Saab and Cadillac are one in the same at the chasis and transmission level already.
The new Saab 9-3 shares engine, chasis, trany with the next Chevy Malibu and Pontiac Grand Am (2004 models)
The LS Lincoln is the same car as...Jag...XJ6...I think. The new Jag 4 door, whatever the name and the LS Lincoln.
I've drove both the BMW 3 and 5 sedans and the 230 MB and I'll take the Caddie CTS over both of them. The Infinity G35 and CTS IMHO are both better cars than any German ride in the 29K-42K price point.
The General and Blue Oval are getting alot better. I'm unsure of what DC is going to do with Chrysler/Dodge though.
"Buying a GM product for instance equates you with having no taste or style."
That isn't accurate.
While the General is slow to make changes, style and technology are making huge inroads in GM with Bob Lutz running the show.
Corvette, CTS, H2, XLR, SRX, the new Epsilon chasis, the new GTO, the new SSR, the Colorado are all well designed vehicles from GM that are much better than older models and can compete with BMW, Porsche, DC, or Ford*.
Cadillac, Saturn and Saab are all GM units and buying those does not equate anyone with no taste or style.
The C-5 is a world class sports car along with the 911, Viper, Ferrari and NSX.
Cadillac is a premier name in the same class as Jaguar, BWM, Mercedes-Benz** and Lincoln.
GMC and Chevrolet SUVs are every bit as good as BMW, MB, Rover or Toyota SUVs. GMC and Chevrolet trucks along with Ford*** are the best in the world. Toyota is trying to catch up with the Tundra.
The Northstar V-6 and V-8s are among the best in the world at those displacements. Allison transmissions are amoung the best The Duramax diesal is also amoung the best in it's class
* Ford of course owns Jaguar, Aston Martin, Land-Rover and Volvo ** Cadillac may or may not get into the super-luxury race with DC's Maybach and Rolls-Royce/Bentley with the concept V-16 or a Northstar V-12 *** Dodge trucks are questionable right now quality-wise with the big shifts going on in DC with the new full-sizes
The number of reported racist events happening to Muslims in the United States is a tiny fraction of the number of reported racist events for any other ethnic group.
http://www.newsindia-times.com/2002/12/06/usa-8- to p.html "The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Nov. 25 released a report on hate crimes that shows bias crimes against Muslims, which includes South Asians, had increased more than 1,600 percent since 2000.
There were barely 28 hate crimes against Muslims registered in FBI?s 2000 report, the latest FBI statistics show 481 incidents against this group that includes some South Asians occasionally mistaken for Arabs.
A total of 11,987 law enforcement agencies in 49 states and the District of Columbia collectively reported 9,730 bias-motivated incidents during 2001, notes the FBI report entitled ?Hate Crime Statistics, 2001, Incidents and Offenses.? This is compared to 8,063 bias-motivated criminal incidents reported in 2000 by 11,690 law enforcement agencies in 48 states and the District of Columbia."
8,063 criminal incidents in a population of 4 to 8 million.
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/fact2.htm
So there one in 744 have been a victim of a "hate crime".
"For the third year since the data has been reported, Native Americans were the victims of violence at rates far surpassing every racial and ethnic group. Based on statistics collected in a nationwide survey, Native men and women were victimized at a rate of 52.3 per 1,000. "
"This was twice as high as the rate reported by Hispanics (27.9 per 1,000) and Whites (26.5) and one and one-half times that of African-Americans (34.1) according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Native Americans were six more times likely to be a victim than Asian-Americans, the report stated."
http://www.turtletrack.org/STAR/SDBurning/HateCr im eStat.htm
Don't cry for the Muslims when the American Indians are getting it worse.
In 2000 there were 1,109 "hate crimes" against Jews and 28 against Muslims.
Now of course some of the upswing in anti-muslim hate crime might be due to the fact that 19 fellas with Islamic tendancies flew airplanes into buildings and others are getting arrested with Ricin in London. Maybe.
Also if people are going to talk about "hate crimes" what are the chances that if the Americans or Israelis occupied the Dome of the Rock for a while and held off the law enforment people by taking hostages it'd be alright in the Muslim world? Well the Palestinians took a Christan Holy Site hostage in Bethlehem.
"On April 2, leaders of Palestinian organizations, which are on the U.S. Department of State "Wanted" list fought their way into the Church of the Nativity. Hamas leaders include Ibrahim Abayat, a senior operative and recruiter; Aziz Jubran, a notorious bomb builder; and Jihad Jaara, a weapons dealer. All these terrorists have murdered innocent civilians.
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)'s tanzim militia leaders also inside the church include another Ibrahim Abayat, this one nicknamed Abu Galif; Abdalah Tirawi, the head of the Palestinian "general intelligence service" in Bethlehem; Kamel Hassan Hamid, Fatah, general secretary of Bethlehem, a weapons dealer and a "money bag" for terrorists operations. These are all Arafat's men, all involved in recent suicide bombings in Israeli neighborhoods, including in Beit Israel, Kiryat Yovel and Gilo."
Using priests and nuns as human shields is a violation of 1977 First Protocal of the Geneva Convention and is a war crime.
I'm saying that nothing happening to Muslims in the US is any worse than what happens to Whites, Blacks, Jews, Indians, Catholics or Asians. And furthermore people need to remeber that the Muslims of the world are not totally innocent of doing bad things.
