It's a double standard; the journalist and professor are safe, but the Harry Potter fan gets sued.
If the Harry Potter fan was merely analyzing the lexicon in the same manner as a journalist reviews or a professor interprets - you'd have a point. But have you actually visited the website? It goes somewhat beyond that.
Rather I stepped ahead and showed you what happens when China releases it's US credit.
Rather, you sidestepped and tried to pretend that facts inconvenient to your arguement didn't exist.
Whether you like it or not, if (not when) China sells (not releases) it's US debt - it's own economy goes in the tank, as does the EU's and most of Asia's. Those are facts - and all your handwaving, hysteria, and strawmen won't change that.
But still keep repeating your mantra that everything is rosy and there is no way that China can influence the US dollar or policy.
Had said anything of the sort - you'd have a point. But I didn't. (But facts aren't your long suit anyhow.)
I rather suspect you haven't thought about this matter in any great depth.
Your right - I haven't thought about it. I've studied it. I've discussed it with professors of economics. (I.E. folks who actually know what they are talking about.) The result is that clueless idiots who merely parrot propoganda that agrees with their biases can't understand what I'm talking about.
So they resort to handwaving, hysteria, and strawmen.
Not really... It gives you (crudely) longitude and (crudely) latitude. IIRC accurate to about 5-10 miles. (The problem is that the Earth not only isn't a point source - the atmosphere fudges the edge a bit.)
Neither will having it run by some Government bureaucrat. Do you really want the caliber of person that works at the department of motor vehicles running those plants?
Depends on which section and level of the Goverment - the folks that work down at the DMV (for example) are quite different than Navy nuclear power techs.
But that's what they are called in the foodie world - glossy volumes with lots and lots of photographs and food, wonderful dining spaces, regional scenery, etc... And usually waaay to expensive to take into the kitchen and actually work from. (And not aimed at cooks anyhow - but at foodies.)
It's not that I was out of the ordinary, it's that that guy before asked me how I had any position to comment about the gun.
Which competence you utterly failed to support.
Then you are back to your favorite topic - how wonderful you are (or were) and how poorly wonderful you was served by the Navy. I wonder who you are really trying to convince.
ook at Amazon's recommendation system: pretty good overall but still makes some egregious errors.
Egregious errors? It's downright useless unless you pretty much buy only one genre of book/music/whatever. Their system is heavily weighted towards whatever you most recently bought - and drops huge slabs of quasi related stuff into your request list at the slightest provocation.
I buy (among other things) serious works of culinary history, sociology, etc... Yet my reccomendation list is clogged with food porn (coffee table cookbooks) and the latest crap offerings from whichever TV chef is the current flavor of the moment. It also doesn't recognize the difference between editions - if you buy a hardback, it'll happily reccomend you buy the paperback. If you buy a frequently reprinted SF novel, it'll happily add each new printing/edition to your queue.
So you put a Faraday cage around the car's ECM. Problem solved?
Faraday cages aren't magic. Problem not solved.
You still have the cables connection the ECM to the rest of the engine - which will act as wonderful antenna, so you have to shield them. You also have to shield the sensors and actuators the cables are connected to. You'll have to shield the sparkplugs too... Not a trivial task at all. Probably not even possible.
The historical examples are interesting - but they are also precisely what I mean by either being irrelevant (WWII) or hearsay (the modern examples). It's also extremely one sided because it doesn't discuss submarines sunk (in wartime) or driven away (in peacetime), concentrating instead on the flashy bits.
Insofar as countermeasures go, yah - I can't talk about those.
I love professional papers written on the "we don't have any actual evidence, so we'll pile on the hearsay and irrelevant historical examples until we've generate enough text to Look Serious" method.
This would not be the first time the USN has allowed (in peacetime) a potential enemy to get away with something that they (the USN) knew damm well the enemy was doing. This a) gives the bad guys a false sense of security and b) lets the USN collect intel on a variety of things they normally wouldn't be able to. (Watching the guys inbound track WRT your own vessels gives information about his sonar capabilities for example.)
BTW, your ignorance is showing. They're not going to need that AOL CD; the internet works out of the box on a Linux computer, unlike Windows.
BTW, your ignorance is showing. Four [Windows] computers in this room... Four [Windows] computers which connected to the internet by simply plugging in a cable from my router and following a simple wizard.
