We were able to go to war with Afghanistan within weeks because they had no significant military power. Prior to Gulf War I, Iraq was the seventh largest military force on Earth. Minus shitloads of airplanes, SAMS and missile launchers, they were relatively strong in force up until gulf war II, and in fact were working on newer, more devastating missiles not weeks before the invasion.
Neither is comparable to the other. One is walking into a penny candy store and robbing it. The other is walking into the Federal Reserve and robbing it.
Giving them 10 minutes to evacuate instead of 30... yes, that's useful. A sonic boom is a dead giveaway. A Tomahawk might be confused (particularly to a listener in dense cover) as one of your own aircraft.
Which has yet to hit a land-based target. Which, aside from leaving a small radar signature leaves big SONIC BOOMS in it's wake, is no better than a small subsonic, but larger radar signature missile.
From what the article said, most of the COMPUTER technology was built by India. I'm willing to bet most of the propulsion engineering came from Russia.
And that is the number one reason why tinpot shithead dictators want Nukes. To protect their corrupt tyrannical regimes. Which is why the U.S. will never give up it's nuclear arsenal, no matter how badly it's own people want them gone....
I do play in the real world, and excepting your "father-in-law" gushing blood in your backseat, none of them require speeding. You are the epitome of bad driver. If you're not prepared to handle idiots merging, well like idiots, or kids careening at you at high speed, I think you need to surrender your license.
I've been in many and caused a few accidents, friend. Not a single one of them was unavoidable by intelligent defensive driving.
The best cure for a tailgater is tapping your brakes. You barely engage them, and you scare the piss out of the idiot on your tail.
Right, except your car was nicked in the first place by a criminal with a "car remote", and he disabled it immediately after stabbing you and leaving you for dead.
Hooks on the front bumper are ineffective, as most bumpers are secured by four to eight tiny bolts that sheer at about 40K-70KPSI of force. A spear is even worse because there's nothing in the car for the hook to grab. Seats, trunk doors, all will get shredded when the police car tries to stop.
As for the helicopter gun idea... Yea, okay, shooting from a moving platform onto another moving platform into a box only 2 feet to a side. Not sure I want to be the cop on that trigger...
How is a speed limiter on your car NOT in the "best interests of the population?" Especially when a new teenager gets behind the wheel of daddies Camaro? Oh, when you're trying to outrun the police? Who have radios galore, guns, helicopters and concussion grenades...:-/
Lorries (tractor-trailers for those of us State-side) have had speed governors for years, although many were removed so rigs could drive faster so as to get their cargoes to their targets faster.
How long before car-hacking becomes more mainstream?;-)
Traffic is traffic. They're there to buy/consume your product and fill seats encouraging people to congregate in your store. You want to stop the trouble makers (nessus runners, rootkit script-kiddies, and guys outside in cars hijacking your connection to attack www.whitehouse.gov).
A court can and would do just that if there was factual legal basis for such action. The question now becomes: is there factual evidence that SCO could claim ownership to BSD by right of the agreements... I don't think so. IANAL, although I pretend to be one sometimes. The incestuous relationship the Unix codebase has had over the past 15 years is confusing enough (all I know is AT&T started it).
This is the exact kind of mess I had hope to avoid in the feature by GPLing all my work...
So wait a minute... thought experiment: If SCO does have a legitimate claim to BSD but not Linux, does this not give them carte-blanche to attack anyone who's used BSD code, whether publicly or not? Henceforth, Microsoft and Sun's payoff?
Even worse analogy. SCO is Iraq. Linux is the U.N. Guess who's going to win in the end?
The ONLY way for this SCO affair to come out in their favor is if some judge decides they are entitled to own Linux copyrights. And that, friends, is not going to happen.
I'm sure said person was nailed on a form of trespassing, as opposed to religious persecution. For years at my high-school, mormons (I think, I was inept and stupid back then) would stand on the sidewalk outside the school, near each bus, and hand every kid a bible as he was getting on. Just reached in his box, pulled out an orange bible, dangled it out there like delicious candy for you, and if a kid took it, he'd say thank you, have a nice day, reach back in the box, and wash/rinse/repeat over and over again until he either ran out of books(bibles) or kids.
