They also took Guam, Wake, the Phillipines. Which are/were US soil.
But no one has been on the Contiental US since 1814. Well, there were British forces up in Washington state before the boarder was decided in the 1840s...but that wasn't really a war.
There were some German agents landed on the East Coast in WW2, Japanese aircraft, Subs and Ballons did attack the West Coast in WW2, and alot of ships were sunk off the East Coast and Gulf Coast in WW2 as well.
There was a bit on/. about it back in December, but I'm too lazy to look it up. The Shuttle took up some of those Panasonic mini-DVD players that had been hacked by a company in the UK to accept any region and bypass the FBI warning and all kinds of good stuff like that.
In the logs you;ll see a comment about how much better DVD is than the Video CDs they had been watching.
This was IMHO a dumb question, but I'm bored...and I'll jump in.
Civil Rights? They'd have none because...
(Assuming they end up in the US)
1. They are not a US Citizen
2. Thier "government" has not signed any UN, ICJ or World Court agreements that establish Civil or Human Rights that the US has signed.
Same pretty much goes wherever the alien ends up. In China? They'd imprison it, find it guilty and sell the organs to the highest bidder.
So wheel that critter on in and let's alien autopsy his/her/it's ass.
If this was a mission on a Russian rocket, then the Russians could launch whomever they wanted.
It's not. It's an American launch system, funded by Americans. The mission is a joint US/Canadian/Russian mission. Two of the three partners are against this payload, one of the partners owns the launch system and then other partner has one billion dollars worth of hardware going up.
Two to one vote...the payload should not go. This should not even be an arguement. If the Russians are so fired up to get this man in space, they should have contacted all the partners involved in the ISS long ago and figured out a plan. But they didn't. Too bad.
Sure it's fair, with enough engineering it would be possable to make software that has no bugs.
Look at the flight control software for military aircraft and spacecraft. In the Apollo days the number of bugs in the Lunar Module software could be counted on one hand and the astronauts knew what they were and the work arounds.
How many F-16s, F-22s, B-1Bs, F-117s, Airbuses, etc have been lost to software issues?
The only ones I know of were the two Saab Grippin and the second F-22A prototype that had landing software issues...that have been fixed. Has the software on Galileo crashed yet since it was launched in 1989? Nope.
Bugless software can be written, it's just that engineers and marketing don't care enough for the end user to make something that doesn't crash.
I think part of the problem is that people don't like to think that innovation takes time.
You talk about UNIX evolving slowly, but look at the Auto and the Airplane. All three are from the 20th Century...yes there were some earlier auto examples, but for the most part nothing really happened until 1898 on...so I'll say the 20th Century.
The Auto - Very slow development until Ford, revolutionized the entire industral system. So a good 20 years with slow evolution.
The Airplane - From 1903 until 1915 really very little was done with the airplane. Sure it could fly up to 150 miles per hour and cross the English Channel or the Alps, but it was still *very* dangerous and impractical. But between the wars airplanes started to evolve, by 1940 most of the world's airforces had mono-planes, although most still used biplanes till the end of the war (Germany, UK, USSR, Japan, US). But that's a full 37 years after the first flight. 37 years to go from Kitty Hawk to 400 miles an hour. Even during the war, US and British crews had to stop for fuel during Atlantic crossings, nearly 20 years after Lindberg flew non-stop.
Technology has always evolved slowly, look at handguns, the best designed handgun in the history of firearms was designed before the first world war and "prefected" in 1911. Not much has happened with that in 90 years.
The capitalization of Technology hasn't slown it down, it's always been slow.
The German Army first neared Moscow in October of 1941, on 19 October a state of seige was declared in Moscow by the Soviert Government. The 4th Armored Brigade, armed with T-34 tanks stopped General Guderian south of Moscow, and then the Winter came on, slowing the Germans further and allowing the Far East troops to be brought west from Siberia and they re-enforced the Soviet Army.
General Hoth and the German 7th Panzer Divison made it within 20 miles of Moscow.
The Germans did have enough men to strike at the North, Center and South of the Russian Front. They didn't have enough men to win the War though.