I resent that incredibly racist and elitist statement. I may not be the "typical" WalMart customer, but I do shop there. I would be a fool to spend fifty dollars for a pair of jeans elsewhere when I can get a pair of Wranglers at Wal Mart for $12.
If you are spending $50 on jeans - you are a fool. Mine cost me $25, and they are real jeans - not the low quality knockoffs sold at Wal-Mart. (You have to be really, really, careful shopping at Wal-mart. Many of their 'brand name' items are low quality 'self knockoffs' manufactured specifically for sale at Wal-Mart.)
THEY are the ones that will start the Linux revolution. Not because they "did the research" or "grok FOSS" or any of that elitist crap. But because it makes financial sense to buy a $200 US PC that can do everything they need it to do. They will get introduced to Linux for the first time, perhaps as their first PC EVER, and will love it. They will stick with this machine for at least 5 years, as it will be able to handle all the basic tasks they need it for, and when it dies or they need another, they will look for another LINUX PC to replace it with.
Sure they'll love it. Until the first time they try to run The Sims - or a variety of other popular PC games. Or until the first time they try and upgrade a component - and find that it doesn't Just Work. Or the first time they try and install a program they find on the 'net and discover library and dependency hell. Or the first time they need support...
That list of 'qualifications' sounds impressive - until you encounter someone who has actually been in the Navy. That is, someone who knows just how common and ordinary your claims to 'fame' really are. Not to mention how utterly unrelated to the fields in which you claim competence they are.
Why play word games instead of using the proper word for things?
It's quite amusing that you can say that with a straight face... Because you are the one playing word games, not the OP. Thievery and piracy have been accepted terms for this behavior for centuries. It's only in the last few years that advocates of IP reform have attempted to change what the acts are called.
Liquid nitrogen is the cooling answer, for sure. Then you're not dependent upon power of any kind at all.
Except of course the power needed to create the LN2.
That's why critical cold storage applications like those in the biomedical industry don't use 'chillers' or refrigerators or anything like that. If you really want to put something on ice and keep it cold, you use liquid nitrogen.
As above - how do you think they prevent the LN2 from evaporating? The LN2 is a buffer against loss of power, but typically they have a pretty serious cryocooler to keep the LN2 there when they do have power.
All China has to do is release it's US funds to the open market. Pop goes the US financial system, no money no Navy, Army, Air Force or USMC. China grabs Taiwan before the US recovers.
Except the real world doesn't work the way fearmongers like yourself would like it to. If China puts the funds it holds on the open market - it will flood the market, which means no (or very few) buyers. The only way then to pop the US financial system will be to sell the paper at a (very) steep discount.
Pop goes China's economy right along with the US's. (And a fair chunk of the EU economy goes down the tubes as well.)
The only thing that the US can hope for is that the US economy is worth more to China than Taiwan.
China's valuation of the US economy is a non issue. More important is how they value their own.
I also at the time, well, around June 87 as an E-4 Radioman, but not Gunner's Mate or weapons person, told several of the GM's (who were loading the DU (depleted Uranium) rounds into the gun (they were wearing asbestos gloves, but no respirators...tsk tsk...),
I suspected from the many errors you make you were either lying, making shit up, or merely repeating fleet rumors - and this statement alone proves it.
If you weren't a GM, why should we trust you about CIWS? Since you incorrectly believe that asbestos gloves (which were long gone from the Navy by 1984 and wouldn't have been required for ammo handling anyhow) and that respirators were required for handling DU rounds (they aren't)...
You don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
"This gun isn't worth shit. All the Soviets need to do is pickle our asses from high altitude with a self-guided or corrected set of bombs. They don't even need a direct hit. Just defoliate our masts and antennas. Hell, they could come from zenith and attack the CVNs, BBs and anything else IF they can break through CAP (Combat Air Patrol) for CVNs or sqwack (fake being CommAir (commercial aircraft) and close in on us."
Amazingly complicated shit is amazingly easy in Tom Clancy novels and the minds of armchair admirals. (Hint: Among other things you get wrong - it doesn't matter what they 'sqwak' [sic], because combat radars rely on skin paint. Not squawks.)
Nothing in the simpleminded answers he's posted to date would seem to lead to that conclusion.
