Unlike in your fantasy, the US does not have a single MIRV ICBM remaining. Even when they did exist, they only had three warheads apiece, not some 144 warhead wet dream.
There are still MIRV SLBMs, and knowing Russia, they probably still have MIRV ICBMs to back up their paranoid delusions.
The BrahMos is supersonic, not hypersonic. Ho hum. The Shaurya is hypersonic. Good thing India and the US are not antagonistic.
The US is the only serious nation that relies only on subsonic cruise missile crap, because the US is only in the habit of engaging hopelessly defenseless countries.
Any pilot who can't recover from a stall in 10,000 vertical metres is not even worthy of the job description. It is incomprehensible. Even in zero visibility in a piece of video game garbage like an Airbus, he's got an altimeter, right?
Most likely the NSA just sits there sniffing traffic that goes by, waiting until there's an SSH to a new box (which actually happens a lot, every time you reinstall or something), then begin sniffing. After that they have the password and everything, so the attack can expand.
Well, anyone with a functioning brain stem who has not been brainwashed is opposed to the shithole that the US rulers have turned the US into. And it's only an easy step for tyrants and their dogs to turn "opposed to the entrenched shadow regime and its sickening views and practices" into "enemy of the state". So I don't get quite such a rosy feeling from "spying on the enemies of the US" as you seem to.
Russia beat America into space, how can Russia, with the obvious space spinoffs, need to steal technology?
Well, it's a documented historical fact that they stole the technology for the atomic bomb.
Just like the fact that Stalin personally commanded that interned B-29s be copied whole and mass produced, engines and all, to make the first Soviet nuclear capable bomber; the Tu-4.
As far as space technology, both the US and USSR just put captured Germans to work to get that off the ground.
Which is EXACTLY why the Army should operate its own ground support wing, just like the Marines do. Both the Army and Marines operate their own rotary wing aircraft, but only the Marines operate their own fixed wing aircraft too. That is one reason that when you need some ass seriously kicked, you ALWAYS call the Marines. Sea-air-land, all under unified command.
It doesn't have to be like this. Make some policy command decisions, re-legislate if you have to, and voila. This would help the Marines too. It is probably way beyond their means to retool and build more A-10's, or build a new plane like it, but you spread that cost out to the Army as well and you can do a lot more.
Seems to me the state of the art in sensors 10 years ago was far more than adequate for any conceivable mission even now. There have been no magic advances by any potential adversaries since then. Hell, even 23 years ago the state of the art in Desert Storm was shooting fish in a barrel, and zero susceptibility to enemy aircraft.
Yeah, the F-35 is essentially a piece of gold plated crap, but I don't see anything that savages trapped 1000 years in the past are going to do to challenge its air supremacy, given the numbers, and given its more rational sister planes. Of countries which in the wildest imagination could be envisaged as adversaries, only Russia and China are even in the same universe. But when you show me evidence that their training and experience level is within 1/10 of the US, I might get concerned.
Israel is probably close in technology, training and experience. Good thing as far as fantasy matchups go that they are not raving, frothing maniacs and have no industrial manufacturing base. They don't even have enough ammunition for more than HOURS of real combat, and no possible way of replenishing it domestically on real time.
But why isn't the Navy doing this themselves? Surely they have the manpower & capability and there must be huge sections that can easily be re-used.
Hah! The Navy has no manpower any more; certainly not for construction and demolition. The Navy doesn't build aircraft carriers; why should they dismantle them? Everything that is done except direct warfighting and readiness for warfighting is farmed out.
On August 14 1945, the Navy had in active service 23 battleships, 28 fleet carriers, 71 escort carriers, 72 cruisers, 377 destroyers, 361 frigates, and 232 subs: a total of 6786 ships, including auxiliaries. The total personnel strength was 3.4 million. Uniformed personnel cooked the meals, drove the trucks, loaded ammunition and fueled the ships, etc.
