That ignores the October 31, 1998 - Iraq Liberation Act
The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-338) was passed in the House and Senate by large bipartisan margins and signed into law by the US President Bill Clinton on October 31, 1998. Its stated purpose was: "to establish a program to support a transition to democracy in Iraq." After findings of past Iraqi military action and denial of United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) into its country to inspect for weapons of mass destruction, congress found: "It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime."
And it ignores the October 16, 2002 Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq
Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq (H.J.Res. 114) was a resolution passed in October 2002 by the United States Congress authorizing what was soon to become the Iraq War under the War Powers Resolution. The authorization was sought by U.S. President George W. Bush, and it passed the House by a vote of 296-133 and the Senate by a vote of 77-23, receiving significant support from both major political parties. It was signed into law by President Bush on October 16, 2002.
Its not just members of the current Administration, but it's been the policy of two Administrations, one Democrat and one Republican to change the administration in Iraq.
I don't buy as many albums as I used to, not because of piracy, but because the music sucks today.
I listen to XM Radio alot, and when I hear someone I like, I buy them. Like the Russel Allen's Atomic Soul CD I have sitting on my desk.
I will go and download music if the music isn't avaliable anymore in the States. Like Kingdom Come (Clone), I got into late 80s rock after hearing it on XM 41, and wanted some CDs, it's not generally avaliable in the States anymore, so I got the one CD I could from Amazon and have looked for others, unsuccessfully on the Internet.
Because alot of us have trained on AutoCAD, I trained on AutoCAD 10 and worked with 10-12, and when I use another tool like VectorWorks I can't understand why anyone would use anything but AutoCAD, it's easier to use and much more powerful than the other tools out there.
Autodesk is known in the CAD world as being very proactive about coming after users who are using the Student Version for commercial work and pirated copies.
At least it was in the 90s when I worked with Autodesk tools.
Note, SS1 didn't reach orbital speeds (17,500 mph) and thus didn't undergo the tempratures due to reentry that Shuttle and other orbital reentry vehicles go through.
It's not that they out smarted NASA, they aren't doing near as much as Shuttle does in terms of speed and reentry.
When they go to an orbital vehicle then they'll have to deal with that level of speed and temp.
Abu Ghraib was Americans, but it is a situation that Humans bring about. I was reading the Journal of Higher Education last summer and there was a story about Abi Ghraib and psychology, the Doctors quoted said we shouldn't be suprised it happened when there was a lack of direct control on the jailers by thier superiors, but we should be suprised it doesn't happen more in military and police environments.
Gitmo is a military prison, pure and simple, nothing different than thousands of military prison camps in the last 110 years across the US/Canada and Europe. Good lord, compare what happens at Gitmo and the conditions to a Imperial Japanese Army camp in WW2, a Chinese or North Korean workcamp today or what happens when someone is captured by Al Qadea today.
As for what has happened to Blacks in the US, it's bad, but it's something that has gone on in the Americas and Europe and the Middle East for centuries. That doesn't make it right, but it's not something to single out the US about. HBO Real Sports this week had a story about the racism in European Football at matches. I've been to Pro Football in the US and Pro Football in Israel and the UK, the UK was the only place where the Skinheads got thier own section and spit on players.
The American Indians in the United States is a history of mixed signals and missed opportunities in regards to the law, racism and military operations. Being Indian and from a Reservation, it's hard to explain but I don't think what happened, at least to the Plains Indians, can be solely blamed on the US government or the Whites. The Plains Indians made mistakes as well that lead to a breakdown in communication from 1862 on.
Handing the Internet to the UN isn't a good thing. If anyone is likely to filter it, it's the UN. It's not "Open Sourcing" the Internet, it's handing it over to quite possibly the most corrupt and incompetant organization on the planet.
"The prostitue (Inara?) mentioned that the red-headed woman was using body language, tones of voice, etc., to seduce people, and that she had learned these for the specific purpose of seducing. Straight from the bene gesserit training described by Herbert."
Well, the whole stripper/high class whore subculture there is all about reading body language and such to seduce dollars out of wallets.
