As for "being passed on to a friend" (or "being pimped out"), that is a fairly common fantasy in BDSM, even outside Gorean circles. It's something women (and men) actually ask to have done to them on BDSM dating sites.
Cuckholding is not unusual among people who only like conventional sex. Come on Slashdotters, some people even do a rosary during sex. People do stuff. Some of it's odd, but we're starting to sound like the "Sex is only for procreation" crowd.
Now it's those people who use peanut butter and a putty knife that are the sickos.
Then where is this misogyny and social Darwinism? Getting fired because you get off in private on male-dominant role playing games has nothing to do with that.
I'm seeing this weird future in which a company assigned employee visits each employee's home to observe the sexual activity of the employees to make certain that they only boink in approved manners.
The employee's records should get interesting.....
"Mr Smith was terminated on 06/06/2020 because he was observed telling his wife "Suffer bitch!" during sexual intercourse."
Regardless, I imagine that the sexual lifestyle monitor will be an easy job to fill, with many applicants.
Sorry for the bad quote level screwup on the last reply.
While my own tastes are remarkably pedestrian - most would say normal, coward has a good point.
This is workplace interference in a person's sexual behavior.
If he was performing his weird shit - and make no mistake, this is plain weird - on a woman who did not give consent, it would be a no brainer, that's sexual assault.
But now we have to ask ourselves, should his lady friend be sought out and fired from wherever it is that she works? Two willing and consensual participants in any other "crime" are treated as co-criminals.
And I'll re-iterate, if the roles were reversed, should the woman be fired, and the submissive man be viewed as her victim?
"BDSM" covers a lot of ground but a core part of the Gorean lifestyle is believing that females are genetically inferior.
But will we apply the situation if the sexes were reversed? If a female found her sexual release as a dominatrix, and happened to be really good at it because she thought men were inferior, does it then follow that she should be terminated?
Could you imagine the outrage? She'd be elevated to martyrdom status.
Then we have the issue of preference. Would there be outrage if this guy were into extreme BSDM but with other men instead of women? Or the same regarding a woman with other women? Or if in either case if the dominant one was misogynist, since a woman can be misogynistic too.
What of the submissive one? Would it be correct to fire them too? Or just the dominant one?
That's the problem. Either way, it's not even remotely a simple issue once we decide to use a person's consensual sexual activity as a employment criteria.
Which is why I long ago decided that as long as it is a consensual act between two adults, and there isn't harm, I'm not going to get too excited about it.
In any event, if these were my employees, I would keep the creep with the ultra kink, and fire the snitch.
There have been a few, let's say, shady promises about extracting water from air, mostly coupled with crowdfunding campaigns (gee, why could that be?).
And how. Crowdfunding is a great way to grab some money from the Youtube perpetual motion gang.
The thing that is odd is that this paltry 3 liters of water with it's expensive collection materials pales in comparison with this system that will extract 42 liters per day, http://www.treehugger.com/clea... , uses wind power, and only costs 134 dollars.
These people are pikers compared to the manufacturer of that fine bit of kit.
But there are those nasty thermodynamic laws and the enthalpy of vaporization stuff going on that tend to bitchslap these devices and their supporters.
Zenin was complaining about the "crazy flow-chart of decisions" you have to go through when deciding to use Linux. You replied, essentially, "just use Mint." But my point is that even that relatively-simple advice implies deciding between six different options before you even get to run the installer!
(Note that I'm not even counting the decisions that are "easy" because they're not opinion-based, such as deciding between 32- or 64-bit and whether to use the.torrent or pick one of the 99 (I counted) mirrors. And that's for an "easy" distro -- heaven help you if you're a n00b who got told "just use Debian" instead! "'s390x-netinst?' WTF is this shit?")
I know exactly what you meant. However, considering the different sub-versions of Mint as somehow a bridge too far to decide upon is the sort of concept that makes a two mouse click an unsufferable crime upon humanity. Mint Cinnamon will work essentially the same as any of the others. And if you look closely many of the distros are designed for certain purposes. like video, or sound.If that's too much trouble you can install the same software later.
