ISIS does represent something of an existential threat to the Saudi Arabian kingdom
Most definitely not. Kind of the exact opposite since it's spreading the views of a faction of the Saudis. It's a bit of a proxy war between the Saudis and Iran.
I'd definitely appreciate any information that you had to hand
I think you and everyone else interested needs a book instead of a few small web articles since it's been snowballing for many years. There are many. The ones I would have recommended are a bit dated (and written by a guy who is critical of the current Israeli government in other books so I'd get flamed - ESR even made up a word for him!) so I'd suggest choosing from one of the large number of recent ones.
The issue of the military base seems like a distraction
No, it shows us who our allies really are.
To me Islam seems like an ironic punishment for believing in Islam
The situation had no more to do with Islam than Charles Manson has to do about Christianity. It's faction versus faction and they all happen to use their faith as the excuse for what is really about control.
Not as such, it's about choosing to limit the talent pool more or less than other employers - how about looking at it that way instead of out from under a pile of emotional baggage WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF OUTRAGE AT THE TIME. Objective thought and practicality should be considered instead of what the Political Party line is today - surely you can think for yourself on this instead of recycling irrelevant outrage of others?
Apparently if you weigh less than a certain, fairly heavy weight, the danger is very high. So that excludes a lot of male pilots and nearly every female pilot.
In a news release issued Oct. 16, the Air Force confirmed a Defense News report that pilots under 136 pounds are currently barred from flying the fifth-generation aircraft, expected to be the backbone of American airpower for decades to come. It also acknowledged an "elevated level of risk" for pilots between 136 and 165 pounds
Can I say "I told you so" again? I'm probably talking to the wrong person, you probably said it as well along with everyone else who isn't in complete denial.
One of the "features" of the F35 is that if you are not very solidly built the helmet could take your head off if you eject, so not many chances for female pilots there.
The military doesn't need to be at the forefront of social change
It kind of does if you want to win. In WWII it would have been politically expedient to have only white soldiers but practicality meant being at the forefront of social change. The gender thing shouldn't get in the way of being effective.
Take a look at the depressingly long list of members of the joint chiefs of staff that managed to somehow never get deployed anywhere despite so much going on over their long careers. The former ones that somehow managed to avoid both Vietnam and Korea but were still held up as paragons seemed especially odd to get in those positions.
Fair enough - did you look at that link where the "environmentalists" were really used car salesman, real estate developers and an Australian knockoff of the southern political "carpetbaggers" of the bad old days?
"Burner" phones are an American thing. Getting a sim card or whatever without valid ID is unlikely in most of the world, and of course China brings that up an extra authoritarian notch. What's the use of a second phone if it's still in your name?
You may call it religion but I'm not so sure that the "prosperity gospel" would be seen as anything other than merchants in the temple to Jesus. There seems to be a lot of "God hates poor people, that's why they are poor" and "I've got mine" dressed up to look like something other than greed.
But, they're at least ideologically opposed to the Islamic State
Perhaps you should look into where it came from and how it came to be so well armed and well funded. After you've done so you may come to a very different conclusion. IMHO Trump's largest foreign policy mistake is to take the Saudi side (the guys that wouldn't let us have a base) against Qatar (our best allies in the middle east - the ones who actually let us have a base in their country). Qatar is giving us plenty of "material support" against I.S. while the Saudis seems to still be feeding the other side.
The stupid lies are getting very, very old so surely you are not falling for them.
It's the far far right with "infrasound" and shit doing this, including things like a pathetically transparent "false flag" fake environmental protest because of the worry that a wind farm would hurt property values and a way to hurt another political party (State was in the pocket of the developer, Feds had "green" ambitions, State tried a "green" way to kick the feds in the balls and earn those donor dollars): http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ministers-backflip-on-wind-farm/2006/12/21/1166290679112.html
I'm not even sure why you are posting because this loony charging at windmills has been done over and over here, surely you haven't been taken in by it?
Expensive things those nukes and private enterprise isn't going to touch them unless a government puts up the money. So - how do you get those nukes without that socialism you hate? Whoops, calling people ignorant really backfired there didn't it since you ignored a big one there.
