We are approaching a limit here, where the cost of a single advanced fighter equals the national budget. Before we reach that limit, the price will go high enough to make it too expensive to ever actually risk an advanced fighter in actual combat - couldn't afford to lose one...
They call this a crash involving crowds - it's nothing compared to the 1955 LeMans disaster. There's film of most of a Mercedes 300 slicing through the crowd like a scythe. Mercedes withdrew from all racing for many years after this happened. No one ever tried to censor the footage of the carnage.
The robots in the Jack WIlliamson's Humanoid stories had a Prime Directive of ''to serve and obey and guard men from harm"....see how well that worked out...
This reminds me of an application bought here at MegaBigCompany years back that promised to automatically scan, sort, classify, grade and determine what resumes where good for what job openings. HR was thrilled at the work it would save.
We lost a lot of faith in it when we noticed that it reported many of applicants whose resumes it had scanned had gone to the University of Nix....we wondered, did they all go to a strangely named college? Then it occurred to me that the app was parsing UNIX on the resumes of people looking for IT jobs, as the University of Nix....
They won't sell you gas for your car at an airport - road use tax hasn't been paid on it, and they don't want to tangle with the state government. Besides, avgas of any grade is quite expensive.
HA! I had a high school chum who always said "Four way stop means I don't have to". We always hoped he would run into (literally) someone who followed the same 4 way stop rule...
This idea (Methane from the atmosphere, stored oxygen in the aircraft) was used for aircraft flight in the 1954 Winston Series science fiction novel, "Trouble on Titan", by Alan E. Nourse. It's a pretty good read, for a novel aimed at the juvenile market.
Back in the early 60s, there was still a vast amount of military electronics surplus available from WWI and the Korean wars. This cornucopia of gear was the delight of all of us young radio and electronics enthusiasts. The amateur radio press of the time warned that occasionally equipment would turn up that still had thermite scuttling charges in place - apparently some bits of gear were sensitive enough that they included thermite bombs built in that could be easily triggered when capture was imminent. I never personally saw any, but saw pictures in the journals of the time. So, anyway, this is hardly a new idea
After having the time overflow on a previous offering, DEC made sure this wouldn't occur anytime soon in VMS.
Quoting from the Wikipedia article on VMS, "The 100 nanosecond granularity implemented within OpenVMS and the 63-bit absolute time representation (the sign bit indicates absolute time when clear and relative time when set) should allow OpenVMS trouble-free time computations up to 31-JUL-31086 02:48:05.47. At this instant, all clocks and time-keeping operations in OpenVMS will suddenly fail, since the counter will overflow and start from zero again."
VMS engineering assures us that a patch will be available to take care of this problem several years before the overflow occurs.
Banning so called assault rifles will cause those who intend mass mayhem to switch to a far more devastating close range weapon - the 12 gauge pump shotgun. I'd much rather face someone with an AR and a 20 round magazine than someone with 8 rounds of 00 buck in a shotgun. And, lawmakers don't dare tray and ban them - they are way too popular for hunting, and it would ruin their strategy of trying to pit the outdoor sportsman type gun owners against the ugly black military style weapon owners.
Err, I think you missed the whole point...a cease and desist order can only be done by the debtor. I wasn't the debtor, so I had no rights in the matter.
Just last month, a woman was cornered in a house during a home invasion and fired all six rounds out of her revolver. She hit the goblin five times, missed once. The attacker, although hit five times, was still in good enough shape to flee the house. He could just as easily kept attacking and killed the woman and her children before his blood pressure fell enough to stop him. She could very easily have needed a high capacity magazine to continue her defense.
Real life isn't like TV - people hit with one bullet don't usually fall down dead, or even stop their attack.
The same thing happened to me, and the anti harassment laws were useless to help. Here's why - the anti harassment laws only protect the person they are looking for. Since you are not the person they are looking for, they can call your number as often as they like - you can't request they stop, since you aren't the person with the debt. Only the person they are trying to collect from has any protections under the law. Calls to the police and the state Attorney general's office yielded no help at all.
Begging and pleading, reason and logic, they fell on deaf ears - these people were going to call three times a day and there was no way to stop them. I even tried imitating the person they were looking for, in order to invoke the law telling them to stop calling, but my deep voice couldn't produce a realistic woman's voice (the deadbeat was female).
I finally had to forward my calls to a non-working number for a week. The "doo-doo-DOO you have reached a number that is not in service" message they got when they called convinced them I had changed my phone number and they couldn't call me anymore....
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My lawn is dry enough already! With the extra hour of sunlight the whole year 'round, I'll never be able to keep it alive! ;-)
I forget who said this quote, but it's pretty apropos - "In a company, those who manage the money usually manage to hang on to most of it".
Then you are saying this would be entirely justified then, because friends don't let friends drive Fords.
We are approaching a limit here, where the cost of a single advanced fighter equals the national budget. Before we reach that limit, the price will go high enough to make it too expensive to ever actually risk an advanced fighter in actual combat - couldn't afford to lose one...
