That was the same party telling it that was advertising other pearls of wisdom, like the fact that there were no mass artillery shelling in Sloviansk. Vice news did a nice video of it where they drove through the city showing the massive destruction from indiscriminate shelling, all while playing the audio of the denials of the Kiev representative.
Brought the whole "Goebbels saying that everything is fine on Eastern Front as the Red Army is shelling the very radio station he's holding the speech from" feeling.
Same thing. Slice into individual words. I don't speak Icelandic at all, and I speak only a bit of German, but word rules are pretty much the same. It's a combination of words. Finnish has the same thing as well.
They were convicted for making statements that earthquake will not happen, which caused people to not prepare and react appropriately. It was still pretty messed up, but it's nowhere near as bad as faux news makes it sound.
On a serious note - it's actually very easy to pronounce. You just need to think of it properly - three separate words.
Eyja Fjalla Jökull.
It's actually a limitation of our brain. We can manage words up to reasonable length, and after that, we have to switch to far less efficient general abstraction instead of specialized brain centres. To avoid this limitation, slice the word into manageable pieces and you will find it very easy to pronounce once your task-specific brain centre handles it.
This is the same thing as trying to do the math on 7*8 versus 78*87.
That's my point. You can have a laptop, as in something you'd want in your lap that is portable. And then you have desktop replacement machines which are bulky, heavy, heat up if you put them in your lap (blocking the cooling vents at least in part if not sitting on a flat, non cloth surface). Basically they are portable desktops.
But there is no machine that I know of that combines both. At least, not yet.
For a desktop, no. That GPU for example is absolutely pathetic. It's less powerful than approximately on par with budget GT 640 desktop version (which cost less than 100USD on release). Same goes for the CPU, an average desktop i5 will destroy it.
A good example of tactics that look a lot like what is described in the article are used by people like this slashdot user: http://slashdot.org/~cold+fjor...
Kindly point us to your magical gaming laptop that handles graphics and games "better than most gaming desktops". Quite a few of us are looking for such a machine, and sadly it does not exist yet.
This gets more warped. It would likely be illlegal to produce certain data on EU citizens like this according to EU privacy directive. Company would be forced to choose to either follow US law or EU law, as these would be at odds with one another.
I can see policy like this bringing current globalization trend to a screeching halt as companies would split to have daughter companies incorporated and operating only in certain countries to shield them against this kind of abuse.
Dear NSA PR agent. You are behind the times. Snowden already released the files debunking your current lies. The current line is that "yes, we conduct dragnet surveillance, we just don't look at it", and "yes, it resulted in oppression of innocents on occasions, but that has been rare and couldn't be helped and we don't really want to talk about it".
Here's one example of several average, innocent Europeans severely affected by extraordinary rendition. CIA "woops grabbed the wrong guy". There are several examples of this.
And holy crap, "he could actually fight the decision after they broke into his home with heavy assault weapons, and so on, and almost got him extradited post haste". Clearly a sign of benevolent US not threatening citizens of other countries.
Hey dumbass. It may be normal for insane person like you that police can smash its way into your home with assault weapons, beat you up, smash your place and break your business. It's not normal around here however. We are not anywhere near as deep into the police state insanity that US is, and it would be really nice if you stopped imagining that "just because we do it to our own people, we're entitled to do it to everyone else as well".
The answer to that question requires you to define which specific traits you're asking for. If you're referring to "dragnet surveillance", that would probably be between 2000 and 2010 (time when most of the programs revealed by Snowden started to function). If it's about militarization of police and police having a right to break into your house and shoot you dead at any given moment just based on assumption and be indemnified by the law from responsibility as long as they had "a reason to believe there was a crime committed", that would be around 2005-2012 (police militarization and associated legislation). If you have another criteria, you can present it and people more knowledgeable than myself can probably provide you with an answer.
There are several well known cases where people were forcibly extradited or are under a significant threat and pressure to be extradited to US for things that are legal in their country of residence, but illegal in US.
Kim Dotcom comes to mind of the more recent and noted cases, as well as a couple of others.
You forget that this is not a US, but international project, with several foreign countries financing the development. "Woo, you're paying to create american jobs" is not an argument that is going to sound good in Australia for example.
