Come on, people have reported Glaser's and other frangible ammo bouncing of heavy clothing(*). Most spammers are so thick skinned you'd get no penetration at all.
You'll need some kind of armor piercing ammo.
A little colateral damage is only to be expected in the war on spam.
(* ok, this is probably an UL, but with spammers would you want to take the chance?)
A "high end VCR with svideo output" is an analog (composite) to analog (chrominance/luminance) converter, not an analog to video converter. It's the video card (presumably you mean with S-Video input) that's doing the analog to digital in your setup.
How many fundamental Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, et al have you heard of in the past 20 years that have suicide bombed a market, or any other suicide killing for that matter?
So, the LTTE don't exist in your parallel reality then?
B. highly regulated (in which they can at least be forced to lease the lines to competitors to some degree, but in which the balance will still always strongly favor the incumbent over any competition)
But I don't see your but in which the balance will still always strongly favor the incumbent over any competition at all. Poor old FT ("the historical operator") are getting totaly screwed. How is the incumbent favoured? Anyone can use their lines at a regulated price, charge lower prices to the consumer than FT and provide more interesting services.
Your problem is that the regulators are useless or corrupt.
Do a man 2 fork on SVR3, SVR4, linux, bsd. Tell me what the biggest difference is.
Try the same on VMS, CMS, Vulcan, George III, Guardian, Multics...
Do you know what Unix is? Debian GNU/Linux is a Unix, Debian GNU/BSD is a Unix, arguably even Debian GNU/HURD is a Unix. It's a Unix if it has a Unix syscall interface, filesystem and utilities.
In Armor vs Armour it depends who gets to shoot first.
At shorter ranges the M1A1's APFSDS zips right through the Challenger II, but the Challenger II can hit the Abrahams at longer ranges with its HESH, probably not killing the crew, but a mobility kill is good enough.
You're quite right of course. If the "resistance" in Iraq confined its attacks to America soldiers, they would be freedom fighters. In reality, attacks on American troops are rare. They mostly target other Iraqis who simply aren't the "right" type of Muslim. That barely even qualifies as terrorism; it's more along the lines of a slow, decentralized holocaust.
New data reveal, surprisingly, that the vast majority of the Iraqi insurgents' attacks are still aimed not at Iraqi security forces or at civilians, but rather at U.S. and coalition troops. In other words, as much as was the case a year or two ago, the Iraqi insurgency is primarily an anti-occupation insurgency.
The statistics--compiled by the multinational military command in Iraq and reproduced in a report released Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office--raise anew a basic question in the debate over the future of U.S. policy toward Iraq: Is the presence of American troops doing more harm or more good?
There is pretty good evidence that the Iraqi government is running sectarian death squads (Salvador option anyone? Just where is Negroponte these days?) - just how many times do we need to be told that the assasins were dressed as "special police commandos" before we work out that they were special police commandos. However, the "terrorists" are still doing what they've been doing all along, attacking the army of occupation.
Imagine if the French resistance in WW2 had schismed into seperate Catholic and Protestant factions, and they'd spent all their time killing each other instead of collecting useful intelligence for the Allies
Well, Gaullist and Communist actualy. Not much actual fighting between them, but if you imagine they were the best of buddies... Check out Yougoslavia for an even nastier example of how things can become under an occupation. And the resistance probably didn't see theire role as "collecting useful intelligence", a few assinations of colaborateurs, IED's blowing up enemy convoys, that was more their idea of fun.
They were on the side of the alies, they were one of the allies, same thing.
Imprecise language can indicate imprecise thinking. Some people like to forget who the allies were.
I've never heard someone say "they'd be speaking Russian" if the US didn't get involved until you said it. Typically, I've heard people say, "they'd be speaking German".
Yes, I know that everyone says "they'd be speaking German". It's a pretty dumb thing to say if you think about it. It assumes that Germany was beaten by the US, which is not exactly what happened. When was D-day? When was Stalingrad?
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Votre ligne est raccordée à un DSLAM compatible ADSL2+
Attainable bitrate 945 kb/s (up) 4936 kb/s (down)
The last 2.2 miles for me.
Of course there's no way they'll bring fiber to my house, even the telephone is on overhead poles, and the lazy bastards stopped the cable TV about 50m away.
I find it odd that in a nation that was born in a struggle for self-determination and to hold its rulers accountable, people are so ready to abrogate that responsibility.
But in a nation born from the struggle to fight wars and refuse to pay the taxes necessary to pay for them?
Duh, we're talking about drowning people to make them talk (waterboarding), not "stacking some people naked, or making them wear panties on their heads".
And if you didn't notice that some people were beaten to death in Abu Ghraib maybe you need get an ear and eye test.
Actually, out of the 200-plus nations on the planet, I think you'd have a hard time finding any ranking system that puts more than 20 of them above the US.
Duh, there are how many countries in the EU?
And if we add the old (white) commonwealth (Canada, Australia, New Zealand)?
(Not that I necessarily agree that an EU country is automaticaly better than the US on human rights grounds, but it's an arguable case - death penalties, inhuman prison system, imprisonment rates comparable to china...)
"When the missile is a safe distance from the operator the second stage fires, which rapidly accelerates the missile to burn out velocity of about Mach 3.5 400 m away from the operator."
