You're forgetting that Australia is choke full of chinese today. It's no longer a white enclave with other ethnicies mostly wiped out.
And as I said, China will be suffering the same consequences. Of course, those tens of millions of unemployed (let's be realistic with numbers here) would be quickly offered jobs abroad in empire building which would immediately switch to full throttle. If anything, China would likely get hit by need for more people willing to go out into the other countries to build up chinese presense there.
Warrior does not need to "control the fight" in most of questing. His huge burst kills whatever he's fighting. Elementalist needs to dance around and control the fight, making the same fight that warrior cheeses in a few seconds with hundred blades combo last tens of seconds as you are forced to dance around the target, kite it, control it and so on.
Effectively there is no balance. There are classes that are massively OP, and classes that have some niche but are severely dysfunctional outside it. Which is pretty strange, considering how dumbed down the combat system actually is.
The incompetence was driven by significant economic drive, as it increased government contractor's budgets massively.
A cold war would largely result in exact opposite in long term, as many US companies would lose essentially all of their massive investments in US. In comparison, there's essentially nothing to lose and a lot to gain by same companies by going to war with Iraq, Afghanistan and so on. They had no market or production there due to sanctions, and after the war, a massive market has opened up.
Actually that article just states the obvious and well known military fact: China is a part of nuclear club capable of strategic nuclear strikes that enable mutual annihilation doctrine.
This is not news in any way - China has been a member of that club for decades. It's just a populism for the dummies, literally. You have to be quite dumb to think that this is unusual, or threatening to US. All countries that are a part of nuclear club with strategic nuclear arsenal have plans in place to attack other countries of the same club with strategic nuclear weapons capable of effectively demolishing the country.
In reality, this is likely a shot directed inward. It's easy to unite the nation against a common enemy, and Japan is a very hated enemy by everyone in the region, be they han, korean, vietnamese, or any other ethnicity. Atrocities of WW2, and Japan's chronic inability to face them like Germany did ensure that it stays that way too.
I seriously doubt that this is anything more than that. As for "kill everyone in China", let's not be utterly retarded on the issue. China is just as much of a nuclear armed nation with ability to enforce MAD as France or UK. No one will start a shooting war with them, and they won't start a shooting war with anyone in the nuclear club either. They may indeed be testing how US reacts, as a "kill two birds with one stone" action, but it's unlikely to be anything more than that on either side. And as pointed out in the article, US is highly unlikely to get involved for another reason - the islands are claimed by its other ally in the region, ROC (Taiwan) as well, so defending them on Japan's behalf against China would cause a massive fallout there.
US will most likely stay the hell out of that three way fight and let them figure a way out on their own, at most offering diplomatic assistance and assurances that any kind of claims on currently undisputed territories would be met with force.
They would pointedly ram a few ships with fishing boats for real. Then post nice picture of US marines shooting up peaceful looking fishermen. You know, like Greenpeace does, and like Chinese have been doing to US anti-sub ships for years now.
Then, after a major scandal, if US still decided to stick to its guns and not bow down and apologize (as it likely would as at that point, any politician trying to do otherwise would likely go the way of JFK very quickly), you'd have a real cold war on your hands. We're talking breakdown of trade relations, sanctions and likely worldwide economic depression that would follow splitting of the world in two. You'd likely have NATO on one side, and Russia backed China with all its vassal states on the other with most of Latin America leaning strongly to support China, Australia dithering leaving NATO to avoid complete economic meltdown when they suddenly can't sell their mining produce to it any more and other massive geopolitical reverbations. It would also completely untie chinese hands in places like Nothern Africa to stop acting covertly in buying everything with money they have, and start making open offers to the countries of the region to join their side in exchange for massive trade benefits. And they could afford it far better than US or EU, that are currently stuck in a serious long term economical financial mess already which would be massively exacerbated by massive loss of trade with China. China would be suffering essentially the same consequences, with US and EU getting the ability to openly assault its strongholds in Easten Africa both financially and via military means "oh they are harboring terrorists!", as well as likely putting up heavy pressure on Latin America to cut down on trade.
Essentially it would be a massive loss for everyone in the world save for third world countries, who would likely benefit greatly from two sides investing in them strongly to keep them in their sphere of influence. Which is why it would never happen - if there still are politicians in the West who are not wholly owned by corporate elite, they would be promptly assassinated or removed from power via other means to avoid such a disastrous outcome.