On September 30 2006, the Navy had 0 battleships, 12 carriers, 27 cruisers, 54 destroyers, 35 frigates, and 74 subs: a total of 318 ships including auxiliaries. The total personnel strength was 0.35 million. Meals, truck driving, loading and fueling, etc, are all performed by hired service companies - just like for the Army and doubtless the Air Force (not entirely sure about the Marines, but probably them too).
The size has shrunk considerably since 2006. This despite having twice the national population to draw upon. The Navy can barely man its ships, let alone sparing "manpower" for non-essential tasks. And just like the merchant marine, knowledge, specialties, and capabilities have been cut way back. There are no more hundreds of sailors manning the engine rooms in large ships. The engines are automated.
Don't you think Samsung is talking about chips, and it is up to whoever uses those chips whether they are mounted permanently or on some sort of removable module?
All you have to know about the NetworkManager abortion is that you can disable the service and remove the package. Then the operating system's own network configuration files, dhclient and everything, like, actually work as intended and documented.
Absolutely correct. Blacks are statistically several times more likely to be shot by police than are whites. Concerning ages 15-19, the ratio is about 20 times more likely. But what you conveniently overlook is that blacks are FAR more likely to be murdered by other blacks than by police (many of which are themselves black). We are talking many scores of times more likely.
Could it just POSSIBLY be that blacks are far more likely than whites to be engaged in street activities that are begging to attract police attention? And that, once confronted, just maybe they might be far more threatening - as in, likely to whip out a handgun or rush the officer?
Hey, it's just a question, though I strongly suspect what the answer is. And yes, it leads directly to other questions about disadvantaged groups and vicious circles of crime and despair.
One of the most impressive dramas I ever saw dealing with blacks, antagonism between blacks and cops, and disillusionment of black cops was an episode of Dragnet from 1968 or 1969 showing the situation after the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. It showed the raw hurt and grievances, but also it ended on a positive and uplifting note that mirrors my own hopes. On the other hand, every single one of the issues presented remains absolutely topical to this day. You take the afros and 60s cars out of that episode and it could have been made yesterday.
How about just a touch of reality? Sony PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT, which was the entity attacked - NOT SONY CORPORATION - had a 2014 revenue of $8 billion and an operating revenue of $1/2 billion.
It kind of begs the question about what the US is still doing in South Korea anyhow. South Korea is a rich country. They can afford their own defense
So is Germany, and the US has 39,000 troops there. So is Japan, and the US has 50,000 troops there. Hell, there are 11,000 US troops in Italy.
So there are 29,000 US troops in South Korea, which unlike those countries named above has a border with a fully militarized raving psychotic insane evil totalitarian state who viciously threatens South Korea constantly. The capital of South Korea, with a population of 10 million, lies only 50 km from the border and could be overrun and decimated within hours, regardless of whether or not the psychotics ultimately win the conflict.
To me the point is that Microsoft's support for linux is laughably bad. You don't design a linux app so it won't compile/run on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS until at least 2017. Ubuntu is one of the, if not THE, most widespread desktop linux distros. Amd you don't design a linux app so it won't compile/run on RHEL 6 until at least 2021 (RHEL 6 is one of the, if not THE, most widespread enterprise workstation linux distros).
You don't jump on the latest APIs because they are new and shiny. Not if you know what you are doing, and you care about supporting the operating systems people USE.
Linux distros don't "support" apps. Apps support linux distros.
Right. Because an ever-expanding table, constantly needing to be maintained and updated, which will always be somewhat behind, is such an ideal solution.
Really, you don't think that is reaching pretty far? I hardly think an Alzheimer patient can be trusted to properly medicate himself, whether it is once a day or 2-3 times a day. Big deal. Either way, he needs a care giver, the absence of which is simple neglect. The difference in resources between taking 10 seconds once a day, or 2-3 times a day to medicate the patient is very slight.
