And where does the money the Gov uses to pay for your really-expensive-over-80-medical-care come from?
And no its not cheaper just cause the gov pays for it. Cost is cost, regardless. The gov may pay less due to rules it writes itself, or other things, but a Dollar Steak is a Dollar Steak even if I pass a law stating no one can charge more than $0.50 for it.
Wind turbine pylons make good, discreet antennaes (or housings for them). A farm of them is even better. Grab all the signals emitted by the EA-18's in the area. Analyze. Plot the spectrum and the variations...
ECM is an ever changing game. The codes, frequencies, spectrum, wattage, every single specification, all classed Secret for that reason. Updates are issued frequently (not as often as the once a day nuke codes, but still).
I can see there being concern about someone getting a leg up on the ECM game.
Dogfight? Dogfights are passe. A drone knocks out the other guy 100 miles out and if it doesn't, who gives a shit. Drones are relatively cheap - especially compared to the F-22.
They said the same thing about missles. And it was just as wrong then int eh 50's and 60's as it is now. Vietnam proved them wrong, and all of a sudden the replacements to the F4 needed to have dogfight capability.
Close combat with a drone? It's already here.
No, it's not.
Let's face it, drones are a cheaper and safer alternative and they're getting better every day.
They are also more limited, and less capable.
And planes like the F-22 have a serious defect: they are worthless against wave after after wave after wave of cheap planes. The F-22 would run out of bullets and missiles and while it's running away to get more, it'll get it's ass shot off or it's base blown to smithereens - LOTS of dead people.
Wave after wave doesn't happen. As it stands the F22 was designed to meet the goal of taking on 16 - 1 odds and winning, a requirement that was seen as unlikely already because the worst case plausible scenario is 8 to 1, with 4 - 1 being the most likely scenario. Combat flights never fly alone to start with, always in at least pairs, if not 4 together.
Simply put, your claim of "wave after wave" is a fine hypothetical, but simply does not exist in the real world. A combat flight of 4 F22 has the theoretical max capability to take on 72 enemy aircraft. That's 6 squadrons worth. An entire deployed F22 squadron of 12 planes could take on 192 enemy aircraft. the F22, by being stealth, is essentially the Rogue class of air dominance: it is better able to dictate the terms of the fight, striking more targets from a longer distance without warning than any potential enemy aircraft is capable of.
And it would get its ass shot off should it turn to run? How? You forget that the F22 is stealth? That its faster than any credible threat? It's countermeasures are second to none? That it is engaging the inital targets from farther away than they can? In order to shoot its ass off, you have to be close enough to do so, and able to get a target. The whole point is the F22 denies both possibilities. Even if the F22 ere surprised and forced into a close in dogfight if the chance should come to disengage it could clear the area much quicker than any enemy aircraft.
And don't get me started on the disappointment of the F-35. Our current line up of planes are fine for current needs and we just need to replace our Air Force with all drones.
Our air force is not ready for future conflicts - we are still in this Cold War mentality. And if there is another big conflict, I'm afraid we will have a very rude awakening.
The F35 is not designed for air dominance. It could perform such a role, by virtue of being more capable than most enemy combatants, but it's meant to be a multi-prupose, jack of all trades. The F22 is designed for one thing and one thng only: denying the enemy control of airspace. If you honestly think the current line up is fine, and the drones can do all, you're just another armchair quarterback second guessing the refs who've been doing it for years.
Plus its illogical to state that ouor current line up is fine, and then next say our air force is not ready....you cannot have it both ways. They are mutually exclusive statements.
there was no truth! you people are just more idiots who read the headline and think they know what's going on! have you read the papers? have you? the wikileaks is the biggest non-issue in the damn world. the military worries about it because an analyst can look at the most benign things and predict what's going on. thats why everything is controlled as sensitive. there was no great "bombshell" in the papers. wikileaks did not say "oo here's the smoking gun" (whistleblowing). wikileaks jsut said "heres the documents i was able to find" (espionage). bradley manning is not some hero. he is a soldier who disobyed orders, orders that exist for a reason, to protect peoples lives, and potentially could have had people die as a result of his actions. this was not whistleblowing. this was classic espionage. you people are just too dumb to get the difference.