All very legal, all very likely to get you in trouble with the gestapo today.:-/
I was raised Catholic, but ended up becoming an athiest once they kicked me out of church for "pretend sniping" the priest from under the pews.:-/
FWIW: I don't necessary believe that the police are telling lies to kids about the dangers of drugs. There are true dangers involved in dealing with drugs, mostly because of the draconian laws we have allowed to get built up over the years. But I would hope as a parent that a progressive honest parent helps demystify such half-truths for their kids. The cops have come to spread lies (half-truths) because the law has been written to allow them to. No such law has been written to allow a Christian to walk into a Jewish school and preach the word of Christ.
Yes, and there are some of us fighting to right that particular injustice. The pot smoker should be allowed his toke, just as Sister Mary should be able to wear her habit when visiting a public school, if she could normally do so in public. The framers weren't trying to create "religious no-tolerance zones". They were trying to ensure that government stayed out of people's religious business. That's why the president can speak all he wants about the "Good Lord" and whatnot, right up until he tries to lead us in prayer.
Well if the gubamint would stop taking 30% of my income, and instead let me give it to my state and local governments, you know, those places where I consume the most services, and send my 10% to the Army, Navy and Airforce, things would be a little bit saner, don't you think?
Martin Sheen said it best on the West Wing: Call up Kentucky, and tell 'em Florida wants their $200million back... (I've probably got the states wrong, but the point stands.)
Who gets to create the "flag of humanity". There'll probably be a war over that honor, as well.:( In all honesty, though, it should probably just be the U.N. flag...
Oh come on... Apollo 13 proved that duct-tape is single most important the lifesaving component that should be a part of every crewed space vessel for the rest of eternity.;-)
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We were able to go to war with Afghanistan within weeks because they had no significant military power. Prior to Gulf War I, Iraq was the seventh largest military force on Earth. Minus shitloads of airplanes, SAMS and missile launchers, they were relatively strong in force up until gulf war II, and in fact were working on newer, more devastating missiles not weeks before the invasion.
Neither is comparable to the other. One is walking into a penny candy store and robbing it. The other is walking into the Federal Reserve and robbing it.
Giving them 10 minutes to evacuate instead of 30... yes, that's useful. A sonic boom is a dead giveaway. A Tomahawk might be confused (particularly to a listener in dense cover) as one of your own aircraft.
Which has yet to hit a land-based target. Which, aside from leaving a small radar signature leaves big SONIC BOOMS in it's wake, is no better than a small subsonic, but larger radar signature missile.
From what the article said, most of the COMPUTER technology was built by India. I'm willing to bet most of the propulsion engineering came from Russia.
And that is the number one reason why tinpot shithead dictators want Nukes. To protect their corrupt tyrannical regimes. Which is why the U.S. will never give up it's nuclear arsenal, no matter how badly it's own people want them gone....
Touche! :-)
I do play in the real world, and excepting your "father-in-law" gushing blood in your backseat, none of them require speeding. You are the epitome of bad driver. If you're not prepared to handle idiots merging, well like idiots, or kids careening at you at high speed, I think you need to surrender your license.
I've been in many and caused a few accidents, friend. Not a single one of them was unavoidable by intelligent defensive driving.
The best cure for a tailgater is tapping your brakes. You barely engage them, and you scare the piss out of the idiot on your tail.
Right, except your car was nicked in the first place by a criminal with a "car remote", and he disabled it immediately after stabbing you and leaving you for dead.
Or used to perpetrate more carjackings...
Hooks on the front bumper are ineffective, as most bumpers are secured by four to eight tiny bolts that sheer at about 40K-70KPSI of force. A spear is even worse because there's nothing in the car for the hook to grab. Seats, trunk doors, all will get shredded when the police car tries to stop.
As for the helicopter gun idea... Yea, okay, shooting from a moving platform onto another moving platform into a box only 2 feet to a side.
Not sure I want to be the cop on that trigger...
