The Glade 4.0

What is a "gun type nuke"? Do you mean a rail gun powered by fission or fusion? A gun that shoots radiation? A gun that fires mini nuclear bombs? A gun that fires radioactive bullets?

You do realize that the reason terrorists don't use nuclear "dirty bombs" is for cost effectiveness rather than an inability to produce? The public is scared of such devices because the word "nuclear" pops up, and that's automatically ten times worse than anything else that could possibly happen. Unfortunately, it really isn't.

To use DE's conceptual understanding notion, I actually do possess a conceptual understanding of how computers work, as opposed to a vague understanding, and I could build one out of raw parts. (Resistors and capacitors, not parts off of NewEgg.) It would not be anything you could play games on, because I don't have the resources to pack enough transistors onto a circuit board. It would, however, be a computer. It would not resemble a computer to many of you, but that's because many of you do not possess the conceptual understanding that you think you do.

It would not be a particularly powerful computer. This is due to my lacking proper facilities, resources, and man hours. It is not due to any other reason, aside perhaps laziness. I don't really feel like building my own homemade computer when I can buy one for a thousand dollars.

Similar concepts apply to nuclear weapons. Them damn turrists could conceivably build a dirty bomb. It would not level a city. They just don't have the supply chain to make one that could. It could, however, destroy an airport or a football stadium.

So could dynamite, and dynamite is cheaper and easier to get ahold of. So no, our oppressive and overreaching government isn't putting people on terrorists watch lists because they think someone made veiled references to being able to build a nuclear weapon in their basement. Domestic terrorists don't go through all the effort of making a suitcase nuke when plastic explosives do the job just as well.

I was just wondering if it would be possible to have a thread where we didn't have board members allude to the possibility that they might be attempting to make WMDs in their basements. I'm sure it's too late, but it would have been nice not to have every single member of our community be on some sort of watch list.

Good read. Becareful what you wish for.


http://pjmedia.com/mihaipacepa/2012/07/ ... epage=true

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

Why even build a dirty bomb? I never thought the idea of terrorism was to rack up body counts. A few nail wrapped M67s near a busy bus station or school will have a huge panic effect.

I think by focusing on the "dirty bomb" idea we are distracting ourselves from just how exposed and vunerable we are in the US.

Good read. Becareful what you wish for.

http://pjmedia.com/mihaipacepa/2012/07/ ... epage=true

One more truth: the U.S. has gradually evolved from a country using black slave labor into a country that freely elected a black American as president. The “Affordable Health Care for America Act,” however, was imposed on the country overnight, the same way the Marxist health care system was imposed on Romania.

America’s health care system represents one-sixth of the economy. The total U.S. gross domestic product is $14.1 trillion, and one-sixth means about $2.35 trillion. Considering that the length of a dollar bill is 6.4 inches, a trillion dollar bills laid end to end would make a chain 96,906,565.66 miles long — extending almost 4 million miles beyond the sun.[iii] This unimaginably immense amount of tax money was paid by “we the people,” who should at the very least have been given a say about how it was to be spent.

Now the French patients are learning that if they discreetly slip an envelope with cash into the pocket of the doctor’s white lab coat hanging in his office, they will get more “attention.” A little extra attention may be vital in such a government-run health care system, where doctors are obliged by law to see sixty to seventy patients a day.

Our American political servants who mindlessly approved the 2,000-plus pages of the Affordable Health Care for America Act also scrambled for cover. All, from those working in Congress to those working in White House, granted themselves American versions of Helias and Gerota. None of them wanted to put his life in the hands of a nationalized health care system run by bureaucrats. Some 1,200 companies that had given grants to the Democratic Party and labor unions representing 543,812 workers also received waivers from part of the health care reform law.

This is about the worst comparison possible. Did the author just conveniently forget about the Civil Rights Act, or all sorts of laws that imposed racial equality on the people?

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Despite having apparently the same narrator, this video is vastly more realistic and accurate. I don't know why they restricted it to official use; this is the sort of information the public should have had.