Comment get it out the way (Score -1) 120
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it seems though that you greeks have learned a lot from the turks. in terms of lying. propaganda and outright murder.
"europe" actually is a hellhole of violence, not a source of civilization.
before you ask, i am german.
Maybe, but it's one of the better hellholes on the planet.
They don't really need you though. They have millions of people willing to pay and don't mind if you watch the grass grow. Personally I find most television is less intellectually challenging than watching the grass grow. Sadly I allowed myself to become addicted to Game of Thrones and then I got my wife hooked on it as well.
They do and that's the point. Well ESPN anyway, that's why they're shitting themselves people might be able to get cable without them getting a cut.
They were "ready with a press release within minutes" because they wrote both press releases, and read the one that fit the situation. That's how it works.
You mean the government's and their own?
As far as I've ever heard, it is theoretically impossible to stop that kind of attack. If a user runs your code, then yeah, duh, your code can do whatever. I don't think that counts as a security vulterability.
No, definitely not a security issue when you have a piece of software that is only supposed to let the app store signed code run and then as long as there's a signature somewhere near it will run whatever the fuck you've put in this app that macuser101 has no suspicion of because 'macs are virus proof'. It will be a funny day when the first big mac virus sweeps through now that macs are numerous enough to present a valid target and casually brushes aside any token security measures.
Star Wars?! Oh, man, there are so many better examples of Disney rehashing old works. How about Maleficent (aka Sleeping Beauty from the villain's perspective)? Or running the Disney Princess angle into the ground with Brave (at least other Princess films had a legend or fairy tale background, Brave was just a complete fabrication)? Better yet, let's just talk about Disney Princess films, and how Disney takes an old legend or fairy tale, and turns it into a highly profitable film and merchandising effort? If that's not rehashing the same shit over and over, I don't know what is. The recent Star Wars acquisition doesn't have anything on the black hole of creativity that is Disney.
How about Avatar which is Pocahontas in space, which is a rip off of Dances with wolves which is no doubt a rip off of something else and so forth.
OK, I'll play. Here's an example I happened to be thinking of recently. Consider the case of a film from the silent era, 1894–1929. On a common-sense basis, it clearly should be in the public domain. After all, the people who made it are all dead - as likely are their heirs. So, who really deserves any money from something created that long ago?
However, if it's in the public domain, there is no monetary incentive to locate, digitize, and restore such a film. It either sits in a vault somewhere, decomposing (maybe even on nitrate film - egad!), or maybe it was transferred onto videotape before its copyright expired. So, it's either not available at all, or maybe isn't available in the best possible quality. But if somebody still owned a valid copyright for it, they might have a financial incentive to make it available in HD.
Don't get me wrong, though - I don't think any film from the silent era should still be protected by copyright. But at least some case can be made for that. So there's your counter-argument.
But what's to stop someone from taking those old films and digitising them and selling them on whatever medium they want. There will be no copyright so after costs it's all profit.
So there's a mysterious form of RADAR, that's been widely available since the 90s, which can shoot down stealth aircraft at will, yet we have lost only one manned stealth aircraft in combat in 20 years?
There is actually. It's called a heatseeker jackass. Also lost only one in combat. How many times have they been in combat against a foe with equal powers. Total bumf was over exaggerating a bit but it's not a silver bullet. They can't just fly wherever the want with impunity. They need to take a lot of measures to remain undetected, stealth technology is just one of them.
Can you actually explain how he did not put Americans in jeopardy, or does your aluminum hat cause you to automatically reject anything anyone from the government tells you.
By showing all the nasty baddies that the American intelligence services i.e. their enemies were too busy spying on their own people and allies to notice what shenanigans they were up to? Is that what you mean?
Not all baby boomers had kids by their mid 20's, my parents are of that generation and I turned 18 on Jan 1 2000.
Usually I hear 1982 as the demarcating line which places the current max age around 33. Then to confuse things some refer to those born in 80-84 as "cuspers" who are not entirely Gen X or Gen Y.
That would explain why I have no clue what 'gen' Im supoosed to be in. Born in '83 lol
[...]pot decriminalized[...]
You make it sound like it's a good thing. I hate that stuff, and I personnaly don't think that legalizing a substance that distorts reality, that can make you a veggie and slowly destroys your ability to have fun without it is just a way to make a whole generation less intelligent than the one before.
I could say the exact same thing about alcohol. You never see the stoned filling out a&e though.
I didn't say F-35 would win a VFR dogfight. I said the entire point of the damn thing was to avoid VFR dogfights. I said it had rails for air-to-air missiles, and it would be very difficult to impossible for Su-35s (or even F-22s) to get a strong enough lock on it to engage outside of VFR.
As for our allies, approximately how much do you think we're paying Canada to buy F-35 rather then upgrade the FA-18 Superhornet into a CF-18 Hornet II of some sort? The answer is $0.
You do know stealth is a total bumf? It may work with varying success against high frequency X band type radar types aircraft but get a ground or awacs based in S or L band radar in and it all goes to pot, Russia has been building these for years and sell them all over the show (see the 1999 f-117 shootdown over Yugoslavia). Combinations of all three could easily lead to the intercept and shootdown of a stealth aircraft or group of. Fun fact, if every stealth design of today was flying over the English channel in ww2 days our radar of the time would pick up every single one. www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA515506
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