blah blah blah, government conspiracy, blah blah blah.
Yes, our intelligence agencies are launching spy satellites. Yes our military is launching communication satellites. No, it doesn't have anything to do with exploring mars or searching for extra-solar earth like planets.
Fuck you, take off your tin-foil helmet and take your medication, you fucking karma whore.
3) What is with the crazy tail wings and fins on the back? They seem to go in all directions.
4) Is that a camera in the front? Why is it not recessed for aerodynamics?
1) You have to stick the robot brains somewhere.
2) Why not?
3) That's so you can tell it's futuristic.
4) Yes. So it can pan around.
Now we know why China wants to build destroying missiles. You can take out the whole attack force by destroying the satellite network.
Excellent point. UAVs are groovy when we're fighting illiterate backward assholes who tend to close their eyes when they shoot and have to import AK-47s because they are not technologically sophisticated enough to manufacture their own. But God help us if we send UAVs to fight against an enemy with a half-way decent electronic warfare program. I can imagine the conversation on the ground...
General: How soon until the Reapers reach Beijing?
"Pilot": Anytime now sir. I love controlling armed aircraft via a tenuous satellite link subject to all kinds of enemy jamming and false signals. I feel completely safe!
General: Yes indeed. Nothing could possibly go wro- Do you hear something?
"Pilot": Yeah, it's like a faint droning sound, slowly getting louder.
...looking for people in the U.S. engaged in criminal activity that is not really supposed to be the province of the federal government...
Since when is it not the province of the FBI to look for people in the U.S. engaged in criminal activity? It's their fucking job. That's why it's called the Federal Bureau of Investigation. If all you people can do is trot out the same old "government bad...GOVERNMENT BAD!" knee-jerk conspiracy theories when shit like this pops up in the news, nobody is going to take you seriously. At least RTFA and comment on the actual issues.
For example...
But it [the database] could be based, in part at least, on commercial or public information that might not be accurate -- potentially ranking an innocent person as a terror threat. Watch lists, for example, have mistakenly identified people as suspects based on their similar names or birthdates to terrorists.
I can see this being a major problem. I'd hate to have a name like, oh I dunno, Osama Bin Laden, and try to get through an airport security checkpoint. More importantly, what if I do something mildly suspicious that comes to the attention of the authorities? I can imagine the conversation...
FBI Agent: We'd like a warrant to wiretap this man's phone.
Judge: What did he do?
FBI Agent: He wrote a strongly worded letter to his local police department contesting a parking ticket he received.
Judge: I dunno, that seems pretty weak. What's his name?
FBI Agent: Osama Bin Laden.
Judge: Granted.
Maybe in addition to a terrorist watch list we should have a not-a-terrorist-don't-watch list. Just a thought.
Vests using this material are soft vests, used for stopping handgun rounds, and it might be good for civilian police. Depending on the thickness, these vests are rated either level II or level IIIA (source).
Level II vests are capable of protecting against 9mm rounds traveling up to 1225 ft/s and.357 magnum rounds traveling up to 1445 ft/s.
Level IIIA vests are capable of protecting against 9mm rounds,.44 rounds, and.44 magnum rounds traveling up to 1440 ft/s. (source)
Neither of these are good enough to replace the hard armor plates currently used by the military. Our plates are Level IV, capable of protecting against 6 rounds of 7.62mm x 51 NATO ball rounds traveling at 2800 ft/s, and 1 "armor piercing" 30.06 round traveling at 2900 ft/s.
Yeah, but according to a business week article, 1.847 billion of those chinese and indians won't buy your software, they'll just pirate it.
So fuck it, let them write their own software. They can use however many bytes per character they want. Anyway, I miss plain ASCII. Much more elegant, and you can use char buffers as buffers for binary data without dicking around with lo-byte / hi-byte nonsense.
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Blu-ray was the inevitable victor. They have the most snappy name. "blue ray" vs "aiech dee dee vee dee"? Come on. No contest.
You don't think the Government is evil? Well one night, when you're asleep, the government is gonna get ya. They're gonna get ya!
Yes, our intelligence agencies are launching spy satellites. Yes our military is launching communication satellites. No, it doesn't have anything to do with exploring mars or searching for extra-solar earth like planets.
Fuck you, take off your tin-foil helmet and take your medication, you fucking karma whore.
1) You have to stick the robot brains somewhere.
2) Why not?
3) That's so you can tell it's futuristic.
4) Yes. So it can pan around.
Excellent point. UAVs are groovy when we're fighting illiterate backward assholes who tend to close their eyes when they shoot and have to import AK-47s because they are not technologically sophisticated enough to manufacture their own. But God help us if we send UAVs to fight against an enemy with a half-way decent electronic warfare program. I can imagine the conversation on the ground...
General: How soon until the Reapers reach Beijing?
"Pilot": Anytime now sir. I love controlling armed aircraft via a tenuous satellite link subject to all kinds of enemy jamming and false signals. I feel completely safe!
General: Yes indeed. Nothing could possibly go wro- Do you hear something?
"Pilot": Yeah, it's like a faint droning sound, slowly getting louder.
General: Uh oh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signiture
Since when is it not the province of the FBI to look for people in the U.S. engaged in criminal activity? It's their fucking job. That's why it's called the Federal Bureau of Investigation. If all you people can do is trot out the same old "government bad...GOVERNMENT BAD!" knee-jerk conspiracy theories when shit like this pops up in the news, nobody is going to take you seriously. At least RTFA and comment on the actual issues.
For example...
I can see this being a major problem. I'd hate to have a name like, oh I dunno, Osama Bin Laden, and try to get through an airport security checkpoint. More importantly, what if I do something mildly suspicious that comes to the attention of the authorities? I can imagine the conversation...
FBI Agent: We'd like a warrant to wiretap this man's phone.
Judge: What did he do?
FBI Agent: He wrote a strongly worded letter to his local police department contesting a parking ticket he received.
Judge: I dunno, that seems pretty weak. What's his name?
FBI Agent: Osama Bin Laden.
Judge: Granted.
Maybe in addition to a terrorist watch list we should have a not-a-terrorist-don't-watch list. Just a thought.
How about the freest and most democratic country on Earth spending money on ways to temporarily disable its enemies as an alternative to killing them?
a link to the sunbathing coeds please?
Vests using this material are soft vests, used for stopping handgun rounds, and it might be good for civilian police. Depending on the thickness, these vests are rated either level II or level IIIA (source). Level II vests are capable of protecting against 9mm rounds traveling up to 1225 ft/s and .357 magnum rounds traveling up to 1445 ft/s.
Level IIIA vests are capable of protecting against 9mm rounds, .44 rounds, and .44 magnum rounds traveling up to 1440 ft/s. (source)
Neither of these are good enough to replace the hard armor plates currently used by the military. Our plates are Level IV, capable of protecting against 6 rounds of 7.62mm x 51 NATO ball rounds traveling at 2800 ft/s, and 1 "armor piercing" 30.06 round traveling at 2900 ft/s.
Yeah, but according to a business week article, 1.847 billion of those chinese and indians won't buy your software, they'll just pirate it. So fuck it, let them write their own software. They can use however many bytes per character they want. Anyway, I miss plain ASCII. Much more elegant, and you can use char buffers as buffers for binary data without dicking around with lo-byte / hi-byte nonsense.
is a stupid name. It sounds like a fad exercise routine.