For now, it may be illegal. But how many illegal things have been ignored or reversed-pardoned-executive ordered by the current president and his predecessor? When do we get a Bush-Obama Sith lightning death match?
Of course Lucas seems to have been pretty optimistic by the end of Ep. 3 thinking there were even two good guys left. I'm not sure we have that many in federal office right now.
Even that almost certainly inflated estimate is only 3/5 the number that the US has and 3/8 that of Russia.
3000 is more like 2/5 of the US total stockpile and 37.5% of Russia's total stockpile.
The US has 1920 warheads on active status. Which means they are on a delivery system and can be deployed immediately. There are a total of 7,315 warheads in functional condition/near functional condition in the US arsenal, including those that are active. The remaining 5395 are in "hedge" or "inactive reserve" status. Hedge status means they are not attached to a delivery system, though one is available if needed. And inactive means there is no designated delivery system for the warhead and it my not be in immediately function working order.
Russia has 1600 warheads on active status and 6400 in hedge and inactive.
The link the original poster provided indicates that China may have as many as 3000 warheads on active status. That's a big difference. Especially in regards to first strike capability. However, I don't take a lot of stock in the link as the author doesn't seem to understand the deference between missiles, warheads and weapons as (s)he seems to think they are interchangeable.
To put things into perspective a little. The US built over 70,000 warheads in total and had over 30,000 on active status during the height of the cold war. The Soviet Union built over 50,000
The US doesn't really need road-mobile ICBMs. We've got the best ballistic missile subs in the world, and a lot of them, not to mention our worldwide network of airbases, capable of launching nuclear strikes with stealth aircraft and cruise missiles if we so desire.
I'll give you the subs. The US boomers are plentiful and scary as shit. But stealth aircraft are very slow, and do not carry high yield MIRVs. They can carry up to 16 B83 bombs These are variable yield, up to 1.2 Megaton dumb bombs. So they have to be dropped, not fired like a missile. Additionally, I don't think a B2 attack on China or Russia would be very effective. Especially if it came after they already launched a first strike, and presentably the US had already retaliated with land and sub based ICBM's
Currently the boomer fleet is the biggest deterrent there is. As far as we know, there is no reliable way of finding them, and one Ohio class sub can carry 16 Trident-2 SLBM's. With up to 8 of which can be MIRVed With Mk-4 reentry vehicles carrying up to 4 W88 warheads. The W88 is estimated to be a little under a half a megaton yield. The other 8 Trident-2 missiles are single warhead. Granted, many, if not most of the MIRVs are dummy warheads, but no one knows for sure outside of those who "need to know". So there is the potential of 40 half megaton warheads on each of the 14 SSBN Ohio class subs.
As far as I remember the W80 warhead for the Tomahawk cruise missile has been retired. So the Los Angles, Virginia, and Seawolf class subs can no longer carry nuclear warheads. If I'm mistake, then that's another 50 or so subs that can launch a nuclear strike via a Tomahawk
But being a man, I was always smart about which cigarettes I bought. I never bought the ones that caused cancer and all that other scary shit. I only smoked the ones that caused low birth weight and pregnancy complications. I figured since I would never be pregnant, those were the ones to go with. I could never figure out why the brands would keep switching though.;-)
My dog kept dropping the video camera when my wife and I wanted to make an intimate recording. Jibo won't do that.
Ergo, Jibo is much better than a pet.
My pet is a Doberman. Actually three of them. They kindly let would be burglars they're at the wrong house. In your situation a tripod will probably suffice.
Ergo, a pet is much more functional than a Jibo. As a bonus, they aren't obsolete in two years either.
What they didn't say is that Neymar shows only 10% brain activity compared to another "common" person for whatever he's doing...
So you're saying he's more intelligent than the "common" person? It's been understood/believed for some time that that the more intelligent a person is the less their brain has to work at similar tasks.
According to Google, the information from Baseline will be anonymous, and its use will be limited to medical and health purposes.
I work in the medical field. Both clinical and research. I've seen what "anonymous patient" data looks like. While it can be done correctly, it almost never is. When I say almost never, I mean under 5% of the time; and that's being generous.
