Seconded. I'm using it right now on my EEE 900HA. I'm using the Netbook remix, which I really like so far. It's the standard Ubuntu load, plus a netbook interface over the desktop. Looks cool too.
Yeah, the Marine Corps was looking to do this at least 10 years ago, but then it was a Marine Expeditionary Brigade (division-plus sized). They wanted to lift off an entire MEB and set it down anywhere in the world in something like 12 hours (the standing mission is to get a Marine Expeditionary Unit [regiment sized] anywhere in the world in 72 hours, by ship). I think it would probably cost the entire Navy's annual budget in liquid oxygen to lift off all those armored vehicles. A MEB has at least a company of tanks, with each one weighing 72 tons, which is just under the max weight for the highest capacity rocket in existence at the time. Then there's all the LAVs, Hummers (now MRAPs), etc. When I read their plan at the time, I thought, "How the hell do they plan on getting all that weight up, let alone back again?"
Since then, the plan has scaled down to a squad or thereabouts. For that size, I think it would end up being an Army or Navy SOF unit. The big hangup with previous plans had been extraction. Usually, the idea is they walk out or get a C-130 to land, neither of which are palatable to most decision makers. As you say, this could potentially solve that problem. It'll be exciting to see this develop.
The UK never bothered to deal with Sealand; it apparently didn't warrant the attention, bad publicity from a raid gone bad, or the time and money necessary to do anything about it. Harboring a wmd on a small rig just 6 miles off the shore of a major power like UK is just asking for trouble. The Royal Marines could take that thing over without even getting out of breath. It's essentially too small and too close to be defendable. As a former US Marine and senior intelligence analyst, that's my opinion anyway. YMMV.
If you just wanted to say you're the Supreme Dictator for Life of a small island nation, then go for it. But it's kind of pointless to make and sell passports that no one else recognizes. Pretty useless, really.
Yeah, TPB wanted to buy it, but Sealand was asking for a fortune. The glitch, aside from it being way too much money, is that you can't sell a nation. Besides, no one has recognized Sealand as a nation. A passport from them, which you can buy, wouldn't be worth the paper on which it was printed.
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Combine that with the exponential rise in atmospheric CO2 levels starting with the industrial revolution and the gradual average increase in Earth's temperature.
The climate has changed back and forth over the last few billion years. And it's been frozen over at least twice, as well as been much hotter. But we've never had over about 400 parts per million (ppm) CO2 levels, and they tend to rise and fall slowly, as in millions of years. We've gone from 250 to 387ppm this past century and are set to exceed 600 to 700ppm this coming century if we do nothing. The natural levels of CO2 are very tiny, and small increases have large effects. We're making HUGE increases in the CO2 levels and starting to see the effects.
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Yeah, overall I'd say it's a mixed bag. I was highly skeptical myself until recently when I started reading more about it. I wanted to see the evidence that the Earth was in fact warming. I wanted to see the evidence that said warming was Anthropogenic. And I wanted to see the evidence that this was going to be a bad thing if true. Most of what you see in the mainstream media is how we produce CO2, and how CO2 can heat the planet. But they don't link the two to show that the amount we produce does and has heated the planet and they don't talk specifically about how even a small increase can be disastrous other than a rise in ocean levels. I've read a few books on it, and I'm no longer skeptical and accept that we are causing a rise in temperature on Earth, and that this is generally very very bad.
Despite what this article says, Arctic ice has decreased significantly in recent years. Satellite imagery from as recent as 1979 shows enormously more ice than we see today.
He explained the spread of the Hush Puppy shoes by supposing it was started by a bunch of youths in New York City. He then concluded it was spread by viral marketing by such kids. Total circular logic with no evidence. Again, good book but it could have used a little more evidence to support its claims.
The only way France is getting power from nuclear fusion is by sitting out solar panels and collecting it from the sun. You're thinking of nuclear fission. Small difference.
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Seconded. I'm using it right now on my EEE 900HA. I'm using the Netbook remix, which I really like so far. It's the standard Ubuntu load, plus a netbook interface over the desktop. Looks cool too.
Yeah, the Marine Corps was looking to do this at least 10 years ago, but then it was a Marine Expeditionary Brigade (division-plus sized). They wanted to lift off an entire MEB and set it down anywhere in the world in something like 12 hours (the standing mission is to get a Marine Expeditionary Unit [regiment sized] anywhere in the world in 72 hours, by ship). I think it would probably cost the entire Navy's annual budget in liquid oxygen to lift off all those armored vehicles. A MEB has at least a company of tanks, with each one weighing 72 tons, which is just under the max weight for the highest capacity rocket in existence at the time. Then there's all the LAVs, Hummers (now MRAPs), etc. When I read their plan at the time, I thought, "How the hell do they plan on getting all that weight up, let alone back again?"
