AWACS and Early Warning Radar stations are used to detect the approaching aircraft. EWRs have a range of over 300 nmi, AWACS' are mobile, and both notify SAM batteries of when the targets are within range.
SAM battery radars are mounted on a separate platform and positioned remotely exactly because they are expected to be destroyed or abandoned during the shoot-and-scoot
If done properly, SAM radars will come online within seconds of a kill, and the enemy will not know what hit them or have sufficient time to respond.
I agree that it is not just about the taxes. I rather suspect it's about campaign contributions. Online gamblers are less dependent on whims of the local politicians than their physical counterparts, and hence invest less in lobbying.
I am not sure if this ban is an extortion attempt or a payback to the physical gambling industry's lobbyists, but what we know for sure is that there's some major cash involved either way. To wit, roughly half of Jack Abramoff's transactions were related to gambling of some sort.
The fact that such ban plays well with the 'family values' voters does not hurt either.
Most of the time SAM launcher radars are off until after the planes are within range... at which point they are going to get guaranteed kills no matter what happens to the (replacable) radar afterwards.
S/he assumes this runs on some fuel similar in CO2/energy ratio to our food. Since each human generates 100W give or take, this engine should produce comparable amounts of CO2.
Look at me! I'm white and American -- I shouldn't have to compete for my job!
That's right, I should not have to compete with prisoner slaves in China, with Cayman Islands' girls that are forced to undergo abortions so their employer does not need to pay for maternity leave...
Why is American labor more expensive? Because education, health insurance, worker safety and compensation, living wage, future to look forward to ARE expensive. And child slave labor in Kraplickistan is cheap.
And the way we stay competitive is not by doing away with living wage or insurance for us, but instead by mandating that any company wishing to sell to America must provide living wage, insurance, etc. etc. to their workers worldwire.
Don't like it in America? Go send your kids over to live in the 'free market' conditions of Liberia or Pakistan.
Tis a great time to be an American, given that the Senate just passed the law which essentially says Bush can secretly and indefinitely hold and torture anyone just by calling them a terrorist (based on whatever the fuck evidence Bush decides is trustworthy).
'Does not apply to me since I am a citizen', you say? Well, the moment Bush says you are Bin Laden, you are no longer a US citizen, and have no right to appeal to an impartial judge or an outside review! The only people listening to your 'I am not Bin Laden' screams would be your jailors and your cellmates.
Saying "hey, you got the wrong guy" is a fundamental right... That's what Habeas Corpus essentially is, and that is what was given up yesterday in the name of the war on terror.
I am just curious what exactly Bush has up his sleeve to force compliance from the good people like Sens. Specter, Mccain, and Graham.
If we switch to OSS, what guarantee do we have that a critical specialty application won't go unsupported next week?
Not my topic, but what the heck...
You know, OSS does not need to mean free. Why not donate part of what you save on lincensing to those OSS developers? Or fly them out on a junket? Or give them a leftover PDP POS in your storage that you've not fired up in years?
You are not a fool, so what guarantee can you expect from the developers that give their work to you open and free, at their loss, without any reward, often not even trivial thanks and appreciations.
You failed to get the point. A 'surprise' massive launch by the Soviets would bring up enough ash to the stratosphere to cover the entire Earth... to cause the infamous 'nuclear winter' for long enough to wipe out over 50% of their own population in weeks from cold and starvation, and the rest in a few months after they had a good chance to take up the cobalt and other radioisotopes. Launching 'just a few' against a nuclear enemy will get the enemy to lob a few right back, escalating to the same result.
To put it in terms you would understand, launching a unilateral all-out nuclear strike would be like shooting your sister in the head with a M20A1B1 while she fellated you, and hoping to walk away unscarred.
Current bottlenecks are ram size and bus throughput. Regardless of what your processor is, your desktop basically performs at the speed of an ATA drive for anything that counts e.g. linear transformation (read: visual processing, speech recognition, other complex pattern search and matching algorithms, compression, cryptography, molecular modeling...)
Let's face it, the Bush admin is not known for it's transparency, having snonewalled all attempts to get any info on their inner workings...
