(and thousands of warheads if we're talking about Russia, China or US but not Korea and other small countries which probably haven't mastered MIRV yet).
At least according the Wikipedia China is estimated to have between 180 and 240 nuclear warheads. China don't do the MAD thing, their doctrine is set up to work by the Minimal Deterrence thing.
It will be up to a jury I suppose but there are some misunderstood implications. While the techie community cries foul every time some company slightly mishandles personal information or claims ownership over it; the moment a performer or company gets it's "secrets" or "identity" borrowed or stolen comments like "fair use" and "copyrights are a shame" pop up. If part of a Magician's professional identity is his magic tricks and those are free-range to be copied, how different is the data that makes up your "professional identity" or even your personal identity? At what point is something really your "own" if the moment someone simply sees it you cease to own it as yours? This is where I see massive hypocrisy in the tech industry.
You didn't expect the comments section on a major site to be a shining beacon of rational argument did you?
I imagine there are probably some of that going on, the "dedicated lines" thing I mean. The problem is that by its very nature there are some elements of the global telecommunications network that cannot be 'away from the internet', like core routers plugged into high-capacity backbone lines, like you cannot have the end points of a transoceanic fiber be 'away from the internet', and I doubt any army having to build a global communication network will want to lay their own private transoceanic cables.
Researchers have recognized for years that autism is heavily a question of chemical pollution in the environment, just like cancer. However, it's pretty clear that there is also a genetic component to vulnerability, otherwise we'd all have it. The problem still needs to be understood in full if we want to do anything about it.
That it would probably be simple as hell to circumvent that blocking. Either use one of the many alternative domains for TPB or use one of those url shortening services.
Alternatively, don't use messenger or find other way of referring to TPB via it.
Or as someone else mentioned, just copy and paste the magnet links, it's not like TPB actually USES the the torrent files anymore.
.... were the last words uttered by the person who successfully opened a sustained black hole on earth.
Interestingly enough, assuming the black hole was small and contained this probably wouldn't do anything. If the mass is small then the gravitation is small and you don't get any 'sucking' action, it would just sort of sit there being all black and ominous.
You are only left with lead/tin/bismuth alloys which have sufficiently low absorption cross sections, but relatively high melting points when compared with sodium/watter. Lead coolant has been used on Russian subs so we know it works.
Yeah potentially releasing tons and tons of lead in to the environment isn't going to be troublesome because lead is such a safe material, why I eat it by the spoonful.
Every defensive missile turns a ~95% certain kill of 20-30 million people into a chance they might live. Count me in on that..
And when every defensive missile causes several new offensive missiles to be built, what then? Or when every defensive missile results in five or ten extra warhead per missile then what?
Or when we decide that the Star Wars solution with nuclear pumped x-ray lasers in space is the optimal solution and start putting nuclear weapons in orbit then what?
Unless you eliminate all offensive weapons that is not going to fly. The whole argument against missile defense is that not only does it shift the balance so that a nuclear power with a well developed missile defense system could potentially launch a first strike without fear of reprisal.
Another argument against missile defense is that it provokes an asymmetric response, that is the easiest way to get around a missile defense system is to either launch more missiles or stick MIRVs on your missiles, thus a missile defense system could potentially drive an arms race, and don't want another one of those.
Is a system that could save millions of lives without infringing on our freedoms worth it? Yes. How could anyone think otherwise. These missile defense system can not feasibly be used offensively. If someone gets mad at us for wanting to be able to defend ourselves, isn't that their problem?
The problem with missile defense is that is shifts the balance. Nuclear War doctrine is all about balance, if one country is immune to missile strikes then that country could ostensibly launch its own strike with impunity.
Nuclear doctrine is weird like that, it's quite different from normal war.
How about just give them the same technology? They wont need to build more offensive missiles if they have their own method of blocking incoming missiles.... unless their motives are less than honorable.
If we didn't give them the technology, perhaps America's intentions are less than honorable.
Reagan is that you? That strategy worked so well when you discussed it with Gorbachev in the 80ies!
Are we going to be having another arms race now all of a sudden? I thought Reagan and Gorbachev figured out back in the 80ies that missile defense was a terrible idea, since it's trivially overwhelmed by an 'asymmetric response', that is one side just launching A FUCKTON of missiles.
There are such things as Sea-to-air cruise missiles. They're original purpose was for the U.S. Navy to defend itself from incoming Russian airplanes at ~200 miles range. They should be able to kill a drone plane too, as long as it's large enough to get a radar lock.
Did not know this, do you have any links with information on specific models?
There are also nuclear-tipped cruise missile Tomahawks, designed for killing subs (the pressure wave crushes them) or above surface targets like ships and planes (ditto). Of course that would be overkill for a drone.;-)
This I did know, there were also nuclear tipped torpedos around for a while, as well as regular AA missiles with nuclear tips although as I understand it once the "massive bomber strike" tactic became irrelevant due to missiles these were phased out.
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It was my impression that no-one actually uses MIRV any more, it was banned in one of the START treaties I believe.
(and thousands of warheads if we're talking about Russia, China or US but not Korea and other small countries which probably haven't mastered MIRV yet).
At least according the Wikipedia China is estimated to have between 180 and 240 nuclear warheads.
China don't do the MAD thing, their doctrine is set up to work by the Minimal Deterrence thing.
Yeah economic sanctions against China aren't really going to work, they make most of our stuff and we - as a culture - does tend to like our stuff.
Good thing you can unlike things as well, otherwise we'd all be screwed...
Still can't actually 'dislike' though.
