Typical microwave oven wavelength is about 12.2cm. You are two orders of magnitudes wrong. A typical microwave owen operates around 2.45GHz. Handy calculator for such stuff and more info at wikipedia. Last time I looked at my microwaveable pop-corn, the corns were definitely smaller than 12cm.
Nothing stops USA and UK from withdrawing from the treaty and giving up nuclear weapons completely. Nothing stops any signatory from withdrawing and developing new weapons either.
I would guess even Japan had retaliation capabilities, American leadership wouldn't even blink and still use the bomb. If you are ready to use it against civilians just to make a case, TWICE, you are ready for anything. I bet they would have preferred Japan retaliating, then they could nuke the whole place to the ground, they've been bombing all major cities in Japan with incineeries for a long time already, with Japan having absolutely no air defence left so they didn't care about Japanese at all.
A couple of days ago I saw a Daily Show episode on YouTube where Bush was asked if he believed in Armageddon and thought if it would happen soon or not, and why not. He couldn't answer. I'm not sure he's that intelligent, he couldn't get around the question, couldn't say "No, I don't believe in Armageddon" or "Yes, it will happen soon, fasten your seat belts" (google for Rapture Index, it's scary). The guy is not even cunning enough to spin the question.
I'm pretty sure Rapture Index jumped a couple of points today. Let me check. 154 today. According to the index anything above 145:Fasten your seat belts. Holy cow Batman! I don't want to left behind when the NeoCons hit the button, where do I sign up to their Religion?
About miniaturization, do you think North Korea generals will say to themselves "OK then chaps, good work, you've done it, now pack everything and forget about the whole lot, there's a good lad" or just order their scientists to get on with it? They've come so far, miniaturization work is just the next step and wouldn't take a lot of efford compared to what they've done so far. Especially with Pakistani information they gained in the last couple of years, I suspect in a couple of years time World will be a much more scarier place.
I have to question American military as a rational actor. Well into 80s, American generals believed that they could win a war with nuclear exchange in Europe and they also believed that if they striked first, they would survive MAD. I tell you, they were completely MAD...
Bush and Co. are not that different, Reagan (with all his faults) was probably saner, at least Reagan had a serious enemy in front of him, with thousands of modern tanks, ICMBs and bombers. Bush and Co. don't have those but still advocate for building more nuclear bombs. British are not that better either, it looks like they will eventually replace their nuclear submarine fleet instead of retiring them.
Americans place nukes in very short distance from Russia (aka, Turkey and Italy).
In retaliation, Russians place nukes in very short distance from America (aka Cuba).
Who's the bad guy? Of course it's the Soviets! A huge crisis with lots of tension ensures.
I hoped the world would never experience such a messy situation again. With Pakistan vs. India, China vs. Taiwan and N.Korea against the rest of the world, I suppose shit will happen sometime, probably too soon.
NATO tried that bombing to stone age thing with Serbia but Serbs still had serviceable tanks and artillery at the end of the campaign. With a nuke, all you need is a single mobile Skud launcher that can lob the weapon across the DMZ. Rather scary.
Although having a test does not mean that they have a delivery system, even a fighter bomber with a one way ticket might be enough deterrent.
If we were dealing with Pakistan, India, China or even Iraq with Saddam, I wouldn't be this uneasy about the whole thing; the current rulers of NK are completely nuts.
All of that carrot story was a misinformation put out to prevent disclosing the advances in radars that can be carried by aircrafts. I'm sure Germans were not fooled, they had their own share of night figthers (mainly Ju-88s) with radars.
BBC is very good. My favourite is BBC Radio 4's Today programme with their very aggressive questioning tactics. OTOH, they had a huge scandal with the sexing up affair.
The fact that such grilling of politicians and officials is possible in UK shows how the democracy and self-critisism functions in UK. All I can see from American news sources is grovelling or very deep rhetoric divided through the party lines, rejecting everything the others do. Here the same anchorman can grill the Tories one day and do his best against Labour the next day or even minute - leave alone their own political ideas (James Naughtie of Today Programme supports Labour but still grills Labour ministers in an utter merciless way.
I used to use OpenMosix on ClusterKnoppix but there hasn't been a new release since 2004, OpenMosix still runs on 2.4 kernel. It would be quite nice if OpenMosix managed to move to more recent kernels - still quite useful.
Did you read his stuff and what he has to say about churches and organised religion in general? If it comes to being a Christian, RAW will not get a dime but probably will be shoved off the bridge by a good Samaritan.
