I'll be letting homeland security know about your little average sized man bomb carrying plot.
Seriously, though, i concede. I'm sure, while i don't see myself comfortably carrying a nuclear device into Washington, i'm sure someone could possibly do it.
I guess that means we'll either need to tightly control uranium/plutonium sources or make sure no one wants to nuke us..
Yah, you got me there. I'm a little too young to remember it myself, and i'd have questioned my source if i'd thought for maybe 5 seconds more.. oh well, i'm sure i'll never live it down;)
I do suggest you reread the wikipedia article though, i'm not all wrong. The shell really is listed as being 23Kg without warhead.
Oh no, i certainly believe in the possible (probable?) existence of weaponized smallpox, ebola, various fungi and mold, etc, etc.. But i do not believe i've ever seen anyone play soccer with a 778cm ball that weighed 34.5kg when loaded with fissile material.
Nb, as stated elsewhere in thread, 1kt is not sufficient to destroy Manhattan, which was QuantumG's initial observation. Yes, 400m radius of lethal radiation is not comfortable. It is also geographically small.
That's 23kg without a warhead, you know. The warhead is another 10kg at least. And 1kt is not enough to take out a city. A couple of blocks, certainly. And it'd make the area uninhabitable for ~48hrs, after which cleanup could (theoretically) start.
The Crockett was used heavily during WW2 (over 2k of them were manufactured and over half were apparently used.) and Europeans aren't all mutants, hairless, or suffering leukemia as a result.
I'd hardly like to be near the blast of one of these, or any nuclear weapon.. but this one is not enough to take out a whole city.
sorry buddy, QuantumG is correct. There's this thing called critical mass, see.. and the geometry has to maximize contact between the various (very, ridiculously expensive, even by national standards) globs of enriched uranium. Plus, if you want a decent, guaranteed reaction without unnecessary risk at assembly, you need quite a bit more than critical mass anyway.
It's probably possible to make one that can fit in a small car easily, but not possible to make a suitcase/backpack nuke. And certainly not one the size of a soccer ball. Unless it was a soccer ball made entirely from uranium-235 that just happened to surreptitiously materialize all in the same spot.
sadly, this would be far more exploitable than the current system. As soon as the first base-stat exploit hits, there'll be people running around with unsigned stats.
I shouldn't have to tell you that this would be game-breakingly bad.
That's not a mutually exclusive set you're playing with there.. That is, the idea that culture affects music does not preclude music affecting that same culture.
To clarify, he claims that the judge had someone forge her signature on the oath for some unknown reason, and the only evidence he has is the testimony of a discredited handwriting specialist.
I concede that one, since you do have a point there. Perhaps i should have said relevant to the article rather than valid..
Of course, i'm only saying it that way because the Mediasentry position (and some posters who are defending the RIAA, et al) seems to be that any torrent tracker is fair game (since they're apparently not used for anything other than warez trading, or deliberately threatening the American way of Life).
This is (imho) more a case of unwarranted vigilante justice than a copyright issue.
Played Warhammer on the tabletop? The best thing about support units is that they (almost universally) have a built-in method of removing themselves from the game, often taking several nearby allies with them.
This world is oriented around guys with swords, spears and axes. Normally at least a couple dozen of them.
I don't get it.. why would it be able to run xandros and not run ubuntu? They're even both Debian based distros.. they're virtually the same, except for the UI (which can, of course, be changed anyway).
Yeah, as PaladinAlpha already said, DragonQuest was an Enix game, and SquareEnix didn't exist before 2005. The DQ games were originally released under the name DragonWarrior in the west, and were still reasonably popular in RPG circles and with Akira Toriyama fanboys.
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Now THAT is valid. I don't want to know how many of those fuckers have been produced, and i'm certainly happier if they're never detonated.
I'll be letting homeland security know about your little average sized man bomb carrying plot.
Seriously, though, i concede. I'm sure, while i don't see myself comfortably carrying a nuclear device into Washington, i'm sure someone could possibly do it.
I guess that means we'll either need to tightly control uranium/plutonium sources or make sure no one wants to nuke us..
oops.
Thankyou for your excellent summary. Would mod you up, except for the fact that i'm quite heavily involved in this silly argument already.
Indeed. My bad.
Yah, you got me there. I'm a little too young to remember it myself, and i'd have questioned my source if i'd thought for maybe 5 seconds more.. oh well, i'm sure i'll never live it down ;)
I do suggest you reread the wikipedia article though, i'm not all wrong. The shell really is listed as being 23Kg without warhead.
Sorry, obvious decimal point lapse. That should be 77.8cm.