"Canadian soldiers were shooting into the air during a live-fire training exercise in Afghanistan at least 10 minutes before a U.S. F-16 mistakenly dropped a bomb on their position, killing four Canadian soldiers and injuring eight, according to testimony by surviving soldiers."
They were taking Dexedrine. http://www.psyweb.com/Drughtm/dexed.ht ml
It's not just American pilots, but the pilots of pretty much every air force that has long missions.
"PSYCHOSTIMULANTS, particularly amphetamine, became available in America for clinical use in 1937, and since then have been widely prescribed. More recently, their beneficial effects have been overshadowed by the recognition of a significant abuse potential. Nevertheless, the military services, particularly the Air Force, have recognized the value of psychostimulants under certain conditions. Use of amphetamine, at the direction of the unit commander and under the supervision of the flight surgeon, has been sanctioned by some components of the Air Force since 1960 and by the tactical air forces until 1991. In March 1991, following successful completion of Operation Desert Storm, the chief of staff of the Air Force sent a message terminating the policy of allowing in--flight medications, including amphetamines, by Air Force personnel."
"Some military services recognized the potential of psychostimulants to combat fatigue and boredom. The greatest use of the drug reportedly occurred during World War II by German, Japanese, and English troops.Although American troops reportedly did not have access to the drugs, studies were initiated in the late 1940s and 1950s to determine the military significance."
Friendly fire has always happened, and I'm sure that in WW1 and WW2 and Korea somewhere a Canadian killed an American or three.
http://members.aol.com/amerwar/ff/ff.htm
Around 20-40% of war time casualties are from friendly fire typically.
Mistakes in war are the consequence of what Clausewitz called "friction,"
"everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate, and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has lowered the general level of performance, so that one always falls far short of the intended goal... The military machine ? the army and everything related to it ? is basically very simple and therefore seems easy to manage. But we should keep in mind that none of its components is of one piece: each part is composed of individuals... the least important of whom may chance to delay things or somehow make them go wrong... This tremendous friction, which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings about effects that cannot be measured, just because they are largely due to chance.
I've got XM in two cars and the programing is excellent.
I listen to Hank's Place, Boneyard, Fred, etc and I find the programing to be much better than local radio (Portland OR) and a billion times better than the streamed stuff from Direct TV.
I've heard alot of classic rock on the Boneyard that I didn't know exsisted before I had an exposure to this size of a library.
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/see/MusicChoice.js p
http://www.xmradio.com/programming/full_channel_ li sting.jsp?sort=number
If stuff like this is cultural terrorism, wouldn't it mean that America was founded on terrorism? (relating to native Americans)"
If one looks at the history of inter-tribal relations in the pre-European and post-European periods in North and Central America, you would see that by in large, Indian tribes were as bad to each other as the Europeans were.
I mean, at one point the Aztecs had a little party where they had 86,000 human sacrifices in 3 days, killing more people per minute than the Nazis ever did on a good day.
I'm a registered 1/4 PBP who lived 21 years on the Cheyenne River Reservation.
Problem was, the worst case at the time was a 707. 757 and 767s are much bigger.
http://revobiz.dyndns.org/group/seaint/2001c/msg 02 054.html "Try "Impact and Explosion, Analysis and Design " by M.Y.H Bangash, CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-7742-0
For aircraft impact on structures, there is the Stevenson's direct impact model, the Riera model and Wolf et al model; also included Impact force vs time curves for many aircraft models."
http://www.engg.ksu.edu/kse/features/wtc.htm
"At the time of construction, the buildings were built with the latest technology to withstand almost anything, even the impact of a 707. The 707 was the largest Boeing jet in existence at the time. Why did they still crumble to the ground if they were built to withstand the impact of a jumbo jet?"
"When the towers were constructed, the engineers were confident that the towers could withstand the immense blow from the largest plane of the era, the 140-ton Boeing 707 airliner. What the engineers of that time could not have predicted were the larger, 767's that the terrorists flew into defenseless buildings. The Boeing 767 is a massive airliner half the length of a football field and just as wide, weighing 225 tons (over 80 tons more than the 707). If the jets hit the towers at Mach.8 (530mph, regular cruising speed), they would hit with a force of 42 million Newtons or 128 kilotons of force."
And we know now that the biggest factor in the WTC strikes was the amount of fuel in the planes which weakened the steel.
http://www.civil.usyd.edu.au/wtc.htm
"However, as fire raged in the upper floors, the heat would have been gradually affecting the behaviour of the remaining material. As the planes had only recently taken off, the fire would have been initially fuelled by large volumes of jet fuel, creating potentially enormously high temperatures. The strength of the steel drops markedly with prolonged exposure to fire, while the elastic modulus of the steel reduces (stiffness drops), increasing deflections."
Oregon *doesn't* have a "high environmentalist contingent".
While I'm sure the "environmentalist contingent" here is high, there aren't that many environmentalists in the state, but the ones here are vocal and wacky.
Yep I said wacky and don't mean to flame. But anyone that thinks burning hundreds of metal, plastic, paint and rubber SUVs is better than said SUVs driving around is wacky.
