...Also saved from public domain by Bono, may he burn in hell for his crimes against the people he should have served.
It's a bit unfair to blame the Sonny Bono Copyright Act on im, as he died 9 months before it passed--- it was named after him posthumously. However, his burning in hell is still appropriate, as (in his stated opinion) he thought copyright should last forever. What a fucking greedy shithead moron. The dangers of electing entertainers to public office...
Ah, but you're not counting all of the money collected as Social Security but then diverted into the military programs...
What are you talking about? Excess Social Security money is dumped back into the general fund by buying treasury bonds, thus floating part of the deficit. It's all a bunch of bullshit accounting, but it's certainly not being funneled off anywhere that his percentages didn't account for. Idiot.
Heh. Reminds me of a story about a sort of makeshift counterbattery fire someone once told me. Small Lebanese army military camp in Lebanon during the civil war, and every afternoon they'd go outside and play volleyball. Local shia militia jerks noticed the pattern and started dropping mortar rounds in the middle of their volleyball game every day. Immediate patrols trying to find them turned up nothing, as the shia militia jerks simply drop a few rounds, picked up the mortar tube, kicked sand over the base plate, and ran. Tiring of this, the Lebanese army guys measured the angle of the holes at the bottom of the impact craters made by the fuse assemblies being blown into the ground and used trigonometry to figure out where the rounds probably came from--- about a quarter mile away. Based on the size of the rounds, they knew the shias weren't taking the heavy base plate with them when they ran. They went out there in the middle of the night and, sure enough, right where they calculated, they found the mortar base plate. They picked it up, buried a big antitank mine underneath, and carefully concealed the plate just as they found it. Next day, they went out to play volleyball. Five minutes into the game, they head a loud explosion from the direction where the plate was. No mortar rounds ever interrupted their game after that.
NaOH gives you lots of OH-, which basic, the opposite of acidic. I think perhaps the word you were looking for was "caustic", which covers both acids and bases. Otherwise, spot on.
Think about it and RTFA, this is to stop WWIII from starting, in 1992 things were still very hair-trigger to a launch and annilation of the entire earth, all over some dude with a camera on a rocket, which would be unidentified by the US and USSR.
Obviously false. If it were about that, it would apply to rockets WITHOUT cameras as well. here's no substantive difference between a camera equipped rocket and a non-camera-equipped one as far as mistaking it for an ICBM goes.
There is a demo available (on Steam no less), you could have tested it on your computer before hand.
This would help if it was crashing at the splash screen, as it does for some people. But for others, the crash happens early in the game, but after the part that's represented in the demo.
Hell, if it wasn't somethign else they would just kill each other for the hell of it
are the entire problem, and voice the very perspective that could successfully keep Africa in its current state for the next 200 years. Have we really not yet learned?
I would think the problem is that the rampant tribalism encourages murderous free-for-alls, not that someone pointed the fact out. Not talking about it doesn't make it not true.
It might have something to do with the fact that throughout its history Africa has been repeatedly exploited by various foreign powers that considered its native inhabitants to be lower forms of life.
Are you kidding? I know it's popular to blame all the world's ills on western civilization, but in sub-Saharan Africa, it's simply not the case. The problems in Africa stem from the fact that there's no such thing as an "African". They may all look the same to us, but there are scores of ethnic groups, an almost equal number of languages, and dozens-to-hundreds of tribal groups within each ethnicity. For various reasons (climate and geography among them) the vast majority of African tribes never advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer and simple migratory agriculture stage. This encouraged the various tribal groups to remain small, rather than banding together. Small roaming bands inevitably engender conflict with one another. It's like the Hatfields and the McCoys, only with two hundred families instead of just two. Europeans arrived on the scene only recently, and had little hand in subjugating various groups--- they just allied with whomever seemed to have the upper hand and shared the spoils. The slave trade (for example) was entirely run by Africans taking other Africans and selling them off to white traders. The problem persists today. Nothing has changed in Africa to cause any of those small tribal groups to cooperate and join together. Instead they do what they always have: use whatever means are at their disposal to get the upper hand over whatever faction see as opponents. The fact that they do it with AK-47s and sometimes wear uniforms and claim to be the government of a country is largely irrelevant.
