Malnutrition doesn't make the DPRK less industrialized or as a whole dump it's GDP from 88/94 to 200.
It does mean the people suffer alot more, the famine isn't as bad as say the Ukranian famine in the 1930s.
I didn't say it's not a bad place, it would be a humanitarian thing to invade the DPRK at this point, but that doesn't mean it's one of the poorest nations on Earth.
OK, yea they sunk that ship this spring and looking at a history of the DMZ it looks like the DPRK has killed about 550 RoK/US soldiers since 1953 on or around the DMZ. Not sure if that number includes all the fighting in 1968 when the North tried to take over the Blue House.
No, the DPRK is cut off from the United States, Japan, RoK and some countries in Western and Central Europe, that leaves a lot of routes for technology (Russia, CIS, China, Iran, Syria, Gulf States, Burma).
It didn't have anything to do with software, it had to do with testing data, operational data and documentation.
"Specifying power levels over 100% may seem confusing, but there is a logic behind it. The 100% level does not mean the maximum physical power level attainable. Rather it is a specification, decided on early during SSME development, for the "normal" rated power level. Later studies indicated the engine could operate safely at levels above 100%, which is now the norm. Maintaining the original relationship of power level to physical thrust helps reduce confusion. It creates an unvarying fixed relationship, so that test data, or operational data from past or future missions can be easily compared. If each time the power level was increased, that value was made 100%, then all previous data and documentation would either require changing, or cross-checking against what physical thrust corresponded to 100% power level on that date."
104.5% is as high as they like to go, 106% and 109% is just for aborts.
"Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, etc"
Monroe Doctrine. Isolationism doesn't mean everyone is sitting at home.
Compare that to what the French, Italians, UK, Soviets were doing and a few thousand Marines in Haiti looks like a picnic. Yes, Soviet expansion through Eurasia was Imperialism on the same scale as the United Kingdom.
Hezbollah is not the only support system for Lebanon, far from it, it's a disruptive military and political entity only focused on Islamic militarism. Lebanon isn't an Islamic state you know, but Hezbollah would sure like them to become one. The United States entered Lebanon in the 1980s because there was a UN mandate, we went there with the French if you'll recall.
Now I may be biased against Hezbollah, after all I did get wounded by a Hezbollah 122mm rocket on 1 June 1994.
The DPRK's ineptness sure made quick work of an advanced RoK gunboat a few months ago.
Iran threatens to destroy Israel with atomic weapons, Israel has never made that threat to any other nation.
The United States did that, it was called the 1920s and '30s.
Somehow the world still had wars without the US being involved.
Were the United States to retreat back into a isolationist doctrine, the People's Republic, Russian Federation or Pan Islamic nationalism would quickly rise up and do terrible things.
How is planning for the DPRK or Iran "irrational"? Both governments are quickly arming for offensive goals against stable Republics (Japan, RoK, Israel) and even the Islamic neighbors of Iran are calling for military action before they totally ruin the region.
Recognizing the capabilities and threats of Syria are also rational they have been and are again destabilizing allies of Hezbollah and have worked on nuclear weapons programs outside the Non-Proliferation-Treaty.
NATO isn't so readily convinced into Iraq-style interventions?
Not really up on your Allied Force/Noble Anvil are you?
And by "US/NATO", the United States and NATO buy weapon systems that are the same or similar and use the same tactics and planning schemes, they also wargame for the same sorts of threats. Just like a Warsaw Pact army meant any military that used Warsaw Pact weapon systems, tactics and doctrine.
No, because the US/NATO is all about standing off and killing the sites, sure some of the missiles will have been fired off, but the fighters and bombers will use stand-off systems like SDB, JDAM, AGM-132, HARM, Tomahawk, Storm Shadow to kill the launchers and radars.
Nuclear weapons got smaller in the 1960s and '70s, the types of rockets used for the Moon Race were liquid fuel, the types of rockets used in ICBMs were solid fuel.
Actually the Moon Race benefited from Minuteman, the Apollo Guidance Computer was derived from the Minuteman's guidance computer.
The Moon Race was about throw weight, but ICBMs didn't really benefit from that
I never said those states attacked the United States, they are generally considered to be threats that the United States and NATO wargames for and uses for considering what capabilities will be a factor in the next 5-30 years.
Iraq and Serbia were nations the US/NATO had airwars with in the last 15 years, both had integrated air defense networks. Iran, Syria, the DPRK are threats with integrated air defense networks and are threats the US/NATO plans for.
The moon race had nothing to do with nuking Moscow with an ICBM. The missiles needed to put a warhead on Moscow existed before the Moon Race was announced.