How is a speed limiter on your car NOT in the "best interests of the population?" Especially when a new teenager gets behind the wheel of daddies Camaro? Oh, when you're trying to outrun the police? Who have radios galore, guns, helicopters and concussion grenades... :-/
;-)
Lorries (tractor-trailers for those of us State-side) have had speed governors for years, although many were removed so rigs could drive faster so as to get their cargoes to their targets faster.
How long before car-hacking becomes more mainstream?
I thought we were at war with Oceania this week?
Really? Care to point some out to me?
Traffic is traffic. They're there to buy/consume your product and fill seats encouraging people to congregate in your store. You want to stop the trouble makers (nessus runners, rootkit script-kiddies, and guys outside in cars hijacking your connection to attack www.whitehouse.gov).
A court can and would do just that if there was factual legal basis for such action. The question now becomes: is there factual evidence that SCO could claim ownership to BSD by right of the agreements... I don't think so. IANAL, although I pretend to be one sometimes. The incestuous relationship the Unix codebase has had over the past 15 years is confusing enough (all I know is AT&T started it).
This is the exact kind of mess I had hope to avoid in the feature by GPLing all my work...
I wanted to say the U.S. to keep the analogy closer to reality, but decided to try and avoid the whole "pro-US" slant. :-/
I can only guess you're talking about the Land Warrior project... but that's only a guess, mind you...
4ID?
Hell, even most of my HARDWARE drivers aren't that finicky...
So wait a minute... thought experiment: If SCO does have a legitimate claim to BSD but not Linux, does this not give them carte-blanche to attack anyone who's used BSD code, whether publicly or not? Henceforth, Microsoft and Sun's payoff?
Even worse analogy. SCO is Iraq. Linux is the U.N. Guess who's going to win in the end?
The ONLY way for this SCO affair to come out in their favor is if some judge decides they are entitled to own Linux copyrights. And that, friends, is not going to happen.
Kewl, maybe with a little more heat we can finally have our Jurassic Park-based dinosaurs overlords back? I'm all for staving off the next ice age.
I'm sure said person was nailed on a form of trespassing, as opposed to religious persecution. For years at my high-school, mormons (I think, I was inept and stupid back then) would stand on the sidewalk outside the school, near each bus, and hand every kid a bible as he was getting on. Just reached in his box, pulled out an orange bible, dangled it out there like delicious candy for you, and if a kid took it, he'd say thank you, have a nice day, reach back in the box, and wash/rinse/repeat over and over again until he either ran out of books(bibles) or kids.
:-/
:-/
All very legal, all very likely to get you in trouble with the gestapo today.
I was raised Catholic, but ended up becoming an athiest once they kicked me out of church for "pretend sniping" the priest from under the pews.
FWIW: I don't necessary believe that the police are telling lies to kids about the dangers of drugs. There are true dangers involved in dealing with drugs, mostly because of the draconian laws we have allowed to get built up over the years. But I would hope as a parent that a progressive honest parent helps demystify such half-truths for their kids. The cops have come to spread lies (half-truths) because the law has been written to allow them to. No such law has been written to allow a Christian to walk into a Jewish school and preach the word of Christ.
Yes, and there are some of us fighting to right that particular injustice. The pot smoker should be allowed his toke, just as Sister Mary should be able to wear her habit when visiting a public school, if she could normally do so in public. The framers weren't trying to create "religious no-tolerance zones". They were trying to ensure that government stayed out of people's religious business. That's why the president can speak all he wants about the "Good Lord" and whatnot, right up until he tries to lead us in prayer.
Well if the gubamint would stop taking 30% of my income, and instead let me give it to my state and local governments, you know, those places where I consume the most services, and send my 10% to the Army, Navy and Airforce, things would be a little bit saner, don't you think?
Martin Sheen said it best on the West Wing: Call up Kentucky, and tell 'em Florida wants their $200million back...
(I've probably got the states wrong, but the point stands.)
Cheers all!
Who gets to create the "flag of humanity". There'll probably be a war over that honor, as well. :( In all honesty, though, it should probably just be the U.N. flag...
Oh come on... Apollo 13 proved that duct-tape is single most important the lifesaving component that should be a part of every crewed space vessel for the rest of eternity. ;-)