The fires at the end of the Gulf War were caused by explosives being sent off at the top of the well, then the pressurized oil and gas went through the explosion and that caused a self fueling fire. The oil deep underground wasn't on fire, nor was the gas. The well fires were all put out by those boys from Texas that have been doing that kind of thing since the 50s. So rent John Wayne in the Hellfighters and see how it's done, the Texas firm that does that...Halliburton I think it is, were technical advisors on the John Wayne film.
Sealand might be a Fort...but if the UK government really wanted them shut down. Either the SAS would go in and kill everyone in there before they got out of bed...or some RN Harriers would just start to pepper the place with Mavericks and 30mm Cannon fire. Hell if the RN doesn't want to spend the money on Mavericks...a RN Frigate could just shell the place with 76mm naval gun fire from about 8 km away.
Either way...if the UK really wanted the place...it would be thiers. No firearms that the squatters on Sealand have will stop that.
Actually, I'm a pretty decent shot with either a Mossberg 590, Glock Model 22, Uzi Eagle.40 or a BFG.
So maybe you should stop trolling here...go teach some IT classes at Bob Jones U and stop generalizing geeks as pizza eating Quake fiends that don't get out much.
Sure, microwaves could hose all the CD-ROMs laying around outside, but not the ones in...metal cabinets, not to mention all the CDs stored in those data archives in the mountains of Utah and the salt mines outside of St. Louis (in that big warehouse that has the huge US Post Office sorting center...it was on the Discovery Channel) or the salt mines up in the Rust Belt and the salt mines down in Texas and Lousiana.
But what would fry ALL the CD-ROMs and HDs and CD-ROM drives and MO drives and Orb and Jaz...Zip drives have the click of death...they'll die before anythnig nukes them...what will fry all of those media that won't kill all the people that'll want to access the media?
Just because microwave ovens came from military radar...does that make the food you cooked in there...tainted some how?
Nope, it doesn't. But there is a taint in some people's minds because they have forgotten that the freedom that people in North America, Russian, Western and Eastern Europe enjoy was defended through the force of arms and military technology.
Wow. Alot of people think this is the right thing to do...go Genetic Screening! Yea for big business!
You don't know why this is bad? Because...it's a slippery slope, that's why.
Discrimination against race is wrong...right? Or did the whole demographic of/. change while I was at Chevy's this afternoon. Well...if discrimination against race is wrong...how can discrimination against genetics be right?
This is about a company testing people for a gene...do any of the people here cheering this on have any idea what might happen if this practice spreads?
Genetic testing to see if you might be an alcoholic and then denyed a drivers licence if you are. Genetic testing to see if you might have addictions to drugs and then increased police monitoring. Genetic testing to see if you might get cancer and denial of a job or health benifits.
Is it right to deny people of african ancestory jobs in cold weather conditions because of inceased risk of frostbite? No. of course not. Then why is it alright to start to deny people things because of other genetic traits? Today it's a minor insurance issue...tomarrow it will be a far, far greater issue.
The US developed and droped nuclear weapons because of a things called the Second World War. Might want to look that up. And remeber that dropping the Bomb saved lives there.
The US, UK, China, Soviet Union, France, South Africa, Israel, and India have all done above ground testing. Not just the US.
The US had an Arms Race with the Soviet Union...you can't race by yourself. French and Brits did pretty good there too. Let's not forget that Pakistan and India have also had a nice little arms race too. Again...not just the US.
India has been launching satilites for years...since the 70s...this is nothing new. But it's not really far to do a US-Bash here.
A MIRV from a US ICBM or SLBM, isn't "REALLY" big. They are about 4 feet long.
"As the design of the Mk 5 reentry was developed, the change to a shape stable nosetip (SSNT) was established. The nose of the Mk 4 reentry vehicle was boron carbide-coated graphite material. The Mk 5 nose has a metallated center core with carbon/carbon material, forming the rest of the nosetip ("plug"). The metallated center core will ablate at a faster rate than the carbon/carbon parent material on the outer portion of the nosetip. This will result in a blunt, more-symmetrical shape change with less of a tendency to drift and, consequently, a more-accurate and more-reliable system."
There was some talk a while ago about some of the MIRVs in US Navy SLBMs not having nuclear warheads, would it be possible to remove the nuclear bits and use a warhead like this as a kenetic kill system? How much damage would a 200-300 pound warhead do if it was dropped from 700,000 feet?
