And if you'd bothered to read the article, you'd know that they are developing eight variants of a single chassis. Given that the image shown is of a tracked vehicle, it's a safe assumption that the remaining seven variants are also going to be tracked. If you actually bother to Google "Future Combat Systems Brigade Combat Team" you get this page http://www.army.mil/fcs/ , which clearly shows eight tracked vehicles.
Ask the average Joe in the US how far a meter is, and you'll likely get a blank stare and the response "metric is too hard." Yes, metric is taught in schools. Yes, some states post road signs using kilometers alongside the mile signs. But the only non-engineering, non-scientist segment of the population to use metric is the military, because the land maps are in metric. Everything else is still pounds for weight and gallons for volume.
Big deal. Kid makes statement for drug use and finds out schools aren't big on drug use. He was considered to be participating in a school event. Boo hoo. Next time you want to tell the world you're a pothead, do so on your own time, kid. It's not like you're gonna go work for Dell, dude.
Kudos to Starr for doing the case pro bono; a lot of his fellow lawyers would still charge the school for it.
Don't have that problem in Firefox 2. Then again, it might have something to do with the hosts list I grab from here, too. But I'm betting on Firefox, since I don't gat "Page cannot b displayed."
Real Mac users would be proud of it, and not post as an AC.
That aside, ask yourself who's desktop Mandriva/KDE most resembles. It ain't the Mac's. At this point in KDE's development, I'm sure if they had wanted to make the defaults more Mac-like, they would have done so.
That's what translators are for. Training an individual who isn't a translator to be fluent in another language (let alone another culture) would take more time than the Army has. At any rate, English is the de facto international language.
It really depends on what you hit. Some materials (like concrete) will break apart relatively easily, others won't (like Chobham armor). If the target is soft enough, the penetrator will even survive the impact without being scratched. If the target is very tough, you will still need to use DU for the penetrator material.
Sitting in a hot computer lab has nothing on a MOPP suit.
The temperature inside the MOPP suit is about 30 degrees F warmer than the ambient temp.
You sweat like a pig, standing still.
You cannot wipe off sweat, and if it gets in your eyes, tough luck.
You drink water through a narrow straw, and your supply of water is generally limited to what you had in your canteens before you put on your mask due to contamination concerns.
If you happen to wear glasses, the corrective inserts usually don't sit the same way your normal glasses do, and wearing contacts in a chemical environment is a very bad idea.
If you have to do physical labor while it's hot out, mental performance starts to degrade after awhile because your brain is overheating. That means any complicated task you do, you do more slowly because you need to make sure you aren't forgetting something.
TAP suits are much worse. They tend to be referred to as "brutal rubber" suits by the EOD guys. I don't know if the chem guys have a nickname for them.
I wouldn't trust the quality of a 256MB memory stick that only cost $0.50. Kinda like how I can't see paying $20 for an automobile tire when I spend $25-30 for my bicycle tires.
Probably the same reason Konqueror chokes in the same situation. Browsing a local folder on my server with about 3000 files takes a couple minutes in Konqueror or Explorer. Browsing the same folder over my network from a Win98 partition takes about three seconds.
...I was under the impression that only some explosives (rather than all) are sensitive to heat, and some to percussion... while some require both to initiate a high-order detonation.
Well, the amount of heat or force required depends on the particular explosive. But if you have enough of either, you can generally set off whatever you want. Gunpowder takes very little heat, but C-4 requires quite a bit if no shock is involved. You can burn a lot of explosisves without them detonating. Shock is similar. The military grade stuff is desensitized enough that it can take a bullet strike, but civilian dynamite won't necessarily be desensitized.
In most cases, all the chaining required to set off explosives is done in the cap, so you wouldn't need to specifically set something up.
The Barret's are a nice setup, but I can't say much more about that than that we do use them. The bomb suits are pretty unwieldy. Most of the time you'll see the EOD guys with just flak vests.
As for EOD techs being crazy, well, not everyone is dumb enough to play with something that didn't blow up when it was supposed to.:)
As an ex-EOD tech, I can assure you that your impressions are quite incorrect.
All explosives are detonated by shock and/or heat. The amount of either depends on the formula used for the explosives. RDX, which is the active component of C-4, is quite sensitive on it's own. C-4 adds plasticizers to both reduce the sensitivity of RDX and to make it more plyable (hence, "plastic" explosives). Setting off explosives uses blasting caps (detonators) to provide the approriate shock to cause the explosive to detonate. This is accomplished by setting off a sensitive amount of explosive, which detonates a slightly more powerful explosive, on up until the last bit is powerful enough to set off the C-4.
The reason that you are required to turn off cell phones and other radio transmitters is because the blasting caps are usually electrically primed, and stray RF can set the caps off. Those long lead wires make very good antennae.
The rule that you are refering to is part of the Mosaic law in the Torah/Bible Old Testament. The same set of rules requires execution of murderers, rapists, and aldulterers. There is no hipocrisy there.
Even without aliens, the facility has its secrets, and last year while roaming the desert outside the Groom Lake base Clark stumbled upon one of them: an electronic device packed in a rugged case and buried in the dirt. Marked "U.S. Government Property," the device turned out to be a wireless transmitter, connected by an underground cable to a sensor buried nearby next to one of the unpaved roads that vein the public land surrounding the base. [Emphasis added]
Therefore, the devices were marked, they knew it was government property, and they still chose to screw with it.
And since you obviously haven't bothered with the history of the area, the "spooks" have annexed much of the land around Groom Lake.
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Meaning the carrier's direction of travel is unpredictable- it is literally chasing the breeze, to give launched or landing aircraft a favorable wind.
