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Pearl Jam - Jeremy
siftbotPearl Jam - Jeremy (uncensored version) has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash on that post.
Pearl Jam - Jeremy (uncensored version)
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Is that a chicken?
newtboyYeah, well, recent reports claim Trump didn't know what happened at Pearl Harbor or why he was privately visiting the Arizona as president, asking his then-chief of staff, John Kelly, "Hey, John, what's this all about? What's this a tour of?" so the bar for knowing the basics is somewhere near the planet's core at this point.
MIDWAY Trailer (2019) -- A WWII Movie
antYep. CGIs doesn't even look good as Pearl Harbor's.
I'm interested in a new take on the Battle of Midway but this trailer doesn't inspire me. It has the same feel as "Pearl Harbor".
MIDWAY Trailer (2019) -- A WWII Movie
nanrodI'm interested in a new take on the Battle of Midway but this trailer doesn't inspire me. It has the same feel as "Pearl Harbor".
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Small Town Titans - "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch"
PaybackI wonder if they liked Pearl Jam growing up?
Hypersonic Missile Nonproliferation
scheherazadeThe Zero's Chinese performance was ignored by the U.S. command prior to pearl harbor, dismissed as exaggeration. That's actually the crux of my point.
Exceptional moments do not change the rule.
Yes on occasion a wildcat would get swiss cheesed and not go down, but 99% of the time when swiss cheesed they went down.
Yes, there were wildcat aces that did fairly well (and Zero aces that did even better), but 99% of wildcat pilots were just trying to not get mauled.
Hellcat didn't enter combat till mid 1943, and it is the correction to the mistake. The F6F should have been the front line fighter at the start of the war... and could have been made sooner had Japanese tech not been ignored/dismissed as exaggeration.
Russian quantity as quality? At the start they were shot down at a higher ratio than the manufacturing counter ratio (by a lot). It was a white wash in favor of the Germans.
It took improvements in Russian tech to turn the tide in the air. Lend-lease only constituted about 10% of their air force at the peak. Russia had to improve their own forces, so they did. By the end, planes like the yak3 were par with the best.
The Mig31 is a slower Mig25 with a digital radar. Their version of the F14, not really ahead of the times, par maybe.
F15 is faster than either mig29 or Su27 (roughly Mig31 speed).
F16/F18, at altitude, are moderately slower, but a wash at sea level.
Why would they shoot and run?
We have awacs, we would know they are coming, so the only chance to shoot would be at max range. Max range shots are throw-away shots, they basically won't hit unless the target is unaware, which it won't be unaware because of the RWR. Just a slight turn and the missile can't follow after tens of miles of coasting and losing energy.
Chinese railgun is in sea trials, right now. Not some lab test. It wouldn't be on a ship without first having the gun proven, the mount proven, the fire control proven, stationary testing completed, etc.
2025 is the estimate for fleet wide usage.
Try finding a picture of a U.S. railgun aboard a U.S. ship.
Why would a laser rifle not work, when you can buy crap like this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7baI2Nyi5rI
There's ones made in China, too : https://www.sanwulasers.com/customurl.aspx?type=Product&key=7wblue&shop=
That will light paper on fire ~instantly, and it's just a pitiful hand held laser pointer.
An actual weapon would be orders of magnitude stronger than a handheld toy.
It's an excellent covert operations weapon, silently blinding and starting fires form kilometers away.
Russia does not need to sink a U.S. carrier for no reason.
And the U.S. has no interest in giving Russia proper a need to defend from a U.S. carrier. For the very reasons you mentioned.
What Russia can do is proliferate such a missile, and effectively deprecate the U.S. carrier group as a military unit.
We need carriers to get our air force to wherever we need it to be.
If everyone had these missiles, we would have no way to deliver our air force by naval means.
Russia has land access to Europe, Asia, Africa. They can send planes to anywhere they need to go, from land bases. Russia doesn't /need/ a navy.
Most of the planet does not have a navy worth sinking. It's just us. This is the kind of weapon that disproportionately affects us.
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A big part of the Zero's reputation came from racking up kills in China against a lot of second-rate planes with poorly-trained pilots. After all, there was a reason that the Republic of China hired the American Volunteer Group to help out during the Second Sino-Japanese War – Chinese pilots had a hard time cutting it.
The Wildcat was deficient in many ways versus the Zero, but it still had superior firepower via ammo loadout. The Zero carried very few 20mm rounds, most of it's ammo was 7.7mm. There are records of Japanese pilots unloading all their 7.7mm ammo on a Wildcat and it was still flyable. On the flip side, the Wildcat had an ample supply of .50 cal.
Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa was able to score seven kills against Japanese planes in one day with a Wildcat.
Yes, the discovery of the Akutan Zero helped the United States beat this plane. But MilitaryFactory.com notes that the Hellcat's first flight was on June 26, 1942 – three weeks after the raid on Dutch Harbor that lead to the fateful crash-landing of the Mitsubishi A6M flown by Tadayoshi Koga.
Marine Captain Kenneth Walsh described how he knew to roll to the right at high speed to lose a Zero on his tail. Walsh would end World War II with 17 kills. The Zero also had trouble in dives, thanks to a bad carburetor.
We were behind in technology for many reasons, but once the Hellcat started replacing the Wildcat, the Japanese Air Superiority was over. Even if they had maintained a lead in technology, as Russia showed in WW2, quantity has a quality all of it's own. We were always going to be able to field more pilots and planes than Japan would be able to.
