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by palladin9479
Thu Aug 14, 2014 5:20 am
Forum: General
Topic: The Failure of Climate Anti-Intellectualism
Replies: 29
Views: 5445

Re: The Failure of Climate Anti-Intellectualism

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...
by palladin9479
Thu Aug 14, 2014 5:15 am
Forum: General
Topic: Hillary Has Balls
Replies: 21
Views: 4534

Re: Hillary Has Balls

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...
by palladin9479
Thu Aug 14, 2014 5:05 am
Forum: General
Topic: Hillary Has Balls
Replies: 21
Views: 4534

Re: Hillary Has Balls

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 ...
by palladin9479
Wed Jul 23, 2014 7:20 am
Forum: General
Topic: CIA Out of Control?
Replies: 58
Views: 9865

Re: CIA Out of Control?

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 ...
by palladin9479
Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:23 am
Forum: General
Topic: Iraq is falling
Replies: 126
Views: 38144

Re: Iraq is falling

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...
by palladin9479
Mon Jun 23, 2014 2:48 am
Forum: General
Topic: Iraq is falling
Replies: 126
Views: 38144

Re: Iraq is falling

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...
by palladin9479
Wed May 28, 2014 7:12 am
Forum: News
Topic: EEStor says something - but not too much
Replies: 141
Views: 94205

Re: EEStor says something - but not too much

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.
by palladin9479
Wed May 28, 2014 12:20 am
Forum: General
Topic: OBama tries to kill the A-10
Replies: 43
Views: 14793

Re: OBama tries to kill the A-10

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 ...
by palladin9479
Fri May 23, 2014 5:17 am
Forum: General
Topic: OBama tries to kill the A-10
Replies: 43
Views: 14793

Re: OBama tries to kill the A-10

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...
by palladin9479
Mon May 05, 2014 2:29 am
Forum: General
Topic: How close do you think we are from a third world war?
Replies: 82
Views: 14712

Re: How close do you think we are from a third world war?

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...
by palladin9479
Fri Apr 11, 2014 2:09 am
Forum: General
Topic: the 12 Core Mac
Replies: 20
Views: 5264

Re: the 12 Core Mac

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...
by palladin9479
Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:00 am
Forum: General
Topic: the 12 Core Mac
Replies: 20
Views: 5264

Re: the 12 Core Mac

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...
by palladin9479
Fri Apr 04, 2014 6:01 am
Forum: General
Topic: the 12 Core Mac
Replies: 20
Views: 5264

Re: the 12 Core Mac

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 ...
by palladin9479
Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:30 am
Forum: General
Topic: They Killed Him And Found Nothing
Replies: 60
Views: 19304

Re: They Killed Him And Found Nothing

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,...
by palladin9479
Tue Mar 25, 2014 4:53 am
Forum: General
Topic: the 12 Core Mac
Replies: 20
Views: 5264

Re: the 12 Core Mac

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...