I smell a lot of "likely" coming off this thread - mostly from Amurricans justifying the F22.
Has anyone seen the results of exercises btn the F22 and Eurofighter? I thought not. Most of the combat exercises people have mentioned have been btn F15s and F22s, and even then under test conditions. Give it a more agile opponent, the F16 or a more modern opponent, and a mixed-mode operation.
Remember, expensive is not always better, specs don't always relate to combat. Interesting that the Eurofighter's turning circle is tighter, but the ability to sneak up is good. Costing less is also good, as are the training costs. With extra fuel and more weaponry - always an addition in war - I reckon the stealth capabilities will be shot. I suspect there will be difficulties with maintenance as well, particularly with repair facilities operating at a war-time standard, sometimes %50 of peacetime. Stand-off is *BAD* as IFF is always assumed to be good - which it never is - so the F22 could end up a friend-killer if used as stand-off. Politicians always see missiles as a cost-saver, which they never are, so I'm thinking most of the figures I've seen as responses are DOD-minted bullshit. I figure close-combat (the place where fighters are judged) is this aircrafts weak point.
Given that, after 25 years of development, the USAF and their contractors failed to foresee cross the meridian as a problem - yuck, yuck, yuck. The Chinese Airforce must be pissing themselves laughing. This from the only world super-power?
BALMER: Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of Google; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barded steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams, To set my brother Sergei and the king In deadly hate the one against the other: And if King William be as true and just As I am subtle, false and treacherous, This day should Sergei closely be mew'd up, About a prophecy, which says that 'L' Of Williams's heirs the murderer shall be. Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here Sergei comes.
Exactly. Personally, I'll happily pay to go to an official service, with high quality mp3 downloads, where I can quickly search by artist, song-title, album, etc. and find the exact track I'm looking for, know that what I'm getting is what is actually labeled, know what the quality of the file is, etc. As long as the files aren't DRM'd and the price is reasonable. Why waste time with p2p networks where you never know exactly what you're getting, download times are inconsistent, etc?
Hopefully if the labels go through with this, they follow the "long tail" approach and put plenty of obscure tracks up as well... demos, b-sides, live recordings, unreleased tracks, etc. Give music fans what they're looking for and they'll pay (well, some of us will anyway). I'd happily buy most of my MP3 collection again if I knew I was getting the following:
1. Consistent, high-grade quality recording 2. Full Metadata on each track.
And i'd probably like to buy into other services like film-previews, guitar-tabs, words, scores etc. Imagine a fully-searchable database with that amount of meta-data. Google would go nuts to do something like that. The linked advertising would be a freaking gold-mine.
I've noticed that my militancy - as measured by how much and exactly what I download - has gotten worse the more the *AA stupity has gone on. In the beginning, it was stuff I'd already bought. Now it's a little wider.
He wrote a book called The Road Ahead. I have no idea of it's content, or it's success predicting the future. I leave that as an exercise for whoever wants to fork over the dosh.
The trouble with "voluntary" is that it takes on a different meaning in legislation and in RL. "voluntary" usually comes with pressures from various groups, the usual suspects. And in the end it's not really "voluntary".
I think they actually exclude contributions from anyone they can prove has a tenure-track position anywhere, right? What, do Britannica exclude tenure track profs? For shame on them. I'm pretty sure a recent comparison btwn B & W had the latter come out ahead in the accuracy stakes, particularly in the science articles. As I recall there was quite the little flame-war btwn them.
is spooking me a little. I've become conditioned to expect massive amounts of spin, yammering analysts, bloggers, a 2gb download, and yet more opportunities to get royally screwed in the form of updated EULAs, fancy licencing contracts, signing my life away for software rentals etc etc. No, Google just fix a *real* problem with their then they tell us. There has to be evil somewhere here, it can't be that simple. *dons tinfoil hat* and goes hunting snarks.
I think the French are actually *ahead (2.5 kids average) for the first time in a while. A combination of benefits and child-care. Be afraid, be very afraid.
I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said:--Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Well, it's a possibility that this system is for use against friendly fire. Maybe Raytheon and Grumman could exchange data? After all, a SM2R can't be that much different from a Stinger, right?