The DICOM data generated by most advanced imaging scanners (MRI, CT. etc) is pretty big. To make matters worse, every vendor (Philips, GE, Siemens, etc) uses more than just the standard fields (tags) to store the unique patient identifiers. They all also use proprietary or what are sometimes referred to as "shadow" or "private" tags. These tags are different for every vendor and are used in different ways. To make matters worse, these tags can change depending on the model, firmware version or even the scanning sequence used.
If you just remove just the standard patient identifying tags, you could very well miss that they were all duplicated in the private tags. If you simply remove all of the private tags, you may end up removing the very data that is needed to make sense of the images themselves. Such as how many mm a pixel is, or the volume of a voxel. This all needs to be done for every image in the exam and there can be thousands to tens of thousands of them. Most programs used to de-identify the exam either miss all of the private tags, or remove too much data and render the exams useless. So patient identifiers are left in most exams and we just try to ignore this.
The big question is, is how will a company like Google treat this unfortunate situation? Most in the medical field are there because of their compassion for their patients and do research for the betterment of the general population. What happens when executive types realize they have this kind of data?
We can't even communicate with other species here on Earth in the same Class as us. Elephants, whales, and dolphins show signs of intelligence. Certainly enough to communicate with each other. And we've hunted species of two of them to the verge of extinction. The Great Apes are in the same Family as humans and we can't have a meaningful conversation with them. Perhaps they are simply too primitive. Or maybe we aren't as smart as we would like to believe.
A non-terrestrial species may communicate using some form of telepathy or chemical component. That would be fun to try to figure out. Or use gravity waves over long distances. What if they are silicone based and live for thousands of years. It could take them 3 days to say hello using subsonic vibrations.
Until 20 years ago we didn't even know that Elephants could use bone conduction through their feet to listen to subsonic calls from other elephants that create seismic vibrations. Or that they also had cells in their feet that are able to pick up vibrations in the ground.
ET could be screaming at us right now and we don't even know.it. The messages could have been sent through cosmic radiation and is encoded in cancer cells. They may have thought that would be the easiest way to get our attention and we just haven't picked up on it yet.
It makes me wonder if the BUK (being a Soviet-era weapons system dating back to 1979) wasn't just misplaced somewhere - if the National Institutes of Health can misplace 300 vials of deadly diseases and biological weapons,
On one hand I agree with you. However there's a rather big size difference between 300 vials and a tank sized missile launcher. I've been to the NIH, it's a huge campus. One is like finding a sliver of a needle in a haystack, while the other is like a marble sized ball-bearing in a haystack.
The likelihood of any of the smallpox still being viable after sitting in an unrefrigerated closet for decades is pretty slim. The odds of a BUK missile system remaining functional after being forgotten about for 24 years is pretty slim too.
I owned a Pinto. The mileage of that POS was in the same ballpark as the Hummer.
Either it was very old by the time you got it, or something was really wrong with it. Pinto's were advertised to get 34 MPG, and many did better than that. The worst mileage I've ever heard of a stock Pinto getting was 22 MPG, but that was pulling a trailer with the AC on.
The Hummer H1 was 9 MPG city and 12 highway. The H2 was around 14 combined, and the H3 was 14 city, 18 highway. So no, not really in the same ball park at all.
It is far easier and cheaper to just burn them, literally, by heating with a torch then dropping into liquid oxygen.
Why bother with the liquid oxygen? You can shovel them into a coal burning furnace. Diamonds usually completely burn up in house fires. It doesn't take any more heat/oxygen to burn a diamond than it does to burn coal.
In automotive terms, they dropped a Hummer from the SpaceX reusable rocket at the peak of a test-launch and for an infinitesimaly[sic] small period of time before the impact, it got almost the same MPG of a Pinto, before shattering into a pile of scrap metal.
There could be and extremely advanced race of Morlocks living under the surface. Who have ignored us to date and mistakenly think we've declared war on them when we start dropping "rods from god"
And by strong you mean great physical force, if I'm not mistaken.
Muscles, basically. So, the female is a role model because she's muscled; she's like a man, basically.
In my opinion - I'm a man, by the way - that's a terrible role model for an eleven year old girl.
