Except that mine is a lot better at knowing what "looks" right than most people's, and has a lot of experience reading between the lines, looking behind the curtain, cutting through the haze, and seeing the forest for the trees.
China already gets it. They were there when we were testing these decades ago.
And Obama doesn't really need to demonstrate anything to China, and isn't the sort of guy to go around waving this sort of dick at people just to intimidate them.
If this was intended for China's benefit, I can see it coming from W but not from Barry.
On the other hand, Sarah Palin has been in need of a reality check for some time. And I bet she could see this thing from her house. Especially if it embedded itself in the barn she keeps her "snow machines" in.
1. How far away are the continents? All of them? So what does "ICBM" really tell you?
2. How big is the biggest continent? How far does a missile have to fly to hit its center from the nearest safe spot for a sub?
3. In a pinch, will your subs be in the nearest safe spot? Or would it be useful to be able to accomplish the mission from spots that aren't so close?
4. It's handy to be able to put your launch platforms close, but it's handier to put your launch platforms random, and making "close" include "far" makes for more random.
5. We already put the Alien Spaceport in Wyoming. Give the ocean something to do.
You're not required to do anything for them. Work somewhere else or start your own business.
There's always somewhere else to work, but it's always like the place you were, or will be bought by them. There's not much that's truly "off the grid" that is still viable territory for human beings in large numbers.
Start your own business, then play by rules made by the people who have been out-competing small businesses for decades, and own all of the intellectual property you think you're allowed to implement.
Maybe you don't get it, but the purpose of government is to keep the inexorable economies of scale, and the outright cheating and taking by force, from turning you into a slave, again. If you use the government instead to protect and assist the people who already have the economies of scale, then you want to be a slave, or you're oblivious to the fact that it has happened and can happen again, or their contributions to your education have benefitted them exactly as they planned them to (indeed, the fact that you believe that people who believe in social security and healthcare are "extremely evil and greedy" shows that their propaganda has scored a bullseye and turned up to down, black to white, and freedom to slavery). Capitalism, like driving, is a good thing only when controlled; the danger is balanced by the benefit when it's properly regulated, but it's catastrophic when deregulated. I'm not a socialist, far from it. I just don't want the length of my life to depend on the need for an insurance company to make its quarterly numbers.
Your noticing that the government is corrupted is merely a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg. Most congressmen are owned and run. Most of the recent elections were bought outright (modulo Meg Whitman, who imploded herself and then poured casholine on the bonfire). Laws are written by lobbyists. Investment banks (not savings banks but hedge funds) get welfare. The courts are topped by a corporatist plurality. And they gutted the laws that made people admit they were doing it.
I can only imagine what they have planned for 2012. The Mayans may wish they'd been right.
Using it to make sure we have less and less while we are required to ensure they are safe and profitable? That's not fine.
They've taken the fine line between capitalism and fraud and wrapped it around our faces so we can't even complain about it without incurring the sort of shallow political demonization you just tried.
The primary goal of plural democracy in the 18th century was to get the autocrats off our asses by offering something that sounded more like not having autocrats on our asses.
But, in the 18th century, there'd been precious little democracy from which to infer the likely outcome. And because we made it hard to change the democracy itself, it's the slowest government in the jungle.
So now we have an oligarchy of autocrats who know how to use plural democracy to get what they want by leaving us little.
We were smart to kick the church out of politics. Why we didn't kick the rich out of it is a mystery.
Well, not really, or ALICE would be a redundant experiement.
The number of nucleons is significant to creating the plasma. It doesn't show up when you smash a proton into another proton because there isn't enough stuff to constitute a plasma in such a collision, no matter the energy.
There are cosmic rays with many orders of magnitude more energy (PeV) than even LHC can produce, but their histogram is primarily protons with a few of the lighter elemental nuclei off on the long tail.
Hot lead-on-lead action is not something you encounter frequently just walking about the universe.
I don't want a government check; and the "free" health care I do want will be paid for out of the taxes I pay gladly that now go to put Blackwater mercenaries ($1k/day) on the ground in diplomatically touchy situations instead of trained, accountable soldiers ($50-200/day) who are fighting for something more than the money and a chance to "empty an HK into a raghead".
Posting that here on/. made me feel better. But intellectually I know I'm still not going to like what happens in the next Congress.
Wait. Collisions of lead ions moving at nearly the speed of light (relative to each other) happen "quite frequently" here on Earth?
Or in this solar system?
No.
Not even close. Not likely even in the center of the sun. Maybe in the interface between two exploded supernovae, but there aren't many of those around.
It's worth giving it a try, but as the bugs in Firefox 4 beta is reminding me, if it omits a feature that a user finds themselves missing, the user will go back to the browser with that feature.
(In my case the toolbar hides certain buttons, including the one that toggles the bookmarks sidebar, when the menu bar is made sticky. That showed up somewhere between 4b2 and 4b6. And it's bloody annoying that a button I probably clicked 40 times a day isn't there any more. It made me go use Chrome for a few days.)
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Yes. Same as everyone's.
Except that mine is a lot better at knowing what "looks" right than most people's, and has a lot of experience reading between the lines, looking behind the curtain, cutting through the haze, and seeing the forest for the trees.
If only an article would stop accepting posts when the correct answer was posted...
I find that a bit apocryphal.
China already gets it. They were there when we were testing these decades ago.
And Obama doesn't really need to demonstrate anything to China, and isn't the sort of guy to go around waving this sort of dick at people just to intimidate them.
If this was intended for China's benefit, I can see it coming from W but not from Barry.
On the other hand, Sarah Palin has been in need of a reality check for some time. And I bet she could see this thing from her house. Especially if it embedded itself in the barn she keeps her "snow machines" in.
That's just what Mr. Limpet wants you to think.
