I disagree. I think you can combine "2.0" and "paradigm" to instantiate their synergy to create a diverse empowerment of all stakeholders. As long as you don't brick society in the process. Call it "English 2.0".
Brett
Wow. You better hope the Buddhists aren't right, otherwise your next life is going to suck a lot for that one.
And we already know he didn't say the thing you were making an offhand mock about.
Yes, I know he never said that. But "an old quotation often mistakenly applied to Bill Gates" sort of takes the "offhand mock" out of it, don't you think?
...people will drive as fast and with as much care as they feel safe getting away with. Some think we should come up with ways to make people feel less safe than they actually are.
Of course, then people learn to distrust feedback and cues, knowing that they are designed to fool them. End result, people start driving fast again, only now they have no cues that they trust, including the real ones.
Anyone remember the godawful movie "Star Crash"? The doomsday device was called "The DOOM Machine". No, really, I'm serious. The bad guy pronounced it with caps and all.
Then I saw little Tiffany. I'm thinking, y'know, eight-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night with quantum physics books? She about to start some shit, Zed.
Yeah, one of the funny, funny things about the Left in this country is how loudly and how often the scream about censorship, the very act of which disproves their claims.
Tim Robbins gives this talk to the National Association of Broadcasters about this "chill wind" of censorship blowing through the country, that gets covered by all the major media, then gets in his private jet and goes home. No "black maria" waiting for him at the airport to take him away, no darkened cell in the sub-basement of the Department of Justice.
Just amazing.
So if people talk about censorship, then it never really happened? If someone holds a press conference and talks about a book-burning, a business being forced into bankruptcy, or someone losing their job because of their political views, then somehow those events suddenly never occurred?
By the same logic, you then must think that if a group of scholars publicly discussed how stupid that idea is, you are somehow no longer an idiot.
They could just throw it out the window when they get there.
Alternatively, NASA could staff it with some politicians that will be out of work in a few months anyway. Perfect time for one of their famous metric conversion errors.
Keep in mind that nuclear-tipped SAMs would be detonated at a much higher altitude than a missile intended to strike surface targets. Nuclear-tipped air-to-air missiles were also fielded. Note the test mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie which detonated at only 15,000 feet. They had volunteers on the ground underneath it. What their long-term health was I can only guess.
You don't need anything that fancy or high-tech. The ability to shoot down a few high-altitude, high-speed targets has been around for quite a while. Sophisticated anti-missile defenses are required for hundreds, if not thousands, of VERY high-altitude, VERY high-speed targets, of which you can't afford to miss a single one because of the destruction it would cause.
Shooting down a high-mach atmospheric drone only requires decent radar and a few dozen surface-to-air missiles. You pop up a bunch directly in front of the target (that kind of a targeting solution doesn't require computer tech beyond the 1980s or so), and the shock from the explosions doesn't require a direct hit. The aircraft is trying very hard not to self-destruct at that speed, you don't need to add much to cause it to break up. Oh yeah, you don't use conventional warheads in your SAMs for targets like this. The USSR and USA had nuclear-tipped ABMs and SAMs as far back as the 60s. As the saying goes "a nuclear warhead solves a whole lot of targeting problems".
The problem with using a cell phone that doesn't have a service provider is that you lose the 911 locating functionality, very nice to have when you do need to call 911.
Important as well, you still need to upgrade the phone every few years to keep up with the changing technologies. Good luck with an old analog phone, and I'm not sure the old Sprint PCS GSM phones will work on the existing GSM carriers.
Magnetic stripes are notoriously fragile and unreliable. Get your card too close to a decent magnet (more common than you think), and it's now unreadable. RFID saves a lot of administrative work in replacing cards that have been demagnetized. It would really suck being on-call and not able to get into our data center. My boss does not want to be woken up at 3am on a holiday weekend because the stripe on my card wore out.
It's common now for cell phone cases to have magnetic flaps on them. The only reason I can keep my work access cards with my phone (harder to forget due to bulk), is they are RFID.
People said we were crazy to build a fortress on a foundation of shit, but we did it anyway!
We built a fortress (Windows), and it sank into the shit. So we built another one (Win 95), and that sank into the shit. So we built a third one (Win ME), that one burned down, fell over, and sank into the shit. But the fourth one (XP) stayed up!
After sitting next to some idiot yelling into his phone after dealing with security, airline employees, and the usual uncontrolled brats, my forcing the cellphone into his trachea will be the least of his worries. He will however, still require a doctor to have it removed.