Oregon is an odd place. You have alot of environmentalists living along side many more ranchers, furriers, farmers, loggers and fisherman. The environmentalists are mostly bunched in Portland and Eugene while the rest of the state doesn't like them one bit.
"Since the United States obtained uranium for its first atom bombs from a mine in the Kivu region, foreign governments have vied for Congo's uranium. In 1998 North Korea sent military trainers to Shinkolobe under an agreement with the country's former president, Laurent Kabila. They were swiftly withdrawn under US pressure after it was alleged they had reopened a uranium mine."
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/docs/1941/41-maud.ht ml There it talks about Canada and the Congo.
Phase 2 1942 "bought 1250 tons uranium from Congo"
Canada U
http://www.ccnr.org/uranium_events.html
"The US Government orders 60 tons of Canadian uranium from Eldorado; as a result, Eldorado decides to re-open the mine at Great Bear Lake -- in secrecy -- with special permission from the Canadian government."
"At this point over 220 tons of uranium from Great Bear Lake have already been delivered. From this point on, uranium from the Congo, refined at Port Hope, will dominate the Manhattan Project."
There wasn't enough weapon-grade Uranium in the United States in 1944 to make a weapon of this class. What did exist was being used to determine the physical properties of the material for weaponization.
The amount of weapon-grade Uranium from Oak Ridge and Hanford is well documented in histories of the "gadget". And besides, an American test would have taken place not in Chicago but out in the boondocks.
"Uranium resources were very rare so the bomb would have to be simple and guaranteed to work. The luxury of a test model would not be available."
It's repeated over and over by everyone involved and in each and every history of the American and Soviet programs at the beginings.
What I didn't see were comparisons to larger known conventional maritime explosions like in Texas or Halifax.
Just because it was a big blast doesn't mean it was a nuke. As for Teller, it was obvious from the interviews in the Atomic Bomb Movie that Teller is off his rocker.
"British Ministry of War Transport steamship (7,142 tons) loaded with 1,400 tons of munitions and a cargo of 9,000 cotton bales, was berthed in Bombay docks when a fire broke out with such ferocity that it soon reached the ammunition stored in the forward section of the ship. The resulting explosion was almost as great as the blowing up of the ammunition ship Mount Blanc in Halifax Harbour during the First World War. Fires on shore blazed for two days and nights as the flaming bales of cotton were hurled into the air only to drop onto the wooden shacks and shanties of Bombay's slums. In the harbour itself, eighteen merchant ships were either sunk or severely damaged. A total of 336 people died and over 1,000 injured."
"A gigantic explosion occurred at the West Lock Munitions Facility, Pearl Harbor, the cause of which has never been explained. The ammo-loaded ships were spaced in line apart from each other when the first explosion occurred at the dock setting off a series of explosions on the other ships. Some vessels managed to take evasive action thus terminating the domino like chain of explosions. Destroyed were the Landing Ship (Tank) LST-43, LST...69, LST-179, LST-353 and LST-480. Also destroyed were the Landing Craft (Tank) LCT(6)-961, LCT(6)-963 and LCT(6)-983. Bodies were being dragged from the water days after the event. Casualties were said to be over 1,000 killed or wounded."
So the Navy Pier accident isn't unique in violent destructive power.
There are two other explosions I've read about with similarities to the one that is pdf'ed to hell and back.
http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/community/explod e. html
Stored in the holds, or simply stacked on deck,of the Mont Blanc were 35 tons of benzol, 300 rounds of ammunition, 10 tons of gun cotton, 2,300 tons of picric acid (used in explosives), and 400,000 pounds of TNT.
"The Mont Blanc drifted by a Halifax pier, brushing it and setting it ablaze. Members of the Halifax Fire Department responded quickly, and were positioning their engine up to the nearest hydrant when the Mont Blanc disintegrated in a blinding white flash, creating the biggest man-made explosion before the nuclear age. It was 9:05am.
Over 1,900 people were killed immediately; within a year the figure had climbed well over 2,000. Around 9,000 more were injured, many permanently; 325 acres, almost all of north-end Halifax, were destroyed.
Much of what was not immediately levelled burned to the ground, aided by winter stockpiles of coal in cellars. As for the Mont Blanc, all 3,000 tons of her were shattered into little pieces that were blasted far and wide. The barrel of one of her cannons landed three and a half miles away; part of her anchor shank, weighing over half a ton, flew two miles in the opposite direction. Windows shattered 50 miles away, and the shock wave was even felt in Sydney, Cape Breton, 270 miles to the north-east."
http://sdsd.essortment.com/texascityexplo_rkvi.h tm http://www.texasoutside.com/galveston/texascity. ht m
"Little reported in the US media is the fact that repression in Saudi Arabia is actually worse than Iraq. In addition to the state repression, murder of opponemts, torture etc women are treated only slightly better than under the Taliban."
Hey, I'm all over a US lead over-throw of the Saudi regime. The difference right now is, as far as we know the Saudi government ISN'T threating anyone else with rockets and invasion. Saudi Arabia didn't toss rockets towards 4 other countries in 1991. Saudi Arabia didn't torch a thousand oil wells in 1991. Saudi Arabia didn't open the main valves on an port's oil system to try and destroy the eco-system of the Persian Gulf.
