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The universal pattern did exactly what it was designed to do, which was make people very difficult to see at night with passive image intensification gear. The pattern plus its anti IR treatment worked well for that purpose. The main downside is... Taliban in the mountains don’t have NVGs in the fi...

I have a very hard time accepting something is entrapment when someone goes through not one, but a series of deliberate actions, spread out over days, weeks or even months in some of these cases to facilitate a crime, including planting what they believe is a live bomb. That isn't making someone do...

there's a weird disconnect here. the military guy says if we do this, we save millions, and the wording says you can only do it if it costs less then oil... 'Costs less' could mean a lot of things. If you include the building of biofuel infrastructure in an annual budget, then the average cost per ...

It seems impressive. However it's hard for me to tell whether this problem went unsolved for 300 years because (a) the greatest minds of every era grappled with it and walked away broken men or (b) it just isn't very interesting or useful. There was a time when the survival of nations depended on th...

http://1000aircraftphotos.com/APS/2954.jpg Bah. Now this is how a real man water-skis...with the Convair Sea Dart http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/F2Y_Sea_Dart_2.jpg Did either of these have any wheels? I.e. suitable for moving about on board a seaplane-carrier ship. Or would it b...

If you have to pay VAT/GST on top of income tax, does that count as double taxation? If you have to pay licensing fees, would that be triple taxation? VAT and sales taxes are double taxation. And no one denies that VAT/sales tax add to your tax bill, they just tend not to include it in a calculatio...

I find that hillarious given that China has a very long history of playing various powers off against each other, right up to the modern day, for their own strategic interest. But it makes sense considering the historical importance of hierarchy and subordination in Chinese culture, and probably in...

Another example, which may help with understanding this mentality, is the attitude toward the Japanese in WWII. Japan's propaganda about the Japanese people being unafraid of death and glad to die for the Emperor, etc, was incredible. Al-Qaeda-style boasting is rather similar, with 'the Emperor' rep...

The sad thing about Ultonius' link is that it makes you realise how much healthier the general population could be with just a few changes. Little or no tobacco or alcohol, safe sex, wide-brim hats and long cotton clothes, more physical activity, better diet, etc. It would be nice to see Amish-style...

Maybe the ability to fire at the ground is a feature rather than a bug. The Starstreak is often claimed to be effective against light armour. Perhaps part of their strategy involves Starstreak units being able to stop dirty terrist technicals or killdozers or evil nondescript white vans. You can't d...

It's not about it being uncompetitive. It's about cutting back on the ENORMOUS profit margins. Which no company would ever fucking do if they're answerable to shareholders first and the rest of the universe second. You missed my point. I was saying that when Aerius said it 'wasn't impossible', this...

Imagine that you are assembling in the US, but your manufacturing is still predominantly in China. You now have to ship from China to the US for assembly from multiple plants - that's exponential cost increases there. Ideally, you vertically integrate an operation like this in a single geographic z...

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Grumman wrote:When you want to edit your previous post but the edit window has closed, so you're forced to double post.

Yeah, but why 'ghetto'?

I would guess it's a shorter way of saying 'poor man's edit', in the sense of 'improvised due to lack of proper resources'.

Welcome to the works of Bruce Springsteen. :lol: Corporate welfare for America! PS uh oh The laugh here is Turns out PROTIP Why do you even bother posting here? Is it just because you enjoy annoying people? Or swaggering around acting superior? Are places like 4chan too anonymous for you to get you...

But he's also either an idiot or lying by omission. What about all the secondary and tertiary processing for the materials needed to manufacture the components and component manufacture itself? Not to mention the establishment of all these processes in the US. I don't quite understand you - I don't...

Is anyone seriously thinking this suggestion is anything but hilarious? 'Do someone to make lower profits because I want it, faceless profit generating organisation'. The author is not telling Apple what to do. He is correcting a common misconception ('folly'), that massive outsourcing is necessary...

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Maybe I'm just stupid or something, but I can't find where this presentation is supposed to be streamed. Can anyone find the URL?

How America lost the Naval War of 2015: - China cleverly infiltrated the Pentagon with agents promoting mountains of warm, steaming bullshit. - The Pentagon was successfully converted into a Powerpoint-based bizbabble organisation, filled with people with marketing degrees and MBAs. - The USN wasted...

It's just... it's really very hard for me to grasp the mindset of a man willing to prostitute his country to the extent of signing such a thing into law for the sake of Coca-Cola and breakfast cereal endorsements. This isn't even police-state tactics, a police state usually has at least a little bi...

Stas Bush: I feel like cut'n'rebutt is taking this off into a million unrelated tangents, so instead I will just rephrase my argument in more concise and hopefully more convincing way: In 1890 no one knew how to build a rocket that would take a man into space. We can say that it was beyond their ca...

Ok Ziggy...let's redefine so that it isn't vauge. Problem is...I really don't have a good idea to start it. Anyone else? Yeah, I've got an idea. I usually just use the term 'poor areas'. "Reasons for moving to a Third World country" -> "Reasons for moving to a poor area". At fir...

Huh? There are electrons in the neutrons? :wtf: I read somewhere that it is speculated that neutrons can actually decay into a proton and an electron. But like I said, I don't have any formal education in the area so don't quote me on it. It's very much not speculation. It doesn't mean neutrons 'co...

You are aware there were New Zealanders at Gallipoli? And in Vietnam? And East Timor? And in Afghanistan? Yes :roll:. I was talking about culture. It was an off the cuff remark. I failed to recognise that mr-friendly-guy was taking a shot at America and not military adventurism in general. I withdr...

I didn't know Space Shuttle orbiters had giant Christmas tree baubles inside them.

You learn something new every day.

Whoa whoa whoa, I was just saying that Australia has this big cultural thing about Gallipoli proving we were 'our own nation' or whatever. So regardless of how often we say we're not glorifying war, the basic idea of sending heroic soldiers off to join in with foreign wars (a 'penchant for military ...