The other truly massive mistake you have made is to compare base load and peak power sources - a powerful load of ignorance there. Wind doesn't compete with nukes at all - tiny little generators you bring on and offline as needed versus huge things you run 24/7/364 with up to five years between downtime? If you have a nuke at all you run it flat out and wind etc just gets out of the way. Mentioning one with the other really just shows you know as little about this topic as you do about your ancestors that fought to make you free whether you have a gun or not. What's with pretending you won your own freedom with every post?
Actually no, it's shows a fundamental lack of understanding of radioactive decay at the high school introductory science level. It's like falling for a perpetual motion scam.
It's best to accept that waste exists and deal with it. Counterproductive denial is the main reason why things like the Synroc project was on hold from the late 1980s until about five years ago, when all it needed was funding to test the completed design from the 1980s on real waste (and it worked - now being used in production). I'm kind of sick of all the stuff I found out about nukes in the early 1990s being still ahead of the cutting edge, and it's the "but the old nukes are perfect" cheerleaders that get in the way of actually moving towards perfect (or even good enough).
Sorry to nitpick your nitpick, but we had a peak a while back and then the Saudi oil price war exceeded it and we won't know if this is the peak unless it declines later.
I have for decades and could have taught you about it at a University in the 1990s so such a pathetic and petty attempt at bullying a teenager or whatever you think I am is not going to work.
Think about what happens at ground level of a tall building when a strong wind is hitting a flat face. Those awnings etc are not just for show.
The stresses must be well beyond imagination on such a system
A few years learning how to be an engineer and your imagination of such things will improve. These things are North Sea oil rigs with a windmill on top - stresses can be calculated due to experience.
Peak oil hasn't happened but you've certainly hit peak bullshit. You really have a lot of contempt for the readers here don't you? Large buildings, very high cliffs etc all produce those sort of winds as well but they don't seem to be collapsing the lungs of birds. A violent storm is an order of magnitude stronger again.
pushing for zero waste by using energy to recycle everything
It's kind of sad to see science education slipping so much. You never get zero waste. You've been fed a stupid and counterproductive lie that is going to hurt nuclear advocacy more than help it. That doesn't mean the waste can't be managed though. The Harford facilities website will help to undo some of that propaganda damage with a dose of reality. I suggest you look at that before embarrassing yourself any more here.
I oppose wind power because it's often not all that "green".
You've never advocated for anything "green" in your life so what should it matter? Go ask your grandpa about windmills on farms. Get him to teach you how to really use a gun instead of your mindless waving it about like a flag while you are at it.
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Most definitely not. Kind of the exact opposite since it's spreading the views of a faction of the Saudis. It's a bit of a proxy war between the Saudis and Iran.
I think you and everyone else interested needs a book instead of a few small web articles since it's been snowballing for many years. There are many. The ones I would have recommended are a bit dated (and written by a guy who is critical of the current Israeli government in other books so I'd get flamed - ESR even made up a word for him!) so I'd suggest choosing from one of the large number of recent ones.
No, it shows us who our allies really are.
The situation had no more to do with Islam than Charles Manson has to do about Christianity. It's faction versus faction and they all happen to use their faith as the excuse for what is really about control.
Not as such, it's about choosing to limit the talent pool more or less than other employers - how about looking at it that way instead of out from under a pile of emotional baggage WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF OUTRAGE AT THE TIME.
Objective thought and practicality should be considered instead of what the Political Party line is today - surely you can think for yourself on this instead of recycling irrelevant outrage of others?
Apparently a fix is being tested.
Can I say "I told you so" again?
I'm probably talking to the wrong person, you probably said it as well along with everyone else who isn't in complete denial.
One of the "features" of the F35 is that if you are not very solidly built the helmet could take your head off if you eject, so not many chances for female pilots there.
It's new that one of that type has got so far despite being so brazen about it.
It kind of does if you want to win. In WWII it would have been politically expedient to have only white soldiers but practicality meant being at the forefront of social change.
The gender thing shouldn't get in the way of being effective.
Take a look at the depressingly long list of members of the joint chiefs of staff that managed to somehow never get deployed anywhere despite so much going on over their long careers. The former ones that somehow managed to avoid both Vietnam and Korea but were still held up as paragons seemed especially odd to get in those positions.
Indeed, they can move from many places to get to that goalpost.
Don't you feel ashamed of yourself in going that low just to feed a two minute hate?
Fair enough - did you look at that link where the "environmentalists" were really used car salesman, real estate developers and an Australian knockoff of the southern political "carpetbaggers" of the bad old days?
