Two phones sync to my computer, so I checked both.
1. My iPhone 4 - got it Dec 27th in Las Vegas at Apple Store - Forum Shops - Caesars Palace - it didn't have any of the Las Vegas, North Rim Grand Canyon, or SeaTac. It has everything up here in Alaska.
2. iPhone 3 - it has a longer history, got it April '09 in northern Washington. It has everything up there, but it doesn't have two trips down to Portland, it has a trip to Portland in '10, nothing of Las Vegas trip, has all of Anchorage area, nothing south of Anchorage like Seward, Homer, Valdez, does have history of trips to Denali. Again, no logs of SeaTac or Portland International Airports.
Everywhere I mentioned, I had the phones on and it wasn't in airport mode.
The encirclement of Stalingrad happened because German troops were ill prepared for offensive operations during the winter and that most of them were redeployed elsewhere on the southern sector of the Eastern Front, the Soviet high command decided to conduct a number of offensive operations which took place between 19 November 1942 and 2 February 1943.
They bogged down outside Moscow because of logistics and anything in the winter without proper planning and logistics is going to fail, they got encircled at Stalingrad because the force there was overextended, they weren't equipped for offensive operations in the winter and because other forces were too far away to support them.
Not because of the snow or cold, but because their command made strategic errors both times and didn't have assets in place to support offensive operations. The Soviets could perform offensive operations in the winter, had the Germans given up Stalingrad and moved into a defensive stance, then they wouldn't have lost an army.
If we go to winter '44, the Germans were more than capable of offensive operations then, but by then it was too damned late to turn the tide.
We can take the prices the DoD tells Congress, the FMS prices and how much defense contractors like LockMart, EADS and Dassault are selling the planes for.
With hundreds of thousands of forced and hired labor no longer employed on the Atlantic Wall, we really can't say if the logistical system would be more stressed than it was in fall '42.
The Soviets had big victories at Stalingrad and Kursk in '42-'43, the weather didn't win or lose the war.
Without the United Kingdom and the United States bombing the ever living crap out of Germany day and night, the Germans would have had the fuel, aircraft, armor and super weapons to end the Soviet Union.
The Eastern Front was a body dump for both sides while the Atlantic Wall, the North African campaign and air war in the west ground down Germany's extra man power and material, just like the western front did in WW1 for Germany.
Example, the Atlantic Wall in France alone had a garrison of 380,000 men and 2200 armored vehicles in from March 1942 to June 1944 and defense against Overlord brought that number to 1,000,000 by August 1 1944.
Had those men and vehicles been at Stalingrad, the initial strength could have gone from 270,000 to 470,000 men and 500 tanks to 2500 tanks.
F-35A - 122 million F-35B - 150 million F-35C - 140 million F-22A - 150 million Typhoon Tranche 3A - 131 million Rafale M - 90 million F-18E - 55 million JAS-39 - 60 million F-16E Block 60 - 65 million
Geography didn't favor the Empire of Japan vs the United States or Germany vs the United States.
China and the US won't go to war over Taiwan in the near-term simply because China lacks the ability to invade Taiwan. Even with high profile programs like the new Chinese stealth fighter and a Chinese aircraft carrier, the People's Republic of China lacks the ability to project power across the Straights of Taiwan conventionally, they can point missiles at Taiwan and threaten them with nuclear weapons, but that's it. They can't invade because they don't have troop transport capability.
While China has nukes that can reach the United States, in a nuclear exchange between the PRC and US, the PRC can't destroy the US, the US certainly has the nuclear arsenal to destroy the PRC as a nation-state.
Right now and for the near to mid-term, the only nation that has nuclear parity with the US is the Russian Federation.
Local Law Enforcement in the US doesn't have the power to deport you if you are stopped and as others have said, the Bill of Rights protects anyone in the United States, no matter where they are from, as long as they are here legally, and in many cases, even illegally.
Michigan is not the entire United States, only 7-8% of the driving public is ever pulled over in any event.
So why would that keep you from the US?
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The problem with that theory is that 500 years ago in Mexico and Spain if I got Leukemia, I'd die right away from it and they'd not be able to diagnose me.
100 years ago in Mexico or Spain if I got Leukemia they' might correctly diagnose me, which leads to a steady rise over pre-Columbian cancer rates.
Today in Mexico or Spain if I get Leukemia, they are much better at diagnosis and then statistical analysis of Leukemia rates.
So did Spanish contact to Mesoamerica lead to increased cancer rates? Did rising sugar use lead to it?
Little Boy on Hiroshima was a device dropped on a city of wood and paper, most of the damage in photos of Hiroshima are from the fire storm that broke out 20-30 minutes after the blast, a nuclear reactor won't do that.
If you look at Trinity (20 KT airburst at 100 feet AGL - fireball radius of 110-115 feet), we have pieces of steel left at the base of the tower.
Now at Fukushima, much stronger and exotic metals, plus uranium, there will be a lot more metal left intact. Fukushima's containment structure can survive 410-1400 kPa, you'd have to put a nuclear device right next to the containment structure and trigger it.
