The US has no serious challengers on the military front. These weapons may be ancient and "outdated", but why subject ourselves to another round of fraudulent endless delays and cost overruns, and pork barrelling politics just to upgrade that which already works, and works EXTREMELY well, compared to what other countries have?
None of our enemies is in any position to threaten us. nor will they be for decades. if at all. Maintaing a lead is one thing. building a conveyor belt to load candy (in the form of tax revenues) straight into the defense contractors in this environment is ludicrous.
slamming a comet into mars with enough water to be useful would also likely bring enough atmospheric dust to be a nuisance for a period of time longer than it would take for the water to sublime, and molecules to be blown out of the upper atmosphere by the solar wind.
And WHY wasn't this post the FIRST POST of this whole discussion? It would have been a much more interesting discussion if more people besides just ME read it.
The other thing this plane was specifically designed to do was fly VERY long distances on small amounts of fuel, due to the special design of the engines, type of fuel, etc.
"normal" supersonic jets can go supersonic, but you're talking about going through half your total fuel supply in a matter of minutes. The SR-71 sustained these speeds for hours, over thousands of miles.
The newer F-22/F-23 generation of jets was supposed to have this new "supercruise mode" which allowed extended operation at supersonic speeds without such a heavy fuel penalty.
Unfortunately, it was another boondoggle for a defense contractor looking for big government handouts. Which they got anyway.
The other thing this plane was specifically designed to do was fly VERY long distances on small amounts of fuel, due to the special design of the engines, type of fuel, etc.
I've also read speculation that the E3 contained a "magnetic pulse" weapon, which may have been used to "discourage interception" by enemy fighters, and might have been a little TOO effective.
It will be disproportionately the young that will die in this war. Weakening the power of that political base, just like with Viet Nam (whose main purpose was to cull the Baby Boomers generation, which was diluting the more aged, conservative, corporate-sponsored power base in the US)
The deal is, the evil globalist conspiracy has been plotting for a way to get the US and China to war for decades now. Starting with Korea. When the US and China war, the outcome will be a much lower population (more elbow room to grow), and a strengthened economy (big corps selling lots of bombs).
The efforts have been stepped up in recent years with the Taiwan flap, missiles, National Missile Defense, Missile and Nuclear Weapons technology falling into Chinese hands (war won't do anyone any good if lots and lots of people aren't killed, we proved that with Iraq, we were so overwhelmingly superior, that we couldn't get a clean moral judgement out of a full-on victory, so we have this BS political stalemate. - so China has to have their technological force built up so they are a more even match for the US, to justify the US really thoroughly pounding the commies. this is the final battle, communism's last stand. After this, there will be nothing to stand in the way of global corporatism taking over the entire earth.
The spy plane flap is NOT about the pilots, or about whose fault it is. It's about the Chinese dragging this out long enough to get as many secrets out of that plane as possible.
If you believe that it's at all about figuring whose fault it is and getting an apology, then riddle me this;
why the fuck hasn't anyone looked at the flight recorders from BOTH planes, and figured out exactly who veered into whom?
anyone who has ever written anything, 'nuff said, right?
Now, what's described in this Osprey crash, that's definately a bug. The expected behavior was a reset - is the expected behavior of a reset to change the pitch of the rotor? Then the bug was in the TRAINING procedure that recommended hitting that button.
In the real world, bugs range from, mispelled words in dialog boxes, to crashes, to having an OK button two pixels too small. It's all a matter of the opinion of any single user of a peice of software, if a given feature "worked". Worked how? Fulfilled the expected requirements? In 99.999% of the cases out there, the requirements were not well enough defined. For that matter, when you THINK you've got them defined well enough, you start running into semantics issues that would make a lawyer drool. Marketing guy writes requirements, engineer interprets requirements. It's a beautiful world eh? You thought you were writing "Hello World", but now you've got to spit it out in 50 different languages on 10 different OS/Hardware platform combinations, and it's got to be able to notify SNMP and email the administrator if it was unable to do so. And you've got to be able to get it to print out Hello World in the correct language from a single mouse click, and for some languages it has to determine the time of day, and present the greeting as a "good morning, world" or "good evening, world".
Pretty soon you're talking about 200 pages of specs. ..