We covered this before. You have no idea what you're talking about. The great wikeleaks controversy is not about "zomg wikileaks posted a bunch of proof of illegal stuff on teh internet". Never been about that, because that isnt what happened.
What they got, what they posted, was mostly standard inter-depeartment and inter-embassy chatter. Benign, boring, crap. Even that stuff can be dangerous ("POTUS is arriving on 23 Sept at 0200") but mostly its meaningless. The few interesting things were about things like ongoing bribes to warlords to keep them peaceful (old news, and fully admitted to years ago), plans for troop redployment, etc. The big concern is not about covering up things, but about protecting sensitive intel. A good analyst can look at something as simple as an order for more MREs, a list of aircraft cycled back to teh US, and conclude which base is going to be the major push in the next week. Thats why everything is marked sensitive, and nothing is given out for free.
Vista wasnt much of a disaster. At least I never had any issues with it. The only reason I switched to Win7 was I had upgraded my computer yet again, this time including a newer 64bit cpu, and figured Win7-x64 was the best way to take advantage of it.
Seriously though. If he's brilliant, he's valuable. No one is perfect, and this concept of we must all get along is nonsense. Never seen a place advocate firing people as much as/. over the dumbest trash.
People will have conflicts. Some people really really suck at "inter-personal skills", buzzspeak for they dont get along well with other people. Some people make your company tons and tons of money. Sometimes these two people are the same person. That's why the Tom Smykowski's of the world exist in companies. They play it for fun in the movie, and have him be "downsized", but in reality, engineers often need an interpreter in between them and the customer. someone to step in and keep him from telling the customer their artistic vision is stupid, useless drives up the cost of the building (beyond that agreed for already), or that that beam HAS to be there or the building falls down so no I will NOT cut it out whether you think it's an eyesore or not". Customers don't like to be told those things, true or not.
The daily mail is your source? Seriously? A tabloid known for sensationalizing its reports, using dubious sources, etc? Wow.
"and then a second as rescuers try to drag victims from the rubble."... Yeah. That's bullcrap. That is not US strategy or tactic. Never has been. However reclaiming weapons from dead bodies before reporters get places, that has been popular. Not even as a tactic per se, though that is true of insurgents or whatever you want to call them, its often as simple "that gun is worth something, he obviously dont need it anymore, so I'm gonna take it and sell it".
2013: Assange successfully secretly relocates to Ecuador from their british embassy. 2013: Drone strike hits Assange's undisclosed residence in Ecuador, but he wasn't home. He goes into hiding. 2014: US invasion of Venezuela, under pretext of having provided aid and support to Assange. Chavez removed from power, a move popular both in Venezuela and surrounding countries, and back home. Also: oil. 2015: Still unable to confirm beyond doubt that Chavez supported Assange. Most people don't care, as they still think was justifiable to remove a really bad guy from power. 2019: Assange found hiding in nearby Peru....
I'm being cheeky, I know. Personally I think putting Assange on the same level is ridiculous.
People used to talk all the time. To random strangers. People didn't used to fear everything and everyone around them. Now, everyone you meet is a potential rapist, terrorist, or something else. Thank the news media and the politicians.
its not about tellng you what to do. its about suggesting that the phone gives a false sense of productivity. Equivalent to "empty calories". Being bored leads to wanting to do things. The phone satisfies that, without actually being productive, since the chief way of occupying time with a phone is with a game of some kind. The suggestion is that without the phone you would do something else more worthwhile with that small bit of time. That the game on your phone is a more compelling boredom relief than many other activities, yet in the end less rewarding than those other activities.
