That depends on which branch captured the PoW. In general, Luftwaffe PoWs were among the best treated and the Jews were not sorted out from the population. Wehrmacht and SS PoWs weren't as well off.
It's a very loose definition of military operations. A significant number of these operations are evacuation or rescue of US civilians and personnel or troops sent to guard US property, such as embassies.
I was particularly amused by the one that was three cargo planes with crew sent to Congo to support them as they needed.
They're used for breaching buildings and rooms. They're a lot cheaper than using lives or grenades to figure out if the room/building is empty or not. A shotgun only needs to be aimed in the general direction of the target while a rifle needs to be aimed at the target in a way that will hit the target so that he goes down. A shotgun doesn't require as much reaction speed or precision as a rifle in order to safely breach a room.
As for "strategic location", it depends on whose perspective you look at it as. Russia considers it "strategic" because they want to have a "buffer zone" and think in spheres of interest.
The strategic location of Ukraine is not Ukraine in its entirety. It's Sevastopol and the land between it and Russia. It's all about port capacity.
Russia's total port capacity is roughly 5,181,000 TEU. Of that 2,900,000 comes through the Baltic basin. Of that figure 2,250,000 passes through St. Petersburg. The Far East segment of port capacity accounts for 1,389,000 TEU the majority of which passes through Vladivostok. The Black Sea ports account for 761,000 TEU with most of it passing through Novorossiysk. They're at capacity and don't have the best land transport connections to the Moscow region.
Sevastopol has a capacity of around 600,000 TEU, which can nearly double Russia's Black Sea port capacity, and conveniently all the areas that are "pro-Russian" provide a landpath to Russia. With some investment in rail infrastructure this could greatly increase the shipping capacity for Russia in the Black Sea should Crimea and the other areas become part of Russia. It would also mean that Russia had a land connection to the primary naval facilities for their Black Sea fleet.
All this didn't require ANY operator input, or power to accomplish, it was totally mechanical and automatic and only required the reactor containment system to remain in tact and right side up.
I wonder what kind of disaster would be required in order for the reactor containment system to be intact and not right side up.
Coal is only cheaper than natural gas when comparing the cheapest coal technology against the most expensive gas technologies. The cheapest gas technology is well below the costs of the cheapest coal and at the expensive end the two are pretty much competitive in costs.
Businesses are required to carry a higher level of automotive liability coverage for their vehicle than a non-commercial driver. This is due the higher number of hours spent on the road which increases the total risk of the vehicle being involved in an accident.
Your ability to sign a waiver does not magically cause every other pedestrian, vehicle, and property owner to sign the same waiver that absolves the uber driver and his vehicle of liability for damages that he causes while providing you a service.
That would get us off coal almost immediately, saving hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives each year compared to our current trajectory, where we're hanging on to coal plants because certain people are adamant that we cannot build new nuclear plants.
Even with a major nuclear accident on par with Fukushima every 20 years it would still almost certainly result in less usable land lost and fewer deaths than sea level rise.
You're a racist because you're attributing something to someone based entirely on their physical description and yes voice is a physical description of an individual.
Mad Max and Road Warrior are weird to me. Obviously meant to be the same character but the world and environment has just a stark contrast that it's jarring and a bit tough to suspend disbelief that this is the same character. It's more dystopic in Mad Max but post-apocalyptic in Road Warrior.
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Everyone is forgetting the Japanese were ready to surrender just not unconditionally. That was the sticking point. They had a few demands like leaving the emporer in place, which we did anyway.
That particular demand was one of the lesser ones that the Japanese were looking for. It was never going to happen because that demand would have made the Emperor immune to a trial for war crimes. The Emperor was kept in place because the US investigators couldn't find sufficient evidence that he was responsible for the war and couldn't find sufficient evidence to prosecute him for war crimes. The Emperor was also not unscathed. Japan wanted to keep the position of the Emperor as a living god. The Americans pressed and insisted that the Emperor renounce his divinity, something which Hirohito did because he never believed it himself. The Emperor also no longer has any governmental powers. Prior to that the Emperor had a varying influence depend on his own personality, Meiji had a lot more influence than Hirohito did but even Hirohito still had the power to appoint a prime minister for the government prior to Japan's surrender.
The bomb dropped on Hiroshima did, in fact, result in an outcome that had effectively neutered the command and support structure for one of the two armies charged with defending Japan's mainland. General Hata, who commanded that army, had indicated that his troops were demoralized and were not going to be an effective defense force after the Hiroshima bomb. That was one of the arguments that helped sway Japan towards accepting unconditional surrender.
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Between the expedition force in China and the Kwangtung Army the Japanese had well over 1,500,000 troops on mainland Asia prior to the Soviets declaring war on Japan.
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The Allies did not know how big or small a role the Emperor had played with regard to Japan's aggression. That one condition was not one that would have ever been granted.
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That depends on which branch captured the PoW. In general, Luftwaffe PoWs were among the best treated and the Jews were not sorted out from the population. Wehrmacht and SS PoWs weren't as well off.
An attacker without access to the flight deck has very limited options for crashing a plane.
It's a very loose definition of military operations. A significant number of these operations are evacuation or rescue of US civilians and personnel or troops sent to guard US property, such as embassies.
