Well, I got the impression that the Clean Water Act was started, at least in part, by manufacturers of Feenamint, which found that the effects of bisacodyl (which will sack your ass something fierce), that was used instead of suppositories which were very undesirable. Runs are a demoralizer and squelches promiscuity, caffein a diuretic which interferes with jogging...
Hmm, OK, let's see... a certain well-known aviation company that for money reasons moved from Everett to near Chicago had a faulty fuel line design on a new-model plane, didn't own up to it, and people died....
It takes a lot of deaths and a BILLION dollar demand to make some airlines take ownership of their fatally-flawed designs (or pieces thereof)
"Crash made travel safer for millions"
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/spe cialreports/flight427/s_247850.html
(spiral-related deadly crash)
OK, substitute "spiraling out of control" with:
-- defective parts (search those words in the next link:)
http://www.marsearthconnection.com/flt587.html
--shorn off tail:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/a300crash/story/0,11165, 593554,00.html
--human error or alcohol/substance abuse:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20010221X 00482&key=1
--lack of de-icing
http://www.google.com/search?q=fatal%20crash%20lac k%20de-icing&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Yes, obviously a turbo prob or turbo jet has a multi-bladed prop ahead of the power turbine, combustion chamber, and the other components inside that cowling. I did not ever refer to the pax or any other jets as being scoop-jets or ramjets or solid-fuel rocket-propelled. I referred to blades and turbines. Not scoops.
I never said high wings are unusual or inherently dangerous. I have admired and studied aircraft since my childhood, built models, drawn them, looked at many flight books, diagrams, cross sections, and even talk with people. I would not say that flying a flight sim would allow me to perfectly fly a plane, but I there are Navy pilots who used ms flight simulator and had NO prior flight or flight line experience, yet excelled on their practical flights as well as or better than those who had cropdusting, rotary or some fixed wing hours in their logs.
Triple-engine jets have lost only ONE engine, and, despite the best pilots had to give, hydraulics being shittily designed were the ultimate doom of an otherwise out-to-recover craft. In some cases, even ALL the redundancies failed to
It would be interesting if they run it on Flightgear and enable ground-based people to take 10-second helm control spots.
Afterall, the second flight displayed a 'few dozen' spirals or corkscrews on the way up, and had enough time, inertial, fuel, and structural integrety to get there.
All the same, I'd rather fly in a cockpit run by *nix and FlightGear, PC- or plane-based.
That may be true, but it's not really relevant, since most people aren't.
But, as the attentive driver, I at least have a fighting chance. Again, in a plane spiraling out of control or even just rocking like hell, there is no escape if the plane departs from "controlled flight"; when and where it goes, you go faster. And the sad part is you often scream faster and longer since this type of peril is not as instaneous as a car being slammed into a bus or a guardrail. OTOH, I admit, in a terrible car crash, you might linger and suffer or survive as an amputee...
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The bottom line is: airplanes are maintained and piloted by highly trained professionals, and cars are driven (and generally not maintained) by anyone who can multiple-guess their way through a trivial 30 minute DMV test. That's why planes are safer in practice than cars.
Well, I have heard of cases where jet engine mechanics simply skip or cheat on steps. Some overlook fractures in blades, and may not notice power turbine abnormalities.
When planes do crash or blow an engine in flight, NTSB and other investigations that take a while to be closed are long forgotten in the minds of the flying public. There is a perception that jets are well-maintained, but some are literally held together by comparable bailing wire and duct tape. Let us not forget that airlines aren't going to follow every single line item or maintenance check if it's costing more money than they think it's worth.
And, let us not forget that several crashes did ultmately result from improper maintenance checks related to engines, hydraulics, and more.
However, I must confess that I have two or threevery personal and favorite phases of flight:
--the high G feel on takeoff concurrent with a hard bank (out of SJO I got that rush years ago)
The buffeting and turbulence that gets the wings flapping. I have had several occasions where I had to pretend to be looking out the window, but actually I was wedging myface between the seat and the paneling to hide my (sick?) smile. It was more gratifying than any rollercoaster...even though we did not loops or rolls.
--the hard slamming on touchdown. Once, I was on Air France, and the plane touched down so damn hard I was expecting a tire to pop or the gear to fail. I mean, we touched down HARD, so hard the BOOM seemd it could have warped the fuselage/body.
One thing I did NOT like, tho, was flying in the over-fuselage wing "puddle-jumper" plane from PDX to Seattle. The engines were only a few feet ahead of my seat, and I kept worrying about turbine or blade failure. (In those cases, I just become philosophical and hope it's over quick and relatively painlessly...) I was told by a mechanic that if the turbine exploded blade pieces could catastrophically rip through the engine cowling and likely into the fuselage, considering the engines were paralled to or in line with the body. But, anything exploding or falling off is not lightly taken by anyone. I would hope, tho, that the cowlings are able to absorb most of the fragments, but then I imagine the fuel and hydralics and signal bus lines would be compromised.
There is the saying: "Figures don't lie but liars sure can figure"
When there is a very bad car wreck, the most people killed might average under 30. When a plane goes down by mech failure or collision with another plain or is "test-kissing" a terrain feature, its much worse, usually taking ALL lives. THAT's pretty demoralizing.
I'll bet there are more road-vehicle passengers who watch DVDs showing high-speed car chases and fatalities than there are passengers on all the airlines together showing airliner disasters.
The risk of traveling by plane is lower than by car even if you compute it per mile travelled. It's not lower because you fly by plane less often. You are a lot less likely to die on a 400-mile plane trip than you are to die on a 400-mile car trip.
When was the last time you flew and had dozens or hundreds of airplanes withing striking or bumping distance?
As ineffecient as it would be to have miles of separation between each car on the roads, the odds of surviving would dramatically increase. Alternatively, enforced slower speeds could compensate, taking advantage of the better safety features, at the great aggravation of speed demons, though.
I dare say that the odds of dying in a plane that is out of control are more demoralizing then the happy spin on "your chances of dying or being seriously injured in an airplane are about 1:4.3 MILLION."
Once a plane is out of control, YOU as the passenger can't do SHIT about. All you can do is kick and wail and scream. If you DO survive, then you might be pummeled by the person sitting in that seat you kicked the hell out of.
In a car travelling faster than 45 mph, a head-on collision or a sinkhole in the road need not mean the end. Properly decellerating, gently swerving or veering away, and keeping mind of the vehicles to the rear and fixed or moving objects ahead and to the side, a driver can survive even without high-tech brake systems, as long as the vehicle itself is otherwise mechanically sound.
But, a plane that is mechanically sound but which runs out of fuel or suffers a fuel system failure far from a desirable landing field can touch down safely and still run into a terrain feature and explode or collaps or break up and ejects occupants, even if seatbelted. Those seats don't have self-righting thrusters to spare the pax. That extra mass fuels inertia, and a person hitting the ground very likely could be a "gonner".
In a car, if you are a good, skilled, highly-responsive and attentive driver, you have decent odds of recovering, even surviving unscathed. For example, I imagine many of the people killed in clear weather with unobstructed views are simply those who have such poor responsiveness that even at 5-10 mph in a parking lot, it is possible to cause that "deer in the headlights" response in some people, maybe many people. I did Sunday, when a driver assuming and automatically expecting the right of way just flinched at the wheel, gripped it, all 8 fingers flinging to the sky with only thumbs and palms on the wheel. The driver's face was one of shock and expectation. To me, it was the face of stupidity, for no one should be sailing over 5 mph thru a parking lot when people cannot see above high-assed suv's or existing shrubbery.
I don't think you're right, but still you could be... Here is a problem from even before 9/11.
In the San Jose area, back in the late 90's some asshole always in a hurry zoomed northbound on Highway 17, coming out of Santa Cruz. 17 is a twisty, dangerous, 2-lanes-each-way road. I don't know how many accidents occur on it daily, but some are fatal in any given year.
Well, somebody who lived along 17 got fed up with that zooming prick and he/she mounted a video camera and captured the jerk, his or her license plate, and streamed it on the internet.
