Of course I believe you, I said vaccinations, not flu vaccine.
Polio, measles, etc, are live virus, so there is a real risk there, and most people don't know the difference. I neglected to make a clear transition to the flu vaccine. For that I suppose I deserve the down votes, but I am not an anti vaccine nutter.
Flu is a different vaccine, it is dead, but it does not matter. As I said, it is not the viral damage of at kills you, it is the overreaction of a healthy immune system.
The flu shot does trigger that response, giving flu like symptoms. In a very healthy person it is a bigger risk than compromised immune systems because the compromised are incapable of the over reaction that killed so many young healthy adults in the Spanish Influenza pandemic.
The problem here is some people are unwilling to submit to the greater good by getting vaccines. Fine, they have that right to object to government regulating what must be done to their body, ala the abortion debate, but you need to keep your Typhoid Mary self away from the rest of us.
Well, one of those clinical outcomes of vaccination is getting the disease itself.
A small but significant part of those given the vaccination will get infected.
Also, a vaccination works in part by triggering the response of the body to the killed virus. This presents a special risk with the flu virus because it is not the virus infecting and bursting cells that kills you, but an over-reaction by your immune system that kills you.
Even if you don't get the flu, you can have the flu symptoms as a result of taking the immunization.
It was not man portable, the pictures show M29 mortar system, which is required, at a minimum to launch the Davy Crockett. It weighs 44 Kg, or 98lbs and requires a crew of 5 to operate optimally. Probably 3 in a pinch, spotter, gunner, ammo loader. No spotter == self-frag.
Together, they are closer to 200lbs, not including the coaxially mounted spotting/aiming gun.
Don't want to get caught in the backwash by lobbing it too close...
as for being secret... owning fissionable material is hardly expected under the 2nd amendment due hazard of simply storing and maintaining it.
You could, theorettically, buy the materials needed on the open market in the form of uranium meant for reactors and refining/enriching it, but the cost and secrecy would out you, presuming you didn't kill yourself with radiation poisoning.
I work in a highly matrixed environment. If one of my Project Managers, Distinguished Engineers, Director, or even a VP tried that stunt, they would find out what CC is for as I ask what task they want me to drop from the list of priorities... and I would include all the people at risk.
Let them fight.
And it is a case of the Peter Principle. But here is the thing: if he hangs onto the code control, you go limp and make him drive you on every task, suck him into micromanaging you. Eventually he takes a medical leave and finds a new job.
He is no longer a producer, he is supposed to make you produce. If he fails at that, then his job is on the line.
Ask for confirmation and approval for every little change via email. He won't be able to keep up, and if he starts rubberstamping everything, the mistakes will get credited to him, as you "got his signoff" before it went in.
Just make sure you follow everything he says and don't get any smart ideas and take the initiative.
When you get dragged into HR or a bad review, you have to be clean and ready to point out you did everything he asked exactly as he asked for it.
Digging out and refining fissionable material is expensive and hard.
It is poisonous, radioactive, and it takes about 130 lbs of refined uranium to get 1 lb of fissionable "Little Boy" material, and 140 lbs of THAT to make a single bomb. Given the cost of uranium, that is about 2.5 million, just for the fissionable material... plus the thousands of centrifuges you would need.
You are more likely to kill yourself from radiation making the bomb than anyone else.
Can you use other materials?
You could make a pile and enrich your own Plutonium-239... but that is even more toxic and more equipment to refine it.
Either case, you are talking a project with hundreds of specialists and huge material costs... try keeping that a secret, Tony Stark.
If Wal-Mart sells them and the quality goes down, it is a self correcting problem. An RPG that fails to operate correctly will get you killed. And they do take skill to use, check out what happens when some "freedom fighter" fails to make sure his buddies arn't right behind him... now apply that to a redneck with one and telling his buddies to stand back and watch this... the backwash is gonna spill someone's Bud.
And for the limitation of carrying them, it says right there in the 2nd Amendment: Right to bear arms.
If you have a tank, it bears you, not the other way around. You can have an armored vehicle, which can even be a tank so long as it has no weapons onboard. I can't imagine a weaponized horse, unless it is dead, carring a disease, and you launch it over the wall with a catapult.
Same with a cannon, or the modern equivalent of artillery. You can't carry it thus you can't bear it, you can't have it.
Personally, I do not own a gun, except an heirloom piece that belonged to my grandfather. While it could be taken down and fired, I only have a few rounds that he hand loaded almost 40 years ago.
