In fact the only thing France and the UK can do is destroy the population and economy of the US, Russia, or, maybe, China. It would be stupid for them to attack military targets.
Oh, yes. for comparison, what a crazy France could do to the US:
"Interesting targets" are first and foremost not cities, but launch sites. How many of those there are somewhere in Siberia is an interesting question.
Both you and the AC above are talking about fighting a nuclear war, making a counter-force strike to stop the Russians firing back. (*)
Apart from the US and Russia nobody has enough weapons for that - they (UK, France, possibly China) have enough to threaten MAD but not enough for a counter-force strike. (The 3rd tier, Israel, India, Pakistan have enough for regional MAD, not global MAD).
In fact the only thing France and the UK can do is destroy the population and economy of the US, Russia, or, maybe, China. It would be stupid for them to attack military targets.
Maybe I'm misreading your tone here, and you really are trying to be funny. If you're not, then what are you talking about? Climate change denial? Doesn't appear to me to be the case: http://www.esr.org/outreach/cl...
Pretty clear explanations on his site of why human factors are contributing to global climate change.
That's not his site!
That's the site for:
Earth & Space Research (ESR) is a Seattle-based, nonprofit institute specializing in oceanographic research. Our mission is to increase societal understanding of the Earth system through scientific research and public education.
ESR is a raving denier, he believes in a conspiracy to "fraudulently manipulate data and models".
I believe, and have repeatedly said, that the supposed "scientific consensus" on CAGW is not a conspiracy but an error cascade. I think most scientists are honestly trying to do right, but have been overly credulous about data and models that have been (and continue to be) fraudulently manipulated by a tiny minority of them.
Also, and partly as consequence of where I hang out, it has been quite unusual for me to hit on women with IQs below about 120 – and it may well be the case that I’ve never tried to interest a woman with below-average intelligence. (Er, which is not to say they don’t notice me; even in middle age I get lots of IOIs from waitresses and other female service personnel. Any PUA would tell you this is a predictable and unremarkable consequence of being an alpha male.)
Reminds me of:
I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.
At the time 5.56x45mm NATO was adopted, there was research conducted that showed that most engagements took place at shorter ranges. It was also decided that incapacitating an enemy with a smaller cartridge was better than killing them with a larger one, as it produced a burden for the opposing side
No, that was when.280 British was proposed, which the US rejected as being to small and underpowered. Only to adopt the pathetic 5.56x45 against all Nato rules when they realised the 7.62x51 would never be usable in an automatic (as opposed to semi-auto) rifle.
And then wank around for decades alternately denying the problems with 5.56x45 and working on things like 6.8 Remington SPC.
Tout homme étant présumé innocent jusqu’à ce qu’il ait été déclaré coupable, s’il est jugé indispensable de l’arrêter, toute rigueur qui ne serait pas nécessaire pour s’assurer de sa personne, doit être sévèrement réprimée par la Loi.
[...] the Muslim believers, [...] non-traditional arrangements (not just homosexual, but also open relationships or those with assorted plural relationships) [...]
Uh, "assorted plural relationships" are not "non-traditional" for all religions.
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In fact the only thing France and the UK can do is destroy the population and economy of the US, Russia, or, maybe, China. It would be stupid for them to attack military targets.
Oh, yes. for comparison, what a crazy France could do to the US:
Target 289, Kenosha, Wisconsin. pop 100,150
"Interesting targets" are first and foremost not cities, but launch sites. How many of those there are somewhere in Siberia is an interesting question.
Both you and the AC above are talking about fighting a nuclear war, making a counter-force strike to stop the Russians firing back. (*)
Apart from the US and Russia nobody has enough weapons for that - they (UK, France, possibly China) have enough to threaten MAD but not enough for a counter-force strike. (The 3rd tier, Israel, India, Pakistan have enough for regional MAD, not global MAD).
In fact the only thing France and the UK can do is destroy the population and economy of the US, Russia, or, maybe, China. It would be stupid for them to attack military targets.
(*) Forgetting, for a moment, the SLBM problem.
Bragging about the arsenal size is just idiotic.
Yup.
The US probably has 2000 odd warheads ready to go. Are there 2000 interesting targets in Russia?
Fuck, even France has 290. Destroy the top 290 targets and what is left?
Target 290 by size: Vidnoye,Moscow Oblast, population 52,198.
Granted, the United States Federal Government won't literally beat you with a hose,
No, they traditionaly prefer simulated drowning, sleep deprivation and stress positions.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel"
Driver "intel"
Option "DebugWait" "true"
EndSection
Then they decided that it needed to run some form of Windows.
"They" being Nicholas Negroponte.
