Everyone believed that Saddam had WMDs prior to our invasion of Iraq
Seriously, no. Everyone _but_ the americans and Blair knew he didn't have any. The inspectors were right all along, and it all made sense.
The WMDs were just an excuse made up to fool the american people - something they succeeded in. They didn't fool the rest of the world though, which is why we were out in millions protesting against the conquering of a nation just to get your hands on more oil.
We were right. At the moment the US is poisioning the land with DU-ammunition, killing civilians in the many thousands. Nice work there.
This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true:
(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a posthuman stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.
It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.
(To stop all US comments about why we Europeans don't need this)
GPS is a military-run programme; its signals can be degraded or switched off. Yes, the service is free, but its continuity and quality come with no guarantees
Galileo will be a civil system. It will be run by a private consortium and will offer guaranteed levels of service
No. Please cite a reference, and I'll fail you on it. There will be no HD-DVD games for the Xbox 360. There _might_ be a version of the Xbox 360 that can play movies from HD-DVD, but I doubt it.
But then the bastard popped up on Al-Jazera speaking of current events.
No. Please cite a referense.
Further: The only dangerous country killing thousands of civilians that I know of as a threat is one under fascist control. The United States of America.
The fault is with the Xbox power supplies - not the cables. However, instead of recalling and fixing the actual problem Microsoft only have you a powercord with an automatic breaker.
That borders on being illegal in more than a few countries - Microsoft are very well aware of the fact that due to the original problem your house could still catch fire (as it did just this week for one user!)
iTunes proved you wrong a long time ago. Get with the program. Most of the people who have the money to buy stuff to begin with are very willing to do it on the web as well. The ones without money can download whatever they want - they wouldn't have paid anyway and so no one loses any money.
It's that simple, and the same will be true for tv-series and movies as well. We just want the service, the money is not a problem.
You do realise that no comparable building EVER has collapsed (perfectly, one might add) from fires? That includes fires that burnt a lot hotter, and for several days.
I'm a Mechanical Engineer myself, and I'd say there's absolutely no way, except for controlled demolitions, that WTC7 could have collapsed the way it did.
You're of course free to believe what you want, I just think you need to remember that while there exists lots of conspiracy theories on many things, sometimes the conspiracies exists as well. You _do_ realise that your leaders lied about just about everything regarding Iraq I hope? Or why not the Spanish American war:
President McKinley told the American people that the USS Maine had been sunk in Havana Harbor by a Spanish mine. The American people, outraged by this apparent unprovoked attack, supported the Spanish American War. The Captain of the USS Maine had insisted the ship was sunk by a coal bin explosion, investigations after the war proved that such had indeed been the case. There had been no mine. [link]
I can't believe you gotten moderated Insightful. Yes the 80s were quite cold here in Sweden as well - so? Do you really believe it was that way in the 70s as well? The 60s? The 50s?
Christ. People skated on the Thames only a few hundred years back - was that normal or not normal? Is the weather when _you_ were young the "most normal"?
We know for a fact that it was warmer in the Nordic countries as well as on Greenland when the Vikings were having the time of their life, compared to today.
Yet somehow that's conviniently forgotten in most climate debates.
Oh I knew:) I'm one of those white people living in a civilized western country who's actually _read_ the Quran to better understand the conflicts people sometimes attribute to Islam (which is largely false).
However, claiming (as you do) that there are people (and I hope you mean reputable sources) who do not believe Jahwe, God and Allah to be the same religious entity brings a burden of proof upon you.
The current fascist war regime in the US becomes so much more fun when you know that Bush is saying "Allah bless America" every now and then.
Most electronics stores in Sweden have the same policy. A few years ago one of them (Elgiganten) even offered 200% on the difference. They stopped with it after serious abuse when Microsoft went out and said "in 20 days time we'll lower the Xbox price with 50%". I have more than a few friends who got their boxes for free using the 200% payback that way...
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Everyone believed that Saddam had WMDs prior to our invasion of Iraq
Seriously, no. Everyone _but_ the americans and Blair knew he didn't have any. The inspectors were right all along, and it all made sense.
The WMDs were just an excuse made up to fool the american people - something they succeeded in. They didn't fool the rest of the world though, which is why we were out in millions protesting against the conquering of a nation just to get your hands on more oil.
We were right. At the moment the US is poisioning the land with DU-ammunition, killing civilians in the many thousands. Nice work there.
Don't forget that desktop Opera is as much an advertisment for the cellphone editions of Opera as it is a stand alone browser in itself.
Opera Mini just rocks.
Please explain the DRM differences between HD-DVD and Blu-ray.
Oh. Really?
That's what I thought as well.