As for fallout, even if you use a device(s) large enough to engulf the facility in the fireball, all that vaporized metal is going to fall out of the sky somewhere downwind, you know like in the North Pacific fisheries.
There was something that got messed up in the data center, thats the one I recall the best, and when/. came back up they posted this long screed about what they did to fix it.
Then everyone in comments called them n00bs for not testing before they did whatever it was that messed it up.
I have to destroy hard disks at work, I see glass platters in the higher capacity drives but it depends on the maker, just came across glass platters in a 20GB Deskstar from '03, but Seagates don't seem to have them till the 80-120GB family
Israel didn't sign the NNPT, nor did India, Pakistan, or the DPRK, unlike India , the DPRK and Pakistan, Israel never tested a nuclear weapon, hasn't threatened anyone with one.
Iran signed and ratified the NNPT, so it's supposed to follow the rules. So bringing Israel into a discussion about NNPT does what exactly?
I see, and the facts show that the US, Russian Federation, UK, France are all decreasing their nuclear stockpiles over time, China really isn't increasing theirs while a number of former Soviet states that had nuclear weapons gave them up (Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine).
So I guess that the nuclear powers are slowly abiding by the stipulation in the NNPT to reduce nuclear stockpiles.
Korea reunifies after the DPRK gives up nuclear weapons under Kim Jung Un. Worldwide economy gets bad, gets worse as Saudi Arabia and Iran go to war. Unified Korea dominate the region, take over Taiwan and Japan in sort of a Pac Rim EU. China has problems as the world economy gets worse. Korea pulls the nukes back out.
Korea EMPs the US with a 50 MT nuke as they invade Alaska, Hawaii and then the western US.
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Its the watch that bomb makers in Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Al Qadea, among others, standardized on way back in 1996.
Oh and they are a really popular watch.
I wear a Casio GW-500, little bulky and expensive for a bomb watch, so I don't think I'll be picked up over it any time soon.
I checked mine last night.
Two phones sync to my computer, so I checked both.
1. My iPhone 4 - got it Dec 27th in Las Vegas at Apple Store - Forum Shops - Caesars Palace - it didn't have any of the Las Vegas, North Rim Grand Canyon, or SeaTac. It has everything up here in Alaska.
2. iPhone 3 - it has a longer history, got it April '09 in northern Washington. It has everything up there, but it doesn't have two trips down to Portland, it has a trip to Portland in '10, nothing of Las Vegas trip, has all of Anchorage area, nothing south of Anchorage like Seward, Homer, Valdez, does have history of trips to Denali. Again, no logs of SeaTac or Portland International Airports.
Everywhere I mentioned, I had the phones on and it wasn't in airport mode.
Either of those "lost the war" for Germany.
The encirclement of Stalingrad happened because German troops were ill prepared for offensive operations during the winter and that most of them were redeployed elsewhere on the southern sector of the Eastern Front, the Soviet high command decided to conduct a number of offensive operations which took place between 19 November 1942 and 2 February 1943.
They bogged down outside Moscow because of logistics and anything in the winter without proper planning and logistics is going to fail, they got encircled at Stalingrad because the force there was overextended, they weren't equipped for offensive operations in the winter and because other forces were too far away to support them.
Not because of the snow or cold, but because their command made strategic errors both times and didn't have assets in place to support offensive operations. The Soviets could perform offensive operations in the winter, had the Germans given up Stalingrad and moved into a defensive stance, then they wouldn't have lost an army.
If we go to winter '44, the Germans were more than capable of offensive operations then, but by then it was too damned late to turn the tide.
We can take the prices the DoD tells Congress, the FMS prices and how much defense contractors like LockMart, EADS and Dassault are selling the planes for.
The price is up to a 100 million now.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/03/29/cv-f35-costs.html
Google it yourself, the figures are readily available, hint, look up each type on Wikipedia, there are good sources for each cost per plane.
With hundreds of thousands of forced and hired labor no longer employed on the Atlantic Wall, we really can't say if the logistical system would be more stressed than it was in fall '42.
The Soviets had big victories at Stalingrad and Kursk in '42-'43, the weather didn't win or lose the war.
Thats what I get for knowing some damned geography.
Next up "Why don't the Chinese just walk to Alaska and take the oil?"
Germany lost to the Allies.
Without the United Kingdom and the United States bombing the ever living crap out of Germany day and night, the Germans would have had the fuel, aircraft, armor and super weapons to end the Soviet Union.
The Eastern Front was a body dump for both sides while the Atlantic Wall, the North African campaign and air war in the west ground down Germany's extra man power and material, just like the western front did in WW1 for Germany.
Example, the Atlantic Wall in France alone had a garrison of 380,000 men and 2200 armored vehicles in from March 1942 to June 1944 and defense against Overlord brought that number to 1,000,000 by August 1 1944.
Had those men and vehicles been at Stalingrad, the initial strength could have gone from 270,000 to 470,000 men and 500 tanks to 2500 tanks.
