The Soviet Shock Armies and Guards Armies that were the spearheads of the advance were not, by most accounts the rapists, thieves and murderers. In fact there are many instances in Warsaw and Berlin of Shock and Guards members hiding civilians, telling them to lay low or protecting buildings from the follow on units who did the rape, murder and steal.
But as a whole, the Soviet armies did a whole lot of raping, especially in Germany.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) established the US, USSR (Russian Federation replaced the USSR in the treaty), UK, France, and China as five "Nuclear-Weapon States". Non-Nuclear Weapon states were prohibited from, among other things, possessing, manufacturing, or acquiring nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. All 187 signatories were committed to the goal of eventual nuclear disarmament.
So the US isn't obligated to give up nuclear weapons right away, but the US is disarming.
SALT I&II INF Treaty START I reduced nuclear inventories by 40% - 6,000 warheads for US New START will reduce the US arsenal to around 1550 warheads
If they put a tactical nuke(s) right by the buildings containing the reactor and detonated it there would be tons of fallout in the area and out to sea and well downwind. The reactors vessels, the fuel, the fuel rods and the remains of the nuclear weapons themselves would all be fallout.
If they airburst one to minimize fallout it wouldn't "push the whole plant into the ocean.", it'd just mess up the structures and containment structures worse than the earthquake and tsunami did.
The problem with that is, no modern technologies the Chinese have copied are "better" than the original. Their APC, tank and aviation products which are copies of Soviet, Russian and western designs are never better than the originals.
Their attempts at doing it themselves with their attack submarines, boomers, ICBMs and carriers have been costly and often out of service.
I thought/. was against the Record Industry and the limits Brick and Mortar put on sharing music?
Just down the page is the article about the merits of Google buying all the record companies while they, Amazon and maybe Apple put everything up on the Cloud for access.
The US was really a loose federation of states who had given up foreign affairs and inter-state issues to a central government (Federal Government). Thats still the status of American Indian Reservations, they are independent states with their own local governments with extra territorial issues controlled by the Federal Government.
Since the American Civil War ended in 1865, the Federal Government has been trying to increase it's power over the states.
Thats why things like Medical Cannabis are locally legal but still illegal under Federal Law.
It's a mix of a monolithic country like France or England and a looser federation like the EU has.
Each state has a military force (the National Guard) but it can be put under Federal command (Federalizing), but the individual forces have their equipment purchased by the US Department of Defense, organization and equipment set by the DoD, same uniforms as the Army/Marines/Air Force, etc. So thats one step toward centralization then the EU has done.
There can be local taxes (city or county), state or Federal.
I live in a place with Property Tax on homes and businesses, but no sales tax or state income tax. So I only pay Federal Income Taxes.
Interstate commerce is supposedly the responsibility of the Federal Government.
States shouldn't have the power to force someone that doesn't physically have a presence in their state to report sales tax. Thats why there are stories about Amazon leaving state X, Y or Z over sales tax.
I could see states like Oregon, Delaware, New Hampshire and Alaska becoming tax havens for companies at this rate.
While I don't like singling out Bush and Cheney when other Presidents (Clinton, Bush 41, Nixon, LBJ) are just as guilty, I think Presidents should go on trial after their term is over, just like how the Athenians did it to Tyrants after their one year term was over.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union pointed to the civil rights issues, the freedom rides, the riots, excess of authority to argue that the US had no place in criticizing the Soviet Union for invading Hungary, Czechoslovakia or pushing the crack down on Poland.
Because racial tensions are equal to invading other countries.
China is just pointing at the US to justify it's own censorship.
Wikileaks is being handled the way it is, not because its an internet security or censorship issue, but because it's a military security issue with diplomatic security tacked on.
What do you think the PLA would do to a Chinese Bradley Manning who copied hundreds of thousands of documents?
Really think he'd be in pre-trial confinement still?
All missiles since 1945 have had German research in them, somewhere, but NASA isn't just rockets, NACA which proceeded NASA did much of the wing research which everyone used, even the 1930s and 40s German.
No, its not the exact observation about space travel.
"People use to say the same about breaking the Sound Barrier, space travel apparently has the same arguments that air travel use to have; I'm not surprised."
They are completely different because the Sound Barrier was a perception without any hard reason why it couldn't be done. We had things breaking the sound barrier thousands or millions of times a day, we just couldn't get one thing past it, propeller driven aircraft.
The article, and people here, are talking about how there are actual physical barriers to manned space flight in the Solar System, radiation, chemical, energy and mass barriers to it.
You want to make it a one way mission to say Mars? You realize that with current and near term technology, anyone on a one way trip to Mars is going to just die there.
