Our response should be that their will be no aid for 6 months, And even then it is contingent upon them making tangible concessions and not reneging during that period. Otherwise it's another 6 month freeze on aid.
And while I despise the action, freeze all global banking/investment assets. Until they are willing to be an more ordinary player on the global scale then they can't have any toys.
The current sanctions are probably enough, just make sure it is known that they will continue into the future and possibly become more severe. And don't speak with empty words, enforce them.
The real threat is an attack on South Korea. We need to up the propaganda on the border to "help" NK soldiers realize the error of their ways, we need multiple carrier groups on hand, advanced anti-missile ships (god forbid a short range nuclear ballistic missile is fired, I believe we have the technology to handle that, make sure the defense has several layers of redundancy and capacity), and a couple of thousand drones at the ready during the freeze periods. Containment is the key.
We need swarms of drones around and over the DMZ (all of the time), and more constant satellite tracking of suspected artillery sites. We need contingencies that would allow a drone army to assault artillery sites if a conflict begins. Minimize damage to South Korea, the likely target of aggression.
How much has the over 50 year Korean War cost the US? I'd bet it's on par with Iraq and Afghanistan in terms of dollars (our continued prescense). It was far more devastating in terms of the lives lost during the initial conflict that our most recent wars.
Put the foot down, contain, and be patient. Any suffering is not ours to bear, it is on those who allow it to happen.
It is time to stop appeasing the North Koreans and take action. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have contributed many $100s of billions to our debt, the result of wars of attrition. Our current response to North Korea continues this pattern and actually validates the North Korean threat. This has got to stop.
A country should be able to feed its people. If it cannot then it is a failed country. North Korea cannot feed its people, at least it seems as such.
Here are some steps I would recommend.
Step #1: Discontinue all aid until nuclear observers are allowed into the country and can operate freely (with NK observation but no interference). No aid without compliance, the blood and death is on those causing the problems, not on those who would try to help. Step #2: Restore aid with the explicit requirement that aid distribution is controlled by a UN agency (with NK observation but no interference, I can't believe I'm supporting the UN...) Step #3: I'm not sure, but the first two would placate the world in terms of North Korea's nuclear ambitions, and could result in the restoration of aid to the population (could, this is not guaranteed, the blood is on their hands). After that the next move is on the North Korean leadership. Have a couple of US carrier groups nearby and possibly bolster South Korean defenses as well...
I know, I just wanted to point out that the US has a higher incarceration rate than any other country. It is an important point to make.
The important point you make is the collateral damage potential with torture and possibly other innocent people being punsihed/killed.
Prison conditions outside of the US and Western Europe are pretty deplorable on the whole. North Korea is particularly bad, I wonder how they stack up against sub-Saharan African nations.
Regarding outsourcing Flash development to a prison camp...
In the US we use prison camp labor for license plates, road work, and other manual labor (sometimes skilled labor). And prison isn't supposed to be a nice place. And what's the difference between two prisoners, say a North Korean (NK) political prisoner and a US marijuana user. Conditions and treatment are the differences, both are in prison (and unfairly in my opinion).
US prisons look at their prisoners as a profit source. An obvious conclusion to that is that other countries will follow suit. Shoot, in the US we get China-priced labor from at least a couple of million people in prison.
I'm not saying that NK prisons are as nice as US prisons, but neither are those in South/Central America (or Africa, or Eastern Europe). I'm also not saying that justice is served 100% of the time by incarcerating people (anywhere in the world). The US doesn't lead the world in per-capita prison rates by accident: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
Anyway, the US bitching about North Korea's political prisoners is the Pot calling the Kettle Black given our War on Drugs. We started the modern prison state, and we're still the best at it...
Let's say the New Hampshire bill passes. Would it then be illegal to take a photo while jumping?
And how will traffic choppers operate?
My aerial photography should be fine, I just use a two-point tethered weather balloon (two people holding it to the ground, one controlling the shot's direction), usually at about 300 feet off the ground.
Regardless of whether it sucked or not, the original Wii was sold out worldwide for well over a year after release (I waited in line for a store to open to get one 15 months after release, the people at the end of the line were out of luck).
It could be an issue with manufacturing (not enough), but demand for the console was incredible for quite a while.
I'm assuming the child statistics are world wide as a child killed every three minutes would total 175,200 annually (365 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes / 3 minutes), or over 4 times the annual vehicular deaths in the US.
The quoted article should have mentioned this, especially since it surrounded this tidbit between statistics based on the US alone.
And yes, I read the article (the one you posted)...