The LGM-30A Minuteman-I was first test-fired on 1 February 1961 UGM-27 Polaris was test launched from a U.S. Navy submarine on July 20, 1960 and deployed by July 28, 1960 The SM-62 Snark was deployed in 1958.
Kennedy established the manned landings on the Moon as a national goal on May 25, 1961
"The B61 is a variable yield bomb designed for carriage by high-speed aircraft. It has a streamlined casing capable of withstanding supersonic flight speeds. The weapon is 11 ft 8 in (3.58 m) long, with a diameter of about 13 in (33 cm). Basic weight is about 700 lb (320 kg), although the weights of individual weapons may vary depending on version and fuze/retardation configuration."
"The W80 is physically quite small, the "physics package" itself is about the size of a conventional Mk.81 250 lb (113 kg) bomb, 11.8 inches (30 cm) in diameter and 31.4 inches (80 cm) long, and only slightly heavier at about 290 lb (132 kg)."
"The Boeing Company [NYSE: (BA)] today unveiled the hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system, a demonstrator that will stay aloft at 65,000 feet for up to four days."
Not alot of SAMs reach that high, it'll have a low radar cross section, small IR signature, so even the SAMs that go up there will have a hard time acquiring it.
So even if it's used in a place like Iran or I don't know, the Sudan or Venezuela in a future conflict, the good SAMs will have been taken out in the first few days of the war by F-16s, F-18G, F-22s, or cruise missiles, MANPADS can't get to 65,000, so this thing will be good for intelligence gathering even in an environment where the enemy has small SAMs still
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And alot of landlines are cable modem phones, they don't do address lookup either.
While that's a great thing to teach and learn, in this case the girl had no cell phone, but was able to ask for help on an iPod Touch.
AQ opening, the undead invasion when Naxx 40 launched, the undead invasion for Lich King, the Sunwell event are big ones.
Now the holiday events are big - Christmas, Lunar New Year, Children's Week, Love Fest, Halloween, Brewfest, Nobelgarden, Pilgrim's Week
"About the size of an SUV's trunk..."
SUV's don't have trunks, they are generally hatchbacks with enclosed cargo areas.
Malnutrition doesn't make the DPRK less industrialized or as a whole dump it's GDP from 88/94 to 200.
It does mean the people suffer alot more, the famine isn't as bad as say the Ukranian famine in the 1930s.
I didn't say it's not a bad place, it would be a humanitarian thing to invade the DPRK at this point, but that doesn't mean it's one of the poorest nations on Earth.
OK, yea they sunk that ship this spring and looking at a history of the DMZ it looks like the DPRK has killed about 550 RoK/US soldiers since 1953 on or around the DMZ. Not sure if that number includes all the fighting in 1968 when the North tried to take over the Blue House.
There are two villages in the DMZ where at least 218 South Korean citizens live.
Predators and Reapers are not automated.
When in the last 30 years has the United States attacked the DPRK?
They are not one of the poorest countries on Earth, their GDP is 88th (nominal) or 94th (PPP) but their per capita GDP is low, 188th.
The UN puts them square in the middle of human development, until the famine started.
No, the DPRK is cut off from the United States, Japan, RoK and some countries in Western and Central Europe, that leaves a lot of routes for technology (Russia, CIS, China, Iran, Syria, Gulf States, Burma).
Sorry, that's BS.
The signal strength sucks even in urban areas, I've seen 'em here in Anchorage a couple hundred feet from an AT&T antenna with 1 bar.
Return them for what? Most people that have gotten one in good faith have dumped their old phone already.
As for me, I've been using Apple computers as my main computer since 1992, support them at an all Apple office and have an iPhone 3G.
It didn't have anything to do with software, it had to do with testing data, operational data and documentation.
"Specifying power levels over 100% may seem confusing, but there is a logic behind it. The 100% level does not mean the maximum physical power level attainable. Rather it is a specification, decided on early during SSME development, for the "normal" rated power level. Later studies indicated the engine could operate safely at levels above 100%, which is now the norm. Maintaining the original relationship of power level to physical thrust helps reduce confusion. It creates an unvarying fixed relationship, so that test data, or operational data from past or future missions can be easily compared. If each time the power level was increased, that value was made 100%, then all previous data and documentation would either require changing, or cross-checking against what physical thrust corresponded to 100% power level on that date."
104.5% is as high as they like to go, 106% and 109% is just for aborts.
I'm an Apple fanboy.
I won't touch a iPhone 4 till they get this crap fixed. Jesus they blew the goat on this one.
"Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, etc"
Monroe Doctrine. Isolationism doesn't mean everyone is sitting at home.
Compare that to what the French, Italians, UK, Soviets were doing and a few thousand Marines in Haiti looks like a picnic. Yes, Soviet expansion through Eurasia was Imperialism on the same scale as the United Kingdom.
