Meh. International courts don't do anything about Syrian mass murder (due to protests) or the rape and torture of women and children in Africa. I'm supposed to be worried what they think *now*?
The Japanese are whaling in violation of international law; they have no right to do so.
You argue the whalers are justified in protecting their property with lethal force; I argue that anti-whalers are justified in using lethal force to enforce international whaling law.
The whaling ships are gigantic to handle the whale carcass on the deck for processing. The solution would be to switch to supercavitation torpedoes for quickly delivering lethal force to the whaling ships, with no concern for their size.
Right, because their 13 ton composite ship is going to sink a 660 ton steel whaling ship.
It's simply luck that more extremist folks haven't gotten on bored with straight out sinking of Japanese ships with weapons easily obtainable on the black market.
Enforcing international law is illegal shit now? Trying to stop the hunting of an intelligent species is "bothering other people"? Oh Japan, how they deserve a proper fucking for their stance on some issues.
I think it was a game of chicken. Either side could have blinked, but neither did. The captain of the Ady Gil thought the whaler would blink, in order to avoid an incident. The captain of the whaler thought the Ady Gil would blink, because it was obvious that a collision between the 13-ton composite-hulled Ady Gil and the 628-ton steel-hulled Shonan Maru 2 would destroy the trimaran and do nothing to the whaler. I also suspect that both hoped for a collision: the Ady Gil in order to create an incident, and the Shonan Maru 2 in order to crush a pest.
Hopefully, the anti-whalers come with something much bigger next time. Aren't single-hulled supertankers going cheap on the ship market?
Let the arms race begin. Shoot down the UAVs? It can't be that expensive to buy supercavitation torpedoes off of the Russian military. Best of luck to the Japanese whaling ship avoiding something traveling that fast (300-400 km/h).
I live in Illinois, and let me tell you sir! There is no need for guns in our fair state, what with our Chicago gun laws banning everyone from having guns. If no one can have guns, we're all safe.
Seriously though; an armed society is a polite society. It's about removing opportunity, because some people don't have a moral compass.
I just looked up celestial navigation systems the other day out of curiosity:)
Me too! I'm assuming that current celestial navigation systems are solid state? Are they available for purchase? Or just for military applications? Details are appreciated =)
Almost forgot, not only is there celestial navigation, but also a whole set of tools use can use with accelerometers and gyroscopes to do inertial navigation. While not as good as celestial navigation, inertial navigation is useful when you can't rely on exterior navigation references for a period of time. As the time increases from the moment of initializing your reference point, so grows the errors in your position due to integration drift. Therefore inertial navigation is only useful for short periods of time.
If you want to go see one for yourself, they're on display: "There are B-52s on static display, that should have MD-1 systems at: Travis, Castle, March and Edwards fields in CA."
I should point out that, while these used to be expensive mechanical systems, most of this can be done with software and properly calibrated and redundant CCD sensors.
The SR-71 Blackbird used stars for navigational reference, as it was in service before GPS was available. Cruise missiles have used landmarks for low-altitude "scudrunning" since their inception.
As early as the mid-1960s, advanced electronic and computer systems had evolved enabling navigators to obtain automated celestial sight fixes. These systems were used aboard both ships as well as US Air Force aircraft, and were highly accurate, able to lock onto up to 11 stars (even in daytime) and resolve the craft's position to less than 300 feet (91 m). The SR-71 high-speed reconnaissance aircraft was one example of an aircraft that used automated celestial navigation. These rare systems were expensive, however, and the few that remain in use today are regarded as backups to more reliable satellite positioning systems.
Celestial navigation continues to be used by private yachtsmen, and particularly by long-distance cruising yachts around the world. For small cruising boat crews, celestial navigation is generally considered an essential skill when venturing beyond visual range of land. Although GPS (Global Positioning System) technology is reliable, offshore yachtsmen use celestial navigation as either a primary navigational tool or as a backup.
Strategic ballistic nuclear missiles use celestial navigation to check and correct their course (initially set using internal gyroscopes) while outside the Earth's atmosphere. The immunity to jamming signals is the main driver behind this apparently archaic technique.
You mean you hope it has more brains than "GPS signal lost; landing". Who the fark sends in unmanned robotics systems without the ability to dead reckon or navigate via an alternative external landmark (stars/land topography)?
Could go either way. Its either going to still look like a typical helicopter (like the Global Hawk still appears more like a manned aircraft) or much more specialized, similar to how the Predator and Reaper drones look nothing like a traditional aircraft.
Enjoy! I'm not a hippie or anything, but my wife and I try to eat mostly a vegetarian diet with only a bit of beef, chicken, and fish (for health reasons; fish is excellent for you, but not so much the beef and chicken). We frequent farmer's markets for vegetables, some meats, honey, and so forth. Hope the site is helpful, its been extremely useful for us!