Buried was a great example of a "only one visible, active actor." And Ryan Reynolds shows some good acting chops as well given the... cramped style of the film. The worst part was the call from his company, he should have just hung up (there are several parts about that scene I don't like, but the would divulge details).
I know many irrational people who are only rational when it comes to eating or going to the bathroom (pretty much like everyone else).
As for "Atheist by nature" I'm thanking the sciences (especially evolution) for getting us to where we are in terms of knowledge, and "Earth" itself as "nature". I'm claiming that "nature" is atheist, and that by extension I am as well. And, in reality, we all are. Which circles back to the rational bit.
It's sort of a comment on rationalism and the humanist movement that started early in the 20th century. I can't remember the title of the book I was reading, but it was from that period by one of the key authors.
I''m a MS developer, in the corporate sphere (internal applications, some Click Once external apps), and I disagree. XP and Windows 7 will generally dominate the corporate ecosystem for the time being.
As well, any developer or manager worth two cents will push Winform (potentially WPF, but I'm very good at Winforms) development for internal applications. It is fast to develop, provides local storage (cache, really fast applications), and MS has a good delivery system in Click Once (even for externally facing applications, with proper security and user authorization).
The move to web based, which it seems every developer and manager is dead set on, is simply the wrong move for internal software. Winform is faster, cleaner, and results in a better product in my opinion (don't get me started on the overuse of Javascript, and don't try globalization or complicated currency manipulations either).
There can be issues with people with poor eyesight and that fact that Winform doesn't always DPI scale well (if at all, WPF is much better with regards to this). The solution in those cases is 36" or larger flat panels as monitors, and users will love you forever (and it's pretty cheap these days).
Now if the general public needs access to you, then the solution is obviously web based. But for internal, I spend my days cleaning up the messes caused by poorly implemented internal web designs with actual applications.
I have about 150 prints on my walls (and a large framed print as well), all photos I have taken over the years. Camping, Mexico, Arizona, Korea, Ecuador/Galapagos, the places I have been and have fond memories of.
I also have a couple photos of my wife and kids as well...
I also have a " mud phone" which a friend of mine made about 12 years ago. He used earth from my yard and fashioned a cell phone out of it (complete with buttons, a screen, microphone, and speaker, with the words "Nokia Mud Phone" on the back). I'm surprised it has survived as long as it has, I think my yard had considerable clay in it's composition
I agree, but why would it have gone through the roof?
I would posit that it would due to conventional oil production is in a state of decline or at best level outputs. Discoveries and new fields aren't covering the depletion gap, they haven't for some time. Here's a graph of discoveries versus production:
Saudi Arabia claims to have a bunch of excess production (over the OPEC quotas). They have stated publicly that they want $100 per barrel oil. If oil went to $150 or higher, would Saudi/OPEC bring their excess capacity to the market? Could they (the key question, the only one that really matters)?
Alternative oil fields help to keep a cap on oil prices but at the same time are dependent on oil prices being at a certain level where such oil production is economically feasible. That we are talking about such oil production at all is proof of "peak oil". Otherwise conventional (and much cheaper) oil production would be all that is needed.
If Saudi/OPEC did have a bunch of excess capacity they could dump it on the market and crush alternative oil developments.
The next couple of decades will be very interesting in my opinion...
It's actually mostly science these days. Check out the headlines on the front page. There are several energy experts and drilling specialists (who are in the know with regards to old technology like fracking, it's been around for decades by the way) on the site. The Drumbeats can be "Malthusian" as you say, but they are supposed to be open forum discussions (good info on LED lights, insulation, you name it).
And they don't cry "PEAK OIL" anymore. They mostly point out that energy prices cannot decline as the production methods being applied more and more these days aren't economically viable if the price of oil drops (fracking). And that these methods result in wells that decline fast and pollute.
Do you consider oil to be an infinite resource? If not, when do you think production costs will become prohibitive for a large swath of the Earth's population to afford (excluding Africa, they are already mostly priced out)? That's what they discuss these days.
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Our response should be that their will be no aid for 6 months, And even then it is contingent upon them making tangible concessions and not reneging during that period. Otherwise it's another 6 month freeze on aid.
And while I despise the action, freeze all global banking/investment assets. Until they are willing to be an more ordinary player on the global scale then they can't have any toys.
The current sanctions are probably enough, just make sure it is known that they will continue into the future and possibly become more severe. And don't speak with empty words, enforce them.
The real threat is an attack on South Korea. We need to up the propaganda on the border to "help" NK soldiers realize the error of their ways, we need multiple carrier groups on hand, advanced anti-missile ships (god forbid a short range nuclear ballistic missile is fired, I believe we have the technology to handle that, make sure the defense has several layers of redundancy and capacity), and a couple of thousand drones at the ready during the freeze periods. Containment is the key.
