Now figure out the power you've go to dump into it to accelerate a hundred kilograms at 800 G. *That's* why they're spending a few hours accelerating it in a circle.
The main problem with just blockading Japan was that their food distribution system was totally destoyed, and harvest was coming up. As it was, a hundred thousand Japanese died that winter of starvation and related causes; McArthur went in front of Congress and demanded they send massive amounts of food to Japan and had to point out we were hanging Japanese officers that had starved civilians under their occupation. If the war hadn't ended when it did, with Allied occupation and food relief, millions would have starved.
The Japanese wouldn't consider letting their country be occupied until after Nagasaki. That was unacceptable to the Allies. We knew what they were angling to get; we'd broken their codes. Even after Nagasaki, after the Emperor had decided to surrender, military officers took over the Emperor's palace to keep it from happening, and if the General in charge of the Tokyo district had gone along with the coup, you'd be bitching about how we unnecessarily dropped three or four nukes on Japan.
As far as the Soviet bomb, the Rosenbergs were guilty as hell and deserved to be fried. KGB documents released after the collapse of the USSR shows they were spies. The first bomb designs that the Soviets came up with on their own were actually superior to the stolen plans from the US, but upper management rejected them in favor of what they were confident would work. The first Soviet bomb was a clone of Fat Man. Feel free to read "Dark Sun" by Richard Rhodes to reduce your ignorance.
Load of crap. The "voting" shares are all held by the three main guys, and documents filed with the SEC make it perfectly clear to any investor doing due diligence that increasing shareholder value is *not* the primary goal. You want to buy a share of Google and sue them for not maximizing shareholder value, you'll be laughed out of court.
Some of them don't suck. I can't remember the name, but I liked the short story loosely based on "Mirror Mirror", but instead of Kirk, McCoy, and Spock going to the Mirror universe, they change places with Shatner, Nimoy, and Kelly on the set of "Star Trek".
You know, where I vote, you drop the ballot in the box in front of poll workers. They might look at you funny if you film yourself dropping your ballot in. Where do you live, Chicago? There are *trillions* of ways to sell your vote and still vote the way you want to, if the voting area is designed by someone with any amount of intelligence.
It's the TV show "Serenity" was based on. It's 14 hour long episodes, the last of which takes place about 8 months before "Serenity". No real differences. If you like "Serenity", you'll like "Firefly".
This is the time of year when TV show DVD sets are released, to get people interested in the new season. Notice how many of those DVDs on the best seller list are just-released episode sets? In a couple months Firefly will be back up to 20 or 30.
FWIW, I bought the game. The answers weren't in the book; it was just a crude form of age verification. I think it was Leisure Suit Larry 2 where it would display a picture of a girl, and you had to type in the page number of the manual she was in.
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How did your big millenium party on Dec 31, 2000 go?
Now figure out the power you've go to dump into it to accelerate a hundred kilograms at 800 G. *That's* why they're spending a few hours accelerating it in a circle.
They had this on the local news last night; you can still dial 911 with the phone even if it's screaming. You can't dial other numbers, though.
Some of them use radar. Of course, that's what HARM missiles are for, to kill the people stupid enough to use those anti-aircraft weapons.
About your sig - Chavez's power base is the poor and uneducated. He's not going to do anything to reduce his power base.
You put a bigass solar sail at the LaGrange point between the Earth and Sun and reduce the number of sunlight hitting the earth.
The main problem with just blockading Japan was that their food distribution system was totally destoyed, and harvest was coming up. As it was, a hundred thousand Japanese died that winter of starvation and related causes; McArthur went in front of Congress and demanded they send massive amounts of food to Japan and had to point out we were hanging Japanese officers that had starved civilians under their occupation. If the war hadn't ended when it did, with Allied occupation and food relief, millions would have starved.
You're an idiot.
The Japanese wouldn't consider letting their country be occupied until after Nagasaki. That was unacceptable to the Allies. We knew what they were angling to get; we'd broken their codes. Even after Nagasaki, after the Emperor had decided to surrender, military officers took over the Emperor's palace to keep it from happening, and if the General in charge of the Tokyo district had gone along with the coup, you'd be bitching about how we unnecessarily dropped three or four nukes on Japan.
As far as the Soviet bomb, the Rosenbergs were guilty as hell and deserved to be fried. KGB documents released after the collapse of the USSR shows they were spies. The first bomb designs that the Soviets came up with on their own were actually superior to the stolen plans from the US, but upper management rejected them in favor of what they were confident would work. The first Soviet bomb was a clone of Fat Man. Feel free to read "Dark Sun" by Richard Rhodes to reduce your ignorance.
I want to see that badass rocket that can go straight up to geostationary orbit.
They'd be air bursts. Not nearly as much fallout. And they're fission bombs, not fusion.
An LED (Light Emitting Dude).
Only about 10% of the American war effort went to fight Japan. The US spent more money on Italian war refugees than on fighting Japan.
Maybe you're forgetting the strategic bombing campaign, North Africa, and Italy?
BATF, for the size of their force, is more likely to kill you.
Load of crap. The "voting" shares are all held by the three main guys, and documents filed with the SEC make it perfectly clear to any investor doing due diligence that increasing shareholder value is *not* the primary goal. You want to buy a share of Google and sue them for not maximizing shareholder value, you'll be laughed out of court.
Test them on Johnny Knoxville and friends; they can make money of it as "Jackass 3".
Some of them don't suck. I can't remember the name, but I liked the short story loosely based on "Mirror Mirror", but instead of Kirk, McCoy, and Spock going to the Mirror universe, they change places with Shatner, Nimoy, and Kelly on the set of "Star Trek".
Can't you power it by holding it against a light bulb? At the proper angle, of course.
Kudos for the L.A. Law reference.
You know, where I vote, you drop the ballot in the box in front of poll workers. They might look at you funny if you film yourself dropping your ballot in. Where do you live, Chicago? There are *trillions* of ways to sell your vote and still vote the way you want to, if the voting area is designed by someone with any amount of intelligence.
It's the TV show "Serenity" was based on. It's 14 hour long episodes, the last of which takes place about 8 months before "Serenity". No real differences. If you like "Serenity", you'll like "Firefly".
This is the time of year when TV show DVD sets are released, to get people interested in the new season. Notice how many of those DVDs on the best seller list are just-released episode sets? In a couple months Firefly will be back up to 20 or 30.
From what I've read, Whedon had seven seasons plotted out. The movie pretty much covered seasons 2 and 3.
FWIW, I bought the game. The answers weren't in the book; it was just a crude form of age verification. I think it was Leisure Suit Larry 2 where it would display a picture of a girl, and you had to type in the page number of the manual she was in.
You know, if you ask the poll workers, they'll give you a replacement ballot. Even after you've already taken a picture of it.
I don't think you're taking into account the Rosie O'Donnell possibility.