When operating without political restrictions, there would be no match for the US forces nowadays.
Want to bet? Technology doesn't guarantee victory on the battlefield, sorry. Ask the Romans with their phalanxes. Ask Napoleon's Grande Armée and their stunning artillery. Ask the Allies in WW1 with their tanks. Ask the Wehrmacht in WW2 with their far superior equipment and maneuver doctrine.
The day you bump into some unforseen condition, be it numbers, suicide bombers, severe weather, or a revolution at home - and the enemy takes advantage of it, you lose - even with all your fancy gadgets.
"Your aircraft is attempting to crash into the sea, Confirm or Deny?"
Hi! It looks like you're trying to crash your aircraft into the Pacific! Would you like to:
- Review the Flight Manual's chapter on Ditching the F-22
- Eject from the aircraft
- Send out a Mayday before slamming into the Pacific
- Record a final message on the cockpit voice recorder
- No thanks, I can crash this plane by myself
So this excuses Saddam's regime from gassing the Kurds?
Gassing, shooting, burning... there's no excuse for it, but everyone has done it. The Germans to the Jews, the English to the Scots, the Americans to the natives, the Spanish to the Moors... Genocide happens. I wish people wouldn't act so shocked. Yes it is wrong, but every nation has done it at some point or other. Singeling out a nation and fingerpointing in the name of "genocide" is a purely political act.
Sure murders, assaults and rapes would go unpunished.
I guarantee you that they would not go unpunished. The punishment in an anarchistic society could even be rather extreme. I'd kill you, and your entire family. Who would stop me?
If there is no DRM, would people all of a sudden decide to go buy stuff instead of pirating it? Doesn't seem very likely to me.
And of course, you're completely mistaken. I remember back when PC's were brand new, in the late 70's - every single one of us had a pirated copy of Microsoft's "Flight Simulator" program. Guess what - enough people actually paid for it (it was a good program!), and Microsoft continued to push out new versions. The Flight Simulator division at MS is still alive and well today - despite all the piracy.
Your gut feeling flies into the face of the actual facts. But this is what we've been saying all along - "piracy actualy PROMOTES sales"...
Ahhh, the good old "free hand of the market" at work...
Monopolies are by no means free markets. And since you probably only have one (at most two) local broadband provider(s), you are in a de facto monopoly/oligopoly situation. What makes it a monopoly is the fact you can only have so many cables per telephone pole. Wireless would change this, but obviously these internet companies fight that idea with everything they have...it would erode their natural monopoly situation.
Somebody's never seen any of the Terminator films.
You just proved his point, as the shape changing terminator got killed by the non-shape changing bad guys in the end... therefore shape changing is useless;)
You can make bubbly wine, but you cant call it champaigne.
No, but you could certainly call it champagne. Which happens to be called that way because of a province of France. Of course you can't call it Dom Perignon - that will get you in trouble real fast...
Look at it this way - every time you make a copy, a little piece of the author dies (and God kills a kitten). So really, if you've killed the author 10,000 times, the sentence should me more than manslaughter.../sarcasm
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Introduction of African (killer bees) honey bees to N. America
You mean Brasil. The africanized bees have migrated to N. America all on their own, but they were originally introduced in Brasil in the 50's...
Err, sorry to nitpick, but you mean Greek phalanxes.
:(
You're right. Although the Romans sometimes used the phalanx, the Greeks invented it and were famous for it. My bad
Not to mention that the only decent fighters Europe have ever created were all WWII era...
I dunno, the Americans seemed to quite like the idea of the AV-8A Harrier, a British creation.
When operating without political restrictions, there would be no match for the US forces nowadays.
Want to bet? Technology doesn't guarantee victory on the battlefield, sorry. Ask the Romans with their phalanxes. Ask Napoleon's Grande Armée and their stunning artillery. Ask the Allies in WW1 with their tanks. Ask the Wehrmacht in WW2 with their far superior equipment and maneuver doctrine.
The day you bump into some unforseen condition, be it numbers, suicide bombers, severe weather, or a revolution at home - and the enemy takes advantage of it, you lose - even with all your fancy gadgets.