Bene Gesserits are a secretive sisterhood who train their bodies and minds though years of physical and mental conditioning, attaining powers and abilities that can seem almost magical. The Bene Gesserit practice "religious engineering" through a department called the Missionaria Protectiva. Reverend Mothers plant legends and prophecies throughout the universe of messiahs and pivotal figures to come.
Yea that doesn't happen in Firefly, and theres no references to it.
Inara and Saffy there in Firefire are just whores that went to whoreschool.
In each squad I think there is a military grade GPS reciever, since Afghanistan and more so, Iraq, more and more soldiers are carrying thier own GPS hand held which is good enough for field work.
The new military channels will be more for JDAM/Cruise Missiles and other targeting systems.
"The courts have held that fingerprints may be retained even if no conviction ultimately results. I see fingerprints and DNA falling under "papers" in which we should be secure from unreasonable search."
Exactly my point. What we feel about it doesn't matter. What the Courts decided matters in regards to our personal freedoms in this Country and others. They decide what Rights the Individual gets. If it was up to the Masses to decide things, then in the 1920s through 1940s there would have been mass steralizations of the poor and minorities across the Western World, if the Public decided policy than all sorts of terrible things would happen. The Courts are the people society has decided gets to decide for us. I see a world where rapists are publicly executed and a citizen can own weapons up to 23mm without registration and you see fingerprints and DNA falling under a lockbox. It's not up to us to decide these things, but the Courts.
The Courts keep whacky ideas that a person has from becoming a terrible reality.
Right or wrong, I trust the Courts to make the right decisions more than they make the wrong ones.
We don't know if it's violating anyone's rights as a Mob or Individuals. The fingerprints, testimony, photographs and other evidence is kept if one is found innocent or released or even if not charged. Why should DNA be different?
My stance is, I don't know if this is illegal, immoral or unconstitutional, thats the Court's role. Thats why I said and why I say, it will go to the Supreme Court and if it's Unconstitutional, it'll get outlawed.
The New York Herald-Tribune referred to the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, as "Hitler's Angel" and mentioned Bush only as an employee of the investment banking firm Thyssen used in the USA.
Shortly after George W. Bush's election as U.S. president, Canadian bloggers, apparently affiliated with perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, began a determined effort to circulate reports that Prescott Bush himself had been known as "Hitler's Angel".
Well, I'm not going to commit a Federal crime for starters. Then IF it does pass, eventually it will go to the Supreme Court and if it's Unconstitutional, it'll get outlawed.
"In mammals including humans, the lymphatic vessels (or lymphatics) are a network of thin tubes that branch, like blood vessels, into tissues throughout the body. Lymphatic vessels carry lymph, a colorless, watery fluid originating from interstitial fluid (fluid in the tissues). The lymphatic system transports infection-fighting cells called lymphocytes, is involved in the removal of foreign matter and cell debris by phagocytes and is part of the body's immune system. It also transports fats from the small intestine to the blood."
"Urine is liquid waste excreted by the kidneys and eventually expelled from the body in a process known as urination. Most commonly the excretion of urine serves for flushing waste molecules collected from the blood by the kidneys"
The ICBL has identified the following countries as manufacturing landmines as of August 2004. None are signatories of the Ottawa Treaty. Cuba Iraq (although production had presumably ceased since the invasion of 2003) Iran India Myanmar Nepal North Korea Pakistan Russian Federation Singapore Vietnam
Of other states which are thought to have manufactured landmines recently: Turkey is now a signatory of the Ottawa Treaty Serbia and Montenegro is now a signatory of the Ottawa Treaty Egypt has unofficially stated that production ceased in 1988. The United States has not manufactured anti-personnel mines since 1997, but a government statement in February 2004 stated that, "The United States will continue to develop non-persistent anti-personnel and anti-tank landmines." South Korea has stated that no mines have been produced since 2000. An official from China stated in September 2003 that production has ceased there, since they have an ample stockpile. In March 2004, a Libyan official stated that the country has never produced anti-personnel mines, but is known to have laid landmines in the 1970s and 1980s A United Nations Assessment Mission to Peru reported that production of landmines in the country ceased in January 1999. Peru was one of the original signatories and to the treaty came into force for them in March 1999.