New Earth was hilarious - where Tennant was mimicking the last human and Rose - he's a really good actor. I think you should have a light-hearted episode once in a while. Last two episodes of 28th season were really good, apart from Rose's "I luv yuuuu" chav factor (I'm so happy, they got rid of her finally). Cybermen - Dalek standoff was a brilliant scene, ROTFLMAO!
I find Tennant a lot better Doctor, never liked Eccleston. Tenant got my hearth in the Christmas Invasion, that was just cool. I finished the seaspn 28 yesterday, Tennant really rocks, I hope he makes at least 5 seasons!:)
Hear hear! What we need is not plain old nuclear energy but proper fast-breeder-based nuclear energy - if we choose the normal enriched uranium route, the total amount of fuel won't last 150 years and we're back to the original problem - how to we sort out the energy requirement cheaply.
I count myself as a green and I believe all renewable sources are needed - you can't solve the problem with only solar energy or only wind power and we need fast-breeders right away. The only commercial ones in Japan and France are in financial and technical difficulties, leave alone political flak from complete morons.
You must have been using an old version. The latest build for VMWare server (version 1.0.1 I think), does SLES9, SLES10, SLED10, NLPOS, (K)ubuntu 6.06 (server + desktop editions), RHEL5 beta (20060830 version) server and client that is, openSuSE 10.0 and 10.1, and finally Centos 4.3 perfectly fine, with no special configuration anywhere. For a couple of weeks as a background task I've been building some core environments for our VMWare testing. I also installed DB2 and Oracle 10g on SLES and RHELs. My host platforms were openSUSE 10.0 and openSUSE 10.1.
On the other hand today for fun I tried OS/2 Warp 4, now that didn't work! Dammit VMWare, you are bloody useless!
Another OS I couldn't get (satisfactorily) working was Plan9.
With the advent of cloning I wonder if they will have to change the Darwin Awards criteria - basicly you have to remove yourself from the gene pool. Previously you could win a Darwin and live to tell the tale, now I wonder...
You are supposed to use a clipper, not a scissor or a pen knife, you can easily cut yourself and I'm definitely a bane of health and safety nutters - and I would always take the time and go and find the clipper.
According to our Health And Safety nutter (he comes and visits the office every 6 months and then I get a lecture from the office manager), I'm not allowed to be in the office alone. On the other hand, best time to do maintenance on the network, patch panel or servers is during the weekends (when everyone who has a life does something nice) and no one else wants to come and mess with the patch panel - hence my panel is almost as bad as the ones linked here (but probably not that bad - the network still works fine).
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Typical microwave oven wavelength is about 12.2cm. You are two orders of magnitudes wrong. A typical microwave owen operates around 2.45GHz. Handy calculator for such stuff and more info at wikipedia. Last time I looked at my microwaveable pop-corn, the corns were definitely smaller than 12cm.
Nothing stops USA and UK from withdrawing from the treaty and giving up nuclear weapons completely. Nothing stops any signatory from withdrawing and developing new weapons either.
I would guess even Japan had retaliation capabilities, American leadership wouldn't even blink and still use the bomb. If you are ready to use it against civilians just to make a case, TWICE, you are ready for anything. I bet they would have preferred Japan retaliating, then they could nuke the whole place to the ground, they've been bombing all major cities in Japan with incineeries for a long time already, with Japan having absolutely no air defence left so they didn't care about Japanese at all.
A couple of days ago I saw a Daily Show episode on YouTube where Bush was asked if he believed in Armageddon and thought if it would happen soon or not, and why not. He couldn't answer. I'm not sure he's that intelligent, he couldn't get around the question, couldn't say "No, I don't believe in Armageddon" or "Yes, it will happen soon, fasten your seat belts" (google for Rapture Index, it's scary). The guy is not even cunning enough to spin the question.
I'm pretty sure Rapture Index jumped a couple of points today. Let me check. 154 today. According to the index anything above 145:Fasten your seat belts. Holy cow Batman! I don't want to left behind when the NeoCons hit the button, where do I sign up to their Religion?
Remember, duck and cover!
Bush and Co. are not that different, Reagan (with all his faults) was probably saner, at least Reagan had a serious enemy in front of him, with thousands of modern tanks, ICMBs and bombers. Bush and Co. don't have those but still advocate for building more nuclear bombs. British are not that better either, it looks like they will eventually replace their nuclear submarine fleet instead of retiring them.
Americans place nukes in very short distance from Russia (aka, Turkey and Italy).
In retaliation, Russians place nukes in very short distance from America (aka Cuba).
