Xi was quoted by state news agency Xinhua. âIt is necessary to step up preparations for armed combat, to flexibly carry out actual combat military training, and to improve our militaryâs ability to perform military missions.â
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If someone could stop hackers pwning medical systems right now, that would be cool, say Red Cross and friends
Following the surge of cyber attacks on medical facilities, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and more than 40 other international leaders asked the governments of the world to do more to safeguard critical medical organizations amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In an open letter published on Tuesday, Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, and other prominent signatories asked the worldâs governmentâs âto take immediate and decisive action to stop all cyber attacks on hospitals, health care and medical research facilities, as well as on medical personnel and international public health organizations.â
I hope the dumbass doesnât try and have a very glowie mushroomie 4th of July this year.
Maybe with one exceptionâŚ
Ehhh, who am I kidding, that turdbagâs going to die of old age in five years anyway, why waste the uranium.
â and the smartest man in America, Tom Friedman, gave us this.â
â I think it [the invasion of Iraq] was unquestionably worth doing, Charlie.
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We needed to go over there, basically, um, and um, uh, take out a very big stick right in the heart of that world and burst that bubble, and there was only one way to do it.
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What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, âWhich part of this sentence donât you understand?â
You donât think, you know, we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, weâre just gonna let it grow?
Well Suck. On. This.
Okay.
That Charlie was what this war was about. We couldâve hit Saudi Arabia, it was part of that bubble. We coulda hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could. Thatâs the real truth.â
Iâd pay good money to see him beaten with a big stick.
From all the way back in 2006:
â The Washingtonian reports that âhis annual income easily reaches seven figures.â In the Maryland suburbs near Washington, three years ago, âthe Friedmans built a palatial 11,400-square-foot house, now valued at $9.3 million,â on a parcel of more than seven acres near Bethesda Country Club and the Beltway.
Throughout his journalistic career, Friedman has been married to Ann Bucksbaum â heiress to a real-estate and shopping-mall fortune now estimated at $2.7 billion. When the couple wed back in 1978, according to The Washingtonian article, Friedman became part of âone of the 100 richest families in the country.â
Voice of the common man!
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âTo initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.â
âJustice Robert Jackson, Nuremberg, 1945
I presume that the F-15E carried this just to prove that the weapon could be dropped. It wouldnât make sense for an aircraft that is not a low-observable platform to carry and release a first-strike weapon.
Also, when talking about nukes, is âhitting the targetâ really all that necessary? The Hiroshima nuke missed its intended hypocenter by 200 meters.
Oh goody, more toys for Il Douche to play with. This shit is fucking exhausting!
Whether the B61 is (used as) a first strike weapon or not depends on the delivery system and on the adversaryâs capabilities to countermand that delivery system. And on whether weâre talking tactical or strategic use. (Also, first use of nukes is not neccessarily first strike. One of the classic cold-war-turns-hot scenarios was "massive conventional Red Force strike with tanks, stopped by Blue Force with tactical nukes. Fulda gap and all that. I.e. first strike by Warsaw Pact, first use of nukes by NATO. A delivery system like the F-15 makes perfect sense in a scenario like this.)
Precision? Still a thing if you want to use it as a bunker buster.
And of course when used tactical, you want to avoid hitting your own forward elements.
Fun fact: the main driver behind âmore bang for the buckâ (i.e. entering the megaton yield range), besides scoring in a penis-waving competition, was the inaccuracy of the early guidance systems. So just lob a bigger bomb in the general direction of the enemy, and lots of them.
Looks like they want something.
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Or covid-19 turned out to be a bigger problem than they tought.
On a lighter note:
Iâll have to pull my old nomograms out of storage. These were plastic dial-type nomograms for calculating the size explosive necessary to destroy a certain target given a certain CEP (circular error probability).
But as you said, this was for high error rates. If you could improve CEP you could get away with a smaller device, until you could reach a certain accuracy where a nuke wouldnât be needed at all. If I recall correctly my nomogram had a lower limit of weapon yield that you could use in the calculator.
Three Nimitz class carriers? Thatâs big shipsâŚ
