We did build a city under the ocean well. It was called Rapture. Unfortunately things went horribly horribly wrong and we never again endeavored to build another.
Thanks to Wickard vs Filburn any activity you engage in that would cause you to NOT participate in interstate commerce is in effect affecting interstate commerce by you not being a prospective customer or supplier.
It's dumb as fucking rocks and examples like this are precisely the reason why the Interstate Commerce Clause and the General Welfare statement should not be wide open grants of power if a grant of power at all in the case of the General Welfare statement.
The technology isn't as impressive as it's made out to be. It's not as though you're introducing harsh turns but it's almost certainly going to still be gentle curving at best. That would be of a huge benefit because indirect fire on target is immensely more valuable than direct fire since you aren't exposing your troops to the enemy.
The article even admits that the bullet's accuracy increases as you get farther away from the target because more course corrections can occur. At 1,000m the accuracy was within 20cm. Unfortunately that's well beyond the 300m that infantry engagement occurs at. That's partially an accuracy issue but also just an evolution of the battlefield itself that has drawn combat away from open areas and into closed areas and narrow regions and having a tool like this is just going to encourage enemies to get into more crowded areas to mess up the line of sight for this technology. That's why I don't see this being a battlefield tool that greatly increase our armed forces efficiency because it requires long ranges in order to be effective. More or less I see it as improving overwatch or blocking sharpshooters more than anything else.
I can see a number of cool things you can do with a guided bullet at long ranges but I'm afraid a lot of my ideas would require multiple computer controlled lasers that switch on and off to guide a bullet around obstacles to hit a target. Those would probably be out of the realm of possibility for sniper-scout teams.
I am intrigued by your concept of zombie grass. Please write up a report on it and submit it to my desk before 3pm so that I may review it for further defense funding.
The training of a sniper is not just in shooting. The USMC Scout Sniper school has three areas of training. Marksmanship is the one that people most immediately associate with a sniper. Observation is the second area of training. Stalking is the third area. This laser guided bullet won't replace a sniper since all it does is replace the marksmanship factor of a sniper. That of course assumes that the system is no heavier than the equipment a scout-sniper team would already take with them and doesn't significantly increase their profile. Scout-snipers will still operate in 2 man teams behind enemy lines and such operatives are still going to have to be highly trained to accomplish the task and if anything, such a system would not want to be used by scout-snipers precisely because we wouldn't want that system to fall into enemy hands.
I don't believe this system is useful from a battlefield perspective. This seems more like a system the CIA would be interested in for usage in an urban environment.
And the guy had 6+con hit points as a 1st level commoner. So the bully has to have at least 4 points of strength over the kid to be able to kill him with a single stab unless he rolls a 19 or 20 on his attack roll and confirms the critical.
Optimization, of course, means to place the most desired items in the back of the store while making the easiest paths to reach it pass by high velocity items to encourage impulse buying.
My guess was that the Slashdot collective was going to have an anuerysm over deciding which side to pick. On one side of the ring you have despicable Republican Newt Gingrich. On the other side you have evil copyright.
Is a law degree required to become a judge? Not just that not having a law degree serves as an attack point and makes it unlikely for your to be elected/appointed but that it is a genuine requirement of the job? I think I have heard that you have to be a member of the bar to be a judge but you don't need to have a law degree to be admitted to the bar.
Just look at the supermarkets with the self-paying-lines. What I see here is that 1 person can handle 4 lines. That means higher productivity AND 3 others out of a job. All so you can save 2 cents on your frozen pizza that was made in another factory by 1 person pressing a button on a machine.
A single lane a grocery store would employee 2 people. The cashier and the bagger (though maybe a single bagger can handle multiple lines or the cashier can also bag). Self checkout lanes get rid of the cashier and the bagger for each lane and replace it with a single supervisor for problems for each lot of self-checkout lanes. So those 4 automated lanes is probably closer to 5-7 fewer employees depending on how many baggers would normally be employed.
EA doesn't care about you and neither does Microsoft. In fact, to Microsoft you're costing them money. You bought a loss-leader console from them. Since you buy used games, Microsoft doesn't see a $ of licensing revenue for the game you're playing.
Tiny Tower, while inspired by SimTower, definitely expands upon SimTower by adding in people management. SimTower was strictly a tower building sim. If Dream Height is identical to Tiny Tower in features and UI with the only difference being a difference in graphics this would be very much like the photo case from earlier. The question is whether the different graphics is sufficient enough to make it a true derivative work rather than creating a clone of the original work or basically does it satisfy the originality requirement.
It's the basic fundamental problem with intelligent people and crimes. They see what they have that they're not showing and what they're hiding. They fail to account for what they aren't showing with what they're showing.
For example, let's say you're using DNSCrypt to hide your DNS traffic on a port other than UDP 53 in response to a hypothetically passed SOPA. So what does this show? That shows nothing and that's the problem. They don't see your DNS traffic or what sites you're requesting addresses for. That nothing means that you're willfully skirting around using DNS servers that are known to be compliant with SOPA and that would warrant some closer scrutiny at what you're doing.
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So if he's an asshole that has every idea and thought you do would you also be an asshole?
We did build a city under the ocean well. It was called Rapture. Unfortunately things went horribly horribly wrong and we never again endeavored to build another.
It truly is.
It was. If it wasn't for Richard Nixon we would have never had Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Thanks to Wickard vs Filburn any activity you engage in that would cause you to NOT participate in interstate commerce is in effect affecting interstate commerce by you not being a prospective customer or supplier.
