"When I was younger, we made it at home from real milk, sugar and a bit of flavoring agent in a hand-turned ice-cream maker and it was yuumm. Very different from the goo they sell today"
I think we all already know that while it sounds great, back when you were young, you had to walk uphill both ways to the supermarket to get all the ingredients.
This was posted above, but the parent apparently didnt see it, so I'm gunna paste it.
It basically points out that it would be pretty stupid to have everything reply on delicate electronics in space, and sorry, it's not that easy to beat the US military, no matter how unpopular its presidents actions may be.
"The US has no weapon systems that are GPS guided and never has, precisely because it is vulnerable. The Chinese may have just now gotten around to developing anti-satellite technology, but the Soviet Union had it ages ago.
The core guidance package of US weapon systems is extremely high precision inertial navigation (all systems described as "GPS-guided" are actually inertial -- the media is a bit stupid about these things, as GPS is an optional untrusted overlay on inertial navigation systems). Some intelligent terrain following weapons also use optical geo-referencing. As a matter of policy going back to the Soviet Union days, the US military machine views satellite systems as "nice to have" but its infrastructure is pervasively designed to operate under the presumption that there are no satellites in orbit. The vulnerability of the US military to massive system outages is greatly overstated; the Soviet Union was a much bigger threat on this scale than the Chinese are, and the US military has always been pretty religious about designing systems whose functionality was robust and in the face of rapidly degrading military infrastructure and relatively decentralized. It is easy to forget it, but the Chinese have nothing on the old Soviet Union in terms of technology and force numbers, and that was the doctrinal enemy of much of the modern US military."
I have one of these somewhere.... many many hours of some game with a tank and a jeep.... NO idea what the name was... but a helicopter i think would kick my butt often too.
My first inclination is to exclaim that I cant believ that they have been doign this for years.... but on the other side, if this has been happening with the drug war for years, and I havent felt a difference in my life at all, to some extent I have to aknowledge that this does not effect me personally in a negative way, and could very well have benefitted me to some extent.
That said, I think the constitution is non-negotiable, so when i say "hasnt effected me" i am referring to the day to day reality of my life, not the theorhetical erosion of rights, which do need to be defended.
I think we can all agree... that if the american indians had sent out regular "message in a bottle" type items across the ocean, describing their society, level of technology, etc, the Europeans would have been much friendlier when they arrived.
Or the europeans would have showed up alot quicker and did exactly what they did. I imagine they would have brought more guns though on that first trip.
This is so the chinese government can discern their high resolution pics of the moon from all the other people who have them.
which is sort of like.... ugh, I cant think of another siutation where there would be SO FEW other people that would have that level of rarity. i dunno, somrthing about slashdot readers and pretty girls, or leaving the basement.
because one cop getting gittery when ms retard here decided to wear electronics on her chest and refuse to answer questions, and we'd be giving her the darwin award.
Then she'd live forever.
I'm just supirsed that Darwin was about to pluck someone from the MIT gene pool... but thats justt he way it works people. Not all evolution seems like it's perfect.
"As opposed to a full design where you have an ejectable seat and other safety measures built in."
I think you are failing to realize that when the wings are ON YOUR BACK there is NOTHING TO EJECT FROM! You just need to unclip from the wings and you're fine... they will fly away. They you pull your chute.'
But lets examine your design enhancements:
Yeah, so you'd be sitting in a seat...good idea. Nice and confy. maybe be goos for a few gauges too.
maybe put the wings on the seat too... hmm, yes. and the fuel in the wing... jets on the back. think we need a cockpit? sure... lets do that... lets call it a jet aircraft!
As opposed to your design where the head is.... facing backwards?
thats where it has to go, and sorry, but if theres an impact, it doesnt matter WHERE the head is, it will shortly be smashed on the pavement. This system is designed to land by parachute, wings on back.
When you bend someone over and service a guy like that, its gay. Unless of course its a girl getting serviced, and thats then being anal. or a girl servicing a guy, and that being strapped. or a girl servicing a girl, which is awesome.
You aren't business savvy... thats not "jacking the price up" but actually just charging what the market will bear. In order to make a profit, you ALWAYS have to "jack it up" over what you paid to make it.
it happens ALL THE TIME with cell phones. If you want the newest today, it costs about $400, like the razor did. Now you get it for $100.
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"When I was younger, we made it at home from real milk, sugar and a bit of flavoring agent in a hand-turned ice-cream maker and it was yuumm. Very different from the goo they sell today"
I think we all already know that while it sounds great, back when you were young, you had to walk uphill both ways to the supermarket to get all the ingredients.
There's plenty of nukes on subs that dont need to go into space. if the entire atmosphere was unusable... it wouldnt matter.
And who has the biggest sub fleet? Biggest bomber fleet? navy?
Hmm... dont think thats it.
This was posted above, but the parent apparently didnt see it, so I'm gunna paste it.
It basically points out that it would be pretty stupid to have everything reply on delicate electronics in space, and sorry, it's not that easy to beat the US military, no matter how unpopular its presidents actions may be.
"The US has no weapon systems that are GPS guided and never has, precisely because it is vulnerable. The Chinese may have just now gotten around to developing anti-satellite technology, but the Soviet Union had it ages ago.
