In sufficient numbers, with well-trained operators, yes. Until the F 35 appears. The S 400 would "threaten" the American air force more than the IAF at the moment.
Russia has decided to withdraw its advanced missile defense system for export. Officials said the Kremlin has ordered the state-owned arms agency Rosoboronexport to end marketing of the S-400 air and missile defense system. They said Rosoboronexport was told that the S-400 would be deployed only in Russia until further notice.
"Russia would consider exports only after meeting the requirements of its own armed forces," Rosoboronexport director Anatoly Isaikin said on Jan. 28. Over the last five years, Rosoboronexport has sought to sell the S-400 to a range of Middle East states, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. So far, no export sales were reported.
"There are a lot of preliminary talks," Isaikin said.
The S-400 Triumph was designed to intercept airborne targets at up to 400 kilometers. Rosoboronexport has asserted that the system could destroy stealth aircraft, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.
In 2009, Rosoboronexport lobbied the Turkish government to purchase the S-400. Ankara, which appears to favor the U.S.-origin PAC-3, has conducted a $1 billion tender for the procurement of missile defense systems.
Officials said the Russian military would require at least two years to exploit the potential of the S-400. The first S-400 battalion entered combat duty in the Moscow region in 2007.
"There have been bugs in the system and this has prevented us from properly demonstrating the S-400 abroad," another official said. (/end copy paste)
Weird. I always thought that the one that hit first WAS the jackass bully. It's necessary to wait until you're actually physically attacked, otherwise people will think "Hey, what an aggressive, paranoid asshole, he thinks it's perfectly reasonable to attack me based on nothing but his own beliefs!".
I'm sorry, nothing about that post was meant as an anti-American rant. I just thought the parent post was one-sided in the extreme, and my examples countered that somewhat. The quote's around "truly deserving" stem from the fact that it's a quote from the post I was responding to. And, as an aside, indicate sarcasm, as I highly doubt there's such a thing as "truly deserving".
Actually, in your example, I think the Taliban would be the guilty party?
As for your Sun Tzu quote, it's always wise to read a book all the way through:):"A government should not mobilize an army out of anger, military leaders should not provoke war out of wrath. Act when it is beneficial, desist if it is not. Anger can revert to joy, wrath can revert to delight, but a nation destroyed cannot be restored to existence, and the dead cannot be restored to life. Therefore an enlightened government is careful about this, a good military leadership is alert to this. This is the way to secure a nation and keep the armed forces whole".
Please don't take the post too seriously. I know i didn't. I just tend to get a bit defensive about my fellow megalomaniac's. "Still, without facts all we can do is speculate. I like to speculate, that's my sin;)". I have to agree, all scenario's are possible, en speculaas is lekker! It's definitely one of my many sins.
"I'll bet you'll shut up the next time something bad happens to your country (oil is found) and the U.S. parks a giant hospital ship (USS Enterprise) off your shores and starts dispensing free medical care ('cause a JDAM a day keeps the doctors away). Sorry, that was just "truly deserving" ; ).
"JA seems really attracted to standing in the limelight", a: so what, that's not uncommon and b: it's a valid tactic to seek media attention for protection. "I find it highly unlikely that these accusations have been fabricated to damage wikileaks. That would be much too obvious in such a case". Your personal opinion + your personal opinion = the your personal truth. Surprise! Why would you find this highly unlikely? And since when is doing the blindingly obvious not a valid move? "Too obvious" often equals "really possible", in fact it's harder to find a tactic that's "Not obvious" AND "really possible".
"It's not the first time someone from the free software/free information movement has been accused of something like this". WTF has that got to do with any of the above? You seem to be insinuating that people from the free/free-movement are more likely to be rapists?
