The Chinese government has managed to rocket China from an impoverished post-WWII and post civil-war famine-plagued disaster into the modern China of today in under sixty years.
That's absolutely amazing. To expect our idea of freedom and democracy to work in China is to ignore its situation and culture. The US and Europe haven't had serious famines in living memory. China has. Order and prosperity are more important than freedom.
People don't generally revolt because they aren't free, they revolt because freedom is seen as the path to prosperity they do not have.
"Those people are religious fundamentalists, not exactly the kind of people you want working for you if you're looking for smart people..."
Even the smart ones are still Taliban under the skin.
I'd be fine with (legal) arrangements that discourage them from applying for tech jobs or any other jobs. They can go work for a mega-church/Christian madrassah. I'm straight, but I support freedom including sexual freedom, and that means supporting the civil liberties and rights of the Fags God Hates. It's not discrimination if what you do with a company that belongs to you offends people and makes them not want to work there.
Campbell Soup is usually quite good and can be used with other foodstuffs to make a wide variety of tasty dishes. When times get hard, people who spent discretionary income on boutique munchies can fall back on Campbell products and still enjoy the result.
If I hit the lottery I'd still buy their stuff, and of course Kraft mac'n'cheese. Paying more for chow does not make it taste better.
"No UAV is capable of fighting a mannned air craft and winning."
Hanging AMRAAMs on a UAV wouldn't be difficult, and neither would conversion of manned fighters to UAVs. Obsolete fighters are routinely converted into unmanned drones used for gunnery and missile tests.
F-16s are already fly-by wire, with only the throttle being (semi) mechanical mostly for reasons of stopcocking fuel flow, Interface the F-16 A-models in the boneyard (low hours, retired due to the drawdown) with modern UAV control systems, fit with AMRAAMs, and you'd have an agile fighter that can pull more G's than a human pilot could sustain and kill enemies beyond visual range.
"I don't have the numbers handy but I'm betting that they can get many unmanned aircraft for the cost of a single manned one."
The support, training, and maintenance cost is also far less (and less over the years). No pilot in the machine, so no life support, no climate control (except for avionics), no G-suit, no cockpit, no canopy, no ejection seat or seat rockets, no periodic or phased inspection disassembly of these systems, etc, etc.
The Air Force "gets" this, too bad much of NASA does not. Leave the meat at home station and if you lose the machine, you can afford more machines. Pilots and astronauts IMPOSE SEVERE CONSTRAINTS on the systems that support them. They are technically replaceable, but the emo aspect ensures war effort or program damage when they are lost. The days of accepting lots of dead aircrew are many decades gone.
About a third of murders don't involve firearms. Areas with widespread legal firearms ownership tend to have less crime than areas with severe gun restrictions. Finally, if someone is that nuts, operating an axe, shovel, hatchet or any number of other hand tools is no great obstacle.
Lizzie Borden was just a chick, but did a "hatchet job" quite smartly (and beat the rap too).
"Yep I'm American too and I've seen the twisted burned bodies in Falluja."
In person? Details?
Desert heat and decay make for propaganda-genic corpses. There are lots of such photos for the Googling.
Of course WP is legal to use against combatant personnel (so is napalm), but there aren't many WP casualties to show for it. Many bodies are "twisted" due to being killed in combat.
The US is behind the IDF in smoke operations, even the non-controversial sort.
WP is the most effective obscurant. Note the burn times in the FAS link and consider how an advancing force needs to reduce enemy vision.If the IDF wanted to target civilians instead of merely accept the risk of injuring a few they'd have set the fuzes for ground burst.
Fun fact: The media like to show photos of airburst WP rounds (note the WP-impregnated felt sprinkling downwards) but generally does NOT show the thick clouds of smoke they produce.
If you scroll down and click on the "similar images" link, then check "boom" "shell" "Gaza Strip" "horizontal", you'll see the clouds of smoke produced!
"Many of the people that stayed behind KNEW it was coming knew there was an evacuation order and made the decision to stay.
Those people chose to risk death, don't mourn stupidity."
The culture in the NOLA area had a lot to do with how people responded. A smart person would know they could WALK out and still clear the area of destruction. NOLA was and is infamously backward and crime infested. It's unfortunate that it was left in rebuildable condition. Any city that needs levees to protect it should be relocated when nature demolishes it. The US has more than enough space.
"Also, last I checked, Steve Jobs didn't repeatedly smash your face into a MacBook keyboard whilst pointing a shotgun at your head with his free hand until you bought music from iTunes."
After THAT sort of treatment, did you really think we'd tell you anything?
The first rule of the Steve Jobs Beat Down is "don't talk about the beat down".
"I could deal with supporting illogically arranged system settings much more happily were I not required to memorize a different path to basic settings for each release of the OS."
That's done to torture non-"Power Users". Works rather well.