"The world's biggest hard disk drive company is to be created, through the takeover of Quantum's HDD business by Maxtor.
Constructed as a merger, the all-share transaction will see Quantun's HDD stockholders receive 1.52 shares of Maxtor common stock for every one share they hold in Quantum. This values the deal at $2.3 billion.
The enlarged business, to be named Maxtor
Corporation, produces more than 50 million hard drives a year."
These times seemed slow, of course they were all strange things...not letters or packages.
I can send a package from Portland OR, to little towns in central South Dakota that are way off in the middle of no-where in 2-4 days depending on what part of the year it is (snow and things slow down the mail). That's about 2100 km away.
There are different Priorities that cost different amounts of money. Over Christmas, most of the packages I sent to South Dakota or Florida on a Friday were delivered on the following Monday or Tuesday.
If I send a package from Portland to Denver Colorado (which has a huge airport), I can send the package by 7pm and it will be delivered by 9am the next day.
If you want to look for Paradigms - http://www.paradigm.ca/Website/Dealers/WebDealerLi st/dealerlocate.taf - There is the link for thier dealer locator.
I have a Denon AVR-2700 reciver to go with my Paradigms.
Mini Monitors or Monitor 3s and a CC-370 Center Channel will be good.
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Japan took three islands in the Aleutians in WW2.
They also took Guam, Wake, the Phillipines. Which are/were US soil.
But no one has been on the Contiental US since 1814. Well, there were British forces up in Washington state before the boarder was decided in the 1840s...but that wasn't really a war.
There were some German agents landed on the East Coast in WW2, Japanese aircraft, Subs and Ballons did attack the West Coast in WW2, and alot of ships were sunk off the East Coast and Gulf Coast in WW2 as well.
They do.
/. about it back in December, but I'm too lazy to look it up. The Shuttle took up some of those Panasonic mini-DVD players that had been hacked by a company in the UK to accept any region and bypass the FBI warning and all kinds of good stuff like that.
There was a bit on
In the logs you;ll see a comment about how much better DVD is than the Video CDs they had been watching.
Velcro.
Exactly how would Velcro keep a washer from flying around?
This was IMHO a dumb question, but I'm bored...and I'll jump in.
Civil Rights? They'd have none because...
(Assuming they end up in the US)
1. They are not a US Citizen
2. Thier "government" has not signed any UN, ICJ or World Court agreements that establish Civil or Human Rights that the US has signed.
Same pretty much goes wherever the alien ends up. In China? They'd imprison it, find it guilty and sell the organs to the highest bidder.
So wheel that critter on in and let's alien autopsy his/her/it's ass.
If this was a mission on a Russian rocket, then the Russians could launch whomever they wanted.
It's not. It's an American launch system, funded by Americans. The mission is a joint US/Canadian/Russian mission. Two of the three partners are against this payload, one of the partners owns the launch system and then other partner has one billion dollars worth of hardware going up.
Two to one vote...the payload should not go. This should not even be an arguement. If the Russians are so fired up to get this man in space, they should have contacted all the partners involved in the ISS long ago and figured out a plan. But they didn't. Too bad.
This won't help the signals in urban centers because the aircraft will not be allowed to orbit directly overhead in tight circles.
The FAA won't allow it in the US.
Sure it's fair, with enough engineering it would be possable to make software that has no bugs.
Look at the flight control software for military aircraft and spacecraft. In the Apollo days the number of bugs in the Lunar Module software could be counted on one hand and the astronauts knew what they were and the work arounds.
How many F-16s, F-22s, B-1Bs, F-117s, Airbuses, etc have been lost to software issues?
The only ones I know of were the two Saab Grippin and the second F-22A prototype that had landing software issues...that have been fixed. Has the software on Galileo crashed yet since it was launched in 1989? Nope.
Bugless software can be written, it's just that engineers and marketing don't care enough for the end user to make something that doesn't crash.
I think part of the problem is that people don't like to think that innovation takes time.
You talk about UNIX evolving slowly, but look at the Auto and the Airplane. All three are from the 20th Century...yes there were some earlier auto examples, but for the most part nothing really happened until 1898 on...so I'll say the 20th Century.
