Actually it was the Japanese that sold the milling machines capable of making this design to the Soviets. They could not make the the tools need to fabricate the compound curves. The USSR probably had pictures and even specs for several classes of our boats but did not have the capability of copying it. The Soviet boats were very noisy compared to all of ours in the late 70's. The pictured boat is an Ohio. They are so quiet that we have trouble tracking one. Nobody else ever has.
Think again! 99.9% of the Navies of the world don't have sonar good enough to even get a sniff of one of our boats. The best the Soviets ever had was 2 generations behind! There is supposed to be a canopy over the the screw before the dock is pumped out. If you ever go to Groton for a launch you might notice that the boats are launched without a screw, it is installed later alongside the pier. Of course there are 2 different screws for each class of boats. A speed screw is used on the first few to generate top performance numbers then removed. A silent screw goes on all operational boats. The difference? Shape, pitch, and number of blades. I rode a Fast Attack in the Cold War, so I might know more than someone who hasn't been there.
Sadly you are right. The whole sue for everything mentality is out of control here. There is no personal responsibility for anything now days. It's always someone else's fault so sue them. Trial lawyers will be the death of this country!
Threw it away after RH9 and put most of it in Fedora. It always seemed that Fedora was lacking some things to me. Maybe this is a step back in a way but it should be a good thing.
Since Reid has not been able to pass anything else on his agenda, I doubt if he has the competence to carry this one off. It does prove the point that all politicians of both parties are for sale, big surprise. As I have said before, if you are in a lower tax bracket than the congresscritters, you have NO representation in Washington!
It's even more simple than that. If one person can write it another will crack it. No piece of code is unbreakable, some just take longer than others. None of these companies are going to spend the kind of money that NSA does on this issue.
No question he did a good thing for all of us. There are some good judges there but the norm is as bad or worse than the rest of the country. Most of the things that happen in court or Congress on this subject is in the hands of staff because the Lawyers, Judges, and Congresscritters will not try to learn what any of it really means. That makes me cynical and a skeptic.
Since the RIAA wants to do everything out of sight of the public we just need to keep exposing them to the light of day. Like vampires they can't function in the open, slimy creatures prefer the dark.
I am surprised that a New Mexico judge figured it out. I spent 35 of my first 40 years there and the honesty and common sense level of judges and politicians is much lower than normal. The population is so low for that land area I knew half of them in the 80's and 90's and close to 3/4s in the 70's.
Clean up crews are already available. All you need are the guys that clean up after a wreck at an Indy car of Formula One race. If you've seen video of one, most of the bits and pieces flying off are carbon fibre. Racing has been using more and more since McLaren produced the first carbon fibre tub for Formula One in 1984. Before that, the tub was made of aluminium honeycomb. For those that don't know, the tub is the central piece, replacing a convetional frame, of the car. The driver sits in it and the engine and all supension are bolted to it.
As many have already said this will be very expensive. What if the idea is to start the suit with lots of publicity and then get others to join and gain class action status? The more that the tactics get exposed to the public the better chance of an outcry getting relief for everyone. It really boils down to a publicity fight. If people believe that the RIAA is defending artists they like then the real issues won't matter. Convince them that making a mix tape of any music might get you prosecuted and things change. Education of the masses is the only way to solve the problem.
Due to the speed and stealth involved it is unlikely that the first shot would hit, the tracking and aiming for a target like this are at least ten years away. Repeated shots disturb the air more and make each shot less effective. You have to consider the distance involved for a target at close to 100,000 feet. Then add the speed and remember the target can evade. It might be easier to try a laser from space shooting down.
It's just my own version of term limits. All of those clowns are bought and paid for regardless of party so they need to be changed regularly. That would eliminate the Profesional politician and move us back to what the constitution called for. A Citizen Legislature that would go to DC and do what needed to be done and then return home to real jobs to earn their living! We were never supposed to have a permanant ruling class. Of course the biggest change for good would be replacing all of the staffers. Half the time the Congresscritter only knows what the staffer puts in front of them. Staff types are also easier and cheaper to bribe.
