And on average the average congressmen is in charge for less than 20 years with a few notable execptions.
however unlike north korea we get a new figure head from the other party every 8 years or so. So your analogy falls apart as in North korea there has been only one.
Even in britian several prime minister's has been in office for 11 years in just the last 50 years. And guess what only two parties have held the prime minister position in the last 50 years, with a total of 4 parties over the last century. With some 8 parties over the course of the last 300 years.
So I suggest you actually study some history.
oh wait you would rather mouth off instead of learning anything.
Go read all the comments on this. There are very few reasonable people trying to have a discussion. you everyone else either falls into the three camps. the guberment is evil, USA is ebil, or julain was wrong.
The government is made of people if the people are being schizophrenic on the topic why would the governments be any different?
I have never once said it was okay, not once in any of my comments. however just trying to point out that every government does this and has done this for as long as governments have existed seems to go over all the heads here. The USA is actually one of the most stable countries in the world(I would put Canada, Australia and one or two others ahead). Why is that? Because we don't kill each other because our government does something stupid. we simply use lawyers to push them out. We know presidents won't be around for more than 8 years. that represents slow change. If you want change in other governments you have to kill people, or live with a government that is non functional.
The Chinese government has always worked closely with CHinese corporations to perform espionage. The government gives the corporations data on their foreign competition, the corporations give the government spies cover.
The Russian government has always worked closely with Russian corporations to perform espionage. The government gives the corporations data on their foreign competition, the corporations give the government spies cover.
The German government has always worked closely with German corporations to perform espionage. The government gives the corporations data on their foreign competition, the corporations give the government spies cover.
shall i continue, or is the point made? Every country behaves like a schizophrenic child to each other. why are you so shocked by that?
Um the retirement age was set by the government at a time when the average person lived to be only 70. Now when that jumps up to 80 and 90 and we have to feed and take care of people for 3 times longer than expected costs go up with it.
France has basically lost 1 month of active economy and will take several months to a year to get back into full swing. That much is enough to drop their GDP some 5-10% for the year. Incomes will drop.(can you go one month without a paycheck?)
Remember strikers don't get paid, no money in means much less spending(savings, credit, etc make up the difference) however to get back you have to rebuild which takes longer.
Also from what I have seen of retired people every one I know works harder now than they did when they worked for a living. They have enough money to goof off and have fun. but one guy decided to open a small farm stand in front of his home. strictly what he can grow. and each year it has gotten larger. He doesn't have to work, he was a teacher for 35 years. but he puts in 12-14 hour days in the sun farming. In the Winter he teaches skiing. he does it for the free ski passes for himself and his wife that he gets. His Farm stand makes just enough money to pay for the dock, and sails for his sailboat. Which he races 2-3 times a week.
Pretty much every other retired person I know, has side jobs, fun jobs, etc. They no longer work hard because they have to they work hard because they enjoy it. and when they stop enjoying it they change jobs. I know one lady who owned part of an OB/GYN. She was one of the head nurses. She gave that up so she could have free time and is working swing shift part time at a hospital. the pay is lower, but she has more time for grandkids.
being retired doesn't mean you stop working. It means you stop hating the work you do.
you do realize that if all your using is a simple tube then that tube has to be strong enough to withstand the pressures of the exhaust gases firing. Since that tube is stuck in the ground it has to resist exploding. putting little vents in the sides helps but overpressure builds quick. You then need something to transmitt the updated targeting instructions from.
Oh and just because they are behind a wall doesn't mean they are clear overhead. some walls have roofs.
Who says that the USA is behind it dumbass. Unless proven otherwise Julian just slept with two women who happened to get pissed off at him for what they believed was cheating on them.
It very easily explains the on again off again prosecution.
Oh wait it is innocent until proven guilty unless your the USA then your guilty of doing every bad thing in the world because no one else has the balls to stand up to bad guys.
Why don't have to take arms againist our government. We can do it by elections. We don't have to take to the streets, because we have court rooms. We don't need violence to solve our internal disputes, We have discussions(sometimes loud).
In France The people didn't like the age retirement got set at so they destroyed the economy for the next several years, looted, burned cars and buildings,etc.