Who's the bad guy? Of course it's the Soviets! A huge crisis with lots of tension ensures.
I hoped the world would never experience such a messy situation again. With Pakistan vs. India, China vs. Taiwan and N.Korea against the rest of the world, I suppose shit will happen sometime, probably too soon.
Although having a test does not mean that they have a delivery system, even a fighter bomber with a one way ticket might be enough deterrent.
If we were dealing with Pakistan, India, China or even Iraq with Saddam, I wouldn't be this uneasy about the whole thing; the current rulers of NK are completely nuts.
All of that carrot story was a misinformation put out to prevent disclosing the advances in radars that can be carried by aircrafts. I'm sure Germans were not fooled, they had their own share of night figthers (mainly Ju-88s) with radars.
Yup, you are right, they were very effective against friendly forces, shooting down at least one British Tornado coming back from a sortie.
The fact that such grilling of politicians and officials is possible in UK shows how the democracy and self-critisism functions in UK. All I can see from American news sources is grovelling or very deep rhetoric divided through the party lines, rejecting everything the others do. Here the same anchorman can grill the Tories one day and do his best against Labour the next day or even minute - leave alone their own political ideas (James Naughtie of Today Programme supports Labour but still grills Labour ministers in an utter merciless way.
I used to use OpenMosix on ClusterKnoppix but there hasn't been a new release since 2004, OpenMosix still runs on 2.4 kernel. It would be quite nice if OpenMosix managed to move to more recent kernels - still quite useful.
Did you read his stuff and what he has to say about churches and organised religion in general? If it comes to being a Christian, RAW will not get a dime but probably will be shoved off the bridge by a good Samaritan.
New Earth was hilarious - where Tennant was mimicking the last human and Rose - he's a really good actor. I think you should have a light-hearted episode once in a while. Last two episodes of 28th season were really good, apart from Rose's "I luv yuuuu" chav factor (I'm so happy, they got rid of her finally). Cybermen - Dalek standoff was a brilliant scene, ROTFLMAO!
It's actually 28th season... But it was a good season, loved it.
I find Tennant a lot better Doctor, never liked Eccleston. Tenant got my hearth in the Christmas Invasion, that was just cool. I finished the seaspn 28 yesterday, Tennant really rocks, I hope he makes at least 5 seasons! :)
Just like yards to meters, close enough for any Mars mission, ain't it?
Hear hear!
What we need is not plain old nuclear energy but proper fast-breeder-based nuclear energy - if we choose the normal enriched uranium route, the total amount of fuel won't last 150 years and we're back to the original problem - how to we sort out the energy requirement cheaply.
I count myself as a green and I believe all renewable sources are needed - you can't solve the problem with only solar energy or only wind power and we need fast-breeders right away. The only commercial ones in Japan and France are in financial and technical difficulties, leave alone political flak from complete morons.
Did DB v8.2 on SLES9 SP3 today on VMWare Server 1.0.1 - no problems at all. It must be your pre-emptive good luck will helping me. :)
You must have been using an old version. The latest build for VMWare server (version 1.0.1 I think), does SLES9, SLES10, SLED10, NLPOS, (K)ubuntu 6.06 (server + desktop editions), RHEL5 beta (20060830 version) server and client that is, openSuSE 10.0 and 10.1, and finally Centos 4.3 perfectly fine, with no special configuration anywhere. For a couple of weeks as a background task I've been building some core environments for our VMWare testing. I also installed DB2 and Oracle 10g on SLES and RHELs. My host platforms were openSUSE 10.0 and openSUSE 10.1.
On the other hand today for fun I tried OS/2 Warp 4, now that didn't work! Dammit VMWare, you are bloody useless!
Another OS I couldn't get (satisfactorily) working was Plan9.
With the advent of cloning I wonder if they will have to change the Darwin Awards criteria - basicly you have to remove yourself from the gene pool. Previously you could win a Darwin and live to tell the tale, now I wonder...
I hope it works on Wine... I'm gonna get this game! It's such a good idea!
You are supposed to use a clipper, not a scissor or a pen knife, you can easily cut yourself and I'm definitely a bane of health and safety nutters - and I would always take the time and go and find the clipper.
According to our Health And Safety nutter (he comes and visits the office every 6 months and then I get a lecture from the office manager), I'm not allowed to be in the office alone. On the other hand, best time to do maintenance on the network, patch panel or servers is during the weekends (when everyone who has a life does something nice) and no one else wants to come and mess with the patch panel - hence my panel is almost as bad as the ones linked here (but probably not that bad - the network still works fine).