The other factor is that retail stores seemingly only have the 16 GB version to sell. It seems that Google was reserving the 8 GB for the Play Store. With the shipping and taxes charged by the Play Store, the 8 GB version starts to cost as much as a 16 GB version bought online elsewhere without shipping and taxes. So it's a no-brainer that the 16 GB version would sell out.
It depends on what you use the system for. If it's only for simple file sharing, then a NAS would be fine. But if you want to use the server to manage updates and backups, which you should, then consider a Windows SBS 2011 Essentials server. It is a bit pricey but it pulls backups from all of your systems, and you can set up a WSUS server so you only have to authorize updates once--then each system will pull the update from the server when it's time to shut down. It definitely makes life a lot easier compared to individually managing ten systems.
I do agree with this sentiment very much. But Muslims need to stop running around the world blowing up civilians. Each side has a vested interest in protecting their citizenry. Pretend you are presented with a device with two buttons: if you pushed one button, your mom will live and two random Pakistanis will die. If you pushed the other, your mom dies and two random Pakistanis will live. If you don't push the button, everyone dies. I would push the first button because fuck the other guys, we're talking about my mom here. Everyone is like that. So if we need to back off their territory, they also need to back off our territory. I just don't see that sort of detente happening anytime soon.
Put the data in on various forms such as a portable USB hard drive, flash drives, and multiple DVDs. I would suggest looking into a RAID array as well--if a hard drive or two has errors, the error checking might make it accessible anyway. Stick a PCI-e/PCI USB and SATA adapter card in there as well. Also stick a laptop in there with the power adapter but don't put the battery in there. The battery will have died by then, and might blow up or something after a while and destroy everything. I think it would be safe to assume that power plugs will always be the same for the next fifty years or so. You would be safe even if USB/CD are not in use anymore if you have the entire device needed to read them in there.
Drones are responsible for a vast amount of the killings, though I'm sure that there are lots of these dudes being snatched up and put into a dark network of getting their genitals zapped until they talk. Decapitation strikes kill organizations not only by the obvious but also because it leads to uncertainty and distrust between its members. These strikes cannot happen without accurate and actionable intelligence. If you're a terrorist organization already using good operational security, then you have to believe that there are leaks in your organization. Housecleaning will soon follow, and "innocent" terrorists will get caught up. Eventually, the organizations are spending so much time killing each other that they are rendered ineffective or useless.
There's also the fact that prescriptions to terrorists in the border regions of Pakistan have spiked for antidepressants and Valium as a result of the drone strike. Sudden death or disappearance is pretty stressful, it would seem, even to a guy who swears to love death more than we love life.
Let's ignore problem A until we have eliminate problems B-ZZ. That's retarded because the guys opposing drunk driving laws or mental illness bans will say the same thing about guns. Then everyone points a finger at each other and nothing happens anywhere. Let's discuss every matter on its own merit thank you very much.
I'm all for gun rights but why the hell do you think that a dude who threw tear gas into a crowd before opening fire with an AK-47 would have been able to be as deadly without the tear gas or the AK-47? There really is no legitimate purpose for an AK-47 or other automatic assault rifles other than to "collect" them. When compared to the devastation wrought by their use, it's just fucking stupid. If a dude threw hand grenades into a crowd and killed a bunch of people, would you oppose a law that banned hand grenades?
I think hand guns should be legal to everyone without a criminal record, and you have to pass a gun safety/aptitude course every year. That way, you can still defend yourself against a psycho but it would limit the amount of damage a psycho could do.
Amazon has such a huge inventory of bizarre products that they will always have demand to keep their warehouses full. They aren't an ice cream or fruit store that only has business during the warm seasons. In the last six months, I've bought from Amazon: a cup dispenser, transmission fluid, spark plugs, a Kindle, and ekoBrew cup, pomade, Tide stain release, DYMO labels, Splenda, pens, a fuel system tune up kit, and a PCV valve for my car.
Furthermore, Amazon rents out its distribution capacity through its "Fulfilled by Amazon" program. Other stores can put their inventory in Amazon's warehouse, and let Amazon collect the money and distribute the products. That kind of makes it demand-proof because they can always rent out the capacityâ"all they need is to break even on the costs so that shouldn't be so hard to do.