Seriously? You never heard of the cult with Sarin gas? It's just about the most famous bit of religious terrorism ever.
"Burner" phones are an American thing. Getting a sim card or whatever without valid ID is unlikely in most of the world, and of course China brings that up an extra authoritarian notch.
What's the use of a second phone if it's still in your name?
You may call it religion but I'm not so sure that the "prosperity gospel" would be seen as anything other than merchants in the temple to Jesus.
There seems to be a lot of "God hates poor people, that's why they are poor" and "I've got mine" dressed up to look like something other than greed.
Perhaps you should look into where it came from and how it came to be so well armed and well funded. After you've done so you may come to a very different conclusion.
IMHO Trump's largest foreign policy mistake is to take the Saudi side (the guys that wouldn't let us have a base) against Qatar (our best allies in the middle east - the ones who actually let us have a base in their country). Qatar is giving us plenty of "material support" against I.S. while the Saudis seems to still be feeding the other side.
The stupid lies are getting very, very old so surely you are not falling for them.
It's the far far right with "infrasound" and shit doing this, including things like a pathetically transparent "false flag" fake environmental protest because of the worry that a wind farm would hurt property values and a way to hurt another political party (State was in the pocket of the developer, Feds had "green" ambitions, State tried a "green" way to kick the feds in the balls and earn those donor dollars):
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ministers-backflip-on-wind-farm/2006/12/21/1166290679112.html
I'm not even sure why you are posting because this loony charging at windmills has been done over and over here, surely you haven't been taken in by it?
Expensive things those nukes and private enterprise isn't going to touch them unless a government puts up the money.
So - how do you get those nukes without that socialism you hate? Whoops, calling people ignorant really backfired there didn't it since you ignored a big one there.
The other truly massive mistake you have made is to compare base load and peak power sources - a powerful load of ignorance there. Wind doesn't compete with nukes at all - tiny little generators you bring on and offline as needed versus huge things you run 24/7/364 with up to five years between downtime? If you have a nuke at all you run it flat out and wind etc just gets out of the way. Mentioning one with the other really just shows you know as little about this topic as you do about your ancestors that fought to make you free whether you have a gun or not. What's with pretending you won your own freedom with every post?
Actually no, it's shows a fundamental lack of understanding of radioactive decay at the high school introductory science level.
It's like falling for a perpetual motion scam.
It's best to accept that waste exists and deal with it. Counterproductive denial is the main reason why things like the Synroc project was on hold from the late 1980s until about five years ago, when all it needed was funding to test the completed design from the 1980s on real waste (and it worked - now being used in production).
I'm kind of sick of all the stuff I found out about nukes in the early 1990s being still ahead of the cutting edge, and it's the "but the old nukes are perfect" cheerleaders that get in the way of actually moving towards perfect (or even good enough).
Nice try at stirring up some hate there but it's not the Mexicans who are the slackers.
http://theweek.com/articles/53...
So what was the point?
Sorry to nitpick your nitpick, but we had a peak a while back and then the Saudi oil price war exceeded it and we won't know if this is the peak unless it declines later.
Isn't it obvious from the context? The ones who pretend Jesus was a coal magnate.
I have for decades and could have taught you about it at a University in the 1990s so such a pathetic and petty attempt at bullying a teenager or whatever you think I am is not going to work.
Think about what happens at ground level of a tall building when a strong wind is hitting a flat face. Those awnings etc are not just for show.
A few years learning how to be an engineer and your imagination of such things will improve.
These things are North Sea oil rigs with a windmill on top - stresses can be calculated due to experience.
Peak oil hasn't happened but you've certainly hit peak bullshit. You really have a lot of contempt for the readers here don't you?
Large buildings, very high cliffs etc all produce those sort of winds as well but they don't seem to be collapsing the lungs of birds. A violent storm is an order of magnitude stronger again.
It's kind of sad to see science education slipping so much. You never get zero waste. You've been fed a stupid and counterproductive lie that is going to hurt nuclear advocacy more than help it. That doesn't mean the waste can't be managed though. The Harford facilities website will help to undo some of that propaganda damage with a dose of reality. I suggest you look at that before embarrassing yourself any more here.
You've never advocated for anything "green" in your life so what should it matter?
Go ask your grandpa about windmills on farms. Get him to teach you how to really use a gun instead of your mindless waving it about like a flag while you are at it.