Remember we arent talking about life goals or long stretches of time, but small chunks that used to be filled by introspection or conversation. Staring out the window on a bus (the "greatest philosphy school known to mankind"). Waiting for an order at a diner. Waiting for the dentist. Etc. The trend now, I know you've seen it, a group of friends at a restruant out to eat, no one saying a word, everyone just staring at their phone. They're there together, yet each alone.
Let's go further. A pound per resident, per day, you say?
300 million residents. 365 days a year. 109,500,000,000 pounds of beef consumed every year by the people of this country. That's 109.5 BILLION pounds. But you said 25%...so 27,375,000,000....27.4B pounds.
The average cow is 1000 to 1600 pounds, depending on breed and purpose. Let's go with 1200 lbs on the hoof for the average beef cow raised for slaughter (that 1600 is for a large bull stud, they make up little of the meat market). But wait! You don't eat the whole thing. You lose about 450-550 lbs to bones. Call it 500. That leaves 700 lbs of meat per cow.
We're won't even going to get into the different grades of beef here (some fit only for dog food, etc) or different cuts and peices of beef.
So...27.4 Billion divided by 700 gives us 39,107,142.9 cows required, per year. Just to feed one country with only 300M people.
Almost 100M cows in the US. So talking about just us, and slaughtering a third of our cows every year. Problems with that number: Of those 100M, only about 14M are destined for slaughter, a third of the required number.
Of those 14M destined for slaughter, not all of them will be. Why? Cause it takes longer than a year to get a cow to size; the average for steers raised to slaughter is 3 yrs. So now you're down to about 4.7M cows slaughtered for consumption in any one year.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Of those 4.7M, a large portion will not be marked "fit for human consumption" and go to making dog food, etc.
And that's just the beef. There's even less meat on the other critters, requiring even bigger populations to meet the statistic you pulled out of your ass.
Ya...that statistic is about as realistic as Romney's face tan last week.
One pound, per person, per day...so 4 pounds in an average family a day, 28 in a week, and 120 in a month. at a cost of at least 2$ a pound, more for the beef, so roughly 300$ a month, just on meat?! My families entire grocery bill for the month isnt that high.
Dude you are so full of crap its not even funny. Your statistic is bullspit. If you got it from someone else, you need to engage the grey matter and evaluate it before repeating it.
Nothing is future proof. Everything, particularly mechanical things, breaks down and needs repair replacement eventually. That what constant inspections and preventative maintenance are for. Nuclear plants are no different.
There is nothing wrong with selecting human barbie dolls to begin the population of Mars! After all, we want our Martian invaders to look good when they revolt against us and demand Snoo-snoo as tribute after defeating us.
They just need a little more help getting started than normal is all.
Again, just because the radio wave took the long path doesnt mean a damn thing. You could just as easily send the radio wave via the warped "path", theoretically, and it would still arrive there ahead of you. there's nothing excluding the radio energy from traveling the warp field.
It's not hard to understand. You are the one not understanding. They call it the warp drive, cause it actually warps space. It actually changes the distance between two objects. It actually warps reality. that is the whole point. Outside the field it may be 1 billion gazillion miles from A to B. But if inside the field it's now only 1 foot from A to B, and I make that step, and then let the field dissipate, I have changed reality for myself sufficient to travel a tremendous distance, withough violating the speed of light, and without time travel. The distance and speed and travel time of light OUTSIDE of the field is IRRELEVENT.
It's two different paths: one is long, windy and through hill and dale, and the other direct as an arrow. Taking the shorter one does not in any way violate the other.
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And where does the money the Gov uses to pay for your really-expensive-over-80-medical-care come from?
And no its not cheaper just cause the gov pays for it. Cost is cost, regardless. The gov may pay less due to rules it writes itself, or other things, but a Dollar Steak is a Dollar Steak even if I pass a law stating no one can charge more than $0.50 for it.