The great thing about robotic warehouses is that you can just stick unused robots in a corner when they're not in use. Aside from the costs of the robots (or rather, the costs of financing the robot), you aren't losing that much money. Workers, however, need to be paid during the slack times. Or you can bring in seasonal workers when there is a seasonal surge but then you have to pay all the start-up costs for each individual employee: make sure they're legal to work, get their IDs, set up payroll, time cards, and you have to keep an eye on them to make sure they don't walk away with inventory.
There is always going to be the specter of competition that keeps prices low. If Amazon starts over-charging, then the guys on eBay will start taking their money. Amazon will have to face Walmart, Costco, Sam's Club, BJ's, Office Depot, Staples, the local super-market chains (such as Gristedes, Pathmark, etc.), Soap.com, and whatever new dot.com comes along. You have to realize that the Internet has made it very easy to start a business. You can start right away with eBay.
AT&T is considered a common carrier. It has to provide service to the general public without discrimination. That gives it protection from any crimes committed using the telephones. If they start monitoring conversations, then they might lose that common carrier status. There are also wiretapping laws that apply even to AT&T.
Neither of those laws do not apply to Facebook. In time, we may expect internet service providers and social networking websites to become common carriers, and for communications on such networks to be protected from wiretaps, but I am pretty certain that at present, they are exempt from these laws.
Did you read the article? It was not a wanted poster. It was an internal police memorandum accurately calling these two people professional agitators, and instructing the police NOT TO BOTHER THEM. That's right. The evil wanted poster was a warning to police officers that these two people were not meant to be messed with.
I think that when you are advanced far along enough to get a nuclear bomb, you kind of realize that you don't want to die. It's like North Korea. They're a bunch of idiots who are letting their people starve to death. But they have the nuclear bomb, and they're not going to nuke anybody soon because the leadership wants to live. It's the same thing with Iran. The leadership doesn't want to die, so even if they got nukes, they wouldn't use them.
The huge question isn't whether or not the Higgs Boson exists, but whether or not there are different forms of the HB. The HB was detected in the lower mass range, so supersymmetry is still alive as a theory. Supersymmetry can help explain things like dark matter.
Federal judges in the United States serve lifetime appointments and can only be removed by impeachment, which requires high crimes and misdemeanors. I really doubt that Judge Koh was biased against Samsung because she was concerned about how she would seem. In fact, if someone had suggested that Judge Koh, who was born in Washington, D.C., and earned a law degree from Harvard, had went in favor of Samsung because she's Korean, they would be run out of town on rails.
You're missing the point when you conclude that "whoever turns on the radar trying to target it is going to have a really bad day, guaranteed." The first part is not true. Killer birds do not have to turn on its radar to find where your radar sites are. It is the S400 has to turn on its radar to detect targets. Killer birds can sit around passively sucking up radiation to hone in on radar sites. Due to the physics of it all, the killer bird gets to detect the enemy radar passively from a much great range than the radar site can detect re-radiated signals from the killer bird. The F-22 has thousands of radar sensors embedded into its skin so it can pick up radar signals at a very far distance; estimates are at about 200 nmi. But the Sentinel and other spy drones sneaking into your airspace in the weeks and months before the invasion are drawing maps of all of your radar sites and airfields. Before the first combat plane crosses your borders, they already know the location of most of your radar sites and a bunch of cruise missiles will be tasked to their destruction. Heck, if you're out in the boondocks near the border, there may even be a special forces group marching towards you and they will kill you old school with rifle and grenades while you're staring at your computer screens.
