There have already been submerged submarine patrols lasting over a hundred days.
You'd think that military psychologists would have plenty of studies of people in these situations. Perhaps they are not sharing them.
Veteran of the SSBN sub force here, and I'm kind of surprised that this is considered that big a deal. We've been doing trips in isolation this long since the 60s.
Then again, I suppose the group dynamics for 6 people are slightly different than for 110 people.
There is a flaw in your reasoning...
Having lots of money does not mean you have the -skill- to make money, nor does it mean you are smart or even particularly skilled. See "trust fund babies".
As retired submariner, I can certainly get behind the idea of having more subs... The number missions they are tasked with every year never goes down (and usually goes up), but there are fewer and fewer submarines every year to do them (old subs are being decommissioned faster than new ones are being built).
I've also heard surface types saying we need more carrier battle groups, an I understand their reasoning. And the logistics corp can also talk about we don't have enough supply vessels to adequately take care of our ships -now-.
But... Where does it all stop? We only have so much money... I think one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century said it best:
''Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children . . . This is not a way of life at all in any sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.''--Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953, before the American Society of Newspaper Editors
Not to mention that they don't prohibit lighter or matches on airplanes, which he was using to attempt to "detonate" the shoe bomb.
Why are matches allowed, but a can of soda is a security threat? Because the cigarette industry whined that the 2 minutes that a person couldn't smoke upon leaving a plane was costing them money, so an item that actually was used in an attempted terrorist attack is effectively unrestricted.
Having been in the military, and actually involved in real security duty, I can assure you that almost all of the TSA restrictions are theatrics to show they are "doing something", and counter-productive at worst, including the liquid restrictions.
Small volumes of liquids can't cause catastrophic damage, outside of a movie or TV show. While there are liquid explosives, they are neither easily obtainable, or easily made outside a laboratory.
But... let's say this magic substance existed, and that it was only the fact that you can't bring more than a quarter ounce of liquids on board that keep a terrorist from manufacturing them in flight. The TSA regulations are -still- stupid because nothing prevents several people from bring a quarter ounce each and combining them. Or one person bringing a quarter ounce in a shampoo bottle, a quarter ounce of "medicine", a quarter ounce of "toothpaste", etc...
It doesn't have to "sell well", just "well enough".
The entire team was about what, six people, max (counting art, music, etc...)?
I heard last week that they made about $800,000. For a multi-million dollar games like GTA4 and Halo, that'd be disastrous. For a small team, that's enough to pay for salaries and start the next game, which is what they are doing right now.
What about the "room" with two locked doors, and you only have one key? When you choose hte wrong door to open, the key breaks and you have to rewind. Unless you're lucky, that puzzle can only be solved with "trial and error"
Who would do all the day to day maintenance? Not to mention how dangerously foolish it is to trust an officer with anything truly important.
Not all militaries have enlisted cores as competent as the USA, many have officers doing what a NCO or even E-3/E-4 would be doing in the US military.
Good point... I had forgotten that in the Russian submarine force everyone that has a job that is even remotely technical is an officer (or so I was told in BESS (US Basic Enlisted Submarine School).
Heck, even in the US Air Force, all of the ICBM jobs are officer billets, as opposed to the Navy's ballistic missile submarines, where almost all the jobs are done by the enlisted men (though given the Air Force's recent dismal record regarding nuclear weapons, I'll stand by my comment about the dangers of allowing officers to do anything important...)
I totally agree, though... I've even gotten into discussions with people who insisted that everyone on board Federation ships were officers, which to anyone who has ever served in the military knows is absurd... Who would do all the day to day maintenance? Not to mention how dangerously foolish it is to trust an officer with anything truly important.
I wonder if there is any intention to do any deep sea reconnaissance on lost subs or sunken ships?
Maybe not at the extreme 6K level, but a bit closer than that.
Wouldn't be the first time that deep sea exploration was used as a cover for something else...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Glomar_Explorer_(T-AG-193)
If not the chip, at least some PS3 games use the Ageia physics engine....
The game "Pain" involves fling a man or woman into objects in a downtown area and watching them splat and twist into windows, cars, monkeys, etc. Somewhat disturbing....
It's one of the reasons. The second one being, as someone else has mentioned, that one used to be more precise and encrypted, with the other being less precise and for civilians. There is no longer any distortion applied to the civilian band, and with differential GPS now available, it's a moot point (at least where DGPS is available).