[quote]The technology is already being abused to spy on large public gatherings where there is no evidence of illegal activity. Eventually, people are going to start fighting back, and the government can piss off on that because one shotgun blast (cost: $1) will blow a several thousand dollar UAV out of the sky without too much trouble.[/quote]
The little, low-level UAVs that is. Larger UAVs can loiter out of range of small arms.The obvious countermeasure would be to watch expendable UAV with expensive UAV, then bag the shotgunner. Larger UAV can carry EMP-hardened electronic systems.
As for HARMs, they can sometimes be spoofed, but its always been a race between decoy and missileer. UAVs with an aircraft radar signature can lure a SAM crew to launch, after which the site can be disposed of with cluster bombs. It's a lot easier than flying live Wild Weasel decoy missions in Southeast Asia.
The verbal interview should be followed (or replaced) by a practical demonstration of proficiency in troubleshooting on Cisco equipment with induced malfunctions. Allow X amount of time for each exercise, then move on so the testee isn't disqualified by one question.
I suspect that, as with fighters, the electronics and defensive systems are what is driving the replacement. Being able to fly the old bird until the new one is built eliminates the downtime of rebuilding the old aircraft.
"That's what happens when you can't get the budget for a failover server - it costs too much money. Meanwhile, 50 people sitting on their thumbs for half a day is apparently free."
I'd be seeking to exploit such willful management incompetence instead of tilting at windmills. If the system never fails, they don't "need" ya. As far as I'm concerned we could go back to 9x/NT,because when shit breaks down someone gets paid to fix it.:)
A lot of geek anguish seem traceable to idealism. The civilian commercial workplace is no place for that. Dodge the morons. horde information, and cover your own ass because no one else will.
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The Chinese government has managed to rocket China from an impoverished post-WWII and post civil-war famine-plagued disaster into the modern China of today in under sixty years.
That's absolutely amazing.
To expect our idea of freedom and democracy to work in China is to ignore its situation and culture. The US and Europe haven't had serious famines in living memory. China has.
Order and prosperity are more important than freedom.
People don't generally revolt because they aren't free, they revolt because freedom is seen as the path to prosperity they do not have.
"And two months ago I went to a big store to buy a simple ethernet card and they told me "nobody produces them anymore, get wireless"."
A classic salestard in action, and yet another reason to shop online.
"Everybody else sits in their parents' basement eating Cheetos and masturbating to Japanese tentacle porn? And how do you do that with style?"
This thread is worthless without pics!
"Those people are religious fundamentalists, not exactly the kind of people you want working for you if you're looking for smart people..."
Even the smart ones are still Taliban under the skin.
I'd be fine with (legal) arrangements that discourage them from applying for tech jobs or any other jobs. They can go work for a mega-church/Christian madrassah. I'm straight, but I support freedom including sexual freedom, and that means supporting the civil liberties and rights of the Fags God Hates. It's not discrimination if what you do with a company that belongs to you offends people and makes them not want to work there.
"Stop making live action remakes of animated work. Actually, stop making remakes at all, but damn, some things work in animation for a reason."
There is an easy solution. Don't watch it. The more these projects lose money the better.
Campbell Soup is usually quite good and can be used with other foodstuffs to make a wide variety of tasty dishes.
When times get hard, people who spent discretionary income on boutique munchies can fall back on Campbell products and still enjoy the result.
If I hit the lottery I'd still buy their stuff, and of course Kraft mac'n'cheese. Paying more for chow does not make it taste better.
"No UAV is capable of fighting a mannned air craft and winning."
Hanging AMRAAMs on a UAV wouldn't be difficult, and neither would conversion of manned fighters to UAVs.
Obsolete fighters are routinely converted into unmanned drones used for gunnery and missile tests.
F-16s are already fly-by wire, with only the throttle being (semi) mechanical mostly for reasons of stopcocking fuel flow, Interface the F-16 A-models in the boneyard (low hours, retired due to the drawdown) with modern UAV control systems, fit with AMRAAMs, and you'd have an agile fighter that can pull more G's than a human pilot could sustain and kill enemies beyond visual range.
Windows is the standard consumer OS. Apple is the second standard.
Attempts to differentiate from their way of doing things are fine for power users, but noobs don't need to deal with that, they need to do WORK.
[quote] Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too. [/quote]
Yeah, send the morons out to operate heavy equipment and then wonder why your underground fiber got cut...
"I don't have the numbers handy but I'm betting that they can get many unmanned aircraft for the cost of a single manned one."
The support, training, and maintenance cost is also far less (and less over the years). No pilot in the machine, so no life support, no climate control (except for avionics), no G-suit, no cockpit, no canopy, no ejection seat or seat rockets, no periodic or phased inspection disassembly of these systems, etc, etc.
The Air Force "gets" this, too bad much of NASA does not.
Leave the meat at home station and if you lose the machine, you can afford more machines. Pilots and astronauts IMPOSE SEVERE CONSTRAINTS on the systems that support them. They are technically replaceable, but the emo aspect ensures war effort or program damage when they are lost. The days of accepting lots of dead aircrew are many decades gone.
