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Yes, I'm sure you were joking. Haha funny, joke go whoosh.
But it's still a good question with, apparently, a sensible but non-obvious answer.
Most of those 744 aircraft are gone. The entire active inventory of B-52 airframes is 94 (see bottom of "General Characteristics" list, last line), all "H" models.
The inactive ones are extremely inactive, generally in salvageable or restorable condition in The Boneyard. I suppose if someone has to do something to reduce an on-paper count of potentially active bombers, you would saw a bunch of the boneyard birds in pieces, like they did there for START I reductions. (Yes, when doing an arms reduction, you start with the inactive but somewhat intact ones. Kinda seems counterintuitive, since you'll probably wind up with as many active weapons as you started with, but as a paper exercise it's righteous.)
The high-pressure guns, which can spray dozens of litres of fragrance per minute over a distance of up to 50m
I'm just counting the days until department store cosmetics departments get this. In the arms race between perfume demonstration ladies and shoppers passing through the department, I think someone has just gone nuclear.
How is this "still a proper Turing machine"? There are programs that would work on a theoretical Turing machine (with arbitrary amount of tape), but would run out of memory in your scheme.
"Good news, guys, we've solved the halting problem... only wrinkle is, it requires all the matter in the universe, and complete entropic heat death. Oh, and it doesn't really come up with a solution, it just halts."
This is like taxing grocers and restaurants while giving incentives to out-of-state food processors and big-box ultramarkets to bring in more processed pseudo-food.
What, exactly, is the message the legislators are trying to send here? "Tax local, buy global?"
Possibly. I agree that what I'm talking about would be a sign of a fairly sharp shift in Party philosophy. It would have to be accompanied by some heavy-duty purges. But historically, that's not much of a barrier either.
Whooooaaa, dude. You went to George Clinton Prep? Hot damn, that's awesome. "The Fighting Atomic Dogs". I loved their basketball team. And their band. And their student government was... funkadelic.
This is precisely good enough. In fact, it pretty much sets the standard.
Research time...
Survey says, any kinds of personally-identifiable information, or transmittal of any kind of information "to the detriment of the respondent", is pretty much verboten. Section 8 of Title 13 indicates that:
(c) In no case shall information furnished under this section be used to the detriment of any respondent or other person to whom such information relates, except in the prosecution of alleged violations of this title.
Emphasis mine
the little "except" clause indicates they can use the census information in prosecuting violations of the census law. So they can hunt you down for lying on the census form using the census information they have. So if you're gonna lie, lie comprehensively.:)
Anyways, this reassures me that if bad crap is gonna happen, it's gonna either happen (a) under the table, or (b) in time of emergency, which is a well-known risk: "Inter arma enim silent leges
Except that, in the end, China's attempts at isolation failed, and failed miserably (ie. the Treaty Ports).
Treaty Ports in all those East Asian nations resulted from military inferiority; free (market) access was enforced with actual or threatened violence. See also "gunboat diplomacy". I don't think China will be particularly susceptible to that particular ploy any longer. Their military is sufficient to deter any kinds of negotiation at cannon-point.
China actually wants to be a big player on the world stage, and that means integration into the global trading system.
A wall-and-gate system would indeed impose inefficiencies in any trade relation. China may try to make it work anyway. At the end of the day, they may decide their autonomy and control over their populace is more important than globalization.
In other words, the most potent facet of the Great Firewall isn't technical, it's psychological.
True. Both fear and conformity-mindedness support the success of China's current methods, but those appear to be somewhat less effective in the younger generation. If the trend continues, and the PRC government can't suppress the openness dissidents hard enough, I predict they'll take measures that are inherently and mechanically more restrictive.
Closed trade enclaves to protect the people from the cultural pollution of the Southern Barbarians is an ancient and demonstratively successful strategy in that part of the world.
Anyone with a legitimate business, diplomatic, or other official government-sanctioned need for external access will get it... massively filtered and heavily monitored, and for only a ridiculously small proportion of the population. That way, effective monitoring is feasible. Access will be strictly white-list.
Everyone else gets the Chinese equivalent of AOL, pre-1993. (That's right, not even Usenet.)
Although that's a Microsoft site which is richly laced with Silverlight dependencies, there's some usable content there even with good ol' XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
Slashdot Mirror
Lordy, we can't even RTFS?
Or are you claiming you've never heard of Mimas?
Please surrender you Geek Credentials NOW. Astronomy is not an optional affiliated specialization.
Oh, so it's April First in The True West, outside of the Circles of the Earth.
How do you say "April Fools!" in Quenya?
The grandparent was actually saying that drivers cannot speed if the car in front of them isn't.
Which is true as long as no one passes. If the hypothetical road is single-lane, with curbed (kerbed?) medians and perhaps a crowded sidewalk.
Otherwise, you just blow around "slowpoke" and throw out your favorite obscene gesture as you go.
And if you can't pass, you just wind up with road-rage murders instead of vehicle accident deaths.
I'm failing to see the upside here.
Well, to extend your analogy to fit the actual situation in TFA...
It's 3 AM. And you can hear your neighbors again.
Their loud music, their footsteps, their breathing, their incessant heartbeats.
Are you going to sue? When you inevitably lose, will you do the obvious thing?
From da wikipage:
Yes, I'm sure you were joking. Haha funny, joke go whoosh.
But it's still a good question with, apparently, a sensible but non-obvious answer.