I was particularly amused by the one that was three cargo planes with crew sent to Congo to support them as they needed.
They're used for breaching buildings and rooms. They're a lot cheaper than using lives or grenades to figure out if the room/building is empty or not. A shotgun only needs to be aimed in the general direction of the target while a rifle needs to be aimed at the target in a way that will hit the target so that he goes down. A shotgun doesn't require as much reaction speed or precision as a rifle in order to safely breach a room.
Most likely there's only neural activity in the brain stem and not on the surface of the brain.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/met...
Mexico is part of Central America. Other definitions may place Mexico in N.America.
Wait! What!? Usenet is dead?
Did Netcraft confirm it?
Well, of course he rested. He was spinning off into space in his TIE Advanced. He couldn't do much else but rest.
Just because it doesn't have wheels doesn't mean you can't tow it!
As for "strategic location", it depends on whose perspective you look at it as. Russia considers it "strategic" because they want to have a "buffer zone" and think in spheres of interest.
The strategic location of Ukraine is not Ukraine in its entirety. It's Sevastopol and the land between it and Russia. It's all about port capacity.
Russia's total port capacity is roughly 5,181,000 TEU. Of that 2,900,000 comes through the Baltic basin. Of that figure 2,250,000 passes through St. Petersburg. The Far East segment of port capacity accounts for 1,389,000 TEU the majority of which passes through Vladivostok. The Black Sea ports account for 761,000 TEU with most of it passing through Novorossiysk. They're at capacity and don't have the best land transport connections to the Moscow region.
Sevastopol has a capacity of around 600,000 TEU, which can nearly double Russia's Black Sea port capacity, and conveniently all the areas that are "pro-Russian" provide a landpath to Russia. With some investment in rail infrastructure this could greatly increase the shipping capacity for Russia in the Black Sea should Crimea and the other areas become part of Russia. It would also mean that Russia had a land connection to the primary naval facilities for their Black Sea fleet.
All this didn't require ANY operator input, or power to accomplish, it was totally mechanical and automatic and only required the reactor containment system to remain in tact and right side up.
I wonder what kind of disaster would be required in order for the reactor containment system to be intact and not right side up.
http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/a...
Coal is only cheaper than natural gas when comparing the cheapest coal technology against the most expensive gas technologies. The cheapest gas technology is well below the costs of the cheapest coal and at the expensive end the two are pretty much competitive in costs.
Businesses are required to carry a higher level of automotive liability coverage for their vehicle than a non-commercial driver. This is due the higher number of hours spent on the road which increases the total risk of the vehicle being involved in an accident.
Your ability to sign a waiver does not magically cause every other pedestrian, vehicle, and property owner to sign the same waiver that absolves the uber driver and his vehicle of liability for damages that he causes while providing you a service.
You would still be breaking the law because you'd be driving without the coverage required by the law. It may also be fraud
That would get us off coal almost immediately, saving hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives each year compared to our current trajectory, where we're hanging on to coal plants because certain people are adamant that we cannot build new nuclear plants.
Even with a major nuclear accident on par with Fukushima every 20 years it would still almost certainly result in less usable land lost and fewer deaths than sea level rise.
It doesn't matter his age. What matters is whether you like him. If you don't like him then he is either too old or too young for your daughter.
You're a racist because you're attributing something to someone based entirely on their physical description and yes voice is a physical description of an individual.
I heard that in the comics Thor is now a woman.
Mad Max and Road Warrior are weird to me. Obviously meant to be the same character but the world and environment has just a stark contrast that it's jarring and a bit tough to suspend disbelief that this is the same character. It's more dystopic in Mad Max but post-apocalyptic in Road Warrior.
Don't forget Aisha in The Losers, co-starring with Chris Evans who played Torch in a previous version of Fantastic Four.
They're up to five now?
Everyone is forgetting the Japanese were ready to surrender just not unconditionally. That was the sticking point. They had a few demands like leaving the emporer in place, which we did anyway.
That particular demand was one of the lesser ones that the Japanese were looking for. It was never going to happen because that demand would have made the Emperor immune to a trial for war crimes. The Emperor was kept in place because the US investigators couldn't find sufficient evidence that he was responsible for the war and couldn't find sufficient evidence to prosecute him for war crimes. The Emperor was also not unscathed. Japan wanted to keep the position of the Emperor as a living god. The Americans pressed and insisted that the Emperor renounce his divinity, something which Hirohito did because he never believed it himself. The Emperor also no longer has any governmental powers. Prior to that the Emperor had a varying influence depend on his own personality, Meiji had a lot more influence than Hirohito did but even Hirohito still had the power to appoint a prime minister for the government prior to Japan's surrender.
The bomb dropped on Hiroshima did, in fact, result in an outcome that had effectively neutered the command and support structure for one of the two armies charged with defending Japan's mainland. General Hata, who commanded that army, had indicated that his troops were demoralized and were not going to be an effective defense force after the Hiroshima bomb. That was one of the arguments that helped sway Japan towards accepting unconditional surrender.
Between the expedition force in China and the Kwangtung Army the Japanese had well over 1,500,000 troops on mainland Asia prior to the Soviets declaring war on Japan.
The Allies did not know how big or small a role the Emperor had played with regard to Japan's aggression. That one condition was not one that would have ever been granted.