Comment Re:Tag, you're it! (Score 1) 184
Yeah I'm sure the schoolkids and babies are also terrorists.
Just look at the kill ratio to see who is more dangerous to whom.
Yeah I'm sure the schoolkids and babies are also terrorists.
Just look at the kill ratio to see who is more dangerous to whom.
nice trolling, its a prison, not a concentration camp!
The concept of the concentration camp was invented by the British in South Africa as a way to 'concentrate the population' of Boers into managed camps.
Gaza really isn't that much different.
We got the idea with the Hercules that you could resupply military fleets or save fuel with launch your cargo ship into the air if time became an issue(because of the war). It was misguided, but at least a reason for the amphibious design.
Why are they building giant amphibious cargo planes today? Who has that need?
There are these islands which are kind of contested and which China is trying to assert sovereignty over. They are really small and many won't have room for an airstrip.
I *guess* that being able to quickly resupply these islands from the air would be very handy for China.
The use of the word 'poking' in that sentence just cracks me up.
I imagine a cartoon missile polity peeking in 'Excuse me, mind if I explode?'
That would be a Canadian missile. And it would probably go something like
"Sorry, mind if I explode? Ooops looks like I'm going to explode anyway, sorry. Sorry about that. Sorry."
Sure, but lying is perjury. He shouldn't be compelled to incriminate himself according to the fifth amendment.
False confession of guilt as part of a plea bargain is also perjury but it happens all the time.
Dislike it all you want, but people have freedom to do as they want.
'Free country' doesn't mean what you think it means.
I have literally never had a complaint with an intel motherboard except when it had onboard ATI graphics — Mach64CT, what a POS, you couldn't even trust it to provide a framebuffer without getting the colors wrong.
server mainboards, who cares about the colors? That includes windows.
But how will you know your Windows server has crashed unless you can see the blue screen?? If its purple or green how will you even know?!?!?
So did shares in Tesla go up on this news? Expected increases in Prius sales?
Usually they'll use that to threaten the suspect into a plea bargin. Either admit guilt and go to jail for five years, or fight it and they'll do the best they can to send you for fifty.
What amazes me about this plea bargain system is that if you are, in fact, innocent and you 'plea bargain' to plead guilty and get off lightly aren't you purgering yourself (ie lying under oath about your guilt)?
Not that I'd expect a conversation to go like:
"If you plead guilty you get 5 years but if you fight we'll see you locked away for 50"
"But I'm innocent, wouldn't that be purgery?"
"Oh yeah true, you can go then."
If the last current build is secure why should we need continued development? The tool is out there and it works. I don't see that as a problem.
Possibly some service pack for windows will make truecrypt stop working on that platform. This could easily be engineered and 'requested' in an NSL to MS.
For Linux, less likely but perhaps some changes to the kernel could do it, less likely to be from an NSL though.
Still being used purely for counterinsurgency operations.
Only true, today, because that's the only kind of wars the US is fighting at this time. But B-52s absolutely are used in other roles than counterinsurgency.
"B-52s also played a role in Operation Iraqi Freedom," long before the insurgency even began.
"B-52 strikes were an important part of Operation Desert Storm," in which the US did not face a notable insurgency.
"B-52 had the highest mission capable rate of the three types of heavy bombers operated by the USAF in 2001."
Right, so when its not used *in* counterinsurgency operations its used to set up the conditions for a nice long running counterinsurgency operation.
Given the number of cruise missiles it carries - yes it is. If you absolutly, positively need to fuck up someone's day, a B52 is still one of the ebst weapons to do it.
Still being used purely for counterinsurgency operations.
But they aren't being used as weapons of war. They just do shit like bomb weddings. And goats.
if an engineer, who designed the B52, would have imagined, in their wildest dreams, that the B52 would still be a major weapon of war over 50 years after it was built?
I don't know that I'd call it a 'major weapon of war' these days, more counterinsurgency.
Feed them to the pigs, eat the pigs.
I wonder if that would work for cane toads?
My guess would be either the pigs would be poisoned by the cane toads or their meat would become poisonous.
"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai
