Perhaps those "similar weapons" you mentioned might have more relevance in this discussion than a $316,856 air-to-surface rocket used to strike "radar-equipped air defense systems".
Last time I checked, insurgents were extremely lacking in their air force, and did not have millions of dollars to spend destroying a dozen cameras (assuming the HARM could target a single wireless camera - which it couldn't). Additionally, since these cameras are being shot into the areas where the enemy forces are, I suspect that their desire to use an explosive device to rid themselves of these cameras might not be so great.
Please provide some links to these "similar weapons", though, and I will be happy to investigate...
What's to stop your opponent from figuring out which frequencies this device transmits on and jamming it and/or targeting it with anti-radiation weapons?
Perhaps their cost of "figuring it out and neutralizing", vs. our cost to have the device cycle through frequencies.
Your question really amounts to, "why use radio waves for communications when your opponent can jam the frequencies?". Which is really just an incredibly stupid question if you had paused to think about the incredible success of radio in the last 70 years of warfare communications. It seems that somehow they're able to keep their communications systems up and running, and this device would be no more than another cog in those systems.
And I am not a science-fiction writer, but WTF do you mean by "Anti-Radiation Weapons"?!? And what bearing would this have on a wirelessly transmitting camera!?!
I am so confused by the mods...the post above this one (posted 1 minute before) says exactly the same thing but gets "-1 Redundant"?!! Is it just because it was an AC, or did the title of "So cool!" really change the joke?!?
NASA: Bangalore, we have problem! We think the heat shielding is starting to break up!
Customer Service: Thank you for holding, sir, I'll be glad to help you if you can confirm the name on the account...
NASA: Fer cryin' out loud! It's NASA!! We were told we were going to have a dedicated control center available 24/7!! We're gonna lose this ship real soon if we can't get some data from you NOW!
Customer Service: I understand your urgency and frustration, sir. If you could be patient for just one moment while I pull up your account details...Hmmm...yes...just as I suspected. Sir, are you aware that your account appears to be $3,133,730,000.42 overdue? Would you like to pay that balance now?
NASA: What is wrong with you?! This is an EMERGENCY!! If we don't correct that flight path in the n--
- from the background on NASA's end comes a wail of "Oh, the humanity!" Followed by stunned silence - Customer Service: Sir, are you still there? Sir, about that payment...
3.1mm/yr, and the entire country is only 115 sq. miles, with a third of the population in the capital city, which sits on less than 1 square mile. Additionally, from a brief glance at the most populous towns/villages, it looks like another third of the population is residing on no more than 10 sq. miles.
Would it really be more cost effective to move the entire population to a new "homeland", instead of investing in efficiently condensing the population, and building a levee system around the current well-developed, and incredibly expensive-to-replace infrastructure?!!?
This smells like a "Poor us!" bid for attention and money, playing off of the "green guilt" of the rest of the developed world.
I have a couple of those helicopters, and my $50-60 investment in a universal (AAA,AA,C,D & 9v) Ni-Cd/Ni-MH smart charger plus 20 AA NiMH (weight doesn't matter in the remotes, and the onboard battery is a LiPo) has been WELL worth it. Especially now that I have built up a stock of rechargeables of every battery type. But the AA's alone are multipurpose enough to be totally worth the investment.
Finally a response from a lower UID than the idiot who couldn't legitimately answer a single one of the GP's points about the usefulness of pagers for doctors, but somehow still got "Insightful"...
Here it should be pretty obvious what's meant by "pretty". And I completely accept that it was not obvious to you. It is amazing how modifiers like that can change the meaning of simple/absolute statements.
Assuming everyone got their news from online press, and assuming that cnn.com and factcheck.org together were roughly proportional indicators (meaning that there was a factcheck.org equivalent for each of the other major online news sources) of uncontested vs. contested reporting, the numbers are still pretty supportive of my statement, at a persons-reached ratio of 150 to 1
Perhaps you should check your facts on the whoppers told by the Obama campaign.
Note that the above link is about all the big lies on BOTH sides. Which still makes the point that BOTH sides produced some pretty uncontested (by the press) deceptions. This was a vicious campaign, and to imply that one side didn't participate in the BS-slinging (although the McCain campaign, IMO, was worse about it) is pretty absurd.
Another reason why GoBots were fail: Over-simplified naming conventions in combination with never checking into possible negative slang context after translation.
I hope, for the gene pool's sake, that you are are being sarcastic here. Unfortunately, after a quick perusal of your latest comments on/. I think that I hope in vain.
As a strict Fundamentalist Christian, I applaud how your examples became more fantastical/mythical the farther back in time you go, with the obvious (and proper) implication that caveman and dinosaurs are even sillier works of fiction than King Arthur and Robin Hood. Bravo!
for instance if you search for "Widget Model XJ123" it will now find a page by a manufacturer where the only place they list it is in a pulldown list that lets you choose the product to buy.