"But the US and Australia, among the developed countries, remain resolutely opposed to any talk of targets; and there is no prospect of a deal including developing nations while those two countries, among the highest per-capita polluters in the world, maintain their opposition."
This is the damage done. No treaty like this will ever be effective unless the US sits in on it, just as they've done with the CFC treaty. Big Oil has certainly owned the US gubmint in this case.
And don't give me the "oh the Chinese will get all our customers" if we sign any deal: you're their customers, you're their investors, and, ironically, the US gubmint is one of China's biggest borrowers. They're getting your customers anyway, with the aid of US investors. Without the US sucking in all those Chinese goods, where would China, and probably India, be? If the US defaulted on those debts, the Chinese know they'd be in deep shit. If the US stopped buying Chinese goods then that too would be bad.
I am not asserting bias either way. It is fact that ITV and BBC (unlike Sky btw) are both bound by broadcasting rules to be fair and, in the main, this is so. I cannot see - and neither do you mention - any of the major distortions that other posters fear might be the case should fairness be enforced.
An absence of Rush Limbaugh drones do not seem to be causing us any issues.
actually,leave europe out of this. What you mean to say that it punishes America. America != all of First World.
The point is, Kyoto was a *start of a long process, which America has successfully sabotaged, mostly because the US government hasn't got the balls to try and persuade it's country to stop running SUVs and the like. With America, we'd probably have some kind of working process and maybe, like with CFCs, some sort of handle on the problem. Without America, we cannot persuade nations like China or India to start reining it on it's pollution.
well, they're part of a "fairness doctrine" in the UK. I've not seen *any* of the distortions that posters seem to think it causes.
Mind you, you'd probably need to reel back the ownership rules in the US - stop ClearChannel owning so much stuff. Kick Murdoch out for trying to own *everything*.
Also, good to see the "left-wing" media meme still holding out. Sheesh. Did Iraq teach you nothing?
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I smell a lot of "likely" coming off this thread - mostly from Amurricans justifying the F22.
Has anyone seen the results of exercises btn the F22 and Eurofighter? I thought not. Most of the combat exercises people have mentioned have been btn F15s and F22s, and even then under test conditions. Give it a more agile opponent, the F16 or a more modern opponent, and a mixed-mode operation.
Remember, expensive is not always better, specs don't always relate to combat. Interesting that the Eurofighter's turning circle is tighter, but the ability to sneak up is good. Costing less is also good, as are the training costs. With extra fuel and more weaponry - always an addition in war - I reckon the stealth capabilities will be shot. I suspect there will be difficulties with maintenance as well, particularly with repair facilities operating at a war-time standard, sometimes %50 of peacetime. Stand-off is *BAD* as IFF is always assumed to be good - which it never is - so the F22 could end up a friend-killer if used as stand-off. Politicians always see missiles as a cost-saver, which they never are, so I'm thinking most of the figures I've seen as responses are DOD-minted bullshit. I figure close-combat (the place where fighters are judged) is this aircrafts weak point.
Given that, after 25 years of development, the USAF and their contractors failed to foresee cross the meridian as a problem - yuck, yuck, yuck. The Chinese Airforce must be pissing themselves laughing. This from the only world super-power?
BALMER:
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of Google;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
To set my brother Sergei and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other:
And if King William be as true and just
As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
This day should Sergei closely be mew'd up,
About a prophecy, which says that 'L'
Of Williams's heirs the murderer shall be.
Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here
Sergei comes.
Here we go round the Mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush
Here we go round the Mulberry bush on a cold and frosty morning
One year, the wind will change and Kansas will be stuck like that forever. I just hope it's the right way.
Hopefully if the labels go through with this, they follow the "long tail" approach and put plenty of obscure tracks up as well... demos, b-sides, live recordings, unreleased tracks, etc. Give music fans what they're looking for and they'll pay (well, some of us will anyway). I'd happily buy most of my MP3 collection again if I knew I was getting the following:
1. Consistent, high-grade quality recording
2. Full Metadata on each track.
And i'd probably like to buy into other services like film-previews, guitar-tabs, words, scores etc. Imagine a fully-searchable database with that amount of meta-data. Google would go nuts to do something like that. The linked advertising would be a freaking gold-mine.