"Shock and Awe" was a depcapitation strike on the Iraqi Leadership, it was not the entire bombing campaign. It was conducted with guided weapons and not cluster bombs. Cluster bombs and other unguided munitions were used during the rest of the campaign.
However technically, Shock and Awe in the terms of US military operations is a post-Cold War military doctrine for the United States. Rapid Dominance and Shock and Awe, it was written, may become a "revolutionary change" as the United States military is reduced in size and information technology is increasingly integrated into warfare. Subsequent U.S. military authors have written that Rapid Dominance exploits "superior technology, precision engagement, and information dominance" which they attribute to the United States.
As for DU, we don't know what DU does in terms of people's health. There is evidence both ways on DU.
"The International Atomic Energy Agency reported, "based on credible scientific evidence, there is no proven link between DU exposure and increases in human cancers or other significant health or environmental impacts,"
In the Second World War you'd see thousands of casualties per day in a siege or offensive.
300,000 in the siege of Berlin 107,000 in the Battle of Okinawa 23,000 to 30,000 in Iraq in 2003, a nation of 23 million - Yes the Lancet says 100,000 but that figure is not accepted by many.
It's a huge change in the way wars are fought and civilian casualties.
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I've seen it in the States as assualt with a deadly weapon and unlawful endangerment.
Map of states with laws on it.
http://tinyurl.com/9jsg6
How would the EU/UN wrestle control of the Top Level Domain servers from the United States?
Wrestle the United States for it? Send in the United Nations Peacekeepers? Take it up at the UN Security Council?
That ignores the October 31, 1998 - Iraq Liberation Act
The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-338) was passed in the House and Senate by large bipartisan margins and signed into law by the US President Bill Clinton on October 31, 1998. Its stated purpose was: "to establish a program to support a transition to democracy in Iraq." After findings of past Iraqi military action and denial of United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) into its country to inspect for weapons of mass destruction, congress found: "It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime."
And it ignores the October 16, 2002 Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq
Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq (H.J.Res. 114) was a resolution passed in October 2002 by the United States Congress authorizing what was soon to become the Iraq War under the War Powers Resolution. The authorization was sought by U.S. President George W. Bush, and it passed the House by a vote of 296-133 and the Senate by a vote of 77-23, receiving significant support from both major political parties. It was signed into law by President Bush on October 16, 2002.
Its not just members of the current Administration, but it's been the policy of two Administrations, one Democrat and one Republican to change the administration in Iraq.
I don't buy as many albums as I used to, not because of piracy, but because the music sucks today.
I listen to XM Radio alot, and when I hear someone I like, I buy them. Like the Russel Allen's Atomic Soul CD I have sitting on my desk.
I will go and download music if the music isn't avaliable anymore in the States. Like Kingdom Come (Clone), I got into late 80s rock after hearing it on XM 41, and wanted some CDs, it's not generally avaliable in the States anymore, so I got the one CD I could from Amazon and have looked for others, unsuccessfully on the Internet.
This year, bought 5 CDs.
Downloaded 0.
Alot of folks use it in industrial and process pipe work.
I've only done industrial, process pipe and Arch, and all I've used is AutoCAD professionally.
For my hobby work, I prefer AutoCAD since I'm used to the toolset in there.
Because alot of us have trained on AutoCAD, I trained on AutoCAD 10 and worked with 10-12, and when I use another tool like VectorWorks I can't understand why anyone would use anything but AutoCAD, it's easier to use and much more powerful than the other tools out there.
I guess once AutoCAD, always AutoCAD
Autodesk is known in the CAD world as being very proactive about coming after users who are using the Student Version for commercial work and pirated copies.
At least it was in the 90s when I worked with Autodesk tools.
Autodesk will kill other platforms and there'll be crazy anti-piracy attached to all the aquired products.
Note, SS1 didn't reach orbital speeds (17,500 mph) and thus didn't undergo the tempratures due to reentry that Shuttle and other orbital reentry vehicles go through.
It's not that they out smarted NASA, they aren't doing near as much as Shuttle does in terms of speed and reentry.
When they go to an orbital vehicle then they'll have to deal with that level of speed and temp.
