It could be a trinket like the one you get in WoW, the Barov Peasant Caller which calls forth 3 servants of the House Barov that will fight, cook, and clean for you. It could be like that, but calls 3 Red Shirts to fight, die and die for you.
This has been something that's been tried for about 30 years now in the States. By politicans Republican and Democrat it's looked down upon as Pork Barrel politics. Everyone from the Dakotas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Minnesota, and anywhere else with soy and corn production are in favor of it, everyone in the House and Senate from all the other states hate it.
It's been in the farm and energy bills pretty much constantly since the mid 70s, but it's not popular.
Example of a Republican take on it "Senator Jim Talent, the Missouri Republican, is one of the senators we admire most. That's why we're saddened to see him backing a costly and fruitless giveaway to special interests. Yesterday, Talent proposed -- and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources passed -- an amendment to the Senate energy bill that would mandate eight billion gallons per year in ethanol production. That puts Talent -- at least on this issue -- in the company of ex-Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, who got a five-billion-gallon mandate in last year's bill."
Far from it, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas all have very low unemployment rates and with the low cost of living it's much easier to own a home and live comfortably on the Great Plains than in the "successful" parts of the US.
South Dakota's rate right now is 4 percent, with urban areas in the Great Plains seeing unemployment rates as low as 1 percent at times.
I have a friend from High School in Sioux Falls South Dakota making 85K with a 2-year vo-tech degree right now, thats letting him build a 4,000 sq foot house. No income tax, low sales taxes.
2,500 sq feet in Rapid City/Black Hills can go for as little as 125K.
Star Trek TMP is good, I took some time a few years ago to watch it and then the director's cut all the way through and it's outstanding.
For a Top 10 Sci-Fi list... Apollo 13 Star Wars Ep IV Star Wars Ep V Dark City Star Trek TMP Star Trek Wraith of Kahn 2001 Serenity Couple others I can't think of because it's late.
/. is it's own heat engine, it's like a big old tropical storm of dupes, bad editors, stupid people and a bunch of really smart people. But we lost the Hot Grits in 1998.
Not sure about the class size issue since a giant 101 lecture about General Western History where the instructor drones on and on with 300 students won't be better with only 30 students in the class.
For me, Grad History student, I've used my Powerbook in classes ever since I went back to school and finished my BS degree. I use it to dig add to my notes and I use the Internet. I do better in classes where I can surf and find information than I do in classes where I have no access during class.
Teachers that are responsive to questions, corrections, etc are good, too bad alot of them can't handle it personally or professionally.
And if you want to use the web to look something up about class you can't while you are in class?
Heres my take on draconian systems in colleges, if I'm there paying money for it, I should be able to go as I like, surf if I like, skip class as I like.
The US gets the big "racist" tag over slavery when Arab slavery is ignored or "wasn't economic so it wasn't like American slavery" and lets not forget European slavery or the serfdom in Russia until the Revolution.
And yes, when the history of American Indian tribes and nations is discussed it is 98.5% Americas fault. The United States did this, it did that, woe to the American Indian because of Custer and Sheridan and the United States Army. Everything south of the Rio Grande is ignored because then it might make the Republics down there look bad after around 1820 and before that make the Portuguese, British, French, Dutch and Spanish look terrible.
Following the destruction of the Aztec and Inca the revitalization and recapitalization of Western Europe was almost wholely funded by the gold, silver and mercury from the New World. The trade routes to India were a drop in the bucket compared to what came out of Peru and Bolivia in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The United States did bad things to the American Indian nations in it's territory, I'm not denying that, as an American Indian and a historian. But all the crimes English and French speaking people in what is now the United States did to the American Indians and Hawaiians isn't a drop in the bucket compared to what happened to the Aztec and Incan empires./Returns to writing a grad school paper on the conquest of the Aztecs
Oooh. Indians chasing bison...yea USA take that...
Actually, the societies that hunted Buffalo were on the Great Plains only, the American Indians on the West Coast at tightly intergrated trading networks and had static communities. The American Indian tribes in the North East had tightly intergrated confederations and in the Southeast were advanced agricultural nations.
Of course down in modern Mexico you had the Maya, Aztec, Olmec and many others who built great cities, in fact the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan rivialed the greatest cities of Europe and the Ottoman Empire in size and ecilpsed them in architecture and organization according to the Europeans who saw them.
Without the wealth of the New World, it's not too much of a stretch to postulate that Europe would have ground itself into a nub against the Ottoman Empire in the 16th and 17th Centuries, unable to afford trade with India and China and unable to modernize the militaries which gave it the edge over the Ottomans and other European Nations who didn't modernize and lost in wars against Western Europe. Whose to say the Web wouldn't have been Chinese or Indian or even Ottoman had the New World not been colonized by Europe?
