I pointed out that "mini-nukes" do exist. They can be even used as 'backpack bombs'. Small nuclear munitions can be used to level cities. No they can't. That's the point. If you can't understand that a 1kt weapon isn't sufficient to level a city then how can I go about convincing you that you hold an irrational belief? Do I have to give you a "10 million pages of congress" style analogy?
It's a kt.. you can pick up the ingredients to make a 1kt bomb from home depot. You won't need a team of nuclear scientists to do it, either.
If you want to level a city, you need at least 10s of kilotons and you need to detonate it at an altitude of about 2,000ft. And even then, you'd only be punching a hole in Manhattan, you'd need a 100kt bomb to level it.
A guy with a backpack bomb on, would likely only be able to carry about a 0.1kt bomb and detonating it at ground level would cause less damage than the Oklahoma City bombing.. and for that kind of bang there's cheaper ways to spend your bucks.
The whole "OMG Backpack Nuke!" hysteria is just a reflection of how poorly the average person understands anything with the word "nuclear" in it and immediately fears it.
Maybe you're not aware, but one of the (many) things that Americans are afraid of is a terrorist with a itsy bitsy nuclear weapon on his back taking out an entire city. They actually think it is possible to make a nuclear weapon the size of a soccer ball that can take out Manhattan. No amount of assurance that this is impossible will make the boogey men go away.
That's your typical patent in the IT world these days. Amazon one-click: "hey everyone, let's store credit card numbers and make it effortless for people to buy things.. we won't even make them enter a password!" An idea so brain dead that they even stopped doing it.
The cost of fabrication plants is just an example of an oligopolistic market at its finest. The high prices maintain the low demand for these machines which allows the oligopolies to maintain their high prices. This results in the high volume requirement: you have to make a lot of chips to cover the cost of the machines you use to do it. That prevents new players from entering the market.
I was a member for a number of years. I voted for quite a number of things that got done. I also voted for a lot of things that were ignored because other things got more votes.
In the end I stopped paying these people because they refused my patches. The WINE project was happy to have them, so I saw no benefit to sticking with Cedega.
The lesson people should learn is that democracy is no good if it is the *only* way to get stuff done. If an individual can't take their own destiny by the horns and is always dominated by the majority then they will always be disenfranchised, no matter how fair the vote is.
I used Eclipse for about a week when I did Java development. After suffering insanely bad performance, upgrading my video drivers, downgrading them, rebuilding Eclipse from source, etc, I just gave up. Upon hearing this the Net Beans camp in the office decided to recruit me. Net Beans just made my brain sad.
So, for a while I was using Notepad. Then I started using gVim and life was good, but I noticed that I really wasn't pissing off the Java devs enough so I started using Visual Studio to edit my Java - drove 'em mad.
That's the problem. Now and then young men cross the Israeli border and kill a whole lot of Israelis. They make no demands. If they make any statements, they are not televised. The governments of the world call them terrorists. I disagree. They're just murderers. They hate the Israelis and want to kill them, and they're not afraid to die trying. I think the 9/11 hijackers had much the same motives, they just chose a more creative way to do it. The "message" that America received was all their own creation.
And that, my friend, is why I say there are no terrorists. I feel justified in classifying terrorists as 'guys who want to get onto planes with weapons to hijack them and crash them into buildings' because that's what the TSA and most of America classifies them as.
But hey, if ya wanna talk about terrorists trying to make nuclear bombs and smuggle them into NYC in a backpack, I'll happily state my opinion that there's none of them either.
plan to harm people for reasons that are largely religious in nature. Wow. Shit. Is that the definition of terrorism? Damn, how stupid I have been. Sorry everyone, obviously I thought terrorism was something completely different to what everyone else does. Oops!
Yes, exactly. It's the purpose that makes it terrorism. But he stated no purpose, and neither do the majority of americans anymore. They didn't state a purpose for the 9/11 attacks. They just assumed it was "terrorism" and now everything is treated the same way.
If I were to march into a crowded lobby tomorrow morning and spontaneously open fire on random civilians, I'd be a terrorist. You believe that don't you?
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It's a kt.. you can pick up the ingredients to make a 1kt bomb from home depot. You won't need a team of nuclear scientists to do it, either.
If you want to level a city, you need at least 10s of kilotons and you need to detonate it at an altitude of about 2,000ft. And even then, you'd only be punching a hole in Manhattan, you'd need a 100kt bomb to level it.
