Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics Subject: Re: Linux Crashing Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:35:06 -0600 Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net loUFP16g8jUO35BwNTVOsgcQ2CWLClTAJbXLDYQazGOKEeb4DJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:IFIgeUmPVJmr12OCFvH4Tvf9Vzc= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.setup:4527 comp.os.linux.advocacy:594949 sci.physics:833384 On 09/30/2021 09:33 AM, Clutterfreak wrote: > On 9/30/2021 9:20 AM, rbowman wrote: >> The outcome is very expensive aircraft that don't fly very well, >> littoral combat vessels that can be sunk by a jihadi in a Zodiac, and >> destroyers with weapon systems that the Navy can't afford to buy >> ammunition for. > > That experience has been there with them at least since WWII. German > equipment, especially tanks, could not fight the war against small > little things Soviets had hurriedly built to throw shells at them. In > every confrontations from Stalingrad back to Berlin German mighty tanks > lost the battle against those cheap little things. > > Experience is there! But we're dealing with first rate crooks. So > nothing of that nature would help. It would be like reasongin with > Jeff-Relf right now. > A guy by the name of Lind has written about 4th generation warfare. The 1st generation was standing toe to toe with axes and spears. The classic 18th century model of standing 100 yards apart and firing volleys with muskets was the same, If you've ever fired a Brown Bess you understand why. The trigger pull is about 25 pounds and the only sighting is squinting over the bayonet lug. The 2nd generation came about when accuracy improved and standing in neat lines sucked. That lasted through WWI and beyond. The French really locked on to it and sat in the Maginot line playing Bezique while the Germans ate their lunch. The Germans more or less invented the 3rd generation, move fast and break stuff. It worked well until they found you could kill a million Ivans and 2 million would come to the funeral. The military sort of gets 3rd gen although they're still basically working on 2nd gen principals with big, expensive projects. In the 4th generation you don't have nation states fighting each other. Everybody gets to play including some lone wold with a spare 5 pounds of Semtex. Biden succinctly stated the obsolete thinking when he said 'They'd need F-15's and maybe some nuclear bombs.' He missed the part about Afghanis kicking US ass with Mosin Nagants. Abbot talks about a 5th generation although Lind isn't a believe. %th gen is a normal day on the internet; misinformation, trolling, social engineering, cyber attacks, and so forth. It's gonna be fun.