But I don't know what a Gossip girl is. People seem to make the mistake that just because I said I have no idea who she is that I want to know who she is. I figure she is just actor so she is not really worth googleing anyway. I didn't say "Who is Taylor Momsen" Just stated that she sure isn't famous to me. Frankly anybody associated with anything called Gossip Girls probably isn't going to be worth my time.
Please. Frankly I think this Obama is correct in this case but FREAKING STOP MAKING EXCUSES. Obama has had the biggest majority in congress of any president in my life time and I am pretty dang old by slashdot standards. You are making excuse on top of excuse. Heck I don't think Obama is a terrible president I just think a good section of his supporters are mindless zombies. I think that if you every took a hard look that both Clinton and Bush Jr. made many mistakes. Clinton IMHO was a terrible president that got so lucky that the disasters he caused started in the last month of so of his term in office. But sometimes you get lucky. Obama except for his disaster of a policy on manned space flight isn't doing all that terrible IMHO. However your blaming Bush for Obama's decisions is JUST STUPID AND FRIGHTENING! If you think this program is stupid an wasteful that BLAME OBAMA because he is supporting it! He had no trouble trying to kill Ares so this project should be a walk in a park to kill. Even the contracters could just make more SM2s and PAC-3s and be happy. I think that in this case President Obama is correct in keeping this program going. But bloody hell get your head out of our butt and stop trying ti shift blame. What is wrong in the contry in part is that people have forgotten how it is supposed to work. You and I are President Obama's BOSS. He serves us and we can fire him! If he is doing something you don't like SPEAK OUT AND DO NOT MAKE EXCUSES! In this case I think his doing the right thing so I give him credit for it. When he does things I do not agree with he gets the blame. Dictators have supporters. Presidents have voters. So stop being a whinny fanboi and stand up. You can blame none of Obama decisions on Bush. They are all his decisions.
Actually a lot of it is based on US stuff. A US company makes the terminal seeker for it. The big difference is the Arrow II uses a warhead as well as hit to kill.
Wow so all the problems during Bushes term where caused by Clinton? Really get over it. Actually I think Obama is supporting this because he learned that it actually works or can. The people posting this study used only unclassified data. People like to use the Patriot as an example of something not working. Truth is that the Patriot used in the first Gulf War was never supposed to intercept a missile. They tweaked the software and it ended up that it could sometimes hit an incoming scud. It was good enough that it gave Israel enough defense imagined or not to not get into the war. The new PAC-3 is a totally different system. The SM-3 is probably going to work pretty well. In nothing else it can act as a deterrent.
But pull you head out of your butt. Stop not blaming Obama for things Obama is doing. In this case I think he is doing the right thing but really this passing the buck is just disgusting. He has been president for over a year! Stop trying to blame Bush. Every think that just maybe now that Obama is president that maybe just maybe he has learned that the world wasn't what he thought it was?
1. Getting a sub close enough to the US coast wouldn't be easy. 2. Cruise missiles are actually not all that hard to shoot down unless they are packed with ECM and are stealthy. Well not that hard if you have AWACS and AIM-120s. 3. Low trajectory ICBMs? Very difficult and really kill your range. Actually pretty easy to shoot down.
Oh and technology hasn't advanced at all since 1952? please...
Actually it is pretty hard to build your own device and put it on a cell network. The big problem really are software patents. Let's say that you want to make a better iPhone. Odds are that Apple and Microsoft have patents that they will use to beat you over the head with. That is why I think HP paid a billion dollars for Palm. I am thinking Palm has a lot of head beating patents.
"The Tevatron is so thoroughly outclassed by the LHC" hummm real? What discoveries has the LHC made? Really I am sure that the LHC will produce higher energy collisions than the Tevatron but really can't this idiotic my big science project is more L33T that your science project just stop. Good grief you would think it was a high school football game. In science everybody wins.
What always shocked me is that anybody ever thought that data you posted on a social networking site was private to begin with? Really? Of course there will always be the problem of someone tagging you in a photo where you are making an ass of yourself but then it has always been wise to avoid making an ass of one's self in public.