I've noticed that my militancy - as measured by how much and exactly what I download - has gotten worse the more the *AA stupity has gone on. In the beginning, it was stuff I'd already bought. Now it's a little wider.
We got rid of slavery and companies still made obscene amounts of money.
EPIRB is usually carried by shipping. Yachts should carry it, IMO, don't know if it's mandated.
I seem to recall that the usual carrying method is for the EPIRB to be pressure-released - if the boat sinks, then the beacon is released.
He wrote a book called The Road Ahead. I have no idea of it's content, or it's success predicting the future. I leave that as an exercise for whoever wants to fork over the dosh.
and a single stoat.
I wish I were joking.
The trouble with "voluntary" is that it takes on a different meaning in legislation and in RL. "voluntary" usually comes with pressures from various groups, the usual suspects. And in the end it's not really "voluntary".
is spooking me a little. I've become conditioned to expect massive amounts of spin, yammering analysts, bloggers, a 2gb download, and yet more opportunities to get royally screwed in the form of updated EULAs, fancy licencing contracts, signing my life away for software rentals etc etc. No, Google just fix a *real* problem with their then they tell us. There has to be evil somewhere here, it can't be that simple. *dons tinfoil hat* and goes hunting snarks.
somebody has to
Wikipedia aspires to be an encylopaedia. From the front-page:
Welcome to Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
It's for background reading and finding primary and secondary sources. As such, this is how I use it.
Interesting that the profs contribute. Part of the reason why wikipedia is better than Brittanica.
So effectively, in this case, publishers are a leech on the system. The system would be cheaper to run without them. And cheaper means better.
nope it's everybody
I think the French are actually *ahead (2.5 kids average) for the first time in a while. A combination of benefits and child-care. Be afraid, be very afraid.
I MET a traveller from an antique land
Who said:--Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
when does it get to probe Uranus?
Thankyou, thankyou. I'll be here all week. Try the chopped liver.
Iran Air Flight 655
Well, it's a possibility that this system is for use against friendly fire. Maybe Raytheon and Grumman could exchange data? After all, a SM2R can't be that much different from a Stinger, right?
I always thought targets were, in general, a good thing.
. stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6118510
"But the US and Australia, among the developed countries, remain resolutely opposed to any talk of targets; and there is no prospect of a deal including developing nations while those two countries, among the highest per-capita polluters in the world, maintain their opposition."
This is the damage done. No treaty like this will ever be effective unless the US sits in on it, just as they've done with the CFC treaty. Big Oil has certainly owned the US gubmint in this case.
And don't give me the "oh the Chinese will get all our customers" if we sign any deal: you're their customers, you're their investors, and, ironically, the US gubmint is one of China's biggest borrowers. They're getting your customers anyway, with the aid of US investors. Without the US sucking in all those Chinese goods, where would China, and probably India, be? If the US defaulted on those debts, the Chinese know they'd be in deep shit. If the US stopped buying Chinese goods then that too would be bad.
I am not asserting bias either way. It is fact that ITV and BBC (unlike Sky btw) are both bound by broadcasting rules to be fair and, in the main, this is so. I cannot see - and neither do you mention - any of the major distortions that other posters fear might be the case should fairness be enforced.
An absence of Rush Limbaugh drones do not seem to be causing us any issues.
so will SUSE abuse FUSE and loose it's users?
Thankyou, thankyou. Try the chicken, I'll be here all week.
actually,leave europe out of this. What you mean to say that it punishes America. America != all of First World.
The point is, Kyoto was a *start of a long process, which America has successfully sabotaged, mostly because the US government hasn't got the balls to try and persuade it's country to stop running SUVs and the like. With America, we'd probably have some kind of working process and maybe, like with CFCs, some sort of handle on the problem. Without America, we cannot persuade nations like China or India to start reining it on it's pollution.
well, they're part of a "fairness doctrine" in the UK. I've not seen *any* of the distortions that posters seem to think it causes.
Mind you, you'd probably need to reel back the ownership rules in the US - stop ClearChannel owning so much stuff. Kick Murdoch out for trying to own *everything*.
Also, good to see the "left-wing" media meme still holding out. Sheesh. Did Iraq teach you nothing?