More importantly, there is no one "trying to target" the S400. The radar sites require humans to man and maintain. You need dudes staring at the radar screens, keeping them happy, taking care of the generators that make everything work, and reloading missiles and troubleshooting things. The drones in the vanguard of any attack that are flying suppression are not human. The guys that fly them are in Florida, and they work eight hour shifts, after which they go home and play with their kids. You don't get any relief. You sit there and fight until you die. At the end of the day, you're trading your S400 and crew for a bunch of JSOW-ER, drones, and other unmanned aerial combat systems. The S400 will not even get to test itself against a manned crew. The unmanned systems will pwn any S400, and mop up any radar sites that weren't in the initial maps. The stealth aircraft will fly in after enemy air defenses have been suppressed by a large extent, and by that point, only suicidal folk will be turning on their radars because doing so will be certain death. The manned stealth systems will be dropping heavy bombs on your commanders, and communication structures and the SEAD missions will be carried out primarily by the persistent stare drones just constantly floating around and patrolling the fire lanes use by the manned systems. You will not be resupplied. There will be no new missiles, more food, or medical supplies. The trucks and aircraft carrying those will have been blown up by US drones and the clips of their demise will probably be posted on Youtube. Your radio calls to your superiors will go unanswered because your boss already got blown to bits by bunker busters.
There's a saying: in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there' is. The S400 has a theoretical range of 400 km and a theoretical detection range of 600 km on a good day. If you have sophisticated jammers actively fucking with you, and killer missiles trying to get detected so they can pwn you with a kamikaze charge, and you're expending missiles against JSOW-ER, and there's an unmanned aerial system floating around in theater constantly dropping these Small Diameter Bombs on you every fucking time you open fire on the JSOWs and decoy drones, and every time you lock onto something that turns out to be a stealth aircraft (which you probably won't because the manned birds won't be around until you're dead) the manned systems will have electronic warfare systems that burn out the detectors in the seeker head of your missiles, and towed decoys and chaff and flare and super-manueverability in the case of the F-22, then yeah, you're not going to be engaging at 400 km. I mean, at 400 km, your missile has no more energy and can't manueve
Google wants more eyeballs in their Android ecosystem. Apple targets rich folk with their iPads and iPhones. Google wants more people accessing the Internet, buying stuff on Google Play, and generally accessing the Google platform. Sure, you have the dirt-cheap tablets but what did you expect for $80? Most purchasers of those tablets wouldn't be angry if it turns out that they can't use the latest as greatest software. The biggest annoyance would be $500 devices that can't use Ice Cream Sandwich.
The point of stealth is to take out their radar sites. People declare that it's easy for radars to detect and shoot down stealth aircraft, but how easy is it for a stealth aircraft to blow up a radar site? I have to point out that no one has figured out how to make a stealth radar site yet. Think about this: the radar beam has to travel to the target, reflect, then travel back to the radar site to be detected by the radar. If the target has a bunch of antennas, it can detect the radar much earlier than the radar can detect it.
In any war, drones and cruise missiles will be the vanguard of the strike force. The UAVs will fly in to draw fire and jam radars, and cruise missiles will be used to hit anti-aircraft batteries that fire. Sure, in theory the radars can detect stealth aircraft but what about a real electronic warfare environment where we have jammers, target drones, and cruise missiles lighting up any radar site that turns on? The B-2 has its own electronic warfare suite, and as seen above, it can see radar sites much earlier than the radar sites can see them. And don't make any mistake: the radar sites are well within the reach of many of our aircraft. The S400 has a maximum engagement range of 400 kilometers. That is well within the range of the JSOW-ER with a small jet engine that can hit targets from 300 nm. The JASSM-ER has a range of 575 miles, which can be deployed by the B-2. The B-2 carries the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW), which can hit targets from 60 nautical miles. There's a Small Diameter Bomb that can float 60 nmi. Any guy who turns on his radar will have a bad day, guaranteed.
Some guy won an ADA discrimination lawsuit against Chipotle because while the counter where they made the food was 38 inches high, he couldn't see them actually making the food from a wheelchair and was therefore deprived of the true Chipotle experience. Chipotle will actually make the food at your table but he didn't care because that still wasn't the same experience that everyone else was having. Bizarre, no?
