Have you ever come across something called "sonar?" We don't need to listen for the noise you make, we can track you by bouncing sound off you and listening to the echos.
Depth charges are so...so...so...WW II. Even back in the early '70s when I was in we were using ASROC: a rocket-thrown torpedo that homed in on its target. Much more effective, especially if we used one with a nuke.
You know, while I fundamentally disagree with the law as being unconstitutional, at least it seemed well intentioned.
To me, at least, that's the worst thing about it because other well-meaning people are going to be tempted to let it stand because "they're trying to do good." Laws like that must never be allowed to remain on the books, no matter how good the lawmaker's intentions are because letting just one bad law pass sends us all down a very slippery slope!
I'm certainly not going to argue that there wasn't any abuse, only that in at least some of the cases he was justified. And, to be honest, I don't know what percentage of the cases were questionable.
I'm not saying that all of his actions were properly justified, just that his suspension of habeas corpus wasn't completely (or even mostly) unconstitutional.
You are aware, I hope, that The Suspension Clause allows for habeas corpus to be suspended "...when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."
I'm not going to touch it unless I actually see mainstream usage.
And as long as most people feel the same way as you do, you never will. Somebody has to go first, somebody has to set up some sort of market using it and take a chance because in this type of venture, there's no guarentee that it's gong to work.
There's an ancient Jewish legend that illustrates this. It tells how The Sea of Reeds didn't part, right away, when Moses stretched out his staff over it. Nothing happened until one of the Hebrews, Nachson by name, demonstrated his faith in The Lord and stepped out into the waters. Only then did they part. Sometimes, you just have to trust that things will work out well and take a chance because if nobody does, nothing will happen.
I just don't feel any obligation to make it useful for anyone but me.
I'm sorry to say it, but if that's the way you feel, there's very little chance that anybody will ever get any use out of your code. Most people are only interested in using programs, not in fighting their way through the code trying to learn how to use it and for many people, if it doesn't come with instructions on how to get it working, it's not worth installing. At one time, that was mostly a Windows attitude, but there are more and more Linux users today who expect at least a little documentation, and as time goes on, their numbers are only going to grow.
Do you not think providing health care coverage for everyone is important?
It'd be nice, I'll grant. However, there's a question that never really gets answered, somehow: Who's going to pay for it? AIUI, if you can't pay, it's free, and right there's a big problem because the demand for a free good is infinite.
The design philosophy was only part of it. As I mentioned above, the Japanese were changing their planes' loads from the armor piercing bombs they'd need to attack carriers to the HE they'd want for a second strike on Midway itself when they were hit, and they had both types of bombs (plus fuel hoses) on the flight deck when the dive bombers hit. Not a mistake they ever made again! And, of course, the Royal Navy's few carriers had even more armor (and less planes) than the USN's because they were often in reach of land-based bombers and needed it. We could go back and forth discussing the differences, and their advantages and drawbacks, but I think we're both in agreement on the main point: a carrier's armor isn't its main defense, it's air groups and escorts are.
Actually, the USS Wasp was torpedoed in the Pacific in September, 1942, and the Yorktown was finally sunk at Midway when a sub caught up with her the next day. Even so, the most dangerous thing to a carrier's always been the planes from another carrier.
Do you have any idea how much damage it took to put the Yamato under? Before capsizing and sinking, it was hit by at least eleven torpedoes and six bombs, with two more of each unconfirmed. By comparison, none of the four Japanese carriers sunk at Midway were hit by more than (maybe) five bombs, while it only took one, very lucky hit, to set Akagi ablaze, eventually sinking it. That's not to say that carriers aren't important, just that unlike battleships, they're not built to take a licking and keep on pounding their targets.
It probably also helps them remain relevant that nobody has let a single one get any closer to something dangerous than they absolutely had to since the second world war.
True. Very, very true. And, in WWII, the main dangerous thing they got close to was other carriers. After the Battle of the Coral Sea it was clear that whoever got off the first strike would probably win, which is why the Japanese were in such a hurry to change the loads on their planes at Midway and got caught with their pants down.
