without Russia the Germans would probably have invented nuclear weapons before 1945 and used them on Britain and the USA, so I would argue that even the invention of the bomb by the USA was by no small part due to the Russians keeping the Germans occupied so as to reduce their capacity for innovation (even though the Germans were still innovating new and terrifying weapons even when the Red Army were inside Germany)
You use firewalls or cut the pacific fiber optic cables. Done.
if the US does that then it is killing its own economy for the Chinese, which is great for the Chinese because they don't have to do anything but make threats of cyber warfare... typical American response though... "oh shit the terrorists are trying to attack us through the interweb... we had better destroy the interweb".
Nuclear ICBMs mean they blow up your territory but they don't win the war. They need boots in the ground to win.
its antarctica... the land of 12 people rocking up and thinking they're going to make a big hole and do something awesome and eventually not doing much except trying to survive the most hostile environment on earth until a boat comes and takes them home or they die
i live near a bunch of power stations, which use highly sterilized and purified water to turn to superheated steam to drive the turbines, except that if you drank such water it would strip all the nutrients out of your body and kill you.... purified and sterilized water isn't always as good as it seems (it may well kill any microorganisms the scientists are trying to discover and study)
mis-spellings can change meaning, but a misplaced apostrophe or an "ei" instead of "ie" is rarely cause for alarm as far as interpretation goes (except to ye olde grammar nazis of course)
There is absolutely no other valid interpretation.
ahhh but see that's where you're soo wrong.... there are what you would call invalid interpretations everywhere that are actually interpreted correctly (even the OP that was criticized in this thread). a misplaced apostrophe rarely affects the interpretation of what the person is trying to say (which is why i called it a good thing)... as opposed to other languages like japanese where even saying something with the wrong emphasis can completely change its meaning
same as using its (with no apostrophe) in place of "it is"... i doubt its going to confuse anyone:)
the tv has been trying... there's all these wellness reality tv shows now like biggest loser and whatnot
someone's gotta be at the bottom of the food chain (pun intended) so that the rest of the world can get rich... i guess western consumers wound up being the poor suckers who fork out their cash for shit that will slowly kill them
people who get really pissed off don't tend to plan that far ahead... i'm sure the north korean leadership would be happy enough just to have confirmation of a few million deaths in the united states
i doubt china would have much trouble replacing the US as a trading partner... after all just about every major corporation around the world is busting to take advantage of cheap chinese labor (if they don't already). american companies going elsewhere will merely open up the doors for other companies to move in.
not to mention major corporations are becoming more multinational anyway, so "american" (shell) companies would likely still operate in china, they just wouldn't be able to move their product to the US, so there isn't really any way that china could lose
Not to mention, the indebtedness we have to China would be forgotten as soon as we had to proclaim this 'total war' on China
forgotten by the US maybe, but not by the rest of the world, which would be looking to a more reliable currency. and when that happens... no more reserve currency status for the greenback and us economy tanks because nobody buys your debt anymore (while it keeps rising out of control)
if china lost the US as a trading partner, they would pick up others because everyone is trying to break into the chinese cheap labor market
meanwhile, american companies change countries and their labor costs increase, and the cost of manufactured goods in the US would increase as american companies try to remain profitable against other companies still with access to chinese labor
america didn't listen... now they are learning the hard way. when they went in they most likely expected it to be a walk in the park. how many US soldiers lost and how many billions spent?
NK can do shit if the US and SK bomb the shit out of them with 100 conventional cruise missiles
that's also conjecture... if it were going to happen it would have already... it will never happen
All they can do is to lob artillery to the south, do a bit of talking and be done with it.
perhaps you need to have another read of TFA, not to mention their nuclear tests
in any case their technology isn't what scares the US, its the will to use it.... Russia probably has thousands of nukes... the reasons why the US isn't afraid of them so much is because they are less likely to use them due to threat of MAD.
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without Russia the Germans would probably have invented nuclear weapons before 1945 and used them on Britain and the USA, so I would argue that even the invention of the bomb by the USA was by no small part due to the Russians keeping the Germans occupied so as to reduce their capacity for innovation (even though the Germans were still innovating new and terrifying weapons even when the Red Army were inside Germany)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon
http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/nazis-in-space.html
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/Secweap.htm
You use firewalls or cut the pacific fiber optic cables. Done.
if the US does that then it is killing its own economy for the Chinese, which is great for the Chinese because they don't have to do anything but make threats of cyber warfare... typical American response though... "oh shit the terrorists are trying to attack us through the interweb... we had better destroy the interweb".
