It would take the concerted effort of the majority of the world to "destroy" the USA militarily
The USSR wasn't destroyed militarily, it collapsed under the effort of paying for all the military dick waving.
However many big expensive toys it has, the USA can be taken down by a well funded terrorist organization. ALl they need to do is start blowing up a few airport scanner queues, etc., and the politicians will spend enough 'emergency' money for the USA to collapse under its own debt. Another country invasion (eg. Iran) would do the trick, no fancy new stealth missiles or long range bombers necessary.
...but for those who say the threat "isn't there", I guess this is just a figment of the imagination then?
It's just dick-waving by people who shouldn't even be in power (the F22 as well).
The chances of a real war against one of those is zero. The F22 is a waste of time, and especially a waste of money. Get over it, team America (fuck yeah!).
Dogs can be pretty clever though. I've been observing the development of my delightful pomeranian puppy and have noticed some quite complex emergent behaviour
Just ask any pet owner and they'll tell you how communicative animals are, especially the most popular ones (cats&dogs). You just have to spend some time around them...
And lets not forget the record industry isn't really very big. Gross yearly revenue is single digit billions of dollars. To you or me that's a lot of money but in the scheme of things it's a drop in the ocean. The amount of government time they've wasted over this is probably worth more, we should just buy them out and get it over with.
Their profits are a tiny fraction of the value of the Internet, it's certainly not worth wrecking the Internet for such a small amount, but that's what they're doing.
First of all, I happen to agree that distribution against the author's wishes is somewhat disrespectful.
Nobody is more disrespectful of the artists than the record industry.
The record industry has a long history of fiddling the accounts so the artists make approximately zero from record sales. If P2P has any effect it's to skews the accounting so the record execs make less. The artists will still make approximately zero, ie. it doesn't bother them much.
If the BIOS doesn't recognize them then that's a controller failure, not the flash memory.
Maybe you should stop trying to buy the absolute cheapest SSD possible, I"m pretty sure you wouldn't apply that sort of philosophy to other things in life.
I know for a fact that stuff like this happened in my old high school in Missouri, but we didn't ever 100% prove it. Whenever the principal would find something that someone had posted on Facebook during school...
This word 'old'...I don't think it means what you think it means.
All these laws should have an expiry data so if there's no big uptick in cinema attendance/DVD sales after six months they automatically get repealed. Even the Patriot act had an expiry date (theoretically).
They can also make it so the people behind a failed law don't get to propose any new laws for at least five years. That would be good too.
Two useless laws in a row and they're banned forever.
Well, the main reason to go to the trouble of getting a device on a plane is so that you can repurpose the plane into a big missile filled with flammable material, and do a LOT more damage and kill a lot more people than you could with a bomb in a security line.
You're living in a dream world. The objective of terrorism isn't material damage, it's psychological/economic damage.
I'd rather grope a toddler in a sad but well meaning attempt at keeping the public safe than listen to that raving asshole Rand Paul.
What are you going to do when the fucking ragheads stuff an IED into their baby's diaper?
They don't need to. They can put the C5 up their ass and walk right through security. There's nothing the TSA can do to detect it.
it's no secret. Drug smugglers do it every day. People do it every day to get cellphones into prisons. etc., etc.
The fact that they *aren't* doing this should tell you something, ie. there's no real terrorist threat. It's all scaremongering and theater to make a few people very rich and the rest of us a whole lot poorer (in spirit).
...while they might outnumber our tanks, we've got far superior aircraft and tactical weapons, not to mention a superior training program for our soldiers, sailors, Marines, and Airmen.
Where did this come from, Russia is prepared to actually start world war 3 over a missile defence system?
Um, Russia isn't the one building new weapons systems near somebody else's borders... it's the USA doing that. Anything bad that happens is the USA's fault.
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The USA isn't "destroyed" yet.
No, but the best way to do it has been clearly demonstrated.
All it would take is a bit of organization.
Ouch!
It would take the concerted effort of the majority of the world to "destroy" the USA militarily
The USSR wasn't destroyed militarily, it collapsed under the effort of paying for all the military dick waving.
However many big expensive toys it has, the USA can be taken down by a well funded terrorist organization. ALl they need to do is start blowing up a few airport scanner queues, etc., and the politicians will spend enough 'emergency' money for the USA to collapse under its own debt. Another country invasion (eg. Iran) would do the trick, no fancy new stealth missiles or long range bombers necessary.