"The US, owner of the worlds largest arsenal of weapons of mass deestruction is claiming that it has to go to war to stop Iraq from making any weapons of mass destruction. In order to fight this war they plan to use land mines and cluster bombs - weapons the rest of the world believes should be banned."
The Russians are in the running for largest arsenal too. The US is entitled to have these weapons, just like Russia, China, UK and France are.
So the current government in Afghanistan is worse that the Taliban/Al Qada Islamic 7th century state?
And if we look at the governments CIA worked on in the Cold War, was Pinochet worse than a Marxist-Communist state? Was the South Vietnam government worse than what happened in the South after the Communists took over?
"In mid 1985 , the Hanoi government conceded that it still held about 10,000 inmates in the reeducation camps, but the actual number was believed to be at least 40,000. In 1982 there were about 120,000 Vietnamese in these camps."
"The authorities sought to address the problem of urban congestion by relocating many of the metropolitan jobless in the new economic zones hastily set up in virgin lands, often malaria-infested jungles, as part of a broader effort to boost agricultural output. In 1975 and 1976 alone, more than 600,000 people were moved from Ho Chi Minh City to these zones, in most instances, reportedly, against their will."
If a person is of sound enough mind and body to be allowed to get a drivers licence or log on to the Internet, they are of sound enough mind and body to be responsable for thier friggin' actions.
One thing that is going away in North America** is responsability for ones own actions. If you eat fast food and get fat, you are the one to blame, not Taco Bell for those yummy Double-decker Tacos. If you smoke and get lung cancer, today after 30 years of warnings, it is your fault, not RJR for making those nice cancer-sticks. If you drink and lose a job because of your relationship with Bacardi, it is your fault, not those rum merchants. If you buy Everquest and get addicted to it, it is your fault, not Sony's.***
* Obviously a crack addicted baby isn't at fault for mom's love of crack. Same with babies addicted to other drugs at birth.
** It is probably the same way in Europe too, but I don't want to get flamed by the EUians here so I added my little disclaimer.
*** Yes some people have inherited weaknesses for drink, drugs, sex, buying action figures, etc however it is an adult's responsability to know where that weakness is and avoid a situation that might get you in trouble. I for example am American Indian, Irish and German. There have been some serious alcoholics in my family over the last 100 years and my mother is/was a raging pot addict. So do I run around drinking and smoking all the bloody time? Nope, I know there is a problem there and I avoid a lifestyle that might take me down the path of drinking a half-gallon of Lord Calvert a day like my dear old Great-Grandfather did for 54 years.
Firstly, it's a dumb idea. About as workable as a "Ballistic Fingerprint".
Secondly, I know a ton of Law Enforcment officers carry thier "issue" piece (Sig, Glock, etc) and at least a personally purchased backup, and often a "belly gun" and maybe even an ankle gun.
Well what the hell happens in a fight if couple officers are underfire, and for some reason the partner has to use one of the other officer's backups?
A dead cop is what happens.
Smart grips don't work, aren't going to work for a while, it's a dumb law.
Besides, what stops Bill from buying a pistol at a PA gunshow or from the Classifieds and driving across the state line?
Yes, that may be true for the normal user in North America, Western Europe, the Middle East or one of the Asian Tigers or South America.
But in Africa, rural Asia or rural BFE Anywhere, you don't need more than 300 freakin' MHz. Period.
Unless you are running 3D applications or games, you don't need more than 400 MHz. Hell I ran 366 MHz G3, and 433 MHz Celeron for years and only on the newer games (RtCW, SoF 2, JK 2, WC3) did I wish I had more hardware.
I've got a 233 G3 upstairs running an Apache and mySQL server and it does just fine. Heck you can browse anything you want and rip MP3s from it.
I bought my 233 G3 PowerMac in the spring of 1998, it was a model designed in the summer of 1997. My 233 was 5 years old when I retired this Septmeber. It's about to be brought back as a Jaguar Server.
Be realistic, for the average Military, Business and Home user, there is no need for more than 300 MHz.
A family 15 klicks out from Datong in Shanxi province doesn't need a 2 GHz CPU for a number of reasons.
1. The power grid isn't going to be up to snuff, do you really want another 600 Watt machine on the grid?
2. Theres no need for a NIC, theres no need for an AGP bus.
3. You need something that doesn't need a shitload of ventilation.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm just telling you what Get Info told me.
I thought the numbers were off, but hey, I'm not here to make sense out of an OS.
http://mog.online.fr/SafariNoBrush.dmg
There, all gone.
Apple isn't getting rid of IE.
It's still in the Dock on every new Mac that ships.
Right now the only things IE has that Safari doesn't is Autofill and page archival features.
Oh and freezing, Safari doesn't freeze like IE does.
Chimera 0.6 (Navigator)
21.4 MB (21,743,324 bytes) Dec 20,2002.
Safari
7.2 MB (6,928,478 bytes) Jan 11, 2003
Chimera is ONLY the browser and bug feedback.
Saab and Cadillac are one in the same at the chasis and transmission level already.
The new Saab 9-3 shares engine, chasis, trany with the next Chevy Malibu and Pontiac Grand Am (2004 models)
The LS Lincoln is the same car as...Jag...XJ6...I think. The new Jag 4 door, whatever the name and the LS Lincoln.