Nope. All lies.
omg, your saw it and didn't record it with one of the million electronic devices that have a camera in it?
Well if he did that he would have had proof, seeing as how he obviously didn't see it that would make it hard to lie.
"megaton" - 10^6 tons. != particle
It will be up to a jury I suppose but there are some misunderstood implications. While the techie community cries foul every time some company slightly mishandles personal information or claims ownership over it; the moment a performer or company gets it's "secrets" or "identity" borrowed or stolen comments like "fair use" and "copyrights are a shame" pop up. If part of a Magician's professional identity is his magic tricks and those are free-range to be copied, how different is the data that makes up your "professional identity" or even your personal identity? At what point is something really your "own" if the moment someone simply sees it you cease to own it as yours? This is where I see massive hypocrisy in the tech industry.
You didn't expect the comments section on a major site to be a shining beacon of rational argument did you?
Did you only just get connected to the internet?
See sig.
That said, the copyright, not patent, is on the performance of the trick, not the mechanics behind it.
Just because you say something doesn't make it fact.
That thing in your sig does not mean "snarky" it means "approximately" among other things see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde
I imagine there are probably some of that going on, the "dedicated lines" thing I mean.
The problem is that by its very nature there are some elements of the global telecommunications network that cannot be 'away from the internet', like core routers plugged into high-capacity backbone lines, like you cannot have the end points of a transoceanic fiber be 'away from the internet', and I doubt any army having to build a global communication network will want to lay their own private transoceanic cables.
Researchers have recognized for years that autism is heavily a question of chemical pollution in the environment, just like cancer. However, it's pretty clear that there is also a genetic component to vulnerability, otherwise we'd all have it. The problem still needs to be understood in full if we want to do anything about it.
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That it would probably be simple as hell to circumvent that blocking.
Either use one of the many alternative domains for TPB or use one of those url shortening services.
Alternatively, don't use messenger or find other way of referring to TPB via it.
Or as someone else mentioned, just copy and paste the magnet links, it's not like TPB actually USES the the torrent files anymore.
Like, try searching for 'falun gong' then baidu.com stops responding. At least for me.
.... were the last words uttered by the person who successfully opened a sustained black hole on earth.
Interestingly enough, assuming the black hole was small and contained this probably wouldn't do anything. If the mass is small then the gravitation is small and you don't get any 'sucking' action, it would just sort of sit there being all black and ominous.
You are only left with lead/tin/bismuth alloys which have sufficiently low absorption cross sections, but relatively high melting points when compared with sodium/watter. Lead coolant has been used on Russian subs so we know it works.
Yeah potentially releasing tons and tons of lead in to the environment isn't going to be troublesome because lead is such a safe material, why I eat it by the spoonful.
Stay classy homie.
Barring and "should not be purchased with company funds" are two entirely different things.
Yeah oddly enough I've no problem with this. It's Microsoft's money, they get to make the rules.
Every defensive missile turns a ~95% certain kill of 20-30 million people into a chance they might live. Count me in on that..
And when every defensive missile causes several new offensive missiles to be built, what then? Or when every defensive missile results in five or ten extra warhead per missile then what?
Or when we decide that the Star Wars solution with nuclear pumped x-ray lasers in space is the optimal solution and start putting nuclear weapons in orbit then what?
Unless you eliminate all offensive weapons that is not going to fly. The whole argument against missile defense is that not only does it shift the balance so that a nuclear power with a well developed missile defense system could potentially launch a first strike without fear of reprisal.
Another argument against missile defense is that it provokes an asymmetric response, that is the easiest way to get around a missile defense system is to either launch more missiles or stick MIRVs on your missiles, thus a missile defense system could potentially drive an arms race, and don't want another one of those.
Is a system that could save millions of lives without infringing on our freedoms worth it? Yes. How could anyone think otherwise. These missile defense system can not feasibly be used offensively. If someone gets mad at us for wanting to be able to defend ourselves, isn't that their problem?
The problem with missile defense is that is shifts the balance. Nuclear War doctrine is all about balance, if one country is immune to missile strikes then that country could ostensibly launch its own strike with impunity.
Nuclear doctrine is weird like that, it's quite different from normal war.
How about just give them the same technology? They wont need to build more offensive missiles if they have their own method of blocking incoming missiles.... unless their motives are less than honorable.
If we didn't give them the technology, perhaps America's intentions are less than honorable.
Reagan is that you? That strategy worked so well when you discussed it with Gorbachev in the 80ies!
Are we going to be having another arms race now all of a sudden?
I thought Reagan and Gorbachev figured out back in the 80ies that missile defense was a terrible idea, since it's trivially overwhelmed by an 'asymmetric response', that is one side just launching A FUCKTON of missiles.
... ask 'Wow.. did they use *actual* servers in those days? Weren't there any clouds?".
Doesn't the cloud run on servers too? Just more them and more distributed.
There are such things as Sea-to-air cruise missiles. They're original purpose was for the U.S. Navy to defend itself from incoming Russian airplanes at ~200 miles range. They should be able to kill a drone plane too, as long as it's large enough to get a radar lock.
Did not know this, do you have any links with information on specific models?
There are also nuclear-tipped cruise missile Tomahawks, designed for killing subs (the pressure wave crushes them) or above surface targets like ships and planes (ditto). Of course that would be overkill for a drone. ;-)
This I did know, there were also nuclear tipped torpedos around for a while, as well as regular AA missiles with nuclear tips although as I understand it once the "massive bomber strike" tactic became irrelevant due to missiles these were phased out.
Cruise missiles aren't intended for an Anti-air role...