Abu Ghraib was Americans, but it is a situation that Humans bring about. I was reading the Journal of Higher Education last summer and there was a story about Abi Ghraib and psychology, the Doctors quoted said we shouldn't be suprised it happened when there was a lack of direct control on the jailers by thier superiors, but we should be suprised it doesn't happen more in military and police environments.
Gitmo is a military prison, pure and simple, nothing different than thousands of military prison camps in the last 110 years across the US/Canada and Europe. Good lord, compare what happens at Gitmo and the conditions to a Imperial Japanese Army camp in WW2, a Chinese or North Korean workcamp today or what happens when someone is captured by Al Qadea today.
As for what has happened to Blacks in the US, it's bad, but it's something that has gone on in the Americas and Europe and the Middle East for centuries. That doesn't make it right, but it's not something to single out the US about. HBO Real Sports this week had a story about the racism in European Football at matches. I've been to Pro Football in the US and Pro Football in Israel and the UK, the UK was the only place where the Skinheads got thier own section and spit on players.
The American Indians in the United States is a history of mixed signals and missed opportunities in regards to the law, racism and military operations. Being Indian and from a Reservation, it's hard to explain but I don't think what happened, at least to the Plains Indians, can be solely blamed on the US government or the Whites. The Plains Indians made mistakes as well that lead to a breakdown in communication from 1862 on.
Handing the Internet to the UN isn't a good thing. If anyone is likely to filter it, it's the UN. It's not "Open Sourcing" the Internet, it's handing it over to quite possibly the most corrupt and incompetant organization on the planet.
"I don't know ttrafford is talking about. There's no indication at all the Companions have any sort of hidden motive."
Well he must assume that women in a sci-fi setting that dress and talk nice have hidden motive.
There is ZERO mention of who is in charge of the companions in Firefly. There is mention of schools, medical tests and thats it.
With no background to the companion "system" other than it's a Guild, how can you say there seemed to be an effort to do anything?
They take up with "people of influence" since people of influence have money and refinment.
"The prostitue (Inara?) mentioned that the red-headed woman was using body language, tones of voice, etc., to seduce people, and that she had learned these for the specific purpose of seducing. Straight from the bene gesserit training described by Herbert."
Well, the whole stripper/high class whore subculture there is all about reading body language and such to seduce dollars out of wallets.
Bene Gesserits are a secretive sisterhood who train their bodies and minds though years of physical and mental conditioning, attaining powers and abilities that can seem almost magical. The Bene Gesserit practice "religious engineering" through a department called the Missionaria Protectiva. Reverend Mothers plant legends and prophecies throughout the universe of messiahs and pivotal figures to come.
Yea that doesn't happen in Firefly, and theres no references to it.
Inara and Saffy there in Firefire are just whores that went to whoreschool.
In each squad I think there is a military grade GPS reciever, since Afghanistan and more so, Iraq, more and more soldiers are carrying thier own GPS hand held which is good enough for field work.
The new military channels will be more for JDAM/Cruise Missiles and other targeting systems.
"The courts have held that fingerprints may be retained even if no conviction ultimately results. I see fingerprints and DNA falling under "papers" in which we should be secure from unreasonable search."
Exactly my point. What we feel about it doesn't matter. What the Courts decided matters in regards to our personal freedoms in this Country and others. They decide what Rights the Individual gets. If it was up to the Masses to decide things, then in the 1920s through 1940s there would have been mass steralizations of the poor and minorities across the Western World, if the Public decided policy than all sorts of terrible things would happen. The Courts are the people society has decided gets to decide for us. I see a world where rapists are publicly executed and a citizen can own weapons up to 23mm without registration and you see fingerprints and DNA falling under a lockbox. It's not up to us to decide these things, but the Courts.
The Courts keep whacky ideas that a person has from becoming a terrible reality.
Right or wrong, I trust the Courts to make the right decisions more than they make the wrong ones.
We don't know if it's violating anyone's rights as a Mob or Individuals. The fingerprints, testimony, photographs and other evidence is kept if one is found innocent or released or even if not charged. Why should DNA be different?