The martial arts is not effective against guns - there is a reason why the army issues its soldiers guns instead of martial arts training.
Ah but the military does train you in martial arts, at least I went through it. They call it hand to hand combat but it's simplified martial arts. And those who wanted it could get more training, one person in my united trained in what he called Chinese kick boxing. You could also learn karate, tai kon do, and others.
Simply, in close quarters combat knowing a martial art can mean the difference between living and dying.
Yeah, there's a marginal case where knowing those three judo throws could save you, but it comes after you run out of small arms ammo, and after you fix bayonets and lose your rifle. Martial arts are not an appropriate first option in a conflict involving firearms. The Imperial Japanese Army trained its soldiers in martial arts, but they issued every infantryman a Type 99 bolt action rifle just the same.
Honestly the only useful thing about Craigslist in my opinion is the musicians board. Everything else is so polluted with scams
If you have half a brain you can skip the scams pretty easily. Really, it's the same thing with eBay. I've bought and sold thousands of dollars in stuff from both eBay and CraigsList over the years, and not ONCE have I been scammed. But you know, there are plenty of people out there who run up huge credit card bills, or who lease brand new cars when they can barely afford to keep shoes on their kids' feet, or who buy overpriced houses at the peak of the market with no-interest loans, expecting to re-fi later... so yeah, I'm not surprised when people complain that there are "too many scams" on the internet, because people have obviously shown their inability to discern a good deal from a bad one even when it's as obvious as a man on the corner selling a "Rolex" for $75.
Perhaps they just don't like people getting tickets without connections to the entertainment elite.
That's exactly what they're afraid of. The Oscars are a supposedly prestigious event, with a long history of being the place where the best of the best in the movie industry pat one another on the back while an adoring public watches from afar. If flyover country got wind that you could get into the Oscars by buying a ticket on craigs list, we'd see an influx of pale-skinned bermuda-shorted Wisconsin fatties WOOOing and apeing for the cameras on the red carpet, thus cheapening the whole affair. Personally, I want to see the Oscars exposed for the lame circle jerk that it is, but I do understand them wanting to protect its "marketability".
The real question is why the MPAA spent the money on lawyers and court costs when the could have just bought the tickets!
Clearly it's a case of "when all you have is a hammer, all your problems look like nails". They handed the issue to the legal department and, because the legal department is nothing but lawyers, their immediate response was "let's get a judge to make them reveal the seller's identity". Obviously, a better plan would have been to email the seller and sucker him into revealing his identity one way or another. If nothing else, they could have emailed the seller with "I am interested in the tickets" and simply looked at the return mail address when he answered. That's all craigslist really has anyway.
And FWIW, it's the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, not the MPAA.
My father is also a professor (of civil engineering) and is dying of the same. He linked me this video - I'm afraid to watch it, afraid I'll break down.
Don't be afraid to break down. The classic Northern European stoicism isn't really all that healthy. The whole "real men don't cry" notion is ridiculous--- real men don't adhere to silly macho notions. Sad people cry. I friend of mine died last week from a bad reaction to a prescription drug. She left behind 3 young kids. The funeral was yesterday, and you better believe I was crying.
Blond comes home, finds her husband in bed with another woman. She bursts into tears, pulls a gun from the bureau, and points it at her head. The husband shouts, "No, don't shoot!" The blond replies "Shut up! You're next!"
He is self-centered (or rather, more self-centered than the average Joe) because of what? Because he sent out spam emails and didn't care that he got on your nerves? By that logic, every cold calling CCA is also a self centered bastard who's ready to pop any second.
Jesus, let's have a little reading comprehension here, can we? That's not his logic at all. His logic is that the more a self-centered bastard someone is, the more likely they are to commit a few murders before committing suicide, IF they reach the point of suicide.
I've worked in telemarketing. About half of them are just regular schmoes, but the other half, well, let's just say that if they were suicidal, you wouldn't expect them to stick a gun in their mouth at home, they'd more likely bring it in to work first and "share".
There's an enormous amount of electrical power that is basically wasted doing things like pumping water uphill at dams, because no one wants to use it at night and because power plants can't quickly change their output from day to night. There's plenty of capacity to recharge electric cars at night while people sleep.
