Due to everybody hitting it for updates no doubt. Its possible to engineer around these situations. You can have an autoscaling cluster of web proxies on AWS for example, or better yet, delegate the heavy lifting to google, who may be interested in doing it for free, seeing that they have the infrastructure.
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That’s my battle plan for when the nukes fall. I’m getting in my car and chasing it down.
Like hell I’m gonna live the next however many years dealing with a ton of radioactive bullshit.
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I usually say “welcome to trump’s america.” typically after having medical insurance claims denied and my HSA card failing to pay for OTC meds thanks to ACA rollbacks.
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Perhaps a decent tax break would be fine.
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The prolonged suffering area by burns and flying objects is way larger then the instant radiation and blast death area.
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Well, at least it is a (forced) chance to appreciate life and contemplate your choices. Part of that Fight club quote comes to mind: “your dinner is going to taste better than any meal you’ve ever eaten, and tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of your life”.
Probably doesn’t last and won’t help when you kids wake up screaming for weeks, but I imagine a cold beer is going to taste pretty great after that scare.
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I think that’s a good learning opportunity. Would’ve been better if it warned not only Hawaii but mainland USA. Running for shelter from bombs is what a lot of humans in shitholes regularly experience before being hit by US air/drone-strikes. Perhaps it helps the US populace to understand that bombing the shit out of other people is horrible and not a jolly good time to whip out your flag and stroke your military wiener.
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so much for three stage authoring etcetera
To be (kind of) fair: was Donald even informed? I think it’s kind of naive to think that when a nuclear alert happens, the president is instantaneously told about it. I don’t know that that happened even during the Cold War false alarms (of which there were too many). Part of keeping your chief executive informed is making sure that they’re getting good information.
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Because you know how much Trump’s America would help Hawaiian refugees. Okay, maybe a bit better than Puerto Rico, because you have senators and congresspeople, but you did fake Obama’s birth certificate so that’s got to count against you.
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I would most certainly hope that when one of our states announces that a ballistic missile is incoming, and assures people THIS IS NOT A DRILL, normal protocol would be to let the president know that global nuclear war is beginning. But I can see that with Trump, protocol might be to suggest a 9 iron on the 7th hole, well away from any Twitter devices.
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That’s the point, though: you don’t know it’s a nuclear war and not a false alarm until you’ve checked. And in the Cold War calculus of kill ratios, you know that North Korea has a lot more to lose by a first strike against the USA than the USA has to lose by taking ten minutes to confirm the alert and not interrupting the president’s golf game. Because not checking might be a career-ending move even with a rational president.
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Indeed. That’s why the “Duck and Cover!” drills during the early phases of the Cold War weren’t just bullshit. Later, of course, as both the warhead sizes and numbers grew to the point of actually being able to glass entire cities, it became pointless.
invite whole US Kim Jong Un for for smoke-in.
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You mean, these guys?
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Like that pesky Idol-
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