No one has a right to "safety". Each individual has a right to their own person and property.
Who are you to dictate what rights anyone has got?
In my country, the first article of the constitution declares that the human dignity shall be inviolable. The right to dignity goes before every other right. Hate speech goes against human dignity so it is forbidden. So is defamation, torture and death penalty.
It worked very well, indeed. Only after Yugoslavia was broken up in little pieces, when there was no government oppression anymore, people started being nationalistic and trying to kill all the others.
Same thing happened in the ex-USSR republics (the war in Georgia last summer was a perfect example). In the times of USSR there were minor ethnic conflicts but worst thing could happen were some broken noses. After the government suppression was gone azeris started to kill armenians, georgians started to kill abkhasians and ossetins, chechens just started to kill everyone around.
Seems that government suppression has some good sides after all.
clans have better targeting systems alright but they also had their share of devastating civil wars. it is actually how clans were founded - 600 loyal warriors against a couple of millions of rebels.
the fascination with the inner sphere has its reasons, though. mechs on 3025er rules aren't gunboats like clan machines are, so the fire power is much more balanced. also direct attacks (using mech fists or death from above) and ducking make more sense. clans do neither. they just stand there and shoot at you (and get shot in the process) until either their machine or their opponents' mech dies.
also back in 3025 you could defend a planet with two lances (that is 8 mechs) and infantry support. when the clan invasion came mech war changed to pure battle of material and thus got very boring.
Well, actually there are homing missiles in the BattleTech world - Arrow 4 comes in mind - but they are considered way to expensive for usage in the constant warfare. There also are NARC homing beacon, Artemis fire control system and last but not least the listen-kill missiles which homed to the electronic noise of a mech but rendered useless by ECM gear.
But then again, MW2 allowed gunboats - take a heavy mech, put 14 MLasers and lots of heat sinks into it and you've got a mech that can kill every other mech with one single alpha strike.
So if the game is really placed during the last years of the third succession war, do we get to see the unseen 'mechs? I mean, you can clearly see the Warhammer in the intro, but aren't the developers afraid if a lawsuit?
I'd just love to drive a Shadow hawk (Dunkelfalke being the German name for that mech)
My HTC Touch HD also uses gpsOne. Without assisted GPS it locks after 30-40 seconds in the middle of nowhere in Germany, as fast as SiRF 3 or NJ2020. I had some devices which searched for a fix for nearly 10 minutes, but those devices were really old.
A good idea. The next step would be something like a HTC Touch HD. Only slightly smaller display, but higher resolution and the phone and a GPS receiver are already integrated and still with all the advantages of your iPAQ (except the infrared port, though).
No smartphone is waterproof and can be easily read in direct sun while mounted to a motorcycle handlebar.
That depends on the screen. Transreflective displays are made for just that. The first XDA (HTC Wallaby) was great for reading in direct sun. You could swith the background light completely off and thus preserve the battery. Some smartphones are waterproof (Symbol makes some) but they are quite expensive. It is cheaper to buy a motorbike case/holder for the smartphone.
No smartphone can do what my field guide GPS can do. (Give me elevation maps... oh the iphone cant do that? sowwwy.)
It is only a matter of software. There is some Windows Mobile software for naval navigation, like Fugawi Marine ENC or PathAway. There is also sofware for aircraft navigation. Also, my navigation software (IGO 8) does know ferry paths and I tested it when I used ferries. I don't know what an autohelm is, though.
Some do. But there are also applications which store the maps on the flash memory cards like Sygic McGuider, Navigon Mobile Navigator and NDrive Symbian. There used to be a Symbian OS version of TomTom 6, but AFAIK it is discontinued.
1) For visibility while in use, a 4.3" widescreen display is very nice for a nav device. A phone that large would never sell.
Wrong. Also, standalone device screen resolution always sucks. A 3.8" WVGA screen is much better than a 4.3" WQVGA screen in terms of readability.
