Correct. The main reason is not toxicity or radioactivity, however, since natural uranium is only mildly radioactive (and depleted uranium is just as toxic). It's simply more useful to enrich it for nuclear reactions and to use the depleted stuff for weapons, armor, etc.
Uranium's much better, because it's about as dense (possibly denser), has better after-armor effects (it's pyrophoric), but most important of all: it's much cheaper, and you can get it somewhere other than China.
It's true that AC is much easier to step up and down. However, DC isn't stepped the way you are thinking. There are switching DC-DC converters that can step DC up or down with high efficiencies and don't need any particularly large capacitors, as they use inductors. They are far more complex, expensive, and failure-prone than transformers for high power, and don't work at all beyond a few thousand volts or so, but they exist.
Most of your points are correct or at least arguable, but very high speed is actually a great defense against missile attack. Don't forget that if you're flying this thing, you're starting off at least Mach 1 faster than your opponents, and even if they can launch at you right after you fly past them, their missiles generally won't be able to catch you. Iraqi MiG-25s were able to engage and disengage at will the first night, and one outran 10 or so missiles fired at it. Speed is life in fighter combat.
Very true. Sub props probably have an odd number of blades on them for similar reasons that wind turbines have an odd number of blades on them: having an even number increases the vibration and stresses on the device as a whole. It has to do with one blade being at the top and another being at the bottom at the same time, which puts an uneven load on the prop. Vibration in subs is exactly what you are trying to avoid.
There are actually IRL and Champ Car (once called CART) road races as well. IRL used to be entirely oval, but added some road courses too. Champ Car has usually had both, except for this year, where Wikipedia states there will be no oval races at all.
The study did show a causal link. It showed that if you show people porn for 6 to 8 weeks, they will have different opinions on rape sentencing than those who watched something else for the same time period. It can't be anything other than the viewing causing the opinions because the only other possibilities are that their opinions caused them to have watched the porn already, which is impossible because they were randomly selected, or that neither caused the other, which is also impossible because every other variable was controlled for. The two groups were only different in what they saw in that period. Showing the one group porn caused that group's average sentencing to differ. That is how causation is determined, and that is what this study showed.
Note that it isn't necessarily a bad thing that one group wanted shorter sentences.
What are you talking about? ROTARY engines are fundamentally flawed (except for turbines): you can't seal them easily, so they burn oil and are unreliable. There's a reason almost all modern, efficient engines are piston designs: they work.
They do indeed injure themselves without realizing it. However, in at least some cases, the loss of fingers and toes and etc is actually due to rats chewing them off when the patient goes to sleep. Isn't that weird? Read it in Discover.
For what it's worth, you can get 8 gig SD flash cards for about $100 nowadays, so 128 gigs would be only $1600. That's 0.16% of $1,000,000. A purpose built flash hard drive would probably cost somewhat less than that. The flash can't account for the large price tag.
Didn't you hear? The developers realized that they were just implementing an emulator, so they changed the acronym's meaning to Wine Is aN Emulator. You need to update your rants.
As a matter of fact, I read on Tanknet that Canada is either considering or in negotiations to buy some Leopard 2 tanks from Germany, and to lease a few more. I also found a picture of our tanks in Afghanistan. I don't have a link to that one, but there's discussion about the possible purchase here.
3 is not stating that not A implies not B, which would be that anything that is not a bomb cannot look like a bomb. 3 is in fact stating that not B implies not A, which IS true: if ALL bombs look like bombs, then anything that does not look like a bomb cannot be a bomb.
It's a good idea. It's the only way people will ever learn to keep their machines secure: through pain, ie. by losing something. The problem nowadays is that hackers might already be trying to keep their botnets secure so others can't hack them, so that might make it a little more difficult to get the already-hacked machines. If they could be defeated by some more recent exploit as it becomes known, though, or maybe whatever program they're using to control the machines has a vulnerability...
We need some sort of organization to actually work on this and take them out. Just destroy people's computers and their data if they're part of a botnet. Change VCore to destroy their CPUs, as someone mentioned in another reply! The inter-net would suck that much less if this happened.
Re your sig: people who dislike China mostly dislike the government or the competition that the country poses, and usually don't dislike individual Chinese, because they are just people, after all.
