I'm watching Battlestar Galactica right now. I'm about halfway through the third season, and I would sorely hate to have the rest of the series spoiled for me. The direction the series is heading is still up in the air, and I'd rather enjoy the journey as the authors intended... not knowing exactly what will happen when or if they reach Earth, and how things will eventually turn out. I'm not looking at the story comments anymore... closing this tab now.;)
That's what happened when the Chinese embassy was 'accidentally' bombed during the conflict in the Balkans. A stealth aircraft had recently been shot down and the Chinese were known to have collected a ton of parts from the wreckage, and they were being held in the embassy awaiting extraction to China. Whoops, a whole ton of precision guided ordnance accidentally wiped it out.
That's not true. The bombardment of the Chinese embassy was really an accident and that no such stealth aircraft debris was stored in it. An attack on any foreign embassy is considered to be an attack on a foreign nation. What you said is an insult added to injury to millions of Chinese citizens and oversea Chinese people who were upset at the loss of three innocent lives.
As a reminder, there is no evidence that Chinese agents collected downed stealth aircraft debris in Balkans.
And there is no evidence that Chinese intelligence agents get photos or aircraft skin samples from Pakistan. It is just an allegation.
That's because the Chinese are smarter, and their steps forward are quicker, hence they skipped the "F117" step. Their children pay attention in school. Yours don't.
It's easy to skip a step when you're cheating off of other children's test answers.
Wow, pretty interesting... I've never heard of that account anywhere else. However, it doesn't look fully accurate... Britain would not allow its operatives on such a sensitive mission solely for U.S. interests, and Kosovar soldiers would not take part in any way in such a classified operation. However, on other sites, it appears that it was the only CIA-run airbombing, all others being coordinated through NATO.
It's just that, ever since I first went through basic training, I've heard it taught as the spin of the bullet causing a rise out to about 100m. I even taught it that way myself when I was an instructor. It's only recently that I actually thought about the physics of it, and realized it doesn't make any sense.
Thanks for the confirmation! I still plan to do some more research on it, but I appreciate the input.
It's the same in the U.S. Army. There are lots of myths, rumors, and other misconceptions that don't end up impacting the actual results. The bullet you fire out of your rifle does rise til about 100m, but that's because the sights are zeroed straight ahead and your barrel is slightly canted upwards. It's like pointing a mortar tube to hit an enemy a certain distance away, just on a much more subtle scale. Take care.
Those x-ray lasers are lasers whose power source is a nuclear explosion. We are talking about a nuclear reaction that is powered BY a laser.... supposedly.
I know plenty of people claim that the rifling of modern firearms causes the bullet to curve upwards, and that this could kinda-sorta be considered "gliding" but:
1. I've recently come to the conclusion that this is probably a myth, and
2. Even if it's not a myth, it's kinda pedantic to consider that "gliding".
It is a myth. Rifles are "zeroed" so that a bullet fired from the rifle will hit a target that's centered in the scope at a specified distance from the shooter. For example, the U.S. Army routinely zeroes their M-4s and M-16s for 300 meters, which means the bullet drop distance due to gravity is accounted for, and a target at 300m that the shooter is aiming in the center of his sights will be struck.
That's why bullets rise when they come out of a rifle. The barrel is pointed slightly upwards to give it the ballistic arc needed to "break even" vertically at the specified target distance. Now, there is an effect that causes a spinning object to rise or fall when there is a transverse wind... but the effect is so miniscule it's not what we're talking about.
How so? I agree the gravity field of the earth screws around with "lots" of incoming trajectories. But that still means it hits just about as often.
Because gravity sucks. Earth's gravity is pulling material away from the side facing Earth and towards the side that is away from it. In your model, the number of objects that hit the moon might be the same, but the impacts are now skewed towards objects that would have been farther away in the absence of gravity, and thus, the face of the moon that receives the most impact events isn't the same.
And objects just a little farther away that wouldn't have impacted anything are now skewed slightly enough towards the earth to reach the moon's orbit and impact the moon. GP was right, earth's gravity doesn't "vacuum clean" or cause a reduced chance of impacts on the moon.
"a cyber security firm contracted by the FBI. . . . more and more in the hands of third parties as agencies don't have enough staff on hand to do the job."
North Korea had their best shot in the 90's with the so-called Agreed Framework. What's interesting is that it broke down when the U.S. accused them of having a clandestine uranium enrichment program. And that one sentence is all we still know today publicly about it.
The only reason they haven't been glass cratered is because the important parts of S. Korea are just too damn close to do it safely so the world is stuck in this retarded diplomacy dance.
Actually, the reason that N. Korea has not been taken out is because China has an interest in maintaining it as a client state.