Most of those 744 aircraft are gone. The entire active inventory of B-52 airframes is 94 (see bottom of "General Characteristics" list, last line), all "H" models.
The inactive ones are extremely inactive, generally in salvageable or restorable condition in The Boneyard. I suppose if someone has to do something to reduce an on-paper count of potentially active bombers, you would saw a bunch of the boneyard birds in pieces, like they did there for START I reductions. (Yes, when doing an arms reduction, you start with the inactive but somewhat intact ones. Kinda seems counterintuitive, since you'll probably wind up with as many active weapons as you started with, but as a paper exercise it's righteous.)
The high-pressure guns, which can spray dozens of litres of fragrance per minute over a distance of up to 50m
I'm just counting the days until department store cosmetics departments get this. In the arms race between perfume demonstration ladies and shoppers passing through the department, I think someone has just gone nuclear.
In Soviet South Korea, only Beowulf clusters of electromechanical Turing Machines use old people.
The Truth is written by His Noodly Appendage. Holding a black dry-erase marker.
How is this "still a proper Turing machine"? There are programs that would work on a theoretical Turing machine (with arbitrary amount of tape), but would run out of memory in your scheme.
"Good news, guys, we've solved the halting problem... only wrinkle is, it requires all the matter in the universe, and complete entropic heat death. Oh, and it doesn't really come up with a solution, it just halts."
This is slashdot*. "Reading" has absolutely nothing to do with any post, any comment, any moderation, or any action or decision here whatsoever.
You must be new here.
*Yes, I am kicking you into a pit as I yell that.
This is like taxing grocers and restaurants while giving incentives to out-of-state food processors and big-box ultramarkets to bring in more processed pseudo-food.
What, exactly, is the message the legislators are trying to send here? "Tax local, buy global?"
Possibly. I agree that what I'm talking about would be a sign of a fairly sharp shift in Party philosophy. It would have to be accompanied by some heavy-duty purges. But historically, that's not much of a barrier either.
Highschool? George Clinton.
Whooooaaa, dude. You went to George Clinton Prep? Hot damn, that's awesome. "The Fighting Atomic Dogs". I loved their basketball team. And their band. And their student government was... funkadelic.
This is precisely good enough. In fact, it pretty much sets the standard.
Research time...
Survey says, any kinds of personally-identifiable information, or transmittal of any kind of information "to the detriment of the respondent", is pretty much verboten. Section 8 of Title 13 indicates that:
Emphasis mine
the little "except" clause indicates they can use the census information in prosecuting violations of the census law. So they can hunt you down for lying on the census form using the census information they have. So if you're gonna lie, lie comprehensively. :)
Anyways, this reassures me that if bad crap is gonna happen, it's gonna either happen (a) under the table, or (b) in time of emergency, which is a well-known risk: "Inter arma enim silent leges
Which, of course, is happened last time.
I'm gonna avoid the snarky wiki-style rendition of this, but please provide citation. Specific US Code reference and date, if you please.
I'm pretty sure AC's comment boils down to "as long as it's them, the Feds can round them up all they want."
Except that, in the end, China's attempts at isolation failed, and failed miserably (ie. the Treaty Ports).
Treaty Ports in all those East Asian nations resulted from military inferiority; free (market) access was enforced with actual or threatened violence. See also "gunboat diplomacy". I don't think China will be particularly susceptible to that particular ploy any longer. Their military is sufficient to deter any kinds of negotiation at cannon-point.
China actually wants to be a big player on the world stage, and that means integration into the global trading system.
A wall-and-gate system would indeed impose inefficiencies in any trade relation. China may try to make it work anyway. At the end of the day, they may decide their autonomy and control over their populace is more important than globalization.
In other words, the most potent facet of the Great Firewall isn't technical, it's psychological.
True. Both fear and conformity-mindedness support the success of China's current methods, but those appear to be somewhat less effective in the younger generation. If the trend continues, and the PRC government can't suppress the openness dissidents hard enough, I predict they'll take measures that are inherently and mechanically more restrictive.
Closed trade enclaves to protect the people from the cultural pollution of the Southern Barbarians is an ancient and demonstratively successful strategy in that part of the world.
Anyone with a legitimate business, diplomatic, or other official government-sanctioned need for external access will get it... massively filtered and heavily monitored, and for only a ridiculously small proportion of the population. That way, effective monitoring is feasible. Access will be strictly white-list.
Everyone else gets the Chinese equivalent of AOL, pre-1993. (That's right, not even Usenet.)
Mine does.
And 4 megs of RAM! and a 60-meg HD! And (weirdest thing I've ever seen) an SCSI network adapter that does 10BaseT just fine!
It really is rather pathetic -- they're looking for people to only purchase this slapped together crap for nostalgia's sake.
In that case, other than the nostalgia angle, I think they've captured the fundamental essence of Commodore marketing perfectly.
-- idontgno, a still-frustrated-after-all-these-years Amiga partisan
Here you go.
Although that's a Microsoft site which is richly laced with Silverlight dependencies, there's some usable content there even with good ol' XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
But.. But... That won't be Heirloom Quality!
This is Slashdot. How many regulars do you anticipate ever having heirs? (Unless someone perfects budding or full-organism mitosis)
I don't intend to need even that excuse.
Hmm... where have I heard the phrase "zombie carpenter" before?
Good point. Who knew that Gibson and Sterling were documentary writers.