If that is what you respect then you must like anarchy and fighting. Grown-ups don't have to fight when they can talk things out. It might still not be the correct choice or even the choice you want. But just because you disagree with someone doesn't give you the right to kill them, or steal from them.
You want the law of the West, Texan Law where the fast gun wins.
A good dictatorship is actually a very efficient government. However getting a good dictator is one in a million odds against, and getting two in a row is just about impossible.
If you read the situation and all the information out there apparently Julian dated a woman, slept with her. She thought there was a relationship there. a few days later he does the same with another woman, she too thought there was a relationship. They met each other a few days later and both realised they had been had.
Not sure if it counts as rape under swedish law. However even if it doesn't it shows that Julian is a jackass who uses people for personal gain.
If WikiLeaks kept up as it's name suggested and leaked corrupt documents then I would agree. There is very little in anything released that shows direct corruption only communications between governments. If those documents don't show corruption then why were they released? To satisfy Julian's own ego. Since it is his ego doing the driving then it dies when he can no longer keep it going.
The Idea was good, the ego and money got in the way of doing good.
while I agree with you partially, if you have so many minority votes the entire government shuts down.
Look at it this way, in order for a paralmentary system to function a minimum number of groups have to work together, if they can't get that number the government is shut off, bills go unpaid, nothing gets accomplished. In the USA the government doesn't stop working even if the various sides can't agree on anything. The worst that happens is emergency spending bills are allowed through to continue onward.
Look at the number of times the USA has had a deadlocked non functioning government vs france or Britain in the last 100 years. Britian shuts down once a decade for 2-6 months. France's government is so ineffective that a law change that the people didn't like the majority shut down the country for weeks. In the USA that law change would have simply had the opposing sides lawyers challenge it in court, where it would be talked about and put on hold until final decisions where made.
Which is more civil, allowing people to starve because the government did something the people didn't like, or using lawyers to argue the different sides, and having a court that can toss out the law.
except that tube and mounting plate weighs more than the entire xm 25 weapon. not to mention the reloads are several times larger and heavier.
You have to have clear line target too. The xm 25 can be used inside a building where as a mortar can't. While not close combat weapon, you can fire the xm 25 across a warehouse to hit the room the targets are holed up in.
If your in a heavily forested area you literally have to mortar through the trees before you can hit your target.
Think of it like this. take a WW II normandy bunker. Reinforced roof, walls, etc. you either need to clean it out by hand or heavy weapons to demolish it. or just one or two of these shells right through the front opening/ back door etc.
in reality it would be closer to have your body begin to whither at 40 and die at 70, or have a decent body until your 70 and you can drop dead of cancer at any time after 40.
i am not saying the USA isn't behind the attacks, what i am saying is that there is zero proof. And right now if wikileaks pointed to proof it is not very credible unless backed up by multiple independent sources. Because assange was been begging, and telling people who is after him.
I don't believe the USA is behind it, simply because the government of the USA really isn't that technologically intelligent enough to do so. power mad and corrupt enough, you betcha. However the military, hates to use encryption on their datalinks, has so poor security that a demoted enlisted man had full access to all sorts of diplomatic, and covert records. Does this group sound capable of not only creating a DDOS but doing it in such a way that it can't be tracked back to them?
So the USA suppresses information that china's government engaged in illegal hacking, and the USA is behind the DDOS attack on wikileaks. Why can't China be behind it after a US agent tells a chinese agent what is happening.
um you made a self defeating post. You argued that democraies need this insight to remain uncorrupted, but then you go on to say the majority of people will just squander the power anyways.
So which do you then want democracy or are you just unsure of what your price is for corruption is yet.
I never said it was or is okay. I am just pointing out that the only country attacked like this is the USA. Are you really naive and stupid enough to believe that these things don't happen in every government.
no it is a maximum of a 200 amp service. And in reality you don't get all that either.
Most utilities to save a few bucks wire up that 200amp house with wire that is good for 160amps Which is fine because the average house doesn't need 200 amp service. The largest 3 power draws have been stove, dryer, and air conditioner. Electric heat while available isn't normally affordable in the northern states. So your 200 amp house rarely draws above a 100amp service.
Because utilities are cheap and they know how much your actually using they have sized neighborhoods for considerably less power than they have sold similar to ISP's and bandwidth. Like ISP's the problem goes up and down the supply chain.