(PS: You're wrong about how much room games will require in the next 4-5 years btw)
As in: The granularity (bits) of the computer would be the Planck scale, and the top speed of the computer's operations would be the speed of light.
This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true:
(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a posthuman stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.
It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.
(To stop all US comments about why we Europeans don't need this)
GPS is a military-run programme; its signals can be degraded or switched off. Yes, the service is free, but its continuity and quality come with no guarantees
Galileo will be a civil system. It will be run by a private consortium and will offer guaranteed levels of service
(from the article)
Please describe the differences in DRM between HD-DVD and Blu-ray.
Really, close to none?
Yeah, that's what I heard as well.
No. Please cite a reference, and I'll fail you on it. There will be no HD-DVD games for the Xbox 360. There _might_ be a version of the Xbox 360 that can play movies from HD-DVD, but I doubt it.
I read *somewhere* that some internal IBM person confessed to some blog writer
...
Yeah - me too. He's the one writing from Area 51, right?
But then the bastard popped up on Al-Jazera speaking of current events.
No. Please cite a referense.
Further: The only dangerous country killing thousands of civilians that I know of as a threat is one under fascist control. The United States of America.
The fault is with the Xbox power supplies - not the cables. However, instead of recalling and fixing the actual problem Microsoft only have you a powercord with an automatic breaker.
That borders on being illegal in more than a few countries - Microsoft are very well aware of the fact that due to the original problem your house could still catch fire (as it did just this week for one user!)
This is grade-school knowledge. Where are you from really?
You're welcome to have a look at the Nordic and Baltic countries then.
http://annual.nib.int/reviews/reviews_2_7.html
Osama bin Laden died quite a while ago. However, that's not what your Leader wants you to believe, and thus you might not know about it.
Fear Osama. Vote for your Leader. Be a good Citizen.
Osama bin Laden - dead
Everybody expects music on the web to be free
iTunes proved you wrong a long time ago. Get with the program. Most of the people who have the money to buy stuff to begin with are very willing to do it on the web as well. The ones without money can download whatever they want - they wouldn't have paid anyway and so no one loses any money.
It's that simple, and the same will be true for tv-series and movies as well. We just want the service, the money is not a problem.
:)
You do realise that no comparable building EVER has collapsed (perfectly, one might add) from fires? That includes fires that burnt a lot hotter, and for several days.
I'm a Mechanical Engineer myself, and I'd say there's absolutely no way, except for controlled demolitions, that WTC7 could have collapsed the way it did.
You're of course free to believe what you want, I just think you need to remember that while there exists lots of conspiracy theories on many things, sometimes the conspiracies exists as well. You _do_ realise that your leaders lied about just about everything regarding Iraq I hope? Or why not the Spanish American war:
President McKinley told the American people that the USS Maine had been sunk in Havana Harbor by a Spanish mine. The American people, outraged by this apparent unprovoked attack, supported the Spanish American War. The Captain of the USS Maine had insisted the ship was sunk by a coal bin explosion, investigations after the war proved that such had indeed been the case. There had been no mine. [link]
unprecedented warming trend
Seriously. No.
I can't believe you gotten moderated Insightful. Yes the 80s were quite cold here in Sweden as well - so? Do you really believe it was that way in the 70s as well? The 60s? The 50s?
a irs
Christ. People skated on the Thames only a few hundred years back - was that normal or not normal? Is the weather when _you_ were young the "most normal"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Thames_frost_f
You're not a liberal if you call yourself "on the left".
You must be American. You guys seldom get two things correct in one sentence.
We know for a fact that it was warmer in the Nordic countries as well as on Greenland when the Vikings were having the time of their life, compared to today.
Yet somehow that's conviniently forgotten in most climate debates.
Feel free to reply again when you can back up your initial argument.
Oh I knew :) I'm one of those white people living in a civilized western country who's actually _read_ the Quran to better understand the conflicts people sometimes attribute to Islam (which is largely false).
However, claiming (as you do) that there are people (and I hope you mean reputable sources) who do not believe Jahwe, God and Allah to be the same religious entity brings a burden of proof upon you.
The current fascist war regime in the US becomes so much more fun when you know that Bush is saying "Allah bless America" every now and then.
God, Jahwe and Allah are all the same entity. All three religions count Abraham as their ancestor.
(But maybe you did know that)
yuo get back to a point where the question of 'where did the matter come from' pops up, and evolution comes alogn and says that matter is eternal
Maybe - but it's far more plausable that time and matter began together.
Thus there is no "before" nor "eternal".
Most electronics stores in Sweden have the same policy. A few years ago one of them (Elgiganten) even offered 200% on the difference. They stopped with it after serious abuse when Microsoft went out and said "in 20 days time we'll lower the Xbox price with 50%". I have more than a few friends who got their boxes for free using the 200% payback that way ...