You aren't painting the target, its gathering range information, this can be done in literally a millionth of a second. The only time you paint something with a laser (in relation to weapons) is when you are guiding a laser homing weapon to a target.
Possibly the best chapter in that whole damn book.
But lets get realistic here, the intention of the AEGIS ABM system was NOT to counter the Russians or China, who we know full well could overwhelm our ABM systems. It is to counter "rogue" states that will have smaller, less capable ballistic missile programs and might be "unstable" and attack with a few of them. It is to prevent the people/states that might be crazy enough to sacrifice their entire populations just to get in a spiteful blow to the US. If we can prevent their nukes from hitting us, then we have no reason to then counter and destroy millions of their people. That is the reasoning behind the modern ABM system. It is not Safeguard or SDI, or even the Moscow ABM system. It is meant to prevent crazy launches or accidental launches.
Yes, but look at the K/D ratio in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Armed citizen or not, when you are facing down a platoon of US infantry with helicopter gunship support you are going to have a bad day.
Yes, gunships are only part of the solution though... Soldiers on the ground engaging enemy can walk in air support on where fire is coming from. Happens all the time in urbanized areas.
Except the 30mm (read 30 MILLIMETERS, not.30 caliber like your rifle) chain gun on a AH-64 can sit comfortably back over a mile away and at 2000 feet and rain down on you with HE/HEDP rounds, even at night with no moon and total cloud cover.
Wow you live in a total fantasy world. You think background checks when you buy a gun know instantly if you have ever done anything illegal, even if you have never been caught for it? If you are a convicted felon or had your rights revoked by a court for some other reason than yes, you legally can't posses a firearm... The courts/cops/background system don't know that though if you are a criminal who has never been caught. Criminals can legally purchase weapons, just only until they are caught.
If it is anything like the Japanese HSR system these trains are in station for less than 2 minutes, usually around 90 seconds. There isn't a baggage car, no baggage offloading. You keep your bags with you at all times and when you get near your stop they announce it and you stand up and head to the doors. When the train stops you just get out (the platforms are level with the doors, so no hopping down awkwardness, its very quick. Then the train is off again. Since these are all EMU train sets that means they do not have a single engine, but powered bogies along the entire train. They can accelerate and decelerate very quickly.
I think I read 35 stops on the route, if a train stops at every stop then that is roughly 70 minutes in station at 2 minutes a stop. So out of the 8 hour trip, thats 6 hours and 50 minutes you are moving, which means that the trains are going somewhere over 300km/h (336km/h to be exact). I doubt this is the actual speed, I am guess that the 8 hour trip is for express trains, which will skip some of the stops on the way, only stopping at major stations, while other trains will stop at all or more stations (this is how it works in Japan). That'd put the speed at around 280-300km/h which is about what Japanese systems run at.
Yea but how often is that even possible these days with modern console games...? Almost all of them require internet multiplayer, except for some pretty specific party games.
No need to explain, only something this stupid could come from the country of Italy... They even beat Texas on the wacky scale. Watch out cell phone manufacturers, if you travel to Italy they might charge you for manslaughter, just like they charge people for not predicting earthquakes.
Ahhh... Too funny. I think you need to sit down and really think out your political views and what you want to see in society because you obviously are pretty confused and angry to think about anything rationally.
Those 7000 where out of how many total protesters in the United States in 2011? In how many separate incidents did these arrests occur? What was the average arrest rate per event? You can throw out numbers like that and they seem shocking but in the big scheme of things it still comes out to be not really all that shocking, that is unless of course you are a total reactionary, which I have a feeling you are.
So you plan to build the next mars rover? How about just the road to get to the place where the next mars rover will be built? Let us give private citizens and companies the power to do all of that and see how far they want to go spending their money. Quit thinking like a child and realize that there is a reason you are taxed, and its a good one.
That is why you have multiple train sets. In Japan the bullet trains run essentially what amount to locals, rapids, and super-rapids. The local like ones stop at every station on the route, the rapids skip the smallest but still stop at larger ones, and the super-rapids like the Nozomi on the Sanyo line stop only at the largest cities. Smaller stations are built with turn out lines for the platforms, allowing the faster trains to bypass them while they sit in the station.
Also, the length of time a bullet train in Japan is in station is very short, often around 90 seconds. The N700 series also can accelerate very quickly, often being back up to their top speed within a few minutes.
Watch this video of a tunnel entrance on the Sanyo line in Japan and make sure to watch the clock in the lower corner: http://youtu.be/YlPjo9RIQNE
Hopefully with HSR the small towns along the route will grow much larger as well. People keep looking at the negatives and at none of the positives here, they see the immediate cost and none of the long term benefits of more people (and more tax paying residents and businesses) that infrastructure like HSR and other rail projects bring. Its time that we stop looking at the car as the solution for everything and start looking to other countries and how they have done well with rail, because we could ultimately do it better.