...but for those who say the threat "isn't there", I guess this is just a figment of the imagination then?
It's just dick-waving by people who shouldn't even be in power (the F22 as well).
The chances of a real war against one of those is zero. The F22 is a waste of time, and especially a waste of money. Get over it, team America (fuck yeah!).
Dogs can be pretty clever though. I've been observing the development of my delightful pomeranian puppy and have noticed some quite complex emergent behaviour
Just ask any pet owner and they'll tell you how communicative animals are, especially the most popular ones (cats&dogs). You just have to spend some time around them...
In other news, a solitary hash symbol is now called a "hashtag"
Maybe we can make humans who do all that dumb-ass stuff any more. Gradually phase out politicians, middle managers, etc.
Alternate headline: Did a Genome Copying Mistake Lead To Arms and Legs in Humans?
Answer: Yes - genome copying mistakes lead to everything in humans.
Yep.
And lets not forget the record industry isn't really very big. Gross yearly revenue is single digit billions of dollars. To you or me that's a lot of money but in the scheme of things it's a drop in the ocean. The amount of government time they've wasted over this is probably worth more, we should just buy them out and get it over with.
Their profits are a tiny fraction of the value of the Internet, it's certainly not worth wrecking the Internet for such a small amount, but that's what they're doing.
First of all, I happen to agree that distribution against the author's wishes is somewhat disrespectful.
Nobody is more disrespectful of the artists than the record industry.
The record industry has a long history of fiddling the accounts so the artists make approximately zero from record sales. If P2P has any effect it's to skews the accounting so the record execs make less. The artists will still make approximately zero, ie. it doesn't bother them much.
This pretty much sums it up
I dunno. The only products which have really made my jaw drop in the last decade have come directly from Google (Earth, Street View, ...etc)
Everything else has been pretty much evolutionary.
If the BIOS doesn't recognize them then that's a controller failure, not the flash memory.
Maybe you should stop trying to buy the absolute cheapest SSD possible, I"m pretty sure you wouldn't apply that sort of philosophy to other things in life.
"Five years", eh...?
I'd better start planning my migration then. Not.
That alone is probably the greatest threat to the existence of humanity today. God help us all if there's another earthquake.
You mean they might fall over and roll across the floor? On, noes!
I know for a fact that stuff like this happened in my old high school in Missouri, but we didn't ever 100% prove it. Whenever the principal would find something that someone had posted on Facebook during school...
This word 'old'...I don't think it means what you think it means.
How to use an apostrophe
All these laws should have an expiry data so if there's no big uptick in cinema attendance/DVD sales after six months they automatically get repealed. Even the Patriot act had an expiry date (theoretically).
They can also make it so the people behind a failed law don't get to propose any new laws for at least five years. That would be good too.
Two useless laws in a row and they're banned forever.
"C4", duh!
Well, the main reason to go to the trouble of getting a device on a plane is so that you can repurpose the plane into a big missile filled with flammable material, and do a LOT more damage and kill a lot more people than you could with a bomb in a security line.
You're living in a dream world. The objective of terrorism isn't material damage, it's psychological/economic damage.
I'd rather grope a toddler in a sad but well meaning attempt at keeping the public safe than listen to that raving asshole Rand Paul.
What are you going to do when the fucking ragheads stuff an IED into their baby's diaper?
They don't need to. They can put the C5 up their ass and walk right through security. There's nothing the TSA can do to detect it.
it's no secret. Drug smugglers do it every day. People do it every day to get cellphones into prisons. etc., etc.
The fact that they *aren't* doing this should tell you something, ie. there's no real terrorist threat. It's all scaremongering and theater to make a few people very rich and the rest of us a whole lot poorer (in spirit).
IF these systems were offensively capable, Russia might have a case.
Neutralizing MAD is an offensive action - it enables use of your existing weapons where you couldn't previously use them.
What about their subs? Their subs are ancient compared to the what the US possesses.
So? So long as the Uranium arrives safely at its destination than it doesn't matter how old their subs are.
...while they might outnumber our tanks, we've got far superior aircraft and tactical weapons, not to mention a superior training program for our soldiers, sailors, Marines, and Airmen.
Yeah, that'll help against the nuclear missiles.
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Where did this come from, Russia is prepared to actually start world war 3 over a missile defence system?
Um, Russia isn't the one building new weapons systems near somebody else's borders ... it's the USA doing that. Anything bad that happens is the USA's fault.