Wind turbine pylons make good, discreet antennaes (or housings for them). A farm of them is even better. Grab all the signals emitted by the EA-18's in the area. Analyze. Plot the spectrum and the variations...
ECM is an ever changing game. The codes, frequencies, spectrum, wattage, every single specification, all classed Secret for that reason. Updates are issued frequently (not as often as the once a day nuke codes, but still).
I can see there being concern about someone getting a leg up on the ECM game.
Dogfight? Dogfights are passe. A drone knocks out the other guy 100 miles out and if it doesn't, who gives a shit. Drones are relatively cheap - especially compared to the F-22.
They said the same thing about missles. And it was just as wrong then int eh 50's and 60's as it is now.
Vietnam proved them wrong, and all of a sudden the replacements to the F4 needed to have dogfight capability.
Close combat with a drone? It's already here.
No, it's not.
Let's face it, drones are a cheaper and safer alternative and they're getting better every day.
They are also more limited, and less capable.
And planes like the F-22 have a serious defect: they are worthless against wave after after wave after wave of cheap planes. The F-22 would run out of bullets and missiles and while it's running away to get more, it'll get it's ass shot off or it's base blown to smithereens - LOTS of dead people.
Wave after wave doesn't happen. As it stands the F22 was designed to meet the goal of taking on 16 - 1 odds and winning, a requirement that was seen as unlikely already because the worst case plausible scenario is 8 to 1, with 4 - 1 being the most likely scenario. Combat flights never fly alone to start with, always in at least pairs, if not 4 together.
Simply put, your claim of "wave after wave" is a fine hypothetical, but simply does not exist in the real world. A combat flight of 4 F22 has the theoretical max capability to take on 72 enemy aircraft. That's 6 squadrons worth. An entire deployed F22 squadron of 12 planes could take on 192 enemy aircraft. the F22, by being stealth, is essentially the Rogue class of air dominance: it is better able to dictate the terms of the fight, striking more targets from a longer distance without warning than any potential enemy aircraft is capable of.
And it would get its ass shot off should it turn to run? How? You forget that the F22 is stealth? That its faster than any credible threat? It's countermeasures are second to none? That it is engaging the inital targets from farther away than they can? In order to shoot its ass off, you have to be close enough to do so, and able to get a target. The whole point is the F22 denies both possibilities. Even if the F22 ere surprised and forced into a close in dogfight if the chance should come to disengage it could clear the area much quicker than any enemy aircraft.
And don't get me started on the disappointment of the F-35. Our current line up of planes are fine for current needs and we just need to replace our Air Force with all drones.
Our air force is not ready for future conflicts - we are still in this Cold War mentality. And if there is another big conflict, I'm afraid we will have a very rude awakening.
The F35 is not designed for air dominance. It could perform such a role, by virtue of being more capable than most enemy combatants, but it's meant to be a multi-prupose, jack of all trades. The F22 is designed for one thing and one thng only: denying the enemy control of airspace. If you honestly think the current line up is fine, and the drones can do all, you're just another armchair quarterback second guessing the refs who've been doing it for years.
Plus its illogical to state that ouor current line up is fine, and then next say our air force is not ready....you cannot have it both ways. They are mutually exclusive statements.
Your entire post is 100% clueless.
Mod up.
If your vitriol and bias lets you.
there was no truth! you people are just more idiots who read the headline and think they know what's going on!
have you read the papers? have you? the wikileaks is the biggest non-issue in the damn world. the military worries about it because an analyst can look at the most benign things and predict what's going on. thats why everything is controlled as sensitive. there was no great "bombshell" in the papers. wikileaks did not say "oo here's the smoking gun" (whistleblowing). wikileaks jsut said "heres the documents i was able to find" (espionage). bradley manning is not some hero. he is a soldier who disobyed orders, orders that exist for a reason, to protect peoples lives, and potentially could have had people die as a result of his actions. this was not whistleblowing. this was classic espionage. you people are just too dumb to get the difference.