Not to mention that it takes decades to build decent sized mostly environmental friendly power plants, and some area's of the country have to routinely buy power from neighbors(CA any one?) So demand could very easily out strip supply if electric cars take off to fast. (pun intended)
And now for something intelligent because your a moron. a 12kw transformer is transformer 12kw of 600 volt electricity(can't remember the actual voltage at the moment) Which when dropped down to 3 x 120 volt legs boosts the amperage. Three legs are used to maintain balance. your home 240 volts is in reality two 120 volt legs.
As I did the math once on a 12 volt transformer. a 1000 watt 12 volt transformer only draws 100 watts at 120 volts( a little more due to inefficiencies actually) However you can light one room with a single 100 watt lightbulb , or you can light several at 12 volts. It isn't done often as it isn't convenient and introduces more points of failure.
Canada and the USA are too large. Someone making a statement could very easily attack NY, chicago, and LA all at the same time. Limiting yourself to a geographic area is limiting.
There is a major shortage of developers for android. that is why HTC doesn't support any phone for more than 6 months old and 3/4 of their product line recieves nothing but basic updates to the OS.
Seriously name more than 1 android phone that recieves regular updates from the vendor for the software. You can't do it. after 6-9 months they all stop allowing updates.
Apple gives you 2-3 years everyone else gives you the middle finger.
I want an android phone, but i really don't want to have to root, and then install my own updates because some vendor is cheap.
um the is slashdot home of OSS, where if you don't have 50,000 kinds of any application then you don't have enough variation to figure out which is the best app. Because in OSS if you don't like it you fork it and try again and then let it die when it becomes work.
So by that very definition the 50,000 ipad apps are superior even if they suck. As choice is always superior to non choice.
Which is funny because android is supposed to promote choice while apple limits choice, however there are more choices to make your tablet useful with apple than with android.
The numbers of apps for andriod will surpass the ipad easily. however since only about 30% of those apps will be available to any given device that metric doesn't really work. between non updating versions of android, (compare the number of iphone 3G users running IOS 2.0 against the number of early model android phones running 1.5 or 1.6) and the heavily fragmented nature of android hardware( tegra, arm, intel, all can't run the same software.
Then stop to wonder if Oracle wins even half of it's google/android lawsuit then all Android software will stop.
I have been waiting 9 months for someone to finally copy the ipad's hardware and install android 2.2 on it. I am still waiting. No one seems to be coming close. The Galaxy tab isn't bad the interface lags.( I have been testing demo units untill the wifi version is released). The one with real promise is Notion ink adam. but that seems to be never ending vaporware.
there are lots of variables. There was one hawaiian flight that lost a chunk of it's roof but still flew and landed safely.
However it depends on altitude, speed, pilots skill and above all location to the nearest safe landing strip. So no 9 mm or even a shotgun won't bring down a plane on it's own unless you hit the pilot or copilot. then your fscked.
However if you want to blow a plane up for force it to crash all you need to do is to break the windows out in forward of the engines and throw something heavy inside. you know like fire extinguishers, or clothing from bags. The average airliner with two engines can only fly so long on one engine, and with 4 engines can rarely fly with 2 well, take out two on the same side and the pilot will have to correct for yaw as well.
Everything you need to hijack and destroy a plane in flight is provided on the flight. all you need is the will to do so.
Of course that is negating the fact that F-150's have to be trained up from Mexico.
indeed for many cars if you want made in america, you have to buy Nissan, toyota, or honda. American car companies primarily build cars in Mexico or Canada.
1 minute for the math yea i can beleive that. 5 minutes for 911 to be on hold while carrier's advanced tech services are reached, 5 more minutes to get authorization.
In a world where innocent until proven guilty is the norm, the red tape to get permission takes longer than the actual work.
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And on average the average congressmen is in charge for less than 20 years with a few notable execptions.
however unlike north korea we get a new figure head from the other party every 8 years or so. So your analogy falls apart as in North korea there has been only one.
Even in britian several prime minister's has been in office for 11 years in just the last 50 years. And guess what only two parties have held the prime minister position in the last 50 years, with a total of 4 parties over the last century. With some 8 parties over the course of the last 300 years.