I freely admit to being absolutely mystified how the social compact of a supposedly enlightened civilization does not include basic nutrition, shelter, schooling and health care for all without direct charge. I am serious. I don't get it. With regard to the topic, this should include medical research including development of drugs, absent repulsive features such as some getting rich off the misfortunes of others.
If you don't think society, with today's robotics, can afford to provide basic nutrition, shelter, schooling and health care for all without crass commercialism and people falling through the cracks, IMO you are an idiot; an ass. I say this as a believer in TRUE free enterprise (not necessarily corporatism with all the sickening corruption that goes with it). I just think these three necessities trump everything else, and a society is not worth having if it spurns providing them.
Please note, when I say basic, I mean basic. The nutrition would be in the form of cost free provision of healthy but plain foods PICKED FOR the user and SERVED TO him. Shelter would be in the form of shared communal or semi-communal barracks. The health care would be limited to necessities for health. There would be no limit for what is truly needed, including dental and vision, but no pampering. If you want contact lenses instead of glasses, cosmetic surgery, sex change BULLSHIT, go ahead and pay for that shit yourself, but fuck you if you expect the pampering. If you want TV, cell phone, car and other pure luxuries, you pay. For free you would get lending libraries and communal computers.
If you raise specific objections, for example the living spaces would not be respected because they are free, and people would let them become decrepit, there are ways to deal with this. I won't belabor the details here; I think it is fairly obvious given any serious thought given to the matter.
You can be goddam sure there would still be a sizable worth ethic for those who desire more than the basics. Probably as much as, or more than, there is in the USA today. As it is, with provision of raw money to the "needy", some get to enjoy luxuries without working for them, while others fall through the cracks completely.
I don't really think this makes me a "communist". "From each according to his ability" is pretty obsolete given the state of robotics today. And if you want o cede "to each according to his needs" to the communists, tell me why. I certainly don't see why the rest of us should cede the high moral ground.
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There is not a single "Peacekeeper" left.
Unlike in your fantasy, the US does not have a single MIRV ICBM remaining. Even when they did exist, they only had three warheads apiece, not some 144 warhead wet dream.
There are still MIRV SLBMs, and knowing Russia, they probably still have MIRV ICBMs to back up their paranoid delusions.
The BrahMos is supersonic, not hypersonic. Ho hum. The Shaurya is hypersonic. Good thing India and the US are not antagonistic.
The US is the only serious nation that relies only on subsonic cruise missile crap, because the US is only in the habit of engaging hopelessly defenseless countries.
So in other words the carriers had a more than adequate defense in the F-14 and the Phoenix missile. Those Tu-22s would have fallen like leaves.
Anyway, everybody knows the real carrier killer is the submarine, and there is not the slightest semblance of a credible defense against it.
Any pilot who can't recover from a stall in 10,000 vertical metres is not even worthy of the job description. It is incomprehensible. Even in zero visibility in a piece of video game garbage like an Airbus, he's got an altimeter, right?
Do you have slightest idea how ssh logon works?
Well, anyone with a functioning brain stem who has not been brainwashed is opposed to the shithole that the US rulers have turned the US into. And it's only an easy step for tyrants and their dogs to turn "opposed to the entrenched shadow regime and its sickening views and practices" into "enemy of the state". So I don't get quite such a rosy feeling from "spying on the enemies of the US" as you seem to.
Well, it's a documented historical fact that they stole the technology for the atomic bomb.
Just like the fact that Stalin personally commanded that interned B-29s be copied whole and mass produced, engines and all, to make the first Soviet nuclear capable bomber; the Tu-4.
As far as space technology, both the US and USSR just put captured Germans to work to get that off the ground.
Which is EXACTLY why the Army should operate its own ground support wing, just like the Marines do. Both the Army and Marines operate their own rotary wing aircraft, but only the Marines operate their own fixed wing aircraft too. That is one reason that when you need some ass seriously kicked, you ALWAYS call the Marines. Sea-air-land, all under unified command.
