Since 1980, all US states and DC have permitted right on red. New York City is one of the few exceptions. There it is only legal if a sign specifically says it is allowed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_turn_on_red
And it is actually legal to turn left on red if you are turning onto a one-way road. It doesn't come up as often but is plenty annoying when the guy in front of you doesn't know this rule.
This is a basic confusion of who makes decisions. Troops go to war because the President/Congress/The People tell them to. If you have a beef with them, this is a democracy. Vote. Don't take it out on the Pentagon for trying to protect its troops.
Besides, if you think about it, this strategy removes targets from the battlefield. Fewer targets mean fewer attacks. Fewer attacks mean less dead on both sides. In Vietnam (remember John Kerry?), they used swift boats intentionally as targets to draw the enemy into fighting to make the death counts higher. This time they're doing the opposite. Shouldn't that be a good thing?
This is pure FUD. The search, which I know as the credit card sweep, (which I've both done and received numerous times) doesn't involve fondling the balls. It's a light brush with the outside of the hand. You aren't even checking the balls, you're checking the inside of the thigh. Depending on the garment worn, it can be quite easy to tuck away a full sized pistol in that area. If you don't search that area, you might as well not do searches period.
Good point. Hell, back when I used to have to pull a lot of 28+ hour shifts watching a front desk I tended to fall asleep without even noticing it. I'd figure it out because the show I was watching wouldn't make any sense anymore.
As a side note, it wasn't until I started doing those shifts that I realized most of my hangovers weren't caused by alcohol, but by my body's reaction to sleep deprivation.
I don't think most people working on projects like this are thinking about the cost per kill, so much as cost to keep a soldier alive for a year in Afghanistan. If you'll notice, weapons systems haven't changed in any major way during this war, but body armor has been in continuous transition since it began. I know guys who owe their lives to simple things like the gunner restraint (when an IED goes off, it keeps them from flying like a ragdoll out the top of the vehicle). The enemy that got away doesn't matter 1% as much as the soldier who died because nobody was willing to spend a few bucks to keep his equipment up date.
One problem with this new Russian secret weapon: They parade it in front of the world's cameras? It isn't too secret is it? Why would anybody in their right mind brag about the capabilities of a weapon that wholly depends on the enemy not being able to judge your capabilities?
If nobody knows that inflatable weapons can imitate heat signatures, the guy in the bomber doesn't even know he needs to be careful and might not notice signs that point to it being a decoy formation. That is the weapon I want, one that they aren't even prepared to deal with. Inflatable weapons are about deception and yet they come along with a list of things their new decoys can do.
Somebody is having fun playing with public opinion. It might not do the things they say, but they want the enemy to second guess itself before every move. OTOH maybe the weapon is already obsolete and they're trying to milk it for the last thing it's good for: publicity.
Since you mention it, they incorrectly state that the economics prize was awarded "for determining by experiment that microbes cling to bearded scientists." I guess it was a copy and paste error, since that is the same listing they have for the public health award directly above it. If you want to be paranoid (realistic?--I can't even tell anymore) about it, you could say the mistake was made intentionally to avoid publishing how the award poked fun at Wall Street's creative investment schemes.
If you just read the summary it sounds like its just a PR issue, when the issue is security. He put in a lot of sensitive information that needs to redacted in future versions. He has agreed to the changes. However, since the army mistakenly approved it originally, they are footing the bill for the first printing which still contains the sensitive information. Everything worked the way it should.
Coming from a guy that must use military vehicles for a living, thank you for designing vehicles that can get blown up consistently without anybody dying. I find that absolutely amazing.
That being said, do you guys remember that not everybody is four foot two? I'm six six with bad knees. I beg you please have mercy in the future.
The problem is the assumption that we know where the IEDs are. Yeah, there might only be IEDs on 5 miles of the 100 you plan to travel, but that doesn't mean much since you never know which 5 have the IEDs. Any machine that can fly will be a deathtrap when it gets hit by an IED. There is a reason humvees of any kind don't go on mission much anymore. They're just too light to be survivable.
As a soldier, I have to say that making the thing do more damage was the last thing that came to mind. We have plenty of things that do shit-tons of damage already. But when we catch an 8 year old running command wire to an IED, you kind of wish there was a way to stop him without ripping him in half with a.50 cal round. Something like this might be nice from time to time.
To be honest, I don't really care. As long as it is in writing, and subject to the public and courts for oversight. Believe it or not, I support corporal punishment and think it works better in the long term for everyone than the "humane" solutions like prison. I just don't like the idea that the administration has tried to do something out of sight of the public it is beholden to. If we as a people decide that prolonged torture is acceptable for certain crimes, ok. Just pass the requisite constitutional amendment and go for it.