It's odd that by this time, people don't understand that people using linux often fork or just make minor changes. My experience has shown me that the biggest reason to use one version over another is the horsepower of th ecomputer it is installed on.
And if you are too inconvenienced to take a little time to figure that out, if you cannot be bothered to find out that there are versions of Linux that will run on your old computer, then my post was too long for you to read. And it's not Linux's fault, it is just laziness. there is not one of your Linux Show stoppers that you won't find on Windows. Basic, Home Home Premium, Pro? Enterprise? What a gauntlet!
I wonder, do you only use all defaults on your Windows machine? Is troubleshooting a problem on Windows out of the question? You buy a new computer when the machine won't boot after an update?
I support Windows, MacOS and now Linux.
The OS that requires the most upkeep and investigation for fixing OS problems is Windows by far.
Which Mint? Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, KDE, LDME Cinnamon, or LDME MATE?
I've done Cinnamon, Mate Xfce and KDE. I'm most familiar with Cinnamon.
The major difference is some of the windows and other minutiae. The core is Minty fresh. Cinnamon Mint for the wife on her touch screen laptop. She won't let me experiment on that computer.
Lately I've been installing and using Ubuntu Mate for myself, mainly because I can use it across a wide range of my computers, and it works pretty well and fast too.
I have an HP Envy I want to install dual boot when I get the time. It's both touch screen and tablet operation, so that will be a good experiment.
I've been trying without much success to get others to collaborate with me on why they have issues but I don't. Without luck.
I've never quite understood why Microsoft wants to go to a monthly subscription service for non-enterprise (Volume Licensing) end users.
I haven't read up on their official positions, but there are a couple of obvious answers. Because it makes more people willing to buy their products and computers that include their products. Because it lets them get a direct revenue stream from consumers of sold machines. There are hundreds of millions of people who find it much easier to pay a small amount every month than to pay a larger amount up front, even if the up front amount is only a hundred bucks. It also probably reduces their taxes and makes their quarterly figures more reliable by normalizing their income.
So if I get you straight, I'm going to dump my Linux and Apple machines because it's easy to pay for an operating systemI don't want?
Being that the only people who have ever done harm like this to my computer is the Microsoft corporation, I no longer accept security updates from the only company that I need the protection from.
Preach it Brother! I've spent actual months over the years fixing computers screwed up by Microsoft, and precious little time repairing screwups by anyone else.
By broken I that the mouse wheel works reasonably in some apps but in others (like Chrome) it's ridiculously slow and there is no preference panel to change it. I tried a few hacks I found on Stack Exchange but none worked, and installing Smooth Scrolling in Chrome just made the wheel randomly not work at all.
Sumpin's off, because the mouse scrolling is such an ancient thing it's hard to imagine any distro having an issue. I'm noe certain that it isn't a Chrome application issue rather than Linux.
And that crazy flow-chart of decisions that need to be worked through before it's even worth investing time into a given distro enough to learn it well enough that you know why it's not actually going to work for you after all and you need to start the whole asinine process over again...
No flame unless you tell me of the crazy flow chart of decisions that you have to make.
when I install say Mint, I plug in the thumb drive or use a liveCD for an older computer, Boot, and click on install, or a couple more clicks if I'm doing dual boot. If there is a question regarding the particular computer I let the thing boot to desktop off the thumb drive. Then I sit back and let it roll until it gets to setup.
When was the last time you installed Linux, and what version was it? Your description does not jibe with my experience in the last 7+ years.
I am going to guess that 'broken out of the box' means there's things you have to install because of licensing issues with jpg, mpg, etc.
Or major bullshit. I've installed lots of Linux, lots of different computers, and perhaps a dozen distros. Only issue I've had in the last several years is a weird bluetooth issue in Ubuntu Mate. When you type the numerical reply to the setup query, it pops up a new window for each keypress. no biggie, it still connects.
It's when I hear of the simple troubles some folks claim, I have difficulty understanding how they have the issues if they have the issues.
Elucidate how most Linux distributions are broken out of the box. I'm calling severe bullshit. Tell me about your experience with all the other distros.