Next thing we all know is in the Mercury or another newspaper, the video shooter was being sued by the owner of the car because the insurer of that car cancelled the policy. Some ASSHOLE layer was defending or representing the speeder's car's driver.
Personally, I don't give a SHIT who owns the car, it's the CAR being used as a lethal weapon. If I ever capture such footage, I'll stream it, too. Owners of vehicles are responsible, and if they won't fess up to a prick misusing their lent vehicle, then DMV should impound it, and the insurer should ban that insured or that car, or both.
Problem is, being forced into court to answer for what that video shooter did is NOT the judge's domain, and not anybody else's, so long as the footage was accurate, authentic, and not doctored like some rogue cops might do to evidenct to make a case stick.
Now, considering 9/11 or even stalking law prior to that, and privacy laws, I imagine the states could say the plates serve for parking enforcement, reckles driver location, and similar things. Nobody decades ago expected that high-speed cameras would be able to amass voluminous plate information and that people, basically nefarios, would try to make money off of that. Sure, there may be some legit uses such as tracking down a bastard that the police won't assist you with, or finding a victim that people claim is not really a victim, but there are some risks to mass-non-DVM/non-Law Enforcemnt uses and abuses.
But, some people may want to know "Of the vehicles I am sighting on my California road trip, how many were purchased or maybe registered in San Bernadino county versus another or more other counties.
Eventually, though, private-eyes will have these databases, and if everybody has them, then they endanger the reasonable privacy a person has to deny would-be stalkers and other cretins.
OTOH, again, how would we get rid of privacy issues, but still enable law enforcement, parking enforcement, and insurance and vehicular incident parties to accurately report the collider?
Well, one way might be in the use of vehicular beacons that exchange information automatically when a collision occurs. If law enforcement arrives on scene and "interrogates" a crashed vechicle and it's electrics work but there is no transponder response, the vehicle COULD be impounded and inspected, and if it is found that the xponder was tampered with (maybe ganger bangers, or ultra-privacy types) then the vehicle could be chopped and destroyed as a public policy measure.
BUt, then how do we provide privacy for THAT problem? Another issue with mass-collection of plates numbers is that eventually, somebody will be shooting or scanning VIN numbers, which on many vehicles are just barcodes under stamped numbers. The bar codes would enable rapid collection of VINS. Obscuring the VIN (say to impede a meter monitor) is illegal in some states and the parking enforcers COULD order a tow truck to hitch the thing and haul it away. So, all those people with fancy dancy dash covers COULD become a targed for under-revenue ticketing departments, or "creative" or "enforcement-minded" city managers.
Another problem is that mass collection of plates means at some point undercover law enforcement agents will be hightly identifiable, especially if the trackers and sharers use super-strong encryption to exchange GPS and other information to impede or wipe out agents staging on a scene.
Yeah, but is it legal for me or you or anyone else to collect imagery of the vehicles, their occupants, plate numbers and locations?
I'm not even suggesting tapping the state and creditor digital networks. Just tap into any public, high-resolution web cams, log the known whereabouts of any vehicle, look for repeat logs, interpolate or extrapolate the likely activities undertaken, and then display it for public consumption.
Even without adding the "interpolate or extrapolate the likely activities undertaken" part, there'd be major hue and cry.
Now, if the public wants a privacy buffer that costs the government MORE money, they could ditch their cars and take mass transit. Up to 1/2 the surveillance system is real, the rest being fake, due to costs. So, what could but won't do it is if some major force "ripped up the automobiles" the way the oil industry ripped up the cable car and trolley tracks.
If we could get people out of their cars by vastly improving the flexibility and availability of transit pods, such as FlexCar, where you ad-hoc reserve and rent a car and drop it off whereever is convenient but only for a few hours at a time, then more people could be diverted to mass transit.
But, because America is so vast, the oil and auto industries seized an opportunity, and look what it's gotten us: those two industries ALONE are the probable culprets for the rampant and abyssmal divorce and infidelity problems we have. Automobiles and autonomy allowed the traveling salesman to basically have a woman in every city, not all that different from a sailor having a woman in every port. But, I digress...
If busses were more spacious, allowing for grocery shopping and cart space, if they were more cab-like in on-call/ad-hoc settings or just similar to those in Hong Kong, which are small but have large entry doors, then people would have less need for a car. But, to justify doubling or tripling the amount of public transit vehicles on the road and in greater frequency with better pickup/dropoff spots, cities would need to be less greedy with their revenue accession schemes, and counties would have to be less greed with property tax schemes. Cities would definitely need to encourage and support more comic and entertainment acts, movie venues, and design a "Vegas"- or "Roppongi crossing" or "Kowloon"/"Taipei" like setting that bustles with neon, glitz, fun, food, and more. Tokyo I heard is called a city that never sleeps, and 24/7 pretty much whatever material thing you need can be found and bought.
Here, we're too rigidly limited by noise ordinances and other regulations, some for good reasons. But, with the horizontal sprawl, the me-me-all-mine-no-you-can't-peek attitude combined with the ever-enlarging vehicles, houses grow to a point, and even with cities shrinking the lot sizes, cities here are greatly less dense than say, Tokyo, which by 1998 had some 40 MILLION people living and working within just 20 miles of Tokyo!
At any rate, something needs to be done about our love affair with the automobile, the ridiculous number of vehicle registrations per license (when one person has 5 non-business vehicles), when homes have 5 or 6 vehicles crowding street, and public transit is incompatible with ad-hoc needs of a populace.
Maybe the answer is to create new circular, 15-25-mile-diameter cities with hubbed entertainment zones, spoked residential corridors, and sectored manufacturing centers with public transit mandatory and POV (privately-owned vehicles) prohibited inside the 25-mile zone. Monorails, private/5-person automatic/railed cabs, and trams networked with escalators and moving sidewalks or ski-resort-like transport chairs could do wonders. The only vehicles used inside would be law enforcement, medical, construction, residential bulk-goods transport, and utilities related things. Even still, high-speed utility pods or shuttles could remove the need for those, too, if distributed police, medical and fire-suppression substations are thoughtfully planned. A
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Re:Yes, I believe I've found the solution. D&D
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If you're referring to D&D, I thought they got secured a patent or copyright covering turn-based games. Hopefully, though, they didn't. Actually, RPG/FPS probably trumped that-- unless they're paying royalties we haven't been told of.
Imagine a tablet-based, MySQL-arbitrated RPG game that has a huge scenario engine, a character attributes engine, and the other stuff you need. You pick from canned scripts for a book, then create a complementary or supra-set or super-set framework. AI and a number of other rules would deal with the single or multi-player aspects.
The NEAT trick would be to have the character demographics engine look at the world and then on-the fly, maybe by random numbers, generate stories page after page, compatible with the previous chapters. For a twist, the reader could pause the story, insert real-world URLs that have AI cross-connects, then recompile the story based on what the RWNAICC download says. Imagine if the XML or RSS feeds could carry meta or other information to be compatible with interactive, ad-hoc story pads. You turn a page and a neat-looking, believable character or set of them appears on a page. It could be foldable so that the read text stays on the left (if the reader base is L-R/T-B) and the images on the right.
I don't know if anyone has filed for a patent on this, but it's something I've been thinking about. Hopefully this is not patentable such that some asshole of a company tries to preclude me or others from doing it when the MySQL database supports forms and graphics. It, to me, should be a "let the best product compete or win ON ITS MERITS", not based on how deep are the pockets of the studio or its lobbyists.
As I see it, to my benefit and that of others, this is just a new form of book printing, except paper could be swapped out for an LCD or film sheet, and each book is, as with e-books, downloadable, storable, and in my case, fairly sharable.
Come to think of it, if XML and RSS and other protocols or tools are used, the news studios could save a bundle on news anchors -- provided the viewers go for it and advertising revenues don't drop after the anchor lobby or unions go flying off the handle...
Supposedly, in China, there is a saying: "Retribution knows its own time." Well, like God being an "absentee landlord", Retribution, is taking her sweet time with microshaft.
Well, dammit, I hope Retribution knows when to strike microshaft (lower-casing/deprecation of microsoft's name intentional/perpetual with me) right across its scaly, encrusted, misshapen, uncouthly-wielded frenulum.