The Nike based part of Sentinel was Spartan. It detonated high up, so an ordinary nuke was used. (Spartan apparently used a 5MT W-71 instead of the 20KT W-31 used by Nike Zeus). http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-49.html
The close in part of Sentinel, Sprint, used an enhanced radiation warhead (neutron bomb), the W-66, to try and make the incoming warhead fizzle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile)
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Come on, people have reported Glaser's and other frangible ammo bouncing of heavy clothing(*). Most spammers are so thick skinned you'd get no penetration at all.
You'll need some kind of armor piercing ammo.
A little colateral damage is only to be expected in the war on spam.
(* ok, this is probably an UL, but with spammers would you want to take the chance?)
Wha?
A "high end VCR with svideo output" is an analog (composite) to analog (chrominance/luminance) converter, not an analog to video converter. It's the video card (presumably you mean with S-Video input) that's doing the analog to digital in your setup.
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LaserDisc video is analog. (Sound is either analog or digital).
But I don't see your but in which the balance will still always strongly favor the incumbent over any competition at all. Poor old FT ("the historical operator") are getting totaly screwed. How is the incumbent favoured? Anyone can use their lines at a regulated price, charge lower prices to the consumer than FT and provide more interesting services.
Your problem is that the regulators are useless or corrupt.
Have I used Unix?
Yes.
Very dissimilar?
Do a man 2 fork on SVR3, SVR4, linux, bsd. Tell me what the biggest difference is.
Try the same on VMS, CMS, Vulcan, George III, Guardian, Multics...
Do you know what Unix is? Debian GNU/Linux is a Unix, Debian GNU/BSD is a Unix, arguably even Debian GNU/HURD is a Unix. It's a Unix if it has a Unix syscall interface, filesystem and utilities.
What rubbish.
GNU/Linux is a clone of Unix.
In Armor vs Armour it depends who gets to shoot first.
At shorter ranges the M1A1's APFSDS zips right through the Challenger II, but the Challenger II can hit the Abrahams at longer ranges with its HESH, probably not killing the crew, but a mobility kill is good enough.
Ok?
Sez who?
Try http://www.slate.com/id/2135859/
There is pretty good evidence that the Iraqi government is running sectarian death squads (Salvador option anyone? Just where is Negroponte these days?) - just how many times do we need to be told that the assasins were dressed as "special police commandos" before we work out that they were special police commandos. However, the "terrorists" are still doing what they've been doing all along, attacking the army of occupation.
Well, Gaullist and Communist actualy. Not much actual fighting between them, but if you imagine they were the best of buddies... Check out Yougoslavia for an even nastier example of how things can become under an occupation. And the resistance probably didn't see theire role as "collecting useful intelligence", a few assinations of colaborateurs, IED's blowing up enemy convoys, that was more their idea of fun.
Imprecise language can indicate imprecise thinking. Some people like to forget who the allies were.
Yes, I know that everyone says "they'd be speaking German". It's a pretty dumb thing to say if you think about it. It assumes that Germany was beaten by the US, which is not exactly what happened. When was D-day? When was Stalingrad?
Bizzare grammar, bizzare history.
Russia was one of the allies, not "on the side of the allies".
The argument was what would have happened to France if the US was not one of the allied powers.
The answer is that France would be occupied by the USSR when it defeated Germany.
Why would you think that?
Nah, DSL was invented in 1989ish.
What is this "monthly cap" of which you speak? Are you talking about some kind of obsolete contraceptive method?
Half mile, I'd kill to have half a mile:
The last 2.2 miles for me.
Of course there's no way they'll bring fiber to my house, even the telephone is on overhead poles, and the lazy bastards stopped the cable TV about 50m away.
Speaking Russian.
Torture is terrorism.
It is useless as an information gathering tool, as any cop could tell you. But it's a great way to scare people.
But in a nation born from the struggle to fight wars and refuse to pay the taxes necessary to pay for them?
Duh, we're talking about drowning people to make them talk (waterboarding), not "stacking some people naked, or making them wear panties on their heads".
And if you didn't notice that some people were beaten to death in Abu Ghraib maybe you need get an ear and eye test.
Barbarians don't speak Greek. Most Americans don't speak Greek. Most Americans are barbarians.
Civilised people live in cities. Most Americans don't live in cities. Most Americans are uncivilised.
Duh, there are how many countries in the EU?
And if we add the old (white) commonwealth (Canada, Australia, New Zealand)?
(Not that I necessarily agree that an EU country is automaticaly better than the US on human rights grounds, but it's an arguable case - death penalties, inhuman prison system, imprisonment rates comparable to china...)
You're wrong. The LM was depressurised for takeoff and landing.
Hah. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starstreak
"When the missile is a safe distance from the operator the second stage fires, which rapidly accelerates the missile to burn out velocity of about Mach 3.5 400 m away from the operator."
Just a little idea,
but maybe if there were no Israeli soldiers on Lebanese soil maybe they wouldn't be captured?
The Nike based part of Sentinel was Spartan. It detonated high up, so an ordinary nuke was used. (Spartan apparently used a 5MT W-71 instead of the 20KT W-31 used by Nike Zeus). http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-49.html
The close in part of Sentinel, Sprint, used an enhanced radiation warhead (neutron bomb), the W-66, to try and make the incoming warhead fizzle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile)