If this technology cost money, it would never, ever be installed. Unfortunately, it works "best" in places the signal intervals are incorrectly set.
In NYC, it is very good at giving you "gridlock" tickets, if the car in front of you stops and you get caught in the "box".
They are called scameras for a reason. And no, I don't run red lights, even at 3 am, thank you.
In Australia, red light cameras require you to set off two sets of induction loops, the first before the stop line, the second after the stop line.
The only people who call them "scameras" are the people who cant drive properly.
In NYC, it is very good at giving you "gridlock" tickets, if the car in front of you stops and you get caught in the "box".
If you have to stop in the middle of an intersection, you're doing it wrong (not looking more than one car ahead of you).
What honest excuse do you have for running a red light? It isn't like you don't get plenty of warning that the thing is going to change.
B-B-B-But I need to get there faster...
and other such bollocks.
The problem you've got in New Jersey is not red light cameras. It's poorly trained, inconsiderate and selfish drivers.
If you're getting a lot of rear enders you have two problems. Drivers are not looking ahead of the car in front of them and drivers are not maintaining a minimum safe distance (In Australia, this is defined as "enough distance to stop in an emergency without impacting the vehicle in front of you" so he should be able to slam on the brakes and you should be able to do the same without hitting him).
You can still jail break your brand new iPhone in 2012 and do whatever you want.
Can I install a custom IOS or Android ROM on the hardware?
No you say.
Well it appears you cant do whatever you want. Don't mistake the pitiful increase in rights "jailbreaking" an Iphone gives you for freedom, you are still bound to Apple. With Jailbreaking you're breaking out of your cell, but you're still inside the prison walls.
What kind of "enthusiast" are they talking about? I've been building my own PCs for 25 years and only changed one CPU, and that's because the fan went out and fried it. And guess what? The only CPU to fit in its socket was the same type of CPU that fried.
I agree, this story is BS. It doesn't matter to me if the CPU is socketed or soldered, and in fact I'd prefer soldered (as long as it had a good fan), since besides heat, the enemy of electronics is corrosion and bad connections.
In the last 10 years I've upgraded 3 CPU's, 1 fried, 2 requirements change (they wanted more power). All AMD, newer CPU's fit easily into the old sockets.
The 2 fried Intel CPU's I've had to deal with required the same model of CPU or a new CPU and Mobo (so we may as well junk the entire machine at that point and get a new one).
This is why I preferred to get AMD over Intel for desktop machines.
This is what Bioshock was like to me, a movie that required input. Games that are too easy are not fun.
Whereas when I played Bioshock, I was usually scared out of my mind. "All I'll lose if I die is some inventory, so why not treat it casually" didn't enter into my head -- dying was still, well, dying, and avoiding it was benefit enough.
There's room for player-generated motivation.
You do know that in Bioshock, if you die you dont lose anything. You wake up at a vita-chamber and pick up exactly where you left off.
Demon Souls also has two endings, but you're probably not going to see both of them without going to Youtube, because they depend on one decision made at the very end of the game, but since you can't save and reload your game there's no way to try again with the other decision.
You mean I wouldn't want to replay the game?
That's how I'd describe a game that sucked. Deus Ex had multiple endings. I replayed that game twice to get the other endings and in Deus Ex, I could have just loaded my save at the start of Area 51 to get them. The fact is I wanted to replay the game end to end... And I've replayed it more than just 3 times in the last decade.
Same with System Shock (1 and 2), Half Life, Star Control 2, why do I keep playing these 10+ yr old games... Because they are just that awesome. I haven't re-installed Modern Warfare in over 5 years.
What you're talking about aren't games, they're more simply interactive art pieces to enjoy.
Games should be fun.
Yes, games should be fun.
Games without challenges are not fun, breezing through the latest Medal of Duty without any significant problems is not fun. It's quite the opposite, it's boring. The computer does the aiming for me, some of the time it even does the moving for me. All I do is press a button to keep the game going. Old PC games like Far Cry and Operation Flashpoint gave me a large open world to play in, multiple ways to do things. A far cry (pun indented) from coridor based rail shooters, they had real consequences, it was easy to die and the checkpoint wasn't 5 seconds away from where I died.
I remember having to retry some missions in OpFlash a dozen times, these were often the most memorable, many of the missions I breezed through in OpFlash were boring (mainly because sitting in a Jeep with nothing happening was boring, these missions were probably scripting bugs).
I thought most games these days were just ego wankery of some shape or form where you press E to win because you are the toughest hardest space marine that ever lived.