A guy with a backpack bomb on, would likely only be able to carry about a 0.1kt bomb and detonating it at ground level would cause less damage than the Oklahoma City bombing.. and for that kind of bang there's cheaper ways to spend your bucks.
The whole "OMG Backpack Nuke!" hysteria is just a reflection of how poorly the average person understands anything with the word "nuclear" in it and immediately fears it.
You should know better.
So you basically have no excuse for being an idiot.
I can see you are one such American.
Maybe you're not aware, but one of the (many) things that Americans are afraid of is a terrorist with a itsy bitsy nuclear weapon on his back taking out an entire city. They actually think it is possible to make a nuclear weapon the size of a soccer ball that can take out Manhattan. No amount of assurance that this is impossible will make the boogey men go away.
We need better protection against theoretically impossible threats - like backpack nukes.
Partial testing :)
We have a vast surplus, thanks to the previous government being insanely tight on the purse strings.
That's your typical patent in the IT world these days. Amazon one-click: "hey everyone, let's store credit card numbers and make it effortless for people to buy things.. we won't even make them enter a password!" An idea so brain dead that they even stopped doing it.
The cost of fabrication plants is just an example of an oligopolistic market at its finest. The high prices maintain the low demand for these machines which allows the oligopolies to maintain their high prices. This results in the high volume requirement: you have to make a lot of chips to cover the cost of the machines you use to do it. That prevents new players from entering the market.
It's a vicious cycle.
When fuel hits $3/ltr you'll see the fuel excise go away, and then everyone will think the problem is solved.. until we hit it the second time.
It's getting harder and harder to argue with the environmentalists who suggest that fuel should be raised to $5/ltr right now.
Couldn't you say the same thing for electricity? Or batteries, or fuel cells? Hydrogen production is not exactly booming.
That's what bugmenot is for.
I want people to know how bad copyright really is and the only way to get it through their thick heads is for the law to be enforced to the letter.
Sooner or later the US will wake the fuck up.
I was a member for a number of years. I voted for quite a number of things that got done. I also voted for a lot of things that were ignored because other things got more votes.
In the end I stopped paying these people because they refused my patches. The WINE project was happy to have them, so I saw no benefit to sticking with Cedega.
The lesson people should learn is that democracy is no good if it is the *only* way to get stuff done. If an individual can't take their own destiny by the horns and is always dominated by the majority then they will always be disenfranchised, no matter how fair the vote is.
Hey, that's the democratic process. While you're voting for your favorite abandonware, there's 2000 noobs voting for the latest FPS game.
I used Eclipse for about a week when I did Java development. After suffering insanely bad performance, upgrading my video drivers, downgrading them, rebuilding Eclipse from source, etc, I just gave up. Upon hearing this the Net Beans camp in the office decided to recruit me. Net Beans just made my brain sad.
So, for a while I was using Notepad. Then I started using gVim and life was good, but I noticed that I really wasn't pissing off the Java devs enough so I started using Visual Studio to edit my Java - drove 'em mad.
Or maybe your product just sucks.
No-one wants your editor with an integrated chat program.
WAH.
What part of "No Fly List" are you unaware of.
That's the problem. Now and then young men cross the Israeli border and kill a whole lot of Israelis. They make no demands. If they make any statements, they are not televised. The governments of the world call them terrorists. I disagree. They're just murderers. They hate the Israelis and want to kill them, and they're not afraid to die trying. I think the 9/11 hijackers had much the same motives, they just chose a more creative way to do it. The "message" that America received was all their own creation.
And that, my friend, is why I say there are no terrorists. I feel justified in classifying terrorists as 'guys who want to get onto planes with weapons to hijack them and crash them into buildings' because that's what the TSA and most of America classifies them as.
But hey, if ya wanna talk about terrorists trying to make nuclear bombs and smuggle them into NYC in a backpack, I'll happily state my opinion that there's none of them either.
Yes, exactly. It's the purpose that makes it terrorism. But he stated no purpose, and neither do the majority of americans anymore. They didn't state a purpose for the 9/11 attacks. They just assumed it was "terrorism" and now everything is treated the same way.
Riiight. So basically you choose your conspiracy to fit what you want to believe.
Wack job.
This is why the US is fucked up.
And yet they haven't.
Now think of all the other ways you personally have worked out to attack airport security. How many of them have been attempted?
Zero.