He did not say he left his Sperm everywhere, he his Semen, which is not one and the same. A man who has been 'fixed' will leave no sperm, but you may find his DNA in his semen.
The problem with current defence spending is that the money doesn't really go back into the economy other than paying wages of employees. The rest of the money (massive profits from no-bid governmental projects charged at more than 3 times the normal rate) is siphoned out of the economy, usually through offshore bank accounts and 'head offices' to benefit the shareholders.
If the defence industry (building all those machines of death) were nationalised then it WOULD kickstart the economy, but then that's socialism so half the population would go run shrieking in terror that they were going to be marched off to death camps (some people really can't distinguish between socialism and communofascism). And if you're going to spend so much money on producing something, then it might as well be something constructive and good for the people (alternative energy production anyone?) rather than perpetuating the trade in nonsensical killing.
Breathed oxygen recently? Socialism and communism go hand-in-hand. Nationalization of ANY industry is terrible for the country in the long-run (no free rides for the recent nationalization of the banks) and will suck the life out of the economy.
If you want to stop building all those machines of death, then be prepared to be working in a slave-labor camp for someone else. National defense is the only thing that keeps other countries from taking over and running things their way.
Negative. Most of that money spent on 'education' and 'infrastructure' will end up in numbered accounts and Democrat political war chests. Ever tried to figure out why it is that government spending never gets you quite what it should? Or what might be gained in (some parts of) the private sector?
To do all the crap that Obama wants to do will mean taking LOTS of money away from LOTS of people. His version of 'rich' people has been morphing steadily and last I heard it was down to $150k from $250k/yr. How much do you want to bet it will trend down to $75k/yr before he even takes office?
What has always concerned me most is spending in deficit. We will have to pay it back eventually and the pyramid schemes of the politicians can only lst so long.
Nix on that, genius. The pilot doesn't do gunnery because he is busy flying. The fact that some people can concentrate on two things at once does not mean they will do either one of them well.
How well do you drive and talk on the cell phone? Hmm?
Have you ever heard the saying: What if they held a war and no one showed up?
It is the bastardization of the complete verse (cannot remember the author) which goes on to talk about how the country that fails to show up for the war GETS TO BE THE SLAVES OF THE COUNTRY THAT DOES!
It is a verse about how WAR IS NECESSARY to maintain freedom.
But like all good wanna-be dictators, those who wish for 'freedom from war' will always only tell you what they want the truth to be.
What this research will REALLY do is lay the foundation for future vehicles, both military and civilian, which will not REQUIRE drivers to get from A---B.
There are a number of instances in which this technology would be actively stupid to employ, such as the current situation in Iraq or AFG. Insurrections would thrive on the availability of supplies available by simple roadblocking of automated convoys (for a short period of time, anyway).
Yet this tech will, eventually, be used as the foundation of vehicles which will navigate their totally wasted owners home from the bar. Or the 18-wheeler across the country.
Lots of obstacle to overcome still, but this lays the groundwork for development.
everyone is attempting to say that the Democrats are going to take the election (and they might). Hey, Democrats win elections, Republicans take them!
Think what you want. Chicago is heavy with Democrats and everyone who has EVER died in Chicago votes at least once in every election for their favorite Democrat.
Not to mention, if you paid attention in Ohio, the slant made by Diebold errors was in FAVOR of the Democrats (who threatened outright violence if they didn't get their way). In Florida the Democrats were ready to revolt and never got closer than 500 votes, even after NUMEROUS recounts, even after the Supreme court spoke up.
AND there is a particularly notorious event out in Washington state where the Democrats openly stole an election by disqualifying all mail-in ballots (primarily military). It was JUST enough to get the Dem candidate over the Repub candidate. Less than 10 votes, IIRC.
Point.
Then consider the changing fortunes of countries.
100 years ago the UK was dominant in world affairs, trade, etc.
Where will the US be 100 years from now? Is there an obvious successor on the world stage?
China wants badly to be that successor and so does the old USSR (they may not be socialists, but Putin is no less ambitious) but how can we tell who will take it?