I know nothing. But this has Langley "Temple of Elemental Evil" Virginia all over it. It's exactly the kind of set-up you'd expect from a bunch of frustrated puritans. Or is Tom Clancy now officially on the pay-roll? I wonder if they had a "practice run" with the ladies, and if they got paid in euro's or dollars. Of course, if I was the Dungeon Master these ladies would never be seen again (alive). Curse my rampant imagination!).
quote 1; The world's only two other known "exploding lakes", Monoun and Nyos, both in Cameroon, overturned in the 1980s. The clouds of carbon dioxide that burst through from the deep water left about 1,800 people dead from asphyxiation. But Lake Kivu is nearly 2,000 times larger than Lake Nyos, and is in a far more densely populated area. Cindy Ebinger, a professor of earth sciences at the University of Rochester in the US, who co-authored a study earlier this year that described Kivu as possibly "one of the most dangerous lakes in the world", said: "You don't even want to think about the scale of the devastation that could occur." quote 2; To harvest the methane, heavy water is sucked up through a pipe to the barge, where the liquid and gases are separated. The gas then enters a "scrubber" that separates the methane and carbon dioxide. Ebinger said reducing the overall concentration of gas in the water was a positive move, but warned that more studies were urgently needed to assess the potential environmental impact, especially relating to the unused water and carbon dioxide pumped back into Lake Kivu from the barges. quote 3; "With so many projects, if you don't understand everything, you can solve one problem and create three more," she said. quote 4; Regardless, Rwanda is proceeding at great speed".
Erm, is it just me or is there a lengthy "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" in there, Mrs. Ebinger?
Narrow-gauge railways are cheaper to build and can negotiate sharper curves but broad-gauge railways give greater stability and permit higher speeds. One of the main concerns is the minimum turning circle your train can make without derailment. Yay Railroad Tycoon!
Define intelligence first. Then, define "before". Tool use without hands; http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/crow/, not as hard as you might think. Also, the following; http://www.jcrows.com/crow.html "While tool use among birds is not unheard of, Hunt's New Caledonian crows, close kin to American crows, were observed employing two distinctly different kinds of tools to forage for invertebrates such as insects, centipedes, and larvae. Such specialization in tool manufacture has not heretofore been observed in nonhuman animals, according to Hunt.
Hunt observed both manufacture and use of a hooked tool made by plucking and stripping a barbed twig. He also observed the use, but not manufacture, of what he described as a "stepped cut tool" with serrated edges. He did, however, observe and photograph leaves from which crows had started to cut such stepped tools. The findings add to the growing debate over cognition in nonhuman animals. While man, in Shakespeare's words, may be "the paragon of animals," Hunt's findings suggest that the capacity for thought exists on a continuum where man is not unique".
But I think I know what you mean, and my guess would be no, we haven't had intelligent life on earth before. All the answers to my basic questions (who/what, where, when, how) seem to lead me towards "highly unlikely", if not "does not compute"; ).
Please accept my most sincere apologies. I know not what malicious demon urged me to confront you with Elton John. Maybe I can make it up to you. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to get of my lawn.
The Red Cross's allegations go back to the second world war afaik. MSF is arguably the most infiltrated of them all. Amnesty has had these problems as long as it's existed. It's not that the organisations themselves are unaware of it (in general), but that the "problems" are associated with the same groups they are greatly dependant upon (i.e. the governments of the countries on the security council).
Amnesty International is an incredibly infiltrated organization. As are the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières. Their members are almost the only people not suspect in a war-zone, making them ideal. All of these organizations have been used as cover by British, French, American, German and Russian secret services, going back to the second world war, and those are just the known cases. I would trust them with my life if I lay bleeding on the ground in some hell-hole. Their opinions and motivations not so much.
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In sufficient numbers, with well-trained operators, yes. Until the F 35 appears.
The S 400 would "threaten" the American air force more than the IAF at the moment.
Russia has decided to withdraw its advanced missile defense system for export. Officials said the Kremlin has ordered the state-owned arms agency Rosoboronexport to end marketing of the S-400 air and missile defense system. They said Rosoboronexport was told that the S-400 would be deployed only in Russia until further notice.
"Russia would consider exports only after meeting the requirements of its own armed forces," Rosoboronexport director Anatoly Isaikin said on Jan. 28. Over the last five years, Rosoboronexport has sought to sell the S-400 to a range of Middle East states, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. So far, no export sales were reported.
