I stay fit and will probably get a concealed carry permit at some point. Works for me. I also avoid bad neighborhoods.
Translation for the current discussion: If you're a corporation, straighten up and fly right. The best way to avoid being sued is to not do anything that would attract a law suit. Likewise, maintain/retain a legal team that is notoriously good (IBM and MoFo come to mind: the Nazgul eviserated the SCO legal team in a way that sends a loud and clear message of "don't mess with my client").
The defedant always has the option of counter-suing the plantif. They can also file a complaint to the local bar association asserting barratry against the plantif's lawyers.
Have to agree. At least the communists had a philosophically consistent political platform. It may have been based on a failed belief system (dialectic materialism) that had no basis in reality but at least it flowed fairly consistently from there. Democrats on the other hand seem to only be concerned with getting re-elected and watching out for the causes supported by their left wing, limousine liberal benefactors. Whitness Harry Reid's crass behavior when it came to patent reform, the recent "crackdown" on the NSA, etc.
There really is a difference. Glad you pointed that out.
What is carpet bombing useful for? It failed in WW2 and I can't see why it'd work now.
Actually, it didn't fail during WWII. You should review the US breakout from Normandy (Operation Cobra: month end July to early August 1944) and, in particular, what happened to the Panzer Lehr division. The division CO reported later that the division area looked like, "the surface of the moon." Carpet bombing basically removed that division as a fighting force. Another example where it worked was the air campaign against the Italian island of Pantelleria (mid-1943) which surrendered without a shot being fired to the invaision force after concerted "carpet bombing."
There are also examples where it didn't work (e.g., the British efforts to brakthrough at Caen). But simply saying, "it didn't work," is just wrong. Even where it appeared "not to work", it's hard to say what would have happened if there hadn't been a carpet bombing prior to the attack. Would the attack have been repulsed with even more casualties?
When you don't want them to know you're coming: stealth.
When you don't care if they know you're coming but don't want to get shot down: jam.
All current (B-2 and F-22) and past (F-117) stealth aircraft become "unstealthy" for weapons release. If you have achieved surprise, that doesn't matter. When it's not a surprise, well, that's how the Serbs shot down an F-117.
...And the option of carpet bombing is occasionally useful too.
The politically correct term in today's environment is "long stick." I understand that the 750 lb. bombs typically dropped by B-52s for this kind of mission are extremely effective.
...Sure, it's slower than the speed of sound and is about as stealthy as a jackhammer, but for some jobs that doesn't matter.
But the electronics bays are about the size of a typical garage and as easy to get into and out of. The airframe may have the radar cross section of a battleship but stick enough jammers in the electronics bays and you'd be surprised how hard it is to hit one.
Any chance we can get them to take some of our toxic politicians instead? Stick them some place really isolated in the outback where they just annoy each other. It would be a far greater service to the world than taking nuclear waste.
One of my favorite treeware magazines is Air & Space Magazine published by the Smithsonian. They have a frequent series of articles on the theme, "Some ideas will never fly." Definitely a much more creative and well reasoned critique of a number of airplane ideas that, well, will never fly.
Several of the planes singled out by the BBC article really weren't all that bad when they were initially in service (Brewster Buffalo, Douglas TBD Devestator, Fairey Battle). They were just kept in service long after they should have been retired and their pilots and crews paid the price. That's not a fault of the airplane; it's a fault of the politicians who decided to spend the money to modenize elsewhere.
You seem to have left out all of the other highly successful campaigns mounted by Yamamoto prior to the tactical draw at the Coral Sea and defeat at Midway. Currently in my reading queue is "Island of Destiny" which asserts that Midway was only a temporary set back and it was the subsequent war of attrition in the Solomons that actually doomed the Japanese navy in WWII. If I recall correctly, the IJN gave the USN a very hard time in the Solomons. It was by no means a "done deal" until US war production actually started reaching the Pacific in 1943.
There is also no evidence that the Japanese suspected that the code had been broken after Yamamoto was shot down. The US continued patrols that followed the same pattern as the shoot down flight to help make it look like just a coincidence that our P-38s were there only to shoot down Yamamoto.
There have been several cases where the intentional killing of a gifted leader has been effective in diminishing the capability of a much more organized force than al-Qaeda. Shooting down Admiral Yammamoto's plane took out an irreplaceable leader. The IJN had no one as capable to replace him. The IJN did not "fall apart" after his death but it was much less efective.
I wish people who spew stuff like this "study" would hold up their argument to history and not just their cherry-picked canard.
Spyware such as FinFisher is a weapon and should be treated as such under the same export restrictions most western countries apply to guns, warplanes, ships, etc. The trick would be in differentiating the covert tracking, surveillance and reporting that something like FinFisher does for nefarious purposes from the "normal" covert tracking, surveillance and reporting that many smart phone apps do for commercial purposes.