This, gameplay has been killed.
There is no challenge in games any more, it is literally press X to win.
This really started with games like Halo and Call of Duty 2 with regenerating health and tonnes of checkpoints but the one that epitomises this "you cannot be allowed to fail" attitude was Bioshock. Bioshock was a game you literally could not die in. Yes I am using "literally" correctly, it was impossible to lose Bioshock.
Back in the day, you actually had to think about what you were doing, you had to play properly to avoid hits as your health did not magically regenerate. You had to conserve ammo because you couldn't just pick it up anywhere. Take these COD experts and put them down in front of Half life and watch them fail miserably. Games today hand hold too much, afraid to give the gamer any kind of challenge, any risk of failing. Without this risk, it doesn't feel like I'm playing a game, rather I'm just pressing a button to progress a movie. This is what Bioshock was like to me, a movie that required input. Games that are too easy are not fun.
Even games like Battlefield 3 tend emphasise grind over skill. If you suck, you only need to keep grinding until you get the heavy barrel and then you suck a bit less. You got XP just for turning up, it didn't matter if you died 100 times and did 0 dam, you could level up just by standing there. Add to this the fact the heavy barrels were so OP that it didn't matter if you played like a complete Noob you could just spray and pray. I played BF3 for 3 days before giving up, not because I was bad at the game (been pwning at BF since 2003) but because the upgrades were too OP. I decided to give it another go a month later but Origin decided that my install was corrupted and started trying to download the entire game again. I haven't bothered to re-install. Fortunately not all games are like this, I play World of Tanks which starts to punish bad players at the higher tiers.
Try putting todays COD or BF3 player in front of some of the harsher shooters of yesteryear such as Operation Flashpoint or Rainbow Six (1 to 3) and watch them rage when they realise that victory isn't handed to them on a platter. They actually have to think about what they are doing even with auto-aim on R6. But it seems challenging a gamer is a huge no-no for today's publishers.
So, by making the cockpit door out of slightly thicker plywood and fitting a bolt to it - similar to the one you are familiar with from your bathroom door - we can eliminate that threat entirely, for about 20 quid a plane. Less, really, because the DIY store will give you a discount on a large order of bathroom door bolts.
Used to work for a company that made lightweight security doors. The door was a steel mesh between two sheets of plywood. You may get through the plywood with a blunt instrument, but the steel mesh required an oxyacetylene torch. The plywood was just a veneer to provide privacy.
You could do the same with lightweight and strong material (aluminium, titanium).
Not sure how aircraft manufacturers/outfitters do it, but you can create secure doors that look like they're made from plywood.
Nope. Acknowledging the quality of Apple's products does not make you a fanboy. Defending Apple's legal practices and bully approach regarding their distributors, competitors and customers does, though, especially when you are directly and negatively affected by it..
So I can acknowledging the quality of Apple's products is poor and not be called a "hater".
Yes I said it, the quality of Apple's products are poor, they break easily, are not designed for human use (back button in the top left corner) use low quality audio components and need I remind anyone of Antennagate (if you want to defend that, remember that your holding it wrong). But none of this bothers me. If all Apple did was sell crappy gadgets at exorbitant prices I wouldn't give a crap about them. What I don't like is the fact they want to sue anyone who makes a semi-successful competing product so I have no choice to buy their crappy gadgets.
Won't happen, and remember this is in accordance with sharia law too. Which is supposed to elevate women above western standards, or so flappy headed groups keep telling us.
The only idiot who has said Sharia law will elevate women above western standards is you.
The reason this wont be condemned like Apartheid in South Africa is that Saudi Arabia has oil and South Africa didn't.
Basically, since the firearm was unloaded, it was was not an attack, but discharging firearms or making loud noises like that around the head of state is usually not a good thing for anyone.
How does one discharge an unloaded firearm?`
Hold the firearm away from the body.
Pull the trigger.
Shout loudly "Bang, I say Bang old bean"
I would love to hear how you think most hunters don't want to eat the wild game they kill. Here in upstate NY, most of the hunters I know do eat the game.
From knowing hunters in Australia, England and Germany. It was about the hunt, not the food. Retiring back to the lodge after a successful hunt.
Here in Australia the animals that are most often hunted are considered pests, not fine dining. These would be Kangaroo's, Rabbits and Wild Horses (the last two being introduced species). Foxes were introduced into Australia for the purpose of hunting, I've never heard of anyone serving fox meat. Fortunately the foxes were not as invasive as rabbits or as destructive as the horses.
Now whether you think that killing pest animals (or any animal for that matter) is cruel and inhumane is up to you. I personally have no feelings on the matter.
Now OTOH, I also know people who kill animals for food in Australia, Cambodia and Thailand. I've had such animals served to me. These people act nothing like hunters. Don't make the mistake of thinking that food and hunting are intertwined, the process of hunting is quite destructive to the edible parts of the animal (not just in the shooting but the impact after being shot and the thrashing about as the creature bleeds to death, the thrashing tends to bruise good meat).
Unless you go to a foreign country where the meaning of "a lot" is much lower.
Which some companies are fighting tooth and nail to do.
Having quite some exposure to developers from a country where "a lot" is a lot less than "a lot" over here (over here being western Europe in my case): the best of those "cheap" developers are rapidly getting smart, and realizing that they can make several orders of magnitude more money if they move to where employers are willing to pay more. Quite a few of the "cheap" top developers are no longer staying in the "cheap" locations because they know they are worth more and can get those jobs if they want.
This has been happening for decades. Not just with Developers too.
If an Indian developer or engineer is that good, he doesn't stick around in India and work for Indian wages. He comes do Australia and works for Australian wages. They dont always retire back in India too.
So the cries you hear might actually mean that cheap-arse employers are finally starting to find it difficult to exploit cheap but great developers from low-pay countries.
Exactly,
However there is no shortage of cheap-arse places providing cheap-arse labour to exploit. The problem these cheap-arse employers are having is that these places are no longer offering good cheap-arse labour.
On the flip side, these poorer countries are complaining of a brain drain to richer nations. The same thing Australia complained about in the 90's when the AUD was fetching less than 0.5 USD and the top Australian engineers were going to the US or Western Europe.
That means they know exactly where it was launched from too.
Accurate automated retaliation next perhaps?
The problem is, once you have tracked the launch site by the time you get there all you will find is an empty launch tube/spine and some foot prints.
The key word in improvised rockets is "improvised". They dont have a fixed launch site and can take them to just about any location. The upside of this for the Israeli's is that it makes it incredibly hard to launch them in large numbers without being noticed.
So, when the interception rate gets high enough, I presume that the antagonists will shift to using huge numbers of smaller rockets.
Which Hamas have you been watching?
They are already doing that. The problems are:
* The only rockets they can mass produce have an effective range of 3KM and a fertiliser bomb as a warhead.
* Hamas cannot import enough rockets and rocket components to produce more sophisticated devices.
* Making them larger only makes them more difficult to launch.
* Setting up 150 launch tubes is very, very noticeable.
* Despite only costing $800 per rocket, the time and resources needed to produce 150 means there may be weeks or months between attacks, losing momentum.
If there was no state by the name "Palestine" in 1947, pray tell, where was the state named "Israel" located, at that time?
Is Timor Leste an illegitimate state as they took that land from Indonesia with Australia's help?
By this logic, no country that is not currently occupied and run by it's very first inhabitants is not legitimate. So goodbye United States (displaced the Sioux), England (The Celts were invaded by Romans, Saxons, Anglos, the list goes on and we haven't got to William the Conqueror yet), Australia (UK displaced the Aborigines)... Why not cut to the crap, there's basically no nation on earth that fits those requirements.
They are not homebrewn but smuggled from Iran through Egypt.
The Qassam series of rockets are certainly manufactured by the Palestinians. The longer range rockets are of Russian origins.
There, fixed that for you. Chinese and Iranian rocket technologies are based on Russian rockets.
The entirely Palestinian made rockets are at the same sophistication level as the Katyusha rockets of WWII... Then again they don't have to be that complex to be effective at sowing terror. The more complex rockets are imported whole or made from imported components as they dont have enough high tech industry in the Gaza strip or West Bank to produce them.
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If this technology cost money, it would never, ever be installed. Unfortunately, it works "best" in places the signal intervals are incorrectly set. In NYC, it is very good at giving you "gridlock" tickets, if the car in front of you stops and you get caught in the "box". They are called scameras for a reason. And no, I don't run red lights, even at 3 am, thank you.
In Australia, red light cameras require you to set off two sets of induction loops, the first before the stop line, the second after the stop line.
The only people who call them "scameras" are the people who cant drive properly.
In NYC, it is very good at giving you "gridlock" tickets, if the car in front of you stops and you get caught in the "box".
If you have to stop in the middle of an intersection, you're doing it wrong (not looking more than one car ahead of you).
What honest excuse do you have for running a red light? It isn't like you don't get plenty of warning that the thing is going to change.
B-B-B-But I need to get there faster...
and other such bollocks.
The problem you've got in New Jersey is not red light cameras. It's poorly trained, inconsiderate and selfish drivers.
If you're getting a lot of rear enders you have two problems. Drivers are not looking ahead of the car in front of them and drivers are not maintaining a minimum safe distance (In Australia, this is defined as "enough distance to stop in an emergency without impacting the vehicle in front of you" so he should be able to slam on the brakes and you should be able to do the same without hitting him).
You can still jail break your brand new iPhone in 2012 and do whatever you want.
Can I install a custom IOS or Android ROM on the hardware?
No you say.
Well it appears you cant do whatever you want. Don't mistake the pitiful increase in rights "jailbreaking" an Iphone gives you for freedom, you are still bound to Apple. With Jailbreaking you're breaking out of your cell, but you're still inside the prison walls.
What kind of "enthusiast" are they talking about? I've been building my own PCs for 25 years and only changed one CPU, and that's because the fan went out and fried it. And guess what? The only CPU to fit in its socket was the same type of CPU that fried.
I agree, this story is BS. It doesn't matter to me if the CPU is socketed or soldered, and in fact I'd prefer soldered (as long as it had a good fan), since besides heat, the enemy of electronics is corrosion and bad connections.
In the last 10 years I've upgraded 3 CPU's, 1 fried, 2 requirements change (they wanted more power). All AMD, newer CPU's fit easily into the old sockets.
The 2 fried Intel CPU's I've had to deal with required the same model of CPU or a new CPU and Mobo (so we may as well junk the entire machine at that point and get a new one).
This is why I preferred to get AMD over Intel for desktop machines.
Not if they can't play Black Ops 2 on those "low power mobile devices".
They already play Black Ops 2 on Consoles.
This will not be an issue.
Root then install a 3rd party ROM. Get a direct from china device that doesn't have it in the first place.
Problem solved.
Even just manufacturer direct, a vanilla SGS III or even a Google Nexus device. My last HTC or my GNex had no such crapware.
Whereas when I played Bioshock, I was usually scared out of my mind. "All I'll lose if I die is some inventory, so why not treat it casually" didn't enter into my head -- dying was still, well, dying, and avoiding it was benefit enough.
There's room for player-generated motivation.
You do know that in Bioshock, if you die you dont lose anything. You wake up at a vita-chamber and pick up exactly where you left off.
Demon Souls also has two endings, but you're probably not going to see both of them without going to Youtube, because they depend on one decision made at the very end of the game, but since you can't save and reload your game there's no way to try again with the other decision.
You mean I wouldn't want to replay the game?
That's how I'd describe a game that sucked. Deus Ex had multiple endings. I replayed that game twice to get the other endings and in Deus Ex, I could have just loaded my save at the start of Area 51 to get them. The fact is I wanted to replay the game end to end... And I've replayed it more than just 3 times in the last decade.
Same with System Shock (1 and 2), Half Life, Star Control 2, why do I keep playing these 10+ yr old games... Because they are just that awesome. I haven't re-installed Modern Warfare in over 5 years.
What you're talking about aren't games, they're more simply interactive art pieces to enjoy.
Games should be fun.
Yes, games should be fun.
Games without challenges are not fun, breezing through the latest Medal of Duty without any significant problems is not fun. It's quite the opposite, it's boring. The computer does the aiming for me, some of the time it even does the moving for me. All I do is press a button to keep the game going. Old PC games like Far Cry and Operation Flashpoint gave me a large open world to play in, multiple ways to do things. A far cry (pun indented) from coridor based rail shooters, they had real consequences, it was easy to die and the checkpoint wasn't 5 seconds away from where I died.
I remember having to retry some missions in OpFlash a dozen times, these were often the most memorable, many of the missions I breezed through in OpFlash were boring (mainly because sitting in a Jeep with nothing happening was boring, these missions were probably scripting bugs).
I thought most games these days were just ego wankery of some shape or form where you press E to win because you are the toughest hardest space marine that ever lived.
This, gameplay has been killed.
There is no challenge in games any more, it is literally press X to win.
This really started with games like Halo and Call of Duty 2 with regenerating health and tonnes of checkpoints but the one that epitomises this "you cannot be allowed to fail" attitude was Bioshock. Bioshock was a game you literally could not die in. Yes I am using "literally" correctly, it was impossible to lose Bioshock.
