I would put my money on Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, or one of those other socialist leaders. Or possibly one of those genocidal islamic groups in Africa, I'm not sure what their tally is up to now.
To answer your question "Which society has invaded other countries since it's inception?" I would say the answer is either Germany or Communist (soviet)-backed puppet states.
As for the U.S. being warmongers, lets examine who started the recent conflicts in the world: Iraq II: Saddam Hussein (by violating the terms of the cease fire agreement from Iraq I) Iraq I: Saddam Hussein (invaded Kuwait) Viet-Nam: Chinese-backed NVA Korea: Soviet-backed North Korea WW2: Germany / Japan WW1: Austria-Hungary / Germany Spanish-American War: U.S. Philippine-American War: Filipino Government
The only conflict the U.S. started in the past 100 years was the Spanish-American War. Iraq II would only count if you willingly blinded yourself to the events preceding it, e.g. the dozens of U.N. mandates authorizing the use of force, etc.
So to say that the U.S. are war mongerers, that is a demonstrably false. Just accept it -- while the rest of the world has been busy mass-murdering each other, the U.S. has been the sole force of good saving hundreds of millions of innocent lives.
WoW's economy is entirely artificial, with set money inflows (grinding, vendor trash) and outflows (repair bills, reagents). There is no monetary supply limit or inflation in those regards. WoW does have an auction house, which acts pretty much like a stock-market, but commodity items are infinite in supply with fixed prices.
In UO, NPC merchants had limited supplies of commodity items AND money. You couldn't just bot-farm for 48 hours and then dump the load on an NPC to get cash. The vendors were pretty much just set up to get the economy started, to supply feed-money to the system. Once the economy got going and stabilized, pretty much ALL items were created, bought, and sold by players. I think it's a big difference worth pointing out. Players could set up their own shops and vendors, sell the goods that were in demand, and even advertise their store in cities by handing out free teleport runes if their store was far away. WoW's auction house may be robust, but it is only one aspect of a simulated economy.
I agree that housing would not work in WoW obviously. The best they could accomplish would be to have instanced-housing, which would seem kind of pointless. Having a real house in UO that everyone passed by had a certain neat feeling to it. Unfortunately, as UO became more popular, the world ran out of room for the housing. But early on and on smaller servers, the housing system worked great and was tons of fun.
I think this pretty accurately describes Ultima Online (in its early days). There was no permadeath, but dying meant losing a significant amount of skill points, as well as all of your armor and possessions on your character. There were no character classes, and "leveling up" a new character only took a couple days. Becoming a powerful mage was more difficult, and risky, beacuse the reagents required for casting spells were expensive and had to be carried on you. The questing in UO was as you described -- there were no NPC quests, just dungeons to explore and such. Also, the economy was 98% player based, with player crafted goods, player-run vendors, and even entire new player-made towns. While WoW is pretty fun as far as raiding and boss encounters are concerned, UO (in its early days) was really the pinnacle of MMORPG's.
Gunbroker works especially well in the US since firearms in most cases must be shipped to and transferred by a licensed dealer, which acts as an escrow.
But that would outlaw flashbangs, grenades, etc, which are weapons commonly used by infantry soldiers.
Based on the history of the country, the purpose of the 2nd Amendment was to ensure that all able-bodied adults would have access to the individual weapons used by a member of the milita. Back then, that meant a musket, rounds, and ammo-- but not crew-served weapons like artillery or battleships, which would be supplied by the army as a whole. That means today, any individual soldier weapon should be fair-game for civilian ownership, including automatic rifles, light machine guns, grenades, etc. But excluding tanks, artillery, jets, bombs, and so forth. For an example of this, look at Switzerland, all citizens there are required to keep a full-auto rifle with ammo maintained in their houses so that they would be prepared if the milita were to be called on for service.
I did this and it allowed me to install adblock, but the options dialogue does not work! Hitting the options button in the extensions configuration box opens a window of zero-size with no content in it.:(
While I don't necessarily agree or disagree with this law, think about the reasoning behind this quote:
'A more effective way to prevent unauthorized access would be for owners to secure their wireless networks with assistance where necessary from Internet service providers or vendors.'"