It's dumb as fucking rocks and examples like this are precisely the reason why the Interstate Commerce Clause and the General Welfare statement should not be wide open grants of power if a grant of power at all in the case of the General Welfare statement.
The technology isn't as impressive as it's made out to be. It's not as though you're introducing harsh turns but it's almost certainly going to still be gentle curving at best. That would be of a huge benefit because indirect fire on target is immensely more valuable than direct fire since you aren't exposing your troops to the enemy.
The article even admits that the bullet's accuracy increases as you get farther away from the target because more course corrections can occur. At 1,000m the accuracy was within 20cm. Unfortunately that's well beyond the 300m that infantry engagement occurs at. That's partially an accuracy issue but also just an evolution of the battlefield itself that has drawn combat away from open areas and into closed areas and narrow regions and having a tool like this is just going to encourage enemies to get into more crowded areas to mess up the line of sight for this technology. That's why I don't see this being a battlefield tool that greatly increase our armed forces efficiency because it requires long ranges in order to be effective. More or less I see it as improving overwatch or blocking sharpshooters more than anything else.
I can see a number of cool things you can do with a guided bullet at long ranges but I'm afraid a lot of my ideas would require multiple computer controlled lasers that switch on and off to guide a bullet around obstacles to hit a target. Those would probably be out of the realm of possibility for sniper-scout teams.
I am intrigued by your concept of zombie grass. Please write up a report on it and submit it to my desk before 3pm so that I may review it for further defense funding.
I want a DPS meter addon for wikipedia.
The training of a sniper is not just in shooting. The USMC Scout Sniper school has three areas of training. Marksmanship is the one that people most immediately associate with a sniper. Observation is the second area of training. Stalking is the third area. This laser guided bullet won't replace a sniper since all it does is replace the marksmanship factor of a sniper. That of course assumes that the system is no heavier than the equipment a scout-sniper team would already take with them and doesn't significantly increase their profile. Scout-snipers will still operate in 2 man teams behind enemy lines and such operatives are still going to have to be highly trained to accomplish the task and if anything, such a system would not want to be used by scout-snipers precisely because we wouldn't want that system to fall into enemy hands.
I don't believe this system is useful from a battlefield perspective. This seems more like a system the CIA would be interested in for usage in an urban environment.
And the guy had 6+con hit points as a 1st level commoner. So the bully has to have at least 4 points of strength over the kid to be able to kill him with a single stab unless he rolls a 19 or 20 on his attack roll and confirms the critical.
Optimization, of course, means to place the most desired items in the back of the store while making the easiest paths to reach it pass by high velocity items to encourage impulse buying.
It's not as though tramp stamps are hard to spot. They're usually displayed. Inadvertently but displayed none the less.
MOAB is a nickname. The current MOAB would just be called by a new nickname or it's real name and the new bomb would be the new MOAB.
It's Cuban territory leased to the United States, just like all military bases.
My guess was that the Slashdot collective was going to have an anuerysm over deciding which side to pick. On one side of the ring you have despicable Republican Newt Gingrich. On the other side you have evil copyright.
Is a law degree required to become a judge? Not just that not having a law degree serves as an attack point and makes it unlikely for your to be elected/appointed but that it is a genuine requirement of the job? I think I have heard that you have to be a member of the bar to be a judge but you don't need to have a law degree to be admitted to the bar.
Just look at the supermarkets with the self-paying-lines. What I see here is that 1 person can handle 4 lines. That means higher productivity AND 3 others out of a job. All so you can save 2 cents on your frozen pizza that was made in another factory by 1 person pressing a button on a machine.
A single lane a grocery store would employee 2 people. The cashier and the bagger (though maybe a single bagger can handle multiple lines or the cashier can also bag). Self checkout lanes get rid of the cashier and the bagger for each lane and replace it with a single supervisor for problems for each lot of self-checkout lanes. So those 4 automated lanes is probably closer to 5-7 fewer employees depending on how many baggers would normally be employed.
Ah yes, like Apollo 18.
JFK acting on behalf of NASA was the second shooter on the grassy knoll.
EA doesn't care about you and neither does Microsoft. In fact, to Microsoft you're costing them money. You bought a loss-leader console from them. Since you buy used games, Microsoft doesn't see a $ of licensing revenue for the game you're playing.
Why do cops pull you over now? You committed a moving violation.
Why would a cop need to pull over an autonomous vehicle? Is there going to be a "break the law" mode on an autonomous vehicle?
Tiny Tower, while inspired by SimTower, definitely expands upon SimTower by adding in people management. SimTower was strictly a tower building sim. If Dream Height is identical to Tiny Tower in features and UI with the only difference being a difference in graphics this would be very much like the photo case from earlier. The question is whether the different graphics is sufficient enough to make it a true derivative work rather than creating a clone of the original work or basically does it satisfy the originality requirement.
I prefer the pushing over the tower photos.
What's strange is that Indiana requires a photo ID and it's fine and dandy.
South Carolina requires it and the US Justice Department strikes it down.
It's the basic fundamental problem with intelligent people and crimes. They see what they have that they're not showing and what they're hiding. They fail to account for what they aren't showing with what they're showing.
For example, let's say you're using DNSCrypt to hide your DNS traffic on a port other than UDP 53 in response to a hypothetically passed SOPA. So what does this show? That shows nothing and that's the problem. They don't see your DNS traffic or what sites you're requesting addresses for. That nothing means that you're willfully skirting around using DNS servers that are known to be compliant with SOPA and that would warrant some closer scrutiny at what you're doing.