To add to my earlier comment:
"The V-22's development process has been long and controversial, partly due to its large cost increases.[40] The V-22's development budget was first planned for $2.5 billion in 1986, then increased to a projected $30 billion in 1988.[24] As of 2008, $27 billion have been spent on the Osprey program and another $27.2 billion will be required to complete planned production numbers by the end of the program."...from wikipedia.
This humvee project will be more complicated in terms of engineering than the V-22. Dumb idea.
Coming from a guy that designs military combat vehicles for a living, this is another disaster in the works. If you need some reference material look at the Osprey program or the AAAV program. Both are massive failures with colossal budget overruns and they are similar in scope to this flying humvee idea.
Special edition or regular edition it will still never get anywhere near "Aliens." Sorry, Cameron, but the thirty years of experience you have gained and the extra production budget have actually made you worse. Go back to your roots.
They were there. There just weren't any American troops for them to attack. They spent their time beating their women with sticks and killing them for the slightest error with rocks. Truly, a culture that needs to continue on this planet, right?
Great question. I did a little searching because this intrigued me. This isn't data from last week but it gives you a good idea of what a supposed "non-combat flagged" American city looks like next to a real war zone. I guess this would be a control group:
http://www.isp.state.il.us/docs/cii/...g27_to_200.pdf
Here is the Illinois State Police report for 2007. They haven't released the 2008 report as of yet. Crime was up in 2008, but has dropped back down for 2009 so far.....
Cook County: 80 murders for 2,455,801 people - 3.25/100,000
Chicago City: 443 murders for 2,832,854 people - 15.64/100,000
Total: 554 murders for 5,288,655 people
Do you really manage a database that large in Excel? Does your computer shit parts of its motherboard out of its optical disk drive every time you open the file?
It's obvious that management types are leaking into the Defcon community heavily. I hate the phrase "Social Engineering" and cringe when I hear it. Just another plastic-like buzzword used by management goons on powerpoint slides. The art (it's an Art, not a Science) has been around for a long damn time and already has a name:
This made my morning. I agree wholeheartedly with this post and I recommend to people to start with fundamentals of computing/programming concepts so they can easily slip between languages if they choose to go this route.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
The book linked above is a great start if you are serious. Don't half-ass the learning process. It is going to suck in the beginning and your brain will hurt (just like doing most new things in life) just stick with it and persevere.
No, but seriously, it's funny that that has to be a top-of-the-list item. You would think #8 would cover it. I guess Defcon and/b/ just have too much overlap.
Why wouldn't those companies download that info? The information is legal because it was publicly available and it's a measly 3GB download. Even if they get just a tiny bit of market/consumer insight from this data, it was well worth spending the short amount of time downloading the data.
OK, I'll buy the simplification of atmosphere. And, I would buy the "13,7 football fields" figure, most certainly, but it does not include atmospheric/environmental flux. A single human most certainly has the potential to alter a stable (i.e. no mother nature) piece of land equal to 14 football fields in area. One piece of data in your favor is that humans working in concert are much better at creating/destroying than a single human alone. So, there is a kind of synergy that you can account for. But, one of the most important factors that you can't simplify out is the flux in the environment. "Mother Nature" is working against us every minute of the day and is a much greater processing machine than anything the human race has come up with (yet).
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You may not be scared of him but once the plot was announced and Times Square was blocked off for the investigation, a HUGE amount of people were canceling their flights into New York, modifying their schedules to avoid the area, etc. Also, just imagine the cost of closing down Times Square and running the massive investigation (in man-hours, travel, etc) to track down the bomber. It has a rather significant impact to our economy and daily lives.
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The shoebomber, pantybomber and times square incident WERE SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS. The goal of terrorism is to incite fear and terror in our populace causing our country to waste money (damaging our economy) and restrict our freedoms more and more. All three achieved the larger goal. Killing people is just one of the methods to get there.
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Whoever sent the e-mail is hyper-sensitive. Your company puts out more public documents that describe what you do exposing more info than you could by confirming anything on that site. Just look at some of the job descriptions you guys put out that require certain skill sets and degrees along with a certain level of security clearance. Just one employment description on Monster.com relates more info about the classified work your company does than you probably ever could.
