Tanks are relatively immune to rifle fire. However, the trucks that supply them. The mechanics that fix them, the diesel that fuels them, for that matter the factory that builds them are all very vulnerable to personal weapons. Modern weapons have an enormous supply chain behind them. Break that chain and the modern army that depends on it soon will be left with the weapons that the rebels hold.
Of course the cost of breaking that chain is very high. But people who have sought freedom in the past have paid that price.
Yeah, because firing a gun on an aeroplane is such a fucking good idea...
I think if offered the choice between watching a terrorist fly the plane into a building or blowing his a** away. I would pull the trigger. Or to translate it into political correctese.
"No sir, I wasn't trying to kill him, I merely fired at center mass to halt aggressive action"
If I were teaching college I probably wouldn't make any special effort to catch cheaters. Somebody who bases thier whole education on cheating will eventually fail. In the long run, it is just easier to learn than to cheat. Especially when you get to upper division courses. If you don't know the material from the lower division courses you won't even know where to begin to cheat.
This one goes both ways, I've been behind people paying with cash who dig through every pocket to find enough cash to pay. Then there are the rare occasions I end up behind "penny" lady. Paying for her meal with pennies.
With a cashless society you would be leaving an electronic trail where ever you go. You couldn't buy an Ice Cream cone without the gov't or the marketing dept of mega corporations knowing about it. I think I would like the option of keeping my life a little more private. At this point you might as well start carrying a tracking device with you.
Try this. Take a sheet of plywood in the middle of the summer and throw it on your lawn for two weeks. Then pull it off and observe the state of the grass underneath it. You'll have a good idea of the problems facing agriculture on the Moon.
I'm not catholic or lutheran so that issue never arose. It is just very different to an american. It was very wierd to me when people wanted to leave thier church they went and talked to the tax office not a religious official.
50% isn't that much worse than the US. I figure I pay around 35% of my income in taxes one way or the other. What blows me away about Germany is the Kirchen Steuer (church tax). When I was over there, I couldn't believe the gov't collected taxes for the Lutheran and Catholic churches.
What people should realize is that even if you are right, you can still be "attacked" in court. SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation) are very common today. Someone tries to participate in the public and they will get sued. The person suing them has no way to win but still just the threat of the suit can be enough to stifle participation. I can be the same with rootkits. These kits may be used in ways not anticipated by thier developers. But someone may decide that they will sue to keep the kit developer from going ahead. Given the legal defense fund size(zero) of the average hacker, this is a pretty daunting prospect. Even if the hacker is virtually guarenteed to win the case.
I took a math class once where the professor didn't do really like to write new problems for tests. I would get copies of old tests and use them to study from. Often I would go into an exam and find that I already knew the answer to 90+ percent of the problems on the exam. It certainly was a huge advantage for me. (and the others that had them as well.)
"Sorry, it's not good etiquette here, we jam cell phone signals. You'll just have to die because we are just so offended by people talking on the phone."
"And could you die more quietly please, I'm trying to watch a movie here."
Seriously, do you think that the theatre doesn't have a landline that can be used to dial 911. The landline likely is integrated into the 911 system anyways. This makes dispatching the appropiate personel much easier. Since the location information is stored in the computer. Besides I would think 30-50 hysterical teenie-boopers ("Like some old guy is dying") calling 911 on their cell phones to report the emergency would actually slow the response.
After all, if we did, then people would start demanding reparations for all damages incurred in war, which while interesting, is unlikely to happen. (successfully) Can you hear the complaints now?
I would suggest that you read the treaty of Versaille. The Germans were required to pay reparations.
However, trespassing is against the law, and technically it is allowed to shoot trespassers.
Actually in most states in the U.S. shooting someone involved in simple trespass is a good way to become bubba's boyfriend. In the case of a home invasion you are right, (in most states).
Mysql is fine for a small number of users in a shop where data integrity isn't critical. But if your database is an enterprise database with strong data integrity requirement, you need something like oracle. It has stood the test of time for quality, for an enterprise scale operation. When you have hundreds or thousands of people relying on your database being accessable, that enormous oracle tax, (I always thought it ran more (a LOT more) than 10 to 20 thousand dollars) doesn't seem so excessive.
Before signing up for broad band, I would suggest reading at DSL Reports it might have saved me a lot of headache had I done so before signing up for dsl.
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Tanks are relatively immune to rifle fire. However, the trucks that supply them. The mechanics that fix them, the diesel that fuels them, for that matter the factory that builds them are all very vulnerable to personal weapons. Modern weapons have an enormous supply chain behind them. Break that chain and the modern army that depends on it soon will be left with the weapons that the rebels hold.
Of course the cost of breaking that chain is very high. But people who have sought freedom in the past have paid that price.
Yeah, because firing a gun on an aeroplane is such a fucking good idea...
