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Re:Two things:
Waterboarding has been controversial for some time. (From New York Times 2004)
http://www.president-bush.com/torture-waterboardin g.html
The Government didn't do anything about it until the UN specifically asked them to stop.
http://www.worldrevolution.org/news/article1851.ht m
Now, according to Wikipedia, "Waterboarding is due to become a banned practice by U.S. personnel (including CIA officials) pending the release of a revised manual on interrogation procedures." It really upsets me that the Administration is willing to torture its prisoners if the UN turns a blind eye. -
Re:Something is fishy
> I call bullshit. Care to document your assertion?
Plenty of links here:
http://www.worldrevolution.org/newsfeature/16
That site is obviously not unbiased, but the primary sources they link to span the political spectrum,
so choose for yourself.
In the future, please, PLEASE don't depend on liberal bloggers for your reality checks on the war... there's lots of
good information out there, if you're genuinely interested in the truth and not just upholding a preconceived notion.
Don't just "call bullshit", Google it and find out for yourself.
As for the below poster who thinks it's okay so long as they're all classified as combatants... you wouldn't
try to oust an army that bombed your neighborhood and was imprisoning and raping your neighbors?
Even if they said they were there to help?
Anyway, I'll leave this thread here. The Iraq war issue has been talked to death to the point that it's hard
to find somebody who hasn't already made up their minds to the point that no new information can faze their
resolve... I hope you have the same skepticism for stories saying that everything's going great as you do for
the bad news; checking and rechecking sources is all I could ask anybody to do. =) -
Re:The biggest problem with Sangor's ideas...
Please cite your source for the 1%-owning-80% claim.
Not even "worldrevolution.org" (link, which was found by Googling for {"united states" wealth disparity} -- a deliberately biased search, obviously -- supports your contention, and it appears to be run by hard-core leftist peaceniks. Even these people claim that "the top 1% of households own almost 40% of the nation's wealth", and even the "top 10% of Americans own over 70% of nation's wealth". -
Re:Why is there an assumption...
Seriously. OK, so a few species will go extinct. But who's to say that some species won't flourish as a result. The ecosystem will be different, but it won't necessarily be worse. The ecosystem will adapt.
It's estimated that approximately 50,000 species of animals become extinct every year. I understand the point you're trying to make, but at such an alarming rate, can the ecosystem keep up with such a significant rate of change?
I'm not a tree-hugger, but people with this kind of attitude frighten me... -
Re:JobsNo, I have not seen the Day After Tomorrow. Then again, I can't even watch Armageddon without having to leave the room at some of the more unplausible parts, so maybe it's better that way.
- "Looming climatic chaos?" You have got to be joking.
No. But let's just say that I very much hope that I'm wrong and you are right... I guess coming decades will tell.
- Cite please? It's the height of vanity to think that anything like us could effect world climates with any significant effect. All the power ever produced by mankind (including nuclear weapons) probably wouldn't equal one hurricane.
First Google hit on a subject of man made vs natural CO2 emissions by volcanoes (the only natural mechanism that brings *new* CO2 from the crust to the biosphere) here . First google hit about us people reducing forests of the world here , telling that humans have cut down 20%-50% of *all* forests on Earth on a very short time scale. And keep in mind that we have oxygen atmosphere only because there are plants to sustain it, and forests are a big part of that. Just look at Venus to find out what kind of atmosphere Earth might have if there was no plant life...
Thinking that we have no effect on Earth is like thinking that dumping your garbage out of the window (the Middle Ages style, you know) does not make a city filthy, it all gets absorbed by the nature, eaten by the pigs, or something...
*Life* has made the Earth what it is today. Human life is also life, and it's the other way around: it's vanity to think that we're above mere animals and plants with no technology that made the Earth what it is today, so that our actions (altering atmosphere, turning large areas of forest to desert etc) have no consequences.
- Do you even understand the mechanism that causes the Gulf stream to rotate clockwise around the North Atlantic? Why do you think that eastern Asia has warm water like we have here in Florida, but California has cold water, like people have in Europe?
Not sure what you mean by that, since Europe has extremely warm water (comparatively speaking), thanks to the Gulf stream... In Siberia and Canada it's permafrost where in Europe there are still lush fields and big forests. Also, Gulf stream has stopped or changed direction before, so it's not very far fetched to think it would do it again. So I have to wonder how well *you* understand the issue...
- Hed Herring. Nobody doubts that urban areas are visible at night due to lighting. It's a very large stretch to jump from that to "people are EEEVIL." Using your own argument, I add this extension: the Democrats are at fault. Since the people that voted for Kerry live in the areas that show up on your satellite photos, THEY must be the ones responsible for Global Warming and the Death of The Environment.
I don't quite follow. You can also see forests in satellite photos, as well as you can see human fields and cities. By your logic, I'd think trees are evil too, or what? I don't quite follow your logic, really...
The point isn' "humans are evil". The point is
that humans have an impact (and a big one at that). Why is it so hard to consider that:
1. the climate and biosphere has (had) a balance before major human impact (ie beforeCO2 increse, cutting down forests, expanding deserts etc)
2. after humans have started to alter some variables (eg the ones listed above), the balance isn't any more
3. when there's no balance, things will start to change, until variables have stopped changing and a new balance is found
4. there are much more ways for things to get much worse for most of us, than there are ways for things to get better for most of us. Just things changing fast is expensive in the *best* case without sealevel rising or anything, since everything (from heating/cooling to rainwater handling) is optimized for how things are now. -
Peru & law & order? whatever dude
The Commission states that the Belande and Garca administrations are to be held responsible for failing to implement an integral strategy and for allowing human rights violations to become a systematic practice by the armed forces during some periods and in certain zones of conflict.
In just two years--1983 and 1984--under the Belande government, as many deaths occurred as during the entire conflict: 19,468 victims, or 28 percent of the total.
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Inequity
The idea of overpayment is an issue only if there is inequity.
One American individual (guess who) is worth as much as the bottom 40% of the population (120 million people).
The top 1% of the American population has more wealth than the bottom 95%.
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Re:possible use...if its durable ernough (there are moving parts) i can see this being used by ther military since they would obviously last through an EMP blast. perfect for high density long term archiving.
Wait. Nevermind.
Somebody's been playing waaay too much Starcraft. The only way of generating an EMP Blast of any appreciable size or strength carries with it some other pesky side effects, as well. That, and if such an EMP blast is ever generated, well, it'll take us a while to lament the loss of long-term digital archives...