You could use the same reasoning to uncriminalize murder, because it would be more effective to just give everyone a gun and provide assistance where necessary on how to aim well.
Just because a crime is preventable, should that mean that the crime itself should have no statute or punishment? Hmmm...
I think big corporations are going to hang on to XP until it is no longer officially supported by Microsoft, at which point they will be forced to upgrade due to Sarbanes-Oxley.
Check out http://www.skyviewcafe.com/. It is java based, and can show you interesting sky objects based on your time zone or zip code, with lots of options to mess around with. For example, it will tell you where the brightest stars and planets are in the sky with an easy to follow diagram.
You don't need a killswitch, just program in a pre-set kill-limit into the parameters. If they ever do run amok, we can simply send wave after wave of our own men to their deaths until the pre-set limit is reached, and they shut down automatically.
Fast reactors use depleted Uranium. They start with 20% or so recycled weapons grade Plutonium, and from then on only need to be refueled with U-238. See IFR for an example.
Actually Uranium is less hazardous in this regard, because it is so dense any airborne particles will quickly fall to the ground and get mixed back into the soil, immeasurable compared to the natural amounts of Uranium in the ground.
It used to take 10 years because of environmentalist litigation throughout the construction and licensing process. This added huge expenses, making new nuclear completely infeasible. Now days we have Combined licenses, which you basically apply for before you start building, but once you get the license you can build and then go on-line without any (regulatory) delays.
New nuclear building will not grind to a halt, but it may be slowed/delayed a few years until more of these factories come online. And when the decision makers are trying to decide what kind of power plant to build to meet energy needs, a 2 year delay for the queue to get your pressure vessel because China has dibs on the next 40 may lead you to conventional sources (gas/coal/etc).
Yeah after reading up a bit I think you are right, that was one of the selling points of the CANDU design, although I never heard about that before today. I still say that the main motivation behind the CANDU design was its ability to run on natural uranium though, as Canada did not have the ability to enrich uranium themselves and they did not want to have to depend on the US.
Did you even read the article? The bit about the samurai-sword making was just a lead-in for the rest of the article. The story is accurate, and this is one of the problems with restarting the nuclear industry in the US. The pressure vessel for a PWR is very large, and has to be made with high quality and precision. We used to make them in the US when the industry was booming, but since there was no market for them after the 80's they all went out of business. Making a PWR pressure vessel is not as simple as converting your average car factory over. These are 500-ton blocks of solid steel that have to be heated to 2000 degrees, and then machined into the precise requirements of a reactor vessel. That is no easy task.
A CANDU reactor still has a large steel Calandria surrounding the pressure tubes. I'm not sure off the top of my head of its dimensions but I imagine it is bigger but less thick then a typical PWR pressure vessel.
And the reason why the CANDU was designed was because it runs on natural, unenriched uranium. It had nothing to do with the design of the pressure vessel. When the first CANDU's were being built, the US was still manufacturing PWR pressure vessels and there was no problem in that area.
The wiki article you linked states itself that DU is less toxic then many other common materials like arsenic. The statistical evidence linking birth defects to soldiers is dubious at best. This is pretty much a case of DHMO-itis, i.e., irrational fear over something not inherently dangerous. DU, like DHMO, are feared because of their mystique (in the case of DHMO-a ominous sounding acronym).
As opposed to current gasoline vehicles, which are non-flammable.
Gasoline is flammable of course, but it isn't pressurized to hundreds of PSI. In an accident, gasoline can spill and catch on fire, but it doesn't explode. With pressurized H2 tanks, every car is a potential BLEVE waiting to happen.
Same here, although on my connection, late at night, I've gotten powerboost speeds for whole large file downloads. I downloaded one divx game trailer which was 600 mb in about 2.5 minutes! That's an average of 32 mbps! I really dislike Comcast's business practices, but I can't really complain about the service at my location.
