I just wrote a post in the F-22 story about how the military made some premature assumptions about air-to-air combat that came back to bite them. I was going to comment on how I thought there's a risk that we're going to become infatuated with drones, not taking into account the fact that our latest military engagements included dominating air superiority and inconsequential anti-aircraft defenses. I have to admit I don't follow military aviation like I used to, but I can see how over-reliance on this technology will repeat history. Assuming we find ourselves fighting a military with more than pathetic ability, how are these drones going to handle countermeasures and ingenuity of a first-rate nation?
ICBMs *are* stealthy in that the MIRV warheads include duds and countermeasures to defeat anti-missile defenses. They have a fantastic range when you're talking about hitting any target on the planet; that "intercontinental" part in ICBM. They don't need to be refueled any more than a bullet needs to be refueled.
There's a reason we prefer ICBMs to bombers for nuclear deterrence.
By gadget, I mean new paradigm shift technology. The Raptor is new tech that still follows traditional ideas about what you need to do.
You probably don't appreciate what air superiority is because we've had it indisputably for the last 40 years. When you see an engagement where we can't fly drones and encumbered bombers unmolested, you'll understand how valuable it is.
The air force is always trying to mothball this gem of a weapon because it's not the slick sports car they want it to be, then when the s**t starts it's the A-10 that everyone falls in love with again. When I was in AFROTC, they were trying to replace them with an attack version of the F-16 lol.
During the decades before the Vietnam war, everyone was also convinced that conventional air combat was a thing of the past. We even designed our air forces and training regimens around the contemporaneous concept of high-tech air warfare. In Vietnam, however, it turned out that actual combat ended up being more of the same from previous wars. But, our pilots and planes weren't equipped to fight this way, so our pilots found themselves getting their butts handed to them. The Navy, which was less invested in the high-tech warfare concept, was the first to clue in and start training their pilots appropriately and going old school by putting "antiquated" anti-aircraft cannons back into or under their jets.
The point is that the military has been burned at least once badly by the idea that our high-tech trinkets will fundamentally change warfare. While the military will continue to adopt new technology, until there's a shooting war that *proves* the F-22 is an obsolete concept, they won't abandon traditional tactics.
BTW, the F-22 still serves a vital role. You can't use our last two counter-insurgencies to imply that air superiority aircraft aren't needed anymore.
Priests, Policemen, and Politicians. I just watched a documentary about a famous, now-defunct Black comedy club in Chicago called _All Jokes Aside_. The former owner noted the big city phenomenon of the 3Ps showing up when a business gets successful looking for handouts. And, if you don't pay up, each one will do their best to make you pay for it. In his case, he took care of the police, but not the politicians who made it a point to make sure he couldn't get a liquor license when he decided to relocate.
Note, I'm not a doctor and I don't have any inside information, but I know that lots of players have used all kinds of combinations of steroids with unknown/unresearched effects on the human mind. A friend of mine in college was one of those muscleheads and he said practically every roider he knew had mental issues. I take that to mean your brain is being affected, not just some hormonal changes. Now, how does that factor in after years to decades?
It won't be hard to do studies to isolate injuries or users.
I played football in HS. It was quite joke among the volleyball and tennis players about how dumb football players were. I asked them to compare they're playbooks to ours (end of discussion). It takes more intelligence to be able to play football well than lots of other sports. You not only need to know your responsibilities, you often need to know what other players are doing, and the appropriate reaction to the actions of any of your 8-11 opponents. The way a large number of NFL prospects wash out is they can't pick up their team's playbook fast enough.
And, you have to know all of this COLD. As in, you have to know your playbook so well it's instinctive. You don't have 2-3 seconds to dredge up the new formation and route when your QB calls an audible.
Was she just not using absolutely complete citations, or was she ripping off another author? Usually, when we get these stories about someone famous it's the former sprinkled with embellished headlines to attract more eyeballs.
I worked at a high school for a couple years and I wanted my job and the kids kept far apart. You friend your students and now they're a part of your social life whether you like it or not. Anything anyone else does on your list is now associated with your career as a teacher, and that could be extremely disruptive to your classroom. It annoyed me to no end to go out for a night on the town and see underage girls who the bouncers had allowed in (they'd scurry like cockroaches when they saw a teacher).