Why? Because I don't have the time to spend at the range getting the experience I need to maintain it and use it properly. I have the wisdom to know I am not qualified to keep one for self defense.
I could use the attached bayonet very effectively, however... knife and sword skills are something I do maintain, as well as a bow.
That said, responsible people carrying firearms make me feel safe. If they are my fellow citizens and not policy/army, I am just fine with that.
Social security does not effect the deficit at all?
Then why is the President warning us that if the debt ceiling is not raised, we won't make Social Security payments?
With he is lying, or you are wrong.
Give you a hint: future payments are not from invested money, but from current payments by new investors. Grandma and Grandpa are not paid by their money invested over the last 45 years of paying into SS, but by the current payments of their children and their grandchildren. THere is no lockbox.
I.e. how a Ponzi scheme works... Until there are not enough investors, then it collapses. In this case, we start cashing in the SS IOUs, forcing the government to issue bonds to pay those IOUs and thus impacting the debt, and why we need to raise the debt limit to cover the bonds.
We are at that tipping point right now, it will only get worse as the baby boomers retire.
As it should be, personal contributions are a far more effective method of way of ensuring the money goes where people want it to go in times of crisis, not to implement foreign policy.
There is also a 4 gallon minimum requirement to get the blend to the right level and not end up over or under blended.
There are no 4 gallon motorcycles out there, nor will there will be, space and weight issues will prevent that on anything that is not an interstate cruiser.
As scooters and small motorcycles become more popular for commuting and small errand running this is going to be a serious issue.
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Of course I believe you, I said vaccinations, not flu vaccine.
Polio, measles, etc, are live virus, so there is a real risk there, and most people don't know the difference. I neglected to make a clear transition to the flu vaccine. For that I suppose I deserve the down votes, but I am not an anti vaccine nutter.
Flu is a different vaccine, it is dead, but it does not matter. As I said, it is not the viral damage of at kills you, it is the overreaction of a healthy immune system.
The flu shot does trigger that response, giving flu like symptoms. In a very healthy person it is a bigger risk than compromised immune systems because the compromised are incapable of the over reaction that killed so many young healthy adults in the Spanish Influenza pandemic.
The problem here is some people are unwilling to submit to the greater good by getting vaccines. Fine, they have that right to object to government regulating what must be done to their body, ala the abortion debate, but you need to keep your Typhoid Mary self away from the rest of us.
Well, one of those clinical outcomes of vaccination is getting the disease itself.
A small but significant part of those given the vaccination will get infected.
Also, a vaccination works in part by triggering the response of the body to the killed virus. This presents a special risk with the flu virus because it is not the virus infecting and bursting cells that kills you, but an over-reaction by your immune system that kills you.
Even if you don't get the flu, you can have the flu symptoms as a result of taking the immunization.
Jehovah Witness's have objections to certain procedures.
It was not man portable, the pictures show M29 mortar system, which is required, at a minimum to launch the Davy Crockett. It weighs 44 Kg, or 98lbs and requires a crew of 5 to operate optimally. Probably 3 in a pinch, spotter, gunner, ammo loader. No spotter == self-frag.
Together, they are closer to 200lbs, not including the coaxially mounted spotting/aiming gun.
Don't want to get caught in the backwash by lobbing it too close...
as for being secret... owning fissionable material is hardly expected under the 2nd amendment due hazard of simply storing and maintaining it.
You could, theorettically, buy the materials needed on the open market in the form of uranium meant for reactors and refining/enriching it, but the cost and secrecy would out you, presuming you didn't kill yourself with radiation poisoning.
One word:
Vibrablade.
I work in a highly matrixed environment. If one of my Project Managers, Distinguished Engineers, Director, or even a VP tried that stunt, they would find out what CC is for as I ask what task they want me to drop from the list of priorities... and I would include all the people at risk.
Let them fight.
And it is a case of the Peter Principle. But here is the thing: if he hangs onto the code control, you go limp and make him drive you on every task, suck him into micromanaging you. Eventually he takes a medical leave and finds a new job.
He is no longer a producer, he is supposed to make you produce. If he fails at that, then his job is on the line.
Ask for confirmation and approval for every little change via email.
He won't be able to keep up, and if he starts rubberstamping everything, the mistakes will get credited to him, as you "got his signoff" before it went in.
Just make sure you follow everything he says and don't get any smart ideas and take the initiative.
When you get dragged into HR or a bad review, you have to be clean and ready to point out you did everything he asked exactly as he asked for it.
The did not know about Mech's either.