Retribution, a suggestion if I might:
If Mount St. Helens blows her top again, ask her to BURY that nexus of an abject, abfarad abattoir of a campus. They've been getting away with TOO MUCH SHIT, and the time is NOW for retribution to show her face. The company is a huge, legal racket and extorter, and their behavior is proof enough, not to mention a FUD factory. PLEASE, Retribution, PLEASE, do the masses a favor!
Burying mshaft might also bury their stocks if they can't resiliently recover. I bet NONE of their fields offices act as mirrors for the main campus, meaning they'd effectively look as if they had no working backups to fall back on after a disaster.
Anybody care for a digital seance? OTOH, summoning evil sprits, umm spirits, might backfire. I hope Karma or the spirits are keeping tabs on msoft, because by NO means can that company be free of guilt, period.
Ju-On, have you a grudge, a reason to pay ms a visit? http://www.juonthegrudge.com/
(turn your speakers up so you can hear the intro... ) Click on "media" to get some images of the spirit...
It is not covered by fair use laws...you can't freely use software for review, parody or educational purposes and you can't use it however you like at home, but I doubt anybody would make a stink if you did.
Why is it that software companies try to forbid a user or reviewer from "benchmarking" and publishing the results of the benchmarking?
The software manufacturers actually want to encourage use of their warez, so if a glowing report is written, of course they won't issue a "cease and desist" or "you must withdraw, retract, recant..." or "pay up...now!" demand.
However, let a publication issue a damning expose, and the software manufacturer will bitch or cry foul or in court, at least, claim irrecoverable and permanent damage to commercial interests. Well, if they write, cobble together and release shitty code, TOUGH! You reap what you sew.
I don't condone copying and distributing unauthorized copies of software, movies or music. Having even one illegal copy is wrong, but a non-distributor would not incur my wrath, and I wouldn't care.
But, for a digital distributor of films and movies to try to prohibit a consumer from "renting, selling, leasing..." tough. They're not saying that as an agent on behalf of the tax collectors. They just don't anyone diminishing "their" "market". Again, if I am not illegally DUPLICATING and distributing but only sharing, renting, leasing, or selling my one disk because I no longer want it, that's between ME and the borrower or buyer.
Ostensibly, the original distributors would claim that resales are their aftermarket or secondary rights, but boohoo. Automobile manufacturers cannot and do not restrict purchasers from leasing, renting, lending, etc., though many will try to rip you for a fee for clearly showing "their car" in a movie or film. But, to me, once the first copy is on the street, it's advertising for the auto manufacturer. They should be PROUD their vehicle is getting attention.
Another branding/licensing/advertising act that bugs the shit out of me is certain mid-west/Texan/Southern auto dealers who drill into new cars' trunk lids and bolt on their damn dealership emblem (or use sticker/decals that when removed destroy the paint/finish). For that, I recommend that buyers get to the LASSSST stage of purchasing legally possible but before signing and say:
"Oh, for that sticker/decal/emblem shit, you will deduct $1,000 for advertising, and 1.475% from the APR for advertising"
Some dealerships have a lot of nerver, getting free advertising like that. I've tended to remove the plate frames before driving off, or at least get around the corner and remove it, since you don't want the mech shop screwing around under the hood if they get offended seeing you remove the adverts on drive-off
What is bullshit about the "on the specific machine sold/purchased" bit is this:
-- you don't see the auto manufacturers restricting what rims and hubs, radios, windows, or seats you can use in your car.
Period. Nevermind that a car cannot be driven to multiple places by multiple persons simultanesouly.
If I want to tweak my box, change the hardware, the mobo, or anything else, I can do it anytime and as frequently as I wish. Modders or tweakers should not have to become scofflaws just to bypass ms' shitty business model. That disk, by the time the consumer gets it, is worth less than a penny, for the number of times the software has been copied over and sold vastly outstrips the R&D put into it. Obviously, a hammer cannot be duplicated from the same source -- each copy uses raw materials. But a disk is a disk -- the contents on it are images that aren't matter at our level of interaction.
Besides, as much crap as many installers and users go through, microshaft (lower-casing/deprecation of microsoft's name intentional/perpetual with me) should be paying USERS to use their shit.
The way to deal with this without using nukes is to have DE's tow a battery of FAE (Fuel-Air Explosive) rockets. Once a CVBG arrives to the area, you float and launch your FAE rockets in overwhelming numbers, say 60 rockets. If you attack a CVN from one beam, even with the escort screen ships, they WILL eventually have very hot CIWS barrels. Some will malfunction for sure (NO, I repeat NO CIWS is 100% FMC (fully-mission-capable)) or failure-proof, and others will have to cease fire if the depression angle lowers (ships heel, roll, yaw, pitch, sag and hog, and hull-strafing is a possibility) as a friendly or close-aboard ship zigs and zags her ass off angling for better coverage of the kill zone to take out the missiles or rockets.
As these rockets or missiles stream in in corkscrew or pop-up fashion, assuming some 30 CIWS mounts waiting for them, each CIWS will spit/belch/burp/bzzzt out some 3500 RPM, maybe in bursts of 200 until the damn link/belts jam or the ammo runs out, or a control board sizzles or cracks under recoil and sonic effects, at which point (I don't think they're self-feeding/self-reloading) the Gunner's Mates will be out there reloading manually or unjamming the gun or hot-swapping boards.
Once the CIWS guns are reported/detected to be firing with less vigor (maybe some of the inbound missiles have sensors and could relay resistance information to the launcher), a follow-up barrage of FAE bombs on missiles screams in.
Once converged over the flight deck, Ka-effing-BOOM!!!.
Mission complete. Fragging festooned CV/CVNs' islands' and superstructures' antennae and portholes/windows and concussively mangling the flight deck will destroy ANY a/c exposed, and maybe quite a few in the hangar; topside or exposed personnel will be gonners from fragmentation, concussion, or from falling 80 feet to the sea. The First prize --if done right-- will be the catastrophic failure of the launch pistons and the arrestor wire capstans. The consolation prize will be the resulting pile of junk topside that has to be crane or mule dumped/shoved overboard, time-consuming FOD (Foreign Object Damage) walk to make a green (flight-ready) flight deck, trolley and shuttle and piston checks that have to be made to make sure it's not destroy on post-blast use... LOTS of things would have to be done. So much for the 20'-80' of steel/lead/composite/honeycomb waterline armor. The third prize would be snap-depressed FAE bombs that fall astern to warp the prop shafts or the blades, or knock some vital pumps or switchboards off-line. 4th prize would be collateral damage to the screen ships, either by direct damage inflicted, or by the typical collisions you can induce if you gratuitously toss in a few dozen torpedoes at not just the CVN but screen ships. Every ship driver will ask him/herself TWO questions: Save my ass? Save the birdfarm? Or, they might ask, "What the F******????!!!!"
I offered a similar scenario to my ship's Tactical Action Officer when I was only 20 or 21, was a radioman, and was sitting on a radar for ESWS (Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist) training. I had this scenario NOT due to navy knowledge or training, but from my imagination, from reading Clancy books from the angle of besting his own scenarios, and from the angle of stomping the shit out of hubris. Way back THEN, that could be -by some- called "assymetric warfare". I HATED the standard doctrine and pubs that neatly arranged wargames, joint operations and such. Almost every paragraph could be countered. (I applaud that retired US Marine who used minarets and motorcycle-based signals men who roundly kicked the shit out of the exalted operational commanders is the professional version of me. I'm the rough, unprivileged, enlisted, restricted, info-starved, but still somewhat imaginative version of him. My Security Alert scenarios I hurled at my second command were effective, time-consuming, and intentionally humiliating so much that they ceased using me, since I made goddamn sure they werent' going to in under 30 minutes pass
Diesel boats probably are using 7-bladed props like SSNs have been. The 7th blade is to cancel out symmetry and cavitation that even-number blades would produce.
As for "noisy" it could be that the diesel boats deployed decoys or mobile simulators pretending to be US boats going on underwater sound phone. If the SSNs fell for it, shame on them. It also could be that decoys were released stealthily into the op area, collecting and relaying the whereabouts of the SSNs. If so, then chokepoints could effectively be set up and the diesels would just wait for the SSNs to 'come to papa', and then they Australian boats could "detonate" the remote sensor/pod/weapon and gain a "constructive kill".