I have had some minor quirks, but have not had issues for years. And I've had minnor quirks in Windows and MacOS as well. And if you have questions about adistro, a live disk will let you know quickly.
Can someone recommend a Linux distro where basic stuff like the mouse wheel works properly? Now that OPAL v2 is getting proper support I really want to switch.
I'm not a noob, I use Linux servers and embedded systems all the time, but the two desktops I tried recently (Mint Cinnamon and Ubuntu) were broken and/or generally sucked. I don't want to waste time trying them all if I can help it.
What did you have them installed on? Pretty unusual to have a freaking mouse wheel not work. Did you try the live disk? Did you install with an internet connection?
Hell, Ubuntu Mate works well on a Raspberry Pi, and Linux in general supports more drivers than Windows. I have old devices that work perfectly in linux, but zero windows driver support from the manufacturer. Found that out the hard way when setting up a dual boot machine. As soon after I was done setting up the Linux side, and the Windows side wouldn't work .
Anti-science typically means anti-science-that-doesn't-involve-killing-people-and-breaking-stuff. Declining empires tend to hang on to military capability for a long time.
But things happen pretty quickly these days. And we never know where the big discovery will come from.
Even if better plane being is used as the "meat shield" that doesn't change anything. If the F-16 drones end up doing all the work, the pilot will still be protected in the definitely better stealth of the F-35 and if a piloted plane needs be in close proximity then it makes sense to put the pilot in the safer plane.
It's making an assumption that the F-35 is the safer plane. Always look for the weak link. Take out the weak link, and you are working your way toward air superiority.
The top brass has a saying that we are always ready for the last war. And no one listens. We are wonderfully prepared for extremely asymmetrical warfare. We can beat the living shit out of peopel living in the middle ages. Let's just pat ourselves on teh back, and declare ourselves the winner, world without end, amen.
Meanwhile, this completely ignores that there are countries that are our technological equals. A lot of people like to brag that it is the Russians, but they don't have the economic clout at the moment. Regardless, we're living in a fool's paradise if we think that we are the top we will remain at the top, and will always be the top.
And there is an interesting little twist. The United States has become extremely anti-science. and what happens with anti science nations is that they might spend like all hell, but if those pinko scientists and their whacky global warming and billions of years old universe malarky is banned, the new stuff that allows for continued military superiority is hindered.
Just sayin' because I have no idea what Im taling about.
Even if it was a piloted F-16 guarded by two autonomous F-16s, it's a great idea. Just because I used the phrase "meat shield" doesn't mean the only purpose of the F-16 was to die, it provides the most value when it survives and the drone is able to deliver the payloads effectively and return.
...if I recall, one of those autonomous drones got hit by lightning, went haywire and decided it wanted to blow up all sorts of things.
Yeah - well that kinda falls under the "cool story bro" movies division. Aircraft are hit by lightning fairly often - apparently once per year per aircraft - whacky metric, so a lot are hit multiple times.
Last time a plane had a know lightning hit big problem was in 1967. Now it's just a pucker string moment. https://www.scientificamerican...
Personally, I love the idea of using older platforms as meat shields in the worst case and cheap force augmentations in the best. For missions where the F16 would've been just fine, we can continue to use it without fear of putting pilots in danger.
I just don't see a downside.
You are using the better plane as the"meat shield". The F-35 is one size fits all by committee design, and just like an Escalade pickup, or Honda Ridgeline, doesn't perform any task very well. A tactic like this, where it is protected by a lot of other planes might be it's best use.
I'll take an Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrttt! any day over this.
but being the first nation in 50 years to use them in warfare will bring a new kind of political hell that you really don't want to defend against.
So that's an interesting question.......what do you think would happen if a country used nukes? It would probably depend on which country used them........
Odds are that we will find out in a few years. This has a bit to do with the current occupant, and a bit to do with that we simply have them. It will probably be involved with being backed into a corner, so bring out the toys.
I think it is pretty hard to disrupt a drone that was designed to withstand EMP. It doesn't take a very heavy conducting shield to protect integrated circuits. And the penetration depth means it is exponential decay inside the shielding so you can't overcome it by simply using "more juice" unless you can create exponentially more juice.
