This is great for possible threats. Stick these in international airspace and/or over friendly countries near the border of a potential opponent and you can cheaply watch them. These would be great at border posts in Iraq to watch Iran, around China, off the coast of Venezuela, I'm sure you can think of some others. These would be a lot cheaper than keeping a ship tooling around like the one the Chinese harassed last week.
Chernobyl was already completely covered by US regulations before it happened. Even the Russians actually had it covered in their rules. It only happened because they violated their own safety rules. Three-mile island is a testament to how US regulations work. Despite damn near everything going wrong the only release of radiation was some hydrogen gas. Hydrogen, most people know, is lighter than air and thus only a danger to whatever flock of birds may have flown over at the time. The correct response to three mile island was some regulatory tweaking to cover lessons learned, to include removing outdated or counterproductive rules. The problem with adding more and more rules every year is that the added complexity itself creates risk. Most of the rules added in that time period were the result of political pressure not necessity or any expectation of improved safety. They were put in place to intentionally delay construction and increase cost. It takes about five years to build a nuclear power plant in Japan. It takes over a decade in the US. The Japanese aren't building unsafe plants, they just don't have a bunch of nuts who lose their minds just because someone says "nuclear".
That is also reasonable. We seem to agree on these things, but I'm not sure if your being sarcastic. I really do think they are reasonable suggestions.
The only reason that nuclear is so expensive is because of regulatory ratcheting from environmentalists. If you pile enough unnecessary regulations on anything you can then turn around and claim it isn't cost effective. Additionally, most of those subsidies, such as the government paying to mine the fuel, aren't subsidies, the government makes a profit selling the fuel to the power plants.
From my experience, having a guy who isn't particularly gifted, but is willing to work that hard, is better than a genius in the field. The hard worker will tell me when there is a problem, he will ask for clarification when he doesn't understand, and he won't get all offended that he is doing the boring, but critically important, grunt work.
A 2700 pound shell doesn't need much explosive. The kinetic energy alone is enough to do all the damage need for fire support. The danger close radius of those shells is already so large that any more explosive would make them to powerful to be useful.
It was standard for ship to ship fights, but for fleet battles they would form into lines and trade broadsides as the opposing lines passed in parallel but opposite directions. Nelson's big idea was to allow the enemy line to cross your T while he sailed directly at their line. Nelsons ships absorbed multiple long to medium distance volleys without responding but were able to fire at extreme short distance, many times to both right and left if his ship survived to cut the enemie's line.
It would be a disaster if it happened over the course of 5 or 10 years. That it is expected to take over a hundred years to happen means it won't be that big a deal. It you look at all the population movement and growth that has happened in the last 100 years, the displacement expected from global warming isn't much more.
There is no such thing as collective decisions. There is always an individual who has to make the decision. The question is, will that individual have an incentive (such as preserving his own equity) in a productive outcome or will he have an incentive (government bureaucrat) to do what is popular irrespective of the actual wisdom of the action.
Well, let the organizations with losses beyond there ability to cover declare bankruptcy. No one can lose more than they invested, let the guy who made a bad investment pay for his loss. The FDIC will prevent most people from losing what they can't afford to lose. The whole problem with the finicial system is nobody knows how bad off anybody else is. Let the losers go under and everyone will have faith that those left standing are in good shape. There are thousands of banks in this county and the vast majority of them are in great shape and are still lending money to consumers and companies. Once the fools are out of the way the prudently run banks will grow to take over any marketshare given up by the bankrupt banks.
The uprisings "flaw" in CivIII isn't a flaw. Historically, ethnic cleansing/genocide by starvation, slavery, and or slaughter was the most effective way to control a newly conquered area. Genocide works, dead people don't revolt. Killing all the males and raping all the women wasn't done because they were barbarians, it was done because it prevented uprisings for a generation and then diluted those eventual revolts since a non-insignificant portion of the men would be related, sons of rapists, to the conquers.
For a direct historical example, Carthage became one of the three most important cities to the Roman empire after the Romans burned the city, sowed salt into the earth, raped and/or enslaved the women, and slaughtered or enslaved the men.
You accomplish it with an antenna array. If timed right the interference patterns of the waves can shape the overall wave front. This basic approach is already used in cell towers to shape the main lobe of the beam. The big advance is that this same approach can be used to not only aim the beam but to add a spin to it as well.
A properly raised hunter doesn't restrict itself to prey smaller than itself. My cat, appropriately named killer, caught a rabbit approx. 50% larger than her one time. I actually watched her drag it across the field and leave it by the front door.