Back in the day, you actually had to think about what you were doing, you had to play properly to avoid hits as your health did not magically regenerate. You had to conserve ammo because you couldn't just pick it up anywhere. Take these COD experts and put them down in front of Half life and watch them fail miserably. Games today hand hold too much, afraid to give the gamer any kind of challenge, any risk of failing. Without this risk, it doesn't feel like I'm playing a game, rather I'm just pressing a button to progress a movie. This is what Bioshock was like to me, a movie that required input. Games that are too easy are not fun.
Even games like Battlefield 3 tend emphasise grind over skill. If you suck, you only need to keep grinding until you get the heavy barrel and then you suck a bit less. You got XP just for turning up, it didn't matter if you died 100 times and did 0 dam, you could level up just by standing there. Add to this the fact the heavy barrels were so OP that it didn't matter if you played like a complete Noob you could just spray and pray. I played BF3 for 3 days before giving up, not because I was bad at the game (been pwning at BF since 2003) but because the upgrades were too OP. I decided to give it another go a month later but Origin decided that my install was corrupted and started trying to download the entire game again. I haven't bothered to re-install. Fortunately not all games are like this, I play World of Tanks which starts to punish bad players at the higher tiers.
Try putting todays COD or BF3 player in front of some of the harsher shooters of yesteryear such as Operation Flashpoint or Rainbow Six (1 to 3) and watch them rage when they realise that victory isn't handed to them on a platter. They actually have to think about what they are doing even with auto-aim on R6. But it seems challenging a gamer is a huge no-no for today's publishers.
Metric, or Imperial?
Pretty sure it's a metric Indian.
Unless it's a Native American, in which case they still use the Imperial system, although it's not the same as British Imperial units.
The biggest joke of all is the underlying assumption that terrorists are helpless so long as they can't get past airport security.
If I were a terrorist I'd just detonate my bag full of explosives/ball bearings in the line for the scanner.
That's not the biggest joke. The biggest joke is that most people think they are capable of that.
Why haven't the "terr'sts" detonated a bomb on a bus in Downtown Washington or LA?
The answer is quite simple, they are either unable to or unwilling to. Occams Razor leads me towards the former.
So, by making the cockpit door out of slightly thicker plywood and fitting a bolt to it - similar to the one you are familiar with from your bathroom door - we can eliminate that threat entirely, for about 20 quid a plane. Less, really, because the DIY store will give you a discount on a large order of bathroom door bolts.
Used to work for a company that made lightweight security doors. The door was a steel mesh between two sheets of plywood. You may get through the plywood with a blunt instrument, but the steel mesh required an oxyacetylene torch. The plywood was just a veneer to provide privacy.
You could do the same with lightweight and strong material (aluminium, titanium).
Not sure how aircraft manufacturers/outfitters do it, but you can create secure doors that look like they're made from plywood.
Nope. Acknowledging the quality of Apple's products does not make you a fanboy. Defending Apple's legal practices and bully approach regarding their distributors, competitors and customers does, though, especially when you are directly and negatively affected by it..
So I can acknowledging the quality of Apple's products is poor and not be called a "hater".
Yes I said it, the quality of Apple's products are poor, they break easily, are not designed for human use (back button in the top left corner) use low quality audio components and need I remind anyone of Antennagate (if you want to defend that, remember that your holding it wrong). But none of this bothers me. If all Apple did was sell crappy gadgets at exorbitant prices I wouldn't give a crap about them. What I don't like is the fact they want to sue anyone who makes a semi-successful competing product so I have no choice to buy their crappy gadgets.
Won't happen, and remember this is in accordance with sharia law too. Which is supposed to elevate women above western standards, or so flappy headed groups keep telling us.
The only idiot who has said Sharia law will elevate women above western standards is you.
The reason this wont be condemned like Apartheid in South Africa is that Saudi Arabia has oil and South Africa didn't.
I cannot remember when GWB launched rockets into Sydney targeting your citizens.
He dragged us into two pointless wars that have cost Australian lives.
He may not have launched rockets into Sydney, but they've bombed the crap out of Woomera enough times.
This guy gets a suspended sentence for re-tweeting North Korean propaganda.
Yet PSY gets nothing for unleashing Gangam Style.
Worst Korea is seriously fucked up.
Basically, since the firearm was unloaded, it was was not an attack, but discharging firearms or making loud noises like that around the head of state is usually not a good thing for anyone.
How does one discharge an unloaded firearm?`
Hold the firearm away from the body.
Pull the trigger.