So if Mech's are outlawed, only outlaw's will have Mech's.
Save the 2nd amendment for the coming MechWarrior revolution!
Digging out and refining fissionable material is expensive and hard.
It is poisonous, radioactive, and it takes about 130 lbs of refined uranium to get 1 lb of fissionable "Little Boy" material, and 140 lbs of THAT to make a single bomb. Given the cost of uranium, that is about 2.5 million, just for the fissionable material... plus the thousands of centrifuges you would need.
You are more likely to kill yourself from radiation making the bomb than anyone else.
Can you use other materials?
You could make a pile and enrich your own Plutonium-239... but that is even more toxic and more equipment to refine it.
Either case, you are talking a project with hundreds of specialists and huge material costs... try keeping that a secret, Tony Stark.
If Wal-Mart sells them and the quality goes down, it is a self correcting problem. An RPG that fails to operate correctly will get you killed. And they do take skill to use, check out what happens when some "freedom fighter" fails to make sure his buddies arn't right behind him... now apply that to a redneck with one and telling his buddies to stand back and watch this... the backwash is gonna spill someone's Bud.
And for the limitation of carrying them, it says right there in the 2nd Amendment: Right to bear arms.
If you have a tank, it bears you, not the other way around. You can have an armored vehicle, which can even be a tank so long as it has no weapons onboard. I can't imagine a weaponized horse, unless it is dead, carring a disease, and you launch it over the wall with a catapult.
Same with a cannon, or the modern equivalent of artillery. You can't carry it thus you can't bear it, you can't have it.
Personally, I do not own a gun, except an heirloom piece that belonged to my grandfather. While it could be taken down and fired, I only have a few rounds that he hand loaded almost 40 years ago.
Why? Because I don't have the time to spend at the range getting the experience I need to maintain it and use it properly. I have the wisdom to know I am not qualified to keep one for self defense.
I could use the attached bayonet very effectively, however... knife and sword skills are something I do maintain, as well as a bow.
That said, responsible people carrying firearms make me feel safe. If they are my fellow citizens and not policy/army, I am just fine with that.
Help him get promoted to "Software Architect" and get him out of the coding business.
Yes.
If you can bear (carry) them, you should be able to have them.
Given the extreme cost of the only man portable item you listed, I doubt many would have them.
What they did was the equivalent of yelling Fire in a crowded theater.
The only possible outcome of their action was to place law abiding citizens at risk.
He is right, we collect about 1/3 of GDP from local to fed.
http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/
So we are in line, and even then our debt is far past 16 trillion if you include state and local debts/bonds.
Social security does not effect the deficit at all?
Then why is the President warning us that if the debt ceiling is not raised, we won't make Social Security payments?
With he is lying, or you are wrong.
Give you a hint: future payments are not from invested money, but from current payments by new investors. Grandma and Grandpa are not paid by their money invested over the last 45 years of paying into SS, but by the current payments of their children and their grandchildren. THere is no lockbox.
I.e. how a Ponzi scheme works... Until there are not enough investors, then it collapses. In this case, we start cashing in the SS IOUs, forcing the government to issue bonds to pay those IOUs and thus impacting the debt, and why we need to raise the debt limit to cover the bonds.
We are at that tipping point right now, it will only get worse as the baby boomers retire.
Americans are generous, the US is not.
As it should be, personal contributions are a far more effective method of way of ensuring the money goes where people want it to go in times of crisis, not to implement foreign policy.
There is also a 4 gallon minimum requirement to get the blend to the right level and not end up over or under blended.
There are no 4 gallon motorcycles out there, nor will there will be, space and weight issues will prevent that on anything that is not an interstate cruiser.
As scooters and small motorcycles become more popular for commuting and small errand running this is going to be a serious issue.
I decorated the tree with crystal balls
Pass the kouchie 'pon the left-hand side,
Pass the kouchie 'pon the left-hand side...
Hey, it would be a two-fer, reduced output from coal, and reduced output from less humans.
We need to cull 3 to 6 billion anyway, so how effective will his oversimplified solution be, and can we sequester their carbon in a coal mine? /sarcasm
No one was watching the watchers.
Or outsource to China, who is a world leader in executions.
It is called Hardtack.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Oldest_ship_biscuit-Kronborg-DK.JPG
and let her write her own client/server apps to talk to each other.
I doubt it will amount to more than a footnote.*
* Like this.
Yes, well those items have not been abandoned by technological progress.
The buggy whip has, and the local store is on it's way out too.