Your wife is a moron. She is happy to drive around the US without carrying her papers because she thinks she's special and married a white guy so no cop is going to mess with her. If the Arizona law had been enacted and enforced, she would have risked being arrested until she could prove that she was an American citizen. Ask yourself: how can you prove to a cop on the street that you're an American citizen or a legal immigrant? If the Arizona law took power, everyone would have had to carry their birth certificate, US passport, or green card just in case they got stopped for "suspicion of being an illegal immigrant." That's not an America I believe in. I believe in an America that's free. You may disagree, but the Supreme Court just struck down your stupid law, so have fun living in freedom not having to worry about your wife being arrested for being brown while you're complaining about how stupid liberals are.
Don't be stupid. How the hell are you supposed to prove to a cop on the street that you're not an illegal immigrant? Do you carry copies of your US passport or birth certificate around with you at all times? I keep those documents at home in a safe. If a cop were to ask me if I were an illegal, I would say no, but if they were to ask for proof, I couldn't give it to them on the spot. So what do you think is going to happen? The cops could just take me at my word and walk away... or they could arrest me and hold me until someone can get my documents showing that I was a US citizen. Some Mexican-American was arrested in Arizona BEFORE the law took effect and held for a day until his wife could get his citizenship papers to the cops.
I don't want to live in a country where I need to carry my papers with me at all times. Apparently, you support large, unfettered government that can harass us for walking around the streets unless we carry papers with us, but I do not. Oddly, it seems that you are the person that does not understand what America means.
It is already the law in most American jurisdictions that the promissory note has to be delivered by hand, and the mortgagee cannot institute an action unless he has physical possession of the promissory note as well as the assignment of the mortgage. It didn't help to prevent fraud because courts gave banks the benefit of the doubt. In the heydays of the sub-prime mortgage scandal, banks were so busy they couldn't be bothered to hand deliver the promissory notes. They just sent electronic copies of the documents, and they assigned their mortgages to MERS to make their lives easier when they had to transfer the notes and mortgages through all of their exotic derivatives. Now that the market fell apart and the banks had to foreclose, they suddenly realized that they didn't have the promissory notes in handâ"in many cases, the notes themselves weren't even assigned to the buyers. No matter. They either robo-signed retroactive documents (i.e., defrauded) to effect an assignment before their foreclosure lawsuit, or they filed a sworn affidavit that they had had the promissory note in hand, but simply "lost" it. The problem is that courts simply believed the banks--after all, there is no doubt that the homeowners "owed" the banks money, and that these guys were living in a house without making payments, so courts were okay turning a blind eye to these frauds.
Things are changing, but not enough. Courts are starting to realize that banks were just outright defrauding the court. The New York State court system has required all lawyers representing plaintiffs in a foreclosure action to state that they have personally inspected the documents and swear that they were in order before they can file a foreclosure action. Has that helped? The jury is still out. But there is no doubt that the banks have been engaged in widespread and outright fraud in their dealings with American homeowners and the judicial system, and no one is really pissed about it.
That's kind of the problem here. It is a law meant to target Mexicans. The problem is that there are also legal Mexican-Americans who will get ensnared in the law as well. Believe it or not, there are brown folk in Arizona who are in the country legally. After all, we took Texas from the Mexicans. The law, as originally designed, allowed the state government to snatch people off the street if they thought they were illegal immigrants. Query: everyone admits that we're targeting Mexicans with this law, so how do you protect the rights of Mexican-Americans while still targeting illegal immigrants? Answer: you can't.
The better approach is from the demand side and go after employers of illegal immigrants. But good luck getting Arizona to target big business. Or you can check someone's immigration status after you've arrested them for another crime, which seems to be where we're headed now because it has the ancillary benefit of deporting illegal immigrants who commit crimes, but it will also force illegal immigrants to walk on eggshells.
Even my cheap ass Kingston SSD made a huge difference in the responsiveness of my system. Office suites such as Outlook, Word, and the like are very disk-bound in performance, so it's no surprise that an SSD would make life much easier for business users. Starting Outlook or Word used to take forever, and now it just takes an annoying amount of time. The super-fast Windows boot time now lets me do away with sleep and hibernation. I just shut my system down and start each day afresh!
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I could give a shit what some pedant thinks about what some illiterate on the Internet wrote.