So they can go to what? The previous brutal theocracy that was considered by historians to be one of the more brutal regimes of the time?
For all the rage that chinese deserve, Tibet is not one of the places they deserve it for. The only reason we here in the West view the issue as such is because of current Dalai Lama's skilled diplomacy.
Read up on region's history. Theocratic system that they had in place makes current chinese government look better than Swiss. And let's not forget that over half of the region is now ethnic han. Are you planning on some ethnic cleansing on the side?
MS in CS actually, coming from a family with two generations of people with at least same level of education in engineering (except that previous two chose mechanical engineering, building either power plants, their turbines, or jet engines). Thank you. And all the materials necessary are indeed found in your local university library. If ever had to study in university, you would know this. That's what libraries are for, reference materials for studies beyond the "look what I googled up on internetz". How you got your degree without knowing this confuses me greatly, considering that most decent universities would demand you cite sources for any major paper you'd have to write.
Now, thank you for telling us that you know more then the best and the brightest, that were hired by Germany to evaluate what exactly would be needed to convert the country's power grid to be suitable for spot generation by wind across it's "erect windmill on every farm" part of energiewende.
Reality is, it's a huge problem that is certainly solvable with modern technology. It's just that the cost of the solution would be astronomical - in Germany they calculated the costs to be in several billions of euros alone. That is just to keep the grid up and stable. It did not include the costs of hot reserve needed to balance the fluctuations in the grid. That would have to go on top of those costs.
What you do not understand at all is the fact that if you blocked the outgoing electricity from solar into the grid completely, your solution would indeed work. But very few using solar or wind will ever agree with doing so. Because net metering is a key component of ROI of any small scale generation. Without it, erecting a windmill for your farm would never be cost effective. Without it, slapping solar cells all over your building will likely never be better than just taking what grid offers you.
To try to present this idea as a solution would be fine by me, and most utilities. But solar and wind producers would kill it off right off the bat. Welcome to reality, where those utilities have to operate, rather then your ideal world.
Please tell me which verses cover the Catholic vs Prostestant butchery (because really, that wasn't even warfare, it was wholesale butchery of people) which led to, among other things, the influx of immigrants that built up USA? Or which verses covered the wholesale butchery of people in crusades? Dark ages? Inquisition?
Be specific. I want to see where Jesus told you that if someone doesn't preach in latin, they should be killed. Tell me where he gave specific guidelines for when woman becomes the witch and how this should be handled.
Or where he said that jews should be treated as non-humans, segregated and slaughtered every time there was something that lords of the region needed a scapegoat.
Because, you see, all of the above things are thoroughly documented throughout history. Theology's job wasn't to find verses that would contradict these acts. It was to find justification for these acts. And they certainly did. For every single one.
So this is perhaps a question you should be asking of those in charge of your particular religious sect. For my answers are actually logical, factual, and as a result not the answers you seek.
No, burning oil sand. Sand itself burns as well, becoming mostly ash in a complex chemical reaction.
They do that sort of thing in the oil sands in Estonia, and I've been at that plant myself. They've been burning this stuff since USSR built the first power plants, and right now the ash storage area is so large, it can be observed from the moon with naked eye.
The veil is an Arab/Persian/Afghan/Pakistani "thing", linked to local culture. World's single largest muslim population lives in Indonesia. Vast majority of Indonesian women do not wear "islamic" veil.
In fact, wikipedia provides a very comprehensive list of where and how much the "islamic" veil is actually worn here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab_by_country It pretty much demonstrates my point: things like veil usage, or genital mutilation are something that is tied to regional culture, not religion. Religion adapts to local culture, often becoming the mirror image of it. That is why western christianity, largely mirroring the secular society here in the West has become so tolerant, while same christianity in, for example Middle East is extremely intolerant of many things such as women's rights or gay rights.
After Fukushima, a lot of people seem to have that misconception I guess. They never advertise that another plant that was actually closer to epicenter survived it just fine.
Visit your local library. Ask librarian about books on electrical engineering as pertaining to electric grids. Read. Comprehend. Come back in a few days and apologize.
Acting like an all knowing asshole, while being utterly clueless on the subject, then acting like you're doing everyone a favor by agreeing to "look at links others will provide for you" wins you no points on a site filled with people who are engineers by profession. It merely reveals you to be an ignorant buffoon.