P.S. F-22 is highly likely going to be better for close air support than F-35. That in spite of having no such capability. Because there is no way for F-35 to have any close air support capability due to its extreme fragility, high minimum air speed and complete lack of ability to loiter.
Project to add attack functionality to F-22 fleet existed, and would have been (and likely still is) far cheaper and more productive than creating a new fighter. That will now apparently cost almost as much as F-22 on top of it. Rafale, Eurofighter and Gripen are viable options as well.
As for "you will never get funding", that is a US POLITICAL choice. The fact remains that CHOICE exists. It's that politicians choose not to exercise that choice for political reasons in one NATO country. Considering that F-35 program has a lot of donors from the countries that are not US, and that without those the project would likely be scrapped as costs would jump further, this is pretty much purely a political problem. Not even a choice, but an actual problem, because many countries paid for F-35 without tenders.
And eventually, it seems that people who made those decisions will be called to answer why, at which point it's fairly likely that we'll have massive corruption trials and jail time for politicians, as well as collapse of the project.
Marines and UK need replacement for Harrier. That means STOVL or full VTOL. At the moment, the only aircraft that meets the requirements is the Harrier and the barely flying version of F-35B as well as Soviet Yak-38 which is no longer in service and cancelled Yak-141 which is the aircraft from which Lockheed Martin licensed the STOVL system from.
Again, the "F-35 is the only game in town" clame is a bold faced lie. NATO countries currently operate the following 4.5/5th gen fighter/attack aircraft: F-22 Rafale Eurofighter Gripen
We are spoiled for choice. This is definitely not about that.
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That was the same party telling it that was advertising other pearls of wisdom, like the fact that there were no mass artillery shelling in Sloviansk. Vice news did a nice video of it where they drove through the city showing the massive destruction from indiscriminate shelling, all while playing the audio of the denials of the Kiev representative.
Brought the whole "Goebbels saying that everything is fine on Eastern Front as the Red Army is shelling the very radio station he's holding the speech from" feeling.
Same thing. Slice into individual words. I don't speak Icelandic at all, and I speak only a bit of German, but word rules are pretty much the same. It's a combination of words. Finnish has the same thing as well.
We should expect meteors?
They were convicted for making statements that earthquake will not happen, which caused people to not prepare and react appropriately. It was still pretty messed up, but it's nowhere near as bad as faux news makes it sound.
On a serious note - it's actually very easy to pronounce. You just need to think of it properly - three separate words.
Eyja Fjalla Jökull.
It's actually a limitation of our brain. We can manage words up to reasonable length, and after that, we have to switch to far less efficient general abstraction instead of specialized brain centres. To avoid this limitation, slice the word into manageable pieces and you will find it very easy to pronounce once your task-specific brain centre handles it.
This is the same thing as trying to do the math on 7*8 versus 78*87.
Those evil Iceland volcanoes have their fingers in everything!
That's my point. You can have a laptop, as in something you'd want in your lap that is portable. And then you have desktop replacement machines which are bulky, heavy, heat up if you put them in your lap (blocking the cooling vents at least in part if not sitting on a flat, non cloth surface). Basically they are portable desktops.
But there is no machine that I know of that combines both. At least, not yet.
For a laptop yes.
For a desktop, no. That GPU for example is absolutely pathetic. It's less powerful than approximately on par with budget GT 640 desktop version (which cost less than 100USD on release). Same goes for the CPU, an average desktop i5 will destroy it.
A good example of tactics that look a lot like what is described in the article are used by people like this slashdot user:
http://slashdot.org/~cold+fjor...
While possible, this would in fact fragment the market into local pools. Which is my exact point - it would counteract the globalization trend.
Such a court would have to have jurisdiction however (i.e. be a local court, bound by local laws such as EU privacy directive).
With this move, a court that clearly has no jurisdiction, nor follows regional legislation such as EU privacy directive declared that it in fact does.
Remind yourself that just to get data on passengers to comply with airline rules, EU had to create a specific exemption to privacy directive.
