Have they been re-organised recently? Last I heard, the Naval Service consisted of the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines, as separate entities, plus a variety of reserve and auxiliary forces. The Government have been rearranging the armed forces quite substantially in recent years, so I may be out of date here.
from our perspective here on earth we might seem to have an overabundance of water, but on a universal scale it's a fairly rare compound.
On the contrary: I'd guess that water is the most common compound in the Universe.
The most abundant substance in the by far in the visible Universe is hydrogen. The second most abundant is helium. The third most abundant element in the Universe is oxygen, but in the presence of elemental hydrogen oxygen is unstable and reacts exothermically to produce water. Probably most of the oxygen not locked up inside stars is in water molecules.
Liquid water is rare, I'll grant. But the Universe is absolutely riddled with water vapour and with ice.
Where's the #1 spot to tell people your new theory as to how FTL travel is possible using hidden dimensions in the aether? sci.physics.
Last time I was on there, it was more that FTL travel was possible because relativity is all rubbish anyway because the clock is just wrong. Have standards risen since then? Because the crackpots a few years ago were a poor crew at best.
As you coast down the sun's gravity well, you're picking up speed, placing you into a higher orbit, so nothing is accomplished. You have to burn fuel to slow down if you're going to get anywhere.
There's a quick way to slow down that doesn't involve burning fuel. It's called 'crashing'. All you need to do is find something large, heavy, solid and uninhabited, somewhere conveniently near Earth, and plough straight on into it. A lump of rock in the range of, oh, seventy-four quintillion tons should be enough to stop pretty much anything.
If the games were in the US and we promised potable water in the Olympic Village and instead made a deal that allowed only Coca-Cola products in, and all water must be Dasani (even for showering)
Well, Dasani istap water. So I don't see how that's a problem.
I mean, shooting warning shots or aiming for say the lower legs would seem to me to be justifiable (good if they are incapacitated so that the police can pick them up), but body or headshots are a bit harsh.
No. Absolutely not. Ask any of the pro-gun crowd (what with/.'s right-wing tendency there are always plenty around): you do not shoot at anything you do not mean to kill. It's not like the movies here. Shooting a man in the leg can still kill him; look up 'femoral artery' and how fast you die if it gets severed. And that's assuming you can reliably hit the leg - most people aren't such good marksmen.
And supposing he had attempted that, and his defence had been 'I shot only to wound, but missed my aim, and he died' - then that would still have been murder, because he would have acted with the intention to cause serious bodily harm, even if he had not meant to kill.
Kosovo though? That went on what, 10 years before the Americans beat NATO over the head and the Americans with a few Brits (with some NATO decals hastily slapped onto their airplanes) cleaned that mess up in about a month.
More like the Brits with a few Americans. At its largest, KFOR numbered some 50,000 troops. 19,000 of these were British, 8,500 German, 7,000 American, 7,000 French. You might be thinking about the earlier war in Bosnia, which was ended when NATO began airstrikes against the Bosnian Serb army; that intervention was strongly US-led.
Throwing a homeowner in jail for shooting perps that broke into his house, while said perps with long rap sheets get off?
If you're referring to Tony Martin: his house was burgled, he confronted the burglars, and they fled. He then fired upon them as they were running away. He was not at this point acting in defence of himself or his property; this aim had already been achieved, with the burglars now leaving the premises. He opened fire anyway.
Brendan Fearon, who had been wounded, was sentenced to three years imprisonment for burglary. Fred Barras was too dead to stand trial. Tony Martin was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, later commuted to five years for manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility because of his paranoid personality disorder.
If, like me, you've never really gotten much exercise before, prepare for some pain in the beginning.
And more pain later on. You start out with pain due to using muscles that have been idle for the past decade, and due to pressure on the knees... but now about five or six months in, the pain is mostly due to OH MY GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY ARM OWWWWWWWWWWWWW:-)
Especially since you can see from the list of people they sued, that they have only sued dolphins(casual defenseless infringers), and not a single barracuda(large scale industrial pirates)...
How many gigabytes of mp3s do I have to accumulate to level up to 'shark with frickin' laser beam on its head'?
After posting this, I fired up Wikipedia and read up on the actual history.
Iceland had already been settled by Erik's time - he didn't discover it. He was exiled from Iceland because of some killings with which he was closely associated, and he sailed away to the northwest, where the existence of land was rumoured but unconfirmed. It's true that he gave it the name of 'Greenland' for marketing purposes, hoping to encourage settlement there, but during the Mediaeval Warm Period Greenland wasn't quite as inhospitable as it is today, so we cannot fairly accuse Erik the Red of fraud. Only murder. But he was a Viking, so that's to be expected.