"...backing out of every nuclear treaty they've signed in the past 50 years"
When did the US back out of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Force, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water, SALT I, and Partial Test Ban Treaties?
Anthrax comes in 89 known strains. The best known is the virulent Ames strain, used in the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States. The Vollum (also incorrectly refered to as Vellum) strain, another one suitable for use as a biological weapon, was isolated in 1935 from a cow in Oxfordshire, UK, and used (specifically the Vollum 1B strain) during 1960s in the US and UK bioweapon programs.
The version used in the fall 2001 mailing was Ames, which is a strain used mostly for vaccine production.
You think that in a Nation-State with 200-300 million firearms in private ownership that if a movement rose up with enough support that the government couldn't be overthrown?
From causal conversations on the subject, I'd expect 33-45% of the soldiers and 50-75% of local law enforcement would stand on the side of the Citizens if it came down to an overthrowing the government situation.
As long as the citizens are armed, the government can be overthrown.
I think thats an urban legend as you can see tons of references to the use of.50 caliber (12.7mm) machine guns used against infantry from Vietnam on with large caliber guns being used all the time in urban combat in fights like Fallujah now.
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Now, as for the dig against the DoD, as a Military Historian whose been doing alot of research on the US military and the conflict with Iraq, I would like to point out that no nation on Earth has spent and spends as much time, lives and money to insure that conflicts are carried out as "legally" as they can be.
For example, during the March Up to Baghdad in 2003, JAG groups were embeded in the main force and follow-on forces and anything taken, down to the knock-off Pepsi in one of the factories owned by Uday, were paid for or people who owned it were paid for things taken or damaged.
It's not perfect and 100% "clean", but its not really accurate to critize the DoD, a War is a War and it is violent and unfair, but the US and other NATO militaries try much harder than anyone ever has to mitigate the impact on civilians and non-combatants.
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There was a good piece in the Atlantic I read last night about Torture and it's place in fighting terrorism.
"The Bush Administration has adopted exactly the right posture on the matter. Candor and consistency are not always public virtues. Torture is a crime against humanity, but coercion is an issue that is rightly handled with a wink, or even a touch of hypocrisy; it should be banned but also quietly practiced. Those who protest coercive methods will exaggerate their horrors, which is good: it generates a useful climate of fear. It is wise of the President to reiterate U.S. support for international agreements banning torture, and it is wise for American interrogators to employ whatever coercive methods work. It is also smart not to discuss the matter with anyone. If interrogators step over the line from coercion to outright torture, they should be held personally responsible. But no interrogator is ever going to be prosecuted for keeping Khalid Sheikh Mohammed awake, cold, alone, and uncomfortable. Nor should he be."
In the 1860s, a typical laborer in the United States or Canada might make $.50 to $4 US a day, while say a teacher would make $500-600 a year or $1.36-$1.64 dollars a day and a professor might make $1200-1500 a year
Not the slaves, the 'roads in the Western United States were mostly all done during and after the Civil War by the Irish, Veterans and Chinese laborers.
Authorized by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 and heavily backed by the federal government, it was finished on May 10, 1869 at the famous Golden spike event at Promontory Summit, Utah. Before that in 1859 the railway network of the eastern United States reached as far west as Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska. To connect the rail network with the Pacific coast, the Central Pacific Railroad was built from Sacramento, California eastward and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha westward, until they met.
The majority of the Union Pacific track was built by Irish laborers, veterans of both the Union and Confederate armies, and Mormons who wished to see the railroad pass through Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah. Mostly Chinese (coolies) worked for the Central Pacific even though at first they were thought to be too weak or fragile to do this type of work. The men worked for an average of between one and three dollars a day.
30-90 dollars a week was good money in the 1860s, equal to about 480-1440 dollars today.
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No, the US didn't use slave labor or virtual slave labor to industrialize. Slave labor was used for agribusiness in the South while the North was industrialized without slavery.
Unless you count factory workers as slaves, which they weren't even if one takes everything The Jungle teaches us.
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It could be a trinket like the one you get in WoW, the Barov Peasant Caller which calls forth 3 servants of the House Barov that will fight, cook, and clean for you. It could be like that, but calls 3 Red Shirts to fight, die and die for you.
It was the ASAT system launched from F-15s, the Air-Launched Miniature Vehicle (ALMV)h tm
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/almv.
The Russians had one too
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/russia/
Theres been a host of other systems that bordered on or had ASAT capabilites over the years.
This has been something that's been tried for about 30 years now in the States. By politicans Republican and Democrat it's looked down upon as Pork Barrel politics. Everyone from the Dakotas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Minnesota, and anywhere else with soy and corn production are in favor of it, everyone in the House and Senate from all the other states hate it.