Airports are far less efficient. They need to be placed outside of city centers and still require some other sort of infrastructure to get people from the airport to wherever else they are going. Trains, not only high speed, are far more capable of moving large numbers of people into the heart of cities quickly, as well as moving them out to the outlying areas and suburbs.
Flying is only good when connecting vastly separate areas together (read thousands of miles), places that have no useful population centers in-between them.
Its a damn shame most cities destroyed their interurban rail systems by the 1930s in favor of cars and now are trying like hell to get them back. Hundreds of miles of existing infrastructure destroyed due to market collusion by the likes of General Motors.
You do realize that improving infrastructure improves the areas surrounding those improvements as well right? Gotta spend money to make money. I suggest you take a look at a country like Japan, which could easily compare to California in a lot of ways and tell me their rail system doesn't work. Go ahead, explain to me.
Trains are an economic disaster in the US, and it is not for any sort of engineering reason (you can look at pretty much any other industrialized modern country in the world and see that trains actually work out pretty damn well).
They were given the money to go there because no one would go there with out any sort of subsidies. In addition to that, since the lines are still allowed to be solely owned by the private companies in those areas then no one else still feels like its a market they can compete in with out those subsidies either because they'd have to make their own investments and ultimately be making a medium-term loss in a developed market. If anything the government should be investing more in bringing in competitors.
The ultimate goal of a business is to make money and they stand to not make money in a lot of areas, that is where government can help out people that might not get these services otherwise, by making undesirable markets desirable. Ultimately for society and the economy these investments by the government do pay off because you open new markets to internet trade, you can revitalize businesses and attract new businesses, etc. This is a very simple concept that most libertarian/conservative fools can not even begin to grasp, that infrastructure costs money, usually doesn't turn a profit, but is the backbone of economy. They have a mentality that contradicts thousands of years of history in regards to infrastructure. It is like they just see roads and rail networks and assume they have always been there and thats how it will always be and do not even for a second consider the forces that created them. A strong partnership between business and government with an eye towards what is best for their customers and their citizens is the best system. Look at Japan for an example.
Yea, cause I mean those sole provider markets are totally willing to leave the internet behind right? Total free markets do not work, they become predatory and violent (literally).
If you want a country where you can do anything you want if you have the money try Somalia or Afghanistan, I prefer to live in a society where the weak are given the same standards as the powerful.
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You aren't painting the target, its gathering range information, this can be done in literally a millionth of a second. The only time you paint something with a laser (in relation to weapons) is when you are guiding a laser homing weapon to a target.
Possibly the best chapter in that whole damn book.
But lets get realistic here, the intention of the AEGIS ABM system was NOT to counter the Russians or China, who we know full well could overwhelm our ABM systems. It is to counter "rogue" states that will have smaller, less capable ballistic missile programs and might be "unstable" and attack with a few of them. It is to prevent the people/states that might be crazy enough to sacrifice their entire populations just to get in a spiteful blow to the US. If we can prevent their nukes from hitting us, then we have no reason to then counter and destroy millions of their people. That is the reasoning behind the modern ABM system. It is not Safeguard or SDI, or even the Moscow ABM system. It is meant to prevent crazy launches or accidental launches.
Yes, but look at the K/D ratio in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Armed citizen or not, when you are facing down a platoon of US infantry with helicopter gunship support you are going to have a bad day.
Yes, gunships are only part of the solution though... Soldiers on the ground engaging enemy can walk in air support on where fire is coming from. Happens all the time in urbanized areas.
Are you uneduCated? I think this image might explain things in terms you can understand: http://i.imgur.com/XTexx.jpg
Except the 30mm (read 30 MILLIMETERS, not .30 caliber like your rifle) chain gun on a AH-64 can sit comfortably back over a mile away and at 2000 feet and rain down on you with HE/HEDP rounds, even at night with no moon and total cloud cover.
Wow you live in a total fantasy world. You think background checks when you buy a gun know instantly if you have ever done anything illegal, even if you have never been caught for it? If you are a convicted felon or had your rights revoked by a court for some other reason than yes, you legally can't posses a firearm... The courts/cops/background system don't know that though if you are a criminal who has never been caught. Criminals can legally purchase weapons, just only until they are caught.
If it is anything like the Japanese HSR system these trains are in station for less than 2 minutes, usually around 90 seconds. There isn't a baggage car, no baggage offloading. You keep your bags with you at all times and when you get near your stop they announce it and you stand up and head to the doors. When the train stops you just get out (the platforms are level with the doors, so no hopping down awkwardness, its very quick. Then the train is off again. Since these are all EMU train sets that means they do not have a single engine, but powered bogies along the entire train. They can accelerate and decelerate very quickly.
I think I read 35 stops on the route, if a train stops at every stop then that is roughly 70 minutes in station at 2 minutes a stop. So out of the 8 hour trip, thats 6 hours and 50 minutes you are moving, which means that the trains are going somewhere over 300km/h (336km/h to be exact). I doubt this is the actual speed, I am guess that the 8 hour trip is for express trains, which will skip some of the stops on the way, only stopping at major stations, while other trains will stop at all or more stations (this is how it works in Japan). That'd put the speed at around 280-300km/h which is about what Japanese systems run at.