I don't know about anybody else, but the Daleks always sounded to me like they were suffering from extreme hysteria. Of course, considering how badly they tended to come off whenever they went up against the Doctor, do you blame them?
What should America do? They should treat the Libian mob in the only way those barbarians will understand: give each of our slain diplomats a grave of a hundred head.
Just installed XP back from the rescue partition and told them that IT hates them and doesn't want them to use a computer.
Why? Gnome 3 and Unity aren't the only DE's available, even for Unity. Just find one that looks and works the way your friends are expecting and switch them to it. I don't know about you, but one of my big selling point for Linux is the variety and your ability to customize more than just your wallpaper and icon locations.
When Ubuntu went to Unity, my older sister did her best to adapt to it. After over a year, she got tired of (among other things) having to hit tiny activation points with her mouse, especially when her Parkenson's is acting up. I'd moved from Gnome to Xfce (on Fedora) to avoid ever having to deal with Gnome 3, and showed her how much simpler it is and after a bit of thinking it over, I talked her through installing Xfce and making it her default DE. If your grandma doesn't want to learn a whole new DE, let her try both Xfce and KDE, then pick the one she likes best.
Let her experiment with several live CDs: Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Kubuntu. Find out if she likes any of them enough to want to migrate and if so, help her do what's needed. Make sure that she knows that she won't have to worry about malware, defragging or restarting her computer several times a day and that you'll still do her tech support whatever she decides.
AFAICT the only thing all of these "security measures" do is get people used to the idea that they're subjects, not citizens and that the security forces can do whatever they want whenever they want to anybody they feel like. By the time most people realize we're turning into a police state it will be too late.
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Have you ever come across something called "sonar?" We don't need to listen for the noise you make, we can track you by bouncing sound off you and listening to the echos.
Depth charges are so...so...so...WW II. Even back in the early '70s when I was in we were using ASROC: a rocket-thrown torpedo that homed in on its target. Much more effective, especially if we used one with a nuke.
There are two kinds of seagoing vessels. Submarines and targets.
You've been listening too hard to your bubble-head friends. I served on a destroyer, and to us, submarines were nothing but targets.
You know, while I fundamentally disagree with the law as being unconstitutional, at least it seemed well intentioned.
To me, at least, that's the worst thing about it because other well-meaning people are going to be tempted to let it stand because "they're trying to do good." Laws like that must never be allowed to remain on the books, no matter how good the lawmaker's intentions are because letting just one bad law pass sends us all down a very slippery slope!
What do you know: the Cadillac of Worms really exist. Who'd have thunk it?
I'm certainly not going to argue that there wasn't any abuse, only that in at least some of the cases he was justified. And, to be honest, I don't know what percentage of the cases were questionable.
I'm not saying that all of his actions were properly justified, just that his suspension of habeas corpus wasn't completely (or even mostly) unconstitutional.
You are aware, I hope, that The Suspension Clause allows for habeas corpus to be suspended "...when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."
I'm not going to touch it unless I actually see mainstream usage.
And as long as most people feel the same way as you do, you never will. Somebody has to go first, somebody has to set up some sort of market using it and take a chance because in this type of venture, there's no guarentee that it's gong to work.
There's an ancient Jewish legend that illustrates this. It tells how The Sea of Reeds didn't part, right away, when Moses stretched out his staff over it. Nothing happened until one of the Hebrews, Nachson by name, demonstrated his faith in The Lord and stepped out into the waters. Only then did they part. Sometimes, you just have to trust that things will work out well and take a chance because if nobody does, nothing will happen.
I just don't feel any obligation to make it useful for anyone but me.
I'm sorry to say it, but if that's the way you feel, there's very little chance that anybody will ever get any use out of your code. Most people are only interested in using programs, not in fighting their way through the code trying to learn how to use it and for many people, if it doesn't come with instructions on how to get it working, it's not worth installing. At one time, that was mostly a Windows attitude, but there are more and more Linux users today who expect at least a little documentation, and as time goes on, their numbers are only going to grow.
