I'm VERY disapointed- been years since I've seen this movie, easily *before* the popularization of DVD players. I made this connection way back when I saw the movie for the first time- and I WAS programming in GW Basic at the time (one of the many dialects from different manufacturers that were common in the 4-H computer club I was a junior leader in, thus to teach basic to the 4th graders I needed to know all of them).
It has nothing to do with "bad trade agreements", it's about free market forces.
Any trade agreement that allows "free market forces" to take advantage of disparate standard of living to the detriment of the ordinary people of both coutnries is indeed a BAD TRADE AGREEMENT, no matter what free traitors like Clinton and Bush tell you.
The purpose of allowing a free market to begin with is to provide your citizens with jobs so that the government does not have to support them. The jiffy* that the free market ceases to fullfill this goal, or is allowed to continue without fullfilling this goal, it has changed from being a good for society to an evil. Comparative advantage becomes nothing more than bullshit, and the gap between the rich and the poor grows until EITHER the government steps in to stop it or civil war happens. My guess is that most modern economists are betting on the second. If they wanted to prevent the second, they'd be urging the government to enact the first in the form of anti-trade measures.
* A Jiffy, as defined in the Commodore Vic 20 Programmer's Manual, is 1/60th of a second.
I hope they rename the damned thing. The title was a pretty good geek pun when the movie was relased, but NOBODY programs in GW Basic anymore. (For those of you who never had the pleasure, TRON was "Trace On" in Microsoft's GW Basic interpreter, which printed line numbers to the screen as programs were being executed. In the movie, TRON was a debugging program attempting to debug the central mainframe kernal. Neat pun, but VERY dated.)
Hussein was in Iraq and was considered as much if not more of a threat than Osama before 9/11.
By who? Most of the military analysts I heard considered Iraq to be "contained". It had been nearly a decade since Hussien had attacked any of his neighbors (no-fly zone attacks, were arguably in Iraqi airspace). We had basically settled down into a routine where his scientists lied to him, every once in a while his boys would take a potshot at us, and we'd destroy an asprin factory in return. Quite peacefull for dealing with a culture that considers atomatic assault rifles to be a neccessary part of a wedding celebration.
Just go to http://www.numbersusa.com/ and order a few of their pamphlets and videos. Especially the ones about how Arizona is losing the new Mexican war- and how coyotes and drug runners are teaming up with the Mexican army to smuggle people & drugs into Tuscon.
If it was so easy to cause mayhem this way, wouldn't there be more car crashes? Surely much more fun to see cars swerve than to watch a plane do nothing.
Where have you been? There have been reports of painting cars with laser pointers ever since the little 5mw ones hit the $20 price point.
Depends on the firing range- if it's trained on one of the new firing ranges, perhaps by putting the gun in "learning" mode and loading blanks so that he doesn't blow out the LCD screens, then yeah, sure.
And what do you do when you run ot of bullets? After all, loading the gun and charging it aren't terribly different acts- and if done properly, a small battery in the bullet could do both.
No need- the 18 sensors record only pressure- but pressure in a specific pattern that only a living hand connected to a brain could reproduce. And a SPECIFIC combination of the two, at that.
A: that's pretty much impossible in a day with Apaches;
Nah, you just have to be a REALLY FREAKIN' GOOD SHOT with SUPERHUMAN timing. Any given helicopter has a fatal flaw- a single part that if it fails will cause the copter to crash catastrophically. This part is usually known as either the Jesus Nut or the Jesus Bolt- and it's the fastening device holding on the rotor.
Ok, Jokes asside, there's some real questions that should be answered here:
This gun seems like a good idea- but it had better include ALL of the following:
1. Recharging holster- I wouldn't want my batteries going dead in the middle of a firefight. Also better be able to plug in the gunbelt at night, just like a cell phone. 2. Memory- can it be trained for multiple users and multiple grips? As one person said, their grip may change in stressfull situations. 3. Could use some target recognition as well- RFID perhaps- so that you can tag family members as "invalid targets".