The level of paranoia is just too high over all. Honestly part of the problem IMHO is that law enforcement is getting a bad rep because of dumb laws like DMCA and such. I have a friend that works in the FBI. Yes he is very happy to bust some with a warehouse full of counterfeit goods. But I asked him about things like bit torrent and pirating MP3s... His comment was. What a freaking waste of my time. They rarely have to get involved in that and just leave it up to the lawyers. Of course when the police must enforce stupid and unjust laws they become less trust worthy in the eyes of many people. It is a shame since this wiping of phones is a real problem and could cause innocent people to get hurt. I think too many people forget that there really are bad guys out there and the truth is you can never know how many attacks don't happen because they where too hard to pull off.
Legal == Moral? For my personal choices no. When I am voting for laws and law makers no. When judging the actions of a company? Do I have the right to enforce my view of morality on someone?
What is funny is people think my saying that Apples actions are completely legal and within in their rights means that I think they are good or that I approve. I bought and Android device and my wife bought a WebOS device. I did not buy an iPhone because I don't like AT&Ts morality. I didn't buy an Droid because Verizon crippled phones in the past and I do not approve of that. When I do not like the policy of a company I don't by from them. I don't find Apples app store policy all that offensive to be honest. It is their store so they can decide what they carry. It is the exact same system that game consoles use. I do like the Android and Palm's system better so I buy from them. What I find upsetting is the amount of effort and rage that is going into what is really a small matter. It is easy to just buy a different phone. Software patents, RIAA, MPAA, and DMCA and the new copyrights treaty are far more worrisome to me and get less energy than this silliness. If you hate it so DO NOT BY AN IPHONE! DO NOT BUY IPHONE APPS. Buy WebOS or Android phone instead.
Pretty much the same reason that smart people use CentOS and not Fedora for servers. Or RHEL if you are paying. You don't update servers for new features. You update them for security and bug fixes. Odds are you have no need for any new features on a production server. What you need is for it to keep working.
Then they would have a monopoly and then it would be illegal. Until then everything they are doing is very legal. It is not all that different than a movie studio saying that it would only produce g and pg movies.
But frankly having a smart phone isn't a right at all. And right now the best way to keep Apple from having a monopoly is to not buy an iPhone. Anything else is just really flopping about. Everybody that buys an iphone even if they don't like the restrictions is just saying "it doesn't really matter to me". Now the other things on my list are important and carry the weight of law and peoples energy should be focused on fixing those and not this silly fight over the iPhone.
If Commodore had bought KFC they would have marketed it as warm dead birds in a cardboard bucket. Yep Commodore had a real winner with the Amiga and frankly it didn't do all that bad for a time but they really blew the marketing. Not providing an easy way to go past 512 MB on the 1000 or an easy way to add an HD internally was dumb. Not getting more business software on it was also dumb. I am still ticked off at Borland. When I bought my Amiga 1000 part of the reason was that they advertised TurboPascal for the Amiga. Do you have any idea how much software was written in Turbo Pascal and Turbo C? And how much of it might have been ported to the Amiga? Just to many misses.
Actually it is a lot more complex than that. The higher you fly the less fuel you burn but the higher the stall speed as well as the speed that offers you the best lift to drag. Also engines have an optimum power setting as well. Also the higher you fly the more fuel you burn in climb so there is a function of distance, altitude, and airspeed where the plane gets the best efficiency. The concept D looks like it is using the classic trick of increasing the aspect ratio of the wing. That increases climb rate and improves the lift to drag at a given speed. My guess by looking at the pictures they are using engines that have a much lower disk loading than current turbofans and a wing that is optimized for cruise at a lowers speed.
The problem will be the increase in weight. When you increase the aspect ratio you increase the weight of the wing. If you decrease the disk loading of a turbo fan the weight goes up. It will be interesting to see if all the lines cross where they think they will.
"a) massively long communication lines that implied long lead times for supplies"
Shorter than the US lines in the Pacific and Europe.
"b) production in Germany suffering due to a lack of raw materials" And had the population of the soviet nations turned on Stalin they could have help produce more of those raw materials. "c) the harsh russian winter causing artillery to freeze up and man to die of cold" Given "d) improvements in Russian production and deployment of crack Siberian trained troops (especially around Stalingrad)" Given as well. "e) German reliance on inferior Hungarian and other Axis allied troops to protect their battle flanks" Had they not treated the Russians so badly they might have had Russian troops on their side.