As far as risk goes, it depends upon which index the index fund is supposed to track. Similarly, a managed fund's risk will depend on the strategy of that particular fund. The only rational equity portfolio is to diversify it as much as possible.
Duh. Isn't that merely an expansion of what I said?
I know several finance professors and their major holdings are index funds (the lower the fee the better, Vanguard funds are a favourite).
Who cares what professors of finance own? Are their needs and goals the same as mine? As yours? Or did you just post because making jackass statements make you feel smart?
of course it is difficult to terraform planets. any attempt at terraforming any planet will require commanding and intricately directing massive amounts of energy many orders of mangitude well beyond anything mankind has even dreamed of mastering
In some fantasy universe, sure. In our universe with our laws of physics? No.
but at the same time, ask a roman general 2,000 years ago to consider the existence of jet fighters, air craft carriers, and helicopters and you would get the same level of incredulity as you have now about being in a "magical universe"
which means his problem, and your problem, is that you lack imagination. you're a dullard. you think pointing out that terraforming planets is difficult is a useful comment to make
Oh, I have plenty of imagination, but I also have a working knowledge of how the universe works. (Unlike your notional Roman general... and unlike you.)
well shit, thanks for enlightening us. we had no idea, we thought it would be easy. where would we be without you?
Somebody that thinks Venus is a better candidate than Mars is indeed badly in need of enlightening. Because you haven't a fucking clue how the universe works.
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If the Harry Potter fan was merely analyzing the lexicon in the same manner as a journalist reviews or a professor interprets - you'd have a point. But have you actually visited the website? It goes somewhat beyond that.
Rather, you sidestepped and tried to pretend that facts inconvenient to your arguement didn't exist.
Whether you like it or not, if (not when) China sells (not releases) it's US debt - it's own economy goes in the tank, as does the EU's and most of Asia's. Those are facts - and all your handwaving, hysteria, and strawmen won't change that.
Had said anything of the sort - you'd have a point. But I didn't. (But facts aren't your long suit anyhow.)
Your right - I haven't thought about it. I've studied it. I've discussed it with professors of economics. (I.E. folks who actually know what they are talking about.) The result is that clueless idiots who merely parrot propoganda that agrees with their biases can't understand what I'm talking about.
So they resort to handwaving, hysteria, and strawmen.
Not really... It gives you (crudely) longitude and (crudely) latitude. IIRC accurate to about 5-10 miles. (The problem is that the Earth not only isn't a point source - the atmosphere fudges the edge a bit.)
Sure, HD is cool. But for science return - resolution is what matters. Anyone know what the resolution of this camera is?
Depends on which section and level of the Goverment - the folks that work down at the DMV (for example) are quite different than Navy nuclear power techs.
But that's what they are called in the foodie world - glossy volumes with lots and lots of photographs and food, wonderful dining spaces, regional scenery, etc... And usually waaay to expensive to take into the kitchen and actually work from. (And not aimed at cooks anyhow - but at foodies.)
Which competence you utterly failed to support.
Then you are back to your favorite topic - how wonderful you are (or were) and how poorly wonderful you was served by the Navy. I wonder who you are really trying to convince.
Egregious errors? It's downright useless unless you pretty much buy only one genre of book/music/whatever. Their system is heavily weighted towards whatever you most recently bought - and drops huge slabs of quasi related stuff into your request list at the slightest provocation.
I buy (among other things) serious works of culinary history, sociology, etc... Yet my reccomendation list is clogged with food porn (coffee table cookbooks) and the latest crap offerings from whichever TV chef is the current flavor of the moment. It also doesn't recognize the difference between editions - if you buy a hardback, it'll happily reccomend you buy the paperback. If you buy a frequently reprinted SF novel, it'll happily add each new printing/edition to your queue.
Faraday cages aren't magic. Problem not solved.
You still have the cables connection the ECM to the rest of the engine - which will act as wonderful antenna, so you have to shield them. You also have to shield the sensors and actuators the cables are connected to. You'll have to shield the sparkplugs too... Not a trivial task at all. Probably not even possible.
Ah, the infamous debating tactic... rather than adressing the facts that show you wrong, handwave and waffle and attempt to divert attention.
Didn't work.
