Il-28/H-5: Having been developed in the late 1940s, the Il-28/H-5 represents an old generation of bomber aircraft. North Korea originally received 24 Il-28 Beagles in 1960, and after that deliveries of the Chinese H-5 copy continued. The H-5 is a simple, robust, jet-engined bomber, capable of carrying up to 3,000 kg of bombs, including conventional, biological, chemical or nuclear. Its range is about 2,400 km, capable of hitting targets in most of Japan and all of South Korea. The bomber is supplied with a special aiming radar for the bombardier for precise targetting during poor visibility. Despite these advantages, it has a few grave drawbacks - a low maximum speed (900 km/h) and a fairly low ceiling (about 13,000 m), which renders the aircraft very vulnerable even to older types of SAMs and jet fighters. Despite this, it provides North Korea with a fair medium-range weapons platform.
OK, it's not a B-2, but they've got Mig-29s to provide escort, so they're not exactly "paper airplanes" either.
"I had nothing to do with this Will handled everything I received a message that paul was going to call Will said he would handle it Paul called I had not even had a chance to report his issues when Will told me he had solved them (it did not sound like he had) I am not even in the detail of the issues. You better get will under control thanks."
Anybody want to bet that was typed on a Blackberry or equivalent?
No, he was a hack. Characterisation as thin as paper, poorly-disguised misogyny, a strong tendency to oversell his knowledge of very technical areas in which he had no experience... not to mention he couldn't write a decent ending to save his life.
I mean, c'mon. Prey. Timeline. We shouldn't even need to have this conversation.
...I should point out that Hellgate: London was not actually an MMORPG, and it includes a single-player mode so it can indeed be played even if the servers are no longer available.
You do realise that the "hypothetical, pie-in-the-sky network engineer's world" you're talking about is actually what keeps your 6 megabit dedicated Internet feed running? That box you've got hooked up to the phone line doesn't send magic pixie dust packets.
IPv6 either happens now, when ISPs can make an ordered transfer of customers, or it happens in two years time, when they suddenly find they can no longer get any new business.
> there are so many factors that could turn a space elevator into a complete disaster.
Any cable capable of being used for a space elevator would burn up very quickly upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
> an earthquake could yank it out of orbit.
Uh... earthquakes have a relatively small vertical moment, not to mention that the cable base would almost certainly be placed on a marine platform to allow it to be moved when necessary.
> tidal pulls from the moon could rip it from the ground.
And with Nvidia's new hardware solution, 350 new and existing games will work out of the box, with no game-specific drivers required.... You'll need a PC with the following:
* An NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT GPU or better
* Windows Vista 32-bit (64-bit support coming soon)
* Standard Microsoft DirectX game that NVIDIA has preconfigured in our driver (to date NVIDIA has preconfigured over 350+ games).
Don't know about you, but that sounds awfully like a "game-specific driver" to me.
Please at least attempt to be coherent, even if you find it difficult.
> No, you're wrong. I find it funny that you're saying "the courts held that you do not get full Constitutional protection until you enter the US" but ignore that obvious follow on that if you are in Customs, but have not yet cleared, you are not in the US.
Strangely enough, there is a distinction between borders of sovereign territory and a wall that stops you from leaving the immigration area. You can be on United States soil without having the right to travel freely within the United States - it's not a difficult concept to grasp, so please try your very hardest. Oh, and nice way to completely ignore the link I gave that explains the exemption that forms the entire basis of the article to which this discussion is attached.
After a quick glance at your posting history, I see you are indeed a troll, although a poor excuse for one.
Your laughable legal "theory" that the area between an aircraft's disembarkation ramp and the line at a customs booth is somehow not US soil, but US laws magically apply to everyone there, except for foreign citizens, is mildly amusing (in a distinctly "laughing at", not "laughing with" manner).
You have repeatedly conducted personal attacks on people presenting arguments that are both more logical and independently verifiable, while refusing to provide anything beyond your own fevered rantings to back up your wild claims. In short, you have nothing worthwhile to say, and I imagine you are doing this in order to squeeze a few drops of pathetic self-justification out of the number of replies you receive.
Please, don't bother replying to this - it won't do any good, as you have thoroughly convinced me (and no doubt more than a few others) of your malicious insincerity.
The US has something called the Supreme Court, and they have judged that an exception to the Fourth Amendment can be made during border searches. If customs in the airport is not considered US soil, how could the Supreme Court of the United States issue a judgement on the application of the laws of the United States in that area?
(I'm not quite sure why I'm bothering replying to you, as your baseless ranting so far has to me conclusively proved to me that you are either:
(A) delusional
or
(B) a troll.
If it's (A), I'm very sorry for you and perhaps you should ask your doctor to increase your dosage.