So I suggest you actually study some history.
oh wait you would rather mouth off instead of learning anything.
Go read all the comments on this. There are very few reasonable people trying to have a discussion. you everyone else either falls into the three camps. the guberment is evil, USA is ebil, or julain was wrong.
The government is made of people if the people are being schizophrenic on the topic why would the governments be any different?
I have never once said it was okay, not once in any of my comments. however just trying to point out that every government does this and has done this for as long as governments have existed seems to go over all the heads here. The USA is actually one of the most stable countries in the world(I would put Canada, Australia and one or two others ahead). Why is that? Because we don't kill each other because our government does something stupid. we simply use lawyers to push them out. We know presidents won't be around for more than 8 years. that represents slow change. If you want change in other governments you have to kill people, or live with a government that is non functional.
Where is that any better?
The Chinese government has always worked closely with CHinese corporations to perform espionage. The government gives the corporations data on their foreign competition, the corporations give the government spies cover.
The Russian government has always worked closely with Russian corporations to perform espionage. The government gives the corporations data on their foreign competition, the corporations give the government spies cover.
The German government has always worked closely with German corporations to perform espionage. The government gives the corporations data on their foreign competition, the corporations give the government spies cover.
shall i continue, or is the point made? Every country behaves like a schizophrenic child to each other. why are you so shocked by that?
Um the retirement age was set by the government at a time when the average person lived to be only 70. Now when that jumps up to 80 and 90 and we have to feed and take care of people for 3 times longer than expected costs go up with it.
France has basically lost 1 month of active economy and will take several months to a year to get back into full swing. That much is enough to drop their GDP some 5-10% for the year. Incomes will drop.(can you go one month without a paycheck?)
Remember strikers don't get paid, no money in means much less spending(savings, credit, etc make up the difference) however to get back you have to rebuild which takes longer.
Also from what I have seen of retired people every one I know works harder now than they did when they worked for a living. They have enough money to goof off and have fun. but one guy decided to open a small farm stand in front of his home. strictly what he can grow. and each year it has gotten larger. He doesn't have to work, he was a teacher for 35 years. but he puts in 12-14 hour days in the sun farming. In the Winter he teaches skiing. he does it for the free ski passes for himself and his wife that he gets. His Farm stand makes just enough money to pay for the dock, and sails for his sailboat. Which he races 2-3 times a week.
Pretty much every other retired person I know, has side jobs, fun jobs, etc. They no longer work hard because they have to they work hard because they enjoy it. and when they stop enjoying it they change jobs. I know one lady who owned part of an OB/GYN. She was one of the head nurses. She gave that up so she could have free time and is working swing shift part time at a hospital. the pay is lower, but she has more time for grandkids.
being retired doesn't mean you stop working. It means you stop hating the work you do.
you do realize that if all your using is a simple tube then that tube has to be strong enough to withstand the pressures of the exhaust gases firing. Since that tube is stuck in the ground it has to resist exploding. putting little vents in the sides helps but overpressure builds quick. You then need something to transmitt the updated targeting instructions from.
Oh and just because they are behind a wall doesn't mean they are clear overhead. some walls have roofs.
Who says that the USA is behind it dumbass. Unless proven otherwise Julian just slept with two women who happened to get pissed off at him for what they believed was cheating on them.
It very easily explains the on again off again prosecution.
Oh wait it is innocent until proven guilty unless your the USA then your guilty of doing every bad thing in the world because no one else has the balls to stand up to bad guys.
Why don't have to take arms againist our government. We can do it by elections. We don't have to take to the streets, because we have court rooms. We don't need violence to solve our internal disputes, We have discussions(sometimes loud).
In France The people didn't like the age retirement got set at so they destroyed the economy for the next several years, looted, burned cars and buildings,etc.
If that is what you respect then you must like anarchy and fighting. Grown-ups don't have to fight when they can talk things out. It might still not be the correct choice or even the choice you want. But just because you disagree with someone doesn't give you the right to kill them, or steal from them.
You want the law of the West, Texan Law where the fast gun wins.
A good dictatorship is actually a very efficient government. However getting a good dictator is one in a million odds against, and getting two in a row is just about impossible.
The CIA does do assassinations but they realized logn ago it isn't as effective as they want it to be.
