WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!
Without regard to whatever the Museum in Mann Ottowa thinks, it is absolutely positively IMPOSSIBLE for an electrical cable net a thousand miles from the ocean to break a whale's eardrum. The ULF system described is a Radio system. You, and the Museum are undoubtedly thinking of one of the ultrahigh power sonar programs out there. Different things. Sonar != ULF.
This study didn't take into account all the possible factors that might be affecting their numbers. They blame the internet itself when the underlying cause might merely be something the internet provided them an abundance of.
Piffle. Stone Phillips had it precisely correct: GET A LIFE.
Yet more support for the idea that geeks should be treated as poorly as possible, as often as possible.
Frankly, there ought to be a test before you're allowed online. Y'know, ride a bike 100 miles, juggle, kiss a member of the appropriate gender, do somethig like they do on This Old House, demonstrate the ability to speak extemporaneously in front of 1000 people, 5 and one, for periods > an hour, and sit quietly in a room for a week all alone.
Compared to the people in the study, Comic Book Guy is a regular reniassance man. ..max where's my cattle prod?
The purpose of this law is to make it possible to identify copyright violators, thus exposing them to criminal sanction.
Since posting one's real email address is something which must be "done" (your email address doesn't just pop up when you use a computer, like say, your face does when you walk down the street) this law violates the constutional protection against self-incrimination.
And I"M THE FIRST ONE TO POST IT HERE!
my bill is in the mail.
Seriously -- every complaint in the letter sounds like the last 10 years' worth of windows criticism. IANAWindowGeek, but aren't many of P2P porblems related to underlying Windows issues?
Although the range of this system is "limited" to a few hundred miles, it has substantial capacity within its engagement radius.
1. It can nail missiles v.v.quickly -- it doesn't have to notice them launching either, because it will be que'ed through sensor fusion technology, such as JSTARS, AWACS and the DSS (might have the wrong name) satellites which, among other things, are specifically designed to see rocket launches.
2. I must have missed the Death Ray observation -- this has high value for snapshots at someone like... say, Osama.
3. On the Geneva Convention and Blinding. The current administration is big-time on the record as stating that it follows the GC, and that the GC _only_ applies to _Lawful_Combatants_. The Current Administration is explicit in calling Al Queda et alia -- terrorists in general -- unlawful combatants. ERGO, the current administration does not believe the GC will prevent them from burning the eyes out of a bunch of terrorists.
Also of note: the GC addresses blinding weapons, not weapons which happen to blind as part of their normal operation.
4. I suspect there are some interesting anti-infrastructure/anti-material applications we haven't mentioned yet. F'rex: starting area fires, burning down oil storage facilities, elec. dist. systems
These apps are doable w/o laazers, but an ABL might leave a more difficult-to-diagnose footprint.
5. how q(.)(.)l!!!
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WRONG!!!!!!!!!!! Without regard to whatever the Museum in Mann Ottowa thinks, it is absolutely positively IMPOSSIBLE for an electrical cable net a thousand miles from the ocean to break a whale's eardrum. The ULF system described is a Radio system. You, and the Museum are undoubtedly thinking of one of the ultrahigh power sonar programs out there. Different things. Sonar != ULF.
Yet more support for the idea that geeks should be treated as poorly as possible, as often as possible.
.max
Frankly, there ought to be a test before you're allowed online. Y'know, ride a bike 100 miles, juggle, kiss a member of the appropriate gender, do somethig like they do on This Old House, demonstrate the ability to speak extemporaneously in front of 1000 people, 5 and one, for periods > an hour, and sit quietly in a room for a week all alone.
Compared to the people in the study, Comic Book Guy is a regular reniassance man.
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where's my cattle prod?
The purpose of this law is to make it possible to identify copyright violators, thus exposing them to criminal sanction. Since posting one's real email address is something which must be "done" (your email address doesn't just pop up when you use a computer, like say, your face does when you walk down the street) this law violates the constutional protection against self-incrimination. And I"M THE FIRST ONE TO POST IT HERE! my bill is in the mail.
. . . oh . . . . . . goody . . .
Seriously -- every complaint in the letter sounds like the last 10 years' worth of windows criticism. IANAWindowGeek, but aren't many of P2P porblems related to underlying Windows issues?
Although the range of this system is "limited" to a few hundred miles, it has substantial capacity within its engagement radius. 1. It can nail missiles v.v.quickly -- it doesn't have to notice them launching either, because it will be que'ed through sensor fusion technology, such as JSTARS, AWACS and the DSS (might have the wrong name) satellites which, among other things, are specifically designed to see rocket launches. 2. I must have missed the Death Ray observation -- this has high value for snapshots at someone like ... say, Osama.
3. On the Geneva Convention and Blinding. The current administration is big-time on the record as stating that it follows the GC, and that the GC _only_ applies to _Lawful_Combatants_. The Current Administration is explicit in calling Al Queda et alia -- terrorists in general -- unlawful combatants. ERGO, the current administration does not believe the GC will prevent them from burning the eyes out of a bunch of terrorists.
Also of note: the GC addresses blinding weapons, not weapons which happen to blind as part of their normal operation.
4. I suspect there are some interesting anti-infrastructure/anti-material applications we haven't mentioned yet. F'rex: starting area fires, burning down oil storage facilities, elec. dist. systems
These apps are doable w/o laazers, but an ABL might leave a more difficult-to-diagnose footprint.
5. how q(.)(.)l!!!