2) The GPS receiver in most phones capable of performing mapping functions (Qualcomm GPSOne) is SHIT. It's about on par with my old Garmin eMap (6+ years old) in terms of sensitivity and lock times. The far more modern GPS chipsets included in standalone devices (SiRF III, MTK v1 and v2) absolutely destroy the GPSOne solution in terms of sensitivity, accuracy, and lock times.
Wrong again (use the previous link). Also, Qualcomm GPSOne is not that bad, especially when using it with the QuickGPS software which downloads the satellite position for the next seven days from the internet. Lock times are then about four seconds.
Local knowledge trumps GPS every single time, however, because GPS devices can't make decisions based on information that isn't necessarily related to getting from point A to B.
not every single time because local knowledge is limited. i remember that once i used a navigation system on a way home from my parents' house i always drove without. when going from the autobahn to the city it suggested me a turn i never knew it was there and suddenly i was at home 5 minutes earlier than i thought and more relaxed than ever because the street the nav suggested was a much calmer one than the one i usually used.
nor can it tell you that Local Sports Team is playing a home game today at 5:00 PM, so if you drive too close to the stadium you'll be stuck in traffic for two hours.
in europe there is a service called tmc (according to wikipedia it is also available in some american cities as well) which sends traffic information on fm-rds radio. if your navigation system has got a tmc receiver it can very well route around traffic incidents.
In the reality, things don't work that way. If you have lost your ID you will have to prove your identity in some other way (for example a birth certificate) to get a new one. So you'll have to forge the face, the birth certificate and the signature and when the new ID is printed, the owner of the ID will be informed by mail to his home (so you'll have to have access to their letterbox as well).
That is a lot of work compared to guessing someone's SSN, isn't it?
This is the reason why identification by numbers sucks. A photo ID is a much better method of identification - it doesn't need to be stored and it is (yet) difficult to steal a face.
Not if the number of the real ID would be just its serial number and meaningless otherwise. Since the ID card itself is a proof of your identity, the number of it wouldn't be saved anywhere.
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If it fails this time they will probably try to change the constitution.
Who are you to dictate what rights anyone has got?
In my country, the first article of the constitution declares that the human dignity shall be inviolable. The right to dignity goes before every other right. Hate speech goes against human dignity so it is forbidden. So is defamation, torture and death penalty.
Only if left to its own devices. As long as the strong government suppresses the hatred everybody stays calm.
You see, school bullies also won't ever disappear. But would you rather allow them to do their doings or stop them so they cannot hurt anyone?
As Voltaire also said, a clever saying proves nothing.
It worked very well, indeed. Only after Yugoslavia was broken up in little pieces, when there was no government oppression anymore, people started being nationalistic and trying to kill all the others.
Same thing happened in the ex-USSR republics (the war in Georgia last summer was a perfect example). In the times of USSR there were minor ethnic conflicts but worst thing could happen were some broken noses. After the government suppression was gone azeris started to kill armenians, georgians started to kill abkhasians and ossetins, chechens just started to kill everyone around.
Seems that government suppression has some good sides after all.
bullshit. non-citizens cannot vote and still can get taxed.
Sure. Start with the Gray Death Legion trilogy, then continue with the Warrior trilogy and after that the Kurita books:
Gray Death Legion trilogy:
Decision at Thunder Rift 0451451848
Mercenary's Star 0451451945
The Price of Glory 0451452178
Warrior trilogy:
En Garde 0451456831
Riposte 0451457188
Coupe 0451457226
Wolves on the Border 0451453883
Heir to the Dragon 0451455274
yep. archer and wolfhound had rear facing mlasers, too.
rifleman is the mech which can rotate its arms to aim backwards.
clans have better targeting systems alright but they also had their share of devastating civil wars. it is actually how clans were founded - 600 loyal warriors against a couple of millions of rebels.
the fascination with the inner sphere has its reasons, though. mechs on 3025er rules aren't gunboats like clan machines are, so the fire power is much more balanced. also direct attacks (using mech fists or death from above) and ducking make more sense. clans do neither. they just stand there and shoot at you (and get shot in the process) until either their machine or their opponents' mech dies.
also back in 3025 you could defend a planet with two lances (that is 8 mechs) and infantry support. when the clan invasion came mech war changed to pure battle of material and thus got very boring.