You know that Taiwan is separated from China by water right, 81 miles of it at the narrowest point?
That's a terrain obstruction that keeps the People's Liberation Army from just "walking over there".
Actually, the per unit cost of the F-35 is high.
F-35A - 122 million
F-35B - 150 million
F-35C - 140 million
F-22A - 150 million
Typhoon Tranche 3A - 131 million
Rafale M - 90 million
F-18E - 55 million
JAS-39 - 60 million
F-16E Block 60 - 65 million
Geography didn't favor the Empire of Japan vs the United States or Germany vs the United States.
China and the US won't go to war over Taiwan in the near-term simply because China lacks the ability to invade Taiwan. Even with high profile programs like the new Chinese stealth fighter and a Chinese aircraft carrier, the People's Republic of China lacks the ability to project power across the Straights of Taiwan conventionally, they can point missiles at Taiwan and threaten them with nuclear weapons, but that's it. They can't invade because they don't have troop transport capability.
While China has nukes that can reach the United States, in a nuclear exchange between the PRC and US, the PRC can't destroy the US, the US certainly has the nuclear arsenal to destroy the PRC as a nation-state.
Right now and for the near to mid-term, the only nation that has nuclear parity with the US is the Russian Federation.
Local Law Enforcement in the US doesn't have the power to deport you if you are stopped and as others have said, the Bill of Rights protects anyone in the United States, no matter where they are from, as long as they are here legally, and in many cases, even illegally.
Michigan is not the entire United States, only 7-8% of the driving public is ever pulled over in any event.
So why would that keep you from the US?
The problem with that theory is that 500 years ago in Mexico and Spain if I got Leukemia, I'd die right away from it and they'd not be able to diagnose me.
100 years ago in Mexico or Spain if I got Leukemia they' might correctly diagnose me, which leads to a steady rise over pre-Columbian cancer rates.
Today in Mexico or Spain if I get Leukemia, they are much better at diagnosis and then statistical analysis of Leukemia rates.
So did Spanish contact to Mesoamerica lead to increased cancer rates? Did rising sugar use lead to it?
Little Boy on Hiroshima was a device dropped on a city of wood and paper, most of the damage in photos of Hiroshima are from the fire storm that broke out 20-30 minutes after the blast, a nuclear reactor won't do that.
If you look at Trinity (20 KT airburst at 100 feet AGL - fireball radius of 110-115 feet), we have pieces of steel left at the base of the tower.
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Photos/Trinity/image18.shtml
Now at Fukushima, much stronger and exotic metals, plus uranium, there will be a lot more metal left intact. Fukushima's containment structure can survive 410-1400 kPa, you'd have to put a nuclear device right next to the containment structure and trigger it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosions
As for fallout, even if you use a device(s) large enough to engulf the facility in the fireball, all that vaporized metal is going to fall out of the sky somewhere downwind, you know like in the North Pacific fisheries.
I have 15-20 iPads that sync to my computer, nothing was found when I tried the linked application.
There was something that got messed up in the data center, thats the one I recall the best, and when /. came back up they posted this long screed about what they did to fix it.
Then everyone in comments called them n00bs for not testing before they did whatever it was that messed it up.
http://slashdot.org/story/01/06/27/124207/Blow-by-Blow-Account-of-the-OSDN-Outage - this is the one I'm thinking of
Here is the 16.7 million issue - http://gadgetopia.com/post/5631
There was a DB thing back then, but I remember the outage only being a day or so.
.233 will often go through a drive without much deformation.
Now a 9mm, .45, .44, or 12 gauge slug will devastate them
Punch a hole in a glass platter and theres not going to be much left intact.
I have to destroy hard disks at work, I see glass platters in the higher capacity drives but it depends on the maker, just came across glass platters in a 20GB Deskstar from '03, but Seagates don't seem to have them till the 80-120GB family
Israel didn't sign the NNPT, nor did India, Pakistan, or the DPRK, unlike India , the DPRK and Pakistan, Israel never tested a nuclear weapon, hasn't threatened anyone with one.
Iran signed and ratified the NNPT, so it's supposed to follow the rules.
So bringing Israel into a discussion about NNPT does what exactly?
I see, and the facts show that the US, Russian Federation, UK, France are all decreasing their nuclear stockpiles over time, China really isn't increasing theirs while a number of former Soviet states that had nuclear weapons gave them up (Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine).
So I guess that the nuclear powers are slowly abiding by the stipulation in the NNPT to reduce nuclear stockpiles.
Short version from the game...
Korea reunifies after the DPRK gives up nuclear weapons under Kim Jung Un.
Worldwide economy gets bad, gets worse as Saudi Arabia and Iran go to war.
Unified Korea dominate the region, take over Taiwan and Japan in sort of a Pac Rim EU.
China has problems as the world economy gets worse.
Korea pulls the nukes back out.
Korea EMPs the US with a 50 MT nuke as they invade Alaska, Hawaii and then the western US.
There was, a Korean-American IT guy that ran a robot tank, died heroically and all that.