Perhaps this is a ploy to get public to see how 'wasteful' with their trillions the Medicare, Social Security, GI Bill, NSF, and other programs are? And then argue for more tax cuts?
then how exactly all those 9/11 passengers called home about the hijacking? we know they did for a fact, since you cannot fake that many relative's accounts.
It is, in fact, possible to this Bugs Bunny trick, but by positioning the fan airflow perpendicular to the keel, then setting sail plane oblique to the airflow. It is somewhat similar to sailing against the wind
It is also possible to accelerate a rocket by shining a beam of light off it...
While in both cases there are much better ways to achieve same result, these will certainly work.
snowe, mccain, graham, warner, chafee (i think), lugar, specter are both the true conservatives AND are noble enough to vote on the merits of the case, not blindly follow the Party line.
no, the impeachment - while not very likely - is possible enough nonetheless.
The important difference here that the law is being re-written retroactively to cover violations already committed.
Currently, W Bush and Cheney are essentially convicted felons, which is enough grounds to fasttrack their impeachment come November (if the Democrats take Congress, which is not impossible).
Once Bush and Cheney are impeached, Pelosi (as a Speaker), becomes an acting President (and gets the PATRIOT and other 'powers').
And that is why the Republicans desperately need to make what Bush did legal.
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AWACS and Early Warning Radar stations are used to detect the approaching aircraft. EWRs have a range of over 300 nmi, AWACS' are mobile, and both notify SAM batteries of when the targets are within range.
SAM battery radars are mounted on a separate platform and positioned remotely exactly because they are expected to be destroyed or abandoned during the shoot-and-scoot
If done properly, SAM radars will come online within seconds of a kill, and the enemy will not know what hit them or have sufficient time to respond.
Not all the power gets dissipated as heat. Some gets sent down the Internet tubes.
I agree that it is not just about the taxes. I rather suspect it's about campaign contributions. Online gamblers are less dependent on whims of the local politicians than their physical counterparts, and hence invest less in lobbying.
I am not sure if this ban is an extortion attempt or a payback to the physical gambling industry's lobbyists, but what we know for sure is that there's some major cash involved either way. To wit, roughly half of Jack Abramoff's transactions were related to gambling of some sort.
The fact that such ban plays well with the 'family values' voters does not hurt either.
Most of the time SAM launcher radars are off until after the planes are within range... at which point they are going to get guaranteed kills no matter what happens to the (replacable) radar afterwards.
S/he assumes this runs on some fuel similar in CO2/energy ratio to our food. Since each human generates 100W give or take, this engine should produce comparable amounts of CO2.
Wages are set relative to some established minimum.
In US, a McJob pays $8-10/hr, so employers are forced to pay more than that for anyone skilled, including an IT tech.
In Kraplickistan, a child slave wage of just over $0/hr sets such a minimum, and that's why IT techs are 'cheaper' there.
Thank you for correcting that. I could have sworn I typed the right thing ;)
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Here is the story I was referring to:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/09/real.delay
That's right, I should not have to compete with prisoner slaves in China, with Cayman Islands' girls that are forced to undergo abortions so their employer does not need to pay for maternity leave...
Why is American labor more expensive? Because education, health insurance, worker safety and compensation, living wage, future to look forward to ARE expensive. And child slave labor in Kraplickistan is cheap.
And the way we stay competitive is not by doing away with living wage or insurance for us, but instead by mandating that any company wishing to sell to America must provide living wage, insurance, etc. etc. to their workers worldwire.
Don't like it in America? Go send your kids over to live in the 'free market' conditions of Liberia or Pakistan.
Now if only they could find the original Apollo mission tapes
"Computer analysis" my ass.
If America is any indication, all people deserve a second chance.
Hell, we hired a former drug-addicted AWOL alcoholic to run our country, and even that turned out allright.
So give backhats a second chance!
BT is PITA to configure, and is SLOW. Even wireless is too slow to transfer anything but a few tracks.
100 MP3 songs = 500 megabytes = 8 minutes of wireless transfer @ 10Mbps
When was the last time you filled up your mp3 player using USB1?