Strange to think that a place called Iceland has so much available heat for power generation.
Legend has it that the name of Iceland is an ancient Viking fraud. Erik the Red sailed out into the ocean beyond Scotland, and discovered two new countries there: one rich and green and worth settling, and one frozen and barren and utterly worthless. He named one Iceland, and the other Greenland; when he got home, all the other Vikings rushed off to claim lands in Greenland, and Erik got to keep Iceland for himself.
The second effect is that you can "tune" a fission bomb to direct its energy output largely in one direction. (Don't jump on me, this is in the open literature now.)
Got a link with any details of how? It reminds me of how Teller wanted to use an H-bomb to power a array of X-ray lasers as a missile defence. But what you're describing doesn't sound like a gas laser, but bulk motion.
Europeans are even sillier these days where NATO and UN have to beg plead and extort to get a handful of European soldiers to come within a few hundred miles of a place where they might possibly get shot at.
There are plenty of Europeans on UN peacekeeping operations worldwide. We just don't want anything to do with Iraq, which is America's mess and therefore their job to clean up.
Quite aside from that, do you honestly believe that that one statement was the reason Gore lost the election?
As I recall, Bush's margin of victory was incredibly narrow (I forget the exact figure - how many more votes did Bush get than Gore again? Not many anyway.) It wouldn't have taken much to make the difference, and that one statement could well have been it. So could anything else that lost him votes, of course.
I always say that I'd like to meet the Atheist who doesn't say "god damn it" or "go to hell,"
If I dropped the religious curses from my arsenal, I wouldn't have a complete strategic spectrum. I'd have nothing between 'Oh bother' and 'Fuck!' They fill in a useful range of mild swearing, without which my selection of expletives would be far poorer. Normally if I drop something heavy on my toe I would shout 'fuck!', but if I do so in comparatively polite company, well, that's what Christ's there for, isn't it?
That said, I don't think I've ever told anybody to go to hell. I'll tell them either to fuck off or to piss off, depending on how much I didn't like them.
If you look at life on Earth most species do share common characterstics, when did you last see a 12 toed mammel?
When did you last see a four-limbed insect?
Mammals - and in fact all tetrapods, which means most of the vertebrates other than fish - descended from ancestors that had four limbs each with five digits. We inherit that ancient body plan; some have modified it by merging digits to make flippers or hooves or paws, but on the whole it's been maintained. We don't have it because it's better for an intelligent species than any other; we have it because it worked for an amphibian eons ago.
If a different lineage back in the Devonian 400 million years ago had got lucky, an intelligent species today might have ended up with a very different overall body plan.
And if I was given the design brief to remodel humans to be effective spacefarers, I'd begin by adding an extra pair of arms, perhaps replacing the legs with another pair of arms (think zero-g), and installing a prehensile tail; then I'd add more eyes to give all-round vision. I'd expect any advanced spacefaring civilisation to redesign themselves to their own needs, and I'd be absolutely amazed if they decided that looking like a glorified chimpanzee suited them best.
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Have they been re-organised recently? Last I heard, the Naval Service consisted of the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines, as separate entities, plus a variety of reserve and auxiliary forces. The Government have been rearranging the armed forces quite substantially in recent years, so I may be out of date here.
Those weren't Marines, they were sailors from the Royal Navy. The Royal Marines are a separate organisation.
I think quite a lot of the kids dying in Iraq have never had a beer. They're mostly Muslims, remember?
On the contrary: I'd guess that water is the most common compound in the Universe.
The most abundant substance in the by far in the visible Universe is hydrogen. The second most abundant is helium. The third most abundant element in the Universe is oxygen, but in the presence of elemental hydrogen oxygen is unstable and reacts exothermically to produce water. Probably most of the oxygen not locked up inside stars is in water molecules.
Liquid water is rare, I'll grant. But the Universe is absolutely riddled with water vapour and with ice.
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Last time I was on there, it was more that FTL travel was possible because relativity is all rubbish anyway because the clock is just wrong. Have standards risen since then? Because the crackpots a few years ago were a poor crew at best.
There's a quick way to slow down that doesn't involve burning fuel. It's called 'crashing'. All you need to do is find something large, heavy, solid and uninhabited, somewhere conveniently near Earth, and plough straight on into it. A lump of rock in the range of, oh, seventy-four quintillion tons should be enough to stop pretty much anything.
Well, Dasani is tap water. So I don't see how that's a problem.
Apart from the bromate they add to it, anyway.
No. Absolutely not. Ask any of the pro-gun crowd (what with /.'s right-wing tendency there are always plenty around): you do not shoot at anything you do not mean to kill. It's not like the movies here. Shooting a man in the leg can still kill him; look up 'femoral artery' and how fast you die if it gets severed. And that's assuming you can reliably hit the leg - most people aren't such good marksmen.