If it's (B), then go die in a fire, you blithering moron.)
Japan fingerprints all foreigners coming into Japan, including those with permanent residence (with the lone exception of those possessing "special permanent resident" status - i.e. ethnic Koreans who were in Japan at the end of WWII and their descendants). The US does not fingerprint Green Card holders, so in this instance foreigners entering Japan definitely have fewer rights than those entering the US.
If you refuse to give your fingerprints, you are refused entrance to the country. If you refuse to leave immediately, the government has decided that they can then forcibly fingerprint you - and have stated in internal memos that they do not consider it a problem if you are injured in the process. There is no way of appealing this; it is done directly after your refusal in a back room of the immigration area at the airport. You are then ejected from the country, and a note is made on your immigration record preventing you from re-entering at a later time.
This applies even if you have no residence outside of Japan and your entire family lives in Japan.
Uh... the same way the US's laws don't apply out of it, the laws of other countries don't apply in it. Citizens don't have laws; countries have laws. They may choose to define those laws in a way which distinguishes between citizens and non-citizens of that country, but the Constitution and Bill of Rights do *not* make that distinction.
I assure you that the laws of the United States (including the Constitution and the Bill of Rights) do apply in any area of the airport you may happen to find yourself in after getting off a plane that has landed on US soil, while the laws of other countries do not, unless you manage to make your way out of the US and to that country.
Wrong. The courts in the US have decided that certain specific rights normally granted under the laws of the United States are not applicable before someone has been permitted entrance to the country.
If you believe that the "border" (not sure exactly what you're referring to here, as a border is a one-dimensional line - perhaps you meant to say "immigration area"?) is not part of the US, then I suggest you try waving a gun around after getting off the plane but before anybody's inspected your passport. I imagine you will quickly find you're very much mistaken as to what country you are in...
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...says Mr. #921799. Get off my goddamn lawn.
Guy I used to work with basejumped off the Burj Dubai while it was under construction - the video's on Youtube.
...is actually just down the road from my apartment. Kind of freaky walking past a place with "CYBERDYNE" plastered all over it every morning.
3... 2... 1...
Spelling Nazi, sir - get your jackbooted thugs right!
Late reply, I know, but why assume I'm American? I live in Japan - you know, the place the missile just flew over.
40 currently in service, according to Wikipedia.
I don't know if you've realised, but communication satellites need to head into orbit, not a parabolic arc into the Pacific.
Il-28/H-5: Having been developed in the late 1940s, the Il-28/H-5 represents an old generation of bomber aircraft. North Korea originally received 24 Il-28 Beagles in 1960, and after that deliveries of the Chinese H-5 copy continued. The H-5 is a simple, robust, jet-engined bomber, capable of carrying up to 3,000 kg of bombs, including conventional, biological, chemical or nuclear. Its range is about 2,400 km, capable of hitting targets in most of Japan and all of South Korea. The bomber is supplied with a special aiming radar for the bombardier for precise targetting during poor visibility. Despite these advantages, it has a few grave drawbacks - a low maximum speed (900 km/h) and a fairly low ceiling (about 13,000 m), which renders the aircraft very vulnerable even to older types of SAMs and jet fighters. Despite this, it provides North Korea with a fair medium-range weapons platform.
OK, it's not a B-2, but they've got Mig-29s to provide escort, so they're not exactly "paper airplanes" either.
"I had nothing to do with this Will handled everything I received a message that paul was going to call Will said he would handle it Paul called I had not even had a chance to report his issues when Will told me he had solved them (it did not sound like he had) I am not even in the detail of the issues. You better get will under control thanks."
Anybody want to bet that was typed on a Blackberry or equivalent?
No, he was a hack. Characterisation as thin as paper, poorly-disguised misogyny, a strong tendency to oversell his knowledge of very technical areas in which he had no experience... not to mention he couldn't write a decent ending to save his life.
I mean, c'mon. Prey. Timeline. We shouldn't even need to have this conversation.
NOOOOOOOOOO!
awk with positional parameters and cut are NOT the same thing.
For example, please extract only the STIME field from "ps -ef" using cut. Ugh. Awk? '{print $5}'.
But hey, it was fun for a few months there. A ripoff, but fun.
...I should point out that Hellgate: London was not actually an MMORPG, and it includes a single-player mode so it can indeed be played even if the servers are no longer available.
You do realise that the "hypothetical, pie-in-the-sky network engineer's world" you're talking about is actually what keeps your 6 megabit dedicated Internet feed running? That box you've got hooked up to the phone line doesn't send magic pixie dust packets.
IPv6 either happens now, when ISPs can make an ordered transfer of customers, or it happens in two years time, when they suddenly find they can no longer get any new business.
