It was actually a recoilless rifle that was used, not a mortar. And the lethal radiation effects extended out to a radius of about a quarter mile, while the weapon had a range of something like one or two miles. They would have been wearing full NBC gear, so whatever did reach them would have been stopped, or at least reduced enough that they could have been treated. It was only deployed from 1961 to 1971, though, so through most of the Cold War, it would have been unavailable for use.
The final deployed version's yield seems to be in some dispute. Some sources claim the warhead's yield range for the Davy Crockett variant was selectable at 10 or 20 tons, while others maintain a range of 10 tons to 250 tons to even as high as 1.5kT. Given that the warhead was also used as a nuclear landmine and in the Genie air-to-air missile, I think a lot of cross-contamination of facts is getting in. However, given the above information that I've seen most consistently, I would think that anything more than the 250 tons would be pushing the chances for survival of the launch crew.
How did you find the two apart from the technicalities? I'm curious how Threads dealt with the human impact of a war, and what scale was used (for those that don't know, The Day After focused on one small Kansas town).
Thank you for throwing in the clarification on what element was involved. I haven't yet read TFA, but I was a little confused on the experimental existence of superfluidity, which I was sure had been done years ago.
EULA violations would come under contract law, which is a subset of civil law. All they have to meet (at least in the US) is preponderance of the evidence -- there is a greater than 50% likelihood that their version is correct -- and they win the case. Once they've presented their argument ("It's nearly impossible for the defendant to have walked away after inserting the media, only to have his cat press exactly the right series of keys to fully install the software"), it's then up to you to refute and show that this is more likely to have been the case.
A group of people angry over the presence of infidels on Saudi Arabian soil, close to Mecca and Medina, attacked us. The death of Iraqis in the embargo (which itself was largely due to the diversion of resources by Saddam Hussein, and not through 'attacks') was an after-thought that was thrown in to gain wider support in the Arab world. (Even factoring in the deaths during the Gulf War, military attacks likely did not cause more than about 25,000 deaths, military and civilian, and the civilian death count of 2300 may have been inflated by Iraq at the time.)
Afghanistan was attacked because the de facto leaders of that country refused to hand over those who planned and orchestrated the 9/11 attacks.
Your basic view that government should be hands-off is certainly valid, but please try to base the view on actual facts, and not on distortions or outright fallacies.
I still go back and watch the Terry Tate: Office Linebacker and some eTrade commercials every so often, years after they first aired, and there are a host of other commercials to which I actually look forward because of their creativity, such as ESPN's and some radio ads like those for Mitsubishi and Sit'n'Sleep (SoCal mattress retailer).
I have managed to annoy my former girlfriend in the middle of skipping past commercials on the DVR by stopping to watch if I see one that looks interesting. She considers them pointless, but I'm watching TV for entertainment, and if a commercial is entertaining, so much the better.
That $38 million is the box office take, which includes the cut that the theaters get. The actual amount that the studio got was significantly lower, and so there's a lot of ground to be made up on a DVD release. It would have to sell many millions of copies in order to fill in the gap.
44932. (a) No permanent employee shall be dismissed except for one or more of the following causes:...
(10) Knowing membership by the employee in the Communist Party.
I actually found this when I was reading the recent measure concerning teacher tenure, noting that it had not been struck out of the law.
I don't know about anyone specifically going to jail for being a Communist, but in California, no person can teach in a public school and be a member of the Communist Party. It is grounds for immediate dismissal.
Julius was later shown in released KGB documents to have been spying, though not to the degree believed by the US government. Ethel was probably framed.
I live in Southern California, with lots of freeways around. My last apartment was essentially right up against the 57 freeway, and on Sundya morning, I could hear several dozen Harleys go by (presumably a club that went riding every Sunday morning), but that was as a large group, and it wasn't ear-splitting. Other than that, I never heard bikes go by, and I know there had to be more than a few, because I saw them often while I was on the freeway.
Your experience is opposite mine. I have seen far more pocket rockets splitting lanes in traffic moving at reasonable speeds, and Harleys keeping pace with traffic. I've never heard of a motorcyclist throwing things at another vehicle, but if a driver is discourteous to a bike rider (of any make) it's not uncommon to have a mirror or hood slapped, which can be a real wake-up call. Sometimes this is because people aren't paying attention, and sometimes they actively move to block the bikers which is dangerous and illegal -- it's assault with a deadly weapon if you make contact knowingly.