I see. It's better to have a human decide to bomb a Guernica, Rotterdam, Coventry, Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc. than it is to have cold, soulless, purely analytical robot "decide" whether or not to release lethal force based on some programmed criteria. I'm glad you clarified that for me.
I disagree. There are several "irregular" English verbs that have become regular but the irrgular use is not incorrect (burnt works as well as burned, dreamt instead of dreamed, etc.).
Could some of the people arguing for this ban please explain the difference between being on a ship during WWII that was hit by a kamikze and being on a ship during the Falklands war and being hit by an Exocet? Somehow being killed is being killed regardless of whether there was a human pilot or an autonomous robot flying the lethal projectile.
I vaguely remember that Kermit had a prohibition on military use back in the 1980s; maybe longer. That seems to have gone away. No sure if it's because Kermit is no longer controlled by Columbia University.
I've been suspicious of the counts since the day they were announced. Either the participation claimed is way too high or a lot of ethnic Ukraineans and Tartars voted to join Russia which seems highly unlikely. Either way, it looks like the vote was about as fair as elections in Uncle Joe's time.
So, I have studied the facts on the ground and the leaked results sound more like what I expected given the population demographics of the Crimea. Not saying that they are accurate but they more closely match what would be expected than the official numbers.
Seen this many many times before. Cheap companies that have lots of developers and are too cheap to hire experienced admins... or an IT shop that thinks they can have the IT guys program instead of hiring proper developers. "hey, you work with computers, you guys can all do the same stuff, right?" Wrong.
While I have known developers that can sysadmin, and admins that can program... they are the exception not the rule. Quality suffers when you force people into jobs they are not qualified for. Companies know this, and they simply don't care as long as the managers think they are saving money.
If you think the sysadmin who can program or the programmer who can admin a system is bad, you should have seen what happened when they gave Visual Basic to a subject matter expert (SME) and said, "You can program!" Agggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!
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I stay fit and will probably get a concealed carry permit at some point. Works for me. I also avoid bad neighborhoods.
Translation for the current discussion: If you're a corporation, straighten up and fly right. The best way to avoid being sued is to not do anything that would attract a law suit. Likewise, maintain/retain a legal team that is notoriously good (IBM and MoFo come to mind: the Nazgul eviserated the SCO legal team in a way that sends a loud and clear message of "don't mess with my client").
Cheers,
Dave
The defedant always has the option of counter-suing the plantif. They can also file a complaint to the local bar association asserting barratry against the plantif's lawyers.
Cheers,
Dave
Have to agree. At least the communists had a philosophically consistent political platform. It may have been based on a failed belief system (dialectic materialism) that had no basis in reality but at least it flowed fairly consistently from there. Democrats on the other hand seem to only be concerned with getting re-elected and watching out for the causes supported by their left wing, limousine liberal benefactors. Whitness Harry Reid's crass behavior when it came to patent reform, the recent "crackdown" on the NSA, etc.
There really is a difference. Glad you pointed that out.
Cheers,
Dave
What is carpet bombing useful for? It failed in WW2 and I can't see why it'd work now.
Actually, it didn't fail during WWII. You should review the US breakout from Normandy (Operation Cobra: month end July to early August 1944) and, in particular, what happened to the Panzer Lehr division. The division CO reported later that the division area looked like, "the surface of the moon." Carpet bombing basically removed that division as a fighting force. Another example where it worked was the air campaign against the Italian island of Pantelleria (mid-1943) which surrendered without a shot being fired to the invaision force after concerted "carpet bombing."
There are also examples where it didn't work (e.g., the British efforts to brakthrough at Caen). But simply saying, "it didn't work," is just wrong. Even where it appeared "not to work", it's hard to say what would have happened if there hadn't been a carpet bombing prior to the attack. Would the attack have been repulsed with even more casualties?
Cheers,
Dave
When you don't want them to know you're coming: stealth.
When you don't care if they know you're coming but don't want to get shot down: jam.
All current (B-2 and F-22) and past (F-117) stealth aircraft become "unstealthy" for weapons release. If you have achieved surprise, that doesn't matter. When it's not a surprise, well, that's how the Serbs shot down an F-117.
Cheers,
Dave
...And the option of carpet bombing is occasionally useful too.
The politically correct term in today's environment is "long stick." I understand that the 750 lb. bombs typically dropped by B-52s for this kind of mission are extremely effective.
Cheers,
Dave
...Sure, it's slower than the speed of sound and is about as stealthy as a jackhammer, but for some jobs that doesn't matter.
But the electronics bays are about the size of a typical garage and as easy to get into and out of. The airframe may have the radar cross section of a battleship but stick enough jammers in the electronics bays and you'd be surprised how hard it is to hit one.
Cheers,
Dave
Any chance we can get them to take some of our toxic politicians instead? Stick them some place really isolated in the outback where they just annoy each other. It would be a far greater service to the world than taking nuclear waste.
Cheers,
Dave
One of my favorite treeware magazines is Air & Space Magazine published by the Smithsonian. They have a frequent series of articles on the theme, "Some ideas will never fly." Definitely a much more creative and well reasoned critique of a number of airplane ideas that, well, will never fly.