And supposing he had attempted that, and his defence had been 'I shot only to wound, but missed my aim, and he died' - then that would still have been murder, because he would have acted with the intention to cause serious bodily harm, even if he had not meant to kill.
For Islam in particular, whose followers preserved and extended the mathematics and astronomy of the ancient world, while Christians forgot the lot.
More like the Brits with a few Americans. At its largest, KFOR numbered some 50,000 troops. 19,000 of these were British, 8,500 German, 7,000 American, 7,000 French. You might be thinking about the earlier war in Bosnia, which was ended when NATO began airstrikes against the Bosnian Serb army; that intervention was strongly US-led.
If you're referring to Tony Martin: his house was burgled, he confronted the burglars, and they fled. He then fired upon them as they were running away. He was not at this point acting in defence of himself or his property; this aim had already been achieved, with the burglars now leaving the premises. He opened fire anyway.
Brendan Fearon, who had been wounded, was sentenced to three years imprisonment for burglary. Fred Barras was too dead to stand trial. Tony Martin was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, later commuted to five years for manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility because of his paranoid personality disorder.
And more pain later on. You start out with pain due to using muscles that have been idle for the past decade, and due to pressure on the knees... but now about five or six months in, the pain is mostly due to OH MY GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY ARM OWWWWWWWWWWWWW :-)
How many gigabytes of mp3s do I have to accumulate to level up to 'shark with frickin' laser beam on its head'?
Iceland had already been settled by Erik's time - he didn't discover it. He was exiled from Iceland because of some killings with which he was closely associated, and he sailed away to the northwest, where the existence of land was rumoured but unconfirmed. It's true that he gave it the name of 'Greenland' for marketing purposes, hoping to encourage settlement there, but during the Mediaeval Warm Period Greenland wasn't quite as inhospitable as it is today, so we cannot fairly accuse Erik the Red of fraud. Only murder. But he was a Viking, so that's to be expected.
Legend has it that the name of Iceland is an ancient Viking fraud. Erik the Red sailed out into the ocean beyond Scotland, and discovered two new countries there: one rich and green and worth settling, and one frozen and barren and utterly worthless. He named one Iceland, and the other Greenland; when he got home, all the other Vikings rushed off to claim lands in Greenland, and Erik got to keep Iceland for himself.
Wow. That was a triumph!
Got a link with any details of how? It reminds me of how Teller wanted to use an H-bomb to power a array of X-ray lasers as a missile defence. But what you're describing doesn't sound like a gas laser, but bulk motion.
There are plenty of Europeans on UN peacekeeping operations worldwide. We just don't want anything to do with Iraq, which is America's mess and therefore their job to clean up.
As I recall, Bush's margin of victory was incredibly narrow (I forget the exact figure - how many more votes did Bush get than Gore again? Not many anyway.) It wouldn't have taken much to make the difference, and that one statement could well have been it. So could anything else that lost him votes, of course.
1975, actually, the last American flight until the first Space Shuttle launch in 1981.
A popular tech website posted news about this a few days ago; there was a lengthy and interesting discussion: here.
If I dropped the religious curses from my arsenal, I wouldn't have a complete strategic spectrum. I'd have nothing between 'Oh bother' and 'Fuck!' They fill in a useful range of mild swearing, without which my selection of expletives would be far poorer. Normally if I drop something heavy on my toe I would shout 'fuck!', but if I do so in comparatively polite company, well, that's what Christ's there for, isn't it?
That said, I don't think I've ever told anybody to go to hell. I'll tell them either to fuck off or to piss off, depending on how much I didn't like them.
Well, Foxconn as we've just seen. Also Lexmark. And quite a lot of manufacturers of WLAN hardware.
When did you last see a four-limbed insect?
Mammals - and in fact all tetrapods, which means most of the vertebrates other than fish - descended from ancestors that had four limbs each with five digits. We inherit that ancient body plan; some have modified it by merging digits to make flippers or hooves or paws, but on the whole it's been maintained. We don't have it because it's better for an intelligent species than any other; we have it because it worked for an amphibian eons ago.
If a different lineage back in the Devonian 400 million years ago had got lucky, an intelligent species today might have ended up with a very different overall body plan.
And if I was given the design brief to remodel humans to be effective spacefarers, I'd begin by adding an extra pair of arms, perhaps replacing the legs with another pair of arms (think zero-g), and installing a prehensile tail; then I'd add more eyes to give all-round vision. I'd expect any advanced spacefaring civilisation to redesign themselves to their own needs, and I'd be absolutely amazed if they decided that looking like a glorified chimpanzee suited them best.