Strap a bomb onto their chest - I'm not sure that would be physically possible for anyone. But stick a bomb onto a boat which is already experienced in dodging South Korean customs (lieing to the crew about their impending death, of course) and sail it into the harbour of a major SK city before someone detonates it - that's thoroughly do-able. If the term "threat footprint" has a precise meaning, I don't know what it is, but I think that's a non-trivial "threat footprint" to me. The requirements are (1) a nuke, of shipping container size or smaller (2) someone to trigger it and make sure that it's not investigated by any of the smuggling assets you dupe into moving it. Routing I would guess to be DPRK to some Chinese port, then some obfuscation, then a Chinese port to South Korea. Boom on arrival.
Yields suggested for the DPRK's weapons are in the 5-10kt range. So the wrecking of a district of Halifax Nova Scotia by a World War 1 conventional explosion If you did that in the right parts of Incheon or Seoul harbours, you might be able to get the body count up to a million.
Good luck with that optimism. You're going to need it more than I need a lobotomy. (Not, of course, that lobotomy has ever been considered appropriate treatment for what you seem to be alleging is wrong with me.
I wonder if that project in DPRK is looming back into view again. I was so pissed off when the politicians got in the fucking way last time there was talk of it.
Incidentally, there's fundamentally nothing to prevent the same strategy being used to deliver a nuke to New York, Houston, San Francisco, or Los Angeles. In fact, hitting all of those targets in the same event would be an obvious thing to do. As the September-11th people amply demonstrated. A lot more organisation though.
At the time in the 1940s that the US didn't have much in the way of computers (because they basically didn't exist) and did have serious science to do which they didn't need to do in the 1930s, they were doing the atom bomb. Which was before the sweeping up of scientists from Germany at the end of the war.
A wife doesn't ask her husband if he's had a vasectomy, she already knows because he did it some time *after* they got married.
Not necessarily. I had my vasectomy almost a decade before I ever travelled to the country where I met my wife.
So the wife, after getting her husband to get the snip so she doesn't have to worry about having another kid they don't want, now no longer wants to screw him
People change. What proportion of marriages last more than a couple of decades these days? Nearly half (though that varies considerably by country).
Nope, that's manning up. What are you going to do? Trade in the "full" wife for an empty one, spurt off a handful more of kids, dumping the previous ones on minimum, grudging income and 2 days a year contact?
What makes her think that she's got a say in your fertility? After all, it's been a cry since the Pill became available that women "want control of their own bodies." So, don't men deserve the same right?
If she's interfering with your body, shouldn't she be apologising for imposing her opinions on you.
I told the wife that I was sterilised without issue before we started going out. She has never had the option of having a baby by me. And she has never even tried to persuade me differently.
Surely, by the time they get to the point of asking if the man has been vasectomised, she's already pretty much decided that she wants to have sex with the guy.
If they haven't already had the "do you want children?" conversation, they're setting themselves up for a trainwreck anyway.
I was told that they'd give you a second operation in the event of failure. But they also stressed that this would ONLY be in response to their test tube tests failing, not to a pregnancy ; a pregnancy would be taken as evidence that you hadn't been continuing to use contraception as instructed until the test tube tests were passed.
It might sound utterly impossible to you. But you're wrong.
It is MUCH less common since the addition of ligaturing and/ or cauterisation (burning) to the procedure as well as the "snip", but it's still not unknown.
It was certainly on the market. It was a matter of discussion between me and my doctor when I was in for my ball-docking. He thought that - because I had no children - I might appreciate having the option to turn my balls back on. I rejected the offer then, and rejected the offer to stop after docking one ball. "Sterilised without issue" would be carved on my gravestone - if I were to have a gravestone (undecided as yet).
Hmm...a bit Orwellian, but...
.the world would be such a better place if parents had to make even a token sacrifice before they could conceive,
I know that we don't know enough to make a rational decision about who to allow to reproduce... so I'd just go for a modified flu virus with a 50% probability of sterility and otherwise low symptoms. So you can drop the fertility rate to 30% or so with random drop outs afterwards. That should sort out the population problem in a century or so. Whether that would be quick enough is a moot point.
I've gone through FAR too much trouble to block and disable all forms of internet videos.
If TFA doesn't have text, I don't give a crap.
and the comical thing is, someone will accuce you of being a Neanderthal or a Luddite. Do they think a Neanderthal or even a Luddite would be able to block video on an off-the-shelf configuration of a computer?
I don't recall much of a stigma for single guys, but the 'spinster' image for women is all too alive, I'm afraid
So, you're arguing for polygyny? Suits me. Take the women who want babies and a husband off the market so the rest of us can concentrate on our sex lives.
I call BS. I don't sleep (and I mean actual sleep, not sex) with my friends, and that's one of the best parts about a relationship.
Speak for yourself. After 10 years of marriage, I still find having someone else in the bed to be very uncomfortable. They move around (disturbing you), make noises (disturbing you). Apart from the sex, sharing a bed is a real pain in the bed.
From what he says, he could perfectly well be a vet. Or a farmer - I doubt that it's illegal to do a vasectomy on your own animals. It's not like they need to consent, is it?
I concur with DMR001 : when I had my balls deactivated there was definitely a hissing sound and smell of singeing flesh TWICE before the doctor asked if I was really sure and wanted him to do the other side. Then incisions, fishing, clamping (which takes some force to crush the vasa deferens - more force than most people expect. The sound effects are unmissable. Strangely, I've never heard it used in the movies.) and a repeat performance on the right ball.
