As I understand it, the emergency response organizations were pressed to their absolute limit (and beyond) and that's with very few casualties. Take New Orleans, give all those people third degree burns and radiation sickness, and then raise it New York, LA Chicago and Houston. It would do a wee bit more than "piss you off."
Yes, the US or any of the other major nuclear powers would be able to retaliate after losing a few cities, but they'd be able to retaliate even if you nuked every square inch of the country too. Losing a few of your biggest cities (or even one of your biggest cities) is probably as effective a deterrent, provided it's guaranteed to be delivered, as having your whole country glassed.
An adequate force of small SSBNs would probably do very nicely as a deterrent force, be much cheaper than the full "tripod" AND be a lot safer for the world as a whole.
C isn't too bad. You can let those C programmers do most things. Don't trust a C++ only programmer too far.
If you want to make sure someone under 30 is a REAL programmer you have to ask him what embedded systems he's coded for. If he's over 30 the first computer he programmed was probably equivalent to an embedded system today.
Ask someone from North America where SEAT is manufactured and you'll probably get the response "huh? Seats? Car seats? Detroit maybe?" Peugeot is pushing it too. The rest are probably reasonably "synonymous" with their country of origin (i.e. people not from near that country might be expected to know).
Presumably he meant "... in part why AmeriCA is sliding from prominence" because it doesn't make sense the other way. I assure you, people in Europe frequently refer to all of North America as "America." They also have a habit of referring to Canadians as Americans, and occasionally, when corrected, saying "well, it's all the same isn't it?" That's when you explain that (supposing you're talking to an Irishman) that yes, Americans and Canadians are just the same, just like Irishmen and Englishmen.
Now, the rest of the quote was "American CEOs have been shorting the shit out of the entire country for decades now" where he's clearly talking about the US. RIM has two CEOs, and while both are Canadian, one is a graduate of Harvard Business School, so it's probably fair to say that his management philosophy has a fair amount of American influence.
Which is all kind of irrelevant because Canadian and US big business is so mixed up together that a criticism of American CEOs pretty much automatically criticizes Canadian CEOs and vice versa.
I think the individual units were potentially profitable, if they'd sold enough of them, but they didn't. I don't know how much of that lack of profitability was due to research costs, and how much was due to things like setting up the manufacturing capability for such a small production run.
Either way, it's probably a good decision to stop building a rich man's boondoggle that served it's purpose and concentrate on building a car that might actually have an effect.
"Nuclear reductions" are bilateral. If the US gives up 1000 warheads, Russia does too. MOST people who know what they're talking about believe that bilateral reductions improve US security. You've got LOTS of nukes. A few less isn't going to make any meaningful difference. But Russia has lots too, and less money to look after them. The more pressure on their nuke budget, the more likely it is one of those will go missing, either sold, misplaced or stolen.
You need to take a serious look at the value you're getting for your money. The US spends as much per capita on social programs as many countries that already have universal health care. Maybe capitalism isn't quite the mecca of efficiency it's supposed to be.
The GP said it - because then you wouldn't be able to fight three foreign wars at the same time, and barely notice. And the US seems to LIKE fighting foreign wars. It keeps getting involved in them anyway.
"But if we get an extra ten billion dollars a year, we can pay down our debt."
I really am sorry to be the one to tell you, but you guys are going to need more like an extra trillion dollars a year before you can start paying down your debt.
September and October would have been pretty good for the Japanese. They would have gone from fear that the US had a whole bunch of nukes to realization that they didn't have any.
The bombs dropped on Japan were basically hand built. They were like expensive Italian cars. The Ford of nukes didn't come around until AFTER the war. Everything nuclear during the war was a prototype, and a research prototype at that. Sure, the program could have ramped up and wiped out Japan if necessary, but not in anything like the time frame you're imagining.
A little hurricane hits one city and look what happens.
Losing the biggest four or five cities in your country would certainly be a pretty good deterrent. The current nuclear stockpile and the "one nuke for every foreign launch site" policy is a ridiculous attempt to make nuclear warfare "winnable." That dream died with the invention of the ballistic missile submarine, but some people failed to notice.
Uh huh. All very convoluted. At some point China is going to ask themselves why they keep accepting US IOUs that the US can never pay off in exchange for actual goods. At the same time, China's own population, which is four times as big as the US, is going to be demanding more and more goods.