I've drove both the BMW 3 and 5 sedans and the 230 MB and I'll take the Caddie CTS over both of them. The Infinity G35 and CTS IMHO are both better cars than any German ride in the 29K-42K price point.
The General and Blue Oval are getting alot better. I'm unsure of what DC is going to do with Chrysler/Dodge though.
"Buying a GM product for instance equates you with having no taste or style."
That isn't accurate.
While the General is slow to make changes, style and technology are making huge inroads in GM with Bob Lutz running the show.
Corvette, CTS, H2, XLR, SRX, the new Epsilon chasis, the new GTO, the new SSR, the Colorado are all well designed vehicles from GM that are much better than older models and can compete with BMW, Porsche, DC, or Ford*.
Cadillac, Saturn and Saab are all GM units and buying those does not equate anyone with no taste or style.
The C-5 is a world class sports car along with the 911, Viper, Ferrari and NSX.
Cadillac is a premier name in the same class as Jaguar, BWM, Mercedes-Benz** and Lincoln.
GMC and Chevrolet SUVs are every bit as good as BMW, MB, Rover or Toyota SUVs. GMC and Chevrolet trucks along with Ford*** are the best in the world. Toyota is trying to catch up with the Tundra.
The Northstar V-6 and V-8s are among the best in the world at those displacements.
Allison transmissions are amoung the best
The Duramax diesal is also amoung the best in it's class
* Ford of course owns Jaguar, Aston Martin, Land-Rover and Volvo
** Cadillac may or may not get into the super-luxury race with DC's Maybach and Rolls-Royce/Bentley with the concept V-16 or a Northstar V-12
*** Dodge trucks are questionable right now quality-wise with the big shifts going on in DC with the new full-sizes
The number of reported racist events happening to Muslims in the United States is a tiny fraction of the number of reported racist events for any other ethnic group.
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http://www.newsindia-times.com/2002/12/06/usa-8
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Nov. 25 released a report on hate crimes that shows bias crimes against Muslims, which includes South Asians, had increased more than 1,600 percent since 2000.
There were barely 28 hate crimes against Muslims registered in FBI?s 2000 report, the latest FBI statistics show 481 incidents against this group that includes some South Asians occasionally mistaken for Arabs.
A total of 11,987 law enforcement agencies in 49 states and the District of Columbia collectively reported 9,730 bias-motivated incidents during 2001, notes the FBI report entitled ?Hate Crime Statistics, 2001, Incidents and Offenses.? This is compared to 8,063 bias-motivated criminal incidents reported in 2000 by 11,690 law enforcement agencies in 48 states and the District of Columbia."
8,063 criminal incidents in a population of 4 to 8 million.
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/fact2.htm
So there one in 744 have been a victim of a "hate crime".
"For the third year since the data has been reported, Native Americans were the victims of violence at rates far surpassing every racial and ethnic group. Based on statistics collected in a nationwide survey, Native men and women were victimized at a rate of 52.3 per 1,000. "
"This was twice as high as the rate reported by Hispanics (27.9 per 1,000) and Whites (26.5) and one and one-half times that of African-Americans (34.1) according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Native Americans were six more times likely to be a victim than Asian-Americans, the report stated."
http://www.turtletrack.org/STAR/SDBurning/HateC
Don't cry for the Muslims when the American Indians are getting it worse.
In 2000 there were 1,109 "hate crimes" against Jews and 28 against Muslims.
Now of course some of the upswing in anti-muslim hate crime might be due to the fact that 19 fellas with Islamic tendancies flew airplanes into buildings and others are getting arrested with Ricin in London. Maybe.
Also if people are going to talk about "hate crimes" what are the chances that if the Americans or Israelis occupied the Dome of the Rock for a while and held off the law enforment people by taking hostages it'd be alright in the Muslim world? Well the Palestinians took a Christan Holy Site hostage in Bethlehem.
"On April 2, leaders of Palestinian organizations, which are on the U.S. Department of State "Wanted" list fought their way into the Church of the Nativity. Hamas leaders include Ibrahim Abayat, a senior operative and recruiter; Aziz Jubran, a notorious bomb builder; and Jihad Jaara, a weapons dealer. All these terrorists have murdered innocent civilians.
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)'s tanzim militia leaders also inside the church include another Ibrahim Abayat, this one nicknamed Abu Galif; Abdalah Tirawi, the head of the Palestinian "general intelligence service" in Bethlehem; Kamel Hassan Hamid, Fatah, general secretary of Bethlehem, a weapons dealer and a "money bag" for terrorists operations. These are all Arafat's men, all involved in recent suicide bombings in Israeli neighborhoods, including in Beit Israel, Kiryat Yovel and Gilo."
Using priests and nuns as human shields is a violation of 1977 First Protocal of the Geneva Convention and is a war crime.
I'm saying that nothing happening to Muslims in the US is any worse than what happens to Whites, Blacks, Jews, Indians, Catholics or Asians. And furthermore people need to remeber that the Muslims of the world are not totally innocent of doing bad things.
The big news is that they weren't on "crank". And the pilots were not told there was a live-fire exercise in a freakin' war zone.
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"Canadian soldiers were shooting into the air during a live-fire training exercise in Afghanistan at least 10 minutes before a U.S. F-16 mistakenly dropped a bomb on their position, killing four Canadian soldiers and injuring eight, according to testimony by surviving soldiers."