Don't forget that the integrated circuits in such a device are probably going to be built a little differently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Silicon on insulator or Sapphire is used.
Back in my uni days I remember asking a physicist friend how an emp device would work. He flipped over a piece of paper drew a relative simple (20-30 components, a few of which would need to be fairly large capacitors and fairly large coils) that would take out all the electronics in about a 30-40m range. He said anyone who knew their engineering could work it out, and theres not really an upper limit to scaling the things up.
The point is, I'm kind of surprised small and non state actors havent already tried to use these against UAVs. It seems like the kind of engineering problem whos answer to problems only ever would need to be "More juice".
Hardened components and builds. These EMP devices can work pretty well against commercial and unhardened equipment, but when you know someone is going to try this, you prepare accordingly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now the biggie in EMP isn't discharging a big cap, it's discharging a thermonuclear device. The major problem again is that EMP pulse, unless you are lucky enough to be where you catch a serious radiation pulse - you are likely to have more problems than that in that case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Coal rolling idiots don't just do that to hybrids, unfortunately. I had some fuckwit do that to my on my motorcycle... well until I just twisted my wrist and left him in his own smog.
Doing that to a Prius is just annoying. Putting a motorcycle rider in a cloud of soot is dangerous and might be a good way to get shot at.
You do bring up a good point about these coal rolling asshats triggering a second amendment solution on themselves. Especially simce some motorcycle dudes have short fuses, and always carry. And could be the guy supplying them with their meth.
Slashdot Mirror
As for "being passed on to a friend" (or "being pimped out"), that is a fairly common fantasy in BDSM, even outside Gorean circles. It's something women (and men) actually ask to have done to them on BDSM dating sites.
Cuckholding is not unusual among people who only like conventional sex. Come on Slashdotters, some people even do a rosary during sex. People do stuff. Some of it's odd, but we're starting to sound like the "Sex is only for procreation" crowd.
Now it's those people who use peanut butter and a putty knife that are the sickos.
The issue is misogyny and Social Darwinism.
Then where is this misogyny and social Darwinism? Getting fired because you get off in private on male-dominant role playing games has nothing to do with that.
I'm seeing this weird future in which a company assigned employee visits each employee's home to observe the sexual activity of the employees to make certain that they only boink in approved manners.
The employee's records should get interesting. ....
"Mr Smith was terminated on 06/06/2020 because he was observed telling his wife "Suffer bitch!" during sexual intercourse."
Regardless, I imagine that the sexual lifestyle monitor will be an easy job to fill, with many applicants.
That's how I know I hit the mark.
Now I'm never going to stop making these points.
Sorry for the bad quote level screwup on the last reply.
While my own tastes are remarkably pedestrian - most would say normal, coward has a good point.
This is workplace interference in a person's sexual behavior.
If he was performing his weird shit - and make no mistake, this is plain weird - on a woman who did not give consent, it would be a no brainer, that's sexual assault.
But now we have to ask ourselves, should his lady friend be sought out and fired from wherever it is that she works? Two willing and consensual participants in any other "crime" are treated as co-criminals.
And I'll re-iterate, if the roles were reversed, should the woman be fired, and the submissive man be viewed as her victim?
And how do you equate BDSM with misogyny?
"BDSM" covers a lot of ground but a core part of the Gorean lifestyle is believing that females are genetically inferior.
But will we apply the situation if the sexes were reversed? If a female found her sexual release as a dominatrix, and happened to be really good at it because she thought men were inferior, does it then follow that she should be terminated?
Could you imagine the outrage? She'd be elevated to martyrdom status.
Then we have the issue of preference. Would there be outrage if this guy were into extreme BSDM but with other men instead of women? Or the same regarding a woman with other women? Or if in either case if the dominant one was misogynist, since a woman can be misogynistic too.
What of the submissive one? Would it be correct to fire them too? Or just the dominant one?
That's the problem. Either way, it's not even remotely a simple issue once we decide to use a person's consensual sexual activity as a employment criteria.
