But, to be fair, isn't this how these things are suppose to work? Something fails, everything gracefully shuts down?
Which won't stop every envirowhack on slashdot from waving his hankie and screaming "NUKLYUR EVIL!!".
It's not nuclear power that is evil, it's the fuckwads who end up working there and/or in charge of it. My father used to work in nuclear power stations, and he said once that the opening credits of The Simpsons are closer to reality than most people would like to think.
I'm sorry, but with the nuclear power industry, it's always jam tomorrow. It needs to be tightly controlled by people with no vested financial interest in it, but of course that is too fucking socialist for everyone nowadays.
Localized hypersonic sound pulse emission combined with teraflop level calculation for precision targetting to disperse a concentrated aerosolized polymer matrix mist loaded with synthetic diamond.
I think anyway.
That is like a whole cake made of awesome with a fucking cherry of awesome on top.
A round of depleted uranium is not a nuclear weapon.
Tell that to the people who get wounded by them, and subsequently die from radiation poisoning.
No, the (arguable) problem with depleted uranium ammunition is that it causes sickness amongst your own troops who carry it around, and AFAIK this isn't radiation sickness, it's just because uranium is poisonous (in the chemical sense) to start with. The people who get shot with it just have worse than normal injuries due to the greater momentum of denser ammunition.
US carriers have been routinely sunk by canadian, australian, dutch and english subs.
Am I being really thick here or something? But I honestly don't have any recollection of any of those countries ever being at war with the US. (Well, within living memory at least).
It seems like you would need an awful lot of successful attacks to take out a carrier though. The modern carrier has so many defenses, some secret, I am doubtful even a good supersonic missile could get close to one. Even if a missile does get through they are so huge and compartmentalized it would probably not sink.
Surely a well aimed nuke would take one out easily enough? Or are there special rules that mean you're not allowed to attack boats using non-conventional weapons? Or are you limiting you battles to vastly less well equipped enemies?
No worries, you can identify Titans pretty easily by the huge "whooshing" sound they make as they pass. Here's a more appropriate Wikipedia page for you.
Not all of us have time to sit around playing online games all day, when we should be working, you know.
If we did, we'd never be able to fit in reading and posting on slashdot.
I always say, if you go to war, the draft should be reinstated. Make it a fucking political nightmare to do it, and talking and peace will become more valuable.
Yup, and draft all the politicians who support the war straight into the front line first.
I think what you said isn't even true of the US, as there most certainly are differences between the Democrats and Republicans (albeit centre-right v. right-right).
In Europe you absolutely do have a left/right choice. Look at somewhere like Greece, you have extreme right and extreme left wing politicians in positions of power. France looks like going from quite right wing back to left wing. Countries like Italy have neo-fascist and communist MPs.
Hopefully here in the UK we will get back to a proper left wing opposition rather than the Blairite yank-wanking that went on.
Assassinations refers to political leaders, i.e. killing a country's president because we know the next in line is more willing to work with us. Bin Laden was not a political leader of any country, he was a terrorist, thus not protected by the executive order prohibiting Assassinations. There is a distinct difference and a reason for the difference.
Well, okay, if you want to play legalistic word games, that's up to you. But the common definition of assassination is the killing of a prominent public figure. Robert Kennedy was assassinated as surely as his brother John, despite the former not being the head of state.
Bin Laden was a political figure in the same way as Che Guevara, Martin Luther King or Gandhi.(No, I am not equating them all in any other way).
Do you know who they are? The.gov address might give you a clue but it is Sandia National Laboratories. They are one of the DoE's research labs. It's where they do research relating to nuclear weapons, among other things. This isn't something the oil companies have any sway over or ability to grab.
You appear to be unfamiliar with the term "military-industrial complex".
"Ye wanna put a nuculer bomb in my back yard?!" says the city-dweller. Good luck explaining the difference to a lay man.
