Zeroes started losing when the Thach Weave was developed (which essentially involved avoiding getting killed until your wingman could ruin the Zero pilot's whole day). They continued to lose for the rest of the war, since American pilots fought in pairs for the whole war.
Thatch's Weave allowed the US pilots to survive.
The Zero had no armour, no self-sealing tanks, none of those things that enhanced your ability to survive a fight if your opponent had a clue.
Including despite orders to wear them, paracchutes.
They just weren't necessary.
the Zero was a superb fighter for fighting one-on-onje but not so useful against modern planes of the era.
Note, by the way, that saying that the USA only started winning after "Japan's experienced pilot cadre har their heart cut out" ignores the fact that the only way to "cut the heart out" of an "experienced pilot cadre" is to shoot them down in job lots. Which we were doing pretty much constantly after Midway.
The Zero remained superior to all marques until lack of development made it a loser. They put larger air cooled engines in but by then the British had shown the Yanks how to use the Corsair. Several other new models also made an appearance at that time.
I'd like to have seen what a zero would have performed like with a Merlin in it.
Note that even as early as Guadalcanal, Wildcats (by no means a first-line fighter) were capable of engaging a larger number of zeroes and winning.
The US pilots in China learned how to deal with the Japanese fighters before 1941:
"1. Don't get involved with them.
2. If you do get involved with them, don't get involved with them."
What I like about the obfuscation is the excuse that it is a secret recipe. As if they had spent money on research to find the best fracking agents rather than accepted consignments of agent orange and various orthophosphates the military and their suppliers no longer want to have hanging around.
If the government doesn't fund unbiased research, the only research will be done by biased people and it won't be made public.
Of course, being made public can mean it costs $35 a pop to look at it; thus costing twice.
And the US political agencies are about as unbiased as English politics in the time of Walpole.
But the method is at least the least worst.
The way to look at it is that public money is just a base that the rest of the country works on.
Private funds are really what costs people anything.
And the people behind those don't pay much tax anyway, get their servants to hound their politicians to let them pay less and what they do have to fork over is usually diverted from capital that would otherwise have accrued heavier taxes.
Any politician that plays the taxes card is either a bloody liar or a bloody fool.
Nobody ever emigrated to stop paying taxes. They just turn their companies over to different countries' tax laws.
You seem to have annoyed somebody by asking questions. So here are some more. I just love negative karma.
When did disposing of factory farming waste become a major problem?
When --- were stopped pouring agent orange down the mountainsides of Colorado, did they have any left?
How do scientists compare data without knowing exactly what fluids are used and where?
How has the health of people drinking water affected by the fracking processes turned out?
Are they allowed to pour chrome 6 hexides or whatever that Erin Brockovich stuff is called down those holes?
As long as geology and the petrol industry in particular, ignores Thomas Gold's ideas and insist that earthquakes are caused by plates getting jiggly, the fracking case will always remain a mystery, just as earthquakes will remain impossible to forecast.
What is absolutely certain is that the companies like to keep their patent fracking ingredients secret because it is a well known fact that they know exactly what to put down for the best results and has absolutely nothing to do with bio-hazards and getting paid to get rid of agents orange and hydrazine etc.
And there will be absolutely no nicotinamides put in when they ban that too neither.
Absolute gospel that is.
As for pig shit and spent orthophosphates from sheep dip and all the other stuff nobody has ever accused them of using, they never use that too, neither.
What they do use but won't tell anyone, so they can get more money out of the wells only they have access to and not their competitors who (as everybody knows) sneak in at night and steal all their profits when nobody is looking, is that they condense baby tears and puppy breath to put down there along with angel kisses and all their love.
Seeing the Bush regime stated water torture is not torture, unless Obama has rescinded this description and implicated the chimpanzee in crimes against humanity, then the whistle blower is innocent of any crime.
Or am I missing most of the story?