You are mistaken. While I do value being physically fit, I was referring more to the content of their character, self reliance, intelligence, and things like that. Until the last couple of decades, women were expected to be reliant on "their man". That's not what I looked for in my wife, and is certainly not what either of us want for our daughter. Most of the female heroes in comics are pretty intelligent and don't rely only on than their physical strength and looks.
If you read the rest of my comment I also mentioned the ridiculous costumes and physique portrayed in comics. It's not much better for the male characters I suppose. Most of them are so 'roided up they'd probably be lucky if they could tie their own shoes.
I'm all for strong women. Hell, I have an 11 year old daughter. So I like the idea of her having strong role models. But this is a little weird considering the comic book character is based off of the male god of Norse legend by the same name. And why is this a "fall from grace" as TFS states? And why can't (s)he wield Mjolnir?
While I'm asking, why is it that most of these comic book "strong women" have a pair of double D boobs (at minimum) falling out of their outfits? I don't care how skilled a women is, she ain't gonna be fighting worth a damn in 5 inch 'fuck-me-heels' with her ass and boobs falling out of her costume.
Seriously, try to imagine describing a lot of the things people do professionally now to someone 30 years ago. Some of them are genuinely incomprehensible. Quite a lot, even.
And many of those jobs were around. They were just called what they were and not the marketing speak we now have. A garbage man was not a "sanitation technician", a window washer was not a "visual clearance engineer", and a dog catcher was not a "canine relocation specialist".
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...while what the NSA is doing is illegal.
Son of a bitch. All this time I though Lucas was a washed up, "has been" when I saw Ep. 1. It turns out he may have managed to channel the future presidents of the US
For now, it may be illegal. But how many illegal things have been ignored or reversed-pardoned-executive ordered by the current president and his predecessor? When do we get a Bush-Obama Sith lightning death match?
Of course Lucas seems to have been pretty optimistic by the end of Ep. 3 thinking there were even two good guys left. I'm not sure we have that many in federal office right now.
Even that almost certainly inflated estimate is only 3/5 the number that the US has and 3/8 that of Russia.
3000 is more like 2/5 of the US total stockpile and 37.5% of Russia's total stockpile.
The US has 1920 warheads on active status. Which means they are on a delivery system and can be deployed immediately. There are a total of 7,315 warheads in functional condition/near functional condition in the US arsenal, including those that are active. The remaining 5395 are in "hedge" or "inactive reserve" status. Hedge status means they are not attached to a delivery system, though one is available if needed. And inactive means there is no designated delivery system for the warhead and it my not be in immediately function working order.
Russia has 1600 warheads on active status and 6400 in hedge and inactive.
The link the original poster provided indicates that China may have as many as 3000 warheads on active status. That's a big difference. Especially in regards to first strike capability. However, I don't take a lot of stock in the link as the author doesn't seem to understand the deference between missiles, warheads and weapons as (s)he seems to think they are interchangeable.
To put things into perspective a little. The US built over 70,000 warheads in total and had over 30,000 on active status during the height of the cold war. The Soviet Union built over 50,000
The US doesn't really need road-mobile ICBMs. We've got the best ballistic missile subs in the world, and a lot of them, not to mention our worldwide network of airbases, capable of launching nuclear strikes with stealth aircraft and cruise missiles if we so desire.
I'll give you the subs. The US boomers are plentiful and scary as shit. But stealth aircraft are very slow, and do not carry high yield MIRVs. They can carry up to 16 B83 bombs These are variable yield, up to 1.2 Megaton dumb bombs. So they have to be dropped, not fired like a missile. Additionally, I don't think a B2 attack on China or Russia would be very effective. Especially if it came after they already launched a first strike, and presentably the US had already retaliated with land and sub based ICBM's
Currently the boomer fleet is the biggest deterrent there is. As far as we know, there is no reliable way of finding them, and one Ohio class sub can carry 16 Trident-2 SLBM's. With up to 8 of which can be MIRVed With Mk-4 reentry vehicles carrying up to 4 W88 warheads. The W88 is estimated to be a little under a half a megaton yield. The other 8 Trident-2 missiles are single warhead. Granted, many, if not most of the MIRVs are dummy warheads, but no one knows for sure outside of those who "need to know". So there is the potential of 40 half megaton warheads on each of the 14 SSBN Ohio class subs.