Ionosphere interference is reduced by using two frequencies. The higher frequency shifts less when it enters the ionosphere. Both frequencies are compared by the receiver, and a correction applied.
Probably my oldest and most cherished are my copies of Wizardry II, The Lost Admiral, Riders of Rohan, and B-1 Nuclear Bomber (by Avalon Hill, for the Atari 800). I have might still have some older stuff, but it's packed away.
All seem fairly complete... though it looks as if I'm going to have to live til 2080 to capitalize from them...
I walked into a Best Buy yesterday, and saw that they now have an "Apple Store" inside.
If Apple really intends to integrate into home entertainment systems for the mass market, a electronics chain store would be a good place to start.
Maybe they are preparing for something that Jobs will be announcing at his speech next month? Everyone is focusing on what he's going to say about the iPhone, but it would be his style to announce something out of left field and thus surprise everyone.
Yahoo is ahead of Microsoft in a few areas...
Yahoo's search is worse that Google (IMO), but Microsoft search is worse.
Yahoo has Flickr and the social network 43Things, neither of which have a Microsoft equivalent.
There's Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Groups, both of which are superior to what Microsoft has.
But I agree... Microsoft has a tendency to be heavy-handed with new acquisitions, not to mention the ones it drowns in the bathtub on purpose.
You have it backwards... Marston believed in female -superiority-, not submission. If anyone was the slave in their poly household it was him.
A quote from him form the Wikipedia article:
"Give them an alluring woman stronger than themselves to submit to, and they'll be proud to become her willing slaves!"
For Marston, the most "constructive" comics were those that laid the groundwork for what he insisted was the coming age of "American matriarchy" in which "women would take over the rule of the country, politically and economically."
I doubt very much the two woman he lived with were his "bondage slaves".
I use google to get to dictionary.com or the Urban Dictionary (depending on the word).
I have dictionary.com in my dropdown search box, but usually it's faster to get there by clicking on the google hit, as opposed to selecting the dictionary.com box and then clicking.
This is all in Firefox; not sure what you can do in IE. The new version of IE probably has tricks of its own.
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There have already been submerged submarine patrols lasting over a hundred days.
You'd think that military psychologists would have plenty of studies of people in these situations. Perhaps they are not sharing them.
Veteran of the SSBN sub force here, and I'm kind of surprised that this is considered that big a deal. We've been doing trips in isolation this long since the 60s.
Then again, I suppose the group dynamics for 6 people are slightly different than for 110 people.
There is a flaw in your reasoning... Having lots of money does not mean you have the -skill- to make money, nor does it mean you are smart or even particularly skilled. See "trust fund babies".
lol Thanks for that link...
Oddly enough, I've had almost the exact same conversations while standing the mid watch...
I've also heard surface types saying we need more carrier battle groups, an I understand their reasoning. And the logistics corp can also talk about we don't have enough supply vessels to adequately take care of our ships -now-. But... Where does it all stop? We only have so much money... I think one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century said it best:
''Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children . . . This is not a way of life at all in any sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.''--Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953, before the American Society of Newspaper Editors
You should see what goes down in the radio room. Ba-dum-ding. Submarine jokes: there's a million of 'em :).
You should see who goes down in the radio room. Ba-dum-ding. Submarine jokes: there's a million of 'em :).
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There, fixed that for ya...
Shipwack, another ex-bubblehead who really wishes he could read the accident/incident report on this one...
Not to mention that they don't prohibit lighter or matches on airplanes, which he was using to attempt to "detonate" the shoe bomb.
Why are matches allowed, but a can of soda is a security threat? Because the cigarette industry whined that the 2 minutes that a person couldn't smoke upon leaving a plane was costing them money, so an item that actually was used in an attempted terrorist attack is effectively unrestricted.
Having been in the military, and actually involved in real security duty, I can assure you that almost all of the TSA restrictions are theatrics to show they are "doing something", and counter-productive at worst, including the liquid restrictions. Small volumes of liquids can't cause catastrophic damage, outside of a movie or TV show. While there are liquid explosives, they are neither easily obtainable, or easily made outside a laboratory. But... let's say this magic substance existed, and that it was only the fact that you can't bring more than a quarter ounce of liquids on board that keep a terrorist from manufacturing them in flight. The TSA regulations are -still- stupid because nothing prevents several people from bring a quarter ounce each and combining them. Or one person bringing a quarter ounce in a shampoo bottle, a quarter ounce of "medicine", a quarter ounce of "toothpaste", etc...