No, Tom Bombadil does not appear in The Hobbit. Which makes Hemo's joke question moot as well as lame.
If you're referring to the swords the dwarves and Bilbo get from the hoard of the trolls, it's Gandalf who rescues them. Hiding nearby, he tricks them into arguing amongst themselves until the sun rises and turns the trolls into stone.
I'm not saying that all cases like the Beretta (in that the problems were known and covered up, and the use of the Beretta was pushed to a broader scope than intended by the original program) are intentional or the result of graft. But graft happens, and it's extremely naive to believe it doesn't.
Very true. I'd never dispute that. But it's hard to distinguish between corruption and stupidity, especially in the Federal Gov't, which seems to have institutionalized both.
I suggest you study the history of the procurement of the Beretta 9mm pistol, replacement for the old.45 auto. Pay careful attention to the bits about known problems with metal fatigue, and slide recoil injuring shooters.
If you mean the incidents that gave rise to the saying "You're not really a SEAL until you've eaten Italian steel", the problems were not with the pistol or the procurement system. The real problem was forcing the standard sidearm onto special ops units.
The standard military sidearm has NEVER been intended for anything other than last-resort defensive use, or low-risk missions such as police, low-security guards, etc. Spec-ops guys such as SEALs, Special Forces, etc. need a pistol for primary and offensive use as well. The only way to do that (semi)effectively with a 9mm is to use ammo loaded to much higher pressures and velocities. The incidents you refer to were confined to Navy units using custom ammo loaded WAY past SAAMI specs, beyond what is usually called "+P+". Notice that it was never a wide-spread problem, and has not been known to recur since spec-ops were given more latitude to select and procure non-standard sidearms. The big H&K "offensive" pistol is designed specifically for the requirements of spec-ops, and to handle +P.45 ammo. I personally think it's not the best out there, but for very different reasons. Other special units are using.45s also, like the new 1911 designed for USMC Force Recon.
So don't blame military waste, blame the penny-pinchers who oversee the military from nice civilian offices and have no idea what the complexities and realities are.
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I disagree. I think you can combine "2.0" and "paradigm" to instantiate their synergy to create a diverse empowerment of all stakeholders. As long as you don't brick society in the process. Call it "English 2.0".
Brett
Wow. You better hope the Buddhists aren't right, otherwise your next life is going to suck a lot for that one.
I'm not sure Gates ever said that.
And we already know he didn't say the thing you were making an offhand mock about.
Yes, I know he never said that. But "an old quotation often mistakenly applied to Bill Gates" sort of takes the "offhand mock" out of it, don't you think?
Because 160 characters should be enough for anybody.
...people will drive as fast and with as much care as they feel safe getting away with. Some think we should come up with ways to make people feel less safe than they actually are.
Of course, then people learn to distrust feedback and cues, knowing that they are designed to fool them. End result, people start driving fast again, only now they have no cues that they trust, including the real ones.
At this point I'd settle for some evidence that the number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy is at least EQUAL to one.
I think if you were in the "harsh vacuum of space", food would be the least of your problems.
Anyone remember the godawful movie "Star Crash"? The doomsday device was called "The DOOM Machine". No, really, I'm serious. The bad guy pronounced it with caps and all.
I heard they caught the Tater. Something about an incident in a bar.
Then I saw little Tiffany. I'm thinking, y'know, eight-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night with quantum physics books? She about to start some shit, Zed.
—Men in Black
You owe her an apology.
Tim Robbins gives this talk to the National Association of Broadcasters about this "chill wind" of censorship blowing through the country, that gets covered by all the major media, then gets in his private jet and goes home. No "black maria" waiting for him at the airport to take him away, no darkened cell in the sub-basement of the Department of Justice.
Just amazing.
So if people talk about censorship, then it never really happened? If someone holds a press conference and talks about a book-burning, a business being forced into bankruptcy, or someone losing their job because of their political views, then somehow those events suddenly never occurred?
By the same logic, you then must think that if a group of scholars publicly discussed how stupid that idea is, you are somehow no longer an idiot.
They could just throw it out the window when they get there.
Alternatively, NASA could staff it with some politicians that will be out of work in a few months anyway. Perfect time for one of their famous metric conversion errors.
Was this posted two weeks early?
I'm not saying it made any sense, I'm saying the weapons existed and were in the field.