As far as I remember the W80 warhead for the Tomahawk cruise missile has been retired. So the Los Angles, Virginia, and Seawolf class subs can no longer carry nuclear warheads. If I'm mistake, then that's another 50 or so subs that can launch a nuclear strike via a Tomahawk
Now imagine that 747 in space.
I believe you meant a DC-8.
Was I the only one who was reminded of this battery "hack" when I read the title?
But being a man, I was always smart about which cigarettes I bought. I never bought the ones that caused cancer and all that other scary shit. I only smoked the ones that caused low birth weight and pregnancy complications. I figured since I would never be pregnant, those were the ones to go with. I could never figure out why the brands would keep switching though. ;-)
Yes. Thank you.
My dog kept dropping the video camera when my wife and I wanted to make an intimate recording. Jibo won't do that.
Ergo, Jibo is much better than a pet.
My pet is a Doberman. Actually three of them. They kindly let would be burglars they're at the wrong house. In your situation a tripod will probably suffice.
Ergo, a pet is much more functional than a Jibo. As a bonus, they aren't obsolete in two years either.
What they didn't say is that Neymar shows only 10% brain activity compared to another "common" person for whatever he's doing...
So you're saying he's more intelligent than the "common" person? It's been understood/believed for some time that that the more intelligent a person is the less their brain has to work at similar tasks.
According to Google, the information from Baseline will be anonymous, and its use will be limited to medical and health purposes.
I work in the medical field. Both clinical and research. I've seen what "anonymous patient" data looks like. While it can be done correctly, it almost never is. When I say almost never, I mean under 5% of the time; and that's being generous.
The DICOM data generated by most advanced imaging scanners (MRI, CT. etc) is pretty big. To make matters worse, every vendor (Philips, GE, Siemens, etc) uses more than just the standard fields (tags) to store the unique patient identifiers. They all also use proprietary or what are sometimes referred to as "shadow" or "private" tags. These tags are different for every vendor and are used in different ways. To make matters worse, these tags can change depending on the model, firmware version or even the scanning sequence used.
If you just remove just the standard patient identifying tags, you could very well miss that they were all duplicated in the private tags. If you simply remove all of the private tags, you may end up removing the very data that is needed to make sense of the images themselves. Such as how many mm a pixel is, or the volume of a voxel. This all needs to be done for every image in the exam and there can be thousands to tens of thousands of them. Most programs used to de-identify the exam either miss all of the private tags, or remove too much data and render the exams useless. So patient identifiers are left in most exams and we just try to ignore this.
The big question is, is how will a company like Google treat this unfortunate situation? Most in the medical field are there because of their compassion for their patients and do research for the betterment of the general population. What happens when executive types realize they have this kind of data?
Leave the pilot on the ground and you won't need a fancy helmet.
If you plan to use it as a fighter you will certainly need the "fancy" helmet.
Do people even read the articles before moderating anymore?
Seriously? They don't read them before commenting on them. Half the time I don't think they even read the summary.
"Vital For Possibility of Earth-like Alien Life"
A lot of assumptions there.
We can't even communicate with other species here on Earth in the same Class as us. Elephants, whales, and dolphins show signs of intelligence. Certainly enough to communicate with each other. And we've hunted species of two of them to the verge of extinction. The Great Apes are in the same Family as humans and we can't have a meaningful conversation with them. Perhaps they are simply too primitive. Or maybe we aren't as smart as we would like to believe.
A non-terrestrial species may communicate using some form of telepathy or chemical component. That would be fun to try to figure out. Or use gravity waves over long distances. What if they are silicone based and live for thousands of years. It could take them 3 days to say hello using subsonic vibrations.
Until 20 years ago we didn't even know that Elephants could use bone conduction through their feet to listen to subsonic calls from other elephants that create seismic vibrations. Or that they also had cells in their feet that are able to pick up vibrations in the ground.
ET could be screaming at us right now and we don't even know.it. The messages could have been sent through cosmic radiation and is encoded in cancer cells. They may have thought that would be the easiest way to get our attention and we just haven't picked up on it yet.
want animals to die. No surprise here.
Yes, George W. Bush obviously hated marine animals.
