First off, you have to actually sell something to
>get a picture on Ebay (IIRC), and I doubt the
>terrorists are going to want to bother with
>having buyers on their back all the time.
Easy enough to deal with. Just sell something nobody wants with a really high reserve.
Like, say, a Battlebot...
(For the sarcasm impaired: THIS IS NOT IMPLYING THAT THE BATTLEBOTS GUYS ARE TERRORISTS, just an example of "something nobody wants with a really high reserve")
>I doubt that bars and games will always only
>take cash. How much nicer might it be to scan a
>card once and then keep adding charges while the
>customer keeps drinking or playing?
Kinda like Dave & Busters... you buy a "Power Card" and then charge it at registers or what amount to change-machines-in-reverse, then to play you just swipe the card for a credit.
It's handy not to have to carry a pocket full of change/tokens, but it's really just a clever way to make you forget you're paying a buck or more for a game.
>I will point out to you that some years back, a
>commercial airliner had a huge chunk of the top
>of its fuselage rip off in mid-flight. The plane
>landed safely, and there were only a very few
>fatalaties. I think a bullet hole is probably
>survivable.
Except, of course, for those few fatalities. I'd imagine they'd question your survivability claim.
If you can point out anywhere that I claimed a bullet hole or two would cause the plane to explode like a grape in a vacuum chamber, please feel free.
Until then, I stand by my statement that comparing a 1940's bomber to a 1970's designed-and-built jet liner is ludicrous at best.
>And that's great, and we should too, but don't
>get too complacent about the competence of
>those "professionals."
Air marshalls and Israeli security forces are not exactly your neighborhood patrol car cop or mall security guard. You don't find these guys sitting at Dunkin' Donuts or hassling kids outside the Orange Julius.
Comparing a combat bomber designed to withstand hostile fire to a civilian airliner.
I'll leave the conclusions to be drawn as an exercise for the reader.
-l
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>Last time I checked the President, a civilian,
>was Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
A civilian surrounded with people that have dedicated their entire lives to the defense of our country.
The Joint Chiefs, Dick Cheney, and Colin Powell... any of this ring any bells?
-l
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>It was their fierce determinaton, their
>knowledge of the land and the support they got
>in every tiny little village.
I can't speak for the Chechens, but the Afghanis were certainly helped by the American "advisors" and "humanitiarian aid" in the form of weapons.
You don't take down a HIND with rocks. You don't take out a T-72 with pointed sticks.
-l
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>It worked pretty well back in the late 1700s for
>the United States.
Different world. Different war. Different people.
Of course, we were also years more advanced than the Afghani culture... but I guess I'm being anglocentric.
>It might be interesting to try and extract a
>promise from the opposing side to institute
>freedom and Democracy. Perhaps even to adopt a
>draft constitution.
Unfortunately, this sort of "enforcing our will" is part of why we're so disliked in the Middle East in the first place.
-l
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>Personally, I think if we want to win a war in
>Afghanistan, we need to massively arm the
>opposing side who know the terrain and how to
>win.
Sure, that worked really well when we armed bin Laden against the Russians in the 70's and 80's.
Or when we armed the Iraqis to fight Iran.
Or...
Re:What can 60 billion dollars buy?
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>have you noticed he only ever kills brown people though?
Yeah, like those brown Germans and Italians in a couple of minor skirmishes in the early and mid 1900's. Perhaps you've heard rumors of some military actions we were involved in over in Europe.
And any number of little conflicts with the so-very-brown British and French in the 1700's and 1800's.
Ohyeah, and the darkest brown folks of all we're involved with right now in Bosnia. Can't forget those.
Ever tried to use an AT power supply in an ATX case with an ATX board?
That's an obsolete power supply in MY book.
-l
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>The bullets mentioned are "Glaser Safety Slugs".
Air marshalls also use Magsafes or other pre-fragmented / frangible bullets.
>Essentially they disintegrate on impact
Sort of. Glasers are small shot (#12) suspended in a teflon base. The teflon base breaks up on impact, distributing the shot over a wider area inside the target mass. The effect of Glasers on tissue is devastating, to say the least.