The core guidance package of US weapon systems is extremely high precision inertial navigation (all systems described as "GPS-guided" are actually inertial -- the media is a bit stupid about these things, as GPS is an optional untrusted overlay on inertial navigation systems). Some intelligent terrain following weapons also use optical geo-referencing. As a matter of policy going back to the Soviet Union days, the US military machine views satellite systems as "nice to have" but its infrastructure is pervasively designed to operate under the presumption that there are no satellites in orbit. The vulnerability of the US military to massive system outages is greatly overstated; the Soviet Union was a much bigger threat on this scale than the Chinese are, and the US military has always been pretty religious about designing systems whose functionality was robust and in the face of rapidly degrading military infrastructure and relatively decentralized. It is easy to forget it, but the Chinese have nothing on the old Soviet Union in terms of technology and force numbers, and that was the doctrinal enemy of much of the modern US military."
"The Vatican has backed evolution since the 1950's, but it seems that no one outside the religion got the memo."
Alot of times, it seems like people IN the religion didnt get the memo either. Maybe more than those outside.
I dont know, who wants to bet Seti finds an alien race with obviously advanced technology that will cure cancer faster than we can find the cure?
wow, really seems like 50/50 to me...
I was thinking to myself... what sort of nickname is IP for santa?
when they called this red cell, marcinko was kicking butt, and it wasnt compromising fax machines, but military bases.
:)
seal team ftw
ah yes, so many many hours playing that.... armor attack indeed! loved that game.
thanks for the name again.... now i gotta find out where the vectrex is at my parents house.
i wonder if that is worth anything these days.
I have one of these somewhere.... many many hours of some game with a tank and a jeep.... NO idea what the name was... but a helicopter i think would kick my butt often too.
My first inclination is to exclaim that I cant believ that they have been doign this for years.... but on the other side, if this has been happening with the drug war for years, and I havent felt a difference in my life at all, to some extent I have to aknowledge that this does not effect me personally in a negative way, and could very well have benefitted me to some extent.
That said, I think the constitution is non-negotiable, so when i say "hasnt effected me" i am referring to the day to day reality of my life, not the theorhetical erosion of rights, which do need to be defended.
"I'm sure the electric universe guys will have a field day with this..."
I'd say they will have a magnetic field day with this one.
I'm going to take a guess that they will be flying higher than birds can for these flights.
I think we can all agree... that if the american indians had sent out regular "message in a bottle" type items across the ocean, describing their society, level of technology, etc, the Europeans would have been much friendlier when they arrived.
Or the europeans would have showed up alot quicker and did exactly what they did. I imagine they would have brought more guns though on that first trip.
"You'd think... they'd go after Wal*Marts first. Or Target Frys."
I think you have that backwards... they'd fry targets first.
there a difference between a monopoly that noone else wants to do, vs. a monopoly that everyone wants into.
this would be the former.
This is so the chinese government can discern their high resolution pics of the moon from all the other people who have them.
which is sort of like.... ugh, I cant think of another siutation where there would be SO FEW other people that would have that level of rarity. i dunno, somrthing about slashdot readers and pretty girls, or leaving the basement.
you get my drift.
because one cop getting gittery when ms retard here decided to wear electronics on her chest and refuse to answer questions, and we'd be giving her the darwin award.
Then she'd live forever.
I'm just supirsed that Darwin was about to pluck someone from the MIT gene pool... but thats justt he way it works people. Not all evolution seems like it's perfect.
"As opposed to a full design where you have an ejectable seat and other safety measures built in."
I think you are failing to realize that when the wings are ON YOUR BACK there is NOTHING TO EJECT FROM! You just need to unclip from the wings and you're fine... they will fly away. They you pull your chute.'
But lets examine your design enhancements:
Yeah, so you'd be sitting in a seat...good idea. Nice and confy. maybe be goos for a few gauges too.
maybe put the wings on the seat too... hmm, yes. and the fuel in the wing... jets on the back. think we need a cockpit? sure... lets do that... lets call it a jet aircraft!
I don't know why i ever doubted you.
As opposed to your design where the head is.... facing backwards?
thats where it has to go, and sorry, but if theres an impact, it doesnt matter WHERE the head is, it will shortly be smashed on the pavement. This system is designed to land by parachute, wings on back.
When you bend someone over and service a guy like that, its gay.
Unless of course its a girl getting serviced, and thats then being anal.
or a girl servicing a guy, and that being strapped.
or a girl servicing a girl, which is awesome.
reads real good, wouldnt have worked so good as a strategy tocombat the situation in ww2.
sometimes you have to do things.
You aren't business savvy... thats not "jacking the price up" but actually just charging what the market will bear. In order to make a profit, you ALWAYS have to "jack it up" over what you paid to make it.
it happens ALL THE TIME with cell phones. If you want the newest today, it costs about $400, like the razor did. Now you get it for $100.
I don;t think anyone around here would be able to distinguish between the two fighters.
no FSM conversation is cmplete without mentioning the heaven complete with a stripper factory and a beer volcano.
Did you seriously just equate a movie with world opinion and foreign policy like the war in iraq is a side note to a Michael Bay film?
When they invent bitch slaps that can go through a monitor you better f'ing duck.