Because, ya know, as a white dude I'd hate to lose my job translating negrospeak because I used the N-word.
Is it really that hard to understand negrospeak? Or are all the old guys who the DoJ just starting fossilize? Will this lead to black street gangs using Valley Girl Talk to throw the police off their trail?
The rest of the region hates Iran. The Arabs have no affinity with the Persians. It's why Iraqis Shiites were glad to shoot at the Iranians during the war.
Iran's core military strategy is to send one guy with a rifle and ten unarmed guys behind him. The Iranians' grand military plan is to refight the Battle of Stalingrad. Even deploying this strategy, they basically fought Iraq to the ugliest stalemate since the trenches in France in 1915. A full-on war between the US and Iran would result in the equivalent of a one-sided Verdun every single week.
A couple missiles aren't going to mitigate the fact that Iran has no strategic petroleum reserve and zero refining capacity. Its transport would fail in the first week of any war and agriculture couldn't last a year. Probably less if the attacker(s) launched a prolonged ground war in late winter (as is US tradition in the region) before crops go in the ground.
A couple missiles are also not going to mitigate the fact that Iran would mostly depend on imported Hezbollah fighters to train its army how to fight a ground war the right way. And, frankly, you can't take a military modeled on the Red Army and convert it into a competent guerilla force like Hezbollah without years of advance planning. That planning hasn't happened. Iran doesn't have any commando force of any international reputation.
In short, Iran is not prepared to fight the war it would need to fight to take advantage of its rough terrain.
Until I hear Hezbollah taking interest in it, I will consider it a piece of crap. Although I could see Hugo Chavez wasting money on it. He's pretty damned nuts.
Firing stuff into the expanses of the Iraqi desert is a wasteful proposition. American intelligence will jam this thing's controls into oblivion the first time they try to bomb Baghdad.
This thing is a far cry from an Exocet or a Tomahawk. And it's a really far cry from a Predator.
"Iran's industrial sector is more advanced than you might think"
To be clear, you're talking about a country that sits on a giant reserve of oil, but has to import gasoline because they have no refining capacity. Iran's industrial sector is a fucking embarrassment.
You're talking about Tehran, a city whose building codes will be cited as the cause of the worst single humanitarian disaster in history when the big one finally hits NW Iran. 10 million dead is going to be an interesting psychic moment for the Islamic Republic.
Iran's great defense is their mountains. No one wants to fight from valley-to-valley killing thousands of poorly armed soldiers trying to fight a country that's one bad natural disaster away from being the next North Korea or Pakistan.
Even Saddam Hussein was only dumb enough to try it once.
You know, I just don't quite know why you'd go this bland, this crass and this obvious with an accusation. I know the American intelligence / state department apparatus has never been that good at these things, but . . . If you want the guy gone, skip the bullshit and throw a bag over his head.
Actually, I don't get what the big deal is, overall. Not from the view point of the U.S. military. Every American already knew all this shit Assange released.
In fact, I think the whole WikiLeaks episode illustrates a much graver problem: the complicity of the average American. Fact is, the average American just doesn't give a fuck what the military does as long as they never bring back the draft.
Assange's quest is quixotic at best and moronic at worst. He thinks he's fighting the U.S. military-industrial complex. He isn't. He's fighting an American public that has never really given a fuck what the government does to or with an all-volunteer military oversees.
I can remember getting off the train at the Pentagon. I wanted to go upriver on foot to photograph the skyline of DC at night from across the river (don't ask me why -- ugly city). It didn't take too minutes before a Hummer came rolling out and a guy in a gun turret (gun pointed at me) told me to go away and not take any photos.
Like it or not, some really stupid rules -- and even just really stupid etiquette -- governs what you can and cannot photograph.
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Um . . . dude? What I said was a joke.
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Now we're just talking about who's the winner of an ugly pig contest.
From my experience, Norton isn't as much of a clock cycle killer as it is just downright ineffective.
I'm not a fan of either of the big pay players in AV.
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Good move by Intel. If people become desperate for better per clock cycle performance, they'll favor the new Intel chips over AMD. And what program ropes your computer and drags it down faster than McAfee?
