No because the star was manufactured from said life-forms. It's thus filed under "recycling existing material" which only requires forms RX-2291 and KILL-101.
Short- and medium-range nukes use cruise missiles which are video-guided and don't rely solely on GPS, and their ICBMs don't use guidance past a certain point on descent. This is the first time I've ever heard of anyone relying solely on GPS and I'm shocked by it. After the first Libya war (not the recent one) where US fighter-bombers ended up sometimes going to the wrong side of the country due to crappy data (and, later, performed a wonderful air-show over the wrong airport in Britain for exactly the same reason), I'd have thought the US would have learned to never have single points of failure on military guidance. It's EXTREMELY bad practice.
Yes, but recycling as firelighters is awaiting fire safety board approval, so for now an exemption certificate has been authorized, signed and posted on Alpha Centuri.
Abuse is abuse is abuse, whether you think the abuse is acceptable or not. If abuse turns out to be "justifiable", it's still abuse. Doesn't change what it is. Only a fool blinds themselves to the reality of what they do in order to excuse it.
The difference between that which IS truly justified and that which is merely excused by the abuser is that the former isn't done under pretense, is fairly and honestly open to scrutiny and is decided by someone OTHER than the abuser. The latter, your kind, is a pathetic attempt to justify that which is wrong by pointing to that which has vague similarities only if you don't actually bother looking at it. You might notice that those who follow the former path make no bones about being "Grey Hats" or sometimes even "Black Hats". They NEVER claim to be "White Hats", as you do.
True justification for abuse is rare, far far rarer than you imagine - or, at least, want the rest of us to imagine. Your drivel either demonstrates a mental incapacity to understand the difference between ethical misuse and unethical misuse, or the desire to present yourself as a raving lunatic. Hard to tell. Either way, you're mad.
One small correction -- at least one of the assassinated scientists turned out to be a theoretical quantum mechanics lecturer with no skills or knowledge applicable to the type of nuclear science relating to weapons technology. So basically they're not killing nuke scientists, they're killing scientists in the hopes of killing nuke scientists.
You've also got to consider that both Russia and the EU have GPS-like systems in orbit. Neither are anything like complete, but both work to a higher time resolution than GPS and combining the data - even at this very early stage - could boost the resolution that Iran could work to even without ionospheric compensation.
Inertial systems wouldn't need to be 100% accurate. These drones have cameras, so all you need is a shared secret that can be painted at short notice. Cruise missiles have used image-based aiming for far longer than GPS has existed, so the US is perfectly capable of image-based retrieval.
Having said that, the US also produces 3-directional magnetic sensors. Get the drone in roughly the right area then turn on even a weak electromagnet and the drone can use that as a VOR substitute.
In short, there's no shortage of options. The technology is mostly old-hat and been used the same way in other systems for decades. The shortage is in the imagination. US military thinkers, as Iraq and Afghanistan repeatedly show, aren't very bright or imaginative. They make the same mistakes repeatedly, fall for the same traps with an incredibly tedious monotony, and are blatantly incapable of an original thought.
They removed the artificial jitter some time in Clinton's era and made all units of theoretical equal resolution. The ionospheric correction is not artificial error but rather advanced compensation, which is presumably not much more than DSP data. That data will change almost continuously and depend heavily on space weather, BUT knowing the data format, the nature of the corrections, and the correlation between the data and publicly-available space weather data MIGHT allow Iran to build their own compensation system. It wouldn't have the same quality, but if you can point a missile with a 5' error of margin rather than a 10' error of margin, that's going to make a difference in any battlefield scenario.
Ummm, these are the same guys that broadcast unencrypted video from these same drones. If the drones actually had encryption hardware, don't you think they'd be using it everywhere? Ergo, they're not using military-grade GPS (which doesn't really have much meaning ever since they shut down the jitter they added for civilian systems making them equal in resolution to military systems).