A good start would be to ensure full transparency about potential risks and benefits, and to ban any profit-making party from having anything to do with their construciton or maintenance.
The reason that lay people mistrust nuclear energy so profoundly is because it was initially bound up entirely with the production of fuel for nuclear weapons, with the peaceful use just a cover (at least here in the UK). The resulting military levels of secrecy meant that any whiff of an accident was covered up under the guise of National Security, so that when the truth finally emerged, people knew they had been lied to.
$10 shipping? Really??? Several thousands, even with some kind of nonprofit discount involved. A container full of metal and plastic will weigh quite a bit and nobody will transfer that amount of bulk and weight several thousand miles for free.
Er, I think he meant $10 shipping each, not $10 for the whole container.
Disclaimer: I'm not an international shipping expert or maritime lawyer, so don't quote me.
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But, to be fair, isn't this how these things are suppose to work? Something fails, everything gracefully shuts down?
Which won't stop every envirowhack on slashdot from waving his hankie and screaming "NUKLYUR EVIL!!".
It's not nuclear power that is evil, it's the fuckwads who end up working there and/or in charge of it. My father used to work in nuclear power stations, and he said once that the opening credits of The Simpsons are closer to reality than most people would like to think.
I'm sorry, but with the nuclear power industry, it's always jam tomorrow. It needs to be tightly controlled by people with no vested financial interest in it, but of course that is too fucking socialist for everyone nowadays.
What about arrest for resisting arrest?
So what's your alternative? The police just stun gun every suspect in advance? Or they have to let you go if you're better at fighting than they are?
You are an idiot.
Unless Japan brings back the Yamato, that one was HUGE with 46cm guns that was basically shooting a school bus full of explosives at the enemy.
Did they let the kids get off first?
Localized hypersonic sound pulse emission combined with teraflop level calculation for precision targetting to disperse a concentrated aerosolized polymer matrix mist loaded with synthetic diamond.
I think anyway.
That is like a whole cake made of awesome with a fucking cherry of awesome on top.
A carrier lets you park a military city 10 miles off just about anyone's border
Yeah, but that's no use if you're at war with Switzerland is it?
Sadly, the weapon you describe is pretty much science fiction. Either that, or it's just a mix of buzzwords strung together to sound pretty.
So shouldn't the submersible sonar stealth drones have synergised with something to create a paradigm shift?
A round of depleted uranium is not a nuclear weapon.
Tell that to the people who get wounded by them, and subsequently die from radiation poisoning.
No, the (arguable) problem with depleted uranium ammunition is that it causes sickness amongst your own troops who carry it around, and AFAIK this isn't radiation sickness, it's just because uranium is poisonous (in the chemical sense) to start with. The people who get shot with it just have worse than normal injuries due to the greater momentum of denser ammunition.
US carriers have been routinely sunk by canadian, australian, dutch and english subs.
Am I being really thick here or something? But I honestly don't have any recollection of any of those countries ever being at war with the US. (Well, within living memory at least).
Are you talking about war games or something?
On the other hand, they excel at projecting power in asymmetric warfare
Hence their universally acknowledged role in helping us triumph in Afghanistan.
Lesson learned: :Limit the amount of memory it can access, keep it within a set of bounds.
Yes, what could possibly go wrong with hardware and software controls over a collection of hardware and software?
An nuclear explosion 500 meter away won't sink one... it might kill everyone on board when it bobs.
Is that true? How about a nuclear explosion 100 or 0 metres away?
I can't really believe that you know the answers to these questions, or if you did would talk about them in public.
It seems like you would need an awful lot of successful attacks to take out a carrier though. The modern carrier has so many defenses, some secret, I am doubtful even a good supersonic missile could get close to one. Even if a missile does get through they are so huge and compartmentalized it would probably not sink.
Surely a well aimed nuke would take one out easily enough? Or are there special rules that mean you're not allowed to attack boats using non-conventional weapons? Or are you limiting you battles to vastly less well equipped enemies?