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It's been in the farm and energy bills pretty much constantly since the mid 70s, but it's not popular.
Example of a Republican take on it
"Senator Jim Talent, the Missouri Republican, is one of the senators we admire most. That's why we're saddened to see him backing a costly and fruitless giveaway to special interests. Yesterday, Talent proposed -- and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources passed -- an amendment to the Senate energy bill that would mandate eight billion gallons per year in ethanol production. That puts Talent -- at least on this issue -- in the company of ex-Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, who got a five-billion-gallon mandate in last year's bill."
http://www.nationalreview.com/editorial/editors20
No jobs?
Far from it, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas all have very low unemployment rates and with the low cost of living it's much easier to own a home and live comfortably on the Great Plains than in the "successful" parts of the US.
South Dakota's rate right now is 4 percent, with urban areas in the Great Plains seeing unemployment rates as low as 1 percent at times.
I have a friend from High School in Sioux Falls South Dakota making 85K with a 2-year vo-tech degree right now, thats letting him build a 4,000 sq foot house. No income tax, low sales taxes.
2,500 sq feet in Rapid City/Black Hills can go for as little as 125K.
Star Trek TMP is good, I took some time a few years ago to watch it and then the director's cut all the way through and it's outstanding.
For a Top 10 Sci-Fi list...
Apollo 13
Star Wars Ep IV
Star Wars Ep V
Dark City
Star Trek TMP
Star Trek Wraith of Kahn
2001
Serenity
Couple others I can't think of because it's late.
/. is it's own heat engine, it's like a big old tropical storm of dupes, bad editors, stupid people and a bunch of really smart people. But we lost the Hot Grits in 1998.
Yep and even now when no one is on K5, it still loads slower than here.
I was reading about this one night.
What are the traps? How do they move information about the quantum state from one atom to another?
Not sure about the class size issue since a giant 101 lecture about General Western History where the instructor drones on and on with 300 students won't be better with only 30 students in the class.
For me, Grad History student, I've used my Powerbook in classes ever since I went back to school and finished my BS degree. I use it to dig add to my notes and I use the Internet. I do better in classes where I can surf and find information than I do in classes where I have no access during class.
Teachers that are responsive to questions, corrections, etc are good, too bad alot of them can't handle it personally or professionally.
And if you want to use the web to look something up about class you can't while you are in class?
Heres my take on draconian systems in colleges, if I'm there paying money for it, I should be able to go as I like, surf if I like, skip class as I like.
Oh yes, it's a terrible double standard.
/Returns to writing a grad school paper on the conquest of the Aztecs
The US gets the big "racist" tag over slavery when Arab slavery is ignored or "wasn't economic so it wasn't like American slavery" and lets not forget European slavery or the serfdom in Russia until the Revolution.
And yes, when the history of American Indian tribes and nations is discussed it is 98.5% Americas fault. The United States did this, it did that, woe to the American Indian because of Custer and Sheridan and the United States Army. Everything south of the Rio Grande is ignored because then it might make the Republics down there look bad after around 1820 and before that make the Portuguese, British, French, Dutch and Spanish look terrible.
Following the destruction of the Aztec and Inca the revitalization and recapitalization of Western Europe was almost wholely funded by the gold, silver and mercury from the New World. The trade routes to India were a drop in the bucket compared to what came out of Peru and Bolivia in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The United States did bad things to the American Indian nations in it's territory, I'm not denying that, as an American Indian and a historian. But all the crimes English and French speaking people in what is now the United States did to the American Indians and Hawaiians isn't a drop in the bucket compared to what happened to the Aztec and Incan empires.
Oooh. Indians chasing bison...yea USA take that...
Actually, the societies that hunted Buffalo were on the Great Plains only, the American Indians on the West Coast at tightly intergrated trading networks and had static communities. The American Indian tribes in the North East had tightly intergrated confederations and in the Southeast were advanced agricultural nations.
Of course down in modern Mexico you had the Maya, Aztec, Olmec and many others who built great cities, in fact the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan rivialed the greatest cities of Europe and the Ottoman Empire in size and ecilpsed them in architecture and organization according to the Europeans who saw them.
Without the wealth of the New World, it's not too much of a stretch to postulate that Europe would have ground itself into a nub against the Ottoman Empire in the 16th and 17th Centuries, unable to afford trade with India and China and unable to modernize the militaries which gave it the edge over the Ottomans and other European Nations who didn't modernize and lost in wars against Western Europe. Whose to say the Web wouldn't have been Chinese or Indian or even Ottoman had the New World not been colonized by Europe?
"...backing out of every nuclear treaty they've signed in the past 50 years"
When did the US back out of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Force, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water, SALT I, and Partial Test Ban Treaties?
Uh, you never gave me sources.
