The American Revolutionary War had an insurgency, as did the American Civil War, but the bulk of the fighting, the majority of battles and the majority of casualties are because of regular uniformed armies fighting by the standards and rules of war as they existed at those times.
So really, one can't say the US war liberated by an insurgency, the territories (colonies) banded together and created regular uniformed armies and then created a multi-colonial army with territorial auxiliaries and irregulars on the periphery.
So in Afghanistan, if the Taliban fought on the side of the Afghan National Army, it'd be similar.
Even the American Indian Wars had regular forces on both sides fighting, albeit with small-war and insurgency tactics for many of the Indian Wars. John Chivington's attack in 1864 was notorious because it was one of the main times the Union/US forces didn't fight the American Indian war bands, instead attacking a civilian target, just as the Sioux had struck at civilian targets in Minnesota two years earlier.
Cleric is a greek term. It's a member of the clergy of a religion, especially one who is a priest, preacher, pastor, or other religious professional. It is often, and incorrectly, used to refer to the religious leadership in Islam, where the term priest is not accurate and where terms such as Alim or Ulama are not widely understood in the English-speaking world.
Cleric is used in the west, officially, in the Greek, Russian and Egyptian Churches and used to be used in the Roman Catholic Church.
So it'd be better if the game had some missions from their side of things?
Maybe take a technical full of Taliban down to the village, kill the girls going to school there, hang the homosexual man who just moved back from Kandahar and for a bonus, destroy 20 of 20 DVD players and cell phones.
Americans, Canadians, Germans, Dutch, French, Afghanis, Pakistanis, British, Mongolians, Australians, New Zealanders, and a host of others are fighting with the Taliban.
Yea, we use Proloquo2go. Right now we are trying out iOS for input, Autism Spectrum stuff, and as a lightweight replacement for laptops for field work out in the Bush.
I think we have 12-15 iPads right now being used for various things at the agency and more coming.
I mentioned this conversation to my boss who does more of the Ed side while I do technology, he's interested in what you guys are working on.
Socialism doesn't mean the Government owns the company or means of production. Even in the Soviet Union, under communism, there were companies, bureaus and collectives that worked under contract and order for the government.
So, I'll stand by it, the US Defense Industry is mostly (95%) beholden to the US Military and Intelligence agencies.
Companies that are more diversified, like Boeing, wouldn't have military sections if the US government didn't have a strategic need for it.
What nationwide passenger train company or agency is there in the US other than Amtrak? What company is allowed to deliver mail in the US other than the USPS?
"Article I, section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution grants Congress the power to establish post offices and post roads. The Federal Government has interpreted this clause as granting a de facto Congressional monopoly over the delivery of mail. According to the government, no other system for delivering mail - public or private - can be established, absent Congress's consent.
FedEx and United Parcel Service (UPS) directly compete with USPS express mail and package delivery services, making nationwide deliveries of urgent letters and packages. Due to the postal monopoly, they are not allowed to deliver non-urgent letters and may not use U.S. Mail boxes at residential and commercial destinations"
That is generally a right-wing attitude, the "I love my country, but I fear my government", many vehicles that have that slogan as a sticker also have something about right to bear arms.
The Defense Industry. Over four million workers outside of the DoD's 2.1 million employees. Everything is orchestrated by and for the US military or Foreign Military Sales.
That and it's offshoots NASA and the Aerospace Industry are as close to completely socialized sectors of the economy as you'll get.
Oh, two that are government controlled - AMTRAK and US Postal Service.
No, you said "They get some new goal, spend millions/billions on a project, cancel it, and have nothing to show for it. And they repeat this cycle over and over and over." That would include recent missions, like the rovers, Hubble maintenance, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Hubble and the Hubble maintenance missions are failures in your eyes? Those are all manned.
What about NASA aerospace research programs? Those all failures too?
But by 1960 the "gap" was closed. Minuteman came online with a technology completely different than what was used for manned flight, same with Polaris. Both used advanced guidance and were solid fueled, throw weight didn't matter anymore because the US had achieved breakthroughs in guidance and miniaturization to get a fission-fusion bomb into either Minuteman or Polaris.
Because I was at a small conference and in Alaska, there weren't many IT people there and I wasn't about to run around asking anyone I saw if they had a cable.
If it had been an issue I could have gotten one, ATT store was a five minute walk away.
Of course you didn't read the context of my message where it said "at a conference so not *really* working".
Since some venders are already pushing accessibility features, it's going to be something that just comes with it and doesn't cost anything extra.
New iPod Nano has a ton of accessibility for it's price and size, but isn't more expensive because of it.
A website isn't going to be harder to read or more expensive just for adhering to a standard. OK it will be at first, then in a X.0 release of something like Wordpress it'll just work with accessibility tools and no one will spend extra money to develop for it.
Roughly 0.3% of the population being legally blind, so the percentages are way off from the percentage of GLBT.
Unlike homosexuals, blind, deaf, deaf/blind, MD, TBI and other disabilities need accommodations and damn it if the US Congress, local, state and Federal Courts don't all agree.