We covered this before. You have no idea what you're talking about. The great wikeleaks controversy is not about "zomg wikileaks posted a bunch of proof of illegal stuff on teh internet". Never been about that, because that isnt what happened.
What they got, what they posted, was mostly standard inter-depeartment and inter-embassy chatter. Benign, boring, crap. Even that stuff can be dangerous ("POTUS is arriving on 23 Sept at 0200") but mostly its meaningless. The few interesting things were about things like ongoing bribes to warlords to keep them peaceful (old news, and fully admitted to years ago), plans for troop redployment, etc. The big concern is not about covering up things, but about protecting sensitive intel. A good analyst can look at something as simple as an order for more MREs, a list of aircraft cycled back to teh US, and conclude which base is going to be the major push in the next week. Thats why everything is marked sensitive, and nothing is given out for free.
Vista wasnt much of a disaster. At least I never had any issues with it. The only reason I switched to Win7 was I had upgraded my computer yet again, this time including a newer 64bit cpu, and figured Win7-x64 was the best way to take advantage of it.
The correct answer is: GET HIM LAID.
Seriously though. If he's brilliant, he's valuable. No one is perfect, and this concept of we must all get along is nonsense. Never seen a place advocate firing people as much as /. over the dumbest trash.
People will have conflicts. Some people really really suck at "inter-personal skills", buzzspeak for they dont get along well with other people. Some people make your company tons and tons of money. Sometimes these two people are the same person. That's why the Tom Smykowski's of the world exist in companies. They play it for fun in the movie, and have him be "downsized", but in reality, engineers often need an interpreter in between them and the customer. someone to step in and keep him from telling the customer their artistic vision is stupid, useless drives up the cost of the building (beyond that agreed for already), or that that beam HAS to be there or the building falls down so no I will NOT cut it out whether you think it's an eyesore or not". Customers don't like to be told those things, true or not.
The daily mail is your source? Seriously? A tabloid known for sensationalizing its reports, using dubious sources, etc? Wow.
"and then a second as rescuers try to drag victims from the rubble." ... Yeah. That's bullcrap. That is not US strategy or tactic. Never has been.
However reclaiming weapons from dead bodies before reporters get places, that has been popular. Not even as a tactic per se, though that is true of insurgents or whatever you want to call them, its often as simple "that gun is worth something, he obviously dont need it anymore, so I'm gonna take it and sell it".
My source? I actually fing went over there.
Bash America. /.
Get +5 Insightful on
i must have missed that day in nutjob conspiracy theory 101. whom exactly did Bush have killed?
Timeline for a book:
2013: Assange successfully secretly relocates to Ecuador from their british embassy.
2013: Drone strike hits Assange's undisclosed residence in Ecuador, but he wasn't home. He goes into hiding.
2014: US invasion of Venezuela, under pretext of having provided aid and support to Assange. Chavez removed from power, a move popular both in Venezuela and surrounding countries, and back home. Also: oil.
2015: Still unable to confirm beyond doubt that Chavez supported Assange. Most people don't care, as they still think was justifiable to remove a really bad guy from power.
2019: Assange found hiding in nearby Peru....
I'm being cheeky, I know. Personally I think putting Assange on the same level is ridiculous.
People used to talk all the time. To random strangers.
People didn't used to fear everything and everyone around them.
Now, everyone you meet is a potential rapist, terrorist, or something else.
Thank the news media and the politicians.
its not about tellng you what to do. its about suggesting that the phone gives a false sense of productivity. Equivalent to "empty calories". Being bored leads to wanting to do things. The phone satisfies that, without actually being productive, since the chief way of occupying time with a phone is with a game of some kind. The suggestion is that without the phone you would do something else more worthwhile with that small bit of time. That the game on your phone is a more compelling boredom relief than many other activities, yet in the end less rewarding than those other activities.