We did some renovation work on our new office suite and since we had access to the bare walls, we did all the cat6 wiring ourselves. Here's what I came up with.
* The biggest recommendation I'd make is for you to install good conduits to all your rooms and rooms you might even *remotely* think about expanding network access to. Don't just staple your lines to the 2x4 since that makes it impossible to secure new line later. Factor in the bulk of the cat6 you're running through conduits and make sure you've got plenty of breathing room. You can usually muscle cables through with lubrication, but save yourself the aggravation of having the cable-pull slip off. * Keep in mind the directions that you'll be pulling from and make sure that the cables can be pulled without snagging or going around sharp angles. We use angled joints in the appropriate direction for a pull. * Leave pull cords/strings inside conduits to each outlet and secure both ends so they don't get pulled inside the conduit later. You'll be thankful later when you have to expand one outlet for your spouse's new printer. * Label *both* ends of pull cords and strings.
Oh yeah, and future proof. Estimate high on outlet usage, use the latest cable standards (assuming it's still 6), and again don't be stingy running cable to rooms you don't think you'll need. If you don't run cable, at least run the conduit and pull-string for later. That Ethernet port might come in handy when you decide to put in a streaming set-top box in the kitchen.
Natural selection has nothing to do with the implication of the word "evolve," that we're somehow becoming more advanced. In natural selection, two sometimes contradicting forces; ability to reproduce and survivability compete to make you more able to pass on your genes in a specific environment. All the girls might swoon over the deadbeat guitarist or they might want to hook up with Bill Gates because he's worth billions. Girl moose might love a huge set of antlers so big that it makes it difficult for males to navigate forests and escape trees. Or, predation might kill off all the boy moose who can't run fast enough through the trees. In good times, you can make more choices based on attraction than survivability.
So, yes we're changing, but that doesn't mean we're becoming smarter, faster, or stronger. Just better adapted to the current environment.
I was first exposed to Linux when you had to be a programmer to complete an installation. I remember having to do manual configuration on graphics drivers to support my monitor. All of this was a major headache when all I wanted was a Unix platform to program on.
But, as has been posted numerous times, there needs to be a single Linux distro standard that app developers can build on. Let all the hobbyists/developers/researchers use their own custom flavors. I love Linux and I'd never touch it as a desktop platform.
Apple gets to leverage our legal protections and infrastructure for free. This is why corporations should be paying taxes and not just written off because they hire people. We have to hire armies of accountants to deconstruct their obfuscated tax returns, stretch out our infrastructure to support their sprawling campuses, and accommodate all of the lawsuits they fling back and forth between each other.
Now, all the guys who haven't bought a DVD or CD in 10 years can associate their behavior with the philanthropic pirating of a sweet old man. Next up, the feel-good story of a therapist ripping porn DVDs to distract sub-Saharan militias from raping villagers.
The only way with our limited knowledge of the universe is by looking at our solar system and comparing it to others. Our star is normal, after discovering gas giants are often further out from stars (leaving for rocky inner planets), our general layout is normal. About the only things we can say are remarkable (to our current knowledge) is our earth-moon ratio and how the earth's make-up was affected by a massive impact eons ago. IANAA, but from my layman's guess, there's nothing remarkable enough about us to start closing any doors.
Neither is reading. Human beings evolved to see "in the round" and not in focused linear scans. When we were children, both my sister and I went through periods when we were just learning to write where we wrote everything "exactly" backwards, like a mirror image. And, it wasn't all the time. We both outgrew it very quickly, but I'm sure it's been studied by some -ologist out there.
The climate change deniers repeating the same talking points aren't just random AC trolls, but members proudly posting and not getting modded into fish food.
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I just wrote a post in the F-22 story about how the military made some premature assumptions about air-to-air combat that came back to bite them. I was going to comment on how I thought there's a risk that we're going to become infatuated with drones, not taking into account the fact that our latest military engagements included dominating air superiority and inconsequential anti-aircraft defenses. I have to admit I don't follow military aviation like I used to, but I can see how over-reliance on this technology will repeat history. Assuming we find ourselves fighting a military with more than pathetic ability, how are these drones going to handle countermeasures and ingenuity of a first-rate nation?