Brah (can I call you brah?)..... yeah, I know, its not ideal. But its not like you or I are going to shove all those TB of data in Amazon S3 (event at their reduced redundancy pricing).
My NAS is a Windows 7 Pro box, so it runs Backblaze for backups and serves ISOs and MP4s to my WD Live Hub boxes throughout the house. I store a little over 8TB on the box (media, dropbox, etc), all backed up to Backblaze. Sure, it takes forever to upload my backups over my 100 down 10 up Comcast connection, but my files are fairly static, and I don't want to spend weeks or months re-ripping all of my DVDs.
So, its not perfect. But for $50/year, I get to backup as much content as I want. Its a fine deal for me (and apparently, quite a few others). YMMV.
I can back up unlimited data to Backblaze for $5/month. UNLIMITED. $50/year if I pay for the year upfront. That's the cheapest offsite backup method at the moment considering 2TB drives are going for $160-180 now (one drive, no backups, etc).
When you can site 2001: A Space Oddessy as prior art, that gives Samsung license to tell Apple to go eat a bowl of dicks. Apple? innovators? My ass. They sell marked-up shiny.
According to Samsung, director Stanley Kubrick had the idea for tablet computers about four decades ago, in the 1968 sci-fi epic, 2001: A Space Odyssey. A clip from the film (available on YouTube, Samsung hastens to add), shows astronauts eating while watching a TV show on flat, personal computers.
The Galaxy Tab maker argues that Kubrick's forward-thinking tablet has, "an overall rectangular shape with a dominant display screen, narrow borders, a predominately flat front surface, a flat back surface (which is evident because the tablets are lying flat on the table's surface), and a thin form factor."
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Meh. International courts don't do anything about Syrian mass murder (due to protests) or the rape and torture of women and children in Africa. I'm supposed to be worried what they think *now*?
The Japanese are whaling in violation of international law; they have no right to do so.
You argue the whalers are justified in protecting their property with lethal force; I argue that anti-whalers are justified in using lethal force to enforce international whaling law.
The whaling ships are gigantic to handle the whale carcass on the deck for processing. The solution would be to switch to supercavitation torpedoes for quickly delivering lethal force to the whaling ships, with no concern for their size.
THIS. As a merchant ship, there is no port you're going to be allowed entry to carrying a CIWS on your deck.
Means are not justified by the ends.
Depends on the cause. If it's your life in the balance, I highly doubt you're going to care with regards to the means.
Right, because their 13 ton composite ship is going to sink a 660 ton steel whaling ship.
It's simply luck that more extremist folks haven't gotten on bored with straight out sinking of Japanese ships with weapons easily obtainable on the black market.
Enforcing international law is illegal shit now? Trying to stop the hunting of an intelligent species is "bothering other people"? Oh Japan, how they deserve a proper fucking for their stance on some issues.
I think it was a game of chicken. Either side could have blinked, but neither did. The captain of the Ady Gil thought the whaler would blink, in order to avoid an incident. The captain of the whaler thought the Ady Gil would blink, because it was obvious that a collision between the 13-ton composite-hulled Ady Gil and the 628-ton steel-hulled Shonan Maru 2 would destroy the trimaran and do nothing to the whaler. I also suspect that both hoped for a collision: the Ady Gil in order to create an incident, and the Shonan Maru 2 in order to crush a pest.
Hopefully, the anti-whalers come with something much bigger next time. Aren't single-hulled supertankers going cheap on the ship market?
Let the arms race begin. Shoot down the UAVs? It can't be that expensive to buy supercavitation torpedoes off of the Russian military. Best of luck to the Japanese whaling ship avoiding something traveling that fast (300-400 km/h).
http://www.articlesextra.com/supercavitation-torpedoes.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercavitation
I live in Illinois, and let me tell you sir! There is no need for guns in our fair state, what with our Chicago gun laws banning everyone from having guns. If no one can have guns, we're all safe.
Seriously though; an armed society is a polite society. It's about removing opportunity, because some people don't have a moral compass.
I just looked up celestial navigation systems the other day out of curiosity :)
Me too! I'm assuming that current celestial navigation systems are solid state? Are they available for purchase? Or just for military applications? Details are appreciated =)
Almost forgot, not only is there celestial navigation, but also a whole set of tools use can use with accelerometers and gyroscopes to do inertial navigation. While not as good as celestial navigation, inertial navigation is useful when you can't rely on exterior navigation references for a period of time. As the time increases from the moment of initializing your reference point, so grows the errors in your position due to integration drift. Therefore inertial navigation is only useful for short periods of time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation
Enjoy!