Remember we arent talking about life goals or long stretches of time, but small chunks that used to be filled by introspection or conversation. Staring out the window on a bus (the "greatest philosphy school known to mankind"). Waiting for an order at a diner. Waiting for the dentist. Etc. The trend now, I know you've seen it, a group of friends at a restruant out to eat, no one saying a word, everyone just staring at their phone. They're there together, yet each alone.
Let's go further. A pound per resident, per day, you say?
300 million residents. 365 days a year.
109,500,000,000 pounds of beef consumed every year by the people of this country.
That's 109.5 BILLION pounds. But you said 25%...so 27,375,000,000....27.4B pounds.
The average cow is 1000 to 1600 pounds, depending on breed and purpose. Let's go with 1200 lbs on the hoof for the average beef cow raised for slaughter (that 1600 is for a large bull stud, they make up little of the meat market).
But wait! You don't eat the whole thing. You lose about 450-550 lbs to bones. Call it 500. That leaves 700 lbs of meat per cow.
We're won't even going to get into the different grades of beef here (some fit only for dog food, etc) or different cuts and peices of beef.
So...27.4 Billion divided by 700 gives us 39,107,142.9 cows required, per year. Just to feed one country with only 300M people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle#Population
Almost 100M cows in the US. So talking about just us, and slaughtering a third of our cows every year.
Problems with that number: Of those 100M, only about 14M are destined for slaughter, a third of the required number.
Of those 14M destined for slaughter, not all of them will be. Why? Cause it takes longer than a year to get a cow to size; the average for steers raised to slaughter is 3 yrs. So now you're down to about 4.7M cows slaughtered for consumption in any one year.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Of those 4.7M, a large portion will not be marked "fit for human consumption" and go to making dog food, etc.
And that's just the beef. There's even less meat on the other critters, requiring even bigger populations to meet the statistic you pulled out of your ass.
Ya...that statistic is about as realistic as Romney's face tan last week.
One pound, per person, per day...so 4 pounds in an average family a day, 28 in a week, and 120 in a month.
at a cost of at least 2$ a pound, more for the beef, so roughly 300$ a month, just on meat?!
My families entire grocery bill for the month isnt that high.
Dude you are so full of crap its not even funny. Your statistic is bullspit. If you got it from someone else, you need to engage the grey matter and evaluate it before repeating it.
There are only two good things about Mythbusters.
Maybe four, now that Kari has been joined by that blonde chick.
Nothing is future proof. Everything, particularly mechanical things, breaks down and needs repair replacement eventually. That what constant inspections and preventative maintenance are for. Nuclear plants are no different.
This has cash in written all over it.
There is nothing wrong with selecting human barbie dolls to begin the population of Mars! After all, we want our Martian invaders to look good when they revolt against us and demand Snoo-snoo as tribute after defeating us.
They just need a little more help getting started than normal is all.
WTF. Someone tell me that's a joke post protest of the buyout.
att doesnt own all the lines. /. has come to represent.
att isnt a gov sanctioned monopoly
this is a perfect example of the blind vitriol
Are you bloody retarded?
Again, just because the radio wave took the long path doesnt mean a damn thing.
You could just as easily send the radio wave via the warped "path", theoretically, and it would still arrive there ahead of you.
there's nothing excluding the radio energy from traveling the warp field.
It's not hard to understand. You are the one not understanding.
They call it the warp drive, cause it actually warps space. It actually changes the distance between two objects. It actually warps reality. that is the whole point.
Outside the field it may be 1 billion gazillion miles from A to B. But if inside the field it's now only 1 foot from A to B, and I make that step, and then let the field dissipate, I have changed reality for myself sufficient to travel a tremendous distance, withough violating the speed of light, and without time travel. The distance and speed and travel time of light OUTSIDE of the field is IRRELEVENT.
It's two different paths: one is long, windy and through hill and dale, and the other direct as an arrow. Taking the shorter one does not in any way violate the other.