If you consider back in 2002/3 the 'intelligence' gained turned out spurious in crucial places
You can't say it is a failure or success unless you look at the ratio of crucial intelligence that was spurious to that amount of crucial intel that wasn't.
I would argue that SECRECY was more profound during eras like World War II when things like the "Loose Lips Sink Ships" posters were in public areas like commercial shopping places and the general public was warned about not communicating ANY info about local projects like scrap drives to anyone they didn't trust.
As a note, I hold a clearance and most of the stuff that is classified is just ridiculous. Of course, there is the problem of classification due to aggregation of info, but seriously, most people would not believe what the majority of classified information encompasses.
That's an interesting piece of information but maybe that means petroleum geologists have a firmer grasp on petroleum effects on the environment because they work in that field every day and, most likely, stay more current on the studies than some scientist who does research in a completely unrelated field.
Considering that you are claiming man to have altered "the environment" you need to alter your calculation to include, at a minimum, the entire airspace of the troposphere if not more...probably into the stratosphere and above since this is said to be affected by global warming.
A surface calculation is insufficient.
As a world-renowned climatoligist, myself, I also have "incontravertable proof" that the Earth is about to burst into a ball of fire due to global warming related to carbon emissions. Just look at this photo of my research: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3526/3191599149_67d2e5b6ce.jpg
Do you see?! Our ice levels are currently diminishing to untenable levels!
It may just be me but I find it hard to put to much concern in climate readings that only go back about 100 years for a planet that has been around for more than 50 million years. That's like predicting the outcome of the Yankees next decade of games based on the outcome of the last game they played.
As a note, I'm not a denialist or proponent of the climate change theories, just a by-standing skeptic.
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To add to my earlier comment: "The V-22's development process has been long and controversial, partly due to its large cost increases.[40] The V-22's development budget was first planned for $2.5 billion in 1986, then increased to a projected $30 billion in 1988.[24] As of 2008, $27 billion have been spent on the Osprey program and another $27.2 billion will be required to complete planned production numbers by the end of the program." ...from wikipedia.
This humvee project will be more complicated in terms of engineering than the V-22. Dumb idea.
Coming from a guy that designs military combat vehicles for a living, this is another disaster in the works. If you need some reference material look at the Osprey program or the AAAV program. Both are massive failures with colossal budget overruns and they are similar in scope to this flying humvee idea.
Now, they just need deodorant trucks to spray down the rest of New Jersey.
Special edition or regular edition it will still never get anywhere near "Aliens." Sorry, Cameron, but the thirty years of experience you have gained and the extra production budget have actually made you worse. Go back to your roots.
(They are the low hung fruit.)
Considering what they are selling, they are also the "well hung" fruit.
Explain to me again how you calculate "lines of code" from the number of base-pairs in the genome.
They were there. There just weren't any American troops for them to attack. They spent their time beating their women with sticks and killing them for the slightest error with rocks. Truly, a culture that needs to continue on this planet, right?
http://www.isp.state.il.us/docs/cii/...g27_to_200.pdf Here is the Illinois State Police report for 2007. They haven't released the 2008 report as of yet. Crime was up in 2008, but has dropped back down for 2009 so far..... Cook County: 80 murders for 2,455,801 people - 3.25/100,000 Chicago City: 443 murders for 2,832,854 people - 15.64/100,000 Total: 554 murders for 5,288,655 people
Source: http://www.city-data.com/forum/chicago/667826-where-can-you-find-cook-county.html
Do you really manage a database that large in Excel? Does your computer shit parts of its motherboard out of its optical disk drive every time you open the file?
It's obvious that management types are leaking into the Defcon community heavily. I hate the phrase "Social Engineering" and cringe when I hear it. Just another plastic-like buzzword used by management goons on powerpoint slides. The art (it's an Art, not a Science) has been around for a long damn time and already has a name:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grifting (aka Confidence Trick)
There's no need to give it a bullshit name make-over.
