As was a number of other films (these three jump out at me as being some of the best examples).
John Wayne, Audie Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Major General (Ret.) Jimmy Stewart. Hell...we could probably go back to 1916 and Lon Chaney Sr., in If My Country Should Call.
How small can you make a nuclear weapon critter anyway? Could individual soldiers carry something like a personal nuclear weapon? And would that make sense in a combat situation?
If we accept the possibility of the Russian 'suitcase nukes', around 100lbs. The US W54 warhead was around 51lbs for the bare warhead. Wiki info here
Why don't people make a fuss about Google or Facebook? Likewise I like my non-Apple electronics (my hi-def TV says "SAMSUNG") but don't people get the fact that EVERYBODY makes their electronics in Chinese sweatshops and that the working conditions at Apple suppliers are probably the best?
Because the hipsters using Apple products want desperately to believe that Apple is indeed somehow 'better' than all those others. When they find out it isn't (FOXCONN) they lash out. They don't call out the other companies because they know they are evil, and as such cannot be fixed. But Apple is somehow supposed to rise above the masses and market forces. Steve told them so, so it must be so.
Google is not your Friendly Bureaucratic Institution, it's just a company that you don't have to deal with and can voluntarily abstain from.
Not so much. Anyone sends you an email from a google account? You've been opted in. Visit most any web site? Google Analytics has you in its sights. Yes, you can turn off or block a lot of it. But I'd be very surprised if you can block *all*, without seriously compromising the whole web surfing experience.
If you go the Costco/Walmart/CVS or other public kiosk route, do NOT take your SD card or USB stick. There have been reports of those machines being infected with viruses, which you don't want to bring home with you. Burn to CD or DVD to take to the store.
What Blueseed is proposing to do is create a new sliver of foreign territory (probably Bahamian or Marshallese) 12 miles outside Silicon Valley. Locating a new business there is no more a tax or immigration dodge than setting up across the Canadian or Mexican border would be. Even though some people might like it otherwise, US tax and immigration law applies only to US territory and US citizens and residents.
The US VC's funding the startups will pay US taxes. US citizens working onboard will pay US taxes. As for the others, why do you think foreigners who work outside the US should pay US taxes and have to get US work visas?
Why then, are they wanting to do this just offshore, if not to take advantage of some benefits of being next to the US? If you want to set it up on a 'foreign' territory, why not just do that and dispense with the hassle of being on a ship? They want some of the advantages of being (almost) in the US, but without paying for it.
Crime will happen. Even just low level stuff, like stealing someones wallet. Sorry for all you pie in the sky people, but it will happen. How would rules be enforced? Who? Some onboard constabulary? By what authority? Company rules?
What happens when there are more serious crimes? Rape, assault, etc. Walk the plank? Or just send them home, unpunished?
There is a group of people in the US Congress who just hate anything that the "other side" supports. It does not matter what it is they will work against anything that they think the other side wants to support.
It was also designed to be a replacement for the F-15, not in addition to. The -15s are getting old. Given current fighter jet tempo, we can expect the F-22 to still be flying in 2040+. The current fleet of F-15s won't last that long. So we'll be left with 187 F-22's, whatever low hour F-15s we still have that won't break apart in the air, and as yet undesigned and untested air to air drone/robot.
That's the whole question behind the article. Why does he need to keep it a secret in the first place ?
Because it is an active warzone, perhaps? And that there are many, many people right outside the wire with the motive and means to try to take down AF1?
Maybe, but irrelevant: the ESB survived the B-25 with zero structural damage
Irrelevant? Hardly. Let's look at the differences: Completely different construction type. ESB - hard shell, concrete on the outside. WTC, glass on the outside, support in the middle Aircraft:767-ER200 vs B-25 Mitchell 3x the speed on impact, 10x weight, 10x fuel, 3x wingspan. The difference between a pickup truck hitting a brick office bldg at 25mph, and a semi hitting a glass front office bldg at 75mph, and then burning on the inside. With the pickup, you lose a few bricks. With the semi, you lose the whole building.
and that building easily survived a P51 Mustang crashing into it and is still going strong today.
It was a B-25, not a P51. And completely different construction. But even a B-25 isn't significant compared to a 767. Much, much smaller/lighter/slower.
The exact date cannot be known. Sometime "after" it passes the Senate, and then "after" it is signed by the President. "If" on both counts. It is not law yet.
my long-time girlfriend and I have been debating whether to leave the country. I guess the strategy is to keep our heads down as long as possible, ignore using the internet, learn another language or two, save up as much as we can, and get the fuck out of this country.
And where were you considering going to? Be sure to check deeply into their immigration laws, and see if they will even consider you.
Science and engineering are often advanced by never doing anything you are not absolutely certain will work perfectly.
Many, many/. articles should have this as the first comment. It seems we have completely forgotten the words 'trial and error', and 'that's interesting...'
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There's sound reasoning in her statements
No, there isn't. I've read more reasonable statements coming out of the PR offices of Scientology.
As was a number of other films (these three jump out at me as being some of the best examples).
John Wayne, Audie Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Major General (Ret.) Jimmy Stewart. Hell...we could probably go back to 1916 and Lon Chaney Sr., in If My Country Should Call.
What a BS submission.
How small can you make a nuclear weapon critter anyway? Could individual soldiers carry something like a personal nuclear weapon? And would that make sense in a combat situation?
If we accept the possibility of the Russian 'suitcase nukes', around 100lbs. The US W54 warhead was around 51lbs for the bare warhead. Wiki info here
Why don't people make a fuss about Google or Facebook? Likewise I like my non-Apple electronics (my hi-def TV says "SAMSUNG") but don't people get the fact that EVERYBODY makes their electronics in Chinese sweatshops and that the working conditions at Apple suppliers are probably the best?