FASA interactive, which then belonged to Microsoft.
Well, actually there are homing missiles in the BattleTech world - Arrow 4 comes in mind - but they are considered way to expensive for usage in the constant warfare. There also are NARC homing beacon, Artemis fire control system and last but not least the listen-kill missiles which homed to the electronic noise of a mech but rendered useless by ECM gear.
But then again, MW2 allowed gunboats - take a heavy mech, put 14 MLasers and lots of heat sinks into it and you've got a mech that can kill every other mech with one single alpha strike.
Justin Allard has retrofitted his Centurion with AC/20. That was AFAIR in 3027.
So if the game is really placed during the last years of the third succession war, do we get to see the unseen 'mechs?
I mean, you can clearly see the Warhammer in the intro, but aren't the developers afraid if a lawsuit?
I'd just love to drive a Shadow hawk (Dunkelfalke being the German name for that mech)
My HTC Touch HD also uses gpsOne. Without assisted GPS it locks after 30-40 seconds in the middle of nowhere in Germany, as fast as SiRF 3 or NJ2020. I had some devices which searched for a fix for nearly 10 minutes, but those devices were really old.
A good idea. The next step would be something like a HTC Touch HD. Only slightly smaller display, but higher resolution and the phone and a GPS receiver are already integrated and still with all the advantages of your iPAQ (except the infrared port, though).
Uhm, with a windshield mount as it is done for a decade already (using Palm and then PocketPC).
That depends on the screen. Transreflective displays are made for just that. The first XDA (HTC Wallaby) was great for reading in direct sun. You could swith the background light completely off and thus preserve the battery. Some smartphones are waterproof (Symbol makes some) but they are quite expensive. It is cheaper to buy a motorbike case/holder for the smartphone.
It is only a matter of software. There is some Windows Mobile software for naval navigation, like Fugawi Marine ENC or PathAway. There is also sofware for aircraft navigation. Also, my navigation software (IGO 8) does know ferry paths and I tested it when I used ferries. I don't know what an autohelm is, though.
Some do. But there are also applications which store the maps on the flash memory cards like Sygic McGuider, Navigon Mobile Navigator and NDrive Symbian. There used to be a Symbian OS version of TomTom 6, but AFAIK it is discontinued.
This is called "assisted GPS". It just speeds up satellite locking but is not required.
Wrong. Also, standalone device screen resolution always sucks. A 3.8" WVGA screen is much better than a 4.3" WQVGA screen in terms of readability.
Wrong again (use the previous link). Also, Qualcomm GPSOne is not that bad, especially when using it with the QuickGPS software which downloads the satellite position for the next seven days from the internet. Lock times are then about four seconds.
not every single time because local knowledge is limited.
i remember that once i used a navigation system on a way home from my parents' house i always drove without. when going from the autobahn to the city it suggested me a turn i never knew it was there and suddenly i was at home 5 minutes earlier than i thought and more relaxed than ever because the street the nav suggested was a much calmer one than the one i usually used.
in europe there is a service called tmc (according to wikipedia it is also available in some american cities as well) which sends traffic information on fm-rds radio. if your navigation system has got a tmc receiver it can very well route around traffic incidents.
In the reality, things don't work that way. If you have lost your ID you will have to prove your identity in some other way (for example a birth certificate) to get a new one. So you'll have to forge the face, the birth certificate and the signature and when the new ID is printed, the owner of the ID will be informed by mail to his home (so you'll have to have access to their letterbox as well).
That is a lot of work compared to guessing someone's SSN, isn't it?
This is the reason why identification by numbers sucks. A photo ID is a much better method of identification - it doesn't need to be stored and it is (yet) difficult to steal a face.
Not if the number of the real ID would be just its serial number and meaningless otherwise. Since the ID card itself is a proof of your identity, the number of it wouldn't be saved anywhere.