Which is why I long ago decided that as long as it is a consensual act between two adults, and there isn't harm, I'm not going to get too excited about it.
In any event, if these were my employees, I would keep the creep with the ultra kink, and fire the snitch.
There have been a few, let's say, shady promises about extracting water from air, mostly coupled with crowdfunding campaigns (gee, why could that be?).
And how. Crowdfunding is a great way to grab some money from the Youtube perpetual motion gang.
The thing that is odd is that this paltry 3 liters of water with it's expensive collection materials pales in comparison with this system that will extract 42 liters per day, http://www.treehugger.com/clea... , uses wind power, and only costs 134 dollars.
These people are pikers compared to the manufacturer of that fine bit of kit.
But there are those nasty thermodynamic laws and the enthalpy of vaporization stuff going on that tend to bitchslap these devices and their supporters.
I think you might have missed my point.
Zenin was complaining about the "crazy flow-chart of decisions" you have to go through when deciding to use Linux. You replied, essentially, "just use Mint." But my point is that even that relatively-simple advice implies deciding between six different options before you even get to run the installer!
(Note that I'm not even counting the decisions that are "easy" because they're not opinion-based, such as deciding between 32- or 64-bit and whether to use the .torrent or pick one of the 99 (I counted) mirrors. And that's for an "easy" distro -- heaven help you if you're a n00b who got told "just use Debian" instead! "'s390x-netinst?' WTF is this shit?")
I know exactly what you meant. However, considering the different sub-versions of Mint as somehow a bridge too far to decide upon is the sort of concept that makes a two mouse click an unsufferable crime upon humanity. Mint Cinnamon will work essentially the same as any of the others. And if you look closely many of the distros are designed for certain purposes. like video, or sound.If that's too much trouble you can install the same software later.
It's odd that by this time, people don't understand that people using linux often fork or just make minor changes. My experience has shown me that the biggest reason to use one version over another is the horsepower of th ecomputer it is installed on.
And if you are too inconvenienced to take a little time to figure that out, if you cannot be bothered to find out that there are versions of Linux that will run on your old computer, then my post was too long for you to read. And it's not Linux's fault, it is just laziness. there is not one of your Linux Show stoppers that you won't find on Windows. Basic, Home Home Premium, Pro? Enterprise? What a gauntlet!
I wonder, do you only use all defaults on your Windows machine? Is troubleshooting a problem on Windows out of the question? You buy a new computer when the machine won't boot after an update?
I support Windows, MacOS and now Linux.
The OS that requires the most upkeep and investigation for fixing OS problems is Windows by far.
If you had installed Linux onto Desktops more than 5 years ago you would know what I am referring to.
It's not Bullshit:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki...
Can't deny that. I meant his "broken out of the box" concept was bullshit, not your reply to him. Sorry for any confusion.
So where are the same custom drivers for Linux??
IT doesn't even have them to install??
No vendor tweaks available for download from the hardware manufacturer??
(welcome to Linux)
Oh seriously, tell me you didn't write that! Ciao, troll!
Which Mint? Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, KDE, LDME Cinnamon, or LDME MATE?
I've done Cinnamon, Mate Xfce and KDE. I'm most familiar with Cinnamon.
The major difference is some of the windows and other minutiae. The core is Minty fresh. Cinnamon Mint for the wife on her touch screen laptop. She won't let me experiment on that computer.
Lately I've been installing and using Ubuntu Mate for myself, mainly because I can use it across a wide range of my computers, and it works pretty well and fast too.
I have an HP Envy I want to install dual boot when I get the time. It's both touch screen and tablet operation, so that will be a good experiment.
I've been trying without much success to get others to collaborate with me on why they have issues but I don't. Without luck.
I've never quite understood why Microsoft wants to go to a monthly subscription service for non-enterprise (Volume Licensing) end users.
I haven't read up on their official positions, but there are a couple of obvious answers. Because it makes more people willing to buy their products and computers that include their products. Because it lets them get a direct revenue stream from consumers of sold machines. There are hundreds of millions of people who find it much easier to pay a small amount every month than to pay a larger amount up front, even if the up front amount is only a hundred bucks. It also probably reduces their taxes and makes their quarterly figures more reliable by normalizing their income.