The bug concerning BSOD's with Vista x64 and systems with >3 gigs of ram has to do with nvidia chipsets. There is a hotfix which fixes the bug, but I too found it vary annoying having to remove half my ram to install Vista.
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I would put my money on Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, or one of those other socialist leaders. Or possibly one of those genocidal islamic groups in Africa, I'm not sure what their tally is up to now.
To answer your question "Which society has invaded other countries since it's inception?" I would say the answer is either Germany or Communist (soviet)-backed puppet states.
As for the U.S. being warmongers, lets examine who started the recent conflicts in the world:
Iraq II: Saddam Hussein (by violating the terms of the cease fire agreement from Iraq I)
Iraq I: Saddam Hussein (invaded Kuwait)
Viet-Nam: Chinese-backed NVA
Korea: Soviet-backed North Korea
WW2: Germany / Japan
WW1: Austria-Hungary / Germany
Spanish-American War: U.S.
Philippine-American War: Filipino Government
The only conflict the U.S. started in the past 100 years was the Spanish-American War. Iraq II would only count if you willingly blinded yourself to the events preceding it, e.g. the dozens of U.N. mandates authorizing the use of force, etc.
So to say that the U.S. are war mongerers, that is a demonstrably false. Just accept it -- while the rest of the world has been busy mass-murdering each other, the U.S. has been the sole force of good saving hundreds of millions of innocent lives.
The program was:
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO 10
And it is still running to this day.
WoW's economy is entirely artificial, with set money inflows (grinding, vendor trash) and outflows (repair bills, reagents). There is no monetary supply limit or inflation in those regards. WoW does have an auction house, which acts pretty much like a stock-market, but commodity items are infinite in supply with fixed prices.
In UO, NPC merchants had limited supplies of commodity items AND money. You couldn't just bot-farm for 48 hours and then dump the load on an NPC to get cash. The vendors were pretty much just set up to get the economy started, to supply feed-money to the system. Once the economy got going and stabilized, pretty much ALL items were created, bought, and sold by players. I think it's a big difference worth pointing out. Players could set up their own shops and vendors, sell the goods that were in demand, and even advertise their store in cities by handing out free teleport runes if their store was far away. WoW's auction house may be robust, but it is only one aspect of a simulated economy.
I agree that housing would not work in WoW obviously. The best they could accomplish would be to have instanced-housing, which would seem kind of pointless. Having a real house in UO that everyone passed by had a certain neat feeling to it. Unfortunately, as UO became more popular, the world ran out of room for the housing. But early on and on smaller servers, the housing system worked great and was tons of fun.
I think this pretty accurately describes Ultima Online (in its early days). There was no permadeath, but dying meant losing a significant amount of skill points, as well as all of your armor and possessions on your character. There were no character classes, and "leveling up" a new character only took a couple days. Becoming a powerful mage was more difficult, and risky, beacuse the reagents required for casting spells were expensive and had to be carried on you. The questing in UO was as you described -- there were no NPC quests, just dungeons to explore and such. Also, the economy was 98% player based, with player crafted goods, player-run vendors, and even entire new player-made towns. While WoW is pretty fun as far as raiding and boss encounters are concerned, UO (in its early days) was really the pinnacle of MMORPG's.
Gunbroker works especially well in the US since firearms in most cases must be shipped to and transferred by a licensed dealer, which acts as an escrow.
But that would outlaw flashbangs, grenades, etc, which are weapons commonly used by infantry soldiers. Based on the history of the country, the purpose of the 2nd Amendment was to ensure that all able-bodied adults would have access to the individual weapons used by a member of the milita. Back then, that meant a musket, rounds, and ammo-- but not crew-served weapons like artillery or battleships, which would be supplied by the army as a whole. That means today, any individual soldier weapon should be fair-game for civilian ownership, including automatic rifles, light machine guns, grenades, etc. But excluding tanks, artillery, jets, bombs, and so forth. For an example of this, look at Switzerland, all citizens there are required to keep a full-auto rifle with ammo maintained in their houses so that they would be prepared if the milita were to be called on for service.