The other factor is that retail stores seemingly only have the 16 GB version to sell. It seems that Google was reserving the 8 GB for the Play Store. With the shipping and taxes charged by the Play Store, the 8 GB version starts to cost as much as a 16 GB version bought online elsewhere without shipping and taxes. So it's a no-brainer that the 16 GB version would sell out.
It depends on what you use the system for. If it's only for simple file sharing, then a NAS would be fine. But if you want to use the server to manage updates and backups, which you should, then consider a Windows SBS 2011 Essentials server. It is a bit pricey but it pulls backups from all of your systems, and you can set up a WSUS server so you only have to authorize updates once--then each system will pull the update from the server when it's time to shut down. It definitely makes life a lot easier compared to individually managing ten systems.
I do agree with this sentiment very much. But Muslims need to stop running around the world blowing up civilians. Each side has a vested interest in protecting their citizenry. Pretend you are presented with a device with two buttons: if you pushed one button, your mom will live and two random Pakistanis will die. If you pushed the other, your mom dies and two random Pakistanis will live. If you don't push the button, everyone dies. I would push the first button because fuck the other guys, we're talking about my mom here. Everyone is like that. So if we need to back off their territory, they also need to back off our territory. I just don't see that sort of detente happening anytime soon.
Put the data in on various forms such as a portable USB hard drive, flash drives, and multiple DVDs. I would suggest looking into a RAID array as well--if a hard drive or two has errors, the error checking might make it accessible anyway. Stick a PCI-e/PCI USB and SATA adapter card in there as well. Also stick a laptop in there with the power adapter but don't put the battery in there. The battery will have died by then, and might blow up or something after a while and destroy everything. I think it would be safe to assume that power plugs will always be the same for the next fifty years or so. You would be safe even if USB/CD are not in use anymore if you have the entire device needed to read them in there.
I second this. Try to pump nitrogen into the case. If you can't, then put stuff into Ziplock bags that you suck the air out of.
Drones are responsible for a vast amount of the killings, though I'm sure that there are lots of these dudes being snatched up and put into a dark network of getting their genitals zapped until they talk. Decapitation strikes kill organizations not only by the obvious but also because it leads to uncertainty and distrust between its members. These strikes cannot happen without accurate and actionable intelligence. If you're a terrorist organization already using good operational security, then you have to believe that there are leaks in your organization. Housecleaning will soon follow, and "innocent" terrorists will get caught up. Eventually, the organizations are spending so much time killing each other that they are rendered ineffective or useless.
There's also the fact that prescriptions to terrorists in the border regions of Pakistan have spiked for antidepressants and Valium as a result of the drone strike. Sudden death or disappearance is pretty stressful, it would seem, even to a guy who swears to love death more than we love life.
Let's ignore problem A until we have eliminate problems B-ZZ. That's retarded because the guys opposing drunk driving laws or mental illness bans will say the same thing about guns. Then everyone points a finger at each other and nothing happens anywhere. Let's discuss every matter on its own merit thank you very much.
I'm all for gun rights but why the hell do you think that a dude who threw tear gas into a crowd before opening fire with an AK-47 would have been able to be as deadly without the tear gas or the AK-47? There really is no legitimate purpose for an AK-47 or other automatic assault rifles other than to "collect" them. When compared to the devastation wrought by their use, it's just fucking stupid. If a dude threw hand grenades into a crowd and killed a bunch of people, would you oppose a law that banned hand grenades?
I think hand guns should be legal to everyone without a criminal record, and you have to pass a gun safety/aptitude course every year. That way, you can still defend yourself against a psycho but it would limit the amount of damage a psycho could do.
Amazon has such a huge inventory of bizarre products that they will always have demand to keep their warehouses full. They aren't an ice cream or fruit store that only has business during the warm seasons. In the last six months, I've bought from Amazon: a cup dispenser, transmission fluid, spark plugs, a Kindle, and ekoBrew cup, pomade, Tide stain release, DYMO labels, Splenda, pens, a fuel system tune up kit, and a PCV valve for my car.