>given that we used a clip
Nitpick: You used a magazine. MP5's don't use "clips". Revolvers firing rimless cases use "clips". The M1 Garand uses "clips". The boxy thing you put into the bottom (or side, if a Sten) of a submachine gun or semi-automatic pistol is a magazine.
-l
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>the collision of the B-29 against the Empire
>State Building
It wasn't a B-29, it was a B-25.
A MUCH smaller plane than a B-29 or either of the planes that hit the towers.
>Linux on the Xbox will be too cool (and spite
>MSFT like nothing other:)
Anyone taking bets that MS will try to get something into the license that would somehow make it a violation of the DMCA to run any other OS on this thing?
I used to hang out with a couple of the UO developers, and this (parent article) is more or less what happened.
The reason the flag needed to be reset was that shortly before the "town meeting", they rebooted the server to get ready for the big influx of traffic to that one spot.
One of my friends was responsible for setting the flag back (why wouldn't this be saved? geesh), and simply forgot.
As I recall, he got chewed out a bit for it, but eventually it just became a joke around the office.
Slashdot Mirror
First off, you have to actually sell something to
>get a picture on Ebay (IIRC), and I doubt the
>terrorists are going to want to bother with
>having buyers on their back all the time.
Easy enough to deal with. Just sell something nobody wants with a really high reserve.
Like, say, a Battlebot...
(For the sarcasm impaired: THIS IS NOT IMPLYING THAT THE BATTLEBOTS GUYS ARE TERRORISTS, just an example of "something nobody wants with a really high reserve")
-l
>I doubt that bars and games will always only
>take cash. How much nicer might it be to scan a
>card once and then keep adding charges while the
>customer keeps drinking or playing?
Kinda like Dave & Busters... you buy a "Power Card" and then charge it at registers or what amount to change-machines-in-reverse, then to play you just swipe the card for a credit.
It's handy not to have to carry a pocket full of change/tokens, but it's really just a clever way to make you forget you're paying a buck or more for a game.
-l
(sheepishly hiding his D&B Gold Card)
>I will point out to you that some years back, a
>commercial airliner had a huge chunk of the top
>of its fuselage rip off in mid-flight. The plane
>landed safely, and there were only a very few
>fatalaties. I think a bullet hole is probably
>survivable.
Except, of course, for those few fatalities. I'd imagine they'd question your survivability claim.
If you can point out anywhere that I claimed a bullet hole or two would cause the plane to explode like a grape in a vacuum chamber, please feel free.
Until then, I stand by my statement that comparing a 1940's bomber to a 1970's designed-and-built jet liner is ludicrous at best.
-l
>He probably postponed it so he could include
>some teasers of Episode 2...
Somehow, I think the drooling fanboys of TFN would have mentioned this.
-l
>The conclusion is that you have zero clue
Sure thing there, binky.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=21600&cid=2
-l
>the planes are the same, just fitted with
>different equipement inside.
Comparing a WW2 propeller-driven combat bomber to a modern passenger jet liner.
You really think we're talking about anything except apples and oranges here?
-l
>And that's great, and we should too, but don't
>get too complacent about the competence of
>those "professionals."
Air marshalls and Israeli security forces are not exactly your neighborhood patrol car cop or mall security guard. You don't find these guys sitting at Dunkin' Donuts or hassling kids outside the Orange Julius.
These guys ARE highly trained and skilled.
-l
A similar (but more factual) piece was in today's Washington Times, written by peter Hannaford.
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20010919-63
Definitely worth a read.
-l
Comparing a combat bomber designed to withstand hostile fire to a civilian airliner.
I'll leave the conclusions to be drawn as an exercise for the reader.
-l
>Last time I checked the President, a civilian,
>was Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
A civilian surrounded with people that have dedicated their entire lives to the defense of our country.
The Joint Chiefs, Dick Cheney, and Colin Powell... any of this ring any bells?
-l
>It was their fierce determinaton, their
>knowledge of the land and the support they got
>in every tiny little village.