I kind of liked Enemy of the State, because the NSA had these sweaty hacker punks, who just did what they were told, and stayed out of the way of the political junk. Sure, the technical stuff was pure fantasy, and Wil Smith was, well, the black Keanu Reeves (only Wil's band sells records, whassup wit dat?). You could tell that these guys were probably ex-black-hat hackers that were caught, arrested, led into a room with "agent smith" and offered a job.
Mitnik was not a martyr because of what he did, but because of what the system did back to him, holding him without bail or trial for years. It was just plain unamerican how his rights were violated, even if he WAS a criminal.
Because many/.-er's could see their activities drawing the same sort of response, and their activites were "less criminal" - even read-only things, even "white hat hacking". And the situation on the government side continued to degrade. Now they prosecute you and put you to trial more quickly, but in the meantime they search without warrants, and confiscate equipment without returning it for extended periods of time, EVEN in cases of mistaken identity, or identity theft. I don't do ANY hacking at all, but I'm appalled at how hackers have been treated by the law. (except for that guy that wrote that virus in Singapore, he totally got off).
Personally, I got so sick of Charter Cable's outages and price hikes, I dumped them, went for Satelite TV DISH Network (MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCHO better signal quality), and DSL for internet services. (PacBell).
DSL was a pain in the ass to set up, 6 weeks of futzing back and forth, but once it was set up, I haven't had even a hiccup. Speeds are consistent, both down and up.
Plus, I don't have to deal with the pain of sending money to a monopoly I hate.
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Did we not kick Iraq's ass?
Get a grip.
The US has no serious challengers on the military front. These weapons may be ancient and "outdated", but why subject ourselves to another round of fraudulent endless delays and cost overruns, and pork barrelling politics just to upgrade that which already works, and works EXTREMELY well, compared to what other countries have?
None of our enemies is in any position to threaten us. nor will they be for decades. if at all. Maintaing a lead is one thing. building a conveyor belt to load candy (in the form of tax revenues) straight into the defense contractors in this environment is ludicrous.
slamming a comet into mars with enough water to be useful would also likely bring enough atmospheric dust to be a nuisance for a period of time longer than it would take for the water to sublime, and molecules to be blown out of the upper atmosphere by the solar wind.
well, if they did their presentation on power-point, maybe we need to be afraid. . .
well, seeing as how England is an ISLAND, it's more likely that they'll hit some water nearby.
Big ol splash. Could possibly give Bath a Bath.
from even earlier, remember Star Blazers? Remember the Gammalons?
Remember Planet Bombs?
Mir2 *is* a resume to Saddam. . .
See?
And WHY wasn't this post the FIRST POST of this whole discussion? It would have been a much more interesting discussion if more people besides just ME read it.
a mach 5 plane would be a sucker for a laser.
yeah, here we go;
mach 3+ for sufficiently large values of +.
The other thing this plane was specifically designed to do was fly VERY long distances on small amounts of fuel, due to the special design of the engines, type of fuel, etc.
"normal" supersonic jets can go supersonic, but you're talking about going through half your total fuel supply in a matter of minutes. The SR-71 sustained these speeds for hours, over thousands of miles.
The newer F-22/F-23 generation of jets was supposed to have this new "supercruise mode" which allowed extended operation at supersonic speeds without such a heavy fuel penalty.
Unfortunately, it was another boondoggle for a defense contractor looking for big government handouts. Which they got anyway.
mach 3+ for sufficiently large values of +.
The other thing this plane was specifically designed to do was fly VERY long distances on small amounts of fuel, due to the special design of the engines, type of fuel, etc.
The pegasus drops from a plane.
2 .j pg
So far, mostly a modified L-1011.
http://www.vafb.af.mil/image_gallery/Images/Peg
I've also read speculation that the E3 contained a "magnetic pulse" weapon, which may have been used to "discourage interception" by enemy fighters, and might have been a little TOO effective.
I almost forgot the other "side effect":
It will be disproportionately the young that will die in this war. Weakening the power of that political base, just like with Viet Nam (whose main purpose was to cull the Baby Boomers generation, which was diluting the more aged, conservative, corporate-sponsored power base in the US)
The deal is, the evil globalist conspiracy has been plotting for a way to get the US and China to war for decades now. Starting with Korea. When the US and China war, the outcome will be a much lower population (more elbow room to grow), and a strengthened economy (big corps selling lots of bombs).