It might even be possible that it's useful someday to restore astern-facing tubes so that live, guided torpedos could be trailed behind the sub at extremely slow speeds. When trailed, it's passive and can be released for autonomous engagement near the lurking/snooping sub that thinks it's in wired sub's baffles. Or, the torpedo can be detonated like a mine.
Maybe somebody can counter US boats by streaming 3 or 4 such devices at various distances and give each a set of planes so as to dispers mutual and reinforcing shockwaves in not just the horizontal and radial, but the vertical and radial, staggered at say 1,000, 2,000 and 3,000 yards to bracket ANY boat.
If it were MY own navy, facing quiet SSNs no matter WHICH navy it is, I'd configure my diesels to trail 5 recoveralbe mines or torpedoes, with 2 as far back as physics would allow, and 2 as near as my own boat could withstand the shock. The middle would be a sensor and a weapon. On detection or contact, it would command the surrounding 4 weapons configured as 2 torps and two mines to engage or maneuver and engage the acquired target.
What would suck is if a diver could interface with and tamperwith my trailed weapons so that I'd be blown up after retrieving them.
For those who "cope" with life, but immerse themselves in saddening film that still contain some wit or light humor, see a Hong Kong film named "Funeral March".
(Try your local Asian or import video store. If your LUCKY, BB or HV might have it, but don't count on it. Or, order it online or from some places in San Francisco/Burlingame, CA...)
Male or female, soft or tough, if you have feelings or sensitivities, you will cry and you will laugh, and in some parts, you do both and without guilt. Some have sobbed like babies if immersed in this film without distractions
Review is at:
http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/funeral_march. ht m
The one at IMBD.com doesn't do justice to the film.
But, I watched it and it's touching:
Non-spoiler gist:
Yee, a young woman hires a funeral director to arrange a burial. It turns out it's for herself. She's dying of intestinal/stomach cancer, but the funeral director encourages/recommends that she take the medicine prescribed and undergo the operation. As part of his hiring by her, though, we get to see an interesting and different perspective on living, living with limited time, and dying.
Most of the film is in Hong Kong, but a brief jaunt to New York shows some nice scenery I'd not seen (I've never been there, but even with all the TV shots, I don't think I'd seen the images in "FM"). Not all cultures are like the US. In some places laughing and celebration mark a passage to a hopefully BETTER place than here. I tend to think of Earth as a "proving ground" which will determine where we go next. I prefer to discount any Heaven or Hell, for natural things around us recycle, so why not the soul as well as matter. For us puny humans to be given ONE life to live, from seconds to just uner 115 years, but usually 45-85 years, it's a CHEAT for a god to creat billions of souls that in the cosmic scope of things are snuffed out relative to a fly's lifetime, actually vastly shorter.
I think fatal incidents or accidents are just interruptsion or even accelerators. I feel murder is "forced eviction" from the game of life, depending on the circumstances, but all around us we eventually forget the millions living under undeveloped or corrupt regimes, starving, dying, living malnourished, and more and worse.
In developed nations, aside from some petty corrupt leaders, we live fairly comfortably, and increasingly lack a clear, fundamental understanding of living when fast-paced, tech living distorts the big picture.
Slow down. Ponder. Live. Reflect. Volunteer. Donate. Help. Complain, and fix the people system, not just the tech stuff.
David Syes
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That would be pretty hard to do. With watch-to-watch pub and crypto turnover, TPI (Two-Person Integrity), and other safeguards, ti would be hard to steal the crypto. Even if you're the WatchSup, you CAN get your own padlock open, but the second person has to do so or comply. After that, the second person would have to turn a blind eye long enough for the trusted spy to somehow copy the strips or cards or sheets.
Even so, once the compromise is discovered, the entire fleet would cease using the crypto, except for maybe a handful of decoys in the compromised area who'd continue feeding disinformation into the system to delay knowledged of the compromise. However, once the genereal oparea is told to cease using it, the compromise effectively is known. Even if the reported compromise is covered by HQ just self-censoring what it sends over the encrypted circuits, an enemy or defector using the crypto cannot use it beyond an predetermined, scheduled time block. Just as newsfeeds expire, so do crypto periods.
While it would be possible to steal crypto for a given period, they physical evidence (hard plastic, clear or dark, in clumps or packages that will be obviously missed if moved or remove), you generally cannot steal it now and use it later, for timeshifting (not exactly like TIVO, et al) would elminate the usefulness. Meaning: Crypto stolen for period 0600-1200 or whatever used AFTER that period simply won't work. They cyphers embedded in the transmission stream would ensure that improperly-embedded responses trigger a compromise alert.
Read some books out there (communications pubs, crypto books, communications security methods, and your imagination. It's not necessary to bribe anyone for information if you can reassemble or combine peripheral evidence. Read and re-read. The process I describe is not in itself super sensitve. The crypto IS. The physical protection of it IS. Stealing it is pointless, except to invite jail time.
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As for knowing where the sub is, subs have OpAreas just like surface ships do. The satellites would signal to as narrow an areas as possible, likely in bursts, over a short duration, and at random intervals so as to deny detection of the boat's locality if a trawler or signal-soaking craft is in the area by chance. Alternatively, the sub can release a trailing wire antena for maybe 2 miles, and collect instructions or messages. In a worst case, they could cut the cable and go deep and quiet in a threatening situation.
I would imagine that remote sensors or torpedo-like vehicles slip from the hull, trail or shadow the boat, and send and receive signals from a non-disclosing distance. It's what IIII would do if I had the valuable boats, the money, and the imagination I have now. We have predtors for ground crews, so why not remote off-board vehicles for expensive subs that might have to sit or hover (to keep sand out of certain cooling intakes) for extended periods, periodically degaussing (or doing other things to/for) their hull signature. A ROV would SIGNIFICANTLY enhance the privacy, security, safety, and stealth of ANY navy's subs, for a smaller price than innumerable anechoic tiling and rubber-mounting deck rafts.
David Syes -Former Radioman (86-88) -Armchair Tactical Action Officer before and after my 4-year stint in the USN -recreational submarine designer (concepts) -recreational/"otaku" DDG/DD designer (to embarrass the DDG-51 design (both flt I and II) -aspiring fiction author (relying upon fact and disinformation available in many, many carefully selected texts available publicly)
It could have been male, or a she-male. It could have been digital sleigth of hand.
In 15 years, we might have news reporters who look like buck-tooth Austin Powers, or some of the fine-ass Thai-girls... oops, those tend to be guys... Well, I who knows without getting up close and personal?
How long before we see the news conglomerates cutting costs by using some 3-D news reporter animation software? Something vastly superior to Max Headroom... If it saves a buck or a salary expense, many companies will do it.
No, if they employ a computer that asks bad questions, would they fired the programmer or reboot the bot?
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Well, I got the impression that the Clean Water Act was started, at least in part, by manufacturers of Feenamint, which found that the effects of bisacodyl (which will sack your ass something fierce), that was used instead of suppositories which were very undesirable. Runs are a demoralizer and squelches promiscuity, caffein a diuretic which interferes with jogging...
Koffee buhzzez YOU!
Well, if the shit's too sugary, and the drinker gets the runs, then the drink can be called...
"Thunderturd"
Whooah... For a second my mind thought my eyes saw:
"Anti-Matter Reich."
Hmm, OK, let's see... a certain well-known aviation company that for money reasons moved from Everett to near Chicago had a faulty fuel line design on a new-model plane, didn't own up to it, and people died....
