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Comment Re:news for nerds? (Score 1) 215

221,925,820 was the Voting-Eligible Population, so that would increase the percentage to 29.7%, so way less than a third of eligable voters voted for Obama; 131,799,320 voted for either Obama or Romney so only 59.4% voted period.

On Nov 6, 2012 US population was 314,760,969, 131,799,320 / 314,760,969 = 41.87%, so if all of the people who voted, had voted for Obama it still wouldn't be a majority of all Americans.

Comment Re:Get used to it (Score 1) 215

ISIS is only part of the regional struggle of Islamic extremists centered around al Qaida to overthrow the governments in many of the countries.

No they want to eliminate All of the countries, not many of the countries and establish a Caliphate or in other words a Religious Dictatorship, one that would probably make the Iranians look like a bastion of freedom. Of course when the Caliphate doesn't become the "Paradise on Earth" that was promised, it's because the Infadels just over the boarder still exist, justifing yet another Jihad.

Comment Re:news for nerds? (Score 2, Insightful) 215

Hello, when you refer to Americans please don't conflate a meddling, incompetent President with Americans in general. Most Americans did not actually vote for that guy, he's lost most credibility in the US and among allies and other countries around the world. Thanks.

Technically, no American president has been voted for by "most Americans" since large swaths of the people have been excluded from voting for various reasons (age, gender, race, or ethnicity, depending on the time period). But your attempts to reference the current president fall short since he got the overall majority of the vote in both elections (52% in 2008 and 51% in 2012).

2012 General Election Turnout Rates, Voting-Age Population, 240,926,957, The final popular vote totals were 65,899,660 for Obama-Biden;
65,899,660 / 240,926,957 = 27.3%, pretty blantant that most Americans didn't vote for Obama. In fact with Obama's margin of only 4,967,508,that's close to expected voter fraud rates, it's hard to say how many votes he actually won by.

Comment Re:Like DRM? (Score 1) 448

Maybe the equipment just needs to send its unique ID, location, status, pictures, current audio to pentagon satellites. We could then monitor, gather intelligence and choose the optimal time to destroy. (Like a truck loaded with jihadists).

That's pretty much what we do.

Blue Force Tracking systems consist of a computer, used to display location information, a satellite terminal and satellite antenna, used to transmit location and other military data, a Global Positioning System receiver (to determine its own position), command-and-control software (to send and receive orders, and many other battlefield support functions), and mapping software, usually in the form of a geographic information system (GIS), that plots the BFT device on a map. The system displays the location of the host vehicle on the computer's terrain-map display, along with the locations of other platforms (friendly in blue, and enemy in red) in their respective locations. BFT can also be used to send and receive text and imagery messages, and Blue Force Tracking has a mechanism for reporting the locations of enemy forces and other battlefield conditions (for example, the location of mine fields, battlefield obstacles, bridges that are damaged, etc.).

Additional capability in some BFT devices is found in route planning tools. By inputting grid coordinates the BFT becomes both the map and compass for motorized units. With proximity warnings enabled the vehicle crew is made aware as they approach critical or turn points. Blue Force Tracking

Comment Re:Like DRM? (Score 1) 448

It could just limit vehicle speed to 40 Km/hr and disable turret stabilization and range finding. My understanding is all the radios are now digital and encrypted and the next higher command can disable their lower's commo equipment, extend that into the rest of the equipment's automation systems shouldn't be that big of a deal, the equipment would still be lethal in an in your face fire fight, but they wouldn't be make any 1000 m shots reliably.

Comment Re:Sometimes the old ways are best ... (Score 1) 448

Yes just slide a thermite into the barrel and close the breech block, set another on the engine and your left with 20 tons of scrap metal. The field manuals always had a section on "Destruction to prevent Enemy use", the idea is if everybody made sure they destroyed the same critical part, several broken units couldn't be cannibalized to make one good unit.

I think in the future, the equipment is going to be more tightly integrated with the Blue Force Tracking so even if someone did get away with an working End Item, they'd have one hell of a bull's eye painted on their backs.

Comment Re:I disagree (Score 2) 217

Mine was from burning rosin on the back of my right hand, they kept asking me about the pain which was well controlled but my take everything too literal mind never thought to complain about the itching. I was being seen in a teaching Hospital, Detroit Recieving, a MD from another Hospital casualy said "Oh by the way you do know that benedryl stops the itching, don't you?" after 6 weeks the itchy gritty torment was gone with 1 benedryl!

Comment Re: But is it reaslistic? (Score 1) 369

But no doubt, they want you, me, and every non-Muslim converted or dead.

I hope you realize that Non-Muslim includes a lot of people we would consider Muslim. I wouldn't be surprized for example that the Palestinians would be considered "non-believers" because if they truely were "believers" then Israel would have been pushed into the sea with the help of Allah, besides they are the ones that allowed the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock in Old City of Jerusalem to fall into Israeli hands. Additionally the Iranians, Afgans and Pakistanis would all be "Non-Believers" because they are Shia and Persians not Arabs.

Comment Re:Different era (Score 1) 180

Keynesian economics is more about controlling money's value through plain old supply and demand i.e. Government can cause inflation by spending at a deficit, reducing taxes and pumping money into the economy. The country was in a depression caused by deflation in the 1930's, so FDR's spending at deficts to fund Public works worked. The inverse would be that Government can cause deflation by increasing taxes, reducing spending and paying down the debt with inflated money. During the Carter Administration, they tried to fix an inflationary recession by miss-applying Keynesian economics and increased defict spending with disasterous results.

Currently with inflation at 1.5 - 2, the budget should be balanced and taxes moderate.

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