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What you assume here is that the shells travel in a purely ballistic trajectory, as distorted by variations in air pressure, temperature, etc.
However, this is not true. Modern naval munitions are self-guiding; ballistic shells self-compensate to hit the target. There are reasons for this except the one round, one kill mantra; the foremost is that several current launcher detection systems use reverse calculation of the shell trajectory to locate the firing vessel; this locationing is effectively negated by self-guiding munitions. In addition, natural defenses such as cliff walls can be negotiated by these kinds of munitions, in cases where a nonguided ballistic shell would either hit the protecting mountain cliff or overshoot the target.
This thread confuses me. The focus seems to be on rules like the Bill of Rights and other government-imposed documents, which are of minor significance when it comes to perception of freedom in any place to live.
What really annoys me about U.S. so-called freedom is the fact that Americans constantly brag about how free they are, when they do not seem to reflect a minute about what freedom would really mean.
Other countries would be baffled about having speech [BEEEP] censored in TV shows. It just does not exist.
Other countries accept homosexuality as part of nature -- the term "gay rights" is like "employee empowerment"; if it existed and people took it for granted, you wouldn't need to talk about it. (Here in Sweden, an ad campaign is running in the subway right now with "Daddy, daddy, child, child" as headline for a family trip package.)
Other countries are downright confused about US's Victorian attitude to sex combined with the world's highest teen abortion rates; in the rest of the world, sex is seen as (just) a healthy activity that people should engage in -- especially teens. (Possibly with the exception of the Vatican and some Moslem countries.)
I could go on and on and on...
My point is this: everybody is so homogenous -- required to be -- and intolerant of deviants, that you do not really understand what "freedom" means any more. Americans have focused on freedom from government, when freedom among peers has a vastly larger effect on your personal happiness.
As soon as you realize you are not 100% homogenous with your peers, the United States becomes Hell on Earth. (From what I read on Slashdot, several people are aware of this in American schools.)
If you want to experience a place where you are free among your peers, I suggest you stay in Holland or Lichtenstein for a couple of weeks. The Unites States, however, is a joke in this respect -- comparable to many Moslem states.
This went straight into my diary as a reference to Cyberdyne Systems and their "upgrades to fighters -- and afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record".
Combined with the likely future that ours is the last generation of working humans (my children, entering the workforce in about 2025, will be outthought by computers), and that people are trying hard to cyborgize people, I'm not sure what to think of the future any more. But one thing is for certain: The life of my grandchildren will be dependent on technology to a degree I would not dare to guess.
I was in the same situation just recently, and to my surpise and joy, there are several really, really good books out there on what to do and what not to do. The classic mistake is, since we've been managing blackbox interchangeable components for so long -- in our code -- to go and treat our next subject of management -- people -- as blackbox interchangeable components, too. This is understandable from a human perspective, but very, very unfortunate. People don't work that way.
If you want some good pointers on where to start, try the book PeopleWare, considered the bible of tearing industry-style management to shreds and really understanding what a developer community needs. Better yet, it's backed by hard data, so you can justify it to your boss in turn.
When I read that book, it was an enlightening experience. Fact is, I think every manager should read it. Not just once, but once per year.
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This story is a duplicate of this slashdot submission from yesterday.
What you assume here is that the shells travel in a purely ballistic trajectory, as distorted by variations in air pressure, temperature, etc.
However, this is not true. Modern naval munitions are self-guiding; ballistic shells self-compensate to hit the target. There are reasons for this except the one round, one kill mantra; the foremost is that several current launcher detection systems use reverse calculation of the shell trajectory to locate the firing vessel; this locationing is effectively negated by self-guiding munitions. In addition, natural defenses such as cliff walls can be negotiated by these kinds of munitions, in cases where a nonguided ballistic shell would either hit the protecting mountain cliff or overshoot the target.
What really annoys me about U.S. so-called freedom is the fact that Americans constantly brag about how free they are, when they do not seem to reflect a minute about what freedom would really mean.
- Other countries would be baffled about having speech [BEEEP] censored in TV shows. It just does not exist.
- Other countries accept homosexuality as part of nature -- the term "gay rights" is like "employee empowerment"; if it existed and people took it for granted, you wouldn't need to talk about it. (Here in Sweden, an ad campaign is running in the subway right now with "Daddy, daddy, child, child" as headline for a family trip package.)
- Other countries are downright confused about US's Victorian attitude to sex combined with the world's highest teen abortion rates; in the rest of the world, sex is seen as (just) a healthy activity that people should engage in -- especially teens. (Possibly with the exception of the Vatican and some Moslem countries.)
- I could go on and on and on...
My point is this: everybody is so homogenous -- required to be -- and intolerant of deviants, that you do not really understand what "freedom" means any more. Americans have focused on freedom from government, when freedom among peers has a vastly larger effect on your personal happiness.As soon as you realize you are not 100% homogenous with your peers, the United States becomes Hell on Earth. (From what I read on Slashdot, several people are aware of this in American schools.)
If you want to experience a place where you are free among your peers, I suggest you stay in Holland or Lichtenstein for a couple of weeks. The Unites States, however, is a joke in this respect -- comparable to many Moslem states.
No, you're not the only one.
This went straight into my diary as a reference to Cyberdyne Systems and their "upgrades to fighters -- and afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record".
Combined with the likely future that ours is the last generation of working humans (my children, entering the workforce in about 2025, will be outthought by computers), and that people are trying hard to cyborgize people, I'm not sure what to think of the future any more. But one thing is for certain: The life of my grandchildren will be dependent on technology to a degree I would not dare to guess.
I was in the same situation just recently, and to my surpise and joy, there are several really, really good books out there on what to do and what not to do. The classic mistake is, since we've been managing blackbox interchangeable components for so long -- in our code -- to go and treat our next subject of management -- people -- as blackbox interchangeable components, too. This is understandable from a human perspective, but very, very unfortunate. People don't work that way.
If you want some good pointers on where to start, try the book PeopleWare, considered the bible of tearing industry-style management to shreds and really understanding what a developer community needs. Better yet, it's backed by hard data, so you can justify it to your boss in turn.
When I read that book, it was an enlightening experience. Fact is, I think every manager should read it. Not just once, but once per year.
Good luck!