Russia, Isreal, do assassinations but they have both been bitten back by them when they got messy.
The CIA uses more dicrediting techniques, over the long term. In 5 years people will go Julian who? Wiki What?
If you read the situation and all the information out there apparently Julian dated a woman, slept with her. She thought there was a relationship there. a few days later he does the same with another woman, she too thought there was a relationship. They met each other a few days later and both realised they had been had.
Not sure if it counts as rape under swedish law. However even if it doesn't it shows that Julian is a jackass who uses people for personal gain.
If WikiLeaks kept up as it's name suggested and leaked corrupt documents then I would agree. There is very little in anything released that shows direct corruption only communications between governments. If those documents don't show corruption then why were they released? To satisfy Julian's own ego. Since it is his ego doing the driving then it dies when he can no longer keep it going.
The Idea was good, the ego and money got in the way of doing good.
while I agree with you partially, if you have so many minority votes the entire government shuts down.
Look at it this way, in order for a paralmentary system to function a minimum number of groups have to work together, if they can't get that number the government is shut off, bills go unpaid, nothing gets accomplished. In the USA the government doesn't stop working even if the various sides can't agree on anything. The worst that happens is emergency spending bills are allowed through to continue onward.
Look at the number of times the USA has had a deadlocked non functioning government vs france or Britain in the last 100 years. Britian shuts down once a decade for 2-6 months. France's government is so ineffective that a law change that the people didn't like the majority shut down the country for weeks. In the USA that law change would have simply had the opposing sides lawyers challenge it in court, where it would be talked about and put on hold until final decisions where made.
Which is more civil, allowing people to starve because the government did something the people didn't like, or using lawyers to argue the different sides, and having a court that can toss out the law.
except that tube and mounting plate weighs more than the entire xm 25 weapon. not to mention the reloads are several times larger and heavier.
You have to have clear line target too. The xm 25 can be used inside a building where as a mortar can't. While not close combat weapon, you can fire the xm 25 across a warehouse to hit the room the targets are holed up in.
If your in a heavily forested area you literally have to mortar through the trees before you can hit your target.
Think of it like this. take a WW II normandy bunker. Reinforced roof, walls, etc. you either need to clean it out by hand or heavy weapons to demolish it. or just one or two of these shells right through the front opening/ back door etc.
in reality it would be closer to have your body begin to whither at 40 and die at 70, or have a decent body until your 70 and you can drop dead of cancer at any time after 40.
so innuendo, is worth more than facts.
i am not saying the USA isn't behind the attacks, what i am saying is that there is zero proof. And right now if wikileaks pointed to proof it is not very credible unless backed up by multiple independent sources. Because assange was been begging, and telling people who is after him.
I don't believe the USA is behind it, simply because the government of the USA really isn't that technologically intelligent enough to do so. power mad and corrupt enough, you betcha. However the military, hates to use encryption on their datalinks, has so poor security that a demoted enlisted man had full access to all sorts of diplomatic, and covert records. Does this group sound capable of not only creating a DDOS but doing it in such a way that it can't be tracked back to them?
So the USA suppresses information that china's government engaged in illegal hacking, and the USA is behind the DDOS attack on wikileaks. Why can't China be behind it after a US agent tells a chinese agent what is happening.
I know because China is good and the USA is bad.
um you made a self defeating post. You argued that democraies need this insight to remain uncorrupted, but then you go on to say the majority of people will just squander the power anyways.
So which do you then want democracy or are you just unsure of what your price is for corruption is yet.
I never said it was or is okay. I am just pointing out that the only country attacked like this is the USA. Are you really naive and stupid enough to believe that these things don't happen in every government.
Notice How it is only the USA though. Britain, France, Russia, China, Germany all have similar dealings all governments do.
But only the USA gets these kinds of attacks. Only the USA getting the Blame.
Remember Britain and france at one point carved up the world. What kind of corruption was in those deals?
no it is a maximum of a 200 amp service. And in reality you don't get all that either.
Most utilities to save a few bucks wire up that 200amp house with wire that is good for 160amps Which is fine because the average house doesn't need 200 amp service. The largest 3 power draws have been stove, dryer, and air conditioner. Electric heat while available isn't normally affordable in the northern states. So your 200 amp house rarely draws above a 100amp service.