"There are a lot of preliminary talks," Isaikin said.
The S-400 Triumph was designed to intercept airborne targets at up to 400 kilometers. Rosoboronexport has asserted that the system could destroy stealth aircraft, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.
In 2009, Rosoboronexport lobbied the Turkish government to purchase the S-400. Ankara, which appears to favor the U.S.-origin PAC-3, has conducted a $1 billion tender for the procurement of missile defense systems.
Officials said the Russian military would require at least two years to exploit the potential of the S-400. The first S-400 battalion entered combat duty in the Moscow region in 2007.
"There have been bugs in the system and this has prevented us from properly demonstrating the S-400 abroad," another official said.
(/end copy paste)
Weird. I always thought that the one that hit first WAS the jackass bully. It's necessary to wait until you're actually physically attacked, otherwise people will think "Hey, what an aggressive, paranoid asshole, he thinks it's perfectly reasonable to attack me based on nothing but his own beliefs!".
"Armies and soldiers don't kill. Websites do".
Instant classic. Thank you. Hope you like hip-hop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXzFp1lshBE
Well, what with the 17 "interestingoverratedinformativetroll"-mods and not one "funny" it's apparently my bad : ).
I'm sorry, nothing about that post was meant as an anti-American rant.
I just thought the parent post was one-sided in the extreme, and my examples countered that somewhat.
The quote's around "truly deserving" stem from the fact that it's a quote from the post I was responding to.
And, as an aside, indicate sarcasm, as I highly doubt there's such a thing as "truly deserving".
Also, it's a joke.
Actually, in your example, I think the Taliban would be the guilty party?
As for your Sun Tzu quote, it's always wise to read a book all the way through :):"A government should not mobilize an army out of anger, military leaders should not provoke war out of wrath. Act when it is beneficial, desist if it is not. Anger can revert to joy, wrath can revert to delight, but a nation destroyed cannot be restored to existence, and the dead cannot be restored to life. Therefore an enlightened government is careful about this, a good military leadership is alert to this. This is the way to secure a nation and keep the armed forces whole".
Please don't take the post too seriously. I know i didn't. ;)".
I just tend to get a bit defensive about my fellow megalomaniac's.
"Still, without facts all we can do is speculate. I like to speculate, that's my sin
I have to agree, all scenario's are possible, en speculaas is lekker!
It's definitely one of my many sins.
"I'll bet you'll shut up the next time something bad happens to your country (oil is found) and the U.S. parks a giant hospital ship (USS Enterprise) off your shores and starts dispensing free medical care ('cause a JDAM a day keeps the doctors away).
Sorry, that was just "truly deserving" ; ).
"JA seems really attracted to standing in the limelight", a: so what, that's not uncommon and b: it's a valid tactic to seek media attention for protection.
"I find it highly unlikely that these accusations have been fabricated to damage wikileaks. That would be much too obvious in such a case".
Your personal opinion + your personal opinion = the your personal truth. Surprise! Why would you find this highly unlikely? And since when is doing the blindingly obvious not a valid move? "Too obvious" often equals "really possible", in fact it's harder to find a tactic that's "Not obvious" AND "really possible".
"It's not the first time someone from the free software/free information movement has been accused of something like this".
WTF has that got to do with any of the above? You seem to be insinuating that people from the free/free-movement are more likely to be rapists?
I know nothing.
But this has Langley "Temple of Elemental Evil" Virginia all over it. It's exactly the kind of set-up you'd expect from a bunch of frustrated puritans.
Or is Tom Clancy now officially on the pay-roll? I wonder if they had a "practice run" with the ladies, and if they got paid in euro's or dollars.