Nope, GP had it right. Your post was only relevant in 1950 until around the time of the Sino-Soviet split, when North Korea was trying to play one against the other to gain the maximum amount of military aid from both the Chinese and the Soviets when they had their split.
The reason war won't start on the peninsula now is because of a kind of "mutually assured destruction" situation there. North Korea is careful to keep its level of provocation low enough that not going to war is always less costly than dealing with literally tens of thousands of North Korean long-range artillery and rockets that are easily within range of and pointed at Seoul. If you want some interest reading on the closest war ever came to the peninsula after 1953, read this stunning Wikipedia entry on the death of two U.S. service members at the hands of North Korea in the Joint Security Area.
Wrong, about nearly everything in your post. There are very few North Korean factories run by South Korean companies (about 40,000 workers employed) and those factories only turn a small profit when you take into account North Korea's bellicosity, such as unilaterally shutting down the industrial park from time to time, demanding "wage increases" for its citizens, of which all goes to the North Korean state anyway.
And the reason war won't start on the peninsula is because of a kind of "mutually assured destruction" situation there. North Korea is careful to keep its level of provocation low enough that not going to war is always less costly than dealing with literally tens of thousands of North Korean long-range artillery and rockets that are easily within range of and pointed at Seoul.
Single dish should also give a clearer image for the same surface area (less edge, less perimeter you need to seal against terrestrial radio inteference, fewer timing problems since you're not using interferometry). The problem with single dish is steering. Aricebo is fixed for a reason. The telescope at Jodrel Bank observatory, although not the largest steerable dish, is one of the larger steerable telescopes and the infrastructure needed is absolutely staggering.
Arecibo is steerable. Its transceiver is mounted on a suspended cradle above the dish, where it is regularly steered by mechanical means for just this purpose.
No plane hit W7C. Yet it got demolished the same day. Loosely quoted: "It got pulled". Yeah, along with numerous evidence material against the rich and powerful.
People are easily misled by the wrong people, especially those who think themselves smart.
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Hell, they can do that NOW. Feel free to delete the root CAs you don't trust.
This does nothing to help 95% of the web's users, who generally are worth protecting.
A few low-digit slashdot accounts have been on eBay from over the years. I imagine that's how he got his.
I'm watching Battlestar Galactica right now. I'm about halfway through the third season, and I would sorely hate to have the rest of the series spoiled for me. The direction the series is heading is still up in the air, and I'd rather enjoy the journey as the authors intended... not knowing exactly what will happen when or if they reach Earth, and how things will eventually turn out. I'm not looking at the story comments anymore... closing this tab now. ;)
In that case, nobody can know anything truly, and nobody would ever make any moves.
That's what happened when the Chinese embassy was 'accidentally' bombed during the conflict in the Balkans. A stealth aircraft had recently been shot down and the Chinese were known to have collected a ton of parts from the wreckage, and they were being held in the embassy awaiting extraction to China. Whoops, a whole ton of precision guided ordnance accidentally wiped it out.
That's not true. The bombardment of the Chinese embassy was really an accident and that no such stealth aircraft debris was stored in it. An attack on any foreign embassy is considered to be an attack on a foreign nation. What you said is an insult added to injury to millions of Chinese citizens and oversea Chinese people who were upset at the loss of three innocent lives.
As a reminder, there is no evidence that Chinese agents collected downed stealth aircraft debris in Balkans.
And there is no evidence that Chinese intelligence agents get photos or aircraft skin samples from Pakistan. It is just an allegation.
Your allegations are just allegations.
That's because the Chinese are smarter, and their steps forward are quicker, hence they skipped the "F117" step. Their children pay attention in school. Yours don't.
It's easy to skip a step when you're cheating off of other children's test answers.
Wow, pretty interesting... I've never heard of that account anywhere else. However, it doesn't look fully accurate... Britain would not allow its operatives on such a sensitive mission solely for U.S. interests, and Kosovar soldiers would not take part in any way in such a classified operation. However, on other sites, it appears that it was the only CIA-run airbombing, all others being coordinated through NATO.
I submit that it IS a covert police state, operating extra-legally with regards to its foreign relations and its internal policy.
Why not read something you might disagree with? Or is that "not the American way"?
What an idiot.
Aaaaand... you've missed it. You're one of the problem people as far as this issue goes.
It's just that, ever since I first went through basic training, I've heard it taught as the spin of the bullet causing a rise out to about 100m. I even taught it that way myself when I was an instructor. It's only recently that I actually thought about the physics of it, and realized it doesn't make any sense.
Thanks for the confirmation! I still plan to do some more research on it, but I appreciate the input.
It's the same in the U.S. Army. There are lots of myths, rumors, and other misconceptions that don't end up impacting the actual results. The bullet you fire out of your rifle does rise til about 100m, but that's because the sights are zeroed straight ahead and your barrel is slightly canted upwards. It's like pointing a mortar tube to hit an enemy a certain distance away, just on a much more subtle scale. Take care.