The US outclassed Iraq pretty badly too. That one is working out well.
The big problem is a lack of anti-insurgent missiles.
including some which cause the system to drop huge chunks of the database
While at the same time trying to merge and compress the ordinance?
"Your aircraft is attempting to crash into the sea, Confirm or Deny?"
Hi! It looks like you're trying to crash your aircraft into the Pacific! Would you like to:
- Review the Flight Manual's chapter on Ditching the F-22
- Eject from the aircraft
- Send out a Mayday before slamming into the Pacific
- Record a final message on the cockpit voice recorder
- No thanks, I can crash this plane by myself
4) Fly safe. Carry superglue.
You know, I shudder to think about what could happen in a cockpit with an open tube of superglue at 9 G's...
So this excuses Saddam's regime from gassing the Kurds?
Gassing, shooting, burning... there's no excuse for it, but everyone has done it. The Germans to the Jews, the English to the Scots, the Americans to the natives, the Spanish to the Moors... Genocide happens. I wish people wouldn't act so shocked. Yes it is wrong, but every nation has done it at some point or other. Singeling out a nation and fingerpointing in the name of "genocide" is a purely political act.
Iran's potential nuclear military programme, combined with an advanced missile capability, would destabilise the region
The US has already done a good job at destabilizing the region. I doubt it could get much worse.
Novell either doesn't know or won't disclose what it paid 40 million dollars for?
$40 million in order to avoid having chairs thrown at them...
Does this mean we'll have to RTFA?
Of course not. That would be cheating.
The fact that she's crazy can be overlooked
I wouldn't be so sure about that...
You'd think that all these bloggers would accept the fact that Microsoft isn't giving away any more free laptops by now...
I mean isn't calling someone a Jew a great insult in suburban America?
Not if the person in question is, in fact, a Jew.
Sure murders, assaults and rapes would go unpunished.
I guarantee you that they would not go unpunished. The punishment in an anarchistic society could even be rather extreme. I'd kill you, and your entire family. Who would stop me?
If there is no DRM, would people all of a sudden decide to go buy stuff instead of pirating it? Doesn't seem very likely to me.
And of course, you're completely mistaken. I remember back when PC's were brand new, in the late 70's - every single one of us had a pirated copy of Microsoft's "Flight Simulator" program. Guess what - enough people actually paid for it (it was a good program!), and Microsoft continued to push out new versions. The Flight Simulator division at MS is still alive and well today - despite all the piracy.
Your gut feeling flies into the face of the actual facts. But this is what we've been saying all along - "piracy actualy PROMOTES sales"...
Ahhh, the good old "free hand of the market" at work...
Monopolies are by no means free markets. And since you probably only have one (at most two) local broadband provider(s), you are in a de facto monopoly/oligopoly situation. What makes it a monopoly is the fact you can only have so many cables per telephone pole. Wireless would change this, but obviously these internet companies fight that idea with everything they have...it would erode their natural monopoly situation.
It would be a stretch, but consider 1st tops out ~35-40 mph.
40mph in 1st gear? Boys, boys, boys, we obviously don't drive the same vehicle...
Somebody's never seen any of the Terminator films.
;)
You just proved his point, as the shape changing terminator got killed by the non-shape changing bad guys in the end... therefore shape changing is useless
You can make bubbly wine, but you cant call it champaigne.
No, but you could certainly call it champagne. Which happens to be called that way because of a province of France. Of course you can't call it Dom Perignon - that will get you in trouble real fast...
Wait until such a "mob" hits Slashdot and demands journalism.
Personally I'll wait for the dupe.
Do you accept sexual favors as payment?
YES
Here is a large cucumber and a tube of K.Y. lube. Begin. I shall watch.
a typical Slashdot troll's exhortation to perform fellatio would be almost on-topic here.
Are you offering?
manslaughter is 8 years
/sarcasm
Look at it this way - every time you make a copy, a little piece of the author dies (and God kills a kitten). So really, if you've killed the author 10,000 times, the sentence should me more than manslaughter...