That power isn't wasted. The kinetic energy from pumping the water uphill is used to generate electricity during the day. It's not "extra" electricity, it's electricity that would have to be generated some other way if it wasn't "stored" until daytime.
Something that the native americans have smoked for ages but is now going to cause Reefer Madness?
Native americans didn't have cannabis. It comes from asia, and didn't reach the americas until brought here by european colonists. Other than that, excellent point.
Mind telling me where Osama bin Laden is hiding out to then? For a 6+ foot guy on kidney dialysis he should be easy enough to find, especially considering your logic.
So how come he hasn't been captured?
We know where he is. He's in Pakistan. The reason we can't capture him is because of an arbitrary line on a map we can't cross. Pakistan swears they're looking for him, and insists that it cannot allow foreign troops in for reasons of sovereignty. In reality, they aren't looking for him, and the western "badlands" are teeming with jihadi nutcases. The government of Pakistan's grip on power is extremely tenuous, and it's pretty obvious that they don't have a lot of domestic goodwill to burn up. They're not going to waste it by hunting down a guy half the population doesn't really disagree with.
So yeah, it's real easy to avoid capture, so long as you have a kajillion fervent allies to shield you. I don't think this spam lord dude has that many friends.
Sure, because in this modern age of warfare there is never a need to capture a high value target for interrogation. I guess we should send the NYPD into the Afghan highlands to make arrests then?
Don't be an ass. The Army has specialized troops for such things, and they don't need special sub-lethal rifles to do it. The only reasonable way to capture a high value target is completely by surprise, killing all his bodyguards, inducing surrender. Fucking around with sub-lethal bullets isn't going to do jack shit as far as inducing surrender. The rest of us infantry-type guys, we shoot to kill, always. A dial-a-bullet rifle has no place in the warfighting military.
would it be easier to have two separate weapons, so you know what you're getting when you reach?
I'm sure it would. Doesn't really help with the real problem though, that of saddling trained killers with the with the burden of choosing which is appropriate. Soldiering and Policing are fundamentally different in that the police (theoretically) resort to deadly force only as a last resort. Soldiers are (again, theoretically) used in situations where deadly force is a foregone conclusion. Anyone trying to fight a war by minimizing the degree of injury to the enemy is going to lose, based solely on the definition of war.
The days of the battleship aren't over. It's just that now, battleships are used for shore bombardment or long-range indirect fire.
They are? Seems to me the air force/naval aviation does that stuff now.
The primary offensive weapon of any well-balanced fleet today isn't it's battleship, it's it's aircraft carrier.
Kinda my point, yeah.
However, the railgun the navy is looking at is capable of firing rounds accurately from miles away (implicit memory and I don't feel like citing sources at 2:49am); it'd be useful for, say, taking out the enemy aircraft carrier at a distance so your torpedo bombers could attack the enemy ships without dogfighting at the same time, probably?
Sounds like you're fighting WW2 there, friend. When's the last time we had anything even remotely resembling a naval battle?
In any case the battleship is here to stay.
Given that the US fleet has exactly ZERO battleships in service, and hasn't had any since the early 90's, I'd say that conclusion is highly debatable.
Battleships are a relic from the days before the rise of long range air mobility. When your largest transport is a DC-3, everything depends on your surface fleet. When you can fly a division halfway around the world in a week without having to land halfway to refuel, there's no longer any advantage to huge surface fleets. When the enemy can only attack your fleet from it's fleet, you need battleships. When the enemy can fly repeated sorties of aerial-refueled strike aircraft to pound your surface fleet with ASMs, your massive surface fleet is a liability.
the canceled Crusader artillery system was suppose to have played around with liquid propellant. I can't remember what happened to that.
The usual. Cost overruns, plus the fact that the need for complex artillery dropped dramatically once there was no longer a Red Army poised to invade Europe to aim at.
...since the navy has a hard-on for rail guns for their future ships.
One question I've never gotten an adequate answer to is: what does the Navy think it's going to be firing at with these rail guns? WW2 ended 63 years ago. The days of the battleship are freakin' OVER.
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...Also saved from public domain by Bono, may he burn in hell for his crimes against the people he should have served.
It's a bit unfair to blame the Sonny Bono Copyright Act on im, as he died 9 months before it passed--- it was named after him posthumously. However, his burning in hell is still appropriate, as (in his stated opinion) he thought copyright should last forever. What a fucking greedy shithead moron. The dangers of electing entertainers to public office...