Kindly point us to your magical gaming laptop that handles graphics and games "better than most gaming desktops". Quite a few of us are looking for such a machine, and sadly it does not exist yet.
This gets more warped. It would likely be illlegal to produce certain data on EU citizens like this according to EU privacy directive. Company would be forced to choose to either follow US law or EU law, as these would be at odds with one another.
I can see policy like this bringing current globalization trend to a screeching halt as companies would split to have daughter companies incorporated and operating only in certain countries to shield them against this kind of abuse.
Dear NSA PR agent. You are behind the times. Snowden already released the files debunking your current lies. The current line is that "yes, we conduct dragnet surveillance, we just don't look at it", and "yes, it resulted in oppression of innocents on occasions, but that has been rare and couldn't be helped and we don't really want to talk about it".
Yes.
Here's one example of several average, innocent Europeans severely affected by extraordinary rendition. CIA "woops grabbed the wrong guy".
There are several examples of this.
http://www.france24.com/en/201...
And holy crap, "he could actually fight the decision after they broke into his home with heavy assault weapons, and so on, and almost got him extradited post haste". Clearly a sign of benevolent US not threatening citizens of other countries.
Hey dumbass. It may be normal for insane person like you that police can smash its way into your home with assault weapons, beat you up, smash your place and break your business. It's not normal around here however. We are not anywhere near as deep into the police state insanity that US is, and it would be really nice if you stopped imagining that "just because we do it to our own people, we're entitled to do it to everyone else as well".
The answer to that question requires you to define which specific traits you're asking for. If you're referring to "dragnet surveillance", that would probably be between 2000 and 2010 (time when most of the programs revealed by Snowden started to function). If it's about militarization of police and police having a right to break into your house and shoot you dead at any given moment just based on assumption and be indemnified by the law from responsibility as long as they had "a reason to believe there was a crime committed", that would be around 2005-2012 (police militarization and associated legislation). If you have another criteria, you can present it and people more knowledgeable than myself can probably provide you with an answer.
There are several well known cases where people were forcibly extradited or are under a significant threat and pressure to be extradited to US for things that are legal in their country of residence, but illegal in US.
Kim Dotcom comes to mind of the more recent and noted cases, as well as a couple of others.
Then there's the extraordinary rendition program.
Again you act under assumption that this is a purely US project.
Take a look at who is actually footing the bill. The list quite a long one.
You forget that this is not a US, but international project, with several foreign countries financing the development. "Woo, you're paying to create american jobs" is not an argument that is going to sound good in Australia for example.
P.S. F-22 is highly likely going to be better for close air support than F-35. That in spite of having no such capability. Because there is no way for F-35 to have any close air support capability due to its extreme fragility, high minimum air speed and complete lack of ability to loiter.
Project to add attack functionality to F-22 fleet existed, and would have been (and likely still is) far cheaper and more productive than creating a new fighter. That will now apparently cost almost as much as F-22 on top of it. Rafale, Eurofighter and Gripen are viable options as well.
As for "you will never get funding", that is a US POLITICAL choice. The fact remains that CHOICE exists. It's that politicians choose not to exercise that choice for political reasons in one NATO country. Considering that F-35 program has a lot of donors from the countries that are not US, and that without those the project would likely be scrapped as costs would jump further, this is pretty much purely a political problem. Not even a choice, but an actual problem, because many countries paid for F-35 without tenders.
And eventually, it seems that people who made those decisions will be called to answer why, at which point it's fairly likely that we'll have massive corruption trials and jail time for politicians, as well as collapse of the project.
Marines and UK need replacement for Harrier. That means STOVL or full VTOL. At the moment, the only aircraft that meets the requirements is the Harrier and the barely flying version of F-35B as well as Soviet Yak-38 which is no longer in service and cancelled Yak-141 which is the aircraft from which Lockheed Martin licensed the STOVL system from.
Can you please keep your micropolitical bullshit to yourself? This is an adult discussion about real issues.
Again, the "F-35 is the only game in town" clame is a bold faced lie. NATO countries currently operate the following 4.5/5th gen fighter/attack aircraft:
F-22
Rafale
Eurofighter
Gripen
We are spoiled for choice. This is definitely not about that.