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by burfog 6y ago
The entire airplane is that system. It has nearly the same gun, 20mm in both cases. It has fancy radar. Basically, a modern fighter plane is a flying CIWS, if it has the software to do so.
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by burfog 6y ago
Cops also use pepper spray. It's against someone's will, by non-cooks, for no culinary purpose. Cops also use electric stun guns. It's against someone's will, by non-electricians, for no electronic purpose. Mind proposin
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by burfog 6y ago
People are doing that. My kids tested sending https://kamalaharris.info and https://joebiden.info to each other on Instagram, in private messages. The sender would see that the message was successfully sent, but it w
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by burfog 6y ago
Right: the fantasy Mach 4 missile that maneuvers with the engine shut down, does not experience compression heating from hypersonic flight, survives Mach 4 impact with tungsten 20mm shells, can track an enemy through a cloud of 100 incoming
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by burfog 6y ago
Incoming speed doesn't help the attacker unless it beats the sensors, which operate at the speed of light. Mach 3 missiles impact Mach 0.1 shrapnel at about Mach 3. That helps the defender. The faster the missile goes, the harder it ge
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by burfog 6y ago
I really mean "we can hit". We use direct impact, without any explosive, to destroy ICBM warheads and satellites. The systems to use nuclear warheads against incoming nuclear warheads were decommissioned half a century ago. I don&
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by burfog 6y ago
I saw how money partially bought the presidency. (people actually love him, but the big luxurious personal jet certainly helped in the primary) In this case I don't mind. He's a good man. His money makes him far less tempted by br
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by burfog 6y ago
That is an old system, mainly used by the USSR, and mainly intended to act against long piercing projectiles of depleted uranium. It is more common to have active electronic systems. For example, one such system fires grenade-like projectil
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by burfog 6y ago
Define "pain", so that we know if opiates are appropriate. (or we give them to everybody who asks?) Define "reckless driving", so we know who the police should stop and who should be charged with that crime. (or we just
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by burfog 6y ago
Why mention speed at all? Mach 4 is nothing. We can hit satellites and ICBM warheads going between Mach 20 and Mach 30. Speed of approach just means that the impact energy will be greater. Impact energy grows with the square of the velocity
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by burfog 6y ago
Whatever the cause may be, that counts as "partisan". It infuriates many of the workers. They start off angry from being forced to pay an undesired membership fee, essentially a private income tax, and then the union pours salt in
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by burfog 6y ago
Suppose they were republican organizations. Would you feel the same? Picture this: You take a job writing software for camera boxes on power poles. It happens to be direct employment with a police department, and it isn't management, s
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by burfog 6y ago
We unambiguously differentiate by setting a threshold. Does your water heater produce hot water? We can decide this unambiguously if you provide your required temperature and the actual temperature you are getting. Despite the lack of a uni
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by burfog 6y ago
We're assuming an AI here. It can aim. Bullets as small as 12.7 mm can even steer. Larger ones, such as those carried by modern fighter aircraft, can have independent seekers. You said the missile had some amazing ability to turn, and
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by burfog 6y ago
That goes the other way too, if not more so: The union should stay out of such political matters; especially if they expect their continued funding to be above political reproach. That funding is a private tax, backed by force of law, impos
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by burfog 6y ago
If all else fails, there's always the intercontinental ballistic tungsten telephone pole. Nothing short of a nuke can stop it.
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by burfog 6y ago
We can and we will risk manned aircraft at low altitude against a credible air defense. The war just has to be meaningful enough. Nazi Germany had a credible air defense. We sent bombers anyway. At one point, the expected lifetime (survival
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by burfog 6y ago
Dogfighting with guns is a great way to stop an incoming missile. You just need the ability to do high-G maneuvers and aim well. Shoot the missile. It helps that bullets as small as 12.7mm can be steered.
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by burfog 6y ago
The average American approves of tipping. The average American approves of political donations when they agree with the political purpose. (donating to a hated politician is seen as corrupt, so Americans always see the opposing party as cor
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by burfog 6y ago
I carefully read it, determining that my claim was not directly refuted. The text you quoted is suggestive of that, but look at the actual numbers.
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by burfog 6y ago
Back when OkCupid used to publish interesting statistics, they showed exactly that. It was dramatic and unmistakable. Male value starts low, gradually rises until about age 30, doesn't change much until about age 50, and then very slow
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by burfog 6y ago
Half of US adults are women. Men, after aging for the last 10 years: "No, it hasn't gotten harder." Women, after aging for the last 10 years: "Yes, it has gotten harder."
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by burfog 6y ago
The soy / almond / oat / etc options are not perfectly good. Soy and almond have high levels of phytoestrogens. This encourages obesity, breast growth (including in males), and cancer. Oat isn't quite so bad, but it has
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by burfog 6y ago
Theoretically, they could run more frequently. They could run every 3 minutes. Reality: that won't happen It costs money to run trains that might be mostly empty, so they are run less often, which makes them less used, which makes them
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by burfog 6y ago
What really sacrifices convenience: a. You show up, only to discover that the train just left. Since it isn't properly scheduled, you just have to get lucky. Enjoy waiting an hour or two for the next train. b. You show up, only to disc
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by burfog 6y ago
It doesn't really work to have government employees. Suppose the FBI wants to build an office in Texarkana. Are they supposed to directly hire a bunch of people in Texarkana? Should the people who install the carpet get an exemption fr
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by burfog 6y ago
It would be better to give all the cities nonstop advance ticketed service, complete with luggage handling and seat reservations. (just like aircraft) It's possible with rail. You just need to avoid stopping trains on the main line. Sw
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by burfog 6y ago
USPS is unreliable because it is partisan. Observe: https://twitter.com/SheriffTNehls/status/1276646406682484736 It's a postal worker caught on video throwing campaign materials in the trash. She drove to a s
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by burfog 6y ago
The rich entertainers are worth more because they provide value to very many people. It adds up. Each teacher only provides value to about 30 people. Total pay for all teachers is far in excess of total pay for all entertainers. Measured th
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by burfog 6y ago
The minimum wage workers around here are of two types: 1. teenage children of the upper middle class or higher 2. poor adults with a history of bad decisions It's kind of a weird mix. Where are the children of the poor? You'd thin

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