Because utilities are cheap and they know how much your actually using they have sized neighborhoods for considerably less power than they have sold similar to ISP's and bandwidth. Like ISP's the problem goes up and down the supply chain.
Not to mention that it takes decades to build decent sized mostly environmental friendly power plants, and some area's of the country have to routinely buy power from neighbors(CA any one?) So demand could very easily out strip supply if electric cars take off to fast. (pun intended)
And now for something intelligent because your a moron. a 12kw transformer is transformer 12kw of 600 volt electricity(can't remember the actual voltage at the moment) Which when dropped down to 3 x 120 volt legs boosts the amperage. Three legs are used to maintain balance. your home 240 volts is in reality two 120 volt legs.
As I did the math once on a 12 volt transformer. a 1000 watt 12 volt transformer only draws 100 watts at 120 volts( a little more due to inefficiencies actually) However you can light one room with a single 100 watt lightbulb , or you can light several at 12 volts. It isn't done often as it isn't convenient and introduces more points of failure.
Yes she could.
Seeing as thee super secret plane carries no human passengers. pretty much any grandmother could push the button that is labeled, return home.
It is even red.
I agreed right up until you said geographic area.
Canada and the USA are too large. Someone making a statement could very easily attack NY, chicago, and LA all at the same time. Limiting yourself to a geographic area is limiting.
There is a major shortage of developers for android. that is why HTC doesn't support any phone for more than 6 months old and 3/4 of their product line recieves nothing but basic updates to the OS.
Seriously name more than 1 android phone that recieves regular updates from the vendor for the software. You can't do it. after 6-9 months they all stop allowing updates.
Apple gives you 2-3 years everyone else gives you the middle finger.
I want an android phone, but i really don't want to have to root, and then install my own updates because some vendor is cheap.
um the is slashdot home of OSS, where if you don't have 50,000 kinds of any application then you don't have enough variation to figure out which is the best app. Because in OSS if you don't like it you fork it and try again and then let it die when it becomes work.
So by that very definition the 50,000 ipad apps are superior even if they suck. As choice is always superior to non choice.
Which is funny because android is supposed to promote choice while apple limits choice, however there are more choices to make your tablet useful with apple than with android.
Now I shall be modded into oblivion.
The numbers of apps for andriod will surpass the ipad easily. however since only about 30% of those apps will be available to any given device that metric doesn't really work. between non updating versions of android, (compare the number of iphone 3G users running IOS 2.0 against the number of early model android phones running 1.5 or 1.6) and the heavily fragmented nature of android hardware( tegra, arm, intel, all can't run the same software.
Then stop to wonder if Oracle wins even half of it's google/android lawsuit then all Android software will stop.
I have been waiting 9 months for someone to finally copy the ipad's hardware and install android 2.2 on it. I am still waiting. No one seems to be coming close. The Galaxy tab isn't bad the interface lags.( I have been testing demo units untill the wifi version is released). The one with real promise is Notion ink adam. but that seems to be never ending vaporware.
there are lots of variables. There was one hawaiian flight that lost a chunk of it's roof but still flew and landed safely.
However it depends on altitude, speed, pilots skill and above all location to the nearest safe landing strip. So no 9 mm or even a shotgun won't bring down a plane on it's own unless you hit the pilot or copilot. then your fscked.
However if you want to blow a plane up for force it to crash all you need to do is to break the windows out in forward of the engines and throw something heavy inside. you know like fire extinguishers, or clothing from bags. The average airliner with two engines can only fly so long on one engine, and with 4 engines can rarely fly with 2 well, take out two on the same side and the pilot will have to correct for yaw as well.
Everything you need to hijack and destroy a plane in flight is provided on the flight. all you need is the will to do so.
Of course that is negating the fact that F-150's have to be trained up from Mexico.
indeed for many cars if you want made in america, you have to buy Nissan, toyota, or honda. American car companies primarily build cars in Mexico or Canada.
1 minute for the math yea i can beleive that. 5 minutes for 911 to be on hold while carrier's advanced tech services are reached, 5 more minutes to get authorization.
In a world where innocent until proven guilty is the norm, the red tape to get permission takes longer than the actual work.