Shout loudly "Bang, I say Bang old bean"
From knowing hunters in Australia, England and Germany. It was about the hunt, not the food. Retiring back to the lodge after a successful hunt.
Here in Australia the animals that are most often hunted are considered pests, not fine dining. These would be Kangaroo's, Rabbits and Wild Horses (the last two being introduced species). Foxes were introduced into Australia for the purpose of hunting, I've never heard of anyone serving fox meat. Fortunately the foxes were not as invasive as rabbits or as destructive as the horses.
Now whether you think that killing pest animals (or any animal for that matter) is cruel and inhumane is up to you. I personally have no feelings on the matter.
Now OTOH, I also know people who kill animals for food in Australia, Cambodia and Thailand. I've had such animals served to me. These people act nothing like hunters. Don't make the mistake of thinking that food and hunting are intertwined, the process of hunting is quite destructive to the edible parts of the animal (not just in the shooting but the impact after being shot and the thrashing about as the creature bleeds to death, the thrashing tends to bruise good meat).
Unless you go to a foreign country where the meaning of "a lot" is much lower. Which some companies are fighting tooth and nail to do.
Having quite some exposure to developers from a country where "a lot" is a lot less than "a lot" over here (over here being western Europe in my case): the best of those "cheap" developers are rapidly getting smart, and realizing that they can make several orders of magnitude more money if they move to where employers are willing to pay more. Quite a few of the "cheap" top developers are no longer staying in the "cheap" locations because they know they are worth more and can get those jobs if they want.
This has been happening for decades. Not just with Developers too.
If an Indian developer or engineer is that good, he doesn't stick around in India and work for Indian wages. He comes do Australia and works for Australian wages. They dont always retire back in India too.
So the cries you hear might actually mean that cheap-arse employers are finally starting to find it difficult to exploit cheap but great developers from low-pay countries.
Exactly,
However there is no shortage of cheap-arse places providing cheap-arse labour to exploit. The problem these cheap-arse employers are having is that these places are no longer offering good cheap-arse labour.
On the flip side, these poorer countries are complaining of a brain drain to richer nations. The same thing Australia complained about in the 90's when the AUD was fetching less than 0.5 USD and the top Australian engineers were going to the US or Western Europe.
That means they know exactly where it was launched from too.
Accurate automated retaliation next perhaps?
The problem is, once you have tracked the launch site by the time you get there all you will find is an empty launch tube/spine and some foot prints.
The key word in improvised rockets is "improvised". They dont have a fixed launch site and can take them to just about any location. The upside of this for the Israeli's is that it makes it incredibly hard to launch them in large numbers without being noticed.
So, when the interception rate gets high enough, I presume that the antagonists will shift to using huge numbers of smaller rockets.
Which Hamas have you been watching?
They are already doing that. The problems are:
* The only rockets they can mass produce have an effective range of 3KM and a fertiliser bomb as a warhead.
* Hamas cannot import enough rockets and rocket components to produce more sophisticated devices.
* Making them larger only makes them more difficult to launch.
* Setting up 150 launch tubes is very, very noticeable.
* Despite only costing $800 per rocket, the time and resources needed to produce 150 means there may be weeks or months between attacks, losing momentum.
But what's going to replace mutually assured destruction (MAD) when the destruction isn't assuredly mutual?
Nothing.
You're going to find out that MAD didn't work at all.
MAD is a nuclear generals erotic fantasy. The reason there was no hot war in the cold war was national self interest, not fear of destruction.
If there was no state by the name "Palestine" in 1947, pray tell, where was the state named "Israel" located, at that time?
Is Timor Leste an illegitimate state as they took that land from Indonesia with Australia's help?
By this logic, no country that is not currently occupied and run by it's very first inhabitants is not legitimate. So goodbye United States (displaced the Sioux), England (The Celts were invaded by Romans, Saxons, Anglos, the list goes on and we haven't got to William the Conqueror yet), Australia (UK displaced the Aborigines)... Why not cut to the crap, there's basically no nation on earth that fits those requirements.
They are not homebrewn but smuggled from Iran through Egypt.
The Qassam series of rockets are certainly manufactured by the Palestinians. The longer range rockets are of Russian origins.
There, fixed that for you. Chinese and Iranian rocket technologies are based on Russian rockets.
The entirely Palestinian made rockets are at the same sophistication level as the Katyusha rockets of WWII... Then again they don't have to be that complex to be effective at sowing terror. The more complex rockets are imported whole or made from imported components as they dont have enough high tech industry in the Gaza strip or West Bank to produce them.