As far as I know, the objection to the treaty is still there. But each country has unilaterally declared no first use. Neither government wants to get together and talk, but they don't want to be seen as trolls either.
I doubt that if push came to shove, the politicians would be ready to push the button unilaterally. If nothing else, population centres in both countries are too close to each other. If we nuke Lahore, Amritsar becomes a wasteland. If they nuke Bombay, Karachi's just across the water. Too much to lose.
With China, I can't really say - it could go either way, but again, I doubt it. Two growing economies with very little reason to blast the living daylights out of anybody, much less each other.
How isnt India hostile? They have nukes pointed at Pakistan and Pakistan has nukes pointed at them. They are CONSTANTLY fighting over Kashmir. This could be percieved as an escalation or at least a way to unbalance the MAD equation in that part of the world.
Because India has never actually been the aggressor in any of the wars with either China or Pakistan. And any technology sold to us would be inspected by the IAEA anyway.
The US needs to be serious about non-proliferation. Shame it isnt.
If the US were serious about non-proliferation, they would help reduce the P5's arsenals in the first place.
Basically, it's a position of protest. Nobody here likes the US or China or Russia saying that nobody else can have nukes, while they sit on earth-shattering (literally) quantities of the stuff. India has essentially followed the main ideas of non-proliferation (apart from two incidents) though - for example, there's a unilateral moratorium on testing.
On the other hand, we could have signed it and then developed nukes anyway, but India doesn't work that way
People in the US especially seem to think of India in terms of snake charmers and cheap IT, forgetting that we are the second largest nation on earth, with genuine security concerns.
With China sitting to our east and making noises (usually, very loud noises) and a particularly unstable Pakistan to the west who got most of their nuclear tech from China, we really don't have a choice.
Besides which, far too many other pieces of tech cannot be sold to India because they may kinda sorta have some possible application in one corner of the fine art of nuclear weapons manufacture. This can finally stop now.
Finally, the whole deal means that we can now start having safety equipment for our nuclear program, which we haven't been able to obtain for years now.
Anyway, you probably don't know the amount of flak the government has taken over this deal... There's talk from lots of sides about "selling our sovereignty", because there will now be periodic inspections of all nuclear facilities by the IAEA.
Anyway, Arbitrarily restricting possession of nuclear weapons to those nations that tested before 1967 is not exactly a solid foundation for the NPT. It should have been quite blindingly obvious right back then that several nations, even reasonably stable ones, would have severe reservations about such an imbalanced treaty.
When the prevalent economic theory is that the entire responsibility of a corporation is to make a profit for the shareholders, and lots of willing serfs (hard to blame them, really) ready to do even the most dumb of tasks, here's where you end up.
Well, here and gold farming on MMORPGs... Honestly, at least this is something with a practical purpose. Gold farming strikes me as one of the most pointless things you can do.
"WILL BREAK CAPTCHAS FOR FOOD?"
Or better yet, no ejecting of the memory cards - you have to link the machines up, and the memory is soldered onto the board. So, nobody can swap cards on the machine.
The simple solution is to not network all the machines at all in the first place.
Treat each machine as a ballot box, which needs a physical link to be made after the voting is over to actually transfer to the main unit. Why is this even a networked system?
In that case, you'd end up with a rendering engine that could simply be used in a browser. As far as I can see, nobody has that mythical beastie yet...
They really can't without losing a whole lot of face. Probably the only reason Apple was able to do OS X is that Jobs came back from outside, and decided to do a cleanup. MS on the other hand, has been going on with NT's architecture, and selling it as stable and reliable for so long that doing anything else would drop whatever credibility they have (left).
Besides, they don't have the requisite reality distortion field...
Or you could press Enter/Escape for yes/no, Alt+T for typical and so on. Access keys are easy, and take a whole ampersand to declare in pretty much every toolkit I know of. Also, faster than saying "Agree" "Next" "Next" "Next"...
Not cutting edge anymore, but I've been playing Rome: Total War on wine - it's not great, but playable. C&C3 also (supposedly) works, but I don't have the beef on my system to check that out. Check the Appdb http://appdb.winehq.com/ for more that do. It's quite an impressive list for a reverse-engineered hack of a (not) emulator...
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As far as I know, the objection to the treaty is still there. But each country has unilaterally declared no first use. Neither government wants to get together and talk, but they don't want to be seen as trolls either.
I doubt that if push came to shove, the politicians would be ready to push the button unilaterally. If nothing else, population centres in both countries are too close to each other. If we nuke Lahore, Amritsar becomes a wasteland. If they nuke Bombay, Karachi's just across the water. Too much to lose.