I guess they'll go bankrupt soon if they keep this up.
If they need to generate cash, they could always publish "Madden" twice a year....
It doesn't have to "sell well", just "well enough".
The entire team was about what, six people, max (counting art, music, etc...)?
I heard last week that they made about $800,000. For a multi-million dollar games like GTA4 and Halo, that'd be disastrous. For a small team, that's enough to pay for salaries and start the next game, which is what they are doing right now.
What about the "room" with two locked doors, and you only have one key? When you choose hte wrong door to open, the key breaks and you have to rewind. Unless you're lucky, that puzzle can only be solved with "trial and error"
Unless there is some sort of clue I missed...
Who would do all the day to day maintenance? Not to mention how dangerously foolish it is to trust an officer with anything truly important.
Not all militaries have enlisted cores as competent as the USA, many have officers doing what a NCO or even E-3/E-4 would be doing in the US military.
Good point... I had forgotten that in the Russian submarine force everyone that has a job that is even remotely technical is an officer (or so I was told in BESS (US Basic Enlisted Submarine School).
Heck, even in the US Air Force, all of the ICBM jobs are officer billets, as opposed to the Navy's ballistic missile submarines, where almost all the jobs are done by the enlisted men (though given the Air Force's recent dismal record regarding nuclear weapons, I'll stand by my comment about the dangers of allowing officers to do anything important...)
Yeoman Rand is another example...
I totally agree, though... I've even gotten into discussions with people who insisted that everyone on board Federation ships were officers, which to anyone who has ever served in the military knows is absurd... Who would do all the day to day maintenance? Not to mention how dangerously foolish it is to trust an officer with anything truly important.
I wonder if there is any intention to do any deep sea reconnaissance on lost subs or sunken ships? Maybe not at the extreme 6K level, but a bit closer than that. Wouldn't be the first time that deep sea exploration was used as a cover for something else... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Glomar_Explorer_(T-AG-193)
City of Heroes/Villains
If not the chip, at least some PS3 games use the Ageia physics engine.... The game "Pain" involves fling a man or woman into objects in a downtown area and watching them splat and twist into windows, cars, monkeys, etc. Somewhat disturbing....
"This video has been removed due to terms of use violation."
Who would have thunk it...
It's one of the reasons. The second one being, as someone else has mentioned, that one used to be more precise and encrypted, with the other being less precise and for civilians. There is no longer any distortion applied to the civilian band, and with differential GPS now available, it's a moot point (at least where DGPS is available).
Ionosphere interference is reduced by using two frequencies. The higher frequency shifts less when it enters the ionosphere. Both frequencies are compared by the receiver, and a correction applied.
Don't forget the "Madness of King George III"
Probably my oldest and most cherished are my copies of Wizardry II, The Lost Admiral, Riders of Rohan, and B-1 Nuclear Bomber (by Avalon Hill, for the Atari 800). I have might still have some older stuff, but it's packed away. All seem fairly complete... though it looks as if I'm going to have to live til 2080 to capitalize from them...
Here's a collection of old 2600 box art... Who among us doesn't have fond memories of "Tim Curry's Magic Board"? Fun From Yesterday
I walked into a Best Buy yesterday, and saw that they now have an "Apple Store" inside.
If Apple really intends to integrate into home entertainment systems for the mass market, a electronics chain store would be a good place to start.
Maybe they are preparing for something that Jobs will be announcing at his speech next month? Everyone is focusing on what he's going to say about the iPhone, but it would be his style to announce something out of left field and thus surprise everyone.
I am amazed! A government site that not only explains a law simply and concisely, but is well designed to boot. Thanks for the link.
Yahoo is ahead of Microsoft in a few areas... Yahoo's search is worse that Google (IMO), but Microsoft search is worse. Yahoo has Flickr and the social network 43Things, neither of which have a Microsoft equivalent. There's Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Groups, both of which are superior to what Microsoft has. But I agree... Microsoft has a tendency to be heavy-handed with new acquisitions, not to mention the ones it drowns in the bathtub on purpose.
I use google to get to dictionary.com or the Urban Dictionary (depending on the word). I have dictionary.com in my dropdown search box, but usually it's faster to get there by clicking on the google hit, as opposed to selecting the dictionary.com box and then clicking. This is all in Firefox; not sure what you can do in IE. The new version of IE probably has tricks of its own.