1. How far away are the continents? All of them? So what does "ICBM" really tell you?
2. How big is the biggest continent? How far does a missile have to fly to hit its center from the nearest safe spot for a sub?
3. In a pinch, will your subs be in the nearest safe spot? Or would it be useful to be able to accomplish the mission from spots that aren't so close?
4. It's handy to be able to put your launch platforms close, but it's handier to put your launch platforms random, and making "close" include "far" makes for more random.
5. We already put the Alien Spaceport in Wyoming. Give the ocean something to do.
Haha. That thing was 15 miles from the launch site 30 seconds after launch.
As for why to demonstrate it, well, let's just say empirical evidence is better than schoolyard taunts any day.
Locals? 35 miles out in the ocean?
Yup. You're missing something. But I had to read TFA twice to get that particular point completely straight, too.
That joke makes me want to mispronounce that word.
Probably.
I wouldn't tell anyone where my horribly beweaponed nuclear sub is before the fact, either.
Just from looking at the picture I know that's not right.
Parallax on the contrail tells me the object is receding.
So it started in the lower-left corner of the picture.
Which means the helicopter taking the picture was above the contrail.
I'd be willing to bet that no helicopter has ever viewed a contrail of significant length from above.
You're not required to do anything for them. Work somewhere else or start your own business.
There's always somewhere else to work, but it's always like the place you were, or will be bought by them. There's not much that's truly "off the grid" that is still viable territory for human beings in large numbers.
Start your own business, then play by rules made by the people who have been out-competing small businesses for decades, and own all of the intellectual property you think you're allowed to implement.
Maybe you don't get it, but the purpose of government is to keep the inexorable economies of scale, and the outright cheating and taking by force, from turning you into a slave, again. If you use the government instead to protect and assist the people who already have the economies of scale, then you want to be a slave, or you're oblivious to the fact that it has happened and can happen again, or their contributions to your education have benefitted them exactly as they planned them to (indeed, the fact that you believe that people who believe in social security and healthcare are "extremely evil and greedy" shows that their propaganda has scored a bullseye and turned up to down, black to white, and freedom to slavery). Capitalism, like driving, is a good thing only when controlled; the danger is balanced by the benefit when it's properly regulated, but it's catastrophic when deregulated. I'm not a socialist, far from it. I just don't want the length of my life to depend on the need for an insurance company to make its quarterly numbers.
Your noticing that the government is corrupted is merely a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg. Most congressmen are owned and run. Most of the recent elections were bought outright (modulo Meg Whitman, who imploded herself and then poured casholine on the bonfire). Laws are written by lobbyists. Investment banks (not savings banks but hedge funds) get welfare. The courts are topped by a corporatist plurality. And they gutted the laws that made people admit they were doing it.
I can only imagine what they have planned for 2012. The Mayans may wish they'd been right.
Having more than us is fine.
Using it to make sure we have less and less while we are required to ensure they are safe and profitable? That's not fine.
They've taken the fine line between capitalism and fraud and wrapped it around our faces so we can't even complain about it without incurring the sort of shallow political demonization you just tried.
The primary goal of plural democracy in the 18th century was to get the autocrats off our asses by offering something that sounded more like not having autocrats on our asses.
But, in the 18th century, there'd been precious little democracy from which to infer the likely outcome. And because we made it hard to change the democracy itself, it's the slowest government in the jungle.
So now we have an oligarchy of autocrats who know how to use plural democracy to get what they want by leaving us little.
We were smart to kick the church out of politics. Why we didn't kick the rich out of it is a mystery.
You saved me posting that.
Well, not really, or ALICE would be a redundant experiement.
The number of nucleons is significant to creating the plasma. It doesn't show up when you smash a proton into another proton because there isn't enough stuff to constitute a plasma in such a collision, no matter the energy.
There are cosmic rays with many orders of magnitude more energy (PeV) than even LHC can produce, but their histogram is primarily protons with a few of the lighter elemental nuclei off on the long tail.
Hot lead-on-lead action is not something you encounter frequently just walking about the universe.
Generally, to a degree, but this time it's going to get fugly and it's going to create the least good for the greatest number.
Just ask the commuters waiting at the red in the cross-street. They know in their guts that it takes longer when someone does that.
I could write one, but probably not while imparting as little information about the summary as the summary imparted about the book...
Is there an app for that?
Wait. I think I...no...I thought I had one in my coat pocket but it's just a bag of Jelly Babies.
Would you like one?
Michael, what were you thinking?
He was thinking he's the only person writing man pages for Linux so why does anyone else need to know how to do that?
I don't want a government check; and the "free" health care I do want will be paid for out of the taxes I pay gladly that now go to put Blackwater mercenaries ($1k/day) on the ground in diplomatically touchy situations instead of trained, accountable soldiers ($50-200/day) who are fighting for something more than the money and a chance to "empty an HK into a raghead".
Posting that here on /. made me feel better. But intellectually I know I'm still not going to like what happens in the next Congress.
The green is extended a bit when the walk-light is used.
Wait. Collisions of lead ions moving at nearly the speed of light (relative to each other) happen "quite frequently" here on Earth?
Or in this solar system?
No.
Not even close. Not likely even in the center of the sun. Maybe in the interface between two exploded supernovae, but there aren't many of those around.
Try again.
It's worth giving it a try, but as the bugs in Firefox 4 beta is reminding me, if it omits a feature that a user finds themselves missing, the user will go back to the browser with that feature.
(In my case the toolbar hides certain buttons, including the one that toggles the bookmarks sidebar, when the menu bar is made sticky. That showed up somewhere between 4b2 and 4b6. And it's bloody annoying that a button I probably clicked 40 times a day isn't there any more. It made me go use Chrome for a few days.)