Secret patents exist on technologies that have military applications... cryptography systems are very commonly granted secret patents, because you don't want any member of the public to see the algorithm your army is using to encrypt its top secret files.
Why not? The algorithm is insignificant to breaking the encryption, the 2048 bit private key is the secret sauce. Depending on the application like radio transmission, it changes daily.
I saw the video, both the full version, and the version edited to paint the US soldiers involved in the worst possible light, and in both everybody's behavior was combative, They were armed with assault rifles, weapons were pointed outward, they were moving in a military combat formation and the cameraman was located central and rearward in the formation which is SOP location for crew served weapons like Rocket Propelled Grenade launcher
Well there is ANZUS The Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty, and there is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization"> South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), I imagine that there is a lot of sub-treaty agreements and letters of understanding. Austrailia like Canada has always been a heavy liffter defense wise always contributing far more than one would expect for their respective population sizes; so you might be very surprized what the lawyers can dig up from the existing pool of national laws, treaties and international agreements.
On shooting wounded soldiers it depends on how wounded they are and if they still have the means to engage in combat. Under the typical laws of land warfare, medical personel are typically non-combatant medical personel and will display a red cross or red cresent which supposedly gives the medics both protections and obligations. Using wounded soldiers to bait their comrads into the fire zone is concidered dishonorable by professional soldiers, but is very commonly employed tactic. Many Islamic Militants are taught that the red cross is the mark of Satan and they use it as a target.
Rushing into or out of an area of active combat is always a hazardous activity, acting like a combatant in a combat area where combatants don't wear uniforms is always a stupid thing to do.
Manning was a whiney sniveling little fagot who got tired with being beat up in the shower room; there was nothing noble about what he did, it was indescriminant revenge pure and simple. I hope they put him in general population and he getts his ass pounded untill he looks like goatse.cx.
His actions set back gays in the military decades.
First you are only required to follow legal orders as well as refuse illegal orders. Secondly Manning was an Intel analyst, he worked on a computer in an air conditioned room, Grunts on the other hand work with hands-on weapons like rifles and grenades in the heat, mud, dust and blood of the battlefield; don't insult real Grunts by confusing Manning with them.
Well not a crime against humanity, but I certain would consider a child who wasn't vaccinated due to personal belief against a disease, who then got the disease would be chargeable for child neglect. After all if it's God's will your that your child gets a disease or not, then it follows that if you go to prison if the un-vaccinated child gets ill, then it's God's will that your sorry ass rots away in prison.
Perhaps the pilot should have offered to arrange alternate accommodation for the passengers that were upset; then those who were upset probably would have decided that the upset of staying onboard with a brown person wearing an inflammatory statement was trivial compared to the upset caused by waiting for an available seat on the next flight.
I'm not completely sure that's correct, Delta is a common carrier, many states have equal accommodation laws, FAA regulations; in short it's a pretty murky area of the law.
My experience has been that it takes quite a generous portion of intelligence to be really stupid; take the case of a PhD candidate wearing a tee shirt with a message that is especially inflammatory to the TSA while boarding a plane, you don't see people with Down's syndrome doing stupid shit like that.
"Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, the law enforcement agency that patrols Western New York’s mass transit system.... According to Arijits account, an NFTA officer named Mark radioed in on his walkie-talkie for permission to further interrogate the dangerous potential terrorist. “He gave a stupid answer,” Arijit recalls hearing the officer say to a supervisor. “And he looks foreign.” “Certainly he wasn’t implying that dark-skinned people are not real Americans and that white people are the only true Americans,” Arijit writes in part of his snark-filled synopsis. “Fortunately, Mark’s request was denied. Apparently, someone at NFTA recognized this bigoted meathead for the bigoted meathead he was and that nationality is simply a concept that exists solely on paper and cannot be discerned from just looking at someone.”" Not TSA,
Mechanical gyro have pretty much been replaced by ring laser gyro in everything except general aviation, you also need accelerometers to do anything useful with the pilots seat out of the feedback loop.
Not sure where I read it, following links in the article, that now they have proved the concept and shown basic useable stability w/o electronics, that the next step is to develop a computerized stability assistance of some sort. There are many improvements that would improve the stability to the machine even without electronics; one of the problems with relying too much on electronics for stability is how screwed you'd be when they fail.