Iraq is a suburb of Iran, thanks to an ill-advised, expensive, badly-planned and utterly botched invasion that rivals only Operation Market Garden in the degree of utter failure.
Halting would be one thing, but the reality is that the CIA started off trying to prevent Iran restarting a nuclear weapons program that had already been halted, then it moved to trying to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons in a couple of decades that it would not likely be able to ever deliver. It is now trying to stop Iran having deliverable nuclear weapons in two years.
The assassinations, sabotage of equipment and virus infestations have led to a massive increase in Iran's investment and a net acceleration of the program.
As halting goes, this is a total, unmitigated disaster beyond all possible imagining. Doing absolutely nothing at the start would have been sounder policy, based on data available. Doing bugger all once the program had started would still have given us ten years WE DON'T HAVE ANYMORE.
Whatever lunatic thought up the program needs their head examined because this is the kind of absolute failure of intelligence (and wits) plus absolute failure of strategy that has led to the US spending $1tn on achieving bugger all in the Middle East this past decade. $1tn we taxpayers have to fork up. $1tn we don't have, won't have and will never have because we're going to now be pulled into another $1tn disaster. WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY ANYMORE, EITHER!
Doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity, and by that standard half of CIA HQ should be locked up in a padded cell. This is inexcusable stupidity beyond all comprehension.
Not sure how many resins can survive the extremes of space. Extreme temperature shifts, extreme radiation, extreme impacts by the occasional solar flare, extreme manoevers to avoid space junk, and extreme singing by drunken Russian cosmonauts any time the smuggle vodka on board.
No matter what you ask for, it keeps giving this strange liquid that tastes almost entirely unlike tea. Trying to explain the concept to it, but it's requested the aid of Eddie and all systems have shut down. Just as a Vogon constructor fleet is attacking. Damn.
Getting the prototype running is trivial. Getting the prototype running to the point of producing space-grade materials --- that's something else altogether. This is something that is often forgotten. Space-grade materials are bloody expensive to make. They're not the parts you buy at your local DIY store. They have to survive extreme temperature variations and high radiation levels* for prolonged periods without any deformation or degradation. It's one thing to move the astronauts during a solar flare, but you can't play dodgems with the ISS, so all components have to be able to survive that as well. The pressure difference between the interior and exterior is not trivial, so any part that is critical in keeping the structure intact has to be able to cope with that.
*It's not enough for the material to seem intact. For temperature changes, the slightest imperfection will inevitably lead to fractures forming. Imperfections can mean incorrect ratios of isotopes of the same element or contaminant elements beyond acceptable thresholds. If something has to be ultra-pure, and a fair amount does, then you're talking an upper limit of 0.00001% undesirable contamination. For radiation, some molecules won't hold up to it. Yes, there's also the transmutation of elements from high energy particles - it's often used to determine how long minerals are exposed to the surface on Earth - but the ISS is unlikely to last long enough for this to even be noticeable. Contaminants, metal fatigue (remember DeHavilland's Comet aircraft?), even miniscule fractures (remember Challenger?) are all far more significant -- and extremely deadly -- problems in space.
There isn't any way to make a 3D printer (yet) that builds space-grade components. Simple as that. There may be, some day, but that day isn't today.
I think Microsoft might want to reconsider the order. Having a country filled with the deadliest snakes and spiders in the world be the alpha testers is NOT a smart move. Worse, Paul Hogan and Rolf Harris might release a celebrity protest song.
The courts often defer to the patent office, the patent office always defers to the courts. The average inventor hasn't the funding to file for relief via either. Microsoft isn't currently building a car, nor are RIM or Oracle. That limits who is going to do the shooting.
Yes, the OWS does offer solutions. Individuals might not, but I repeat, the OWS isn't something you can deconstruct. Your reply solely concerns itself with the deconstructionalist view of the OWS, which means nothing as you can't split a proton and expect the resulting quarks to have the chemistry of the whole. The OWS is classless and ideology-less, by means of being constructive, inclusive and (if anything) far too open to discussion. That is constructionalist.