I can't speak for the Chechens, but the Afghanis were certainly helped by the American "advisors" and "humanitiarian aid" in the form of weapons.
You don't take down a HIND with rocks. You don't take out a T-72 with pointed sticks.
-l
>It worked pretty well back in the late 1700s for
>the United States.
Different world. Different war. Different people.
Of course, we were also years more advanced than the Afghani culture... but I guess I'm being anglocentric.
>It might be interesting to try and extract a
>promise from the opposing side to institute
>freedom and Democracy. Perhaps even to adopt a
>draft constitution.
Unfortunately, this sort of "enforcing our will" is part of why we're so disliked in the Middle East in the first place.
-l
>Personally, I think if we want to win a war in
>Afghanistan, we need to massively arm the
>opposing side who know the terrain and how to
>win.
Sure, that worked really well when we armed bin Laden against the Russians in the 70's and 80's.
Or when we armed the Iraqis to fight Iran.
Or...
>have you noticed he only ever kills brown people though?
Yeah, like those brown Germans and Italians in a couple of minor skirmishes in the early and mid 1900's. Perhaps you've heard rumors of some military actions we were involved in over in Europe.
And any number of little conflicts with the so-very-brown British and French in the 1700's and 1800's.
Ohyeah, and the darkest brown folks of all we're involved with right now in Bosnia. Can't forget those.
-l
>which is why I just keep buying more cheap $4
>fans and just replace them... it's a vicious
>cycle.
...and people that oil their fans are caught in a viscous cycle.
-l
(I know, I know.. sorry.)
>It still supplies power
Not to any machine *I* use. Hence, it is obsolete TO ME.
-l
>For all that Bin Laden can say about American
>behavior in the Middle East, he can't say that
>we've ever engaged in genocide
Perhaps not in the Middle East, but look a little closer to home.
We came pretty darn close to wiping out the entire Native American population.
We try to forget that far too often.
-l
>how does a power supply become obsolete?
Ever tried to use an AT power supply in an ATX case with an ATX board?
That's an obsolete power supply in MY book.
-l
>The bullets mentioned are "Glaser Safety Slugs".
Air marshalls also use Magsafes or other pre-fragmented / frangible bullets.
>Essentially they disintegrate on impact
Sort of. Glasers are small shot (#12) suspended in a teflon base. The teflon base breaks up on impact, distributing the shot over a wider area inside the target mass. The effect of Glasers on tissue is devastating, to say the least.
>given that we used a clip
Nitpick: You used a magazine. MP5's don't use "clips". Revolvers firing rimless cases use "clips". The M1 Garand uses "clips". The boxy thing you put into the bottom (or side, if a Sten) of a submachine gun or semi-automatic pistol is a magazine.
-l
>the collision of the B-29 against the Empire
>State Building
It wasn't a B-29, it was a B-25.
A MUCH smaller plane than a B-29 or either of the planes that hit the towers.
-l
>Well the fact that the laser usually burns out
>in about 2 years, and really isn't practical to
>replace.
Two years of use out of a mouse I bought for 40 bucks?
I can live with that.
-l
>Linux on the Xbox will be too cool (and spite :)
>MSFT like nothing other
Anyone taking bets that MS will try to get something into the license that would somehow make it a violation of the DMCA to run any other OS on this thing?
-l
>Proof that Microsoft software can't withstand
>the power of the Slashdot Effect.
Then again, given the problems with slashdot two mornings in a row now, it seems slashdot can't withstand the power of the slashdot effect...
-l
(boy, this is gonna hurt my karma...)
I used to hang out with a couple of the UO developers, and this (parent article) is more or less what happened.
The reason the flag needed to be reset was that shortly before the "town meeting", they rebooted the server to get ready for the big influx of traffic to that one spot.
One of my friends was responsible for setting the flag back (why wouldn't this be saved? geesh), and simply forgot.
As I recall, he got chewed out a bit for it, but eventually it just became a joke around the office.
-l
Here.
-l (it's really not ASCII art, filter, really!)