As badly as the Germans treated the Russians they still had large number of Russian volunteers fighting for them. Had Germany treated the Russians better Stalin might have had his Army in revolt and not fighting for him. At the very least they would have had many more volunteers and many more Russian solders surrender.
Actually I don't really care. Apple isn't a monopoly and makes some really good stuff. As a developer I don't care as I can pick what platform I want to work on.
I gave up passionately caring about a platform when the Amiga failed to get any traction when it was better in every way than the PC was.
Apple, Microsoft, Google, HP, Intel, and AMD are all just companies that I buy products from when I like them. They do not pay my bills.
Software patents "There should be no such thing" I care about. The DMCA "stupid and harmful" I care about. The RIAA and MPAA acting like an arm of the government I care about.
Apple telling people they can not sell iPorn or write in Flash for the iPhone? Who cares? Pick a different platform folks. These rules do not have the force of law and really have nothing to do with your rights or freedoms.
You mean like they do on the XBox and the Zune? And we really do not know what they will do with WIndows Phone 7... Hey they took out copy and paste and multitasking to copy the iPhone so who knows. And yes people are crabbing to high heaven about Apple. The thing is the answer is simple. Buy and Android phone or a Palm WebOS phone like my wife and I did.
Your off by around 150 years. We where talking about WWII. Most Canadians have let that go much as the US let the burning of Washington DC by the British go.
And do you think that by getting nasty you will ever change someones mind that is also violently passionate in the other direction? I say that you will not and you will alienate many others. However by taking the higher ground you will have a chance to change the mind of those that have reasonable doubts to your cause. Also those people will not be changed by a bad word anymore than will by a good word. But they by be change by time and education. In a democratic society like we live in we are very lucky that we honestly do not need to go to extremes to make changes. In fact I would say they are for more likely to do harm than good.
I am all for passion. But it must be tempered with wisdom and good manners. Everybody has opinions the problem is when we forget that are opinions are not facts and that facts are not opinion. Passion has no place in discussing things like energy policy and many other subjects. And I have no problem when Passion is shown. I have no problem when people say "I believe this". The problem is when they say "I know this and your an idiot if you do not!" And yes the struggle does not have to get ugly because when you are using jokes and insults you are just preaching to the base and will not convince anybody. You are just making yourself look good to the people that already think like you do.
All that being said. Slashdot message base and forums really is more balanced and civil than CNNs comments. God save us!
And Italian Americans. The was a difference in that the German and Italian Americans that where interned where involved in pro Nazi and or pro Fascist groups. The Japanese Americans on the West Coast where all put into camps. Once you got the Rocky Mountain states they where treated more like the Italian Americans and German Americans. Except they had more travel limits on them.
I would say that one man's ignorant bias is anthers propaganda. Frankly I think both sides feel that they are teaching the truth and both are wrong. That is the problem frankly this wild battle between the extremes is problem in politics and just about everything else in the US.
Nobody seems to ever think they are wrong or listen to the other side. Instead we have name calling and insults. I don't care if it is the Birthers that hate Obama or the the people that called GW Bush and idiot. They are all doing their best to destroy an nation by "saving it". I really don't like this administrations polices involving the space program but I will be damned if I am going to resort to insults or jokes about the administration. Sorry to go off on a politics rant but it really is all related and part of the problem. As a great Republican once said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand". We need to end our smugness and our bad manners and start to work together. The first step is to talk and listen but not joke and insult.
It was total war but if you actually study history you will find that their was difference between the Western Allies and the Axis powers. Take a look at how the Allies treated the nations that Western Allies occupied vs the Axis. The Rape of Nanking for example. The Japanese killed more Chinese during that than the US did in the dropping of the Atomic Bomb. That was AFTER the city of Nanking surrendered. You can also take a look at the survival rate for POWs. WWII was a terrible example of total war but don't allow your self to fall into trying to rewrite history to make it seem balanced. Every nation did bomb cites but Axis kept killing those that had surrendered.
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But I don't know what a Gossip girl is.
People seem to make the mistake that just because I said I have no idea who she is that I want to know who she is. I figure she is just actor so she is not really worth googleing anyway.