The historical examples are interesting - but they are also precisely what I mean by either being irrelevant (WWII) or hearsay (the modern examples). It's also extremely one sided because it doesn't discuss submarines sunk (in wartime) or driven away (in peacetime), concentrating instead on the flashy bits.
Insofar as countermeasures go, yah - I can't talk about those.
It keeps a while - but not forever. (Think a few days tops. It's a huge capital investment beyond that.)
It's cheap as milk when you order it in industrial quantities. (Which few activities other than well... big industries do.)
I love professional papers written on the "we don't have any actual evidence, so we'll pile on the hearsay and irrelevant historical examples until we've generate enough text to Look Serious" method.
This would not be the first time the USN has allowed (in peacetime) a potential enemy to get away with something that they (the USN) knew damm well the enemy was doing. This a) gives the bad guys a false sense of security and b) lets the USN collect intel on a variety of things they normally wouldn't be able to. (Watching the guys inbound track WRT your own vessels gives information about his sonar capabilities for example.)
BTW, your ignorance is showing. Four [Windows] computers in this room... Four [Windows] computers which connected to the internet by simply plugging in a cable from my router and following a simple wizard.
If you are spending $50 on jeans - you are a fool. Mine cost me $25, and they are real jeans - not the low quality knockoffs sold at Wal-Mart. (You have to be really, really, careful shopping at Wal-mart. Many of their 'brand name' items are low quality 'self knockoffs' manufactured specifically for sale at Wal-Mart.)
Sure they'll love it. Until the first time they try to run The Sims - or a variety of other popular PC games. Or until the first time they try and upgrade a component - and find that it doesn't Just Work. Or the first time they try and install a program they find on the 'net and discover library and dependency hell. Or the first time they need support...
Thank you - I needed a chuckle this morning.
That list of 'qualifications' sounds impressive - until you encounter someone who has actually been in the Navy. That is, someone who knows just how common and ordinary your claims to 'fame' really are. Not to mention how utterly unrelated to the fields in which you claim competence they are.
It's quite amusing that you can say that with a straight face... Because you are the one playing word games, not the OP. Thievery and piracy have been accepted terms for this behavior for centuries. It's only in the last few years that advocates of IP reform have attempted to change what the acts are called.
Except of course the power needed to create the LN2.
As above - how do you think they prevent the LN2 from evaporating? The LN2 is a buffer against loss of power, but typically they have a pretty serious cryocooler to keep the LN2 there when they do have power.
Except the real world doesn't work the way fearmongers like yourself would like it to. If China puts the funds it holds on the open market - it will flood the market, which means no (or very few) buyers. The only way then to pop the US financial system will be to sell the paper at a (very) steep discount.
Pop goes China's economy right along with the US's. (And a fair chunk of the EU economy goes down the tubes as well.)
China's valuation of the US economy is a non issue. More important is how they value their own.
I suspected from the many errors you make you were either lying, making shit up, or merely repeating fleet rumors - and this statement alone proves it.
If you weren't a GM, why should we trust you about CIWS? Since you incorrectly believe that asbestos gloves (which were long gone from the Navy by 1984 and wouldn't have been required for ammo handling anyhow) and that respirators were required for handling DU rounds (they aren't)...
You don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
Amazingly complicated shit is amazingly easy in Tom Clancy novels and the minds of armchair admirals. (Hint: Among other things you get wrong - it doesn't matter what they 'sqwak' [sic], because combat radars rely on skin paint. Not squawks.)
Nothing in the simpleminded answers he's posted to date would seem to lead to that conclusion.
Duh. Isn't that merely an expansion of what I said?
Who cares what professors of finance own? Are their needs and goals the same as mine? As yours? Or did you just post because making jackass statements make you feel smart?
All very true - and all having nothing to do with what I wrote. Removing the CO2 from Venus's atmosphere is a Hard Problem.
You know index funds (which are the topic of discussion, not indexes themselves) _are_ mutual funds don't you? You can't invest in an index.
In some fantasy universe, sure. In our universe with our laws of physics? No.
Oh, I have plenty of imagination, but I also have a working knowledge of how the universe works. (Unlike your notional Roman general... and unlike you.)
Somebody that thinks Venus is a better candidate than Mars is indeed badly in need of enlightening. Because you haven't a fucking clue how the universe works.