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Comment Re:Tesla wasn't the target, it was China (Score 1) 256

A commercial vehicle is any vehicle owned by company or used to transport passengers. The limitations only apply to vehicles with a GVW over 10,000 lbs. BNSF, Union Pacific, and Norfolk Sourthern all have hundred of commercial vehicles in their fleet but only a fraction of that number require log books. Every pickup truck you see with their logo is a commercial vehicle that probably has a GVW between 9,000 and 9,500.

Comment Re:Until we upgrade the dumb bunnies (Score 1) 384

Little to no good? Incorrect. It actually does harm by increasing the exposure risk. Passenger densities have increased when attempting to get into terminals which makes the TSA screening lines the second most densly packed area after the planes themselves. Additionally, having replaced the old metal-detector lines has caused the amount of wait time to increase which means that travellers are now spending even more time in the 2nd most densely packed region.

Comment Re:Politics (Score 1) 384

But the CDC needs to handle the message to the public and proper guidance of control and treatment procedures; in this case they made enough mistakes that it muddled the issue, confusing the populace and creating mistrust and fear when trust and faith in the medical community is exactly what needs to happen right now.

Muddied the issue is an understatement. When Tom Frieden goes out and says, "you cannot get ebola from travelling on public transportation," and then within 30 seconds says, "people with ebola shouldn't use public transportation to avoid infecting others," you have a big fucking problem with communication and message. I get what he was trying to say but the message is self-contradictory on the surface and that's what matters to most people that are hearing it.

Comment Re:good (Score 1) 331

And you, like all the other fools, think that the terrorists fail if they fail to blow up airplanes. If you would note I used the term air travellers which is a term that is not limited to passengers on the plane but also inclusive of all individuals in the terminal that have recently debarked from flights or are waiting to board flights. Additionally this also includes all the air travellers who are packed into the lines at the TSA security check points. There has been a very minor decrease in risk exposure for air travellers on planes and in the terminal however there has been a massive increase in the risk exposure of air travellers in the TSA lines compared against the metal detector lines that used to be utilized. You can also verify this by looking at the average time spent to get into the terminals being greater than from before the TSA and that's with the policy changes that only permitted air travellers to enter the terminal while family was forced to wait outside. This has caused a significant risk exposure that more than offsets the decrease in risk exposure elsewhere. A terrorist doesn't even need a boarding pass to be a threat to the air travellers in the TSA line. All he needs to do is have an explosive strapped to him and wait until he's in a sufficient pack of air travellers to detonate. Air travellers are only most densely packed while on the plane itself. The damage and loss of life in these lines will be greater than anything that could be done in the terminal.

How do you counteract that? Pray tell.

Comment Re:Ho-lee-crap (Score 1) 275

Battleships in WW2 were used mostly for shore bombardment and help with anti-aircraft screens.

North Carolina class (2 total) - 15 40mm bofors, 75 single/dual mix 20mm
South Dakota class (4 total) - 17 40mm bofots, 77 single/dual mix 20mm
Iowa class (4 total) - 20 40mm bofors, 49 single 20mm

You could also take the bofor and multiply out by 4.

North Carolina class - 60 40mm guns, 75 20mm guns, 135 total
South Dakota class - 68 40mm guns, 77 20mm guns, 145 total
Iowa class- 80 40mm guns, 49 20mm guns, 129 total

Comparatively, the Fletcher-class destroyer which was the most common destroyer in WW2 was fitted with five twin 40mm bofors (ten 40mm guns) and seven single 20mm. Some versions had two quad bofors and three twin bofors (14 40mm guns vs 10) along with six dual 20mm instead of seven single 20mm (12 20mm guns vs 7). The Allen Sumner-class destroyer had 12 40mm, later upgraded to 16, and 10 20mm out of the dock. The Gearing-class destroyer had 12 40mm guns, later upgraded to 16, and 11 20mm guns. Most of the battleships built during WW2 were worth at least four destroyers in anti-air flak and it was far more concentrated. With the armor and anti-air flak the newer battleships were truly well designed to be flag vessels for the fleet. The carriers were reliant on their escort surface vessels as well as their escort planes. They were also typically slower than the battleships.

Comment Re:Ho-lee-crap (Score 1) 275

1937-1946 were the years that I did a by year breakdown rather than jumping every 5 years. The list I posted as a comment was also what I consider major vessels which I consider to bottom out at destroyers and submarines. I don't consider amphibious craft, frigates, pt boats, or other auxilliary surface boats to be major vessels. I also consider battleships, carriers, and some heavy cruisers (like the Alaska class) to be capital ships with most heavy cruisers, light cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and escort carriers not capital ships.

To say the least, it was pretty obvious that we were gearing for war even if we hadn't yet officially declared war.

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