This simply sounds like your workplace has a bad policy. I don't see how smokers in general are to blame for this. Some workplaces have a policy that allows employee to choose between a lunch break and a series of short breaks throughout the day, each option totaling the same amount of time. The smokers choose the short breaks, everyone else chooses a long lunch break.
I know I shouldn't respond to this, but am I the only one that read it and thought most of it didn't sound half bad? I always thought public service was a good thing.
Wait, so somebody discovered a whole new state of matter, and all we have to say is it could extend Moore's Law? I would hope the implications would be just a tad bit more grand for such a discovery than possibly validating somebody's metric for a little while.
As it stands now, a motivate individual could probably send a loaded amtrak train to the bottom of the Hudson with nothing but a heavy crowbar and a sledgehammer. Derailments happen often enough just through wear and tear.
To be honest, I would trust the aluminum and concrete in the maglev system more than the wooden ties used now. At least it takes more than a crowbar to destroy.
The real problem with rebellion today had nothing to do with weaponry. The problem is the ease of travel for troops. An insurgency/riot in a city in 1790 would only have to defeat a small local force before taking control of the city. It could be weeks before any serious attempt could be made to retake the city.
The French revolution only calmed down when an improved French transportation system allowed the army to send troops into Paris from other areas of the country quickly. Non-local troops were more willing to fight their own people than local ones. They previously had the habit of joining the revolutions rather than be slaughtered by them.
So really, in the past you wouldn't have to worry about the 101st until you had plenty of time to prepare. Now, you can expect to see them within a day or two.
You think there might be a way to get your voice heard. That's cute.
Seriously though, if you raise your voice you'll be accused of defending terrorists and child predators. At least that's how it works up here. Have you tried pitchforks?
Personally, I think the marketing people would like it. If something is in beta it must be new. People get the idea that google is always doing new things and is on the cutting edge of technology. Every time you see something labeled beta, you don't stop to think how old it is, you just assume that google is making new products at record pace. Not everyone follows these things as closely as somebody on slashdot.
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Since 1980, all US states and DC have permitted right on red. New York City is one of the few exceptions. There it is only legal if a sign specifically says it is allowed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_turn_on_red
And it is actually legal to turn left on red if you are turning onto a one-way road. It doesn't come up as often but is plenty annoying when the guy in front of you doesn't know this rule.
This is a basic confusion of who makes decisions. Troops go to war because the President/Congress/The People tell them to. If you have a beef with them, this is a democracy. Vote. Don't take it out on the Pentagon for trying to protect its troops.
Besides, if you think about it, this strategy removes targets from the battlefield. Fewer targets mean fewer attacks. Fewer attacks mean less dead on both sides. In Vietnam (remember John Kerry?), they used swift boats intentionally as targets to draw the enemy into fighting to make the death counts higher. This time they're doing the opposite. Shouldn't that be a good thing?
This is pure FUD. The search, which I know as the credit card sweep, (which I've both done and received numerous times) doesn't involve fondling the balls. It's a light brush with the outside of the hand. You aren't even checking the balls, you're checking the inside of the thigh. Depending on the garment worn, it can be quite easy to tuck away a full sized pistol in that area. If you don't search that area, you might as well not do searches period.
Good point. Hell, back when I used to have to pull a lot of 28+ hour shifts watching a front desk I tended to fall asleep without even noticing it. I'd figure it out because the show I was watching wouldn't make any sense anymore.
As a side note, it wasn't until I started doing those shifts that I realized most of my hangovers weren't caused by alcohol, but by my body's reaction to sleep deprivation.
I don't think most people working on projects like this are thinking about the cost per kill, so much as cost to keep a soldier alive for a year in Afghanistan. If you'll notice, weapons systems haven't changed in any major way during this war, but body armor has been in continuous transition since it began. I know guys who owe their lives to simple things like the gunner restraint (when an IED goes off, it keeps them from flying like a ragdoll out the top of the vehicle). The enemy that got away doesn't matter 1% as much as the soldier who died because nobody was willing to spend a few bucks to keep his equipment up date.
Isn't that picture already in the fine article?
One problem with this new Russian secret weapon: They parade it in front of the world's cameras? It isn't too secret is it? Why would anybody in their right mind brag about the capabilities of a weapon that wholly depends on the enemy not being able to judge your capabilities?
If nobody knows that inflatable weapons can imitate heat signatures, the guy in the bomber doesn't even know he needs to be careful and might not notice signs that point to it being a decoy formation. That is the weapon I want, one that they aren't even prepared to deal with. Inflatable weapons are about deception and yet they come along with a list of things their new decoys can do.