Anthrax comes in 89 known strains. The best known is the virulent Ames strain, used in the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States. The Vollum (also incorrectly refered to as Vellum) strain, another one suitable for use as a biological weapon, was isolated in 1935 from a cow in Oxfordshire, UK, and used (specifically the Vollum 1B strain) during 1960s in the US and UK bioweapon programs.
The version used in the fall 2001 mailing was Ames, which is a strain used mostly for vaccine production.
So, you know for sure that the Anthrax that was mailed out in the US was from the US Military? Source?
And you know the "real" reason for 9/11. Well, what was it and wheres a source or two for it?
Has M$ released a list of Xbox games which will work with the Xbox 360 yet?
You think that in a Nation-State with 200-300 million firearms in private ownership that if a movement rose up with enough support that the government couldn't be overthrown?
From causal conversations on the subject, I'd expect 33-45% of the soldiers and 50-75% of local law enforcement would stand on the side of the Citizens if it came down to an overthrowing the government situation.
As long as the citizens are armed, the government can be overthrown.
I think thats an urban legend as you can see tons of references to the use of .50 caliber (12.7mm) machine guns used against infantry from Vietnam on with large caliber guns being used all the time in urban combat in fights like Fallujah now.
Now, as for the dig against the DoD, as a Military Historian whose been doing alot of research on the US military and the conflict with Iraq, I would like to point out that no nation on Earth has spent and spends as much time, lives and money to insure that conflicts are carried out as "legally" as they can be.
For example, during the March Up to Baghdad in 2003, JAG groups were embeded in the main force and follow-on forces and anything taken, down to the knock-off Pepsi in one of the factories owned by Uday, were paid for or people who owned it were paid for things taken or damaged.
It's not perfect and 100% "clean", but its not really accurate to critize the DoD, a War is a War and it is violent and unfair, but the US and other NATO militaries try much harder than anyone ever has to mitigate the impact on civilians and non-combatants.
There was a good piece in the Atlantic I read last night about Torture and it's place in fighting terrorism.
The Dark Art Of Interrogation By Mark Bowden in the Oct 2003 Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200310/bowden
It closes with the following, which I agree with.
"The Bush Administration has adopted exactly the right posture on the matter. Candor and consistency
are not always public virtues. Torture is a crime against humanity, but coercion is an issue that is
rightly handled with a wink, or even a touch of hypocrisy; it should be banned but also quietly
practiced. Those who protest coercive methods will exaggerate their horrors, which is good: it
generates a useful climate of fear. It is wise of the President to reiterate U.S. support for international
agreements banning torture, and it is wise for American interrogators to employ whatever coercive methods
work. It is also smart not to discuss the matter with anyone.
If interrogators step over the line from coercion to outright torture, they should be held personally
responsible. But no interrogator is ever going to be prosecuted for keeping Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
awake, cold, alone, and uncomfortable. Nor should he be."
My experiance was in North Central South Dakota, things might be a little bit more pragmatic and even keeled up there and in Minnesota.
There wasn't a Synagogue in my home town, otherwise most likely we would have had Jewish kids running around at our Youth Group and retreats.
Eh, I was raised Lutherian and never, ever, ever did we hear a thing about the Catholics or the Pope in a good or bad way.
In fact, over half of our Church's Youth Group was Catholic because we had more fun in our Youth Group than thiers.
No, not virtual slaves.
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In the 1860s, a typical laborer in the United States or Canada might make $.50 to $4 US a day, while say a teacher would make $500-600 a year or $1.36-$1.64 dollars a day and a professor might make $1200-1500 a year
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjmartin
http://www.vmi.edu/archives/records/smith/60may00
Not the slaves, the 'roads in the Western United States were mostly all done during and after the Civil War by the Irish, Veterans and Chinese laborers.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_transcontinent
Authorized by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 and heavily backed by the federal government, it was finished on May 10, 1869 at the famous Golden spike event at Promontory Summit, Utah. Before that in 1859 the railway network of the eastern United States reached as far west as Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska. To connect the rail network with the Pacific coast, the Central Pacific Railroad was built from Sacramento, California eastward and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha westward, until they met.
The majority of the Union Pacific track was built by Irish laborers, veterans of both the Union and Confederate armies, and Mormons who wished to see the railroad pass through Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah. Mostly Chinese (coolies) worked for the Central Pacific even though at first they were thought to be too weak or fragile to do this type of work. The men worked for an average of between one and three dollars a day.
30-90 dollars a week was good money in the 1860s, equal to about 480-1440 dollars today.
No, the US didn't use slave labor or virtual slave labor to industrialize. Slave labor was used for agribusiness in the South while the North was industrialized without slavery.
Unless you count factory workers as slaves, which they weren't even if one takes everything The Jungle teaches us.