Export based economy? It is now. It won't be in the future. Plus if your dollar keeps going down China is going to have to give up suppressing their own currency anyway. Just like Canada has. I remember ten years ago whenever the CAD started to rise in comparison to the USD everyone clamoured that our economy was going to suffer, and the government would do whatever they could to get our currency back down. Then one day we were at par and there wasn't anything anyone could do about it. And nothing bad happened. Then the CAD went back down to 80 cents. Now it's back above par, has been for a while, and nobody cares much.
That's fantastic. The US currently has the ability to reduce much of the world to that level AFTER having the shit nuked out of it by an equal rival (the USSR).
A LOT of reduction wouldn't compromise the US's ability to send a country like Iran back to the stone age.
If true, your country is in even worse shape than I assumed. Regardless, paying someone not to do their job is not the same as sticking that someone back in contact with children.
Silly. What those people did didn't have anything to do with religion (or lack thereof) any more than what Hitler did had to do with the fact he was a Catholic.
Now the guys who ran the inquisition, used to blow up Ireland regularly, engaged in a few bloody crusades, burned witches and crashed planes into skyscrapers, THOSE guys (mostly) didn't do what they did for religious reasons either. But they did use religion as a tool to manipulate suckers into doing what they wanted.
The sick part about the Catholic child rape thing was not the frequency of it but the fact that the church covered it up, protected the offenders, and let the whole thing keep happening. If you get caught abusing a child in a school your career is definitely over, you're most likely charged, and if there's sufficient evidence you go to jail. You don't get transferred and protected from prosecution by one of the most powerful organizations on the planet.
Meh. He's choosing to ignore or "differently interpret" that passage. Just like most religious people selectively ignore the inconvenient (or fun) parts of their own holy books. The song of psalms for example (a delightful dirty poem allegedly written by the king himself), or all the donkey sex, incest and god condoned rape that goes on in the bible.
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Because then you can't LEAVE them hanging there at the entrance to the port as a warning to all the other pirates.
As I understand it, the emergency response organizations were pressed to their absolute limit (and beyond) and that's with very few casualties. Take New Orleans, give all those people third degree burns and radiation sickness, and then raise it New York, LA Chicago and Houston. It would do a wee bit more than "piss you off."
Yes, the US or any of the other major nuclear powers would be able to retaliate after losing a few cities, but they'd be able to retaliate even if you nuked every square inch of the country too. Losing a few of your biggest cities (or even one of your biggest cities) is probably as effective a deterrent, provided it's guaranteed to be delivered, as having your whole country glassed.
An adequate force of small SSBNs would probably do very nicely as a deterrent force, be much cheaper than the full "tripod" AND be a lot safer for the world as a whole.
C isn't too bad. You can let those C programmers do most things. Don't trust a C++ only programmer too far.
If you want to make sure someone under 30 is a REAL programmer you have to ask him what embedded systems he's coded for. If he's over 30 the first computer he programmed was probably equivalent to an embedded system today.
"just hire another c/c++/java guy with a little asm"
If Slashdot lately is any indication, that might be hard to find.
Ask someone from North America where SEAT is manufactured and you'll probably get the response "huh? Seats? Car seats? Detroit maybe?" Peugeot is pushing it too. The rest are probably reasonably "synonymous" with their country of origin (i.e. people not from near that country might be expected to know).
Presumably he meant "... in part why AmeriCA is sliding from prominence" because it doesn't make sense the other way. I assure you, people in Europe frequently refer to all of North America as "America." They also have a habit of referring to Canadians as Americans, and occasionally, when corrected, saying "well, it's all the same isn't it?" That's when you explain that (supposing you're talking to an Irishman) that yes, Americans and Canadians are just the same, just like Irishmen and Englishmen.
Now, the rest of the quote was "American CEOs have been shorting the shit out of the entire country for decades now" where he's clearly talking about the US. RIM has two CEOs, and while both are Canadian, one is a graduate of Harvard Business School, so it's probably fair to say that his management philosophy has a fair amount of American influence.
Which is all kind of irrelevant because Canadian and US big business is so mixed up together that a criticism of American CEOs pretty much automatically criticizes Canadian CEOs and vice versa.
I think the individual units were potentially profitable, if they'd sold enough of them, but they didn't. I don't know how much of that lack of profitability was due to research costs, and how much was due to things like setting up the manufacturing capability for such a small production run.
Either way, it's probably a good decision to stop building a rich man's boondoggle that served it's purpose and concentrate on building a car that might actually have an effect.