First the guys are Engineers, basically math geeks so there cinematography skills isn't so hot. Stability seems pretty good for a proof-of-concept even with an engineer in the driver's seat, I've seen Apache pilots flying a lot more squirrely with the stick of a Kiowa in their hands instead. Strap that thing to the ass of a real rotary wing pilot or even a hardcore motorcycle freak and you'll see a big difference, hell just dropping the center of gravity below the pilots pelvis and the ducted fans above it would help a lot.
No silly you get treated, afterwards you send them what you can each month and if they get too pissy about it, you file for bankruptcy. Bankruptcy Lawyers are so busy they wear roller-skates to get to the different hearing rooms, so nobody even blinks at a medical bankruptcy.
Explain this: Barbara Ann Karmanos, Total Provider Charges $863.00, (-) Less BCBSM Paid $0.00, (-) Less Participating Provider Savings $703.30, (-) Less Other Insurance Paid $0.00 (=) Equals Your Balance* $159.70; Karmanos got paid 9 cents on the dollar charged. Now when people talk Expensive American Healthcare are they talking about the dollars they ask for or the 9 cents they'll settle for?
Let me ask you a question - since when did a Q tip cost $12 - like it does in American hospitals? You Americans make me laugh with your joke of a health"care" sytem
That's not just a Q tip, it's a FDA regulated medical device, everything has to be documented down to how the janitor sweeps the floor in the factory. Lot number of all the materials used in manufacture, tracked from start, through distribution to the patient's final use. Besides "Cotton Swabs Sterile 6 Inch 100 Pkgs Of 2, 2382 Your Price: $4.04"
The difference is that the insurance companies are not allowed to make a profit.
Great Ideal, the Record and Movie companies don't make a profit either! Most insurance companies we deal with (volume-wise) are non-profit anyways. Being non-profit means your expenses has to match your revenues, it's non some flying unicorn, pink ponies with sparkles measure of social goodness.
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You mean like DES?
Secret patents exist on technologies that have military applications... cryptography systems are very commonly granted secret patents, because you don't want any member of the public to see the algorithm your army is using to encrypt its top secret files.
Why not? The algorithm is insignificant to breaking the encryption, the 2048 bit private key is the secret sauce. Depending on the application like radio transmission, it changes daily.
a Ford Fiesta get 40 MPG highway
Eat shit and bark at the moon.
I saw the video, both the full version, and the version edited to paint the US soldiers involved in the worst possible light, and in both everybody's behavior was combative, They were armed with assault rifles, weapons were pointed outward, they were moving in a military combat formation and the cameraman was located central and rearward in the formation which is SOP location for crew served weapons like Rocket Propelled Grenade launcher
Yes if your asleep you are unable to give competent informed consent, let your GF know she can come over and rape me like that anytime she wants.
Many more options for all interested parties, in Ecuador people can and do disapear in a very public manner.
Well there is ANZUS The Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty, and there is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization"> South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), I imagine that there is a lot of sub-treaty agreements and letters of understanding. Austrailia like Canada has always been a heavy liffter defense wise always contributing far more than one would expect for their respective population sizes; so you might be very surprized what the lawyers can dig up from the existing pool of national laws, treaties and international agreements.
On shooting wounded soldiers it depends on how wounded they are and if they still have the means to engage in combat. Under the typical laws of land warfare, medical personel are typically non-combatant medical personel and will display a red cross or red cresent which supposedly gives the medics both protections and obligations. Using wounded soldiers to bait their comrads into the fire zone is concidered dishonorable by professional soldiers, but is very commonly employed tactic. Many Islamic Militants are taught that the red cross is the mark of Satan and they use it as a target.
Rushing into or out of an area of active combat is always a hazardous activity, acting like a combatant in a combat area where combatants don't wear uniforms is always a stupid thing to do.
Manning was a whiney sniveling little fagot who got tired with being beat up in the shower room; there was nothing noble about what he did, it was indescriminant revenge pure and simple. I hope they put him in general population and he getts his ass pounded untill he looks like goatse.cx.
His actions set back gays in the military decades.
First you are only required to follow legal orders as well as refuse illegal orders. Secondly Manning was an Intel analyst, he worked on a computer in an air conditioned room, Grunts on the other hand work with hands-on weapons like rifles and grenades in the heat, mud, dust and blood of the battlefield; don't insult real Grunts by confusing Manning with them.