They were taking Dexedrine.
http://www.psyweb.com/Drughtm/dexed.h
It's not just American pilots, but the pilots of pretty much every air force that has long missions.
"PSYCHOSTIMULANTS, particularly amphetamine, became available in America for clinical use in 1937, and since then have been widely prescribed. More recently, their beneficial effects have been overshadowed by the recognition of a significant abuse potential. Nevertheless, the military services, particularly the Air Force, have recognized the value of psychostimulants under certain conditions. Use of amphetamine, at the direction of the unit commander and under the supervision of the flight surgeon, has been sanctioned by some components of the Air Force since 1960 and by the tactical air forces until 1991. In March 1991, following successful completion of Operation Desert Storm, the chief of staff of the Air Force sent a message terminating the policy of allowing in--flight medications, including amphetamines, by Air Force personnel."
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicle
"Some military services recognized the potential of psychostimulants to combat fatigue and boredom. The greatest use of the drug reportedly occurred during World War II by German, Japanese, and English troops.Although American troops reportedly did not have access to the drugs, studies were initiated in the late 1940s and 1950s to determine the military significance."
Friendly fire has always happened, and I'm sure that in WW1 and WW2 and Korea somewhere a Canadian killed an American or three.
http://members.aol.com/amerwar/ff/ff.htm
Around 20-40% of war time casualties are from friendly fire typically.
Mistakes in war are the consequence of what Clausewitz called "friction,"
"everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate, and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has lowered the general level of performance, so that one always falls far short of the intended goal... The military machine ? the army and everything related to it ? is basically very simple and therefore seems easy to manage. But we should keep in mind that none of its components is of one piece: each part is composed of individuals... the least important of whom may chance to delay things or somehow make them go wrong... This tremendous friction, which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings about effects that cannot be measured, just because they are largely due to chance.
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I've got XM in two cars and the programing is excellent.
I listen to Hank's Place, Boneyard, Fred, etc and I find the programing to be much better than local radio (Portland OR) and a billion times better than the streamed stuff from Direct TV.
I've heard alot of classic rock on the Boneyard that I didn't know exsisted before I had an exposure to this size of a library.
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/see/MusicChoice.j
http://www.xmradio.com/programming/full_channel
Direct TV doesn't hold a candle to XM or Sirius
If stuff like this is cultural terrorism, wouldn't it mean that America was founded on terrorism? (relating to native Americans)"
If one looks at the history of inter-tribal relations in the pre-European and post-European periods in North and Central America, you would see that by in large, Indian tribes were as bad to each other as the Europeans were.
I mean, at one point the Aztecs had a little party where they had 86,000 human sacrifices in 3 days, killing more people per minute than the Nazis ever did on a good day.
I'm a registered 1/4 PBP who lived 21 years on the Cheyenne River Reservation.
The WTC was designed to survive a plane strike.
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.8 (530mph, regular cruising speed), they would hit with a force of 42 million Newtons or 128 kilotons of force."
Problem was, the worst case at the time was a 707. 757 and 767s are much bigger.
http://revobiz.dyndns.org/group/seaint/2001c/ms
"Try "Impact and Explosion, Analysis and Design " by M.Y.H Bangash, CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-7742-0
For aircraft impact on structures, there is the Stevenson's direct impact model, the Riera model and Wolf et al model; also included Impact force vs time curves for many aircraft models."
http://www.engg.ksu.edu/kse/features/wtc.htm
"At the time of construction, the buildings were built with the latest technology to withstand almost anything, even the impact of a 707. The 707 was the largest Boeing jet in existence at the time. Why did they still crumble to the ground if they were built to withstand the impact of a jumbo jet?"
"When the towers were constructed, the engineers were confident that the towers could withstand the immense blow from the largest plane of the era, the 140-ton Boeing 707 airliner. What the engineers of that time could not have predicted were the larger, 767's that the terrorists flew into defenseless buildings. The Boeing 767 is a massive airliner half the length of a football field and just as wide, weighing 225 tons (over 80 tons more than the 707). If the jets hit the towers at Mach
And we know now that the biggest factor in the WTC strikes was the amount of fuel in the planes which weakened the steel.
http://www.civil.usyd.edu.au/wtc.htm
"However, as fire raged in the upper floors, the heat would have been gradually affecting the behaviour of the remaining material. As the planes had only recently taken off, the fire would have been initially fuelled by large volumes of jet fuel, creating potentially enormously high temperatures. The strength of the steel drops markedly with prolonged exposure to fire, while the elastic modulus of the steel reduces (stiffness drops), increasing deflections."
Oregon is about 370 miles east-west by about 300 miles north to south.
There is no sales tax, but there is an already high gas tax. There is an income tax.
Basicly the only people riding public transit are in Portland and Eugene. The rest of the state is lightly populated.
If you are in Portland and want to make it to Idaho, it's about 410 miles by freeway.
Oregon *doesn't* have a "high environmentalist contingent".
While I'm sure the "environmentalist contingent" here is high, there aren't that many environmentalists in the state, but the ones here are vocal and wacky.
Yep I said wacky and don't mean to flame. But anyone that thinks burning hundreds of metal, plastic, paint and rubber SUVs is better than said SUVs driving around is wacky.
