To me it sounds like the people in the USA are afraid of the government (which is totally ass-backwards). In the last election, something like 95% of the people in the House of Representatives were re-elected. You all must have been extremely happy with their performance.
The government around here is (quite correctly) afraid of the people. We have elections every few years, and if the government pisses us off enough, we toss the lot of them out and elect a whole new government. In our last election the House of Commons re-elected less than 40% of the incumbents.
Talk about overkill. A hellfire has a 20 lb high explosive warhead that can take out a main battle tank. They must have wanted Jihadi John killed really really dead.
My reply was to Coren22, to say that a single MIRV ICBM can mostly kill all but the biggest countries. I am in no way suggesting that the North Koreans have anything approaching this capability, either in missiles or in warheads.
Not so hyperbolic. The Trident II can carry 14 independently targeted W88 weapons, each about 500 kTons. I don't think one of these could kill the United States, the targets are too big and spread out. I do think the US would be a long time recovering if you nuked the 14 biggest cities. Most European nations other than Russia I think you would kill. If you launched an entire submarine load, 24 missiles, from one of our Ohio class boats, I think you could pretty much kill any continent you choose.
Me too! It's a sort of nerd minstrel show. Metaphoric nerd blackface. Who doesn't love that. Society now gives so much more respect to nerds since this show first appeared.
When Italy first proposed a state run lottery, the Catholic Church pointed out that gambling was a sin. The government replied that lotteries aren't gambling, they are a tax on imbeciles.
Just curious, what color are Flint people? Are they perhaps mostly not-white? Because I have trouble imagining this happening in, say, Grosse Pointe, for example.
Could the North Koreans have done it? Sure. Could it have been an inside job? Absolutely. My opinion is - inside job. Since there is apparently no evidence one way or another, my opinion (inside job) is no less (and no more) valid than somebody else's opinion that North Korea did it.
I know a bit about signals and I know of no such resistor. The equipment and control logic for US signal systems are fail-safe designs, based on the standard AREMA guidelines and any failures will cause the signals to go all red.
My grade 8 science teacher laid Bernoulli on us. The 4 vectors, lift, weight, thrust drag all balanced. I asked her how an airplane can fly upside down. She had no clue.
Of course not. You have to set it on fire first. A kerosene blowtorch will happily heat steel to about 1500 F. It won't actually melt, but it will be glowing cherry red, and bend like toffee.
Where do you you people work? Let me know, so I never work there. I work for a mid sized (3000 people) employee owned Engineering consulting company. We hire smart people who work hard. We design and build cool stuff (we think it's cool) and get paid well for doing it. Managers, (we don't have very many) try to treat people with respect, dignity, and tolerance, and expect the same. We still criticize and correct peoples work, we just do it without being an asshole about it. Nobody yells, nobody fights, nobody calls people names. Is there conflict and competition? Of course. But we also have team work, respect, and mutual support.
Most of your examples would seem to apply to both men and women.
With some minor edits: Or maybe coding is something that when men try to get involved they discover they are unwelcome. There's the one guy who's just a dick. (to men and women) There's one who hasn't washed since 2004. (smells bad to men and women) There's one who has to one-up everything he says. (annoying to both men and women) There's several who have to hit on her because she's the only woman they get to talk to. (Ok that one is almost 100% women only)
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To me it sounds like the people in the USA are afraid of the government (which is totally ass-backwards). In the last election, something like 95% of the people in the House of Representatives were re-elected. You all must have been extremely happy with their performance.
The government around here is (quite correctly) afraid of the people. We have elections every few years, and if the government pisses us off enough, we toss the lot of them out and elect a whole new government. In our last election the House of Commons re-elected less than 40% of the incumbents.
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An old one, but it rocks hard - Operation Mindcrime by Queensryche.
Talk about overkill. A hellfire has a 20 lb high explosive warhead that can take out a main battle tank. They must have wanted Jihadi John killed really really dead.