But if the message is passed to an object that is in the same thread, how is "message passing" any different than a function call to an object? I'm not trolling: I'm genuinely curious. I haven't played with Objective-C myself, but I'm interested in knowing if there's some advantage to how it does things.
Why should we care WHY a tiny, insignificant minority of people decide to kill in a manner that happens to fascinate us, but doesn't make an impact at all compared to all the other ways people are killed? The only important thing is that we kill them, or better yet, capture them alive so that we can make them pray for death that does not come. Why give them any thought beyond that?
Why is it necessary for some idiot to invoke a conspiracy theory to explain some event that happens on average maybe once a year at most? A trend, you say? You might as well call serial killing a "trend", then. Or people being hit by runaway bus tires. Or people being stung to death by bees! There's no need for any bizarre explanation to explain something as incredibly, phenomenally rare as spree killings. Haven't you noticed that every single time there is one, everyone knows about it and talks about it for weeks? That can make it seem like there are lots of them, when in fact there are thousands of regular murders a year that don't get talked about by everyone in the entire country. Why not care about those instead?
Why is any explanation beyond "they are outcasts who wanted to kill" even necessary to explain something so rare?
What kind of reform would people call for? Banning all guns? Some kind of forced equality to make sure no one can feel bad or cast out? How is that going to work? In my opinion, the only kind of reform that is needed is to make sure people are sufficiently educated to understand just how statistically insignificant this sort of thing really is. If you want to save lives, how about focusing on regular, non-spree murders? On robberies? On rapes? On car accidents? You know, things that actually affect more than 20 people a year?
Tanks are only useful in a battlefield, they've *never* been useful in a town let alone a city etc etc...
You couldn't be more wrong. Tanks are wonderful to have in a city. Properly employed, they are supporting infantry and taking out points of strong resistance, while the infantry protect the tanks from RPGs and deadlier weapons. In the battle of Nasariyah in the second gulf war, the mere arrival of tanks would turn the tide of battle. In fact, one of the reasons that battle took so long was that half the tanks got stuck in mud for several hours and could not relieve the Marine infantry that had taken the northern bridge (and were taking lots of casualties). The arrival of tanks finished the battle pretty quickly. Tanks are very, very important weapons.
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Correct. The main reason is not toxicity or radioactivity, however, since natural uranium is only mildly radioactive (and depleted uranium is just as toxic). It's simply more useful to enrich it for nuclear reactions and to use the depleted stuff for weapons, armor, etc.
Uranium's much better, because it's about as dense (possibly denser), has better after-armor effects (it's pyrophoric), but most important of all: it's much cheaper, and you can get it somewhere other than China.
It's true that AC is much easier to step up and down. However, DC isn't stepped the way you are thinking. There are switching DC-DC converters that can step DC up or down with high efficiencies and don't need any particularly large capacitors, as they use inductors. They are far more complex, expensive, and failure-prone than transformers for high power, and don't work at all beyond a few thousand volts or so, but they exist.
Most of your points are correct or at least arguable, but very high speed is actually a great defense against missile attack. Don't forget that if you're flying this thing, you're starting off at least Mach 1 faster than your opponents, and even if they can launch at you right after you fly past them, their missiles generally won't be able to catch you. Iraqi MiG-25s were able to engage and disengage at will the first night, and one outran 10 or so missiles fired at it. Speed is life in fighter combat.
Very true. Sub props probably have an odd number of blades on them for similar reasons that wind turbines have an odd number of blades on them: having an even number increases the vibration and stresses on the device as a whole. It has to do with one blade being at the top and another being at the bottom at the same time, which puts an uneven load on the prop. Vibration in subs is exactly what you are trying to avoid.
There are actually IRL and Champ Car (once called CART) road races as well. IRL used to be entirely oval, but added some road courses too. Champ Car has usually had both, except for this year, where Wikipedia states there will be no oval races at all.
The study did show a causal link. It showed that if you show people porn for 6 to 8 weeks, they will have different opinions on rape sentencing than those who watched something else for the same time period. It can't be anything other than the viewing causing the opinions because the only other possibilities are that their opinions caused them to have watched the porn already, which is impossible because they were randomly selected, or that neither caused the other, which is also impossible because every other variable was controlled for. The two groups were only different in what they saw in that period. Showing the one group porn caused that group's average sentencing to differ. That is how causation is determined, and that is what this study showed.