Since no one has flown a plane into a building under their watch it's hard to say that they are ineffective
Correlation does not equal causation. For instance, do you know what else we've improved since then? Cockpit security. And we have increased civilian awareness about the dangers of successful plane hijackings.
Besides, none of this is an excuse to violate people's privacy.
What is the Greek story about a bloke rolling a stone uphill all day only to lose it at night?
This thread reminds me of that.
You have a national security branch set up to look intothe secret private lives of all politicians and scientists etc, run by a nancy boy, and they only succeeded in hounding Oppenheimer.
They missed the plot to kill JFK and the advice about 9/11.
Yet it is still the #1 US secret police farce.
Any number of corrupt an intrusive firms have been invited into the American administration of the Internet and given free rein.
Why should the rest of the world expect things to change?
Take a look at this:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/the-civil-war-part-1-the-places/100241/
Scroll right arrow to #12.
For all the Arab Springs and the Occupy Wall Streets...
Nothing ever changes.
What would you say if you got a call from your banker tomorrow saying they lost all your moneyt...
"A failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."[?].
If it's such a high war on crime priority for the FBI to take down this criminal they ought to pay his host site to preserve their evidence for them. And, they ought to allow the users of Megaupload access to their files until they are each proven to be stolen or infringing.
I'd say we are still waiting for the call from all the investment bankers in the whole world.
I would have thought that if the FBI had copied the files they could be returned if and when.
You are equating different things: a paper copy of a novel is a piece of physical property. The novel itself isn't a piece of physical property, as demonstrated by the fact that it can be copied (on physical media as paper for example).
Files, as pieces of magnetized ferrite on a disk, are physical things and you can complain about their not being available, because you lost your copy of those files when you lost access to that magnetized ferrite.
Besides, copyright advocates don't complain about their intellectual property "disappearing" (at least usually): they complain about there being too many "unauthorized" copies of it laying about.
To summarise: you are saying physical and virtual items are the same when they aren't and saynig not having access to some data with having "too many copies" of it around is the same when it isn't. <sarcasm>Will you try showing that black and white are the same too?</sarcasm>
So are you saying the copies are not copies if they are digital copies?
Why is there a problem with Megaupload in that case?
And if you are wrong, what law will allow them to be copied if the owner of the file is the copyright holder?
But in any case, how many people are likely to pursue this sort of thing?
Right up until we have an Arab spring, which i figure we will have in the next decade, right around when unemployment hits 50% and the crime shoots through the roof....
Somehow I doubt power will be transferred as nicely as it was in the old USSR, it'll probably be more like Libya which... should give anyone nightmares.
When the final round has been fired we will go back to a more strict constitutional government where people are treated like adults again.
Unfortunately the rich and the powerful are already there. They know what library books you borrow. They have your web profile including everything you looked for with Google.
They have just about passed all the laws concerning the internet that they are going to need and will be sitting on the button with any tweaks those may need in later decades and frankly, if you haven't stocked up with your ammonium nitrate and.45's, you are already up czjd creek.
UK defendant here:
I had a drunk neighbour living above me.
Every evening he would get pissed and start jumping up and down on the floor then the furniture for about 1 1/2 hours.
One day it was my tune to get pissed and I ended the night knocking on his door; very loudly. So loudly it drew blood.
And the police came.
He never answered the door. But he called the police and I spent the night in the cells.
The next day a lawyer told me to admit everything.
The police offered me a police caution. I was given to believe (by my lawyer) that I might be looking at a thousand quid fine if found guilty.
So I said OK and paid an £80 get out of gaol card.
Then the cops told the landlord what I did and they came around and wanted a £1000 for damages to the door.
So I was screwed.
How could I prove it the the other monkey swinging on the door two or three times a week that did the damage?
I wish I had grabbed the ball and jarled!
What exactly is a police caution and what happens if you refuse it thank you very much all the same officer?
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Maybe more.