The Tea Party offers nothing, it has BLOCKED everything it can (including stuff it agrees with) and it FORBIDS discussion. That is destructive. By being class-based and ideologically pure, it is also being deconstructionalist.
No, your ability to hold a position of authority or an office in government does NOT result from you volunteering. Neither the Civil Service nor the Elected Service work that way and you know that full well by being there.
Every 2 years, we have non-stop campaigning and in the in-between years the elected officials are busy propping up their support networks. That isn't functional. That certainly isn't democracy. It's somewhere between an ogliarchy and anarchy. It's crass, it's degenerate and it's often not the ones found lacking who get replaced. Being right rarely makes you popular, being popular rarely makes you right.
For the rest of you, I'd like to point to the post I'm replying to as an example of Rational, Intelligent, Conservative debating - for the most part. Not sure about the last sentence, but the rest of it is extremely admirable. The statement of facts, the statement of what is personal bias and what is not, a clear, non-inflammatory perspective.
I don't agree with everything said. Any degree of assumption that humans are the exclusive holders of rights troubles me. You can eliminate the entire "when is a person human" argument by eliminating the requirement that it matters in the first place. No foundation, nothing built on it. I'm also suspect of any argument that says X should be exempt from rules applying to Y when X and Y are functionally identical. I have no objection to logical rules based on logical classifications, but I can see no logic to grouping by implementation of a transport mechanism for the purpose of "safeguarding" viewers when the viewers are probably the last people to know - or even care - what transport mechanism is in use. Content control is entirely valid, but it should be on something a bit more logical.
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No because the star was manufactured from said life-forms. It's thus filed under "recycling existing material" which only requires forms RX-2291 and KILL-101.
Short- and medium-range nukes use cruise missiles which are video-guided and don't rely solely on GPS, and their ICBMs don't use guidance past a certain point on descent. This is the first time I've ever heard of anyone relying solely on GPS and I'm shocked by it. After the first Libya war (not the recent one) where US fighter-bombers ended up sometimes going to the wrong side of the country due to crappy data (and, later, performed a wonderful air-show over the wrong airport in Britain for exactly the same reason), I'd have thought the US would have learned to never have single points of failure on military guidance. It's EXTREMELY bad practice.
Oh, and the guy who modded me down because they disagreed (rather than it being flamebait) is still abusing the mod system.
Yes, but recycling as firelighters is awaiting fire safety board approval, so for now an exemption certificate has been authorized, signed and posted on Alpha Centuri.
Abuse is abuse is abuse, whether you think the abuse is acceptable or not. If abuse turns out to be "justifiable", it's still abuse. Doesn't change what it is. Only a fool blinds themselves to the reality of what they do in order to excuse it.
The difference between that which IS truly justified and that which is merely excused by the abuser is that the former isn't done under pretense, is fairly and honestly open to scrutiny and is decided by someone OTHER than the abuser. The latter, your kind, is a pathetic attempt to justify that which is wrong by pointing to that which has vague similarities only if you don't actually bother looking at it. You might notice that those who follow the former path make no bones about being "Grey Hats" or sometimes even "Black Hats". They NEVER claim to be "White Hats", as you do.
True justification for abuse is rare, far far rarer than you imagine - or, at least, want the rest of us to imagine. Your drivel either demonstrates a mental incapacity to understand the difference between ethical misuse and unethical misuse, or the desire to present yourself as a raving lunatic. Hard to tell. Either way, you're mad.
One small correction -- at least one of the assassinated scientists turned out to be a theoretical quantum mechanics lecturer with no skills or knowledge applicable to the type of nuclear science relating to weapons technology. So basically they're not killing nuke scientists, they're killing scientists in the hopes of killing nuke scientists.
The Indians? Possibly.