Note that it isn't necessarily a bad thing that one group wanted shorter sentences.
What are you talking about? ROTARY engines are fundamentally flawed (except for turbines): you can't seal them easily, so they burn oil and are unreliable. There's a reason almost all modern, efficient engines are piston designs: they work.
They do indeed injure themselves without realizing it. However, in at least some cases, the loss of fingers and toes and etc is actually due to rats chewing them off when the patient goes to sleep. Isn't that weird? Read it in Discover.
For what it's worth, you can get 8 gig SD flash cards for about $100 nowadays, so 128 gigs would be only $1600. That's 0.16% of $1,000,000. A purpose built flash hard drive would probably cost somewhat less than that. The flash can't account for the large price tag.
Didn't you hear? The developers realized that they were just implementing an emulator, so they changed the acronym's meaning to Wine Is aN Emulator. You need to update your rants.
Hey, aren't you RICHARD SIMMONS?
...stupid lameness filter.
As a matter of fact, I read on Tanknet that Canada is either considering or in negotiations to buy some Leopard 2 tanks from Germany, and to lease a few more. I also found a picture of our tanks in Afghanistan. I don't have a link to that one, but there's discussion about the possible purchase here.
If you examine that link more carefully, you'll see that that was the Florida government, not the US one. (It is indeed insane, though.)
. . . Give me the humpers.
Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG7258dZvfc
3 is not stating that not A implies not B, which would be that anything that is not a bomb cannot look like a bomb. 3 is in fact stating that not B implies not A, which IS true: if ALL bombs look like bombs, then anything that does not look like a bomb cannot be a bomb.
So it was logically consistent as written.
It's a good idea. It's the only way people will ever learn to keep their machines secure: through pain, ie. by losing something. The problem nowadays is that hackers might already be trying to keep their botnets secure so others can't hack them, so that might make it a little more difficult to get the already-hacked machines. If they could be defeated by some more recent exploit as it becomes known, though, or maybe whatever program they're using to control the machines has a vulnerability...
We need some sort of organization to actually work on this and take them out. Just destroy people's computers and their data if they're part of a botnet. Change VCore to destroy their CPUs, as someone mentioned in another reply! The inter-net would suck that much less if this happened.
Re your sig: people who dislike China mostly dislike the government or the competition that the country poses, and usually don't dislike individual Chinese, because they are just people, after all.
But if the message is passed to an object that is in the same thread, how is "message passing" any different than a function call to an object? I'm not trolling: I'm genuinely curious. I haven't played with Objective-C myself, but I'm interested in knowing if there's some advantage to how it does things.
Why should we care WHY a tiny, insignificant minority of people decide to kill in a manner that happens to fascinate us, but doesn't make an impact at all compared to all the other ways people are killed? The only important thing is that we kill them, or better yet, capture them alive so that we can make them pray for death that does not come. Why give them any thought beyond that?
Why is it necessary for some idiot to invoke a conspiracy theory to explain some event that happens on average maybe once a year at most? A trend, you say? You might as well call serial killing a "trend", then. Or people being hit by runaway bus tires. Or people being stung to death by bees! There's no need for any bizarre explanation to explain something as incredibly, phenomenally rare as spree killings. Haven't you noticed that every single time there is one, everyone knows about it and talks about it for weeks? That can make it seem like there are lots of them, when in fact there are thousands of regular murders a year that don't get talked about by everyone in the entire country. Why not care about those instead?
Why is any explanation beyond "they are outcasts who wanted to kill" even necessary to explain something so rare?
What kind of reform would people call for? Banning all guns? Some kind of forced equality to make sure no one can feel bad or cast out? How is that going to work? In my opinion, the only kind of reform that is needed is to make sure people are sufficiently educated to understand just how statistically insignificant this sort of thing really is. If you want to save lives, how about focusing on regular, non-spree murders? On robberies? On rapes? On car accidents? You know, things that actually affect more than 20 people a year?
"no more real more violent"? What the hell does that mean?
What did she actually do? Can you summarize?
. . . not all acts of destruction are in fact mindless - some are legitimate protests . . .
You're obviously with the terrorists.