Somebody is having fun playing with public opinion. It might not do the things they say, but they want the enemy to second guess itself before every move. OTOH maybe the weapon is already obsolete and they're trying to milk it for the last thing it's good for: publicity.
Since you mention it, they incorrectly state that the economics prize was awarded "for determining by experiment that microbes cling to bearded scientists." I guess it was a copy and paste error, since that is the same listing they have for the public health award directly above it. If you want to be paranoid (realistic?--I can't even tell anymore) about it, you could say the mistake was made intentionally to avoid publishing how the award poked fun at Wall Street's creative investment schemes.
If you just read the summary it sounds like its just a PR issue, when the issue is security. He put in a lot of sensitive information that needs to redacted in future versions. He has agreed to the changes. However, since the army mistakenly approved it originally, they are footing the bill for the first printing which still contains the sensitive information. Everything worked the way it should.
Actually we have those. Or at least very similar vehicles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RG-33 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_(mine_protected_vehicle) Believe it or not, some of that tax money actually does make it to where its needed.
Coming from a guy that must use military vehicles for a living, thank you for designing vehicles that can get blown up consistently without anybody dying. I find that absolutely amazing. That being said, do you guys remember that not everybody is four foot two? I'm six six with bad knees. I beg you please have mercy in the future.
The problem is the assumption that we know where the IEDs are. Yeah, there might only be IEDs on 5 miles of the 100 you plan to travel, but that doesn't mean much since you never know which 5 have the IEDs. Any machine that can fly will be a deathtrap when it gets hit by an IED. There is a reason humvees of any kind don't go on mission much anymore. They're just too light to be survivable.
As a soldier, I have to say that making the thing do more damage was the last thing that came to mind. We have plenty of things that do shit-tons of damage already. But when we catch an 8 year old running command wire to an IED, you kind of wish there was a way to stop him without ripping him in half with a .50 cal round. Something like this might be nice from time to time.
To be honest, I don't really care. As long as it is in writing, and subject to the public and courts for oversight. Believe it or not, I support corporal punishment and think it works better in the long term for everyone than the "humane" solutions like prison. I just don't like the idea that the administration has tried to do something out of sight of the public it is beholden to. If we as a people decide that prolonged torture is acceptable for certain crimes, ok. Just pass the requisite constitutional amendment and go for it.
"If living a life that has no future except being locked in prison for decades is torture, then what should we do to criminals?"
I don't know. Give them a fair trial and a sentence of some determinable time?
Houdini planned something like this for when he died. Unfortunately the code wasn't kept very secret so the experiment was a waste.
http://www.prairieghosts.com/houdini.html (look near the end)
This simply sounds like your workplace has a bad policy. I don't see how smokers in general are to blame for this. Some workplaces have a policy that allows employee to choose between a lunch break and a series of short breaks throughout the day, each option totaling the same amount of time. The smokers choose the short breaks, everyone else chooses a long lunch break.
I know I shouldn't respond to this, but am I the only one that read it and thought most of it didn't sound half bad? I always thought public service was a good thing.
479 is one if I understand the problem correctly
Wait, so somebody discovered a whole new state of matter, and all we have to say is it could extend Moore's Law? I would hope the implications would be just a tad bit more grand for such a discovery than possibly validating somebody's metric for a little while.
As it stands now, a motivate individual could probably send a loaded amtrak train to the bottom of the Hudson with nothing but a heavy crowbar and a sledgehammer. Derailments happen often enough just through wear and tear.
To be honest, I would trust the aluminum and concrete in the maglev system more than the wooden ties used now. At least it takes more than a crowbar to destroy.
The real problem with rebellion today had nothing to do with weaponry. The problem is the ease of travel for troops. An insurgency/riot in a city in 1790 would only have to defeat a small local force before taking control of the city. It could be weeks before any serious attempt could be made to retake the city.
The French revolution only calmed down when an improved French transportation system allowed the army to send troops into Paris from other areas of the country quickly. Non-local troops were more willing to fight their own people than local ones. They previously had the habit of joining the revolutions rather than be slaughtered by them.
So really, in the past you wouldn't have to worry about the 101st until you had plenty of time to prepare. Now, you can expect to see them within a day or two.
You think there might be a way to get your voice heard. That's cute.
Seriously though, if you raise your voice you'll be accused of defending terrorists and child predators. At least that's how it works up here. Have you tried pitchforks?
Personally, I think the marketing people would like it. If something is in beta it must be new. People get the idea that google is always doing new things and is on the cutting edge of technology. Every time you see something labeled beta, you don't stop to think how old it is, you just assume that google is making new products at record pace. Not everyone follows these things as closely as somebody on slashdot.
To be fair, anyone who knows cold war history knows that the US lost credibility a long time ago.