That makes sense. My original comment came from a foolish period in my younger days when I had a very nice Mazda Miata for a rental, I had just come off a marathon coding session in Las Vegas, and was headed for the strip at 2:00am passing the airport. I decided to clock a landing jet- and it came in at just about 100MPH. No, I don't remember what the jet was- for all I remember it might have been a small gulfstream, not a passenger plane at all.
OTOH- I think one would find it extremely hard to target the cockpit of any plane from the ground unless that plane was on final approach or takeoff. I still have my doubts about the reports over Oregon and Colorado that were supposed to take place at 30,000 feet.....
Not many people are taking their point to its logical conclusion -- including you.
Really? Then what do YOU suggest is the natural endpoint for an unregulated economic system that includes the ability to pay workers less than what their labor is worth?
I know I can't- but the guy in the OTHER story who got arrested apparently was able to target the initial jetliner for 5 seconds and the subsequent helicopter for 10. In NEITHER account was anybody blinded though- as that would take a good deal more time. I was making an assumption that the new US DOT regulations were coming at this time (as opposed to long before now) due to the recent rash of events reported.
I'm STILL skeptical on two of the events reported- at ~10,000 m from the ground, I would think that the events over Colorado and Oregon would HAVE to be either plane-to-plane, or completely accidental discharge of an industrial laser.
That 100mw+ laser is EXACTLY what they're talking about- anything less just doesn't have the power to matter, and the one guy who has been arrested so far was using one of those babies.
More a matter of strength- 100mw lasers have only gotten cheap in the last couple of months, most laser pointers are only 5mw and would be far too dim to do any damage (as it is, your average 5mw laser has to be held on the pupil for 30 seconds to do any damage. I don't know about you, but my hands shake too much to hold on a stationary target that small at 100 feet, let alone a pilot's eyeball on a jetliner moving past me at 100 MPH).
Hell, I think we should have used WMDs when we had the chance- and paid Bin Laden back by nuking his two favorite cities, Mecca and Medina. But NO that would have angered the bin ladens and al sauds- both of whom pay Bush a pretty hefty bribe whenever he's campaigning.
Do I need to remind you that Clinton signed an assassination order for Osama after the Cole incident? Still, I have a tendency to agree- but the response should have been far more targeted. Bin Laden was NEVER in Iraq, and the closest we seem to be able to come to linking him to al Qaida is a few payoffs to family members after certain attacks on Israel and the fact that his agents had lunch in the same restaurant, but at different tables, as Mohammad Atta.
2nd reply- needed to look this up- back last May the Arizona Daily Star reported that our boys were running out of ammo and the military was looking to overseas producers because "its biggest ammunition supplier, Alliant Techsystems Inc., can't keep up with demand." (because they've closed too many factories since Vietnam). There's definately a need- but of course "do it on the cheap" is the order of the day.
When ramping up for a "war" as calm as this one they would just need to speed up production a bit.
That's a part of the point- this war shouldn't be calm, and it shouldn't be taking years, and it SHOULD need more production.
But we are not expending ammo any where near the amount required to demand an increase in the number of factories needed.
Yep, instead our boys are just running out of ammo. Real smart move that.
Besides, the military keeps lots of ammo on hand so that they don't need to ramp up production at the begining.
The War on Terror has been compared to WWII- we were told that 9-11 was the Pearl Harbor of our generation. Well, during WWII, EVERY civilian factory was turned over to war production- including the closed ones. The draft called up millions of soldiers. If this is so damned important, why aren't we doing what it takes to win instead of losing slowly and destroying our economy?
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I'm VERY disapointed- been years since I've seen this movie, easily *before* the popularization of DVD players. I made this connection way back when I saw the movie for the first time- and I WAS programming in GW Basic at the time (one of the many dialects from different manufacturers that were common in the 4-H computer club I was a junior leader in, thus to teach basic to the 4th graders I needed to know all of them).
It has nothing to do with "bad trade agreements", it's about free market forces.