It's a misuse of the term 99% of the time it's employed. "Ccyber" was never meant to be used generically, and it is also intended to be used in fields well outside computing. Within computing, it expresses a fairly narrowly focused set of fields, mostly relating to decision systems, such as robotics and simulation.
But, so-called cyberwarfare is boondoggle anyhow. The fact that the rhetoric surrounding so easily flags as a boondoggle is, I guess a positive. Or it would be if the people making these decisions weren't still trying to program their goddamned VCR.
But, but . . . the word cyber means "awesome tower of computer awesomeness!" How can you not want to fork over millions of dollars to me? I used one of my keywords in the PowerPoint, dammit!
The internet is one of those stupid modern "conveniences" like the telephone or the automobile or antibiotics -- really just bound to annoy the shit out of us until we stop using it.
I'm assuming that having established his tard cred, Prince will now run for governor of Minnesota on the GOP ticket.
Poor Hulu. So very, very close to getting it right. And yet so very, very far off.
I understand that the major TV folks hate Hulu and sit there glowering at it, praying the internet would just dry the fuck up and go away. BUT . . . come the fuck on already, people! 720p + no ads, I'd pay $10 for. You throw in the ads, and frankly, fuck that. Especially when they're only offering the current full season of a handful of show, plus the full run of a bunch of shows I already get in HD on Netflix.
Didn't you ever watch Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Everyone knows the Greeks were jacked when they saw Socrates go into a phone booth, disappear and then reappear. Worse, when he came back, he kept trying to tell the Greeks to "be excellent to each other". Unconventional beliefs, indeed.
The final straw came when the Greeks repeatedly insisted there is only one time traveling phone booth, and it belongs to The Doctor. Socrates said, "Nu-huh!" Heresy, indeed.
Bill and Ted even took him to the future to try and save him. But, sure enough, when they book report was done, Socrates was all, "I need to get back to Athens because my stank is probably wearing off as we speak."
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Because, ya know, as a white dude I'd hate to lose my job translating negrospeak because I used the N-word.
Is it really that hard to understand negrospeak? Or are all the old guys who the DoJ just starting fossilize? Will this lead to black street gangs using Valley Girl Talk to throw the police off their trail?
The rest of the region hates Iran. The Arabs have no affinity with the Persians. It's why Iraqis Shiites were glad to shoot at the Iranians during the war.
Iran's core military strategy is to send one guy with a rifle and ten unarmed guys behind him. The Iranians' grand military plan is to refight the Battle of Stalingrad. Even deploying this strategy, they basically fought Iraq to the ugliest stalemate since the trenches in France in 1915. A full-on war between the US and Iran would result in the equivalent of a one-sided Verdun every single week.
A couple missiles aren't going to mitigate the fact that Iran has no strategic petroleum reserve and zero refining capacity. Its transport would fail in the first week of any war and agriculture couldn't last a year. Probably less if the attacker(s) launched a prolonged ground war in late winter (as is US tradition in the region) before crops go in the ground.
A couple missiles are also not going to mitigate the fact that Iran would mostly depend on imported Hezbollah fighters to train its army how to fight a ground war the right way. And, frankly, you can't take a military modeled on the Red Army and convert it into a competent guerilla force like Hezbollah without years of advance planning. That planning hasn't happened. Iran doesn't have any commando force of any international reputation.
In short, Iran is not prepared to fight the war it would need to fight to take advantage of its rough terrain.
Until I hear Hezbollah taking interest in it, I will consider it a piece of crap. Although I could see Hugo Chavez wasting money on it. He's pretty damned nuts.
Firing stuff into the expanses of the Iraqi desert is a wasteful proposition. American intelligence will jam this thing's controls into oblivion the first time they try to bomb Baghdad.
This thing is a far cry from an Exocet or a Tomahawk. And it's a really far cry from a Predator.
"Iran's industrial sector is more advanced than you might think"
To be clear, you're talking about a country that sits on a giant reserve of oil, but has to import gasoline because they have no refining capacity. Iran's industrial sector is a fucking embarrassment.
You're talking about Tehran, a city whose building codes will be cited as the cause of the worst single humanitarian disaster in history when the big one finally hits NW Iran. 10 million dead is going to be an interesting psychic moment for the Islamic Republic.