Yes, some things do come true.
Heinlein, while an excellent writer, penned stories about atomic power plants on spaceships. Not only have there not been the type of power plants he envisioned, EnviroWeenies freak at the idea of having atomics get pushed up on rockets. He did, OTH, come up with the idea of waterbeds (I think, never have researched it).
Many, many things get talked about in fiction, some of them are even good ideas. Most are just the idle fantasies of writers. Like psychohistory, which smacked more of magic than of science.
I disagree.
A chaos predictor cannot be more accurate than simple guessing, for it is attempting to predict chaotic events.
Look at the political scene in the US; given the current climate everyone is attempting to say that the Democrats are going to take the election (and they might). It is just as likely that one of the Republicans will nose over the line (especially with the right third-party candidate).
We know his system well and experts can only call a race with 50% accuracy, even with just two candidates in most races. The human mind is far more complex and makes far more calculations, with random associations for a computer to predict anything about what a group of people will do.
I will be impressed if we see a program, ever, that hits greater than 20% reliability on predicting events or trends.
Bull. It is NOT '4D'. Wants you to believe it is . . . it aint. Wanna call it hyperspace? Go ahead. 4D? There are only 3D (time excluded in discussions of spatial relationships).
You are, of course, presuming that Asimov was doing more than writing good FICTION.
I sincerely doubt that any program will have any noticeable success in predicting anything, regardless of the wads of cash thrown at it to make it 'better'.
Remember all the computers in the classroom priorities of the last few decades?
How many of you used a computer in ANY bloody classroom that did not relate directly to the class? (ie- C+ programming {more likely FORTRAN}).
Did you miss the part where a soldiers family is not held to the UCMJ? Effectively, the report can SAY whatever it feels like. The fact of the matter is that the Army will NEVER try to silence the families of soldiers . . . they have no grasp.
Will CO's try to coerce soldiers to get the families to stop? Those without reservation to do other things, probably.
And where do you think the now massively enlarged, better funded, better organized, battle hardened terrorists will attack once the US leaves Iraq? You're an idiot if you think they haven't been spending all this time finding (and not sending to their deaths) all the terrorists intelligent enough for a mission to the US. Thats not even talking about what will happen in 10 years when all the anti-US fervor and hatred that we've sowed in youths will finally be reaped. Or that we've turned Iraq over to the same religious group than runs Iran.
There are not lots of people getting out. Their best and brightest go to Iraq and we KILL them. Dead is dead. The ones who live . . . are those providing the funding and direction (notice that Osama did not himself volunteer to fly one of those planes).
Guess what? If it comes that they still want to come here ten years from now we will still slaughter them. But their funding will be less, not more. Ten years from now there will be less reliance (with some luck since the Democratic hypocrites don't want to cut back on oil use) on oil and foreign oil in particular.
The one step that the Left in our country will not take in defeating terrorism . . . siding with the Right to do it. They succeeded in turning our victory in Vietnam into defeat and will continue push defeat out of the jaws of victory here.
You are apparently blathering on, lost in your hatred. Even I, who have a deep and real fear of Hitlery getting elected, recognize that Bill Clinton had things he did well.
The fact that you cannot see past your own prejudices and find that the soldiers ARE defending our way-of-life simply shows how narrow-minded you really are.
What lies are being covered up? The ones that Pres. Clinton told when HE said that Iraq had WMD? Or when all the other members of that administration said the same thing? STOP DRINKING THE KOOL-AID and THINK FOR YOURSELF!!! If we were not busy draining the blood out of terrorism in Iraq we would be doing it here . . . which strikes me as being VERY BAD for our kids. Paricularly my own.
It is great that the soldiers are looking to play games and relax. Besides which, maybe the organizer is using the time-tested approach of misleading the enemy and not telling the truth about when & where.
I think you mean watts, not amps. 15000 to 18000 amps would be enough to power several hundred stoves. The circuit in the wall next to me, on the stove, is a 40 amp, 220v breaker.