It takes a lot of deaths and a BILLION dollar demand to make some airlines take ownership of their fatally-flawed designs (or pieces thereof)
"Crash made travel safer for millions"
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/spe cialreports/flight427/s_247850.html
(spiral-related deadly crash)
OK, substitute "spiraling out of control" with:
-- defective parts (search those words in the next link:)
http://www.marsearthconnection.com/flt587.html
--shorn off tail:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/a300crash/story/0,11165, 593554,00.html
--human error or alcohol/substance abuse:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20010221X 00482&key=1
--lack of de-icing
http://www.google.com/search?q=fatal%20crash%20lac k%20de-icing&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
--striking ground facilities:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20040128X 00121&key=1
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?ev_id=20040128 X00121&ntsbno=WAS04RA010&akey=1
--failed rods/actuators for flaps
--wind shear
from 1975:
http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Aviation/Dis asters/75-08-07(Continental).asp
--faulty terrain avoidance
http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Aviation/Dis asters/
Major Aviation Accidents of the Super70s
--loss of ONE engine:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20040819X 01260&key=1
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?ev_id=20040819 X01260&ntsbno=WAS03RA019&akey=1
--bad information from towers
-- I didn't determine:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?ev_id=20020801 X01281&ntsbno=DCA02RA047A&akey=1
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20030402X 00424&key=1
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20020418X 00536&key=1
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/Response2.asp?spage=10&x_ page_size=10&sql=%271%2F1%2F2002%27%2C+%2710%2F4%2 F2004%27%2C+%27%27%2C+%27%27%2C+%27like+%27%27FATA L%28%25%27%27%27%2C+%27Air%27%2C+%27N%27%2C+%27%27 %2C+%27%27%2C+%27%27%2C+%27%27%2C+%27%27%2C+%27%27 %2C+%27fact%27%2C+%27%27%2C+%27ev%5Fdate%27%2C+%27 Desc%27%2C+%27%27%2C+%27%27%2C+%27%27%2C+%27%27%2C +%27%27%2C+%27%27
Yes, obviously a turbo prob or turbo jet has a multi-bladed prop ahead of the power turbine, combustion chamber, and the other components inside that cowling. I did not ever refer to the pax or any other jets as being scoop-jets or ramjets or solid-fuel rocket-propelled. I referred to blades and turbines. Not scoops.
I never said high wings are unusual or inherently dangerous. I have admired and studied aircraft since my childhood, built models, drawn them, looked at many flight books, diagrams, cross sections, and even talk with people. I would not say that flying a flight sim would allow me to perfectly fly a plane, but I there are Navy pilots who used ms flight simulator and had NO prior flight or flight line experience, yet excelled on their practical flights as well as or better than those who had cropdusting, rotary or some fixed wing hours in their logs.
Triple-engine jets have lost only ONE engine, and, despite the best pilots had to give, hydraulics being shittily designed were the ultimate doom of an otherwise out-to-recover craft. In some cases, even ALL the redundancies failed to
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It would be interesting if they run it on Flightgear and enable ground-based people to take 10-second helm control spots.
Afterall, the second flight displayed a 'few dozen' spirals or corkscrews on the way up, and had enough time, inertial, fuel, and structural integrety to get there.
All the same, I'd rather fly in a cockpit run by *nix and FlightGear, PC- or plane-based.
By then, Tom Bodett (spelling?) of Motel 6 can say:
"At Startel 6, we'll leave the lights off and the grav-plates on and the heating on for you;
Make all the zero-gee whoopee you want, 'cuz in space in your spoked/hubbed compartments, nobody will hear you scream...Arr-arrr-rrrrr"
That may be true, but it's not really relevant, since most people aren't.
But, as the attentive driver, I at least have a fighting chance. Again, in a plane spiraling out of control or even just rocking like hell, there is no escape if the plane departs from "controlled flight"; when and where it goes, you go faster. And the sad part is you often scream faster and longer since this type of peril is not as instaneous as a car being slammed into a bus or a guardrail. OTOH, I admit, in a terrible car crash, you might linger and suffer or survive as an amputee...
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The bottom line is: airplanes are maintained and piloted by highly trained professionals, and cars are driven (and generally not maintained) by anyone who can multiple-guess their way through a trivial 30 minute DMV test. That's why planes are safer in practice than cars.
Well, I have heard of cases where jet engine mechanics simply skip or cheat on steps. Some overlook fractures in blades, and may not notice power turbine abnormalities.
When planes do crash or blow an engine in flight, NTSB and other investigations that take a while to be closed are long forgotten in the minds of the flying public. There is a perception that jets are well-maintained, but some are literally held together by comparable bailing wire and duct tape. Let us not forget that airlines aren't going to follow every single line item or maintenance check if it's costing more money than they think it's worth.
And, let us not forget that several crashes did ultmately result from improper maintenance checks related to engines, hydraulics, and more.
However, I must confess that I have two or threevery personal and favorite phases of flight:
--the high G feel on takeoff concurrent with a hard bank (out of SJO I got that rush years ago)
The buffeting and turbulence that gets the wings flapping. I have had several occasions where I had to pretend to be looking out the window, but actually I was wedging myface between the seat and the paneling to hide my (sick?) smile. It was more gratifying than any rollercoaster...even though we did not loops or rolls.
--the hard slamming on touchdown. Once, I was on Air France, and the plane touched down so damn hard I was expecting a tire to pop or the gear to fail. I mean, we touched down HARD, so hard the BOOM seemd it could have warped the fuselage/body.
One thing I did NOT like, tho, was flying in the over-fuselage wing "puddle-jumper" plane from PDX to Seattle. The engines were only a few feet ahead of my seat, and I kept worrying about turbine or blade failure. (In those cases, I just become philosophical and hope it's over quick and relatively painlessly...) I was told by a mechanic that if the turbine exploded blade pieces could catastrophically rip through the engine cowling and likely into the fuselage, considering the engines were paralled to or in line with the body. But, anything exploding or falling off is not lightly taken by anyone. I would hope, tho, that the cowlings are able to absorb most of the fragments, but then I imagine the fuel and hydralics and signal bus lines would be compromised.
There is the saying: "Figures don't lie but liars sure can figure"
When there is a very bad car wreck, the most people killed might average under 30. When a plane goes down by mech failure or collision with another plain or is "test-kissing" a terrain feature, its much worse, usually taking ALL lives. THAT's pretty demoralizing.
I'll bet there are more road-vehicle passengers who watch DVDs showing high-speed car chases and fatalities than there are passengers on all the airlines together showing airliner disasters.
The risk of traveling by plane is lower than by car even if you compute it per mile travelled. It's not lower because you fly by plane less often. You are a lot less likely to die on a 400-mile plane trip than you are to die on a 400-mile car trip.
When was the last time you flew and had dozens or hundreds of airplanes withing striking or bumping distance?
As ineffecient as it would be to have miles of separation between each car on the roads, the odds of surviving would dramatically increase. Alternatively, enforced slower speeds could compensate, taking advantage of the better safety features, at the great aggravation of speed demons, though.
I dare say that the odds of dying in a plane that is out of control are more demoralizing then the happy spin on "your chances of dying or being seriously injured in an airplane are about 1:4.3 MILLION."
Once a plane is out of control, YOU as the passenger can't do SHIT about. All you can do is kick and wail and scream. If you DO survive, then you might be pummeled by the person sitting in that seat you kicked the hell out of.
In a car travelling faster than 45 mph, a head-on collision or a sinkhole in the road need not mean the end. Properly decellerating, gently swerving or veering away, and keeping mind of the vehicles to the rear and fixed or moving objects ahead and to the side, a driver can survive even without high-tech brake systems, as long as the vehicle itself is otherwise mechanically sound.
But, a plane that is mechanically sound but which runs out of fuel or suffers a fuel system failure far from a desirable landing field can touch down safely and still run into a terrain feature and explode or collaps or break up and ejects occupants, even if seatbelted. Those seats don't have self-righting thrusters to spare the pax. That extra mass fuels inertia, and a person hitting the ground very likely could be a "gonner".
In a car, if you are a good, skilled, highly-responsive and attentive driver, you have decent odds of recovering, even surviving unscathed. For example, I imagine many of the people killed in clear weather with unobstructed views are simply those who have such poor responsiveness that even at 5-10 mph in a parking lot, it is possible to cause that "deer in the headlights" response in some people, maybe many people. I did Sunday, when a driver assuming and automatically expecting the right of way just flinched at the wheel, gripped it, all 8 fingers flinging to the sky with only thumbs and palms on the wheel. The driver's face was one of shock and expectation. To me, it was the face of stupidity, for no one should be sailing over 5 mph thru a parking lot when people cannot see above high-assed suv's or existing shrubbery.