It doesn't. It effectively removed all those aspect from the game except for slows. The game has no proper aggro system (mobs swap target randomly) nor tanking or healing system (you're expected to survive by kiting, self healing and twitch reflex dodging).
And it really just doesn't work. Combat is utterly bland and chaotic and for many classes it's a 2-3 button combo affair. I leveled an elementalist at launch and it was pretty hard - had to kite a lot even in world combat, and felt exceptionally weak in instances. Then I took a warrior and understood just how flawed the system actually was. I could literally 2-3 button through places where my elementalist didn't stand a chance - charge in, and hit hundred blades. Bam, everything in front of you just melted to massive frontal cone AoE.
Instances are even worse, because to compensate for terrible combat mechanics mob and boss health is massively overinflated. They're not hard to kill at all - they're generally metered not to cause significant damage to players that can't be twitch dodged with dodge ability, so it's a matter of just bashing and bashing and bashing and bashing on their huge hp pool until they finally decide to run out of health.
If you want fun combat system, GW2 is probably the last MMO out there to look at. Games pros lie in gorgeous art, innovative (back at release, common now) questing system and interesting crafting system. That's pretty much it though, the rest is awful - terrible combat, complete P2W - buy game gold from the publisher, almost everything including legendaries can be sold and bought for it and so on.
It's probably a great game if you want to learn how to be about 95% efficient in combat in about five minutes and want a completely casual experience of maybe 30-60 minutes a day. Otherwise, look elsewhere.
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Reality. As well as the fact that you would get called on your own bullshit, and you have enough of it to drown in it several times over.
You're forgetting that Australia is choke full of chinese today. It's no longer a white enclave with other ethnicies mostly wiped out.
And as I said, China will be suffering the same consequences. Of course, those tens of millions of unemployed (let's be realistic with numbers here) would be quickly offered jobs abroad in empire building which would immediately switch to full throttle. If anything, China would likely get hit by need for more people willing to go out into the other countries to build up chinese presense there.
Judging by the sheer stupidity of that comparison, I'm guessing you're currently practicing what you're preaching AC.
Warrior does not need to "control the fight" in most of questing. His huge burst kills whatever he's fighting. Elementalist needs to dance around and control the fight, making the same fight that warrior cheeses in a few seconds with hundred blades combo last tens of seconds as you are forced to dance around the target, kite it, control it and so on.
Effectively there is no balance. There are classes that are massively OP, and classes that have some niche but are severely dysfunctional outside it. Which is pretty strange, considering how dumbed down the combat system actually is.
The incompetence was driven by significant economic drive, as it increased government contractor's budgets massively.
A cold war would largely result in exact opposite in long term, as many US companies would lose essentially all of their massive investments in US. In comparison, there's essentially nothing to lose and a lot to gain by same companies by going to war with Iraq, Afghanistan and so on. They had no market or production there due to sanctions, and after the war, a massive market has opened up.
Actually that article just states the obvious and well known military fact: China is a part of nuclear club capable of strategic nuclear strikes that enable mutual annihilation doctrine.
This is not news in any way - China has been a member of that club for decades. It's just a populism for the dummies, literally. You have to be quite dumb to think that this is unusual, or threatening to US. All countries that are a part of nuclear club with strategic nuclear arsenal have plans in place to attack other countries of the same club with strategic nuclear weapons capable of effectively demolishing the country.
Because Japan has always been an innocent victim and China and South Korea have been the aggressors.
What have you been smoking AC?
In reality, this is likely a shot directed inward. It's easy to unite the nation against a common enemy, and Japan is a very hated enemy by everyone in the region, be they han, korean, vietnamese, or any other ethnicity. Atrocities of WW2, and Japan's chronic inability to face them like Germany did ensure that it stays that way too.
I seriously doubt that this is anything more than that. As for "kill everyone in China", let's not be utterly retarded on the issue. China is just as much of a nuclear armed nation with ability to enforce MAD as France or UK. No one will start a shooting war with them, and they won't start a shooting war with anyone in the nuclear club either. They may indeed be testing how US reacts, as a "kill two birds with one stone" action, but it's unlikely to be anything more than that on either side. And as pointed out in the article, US is highly unlikely to get involved for another reason - the islands are claimed by its other ally in the region, ROC (Taiwan) as well, so defending them on Japan's behalf against China would cause a massive fallout there.