I did this and it allowed me to install adblock, but the options dialogue does not work! Hitting the options button in the extensions configuration box opens a window of zero-size with no content in it. :(
Maybe you should use a standardized cross-section library like ENDF.
You could use the same reasoning to uncriminalize murder, because it would be more effective to just give everyone a gun and provide assistance where necessary on how to aim well.
Just because a crime is preventable, should that mean that the crime itself should have no statute or punishment? Hmmm...
I think big corporations are going to hang on to XP until it is no longer officially supported by Microsoft, at which point they will be forced to upgrade due to Sarbanes-Oxley.
Check out http://www.skyviewcafe.com/. It is java based, and can show you interesting sky objects based on your time zone or zip code, with lots of options to mess around with. For example, it will tell you where the brightest stars and planets are in the sky with an easy to follow diagram.
You don't need a killswitch, just program in a pre-set kill-limit into the parameters. If they ever do run amok, we can simply send wave after wave of our own men to their deaths until the pre-set limit is reached, and they shut down automatically.
Fast reactors use depleted Uranium. They start with 20% or so recycled weapons grade Plutonium, and from then on only need to be refueled with U-238. See IFR for an example.
Actually Uranium is less hazardous in this regard, because it is so dense any airborne particles will quickly fall to the ground and get mixed back into the soil, immeasurable compared to the natural amounts of Uranium in the ground.
It used to take 10 years because of environmentalist litigation throughout the construction and licensing process. This added huge expenses, making new nuclear completely infeasible. Now days we have Combined licenses, which you basically apply for before you start building, but once you get the license you can build and then go on-line without any (regulatory) delays.
New nuclear building will not grind to a halt, but it may be slowed/delayed a few years until more of these factories come online. And when the decision makers are trying to decide what kind of power plant to build to meet energy needs, a 2 year delay for the queue to get your pressure vessel because China has dibs on the next 40 may lead you to conventional sources (gas/coal/etc).
Yeah after reading up a bit I think you are right, that was one of the selling points of the CANDU design, although I never heard about that before today. I still say that the main motivation behind the CANDU design was its ability to run on natural uranium though, as Canada did not have the ability to enrich uranium themselves and they did not want to have to depend on the US.
Did you even read the article? The bit about the samurai-sword making was just a lead-in for the rest of the article. The story is accurate, and this is one of the problems with restarting the nuclear industry in the US. The pressure vessel for a PWR is very large, and has to be made with high quality and precision. We used to make them in the US when the industry was booming, but since there was no market for them after the 80's they all went out of business. Making a PWR pressure vessel is not as simple as converting your average car factory over. These are 500-ton blocks of solid steel that have to be heated to 2000 degrees, and then machined into the precise requirements of a reactor vessel. That is no easy task.
And the reason why the CANDU was designed was because it runs on natural, unenriched uranium. It had nothing to do with the design of the pressure vessel. When the first CANDU's were being built, the US was still manufacturing PWR pressure vessels and there was no problem in that area.
The wiki article you linked states itself that DU is less toxic then many other common materials like arsenic. The statistical evidence linking birth defects to soldiers is dubious at best. This is pretty much a case of DHMO-itis, i.e., irrational fear over something not inherently dangerous. DU, like DHMO, are feared because of their mystique (in the case of DHMO-a ominous sounding acronym).
Same here, although on my connection, late at night, I've gotten powerboost speeds for whole large file downloads. I downloaded one divx game trailer which was 600 mb in about 2.5 minutes! That's an average of 32 mbps! I really dislike Comcast's business practices, but I can't really complain about the service at my location.
There is a web of trust network for many BST forums called Heatware that is pretty effective.
The bug concerning BSOD's with Vista x64 and systems with >3 gigs of ram has to do with nvidia chipsets. There is a hotfix which fixes the bug, but I too found it vary annoying having to remove half my ram to install Vista.