I wonder what a PENThouse up there would cost.
If your ship comes to sudden stop, that luggage will go THROUGH UrAnus.
I don't think you're right, but still you could be... Here is a problem from even before 9/11.
In the San Jose area, back in the late 90's some asshole always in a hurry zoomed northbound on Highway 17, coming out of Santa Cruz. 17 is a twisty, dangerous, 2-lanes-each-way road. I don't know how many accidents occur on it daily, but some are fatal in any given year.
Well, somebody who lived along 17 got fed up with that zooming prick and he/she mounted a video camera and captured the jerk, his or her license plate, and streamed it on the internet.
Next thing we all know is in the Mercury or another newspaper, the video shooter was being sued by the owner of the car because the insurer of that car cancelled the policy. Some ASSHOLE layer was defending or representing the speeder's car's driver.
Personally, I don't give a SHIT who owns the car, it's the CAR being used as a lethal weapon. If I ever capture such footage, I'll stream it, too. Owners of vehicles are responsible, and if they won't fess up to a prick misusing their lent vehicle, then DMV should impound it, and the insurer should ban that insured or that car, or both.
Problem is, being forced into court to answer for what that video shooter did is NOT the judge's domain, and not anybody else's, so long as the footage was accurate, authentic, and not doctored like some rogue cops might do to evidenct to make a case stick.
Now, considering 9/11 or even stalking law prior to that, and privacy laws, I imagine the states could say the plates serve for parking enforcement, reckles driver location, and similar things. Nobody decades ago expected that high-speed cameras would be able to amass voluminous plate information and that people, basically nefarios, would try to make money off of that. Sure, there may be some legit uses such as tracking down a bastard that the police won't assist you with, or finding a victim that people claim is not really a victim, but there are some risks to mass-non-DVM/non-Law Enforcemnt uses and abuses.
But, some people may want to know "Of the vehicles I am sighting on my California road trip, how many were purchased or maybe registered in San Bernadino county versus another or more other counties.
Eventually, though, private-eyes will have these databases, and if everybody has them, then they endanger the reasonable privacy a person has to deny would-be stalkers and other cretins.
OTOH, again, how would we get rid of privacy issues, but still enable law enforcement, parking enforcement, and insurance and vehicular incident parties to accurately report the collider?
Well, one way might be in the use of vehicular beacons that exchange information automatically when a collision occurs. If law enforcement arrives on scene and "interrogates" a crashed vechicle and it's electrics work but there is no transponder response, the vehicle COULD be impounded and inspected, and if it is found that the xponder was tampered with (maybe ganger bangers, or ultra-privacy types) then the vehicle could be chopped and destroyed as a public policy measure.
BUt, then how do we provide privacy for THAT problem? Another issue with mass-collection of plates numbers is that eventually, somebody will be shooting or scanning VIN numbers, which on many vehicles are just barcodes under stamped numbers. The bar codes would enable rapid collection of VINS. Obscuring the VIN (say to impede a meter monitor) is illegal in some states and the parking enforcers COULD order a tow truck to hitch the thing and haul it away. So, all those people with fancy dancy dash covers COULD become a targed for under-revenue ticketing departments, or "creative" or "enforcement-minded" city managers.
Another problem is that mass collection of plates means at some point undercover law enforcement agents will be hightly identifiable, especially if the trackers and sharers use super-strong encryption to exchange GPS and other information to impede or wipe out agents staging on a scene.
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GArTnEr has 4 out of 5 letters of gates' surname name?
Hmmm, let's see... I wonder how much they get paid by the letter to be as close to one as possible with gates. O.....
Yeah, but is it legal for me or you or anyone else to collect imagery of the vehicles, their occupants, plate numbers and locations?
I'm not even suggesting tapping the state and creditor digital networks. Just tap into any public, high-resolution web cams, log the known whereabouts of any vehicle, look for repeat logs, interpolate or extrapolate the likely activities undertaken, and then display it for public consumption.
Even without adding the "interpolate or extrapolate the likely activities undertaken" part, there'd be major hue and cry.
Now, if the public wants a privacy buffer that costs the government MORE money, they could ditch their cars and take mass transit. Up to 1/2 the surveillance system is real, the rest being fake, due to costs. So, what could but won't do it is if some major force "ripped up the automobiles" the way the oil industry ripped up the cable car and trolley tracks.
If we could get people out of their cars by vastly improving the flexibility and availability of transit pods, such as FlexCar, where you ad-hoc reserve and rent a car and drop it off whereever is convenient but only for a few hours at a time, then more people could be diverted to mass transit.
But, because America is so vast, the oil and auto industries seized an opportunity, and look what it's gotten us: those two industries ALONE are the probable culprets for the rampant and abyssmal divorce and infidelity problems we have. Automobiles and autonomy allowed the traveling salesman to basically have a woman in every city, not all that different from a sailor having a woman in every port. But, I digress...
If busses were more spacious, allowing for grocery shopping and cart space, if they were more cab-like in on-call/ad-hoc settings or just similar to those in Hong Kong, which are small but have large entry doors, then people would have less need for a car. But, to justify doubling or tripling the amount of public transit vehicles on the road and in greater frequency with better pickup/dropoff spots, cities would need to be less greedy with their revenue accession schemes, and counties would have to be less greed with property tax schemes. Cities would definitely need to encourage and support more comic and entertainment acts, movie venues, and design a "Vegas"- or "Roppongi crossing" or "Kowloon"/"Taipei" like setting that bustles with neon, glitz, fun, food, and more. Tokyo I heard is called a city that never sleeps, and 24/7 pretty much whatever material thing you need can be found and bought.
Here, we're too rigidly limited by noise ordinances and other regulations, some for good reasons. But, with the horizontal sprawl, the me-me-all-mine-no-you-can't-peek attitude combined with the ever-enlarging vehicles, houses grow to a point, and even with cities shrinking the lot sizes, cities here are greatly less dense than say, Tokyo, which by 1998 had some 40 MILLION people living and working within just 20 miles of Tokyo!
At any rate, something needs to be done about our love affair with the automobile, the ridiculous number of vehicle registrations per license (when one person has 5 non-business vehicles), when homes have 5 or 6 vehicles crowding street, and public transit is incompatible with ad-hoc needs of a populace.
Maybe the answer is to create new circular, 15-25-mile-diameter cities with hubbed entertainment zones, spoked residential corridors, and sectored manufacturing centers with public transit mandatory and POV (privately-owned vehicles) prohibited inside the 25-mile zone. Monorails, private/5-person automatic/railed cabs, and trams networked with escalators and moving sidewalks or ski-resort-like transport chairs could do wonders. The only vehicles used inside would be law enforcement, medical, construction, residential bulk-goods transport, and utilities related things. Even still, high-speed utility pods or shuttles could remove the need for those, too, if distributed police, medical and fire-suppression substations are thoughtfully planned. A
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Our leggs crisp your leggs, they ash you, they toast you.. they nev-hur lehh-chuu-goooh
If you're referring to D&D, I thought they got secured a patent or copyright covering turn-based games. Hopefully, though, they didn't. Actually, RPG/FPS probably trumped that-- unless they're paying royalties we haven't been told of.
Imagine a tablet-based, MySQL-arbitrated RPG game that has a huge scenario engine, a character attributes engine, and the other stuff you need. You pick from canned scripts for a book, then create a complementary or supra-set or super-set framework. AI and a number of other rules would deal with the single or multi-player aspects.
The NEAT trick would be to have the character demographics engine look at the world and then on-the fly, maybe by random numbers, generate stories page after page, compatible with the previous chapters. For a twist, the reader could pause the story, insert real-world URLs that have AI cross-connects, then recompile the story based on what the RWNAICC download says. Imagine if the XML or RSS feeds could carry meta or other information to be compatible with interactive, ad-hoc story pads. You turn a page and a neat-looking, believable character or set of them appears on a page. It could be foldable so that the read text stays on the left (if the reader base is L-R/T-B) and the images on the right.