Look at your targets again, moron.
Those circles are at about . . . mid-chest. Think heart, lungs both good things to hit to KILL YOUR ENEMY!
It would be cruel and unusual punishment to shoot to wound.
To the Finn who thinks his army is teaching him to shoot to wound: The Soviets left thousands of their injured to die in the cold when 'wounded' by your ancestors. Wounding only made them die more slowly and painfully. The Finns killed many thousands of the Soviets and did a commendable job of holding them off for a time.
Being Dutch it might be that you have noticed how the Mooks (muslims, derisive) have attempted to force your own country to its knees through worldwide protest and targeted assasinations of those whom they dislike.
And BTW, sorry for being concerned when seeing the images of the huge American military graveyards and Americans protesting to get their family members back safely.
Umm . . . in case you have failed to take into account the historical lessons inherent in actual study of history, this war has the lowest body count for the US compared to any large-scale war in history. Those protests you refer to are a small percentage taking advantage of one of the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution (and most of the protestors who show up are NOT the families of soldiers, they are professional protestors).
In Iraq the terrorists have had such poor successes against US troops that they are attacking the civilian population like the rabid dogs they are. It is still not working for them as the civilian population is more strongly than ever against them.
Yet, why do you not hear this? The mainstream media, even in your own blessed little country, are less interested in the truth than in the sensation.
Fact of life. We have been, we are and we will continue to hammer the terrorists. They are desperate to remain in the news and so take desperate measures, like huge carbombs against soft targets like the marketplace that was hit yesterday murdering nearly 200 civilians.
Want to feel sorry? Feel sorry for the Iraqi's whose dictator set them up for failure.
Never lived in a country with free press, have you?
There are no draftees left in the US military, the last one left (after volunteering 30 years past his end-of-service date) last year. I serve in an all-volunteer force. As for the 'politically motivated war', just wait.
I would guess that you are a Euro, from the smarmy superiority (but I could be wrong). The Mooks will have the EU under their thumb within the decade, with nary a shot fired. 25% of the current population is currently foreign with the bulk of that being . . . Muslim immigrants.
Sweden is finding out how great the Islamic life is. Just ask the numerous rape victims. But hey, they refused to wear the Burka, so they were asking for it! They were showing their necks.
This war is not about WMD, nor is it a shot at finishing the war that the world did not want to finish in 1991.
This IS a holy war, one that was started by Islamic jihadists and will be finished when we or they stand over the bodies of all those willing to fight for their ideals.
Back to the wild assertions and baseless speculation at hand:
The LandWarrior system is facing two things that may kill it:
#1) Natural reticence of the average soldier to accept the new thing. Stryker was exactly the same way and it is now performing well, with fewer than average hiccups (even if it STILL fails to meet stated mission goals).
#2) Failure to train. The training for use of this weapon should ave been done from the ground up well before the unit ever considered deploying to a war zone. Until we have troops whose use of the system is natural as breathing it will not see its full potential.
My personal concerns for this system involve information overload. Spending too much time looking at the pretty pictures is GOING TO GET YOU KILLED. Also, I pity the poor geek who figures out how to play pr0n while kicking doors.
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He did not say he left his Sperm everywhere, he his Semen, which is not one and the same. A man who has been 'fixed' will leave no sperm, but you may find his DNA in his semen.
Thus sayeth the man who is open-minded enough to let any original though escape unharmed from his grasp.
The problem with current defence spending is that the money doesn't really go back into the economy other than paying wages of employees. The rest of the money (massive profits from no-bid governmental projects charged at more than 3 times the normal rate) is siphoned out of the economy, usually through offshore bank accounts and 'head offices' to benefit the shareholders. If the defence industry (building all those machines of death) were nationalised then it WOULD kickstart the economy, but then that's socialism so half the population would go run shrieking in terror that they were going to be marched off to death camps (some people really can't distinguish between socialism and communofascism). And if you're going to spend so much money on producing something, then it might as well be something constructive and good for the people (alternative energy production anyone?) rather than perpetuating the trade in nonsensical killing.