Of course, if I was the Dungeon Master these ladies would never be seen again (alive). Curse my rampant imagination!).
quote 1;
The world's only two other known "exploding lakes", Monoun and Nyos, both in Cameroon, overturned in the 1980s. The clouds of carbon dioxide that burst through from the deep water left about 1,800 people dead from asphyxiation. But Lake Kivu is nearly 2,000 times larger than Lake Nyos, and is in a far more densely populated area. Cindy Ebinger, a professor of earth sciences at the University of Rochester in the US, who co-authored a study earlier this year that described Kivu as possibly "one of the most dangerous lakes in the world", said: "You don't even want to think about the scale of the devastation that could occur."
quote 2;
To harvest the methane, heavy water is sucked up through a pipe to the barge, where the liquid and gases are separated. The gas then enters a "scrubber" that separates the methane and carbon dioxide. Ebinger said reducing the overall concentration of gas in the water was a positive move, but warned that more studies were urgently needed to assess the potential environmental impact, especially relating to the unused water and carbon dioxide pumped back into Lake Kivu from the barges.
quote 3;
"With so many projects, if you don't understand everything, you can solve one problem and create three more," she said.
quote 4;
Regardless, Rwanda is proceeding at great speed".
Erm, is it just me or is there a lengthy "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" in there, Mrs. Ebinger?
http://www.google.com/pacman/
Let the games (re)commence*.
*This post is in no way responsible for any and all loss of productivity caused by it's contents.
Narrow-gauge railways are cheaper to build and can negotiate sharper curves but broad-gauge railways give greater stability and permit higher speeds. One of the main concerns is the minimum turning circle your train can make without derailment. Yay Railroad Tycoon!
"I had a guaranteed Mexican sale with ED209! Renovation program! Spare parts for 25 years! Who cares if it worked or not"!
Define intelligence first.
Then, define "before".
Tool use without hands; http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/crow/, not as hard as you might think.
Also, the following; http://www.jcrows.com/crow.html
"While tool use among birds is not unheard of, Hunt's New Caledonian crows, close kin to American crows, were observed employing two distinctly different kinds of tools to forage for invertebrates such as insects, centipedes, and larvae. Such specialization in tool manufacture has not heretofore been observed in nonhuman animals, according to Hunt.
Hunt observed both manufacture and use of a hooked tool made by plucking and stripping a barbed twig. He also observed the use, but not manufacture, of what he described as a "stepped cut tool" with serrated edges. He did, however, observe and photograph leaves from which crows had started to cut such stepped tools.
The findings add to the growing debate over cognition in nonhuman animals. While man, in Shakespeare's words, may be "the paragon of animals," Hunt's findings suggest that the capacity for thought exists on a continuum where man is not unique".
But I think I know what you mean, and my guess would be no, we haven't had intelligent life on earth before. All the answers to my basic questions (who/what, where, when, how) seem to lead me towards "highly unlikely", if not "does not compute"; ).
"All well and good, but just exactly when is intelligent life due to evolve"?
- Kevin Gilmer, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne England, 18/8/2010 14:48
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Please accept my most sincere apologies. I know not what malicious demon urged me to confront you with Elton John.
Maybe I can make it up to you. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
News for Nerds.
Pinball Alleys -> Video Game Arcades -> Bulletin Boards -> The Internet -> Slashdot.
Now get off my lawn.
But is he deaf, dumb and blind?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIPKFVa5DP8
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to get of my lawn.
It's a Bird ...It's a Plane...It's Rendition Man!
Press Ctrl+Alt+~(Tilde) to bring up the command console,
set r_gamma 3
more at http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/doom3/hints.html
The Red Cross's allegations go back to the second world war afaik.
MSF is arguably the most infiltrated of them all. Amnesty has had these problems as long as it's existed. It's not that the organisations themselves are unaware of it (in general), but that the "problems" are associated with the same groups they are greatly dependant upon (i.e. the governments of the countries on the security council).
Amnesty International is an incredibly infiltrated organization.
As are the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières.
Their members are almost the only people not suspect in a war-zone, making them ideal.
All of these organizations have been used as cover by British, French, American, German and Russian secret services, going back to the second world war, and those are just the known cases. I would trust them with my life if I lay bleeding on the ground in some hell-hole.
Their opinions and motivations not so much.
"Otherwise, you'll be stuck on this planet while the rest of us colonize space.
"And we were sent off first," he concluded, and hummed a little bathing tune.