And yes, owning a Harley does have a lot to do with image. I said that in the first post. The image that I have is of an independent group of people that can be incredibly generous to friends, family, and the underprivileged (such as the Love Rides, among other things). Some from outside that community see them as Hell's Angels, there to make everyone's lives miserable. It's hard to convince anyone from either side of that line of the other side's views.
Yes, putting a bike down so it goes ahead of you, instead of you ending up in front of it and possibly getting hit by it. Barring hitting something, the bike will likely continue to skid further than you will roll.
And yes, there are such things as unavoidable collisions. Just because you or the trainer have never been in one doesn't mean that they don't happen. Better in many instances to lay it down than to go over the handlebars.
Coming from a family that was around Harleys most of the time, it's not about performance. First of all, Harleys are, for the most part, cruisers. Sure, the local pocket-rocket can zip up to over 100mph in a few seconds, but that's both annoying to other drivers and often dangerous for the rider, many of whom seem to not have bothered learning basic skills and courtesies. I wonder how many of them can properly lay down a bike when a collision is unavoidable. (No, I can't, but then I've never spent much time on a motorcycle.)
Secondly, Harley riders (the classic ones, anyway -- some of the yuppies on them now don't count here) are looking for a certain style that stresses comfort and enjoying the ride over cutting down times to get places. The people I know on high-speed bikes can't tell you so much about the surroundings on their way to Vegas because they're busy watching for highway patrol and other dangers of excessive velocity. Meanwhile, the Harley riders, while probably a bit above the speed limit, have more opportunity to enjoy the scenery, and I think end up being more relaxed upon arrival.
To each his own, though. Whichever style you prefer is what will make you happy.
New York would want its use tax. California would have a weak claim for it at best. A few years ago, California charged $300 for out-of-state vehicles brought into the state when people moved here to compensate for the different smog equipment. It was declared an unconstitutional violation of the Interstate Commerce clause, because it was effectively levying a tax against an out-of-state purchase.
They're taxing your purchase of gasoline in Virginia, which is allowed. Your registration is based on where you claim the primary location of the car, which is a single state and so also allowed. My late uncle split his time between Oregon and Arizona, and had a car in each location. He paid registrations separately.
Just because it has some potentially useful features does not mean that the invasion of privacy is worth it. OnStar works just fine to notify someone that you've broken down, and it provides location without being on all the time, or providing this to law enforcement. AFAIK, it's only available in the US and Canada, but could be rolled out elsewhere.
If you could check her position, what are the chances that I could? If you have a car I want, I might be able to wait until it's at a mall parking lot during a heavy shopping season, and then disable the GPS and run it to a chop-shop. You're out a car and your privacy. Or maybe I wait until she's in a darker location. Then you're out a car, your privacy, and your wife.
Would you mind if plainclothes police officers followed you everywhere you went, for no particular reason than that you might commit a crime somewhere?
It's an extremely rare person who has never broken a law in his life. Never once jaywalked, went a mile/km an hour over the speed limit, passed on the right, changed lanes a little too soon after the last one, dropped a piece of paper and watched as it fluttered away out of reach...
If they police want to catch me doing something, then they can put eyes on me, not a GPS. If I see lights in my mirror, I'll pull over. If I see a government-sanctioned GPS on my car, then it will get blocked. It's their problem to figure out how -- especially since they'll need eyes on it to do so.
For that matter, cops will often look the other way on minor things. Someone going 5mph over the speed limit on the freeway is probably not going to get stopped. Someone parked just slightly outside of the lines is likely to get leeway. And if it was an honest mistake, the person might just get a warning instead of a citation. Automated systems do not allow for judgement calls that might take into account mitigating factors.
Cops have a rough life. One of my high school classmates is a cop. I grew up down the street from a SWAT officer, who had to retire after a leg wound from a gunfight with a suspect left him unable to run quickly enough. I admire what they do, and I defer to them. I don't argue the issue, and I treat them honestly and with respect. But that doesn't mean that I'm going to spill my entire life to them.
And hence it would be easily challenged and shot down in the courts. In the case mentioned, West Virginia would be charging for your activities in Virginia and DC, which is a violation of the Interstate Commerce clause.
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It was actually a recoilless rifle that was used, not a mortar. And the lethal radiation effects extended out to a radius of about a quarter mile, while the weapon had a range of something like one or two miles. They would have been wearing full NBC gear, so whatever did reach them would have been stopped, or at least reduced enough that they could have been treated. It was only deployed from 1961 to 1971, though, so through most of the Cold War, it would have been unavailable for use.