Most soldiers like it that way. My wife doesn't need to see what really happened. My son doesn't need to watch it on TV. I believe I'm doing the right thing when I go over and I want to succeed. I believe that I'm improving both the long term security of the US and improving the lives of the locals and I don't want some activist taking a bunch of shocking photos with no context or discussion of the hundreds of risk assessment decisions made by everyone involved that led up to the shocking photo. I don't need some jackass sobbing over a dead "civilian"(If there are no weapons laying on the ground when the photographer gets there, hours later, then the dead guy must be an civilian) that was firing mortars or shooting at me when he died.
A lot of the internet access is contracted out. Often deployed personnel get the Italian or Germain versions of google and will have a problem with itunes thinking they are in the country where the sat downlink(and thus ip address range) is located.
Now you do realize that most of the articles written, today anyway, showing global warming are written by people with a financial stake in it being true? Do you really think getting a big grant from NASA or the EPA have any less pressure to produce the "correct" conclusions than someone funded by an industry?
SureFires are made for people armed with firearms, generally pistols or carbines. They can either be mounted to the weapon or, if using a pistol, operated easily with one hand while the other is holding the pistol.
That "Or die." part is a bit confusing. If the planet can't sustain the 7 billion people we already have, then doesn't logic require that you kill off the extra people to get to your sustainable society? Why shouldn't you be the first to go? Unless you have a plan to cut a couple of billion people without killing them?
Why did you have an expensive laptop shipped to Afghanistan through the military mail system? It is notorious for lost,stolen, and misdirected mail. If they didn't get stolen on the way then you can bet both of your laptops are in some random firebase in country. For future reference, all major bases have DHL and/or FedEx locations. Bagram has one. If your not at Bagram, have a buddy pick it up for you when he travels through.
No, the Army is barred from having most fixed wing aircraft and the helicopters have virtually no air-air capability because that would make them the purview of the Air Force. The Army is dependent on the Air Force for CAS support because the Air Force jealously guards their turf even when it is an area that they ignore. The Marines maintain their own close air support because they learned this lesson in WW2.
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This is great for possible threats. Stick these in international airspace and/or over friendly countries near the border of a potential opponent and you can cheaply watch them. These would be great at border posts in Iraq to watch Iran, around China, off the coast of Venezuela, I'm sure you can think of some others. These would be a lot cheaper than keeping a ship tooling around like the one the Chinese harassed last week.
Considering an "X" can be considered a valid signature, I'll bet that anything you present as your signature is your signature.
Chernobyl was already completely covered by US regulations before it happened. Even the Russians actually had it covered in their rules. It only happened because they violated their own safety rules. Three-mile island is a testament to how US regulations work. Despite damn near everything going wrong the only release of radiation was some hydrogen gas. Hydrogen, most people know, is lighter than air and thus only a danger to whatever flock of birds may have flown over at the time. The correct response to three mile island was some regulatory tweaking to cover lessons learned, to include removing outdated or counterproductive rules. The problem with adding more and more rules every year is that the added complexity itself creates risk. Most of the rules added in that time period were the result of political pressure not necessity or any expectation of improved safety. They were put in place to intentionally delay construction and increase cost. It takes about five years to build a nuclear power plant in Japan. It takes over a decade in the US. The Japanese aren't building unsafe plants, they just don't have a bunch of nuts who lose their minds just because someone says "nuclear".
That is also reasonable. We seem to agree on these things, but I'm not sure if your being sarcastic. I really do think they are reasonable suggestions.
The only reason that nuclear is so expensive is because of regulatory ratcheting from environmentalists. If you pile enough unnecessary regulations on anything you can then turn around and claim it isn't cost effective. Additionally, most of those subsidies, such as the government paying to mine the fuel, aren't subsidies, the government makes a profit selling the fuel to the power plants.
If there is actual evidence of that then you are right.
I suggest a mod point or two for this guy.
From my experience, having a guy who isn't particularly gifted, but is willing to work that hard, is better than a genius in the field. The hard worker will tell me when there is a problem, he will ask for clarification when he doesn't understand, and he won't get all offended that he is doing the boring, but critically important, grunt work.
A 2700 pound shell doesn't need much explosive. The kinetic energy alone is enough to do all the damage need for fire support. The danger close radius of those shells is already so large that any more explosive would make them to powerful to be useful.