This made my morning. I agree wholeheartedly with this post and I recommend to people to start with fundamentals of computing/programming concepts so they can easily slip between languages if they choose to go this route.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
The book linked above is a great start if you are serious. Don't half-ass the learning process. It is going to suck in the beginning and your brain will hurt (just like doing most new things in life) just stick with it and persevere.
3) No porn
I'm out.
No, but seriously, it's funny that that has to be a top-of-the-list item. You would think #8 would cover it. I guess Defcon and /b/ just have too much overlap.
Why wouldn't those companies download that info? The information is legal because it was publicly available and it's a measly 3GB download. Even if they get just a tiny bit of market/consumer insight from this data, it was well worth spending the short amount of time downloading the data.
OK, I'll buy the simplification of atmosphere. And, I would buy the "13,7 football fields" figure, most certainly, but it does not include atmospheric/environmental flux. A single human most certainly has the potential to alter a stable (i.e. no mother nature) piece of land equal to 14 football fields in area. One piece of data in your favor is that humans working in concert are much better at creating/destroying than a single human alone. So, there is a kind of synergy that you can account for. But, one of the most important factors that you can't simplify out is the flux in the environment. "Mother Nature" is working against us every minute of the day and is a much greater processing machine than anything the human race has come up with (yet).
You may not be scared of him but once the plot was announced and Times Square was blocked off for the investigation, a HUGE amount of people were canceling their flights into New York, modifying their schedules to avoid the area, etc. Also, just imagine the cost of closing down Times Square and running the massive investigation (in man-hours, travel, etc) to track down the bomber. It has a rather significant impact to our economy and daily lives.
The shoebomber, pantybomber and times square incident WERE SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS. The goal of terrorism is to incite fear and terror in our populace causing our country to waste money (damaging our economy) and restrict our freedoms more and more. All three achieved the larger goal. Killing people is just one of the methods to get there.
Whoever sent the e-mail is hyper-sensitive. Your company puts out more public documents that describe what you do exposing more info than you could by confirming anything on that site. Just look at some of the job descriptions you guys put out that require certain skill sets and degrees along with a certain level of security clearance. Just one employment description on Monster.com relates more info about the classified work your company does than you probably ever could.
If you consider back in 2002/3 the 'intelligence' gained turned out spurious in crucial places
You can't say it is a failure or success unless you look at the ratio of crucial intelligence that was spurious to that amount of crucial intel that wasn't.
I would argue that SECRECY was more profound during eras like World War II when things like the "Loose Lips Sink Ships" posters were in public areas like commercial shopping places and the general public was warned about not communicating ANY info about local projects like scrap drives to anyone they didn't trust.
As a note, I hold a clearance and most of the stuff that is classified is just ridiculous. Of course, there is the problem of classification due to aggregation of info, but seriously, most people would not believe what the majority of classified information encompasses.
I see none of that data included in the NOAA report that was linked in the comment I replied to.
Temperature sources cited in the paper: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/ghcn-monthly/source-table1.html
That's an interesting piece of information but maybe that means petroleum geologists have a firmer grasp on petroleum effects on the environment because they work in that field every day and, most likely, stay more current on the studies than some scientist who does research in a completely unrelated field.
Considering that you are claiming man to have altered "the environment" you need to alter your calculation to include, at a minimum, the entire airspace of the troposphere if not more...probably into the stratosphere and above since this is said to be affected by global warming.
A surface calculation is insufficient.
As a world-renowned climatoligist, myself, I also have "incontravertable proof" that the Earth is about to burst into a ball of fire due to global warming related to carbon emissions. Just look at this photo of my research:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3526/3191599149_67d2e5b6ce.jpg
Do you see?! Our ice levels are currently diminishing to untenable levels!
It may just be me but I find it hard to put to much concern in climate readings that only go back about 100 years for a planet that has been around for more than 50 million years. That's like predicting the outcome of the Yankees next decade of games based on the outcome of the last game they played.
As a note, I'm not a denialist or proponent of the climate change theories, just a by-standing skeptic.
Compare the following:
http://images.apple.com/antenna/images/lab-facilities-20100715.jpg
and
http://www.mutanthigh.com/tech/cerebra1.jpg
Only difference appears to be the walkway which is raised in Cerebro.