So if I get you straight, I'm going to dump my Linux and Apple machines because it's easy to pay for an operating systemI don't want?
Sounds legit.
Being that the only people who have ever done harm like this to my computer is the Microsoft corporation, I no longer accept security updates from the only company that I need the protection from.
Preach it Brother! I've spent actual months over the years fixing computers screwed up by Microsoft, and precious little time repairing screwups by anyone else.
By broken I that the mouse wheel works reasonably in some apps but in others (like Chrome) it's ridiculously slow and there is no preference panel to change it. I tried a few hacks I found on Stack Exchange but none worked, and installing Smooth Scrolling in Chrome just made the wheel randomly not work at all.
Sumpin's off, because the mouse scrolling is such an ancient thing it's hard to imagine any distro having an issue. I'm noe certain that it isn't a Chrome application issue rather than Linux.
*puts on flameproof suit*
And that crazy flow-chart of decisions that need to be worked through before it's even worth investing time into a given distro enough to learn it well enough that you know why it's not actually going to work for you after all and you need to start the whole asinine process over again...
No flame unless you tell me of the crazy flow chart of decisions that you have to make.
when I install say Mint, I plug in the thumb drive or use a liveCD for an older computer, Boot, and click on install, or a couple more clicks if I'm doing dual boot. If there is a question regarding the particular computer I let the thing boot to desktop off the thumb drive. Then I sit back and let it roll until it gets to setup.
When was the last time you installed Linux, and what version was it? Your description does not jibe with my experience in the last 7+ years.
I am going to guess that 'broken out of the box' means there's things you have to install because of licensing issues with jpg, mpg, etc.
Or major bullshit. I've installed lots of Linux, lots of different computers, and perhaps a dozen distros. Only issue I've had in the last several years is a weird bluetooth issue in Ubuntu Mate. When you type the numerical reply to the setup query, it pops up a new window for each keypress. no biggie, it still connects.
It's when I hear of the simple troubles some folks claim, I have difficulty understanding how they have the issues if they have the issues.
Opensuse leap
Not broken out of the box like most others.
Elucidate how most Linux distributions are broken out of the box. I'm calling severe bullshit. Tell me about your experience with all the other distros.
I have had some minor quirks, but have not had issues for years. And I've had minnor quirks in Windows and MacOS as well. And if you have questions about adistro, a live disk will let you know quickly.
Can someone recommend a Linux distro where basic stuff like the mouse wheel works properly? Now that OPAL v2 is getting proper support I really want to switch.
I'm not a noob, I use Linux servers and embedded systems all the time, but the two desktops I tried recently (Mint Cinnamon and Ubuntu) were broken and/or generally sucked. I don't want to waste time trying them all if I can help it.
What did you have them installed on? Pretty unusual to have a freaking mouse wheel not work. Did you try the live disk? Did you install with an internet connection?
Hell, Ubuntu Mate works well on a Raspberry Pi, and Linux in general supports more drivers than Windows. I have old devices that work perfectly in linux, but zero windows driver support from the manufacturer. Found that out the hard way when setting up a dual boot machine. As soon after I was done setting up the Linux side, and the Windows side wouldn't work .
Anti-science typically means anti-science-that-doesn't-involve-killing-people-and-breaking-stuff. Declining empires tend to hang on to military capability for a long time.
But things happen pretty quickly these days. And we never know where the big discovery will come from.
Even if better plane being is used as the "meat shield" that doesn't change anything. If the F-16 drones end up doing all the work, the pilot will still be protected in the definitely better stealth of the F-35 and if a piloted plane needs be in close proximity then it makes sense to put the pilot in the safer plane.
It's making an assumption that the F-35 is the safer plane. Always look for the weak link. Take out the weak link, and you are working your way toward air superiority.
