What do you mean by "we haven't left LEO"? If you mean human space flight, then I challenge you to name another country that HAS left LEO. If you mean unmanned, I would direct your attention to the wide assortment of MEO/GEO experiments, lunar probes, solar probes, planetary probes, comets, asteroids, etc.
WTF are you talking about? Name one piece of military hardware in the Iraqi order of battle that is US made. Harpoon is not one of them. The Iraqis instead use the French-made Excocet which incidently was used in 1987 to kill 37 crewmembers of the USS Stark (launched from a French Mirage F-1).
Aircraft:
Mirage F-1 (French)
Mig-21, Mig-23, Mig-29 (Soviet)
Tanks:
T-62, T-72 (Soviet)
SAMS:
SA-2,SA-3,SA-6 (Soviet)
Roland (French)
Beyond that, Iraq's meager Navy are French patrol boats, who could forget their SCUDS (although I don't know if they are Soviet era or Chinese), Soviet APCs, Soviet and French helicopters, etc.
Those same helicopters are used for search and rescue as well as to deliver humanitarian aid. Do you believe that the military should not be allowed to use linux on their computers too? How about the defense contractors... they're using linux to design future weapons...
What about the movie industry... again using linux for special effects in movies that glorify war. While you are at it, why don't you boycot swingline as I just used their stapler to staple together my report on how best to employ napalm against women and children.
I think it went like this:
Basic rules: Red. levels 1-4?
Expert rules: Blue. levels 4-9?
Companion rules: Green. levels 9?-20?
Master rules: Black. 20?-36
Note: the Companion and Master rules were extentions to the orignal D&D well after AD&D was released and were not AD&D rulesets.
Wow...maybe you can get a consortium together to buy a fiew old airfields, some of ICBM silos and some hardened microwave tower bunkers and you could start up your own small military.
RTFA, this isn't about charging for email use. This is about making people ACCOUNTABLE for excessive email abuse (i.e. spam). Just one of the options being considered is charging money for it, also considered are cpu cycles, etc.
Remember--not everyone is as wimpy as the Soviets were in '62 I think history has shown us that when it comes to war in Europer, if you aren't Germany or England, a surprise surrender is pretty much your entire offensive strategy.
You know... I remember reading about Laika when I was a kid and thinking about how cool it would be to have that dog as a pet. For some reason, it NEVER crossed my mind what happened to him until last year when I looked it up. Poor dog, they never even planned for him to return (which is good because he died early anyway.)
Actually, all of our (American) unmanned rockets are launched on Lockheed and Boeing vehicles. The government owns the launch sites but I seem to recall recently that even that has changed with one of the pads at KSC being purchased by someone. The space shuttle is maintained by a Boeing/Lockheed conglomerate under contract with NASA. And many of our space probes are built at least jointly in cooperation with industry.
NASA is the beurocracy (don't mean that negatively) who pays for and manages these programs.
First off the technology to detect radioactive material is much more mature than the technology to convetional explosives.
Second, you say that we must weigh "known threats vs. theoretical threats". While true, we must do some cost-benefit analysis. While I agree that it is more likely that terrorists would choose a conventional explosive, consider the difference in damage between a dirty bomb and a conventional one. It may not be very likely that the terrorists would use one, but the consequences are far, far greater.
I get it,... so we are supposed to wait until they do have a nuke and use it before we take measures to protect ourselves? Was your grandfather in charge of Pearl Harbour's defenses by chance?
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What do you mean by "we haven't left LEO"? If you mean human space flight, then I challenge you to name another country that HAS left LEO. If you mean unmanned, I would direct your attention to the wide assortment of MEO/GEO experiments, lunar probes, solar probes, planetary probes, comets, asteroids, etc.
Yeah...the US will watch...or just read about it American History books.
Dungeon Master taught me to take advantage of a game's skill system. I sat for hours facing a wall throwing morning stars to increase my rouge skills.
Aircraft:
Mirage F-1 (French)
Mig-21, Mig-23, Mig-29 (Soviet)
Tanks:
T-62, T-72 (Soviet)
SAMS:
SA-2,SA-3,SA-6 (Soviet)
Roland (French)
Beyond that, Iraq's meager Navy are French patrol boats, who could forget their SCUDS (although I don't know if they are Soviet era or Chinese), Soviet APCs, Soviet and French helicopters, etc.
Where is the US hardware?
Those same helicopters are used for search and rescue as well as to deliver humanitarian aid. Do you believe that the military should not be allowed to use linux on their computers too? How about the defense contractors... they're using linux to design future weapons... What about the movie industry... again using linux for special effects in movies that glorify war. While you are at it, why don't you boycot swingline as I just used their stapler to staple together my report on how best to employ napalm against women and children.
I think it went like this: Basic rules: Red. levels 1-4? Expert rules: Blue. levels 4-9? Companion rules: Green. levels 9?-20? Master rules: Black. 20?-36 Note: the Companion and Master rules were extentions to the orignal D&D well after AD&D was released and were not AD&D rulesets.
Wow...maybe you can get a consortium together to buy a fiew old airfields, some of ICBM silos and some hardened microwave tower bunkers and you could start up your own small military.
RTFA, this isn't about charging for email use. This is about making people ACCOUNTABLE for excessive email abuse (i.e. spam). Just one of the options being considered is charging money for it, also considered are cpu cycles, etc.
Forget the Patriot act... how can we apply DMCA!?!
So it is not just fashion that Europe is 30 years behind the US...
>>unzipping files, renaming files, prayer Sounds like *nix, but let's bash Microsoft anyway!
What exactly will become of the HD?
Bad astronomy
Remember--not everyone is as wimpy as the Soviets were in '62 I think history has shown us that when it comes to war in Europer, if you aren't Germany or England, a surprise surrender is pretty much your entire offensive strategy.
You know... I remember reading about Laika when I was a kid and thinking about how cool it would be to have that dog as a pet. For some reason, it NEVER crossed my mind what happened to him until last year when I looked it up. Poor dog, they never even planned for him to return (which is good because he died early anyway.)
But how'd they get there? Not on any vehicle France had any part of designing.
Last I checked, France hasn't even launched a monkey into space so who do you mean by "we"?
You mean this bug? Here are some other doosies!
Actually, all of our (American) unmanned rockets are launched on Lockheed and Boeing vehicles. The government owns the launch sites but I seem to recall recently that even that has changed with one of the pads at KSC being purchased by someone. The space shuttle is maintained by a Boeing/Lockheed conglomerate under contract with NASA. And many of our space probes are built at least jointly in cooperation with industry. NASA is the beurocracy (don't mean that negatively) who pays for and manages these programs.
Alright, name a european country (other than Russia) that even had the balls to try to put a man in space.
No No No! "One ring to wed them all!"
Three Mad Max films? Damn, I had tried to repress Thunderdome. Damn you Slashdot!!!
Second, you say that we must weigh "known threats vs. theoretical threats". While true, we must do some cost-benefit analysis. While I agree that it is more likely that terrorists would choose a conventional explosive, consider the difference in damage between a dirty bomb and a conventional one. It may not be very likely that the terrorists would use one, but the consequences are far, far greater.
I get it,... so we are supposed to wait until they do have a nuke and use it before we take measures to protect ourselves? Was your grandfather in charge of Pearl Harbour's defenses by chance?
woops... that was supposed to be by sea-lift .. not sea-life. That conjured up the image of Aquaman riding that giant seahorse of his...