It fires hot gas through a supersonic nozzle and
you think it'd be silent?
* no recoil
Nope, 90 pounds of recoil from the afforementioned supersonic gas
* less resupply problems (lay a power cable to the forward camp instead of moving trucks full of ammo)
Nope, it takes big lumps of polonium 210 and compressed cylinders of CO2, Nitrogen and Helium, not electricity. By the way, how do you imagine it would be defending a 300Km power cable instead of a few truck convoys?
* if constructed right, can be enclosed completely = less susceptable to dirt, dust and water
Better be enclosed, it's full of gas at 2173K and
a nice lump of alpha-emitting Po 210.
A net energy output to target of approximately 1.9 kW sounds quite lethal to me.
Huh? 1.9kW is power, not energy. 1.9kW for how
long? Ah, 0.35 seconds. So that's 660 joules, most websites seem to be giving 1570J for a 5.56mm NATO round, so the fancy laser gun puts out less than half the energy of a boring old M16 or SA80.
Ah, but a distinction - it seems the SCO people are willfully blurring the patent/copyright issue. Yes, they have patents on Unix. No, it doesn't extend to EVERYTHING about Unix. And I bet they don't have a patent, say, System V startup script formats.
Well, natives have something called a birth certificate. They can also get social security cards
So the foreigners have hard to forge ID cards while the natives have nice easy to copy birth certificates.
Still a little problem there.
By the way, I'm a resident alien in a country where I have to carry an identity card. This only makes sense because the natives have to have cards too, and the police have the right to ask for your card when they feel like it.
I just don't see how "identity cards for foreigners" can work without going the whole way.
But come on, be honest: the real bad guys will lie in that form, won't they?
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the communist party?
Of course you'll lie if you should say yes, but THEY WANT YOU TO - it's the lie that lets them deport (or imprison) you. If you answer yes then you don't get the visa, if you answer no then you do time. Simple.
...get rid of the soldures with semi-automatic weapons in your air ports
What kind of fucking wimpy, nay even gay, country has soldiers armed with semi-automatic weapons in air ports. We butch European countries insist on Full-automatic weapons, preferably with big magazines. Excuse me, now I have to go in to a darkened room to calm down. Nurse!
Colonial involvement in the French & Indian/Seven Years War started with George Washington taking some guys out to Western Pennsylvania to defend his investment in the Ohio Land Company again the French at Ft. Duquense.
And those horrid unfair "taxes without representation" were imposed to pay for this idiot war.
First, the government should issue these cards to all foreigners and keep a tab on them.
(I feel like an idiot for replying to the same comment twice).
You do realize that "cards for foreigners" is only useful if "natives" have cards too. Otherwise how will la Migra tell the difference between you and some smelly mex who threw his card away?
There are over 10 million illegal aliens in the U.S. Most of them are overstays. The government needs to check on foreigners every now and then to see if they're still legal.
Nice idea. So, you're introducing the national identity card (with obligation to register residence and Frence style "controle d'identite" by the police) when?
the US would suspect [suspend?] that country's membership of the visa waiver programme
And you do know why the programme exists? The day France is removed is the day all those nice american tourists start needing a visa to see the Eiffel Tower.
The post I was responding to called for coffee growers to "form a cartel like OPEC." I had difficulty in deciding where to begin to show just how ludicrous this statement is.
...DNS service was quite problematic, on their very young ethernet network. My solution was to play with dig a little bit and enter a couple root servers into my/etc/resolv.conf.
Which was (or should have been) pointless. Why would a root server answer a recursive query? Oh, because it's runing Broken Internet Name Daemon.
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Thinks, 660 joules is 157 calories, so it'll boil about 1cc of water, so it's not going to cook very much of a human body.
P.S. what kind of barbarian would try to cook a turkey in a microwave?
Huh, I bought it in (late January, early Feb? can't remember). Finaly some good comes out of being in zone 2.
Bambi was a boy.
Fair? Fair? This isn't a game.
Surely you mean:
I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty, equality and justice for all.
So the foreigners have hard to forge ID cards while the natives have nice easy to copy birth certificates.
Still a little problem there.
By the way, I'm a resident alien in a country where I have to carry an identity card. This only makes sense because the natives have to have cards too, and the police have the right to ask for your card when they feel like it.
I just don't see how "identity cards for foreigners" can work without going the whole way.
Never? No Never!
Keep on dreaming.
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the communist party?
Of course you'll lie if you should say yes, but THEY WANT YOU TO - it's the lie that lets them deport (or imprison) you. If you answer yes then you don't get the visa, if you answer no then you do time. Simple.
What kind of fucking wimpy, nay even gay, country has soldiers armed with semi-automatic weapons in air ports. We butch European countries insist on Full-automatic weapons, preferably with big magazines. Excuse me, now I have to go in to a darkened room to calm down. Nurse!
Slashdot is only moderated by people with no sense of humor.
And those horrid unfair "taxes without representation" were imposed to pay for this idiot war.
Which did make the US.
Makes you think, doesn't it.
Or maybe not.
(I feel like an idiot for replying to the same comment twice).
You do realize that "cards for foreigners" is only useful if "natives" have cards too. Otherwise how will la Migra tell the difference between you and some smelly mex who threw his card away?
And you do know why the programme exists? The day France is removed is the day all those nice american tourists start needing a visa to see the Eiffel Tower.
Deterrence, it works if both sides have the bomb.
Since Orwelll (aka Mr Blair) was writing about
1948...
You know, a week ago I had moderator points. Bugger.
I first used ACL's in 1978 on an ICL 1903T running George 3 (and George 4 in the hours of darkness).
Can we talk about dick size now?
In other word's someone is doing something like:
(I think that Windows might do this if you pass a dotted address to gethostbyname).Protestantism provides better response times (no unnecessary priest gateways between believer and God) but Catholisism has better resource usage!