The top brass has a saying that we are always ready for the last war. And no one listens. We are wonderfully prepared for extremely asymmetrical warfare. We can beat the living shit out of peopel living in the middle ages. Let's just pat ourselves on teh back, and declare ourselves the winner, world without end, amen.
Meanwhile, this completely ignores that there are countries that are our technological equals. A lot of people like to brag that it is the Russians, but they don't have the economic clout at the moment. Regardless, we're living in a fool's paradise if we think that we are the top we will remain at the top, and will always be the top.
And there is an interesting little twist. The United States has become extremely anti-science. and what happens with anti science nations is that they might spend like all hell, but if those pinko scientists and their whacky global warming and billions of years old universe malarky is banned, the new stuff that allows for continued military superiority is hindered. Just sayin' because I have no idea what Im taling about. Even if it was a piloted F-16 guarded by two autonomous F-16s, it's a great idea. Just because I used the phrase "meat shield" doesn't mean the only purpose of the F-16 was to die, it provides the most value when it survives and the drone is able to deliver the payloads effectively and return.
Number 5 is .... Alive!
Not malfunction, not malfunction...
Gotta admit, Stephanie had pretty nice software.
...if I recall, one of those autonomous drones got hit by lightning, went haywire and decided it wanted to blow up all sorts of things.
Yeah - well that kinda falls under the "cool story bro" movies division. Aircraft are hit by lightning fairly often - apparently once per year per aircraft - whacky metric, so a lot are hit multiple times.
Last time a plane had a know lightning hit big problem was in 1967. Now it's just a pucker string moment. https://www.scientificamerican...
Personally, I love the idea of using older platforms as meat shields in the worst case and cheap force augmentations in the best. For missions where the F16 would've been just fine, we can continue to use it without fear of putting pilots in danger.
I just don't see a downside.
You are using the better plane as the"meat shield". The F-35 is one size fits all by committee design, and just like an Escalade pickup, or Honda Ridgeline, doesn't perform any task very well. A tactic like this, where it is protected by a lot of other planes might be it's best use.
I'll take an Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrttt! any day over this.
but being the first nation in 50 years to use them in warfare will bring a new kind of political hell that you really don't want to defend against.
So that's an interesting question.......what do you think would happen if a country used nukes? It would probably depend on which country used them........
Odds are that we will find out in a few years. This has a bit to do with the current occupant, and a bit to do with that we simply have them. It will probably be involved with being backed into a corner, so bring out the toys.
I think it is pretty hard to disrupt a drone that was designed to withstand EMP. It doesn't take a very heavy conducting shield to protect integrated circuits. And the penetration depth means it is exponential decay inside the shielding so you can't overcome it by simply using "more juice" unless you can create exponentially more juice.
Don't forget that the integrated circuits in such a device are probably going to be built a little differently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Silicon on insulator or Sapphire is used.
Back in my uni days I remember asking a physicist friend how an emp device would work. He flipped over a piece of paper drew a relative simple (20-30 components, a few of which would need to be fairly large capacitors and fairly large coils) that would take out all the electronics in about a 30-40m range. He said anyone who knew their engineering could work it out, and theres not really an upper limit to scaling the things up.
The point is, I'm kind of surprised small and non state actors havent already tried to use these against UAVs. It seems like the kind of engineering problem whos answer to problems only ever would need to be "More juice".
Hardened components and builds. These EMP devices can work pretty well against commercial and unhardened equipment, but when you know someone is going to try this, you prepare accordingly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now the biggie in EMP isn't discharging a big cap, it's discharging a thermonuclear device. The major problem again is that EMP pulse, unless you are lucky enough to be where you catch a serious radiation pulse - you are likely to have more problems than that in that case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Coal rolling idiots don't just do that to hybrids, unfortunately. I had some fuckwit do that to my on my motorcycle... well until I just twisted my wrist and left him in his own smog.
Doing that to a Prius is just annoying. Putting a motorcycle rider in a cloud of soot is dangerous and might be a good way to get shot at.
You do bring up a good point about these coal rolling asshats triggering a second amendment solution on themselves. Especially simce some motorcycle dudes have short fuses, and always carry. And could be the guy supplying them with their meth.