Yea but how often is that even possible these days with modern console games...? Almost all of them require internet multiplayer, except for some pretty specific party games.
Does it only work on 14 year olds with dead parents?
No need to explain, only something this stupid could come from the country of Italy... They even beat Texas on the wacky scale. Watch out cell phone manufacturers, if you travel to Italy they might charge you for manslaughter, just like they charge people for not predicting earthquakes.
Ahhh... Too funny. I think you need to sit down and really think out your political views and what you want to see in society because you obviously are pretty confused and angry to think about anything rationally.
Those 7000 where out of how many total protesters in the United States in 2011? In how many separate incidents did these arrests occur? What was the average arrest rate per event? You can throw out numbers like that and they seem shocking but in the big scheme of things it still comes out to be not really all that shocking, that is unless of course you are a total reactionary, which I have a feeling you are.
And yet there are literally hundreds of thousands of people who have never been, and never will be arrested for peaceably assembling...
Also I think your definition of reasonably might be a bit unreasonable.
So you plan to build the next mars rover? How about just the road to get to the place where the next mars rover will be built? Let us give private citizens and companies the power to do all of that and see how far they want to go spending their money. Quit thinking like a child and realize that there is a reason you are taxed, and its a good one.
That is why you have multiple train sets. In Japan the bullet trains run essentially what amount to locals, rapids, and super-rapids. The local like ones stop at every station on the route, the rapids skip the smallest but still stop at larger ones, and the super-rapids like the Nozomi on the Sanyo line stop only at the largest cities. Smaller stations are built with turn out lines for the platforms, allowing the faster trains to bypass them while they sit in the station.
Also, the length of time a bullet train in Japan is in station is very short, often around 90 seconds. The N700 series also can accelerate very quickly, often being back up to their top speed within a few minutes.
Watch this video of a tunnel entrance on the Sanyo line in Japan and make sure to watch the clock in the lower corner: http://youtu.be/YlPjo9RIQNE
Hopefully with HSR the small towns along the route will grow much larger as well. People keep looking at the negatives and at none of the positives here, they see the immediate cost and none of the long term benefits of more people (and more tax paying residents and businesses) that infrastructure like HSR and other rail projects bring. Its time that we stop looking at the car as the solution for everything and start looking to other countries and how they have done well with rail, because we could ultimately do it better.
I'd imagine only 1 monorail is a bit of a contrast to the main land islands.
Airports are far less efficient. They need to be placed outside of city centers and still require some other sort of infrastructure to get people from the airport to wherever else they are going. Trains, not only high speed, are far more capable of moving large numbers of people into the heart of cities quickly, as well as moving them out to the outlying areas and suburbs.
Flying is only good when connecting vastly separate areas together (read thousands of miles), places that have no useful population centers in-between them.
Its a damn shame most cities destroyed their interurban rail systems by the 1930s in favor of cars and now are trying like hell to get them back. Hundreds of miles of existing infrastructure destroyed due to market collusion by the likes of General Motors.
Visit Japan and tell me their trains do not work.
You do realize that improving infrastructure improves the areas surrounding those improvements as well right? Gotta spend money to make money. I suggest you take a look at a country like Japan, which could easily compare to California in a lot of ways and tell me their rail system doesn't work. Go ahead, explain to me.
I think you need to look at countries other than the US.
Trains are an economic disaster in the US, and it is not for any sort of engineering reason (you can look at pretty much any other industrialized modern country in the world and see that trains actually work out pretty damn well).
They were given the money to go there because no one would go there with out any sort of subsidies. In addition to that, since the lines are still allowed to be solely owned by the private companies in those areas then no one else still feels like its a market they can compete in with out those subsidies either because they'd have to make their own investments and ultimately be making a medium-term loss in a developed market. If anything the government should be investing more in bringing in competitors.
The ultimate goal of a business is to make money and they stand to not make money in a lot of areas, that is where government can help out people that might not get these services otherwise, by making undesirable markets desirable. Ultimately for society and the economy these investments by the government do pay off because you open new markets to internet trade, you can revitalize businesses and attract new businesses, etc. This is a very simple concept that most libertarian/conservative fools can not even begin to grasp, that infrastructure costs money, usually doesn't turn a profit, but is the backbone of economy. They have a mentality that contradicts thousands of years of history in regards to infrastructure. It is like they just see roads and rail networks and assume they have always been there and thats how it will always be and do not even for a second consider the forces that created them. A strong partnership between business and government with an eye towards what is best for their customers and their citizens is the best system. Look at Japan for an example.
Yea, cause I mean those sole provider markets are totally willing to leave the internet behind right? Total free markets do not work, they become predatory and violent (literally).
If you want a country where you can do anything you want if you have the money try Somalia or Afghanistan, I prefer to live in a society where the weak are given the same standards as the powerful.