Iran's great defense is their mountains. No one wants to fight from valley-to-valley killing thousands of poorly armed soldiers trying to fight a country that's one bad natural disaster away from being the next North Korea or Pakistan.
Even Saddam Hussein was only dumb enough to try it once.
You know, I just don't quite know why you'd go this bland, this crass and this obvious with an accusation. I know the American intelligence / state department apparatus has never been that good at these things, but . . . If you want the guy gone, skip the bullshit and throw a bag over his head.
Actually, I don't get what the big deal is, overall. Not from the view point of the U.S. military. Every American already knew all this shit Assange released.
In fact, I think the whole WikiLeaks episode illustrates a much graver problem: the complicity of the average American. Fact is, the average American just doesn't give a fuck what the military does as long as they never bring back the draft.
Assange's quest is quixotic at best and moronic at worst. He thinks he's fighting the U.S. military-industrial complex. He isn't. He's fighting an American public that has never really given a fuck what the government does to or with an all-volunteer military oversees.
I can remember getting off the train at the Pentagon. I wanted to go upriver on foot to photograph the skyline of DC at night from across the river (don't ask me why -- ugly city). It didn't take too minutes before a Hummer came rolling out and a guy in a gun turret (gun pointed at me) told me to go away and not take any photos.
Like it or not, some really stupid rules -- and even just really stupid etiquette -- governs what you can and cannot photograph.
Um . . . dude? What I said was a joke.
Now we're just talking about who's the winner of an ugly pig contest.
From my experience, Norton isn't as much of a clock cycle killer as it is just downright ineffective.
I'm not a fan of either of the big pay players in AV.
Good move by Intel. If people become desperate for better per clock cycle performance, they'll favor the new Intel chips over AMD. And what program ropes your computer and drags it down faster than McAfee?
Half the respondents were from China, where they figured "spy on our enemies" felt like the lower risk answer.
Didn't any of you watch 2012?! We're doomed! Neutrinos! Just wait. This is only the beginning.
Your sig does have the word "buy" in it. Just sayin' . . .
It's a misuse of the term 99% of the time it's employed. "Ccyber" was never meant to be used generically, and it is also intended to be used in fields well outside computing. Within computing, it expresses a fairly narrowly focused set of fields, mostly relating to decision systems, such as robotics and simulation.
But, so-called cyberwarfare is boondoggle anyhow. The fact that the rhetoric surrounding so easily flags as a boondoggle is, I guess a positive. Or it would be if the people making these decisions weren't still trying to program their goddamned VCR.
But, but . . . the word cyber means "awesome tower of computer awesomeness!" How can you not want to fork over millions of dollars to me? I used one of my keywords in the PowerPoint, dammit!
Where you see the word cyber, there is an idiot nearby waiting to waste your money.
Sorry. We rural folks sometimes forget how much public transportation negates the necessity of the things I just listed.
Considering Al's penchant for the "massage" ads, the internet is no peril.
Why did we not listen to Prince?
The internet is one of those stupid modern "conveniences" like the telephone or the automobile or antibiotics -- really just bound to annoy the shit out of us until we stop using it.
I'm assuming that having established his tard cred, Prince will now run for governor of Minnesota on the GOP ticket.
If you had said something thought out and not reflexive I would've talked shit on that, too.
Poor Hulu. So very, very close to getting it right. And yet so very, very far off.
I understand that the major TV folks hate Hulu and sit there glowering at it, praying the internet would just dry the fuck up and go away. BUT . . . come the fuck on already, people! 720p + no ads, I'd pay $10 for. You throw in the ads, and frankly, fuck that. Especially when they're only offering the current full season of a handful of show, plus the full run of a bunch of shows I already get in HD on Netflix.
So close . . .
Duh!
Didn't you ever watch Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Everyone knows the Greeks were jacked when they saw Socrates go into a phone booth, disappear and then reappear. Worse, when he came back, he kept trying to tell the Greeks to "be excellent to each other". Unconventional beliefs, indeed.
The final straw came when the Greeks repeatedly insisted there is only one time traveling phone booth, and it belongs to The Doctor. Socrates said, "Nu-huh!" Heresy, indeed.
Bill and Ted even took him to the future to try and save him. But, sure enough, when they book report was done, Socrates was all, "I need to get back to Athens because my stank is probably wearing off as we speak."