Furthermore, Amazon rents out its distribution capacity through its "Fulfilled by Amazon" program. Other stores can put their inventory in Amazon's warehouse, and let Amazon collect the money and distribute the products. That kind of makes it demand-proof because they can always rent out the capacityâ"all they need is to break even on the costs so that shouldn't be so hard to do.
The great thing about robotic warehouses is that you can just stick unused robots in a corner when they're not in use. Aside from the costs of the robots (or rather, the costs of financing the robot), you aren't losing that much money. Workers, however, need to be paid during the slack times. Or you can bring in seasonal workers when there is a seasonal surge but then you have to pay all the start-up costs for each individual employee: make sure they're legal to work, get their IDs, set up payroll, time cards, and you have to keep an eye on them to make sure they don't walk away with inventory.
There is always going to be the specter of competition that keeps prices low. If Amazon starts over-charging, then the guys on eBay will start taking their money. Amazon will have to face Walmart, Costco, Sam's Club, BJ's, Office Depot, Staples, the local super-market chains (such as Gristedes, Pathmark, etc.), Soap.com, and whatever new dot.com comes along. You have to realize that the Internet has made it very easy to start a business. You can start right away with eBay.
AT&T is considered a common carrier. It has to provide service to the general public without discrimination. That gives it protection from any crimes committed using the telephones. If they start monitoring conversations, then they might lose that common carrier status. There are also wiretapping laws that apply even to AT&T.
Neither of those laws do not apply to Facebook. In time, we may expect internet service providers and social networking websites to become common carriers, and for communications on such networks to be protected from wiretaps, but I am pretty certain that at present, they are exempt from these laws.
Did you read the article? It was not a wanted poster. It was an internal police memorandum accurately calling these two people professional agitators, and instructing the police NOT TO BOTHER THEM. That's right. The evil wanted poster was a warning to police officers that these two people were not meant to be messed with.
I think that when you are advanced far along enough to get a nuclear bomb, you kind of realize that you don't want to die. It's like North Korea. They're a bunch of idiots who are letting their people starve to death. But they have the nuclear bomb, and they're not going to nuke anybody soon because the leadership wants to live. It's the same thing with Iran. The leadership doesn't want to die, so even if they got nukes, they wouldn't use them.
The huge question isn't whether or not the Higgs Boson exists, but whether or not there are different forms of the HB. The HB was detected in the lower mass range, so supersymmetry is still alive as a theory. Supersymmetry can help explain things like dark matter.
Federal judges in the United States serve lifetime appointments and can only be removed by impeachment, which requires high crimes and misdemeanors. I really doubt that Judge Koh was biased against Samsung because she was concerned about how she would seem. In fact, if someone had suggested that Judge Koh, who was born in Washington, D.C., and earned a law degree from Harvard, had went in favor of Samsung because she's Korean, they would be run out of town on rails.
You're missing the point when you conclude that "whoever turns on the radar trying to target it is going to have a really bad day, guaranteed." The first part is not true. Killer birds do not have to turn on its radar to find where your radar sites are. It is the S400 has to turn on its radar to detect targets. Killer birds can sit around passively sucking up radiation to hone in on radar sites. Due to the physics of it all, the killer bird gets to detect the enemy radar passively from a much great range than the radar site can detect re-radiated signals from the killer bird. The F-22 has thousands of radar sensors embedded into its skin so it can pick up radar signals at a very far distance; estimates are at about 200 nmi. But the Sentinel and other spy drones sneaking into your airspace in the weeks and months before the invasion are drawing maps of all of your radar sites and airfields. Before the first combat plane crosses your borders, they already know the location of most of your radar sites and a bunch of cruise missiles will be tasked to their destruction. Heck, if you're out in the boondocks near the border, there may even be a special forces group marching towards you and they will kill you old school with rifle and grenades while you're staring at your computer screens.