They call this a crash involving crowds - it's nothing compared to the 1955 LeMans disaster. There's film of most of a Mercedes 300 slicing through the crowd like a scythe. Mercedes withdrew from all racing for many years after this happened. No one ever tried to censor the footage of the carnage.
The robots in the Jack WIlliamson's Humanoid stories had a Prime Directive of ''to serve and obey and guard men from harm"....see how well that worked out...
Commenting on the reported much higher quality of the Nazi's armaments, Stalin is reported to have said "Quantity has a quality all its own".
A spreadsheet is something a user uses....
This reminds me of an application bought here at MegaBigCompany years back that promised to automatically scan, sort, classify, grade and determine what resumes where good for what job openings. HR was thrilled at the work it would save. We lost a lot of faith in it when we noticed that it reported many of applicants whose resumes it had scanned had gone to the University of Nix....we wondered, did they all go to a strangely named college? Then it occurred to me that the app was parsing UNIX on the resumes of people looking for IT jobs, as the University of Nix....
They won't sell you gas for your car at an airport - road use tax hasn't been paid on it, and they don't want to tangle with the state government. Besides, avgas of any grade is quite expensive.
HA! I had a high school chum who always said "Four way stop means I don't have to". We always hoped he would run into (literally) someone who followed the same 4 way stop rule...
This idea (Methane from the atmosphere, stored oxygen in the aircraft) was used for aircraft flight in the 1954 Winston Series science fiction novel, "Trouble on Titan", by Alan E. Nourse. It's a pretty good read, for a novel aimed at the juvenile market.
Back in the early 60s, there was still a vast amount of military electronics surplus available from WWI and the Korean wars. This cornucopia of gear was the delight of all of us young radio and electronics enthusiasts. The amateur radio press of the time warned that occasionally equipment would turn up that still had thermite scuttling charges in place - apparently some bits of gear were sensitive enough that they included thermite bombs built in that could be easily triggered when capture was imminent. I never personally saw any, but saw pictures in the journals of the time. So, anyway, this is hardly a new idea
We should take off and nuke the site from orbit....it's the only way to be sure.
After having the time overflow on a previous offering, DEC made sure this wouldn't occur anytime soon in VMS. Quoting from the Wikipedia article on VMS, "The 100 nanosecond granularity implemented within OpenVMS and the 63-bit absolute time representation (the sign bit indicates absolute time when clear and relative time when set) should allow OpenVMS trouble-free time computations up to 31-JUL-31086 02:48:05.47. At this instant, all clocks and time-keeping operations in OpenVMS will suddenly fail, since the counter will overflow and start from zero again." VMS engineering assures us that a patch will be available to take care of this problem several years before the overflow occurs.
You should treat everyone with the respect and consideration that you would accord to an armed person.
I was referring more to the way it kept disintegrating in flight, but whatever...
Yeah, the DeHaviland Comet airliner was a sterling example of the quality of European aircraft design...
Banning so called assault rifles will cause those who intend mass mayhem to switch to a far more devastating close range weapon - the 12 gauge pump shotgun. I'd much rather face someone with an AR and a 20 round magazine than someone with 8 rounds of 00 buck in a shotgun. And, lawmakers don't dare tray and ban them - they are way too popular for hunting, and it would ruin their strategy of trying to pit the outdoor sportsman type gun owners against the ugly black military style weapon owners.
Err, I think you missed the whole point...a cease and desist order can only be done by the debtor. I wasn't the debtor, so I had no rights in the matter.
Just last month, a woman was cornered in a house during a home invasion and fired all six rounds out of her revolver. She hit the goblin five times, missed once. The attacker, although hit five times, was still in good enough shape to flee the house. He could just as easily kept attacking and killed the woman and her children before his blood pressure fell enough to stop him. She could very easily have needed a high capacity magazine to continue her defense. Real life isn't like TV - people hit with one bullet don't usually fall down dead, or even stop their attack.
All your phones are belong to us (remember how funny this would have been 10 years ago?)
The same thing happened to me, and the anti harassment laws were useless to help. Here's why - the anti harassment laws only protect the person they are looking for. Since you are not the person they are looking for, they can call your number as often as they like - you can't request they stop, since you aren't the person with the debt. Only the person they are trying to collect from has any protections under the law. Calls to the police and the state Attorney general's office yielded no help at all. Begging and pleading, reason and logic, they fell on deaf ears - these people were going to call three times a day and there was no way to stop them. I even tried imitating the person they were looking for, in order to invoke the law telling them to stop calling, but my deep voice couldn't produce a realistic woman's voice (the deadbeat was female). I finally had to forward my calls to a non-working number for a week. The "doo-doo-DOO you have reached a number that is not in service" message they got when they called convinced them I had changed my phone number and they couldn't call me anymore....
And platinum...don't forget the platinum...
He could have made millions if the first thing he said on the moon had been "COCA COLA!"