Zeroes started losing when the Thach Weave was developed (which essentially involved avoiding getting killed until your wingman could ruin the Zero pilot's whole day). They continued to lose for the rest of the war, since American pilots fought in pairs for the whole war.
Thatch's Weave allowed the US pilots to survive.
The Zero had no armour, no self-sealing tanks, none of those things that enhanced your ability to survive a fight if your opponent had a clue.
Including despite orders to wear them, paracchutes.
They just weren't necessary.
the Zero was a superb fighter for fighting one-on-onje but not so useful against modern planes of the era.
Note, by the way, that saying that the USA only started winning after "Japan's experienced pilot cadre har their heart cut out" ignores the fact that the only way to "cut the heart out" of an "experienced pilot cadre" is to shoot them down in job lots. Which we were doing pretty much constantly after Midway.
The Zero remained superior to all marques until lack of development made it a loser. They put larger air cooled engines in but by then the British had shown the Yanks how to use the Corsair. Several other new models also made an appearance at that time.
I'd like to have seen what a zero would have performed like with a Merlin in it.
Note that even as early as Guadalcanal, Wildcats (by no means a first-line fighter) were capable of engaging a larger number of zeroes and winning.
The US pilots in China learned how to deal with the Japanese fighters before 1941:
"1. Don't get involved with them.
2. If you do get involved with them, don't get involved with them."
A disclaimer: I don't believe it's plate tectonics.
(Or lizards.)
Scores 5? Funny? What century is this?
What I like about the obfuscation is the excuse that it is a secret recipe. As if they had spent money on research to find the best fracking agents rather than accepted consignments of agent orange and various orthophosphates the military and their suppliers no longer want to have hanging around.
criminal, -s, n: Someone unable to buy laws to make his actions legal.
I love you. Please enter politics and have my vote. Is it true that it is illegal to threaten to kill the US Presidunce? Who invented that one?
Have they produced a viable OS?
If the government doesn't fund unbiased research, the only research will be done by biased people and it won't be made public.
Of course, being made public can mean it costs $35 a pop to look at it; thus costing twice.
And the US political agencies are about as unbiased as English politics in the time of Walpole.
But the method is at least the least worst.
The way to look at it is that public money is just a base that the rest of the country works on.
Private funds are really what costs people anything.
And the people behind those don't pay much tax anyway, get their servants to hound their politicians to let them pay less and what they do have to fork over is usually diverted from capital that would otherwise have accrued heavier taxes.
Any politician that plays the taxes card is either a bloody liar or a bloody fool.
Nobody ever emigrated to stop paying taxes.
They just turn their companies over to different countries' tax laws.
Or am I being cynical?
You seem to have annoyed somebody by asking questions. So here are some more. I just love negative karma.
When did disposing of factory farming waste become a major problem?
When --- were stopped pouring agent orange down the mountainsides of Colorado, did they have any left?
How do scientists compare data without knowing exactly what fluids are used and where?
How has the health of people drinking water affected by the fracking processes turned out?
Are they allowed to pour chrome 6 hexides or whatever that Erin Brockovich stuff is called down those holes?
As long as geology and the petrol industry in particular, ignores Thomas Gold's ideas and insist that earthquakes are caused by plates getting jiggly, the fracking case will always remain a mystery, just as earthquakes will remain impossible to forecast.
What is absolutely certain is that the companies like to keep their patent fracking ingredients secret because it is a well known fact that they know exactly what to put down for the best results and has absolutely nothing to do with bio-hazards and getting paid to get rid of agents orange and hydrazine etc.
And there will be absolutely no nicotinamides put in when they ban that too neither.
Absolute gospel that is.
As for pig shit and spent orthophosphates from sheep dip and all the other stuff nobody has ever accused them of using, they never use that too, neither.
What they do use but won't tell anyone, so they can get more money out of the wells only they have access to and not their competitors who (as everybody knows) sneak in at night and steal all their profits when nobody is looking, is that they condense baby tears and puppy breath to put down there along with angel kisses and all their love.