ICBMs *are* stealthy in that the MIRV warheads include duds and countermeasures to defeat anti-missile defenses. They have a fantastic range when you're talking about hitting any target on the planet; that "intercontinental" part in ICBM. They don't need to be refueled any more than a bullet needs to be refueled.
There's a reason we prefer ICBMs to bombers for nuclear deterrence.
By gadget, I mean new paradigm shift technology. The Raptor is new tech that still follows traditional ideas about what you need to do.
You probably don't appreciate what air superiority is because we've had it indisputably for the last 40 years. When you see an engagement where we can't fly drones and encumbered bombers unmolested, you'll understand how valuable it is.
The air force is always trying to mothball this gem of a weapon because it's not the slick sports car they want it to be, then when the s**t starts it's the A-10 that everyone falls in love with again. When I was in AFROTC, they were trying to replace them with an attack version of the F-16 lol.
During the decades before the Vietnam war, everyone was also convinced that conventional air combat was a thing of the past. We even designed our air forces and training regimens around the contemporaneous concept of high-tech air warfare. In Vietnam, however, it turned out that actual combat ended up being more of the same from previous wars. But, our pilots and planes weren't equipped to fight this way, so our pilots found themselves getting their butts handed to them. The Navy, which was less invested in the high-tech warfare concept, was the first to clue in and start training their pilots appropriately and going old school by putting "antiquated" anti-aircraft cannons back into or under their jets.
The point is that the military has been burned at least once badly by the idea that our high-tech trinkets will fundamentally change warfare. While the military will continue to adopt new technology, until there's a shooting war that *proves* the F-22 is an obsolete concept, they won't abandon traditional tactics.
BTW, the F-22 still serves a vital role. You can't use our last two counter-insurgencies to imply that air superiority aircraft aren't needed anymore.
Priests, Policemen, and Politicians. I just watched a documentary about a famous, now-defunct Black comedy club in Chicago called _All Jokes Aside_. The former owner noted the big city phenomenon of the 3Ps showing up when a business gets successful looking for handouts. And, if you don't pay up, each one will do their best to make you pay for it. In his case, he took care of the police, but not the politicians who made it a point to make sure he couldn't get a liquor license when he decided to relocate.
Congrats! You caught me and proved your point! I guess I am a moron like other football players for not proofreading a Slashdot post. QQ
Worked pretty well for the 10 or so years it took to *find* his files!
Note, I'm not a doctor and I don't have any inside information, but I know that lots of players have used all kinds of combinations of steroids with unknown/unresearched effects on the human mind. A friend of mine in college was one of those muscleheads and he said practically every roider he knew had mental issues. I take that to mean your brain is being affected, not just some hormonal changes. Now, how does that factor in after years to decades?
It won't be hard to do studies to isolate injuries or users.
I played football in HS. It was quite joke among the volleyball and tennis players about how dumb football players were. I asked them to compare they're playbooks to ours (end of discussion). It takes more intelligence to be able to play football well than lots of other sports. You not only need to know your responsibilities, you often need to know what other players are doing, and the appropriate reaction to the actions of any of your 8-11 opponents. The way a large number of NFL prospects wash out is they can't pick up their team's playbook fast enough.
And, you have to know all of this COLD. As in, you have to know your playbook so well it's instinctive. You don't have 2-3 seconds to dredge up the new formation and route when your QB calls an audible.
Was she just not using absolutely complete citations, or was she ripping off another author? Usually, when we get these stories about someone famous it's the former sprinkled with embellished headlines to attract more eyeballs.
I worked at a high school for a couple years and I wanted my job and the kids kept far apart. You friend your students and now they're a part of your social life whether you like it or not. Anything anyone else does on your list is now associated with your career as a teacher, and that could be extremely disruptive to your classroom. It annoyed me to no end to go out for a night on the town and see underage girls who the bouncers had allowed in (they'd scurry like cockroaches when they saw a teacher).
Oh wait, was this a "best use of exaggeration" contest?
