A 3x3x3x3 hypercube. A cube where all the faces are slightly different shades of yellow. A cube where all the faces are pictures of people's faces. A cube made of jello cubes. A cube made of Plutonium-238 .
So we should have overwhelming military superiority over nobody?
That's rather a problem, since it would mean we should have on the order of the smallest army on the planet, which would leave about 190 other armies larger and better-equipped than ours.
In case you hadn't noticed, this planet isn't all country club. There are street-gang countries out there that would gladly take advantage of a weakness. Nothing to do with military glory. Simple business, to them.
They did check their radar records and found nothing.
That's a bug, then. Because their records are the ones used by the flight-tracker website to produce the track for that flight, which is actually shown in TFA. And it does have the data:
Instead of saying "there's this airliner that follows a route that should be in that shot", they said "we know you saw something there at this time but we have nothing on our radar".
Now, maybe they were confused because someone insisted the origin of the plume was "35 miles west of LA", so that's all they looked at.
Who's running this country, anyway?
Not the newsies, fortunately.
Not the proper Newsies, maybe. Fox News seems to be able to get its people elected. The other networks don't even have candidates.
But, and this is a big but, the newsies are supposed to be our eyes and ears on the government. And the government treats the newsies (in their actual news-gathering function, not their campaign-management function) as the enemy.
This one's in pretty calm air, though, and the corkscrew is probably energy scrubbing, maybe the guidance system having a temporary issue, maybe a layer of different wind direction:
The entire American journalism force lit up like a christmas tree, and proceeded to prod the military and FAA for information. The military and FAA stood up professional public-affairs personnel who, instead of saying "this is a commercial airliner that we knew was coming and have a track of in our logs", or "let me make a phone call", were prepared with and delivered "we don't know."
Which, come to think of it, bugs the fuck out of me. This is something that should have been easy to check in existing records, and their choice was to stonewall, as if that's policy when the public wants an answer that can only be had with technology and information-handling authority we've delegated (along with money to fund it) to the military and FAA.
We invaded Iraq because W and his co-conspirators planned to invade Iraq all along. Nothing to do with glory and the military; everything to do with their personal ambitions and finding a way to put a trillion dollars in Halliburton's hands.
And I ignored myself when I wondered why the plume wasn't all twisted up. Missile trails go through the different layers of atmosphere and pull in different directions. Like this:
Again, who did we invade at the drop of a hat during the Cold War?
Viet Nam?
Ike.
Korea?
Truman, but since there was an invasion going on that wasn't us, it doesn't fit your drop-of-a-hat model.
if the public didn't see glory in the military, they wouldn't join or support the military
Possibly, but not a good thing. We need a military, and you've admitted as much in other posts.
and we would not feel it was our right to invade other countries
That doesn't follow at all. We wouldn't feel we had the capacity to invade other countries, but the belief in the right to do so is independent of the capacity. You're making the assumption that a strong military invokes blood lust. Which is asinine.
If you want to prevent future wars, learn how they really start. Hint: it's nothing to do with having too many soldiers.
Manifest Destiny was bigotry as a governmental policy. It had nothing to do with glory and everything to do with greed and racism.
The Cold War was political, not military, hence the "cold" part. The Military-Industrial Complex enjoyed it, but that was more about the industrial greed and less about anyone the military was invading.
Easier to crib than your password. Probably attached to all your emails. Certainly shows up in file listings.
The point of the enhanced security of the token is to keep it on you at all times
Same as a password, but the token, being seperable from you, is quite a bit easier to exploit.
One login and rotating password for access then RSA login and password for authentication
Well that's a different situation. You actually do have a password that you keep in your head. And I'm sure they put that in place for the same reasons I was talking about.
Slashdot Mirror
Well there's your irony.
We do have world-busting superiority of force projection.
And yet, we seem only to get into fights in the sandlot.
Ergo, as I keep saying, simply having the power does not lead inexorably to using it.
I prefer arguing over who needs thumping after we ensure nobody can thump us while we're arguing.
Because hamstringing ourselves just to avoid the argument is a good way to end up without the right to decide.
While voice-dialing Domino's.
Maybe not, if this is what it serves up:
http://www.worldofstock.com/images/hotlink.jpg
There are humans in the loop, yes. That's by design. But this is not a prototype. It is a fully operational battle station.
Oh yes, if that had been a missile, and it was headed this way, it would have been detected and stopped.
Put the "robot" in the cube's hub. Use fast motors. Titanium or carbon fiber to get strength and low weight from the faces and axles.
1 second might be doable.
A 3x3x3x3 hypercube.
A cube where all the faces are slightly different shades of yellow.
A cube where all the faces are pictures of people's faces.
A cube made of jello cubes.
A cube made of Plutonium-238 .
I would have thought it was obvious:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/11/08/article-0-0266436E000005DC-774_468x692.jpg
You know fuck-all about what you are talking about,
dude, shut up:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE808/history/20101109/1955Z/PHNL/KPHX
So we should have overwhelming military superiority over nobody?
