"Little: Interesting, if true. The Vegas odds tonight stand at an unprecedented 1000-0; a bet of $0 on Bender pays $1000 if he wins. Still, very few takers." Futurama quote.
I hear the Vegas odds of NSA backdoors into encryption schemes is 1000:0. Meaning everyone who bets $0 on the NSA not having a backdoor will receive $1,000 if they do.
I didn't want to say that I could be Bullseye, as it could land me on the NSA right-wing terrorist watch list. Not that it is likely that I haven't landed myself on that list already.
Since a government systems administrator wrote the post, it MUST HAVE been a division by zero error. We are not expected to do many things. And the few things we are expected to do, have such a low standard that monkey's on a typewriter could do it.
I know and completely agree with everything you said. However, as far as the government is concerned, they look at $$$, not at the quality of work or any of the numerous important factors which you spelled out.
The government is like the guy that needs to buy a lawnmower and finds something on Craigslist. He spend $50 for a lawnmower that works for a month then blows up. So he buys another $50 lawnmower on Craigslist. The cycle repeats. By the end of the year, he's spent $300 buying used lawnmowers because they are "cheaper," when he could have bought a brand-new one for $250 and not had any problems.
Hawkeye's power is not in the bow. His power is the ability to shoot or throw anything with precision. Telescopic contact lenses would give me enhanced eyesight and allow me to find targets at greater distance than normal. The Linux rifle scope would allow me to tag any target and hit it. The bow is merely his preferred weapon.
So even assuming the high number (18 million), assuming a complete eradication (which did not happen), and assuming that Americans were solely responsible for the death of every Native American (French, British, Russians, and Spanish also had colonies and killed many Natives), the grand total is still less than the number of Russian civilians killed by the Germans during WWII. In reality, America was not a country for half of this time period (Columbus was 1492, American founded in 1776, today is 2013) so attributing the death of every Native American post-Columbus is not supported by facts.
How far back do you want to go? Do you want to include British spies executed by the colonists during the Revolutionary War? Civil War? Do Civil War casualties count twice, since it was an American killing another American? How about the Invasion of Tripoli, when the United States attacked the Barbary Pirates in retribution for attacking American ships? Spanish-American War?
So if the President declares war on a country, and one Private in the military shoots one civilian, you believe the entire chain of command, from the President, Generals, and everyone in between should be tried for war crimes? By that standard, every President and every General in the history of mankind would be guilty of war crimes, included Obama. What about the mortuary affairs specialist, who spends the entire war sitting at Dover AFB processing casualties. Is he guilty of war crimes because of the actions of one person?
If you mean a President orders war crimes to be committed, and everyone down the chain of command follows those orders, then that standard was created out of the Nuremburg trials and exists today.
A 50 Caliber bullet has up to 52 grams (800 grains) of gunpowder, which translates to 1.8 ounces. A more standard round, like say the 5.56/.223 round has 4 grams (62 grain), which translates to.14 ounces.
I was wondering why that black van was parked in front of my house for the past 2 weeks. My wife offered them some coffee, and they just pointed guns at her. Maybe I shouldn't go back home anytime soon.
You have conveniently left out the deadliest wars. Estimates place civilian casualties at 38-55 MILLION civilian casualties during WWII. Most were killed by the Germans and Japanese. 15 - 20 million Russian civilians killed by the Germans. Another 7 - 16 million Chinese civilians killed by the Japanese
Even the most out-there estimates of civilian casualties as a result of American actions from all of the above (Iraq- 120,000, Afghanistan - 20,000, Korea - 1.5 million, Vietnam - 1.1 million ). The amount of civilian casualties caused by American Wars post WWII does not even pass the number of people exterminated by Hitler in his concentration camps.
Naive youth like yourself often forget the lessons of your grandfathers. You can complain about American foreign policy all you want, post WWII. But you cannot even begin to put America in the category of war crimes when you compare American actions to the crimes of the Germans and Japanese.
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Because what could possibly go wrong if a super capacitor is overcharged and explodes?
Just ask the Romans how environmentally friendly sodium is. The citizens of Carthage would be able to tell you, if they were not all killed.
I'll raise my tin-foil hat to that theory. Either the NSA is doing that right now, or they are going to start.
"Little: Interesting, if true. The Vegas odds tonight stand at an unprecedented 1000-0; a bet of $0 on Bender pays $1000 if he wins. Still, very few takers."
Futurama quote.
I hear the Vegas odds of NSA backdoors into encryption schemes is 1000:0. Meaning everyone who bets $0 on the NSA not having a backdoor will receive $1,000 if they do.
He did finally get with Hot Lips, but it took a Chinese artillery attack to start the moment. Sorry guys, it's WAYYYY past spoiler alert time.