Both ends of the cut cauterised. No drainage provisions. Basically, the milligrammes of semen get re-sorbed. I would guess probably by being eaten by macrophages. Really, your wouldn't want the dangerous little things around floating around uncontrolled. That's the whole point of getting your balls docked.
If you do bring it, don't plug it into the network.
If it doesn't have an ethernet socket and needs a wifi connection, you need to contact IT with it's MAC address and your written authorisation from your line manager instructing IT to provide you with connectivity. The IT will probably tell you or your manager to fuck off.
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I thought that the OpenBSD guys used a battlefield nuke to wipe the contents of the safe on the second password error.
Yields suggested for the DPRK's weapons are in the 5-10kt range. So the wrecking of a district of Halifax Nova Scotia by a World War 1 conventional explosion If you did that in the right parts of Incheon or Seoul harbours, you might be able to get the body count up to a million.
Good luck with that optimism. You're going to need it more than I need a lobotomy. (Not, of course, that lobotomy has ever been considered appropriate treatment for what you seem to be alleging is wrong with me.
I wonder if that project in DPRK is looming back into view again. I was so pissed off when the politicians got in the fucking way last time there was talk of it.
Incidentally, there's fundamentally nothing to prevent the same strategy being used to deliver a nuke to New York, Houston, San Francisco, or Los Angeles. In fact, hitting all of those targets in the same event would be an obvious thing to do. As the September-11th people amply demonstrated. A lot more organisation though.
Space suit? who mentioned a spacesuit.
Leak checks are an unnecessary expense. And probably a way for the unions to try to get into the space industry too.
Oxygen? He generates his own "oxygen of publicity".
So the request should be repeated but saying "veterinary" in place of "medical"?
I'd leave the vice.com links in the cess pit if I were you. They'll make your papers damp and your spliff taste funny.
At the time in the 1940s that the US didn't have much in the way of computers (because they basically didn't exist) and did have serious science to do which they didn't need to do in the 1930s, they were doing the atom bomb. Which was before the sweeping up of scientists from Germany at the end of the war.
[SHRUG] From what I hear, having a kid is a pretty effective anti-sex tool as well.
Not necessarily. I had my vasectomy almost a decade before I ever travelled to the country where I met my wife.
People change. What proportion of marriages last more than a couple of decades these days? Nearly half (though that varies considerably by country).
Macho bullshit.
If she's interfering with your body, shouldn't she be apologising for imposing her opinions on you.
I told the wife that I was sterilised without issue before we started going out. She has never had the option of having a baby by me. And she has never even tried to persuade me differently.
If they haven't already had the "do you want children?" conversation, they're setting themselves up for a trainwreck anyway.
I was told that they'd give you a second operation in the event of failure. But they also stressed that this would ONLY be in response to their test tube tests failing, not to a pregnancy ; a pregnancy would be taken as evidence that you hadn't been continuing to use contraception as instructed until the test tube tests were passed.
It is MUCH less common since the addition of ligaturing and/ or cauterisation (burning) to the procedure as well as the "snip", but it's still not unknown.
Sorry, we're talking about kids. Some might thank you shortly before you die.
It was certainly on the market. It was a matter of discussion between me and my doctor when I was in for my ball-docking. He thought that - because I had no children - I might appreciate having the option to turn my balls back on. I rejected the offer then, and rejected the offer to stop after docking one ball. "Sterilised without issue" would be carved on my gravestone - if I were to have a gravestone (undecided as yet).
I know that we don't know enough to make a rational decision about who to allow to reproduce ... so I'd just go for a modified flu virus with a 50% probability of sterility and otherwise low symptoms. So you can drop the fertility rate to 30% or so with random drop outs afterwards. That should sort out the population problem in a century or so. Whether that would be quick enough is a moot point.
OK. That does it. Anal only from here on in.
and the comical thing is, someone will accuce you of being a Neanderthal or a Luddite. Do they think a Neanderthal or even a Luddite would be able to block video on an off-the-shelf configuration of a computer?
Then perhaps NOT ASKING THE QUESTION would have been a good idea?
I'll try to underline the whole morass that is spreading your way "Circumspice."[ref 85]
So, you're arguing for polygyny? Suits me. Take the women who want babies and a husband off the market so the rest of us can concentrate on our sex lives.
Or they're brought for a joke.
Speak for yourself. After 10 years of marriage, I still find having someone else in the bed to be very uncomfortable. They move around (disturbing you), make noises (disturbing you). Apart from the sex, sharing a bed is a real pain in the bed.
From what he says, he could perfectly well be a vet. Or a farmer - I doubt that it's illegal to do a vasectomy on your own animals. It's not like they need to consent, is it?
Both ends of the cut cauterised. No drainage provisions. Basically, the milligrammes of semen get re-sorbed. I would guess probably by being eaten by macrophages. Really, your wouldn't want the dangerous little things around floating around uncontrolled. That's the whole point of getting your balls docked.
Yes. It's DONT.
If you do bring it, don't plug it into the network.
If it doesn't have an ethernet socket and needs a wifi connection, you need to contact IT with it's MAC address and your written authorisation from your line manager instructing IT to provide you with connectivity. The IT will probably tell you or your manager to fuck off.