Hezbollah is not the only support system for Lebanon, far from it, it's a disruptive military and political entity only focused on Islamic militarism. Lebanon isn't an Islamic state you know, but Hezbollah would sure like them to become one. The United States entered Lebanon in the 1980s because there was a UN mandate, we went there with the French if you'll recall.
Now I may be biased against Hezbollah, after all I did get wounded by a Hezbollah 122mm rocket on 1 June 1994.
The DPRK's ineptness sure made quick work of an advanced RoK gunboat a few months ago.
Iran threatens to destroy Israel with atomic weapons, Israel has never made that threat to any other nation.
The United States did that, it was called the 1920s and '30s.
Somehow the world still had wars without the US being involved.
Were the United States to retreat back into a isolationist doctrine, the People's Republic, Russian Federation or Pan Islamic nationalism would quickly rise up and do terrible things.
How is planning for the DPRK or Iran "irrational"? Both governments are quickly arming for offensive goals against stable Republics (Japan, RoK, Israel) and even the Islamic neighbors of Iran are calling for military action before they totally ruin the region.
Recognizing the capabilities and threats of Syria are also rational they have been and are again destabilizing allies of Hezbollah and have worked on nuclear weapons programs outside the Non-Proliferation-Treaty.
NATO isn't so readily convinced into Iraq-style interventions?
Not really up on your Allied Force/Noble Anvil are you?
And by "US/NATO", the United States and NATO buy weapon systems that are the same or similar and use the same tactics and planning schemes, they also wargame for the same sorts of threats. Just like a Warsaw Pact army meant any military that used Warsaw Pact weapon systems, tactics and doctrine.
No, because the US/NATO is all about standing off and killing the sites, sure some of the missiles will have been fired off, but the fighters and bombers will use stand-off systems like SDB, JDAM, AGM-132, HARM, Tomahawk, Storm Shadow to kill the launchers and radars.
Nuclear weapons got smaller in the 1960s and '70s, the types of rockets used for the Moon Race were liquid fuel, the types of rockets used in ICBMs were solid fuel.
Actually the Moon Race benefited from Minuteman, the Apollo Guidance Computer was derived from the Minuteman's guidance computer.
The Moon Race was about throw weight, but ICBMs didn't really benefit from that
I never said those states attacked the United States, they are generally considered to be threats that the United States and NATO wargames for and uses for considering what capabilities will be a factor in the next 5-30 years.
Iraq and Serbia were nations the US/NATO had airwars with in the last 15 years, both had integrated air defense networks. Iran, Syria, the DPRK are threats with integrated air defense networks and are threats the US/NATO plans for.
Satellites are generally reflective, military aircraft are generally painted with materials and colors to minimize visibility.
The moon race had nothing to do with nuking Moscow with an ICBM. The missiles needed to put a warhead on Moscow existed before the Moon Race was announced.
The LGM-30A Minuteman-I was first test-fired on 1 February 1961
UGM-27 Polaris was test launched from a U.S. Navy submarine on July 20, 1960 and deployed by July 28, 1960
The SM-62 Snark was deployed in 1958.
Kennedy established the manned landings on the Moon as a national goal on May 25, 1961
Iraq and Serbia had radar systems. Iran, Syria, North Korea all have good radar networks, other future threats will too.
"The B61 is a variable yield bomb designed for carriage by high-speed aircraft. It has a streamlined casing capable of withstanding supersonic flight speeds. The weapon is 11 ft 8 in (3.58 m) long, with a diameter of about 13 in (33 cm). Basic weight is about 700 lb (320 kg), although the weights of individual weapons may vary depending on version and fuze/retardation configuration."
So there is your airdropped nuclear weapon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B61_nuclear_bomb
"The W80 is physically quite small, the "physics package" itself is about the size of a conventional Mk.81 250 lb (113 kg) bomb, 11.8 inches (30 cm) in diameter and 31.4 inches (80 cm) long, and only slightly heavier at about 290 lb (132 kg)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W80_(nuclear_warhead)
You can eyeball a plane going 150 mph at 60,000 feet without sensors?
"The Boeing Company [NYSE: (BA)] today unveiled the hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system, a demonstrator that will stay aloft at 65,000 feet for up to four days."
Not alot of SAMs reach that high, it'll have a low radar cross section, small IR signature, so even the SAMs that go up there will have a hard time acquiring it.
So even if it's used in a place like Iran or I don't know, the Sudan or Venezuela in a future conflict, the good SAMs will have been taken out in the first few days of the war by F-16s, F-18G, F-22s, or cruise missiles, MANPADS can't get to 65,000, so this thing will be good for intelligence gathering even in an environment where the enemy has small SAMs still