We need swarms of drones around and over the DMZ (all of the time), and more constant satellite tracking of suspected artillery sites. We need contingencies that would allow a drone army to assault artillery sites if a conflict begins. Minimize damage to South Korea, the likely target of aggression.
How much has the over 50 year Korean War cost the US? I'd bet it's on par with Iraq and Afghanistan in terms of dollars (our continued prescense). It was far more devastating in terms of the lives lost during the initial conflict that our most recent wars.
Put the foot down, contain, and be patient. Any suffering is not ours to bear, it is on those who allow it to happen.
It is time to stop appeasing the North Koreans and take action. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have contributed many $100s of billions to our debt, the result of wars of attrition. Our current response to North Korea continues this pattern and actually validates the North Korean threat. This has got to stop.
A country should be able to feed its people. If it cannot then it is a failed country. North Korea cannot feed its people, at least it seems as such.
Here are some steps I would recommend.
Step #1: Discontinue all aid until nuclear observers are allowed into the country and can operate freely (with NK observation but no interference). No aid without compliance, the blood and death is on those causing the problems, not on those who would try to help.
Step #2: Restore aid with the explicit requirement that aid distribution is controlled by a UN agency (with NK observation but no interference, I can't believe I'm supporting the UN...)
Step #3: I'm not sure, but the first two would placate the world in terms of North Korea's nuclear ambitions, and could result in the restoration of aid to the population (could, this is not guaranteed, the blood is on their hands). After that the next move is on the North Korean leadership. Have a couple of US carrier groups nearby and possibly bolster South Korean defenses as well...
We also knew that Saddam didn't have weapons of mass destruction, otherwise we wouldn't have invaded. Not so much with North Korea.
I know, I just wanted to point out that the US has a higher incarceration rate than any other country. It is an important point to make.
The important point you make is the collateral damage potential with torture and possibly other innocent people being punsihed/killed.
Prison conditions outside of the US and Western Europe are pretty deplorable on the whole. North Korea is particularly bad, I wonder how they stack up against sub-Saharan African nations.
Regarding outsourcing Flash development to a prison camp...
In the US we use prison camp labor for license plates, road work, and other manual labor (sometimes skilled labor). And prison isn't supposed to be a nice place. And what's the difference between two prisoners, say a North Korean (NK) political prisoner and a US marijuana user. Conditions and treatment are the differences, both are in prison (and unfairly in my opinion).
US prisons look at their prisoners as a profit source. An obvious conclusion to that is that other countries will follow suit. Shoot, in the US we get China-priced labor from at least a couple of million people in prison.
I'm not saying that NK prisons are as nice as US prisons, but neither are those in South/Central America (or Africa, or Eastern Europe). I'm also not saying that justice is served 100% of the time by incarcerating people (anywhere in the world). The US doesn't lead the world in per-capita prison rates by accident:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
Anyway, the US bitching about North Korea's political prisoners is the Pot calling the Kettle Black given our War on Drugs. We started the modern prison state, and we're still the best at it...
Good way to get noticed by Valve.
Let's say the New Hampshire bill passes. Would it then be illegal to take a photo while jumping?
And how will traffic choppers operate?
My aerial photography should be fine, I just use a two-point tethered weather balloon (two people holding it to the ground, one controlling the shot's direction), usually at about 300 feet off the ground.
Regardless of whether it sucked or not, the original Wii was sold out worldwide for well over a year after release (I waited in line for a store to open to get one 15 months after release, the people at the end of the line were out of luck).
It could be an issue with manufacturing (not enough), but demand for the console was incredible for quite a while.
Not so with the Wii U.
He probably works for the DHS, wouldn't surprise me if he participated in this unfortunate situation.
Are you suggesting that the TSA perform marijuana usage scans upon reentry to the USA?
Joking, sort of.
I believe artists will flock to it and create some cool stuff.
And Disney did well with Tron Legacy. I enjoyed the story, effects, and the music. Yeah, the intro was weak, but software should be free!!!!!
I do believe that Daft Punk made the movie, best soundtrack in some time in my opinion. Really turned me on to Daft Punk actually.
I'm assuming the child statistics are world wide as a child killed every three minutes would total 175,200 annually (365 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes / 3 minutes), or over 4 times the annual vehicular deaths in the US.
The quoted article should have mentioned this, especially since it surrounded this tidbit between statistics based on the US alone.
And yes, I read the article (the one you posted)...
That would be the drones flying overhead, and they are in fact real...