Shenanigans! And I've been looking everywhere for that elusive XJ123, since the manufacturer stopped producing it. How dare you get my hopes up!
Finally my time to shine! Classic-Liberal-Arts-Education--attack!!
*assumes most arrogant manner possible*
From my experience, most if not all of the "Great Philosophers" sought nothing more than to make a living out of "seeking". If they were to actually discover "the answers", wouldn't that have put them out of a job? Not much profit in The Truth once it's out there. Oh, sure, there are Book Deals, sculpture/painting/photo ops, and the Ancient Greek Walk-n-Talk Show circuit, but will that really pay the bills for the rest of your life?
If you ask me, they had greater motivation to confuse their students/listeners with rhetoric and abstract thought experiments than to actually discover The Truth...
If the death penalty as enacted here (with, usually, YEARS for appeals/new evidence, etc) is proportional in any significant way to state-forced MATRICIDE...well, I'm sorry your mother never loved you enough for you to see how unnatural one is when compared to the other.
I cannot understand the usage of a public system such as the ________ system being perverted to act as a revenue stream for clearly underhanded groups of people.
I'll help you understand (insert political/educational/judicial/legislative/economic/etc in the blank):
1) People are not perfect. Therefore people do not make the perfect ________ system.
2) There are some people who do not want to accept the rules of the ________ system.
3) Some of these people try to circumvent the rules of the ________ system, fail, and are punished/suffer.
4) Others (the clever ones) are able to successfully use the imperfections of the ________ system to circumvent, or change, the rules of the system. These people, in thoroughly developed society, will have an incredible amount of control over the original system. To not think this inevitable is akin to honestly believing "The cheater never prospers".
As a side-note, the abuses and manipulations of the American judicial system, at most times, seem pretty tame compared to those of the financial/economic, or political/legislative.
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Perhaps those "similar weapons" you mentioned might have more relevance in this discussion than a $316,856 air-to-surface rocket used to strike "radar-equipped air defense systems".
Last time I checked, insurgents were extremely lacking in their air force, and did not have millions of dollars to spend destroying a dozen cameras (assuming the HARM could target a single wireless camera - which it couldn't). Additionally, since these cameras are being shot into the areas where the enemy forces are, I suspect that their desire to use an explosive device to rid themselves of these cameras might not be so great.
Please provide some links to these "similar weapons", though, and I will be happy to investigate...
This idea was invented by Shampoo.
Your commentary was interesting and all, but where do you stand on war?
What's to stop your opponent from figuring out which frequencies this device transmits on and jamming it and/or targeting it with anti-radiation weapons?
Perhaps their cost of "figuring it out and neutralizing", vs. our cost to have the device cycle through frequencies.
Your question really amounts to, "why use radio waves for communications when your opponent can jam the frequencies?". Which is really just an incredibly stupid question if you had paused to think about the incredible success of radio in the last 70 years of warfare communications. It seems that somehow they're able to keep their communications systems up and running, and this device would be no more than another cog in those systems.
And I am not a science-fiction writer, but WTF do you mean by "Anti-Radiation Weapons"?!? And what bearing would this have on a wirelessly transmitting camera!?!
I am so confused by the mods...the post above this one (posted 1 minute before) says exactly the same thing but gets "-1 Redundant"?!! Is it just because it was an AC, or did the title of "So cool!" really change the joke?!?
NASA: Bangalore, we have problem! We think the heat shielding is starting to break up!
Customer Service: Thank you for holding, sir, I'll be glad to help you if you can confirm the name on the account...
NASA: Fer cryin' out loud! It's NASA!! We were told we were going to have a dedicated control center available 24/7!! We're gonna lose this ship real soon if we can't get some data from you NOW!
Customer Service: I understand your urgency and frustration, sir. If you could be patient for just one moment while I pull up your account details...Hmmm...yes...just as I suspected. Sir, are you aware that your account appears to be $3,133,730,000.42 overdue? Would you like to pay that balance now?
NASA: What is wrong with you?! This is an EMERGENCY!! If we don't correct that flight path in the n--
- from the background on NASA's end comes a wail of "Oh, the humanity!" Followed by stunned silence -
Customer Service: Sir, are you still there? Sir, about that payment...
Number's don't seem to add up...
3.1mm/yr, and the entire country is only 115 sq. miles, with a third of the population in the capital city, which sits on less than 1 square mile. Additionally, from a brief glance at the most populous towns/villages, it looks like another third of the population is residing on no more than 10 sq. miles.
Would it really be more cost effective to move the entire population to a new "homeland", instead of investing in efficiently condensing the population, and building a levee system around the current well-developed, and incredibly expensive-to-replace infrastructure?!!?
