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When I first heard about R1, I knew I was part of a herd of Star Wars fans that were going to be milked every Christmas until the end of time. I avoided the teasers, because I didn't really expect much after the last films. Then this! Right now, for me R1 is the best Star Wars movie after the origin...

They didn’t screw shit up and yeah, money is always the problem. The way Predator was originally designed was to transmit all information via encrypted US military owned satellite systems using its big directional satellite antenna which is near impossible to even intercept. [...] So the downlink h...

Especially if you consider that, to FIX that problem, they have to UPGRADE all those drones, which i am pretty sure to be more expensive than installing that stuff in the factory. I really don't think money is the main problem here. The main problem is that they transmitted classified data to every...

The drone intercepts mark the emergence of a shadow cyber war within the U.S.-led conflicts overseas. Nope, they just mark another case of "we don't care about security until its too late". Shopping for a few dollars on the internet is not a "shadow cyber war". Broadcasting surv...

A report by French Colonel Goya, responsible for "Etudes des nouveaux conflits" at IRSEM (Institut de recherche stratégique de l’école militaire) provides some views not often heard in the press. He critizises that Afghan soldiers are not paid well enough, that American troops spend too mu...

Sec. 8. Review. Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency. If I understand this right, they're saying something like "Please give us 700,000,00...

You can send secret information as USPS registered mail, because the USPS is a US government agency. But I doubt that you would send secret information through another country's postal service and rely only on the fact that it's illegal to open mail in Iran, too. At the core is this: If you handle c...

I was contesting the assertion that she is to blame for the hacking, not trying to excuse her violation of public trust. 1) If there was classified information in her account, then she is to blame for disseminating that information. If the CIA went around and sent secret documents by mail, because ...

Now this is typical: Tom Kise, a McCain campaign spokesman, responded to Hagel's comments by questioning Obama's experience. When asked a question, he responds not with an answer, but by attacking the democrats. He's not even denying that she is unqualified, he just wants to change the topic as quic...

Conducting government business from a yahoo acount is so enourmously grossly negligent that they should fire her from office. There is guaranteed to be some information in there that she is supposed to keep confidential, and for this "hack" she clearly bears the vast majority of the blame.

I have said it before and will say it again, the 2004 SCOTUS decision Lawrence vs. Texas struck down every sodomy law (and actually any law regarding consensual sexual conduct) in the country Granted...it took until 2004... You mean until McCain gets to replace a the aging liberal judges with his c...

It's always good to see that in relation. I'm not familiar with legal terminology, but "aggravated injury" sounds kind of bad. http://law.justia.com/michigan/codes/mcl-chap750/mcl-750-81a.html 750.81a Assault; infliction of serious or aggravated injury; "dating relationship" defi...

(sorry, no edit button) I just found this: http://www.sodomy.org/laws/michigan/ 15 years in prison for having consensual (anal) sex? How sick is that? Anyway, why are they making such a fuss? I thought these laws had all been invalidated by Lawrence v. Texas. Or are those that do not make a differen...

Also it's possible (while I don't know the specifics of whether that's actually the case) that some European countries have anti-sodomy laws which go unenforced, or that don't apply to homosexual relationships (in Israel for example, while there is a crime called "sodomy" it only applies ...

When the game works, it reaps great rewards: billions in aid to boost the Pakistani economy and military and Islamist proxies to extend the government's reach into Afghanistan and India. Pakistan's double game has rested on two premises: that the country's leaders could keep the militants under con...

After Bush approved raids into Pakistan , Pakistani troops have fired shots into the air to stop US troops crossing into the South Waziristan region of Pakistan Reports say nine US helicopters landed on the Afghan side of the border and US troops then tried to cross the border. South Waziristan is o...

Average Percent of State Population Holding Degree 2000 2004 Red states 24.4 24.3 Blue states 29.3 29.9. Sadly, I am really lacking in statistical training, but wasn't there something about significance, like what difference would be considered explainable by chance? Is 5% a lot? Can you tell us wh...

http://www.lordsander.net/army.htm <- that's the new link to the stuff referenced in the old thread. Edit: my work was based on a fully augmented OoB though, including all reserve elements. I looked through your numbers, and it seems like you just added up the numbers in the subunits to arrive at t...

It's not just the stars you're interested in, but all mass points in space, i.e. planets, comets, asteroids and all the other good stuff that floats around and doesn't emit light.

Oh, nice. I'll look through that after christmas. I built a spreadsheet that allows you to augment and change the units as you wish. In order to do that, I had to check it for consistency with the ISB, and that's not an easy task, seeing all the mistakes they made. Now that I'm done I want to find o...

The first problem is with the armor company. Three heavy tank platoons, a heavy repulsorlift platoon and a command element give us 186 men total instead of 200. A light armor company would have 210 men instead of the 232 the ISB states. This means we have 14 or 22 additional support personnel, depen...

Here I am again, trying to make sense of the ridiculously self-contradictory statements in WEG's ISB. I searched this board for info, but all I found was an old thread with links that no longer work. I am trying to construct the Army OOB, fill in the many blanks that are the ISB's description. It's ...

In other news, the principal discontinued the practice, and the publishers are part of some ominous "League of the South". So says the newsobserver It's clear where my ancestors went wrong. Instead of working hard to keep a roof over their heads and the babies fed by farming a few acres of...

Now maybe we can go back to the original topic: Is there a widespread denial of the horrors of slavery in the south or are these just the usual few dickheads that you just can't get rid of? Are we talking about an isolated incident or a general attitude of ignoring history for the sake of regional p...

Do they allow USB-sticks on planes or are they banned for some reason related to terror? If not, you could at least listen to music instead of some peoples mindless talk about their last pedicure. The one ray of light over the horizon is that plane calls probably will be really expensive, they are o...