Several of the planes singled out by the BBC article really weren't all that bad when they were initially in service (Brewster Buffalo, Douglas TBD Devestator, Fairey Battle). They were just kept in service long after they should have been retired and their pilots and crews paid the price. That's not a fault of the airplane; it's a fault of the politicians who decided to spend the money to modenize elsewhere.
Cheers,
Dave
You seem to have left out all of the other highly successful campaigns mounted by Yamamoto prior to the tactical draw at the Coral Sea and defeat at Midway. Currently in my reading queue is "Island of Destiny" which asserts that Midway was only a temporary set back and it was the subsequent war of attrition in the Solomons that actually doomed the Japanese navy in WWII. If I recall correctly, the IJN gave the USN a very hard time in the Solomons. It was by no means a "done deal" until US war production actually started reaching the Pacific in 1943.
There is also no evidence that the Japanese suspected that the code had been broken after Yamamoto was shot down. The US continued patrols that followed the same pattern as the shoot down flight to help make it look like just a coincidence that our P-38s were there only to shoot down Yamamoto.
Cheers,
Dave
There have been several cases where the intentional killing of a gifted leader has been effective in diminishing the capability of a much more organized force than al-Qaeda. Shooting down Admiral Yammamoto's plane took out an irreplaceable leader. The IJN had no one as capable to replace him. The IJN did not "fall apart" after his death but it was much less efective.
I wish people who spew stuff like this "study" would hold up their argument to history and not just their cherry-picked canard.
Cheers,
Dave
Spyware such as FinFisher is a weapon and should be treated as such under the same export restrictions most western countries apply to guns, warplanes, ships, etc. The trick would be in differentiating the covert tracking, surveillance and reporting that something like FinFisher does for nefarious purposes from the "normal" covert tracking, surveillance and reporting that many smart phone apps do for commercial purposes.
Cheers,
Dave
RTFS: "A 16-year-old male from Ottawa, Canada..." Last I heard the U.S. hadn't annexed Canada.
Cheers,
Dave
I was thinking more along the lines of execution. Someone this stupid needs to be removed from the gene pool. And at 16 there's still a chance.
Cheers,
Dave
I see. It's better to have a human decide to bomb a Guernica, Rotterdam, Coventry, Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc. than it is to have cold, soulless, purely analytical robot "decide" whether or not to release lethal force based on some programmed criteria. I'm glad you clarified that for me.
Cheers,
Dave
C Anthony "Tony" Hoare: "I don't know what the programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN."
He was conservative on the date.
Cheers,
Dave
I disagree. There are several "irregular" English verbs that have become regular but the irrgular use is not incorrect (burnt works as well as burned, dreamt instead of dreamed, etc.).
Cheers,
Dave
Could some of the people arguing for this ban please explain the difference between being on a ship during WWII that was hit by a kamikze and being on a ship during the Falklands war and being hit by an Exocet? Somehow being killed is being killed regardless of whether there was a human pilot or an autonomous robot flying the lethal projectile.
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You realize that his entire public persona is borrowed from Theodore Roosevelt, do you not?
Public persona borrowed from TR but theory of government straight from Uncle Joe. Yikes.
Cheers,
Dave
I vaguely remember that Kermit had a prohibition on military use back in the 1980s; maybe longer. That seems to have gone away. No sure if it's because Kermit is no longer controlled by Columbia University.
Cheers,
Dave
I've been suspicious of the counts since the day they were announced. Either the participation claimed is way too high or a lot of ethnic Ukraineans and Tartars voted to join Russia which seems highly unlikely. Either way, it looks like the vote was about as fair as elections in Uncle Joe's time.
So, I have studied the facts on the ground and the leaked results sound more like what I expected given the population demographics of the Crimea. Not saying that they are accurate but they more closely match what would be expected than the official numbers.
Cheers,
Dave
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
Joseph Stalin
Sounds like Putin has studied history.
Programmer: "It's not a bug. It works as designed."
Me: "So did the Titanic."
Cheers,
Dave
Brooks - "The Mythical Man-month"
Yourdon - "Death March"
DeMarco & Lister - "Peopleware"
Of course he may change majors after reading them.
Cheers,
Dave
Seen this many many times before. Cheap companies that have lots of developers and are too cheap to hire experienced admins... or an IT shop that thinks they can have the IT guys program instead of hiring proper developers. "hey, you work with computers, you guys can all do the same stuff, right?" Wrong.
While I have known developers that can sysadmin, and admins that can program... they are the exception not the rule. Quality suffers when you force people into jobs they are not qualified for. Companies know this, and they simply don't care as long as the managers think they are saving money.
If you think the sysadmin who can program or the programmer who can admin a system is bad, you should have seen what happened when they gave Visual Basic to a subject matter expert (SME) and said, "You can program!" Agggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!
Cheers,
Dave