It doesn't have to be like this. Make some policy command decisions, re-legislate if you have to, and voila. This would help the Marines too. It is probably way beyond their means to retool and build more A-10's, or build a new plane like it, but you spread that cost out to the Army as well and you can do a lot more.
Seems to me the state of the art in sensors 10 years ago was far more than adequate for any conceivable mission even now. There have been no magic advances by any potential adversaries since then. Hell, even 23 years ago the state of the art in Desert Storm was shooting fish in a barrel, and zero susceptibility to enemy aircraft.
Yeah, the F-35 is essentially a piece of gold plated crap, but I don't see anything that savages trapped 1000 years in the past are going to do to challenge its air supremacy, given the numbers, and given its more rational sister planes. Of countries which in the wildest imagination could be envisaged as adversaries, only Russia and China are even in the same universe. But when you show me evidence that their training and experience level is within 1/10 of the US, I might get concerned.
Israel is probably close in technology, training and experience. Good thing as far as fantasy matchups go that they are not raving, frothing maniacs and have no industrial manufacturing base. They don't even have enough ammunition for more than HOURS of real combat, and no possible way of replenishing it domestically on real time.
Hah! The Navy has no manpower any more; certainly not for construction and demolition. The Navy doesn't build aircraft carriers; why should they dismantle them? Everything that is done except direct warfighting and readiness for warfighting is farmed out.
On August 14 1945, the Navy had in active service 23 battleships, 28 fleet carriers, 71 escort carriers, 72 cruisers, 377 destroyers, 361 frigates, and 232 subs: a total of 6786 ships, including auxiliaries. The total personnel strength was 3.4 million. Uniformed personnel cooked the meals, drove the trucks, loaded ammunition and fueled the ships, etc.
On September 30 2006, the Navy had 0 battleships, 12 carriers, 27 cruisers, 54 destroyers, 35 frigates, and 74 subs: a total of 318 ships including auxiliaries. The total personnel strength was 0.35 million. Meals, truck driving, loading and fueling, etc, are all performed by hired service companies - just like for the Army and doubtless the Air Force (not entirely sure about the Marines, but probably them too).
The size has shrunk considerably since 2006. This despite having twice the national population to draw upon. The Navy can barely man its ships, let alone sparing "manpower" for non-essential tasks. And just like the merchant marine, knowledge, specialties, and capabilities have been cut way back. There are no more hundreds of sailors manning the engine rooms in large ships. The engines are automated.
Not WW2. 1950s.
Don't you think Samsung is talking about chips, and it is up to whoever uses those chips whether they are mounted permanently or on some sort of removable module?
All you have to know about the NetworkManager abortion is that you can disable the service and remove the package. Then the operating system's own network configuration files, dhclient and everything, like, actually work as intended and documented.
No, now its an animated gif of that bloated prick Kim Jong-un, face contorted as always with rage, wanking.
Absolutely correct. Blacks are statistically several times more likely to be shot by police than are whites. Concerning ages 15-19, the ratio is about 20 times more likely. But what you conveniently overlook is that blacks are FAR more likely to be murdered by other blacks than by police (many of which are themselves black). We are talking many scores of times more likely.
Could it just POSSIBLY be that blacks are far more likely than whites to be engaged in street activities that are begging to attract police attention? And that, once confronted, just maybe they might be far more threatening - as in, likely to whip out a handgun or rush the officer?
Hey, it's just a question, though I strongly suspect what the answer is. And yes, it leads directly to other questions about disadvantaged groups and vicious circles of crime and despair.
One of the most impressive dramas I ever saw dealing with blacks, antagonism between blacks and cops, and disillusionment of black cops was an episode of Dragnet from 1968 or 1969 showing the situation after the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. It showed the raw hurt and grievances, but also it ended on a positive and uplifting note that mirrors my own hopes. On the other hand, every single one of the issues presented remains absolutely topical to this day. You take the afros and 60s cars out of that episode and it could have been made yesterday.
