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The prosecution and enforcement of cannabis (as an excerpt from the entire WoD) would alone free up large chunks of federal and local money to be directed elsewhere. That's without getting into the possible unrealized medical savings from reducing the dependence on expensive patented drugs and the f...

I doubt if it will do much, the main streamer republicans will just repudiate/deny the degree of their affiliation; reminds me a bit of the gay de-programming or whatever you want to call it supposedly run by Michelle Bachman's husband (who himself is rumored to be gay). Best vector of change right...

MSimon you give Obama entirely too much credit, he lacks the skill set necessary to "setup" a darn thing. He started as a centrist, there is no doubt about that, but he utterly lacked the necessary political power skills required to manipulate other powerful people and effectively lead a government ...

Does anyone know rather precisely how many trained men are required, bare minimum, to shoot down that airliner with that BUK system? -- Never mind.. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/whoever-brought-down-mh17-had-extensive-training-experts-says-20140720-zuy8h.html This SA-11 system is designed ...

Funny how some posters have no idea how SOFA's work. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/23/double-standard-concern-on-capitol-hill-over-immunity-for-us-troops-in-iraq/?intcmp=latestnews It's all about protecting your soldiers from political activism of the host nation. The elected Iraqi politic...

So he announces a withdrawal, cuts back troops so he can push Afghanistan, cuts funding to support the Iraqi forces - and isn't it just simply unfortunate that this unfortunate occurrence unfortunately occurs? Why, who could have even thought such a thing would ever happen? While I don't support ma...

Has any form of science or engineering come out of this yet? Even failed ventures can often produce one or two "interesting" ideas or applications as an unintended consequence of the failed product.

We have had this discussion before I think. An M-1 is a hard can to open. That is why the armor systme remains classified. Mission kill is possible, but to my knowledge, there has never been an enemy fire crewman kill or crew compartment penetration for a buttoned up M-1. And, tanks do not operate ...

The A-10 is an amazing aircraft for close ground support. Designed primary as a tank killer it also can chew through enemy defensive positions and cut through enemy formations in open warfare. The only reason it's not more common is that we've been involved in asymmetric battles that involve enemies...

Holy ... sh!t, is skippy really arguing with that much ignorance of military weapon systems? Dude not all armor are tanks, tanks are a very specific type of armor designed to dominate land warfare with high caliber weapons systems that can be direct fired on the run. Tracks and metal don't a tank ma...

palladin, it isn't just probability of a circuit element intercepting a particle of radiation, but the likely results. A circuit board trace is massive enough that a cosmic ray is minor noise. A transistor in a CPU, on the other hand, is very tiny and sensitive to variations in conductivity of what...

My understanding is that you don't need the CPU itself to be hardened but rather the container it's in. Rad hardening a single chip is useless cause there is a higher probability it'll strike one of the PCB traces and cause a jump in voltage that could interfere with the bus's. You need to harden ev...

Error correction code methods may also be used, a method not specific to radiation tolerance. Several HPC orientated systems are already using ECC equipped processors. For your typical consumer market it is extremely overkill as the OS and software tend to display errors in the form of instability ...

Yep, cannabis intoxication results in an effect of extremely slowness. They do ever thing much slower, they talk slower, walk slower and drive slower. Half the speed limit or less slower. ... Sounds like a cannabis user would be far more likely to have a traffic collision than an unimpaired driver,...

There is nothing special nor powerful about that system, something better could easily be built cheaper. Apple is the Gucci of the computer world, they take cheap commodity components and have a chinese workers put them together to sell at a massive markup with a fashionable logo on the side. If you...