I can't foresee spending hundreds of billions of dollars for a suicide.
Alot of the scientific breakthroughs the West made had nothing to do with Nazi research.
Much of the Nazi medical research was pure bunk, yes in some fields they were more advanced than the British and Americans, but in many fields they were less advanced.
The German jet engines were much less reliable then British ones and slightly less reliable than the first American engines for example.
Nuclear power, long range jet aircraft, radar, spread spectrum communications, proximity fuzes, computers, antibiotics, genetics and logistics are just some examples that come to mind where the Nazis really added nothing to the modern world's technology.
No, the sound barrier was a perceived issue, aircraft with propellers couldn't break the sound barrier because of drag, shock waves and turbulence no matter how much horse power you put behind the prop.
All of these effects, although unrelated in most ways, led to the concept of a "barrier" that makes it difficult for an aircraft to break the speed of sound.
Bullets and other man made objects could become supersonic so engineers knew it could be done somehow.
The rocket plane and latter, the jet plane made it possible.
Theres no similar observation about space travel, we aren't scratching our heads about our inability to do it with men while inanimate objects defy the rules.
Al Qadea does not do "FEMA type services". Al Qadea is a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad. Al Qadea wants to burn the modern world down, kill Christians, Jews and other non-Muslims and create a Caliphate modeled on their view of what life was like in the time of Muhammad.
Hezbollah, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad do some of that community building stuff, Hezbollah more so than the others, and all those groups have political, humanitarian and terrorist divisions.
It might make sense to do it this way, a lot of people's mobile devices have Facebook and Twitter clients, so using them will let them pop the warnings up on a wide variety of devices.
Probably easier and cheaper to implement than to send text messages.
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The Soviet Shock Armies and Guards Armies that were the spearheads of the advance were not, by most accounts the rapists, thieves and murderers. In fact there are many instances in Warsaw and Berlin of Shock and Guards members hiding civilians, telling them to lay low or protecting buildings from the follow on units who did the rape, murder and steal.
But as a whole, the Soviet armies did a whole lot of raping, especially in Germany.
Thats the Western Front.
The Italian Front, Balkans, Eastern Front, Africa, Middle East in the First World War were all different experiences.
Watch Lawrence of Arabia for a gameable First World War theatre.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) established the US, USSR (Russian Federation replaced the USSR in the treaty), UK, France, and China as five "Nuclear-Weapon States". Non-Nuclear Weapon states were prohibited from, among other things, possessing, manufacturing, or acquiring nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. All 187 signatories were committed to the goal of eventual nuclear disarmament.
So the US isn't obligated to give up nuclear weapons right away, but the US is disarming.
SALT I&II
INF Treaty
START I reduced nuclear inventories by 40% - 6,000 warheads for US
New START will reduce the US arsenal to around 1550 warheads
Because they didn't have any electricity on site to run water pumps, let alone bring in your electrostatic precipitator and power it.
Remember the earthquake and tsunami there?
Nukes don't work that way.
If they put a tactical nuke(s) right by the buildings containing the reactor and detonated it there would be tons of fallout in the area and out to sea and well downwind. The reactors vessels, the fuel, the fuel rods and the remains of the nuclear weapons themselves would all be fallout.
If they airburst one to minimize fallout it wouldn't "push the whole plant into the ocean.", it'd just mess up the structures and containment structures worse than the earthquake and tsunami did.
HIPAA is a very valid reason.
For people saying no, under the HIPAA, the IT department has to have access and make sure it's secure if it connects to their network.
Nope didn't understand the meaning because the title and summary said two different things.
And white knighting isn't ever going to lower your UID, so stop standing up for the editors.
The problem with that is, no modern technologies the Chinese have copied are "better" than the original. Their APC, tank and aviation products which are copies of Soviet, Russian and western designs are never better than the originals.
Their attempts at doing it themselves with their attack submarines, boomers, ICBMs and carriers have been costly and often out of service.
I thought /. was against the Record Industry and the limits Brick and Mortar put on sharing music?
Just down the page is the article about the merits of Google buying all the record companies while they, Amazon and maybe Apple put everything up on the Cloud for access.
Why are we supporting Brick and Mortar now?
You might not like them, but it's not right to advocate the elimination of a political party.
The US did that crap under Wilson, Truman and Eisenhower with the Communists. It wasn't right then, it's not right now.
The US was really a loose federation of states who had given up foreign affairs and inter-state issues to a central government (Federal Government). Thats still the status of American Indian Reservations, they are independent states with their own local governments with extra territorial issues controlled by the Federal Government.
Since the American Civil War ended in 1865, the Federal Government has been trying to increase it's power over the states.
Thats why things like Medical Cannabis are locally legal but still illegal under Federal Law.