More importantly, there is no one "trying to target" the S400. The radar sites require humans to man and maintain. You need dudes staring at the radar screens, keeping them happy, taking care of the generators that make everything work, and reloading missiles and troubleshooting things. The drones in the vanguard of any attack that are flying suppression are not human. The guys that fly them are in Florida, and they work eight hour shifts, after which they go home and play with their kids. You don't get any relief. You sit there and fight until you die. At the end of the day, you're trading your S400 and crew for a bunch of JSOW-ER, drones, and other unmanned aerial combat systems. The S400 will not even get to test itself against a manned crew. The unmanned systems will pwn any S400, and mop up any radar sites that weren't in the initial maps. The stealth aircraft will fly in after enemy air defenses have been suppressed by a large extent, and by that point, only suicidal folk will be turning on their radars because doing so will be certain death. The manned stealth systems will be dropping heavy bombs on your commanders, and communication structures and the SEAD missions will be carried out primarily by the persistent stare drones just constantly floating around and patrolling the fire lanes use by the manned systems. You will not be resupplied. There will be no new missiles, more food, or medical supplies. The trucks and aircraft carrying those will have been blown up by US drones and the clips of their demise will probably be posted on Youtube. Your radio calls to your superiors will go unanswered because your boss already got blown to bits by bunker busters.
There's a saying: in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there' is. The S400 has a theoretical range of 400 km and a theoretical detection range of 600 km on a good day. If you have sophisticated jammers actively fucking with you, and killer missiles trying to get detected so they can pwn you with a kamikaze charge, and you're expending missiles against JSOW-ER, and there's an unmanned aerial system floating around in theater constantly dropping these Small Diameter Bombs on you every fucking time you open fire on the JSOWs and decoy drones, and every time you lock onto something that turns out to be a stealth aircraft (which you probably won't because the manned birds won't be around until you're dead) the manned systems will have electronic warfare systems that burn out the detectors in the seeker head of your missiles, and towed decoys and chaff and flare and super-manueverability in the case of the F-22, then yeah, you're not going to be engaging at 400 km. I mean, at 400 km, your missile has no more energy and can't manueve
Google wants more eyeballs in their Android ecosystem. Apple targets rich folk with their iPads and iPhones. Google wants more people accessing the Internet, buying stuff on Google Play, and generally accessing the Google platform. Sure, you have the dirt-cheap tablets but what did you expect for $80? Most purchasers of those tablets wouldn't be angry if it turns out that they can't use the latest as greatest software. The biggest annoyance would be $500 devices that can't use Ice Cream Sandwich.
The point of stealth is to take out their radar sites. People declare that it's easy for radars to detect and shoot down stealth aircraft, but how easy is it for a stealth aircraft to blow up a radar site? I have to point out that no one has figured out how to make a stealth radar site yet. Think about this: the radar beam has to travel to the target, reflect, then travel back to the radar site to be detected by the radar. If the target has a bunch of antennas, it can detect the radar much earlier than the radar can detect it.
In any war, drones and cruise missiles will be the vanguard of the strike force. The UAVs will fly in to draw fire and jam radars, and cruise missiles will be used to hit anti-aircraft batteries that fire. Sure, in theory the radars can detect stealth aircraft but what about a real electronic warfare environment where we have jammers, target drones, and cruise missiles lighting up any radar site that turns on? The B-2 has its own electronic warfare suite, and as seen above, it can see radar sites much earlier than the radar sites can see them. And don't make any mistake: the radar sites are well within the reach of many of our aircraft. The S400 has a maximum engagement range of 400 kilometers. That is well within the range of the JSOW-ER with a small jet engine that can hit targets from 300 nm. The JASSM-ER has a range of 575 miles, which can be deployed by the B-2.
The B-2 carries the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW), which can hit targets from 60 nautical miles. There's a Small Diameter Bomb that can float 60 nmi. Any guy who turns on his radar will have a bad day, guaranteed.
Some guy won an ADA discrimination lawsuit against Chipotle because while the counter where they made the food was 38 inches high, he couldn't see them actually making the food from a wheelchair and was therefore deprived of the true Chipotle experience. Chipotle will actually make the food at your table but he didn't care because that still wasn't the same experience that everyone else was having. Bizarre, no?