You've also got to consider that both Russia and the EU have GPS-like systems in orbit. Neither are anything like complete, but both work to a higher time resolution than GPS and combining the data - even at this very early stage - could boost the resolution that Iran could work to even without ionospheric compensation.
Inertial systems wouldn't need to be 100% accurate. These drones have cameras, so all you need is a shared secret that can be painted at short notice. Cruise missiles have used image-based aiming for far longer than GPS has existed, so the US is perfectly capable of image-based retrieval.
Having said that, the US also produces 3-directional magnetic sensors. Get the drone in roughly the right area then turn on even a weak electromagnet and the drone can use that as a VOR substitute.
In short, there's no shortage of options. The technology is mostly old-hat and been used the same way in other systems for decades. The shortage is in the imagination. US military thinkers, as Iraq and Afghanistan repeatedly show, aren't very bright or imaginative. They make the same mistakes repeatedly, fall for the same traps with an incredibly tedious monotony, and are blatantly incapable of an original thought.
They removed the artificial jitter some time in Clinton's era and made all units of theoretical equal resolution. The ionospheric correction is not artificial error but rather advanced compensation, which is presumably not much more than DSP data. That data will change almost continuously and depend heavily on space weather, BUT knowing the data format, the nature of the corrections, and the correlation between the data and publicly-available space weather data MIGHT allow Iran to build their own compensation system. It wouldn't have the same quality, but if you can point a missile with a 5' error of margin rather than a 10' error of margin, that's going to make a difference in any battlefield scenario.
Ummm, these are the same guys that broadcast unencrypted video from these same drones. If the drones actually had encryption hardware, don't you think they'd be using it everywhere? Ergo, they're not using military-grade GPS (which doesn't really have much meaning ever since they shut down the jitter they added for civilian systems making them equal in resolution to military systems).
Probably the same guy in India the US military outsourced the design and construction of GPS to.
Iraq is a suburb of Iran, thanks to an ill-advised, expensive, badly-planned and utterly botched invasion that rivals only Operation Market Garden in the degree of utter failure.
Halting would be one thing, but the reality is that the CIA started off trying to prevent Iran restarting a nuclear weapons program that had already been halted, then it moved to trying to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons in a couple of decades that it would not likely be able to ever deliver. It is now trying to stop Iran having deliverable nuclear weapons in two years.
The assassinations, sabotage of equipment and virus infestations have led to a massive increase in Iran's investment and a net acceleration of the program.
As halting goes, this is a total, unmitigated disaster beyond all possible imagining. Doing absolutely nothing at the start would have been sounder policy, based on data available. Doing bugger all once the program had started would still have given us ten years WE DON'T HAVE ANYMORE.
Whatever lunatic thought up the program needs their head examined because this is the kind of absolute failure of intelligence (and wits) plus absolute failure of strategy that has led to the US spending $1tn on achieving bugger all in the Middle East this past decade. $1tn we taxpayers have to fork up. $1tn we don't have, won't have and will never have because we're going to now be pulled into another $1tn disaster. WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY ANYMORE, EITHER!
Doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity, and by that standard half of CIA HQ should be locked up in a padded cell. This is inexcusable stupidity beyond all comprehension.
Not sure how many resins can survive the extremes of space. Extreme temperature shifts, extreme radiation, extreme impacts by the occasional solar flare, extreme manoevers to avoid space junk, and extreme singing by drunken Russian cosmonauts any time the smuggle vodka on board.
No matter what you ask for, it keeps giving this strange liquid that tastes almost entirely unlike tea. Trying to explain the concept to it, but it's requested the aid of Eddie and all systems have shut down. Just as a Vogon constructor fleet is attacking. Damn.
Getting the prototype running is trivial. Getting the prototype running to the point of producing space-grade materials --- that's something else altogether. This is something that is often forgotten. Space-grade materials are bloody expensive to make. They're not the parts you buy at your local DIY store. They have to survive extreme temperature variations and high radiation levels* for prolonged periods without any deformation or degradation. It's one thing to move the astronauts during a solar flare, but you can't play dodgems with the ISS, so all components have to be able to survive that as well. The pressure difference between the interior and exterior is not trivial, so any part that is critical in keeping the structure intact has to be able to cope with that.