I think if offered the choice between watching a terrorist fly the plane into a building or blowing his a** away. I would pull the trigger. Or to translate it into political correctese.
"No sir, I wasn't trying to kill him, I merely fired at center mass to halt aggressive action"
I don't think were talking about suit and tie, we're talking about soap and water. For both the interviewee and the interviewee's clothes.
Solar cells cost over $1/watt the last time I looked.
Where can you get solar cells for a $1 a watt? I'd like to buy some. Try $4-5 a watt.
The sun doesn't shine in nevada 24/7. It does in space.
Don't kid yourself. Most americans would never hear about, and really could care less.
If I were teaching college I probably wouldn't make any special effort to catch cheaters. Somebody who bases thier whole education on cheating will eventually fail. In the long run, it is just easier to learn than to cheat. Especially when you get to upper division courses. If you don't know the material from the lower division courses you won't even know where to begin to cheat.
This one goes both ways, I've been behind people paying with cash who dig through every pocket to find enough cash to pay. Then there are the rare occasions I end up behind "penny" lady. Paying for her meal with pennies.
With a cashless society you would be leaving an electronic trail where ever you go. You couldn't buy an Ice Cream cone without the gov't or the marketing dept of mega corporations knowing about it. I think I would like the option of keeping my life a little more private. At this point you might as well start carrying a tracking device with you.
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Typical astrologer, make the prediction vague enough, and you can read "anything" into it.
I'd be willing to help install and maintain software and networks at a school that my kid is going to.
Try this. Take a sheet of plywood in the middle of the summer and throw it on your lawn for two weeks. Then pull it off and observe the state of the grass underneath it. You'll have a good idea of the problems facing agriculture on the Moon.
Milhous, and is Richard Milhous Nixon??? There sured does seem to be some similarities.
I'm not catholic or lutheran so that issue never arose. It is just very different to an american. It was very wierd to me when people wanted to leave thier church they went and talked to the tax office not a religious official.
50% isn't that much worse than the US. I figure I pay around 35% of my income in taxes one way or the other. What blows me away about Germany is the Kirchen Steuer (church tax). When I was over there, I couldn't believe the gov't collected taxes for the Lutheran and Catholic churches.
What people should realize is that even if you are right, you can still be "attacked" in court. SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation) are very common today. Someone tries to participate in the public and they will get sued. The person suing them has no way to win but still just the threat of the suit can be enough to stifle participation. I can be the same with rootkits. These kits may be used in ways not anticipated by thier developers. But someone may decide that they will sue to keep the kit developer from going ahead. Given the legal defense fund size(zero) of the average hacker, this is a pretty daunting prospect. Even if the hacker is virtually guarenteed to win the case.
The problem here is public education and the brain and common sense check-in stations and knee-jerk reaction check-out stations at the entrance.
I took a math class once where the professor didn't do really like to write new problems for tests. I would get copies of old tests and use them to study from. Often I would go into an exam and find that I already knew the answer to 90+ percent of the problems on the exam. It certainly was a huge advantage for me. (and the others that had them as well.)
I always took the opposite approach. I usually assumed that I was allowed to do something if it wasn't specifically forbidden.
I have never been asked for a transcript from an employer. Alls they have ever cared about is that I got a technical degree.
I'm having a heart attack- call 911!"
"Sorry, it's not good etiquette here, we jam cell phone signals. You'll just have to die because we are just so offended by people talking on the phone."
"And could you die more quietly please, I'm trying to watch a movie here."
Seriously, do you think that the theatre doesn't have a landline that can be used to dial 911. The landline likely is integrated into the 911 system anyways. This makes dispatching the appropiate personel much easier. Since the location information is stored in the computer. Besides I would think 30-50 hysterical teenie-boopers ("Like some old guy is dying") calling 911 on their cell phones to report the emergency would actually slow the response.
After all, if we did, then people would start demanding reparations for all damages incurred in war, which while interesting, is unlikely to happen. (successfully) Can you hear the complaints now?
I would suggest that you read the treaty of Versaille. The Germans were required to pay reparations.
However, trespassing is against the law, and technically it is allowed to shoot trespassers.
Actually in most states in the U.S. shooting someone involved in simple trespass is a good way to become bubba's boyfriend. In the case of a home invasion you are right, (in most states).
Mysql is fine for a small number of users in a shop where data integrity isn't critical. But if your database is an enterprise database with strong data integrity requirement, you need something like oracle. It has stood the test of time for quality, for an enterprise scale operation. When you have hundreds or thousands of people relying on your database being accessable, that enormous oracle tax, (I always thought it ran more (a LOT more) than 10 to 20 thousand dollars) doesn't seem so excessive.
Before signing up for broad band, I would suggest reading at DSL Reports it might have saved me a lot of headache had I done so before signing up for dsl.