We did some renovation work on our new office suite and since we had access to the bare walls, we did all the cat6 wiring ourselves. Here's what I came up with.
* The biggest recommendation I'd make is for you to install good conduits to all your rooms and rooms you might even *remotely* think about expanding network access to. Don't just staple your lines to the 2x4 since that makes it impossible to secure new line later. Factor in the bulk of the cat6 you're running through conduits and make sure you've got plenty of breathing room. You can usually muscle cables through with lubrication, but save yourself the aggravation of having the cable-pull slip off.
* Keep in mind the directions that you'll be pulling from and make sure that the cables can be pulled without snagging or going around sharp angles. We use angled joints in the appropriate direction for a pull.
* Leave pull cords/strings inside conduits to each outlet and secure both ends so they don't get pulled inside the conduit later. You'll be thankful later when you have to expand one outlet for your spouse's new printer.
* Label *both* ends of pull cords and strings.
Oh yeah, and future proof. Estimate high on outlet usage, use the latest cable standards (assuming it's still 6), and again don't be stingy running cable to rooms you don't think you'll need. If you don't run cable, at least run the conduit and pull-string for later. That Ethernet port might come in handy when you decide to put in a streaming set-top box in the kitchen.
Natural selection has nothing to do with the implication of the word "evolve," that we're somehow becoming more advanced. In natural selection, two sometimes contradicting forces; ability to reproduce and survivability compete to make you more able to pass on your genes in a specific environment. All the girls might swoon over the deadbeat guitarist or they might want to hook up with Bill Gates because he's worth billions. Girl moose might love a huge set of antlers so big that it makes it difficult for males to navigate forests and escape trees. Or, predation might kill off all the boy moose who can't run fast enough through the trees. In good times, you can make more choices based on attraction than survivability.
So, yes we're changing, but that doesn't mean we're becoming smarter, faster, or stronger. Just better adapted to the current environment.
Yeah, but the point is the status quo isn't working. So, until a standard is accepted there won't ever be a Linux release of Battlefield 4.
I was first exposed to Linux when you had to be a programmer to complete an installation. I remember having to do manual configuration on graphics drivers to support my monitor. All of this was a major headache when all I wanted was a Unix platform to program on.
But, as has been posted numerous times, there needs to be a single Linux distro standard that app developers can build on. Let all the hobbyists/developers/researchers use their own custom flavors. I love Linux and I'd never touch it as a desktop platform.
This has been all over the news, but I just don't see how it warrants all the attention. The real story is what held up construction on the new tower.
Apple gets to leverage our legal protections and infrastructure for free. This is why corporations should be paying taxes and not just written off because they hire people. We have to hire armies of accountants to deconstruct their obfuscated tax returns, stretch out our infrastructure to support their sprawling campuses, and accommodate all of the lawsuits they fling back and forth between each other.
Now, all the guys who haven't bought a DVD or CD in 10 years can associate their behavior with the philanthropic pirating of a sweet old man. Next up, the feel-good story of a therapist ripping porn DVDs to distract sub-Saharan militias from raping villagers.
The only way with our limited knowledge of the universe is by looking at our solar system and comparing it to others. Our star is normal, after discovering gas giants are often further out from stars (leaving for rocky inner planets), our general layout is normal. About the only things we can say are remarkable (to our current knowledge) is our earth-moon ratio and how the earth's make-up was affected by a massive impact eons ago. IANAA, but from my layman's guess, there's nothing remarkable enough about us to start closing any doors.
My problem is the tray apps and services that are unavoidable that turn my machine into an advertising platform.
Neither is reading. Human beings evolved to see "in the round" and not in focused linear scans. When we were children, both my sister and I went through periods when we were just learning to write where we wrote everything "exactly" backwards, like a mirror image. And, it wasn't all the time. We both outgrew it very quickly, but I'm sure it's been studied by some -ologist out there.
The climate change deniers repeating the same talking points aren't just random AC trolls, but members proudly posting and not getting modded into fish food.
The Best: People decide what our government will be.
The Worst: People decide what our government will be.
Reaping what we sow. No matter how bad it gets, we all continue looking around complaining and doing the same things with even more enthusiasm.