I didn't say "Who is Taylor Momsen"
Just stated that she sure isn't famous to me. Frankly anybody associated with anything called Gossip Girls probably isn't going to be worth my time.
Please. Frankly I think this Obama is correct in this case but FREAKING STOP MAKING EXCUSES.
Obama has had the biggest majority in congress of any president in my life time and I am pretty dang old by slashdot standards.
You are making excuse on top of excuse. Heck I don't think Obama is a terrible president I just think a good section of his supporters are mindless zombies.
I think that if you every took a hard look that both Clinton and Bush Jr. made many mistakes. Clinton IMHO was a terrible president that got so lucky that the disasters he caused started in the last month of so of his term in office. But sometimes you get lucky. Obama except for his disaster of a policy on manned space flight isn't doing all that terrible IMHO. However your blaming Bush for Obama's decisions is JUST STUPID AND FRIGHTENING!
If you think this program is stupid an wasteful that BLAME OBAMA because he is supporting it!
He had no trouble trying to kill Ares so this project should be a walk in a park to kill. Even the contracters could just make more SM2s and PAC-3s and be happy.
I think that in this case President Obama is correct in keeping this program going. But bloody hell get your head out of our butt and stop trying ti shift blame.
What is wrong in the contry in part is that people have forgotten how it is supposed to work.
You and I are President Obama's BOSS. He serves us and we can fire him! If he is doing something you don't like SPEAK OUT AND DO NOT MAKE EXCUSES!
In this case I think his doing the right thing so I give him credit for it. When he does things I do not agree with he gets the blame.
Dictators have supporters. Presidents have voters.
So stop being a whinny fanboi and stand up.
You can blame none of Obama decisions on Bush. They are all his decisions.
I have no idea who Taylor Momsen is and I never heard of that headline but the Headline was clever.
Actually a lot of it is based on US stuff. A US company makes the terminal seeker for it.
The big difference is the Arrow II uses a warhead as well as hit to kill.
Wow so all the problems during Bushes term where caused by Clinton?
Really get over it. Actually I think Obama is supporting this because he learned that it actually works or can. The people posting this study used only unclassified data. People like to use the Patriot as an example of something not working. Truth is that the Patriot used in the first Gulf War was never supposed to intercept a missile. They tweaked the software and it ended up that it could sometimes hit an incoming scud. It was good enough that it gave Israel enough defense imagined or not to not get into the war. The new PAC-3 is a totally different system. The SM-3 is probably going to work pretty well. In nothing else it can act as a deterrent.
But pull you head out of your butt. Stop not blaming Obama for things Obama is doing. In this case I think he is doing the right thing but really this passing the buck is just disgusting. He has been president for over a year! Stop trying to blame Bush.
Every think that just maybe now that Obama is president that maybe just maybe he has learned that the world wasn't what he thought it was?
1. Getting a sub close enough to the US coast wouldn't be easy.
2. Cruise missiles are actually not all that hard to shoot down unless they are packed with ECM and are stealthy. Well not that hard if you have AWACS and AIM-120s.
3. Low trajectory ICBMs? Very difficult and really kill your range. Actually pretty easy to shoot down.
Oh and technology hasn't advanced at all since 1952? please...
Why?
No one has ever smuggled a nuke in to a city yet ever so why worry more about that.
Franky I think to dismiss any of those vectors isn't very bright.
Actually it is pretty hard to build your own device and put it on a cell network.
The big problem really are software patents. Let's say that you want to make a better iPhone. Odds are that Apple and Microsoft have patents that they will use to beat you over the head with.
That is why I think HP paid a billion dollars for Palm. I am thinking Palm has a lot of head beating patents.
"The Tevatron is so thoroughly outclassed by the LHC" hummm real? What discoveries has the LHC made?
Really I am sure that the LHC will produce higher energy collisions than the Tevatron but really can't this idiotic my big science project is more L33T that your science project just stop.
Good grief you would think it was a high school football game.
In science everybody wins.
What always shocked me is that anybody ever thought that data you posted on a social networking site was private to begin with?
Really?
Of course there will always be the problem of someone tagging you in a photo where you are making an ass of yourself but then it has always been wise to avoid making an ass of one's self in public.
The level of paranoia is just too high over all.