Maybe I'm misreading your tone here, and you really are trying to be funny. If you're not, then what are you talking about? Climate change denial? Doesn't appear to me to be the case: http://www.esr.org/outreach/cl...
Pretty clear explanations on his site of why human factors are contributing to global climate change.
That's not his site!
That's the site for:
Earth & Space Research (ESR) is a Seattle-based, nonprofit institute specializing in oceanographic research. Our mission is to increase societal understanding of the Earth system through scientific research and public education.
ESR is a raving denier, he believes in a conspiracy to "fraudulently manipulate data and models".
I believe, and have repeatedly said, that the supposed "scientific consensus" on CAGW is not a conspiracy but an error cascade. I think most scientists are honestly trying to do right, but have been overly credulous about data and models that have been (and continue to be) fraudulently manipulated by a tiny minority of them.
http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4857819&cid=46400439
Also, and partly as consequence of where I hang out, it has been quite unusual for me to hit on women with IQs below about 120 – and it may well be the case that I’ve never tried to interest a woman with below-average intelligence. (Er, which is not to say they don’t notice me; even in middle age I get lots of IOIs from waitresses and other female service personnel. Any PUA would tell you this is a predictable and unremarkable consequence of being an alpha male.)
Reminds me of:
I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No.
But I... I do deny them my essence.
At the time 5.56x45mm NATO was adopted, there was research conducted that showed that most engagements took place at shorter ranges. It was also decided that incapacitating an enemy with a smaller cartridge was better than killing them with a larger one, as it produced a burden for the opposing side
No, that was when .280 British was proposed, which the US rejected as being to small and underpowered. Only to adopt the pathetic 5.56x45 against all Nato rules when they realised the 7.62x51 would never be usable in an automatic (as opposed to semi-auto) rifle.
And then wank around for decades alternately denying the problems with 5.56x45 and working on things like 6.8 Remington SPC.
Interesting math, which is stupidly hard to get a grasp on because of dumb imperial units.
Beef turns out to have an overall water footprint of roughly four million gallons per ton produced
"four million gallons".
The cited paper gives the slightly more understandable: beef: 15,400 m^3 / ton
Aargh. Which fucking "ton" is that? I assume they mean "tonne" because everything else in the paper is metric:
So it takes around 15,400 tonnes of water to make 1 tonne of beef.
Hey, Eric, does this look like Fortran to you?
Fucking clown.
aargh! Fucking spellchecker - damning, damned!
marshal arts?
ITYM martial - from Mars, the god of war.
Also, while in full on nitpicking mode, it's normally "damming with faint praise".
That is France.
No, it isn't:
Article IX
Tout homme étant présumé innocent jusqu’à ce qu’il ait été déclaré coupable, s’il est jugé indispensable de l’arrêter, toute rigueur qui ne serait pas nécessaire pour s’assurer de sa personne, doit être sévèrement réprimée par la Loi.
In general people are suspicous of protestors who refuse elections.
Re; The heartland video.
No, it's not sarcasm. They invited Scott Denning to their fake "ICCC6" conference and he demolished their idiotic denialist bullshit.
Great line to close on: Are you cowards?
Their are people out their who need more powerful drugs, and this is simply safer than taking 20 Tylenol a day.
Cyanide is probably safer than taking 20 tylenol a day.
WTF.
My mum was given Heroin while in hospital recovering from surgery(*). Best thing she'd ever had for pain.
((*) they tell you it's "diamorphine" :-))
Why isn't she using the law to have these fanatics hauled in front of a judge for the death threats they sent her?
Could it be related to the fact that there is a "Hussein" in the POTUS's name ?
No.
Cretin.
Finally, I don't think Islam is significantly more -- or less -- violent than basically any other organized religion I can think of save Buddhism.
Save Buddhism? You've never heard of Sri Lanka?
explosions, delays and long shutdown periods
Sounds like the server I keep under my desk!
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is way over budget and behind schedule.
And here is the big joke.
The projected cost of the F35 is US$857 billion (it will cost more).
ITER is estitmatated to cost a bloated EUR 16 billion.
So, which should we worry about?
[...] the Muslim believers, [...] non-traditional arrangements (not just homosexual, but also open relationships or those with assorted plural relationships) [...]
Uh, "assorted plural relationships" are not "non-traditional" for all religions.
Does it have an ssh client available to use in said console?
So far on Android the best I've found is ConnectBot. Honestly the screen real estat sucks, even on my Nexus 4.
of course it has a ssh client. It hsa OpenSSH.
Sailfish is a real GNU/Linux system.
But, what percentage of the CO2 increase is due to anthropological sources?
All of it.
The amount we are releasing is about twice the current increase - i.e. about half of what we're releasing gets taken up by the carbon cycle.