It makes me wonder if the BUK (being a Soviet-era weapons system dating back to 1979) wasn't just misplaced somewhere - if the National Institutes of Health can misplace 300 vials of deadly diseases and biological weapons,
On one hand I agree with you. However there's a rather big size difference between 300 vials and a tank sized missile launcher. I've been to the NIH, it's a huge campus. One is like finding a sliver of a needle in a haystack, while the other is like a marble sized ball-bearing in a haystack.
The likelihood of any of the smallpox still being viable after sitting in an unrefrigerated closet for decades is pretty slim. The odds of a BUK missile system remaining functional after being forgotten about for 24 years is pretty slim too.
So you needed a trailer to talke the air conditioning plant along - awesome!
Yes, and even towing an air conditioning plant the Pinto managed to get better mileage than a Hummer.
I owned a Pinto. The mileage of that POS was in the same ballpark as the Hummer.
Either it was very old by the time you got it, or something was really wrong with it. Pinto's were advertised to get 34 MPG, and many did better than that. The worst mileage I've ever heard of a stock Pinto getting was 22 MPG, but that was pulling a trailer with the AC on.
The Hummer H1 was 9 MPG city and 12 highway. The H2 was around 14 combined, and the H3 was 14 city, 18 highway. So no, not really in the same ball park at all.
It is far easier and cheaper to just burn them, literally, by heating with a torch then dropping into liquid oxygen.
Why bother with the liquid oxygen? You can shovel them into a coal burning furnace. Diamonds usually completely burn up in house fires. It doesn't take any more heat/oxygen to burn a diamond than it does to burn coal.
In automotive terms, they dropped a Hummer from the SpaceX reusable rocket at the peak of a test-launch and for an infinitesimaly[sic] small period of time before the impact, it got almost the same MPG of a Pinto, before shattering into a pile of scrap metal.
There could be and extremely advanced race of Morlocks living under the surface. Who have ignored us to date and mistakenly think we've declared war on them when we start dropping "rods from god"
Not all Sexual harassment isn't illegal.
I'm not sure if what you hadn't stated isn't what you didn't think you couldn't have meant.
And by strong you mean great physical force, if I'm not mistaken. Muscles, basically. So, the female is a role model because she's muscled; she's like a man, basically. In my opinion - I'm a man, by the way - that's a terrible role model for an eleven year old girl.
You are mistaken. While I do value being physically fit, I was referring more to the content of their character, self reliance, intelligence, and things like that. Until the last couple of decades, women were expected to be reliant on "their man". That's not what I looked for in my wife, and is certainly not what either of us want for our daughter. Most of the female heroes in comics are pretty intelligent and don't rely only on than their physical strength and looks.
If you read the rest of my comment I also mentioned the ridiculous costumes and physique portrayed in comics. It's not much better for the male characters I suppose. Most of them are so 'roided up they'd probably be lucky if they could tie their own shoes.
Anytime I hear someone say "A but B" I know they mean B but are just too cowardly to say so outright.
It can mean that. But to me, it looks like "I like A, but this is actually B"
Yeah, I thought it was pretty clear too. But apparently the GP is so much smarter than I am that they know what I meant better than I do.
Since this particular form has been taken over and is now a shibboleth for weaseling, a smart person would avoid it at all costs.
Oh wait...
I'm all for strong women. Hell, I have an 11 year old daughter. So I like the idea of her having strong role models. But this is a little weird considering the comic book character is based off of the male god of Norse legend by the same name. And why is this a "fall from grace" as TFS states? And why can't (s)he wield Mjolnir?
While I'm asking, why is it that most of these comic book "strong women" have a pair of double D boobs (at minimum) falling out of their outfits? I don't care how skilled a women is, she ain't gonna be fighting worth a damn in 5 inch 'fuck-me-heels' with her ass and boobs falling out of her costume.
Seriously, try to imagine describing a lot of the things people do professionally now to someone 30 years ago. Some of them are genuinely incomprehensible. Quite a lot, even.
And many of those jobs were around. They were just called what they were and not the marketing speak we now have. A garbage man was not a "sanitation technician", a window washer was not a "visual clearance engineer", and a dog catcher was not a "canine relocation specialist".