Tis a great time to be an American, given that the Senate just passed the law which essentially says Bush can secretly and indefinitely hold and torture anyone just by calling them a terrorist (based on whatever the fuck evidence Bush decides is trustworthy).
'Does not apply to me since I am a citizen', you say? Well, the moment Bush says you are Bin Laden, you are no longer a US citizen, and have no right to appeal to an impartial judge or an outside review! The only people listening to your 'I am not Bin Laden' screams would be your jailors and your cellmates.
Saying "hey, you got the wrong guy" is a fundamental right... That's what Habeas Corpus essentially is, and that is what was given up yesterday in the name of the war on terror.
I am just curious what exactly Bush has up his sleeve to force compliance from the good people like Sens. Specter, Mccain, and Graham.
Difference between US and the rest of the world
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This goes both ways, of course. 'War on Terror'?
Here is what they see in China: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14975282/site/newsweek/si
Here is what we see in America: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14964292/site/newswee
How about the ones that the terr'ists stow away?
1) Paint an RFID bullseye on all the 'card-carrying Americans abroad.
2)
3) Profit?
Perhaps you are that guy in my dorm that smelt of fish and engineering?
Not my topic, but what the heck...
You know, OSS does not need to mean free. Why not donate part of what you save on lincensing to those OSS developers? Or fly them out on a junket? Or give them a leftover PDP POS in your storage that you've not fired up in years?
You are not a fool, so what guarantee can you expect from the developers that give their work to you open and free, at their loss, without any reward, often not even trivial thanks and appreciations.
well, I, for one, did not get it until he explained.
You failed to get the point. A 'surprise' massive launch by the Soviets would bring up enough ash to the stratosphere to cover the entire Earth... to cause the infamous 'nuclear winter' for long enough to wipe out over 50% of their own population in weeks from cold and starvation, and the rest in a few months after they had a good chance to take up the cobalt and other radioisotopes. Launching 'just a few' against a nuclear enemy will get the enemy to lob a few right back, escalating to the same result.
To put it in terms you would understand, launching a unilateral all-out nuclear strike would be like shooting your sister in the head with a M20A1B1 while she fellated you, and hoping to walk away unscarred.
Current bottlenecks are ram size and bus throughput. Regardless of what your processor is, your desktop basically performs at the speed of an ATA drive for anything that counts e.g. linear transformation (read: visual processing, speech recognition, other complex pattern search and matching algorithms, compression, cryptography, molecular modeling...)
My first reaction was 'What's the catch?'
Let's face it, the Bush admin is not known for it's transparency, having snonewalled all attempts to get any info on their inner workings...
Perhaps this is a ploy to get public to see how 'wasteful' with their trillions the Medicare, Social Security, GI Bill, NSF, and other programs are? And then argue for more tax cuts?
then how exactly all those 9/11 passengers called home about the hijacking? we know they did for a fact, since you cannot fake that many relative's accounts.
It is, in fact, possible to this Bugs Bunny trick, but by positioning the fan airflow perpendicular to the keel, then setting sail plane oblique to the airflow. It is somewhat similar to sailing against the wind
It is also possible to accelerate a rocket by shining a beam of light off it...
While in both cases there are much better ways to achieve same result, these will certainly work.
snowe, mccain, graham, warner, chafee (i think), lugar, specter are both the true conservatives AND are noble enough to vote on the merits of the case, not blindly follow the Party line.
no, the impeachment - while not very likely - is possible enough nonetheless.
It sure sounds like much, but it isn't. Some of it will be in Yahoo stock (PITA to unload), and nearly half of it will be taken away in taxes!
Instead, the owner currently has $50m/year tax-free (since he re-invests ALL of it into the company). This is projected to double next year.
Also, considering his aspirations of becoming the next Jobs or Brin, perhaps selling off is not the best idea?
The important difference here that the law is being re-written retroactively to cover violations already committed.
Currently, W Bush and Cheney are essentially convicted felons, which is enough grounds to fasttrack their impeachment come November (if the Democrats take Congress, which is not impossible).
Once Bush and Cheney are impeached, Pelosi (as a Speaker), becomes an acting President (and gets the PATRIOT and other 'powers').
And that is why the Republicans desperately need to make what Bush did legal.