My reply was to Coren22, to say that a single MIRV ICBM can mostly kill all but the biggest countries. I am in no way suggesting that the North Koreans have anything approaching this capability, either in missiles or in warheads.
Not so hyperbolic. The Trident II can carry 14 independently targeted W88 weapons, each about 500 kTons. I don't think one of these could kill the United States, the targets are too big and spread out. I do think the US would be a long time recovering if you nuked the 14 biggest cities. Most European nations other than Russia I think you would kill. If you launched an entire submarine load, 24 missiles, from one of our Ohio class boats, I think you could pretty much kill any continent you choose.
WTF is a nozel
Me too! It's a sort of nerd minstrel show. Metaphoric nerd blackface. Who doesn't love that. Society now gives so much more respect to nerds since this show first appeared.
As someone who is not a citizen of the USA I have to ask, what do Americans think is the answer?
How do you allow normal, not-crazy, law abiding citizens reasonable access to firearms and keep crazy people and criminals from getting them?
As far as I can tell, the answer is - "You can't do both" and the mass shootings are therefor acceptable because they can't be avoided.
When Italy first proposed a state run lottery, the Catholic Church pointed out that gambling was a sin. The government replied that lotteries aren't gambling, they are a tax on imbeciles.
Just curious, what color are Flint people? Are they perhaps mostly not-white? Because I have trouble imagining this happening in, say, Grosse Pointe, for example.
Football will make a man out of him! If only there was a way to mix football NASCAR and guns, then we'd be 100% sure.
Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Hitler and the Tyrant of Rigel.
I seriously doubt..... that you know anything about maintaining cars, electric or I/C.
I've heard of this from my German relatives.- "Ach Ja, if only the Fuehrer knew what was going on, he'd put a stop to it."
Could the North Koreans have done it? Sure. Could it have been an inside job? Absolutely. My opinion is - inside job. Since there is apparently no evidence one way or another, my opinion (inside job) is no less (and no more) valid than somebody else's opinion that North Korea did it.
Canadian Club Rye Whisky.
What resistor is that? Please elaborate.
I know a bit about signals and I know of no such resistor. The equipment and control logic for US signal systems are fail-safe designs, based on the standard AREMA guidelines and any failures will cause the signals to go all red.
My grade 8 science teacher laid Bernoulli on us. The 4 vectors, lift, weight, thrust drag all balanced. I asked her how an airplane can fly upside down. She had no clue.
Of course not. You have to set it on fire first. A kerosene blowtorch will happily heat steel to about 1500 F. It won't actually melt, but it will be glowing cherry red, and bend like toffee.
Where do you you people work? Let me know, so I never work there. I work for a mid sized (3000 people) employee owned Engineering consulting company. We hire smart people who work hard. We design and build cool stuff (we think it's cool) and get paid well for doing it. Managers, (we don't have very many) try to treat people with respect, dignity, and tolerance, and expect the same. We still criticize and correct peoples work, we just do it without being an asshole about it. Nobody yells, nobody fights, nobody calls people names. Is there conflict and competition? Of course. But we also have team work, respect, and mutual support.
Three posts in and we already have the obligatory "Why would you want to do that?" response. Some things never change.
"I was downloading Doom on floppies"
BFD. I was playing SPACWR on a PDP-8 when you were in diapers.
signed - cranky old dude.
Be honest with yourself, even if you aren't honest with anyone else.
You like facebook. You envy Mark Zuckerberg.
Most of your examples would seem to apply to both men and women.
With some minor edits:
Or maybe coding is something that when men try to get involved they discover they are unwelcome.
There's the one guy who's just a dick. (to men and women)
There's one who hasn't washed since 2004. (smells bad to men and women)
There's one who has to one-up everything he says. (annoying to both men and women)
There's several who have to hit on her because she's the only woman they get to talk to. (Ok that one is almost 100% women only)