Ah, but you're not counting all of the money collected as Social Security but then diverted into the military programs...
What are you talking about? Excess Social Security money is dumped back into the general fund by buying treasury bonds, thus floating part of the deficit. It's all a bunch of bullshit accounting, but it's certainly not being funneled off anywhere that his percentages didn't account for. Idiot.
perhaps that money would be better spent on a plan to grow some crops to eat.
We already grow enough crops. Hunger is a politically created distribution problem, not a problem of lack of food.
Three words: Counter Battery Fire :)
Heh. Reminds me of a story about a sort of makeshift counterbattery fire someone once told me. Small Lebanese army military camp in Lebanon during the civil war, and every afternoon they'd go outside and play volleyball. Local shia militia jerks noticed the pattern and started dropping mortar rounds in the middle of their volleyball game every day. Immediate patrols trying to find them turned up nothing, as the shia militia jerks simply drop a few rounds, picked up the mortar tube, kicked sand over the base plate, and ran. Tiring of this, the Lebanese army guys measured the angle of the holes at the bottom of the impact craters made by the fuse assemblies being blown into the ground and used trigonometry to figure out where the rounds probably came from--- about a quarter mile away. Based on the size of the rounds, they knew the shias weren't taking the heavy base plate with them when they ran. They went out there in the middle of the night and, sure enough, right where they calculated, they found the mortar base plate. They picked it up, buried a big antitank mine underneath, and carefully concealed the plate just as they found it. Next day, they went out to play volleyball. Five minutes into the game, they head a loud explosion from the direction where the plate was. No mortar rounds ever interrupted their game after that.
...sodium hydroxide which is highly acidic...
NaOH gives you lots of OH-, which basic, the opposite of acidic. I think perhaps the word you were looking for was "caustic", which covers both acids and bases. Otherwise, spot on.
Think about it and RTFA, this is to stop WWIII from starting, in 1992 things were still very hair-trigger to a launch and annilation of the entire earth, all over some dude with a camera on a rocket, which would be unidentified by the US and USSR.
Obviously false. If it were about that, it would apply to rockets WITHOUT cameras as well. here's no substantive difference between a camera equipped rocket and a non-camera-equipped one as far as mistaking it for an ICBM goes.
There is a demo available (on Steam no less), you could have tested it on your computer before hand.
This would help if it was crashing at the splash screen, as it does for some people. But for others, the crash happens early in the game, but after the part that's represented in the demo.
Statements like
Hell, if it wasn't somethign else they would just kill each other for the hell of it
are the entire problem, and voice the very perspective that could successfully keep Africa in its current state for the next 200 years. Have we really not yet learned?
I would think the problem is that the rampant tribalism encourages murderous free-for-alls, not that someone pointed the fact out. Not talking about it doesn't make it not true.
It might have something to do with the fact that throughout its history Africa has been repeatedly exploited by various foreign powers that considered its native inhabitants to be lower forms of life.
Are you kidding? I know it's popular to blame all the world's ills on western civilization, but in sub-Saharan Africa, it's simply not the case. The problems in Africa stem from the fact that there's no such thing as an "African". They may all look the same to us, but there are scores of ethnic groups, an almost equal number of languages, and dozens-to-hundreds of tribal groups within each ethnicity. For various reasons (climate and geography among them) the vast majority of African tribes never advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer and simple migratory agriculture stage. This encouraged the various tribal groups to remain small, rather than banding together. Small roaming bands inevitably engender conflict with one another. It's like the Hatfields and the McCoys, only with two hundred families instead of just two. Europeans arrived on the scene only recently, and had little hand in subjugating various groups--- they just allied with whomever seemed to have the upper hand and shared the spoils. The slave trade (for example) was entirely run by Africans taking other Africans and selling them off to white traders. The problem persists today. Nothing has changed in Africa to cause any of those small tribal groups to cooperate and join together. Instead they do what they always have: use whatever means are at their disposal to get the upper hand over whatever faction see as opponents. The fact that they do it with AK-47s and sometimes wear uniforms and claim to be the government of a country is largely irrelevant.