About a third of murders don't involve firearms. Areas with widespread legal firearms ownership tend to have less crime than areas with severe gun restrictions. Finally, if someone is that nuts, operating an axe, shovel, hatchet or any number of other hand tools is no great obstacle.
Lizzie Borden was just a chick, but did a "hatchet job" quite smartly (and beat the rap too).
"Hey, plenty of 17 year olds don't believe death is forever.
They're called "religious". "
Kinda hard to sell suicide bombing and similar sports any other way.
"Yep I'm American too and I've seen the twisted burned bodies in Falluja."
In person? Details?
Desert heat and decay make for propaganda-genic corpses. There are lots of such photos for the Googling.
Of course WP is legal to use against combatant personnel (so is napalm), but there aren't many WP casualties to show for it. Many bodies are "twisted" due to being killed in combat.
Some famous Gulf War examples of generic non-WP casualties.
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt_index.html
"I'm sure Canada wouldn't tolerate it from the US. We'd have to invade them and burn down their White House again."
Don't think you need to wait for an excuse!
The US is behind the IDF in smoke operations, even the non-controversial sort.
WP is the most effective obscurant. Note the burn times in the FAS link and consider how an advancing force needs to reduce enemy vision.If the IDF wanted to target civilians instead of merely accept the risk of injuring a few they'd have set the fuzes for ground burst.
Fun fact:
The media like to show photos of airburst WP rounds (note the WP-impregnated felt sprinkling downwards) but generally does NOT show the thick clouds of smoke they produce.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/smoke.htm
Typical airburst pic, usually shown without related images, but there are more here:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/84166551/Getty-Images-News
If you scroll down and click on the "similar images" link, then check "boom" "shell" "Gaza Strip" "horizontal", you'll see the clouds of smoke produced!
"Can we stop all this portmanteau crap? Please? It's like the imaginary label "President-Elect"... "
OK, you win. No more Obamanteaus.
Great.
All the Terrorists need is a few buckets of dead fish to disrupt the Intarweb.
"Many of the people that stayed behind KNEW it was coming knew there was an evacuation order and made the decision to stay.
Those people chose to risk death, don't mourn stupidity."
The culture in the NOLA area had a lot to do with how people responded. A smart person would know they could WALK out and still clear the area of destruction. NOLA was and is infamously backward and crime infested. It's unfortunate that it was left in rebuildable condition. Any city that needs levees to protect it should be relocated when nature demolishes it. The US has more than enough space.
"Also, last I checked, Steve Jobs didn't repeatedly smash your face into a MacBook keyboard whilst pointing a shotgun at your head with his free hand until you bought music from iTunes."
After THAT sort of treatment, did you really think we'd tell you anything?
The first rule of the Steve Jobs Beat Down is "don't talk about the beat down".
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"I could deal with supporting illogically arranged system settings much more happily were I not required to memorize a different path to basic settings for each release of the OS."
That's done to torture non-"Power Users". Works rather well.
[quote]The technology is already being abused to spy on large public gatherings where there is no evidence of illegal activity. Eventually, people are going to start fighting back, and the government can piss off on that because one shotgun blast (cost: $1) will blow a several thousand dollar UAV out of the sky without too much trouble.[/quote]
The little, low-level UAVs that is. Larger UAVs can loiter out of range of small arms.The obvious countermeasure would be to watch expendable UAV with expensive UAV, then bag the shotgunner. Larger UAV can carry EMP-hardened electronic systems.
As for HARMs, they can sometimes be spoofed, but its always been a race between decoy and missileer. UAVs with an aircraft radar signature can lure a SAM crew to launch, after which the site can be disposed of with cluster bombs. It's a lot easier than flying live Wild Weasel decoy missions in Southeast Asia.
The anti-gunners honed this strategy years ago. Remember how stupid it looks when your elected officials try to use it elsewhere/everywhere.
The verbal interview should be followed (or replaced) by a practical demonstration of proficiency in troubleshooting on Cisco equipment with induced malfunctions. Allow X amount of time for each exercise, then move on so the testee isn't disqualified by one question.
I suspect that, as with fighters, the electronics and defensive systems are what is driving the replacement. Being able to fly the old bird until the new one is built eliminates the downtime of rebuilding the old aircraft.
"That's what happens when you can't get the budget for a failover server - it costs too much money. Meanwhile, 50 people sitting on their thumbs for half a day is apparently free."
I'd be seeking to exploit such willful management incompetence instead of tilting at windmills. If the system never fails, they don't "need" ya. As far as I'm concerned we could go back to 9x/NT,because when shit breaks down someone gets paid to fix it. :)
A lot of geek anguish seem traceable to idealism. The civilian commercial workplace is no place for that.
Dodge the morons. horde information, and cover your own ass because no one else will.