Do you not think providing health care coverage for everyone is important?
It'd be nice, I'll grant. However, there's a question that never really gets answered, somehow: Who's going to pay for it? AIUI, if you can't pay, it's free, and right there's a big problem because the demand for a free good is infinite.
The design philosophy was only part of it. As I mentioned above, the Japanese were changing their planes' loads from the armor piercing bombs they'd need to attack carriers to the HE they'd want for a second strike on Midway itself when they were hit, and they had both types of bombs (plus fuel hoses) on the flight deck when the dive bombers hit. Not a mistake they ever made again! And, of course, the Royal Navy's few carriers had even more armor (and less planes) than the USN's because they were often in reach of land-based bombers and needed it. We could go back and forth discussing the differences, and their advantages and drawbacks, but I think we're both in agreement on the main point: a carrier's armor isn't its main defense, it's air groups and escorts are.
Actually, the USS Wasp was torpedoed in the Pacific in September, 1942, and the Yorktown was finally sunk at Midway when a sub caught up with her the next day. Even so, the most dangerous thing to a carrier's always been the planes from another carrier.
Do you have any idea how much damage it took to put the Yamato under? Before capsizing and sinking, it was hit by at least eleven torpedoes and six bombs, with two more of each unconfirmed. By comparison, none of the four Japanese carriers sunk at Midway were hit by more than (maybe) five bombs, while it only took one, very lucky hit, to set Akagi ablaze, eventually sinking it. That's not to say that carriers aren't important, just that unlike battleships, they're not built to take a licking and keep on pounding their targets.
It probably also helps them remain relevant that nobody has let a single one get any closer to something dangerous than they absolutely had to since the second world war.
True. Very, very true. And, in WWII, the main dangerous thing they got close to was other carriers. After the Battle of the Coral Sea it was clear that whoever got off the first strike would probably win, which is why the Japanese were in such a hurry to change the loads on their planes at Midway and got caught with their pants down.
I don't know about anybody else, but the Daleks always sounded to me like they were suffering from extreme hysteria. Of course, considering how badly they tended to come off whenever they went up against the Doctor, do you blame them?
What should America do? They should treat the Libian mob in the only way those barbarians will understand: give each of our slain diplomats a grave of a hundred head.
Just installed XP back from the rescue partition and told them that IT hates them and doesn't want them to use a computer.
Why? Gnome 3 and Unity aren't the only DE's available, even for Unity. Just find one that looks and works the way your friends are expecting and switch them to it. I don't know about you, but one of my big selling point for Linux is the variety and your ability to customize more than just your wallpaper and icon locations.
When Ubuntu went to Unity, my older sister did her best to adapt to it. After over a year, she got tired of (among other things) having to hit tiny activation points with her mouse, especially when her Parkenson's is acting up. I'd moved from Gnome to Xfce (on Fedora) to avoid ever having to deal with Gnome 3, and showed her how much simpler it is and after a bit of thinking it over, I talked her through installing Xfce and making it her default DE. If your grandma doesn't want to learn a whole new DE, let her try both Xfce and KDE, then pick the one she likes best.
Let her experiment with several live CDs: Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Kubuntu. Find out if she likes any of them enough to want to migrate and if so, help her do what's needed. Make sure that she knows that she won't have to worry about malware, defragging or restarting her computer several times a day and that you'll still do her tech support whatever she decides.
Really. How about Ford and Carter, then?
I don't know, but if they are, they might run into The Live Ghost. Who knows? Stranger things have happened.
AFAICT the only thing all of these "security measures" do is get people used to the idea that they're subjects, not citizens and that the security forces can do whatever they want whenever they want to anybody they feel like. By the time most people realize we're turning into a police state it will be too late.
Fan mail from a flounder?
Yes! A hundred million black holes. One for every miracle.