It's actually an upgrade, but not officially...
It's comical that "principles" would have you considering purchasing a Sony product...
Buried was a great example of a "only one visible, active actor." And Ryan Reynolds shows some good acting chops as well given the... cramped style of the film. The worst part was the call from his company, he should have just hung up (there are several parts about that scene I don't like, but the would divulge details).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462758/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Ahah!!!! A comment on my sig.
I know many irrational people who are only rational when it comes to eating or going to the bathroom (pretty much like everyone else).
As for "Atheist by nature" I'm thanking the sciences (especially evolution) for getting us to where we are in terms of knowledge, and "Earth" itself as "nature". I'm claiming that "nature" is atheist, and that by extension I am as well. And, in reality, we all are. Which circles back to the rational bit.
It's sort of a comment on rationalism and the humanist movement that started early in the 20th century. I can't remember the title of the book I was reading, but it was from that period by one of the key authors.
That's it.
I''m a MS developer, in the corporate sphere (internal applications, some Click Once external apps), and I disagree. XP and Windows 7 will generally dominate the corporate ecosystem for the time being.
As well, any developer or manager worth two cents will push Winform (potentially WPF, but I'm very good at Winforms) development for internal applications. It is fast to develop, provides local storage (cache, really fast applications), and MS has a good delivery system in Click Once (even for externally facing applications, with proper security and user authorization).
The move to web based, which it seems every developer and manager is dead set on, is simply the wrong move for internal software. Winform is faster, cleaner, and results in a better product in my opinion (don't get me started on the overuse of Javascript, and don't try globalization or complicated currency manipulations either).
There can be issues with people with poor eyesight and that fact that Winform doesn't always DPI scale well (if at all, WPF is much better with regards to this). The solution in those cases is 36" or larger flat panels as monitors, and users will love you forever (and it's pretty cheap these days).
Now if the general public needs access to you, then the solution is obviously web based. But for internal, I spend my days cleaning up the messes caused by poorly implemented internal web designs with actual applications.
I wish I had mod points for this sentence alone. It should be studied, could get an award of an economic type.
In theory, the market will be self correcting, because of the cost associated with failure. In practice, this does not occur.
I have about 150 prints on my walls (and a large framed print as well), all photos I have taken over the years. Camping, Mexico, Arizona, Korea, Ecuador/Galapagos, the places I have been and have fond memories of.
I also have a couple photos of my wife and kids as well...
I also have a " mud phone" which a friend of mine made about 12 years ago. He used earth from my yard and fashioned a cell phone out of it (complete with buttons, a screen, microphone, and speaker, with the words "Nokia Mud Phone" on the back). I'm surprised it has survived as long as it has, I think my yard had considerable clay in it's composition
I'm thinking about getting one of these as a coat rack for my cubicle (for $9 how could I go wrong...):
http://www.storesupply.com/pc-14143-607-mans-torso-forms-black-70220.aspx
I agree, but why would it have gone through the roof?
I would posit that it would due to conventional oil production is in a state of decline or at best level outputs. Discoveries and new fields aren't covering the depletion gap, they haven't for some time. Here's a graph of discoveries versus production:
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efee45fmdh/oil-production-v-oil-discovery-2/
Saudi Arabia claims to have a bunch of excess production (over the OPEC quotas). They have stated publicly that they want $100 per barrel oil. If oil went to $150 or higher, would Saudi/OPEC bring their excess capacity to the market? Could they (the key question, the only one that really matters)?
Alternative oil fields help to keep a cap on oil prices but at the same time are dependent on oil prices being at a certain level where such oil production is economically feasible. That we are talking about such oil production at all is proof of "peak oil". Otherwise conventional (and much cheaper) oil production would be all that is needed.
If Saudi/OPEC did have a bunch of excess capacity they could dump it on the market and crush alternative oil developments.
The next couple of decades will be very interesting in my opinion...
It's actually mostly science these days. Check out the headlines on the front page. There are several energy experts and drilling specialists (who are in the know with regards to old technology like fracking, it's been around for decades by the way) on the site. The Drumbeats can be "Malthusian" as you say, but they are supposed to be open forum discussions (good info on LED lights, insulation, you name it).
And they don't cry "PEAK OIL" anymore. They mostly point out that energy prices cannot decline as the production methods being applied more and more these days aren't economically viable if the price of oil drops (fracking). And that these methods result in wells that decline fast and pollute.
Do you consider oil to be an infinite resource? If not, when do you think production costs will become prohibitive for a large swath of the Earth's population to afford (excluding Africa, they are already mostly priced out)? That's what they discuss these days.