Honestly part of the problem IMHO is that law enforcement is getting a bad rep because of dumb laws like DMCA and such.
I have a friend that works in the FBI. Yes he is very happy to bust some with a warehouse full of counterfeit goods. But I asked him about things like bit torrent and pirating MP3s... His comment was. What a freaking waste of my time. They rarely have to get involved in that and just leave it up to the lawyers.
Of course when the police must enforce stupid and unjust laws they become less trust worthy in the eyes of many people.
It is a shame since this wiping of phones is a real problem and could cause innocent people to get hurt.
I think too many people forget that there really are bad guys out there and the truth is you can never know how many attacks don't happen because they where too hard to pull off.
Legal == Moral?
For my personal choices no.
When I am voting for laws and law makers no.
When judging the actions of a company? Do I have the right to enforce my view of morality on someone?
What is funny is people think my saying that Apples actions are completely legal and within in their rights means that I think they are good or that I approve.
I bought and Android device and my wife bought a WebOS device. I did not buy an iPhone because I don't like AT&Ts morality. I didn't buy an Droid because Verizon crippled phones in the past and I do not approve of that.
When I do not like the policy of a company I don't by from them.
I don't find Apples app store policy all that offensive to be honest. It is their store so they can decide what they carry. It is the exact same system that game consoles use.
I do like the Android and Palm's system better so I buy from them.
What I find upsetting is the amount of effort and rage that is going into what is really a small matter. It is easy to just buy a different phone.
Software patents, RIAA, MPAA, and DMCA and the new copyrights treaty are far more worrisome to me and get less energy than this silliness.
If you hate it so DO NOT BY AN IPHONE! DO NOT BUY IPHONE APPS.
Buy WebOS or Android phone instead.
Pretty much the same reason that smart people use CentOS and not Fedora for servers. Or RHEL if you are paying.
You don't update servers for new features. You update them for security and bug fixes. Odds are you have no need for any new features on a production server. What you need is for it to keep working.
Then they would have a monopoly and then it would be illegal.
Until then everything they are doing is very legal.
It is not all that different than a movie studio saying that it would only produce g and pg movies.
But frankly having a smart phone isn't a right at all. And right now the best way to keep Apple from having a monopoly is to not buy an iPhone.
Anything else is just really flopping about.
Everybody that buys an iphone even if they don't like the restrictions is just saying "it doesn't really matter to me".
Now the other things on my list are important and carry the weight of law and peoples energy should be focused on fixing those and not this silly fight over the iPhone.
If Commodore had bought KFC they would have marketed it as warm dead birds in a cardboard bucket.
Yep Commodore had a real winner with the Amiga and frankly it didn't do all that bad for a time but they really blew the marketing.
Not providing an easy way to go past 512 MB on the 1000 or an easy way to add an HD internally was dumb.
Not getting more business software on it was also dumb. I am still ticked off at Borland. When I bought my Amiga 1000 part of the reason was that they advertised TurboPascal for the Amiga.
Do you have any idea how much software was written in Turbo Pascal and Turbo C?
And how much of it might have been ported to the Amiga?
Just to many misses.
Actually it is a lot more complex than that.
The higher you fly the less fuel you burn but the higher the stall speed as well as the speed that offers you the best lift to drag.
Also engines have an optimum power setting as well.
Also the higher you fly the more fuel you burn in climb so there is a function of distance, altitude, and airspeed where the plane gets the best efficiency.
The concept D looks like it is using the classic trick of increasing the aspect ratio of the wing. That increases climb rate and improves the lift to drag at a given speed.
My guess by looking at the pictures they are using engines that have a much lower disk loading than current turbofans and a wing that is optimized for cruise at a lowers speed.
The problem will be the increase in weight. When you increase the aspect ratio you increase the weight of the wing. If you decrease the disk loading of a turbo fan the weight goes up. It will be interesting to see if all the lines cross where they think they will.
"a) massively long communication lines that implied long lead times for supplies"
Shorter than the US lines in the Pacific and Europe.
"b) production in Germany suffering due to a lack of raw materials"
And had the population of the soviet nations turned on Stalin they could have help produce more of those raw materials.
"c) the harsh russian winter causing artillery to freeze up and man to die of cold"
Given
"d) improvements in Russian production and deployment of crack Siberian trained troops (especially around Stalingrad)"
Given as well.