"Trading paint with 84,000 tons of US diplomacy underway going full-tilt-boogy is not going to be a career enhancer."
A collision, in this case between sub and the aforementioned unpredictable carrier.
"Not that this wipes the egg off the face of whoever was in charge of the escort screen [...]"
The Shame.... "you missed WHAT?"
And if you'd bothered to read the article, you'd know that they are developing eight variants of a single chassis. Given that the image shown is of a tracked vehicle, it's a safe assumption that the remaining seven variants are also going to be tracked. If you actually bother to Google "Future Combat Systems Brigade Combat Team" you get this page http://www.army.mil/fcs/ , which clearly shows eight tracked vehicles.
Ask the average Joe in the US how far a meter is, and you'll likely get a blank stare and the response "metric is too hard." Yes, metric is taught in schools. Yes, some states post road signs using kilometers alongside the mile signs. But the only non-engineering, non-scientist segment of the population to use metric is the military, because the land maps are in metric. Everything else is still pounds for weight and gallons for volume.
Big deal. Kid makes statement for drug use and finds out schools aren't big on drug use. He was considered to be participating in a school event. Boo hoo. Next time you want to tell the world you're a pothead, do so on your own time, kid. It's not like you're gonna go work for Dell, dude.
Kudos to Starr for doing the case pro bono; a lot of his fellow lawyers would still charge the school for it.
Don't have that problem in Firefox 2. Then again, it might have something to do with the hosts list I grab from here, too. But I'm betting on Firefox, since I don't gat "Page cannot b displayed."
Real Mac users would be proud of it, and not post as an AC.
That aside, ask yourself who's desktop Mandriva/KDE most resembles. It ain't the Mac's. At this point in KDE's development, I'm sure if they had wanted to make the defaults more Mac-like, they would have done so.
They're only at 2.0? That's news.
Sure you don't just need to adjust your screen resolution?
j/k
And your belief in the validity of your statement is probably why you're posting AC.
If I was hawking mindless drivel like that, I'd post AC, too.
That's what translators are for. Training an individual who isn't a translator to be fluent in another language (let alone another culture) would take more time than the Army has. At any rate, English is the de facto international language.
Grrr... PIMF.
You must have either a high school diploma or a GED.
Actually, if you want to enlist in the US armed forces, you must have either a high school diploma.
It really depends on what you hit. Some materials (like concrete) will break apart relatively easily, others won't (like Chobham armor). If the target is soft enough, the penetrator will even survive the impact without being scratched. If the target is very tough, you will still need to use DU for the penetrator material.
Yikes. I don't think it would be as hot as a MOPP suit since he had the glass out, but it definately would not be easy.
I wouldn't trust the quality of a 256MB memory stick that only cost $0.50. Kinda like how I can't see paying $20 for an automobile tire when I spend $25-30 for my bicycle tires.
I think you missed the inherent tag on that line....
Probably the same reason Konqueror chokes in the same situation. Browsing a local folder on my server with about 3000 files takes a couple minutes in Konqueror or Explorer. Browsing the same folder over my network from a Win98 partition takes about three seconds.
Well, the amount of heat or force required depends on the particular explosive. But if you have enough of either, you can generally set off whatever you want. Gunpowder takes very little heat, but C-4 requires quite a bit if no shock is involved. You can burn a lot of explosisves without them detonating. Shock is similar. The military grade stuff is desensitized enough that it can take a bullet strike, but civilian dynamite won't necessarily be desensitized.
In most cases, all the chaining required to set off explosives is done in the cap, so you wouldn't need to specifically set something up.
The Barret's are a nice setup, but I can't say much more about that than that we do use them. The bomb suits are pretty unwieldy. Most of the time you'll see the EOD guys with just flak vests.
As for EOD techs being crazy, well, not everyone is dumb enough to play with something that didn't blow up when it was supposed to. :)
As an ex-EOD tech, I can assure you that your impressions are quite incorrect.
All explosives are detonated by shock and/or heat. The amount of either depends on the formula used for the explosives. RDX, which is the active component of C-4, is quite sensitive on it's own. C-4 adds plasticizers to both reduce the sensitivity of RDX and to make it more plyable (hence, "plastic" explosives). Setting off explosives uses blasting caps (detonators) to provide the approriate shock to cause the explosive to detonate. This is accomplished by setting off a sensitive amount of explosive, which detonates a slightly more powerful explosive, on up until the last bit is powerful enough to set off the C-4.
The reason that you are required to turn off cell phones and other radio transmitters is because the blasting caps are usually electrically primed, and stray RF can set the caps off. Those long lead wires make very good antennae.
Don't forget to rip out the distinctive stitching on the back pockets, too. Wouldn't want to be a billboard....
Hey, Mattson, Your english is much better than that of many Americans and Brits on Slashdot, so no complaints from me.
The rule that you are refering to is part of the Mosaic law in the Torah /Bible Old Testament. The same set of rules requires execution of murderers, rapists, and aldulterers. There is no hipocrisy there.
Even without aliens, the facility has its secrets, and last year while roaming the desert outside the Groom Lake base Clark stumbled upon one of them: an electronic device packed in a rugged case and buried in the dirt. Marked "U.S. Government Property," the device turned out to be a wireless transmitter, connected by an underground cable to a sensor buried nearby next to one of the unpaved roads that vein the public land surrounding the base. [Emphasis added]
Therefore, the devices were marked, they knew it was government property, and they still chose to screw with it.
And since you obviously haven't bothered with the history of the area, the "spooks" have annexed much of the land around Groom Lake.
Read the article. This plant uses uranium pebbles, and does not produce plutonium.