It was hard to explain it to Mary Mallon as well.
Well not a crime against humanity, but I certain would consider a child who wasn't vaccinated due to personal belief against a disease, who then got the disease would be chargeable for child neglect. After all if it's God's will your that your child gets a disease or not, then it follows that if you go to prison if the un-vaccinated child gets ill, then it's God's will that your sorry ass rots away in prison.
Perhaps the pilot should have offered to arrange alternate accommodation for the passengers that were upset; then those who were upset probably would have decided that the upset of staying onboard with a brown person wearing an inflammatory statement was trivial compared to the upset caused by waiting for an available seat on the next flight.
I'm not completely sure that's correct, Delta is a common carrier, many states have equal accommodation laws, FAA regulations; in short it's a pretty murky area of the law.
My experience has been that it takes quite a generous portion of intelligence to be really stupid; take the case of a PhD candidate wearing a tee shirt with a message that is especially inflammatory to the TSA while boarding a plane, you don't see people with Down's syndrome doing stupid shit like that.
"Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, the law enforcement agency that patrols Western New York’s mass transit system. ...
According to Arijits account, an NFTA officer named Mark radioed in on his walkie-talkie for permission to further interrogate the dangerous potential terrorist.
“He gave a stupid answer,” Arijit recalls hearing the officer say to a supervisor. “And he looks foreign.”
“Certainly he wasn’t implying that dark-skinned people are not real Americans and that white people are the only true Americans,” Arijit writes in part of his snark-filled synopsis. “Fortunately, Mark’s request was denied. Apparently, someone at NFTA recognized this bigoted meathead for the bigoted meathead he was and that nationality is simply a concept that exists solely on paper and cannot be discerned from just looking at someone.”"
Not TSA,
Not as hard or as heavy as you'd imagine.
Mechanical gyro have pretty much been replaced by ring laser gyro in everything except general aviation, you also need accelerometers to do anything useful with the pilots seat out of the feedback loop.
Not sure where I read it, following links in the article, that now they have proved the concept and shown basic useable stability w/o electronics, that the next step is to develop a computerized stability assistance of some sort. There are many improvements that would improve the stability to the machine even without electronics; one of the problems with relying too much on electronics for stability is how screwed you'd be when they fail.
First the guys are Engineers, basically math geeks so there cinematography skills isn't so hot. Stability seems pretty good for a proof-of-concept even with an engineer in the driver's seat, I've seen Apache pilots flying a lot more squirrely with the stick of a Kiowa in their hands instead. Strap that thing to the ass of a real rotary wing pilot or even a hardcore motorcycle freak and you'll see a big difference, hell just dropping the center of gravity below the pilots pelvis and the ducted fans above it would help a lot.
No silly you get treated, afterwards you send them what you can each month and if they get too pissy about it, you file for bankruptcy. Bankruptcy Lawyers are so busy they wear roller-skates to get to the different hearing rooms, so nobody even blinks at a medical bankruptcy.
Explain this:
Barbara Ann Karmanos, Total Provider Charges $863.00,
(-) Less BCBSM Paid $0.00,
(-) Less Participating Provider Savings $703.30,
(-) Less Other Insurance Paid $0.00
(=) Equals Your Balance* $159.70;
Karmanos got paid 9 cents on the dollar charged. Now when people talk Expensive American Healthcare are they talking about the dollars they ask for or the 9 cents they'll settle for?
Let me ask you a question - since when did a Q tip cost $12 - like it does in American hospitals? You Americans make me laugh with your joke of a health"care" sytem
That's not just a Q tip, it's a FDA regulated medical device, everything has to be documented down to how the janitor sweeps the floor in the factory. Lot number of all the materials used in manufacture, tracked from start, through distribution to the patient's final use. Besides "Cotton Swabs Sterile 6 Inch 100 Pkgs Of 2, 2382 Your Price: $4.04"
The difference is that the insurance companies are not allowed to make a profit.
Great Ideal, the Record and Movie companies don't make a profit either! Most insurance companies we deal with (volume-wise) are non-profit anyways. Being non-profit means your expenses has to match your revenues, it's non some flying unicorn, pink ponies with sparkles measure of social goodness.