*It's not enough for the material to seem intact. For temperature changes, the slightest imperfection will inevitably lead to fractures forming. Imperfections can mean incorrect ratios of isotopes of the same element or contaminant elements beyond acceptable thresholds. If something has to be ultra-pure, and a fair amount does, then you're talking an upper limit of 0.00001% undesirable contamination. For radiation, some molecules won't hold up to it. Yes, there's also the transmutation of elements from high energy particles - it's often used to determine how long minerals are exposed to the surface on Earth - but the ISS is unlikely to last long enough for this to even be noticeable. Contaminants, metal fatigue (remember DeHavilland's Comet aircraft?), even miniscule fractures (remember Challenger?) are all far more significant -- and extremely deadly -- problems in space.
There isn't any way to make a 3D printer (yet) that builds space-grade components. Simple as that. There may be, some day, but that day isn't today.
Sorry, you can only have so many "one bad apple in the barrel" before the barrel has to be deemed the problem and not the apple.
If a pragmatic centrist is a communist in American eyes, then all hope of rational discussion is lost.
I think Microsoft might want to reconsider the order. Having a country filled with the deadliest snakes and spiders in the world be the alpha testers is NOT a smart move. Worse, Paul Hogan and Rolf Harris might release a celebrity protest song.
In Russia, they put worms in vodka to see if it's toxic. In Australia, if you're still breathing you already know what's toxic so why bother testing?
Those users matter less/more (delete according to who has the money)?
The courts often defer to the patent office, the patent office always defers to the courts. The average inventor hasn't the funding to file for relief via either. Microsoft isn't currently building a car, nor are RIM or Oracle. That limits who is going to do the shooting.
I think it's a bubble sort.
Yes, the OWS does offer solutions. Individuals might not, but I repeat, the OWS isn't something you can deconstruct. Your reply solely concerns itself with the deconstructionalist view of the OWS, which means nothing as you can't split a proton and expect the resulting quarks to have the chemistry of the whole. The OWS is classless and ideology-less, by means of being constructive, inclusive and (if anything) far too open to discussion. That is constructionalist.
The Tea Party offers nothing, it has BLOCKED everything it can (including stuff it agrees with) and it FORBIDS discussion. That is destructive. By being class-based and ideologically pure, it is also being deconstructionalist.
No, your ability to hold a position of authority or an office in government does NOT result from you volunteering. Neither the Civil Service nor the Elected Service work that way and you know that full well by being there.
Every 2 years, we have non-stop campaigning and in the in-between years the elected officials are busy propping up their support networks. That isn't functional. That certainly isn't democracy. It's somewhere between an ogliarchy and anarchy. It's crass, it's degenerate and it's often not the ones found lacking who get replaced. Being right rarely makes you popular, being popular rarely makes you right.
For the rest of you, I'd like to point to the post I'm replying to as an example of Rational, Intelligent, Conservative debating - for the most part. Not sure about the last sentence, but the rest of it is extremely admirable. The statement of facts, the statement of what is personal bias and what is not, a clear, non-inflammatory perspective.
I don't agree with everything said. Any degree of assumption that humans are the exclusive holders of rights troubles me. You can eliminate the entire "when is a person human" argument by eliminating the requirement that it matters in the first place. No foundation, nothing built on it. I'm also suspect of any argument that says X should be exempt from rules applying to Y when X and Y are functionally identical. I have no objection to logical rules based on logical classifications, but I can see no logic to grouping by implementation of a transport mechanism for the purpose of "safeguarding" viewers when the viewers are probably the last people to know - or even care - what transport mechanism is in use. Content control is entirely valid, but it should be on something a bit more logical.