I don't know if anyone has filed for a patent on this, but it's something I've been thinking about. Hopefully this is not patentable such that some asshole of a company tries to preclude me or others from doing it when the MySQL database supports forms and graphics. It, to me, should be a "let the best product compete or win ON ITS MERITS", not based on how deep are the pockets of the studio or its lobbyists.
As I see it, to my benefit and that of others, this is just a new form of book printing, except paper could be swapped out for an LCD or film sheet, and each book is, as with e-books, downloadable, storable, and in my case, fairly sharable.
Come to think of it, if XML and RSS and other protocols or tools are used, the news studios could save a bundle on news anchors -- provided the viewers go for it and advertising revenues don't drop after the anchor lobby or unions go flying off the handle...
Supposedly, in China, there is a saying: "Retribution knows its own time." Well, like God being an "absentee landlord", Retribution, is taking her sweet time with microshaft.
Well, dammit, I hope Retribution knows when to strike microshaft (lower-casing/deprecation of microsoft's name intentional/perpetual with me) right across its scaly, encrusted, misshapen, uncouthly-wielded frenulum.
Retribution, a suggestion if I might:
If Mount St. Helens blows her top again, ask her to BURY that nexus of an abject, abfarad abattoir of a campus. They've been getting away with TOO MUCH SHIT, and the time is NOW for retribution to show her face. The company is a huge, legal racket and extorter, and their behavior is proof enough, not to mention a FUD factory. PLEASE, Retribution, PLEASE, do the masses a favor!
Burying mshaft might also bury their stocks if they can't resiliently recover. I bet NONE of their fields offices act as mirrors for the main campus, meaning they'd effectively look as if they had no working backups to fall back on after a disaster.
Anybody care for a digital seance? OTOH, summoning evil sprits, umm spirits, might backfire. I hope Karma or the spirits are keeping tabs on msoft, because by NO means can that company be free of guilt, period.
Ju-On, have you a grudge, a reason to pay ms a visit? http://www.juonthegrudge.com/
(turn your speakers up so you can hear the intro... ) Click on "media" to get some images of the spirit...
It is not covered by fair use laws...you can't freely use software for review, parody or educational purposes and you can't use it however you like at home, but I doubt anybody would make a stink if you did.
Why is it that software companies try to forbid a user or reviewer from "benchmarking" and publishing the results of the benchmarking?
The software manufacturers actually want to encourage use of their warez, so if a glowing report is written, of course they won't issue a "cease and desist" or "you must withdraw, retract, recant..." or "pay up...now!" demand.
However, let a publication issue a damning expose, and the software manufacturer will bitch or cry foul or in court, at least, claim irrecoverable and permanent damage to commercial interests. Well, if they write, cobble together and release shitty code, TOUGH! You reap what you sew.
I don't condone copying and distributing unauthorized copies of software, movies or music. Having even one illegal copy is wrong, but a non-distributor would not incur my wrath, and I wouldn't care.
But, for a digital distributor of films and movies to try to prohibit a consumer from "renting, selling, leasing..." tough. They're not saying that as an agent on behalf of the tax collectors. They just don't anyone diminishing "their" "market". Again, if I am not illegally DUPLICATING and distributing but only sharing, renting, leasing, or selling my one disk because I no longer want it, that's between ME and the borrower or buyer.
Ostensibly, the original distributors would claim that resales are their aftermarket or secondary rights, but boohoo. Automobile manufacturers cannot and do not restrict purchasers from leasing, renting, lending, etc., though many will try to rip you for a fee for clearly showing "their car" in a movie or film. But, to me, once the first copy is on the street, it's advertising for the auto manufacturer. They should be PROUD their vehicle is getting attention.
Another branding/licensing/advertising act that bugs the shit out of me is certain mid-west/Texan/Southern auto dealers who drill into new cars' trunk lids and bolt on their damn dealership emblem (or use sticker/decals that when removed destroy the paint/finish). For that, I recommend that buyers get to the LASSSST stage of purchasing legally possible but before signing and say:
"Oh, for that sticker/decal/emblem shit, you will deduct $1,000 for advertising, and 1.475% from the APR for advertising"
Some dealerships have a lot of nerver, getting free advertising like that. I've tended to remove the plate frames before driving off, or at least get around the corner and remove it, since you don't want the mech shop screwing around under the hood if they get offended seeing you remove the adverts on drive-off
What is bullshit about the "on the specific machine sold/purchased" bit is this:
-- you don't see the auto manufacturers restricting what rims and hubs, radios, windows, or seats you can use in your car.
Period. Nevermind that a car cannot be driven to multiple places by multiple persons simultanesouly.
If I want to tweak my box, change the hardware, the mobo, or anything else, I can do it anytime and as frequently as I wish. Modders or tweakers should not have to become scofflaws just to bypass ms' shitty business model. That disk, by the time the consumer gets it, is worth less than a penny, for the number of times the software has been copied over and sold vastly outstrips the R&D put into it. Obviously, a hammer cannot be duplicated from the same source -- each copy uses raw materials. But a disk is a disk -- the contents on it are images that aren't matter at our level of interaction.
Besides, as much crap as many installers and users go through, microshaft (lower-casing/deprecation of microsoft's name intentional/perpetual with me) should be paying USERS to use their shit.
The way to deal with this without using nukes is to have DE's tow a battery of FAE (Fuel-Air Explosive) rockets. Once a CVBG arrives to the area, you float and launch your FAE rockets in overwhelming numbers, say 60 rockets. If you attack a CVN from one beam, even with the escort screen ships, they WILL eventually have very hot CIWS barrels. Some will malfunction for sure (NO, I repeat NO CIWS is 100% FMC (fully-mission-capable)) or failure-proof, and others will have to cease fire if the depression angle lowers (ships heel, roll, yaw, pitch, sag and hog, and hull-strafing is a possibility) as a friendly or close-aboard ship zigs and zags her ass off angling for better coverage of the kill zone to take out the missiles or rockets.
As these rockets or missiles stream in in corkscrew or pop-up fashion, assuming some 30 CIWS mounts waiting for them, each CIWS will spit/belch/burp/bzzzt out some 3500 RPM, maybe in bursts of 200 until the damn link/belts jam or the ammo runs out, or a control board sizzles or cracks under recoil and sonic effects, at which point (I don't think they're self-feeding/self-reloading) the Gunner's Mates will be out there reloading manually or unjamming the gun or hot-swapping boards.
Once the CIWS guns are reported/detected to be firing with less vigor (maybe some of the inbound missiles have sensors and could relay resistance information to the launcher), a follow-up barrage of FAE bombs on missiles screams in.
Once converged over the flight deck, Ka-effing-BOOM!!!.
Mission complete. Fragging festooned CV/CVNs' islands' and superstructures' antennae and portholes/windows and concussively mangling the flight deck will destroy ANY a/c exposed, and maybe quite a few in the hangar; topside or exposed personnel will be gonners from fragmentation, concussion, or from falling 80 feet to the sea. The First prize --if done right-- will be the catastrophic failure of the launch pistons and the arrestor wire capstans. The consolation prize will be the resulting pile of junk topside that has to be crane or mule dumped/shoved overboard, time-consuming FOD (Foreign Object Damage) walk to make a green (flight-ready) flight deck, trolley and shuttle and piston checks that have to be made to make sure it's not destroy on post-blast use... LOTS of things would have to be done. So much for the 20'-80' of steel/lead/composite/honeycomb waterline armor. The third prize would be snap-depressed FAE bombs that fall astern to warp the prop shafts or the blades, or knock some vital pumps or switchboards off-line. 4th prize would be collateral damage to the screen ships, either by direct damage inflicted, or by the typical collisions you can induce if you gratuitously toss in a few dozen torpedoes at not just the CVN but screen ships. Every ship driver will ask him/herself TWO questions: Save my ass? Save the birdfarm? Or, they might ask, "What the F******????!!!!"