The Auto - Very slow development until Ford, revolutionized the entire industral system. So a good 20 years with slow evolution.
The Airplane - From 1903 until 1915 really very little was done with the airplane. Sure it could fly up to 150 miles per hour and cross the English Channel or the Alps, but it was still *very* dangerous and impractical. But between the wars airplanes started to evolve, by 1940 most of the world's airforces had mono-planes, although most still used biplanes till the end of the war (Germany, UK, USSR, Japan, US). But that's a full 37 years after the first flight. 37 years to go from Kitty Hawk to 400 miles an hour. Even during the war, US and British crews had to stop for fuel during Atlantic crossings, nearly 20 years after Lindberg flew non-stop.
Technology has always evolved slowly, look at handguns, the best designed handgun in the history of firearms was designed before the first world war and "prefected" in 1911. Not much has happened with that in 90 years.
The capitalization of Technology hasn't slown it down, it's always been slow.
That's not accurate.
http://www.feldgrau.com/oob44.html
I count 58 Divisions - Panzer, Infantry, Reserve, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS.
And the siege of Leningrad lasted 3 years, not six.
The German Army first neared Moscow in October of 1941, on 19 October a state of seige was declared in Moscow by the Soviert Government. The 4th Armored Brigade, armed with T-34 tanks stopped General Guderian south of Moscow, and then the Winter came on, slowing the Germans further and allowing the Far East troops to be brought west from Siberia and they re-enforced the Soviet Army.
General Hoth and the German 7th Panzer Divison made it within 20 miles of Moscow.
The Germans did have enough men to strike at the North, Center and South of the Russian Front. They didn't have enough men to win the War though.
The fires at the end of the Gulf War were caused by explosives being sent off at the top of the well, then the pressurized oil and gas went through the explosion and that caused a self fueling fire. The oil deep underground wasn't on fire, nor was the gas. The well fires were all put out by those boys from Texas that have been doing that kind of thing since the 50s. So rent John Wayne in the Hellfighters and see how it's done, the Texas firm that does that...Halliburton I think it is, were technical advisors on the John Wayne film.
Sealand might be a Fort...but if the UK government really wanted them shut down. Either the SAS would go in and kill everyone in there before they got out of bed...or some RN Harriers would just start to pepper the place with Mavericks and 30mm Cannon fire. Hell if the RN doesn't want to spend the money on Mavericks...a RN Frigate could just shell the place with 76mm naval gun fire from about 8 km away.
Either way...if the UK really wanted the place...it would be thiers. No firearms that the squatters on Sealand have will stop that.
"But in practice, judges are going to want to rule for the noble music industry against the evil music pirates."
Thats a pretty bold blanket statement, and it's not true.
Actually, I'm a pretty decent shot with either a Mossberg 590, Glock Model 22, Uzi Eagle .40 or a BFG.
So maybe you should stop trolling here...go teach some IT classes at Bob Jones U and stop generalizing geeks as pizza eating Quake fiends that don't get out much.
Sure, microwaves could hose all the CD-ROMs laying around outside, but not the ones in...metal cabinets, not to mention all the CDs stored in those data archives in the mountains of Utah and the salt mines outside of St. Louis (in that big warehouse that has the huge US Post Office sorting center...it was on the Discovery Channel) or the salt mines up in the Rust Belt and the salt mines down in Texas and Lousiana.
But what would fry ALL the CD-ROMs and HDs and CD-ROM drives and MO drives and Orb and Jaz...Zip drives have the click of death...they'll die before anythnig nukes them...what will fry all of those media that won't kill all the people that'll want to access the media?
Quicktime is a hell of a lot better than RealPlayer.
RealPlayer doesn't work right on Mac or Windows...and the UI of RealPlayer is way, way, way worse than QT.
So what if a development comes from military R&D?
Just because microwave ovens came from military radar...does that make the food you cooked in there...tainted some how?
Nope, it doesn't. But there is a taint in some people's minds because they have forgotten that the freedom that people in North America, Russian, Western and Eastern Europe enjoy was defended through the force of arms and military technology.