Because the hipsters using Apple products want desperately to believe that Apple is indeed somehow 'better' than all those others. When they find out it isn't (FOXCONN) they lash out.
They don't call out the other companies because they know they are evil, and as such cannot be fixed. But Apple is somehow supposed to rise above the masses and market forces. Steve told them so, so it must be so.
Really? Like what. I cannot think of one.
If you happen to work in a secure facility, often you can't even bring the phone into the building.
Where do you want to be 10-15 years from now? Aim towards that.
Google is not your Friendly Bureaucratic Institution, it's just a company that you don't have to deal with and can voluntarily abstain from.
Not so much.
Anyone sends you an email from a google account? You've been opted in. Visit most any web site? Google Analytics has you in its sights. Yes, you can turn off or block a lot of it. But I'd be very surprised if you can block *all*, without seriously compromising the whole web surfing experience.
Pretty funny: all those "advantages" can already be had by using public transportation. Cheaper too. Kind of easy to overlook nowadays.
*If* your locale has viable public transport.
My commute? 17 mins by car. 45 mins by bike. According to GoogleMaps, 90 mins by bus. No thanks.
Then you err on the side of caution. Especially with a medical device!
That should be in the handbook.
If you go the Costco/Walmart/CVS or other public kiosk route, do NOT take your SD card or USB stick. There have been reports of those machines being infected with viruses, which you don't want to bring home with you. Burn to CD or DVD to take to the store.
No they shouldn't. But why not set up shop in Tijuana? Because they don't want to pay Mexican taxes, official and unofficial, either.
The ship thing sounds 'romantic'. But brings a LOT of hassles and expense. Set up in Bahamas. No US taxes, close enough to shore, etc, etc.
What Blueseed is proposing to do is create a new sliver of foreign territory (probably Bahamian or Marshallese) 12 miles outside Silicon Valley. Locating a new business there is no more a tax or immigration dodge than setting up across the Canadian or Mexican border would be. Even though some people might like it otherwise, US tax and immigration law applies only to US territory and US citizens and residents.
The US VC's funding the startups will pay US taxes. US citizens working onboard will pay US taxes. As for the others, why do you think foreigners who work outside the US should pay US taxes and have to get US work visas?
Why then, are they wanting to do this just offshore, if not to take advantage of some benefits of being next to the US? If you want to set it up on a 'foreign' territory, why not just do that and dispense with the hassle of being on a ship?
They want some of the advantages of being (almost) in the US, but without paying for it.
Crime will happen. Even just low level stuff, like stealing someones wallet. Sorry for all you pie in the sky people, but it will happen. How would rules be enforced? Who? Some onboard constabulary? By what authority? Company rules?
What happens when there are more serious crimes? Rape, assault, etc. Walk the plank? Or just send them home, unpunished?
What do you do when the security forces go bad?
There is a group of people in the US Congress who just hate anything that the "other side" supports. It does not matter what it is they will work against anything that they think the other side wants to support.
There are 536 people in this 'group'.
It was also designed to be a replacement for the F-15, not in addition to. The -15s are getting old. Given current fighter jet tempo, we can expect the F-22 to still be flying in 2040+. The current fleet of F-15s won't last that long. So we'll be left with 187 F-22's, whatever low hour F-15s we still have that won't break apart in the air, and as yet undesigned and untested air to air drone/robot.
I think it would be more interesting to study cats.
Cats have 3 thoughts:
Lunch
Nap
If I were bigger, you'd be lunch
Look, Airforce One is hardly a stealth aircraft, especially when trailed by a constantly refueled squadron of Airforce / Navy fighters.
At night, that could be easily disguised as a couple of tankers dragging a flight of F-15s across the ocean.
That's the whole question behind the article. Why does he need to keep it a secret in the first place ?
Because it is an active warzone, perhaps? And that there are many, many people right outside the wire with the motive and means to try to take down AF1?
The president flying into an active warzone is usually kept secret.
As would be for any head of state flying into a warzone.
You don't really want to give some nutjob with a Stinger the landing time and flightpath, do you?
Maybe, but irrelevant: the ESB survived the B-25 with zero structural damage
Irrelevant? Hardly. Let's look at the differences:
Completely different construction type. ESB - hard shell, concrete on the outside. WTC, glass on the outside, support in the middle
Aircraft:767-ER200 vs B-25 Mitchell
3x the speed on impact, 10x weight, 10x fuel, 3x wingspan. The difference between a pickup truck hitting a brick office bldg at 25mph, and a semi hitting a glass front office bldg at 75mph, and then burning on the inside. With the pickup, you lose a few bricks. With the semi, you lose the whole building.
But I agree...a floor a week is no problem.
and that building easily survived a P51 Mustang crashing into it and is still going strong today.
It was a B-25, not a P51. And completely different construction. But even a B-25 isn't significant compared to a 767. Much, much smaller/lighter/slower.
The exact date cannot be known. Sometime "after" it passes the Senate, and then "after" it is signed by the President.
"If" on both counts. It is not law yet.
my long-time girlfriend and I have been debating whether to leave the country. I guess the strategy is to keep our heads down as long as possible, ignore using the internet, learn another language or two, save up as much as we can, and get the fuck out of this country.
And where were you considering going to?
Be sure to check deeply into their immigration laws, and see if they will even consider you.
When does this go into effect?
After it is passed by the Senate, and then after the President signs it. What classes do you miss in elementary school?
Science and engineering are often advanced by never doing anything you are not absolutely certain will work perfectly.
/. articles should have this as the first comment.
Many, many
It seems we have completely forgotten the words 'trial and error', and 'that's interesting...'