Your wife is a moron. She is happy to drive around the US without carrying her papers because she thinks she's special and married a white guy so no cop is going to mess with her. If the Arizona law had been enacted and enforced, she would have risked being arrested until she could prove that she was an American citizen. Ask yourself: how can you prove to a cop on the street that you're an American citizen or a legal immigrant? If the Arizona law took power, everyone would have had to carry their birth certificate, US passport, or green card just in case they got stopped for "suspicion of being an illegal immigrant." That's not an America I believe in. I believe in an America that's free. You may disagree, but the Supreme Court just struck down your stupid law, so have fun living in freedom not having to worry about your wife being arrested for being brown while you're complaining about how stupid liberals are.
Don't be stupid. How the hell are you supposed to prove to a cop on the street that you're not an illegal immigrant? Do you carry copies of your US passport or birth certificate around with you at all times? I keep those documents at home in a safe. If a cop were to ask me if I were an illegal, I would say no, but if they were to ask for proof, I couldn't give it to them on the spot. So what do you think is going to happen? The cops could just take me at my word and walk away ... or they could arrest me and hold me until someone can get my documents showing that I was a US citizen. Some Mexican-American was arrested in Arizona BEFORE the law took effect and held for a day until his wife could get his citizenship papers to the cops.
I don't want to live in a country where I need to carry my papers with me at all times. Apparently, you support large, unfettered government that can harass us for walking around the streets unless we carry papers with us, but I do not. Oddly, it seems that you are the person that does not understand what America means.
It is already the law in most American jurisdictions that the promissory note has to be delivered by hand, and the mortgagee cannot institute an action unless he has physical possession of the promissory note as well as the assignment of the mortgage. It didn't help to prevent fraud because courts gave banks the benefit of the doubt. In the heydays of the sub-prime mortgage scandal, banks were so busy they couldn't be bothered to hand deliver the promissory notes. They just sent electronic copies of the documents, and they assigned their mortgages to MERS to make their lives easier when they had to transfer the notes and mortgages through all of their exotic derivatives. Now that the market fell apart and the banks had to foreclose, they suddenly realized that they didn't have the promissory notes in handâ"in many cases, the notes themselves weren't even assigned to the buyers. No matter. They either robo-signed retroactive documents (i.e., defrauded) to effect an assignment before their foreclosure lawsuit, or they filed a sworn affidavit that they had had the promissory note in hand, but simply "lost" it. The problem is that courts simply believed the banks--after all, there is no doubt that the homeowners "owed" the banks money, and that these guys were living in a house without making payments, so courts were okay turning a blind eye to these frauds.
Things are changing, but not enough. Courts are starting to realize that banks were just outright defrauding the court. The New York State court system has required all lawyers representing plaintiffs in a foreclosure action to state that they have personally inspected the documents and swear that they were in order before they can file a foreclosure action. Has that helped? The jury is still out. But there is no doubt that the banks have been engaged in widespread and outright fraud in their dealings with American homeowners and the judicial system, and no one is really pissed about it.
That's kind of the problem here. It is a law meant to target Mexicans. The problem is that there are also legal Mexican-Americans who will get ensnared in the law as well. Believe it or not, there are brown folk in Arizona who are in the country legally. After all, we took Texas from the Mexicans. The law, as originally designed, allowed the state government to snatch people off the street if they thought they were illegal immigrants. Query: everyone admits that we're targeting Mexicans with this law, so how do you protect the rights of Mexican-Americans while still targeting illegal immigrants? Answer: you can't.
The better approach is from the demand side and go after employers of illegal immigrants. But good luck getting Arizona to target big business. Or you can check someone's immigration status after you've arrested them for another crime, which seems to be where we're headed now because it has the ancillary benefit of deporting illegal immigrants who commit crimes, but it will also force illegal immigrants to walk on eggshells.
Even my cheap ass Kingston SSD made a huge difference in the responsiveness of my system. Office suites such as Outlook, Word, and the like are very disk-bound in performance, so it's no surprise that an SSD would make life much easier for business users. Starting Outlook or Word used to take forever, and now it just takes an annoying amount of time. The super-fast Windows boot time now lets me do away with sleep and hibernation. I just shut my system down and start each day afresh!