Wow. Alot of people think this is the right thing to do...go Genetic Screening! Yea for big business!
/. change while I was at Chevy's this afternoon. Well...if discrimination against race is wrong...how can discrimination against genetics be right?
You don't know why this is bad? Because...it's a slippery slope, that's why.
Discrimination against race is wrong...right? Or did the whole demographic of
This is about a company testing people for a gene...do any of the people here cheering this on have any idea what might happen if this practice spreads?
Genetic testing to see if you might be an alcoholic and then denyed a drivers licence if you are. Genetic testing to see if you might have addictions to drugs and then increased police monitoring. Genetic testing to see if you might get cancer and denial of a job or health benifits.
Is it right to deny people of african ancestory jobs in cold weather conditions because of inceased risk of frostbite? No. of course not. Then why is it alright to start to deny people things because of other genetic traits? Today it's a minor insurance issue...tomarrow it will be a far, far greater issue.
So...dog breeds, cat breeds, horse breeds, wheat strains...are all bad.
And if some little kid gets cancer...let them die from it cause that's the way nature made it.
The US Army has wanted mass produced spider silk for body armor for decades...and there has not been a way to do that with "chemistry or physics"
Think of it this way...at least it's not going to pollute the environment with vat fulls of nasty chemical waste from the manufacture.
The US developed and droped nuclear weapons because of a things called the Second World War. Might want to look that up. And remeber that dropping the Bomb saved lives there.
The US, UK, China, Soviet Union, France, South Africa, Israel, and India have all done above ground testing. Not just the US.
The US had an Arms Race with the Soviet Union...you can't race by yourself. French and Brits did pretty good there too. Let's not forget that Pakistan and India have also had a nice little arms race too. Again...not just the US.
India has been launching satilites for years...since the 70s...this is nothing new. But it's not really far to do a US-Bash here.
Not true.
A MIRV from a US ICBM or SLBM, isn't "REALLY" big. They are about 4 feet long.
"As the design of the Mk 5 reentry was developed, the change to a shape stable nosetip (SSNT) was established. The nose of the Mk 4 reentry vehicle was boron carbide-coated graphite material. The Mk 5 nose has a metallated center core with carbon/carbon material, forming the rest of the nosetip ("plug"). The metallated center core will ablate at a faster rate than the carbon/carbon parent material on the outer portion of the nosetip. This will result in a blunt, more-symmetrical shape change with less of a tendency to drift and, consequently, a more-accurate and more-reliable system."
There was some talk a while ago about some of the MIRVs in US Navy SLBMs not having nuclear warheads, would it be possible to remove the nuclear bits and use a warhead like this as a kenetic kill system? How much damage would a 200-300 pound warhead do if it was dropped from 700,000 feet?
Ummm...Quantum didn't buy Maxtor.
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Maxtor merged with Quantum's Hard Disk Unitand all your Quantum (HDD) stock became Maxtor stock.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/13
"The world's biggest hard disk drive company is to be created, through the takeover of Quantum's HDD business by Maxtor.
Constructed as a merger, the all-share transaction will see Quantun's HDD stockholders receive 1.52 shares of Maxtor common stock for every one share they hold in Quantum. This values the deal at $2.3 billion.
The enlarged business, to be named Maxtor
Corporation, produces more than 50 million hard drives a year."
These times seemed slow, of course they were all strange things...not letters or packages.
I can send a package from Portland OR, to little towns in central South Dakota that are way off in the middle of no-where in 2-4 days depending on what part of the year it is (snow and things slow down the mail). That's about 2100 km away.
There are different Priorities that cost different amounts of money. Over Christmas, most of the packages I sent to South Dakota or Florida on a Friday were delivered on the following Monday or Tuesday.
If I send a package from Portland to Denver Colorado (which has a huge airport), I can send the package by 7pm and it will be delivered by 9am the next day.
The new iMacs do not have fans.
Very good stuff. I am so glad I got them.
i st/dealerlocate.taf - There is the link for thier dealer locator.
If you want to look for Paradigms - http://www.paradigm.ca/Website/Dealers/WebDealerL
I have a Denon AVR-2700 reciver to go with my Paradigms.
Mini Monitors or Monitor 3s and a CC-370 Center Channel will be good.