Breathed oxygen recently? Socialism and communism go hand-in-hand. Nationalization of ANY industry is terrible for the country in the long-run (no free rides for the recent nationalization of the banks) and will suck the life out of the economy. If you want to stop building all those machines of death, then be prepared to be working in a slave-labor camp for someone else. National defense is the only thing that keeps other countries from taking over and running things their way.
Negative. Most of that money spent on 'education' and 'infrastructure' will end up in numbered accounts and Democrat political war chests. Ever tried to figure out why it is that government spending never gets you quite what it should? Or what might be gained in (some parts of) the private sector? To do all the crap that Obama wants to do will mean taking LOTS of money away from LOTS of people. His version of 'rich' people has been morphing steadily and last I heard it was down to $150k from $250k/yr. How much do you want to bet it will trend down to $75k/yr before he even takes office? What has always concerned me most is spending in deficit. We will have to pay it back eventually and the pyramid schemes of the politicians can only lst so long.
Nix on that, genius. The pilot doesn't do gunnery because he is busy flying. The fact that some people can concentrate on two things at once does not mean they will do either one of them well.
How well do you drive and talk on the cell phone? Hmm?
Have you ever heard the saying: What if they held a war and no one showed up? It is the bastardization of the complete verse (cannot remember the author) which goes on to talk about how the country that fails to show up for the war GETS TO BE THE SLAVES OF THE COUNTRY THAT DOES! It is a verse about how WAR IS NECESSARY to maintain freedom. But like all good wanna-be dictators, those who wish for 'freedom from war' will always only tell you what they want the truth to be.
What this research will REALLY do is lay the foundation for future vehicles, both military and civilian, which will not REQUIRE drivers to get from A---B. There are a number of instances in which this technology would be actively stupid to employ, such as the current situation in Iraq or AFG. Insurrections would thrive on the availability of supplies available by simple roadblocking of automated convoys (for a short period of time, anyway). Yet this tech will, eventually, be used as the foundation of vehicles which will navigate their totally wasted owners home from the bar. Or the 18-wheeler across the country. Lots of obstacle to overcome still, but this lays the groundwork for development.
Hey, Democrats win elections, Republicans take them!
Think what you want. Chicago is heavy with Democrats and everyone who has EVER died in Chicago votes at least once in every election for their favorite Democrat.
Not to mention, if you paid attention in Ohio, the slant made by Diebold errors was in FAVOR of the Democrats (who threatened outright violence if they didn't get their way). In Florida the Democrats were ready to revolt and never got closer than 500 votes, even after NUMEROUS recounts, even after the Supreme court spoke up.
AND there is a particularly notorious event out in Washington state where the Democrats openly stole an election by disqualifying all mail-in ballots (primarily military). It was JUST enough to get the Dem candidate over the Repub candidate. Less than 10 votes, IIRC.
Neither side is innocent, though.
Point. Then consider the changing fortunes of countries. 100 years ago the UK was dominant in world affairs, trade, etc. Where will the US be 100 years from now? Is there an obvious successor on the world stage? China wants badly to be that successor and so does the old USSR (they may not be socialists, but Putin is no less ambitious) but how can we tell who will take it?
Yes, some things do come true. Heinlein, while an excellent writer, penned stories about atomic power plants on spaceships. Not only have there not been the type of power plants he envisioned, EnviroWeenies freak at the idea of having atomics get pushed up on rockets. He did, OTH, come up with the idea of waterbeds (I think, never have researched it). Many, many things get talked about in fiction, some of them are even good ideas. Most are just the idle fantasies of writers. Like psychohistory, which smacked more of magic than of science.
I disagree. A chaos predictor cannot be more accurate than simple guessing, for it is attempting to predict chaotic events. Look at the political scene in the US; given the current climate everyone is attempting to say that the Democrats are going to take the election (and they might). It is just as likely that one of the Republicans will nose over the line (especially with the right third-party candidate). We know his system well and experts can only call a race with 50% accuracy, even with just two candidates in most races. The human mind is far more complex and makes far more calculations, with random associations for a computer to predict anything about what a group of people will do. I will be impressed if we see a program, ever, that hits greater than 20% reliability on predicting events or trends.