"Nuclear reductions" are bilateral. If the US gives up 1000 warheads, Russia does too. MOST people who know what they're talking about believe that bilateral reductions improve US security. You've got LOTS of nukes. A few less isn't going to make any meaningful difference. But Russia has lots too, and less money to look after them. The more pressure on their nuke budget, the more likely it is one of those will go missing, either sold, misplaced or stolen.
You need to take a serious look at the value you're getting for your money. The US spends as much per capita on social programs as many countries that already have universal health care. Maybe capitalism isn't quite the mecca of efficiency it's supposed to be.
The GP said it - because then you wouldn't be able to fight three foreign wars at the same time, and barely notice. And the US seems to LIKE fighting foreign wars. It keeps getting involved in them anyway.
"But if we get an extra ten billion dollars a year, we can pay down our debt."
I really am sorry to be the one to tell you, but you guys are going to need more like an extra trillion dollars a year before you can start paying down your debt.
September and October would have been pretty good for the Japanese. They would have gone from fear that the US had a whole bunch of nukes to realization that they didn't have any.
The bombs dropped on Japan were basically hand built. They were like expensive Italian cars. The Ford of nukes didn't come around until AFTER the war. Everything nuclear during the war was a prototype, and a research prototype at that. Sure, the program could have ramped up and wiped out Japan if necessary, but not in anything like the time frame you're imagining.
A little hurricane hits one city and look what happens.
Losing the biggest four or five cities in your country would certainly be a pretty good deterrent. The current nuclear stockpile and the "one nuke for every foreign launch site" policy is a ridiculous attempt to make nuclear warfare "winnable." That dream died with the invention of the ballistic missile submarine, but some people failed to notice.
Uh huh. All very convoluted. At some point China is going to ask themselves why they keep accepting US IOUs that the US can never pay off in exchange for actual goods. At the same time, China's own population, which is four times as big as the US, is going to be demanding more and more goods.
Export based economy? It is now. It won't be in the future. Plus if your dollar keeps going down China is going to have to give up suppressing their own currency anyway. Just like Canada has. I remember ten years ago whenever the CAD started to rise in comparison to the USD everyone clamoured that our economy was going to suffer, and the government would do whatever they could to get our currency back down. Then one day we were at par and there wasn't anything anyone could do about it. And nothing bad happened. Then the CAD went back down to 80 cents. Now it's back above par, has been for a while, and nobody cares much.
That's fantastic. The US currently has the ability to reduce much of the world to that level AFTER having the shit nuked out of it by an equal rival (the USSR).
A LOT of reduction wouldn't compromise the US's ability to send a country like Iran back to the stone age.
Kinda like the guy he replied to, who did exactly the same thing except mentioned Pakistan instead of the US?
Half of them were dumb enough to get caught.
I expect pretty much 100% of them are still tracking, but some of them are a little bit better at it.
The roadster wasn't low profit, it was negative profit.
It's usually called jealousy. It even has it's own colour.
There's already an app for that: MagicPlan (http://ww.sensopia.com/english/index.html).
Not the King, just the king.
If true, your country is in even worse shape than I assumed. Regardless, paying someone not to do their job is not the same as sticking that someone back in contact with children.
"Also, what's the difference between "self-confessed" and "confessed"?"
Phone books.
No, wait, we're discussing religion.
The rack.
Silly. What those people did didn't have anything to do with religion (or lack thereof) any more than what Hitler did had to do with the fact he was a Catholic.
Now the guys who ran the inquisition, used to blow up Ireland regularly, engaged in a few bloody crusades, burned witches and crashed planes into skyscrapers, THOSE guys (mostly) didn't do what they did for religious reasons either. But they did use religion as a tool to manipulate suckers into doing what they wanted.
The sick part about the Catholic child rape thing was not the frequency of it but the fact that the church covered it up, protected the offenders, and let the whole thing keep happening. If you get caught abusing a child in a school your career is definitely over, you're most likely charged, and if there's sufficient evidence you go to jail. You don't get transferred and protected from prosecution by one of the most powerful organizations on the planet.
Meh. He's choosing to ignore or "differently interpret" that passage. Just like most religious people selectively ignore the inconvenient (or fun) parts of their own holy books. The song of psalms for example (a delightful dirty poem allegedly written by the king himself), or all the donkey sex, incest and god condoned rape that goes on in the bible.