Any trade agreement that allows "free market forces" to take advantage of disparate standard of living to the detriment of the ordinary people of both coutnries is indeed a BAD TRADE AGREEMENT, no matter what free traitors like Clinton and Bush tell you.
The purpose of allowing a free market to begin with is to provide your citizens with jobs so that the government does not have to support them. The jiffy* that the free market ceases to fullfill this goal, or is allowed to continue without fullfilling this goal, it has changed from being a good for society to an evil. Comparative advantage becomes nothing more than bullshit, and the gap between the rich and the poor grows until EITHER the government steps in to stop it or civil war happens. My guess is that most modern economists are betting on the second. If they wanted to prevent the second, they'd be urging the government to enact the first in the form of anti-trade measures.
* A Jiffy, as defined in the Commodore Vic 20 Programmer's Manual, is 1/60th of a second.
I hope they rename the damned thing. The title was a pretty good geek pun when the movie was relased, but NOBODY programs in GW Basic anymore. (For those of you who never had the pleasure, TRON was "Trace On" in Microsoft's GW Basic interpreter, which printed line numbers to the screen as programs were being executed. In the movie, TRON was a debugging program attempting to debug the central mainframe kernal. Neat pun, but VERY dated.)
Hussein was in Iraq and was considered as much if not more of a threat than Osama before 9/11.
By who? Most of the military analysts I heard considered Iraq to be "contained". It had been nearly a decade since Hussien had attacked any of his neighbors (no-fly zone attacks, were arguably in Iraqi airspace). We had basically settled down into a routine where his scientists lied to him, every once in a while his boys would take a potshot at us, and we'd destroy an asprin factory in return. Quite peacefull for dealing with a culture that considers atomatic assault rifles to be a neccessary part of a wedding celebration.
The first is arguably not a WMD. The second though, is quite interesting- got a source for it?
Just go to http://www.numbersusa.com/ and order a few of their pamphlets and videos. Especially the ones about how Arizona is losing the new Mexican war- and how coyotes and drug runners are teaming up with the Mexican army to smuggle people & drugs into Tuscon.
You doubt the pilots' veracity, or you doubt that these were knuckleheads playing with laserpointers?
I doubt that the knuckleheads were ground-based. Seems FAR more likely that:
Has anybody considered that these may be from a satellite?
Or for that matter from another plane.
If it was so easy to cause mayhem this way, wouldn't there be more car crashes? Surely much more fun to see cars swerve than to watch a plane do nothing.
Where have you been? There have been reports of painting cars with laser pointers ever since the little 5mw ones hit the $20 price point.
Depends on the firing range- if it's trained on one of the new firing ranges, perhaps by putting the gun in "learning" mode and loading blanks so that he doesn't blow out the LCD screens, then yeah, sure.
And what do you do when you run ot of bullets? After all, loading the gun and charging it aren't terribly different acts- and if done properly, a small battery in the bullet could do both.
Pressure sensors would not be affected by blood, mud, dirt and grime. But the other questions are important.
No need- the 18 sensors record only pressure- but pressure in a specific pattern that only a living hand connected to a brain could reproduce. And a SPECIFIC combination of the two, at that.
A: that's pretty much impossible in a day with Apaches;
Nah, you just have to be a REALLY FREAKIN' GOOD SHOT with SUPERHUMAN timing. Any given helicopter has a fatal flaw- a single part that if it fails will cause the copter to crash catastrophically. This part is usually known as either the Jesus Nut or the Jesus Bolt- and it's the fastening device holding on the rotor.
Does it run Linux?
Ok, Jokes asside, there's some real questions that should be answered here:
This gun seems like a good idea- but it had better include ALL of the following:
1. Recharging holster- I wouldn't want my batteries going dead in the middle of a firefight. Also better be able to plug in the gunbelt at night, just like a cell phone.
2. Memory- can it be trained for multiple users and multiple grips? As one person said, their grip may change in stressfull situations.
