they suck.
We started getting SuperDrives in 98 when the iMac came out, and they might last 3 monthes and then the drive was dead. And boy those drives were slow. Even reading old floppy drives...they were slow. We tried them for about a year, then gave up on them and started to buy cheap little VST floppy drives that didn't require a power brick like the SuperDrives.
The biggest construction project ever was the US Interstate highway system.
As for importance, the Great Wall of China didn't really do much to stem the tide of the northern hordes it was to stop.
The US Navy is still doing this. At the end of Blind Man's Bluff - upstairs somewhere, the author talks about the fact that a couple (2-3) Navy subs that have been specially modified with diving chambers keep getting Presidental Unit Citations for classified missions, every year. Since the Subs that first tapped these lines were specially modified and got PUCs for classified missions...the author suspects it's still going on.
I think the Navy also did it in the Barrets Sea to the north of Murmansk as well.
It's really interesting how the Navy thought to tap into cable. A Navy Officer remebered boating with his dad on the Mississippi and seeing signs that marked cable runs under water, so he talked head of Naval Operations into sending subs in to see if the Russians had the same sort of signs. They did and the rest is history.
I know this is off topic but I'd like to point some things out about how El Presidante "handled China".
s c/ ep3_010518_1_n.shtml
First off, the recent fun with China happened because an American recon aircraft in International Airspace was intercepted by a reckless pilot and hit. Then as the aircraft radioed for emergency landing clearance, in accordance with numerous air transport treaties that the PRC and the USA have signed, the clearance was denied and then the crew was held.
Look here on Janes for some background
http://www.janes.com/defence/air_forces/news/mi
Secondly - The PRC holds that everything in the South China Sea, including the Spratly Islands, which are closer to the Philippines. They also occupy the Paracel Islands which has been part of Vietnam since the early 1900s, and invaded Vietnam early in 1980, Afghanistan style...only to be beat back. So in short, the PRC is attempting Pacific expansion in the same way Japan did in the 1930s and early 40s. Taiwan is threatened with hundreds of short-range missiles, and the United States, and Europe if they took Taiwan's side are threatened with atomic weapons by China.
Lastly - The PRC is responsable for wildly violent outbursts against pro-Democracy, Islamic, Tibetian, or other religous groups that make Waco or even Kosovo and the airwar against Serbia look like picnics.
Bush...much as I dislike him, did a very good job with China, giving in to the demands of expansionist nations will never work, the world learned that after Chamberlin's 'Peace in our Time' speech.
That's me, being off topic.
On topic, I think the U.S. should set up a launching facility on the Atlantic Coast of Brazil, where we still have 40 some years on a WW2 lease...at...Natal I think it is. Where the planes in the 40s and 50s jumped from S.A to North Africa. So we'd be closer to the Equator. Maybe it'll happen after the FTAA happens.
Actually the Ariane launches from CSG (Centre Spatial Guyanais) Kourou, French Guiana. That's on the north coast of South America.
"While Apple will not be offering branded CRT displays from this point forward, displays from third parites will still be available from Apple Store."
"Yucko".
I think it's a good idea, Apple and the others that invested in Samsung a few years ago (99 I think) will reap the rewards of thier investments.
I recall - can't remember where or provide a line - But I think that LCD production will surpass CRTs in '03-'04.
So I can buy LCDs from Apple and they are not selling CRTs...so what? That doesn't mean that every Macintosh has to come with one of those LCDs. There are convertors to hook up a standard CRT...like the 19" Mitsubishi I have on my G4 533.
Personally...I like the idea of one cable from my case to my screen...but I already had the CRT...so I didn't buy an LCD...
But flaming Apple for such a minor component change is just that, flaming them.