I think he's talking about localised concentration rather than averaged across the entire atmosphere.
> there are so many factors that could turn a space elevator into a complete disaster.
Any cable capable of being used for a space elevator would burn up very quickly upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
> an earthquake could yank it out of orbit.
Uh... earthquakes have a relatively small vertical moment, not to mention that the cable base would almost certainly be placed on a marine platform to allow it to be moved when necessary.
> tidal pulls from the moon could rip it from the ground.
Do you have any scientific learning whatsoever?
Maybe they can rehire Bill Roper, now that he's done playing around with HG:L...
And with Nvidia's new hardware solution, 350 new and existing games will work out of the box, with no game-specific drivers required. ...
You'll need a PC with the following:
* An NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT GPU or better
* Windows Vista 32-bit (64-bit support coming soon)
* Standard Microsoft DirectX game that NVIDIA has preconfigured in our driver (to date NVIDIA has preconfigured over 350+ games).
Don't know about you, but that sounds awfully like a "game-specific driver" to me.
Please at least attempt to be coherent, even if you find it difficult.
> No, you're wrong. I find it funny that you're saying "the courts held that you do not get full Constitutional protection until you enter the US" but ignore that obvious follow on that if you are in Customs, but have not yet cleared, you are not in the US.
Strangely enough, there is a distinction between borders of sovereign territory and a wall that stops you from leaving the immigration area. You can be on United States soil without having the right to travel freely within the United States - it's not a difficult concept to grasp, so please try your very hardest. Oh, and nice way to completely ignore the link I gave that explains the exemption that forms the entire basis of the article to which this discussion is attached.
After a quick glance at your posting history, I see you are indeed a troll, although a poor excuse for one.
Your laughable legal "theory" that the area between an aircraft's disembarkation ramp and the line at a customs booth is somehow not US soil, but US laws magically apply to everyone there, except for foreign citizens, is mildly amusing (in a distinctly "laughing at", not "laughing with" manner).
You have repeatedly conducted personal attacks on people presenting arguments that are both more logical and independently verifiable, while refusing to provide anything beyond your own fevered rantings to back up your wild claims. In short, you have nothing worthwhile to say, and I imagine you are doing this in order to squeeze a few drops of pathetic self-justification out of the number of replies you receive.
Please, don't bother replying to this - it won't do any good, as you have thoroughly convinced me (and no doubt more than a few others) of your malicious insincerity.
The US has something called the Supreme Court, and they have judged that an exception to the Fourth Amendment can be made during border searches.
If customs in the airport is not considered US soil, how could the Supreme Court of the United States issue a judgement on the application of the laws of the United States in that area?
(I'm not quite sure why I'm bothering replying to you, as your baseless ranting so far has to me conclusively proved to me that you are either:
(A) delusional
or
(B) a troll.
If it's (A), I'm very sorry for you and perhaps you should ask your doctor to increase your dosage.
If it's (B), then go die in a fire, you blithering moron.)
Don't you believe it.
Japan fingerprints all foreigners coming into Japan, including those with permanent residence (with the lone exception of those possessing "special permanent resident" status - i.e. ethnic Koreans who were in Japan at the end of WWII and their descendants). The US does not fingerprint Green Card holders, so in this instance foreigners entering Japan definitely have fewer rights than those entering the US.
If you refuse to give your fingerprints, you are refused entrance to the country. If you refuse to leave immediately, the government has decided that they can then forcibly fingerprint you - and have stated in internal memos that they do not consider it a problem if you are injured in the process. There is no way of appealing this; it is done directly after your refusal in a back room of the immigration area at the airport. You are then ejected from the country, and a note is made on your immigration record preventing you from re-entering at a later time.
This applies even if you have no residence outside of Japan and your entire family lives in Japan.
Uh... the same way the US's laws don't apply out of it, the laws of other countries don't apply in it. Citizens don't have laws; countries have laws. They may choose to define those laws in a way which distinguishes between citizens and non-citizens of that country, but the Constitution and Bill of Rights do *not* make that distinction.
I assure you that the laws of the United States (including the Constitution and the Bill of Rights) do apply in any area of the airport you may happen to find yourself in after getting off a plane that has landed on US soil, while the laws of other countries do not, unless you manage to make your way out of the US and to that country.
> The border isn't inside the US.
Wrong. The courts in the US have decided that certain specific rights normally granted under the laws of the United States are not applicable before someone has been permitted entrance to the country.
If you believe that the "border" (not sure exactly what you're referring to here, as a border is a one-dimensional line - perhaps you meant to say "immigration area"?) is not part of the US, then I suggest you try waving a gun around after getting off the plane but before anybody's inspected your passport. I imagine you will quickly find you're very much mistaken as to what country you are in...