Oregon is an odd place. You have alot of environmentalists living along side many more ranchers, furriers, farmers, loggers and fisherman. The environmentalists are mostly bunched in Portland and Eugene while the rest of the state doesn't like them one bit.
Works in Chimera (OS 10.2.3 - Build ID: 2002122004)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/26/10327342 28354.html
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"Since the United States obtained uranium for its first atom bombs from a mine in the Kivu region, foreign governments have vied for Congo's uranium. In 1998 North Korea sent military trainers to Shinkolobe under an agreement with the country's former president, Laurent Kabila. They were swiftly withdrawn under US pressure after it was alleged they had reopened a uranium mine."
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/docs/1941/41-maud.h
There it talks about Canada and the Congo.
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/Pacifi
Phase 2 1942
"bought 1250 tons uranium from Congo"
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http://www.ccnr.org/uranium_events.html
"The US Government orders 60 tons of Canadian uranium from Eldorado; as a result, Eldorado decides to re-open the mine at Great Bear Lake -- in secrecy -- with special permission from the Canadian government."
"At this point over 220 tons of uranium from Great Bear Lake have already been delivered. From this point on, uranium from the Congo, refined at Port Hope, will dominate the Manhattan Project."
Congo Uranium during WW2.
Most of the American uranium for the A-bombs came from the Belgian Congo.
Yea, he's full of shit.
There wasn't enough weapon-grade Uranium in the United States in 1944 to make a weapon of this class. What did exist was being used to determine the physical properties of the material for weaponization.
The amount of weapon-grade Uranium from Oak Ridge and Hanford is well documented in histories of the "gadget". And besides, an American test would have taken place not in Chicago but out in the boondocks.
"Uranium resources were very rare so the bomb would have to be simple and guaranteed to work. The luxury of a test model would not be available."
It's repeated over and over by everyone involved and in each and every history of the American and Soviet programs at the beginings.
I skimmed some of the PDFs.
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What I didn't see were comparisons to larger known conventional maritime explosions like in Texas or Halifax.
Just because it was a big blast doesn't mean it was a nuke. As for Teller, it was obvious from the interviews in the Atomic Bomb Movie that Teller is off his rocker.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/maritime-2
"British Ministry of War Transport steamship (7,142 tons) loaded with 1,400 tons of munitions and a cargo of 9,000 cotton bales, was berthed in Bombay docks when a fire broke out with such ferocity that it soon reached the ammunition stored in the forward section of the ship. The resulting explosion was almost as great as the blowing up of the ammunition ship Mount Blanc in Halifax Harbour during the First World War. Fires on shore blazed for two days and nights as the flaming bales of cotton were hurled into the air only to drop onto the wooden shacks and shanties of Bombay's slums. In the harbour itself, eighteen merchant ships were either sunk or severely damaged. A total of 336 people died and over 1,000 injured."
"A gigantic explosion occurred at the West Lock Munitions Facility, Pearl Harbor, the cause of which has never been explained. The ammo-loaded ships were spaced in line apart from each other when the first explosion occurred at the dock setting off a series of explosions on the other ships. Some vessels managed to take evasive action thus terminating the domino like chain of explosions. Destroyed were the Landing Ship (Tank) LST-43, LST...69, LST-179, LST-353 and LST-480. Also destroyed were the Landing Craft (Tank) LCT(6)-961, LCT(6)-963 and LCT(6)-983. Bodies were being dragged from the water days after the event. Casualties were said to be over 1,000 killed or wounded."
So the Navy Pier accident isn't unique in violent destructive power.
There are two other explosions I've read about with similarities to the one that is pdf'ed to hell and back.
http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/community/explo
Stored in the holds, or simply stacked on deck,of the Mont Blanc were 35 tons of benzol, 300 rounds of ammunition, 10 tons of gun cotton, 2,300 tons of picric acid (used in explosives), and 400,000 pounds of TNT.
"The Mont Blanc drifted by a Halifax pier, brushing it and setting it ablaze. Members of the Halifax Fire Department responded quickly, and were positioning their engine up to the nearest hydrant when the Mont Blanc disintegrated in a blinding white flash, creating the biggest man-made explosion before the nuclear age. It was 9:05am.
Over 1,900 people were killed immediately; within a year the figure had climbed well over 2,000. Around 9,000 more were injured, many permanently; 325 acres, almost all of north-end Halifax, were destroyed.
Much of what was not immediately levelled burned to the ground, aided by winter stockpiles of coal in cellars. As for the Mont Blanc, all 3,000 tons of her were shattered into little pieces that were blasted far and wide. The barrel of one of her cannons landed three and a half miles away; part of her anchor shank, weighing over half a ton, flew two miles in the opposite direction. Windows shattered 50 miles away, and the shock wave was even felt in Sydney, Cape Breton, 270 miles to the north-east."
http://sdsd.essortment.com/texascityexplo_rkvi.
http://www.texasoutside.com/galveston/texascity
"Little reported in the US media is the fact that repression in Saudi Arabia is actually worse than Iraq. In addition to the state repression, murder of opponemts, torture etc women are treated only slightly better than under the Taliban."