The martial arts is not effective against guns - there is a reason why the army issues its soldiers guns instead of martial arts training.
Ah but the military does train you in martial arts, at least I went through it. They call it hand to hand combat but it's simplified martial arts. And those who wanted it could get more training, one person in my united trained in what he called Chinese kick boxing. You could also learn karate, tai kon do, and others.
Simply, in close quarters combat knowing a martial art can mean the difference between living and dying.
Yeah, there's a marginal case where knowing those three judo throws could save you, but it comes after you run out of small arms ammo, and after you fix bayonets and lose your rifle. Martial arts are not an appropriate first option in a conflict involving firearms. The Imperial Japanese Army trained its soldiers in martial arts, but they issued every infantryman a Type 99 bolt action rifle just the same.
Honestly the only useful thing about Craigslist in my opinion is the musicians board. Everything else is so polluted with scams
If you have half a brain you can skip the scams pretty easily. Really, it's the same thing with eBay. I've bought and sold thousands of dollars in stuff from both eBay and CraigsList over the years, and not ONCE have I been scammed. But you know, there are plenty of people out there who run up huge credit card bills, or who lease brand new cars when they can barely afford to keep shoes on their kids' feet, or who buy overpriced houses at the peak of the market with no-interest loans, expecting to re-fi later... so yeah, I'm not surprised when people complain that there are "too many scams" on the internet, because people have obviously shown their inability to discern a good deal from a bad one even when it's as obvious as a man on the corner selling a "Rolex" for $75.
Perhaps they just don't like people getting tickets without connections to the entertainment elite.
That's exactly what they're afraid of. The Oscars are a supposedly prestigious event, with a long history of being the place where the best of the best in the movie industry pat one another on the back while an adoring public watches from afar. If flyover country got wind that you could get into the Oscars by buying a ticket on craigs list, we'd see an influx of pale-skinned bermuda-shorted Wisconsin fatties WOOOing and apeing for the cameras on the red carpet, thus cheapening the whole affair. Personally, I want to see the Oscars exposed for the lame circle jerk that it is, but I do understand them wanting to protect its "marketability".
The real question is why the MPAA spent the money on lawyers and court costs when the could have just bought the tickets!
Clearly it's a case of "when all you have is a hammer, all your problems look like nails". They handed the issue to the legal department and, because the legal department is nothing but lawyers, their immediate response was "let's get a judge to make them reveal the seller's identity". Obviously, a better plan would have been to email the seller and sucker him into revealing his identity one way or another. If nothing else, they could have emailed the seller with "I am interested in the tickets" and simply looked at the return mail address when he answered. That's all craigslist really has anyway.
And FWIW, it's the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, not the MPAA.
My father is also a professor (of civil engineering) and is dying of the same. He linked me this video - I'm afraid to watch it, afraid I'll break down.
Don't be afraid to break down. The classic Northern European stoicism isn't really all that healthy. The whole "real men don't cry" notion is ridiculous--- real men don't adhere to silly macho notions. Sad people cry. I friend of mine died last week from a bad reaction to a prescription drug. She left behind 3 young kids. The funeral was yesterday, and you better believe I was crying.
Going to prison, even briefly at a mild one, may have been too much to reconcile with his "wealthy high tech tycoon" image.
Which is odd, because I think if you spin it right, going to a mild club fed for a couple years could bolster that image.
Like the old blond joke, eh?
Blond comes home, finds her husband in bed with another woman. She bursts into tears, pulls a gun from the bureau, and points it at her head. The husband shouts, "No, don't shoot!" The blond replies "Shut up! You're next!"
He is self-centered (or rather, more self-centered than the average Joe) because of what? Because he sent out spam emails and didn't care that he got on your nerves? By that logic, every cold calling CCA is also a self centered bastard who's ready to pop any second.
Jesus, let's have a little reading comprehension here, can we? That's not his logic at all. His logic is that the more a self-centered bastard someone is, the more likely they are to commit a few murders before committing suicide, IF they reach the point of suicide.
I've worked in telemarketing. About half of them are just regular schmoes, but the other half, well, let's just say that if they were suicidal, you wouldn't expect them to stick a gun in their mouth at home, they'd more likely bring it in to work first and "share".
