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Re: Which Texas City Has The Best Tacos?

jervin — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:57:05 -0000

How is El Paso not on this list????

Re: America's 5 Next Generation Super Weapons

jervin — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:19:58 -0000

Well maybe, but you know who's most vulnerable to cyberattack? The US. Other countries militaries are not nearly as connected or leveraging IT as much as the US.

Re: America's 5 Next Generation Super Weapons

jervin — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:08:04 -0000

I am noticing (hehehe) a neglect to mention the vaunted (snicker...) F-35. Perhaps the author would care to illuminate this, ahem, oversight?

Re: Watch Geologists Use Molten Lava To Grill Up Some Steaks

jervin — Wed, 20 May 2015 14:33:16 -0000

I love how they just keep adding more and more lava, like the first batch wasn't enough.

Re: A Really Bad Idea: Ignoring the Lessons of V-E Day

jervin — Wed, 13 May 2015 17:08:08 -0000

Second? Really? Stalin of the purges, forced collectivization of farms leading to famine and much much more second? I dunno about that...

Re: Designation Beijing: India to Test 'China-Killer' Nuke Missile

jervin — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:44:23 -0000

Wow there is a little 8 year old in me that is having trouble getting his head around the idea that a major nuclear conflagration that messes up the Earth could soon occur without the US and Russia being involved. *sniff sniff* These countries grow up so fast don't they??

Re: 15 Southern American Sayings That Will Amuse Brits

jervin — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:40:55 -0000

Wow that don't just sound Southern, that sounds like from around these parts (Central Texas) in particular. Floods are a touchy subject around here.

Re: 11 Serious Concerns About Vegetable Oils (No. 2 is Scary)

jervin — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:18:26 -0000

I've heard that the "half life" of these oils once in our cell membranes is something like on the order of 2 years. Is this true in your opinion? Better yet, if you drop these vegetable oils from your diet, how long does it take to clear?

Re: 5 Weapons From Star Trek That America’s Military Wishes it Had

jervin — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:26:41 -0000

With warp drive guys in the Pentagon could expand their horizons. Forget about Centcom or Eurocom, you could have Solcom or Alpha Centauri-com. The possibilities are endless...

Re: 5 Weapons From Star Trek That America’s Military Wishes it Had

jervin — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:23:17 -0000

Really? No photon torpedoes or phasers or hell SHIELDS??? You sir should hand in your geek/nerd card immediately.... You know that warp drive thing was pretty cool too.

Re: Cold fusion reactor verified by third-party researchers, seems to have 1 million times the energy density of gasoline

jervin — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:22:55 -0000

You must live somewhere down the street here in Texas don't you?

Re: If the Civil War Had a Different Ending

jervin — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:00:46 -0000

There would have likely been another war, the US with the midwest needing access to markets via the Mississippi, there is no way that would not have led to more conflict. If the CSA had continued to prevail, North America would have fragmented and would have led to multiple countries existing. Individually none of them with anywhere near the pull of the US today. Slavery was so entrenched, its not hard to envision a scenario where it would exist to this day.

Re: BYU football: Texas QB Ash out for game vs. BYU

jervin — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:51:38 -0000

You know it aint crazy that UT doesn't have a viable backup. Its one of the reasons (other than the BYU game last year) that we have a new coach this year. And I don't think UT's mindset is revenge, but rather show up and not get humiliated this year. I am betting on UT winning a close one at home. *crossing fingers*

Re: Five Futuristic Weapons That Could Change Warfare

jervin — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:42:46 -0000

I have a beef with your characterization of the militarization of space. I don't think our interceptor sites have that much to do with missiles, the name of the game is to be able to knock out the eyes and ears of the opponent, you know the satellites. In fact if our (the United States) missile defense isn't primarily about knocking out space based assets, it has been an even more criminal waste of money than heretofore acknowledged. You think the Russians have been upset about missile defense taking out their ICBMs? Or is it more likely they are worried about their eyes and ears in space?

Re: Five Ways the Soviet Union Could Have Won the Cold War

jervin — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:33:34 -0000

Interesting intellectual exercise. The writer missed an itty bitty little thing in Russian history that was also caused by Stalin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Imagine the Soviet Union without losing an entire generation of people to famine. I think you could make the argument that only now is Russia recovering from Stalin's collectivization, purges and WWII.

Re: Downfall: Obama's Reckless German Spy Scandal

jervin — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:30:40 -0000

Rogue state? This word, I don't think it means what you think it means. Yes the US should remove its forces from Europe and the Europeans should step up and invest enough in their own defense. But as you can imagine that would require a simultaneous outbreak of common sense on both sides of the Atlantic.

Re: Capital Punishment and Shared Values

jervin — Fri, 23 May 2014 13:03:03 -0000

I always loved this quote, "My country right or wrong, when right to be kept right, when wrong to be put right."

Re: Is Air-Sea Battle Useless?

jervin — Thu, 22 May 2014 17:43:09 -0000

First off yes there is a lot of trade through that area I am sure, in fact so much of it that China would be foolish to imperil it. Secondly, you are right that the smaller nations in South-East Asia can't counter the larger threat from China, but these salami slicing tactics? Yes I believe so and I don't want to risk a war with China to protect the economic interests of Vietnam and the Philippines. And while we are are poking at the Chinese leviathan I suppose we should keep using our big American stick on the Russian bear too, they are with us or against us right?

Re: Is Air-Sea Battle Useless?

jervin — Sun, 18 May 2014 13:25:03 -0000

Yes we have an interest in keeping a lid and a check on the potential for a major conflict. We shouldn't be as interested in smaller or lower level problems. If the nations whose interest is imperiled by Chinese action can't bother to mount a credible response, why should the US?

Re: Is Air-Sea Battle Useless?

jervin — Fri, 16 May 2014 12:10:30 -0000

Why would the US be required to step in and fill the void of other Asian states not countering the so called "salami strategy?" Quite frankly its their lunch that is being eaten and while the US could and probably should facilitate cooperation amongst Asian nations, why would we (which you suggest) want to force China from its lower level strategy into potentially a higher risk one? How does that benefit the US? It seems like the focus from the US side on ASB is the right one.

Re: Is It Legal To Kill A Zombie? - Mental Floss

jervin — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:40:44 -0000

Hehe yeah cops come to my home and arrest me please. While you are at it bring the National Guard and I will not report you under the Posse Comitatus Act if you bring all the Army troops you can find too.

Re: The Best Show on TV You’re Not Watching

jervin — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:50:23 -0000

Well not to dismiss your cultural thing, I think it is pretty interesting that the "Amercianized" version called (naturally enough) American Ninja Warrior the competitors demonstrate the same attitudes and virtually none of them are Asian or Asian descent.

Re: Cola: Real-Time Shared Editing - Screencast

jervin — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:32:55 -0000

It is nice to see an example of this working. I will try it out here with the 3.4 release of Eclipse, earlier versions I had varying degrees of success.

One question though, you still have to share each editor session right? I mean you couldn't share out a project or projects, so as to allow people to work on different files at the same time or allow you to like browse to another class and let the people you are sharing with follow automatically?