The final deployed version's yield seems to be in some dispute. Some sources claim the warhead's yield range for the Davy Crockett variant was selectable at 10 or 20 tons, while others maintain a range of 10 tons to 250 tons to even as high as 1.5kT. Given that the warhead was also used as a nuclear landmine and in the Genie air-to-air missile, I think a lot of cross-contamination of facts is getting in. However, given the above information that I've seen most consistently, I would think that anything more than the 250 tons would be pushing the chances for survival of the launch crew.
How did you find the two apart from the technicalities? I'm curious how Threads dealt with the human impact of a war, and what scale was used (for those that don't know, The Day After focused on one small Kansas town).
And you were completely wrong. It's a new exploit to a new vulnerability. It happens to be a similar to a past vulnerability, but it is not the same.
Read the following and understand:
This affects even a FULLY PATCHED system, including the patch to which you refer, which is MS05-053. This is not fixed by applying the MS05-053 patch.
The only workaround for it right now, even on a fully-patched system, is to unregister the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.
If you have any doubts about this, read this.
Maybe you're the one who should consider reading once in a while?
It's completely new. The WMF patch released before does not protect against this exploit.
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16074
...until she demands you put her back down.
Like in 'magazine'?
Thank you for throwing in the clarification on what element was involved. I haven't yet read TFA, but I was a little confused on the experimental existence of superfluidity, which I was sure had been done years ago.
EULA violations would come under contract law, which is a subset of civil law. All they have to meet (at least in the US) is preponderance of the evidence -- there is a greater than 50% likelihood that their version is correct -- and they win the case. Once they've presented their argument ("It's nearly impossible for the defendant to have walked away after inserting the media, only to have his cat press exactly the right series of keys to fully install the software"), it's then up to you to refute and show that this is more likely to have been the case.
Chances are that you would lose.
A group of people angry over the presence of infidels on Saudi Arabian soil, close to Mecca and Medina, attacked us. The death of Iraqis in the embargo (which itself was largely due to the diversion of resources by Saddam Hussein, and not through 'attacks') was an after-thought that was thrown in to gain wider support in the Arab world. (Even factoring in the deaths during the Gulf War, military attacks likely did not cause more than about 25,000 deaths, military and civilian, and the civilian death count of 2300 may have been inflated by Iraq at the time.)
Afghanistan was attacked because the de facto leaders of that country refused to hand over those who planned and orchestrated the 9/11 attacks.
Your basic view that government should be hands-off is certainly valid, but please try to base the view on actual facts, and not on distortions or outright fallacies.
I still go back and watch the Terry Tate: Office Linebacker and some eTrade commercials every so often, years after they first aired, and there are a host of other commercials to which I actually look forward because of their creativity, such as ESPN's and some radio ads like those for Mitsubishi and Sit'n'Sleep (SoCal mattress retailer).
I have managed to annoy my former girlfriend in the middle of skipping past commercials on the DVR by stopping to watch if I see one that looks interesting. She considers them pointless, but I'm watching TV for entertainment, and if a commercial is entertaining, so much the better.
That $38 million is the box office take, which includes the cut that the theaters get. The actual amount that the studio got was significantly lower, and so there's a lot of ground to be made up on a DVD release. It would have to sell many millions of copies in order to fill in the gap.
Lifted the bans on Mein Kampf and the Nazi Parties recently? I seem to have missed that.
Oh, wait... You didn't.
And you still persecute them, too, whereas the bans on membership in the Communist Party are rarely, if ever, enforced.
What was that about freedom of speech again?
Specifically, it's Section 49932(a)(10):
...
44932. (a) No permanent employee shall be dismissed except for one
or more of the following causes:
(10) Knowing membership by the employee in the Communist Party.
I actually found this when I was reading the recent measure concerning teacher tenure, noting that it had not been struck out of the law.
I don't know about anyone specifically going to jail for being a Communist, but in California, no person can teach in a public school and be a member of the Communist Party. It is grounds for immediate dismissal.
Julius was later shown in released KGB documents to have been spying, though not to the degree believed by the US government. Ethel was probably framed.
That's by default, if I understand it correctly. It will be available as an add-on.
I live in Southern California, with lots of freeways around. My last apartment was essentially right up against the 57 freeway, and on Sundya morning, I could hear several dozen Harleys go by (presumably a club that went riding every Sunday morning), but that was as a large group, and it wasn't ear-splitting. Other than that, I never heard bikes go by, and I know there had to be more than a few, because I saw them often while I was on the freeway.