There's an enormous amount of electrical power that is basically wasted doing things like pumping water uphill at dams, because no one wants to use it at night and because power plants can't quickly change their output from day to night. There's plenty of capacity to recharge electric cars at night while people sleep.
That power isn't wasted. The kinetic energy from pumping the water uphill is used to generate electricity during the day. It's not "extra" electricity, it's electricity that would have to be generated some other way if it wasn't "stored" until daytime.
Something that the native americans have smoked for ages but is now going to cause Reefer Madness?
Native americans didn't have cannabis. It comes from asia, and didn't reach the americas until brought here by european colonists. Other than that, excellent point.
Real hard to avoid capture these days, is it?
Mind telling me where Osama bin Laden is hiding out to then? For a 6+ foot guy on kidney dialysis he should be easy enough to find, especially considering your logic.
So how come he hasn't been captured?
We know where he is. He's in Pakistan. The reason we can't capture him is because of an arbitrary line on a map we can't cross. Pakistan swears they're looking for him, and insists that it cannot allow foreign troops in for reasons of sovereignty. In reality, they aren't looking for him, and the western "badlands" are teeming with jihadi nutcases. The government of Pakistan's grip on power is extremely tenuous, and it's pretty obvious that they don't have a lot of domestic goodwill to burn up. They're not going to waste it by hunting down a guy half the population doesn't really disagree with.
So yeah, it's real easy to avoid capture, so long as you have a kajillion fervent allies to shield you. I don't think this spam lord dude has that many friends.
Sure, because in this modern age of warfare there is never a need to capture a high value target for interrogation. I guess we should send the NYPD into the Afghan highlands to make arrests then?
Don't be an ass. The Army has specialized troops for such things, and they don't need special sub-lethal rifles to do it. The only reasonable way to capture a high value target is completely by surprise, killing all his bodyguards, inducing surrender. Fucking around with sub-lethal bullets isn't going to do jack shit as far as inducing surrender. The rest of us infantry-type guys, we shoot to kill, always. A dial-a-bullet rifle has no place in the warfighting military.
would it be easier to have two separate weapons, so you know what you're getting when you reach?
I'm sure it would. Doesn't really help with the real problem though, that of saddling trained killers with the with the burden of choosing which is appropriate. Soldiering and Policing are fundamentally different in that the police (theoretically) resort to deadly force only as a last resort. Soldiers are (again, theoretically) used in situations where deadly force is a foregone conclusion. Anyone trying to fight a war by minimizing the degree of injury to the enemy is going to lose, based solely on the definition of war.
The days of the battleship aren't over. It's just that now, battleships are used for shore bombardment or long-range indirect fire.
They are? Seems to me the air force/naval aviation does that stuff now.
The primary offensive weapon of any well-balanced fleet today isn't it's battleship, it's it's aircraft carrier.
Kinda my point, yeah.
However, the railgun the navy is looking at is capable of firing rounds accurately from miles away (implicit memory and I don't feel like citing sources at 2:49am); it'd be useful for, say, taking out the enemy aircraft carrier at a distance so your torpedo bombers could attack the enemy ships without dogfighting at the same time, probably?
Sounds like you're fighting WW2 there, friend. When's the last time we had anything even remotely resembling a naval battle?
In any case the battleship is here to stay.
Given that the US fleet has exactly ZERO battleships in service, and hasn't had any since the early 90's, I'd say that conclusion is highly debatable.
Battleships are a relic from the days before the rise of long range air mobility. When your largest transport is a DC-3, everything depends on your surface fleet. When you can fly a division halfway around the world in a week without having to land halfway to refuel, there's no longer any advantage to huge surface fleets. When the enemy can only attack your fleet from it's fleet, you need battleships. When the enemy can fly repeated sorties of aerial-refueled strike aircraft to pound your surface fleet with ASMs, your massive surface fleet is a liability.
the canceled Crusader artillery system was suppose to have played around with liquid propellant. I can't remember what happened to that.
The usual. Cost overruns, plus the fact that the need for complex artillery dropped dramatically once there was no longer a Red Army poised to invade Europe to aim at.
...since the navy has a hard-on for rail guns for their future ships.
One question I've never gotten an adequate answer to is: what does the Navy think it's going to be firing at with these rail guns? WW2 ended 63 years ago. The days of the battleship are freakin' OVER.