US will most likely stay the hell out of that three way fight and let them figure a way out on their own, at most offering diplomatic assistance and assurances that any kind of claims on currently undisputed territories would be met with force.
They would pointedly ram a few ships with fishing boats for real. Then post nice picture of US marines shooting up peaceful looking fishermen. You know, like Greenpeace does, and like Chinese have been doing to US anti-sub ships for years now.
Then, after a major scandal, if US still decided to stick to its guns and not bow down and apologize (as it likely would as at that point, any politician trying to do otherwise would likely go the way of JFK very quickly), you'd have a real cold war on your hands. We're talking breakdown of trade relations, sanctions and likely worldwide economic depression that would follow splitting of the world in two. You'd likely have NATO on one side, and Russia backed China with all its vassal states on the other with most of Latin America leaning strongly to support China, Australia dithering leaving NATO to avoid complete economic meltdown when they suddenly can't sell their mining produce to it any more and other massive geopolitical reverbations. It would also completely untie chinese hands in places like Nothern Africa to stop acting covertly in buying everything with money they have, and start making open offers to the countries of the region to join their side in exchange for massive trade benefits. And they could afford it far better than US or EU, that are currently stuck in a serious long term economical financial mess already which would be massively exacerbated by massive loss of trade with China.
China would be suffering essentially the same consequences, with US and EU getting the ability to openly assault its strongholds in Easten Africa both financially and via military means "oh they are harboring terrorists!", as well as likely putting up heavy pressure on Latin America to cut down on trade.
Essentially it would be a massive loss for everyone in the world save for third world countries, who would likely benefit greatly from two sides investing in them strongly to keep them in their sphere of influence. Which is why it would never happen - if there still are politicians in the West who are not wholly owned by corporate elite, they would be promptly assassinated or removed from power via other means to avoid such a disastrous outcome.
Because US behavior is better? Your case is like calling a biker gang to gang rape everyone involved in a neighborly spat.
So they can go to what? The previous brutal theocracy that was considered by historians to be one of the more brutal regimes of the time?
For all the rage that chinese deserve, Tibet is not one of the places they deserve it for. The only reason we here in the West view the issue as such is because of current Dalai Lama's skilled diplomacy.
Read up on region's history. Theocratic system that they had in place makes current chinese government look better than Swiss. And let's not forget that over half of the region is now ethnic han. Are you planning on some ethnic cleansing on the side?
That's literally true. Japan and Russia at least are still at war.
No, I'm talking about men acting out the will of God. According to them. Who are you to tell the Church elders they are wrong?
While true, both classes were pretty gimp outside PvE back then. In PvP, I just remember them as "those free kills".
Considering the classes I played back then, I think you know why.
I'll admit I'm not familiar with minutiae of the chemical process. I just saw the actual fuel feed in and stood at the mountain of what comes out.
MS in CS actually, coming from a family with two generations of people with at least same level of education in engineering (except that previous two chose mechanical engineering, building either power plants, their turbines, or jet engines). Thank you. And all the materials necessary are indeed found in your local university library. If ever had to study in university, you would know this. That's what libraries are for, reference materials for studies beyond the "look what I googled up on internetz". How you got your degree without knowing this confuses me greatly, considering that most decent universities would demand you cite sources for any major paper you'd have to write.
Now, thank you for telling us that you know more then the best and the brightest, that were hired by Germany to evaluate what exactly would be needed to convert the country's power grid to be suitable for spot generation by wind across it's "erect windmill on every farm" part of energiewende.
Reality is, it's a huge problem that is certainly solvable with modern technology. It's just that the cost of the solution would be astronomical - in Germany they calculated the costs to be in several billions of euros alone. That is just to keep the grid up and stable. It did not include the costs of hot reserve needed to balance the fluctuations in the grid. That would have to go on top of those costs.
What you do not understand at all is the fact that if you blocked the outgoing electricity from solar into the grid completely, your solution would indeed work. But very few using solar or wind will ever agree with doing so. Because net metering is a key component of ROI of any small scale generation. Without it, erecting a windmill for your farm would never be cost effective. Without it, slapping solar cells all over your building will likely never be better than just taking what grid offers you.