"e) German reliance on inferior Hungarian and other Axis allied troops to protect their battle flanks" Had they not treated the Russians so badly they might have had Russian troops on their side.
As badly as the Germans treated the Russians they still had large number of Russian volunteers fighting for them.
Had Germany treated the Russians better Stalin might have had his Army in revolt and not fighting for him. At the very least they would have had many more volunteers and many more Russian solders surrender.
Actually I don't really care.
Apple isn't a monopoly and makes some really good stuff.
As a developer I don't care as I can pick what platform I want to work on.
I gave up passionately caring about a platform when the Amiga failed to get any traction when it was better in every way than the PC was.
Apple, Microsoft, Google, HP, Intel, and AMD are all just companies that I buy products from when I like them. They do not pay my bills.
Software patents "There should be no such thing" I care about.
The DMCA "stupid and harmful" I care about.
The RIAA and MPAA acting like an arm of the government I care about.
Apple telling people they can not sell iPorn or write in Flash for the iPhone? Who cares? Pick a different platform folks. These rules do not have the force of law and really have nothing to do with your rights or freedoms.
You mean like they do on the XBox and the Zune?
And we really do not know what they will do with WIndows Phone 7... Hey they took out copy and paste and multitasking to copy the iPhone so who knows.
And yes people are crabbing to high heaven about Apple. The thing is the answer is simple. Buy and Android phone or a Palm WebOS phone like my wife and I did.
Your off by around 150 years. We where talking about WWII. Most Canadians have let that go much as the US let the burning of Washington DC by the British go.
And do you think that by getting nasty you will ever change someones mind that is also violently passionate in the other direction?
I say that you will not and you will alienate many others. However by taking the higher ground you will have a chance to change the mind of those that have reasonable doubts to your cause.
Also those people will not be changed by a bad word anymore than will by a good word.
But they by be change by time and education.
In a democratic society like we live in we are very lucky that we honestly do not need to go to extremes to make changes. In fact I would say they are for more likely to do harm than good.
I am all for passion. But it must be tempered with wisdom and good manners.
Everybody has opinions the problem is when we forget that are opinions are not facts and that facts are not opinion.
Passion has no place in discussing things like energy policy and many other subjects.
And I have no problem when Passion is shown. I have no problem when people say "I believe this". The problem is when they say "I know this and your an idiot if you do not!"
And yes the struggle does not have to get ugly because when you are using jokes and insults you are just preaching to the base and will not convince anybody. You are just making yourself look good to the people that already think like you do.
All that being said. Slashdot message base and forums really is more balanced and civil than CNNs comments.
God save us!
And Italian Americans.
The was a difference in that the German and Italian Americans that where interned where involved in pro Nazi and or pro Fascist groups. The Japanese Americans on the West Coast where all put into camps. Once you got the Rocky Mountain states they where treated more like the Italian Americans and German Americans. Except they had more travel limits on them.
I would say that one man's ignorant bias is anthers propaganda. Frankly I think both sides feel that they are teaching the truth and both are wrong.
That is the problem frankly this wild battle between the extremes is problem in politics and just about everything else in the US.
Nobody seems to ever think they are wrong or listen to the other side. Instead we have name calling and insults.
I don't care if it is the Birthers that hate Obama or the the people that called GW Bush and idiot.
They are all doing their best to destroy an nation by "saving it".
I really don't like this administrations polices involving the space program but I will be damned if I am going to resort to insults or jokes about the administration.
Sorry to go off on a politics rant but it really is all related and part of the problem.
As a great Republican once said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand". We need to end our smugness and our bad manners and start to work together. The first step is to talk and listen but not joke and insult.
It was total war but if you actually study history you will find that their was difference between the Western Allies and the Axis powers.
Take a look at how the Allies treated the nations that Western Allies occupied vs the Axis.
The Rape of Nanking for example. The Japanese killed more Chinese during that than the US did in the dropping of the Atomic Bomb.
That was AFTER the city of Nanking surrendered.
You can also take a look at the survival rate for POWs.
WWII was a terrible example of total war but don't allow your self to fall into trying to rewrite history to make it seem balanced.
Every nation did bomb cites but Axis kept killing those that had surrendered.