Collect a database of all contributions and fees collected by Congresscritters. Then correlate it to each ones voting record. If the voters saw the tie in for why their Rep voted for that (insert idiotic bill) piece of crap. This could be a way to remove the incumbants. Personally I vote against all office holders in every election, it's the only chance to change things. This would also work at the state level.
Lasers through the atmosphere don't work. Patrticulate in the atmosphere heats and causes the beam to spread, not remain concentrated. Tracking would be very hard and without tracking you can't aim. Speed plus stealth will be very hard to beat.
I disagree with the part about inferior. The AK47 was the perfect assault rifle for the third world, cheap, reliable, simple, and reasonably accurrate. I wouldn't want to take 300+ yard shots with one but inside 150 it's fine. Stamped parts are easy to make that's why there are factories in every former Warsaw Pact country and Third World ones like Egypt, India, and North Korea.
The approval of the USSR was more than tacit. They gave the blueprints and told their subordinates to produce and sell these weapons and others. They caused the problem in the first place and now complain? Trying to put the cork back in the bottle when the genie is gone won't work.
Take that a step further and really wonder why MS got as big as it did. IBM came out with the AS400 in 1988 and promised that programs written for it would never be obsolete. A textile company in NC is using a program written for an IBM S36 on the latest version of the AS400. The program is 25 years old! Big companies use custom software and can't afford the hassles of the shrinkwrap world. Think about a 20 year old program that has been maintained and modified for that timeperiod it might be a million dollar program today. Payroll, accounting, employee records, these are things that require constant modification due to laws and rules changing every year. It's simple, maintain your apps and IBM upgrades the OS without ever having to redo anything.
The reach being talked about is inside the borders of Venezuela, where it matters. The world will blather endlessly about dictator/tyrant Chavez, but will never do anything. Change will only come from inside the country.
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Actually it was the Japanese that sold the milling machines capable of making this design to the Soviets. They could not make the the tools need to fabricate the compound curves. The USSR probably had pictures and even specs for several classes of our boats but did not have the capability of copying it. The Soviet boats were very noisy compared to all of ours in the late 70's. The pictured boat is an Ohio. They are so quiet that we have trouble tracking one. Nobody else ever has.
Think again! 99.9% of the Navies of the world don't have sonar good enough to even get a sniff of one of our boats. The best the Soviets ever had was 2 generations behind! There is supposed to be a canopy over the the screw before the dock is pumped out. If you ever go to Groton for a launch you might notice that the boats are launched without a screw, it is installed later alongside the pier. Of course there are 2 different screws for each class of boats. A speed screw is used on the first few to generate top performance numbers then removed. A silent screw goes on all operational boats. The difference? Shape, pitch, and number of blades.
I rode a Fast Attack in the Cold War, so I might know more than someone who hasn't been there.
If common sense was dynamite, could anyone in Redmond blow their nose?
Sadly you are right. The whole sue for everything mentality is out of control here. There is no personal responsibility for anything now days. It's always someone else's fault so sue them. Trial lawyers will be the death of this country!
Either that or just a terminal case of dumbass.
I'm not sure which is worse!
Threw it away after RH9 and put most of it in Fedora. It always seemed that Fedora was lacking some things to me. Maybe this is a step back in a way but it should be a good thing.
Since Reid has not been able to pass anything else on his agenda, I doubt if he has the competence to carry this one off. It does prove the point that all politicians of both parties are for sale, big surprise. As I have said before, if you are in a lower tax bracket than the congresscritters, you have NO representation in Washington!
I ment the codebreaking and secre cryptography that they work on 24/7.
It's even more simple than that. If one person can write it another will crack it. No piece of code is unbreakable, some just take longer than others. None of these companies are going to spend the kind of money that NSA does on this issue.
No question he did a good thing for all of us. There are some good judges there but the norm is as bad or worse than the rest of the country. Most of the things that happen in court or Congress on this subject is in the hands of staff because the Lawyers, Judges, and Congresscritters will not try to learn what any of it really means. That makes me cynical and a skeptic.
Since the RIAA wants to do everything out of sight of the public we just need to keep exposing them to the light of day. Like vampires they can't function in the open, slimy creatures prefer the dark.