My stance is, I don't know if this is illegal, immoral or unconstitutional, thats the Court's role. Thats why I said and why I say, it will go to the Supreme Court and if it's Unconstitutional, it'll get outlawed.
Like they do with mug shots and fingerprints already at the State and Federal level.
They profile EVERYONE who has been arrested or detained already, even if innocent, even if charges are dropped.
The New York Herald-Tribune referred to the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, as "Hitler's Angel" and mentioned Bush only as an employee of the investment banking firm Thyssen used in the USA.
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Shortly after George W. Bush's election as U.S. president, Canadian bloggers, apparently affiliated with perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, began a determined effort to circulate reports that Prescott Bush himself had been known as "Hitler's Angel".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#Nazi_t
Well, I'm not going to commit a Federal crime for starters. Then IF it does pass, eventually it will go to the Supreme Court and if it's Unconstitutional, it'll get outlawed.
"In mammals including humans, the lymphatic vessels (or lymphatics) are a network of thin tubes that branch, like blood vessels, into tissues throughout the body. Lymphatic vessels carry lymph, a colorless, watery fluid originating from interstitial fluid (fluid in the tissues). The lymphatic system transports infection-fighting cells called lymphocytes, is involved in the removal of foreign matter and cell debris by phagocytes and is part of the body's immune system. It also transports fats from the small intestine to the blood."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymph
"Urine is liquid waste excreted by the kidneys and eventually expelled from the body in a process known as urination. Most commonly the excretion of urine serves for flushing waste molecules collected from the blood by the kidneys"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine
Light Rail works in Portland Metro, we don't have lakes, but we have a river and tall hills in close proximity.
Come down to Portland, then go back to Seattle and then Seattle gets the bad urban planning award.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mines#Manufactur ers
The ICBL has identified the following countries as manufacturing landmines as of August 2004. None are signatories of the Ottawa Treaty.
Cuba
Iraq (although production had presumably ceased since the invasion of 2003)
Iran
India
Myanmar
Nepal
North Korea
Pakistan
Russian Federation
Singapore
Vietnam
Of other states which are thought to have manufactured landmines recently:
Turkey is now a signatory of the Ottawa Treaty
Serbia and Montenegro is now a signatory of the Ottawa Treaty
Egypt has unofficially stated that production ceased in 1988.
The United States has not manufactured anti-personnel mines since 1997, but a government statement in February 2004 stated that, "The United States will continue to develop non-persistent anti-personnel and anti-tank landmines."
South Korea has stated that no mines have been produced since 2000.
An official from China stated in September 2003 that production has ceased there, since they have an ample stockpile.
In March 2004, a Libyan official stated that the country has never produced anti-personnel mines, but is known to have laid landmines in the 1970s and 1980s
A United Nations Assessment Mission to Peru reported that production of landmines in the country ceased in January 1999. Peru was one of the original signatories and to the treaty came into force for them in March 1999.
"Shock and Awe" was a depcapitation strike on the Iraqi Leadership, it was not the entire bombing campaign. It was conducted with guided weapons and not cluster bombs. Cluster bombs and other unguided munitions were used during the rest of the campaign.
However technically, Shock and Awe in the terms of US military operations is a post-Cold War military doctrine for the United States. Rapid Dominance and Shock and Awe, it was written, may become a "revolutionary change" as the United States military is reduced in size and information technology is increasingly integrated into warfare. Subsequent U.S. military authors have written that Rapid Dominance exploits "superior technology, precision engagement, and information dominance" which they attribute to the United States.
As for DU, we don't know what DU does in terms of people's health. There is evidence both ways on DU.
"The International Atomic Energy Agency reported, "based on credible scientific evidence, there is no proven link between DU exposure and increases in human cancers or other significant health or environmental impacts,"
Google Knave - http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en& q=B-52&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-52.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-52_Stratofortress
Well, yea the weapons are good enough.
In the Second World War you'd see thousands of casualties per day in a siege or offensive.
300,000 in the siege of Berlin
107,000 in the Battle of Okinawa
23,000 to 30,000 in Iraq in 2003, a nation of 23 million - Yes the Lancet says 100,000 but that figure is not accepted by many.
It's a huge change in the way wars are fought and civilian casualties.