As far as Soviet rockets, once we were stunned by the launch of Sputnik, we kicked into high gear. You can say what you will of reliability, consistency, and dependability, but exactly how many manned Soviet missions landed on the moon and returned? Other than Buran, which was almost a copy of our Space Shuttle, how many shuttles did the USSR field?
The Soviets did build some things that were very sophisticated and were, for a while, better than what we could field. The Mig-31 is a great example. We briefly lagged behind but have a much superior air capability now. The only advantages the Mig and Sukhoi have is speed, they can fire all their missiles and flee. If they are engaged however, they will lose if pilots are equally skilled.
As @newtboy has said, I am sure that Russia and China are working on military advancements, but the technology simply doesn't exist to make a Hypersonic missile possible at this point.
China is fielding a man portable rifle that can inflict pain, not kill, and there is no hard evidence that it works.
There is no proof that the Chinese have figured out the technology for an operational rail gun on land, let alone the sea. We also have created successful railguns, the problem is POWERING them repeatedly, especially onboard a ship. If they figured out a power source that will pull it off, then it is possible, but there is no concrete proof other than a photo of a weapon attached to a ship. Our experts are guessing they might have it functional by 2025, might...
China has shown that long range QEEC is possible. It has been around but they created the first one capable of doing it from space. The problem is, they had to jury rig it. Photons, or light, can only go through about 100 kilometers of optic fiber before getting too dim to reliably carry data. As a result, the signal needs to be relayed by a node, which decrypts and re-encrypts the data before passing it on. This process makes the nodes susceptible to hacking. There are 32 of these nodes for the Beijing-Shanghai quantum link alone.
The main issue with warfare today is that it really doesn't matter unless the battle is between one of the big 3. Which means that ANY action could provoke Nuclear conflict. Is Russia going to hypersonic missile one of our carriers without Nukes become an option on the table as a retaliation? Is China going to railgun a ship and risk nuclear war?
Hell no, no more than we would expect to blow up some major Russian or Chinese piece of military hardware without severe escalation! Which means we can create all the technological terrors we like, because we WON'T use them unless they somehow provide us a defense against nuclear annihilation.
So just like China and Russia steal stuff from us to build military hardware to counter ours, if they create something that is significantly better, we will began trying to duplicate it. The only thing which would screw this system to hell is if one of us actually did begin developing a successful counter measure to nukes. If that happens, both of the other nations are quite likely to threaten IMMEDIATE thermonuclear war to prevent that country from developing enough of the counter measures to break the tie.
A Scary Time
BSRThanks for your reply bcglorf,
To clear up my analogy, I was actually speaking about the power, tolerance and bravery of women and the thick headedness and cowardice of men who are abusers.
Sometimes you need to find a language that can be understood.
I also think reasonable people believe that any action taken against them should be met with equal and opposite reaction.
Somewhere I posted a quote from the movie Tora, Tora, Tora, which I altered to fit the present conversations.
The quote was said to have been made by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
It's debated if he actually said it but it was something that I remembered and thought it fit well with recent events with the altered quote.
My altered quote is:
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giantess and fill her with a terrible resolve.
Women (giantess) are coming together, along with men, more than ever before and rightly so.
I never said or implied anything about ridicule or attacks.
Thanks again for your reply and I think we both are on the same side.
Not sure that's the analogy you want to go for, what with the counter being to describe how we behave once we grow up...
You are describing women as powerless and perpetual victims, which I think is offensive to women. You then basically say that two wrongs make a right because victims should be allowed to create new victims if it helps them...
Reasonable people disagree with you. If that puts me in the 'wrong' camp, and means I deserve ridicule and attack, you're the problem, not me.
the value of whataboutism
HenningKOIt's a logical fallacy called Tu Quoque... and yeah everyone does it. And yeah it's always a dodge.
Does accepting that W said some good things we agree with mean we are ignoring his faults? I don't think so. He's an idiot and negligent war criminal AND (not but) he happens to say correct things once in a while. Both can be true. All these people like Olbermann are saying is that Trump is worse than Bush.
I don't get Scahill's pearl-clutching.
Full Frontal - We Need to Talk About Stephen Miller
enoch@bobknight33
mueller finding evidence of russian collusion during the campaign?
yeah..you are probably right.still have yet to see concrete evidence,just a lot of circumstantial pearl clutching.
however..
there IS a lot of evidence,and growing larger by the day of trump colluding with the russian government and russian oligarchs to:
illegally launder money from russia.
tax evasion with the help of russian banks.
and a ton of hanky panky money exchanges to cover that all up.
which of course is not really news.
if anybody had bothered to pay attention trump has been mobbed up for decades.
david cay johnston has been exposing trumps corruption for quite awhile.
The Garden Masterpiece Grown From Rescued Plants
CrushBugCan we get Pearl an exoskeleton to help him with his work? Man, that step out of the shed... I was so concerned.
What's A Stone Baby? The Smithsonian tells us.
newtboyI thought they were going to talk about the origin story of Zeus.
Why don't we call them pearl babies. That sounds much nicer to me.
Man sings "Cat's In The Cradle" in tribute to dying Father
ChaosEngineI get that it's the first song he played, but it's still kind of an odd song to sing to your dying father.
Reminds me of a story I heard where a bride sang Pearl Jam's "Betterman" to her new husband at their wedding because it was his favorite song....
listen to the lyrics , people!
Lady Berates Lyft Driver Over Hawaiian Bobblehead Doll
ulysses1904Whenever something irritates me this much on the Internet I have to first wonder if someone is trolling for effect. If not then she belongs in a sanitarium, I'll pay for the Lyft.
I'm just glad her type wasn't around when Hitler invaded Poland and the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Oh wait, was that an insensitive reference to the continent of Hawaii?