Oh no, i certainly believe in the possible (probable?) existence of weaponized smallpox, ebola, various fungi and mold, etc, etc.. But i do not believe i've ever seen anyone play soccer with a 778cm ball that weighed 34.5kg when loaded with fissile material.
Nb, as stated elsewhere in thread, 1kt is not sufficient to destroy Manhattan, which was QuantumG's initial observation. Yes, 400m radius of lethal radiation is not comfortable. It is also geographically small.
That's 23kg without a warhead, you know. The warhead is another 10kg at least. And 1kt is not enough to take out a city. A couple of blocks, certainly. And it'd make the area uninhabitable for ~48hrs, after which cleanup could (theoretically) start.
The Crockett was used heavily during WW2 (over 2k of them were manufactured and over half were apparently used.) and Europeans aren't all mutants, hairless, or suffering leukemia as a result.
I'd hardly like to be near the blast of one of these, or any nuclear weapon.. but this one is not enough to take out a whole city.
Indeed. Remember when they were called neutron bombs?
Why does the media have to get it so wrong all the time? It's almost like they're trying, except that would require competency and coordination.
sorry buddy, QuantumG is correct. There's this thing called critical mass, see.. and the geometry has to maximize contact between the various (very, ridiculously expensive, even by national standards) globs of enriched uranium. Plus, if you want a decent, guaranteed reaction without unnecessary risk at assembly, you need quite a bit more than critical mass anyway.
It's probably possible to make one that can fit in a small car easily, but not possible to make a suitcase/backpack nuke. And certainly not one the size of a soccer ball. Unless it was a soccer ball made entirely from uranium-235 that just happened to surreptitiously materialize all in the same spot.
sadly, this would be far more exploitable than the current system. As soon as the first base-stat exploit hits, there'll be people running around with unsigned stats.
I shouldn't have to tell you that this would be game-breakingly bad.
That's not a mutually exclusive set you're playing with there..
That is, the idea that culture affects music does not preclude music affecting that same culture.
ad hominem (adj): logical fallacy in which the writer attacks the person who presents the issue rather than deal logically with the issue itself.
The GP asked you to present evidence, by expressing doubt that you could do so. This is not an ad hominem, especially if he's correct.
I for one happen to agree with your point about culture feeding itself, but i have to say that i doubt that the past was as rosy as you paint it.
To clarify, he claims that the judge had someone forge her signature on the oath for some unknown reason, and the only evidence he has is the testimony of a discredited handwriting specialist.
Seriously, it's somewhat farfetched.
That is a business plan i would like to see explained..
1) trade warez
2) ???
3) aid terrorism!
I concede that one, since you do have a point there. Perhaps i should have said relevant to the article rather than valid..
Of course, i'm only saying it that way because the Mediasentry position (and some posters who are defending the RIAA, et al) seems to be that any torrent tracker is fair game (since they're apparently not used for anything other than warez trading, or deliberately threatening the American way of Life).
This is (imho) more a case of unwarranted vigilante justice than a copyright issue.
This might be a valid argument if they'd DDoS'd a site containing any unauthorized content.
Played Warhammer on the tabletop? The best thing about support units is that they (almost universally) have a built-in method of removing themselves from the game, often taking several nearby allies with them.
This world is oriented around guys with swords, spears and axes. Normally at least a couple dozen of them.
I don't get it.. why would it be able to run xandros and not run ubuntu? They're even both Debian based distros.. they're virtually the same, except for the UI (which can, of course, be changed anyway).
And i was thinking that maybe there's a world of difference between a cheerful anecdote and "OMGLOOKATMEIM12!!+1".
Also, exaggeration is a meme older than either you or I, so even if i had been exaggerating I'm not sure your complaint would be applicable.
PS: it wasn't a lot of coffee, just bad timing on my part.
PPS: my keyboard is still intact and functional. Thankyou for your concern.
Yeah, as PaladinAlpha already said, DragonQuest was an Enix game, and SquareEnix didn't exist before 2005. The DQ games were originally released under the name DragonWarrior in the west, and were still reasonably popular in RPG circles and with Akira Toriyama fanboys.
you made me laugh so hard, coffee came out my nose.
I think we should get him on a Takeshi's Castle style game show and make him chase chickens. While heckling him in bad faux British accents.
I see you've played this game before.
One day his rhetoric will take on a life of its own and become the President of the World.
Holmes?
Someone got all their gangsta dialog from San Andreas.
AC here is correct. The first Final Fantasy would have been Square's last game, if it hadn't been such a huge commercial success.
It's understandable that SquareEnix now make so much of the franchise.. it quite literally saved the company 20 years ago.