Your experience is opposite mine. I have seen far more pocket rockets splitting lanes in traffic moving at reasonable speeds, and Harleys keeping pace with traffic. I've never heard of a motorcyclist throwing things at another vehicle, but if a driver is discourteous to a bike rider (of any make) it's not uncommon to have a mirror or hood slapped, which can be a real wake-up call. Sometimes this is because people aren't paying attention, and sometimes they actively move to block the bikers which is dangerous and illegal -- it's assault with a deadly weapon if you make contact knowingly.
And yes, owning a Harley does have a lot to do with image. I said that in the first post. The image that I have is of an independent group of people that can be incredibly generous to friends, family, and the underprivileged (such as the Love Rides, among other things). Some from outside that community see them as Hell's Angels, there to make everyone's lives miserable. It's hard to convince anyone from either side of that line of the other side's views.
Yes, putting a bike down so it goes ahead of you, instead of you ending up in front of it and possibly getting hit by it. Barring hitting something, the bike will likely continue to skid further than you will roll.
And yes, there are such things as unavoidable collisions. Just because you or the trainer have never been in one doesn't mean that they don't happen. Better in many instances to lay it down than to go over the handlebars.
Coming from a family that was around Harleys most of the time, it's not about performance. First of all, Harleys are, for the most part, cruisers. Sure, the local pocket-rocket can zip up to over 100mph in a few seconds, but that's both annoying to other drivers and often dangerous for the rider, many of whom seem to not have bothered learning basic skills and courtesies. I wonder how many of them can properly lay down a bike when a collision is unavoidable. (No, I can't, but then I've never spent much time on a motorcycle.)
Secondly, Harley riders (the classic ones, anyway -- some of the yuppies on them now don't count here) are looking for a certain style that stresses comfort and enjoying the ride over cutting down times to get places. The people I know on high-speed bikes can't tell you so much about the surroundings on their way to Vegas because they're busy watching for highway patrol and other dangers of excessive velocity. Meanwhile, the Harley riders, while probably a bit above the speed limit, have more opportunity to enjoy the scenery, and I think end up being more relaxed upon arrival.
To each his own, though. Whichever style you prefer is what will make you happy.
New York would want its use tax. California would have a weak claim for it at best. A few years ago, California charged $300 for out-of-state vehicles brought into the state when people moved here to compensate for the different smog equipment. It was declared an unconstitutional violation of the Interstate Commerce clause, because it was effectively levying a tax against an out-of-state purchase.
They're taxing your purchase of gasoline in Virginia, which is allowed. Your registration is based on where you claim the primary location of the car, which is a single state and so also allowed. My late uncle split his time between Oregon and Arizona, and had a car in each location. He paid registrations separately.
Just because it has some potentially useful features does not mean that the invasion of privacy is worth it. OnStar works just fine to notify someone that you've broken down, and it provides location without being on all the time, or providing this to law enforcement. AFAIK, it's only available in the US and Canada, but could be rolled out elsewhere.
If you could check her position, what are the chances that I could? If you have a car I want, I might be able to wait until it's at a mall parking lot during a heavy shopping season, and then disable the GPS and run it to a chop-shop. You're out a car and your privacy. Or maybe I wait until she's in a darker location. Then you're out a car, your privacy, and your wife.
Would you mind if plainclothes police officers followed you everywhere you went, for no particular reason than that you might commit a crime somewhere?
It's an extremely rare person who has never broken a law in his life. Never once jaywalked, went a mile/km an hour over the speed limit, passed on the right, changed lanes a little too soon after the last one, dropped a piece of paper and watched as it fluttered away out of reach...
If they police want to catch me doing something, then they can put eyes on me, not a GPS. If I see lights in my mirror, I'll pull over. If I see a government-sanctioned GPS on my car, then it will get blocked. It's their problem to figure out how -- especially since they'll need eyes on it to do so.
For that matter, cops will often look the other way on minor things. Someone going 5mph over the speed limit on the freeway is probably not going to get stopped. Someone parked just slightly outside of the lines is likely to get leeway. And if it was an honest mistake, the person might just get a warning instead of a citation. Automated systems do not allow for judgement calls that might take into account mitigating factors.
Cops have a rough life. One of my high school classmates is a cop. I grew up down the street from a SWAT officer, who had to retire after a leg wound from a gunfight with a suspect left him unable to run quickly enough. I admire what they do, and I defer to them. I don't argue the issue, and I treat them honestly and with respect. But that doesn't mean that I'm going to spill my entire life to them.
And hence it would be easily challenged and shot down in the courts. In the case mentioned, West Virginia would be charging for your activities in Virginia and DC, which is a violation of the Interstate Commerce clause.