I am surprised that a New Mexico judge figured it out. I spent 35 of my first 40 years there and the honesty and common sense level of judges and politicians is much lower than normal. The population is so low for that land area I knew half of them in the 80's and 90's and close to 3/4s in the 70's.
You said you were going to kiss my what? i'm hard of hearing.
Go granny go!
She is either very smart or hired a good? shyster.
If they had used all the available info in front of the Grand Jusry they would have had to charge her husband since he put it in a form for Whos Who.
As for all those who just want to bash Bush, there is nobody in either party who doesn't missuse their power or their office dailey. They all suck!
Because it is another chance to delare Bush the most evil person in the history of the world. Didn't you know that this is the actual /. pastime?
Clean up crews are already available. All you need are the guys that clean up after a wreck at an Indy car of Formula One race. If you've seen video of one, most of the bits and pieces flying off are carbon fibre. Racing has been using more and more since McLaren produced the first carbon fibre tub for Formula One in 1984. Before that, the tub was made of aluminium honeycomb. For those that don't know, the tub is the central piece, replacing a convetional frame, of the car. The driver sits in it and the engine and all supension are bolted to it.
As many have already said this will be very expensive. What if the idea is to start the suit with lots of publicity and then get others to join and gain class action status? The more that the tactics get exposed to the public the better chance of an outcry getting relief for everyone. It really boils down to a publicity fight. If people believe that the RIAA is defending artists they like then the real issues won't matter. Convince them that making a mix tape of any music might get you prosecuted and things change. Education of the masses is the only way to solve the problem.
Due to the speed and stealth involved it is unlikely that the first shot would hit, the tracking and aiming for a target like this are at least ten years away. Repeated shots disturb the air more and make each shot less effective. You have to consider the distance involved for a target at close to 100,000 feet. Then add the speed and remember the target can evade. It might be easier to try a laser from space shooting down.
It's just my own version of term limits. All of those clowns are bought and paid for regardless of party so they need to be changed regularly. That would eliminate the Profesional politician and move us back to what the constitution called for. A Citizen Legislature that would go to DC and do what needed to be done and then return home to real jobs to earn their living! We were never supposed to have a permanant ruling class. Of course the biggest change for good would be replacing all of the staffers. Half the time the Congresscritter only knows what the staffer puts in front of them. Staff types are also easier and cheaper to bribe.
Collect a database of all contributions and fees collected by Congresscritters. Then correlate it to each ones voting record. If the voters saw the tie in for why their Rep voted for that (insert idiotic bill) piece of crap. This could be a way to remove the incumbants. Personally I vote against all office holders in every election, it's the only chance to change things. This would also work at the state level.
Lasers through the atmosphere don't work. Patrticulate in the atmosphere heats and causes the beam to spread, not remain concentrated. Tracking would be very hard and without tracking you can't aim. Speed plus stealth will be very hard to beat.
I disagree with the part about inferior. The AK47 was the perfect assault rifle for the third world, cheap, reliable, simple, and reasonably accurrate. I wouldn't want to take 300+ yard shots with one but inside 150 it's fine. Stamped parts are easy to make that's why there are factories in every former Warsaw Pact country and Third World ones like Egypt, India, and North Korea.
The approval of the USSR was more than tacit. They gave the blueprints and told their subordinates to produce and sell these weapons and others. They caused the problem in the first place and now complain? Trying to put the cork back in the bottle when the genie is gone won't work.
Take that a step further and really wonder why MS got as big as it did. IBM came out with the AS400 in 1988 and promised that programs written for it would never be obsolete. A textile company in NC is using a program written for an IBM S36 on the latest version of the AS400. The program is 25 years old! Big companies use custom software and can't afford the hassles of the shrinkwrap world. Think about a 20 year old program that has been maintained and modified for that timeperiod it might be a million dollar program today. Payroll, accounting, employee records, these are things that require constant modification due to laws and rules changing every year. It's simple, maintain your apps and IBM upgrades the OS without ever having to redo anything.
The reach being talked about is inside the borders of Venezuela, where it matters. The world will blather endlessly about dictator/tyrant Chavez, but will never do anything. Change will only come from inside the country.