Bull. It is NOT '4D'. Wants you to believe it is . . . it aint. Wanna call it hyperspace? Go ahead. 4D? There are only 3D (time excluded in discussions of spatial relationships).
You are, of course, presuming that Asimov was doing more than writing good FICTION. I sincerely doubt that any program will have any noticeable success in predicting anything, regardless of the wads of cash thrown at it to make it 'better'. Remember all the computers in the classroom priorities of the last few decades? How many of you used a computer in ANY bloody classroom that did not relate directly to the class? (ie- C+ programming {more likely FORTRAN}).
Did you miss the part where a soldiers family is not held to the UCMJ? Effectively, the report can SAY whatever it feels like. The fact of the matter is that the Army will NEVER try to silence the families of soldiers . . . they have no grasp. Will CO's try to coerce soldiers to get the families to stop? Those without reservation to do other things, probably.
You are apparently blathering on, lost in your hatred. Even I, who have a deep and real fear of Hitlery getting elected, recognize that Bill Clinton had things he did well. The fact that you cannot see past your own prejudices and find that the soldiers ARE defending our way-of-life simply shows how narrow-minded you really are. What lies are being covered up? The ones that Pres. Clinton told when HE said that Iraq had WMD? Or when all the other members of that administration said the same thing? STOP DRINKING THE KOOL-AID and THINK FOR YOURSELF!!! If we were not busy draining the blood out of terrorism in Iraq we would be doing it here . . . which strikes me as being VERY BAD for our kids. Paricularly my own. It is great that the soldiers are looking to play games and relax. Besides which, maybe the organizer is using the time-tested approach of misleading the enemy and not telling the truth about when & where.
I think you mean watts, not amps. 15000 to 18000 amps would be enough to power several hundred stoves. The circuit in the wall next to me, on the stove, is a 40 amp, 220v breaker.
Look at your targets again, moron. Those circles are at about . . . mid-chest. Think heart, lungs both good things to hit to KILL YOUR ENEMY! It would be cruel and unusual punishment to shoot to wound. To the Finn who thinks his army is teaching him to shoot to wound: The Soviets left thousands of their injured to die in the cold when 'wounded' by your ancestors. Wounding only made them die more slowly and painfully. The Finns killed many thousands of the Soviets and did a commendable job of holding them off for a time.
Never lived in a country with free press, have you?
There are no draftees left in the US military, the last one left (after volunteering 30 years past his end-of-service date) last year. I serve in an all-volunteer force. As for the 'politically motivated war', just wait.
I would guess that you are a Euro, from the smarmy superiority (but I could be wrong). The Mooks will have the EU under their thumb within the decade, with nary a shot fired. 25% of the current population is currently foreign with the bulk of that being . . . Muslim immigrants.
Sweden is finding out how great the Islamic life is. Just ask the numerous rape victims. But hey, they refused to wear the Burka, so they were asking for it! They were showing their necks.
This war is not about WMD, nor is it a shot at finishing the war that the world did not want to finish in 1991.
This IS a holy war, one that was started by Islamic jihadists and will be finished when we or they stand over the bodies of all those willing to fight for their ideals.
Back to the wild assertions and baseless speculation at hand:
The LandWarrior system is facing two things that may kill it:
#1) Natural reticence of the average soldier to accept the new thing. Stryker was exactly the same way and it is now performing well, with fewer than average hiccups (even if it STILL fails to meet stated mission goals).
#2) Failure to train. The training for use of this weapon should ave been done from the ground up well before the unit ever considered deploying to a war zone. Until we have troops whose use of the system is natural as breathing it will not see its full potential.
My personal concerns for this system involve information overload. Spending too much time looking at the pretty pictures is GOING TO GET YOU KILLED. Also, I pity the poor geek who figures out how to play pr0n while kicking doors.