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A sampling:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nike
http://www.brookings.edu/fp/projects/nucwcost/tal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-2_Guideline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-5_Gammon
Keep in mind that nuclear-tipped SAMs would be detonated at a much higher altitude than a missile intended to strike surface targets. Nuclear-tipped air-to-air missiles were also fielded. Note the test mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie which detonated at only 15,000 feet. They had volunteers on the ground underneath it. What their long-term health was I can only guess.
You don't need anything that fancy or high-tech. The ability to shoot down a few high-altitude, high-speed targets has been around for quite a while. Sophisticated anti-missile defenses are required for hundreds, if not thousands, of VERY high-altitude, VERY high-speed targets, of which you can't afford to miss a single one because of the destruction it would cause.
Shooting down a high-mach atmospheric drone only requires decent radar and a few dozen surface-to-air missiles. You pop up a bunch directly in front of the target (that kind of a targeting solution doesn't require computer tech beyond the 1980s or so), and the shock from the explosions doesn't require a direct hit. The aircraft is trying very hard not to self-destruct at that speed, you don't need to add much to cause it to break up. Oh yeah, you don't use conventional warheads in your SAMs for targets like this. The USSR and USA had nuclear-tipped ABMs and SAMs as far back as the 60s. As the saying goes "a nuclear warhead solves a whole lot of targeting problems".
The Israelis (and the Arab MiG pilots they've shot down) would disagree with you.
The problem with using a cell phone that doesn't have a service provider is that you lose the 911 locating functionality, very nice to have when you do need to call 911.
Important as well, you still need to upgrade the phone every few years to keep up with the changing technologies. Good luck with an old analog phone, and I'm not sure the old Sprint PCS GSM phones will work on the existing GSM carriers.
Magnetic stripes are notoriously fragile and unreliable. Get your card too close to a decent magnet (more common than you think), and it's now unreadable. RFID saves a lot of administrative work in replacing cards that have been demagnetized. It would really suck being on-call and not able to get into our data center. My boss does not want to be woken up at 3am on a holiday weekend because the stripe on my card wore out.
It's common now for cell phone cases to have magnetic flaps on them. The only reason I can keep my work access cards with my phone (harder to forget due to bulk), is they are RFID.
People said we were crazy to build a fortress on a foundation of shit, but we did it anyway!
We built a fortress (Windows), and it sank into the shit. So we built another one (Win 95), and that sank into the shit. So we built a third one (Win ME), that one burned down, fell over, and sank into the shit. But the fourth one (XP) stayed up!
After sitting next to some idiot yelling into his phone after dealing with security, airline employees, and the usual uncontrolled brats, my forcing the cellphone into his trachea will be the least of his worries. He will however, still require a doctor to have it removed.
Maybe because it's the government that MAKES the money?
I really hope this was intended a a joke.
No, Tom Bombadil does not appear in The Hobbit. Which makes Hemo's joke question moot as well as lame.
If you're referring to the swords the dwarves and Bilbo get from the hoard of the trolls, it's Gandalf who rescues them. Hiding nearby, he tricks them into arguing amongst themselves until the sun rises and turns the trolls into stone.
Very true. I'd never dispute that. But it's hard to distinguish between corruption and stupidity, especially in the Federal Gov't, which seems to have institutionalized both.
(How's that for cynical?)
If you mean the incidents that gave rise to the saying "You're not really a SEAL until you've eaten Italian steel", the problems were not with the pistol or the procurement system. The real problem was forcing the standard sidearm onto special ops units.
The standard military sidearm has NEVER been intended for anything other than last-resort defensive use, or low-risk missions such as police, low-security guards, etc. Spec-ops guys such as SEALs, Special Forces, etc. need a pistol for primary and offensive use as well. The only way to do that (semi)effectively with a 9mm is to use ammo loaded to much higher pressures and velocities. The incidents you refer to were confined to Navy units using custom ammo loaded WAY past SAAMI specs, beyond what is usually called "+P+". Notice that it was never a wide-spread problem, and has not been known to recur since spec-ops were given more latitude to select and procure non-standard sidearms. The big H&K "offensive" pistol is designed specifically for the requirements of spec-ops, and to handle +P
So don't blame military waste, blame the penny-pinchers who oversee the military from nice civilian offices and have no idea what the complexities and realities are.
"N-C-C-1-7-0-1. No bloody A, B, C, or D."
Did someone forget to give the gerbils powering Slashcode some Mountain Dew before this was posted?
Clearly a case of the right hand not knowing which foot the left hand is shooting.