Forgive the reply to myself. Here is one of the original astrocompass systems used in the B-52 for celestial navigation.
Automatic Astro Compass Type MD-1
http://www.prc68.com/I/MD1.shtml
If you want to go see one for yourself, they're on display: "There are B-52s on static display, that should have MD-1 systems at: Travis, Castle, March and Edwards fields in CA."
I should point out that, while these used to be expensive mechanical systems, most of this can be done with software and properly calibrated and redundant CCD sensors.
The SR-71 Blackbird used stars for navigational reference, as it was in service before GPS was available. Cruise missiles have used landmarks for low-altitude "scudrunning" since their inception.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_navigation
As early as the mid-1960s, advanced electronic and computer systems had evolved enabling navigators to obtain automated celestial sight fixes. These systems were used aboard both ships as well as US Air Force aircraft, and were highly accurate, able to lock onto up to 11 stars (even in daytime) and resolve the craft's position to less than 300 feet (91 m). The SR-71 high-speed reconnaissance aircraft was one example of an aircraft that used automated celestial navigation. These rare systems were expensive, however, and the few that remain in use today are regarded as backups to more reliable satellite positioning systems.
Celestial navigation continues to be used by private yachtsmen, and particularly by long-distance cruising yachts around the world. For small cruising boat crews, celestial navigation is generally considered an essential skill when venturing beyond visual range of land. Although GPS (Global Positioning System) technology is reliable, offshore yachtsmen use celestial navigation as either a primary navigational tool or as a backup.
Strategic ballistic nuclear missiles use celestial navigation to check and correct their course (initially set using internal gyroscopes) while outside the Earth's atmosphere. The immunity to jamming signals is the main driver behind this apparently archaic technique.
Emphasis mine.
You mean you hope it has more brains than "GPS signal lost; landing". Who the fark sends in unmanned robotics systems without the ability to dead reckon or navigate via an alternative external landmark (stars/land topography)?
Could go either way. Its either going to still look like a typical helicopter (like the Global Hawk still appears more like a manned aircraft) or much more specialized, similar to how the Predator and Reaper drones look nothing like a traditional aircraft.
If you were to take chunks of voice from non-copyright-covered works, yes:
http://copyrightlitigation.blogspot.com/2008/11/right-of-publicity-in-famous-voice.html
THIS! As soon as I heard about it on NPR, I thought "those clever bastards!"
Not if they wait until he's dead. There is enough of his voice data out there to assemble most of what they'd need.
Enjoy! I'm not a hippie or anything, but my wife and I try to eat mostly a vegetarian diet with only a bit of beef, chicken, and fish (for health reasons; fish is excellent for you, but not so much the beef and chicken). We frequent farmer's markets for vegetables, some meats, honey, and so forth. Hope the site is helpful, its been extremely useful for us!
Brah (can I call you brah?)..... yeah, I know, its not ideal. But its not like you or I are going to shove all those TB of data in Amazon S3 (event at their reduced redundancy pricing).
My NAS is a Windows 7 Pro box, so it runs Backblaze for backups and serves ISOs and MP4s to my WD Live Hub boxes throughout the house. I store a little over 8TB on the box (media, dropbox, etc), all backed up to Backblaze. Sure, it takes forever to upload my backups over my 100 down 10 up Comcast connection, but my files are fairly static, and I don't want to spend weeks or months re-ripping all of my DVDs.
So, its not perfect. But for $50/year, I get to backup as much content as I want. Its a fine deal for me (and apparently, quite a few others). YMMV.
I can back up unlimited data to Backblaze for $5/month. UNLIMITED. $50/year if I pay for the year upfront. That's the cheapest offsite backup method at the moment considering 2TB drives are going for $160-180 now (one drive, no backups, etc).
http://www.localharvest.org/
When you can site 2001: A Space Oddessy as prior art, that gives Samsung license to tell Apple to go eat a bowl of dicks. Apple? innovators? My ass. They sell marked-up shiny.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-08/24/samsung-2001-prior-art
According to Samsung, director Stanley Kubrick had the idea for tablet computers about four decades ago, in the 1968 sci-fi epic, 2001: A Space Odyssey. A clip from the film (available on YouTube, Samsung hastens to add), shows astronauts eating while watching a TV show on flat, personal computers.
The Galaxy Tab maker argues that Kubrick's forward-thinking tablet has, "an overall rectangular shape with a dominant display screen, narrow borders, a predominately flat front surface, a flat back surface (which is evident because the tablets are lying flat on the table's surface), and a thin form factor."
That if you want tethering you're paying more for it? Good luck otherwise.