She's a fracking cylon, Chief!
Those x-ray lasers are lasers whose power source is a nuclear explosion. We are talking about a nuclear reaction that is powered BY a laser.... supposedly.
I know plenty of people claim that the rifling of modern firearms causes the bullet to curve upwards, and that this could kinda-sorta be considered "gliding" but:
1. I've recently come to the conclusion that this is probably a myth, and 2. Even if it's not a myth, it's kinda pedantic to consider that "gliding".
It is a myth. Rifles are "zeroed" so that a bullet fired from the rifle will hit a target that's centered in the scope at a specified distance from the shooter. For example, the U.S. Army routinely zeroes their M-4s and M-16s for 300 meters, which means the bullet drop distance due to gravity is accounted for, and a target at 300m that the shooter is aiming in the center of his sights will be struck.
That's why bullets rise when they come out of a rifle. The barrel is pointed slightly upwards to give it the ballistic arc needed to "break even" vertically at the specified target distance. Now, there is an effect that causes a spinning object to rise or fall when there is a transverse wind... but the effect is so miniscule it's not what we're talking about.
Maybe you're an idiot.
Because gravity sucks. Earth's gravity is pulling material away from the side facing Earth and towards the side that is away from it. In your model, the number of objects that hit the moon might be the same, but the impacts are now skewed towards objects that would have been farther away in the absence of gravity, and thus, the face of the moon that receives the most impact events isn't the same.
And objects just a little farther away that wouldn't have impacted anything are now skewed slightly enough towards the earth to reach the moon's orbit and impact the moon. GP was right, earth's gravity doesn't "vacuum clean" or cause a reduced chance of impacts on the moon.
"a cyber security firm contracted by the FBI. . . . more and more in the hands of third parties as agencies don't have enough staff on hand to do the job."
No crap, you idiots. They're called contractors!
People are still playing ADoM, and they're doing it on PuTTY (telnet/SSH) servers. Come join us at #adom on irc.freenode.net !
Haha, I'm about as pro-U.S. as they come on Slashdot, and that's pretty funny.
North Korea had their best shot in the 90's with the so-called Agreed Framework. What's interesting is that it broke down when the U.S. accused them of having a clandestine uranium enrichment program. And that one sentence is all we still know today publicly about it.
The only reason they haven't been glass cratered is because the important parts of S. Korea are just too damn close to do it safely so the world is stuck in this retarded diplomacy dance.
Actually, the reason that N. Korea has not been taken out is because China has an interest in maintaining it as a client state.
Nope, GP had it right. Your post was only relevant in 1950 until around the time of the Sino-Soviet split, when North Korea was trying to play one against the other to gain the maximum amount of military aid from both the Chinese and the Soviets when they had their split.
The reason war won't start on the peninsula now is because of a kind of "mutually assured destruction" situation there. North Korea is careful to keep its level of provocation low enough that not going to war is always less costly than dealing with literally tens of thousands of North Korean long-range artillery and rockets that are easily within range of and pointed at Seoul. If you want some interest reading on the closest war ever came to the peninsula after 1953, read this stunning Wikipedia entry on the death of two U.S. service members at the hands of North Korea in the Joint Security Area.
Cheap Manufacturing.
Wrong, about nearly everything in your post. There are very few North Korean factories run by South Korean companies (about 40,000 workers employed) and those factories only turn a small profit when you take into account North Korea's bellicosity, such as unilaterally shutting down the industrial park from time to time, demanding "wage increases" for its citizens, of which all goes to the North Korean state anyway.
And the reason war won't start on the peninsula is because of a kind of "mutually assured destruction" situation there. North Korea is careful to keep its level of provocation low enough that not going to war is always less costly than dealing with literally tens of thousands of North Korean long-range artillery and rockets that are easily within range of and pointed at Seoul.
His name is John Titor. It's okay, he's from the future. Well, maybe not our future.
Single dish should also give a clearer image for the same surface area (less edge, less perimeter you need to seal against terrestrial radio inteference, fewer timing problems since you're not using interferometry). The problem with single dish is steering. Aricebo is fixed for a reason. The telescope at Jodrel Bank observatory, although not the largest steerable dish, is one of the larger steerable telescopes and the infrastructure needed is absolutely staggering.
Arecibo is steerable. Its transceiver is mounted on a suspended cradle above the dish, where it is regularly steered by mechanical means for just this purpose.
It's the Cylons. This is exactly why we don't network our systems together.
No plane hit W7C. Yet it got demolished the same day. Loosely quoted: "It got pulled". Yeah, along with numerous evidence material against the rich and powerful.
People are easily misled by the wrong people, especially those who think themselves smart.
Hahaha. Is this irony?