How about just a touch of reality? Sony PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT, which was the entity attacked - NOT SONY CORPORATION - had a 2014 revenue of $8 billion and an operating revenue of $1/2 billion.
So is Germany, and the US has 39,000 troops there. So is Japan, and the US has 50,000 troops there. Hell, there are 11,000 US troops in Italy.
So there are 29,000 US troops in South Korea, which unlike those countries named above has a border with a fully militarized raving psychotic insane evil totalitarian state who viciously threatens South Korea constantly. The capital of South Korea, with a population of 10 million, lies only 50 km from the border and could be overrun and decimated within hours, regardless of whether or not the psychotics ultimately win the conflict.
Is any of this difficult to understand?
No shit, Sherlocks.
To me the point is that Microsoft's support for linux is laughably bad. You don't design a linux app so it won't compile/run on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS until at least 2017. Ubuntu is one of the, if not THE, most widespread desktop linux distros. Amd you don't design a linux app so it won't compile/run on RHEL 6 until at least 2021 (RHEL 6 is one of the, if not THE, most widespread enterprise workstation linux distros).
You don't jump on the latest APIs because they are new and shiny. Not if you know what you are doing, and you care about supporting the operating systems people USE.
Linux distros don't "support" apps. Apps support linux distros.
Any reason why he SHOULD have to upgrade? 12.04 was LTS too, and is allegedly supported until 2017.
Well, that's exactly how humans do it.
So you say "Your mother's red dress looks very nice today"
And it says (in Spanish) "Your mother's red underwear looks very stained today"
Hey, 75% of the words are right.
Really, you don't think that is reaching pretty far? I hardly think an Alzheimer patient can be trusted to properly medicate himself, whether it is once a day or 2-3 times a day. Big deal. Either way, he needs a care giver, the absence of which is simple neglect. The difference in resources between taking 10 seconds once a day, or 2-3 times a day to medicate the patient is very slight.
I freely admit to being absolutely mystified how the social compact of a supposedly enlightened civilization does not include basic nutrition, shelter, schooling and health care for all without direct charge. I am serious. I don't get it. With regard to the topic, this should include medical research including development of drugs, absent repulsive features such as some getting rich off the misfortunes of others.
If you don't think society, with today's robotics, can afford to provide basic nutrition, shelter, schooling and health care for all without crass commercialism and people falling through the cracks, IMO you are an idiot; an ass. I say this as a believer in TRUE free enterprise (not necessarily corporatism with all the sickening corruption that goes with it). I just think these three necessities trump everything else, and a society is not worth having if it spurns providing them.
Please note, when I say basic, I mean basic. The nutrition would be in the form of cost free provision of healthy but plain foods PICKED FOR the user and SERVED TO him. Shelter would be in the form of shared communal or semi-communal barracks. The health care would be limited to necessities for health. There would be no limit for what is truly needed, including dental and vision, but no pampering. If you want contact lenses instead of glasses, cosmetic surgery, sex change BULLSHIT, go ahead and pay for that shit yourself, but fuck you if you expect the pampering. If you want TV, cell phone, car and other pure luxuries, you pay. For free you would get lending libraries and communal computers.
If you raise specific objections, for example the living spaces would not be respected because they are free, and people would let them become decrepit, there are ways to deal with this. I won't belabor the details here; I think it is fairly obvious given any serious thought given to the matter.
You can be goddam sure there would still be a sizable worth ethic for those who desire more than the basics. Probably as much as, or more than, there is in the USA today. As it is, with provision of raw money to the "needy", some get to enjoy luxuries without working for them, while others fall through the cracks completely.
I don't really think this makes me a "communist". "From each according to his ability" is pretty obsolete given the state of robotics today. And if you want o cede "to each according to his needs" to the communists, tell me why. I certainly don't see why the rest of us should cede the high moral ground.