It's a mix of a monolithic country like France or England and a looser federation like the EU has.
Each state has a military force (the National Guard) but it can be put under Federal command (Federalizing), but the individual forces have their equipment purchased by the US Department of Defense, organization and equipment set by the DoD, same uniforms as the Army/Marines/Air Force, etc. So thats one step toward centralization then the EU has done.
There can be local taxes (city or county), state or Federal.
I live in a place with Property Tax on homes and businesses, but no sales tax or state income tax. So I only pay Federal Income Taxes.
A national sales tax wouldn't replace state sales tax though, so it or a VAT would be tagged onto a sales tax.
Thats the job of a Senator, to work for the interests of the State they represent.
They shouldn't care one bit about what the people of the US want, just what is in their State's best interest.
Interstate commerce is supposedly the responsibility of the Federal Government.
States shouldn't have the power to force someone that doesn't physically have a presence in their state to report sales tax. Thats why there are stories about Amazon leaving state X, Y or Z over sales tax.
I could see states like Oregon, Delaware, New Hampshire and Alaska becoming tax havens for companies at this rate.
While I don't like singling out Bush and Cheney when other Presidents (Clinton, Bush 41, Nixon, LBJ) are just as guilty, I think Presidents should go on trial after their term is over, just like how the Athenians did it to Tyrants after their one year term was over.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union pointed to the civil rights issues, the freedom rides, the riots, excess of authority to argue that the US had no place in criticizing the Soviet Union for invading Hungary, Czechoslovakia or pushing the crack down on Poland.
Because racial tensions are equal to invading other countries.
China is just pointing at the US to justify it's own censorship.
Wikileaks is being handled the way it is, not because its an internet security or censorship issue, but because it's a military security issue with diplomatic security tacked on.
What do you think the PLA would do to a Chinese Bradley Manning who copied hundreds of thousands of documents?
Really think he'd be in pre-trial confinement still?
All missiles since 1945 have had German research in them, somewhere, but NASA isn't just rockets, NACA which proceeded NASA did much of the wing research which everyone used, even the 1930s and 40s German.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACA_airfoil
No, its not the exact observation about space travel.
"People use to say the same about breaking the Sound Barrier, space travel apparently has the same arguments that air travel use to have; I'm not surprised."
They are completely different because the Sound Barrier was a perception without any hard reason why it couldn't be done. We had things breaking the sound barrier thousands or millions of times a day, we just couldn't get one thing past it, propeller driven aircraft.
The article, and people here, are talking about how there are actual physical barriers to manned space flight in the Solar System, radiation, chemical, energy and mass barriers to it.
You want to make it a one way mission to say Mars? You realize that with current and near term technology, anyone on a one way trip to Mars is going to just die there.
I can't foresee spending hundreds of billions of dollars for a suicide.
Alot of the scientific breakthroughs the West made had nothing to do with Nazi research.
Much of the Nazi medical research was pure bunk, yes in some fields they were more advanced than the British and Americans, but in many fields they were less advanced.
The German jet engines were much less reliable then British ones and slightly less reliable than the first American engines for example.
Nuclear power, long range jet aircraft, radar, spread spectrum communications, proximity fuzes, computers, antibiotics, genetics and logistics are just some examples that come to mind where the Nazis really added nothing to the modern world's technology.
No, the sound barrier was a perceived issue, aircraft with propellers couldn't break the sound barrier because of drag, shock waves and turbulence no matter how much horse power you put behind the prop.
All of these effects, although unrelated in most ways, led to the concept of a "barrier" that makes it difficult for an aircraft to break the speed of sound.
Bullets and other man made objects could become supersonic so engineers knew it could be done somehow.
The rocket plane and latter, the jet plane made it possible.
Theres no similar observation about space travel, we aren't scratching our heads about our inability to do it with men while inanimate objects defy the rules.
Al Qadea does not do "FEMA type services". Al Qadea is a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad. Al Qadea wants to burn the modern world down, kill Christians, Jews and other non-Muslims and create a Caliphate modeled on their view of what life was like in the time of Muhammad.
Hezbollah, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad do some of that community building stuff, Hezbollah more so than the others, and all those groups have political, humanitarian and terrorist divisions.
"no one in power is willing to give up THEIR power and heed to the will of the people."
Every US President who quit when the term was over has heeded the will of the people.
For Presidents who knew their time was up and quit, LBJ and Nixon come to mind as guys who knew it was time to go and did.
It might make sense to do it this way, a lot of people's mobile devices have Facebook and Twitter clients, so using them will let them pop the warnings up on a wide variety of devices.
Probably easier and cheaper to implement than to send text messages.