I offered a similar scenario to my ship's Tactical Action Officer when I was only 20 or 21, was a radioman, and was sitting on a radar for ESWS (Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist) training. I had this scenario NOT due to navy knowledge or training, but from my imagination, from reading Clancy books from the angle of besting his own scenarios, and from the angle of stomping the shit out of hubris. Way back THEN, that could be -by some- called "assymetric warfare". I HATED the standard doctrine and pubs that neatly arranged wargames, joint operations and such. Almost every paragraph could be countered. (I applaud that retired US Marine who used minarets and motorcycle-based signals men who roundly kicked the shit out of the exalted operational commanders is the professional version of me. I'm the rough, unprivileged, enlisted, restricted, info-starved, but still somewhat imaginative version of him. My Security Alert scenarios I hurled at my second command were effective, time-consuming, and intentionally humiliating so much that they ceased using me, since I made goddamn sure they werent' going to in under 30 minutes pass
Noisy relative to WHAT?
Diesel boats probably are using 7-bladed props like SSNs have been. The 7th blade is to cancel out symmetry and cavitation that even-number blades would produce.
As for "noisy" it could be that the diesel boats deployed decoys or mobile simulators pretending to be US boats going on underwater sound phone. If the SSNs fell for it, shame on them. It also could be that decoys were released stealthily into the op area, collecting and relaying the whereabouts of the SSNs. If so, then chokepoints could effectively be set up and the diesels would just wait for the SSNs to 'come to papa', and then they Australian boats could "detonate" the remote sensor/pod/weapon and gain a "constructive kill".
It might even be possible that it's useful someday to restore astern-facing tubes so that live, guided torpedos could be trailed behind the sub at extremely slow speeds. When trailed, it's passive and can be released for autonomous engagement near the lurking/snooping sub that thinks it's in wired sub's baffles. Or, the torpedo can be detonated like a mine.
Maybe somebody can counter US boats by streaming 3 or 4 such devices at various distances and give each a set of planes so as to dispers mutual and reinforcing shockwaves in not just the horizontal and radial, but the vertical and radial, staggered at say 1,000, 2,000 and 3,000 yards to bracket ANY boat.
If it were MY own navy, facing quiet SSNs no matter WHICH navy it is, I'd configure my diesels to trail 5 recoveralbe mines or torpedoes, with 2 as far back as physics would allow, and 2 as near as my own boat could withstand the shock. The middle would be a sensor and a weapon. On detection or contact, it would command the surrounding 4 weapons configured as 2 torps and two mines to engage or maneuver and engage the acquired target.
What would suck is if a diver could interface with and tamperwith my trailed weapons so that I'd be blown up after retrieving them.
David Syes
For those who "cope" with life, but immerse themselves in saddening film that still contain some wit or light humor, see a Hong Kong film named "Funeral March".
. ht m
(Try your local Asian or import video store. If your LUCKY, BB or HV might have it, but don't count on it. Or, order it online or from some places in San Francisco/Burlingame, CA...)
Male or female, soft or tough, if you have feelings or sensitivities, you will cry and you will laugh, and in some parts, you do both and without guilt. Some have sobbed like babies if immersed in this film without distractions
Review is at:
http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/funeral_march
The one at IMBD.com doesn't do justice to the film.
But, I watched it and it's touching:
Non-spoiler gist:
Yee, a young woman hires a funeral director to arrange a burial. It turns out it's for herself. She's dying of intestinal/stomach cancer, but the funeral director encourages/recommends that she take the medicine prescribed and undergo the operation. As part of his hiring by her, though, we get to see an interesting and different perspective on living, living with limited time, and dying.
Most of the film is in Hong Kong, but a brief jaunt to New York shows some nice scenery I'd not seen (I've never been there, but even with all the TV shots, I don't think I'd seen the images in "FM"). Not all cultures are like the US. In some places laughing and celebration mark a passage to a hopefully BETTER place than here. I tend to think of Earth as a "proving ground" which will determine where we go next. I prefer to discount any Heaven or Hell, for natural things around us recycle, so why not the soul as well as matter. For us puny humans to be given ONE life to live, from seconds to just uner 115 years, but usually 45-85 years, it's a CHEAT for a god to creat billions of souls that in the cosmic scope of things are snuffed out relative to a fly's lifetime, actually vastly shorter.
I think fatal incidents or accidents are just interruptsion or even accelerators. I feel murder is "forced eviction" from the game of life, depending on the circumstances, but all around us we eventually forget the millions living under undeveloped or corrupt regimes, starving, dying, living malnourished, and more and worse.
In developed nations, aside from some petty corrupt leaders, we live fairly comfortably, and increasingly lack a clear, fundamental understanding of living when fast-paced, tech living distorts the big picture.
Slow down. Ponder. Live. Reflect. Volunteer. Donate. Help. Complain, and fix the people system, not just the tech stuff.
David Syes
That would be pretty hard to do. With watch-to-watch pub and crypto turnover, TPI (Two-Person Integrity), and other safeguards, ti would be hard to steal the crypto. Even if you're the WatchSup, you CAN get your own padlock open, but the second person has to do so or comply. After that, the second person would have to turn a blind eye long enough for the trusted spy to somehow copy the strips or cards or sheets.
Even so, once the compromise is discovered, the entire fleet would cease using the crypto, except for maybe a handful of decoys in the compromised area who'd continue feeding disinformation into the system to delay knowledged of the compromise. However, once the genereal oparea is told to cease using it, the compromise effectively is known. Even if the reported compromise is covered by HQ just self-censoring what it sends over the encrypted circuits, an enemy or defector using the crypto cannot use it beyond an predetermined, scheduled time block. Just as newsfeeds expire, so do crypto periods.
While it would be possible to steal crypto for a given period, they physical evidence (hard plastic, clear or dark, in clumps or packages that will be obviously missed if moved or remove), you generally cannot steal it now and use it later, for timeshifting (not exactly like TIVO, et al) would elminate the usefulness. Meaning: Crypto stolen for period 0600-1200 or whatever used AFTER that period simply won't work. They cyphers embedded in the transmission stream would ensure that improperly-embedded responses trigger a compromise alert.
Read some books out there (communications pubs, crypto books, communications security methods, and your imagination. It's not necessary to bribe anyone for information if you can reassemble or combine peripheral evidence. Read and re-read. The process I describe is not in itself super sensitve. The crypto IS. The physical protection of it IS. Stealing it is pointless, except to invite jail time.
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As for knowing where the sub is, subs have OpAreas just like surface ships do. The satellites would signal to as narrow an areas as possible, likely in bursts, over a short duration, and at random intervals so as to deny detection of the boat's locality if a trawler or signal-soaking craft is in the area by chance. Alternatively, the sub can release a trailing wire antena for maybe 2 miles, and collect instructions or messages. In a worst case, they could cut the cable and go deep and quiet in a threatening situation.
I would imagine that remote sensors or torpedo-like vehicles slip from the hull, trail or shadow the boat, and send and receive signals from a non-disclosing distance. It's what IIII would do if I had the valuable boats, the money, and the imagination I have now. We have predtors for ground crews, so why not remote off-board vehicles for expensive subs that might have to sit or hover (to keep sand out of certain cooling intakes) for extended periods, periodically degaussing (or doing other things to/for) their hull signature. A ROV would SIGNIFICANTLY enhance the privacy, security, safety, and stealth of ANY navy's subs, for a smaller price than innumerable anechoic tiling and rubber-mounting deck rafts.
David Syes
-Former Radioman (86-88)
-Armchair Tactical Action Officer before and after my 4-year stint in the USN
-recreational submarine designer (concepts)
-recreational/"otaku" DDG/DD designer (to embarrass the DDG-51 design (both flt I and II)
-aspiring fiction author (relying upon fact and disinformation available in many, many carefully selected texts available publicly)
It could have been male, or a she-male. It could have been digital sleigth of hand.
In 15 years, we might have news reporters who look like buck-tooth Austin Powers, or some of the fine-ass Thai-girls... oops, those tend to be guys... Well, I who knows without getting up close and personal?
How long before we see the news conglomerates cutting costs by using some 3-D news reporter animation software? Something vastly superior to Max Headroom... If it saves a buck or a salary expense, many companies will do it.
No, if they employ a computer that asks bad questions, would they fired the programmer or reboot the bot?