Hey, I'm all over a US lead over-throw of the Saudi regime. The difference right now is, as far as we know the Saudi government ISN'T threating anyone else with rockets and invasion. Saudi Arabia didn't toss rockets towards 4 other countries in 1991. Saudi Arabia didn't torch a thousand oil wells in 1991. Saudi Arabia didn't open the main valves on an port's oil system to try and destroy the eco-system of the Persian Gulf.
"The US, owner of the worlds largest arsenal of weapons of mass deestruction is claiming that it has to go to war to stop Iraq from making any weapons of mass destruction. In order to fight this war they plan to use land mines and cluster bombs - weapons the rest of the world believes should be banned."
The Russians are in the running for largest arsenal too. The US is entitled to have these weapons, just like Russia, China, UK and France are.
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So the current government in Afghanistan is worse that the Taliban/Al Qada Islamic 7th century state?
And if we look at the governments CIA worked on in the Cold War, was Pinochet worse than a Marxist-Communist state? Was the South Vietnam government worse than what happened in the South after the Communists took over?
http://www.1upinfo.com/country-guide-study/viet
"In mid 1985 , the Hanoi government conceded that it still held about 10,000 inmates in the reeducation camps, but the actual number was believed to be at least 40,000. In 1982 there were about 120,000 Vietnamese in these camps."
"The authorities sought to address the problem of urban congestion by relocating many of the metropolitan jobless in the new economic zones hastily set up in virgin lands, often malaria-infested jungles, as part of a broader effort to boost agricultural output. In 1975 and 1976 alone, more than 600,000 people were moved from Ho Chi Minh City to these zones, in most instances, reportedly, against their will."
I've had really, really good experiances with Magnolia H-Fi in Beaverton OR and Clackamas OR.
I go to another independant place for my speakers and receivers, but go to Mag Hi-Fi for my TVs and other pieces.
They are not drones from my experiance.
People are always to blame for thier addictions*.
If a person is of sound enough mind and body to be allowed to get a drivers licence or log on to the Internet, they are of sound enough mind and body to be responsable for thier friggin' actions.
One thing that is going away in North America** is responsability for ones own actions. If you eat fast food and get fat, you are the one to blame, not Taco Bell for those yummy Double-decker Tacos. If you smoke and get lung cancer, today after 30 years of warnings, it is your fault, not RJR for making those nice cancer-sticks. If you drink and lose a job because of your relationship with Bacardi, it is your fault, not those rum merchants. If you buy Everquest and get addicted to it, it is your fault, not Sony's.***
* Obviously a crack addicted baby isn't at fault for mom's love of crack. Same with babies addicted to other drugs at birth.
** It is probably the same way in Europe too, but I don't want to get flamed by the EUians here so I added my little disclaimer.
*** Yes some people have inherited weaknesses for drink, drugs, sex, buying action figures, etc however it is an adult's responsability to know where that weakness is and avoid a situation that might get you in trouble. I for example am American Indian, Irish and German. There have been some serious alcoholics in my family over the last 100 years and my mother is/was a raging pot addict. So do I run around drinking and smoking all the bloody time? Nope, I know there is a problem there and I avoid a lifestyle that might take me down the path of drinking a half-gallon of Lord Calvert a day like my dear old Great-Grandfather did for 54 years.
King Abdullah II's wife used to work for various computer companies in Jordan during the 80s and 90s before they were married.
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http://www.kingabdullah.jo/king_abdullah/king_a
http://209.41.172.238/profile.cfm
If I remeber the 60 Minutes piece right, she worked for Compaq and Apple.
Firstly, it's a dumb idea. About as workable as a "Ballistic Fingerprint".
Secondly, I know a ton of Law Enforcment officers carry thier "issue" piece (Sig, Glock, etc) and at least a personally purchased backup, and often a "belly gun" and maybe even an ankle gun.
Well what the hell happens in a fight if couple officers are underfire, and for some reason the partner has to use one of the other officer's backups?
A dead cop is what happens.
Smart grips don't work, aren't going to work for a while, it's a dumb law.
Besides, what stops Bill from buying a pistol at a PA gunshow or from the Classifieds and driving across the state line?
Yes, that may be true for the normal user in North America, Western Europe, the Middle East or one of the Asian Tigers or South America.
But in Africa, rural Asia or rural BFE Anywhere, you don't need more than 300 freakin' MHz. Period.
Unless you are running 3D applications or games, you don't need more than 400 MHz. Hell I ran 366 MHz G3, and 433 MHz Celeron for years and only on the newer games (RtCW, SoF 2, JK 2, WC3) did I wish I had more hardware.
I've got a 233 G3 upstairs running an Apache and mySQL server and it does just fine. Heck you can browse anything you want and rip MP3s from it.
I bought my 233 G3 PowerMac in the spring of 1998, it was a model designed in the summer of 1997. My 233 was 5 years old when I retired this Septmeber. It's about to be brought back as a Jaguar Server.
Be realistic, for the average Military, Business and Home user, there is no need for more than 300 MHz.
A family 15 klicks out from Datong in Shanxi province doesn't need a 2 GHz CPU for a number of reasons.
1. The power grid isn't going to be up to snuff, do you really want another 600 Watt machine on the grid?
2. Theres no need for a NIC, theres no need for an AGP bus.
3. You need something that doesn't need a shitload of ventilation.