Seeing the Bush regime stated water torture is not torture, unless Obama has rescinded this description and implicated the chimpanzee in crimes against humanity, then the whistle blower is innocent of any crime. Or am I missing most of the story?
Much kudos to you.
Since no one has flown a plane into a building under their watch it's hard to say that they are ineffective
Correlation does not equal causation. For instance, do you know what else we've improved since then? Cockpit security. And we have increased civilian awareness about the dangers of successful plane hijackings.
Besides, none of this is an excuse to violate people's privacy.
What is the Greek story about a bloke rolling a stone uphill all day only to lose it at night? This thread reminds me of that. You have a national security branch set up to look intothe secret private lives of all politicians and scientists etc, run by a nancy boy, and they only succeeded in hounding Oppenheimer. They missed the plot to kill JFK and the advice about 9/11. Yet it is still the #1 US secret police farce. Any number of corrupt an intrusive firms have been invited into the American administration of the Internet and given free rein. Why should the rest of the world expect things to change? Take a look at this: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/the-civil-war-part-1-the-places/100241/ Scroll right arrow to #12. For all the Arab Springs and the Occupy Wall Streets... Nothing ever changes.
I'd say we are still waiting for the call from all the investment bankers in the whole world. I would have thought that if the FBI had copied the files they could be returned if and when.
You are equating different things: a paper copy of a novel is a piece of physical property. The novel itself isn't a piece of physical property, as demonstrated by the fact that it can be copied (on physical media as paper for example).
Files, as pieces of magnetized ferrite on a disk, are physical things and you can complain about their not being available, because you lost your copy of those files when you lost access to that magnetized ferrite.
Besides, copyright advocates don't complain about their intellectual property "disappearing" (at least usually): they complain about there being too many "unauthorized" copies of it laying about.
To summarise: you are saying physical and virtual items are the same when they aren't and saynig not having access to some data with having "too many copies" of it around is the same when it isn't. <sarcasm>Will you try showing that black and white are the same too?</sarcasm>
So are you saying the copies are not copies if they are digital copies? Why is there a problem with Megaupload in that case? And if you are wrong, what law will allow them to be copied if the owner of the file is the copyright holder? But in any case, how many people are likely to pursue this sort of thing?
Maybe he's the bad one of the 9 Monkeys. Judge Peters perhaps?
Right up until we have an Arab spring, which i figure we will have in the next decade, right around when unemployment hits 50% and the crime shoots through the roof....
Somehow I doubt power will be transferred as nicely as it was in the old USSR, it'll probably be more like Libya which... should give anyone nightmares.
When the final round has been fired we will go back to a more strict constitutional government where people are treated like adults again.
Unfortunately the rich and the powerful are already there. They know what library books you borrow. They have your web profile including everything you looked for with Google.
They have just about passed all the laws concerning the internet that they are going to need and will be sitting on the button with any tweaks those may need in later decades and frankly, if you haven't stocked up with your ammonium nitrate and .45's, you are already up czjd creek.
UK defendant here: I had a drunk neighbour living above me. Every evening he would get pissed and start jumping up and down on the floor then the furniture for about 1 1/2 hours. One day it was my tune to get pissed and I ended the night knocking on his door; very loudly. So loudly it drew blood. And the police came. He never answered the door. But he called the police and I spent the night in the cells. The next day a lawyer told me to admit everything. The police offered me a police caution. I was given to believe (by my lawyer) that I might be looking at a thousand quid fine if found guilty. So I said OK and paid an £80 get out of gaol card. Then the cops told the landlord what I did and they came around and wanted a £1000 for damages to the door. So I was screwed. How could I prove it the the other monkey swinging on the door two or three times a week that did the damage? I wish I had grabbed the ball and jarled! What exactly is a police caution and what happens if you refuse it thank you very much all the same officer?