The efforts have been stepped up in recent years with the Taiwan flap, missiles, National Missile Defense, Missile and Nuclear Weapons technology falling into Chinese hands (war won't do anyone any good if lots and lots of people aren't killed, we proved that with Iraq, we were so overwhelmingly superior, that we couldn't get a clean moral judgement out of a full-on victory, so we have this BS political stalemate. - so China has to have their technological force built up so they are a more even match for the US, to justify the US really thoroughly pounding the commies. this is the final battle, communism's last stand. After this, there will be nothing to stand in the way of global corporatism taking over the entire earth.
The spy plane flap is NOT about the pilots, or about whose fault it is. It's about the Chinese dragging this out long enough to get as many secrets out of that plane as possible.
If you believe that it's at all about figuring whose fault it is and getting an apology, then riddle me this;
why the fuck hasn't anyone looked at the flight recorders from BOTH planes, and figured out exactly who veered into whom?
I wuz speaking rhetorically to illustrate the point.
anyone who has ever written anything, 'nuff said, right?
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Now, what's described in this Osprey crash, that's definately a bug. The expected behavior was a reset - is the expected behavior of a reset to change the pitch of the rotor? Then the bug was in the TRAINING procedure that recommended hitting that button.
In the real world, bugs range from, mispelled words in dialog boxes, to crashes, to having an OK button two pixels too small. It's all a matter of the opinion of any single user of a peice of software, if a given feature "worked". Worked how? Fulfilled the expected requirements? In 99.999% of the cases out there, the requirements were not well enough defined. For that matter, when you THINK you've got them defined well enough, you start running into semantics issues that would make a lawyer drool. Marketing guy writes requirements, engineer interprets requirements. It's a beautiful world eh? You thought you were writing "Hello World", but now you've got to spit it out in 50 different languages on 10 different OS/Hardware platform combinations, and it's got to be able to notify SNMP and email the administrator if it was unable to do so. And you've got to be able to get it to print out Hello World in the correct language from a single mouse click, and for some languages it has to determine the time of day, and present the greeting as a "good morning, world" or "good evening, world".
Pretty soon you're talking about 200 pages of specs. .
I kind of liked Enemy of the State, because the NSA had these sweaty hacker punks, who just did what they were told, and stayed out of the way of the political junk. Sure, the technical stuff was pure fantasy, and Wil Smith was, well, the black Keanu Reeves (only Wil's band sells records, whassup wit dat?). You could tell that these guys were probably ex-black-hat hackers that were caught, arrested, led into a room with "agent smith" and offered a job.
actually, he didn't write the virus, the whole thing was just an applescript that launched Outlook and sent an email to the aliens' Exchange server.
"Goth" didn't even exist back then. I'm sure if it did, Matthew Broderick would have had black fingernail polish.
Mitnik was not a martyr because of what he did, but because of what the system did back to him, holding him without bail or trial for years. It was just plain unamerican how his rights were violated, even if he WAS a criminal.
/.-er's could see their activities drawing the same sort of response, and their activites were "less criminal" - even read-only things, even "white hat hacking". And the situation on the government side continued to degrade. Now they prosecute you and put you to trial more quickly, but in the meantime they search without warrants, and confiscate equipment without returning it for extended periods of time, EVEN in cases of mistaken identity, or identity theft. I don't do ANY hacking at all, but I'm appalled at how hackers have been treated by the law. (except for that guy that wrote that virus in Singapore, he totally got off).
Because many
yeah, nobody appreciated the "wierd things" back in the day. . .
mastrubation.
just like posting to slashdot.
that's not quite it. that would simply give a less than 1.0 IOR.
I wonder if POVRay will let me simulate a negative IOR? I wonder what that looks like? Time to whip out the gratuitous checkerboard floor!
No, Gore took California anyway, would have made no difference in the national outcome.
Personally, I got so sick of Charter Cable's outages and price hikes, I dumped them, went for Satelite TV DISH Network (MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCHO better signal quality), and DSL for internet services. (PacBell).
DSL was a pain in the ass to set up, 6 weeks of futzing back and forth, but once it was set up, I haven't had even a hiccup. Speeds are consistent, both down and up.
Plus, I don't have to deal with the pain of sending money to a monopoly I hate.