I didn't want to say that I could be Bullseye, as it could land me on the NSA right-wing terrorist watch list. Not that it is likely that I haven't landed myself on that list already.
Since a government systems administrator wrote the post, it MUST HAVE been a division by zero error. We are not expected to do many things. And the few things we are expected to do, have such a low standard that monkey's on a typewriter could do it.
I know and completely agree with everything you said. However, as far as the government is concerned, they look at $$$, not at the quality of work or any of the numerous important factors which you spelled out.
The government is like the guy that needs to buy a lawnmower and finds something on Craigslist. He spend $50 for a lawnmower that works for a month then blows up. So he buys another $50 lawnmower on Craigslist. The cycle repeats. By the end of the year, he's spent $300 buying used lawnmowers because they are "cheaper," when he could have bought a brand-new one for $250 and not had any problems.
Average quality of a government systems administrator - Priceless
Yeah, because all companies have an excellent track record with government IT projects.
FTFY
Average salary of systems administrator in India - ~$4,000 US
Average salary of a systems administrator in Washington DC - ~$75,000 US
'nuff said
Did you miss the article about the rifle scope?
Hawkeye's power is not in the bow. His power is the ability to shoot or throw anything with precision. Telescopic contact lenses would give me enhanced eyesight and allow me to find targets at greater distance than normal. The Linux rifle scope would allow me to tag any target and hit it. The bow is merely his preferred weapon.
Telescopic contact lens + Linux-powered rifle scope = I can finally become Hawkeye. Minus the abs.
A bag of fertilizer at Home Depot is a WMD as well.
waterboarding of prisoners, an act for which we tried, convicted, and executed Japanese officials for committing in WWII.
It had nothing to do with prisoners being buried alive, the Bataan Death March, estimates of 3 - 10 million murdered, forced amputations without anesthesia for biological warfare research, eating the bodies of enemy soldiers, or forced prostitution. Yeah, the officials were executed for waterboarding. Those other things were irrelevant.
As a point of contention, While it is difficult to determine exactly how many Natives lived in North America before Columbus,[5] estimates range from a low of 2.1 million (Ubelaker 1976) to 7 million people (Russell Thornton) to a high of 18 million (Dobyns 1983).[6]
So even assuming the high number (18 million), assuming a complete eradication (which did not happen), and assuming that Americans were solely responsible for the death of every Native American (French, British, Russians, and Spanish also had colonies and killed many Natives), the grand total is still less than the number of Russian civilians killed by the Germans during WWII. In reality, America was not a country for half of this time period (Columbus was 1492, American founded in 1776, today is 2013) so attributing the death of every Native American post-Columbus is not supported by facts.
How far back do you want to go? Do you want to include British spies executed by the colonists during the Revolutionary War? Civil War? Do Civil War casualties count twice, since it was an American killing another American? How about the Invasion of Tripoli, when the United States attacked the Barbary Pirates in retribution for attacking American ships? Spanish-American War?
So if the President declares war on a country, and one Private in the military shoots one civilian, you believe the entire chain of command, from the President, Generals, and everyone in between should be tried for war crimes? By that standard, every President and every General in the history of mankind would be guilty of war crimes, included Obama. What about the mortuary affairs specialist, who spends the entire war sitting at Dover AFB processing casualties. Is he guilty of war crimes because of the actions of one person?
If you mean a President orders war crimes to be committed, and everyone down the chain of command follows those orders, then that standard was created out of the Nuremburg trials and exists today.
A 50 Caliber bullet has up to 52 grams (800 grains) of gunpowder, which translates to 1.8 ounces. A more standard round, like say the 5.56/.223 round has 4 grams (62 grain), which translates to .14 ounces.
What difference does it make?
Hillary? Is that you? I didn't realize you read Slashdot!
I was wondering why that black van was parked in front of my house for the past 2 weeks. My wife offered them some coffee, and they just pointed guns at her. Maybe I shouldn't go back home anytime soon.
Makes sense. It actually took me a week to realize the Presidential debates were not a SNL ski.
You have conveniently left out the deadliest wars. Estimates place civilian casualties at 38-55 MILLION civilian casualties during WWII. Most were killed by the Germans and Japanese. 15 - 20 million Russian civilians killed by the Germans. Another 7 - 16 million Chinese civilians killed by the Japanese
Even the most out-there estimates of civilian casualties as a result of American actions from all of the above (Iraq- 120,000, Afghanistan - 20,000, Korea - 1.5 million, Vietnam - 1.1 million ). The amount of civilian casualties caused by American Wars post WWII does not even pass the number of people exterminated by Hitler in his concentration camps.
Naive youth like yourself often forget the lessons of your grandfathers. You can complain about American foreign policy all you want, post WWII. But you cannot even begin to put America in the category of war crimes when you compare American actions to the crimes of the Germans and Japanese.