To try to present this idea as a solution would be fine by me, and most utilities. But solar and wind producers would kill it off right off the bat. Welcome to reality, where those utilities have to operate, rather then your ideal world.
Then you were a major masochist :D
Ah, theology and reality argument. Lovely.
Please tell me which verses cover the Catholic vs Prostestant butchery (because really, that wasn't even warfare, it was wholesale butchery of people) which led to, among other things, the influx of immigrants that built up USA?
Or which verses covered the wholesale butchery of people in crusades? Dark ages? Inquisition?
Be specific. I want to see where Jesus told you that if someone doesn't preach in latin, they should be killed. Tell me where he gave specific guidelines for when woman becomes the witch and how this should be handled.
Or where he said that jews should be treated as non-humans, segregated and slaughtered every time there was something that lords of the region needed a scapegoat.
Because, you see, all of the above things are thoroughly documented throughout history. Theology's job wasn't to find verses that would contradict these acts. It was to find justification for these acts. And they certainly did. For every single one.
So this is perhaps a question you should be asking of those in charge of your particular religious sect. For my answers are actually logical, factual, and as a result not the answers you seek.
No, burning oil sand. Sand itself burns as well, becoming mostly ash in a complex chemical reaction.
They do that sort of thing in the oil sands in Estonia, and I've been at that plant myself. They've been burning this stuff since USSR built the first power plants, and right now the ash storage area is so large, it can be observed from the moon with naked eye.
Intel likely has a poison pill and its stock price would explode the moment anyone big would try for such a move.
Not to even begin talking about trying to clear such a deal with monopoly watchdogs. Good luck with that.
The veil is an Arab/Persian/Afghan/Pakistani "thing", linked to local culture. World's single largest muslim population lives in Indonesia. Vast majority of Indonesian women do not wear "islamic" veil.
In fact, wikipedia provides a very comprehensive list of where and how much the "islamic" veil is actually worn here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab_by_country
It pretty much demonstrates my point: things like veil usage, or genital mutilation are something that is tied to regional culture, not religion. Religion adapts to local culture, often becoming the mirror image of it. That is why western christianity, largely mirroring the secular society here in the West has become so tolerant, while same christianity in, for example Middle East is extremely intolerant of many things such as women's rights or gay rights.
After Fukushima, a lot of people seem to have that misconception I guess. They never advertise that another plant that was actually closer to epicenter survived it just fine.
Visit your local library. Ask librarian about books on electrical engineering as pertaining to electric grids. Read. Comprehend. Come back in a few days and apologize.
Acting like an all knowing asshole, while being utterly clueless on the subject, then acting like you're doing everyone a favor by agreeing to "look at links others will provide for you" wins you no points on a site filled with people who are engineers by profession. It merely reveals you to be an ignorant buffoon.
Pfft, TERA did that far better.
It doesn't. It effectively removed all those aspect from the game except for slows. The game has no proper aggro system (mobs swap target randomly) nor tanking or healing system (you're expected to survive by kiting, self healing and twitch reflex dodging).
And it really just doesn't work. Combat is utterly bland and chaotic and for many classes it's a 2-3 button combo affair. I leveled an elementalist at launch and it was pretty hard - had to kite a lot even in world combat, and felt exceptionally weak in instances. Then I took a warrior and understood just how flawed the system actually was. I could literally 2-3 button through places where my elementalist didn't stand a chance - charge in, and hit hundred blades. Bam, everything in front of you just melted to massive frontal cone AoE.
Instances are even worse, because to compensate for terrible combat mechanics mob and boss health is massively overinflated. They're not hard to kill at all - they're generally metered not to cause significant damage to players that can't be twitch dodged with dodge ability, so it's a matter of just bashing and bashing and bashing and bashing on their huge hp pool until they finally decide to run out of health.
If you want fun combat system, GW2 is probably the last MMO out there to look at. Games pros lie in gorgeous art, innovative (back at release, common now) questing system and interesting crafting system. That's pretty much it though, the rest is awful - terrible combat, complete P2W - buy game gold from the publisher, almost everything including legendaries can be sold and bought for it and so on.
It's probably a great game if you want to learn how to be about 95% efficient in combat in about five minutes and want a completely casual experience of maybe 30-60 minutes a day. Otherwise, look elsewhere.