It was standard for ship to ship fights, but for fleet battles they would form into lines and trade broadsides as the opposing lines passed in parallel but opposite directions. Nelson's big idea was to allow the enemy line to cross your T while he sailed directly at their line. Nelsons ships absorbed multiple long to medium distance volleys without responding but were able to fire at extreme short distance, many times to both right and left if his ship survived to cut the enemie's line.
1800 was in the middle of a "little ice age". Starting your measurements there is also cherry picking to show a warming trend.
It would be a disaster if it happened over the course of 5 or 10 years. That it is expected to take over a hundred years to happen means it won't be that big a deal. It you look at all the population movement and growth that has happened in the last 100 years, the displacement expected from global warming isn't much more.
There is no such thing as collective decisions. There is always an individual who has to make the decision. The question is, will that individual have an incentive (such as preserving his own equity) in a productive outcome or will he have an incentive (government bureaucrat) to do what is popular irrespective of the actual wisdom of the action.
Well, let the organizations with losses beyond there ability to cover declare bankruptcy. No one can lose more than they invested, let the guy who made a bad investment pay for his loss. The FDIC will prevent most people from losing what they can't afford to lose. The whole problem with the finicial system is nobody knows how bad off anybody else is. Let the losers go under and everyone will have faith that those left standing are in good shape. There are thousands of banks in this county and the vast majority of them are in great shape and are still lending money to consumers and companies. Once the fools are out of the way the prudently run banks will grow to take over any marketshare given up by the bankrupt banks.
The uprisings "flaw" in CivIII isn't a flaw. Historically, ethnic cleansing/genocide by starvation, slavery, and or slaughter was the most effective way to control a newly conquered area. Genocide works, dead people don't revolt. Killing all the males and raping all the women wasn't done because they were barbarians, it was done because it prevented uprisings for a generation and then diluted those eventual revolts since a non-insignificant portion of the men would be related, sons of rapists, to the conquers. For a direct historical example, Carthage became one of the three most important cities to the Roman empire after the Romans burned the city, sowed salt into the earth, raped and/or enslaved the women, and slaughtered or enslaved the men.
You accomplish it with an antenna array. If timed right the interference patterns of the waves can shape the overall wave front. This basic approach is already used in cell towers to shape the main lobe of the beam. The big advance is that this same approach can be used to not only aim the beam but to add a spin to it as well.
A properly raised hunter doesn't restrict itself to prey smaller than itself. My cat, appropriately named killer, caught a rabbit approx. 50% larger than her one time. I actually watched her drag it across the field and leave it by the front door.
Most soldiers like it that way. My wife doesn't need to see what really happened. My son doesn't need to watch it on TV. I believe I'm doing the right thing when I go over and I want to succeed. I believe that I'm improving both the long term security of the US and improving the lives of the locals and I don't want some activist taking a bunch of shocking photos with no context or discussion of the hundreds of risk assessment decisions made by everyone involved that led up to the shocking photo. I don't need some jackass sobbing over a dead "civilian"(If there are no weapons laying on the ground when the photographer gets there, hours later, then the dead guy must be an civilian) that was firing mortars or shooting at me when he died.
A lot of the internet access is contracted out. Often deployed personnel get the Italian or Germain versions of google and will have a problem with itunes thinking they are in the country where the sat downlink(and thus ip address range) is located.
Now you do realize that most of the articles written, today anyway, showing global warming are written by people with a financial stake in it being true? Do you really think getting a big grant from NASA or the EPA have any less pressure to produce the "correct" conclusions than someone funded by an industry?
SureFires are made for people armed with firearms, generally pistols or carbines. They can either be mounted to the weapon or, if using a pistol, operated easily with one hand while the other is holding the pistol.
You haven't lost your dragon by any chance?
That "Or die." part is a bit confusing. If the planet can't sustain the 7 billion people we already have, then doesn't logic require that you kill off the extra people to get to your sustainable society? Why shouldn't you be the first to go? Unless you have a plan to cut a couple of billion people without killing them?
Why did you have an expensive laptop shipped to Afghanistan through the military mail system? It is notorious for lost,stolen, and misdirected mail. If they didn't get stolen on the way then you can bet both of your laptops are in some random firebase in country. For future reference, all major bases have DHL and/or FedEx locations. Bagram has one. If your not at Bagram, have a buddy pick it up for you when he travels through.
No, the Army is barred from having most fixed wing aircraft and the helicopters have virtually no air-air capability because that would make them the purview of the Air Force. The Army is dependent on the Air Force for CAS support because the Air Force jealously guards their turf even when it is an area that they ignore. The Marines maintain their own close air support because they learned this lesson in WW2.