That's rather a problem, since it would mean we should have on the order of the smallest army on the planet, which would leave about 190 other armies larger and better-equipped than ours.
In case you hadn't noticed, this planet isn't all country club. There are street-gang countries out there that would gladly take advantage of a weakness. Nothing to do with military glory. Simple business, to them.
They did check their radar records and found nothing.
That's a bug, then. Because their records are the ones used by the flight-tracker website to produce the track for that flight, which is actually shown in TFA. And it does have the data:
http://blog.bahneman.com/imagebrowser/view/imagecache/278/425px_wide
Instead of saying "there's this airliner that follows a route that should be in that shot", they said "we know you saw something there at this time but we have nothing on our radar".
Now, maybe they were confused because someone insisted the origin of the plume was "35 miles west of LA", so that's all they looked at.
Who's running this country, anyway?
Not the newsies, fortunately.
Not the proper Newsies, maybe. Fox News seems to be able to get its people elected. The other networks don't even have candidates.
But, and this is a big but, the newsies are supposed to be our eyes and ears on the government. And the government treats the newsies (in their actual news-gathering function, not their campaign-management function) as the enemy.
That means the government treats us as the enemy.
And that is a major problem.
It looks a little like a rocket launch: http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:isb6V-eFHtqIzM:http://www.edpadgett.com/blog/uploaded_images/rocket-742730.jpg&t=1
Except it was too smooth.
This one's in pretty calm air, though, and the corkscrew is probably energy scrubbing, maybe the guidance system having a temporary issue, maybe a layer of different wind direction:
http://timesnews.typepad.com/news/images/us_missile_launch.jpg
This, on the other hand, is a time-lapse exposure of the flame, so its path is affected by wind; the smoke is not visible at all:
http://kbhr933.com/wp-content/uploads/Vandenberg-Launch.jpg
But that's not all that happened.
The entire American journalism force lit up like a christmas tree, and proceeded to prod the military and FAA for information. The military and FAA stood up professional public-affairs personnel who, instead of saying "this is a commercial airliner that we knew was coming and have a track of in our logs", or "let me make a phone call", were prepared with and delivered "we don't know."
Which, come to think of it, bugs the fuck out of me. This is something that should have been easy to check in existing records, and their choice was to stonewall, as if that's policy when the public wants an answer that can only be had with technology and information-handling authority we've delegated (along with money to fund it) to the military and FAA.
Who's running this country, anyway?
If you mean an automated system that can shoot down ballistic missiles then no.
Um...
http://www.mda.mil/system/system.html
That isn't experimental. It's in operation now. And it works.
We invaded Iraq because W and his co-conspirators planned to invade Iraq all along. Nothing to do with glory and the military; everything to do with their personal ambitions and finding a way to put a trillion dollars in Halliburton's hands.
Grenada and Panama: What did I say about Republicans?
Dominican: We were there to prevent the place from imploding. We didn't invade just to show off our boys in uniform.
Why is it illegal
Because you let corporations choose the congress and write the laws.
More entertaining than the possibility that a foreign power had launched a secret missile test from 35 miles off the coast of California?
The picture fooled me, too.
And I ignored myself when I wondered why the plume wasn't all twisted up. Missile trails go through the different layers of atmosphere and pull in different directions. Like this:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/09/17/article-1214076-06756E3E000005DC-858_306x438.jpg
Again, who did we invade at the drop of a hat during the Cold War?
Viet Nam?
Ike.
Korea?
Truman, but since there was an invasion going on that wasn't us, it doesn't fit your drop-of-a-hat model.
if the public didn't see glory in the military, they wouldn't join or support the military
Possibly, but not a good thing. We need a military, and you've admitted as much in other posts.
and we would not feel it was our right to invade other countries
That doesn't follow at all. We wouldn't feel we had the capacity to invade other countries, but the belief in the right to do so is independent of the capacity. You're making the assumption that a strong military invokes blood lust. Which is asinine.
If you want to prevent future wars, learn how they really start. Hint: it's nothing to do with having too many soldiers.
"High Tension"
I.e., high-voltage.
You're not going to run your laptop off of 100 kV.
So yes, this is designed for the distal end of the grid.
If you're not going to give them a parade, then you need to pay them more.
Blaming the military when it's the politicians is not a way to role-model rational behavior.
Manifest Destiny was bigotry as a governmental policy. It had nothing to do with glory and everything to do with greed and racism.
The Cold War was political, not military, hence the "cold" part. The Military-Industrial Complex enjoyed it, but that was more about the industrial greed and less about anyone the military was invading.
We don't invade countries at the drop of a hat.
At least, not when Republicans are out of power.
What's my username?
Easier to crib than your password. Probably attached to all your emails.
Certainly shows up in file listings.
The point of the enhanced security of the token is to keep it on you at all times
Same as a password, but the token, being seperable from you, is quite a bit easier to exploit.
One login and rotating password for access then RSA login and password for authentication
Well that's a different situation. You actually do have a password that you keep in your head. And I'm sure they put that in place for the same reasons I was talking about.