Nuclear ICBMs mean they blow up your territory but they don't win the war. They need boots in the ground to win.
maybe you should google "sun tzu's art of war"
its antarctica... the land of 12 people rocking up and thinking they're going to make a big hole and do something awesome and eventually not doing much except trying to survive the most hostile environment on earth until a boat comes and takes them home or they die
say again i missed that... i missed that...
could be a multi-stage rocket engineer
you're obviously talking about a xenomorph
...and ripley isn't even born yet... we're so fucked
i live near a bunch of power stations, which use highly sterilized and purified water to turn to superheated steam to drive the turbines, except that if you drank such water it would strip all the nutrients out of your body and kill you.... purified and sterilized water isn't always as good as it seems (it may well kill any microorganisms the scientists are trying to discover and study)
no... i am your father
close to boiling even?
the mouth of the parasite xeno looks like a vagina... antarctica here i come :)
not quite as many as required to change a light bulb though... especially in antarctica
maybe they're using alcohol to sterilize the water... bring on the kegger!
mis-spellings can change meaning, but a misplaced apostrophe or an "ei" instead of "ie" is rarely cause for alarm as far as interpretation goes (except to ye olde grammar nazis of course)
There is absolutely no other valid interpretation.
ahhh but see that's where you're soo wrong.... there are what you would call invalid interpretations everywhere that are actually interpreted correctly (even the OP that was criticized in this thread). a misplaced apostrophe rarely affects the interpretation of what the person is trying to say (which is why i called it a good thing)... as opposed to other languages like japanese where even saying something with the wrong emphasis can completely change its meaning
:)
same as using its (with no apostrophe) in place of "it is"... i doubt its going to confuse anyone
the tv has been trying... there's all these wellness reality tv shows now like biggest loser and whatnot
someone's gotta be at the bottom of the food chain (pun intended) so that the rest of the world can get rich... i guess western consumers wound up being the poor suckers who fork out their cash for shit that will slowly kill them
how fucked up is a country when over a trillion dollars is only 8% of its debt?
like that matters with electronic warfare over the interweb (china rules this field) and nuclear ICBMs (Russia and China)
but yeah i guess if you limit your field of view to places like the bahamas, you're probably right.
people who get really pissed off don't tend to plan that far ahead... i'm sure the north korean leadership would be happy enough just to have confirmation of a few million deaths in the united states
i doubt china would have much trouble replacing the US as a trading partner... after all just about every major corporation around the world is busting to take advantage of cheap chinese labor (if they don't already). american companies going elsewhere will merely open up the doors for other companies to move in.
not to mention major corporations are becoming more multinational anyway, so "american" (shell) companies would likely still operate in china, they just wouldn't be able to move their product to the US, so there isn't really any way that china could lose
Not to mention, the indebtedness we have to China would be forgotten as soon as we had to proclaim this 'total war' on China
forgotten by the US maybe, but not by the rest of the world, which would be looking to a more reliable currency. and when that happens... no more reserve currency status for the greenback and us economy tanks because nobody buys your debt anymore (while it keeps rising out of control)
if china lost the US as a trading partner, they would pick up others because everyone is trying to break into the chinese cheap labor market
meanwhile, american companies change countries and their labor costs increase, and the cost of manufactured goods in the US would increase as american companies try to remain profitable against other companies still with access to chinese labor
keep daydreaming captain america
america didn't listen... now they are learning the hard way. when they went in they most likely expected it to be a walk in the park. how many US soldiers lost and how many billions spent?
NK can do shit if the US and SK bomb the shit out of them with 100 conventional cruise missiles
that's also conjecture... if it were going to happen it would have already... it will never happen
All they can do is to lob artillery to the south, do a bit of talking and be done with it.
perhaps you need to have another read of TFA, not to mention their nuclear tests
in any case their technology isn't what scares the US, its the will to use it.... Russia probably has thousands of nukes... the reasons why the US isn't afraid of them so much is because they are less likely to use them due to threat of MAD.
China is actually 11.3b vs 15b for the US
obviously this was meant to be 11.3 trillion, not billion... hopefully it didn't confuse you :)
no actually the real question is how much reserves of something do you require to meet projected demand?
the answer to that question often has a big effect on its price
but with regards to uranium, the chinese are a bit lucky because the australian government is basically giving it away
i didn't imply that Stalin's USSR won WW2 on its own... i merely stated that without them the war would have been lost
sheesh... get back in your box