3. Could use some target recognition as well- RFID perhaps- so that you can tag family members as "invalid targets".
That makes sense. My original comment came from a foolish period in my younger days when I had a very nice Mazda Miata for a rental, I had just come off a marathon coding session in Las Vegas, and was headed for the strip at 2:00am passing the airport. I decided to clock a landing jet- and it came in at just about 100MPH. No, I don't remember what the jet was- for all I remember it might have been a small gulfstream, not a passenger plane at all.
OTOH- I think one would find it extremely hard to target the cockpit of any plane from the ground unless that plane was on final approach or takeoff. I still have my doubts about the reports over Oregon and Colorado that were supposed to take place at 30,000 feet.....
Not many people are taking their point to its logical conclusion -- including you.
Really? Then what do YOU suggest is the natural endpoint for an unregulated economic system that includes the ability to pay workers less than what their labor is worth?
I know I can't- but the guy in the OTHER story who got arrested apparently was able to target the initial jetliner for 5 seconds and the subsequent helicopter for 10. In NEITHER account was anybody blinded though- as that would take a good deal more time. I was making an assumption that the new US DOT regulations were coming at this time (as opposed to long before now) due to the recent rash of events reported.
I'm STILL skeptical on two of the events reported- at ~10,000 m from the ground, I would think that the events over Colorado and Oregon would HAVE to be either plane-to-plane, or completely accidental discharge of an industrial laser.
That 100mw+ laser is EXACTLY what they're talking about- anything less just doesn't have the power to matter, and the one guy who has been arrested so far was using one of those babies.
More a matter of strength- 100mw lasers have only gotten cheap in the last couple of months, most laser pointers are only 5mw and would be far too dim to do any damage (as it is, your average 5mw laser has to be held on the pupil for 30 seconds to do any damage. I don't know about you, but my hands shake too much to hold on a stationary target that small at 100 feet, let alone a pilot's eyeball on a jetliner moving past me at 100 MPH).
Actually it seems, more a Healthy Chunk of Taiwan's Economy since the military is bypassing traditional suppliers for bullets now.
Hell, I think we should have used WMDs when we had the chance- and paid Bin Laden back by nuking his two favorite cities, Mecca and Medina. But NO that would have angered the bin ladens and al sauds- both of whom pay Bush a pretty hefty bribe whenever he's campaigning.
Do I need to remind you that Clinton signed an assassination order for Osama after the Cole incident? Still, I have a tendency to agree- but the response should have been far more targeted. Bin Laden was NEVER in Iraq, and the closest we seem to be able to come to linking him to al Qaida is a few payoffs to family members after certain attacks on Israel and the fact that his agents had lunch in the same restaurant, but at different tables, as Mohammad Atta.
A story from just a few days ago on our outsourcing of BULLET PRODUCTION despite the fact that since last May Alliant has increased it's production capacity to 300 million bullets/month from 1.2 million bullets/month, Taiwan gets a $62.5 million dollar contract instead of Alliant.
2nd reply- needed to look this up- back last May the Arizona Daily Star reported that our boys were running out of ammo and the military was looking to overseas producers because "its biggest ammunition supplier, Alliant Techsystems Inc., can't keep up with demand." (because they've closed too many factories since Vietnam). There's definately a need- but of course "do it on the cheap" is the order of the day.
When ramping up for a "war" as calm as this one they would just need to speed up production a bit.
That's a part of the point- this war shouldn't be calm, and it shouldn't be taking years, and it SHOULD need more production.
But we are not expending ammo any where near the amount required to demand an increase in the number of factories needed.
Yep, instead our boys are just running out of ammo. Real smart move that.
Besides, the military keeps lots of ammo on hand so that they don't need to ramp up production at the begining.
The War on Terror has been compared to WWII- we were told that 9-11 was the Pearl Harbor of our generation. Well, during WWII, EVERY civilian factory was turned over to war production- including the closed ones. The draft called up millions of soldiers. If this is so damned important, why aren't we doing what it takes to win instead of losing slowly and destroying our economy?