This smells like a "Poor us!" bid for attention and money, playing off of the "green guilt" of the rest of the developed world.
In other words...I'm calling shenanigans.
I have a couple of those helicopters, and my $50-60 investment in a universal (AAA,AA,C,D & 9v) Ni-Cd/Ni-MH smart charger plus 20 AA NiMH (weight doesn't matter in the remotes, and the onboard battery is a LiPo) has been WELL worth it. Especially now that I have built up a stock of rechargeables of every battery type. But the AA's alone are multipurpose enough to be totally worth the investment.
Thailand must be lovely this time of year...
Don't marginalize diagonals!
I, for one, embrace the perpendicularly-challenged, and do NOT deny them the root of their diversity.
Finally a response from a lower UID than the idiot who couldn't legitimately answer a single one of the GP's points about the usefulness of pagers for doctors, but somehow still got "Insightful"...
"pretty uncontested" != "completely uncontested"
Here it should be pretty obvious what's meant by "pretty". And I completely accept that it was not obvious to you. It is amazing how modifiers like that can change the meaning of simple/absolute statements.
Assuming everyone got their news from online press, and assuming that cnn.com and factcheck.org together were roughly proportional indicators (meaning that there was a factcheck.org equivalent for each of the other major online news sources) of uncontested vs. contested reporting, the numbers are still pretty supportive of my statement, at a persons-reached ratio of 150 to 1
Perhaps you should check your facts on the whoppers told by the Obama campaign.
Note that the above link is about all the big lies on BOTH sides. Which still makes the point that BOTH sides produced some pretty uncontested (by the press) deceptions. This was a vicious campaign, and to imply that one side didn't participate in the BS-slinging (although the McCain campaign, IMO, was worse about it) is pretty absurd.
Another reason why GoBots were fail: Over-simplified naming conventions in combination with never checking into possible negative slang context after translation.
Their dump truck robot? "Dumper".
> I've seen one of those.
/. I think that I hope in vain.
I hope, for the gene pool's sake, that you are are being sarcastic here. Unfortunately, after a quick perusal of your latest comments on
...could this rendering be more phallic?
- Yes. It could be animated.
As a strict Fundamentalist Christian, I applaud how your examples became more fantastical/mythical the farther back in time you go, with the obvious (and proper) implication that caveman and dinosaurs are even sillier works of fiction than King Arthur and Robin Hood. Bravo!
for instance if you search for "Widget Model XJ123" it will now find a page by a manufacturer where the only place they list it is in a pulldown list that lets you choose the product to buy.
Shenanigans! And I've been looking everywhere for that elusive XJ123, since the manufacturer stopped producing it. How dare you get my hopes up!
Terrorist.
Finally my time to shine! Classic-Liberal-Arts-Education--attack!!
*assumes most arrogant manner possible*
From my experience, most if not all of the "Great Philosophers" sought nothing more than to make a living out of "seeking". If they were to actually discover "the answers", wouldn't that have put them out of a job? Not much profit in The Truth once it's out there. Oh, sure, there are Book Deals, sculpture/painting/photo ops, and the Ancient Greek Walk-n-Talk Show circuit, but will that really pay the bills for the rest of your life?
If you ask me, they had greater motivation to confuse their students/listeners with rhetoric and abstract thought experiments than to actually discover The Truth...
'cuz of all those kids fluent in Arabic who'll be playing this game...right?
Awww...I was really hoping all this christian-muslim flaming was gonna break the 1000 post barrier...*sigh*...now my life has no meaning.
If the death penalty as enacted here (with, usually, YEARS for appeals/new evidence, etc) is proportional in any significant way to state-forced MATRICIDE...well, I'm sorry your mother never loved you enough for you to see how unnatural one is when compared to the other.
WTF?! How did you forget Saudi Arabia in your "wealthiest" are democracies silliness!?! Did you happen to look up ANY of your "facts"?!
Hint: They're ALL bullshit!
I cannot understand the usage of a public system such as the ________ system being perverted to act as a revenue stream for clearly underhanded groups of people.
I'll help you understand (insert political/educational/judicial/legislative/economic/etc in the blank):
1) People are not perfect. Therefore people do not make the perfect ________ system.
2) There are some people who do not want to accept the rules of the ________ system.
3) Some of these people try to circumvent the rules of the ________ system, fail, and are punished/suffer.
4) Others (the clever ones) are able to successfully use the imperfections of the ________ system to circumvent, or change, the rules of the system. These people, in thoroughly developed society, will have an incredible amount of control over the original system. To not think this inevitable is akin to honestly believing "The cheater never prospers".
As a side-note, the abuses and manipulations of the American judicial system, at most times, seem pretty tame compared to those of the financial/economic, or political/legislative.