Nothing says "I have a big penis!" like a Ragnarok.
Not even a T-shirt saying "I have a big penis!"?
Maybe I should spend more time playing computer games rather than shopping for novelty clothing.
No worries, you can identify Titans pretty easily by the huge "whooshing" sound they make as they pass. Here's a more appropriate Wikipedia page for you.
Not all of us have time to sit around playing online games all day, when we should be working, you know.
If we did, we'd never be able to fit in reading and posting on slashdot.
I always say, if you go to war, the draft should be reinstated. Make it a fucking political nightmare to do it, and talking and peace will become more valuable.
Yup, and draft all the politicians who support the war straight into the front line first.
I think what you said isn't even true of the US, as there most certainly are differences between the Democrats and Republicans (albeit centre-right v. right-right).
In Europe you absolutely do have a left/right choice. Look at somewhere like Greece, you have extreme right and extreme left wing politicians in positions of power. France looks like going from quite right wing back to left wing. Countries like Italy have neo-fascist and communist MPs.
Hopefully here in the UK we will get back to a proper left wing opposition rather than the Blairite yank-wanking that went on.
Assassinations refers to political leaders, i.e. killing a country's president because we know the next in line is more willing to work with us. Bin Laden was not a political leader of any country, he was a terrorist, thus not protected by the executive order prohibiting Assassinations. There is a distinct difference and a reason for the difference.
Well, okay, if you want to play legalistic word games, that's up to you. But the common definition of assassination is the killing of a prominent public figure. Robert Kennedy was assassinated as surely as his brother John, despite the former not being the head of state.
Bin Laden was a political figure in the same way as Che Guevara, Martin Luther King or Gandhi.(No, I am not equating them all in any other way).
Do you know who they are? The .gov address might give you a clue but it is Sandia National Laboratories. They are one of the DoE's research labs. It's where they do research relating to nuclear weapons, among other things. This isn't something the oil companies have any sway over or ability to grab.
You appear to be unfamiliar with the term "military-industrial complex".
'fact' - haha, snort, uhmm, sorry... We have enough oil, gas and coal to last for hundreds more years of fusion research.
Well thank the Sweet Lord Baby Jesus for that! And here was everyone worrying about things unnecessarily.
"Ye wanna put a nuculer bomb in my back yard?!" says the city-dweller. Good luck explaining the difference to a lay man.
A good start would be to ensure full transparency about potential risks and benefits, and to ban any profit-making party from having anything to do with their construciton or maintenance.
The reason that lay people mistrust nuclear energy so profoundly is because it was initially bound up entirely with the production of fuel for nuclear weapons, with the peaceful use just a cover (at least here in the UK). The resulting military levels of secrecy meant that any whiff of an accident was covered up under the guise of National Security, so that when the truth finally emerged, people knew they had been lied to.
Paranoid conspiracy theory.
What a great band they were. I wonder sometimes what happened to them?
(Yeah, like we don't all know...)
Do you know how much energy there is in a cubic metre of water once we just get that cold fusion thingy sorted out?
Me neither, but it's a LOT.
I'm surpised no one has thought of using such a cheap and easily available source of almost limitless energy before.
$10 shipping? Really??? Several thousands, even with some kind of nonprofit discount involved. A container full of metal and plastic will weigh quite a bit and nobody will transfer that amount of bulk and weight several thousand miles for free.
Er, I think he meant $10 shipping each, not $10 for the whole container.
Disclaimer: I'm not an international shipping expert or maritime lawyer, so don't quote me.
India is right next door!
Right, so Mexico and Canada are also interchangeable with the USA?
It would be helpful if Timothy/Anonymous Reader could explain why he is ruling out mechanical typewriters.
From TFQ:
"I considered using typewriters but they are in limited supply on the market."
So, taking a stab in the dark, maybe because they're in limited supply on the market? Just a wild guess.