Since then, the plan has scaled down to a squad or thereabouts. For that size, I think it would end up being an Army or Navy SOF unit. The big hangup with previous plans had been extraction. Usually, the idea is they walk out or get a C-130 to land, neither of which are palatable to most decision makers. As you say, this could potentially solve that problem. It'll be exciting to see this develop.
Did you just refer to climate scientists as "the masses"? Wow.
The UK never bothered to deal with Sealand; it apparently didn't warrant the attention, bad publicity from a raid gone bad, or the time and money necessary to do anything about it. Harboring a wmd on a small rig just 6 miles off the shore of a major power like UK is just asking for trouble. The Royal Marines could take that thing over without even getting out of breath. It's essentially too small and too close to be defendable. As a former US Marine and senior intelligence analyst, that's my opinion anyway. YMMV.
If you just wanted to say you're the Supreme Dictator for Life of a small island nation, then go for it. But it's kind of pointless to make and sell passports that no one else recognizes. Pretty useless, really.
Yeah, TPB wanted to buy it, but Sealand was asking for a fortune. The glitch, aside from it being way too much money, is that you can't sell a nation. Besides, no one has recognized Sealand as a nation. A passport from them, which you can buy, wouldn't be worth the paper on which it was printed.
And I am an excellent thief. I have a 95% Hide In Shadows.
Combine that with the exponential rise in atmospheric CO2 levels starting with the industrial revolution and the gradual average increase in Earth's temperature.
The climate has changed back and forth over the last few billion years. And it's been frozen over at least twice, as well as been much hotter. But we've never had over about 400 parts per million (ppm) CO2 levels, and they tend to rise and fall slowly, as in millions of years. We've gone from 250 to 387ppm this past century and are set to exceed 600 to 700ppm this coming century if we do nothing. The natural levels of CO2 are very tiny, and small increases have large effects. We're making HUGE increases in the CO2 levels and starting to see the effects.
No. I stole something else.
Yeah, overall I'd say it's a mixed bag. I was highly skeptical myself until recently when I started reading more about it. I wanted to see the evidence that the Earth was in fact warming. I wanted to see the evidence that said warming was Anthropogenic. And I wanted to see the evidence that this was going to be a bad thing if true. Most of what you see in the mainstream media is how we produce CO2, and how CO2 can heat the planet. But they don't link the two to show that the amount we produce does and has heated the planet and they don't talk specifically about how even a small increase can be disastrous other than a rise in ocean levels. I've read a few books on it, and I'm no longer skeptical and accept that we are causing a rise in temperature on Earth, and that this is generally very very bad.
Despite what this article says, Arctic ice has decreased significantly in recent years. Satellite imagery from as recent as 1979 shows enormously more ice than we see today.
You mean besides the overwhelming majority of the world's climate scientists?
That's, "About what are we talking?". Your using English.
The summary? I don't even read the titles before I start posting.
Yeah, and my cat open all my documents and inserts mispellings into them. And takes one sock every time I do a load of laundry.
When I first saw it, Killer Orca's post did not appear at all. Now that I see it, of course, it makes a whole lot more sense.
Uh, that's exactly what he wrote.
Yeah, but imagine if this cut off TV AND backed up traffic. There'd be mobs with torches and pitchforks.
So it's like he's talking about, like, China, right? And , you know, the Chumby, right? Pretty long article. Right?
In Australia, the aborigines still have myths about creatures which actually lived there...40,000 years ago. Yes, myths can live on that long.
Yeah, but he lives in the White House.
a good place to commit crimes in public. Thanks, slashdot!
That tag, I don't think it means what you think it means.
Great book overall, but perhaps a little flawed.
He explained the spread of the Hush Puppy shoes by supposing it was started by a bunch of youths in New York City. He then concluded it was spread by viral marketing by such kids. Total circular logic with no evidence. Again, good book but it could have used a little more evidence to support its claims.
What the hell is this?
Don't know what BeOS is.
I'll move along now.
The only way France is getting power from nuclear fusion is by sitting out solar panels and collecting it from the sun. You're thinking of nuclear fission. Small difference.
In the intelligence community, we call it circular reporting, and it also predates the internet.