I enjoyed the acting and cinematography, but as a war movie it rates below "In The Army Now" in terms of realism. You'd be hard-pressed to find a scene in that movie that wasn't completely unrealistic.
Not to mention, this system would only work against thermal sights like a TWS, etc. Normal light-amplification device NODs (PVS14, etc) would still just look like a tank..... with yet another kit added on.
Just because we don't use tanks right this second doesn't mean we don't use tanks. If you want to throw away everything we've learned in the last 100 years of industrialized warfare because the current enemy isn't in tanks, then you are very short-sighted.
You are right: we need tech that does all the things you listed. But you are wrong: we need tech for all the things you don't think are important any more.
Just 8-ish years ago, some large conventional armor battles were fought in the deserts of Iraq (coincidentally, where I am typing this from). 20 years ago, some VERY large conventional armor battles were fought (coincidentally, right where the recent ones were).
Armor is a very important part of the combined arms team (as a former Infantryman and current Artilleryman, it pains me to say that). The conventional army that neglects to advance its armor corps does so at its own peril.
Our Army has a bad habit of always getting ready for the last war. I'd hate to walk into North Korea all ready for the Taliban or the 1920 Martyrs Brigade. It turns out though, that an Army ready for the North Koreans can fight with insurgents with only minor modifications.
Now: cue the crowd opining on how things really work in Iraq even though they've never been there.
We pay for police at the city, county, state, and federal level. Not to mention, we have several police at the federal level. Add in a sprinkling of police at weird levels, like constables.
Then people are being payed to make new laws at the HOA, city, county, state, and federal levels.
This has so little to do with the article, you might as well have said that your cats breath smells like cat food. Also off topic: My droid's voice recognition gets Australopithecus afarensis right every time.
Fighting appears to be chaos. And when we slam in the pit a show it is. But when we fight for a reason, like rednecks, there's a system, we fight for what we stand for, chaos. Fighting is a structure, fighting is to establish power, power is government and government is not anarchy. Government is war and war is fighting. The circle goes like this: our redneck skirmishes are cheap perversions of conventional warfare. War implies extreme government because wars are fought to enforce rules or ideals, even freedom. But other people ideals forced on someone else, even if it is something like freedom, is still a rule; not anarchy.
"Federal reserve banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of a Federal Tort Claims Act, but are independent,
privately owned and locally controlled corporations in light of fact that direct supervision and control of each bank is
exercised by board of directors, federal reserve banks, though heavily regulated, are locally controlled by their member
banks, banks are listed neither as "wholly owned" government corporations nor as "mixed ownership" corporations;
federal reserve banks receive no appropriated funds from Congress and the banks are empowered to sue
and be sued in their own names."
Either you is or you isn't. A.gov tld isn't in one of the criteria listed here:
"the executive departments, the military departments, independent
establishments of the United States, and corporations acting
primarily as instrumentalities of the United States, but does not
include any contractors with the United States."
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yes but ~67% of the time, it works every time.
If it goes to 11.
I enjoyed the acting and cinematography, but as a war movie it rates below "In The Army Now" in terms of realism. You'd be hard-pressed to find a scene in that movie that wasn't completely unrealistic.
Which is fine. You and I are the ones actually "using" google's electricity.
Just don't take any shortcuts on your road trip in that area.
Not to mention, this system would only work against thermal sights like a TWS, etc. Normal light-amplification device NODs (PVS14, etc) would still just look like a tank..... with yet another kit added on.
Just because we don't use tanks right this second doesn't mean we don't use tanks. If you want to throw away everything we've learned in the last 100 years of industrialized warfare because the current enemy isn't in tanks, then you are very short-sighted.
You are right: we need tech that does all the things you listed. But you are wrong: we need tech for all the things you don't think are important any more.
Just 8-ish years ago, some large conventional armor battles were fought in the deserts of Iraq (coincidentally, where I am typing this from). 20 years ago, some VERY large conventional armor battles were fought (coincidentally, right where the recent ones were).
Armor is a very important part of the combined arms team (as a former Infantryman and current Artilleryman, it pains me to say that). The conventional army that neglects to advance its armor corps does so at its own peril.
Our Army has a bad habit of always getting ready for the last war. I'd hate to walk into North Korea all ready for the Taliban or the 1920 Martyrs Brigade. It turns out though, that an Army ready for the North Koreans can fight with insurgents with only minor modifications.
Now: cue the crowd opining on how things really work in Iraq even though they've never been there.
the ctrl-H thing isn't as funny or neat as you seem to think it is.
Maybe the music just got shittier.
Is a "Unix based OS" always called "Unix"?
We pay for police at the city, county, state, and federal level. Not to mention, we have several police at the federal level. Add in a sprinkling of police at weird levels, like constables.
Then people are being payed to make new laws at the HOA, city, county, state, and federal levels.
Not much room for liberty in that mix.
As a former Light Infantryman, I have a hard time with this:
"Air Force"
"grunt work"
Unless you were a TAC-P or PJ...
Jesus Christ, Where the FUCK are my mod points!!!!
Amazing.
This has so little to do with the article, you might as well have said that your cats breath smells like cat food.
Also off topic:
My droid's voice recognition gets Australopithecus afarensis right every time.
By NOT participating in interstate commerce, you are affecting interstate commerce. Or so the modern legal theory goes.
suppression of religious ideas by force
True. The prefer to do it with mod points.
To be fair, most people who are sure that tomorrow ISN'T the rapture have exactly the same amount of evidence behind them as those who think it IS.
Neuromancer will be great. All cyberpunk and cool, like The Matrix.
The Neuromancer sequels will be awful with 30 minute rave scenes and too much CG fighting. Also, like The Matrix sequels.
zombies are still sophisticated enough to use guns
This idea is so completely absurd as to not warrant any further consideration.
The rest of this conversation, however, is perfectly legit.
Fighting appears to be chaos. And when we slam in the pit a show it is. But when we fight for a reason, like rednecks, there's a system, we fight for what we stand for, chaos. Fighting is a structure, fighting is to establish power, power is government and government is not anarchy. Government is war and war is fighting. The circle goes like this: our redneck skirmishes are cheap perversions of conventional warfare. War implies extreme government because wars are fought to enforce rules or ideals, even freedom. But other people ideals forced on someone else, even if it is something like freedom, is still a rule; not anarchy.
- Stevo, SLC Punk
So you can boot linux in your browser, then launch a browser, and boot linux in that browser....
Yo dawg, if you had a beowulf cluster, you could run kturtle all the way down.
Box cutters wouldn't have shown up on these scanners?
NPR is the american socialist pravda no matter which party has the double oh.
No joke. Would we be having this conversation if someone form accounting stole his chair?
Next week:
Do developers even need chairs?
Lewis v. United States 1982
"Federal reserve banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of a Federal Tort Claims Act, but are independent,
privately owned and locally controlled corporations in light of fact that direct supervision and control of each bank is
exercised by board of directors, federal reserve banks, though heavily regulated, are locally controlled by their member
banks, banks are listed neither as "wholly owned" government corporations nor as "mixed ownership" corporations;
federal reserve banks receive no appropriated funds from Congress and the banks are empowered to sue
and be sued in their own names."
Either you is or you isn't. .gov tld isn't in one of the criteria listed here:
A
"the executive departments, the military departments, independent
establishments of the United States, and corporations acting
primarily as instrumentalities of the United States, but does not
include any contractors with the United States."