With China, I can't really say - it could go either way, but again, I doubt it. Two growing economies with very little reason to blast the living daylights out of anybody, much less each other.
How isnt India hostile? They have nukes pointed at Pakistan and Pakistan has nukes pointed at them. They are CONSTANTLY fighting over Kashmir. This could be percieved as an escalation or at least a way to unbalance the MAD equation in that part of the world.
Because India has never actually been the aggressor in any of the wars with either China or Pakistan. And any technology sold to us would be inspected by the IAEA anyway.
The US needs to be serious about non-proliferation. Shame it isnt.
If the US were serious about non-proliferation, they would help reduce the P5's arsenals in the first place.
How about laying off hollywood thrillers for a while?
The real world isn't Sum of All Fears, you know...
We have enough Thorium sands, thank you very much... It's nuclear technology that we need.
We're inviting the IAEA in, as opposed to rattling sabres... I know who I'd trust in such a situation...
Basically, it's a position of protest. Nobody here likes the US or China or Russia saying that nobody else can have nukes, while they sit on earth-shattering (literally) quantities of the stuff. India has essentially followed the main ideas of non-proliferation (apart from two incidents) though - for example, there's a unilateral moratorium on testing.
On the other hand, we could have signed it and then developed nukes anyway, but India doesn't work that way
People in the US especially seem to think of India in terms of snake charmers and cheap IT, forgetting that we are the second largest nation on earth, with genuine security concerns.
With China sitting to our east and making noises (usually, very loud noises) and a particularly unstable Pakistan to the west who got most of their nuclear tech from China, we really don't have a choice.
Besides which, far too many other pieces of tech cannot be sold to India because they may kinda sorta have some possible application in one corner of the fine art of nuclear weapons manufacture. This can finally stop now.
Finally, the whole deal means that we can now start having safety equipment for our nuclear program, which we haven't been able to obtain for years now.
Anyway, you probably don't know the amount of flak the government has taken over this deal... There's talk from lots of sides about "selling our sovereignty", because there will now be periodic inspections of all nuclear facilities by the IAEA.
Anyway, Arbitrarily restricting possession of nuclear weapons to those nations that tested before 1967 is not exactly a solid foundation for the NPT. It should have been quite blindingly obvious right back then that several nations, even reasonably stable ones, would have severe reservations about such an imbalanced treaty.
Well, you'd have to take quantum effects into account, I guess. That's nearly atomic size
Calling Ben Franklin...
Also, Larry Lessig, Eben Moglen and a reasonably sizable proportion of people the general /. crowd idolizes...
When the prevalent economic theory is that the entire responsibility of a corporation is to make a profit for the shareholders, and lots of willing serfs (hard to blame them, really) ready to do even the most dumb of tasks, here's where you end up. Well, here and gold farming on MMORPGs... Honestly, at least this is something with a practical purpose. Gold farming strikes me as one of the most pointless things you can do. "WILL BREAK CAPTCHAS FOR FOOD?"
Over-engineered...
This calls for nothing more complex than a button board with an LCD, and a built-in EEPROM which can record the votes (button presses).
Or better yet, no ejecting of the memory cards - you have to link the machines up, and the memory is soldered onto the board. So, nobody can swap cards on the machine.
The simple solution is to not network all the machines at all in the first place. Treat each machine as a ballot box, which needs a physical link to be made after the voting is over to actually transfer to the main unit. Why is this even a networked system?
Not a troll - just lawyer material, i guess...
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Somebody mod this up, please.
One PSP: check One '90s tech processor designed to withstand thermonuclear EMPs: check
In that case, you'd end up with a rendering engine that could simply be used in a browser. As far as I can see, nobody has that mythical beastie yet...
It's pining for the fjords...
They really can't without losing a whole lot of face. Probably the only reason Apple was able to do OS X is that Jobs came back from outside, and decided to do a cleanup. MS on the other hand, has been going on with NT's architecture, and selling it as stable and reliable for so long that doing anything else would drop whatever credibility they have (left).
Besides, they don't have the requisite reality distortion field...
I can't believe I'm the one who gets to do this...
http://xkcd.com/304/Or you could press Enter/Escape for yes/no, Alt+T for typical and so on. Access keys are easy, and take a whole ampersand to declare in pretty much every toolkit I know of. Also, faster than saying "Agree" "Next" "Next" "Next"...
Not cutting edge anymore, but I've been playing Rome: Total War on wine - it's not great, but playable. C&C3 also (supposedly) works, but I don't have the beef on my system to check that out. Check the Appdb http://appdb.winehq.com/ for more that do. It's quite an impressive list for a reverse-engineered hack of a (not) emulator...