If someone is gay can they get on Slashdot and read a story? Yep. If someone is blind can they get on Slashdot and access the same information without technology or accommodation? Nope.
So what the hell does homosexuality have to do with being blind?
I use an iPhone 4 at work. Today I don't have a recharging cable, have sent about 50 emails and played alot of Angry Birds (at a conference so not *really* working). Battery is at 68% after 5 hours and 20 minutes of use.
I'm at a conference about accessibility right now and I was just looking at the giant display of the history of disability, so I'm getting a kick out of your post.
Seriously, without legislative mandates pushing this kind of thing, the disabled will just continue to be overlooked by the big vendors and ripped off by small vendors. We are doing things with iOS 4 and iPad for $4-600 that a year ago we had to spend $5000-7500 on.
With a law forcing this, the tech will get cheaper and better.
Lynching was most often used in the American West were often carried out against accused criminals in custody. Lynching did not so much substitute for an absent legal system as to provide an alternative system that favored a particular social class or racial group.
Johnson County War, San Francisco Vigilance Movement and the lynching of over 160 Mexicans in California tend to differ from your description of lynching as a rustler/thief punishment
"Contrary to the popular understanding, early territorial lynching did not flow from an absence or distance of law enforcement but rather from the social instability of early communities and their contest for property, status, and the definition of social order." Michael J. Pfeifer, Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947.
The Tuskegee Institute has recorded 3,446 lynchings of Blacks and 1,297 lynchings of whites between 1882 and 1968 in the South.
You realize that the primary use of lynch mobs were to kill minorities or lower class people who the middle class thought were encroaching.
So a lack of lynch mobs has lead to "stupid social problems", like blacks voting, fencing of property and minorities being able to move wherever they want.
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Battlefield Vietnam, there wasn't much of an outcry about it.
Hey, the Canadians, Australians and British are out there fighting, other states...more of a support role.
The American Revolutionary War had an insurgency, as did the American Civil War, but the bulk of the fighting, the majority of battles and the majority of casualties are because of regular uniformed armies fighting by the standards and rules of war as they existed at those times.
So really, one can't say the US war liberated by an insurgency, the territories (colonies) banded together and created regular uniformed armies and then created a multi-colonial army with territorial auxiliaries and irregulars on the periphery.
So in Afghanistan, if the Taliban fought on the side of the Afghan National Army, it'd be similar.
Even the American Indian Wars had regular forces on both sides fighting, albeit with small-war and insurgency tactics for many of the Indian Wars. John Chivington's attack in 1864 was notorious because it was one of the main times the Union/US forces didn't fight the American Indian war bands, instead attacking a civilian target, just as the Sioux had struck at civilian targets in Minnesota two years earlier.
Cleric is a greek term. It's a member of the clergy of a religion, especially one who is a priest, preacher, pastor, or other religious professional. It is often, and incorrectly, used to refer to the religious leadership in Islam, where the term priest is not accurate and where terms such as Alim or Ulama are not widely understood in the English-speaking world.
Cleric is used in the west, officially, in the Greek, Russian and Egyptian Churches and used to be used in the Roman Catholic Church.
So no, Islam does not have Clerics.
They are in there with "host of others", but I know Poland have been in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, and who know what else.
GROM were helping to seize and guard Basra's oil terminal on the first days of the invasion.
My great-great grandparents on my mother's side were German Jews living in Kulm/Chemno
How many lynchings have there been in the last 15 years? 2-3?
Do American soldiers run around the US lynching homosexuals? No. Do/did the Taliban? Yes.
http://www.globalgayz.com/country/Afghanistan/view/AFG/gay-afghanistan-after-the-taliban-homosexuality-as-tradition
I specifically mentioned Kandahar because it has that bisexual tradition.
So it'd be better if the game had some missions from their side of things?
Maybe take a technical full of Taliban down to the village, kill the girls going to school there, hang the homosexual man who just moved back from Kandahar and for a bonus, destroy 20 of 20 DVD players and cell phones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban#Ideology
Americans, Canadians, Germans, Dutch, French, Afghanis, Pakistanis, British, Mongolians, Australians, New Zealanders, and a host of others are fighting with the Taliban.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force#Contributing_nations
Plus having the Taliban as a faction gives some ammunition to radicals here and abroad that the Afghan War is some sort of money making scheme.
Personally, I think they should have kept the name "Taliban" as the name for OpFor, but it's EA's game, their call.
Yea, we use Proloquo2go. Right now we are trying out iOS for input, Autism Spectrum stuff, and as a lightweight replacement for laptops for field work out in the Bush.
I think we have 12-15 iPads right now being used for various things at the agency and more coming.
I mentioned this conversation to my boss who does more of the Ed side while I do technology, he's interested in what you guys are working on.
Socialism doesn't mean the Government owns the company or means of production. Even in the Soviet Union, under communism, there were companies, bureaus and collectives that worked under contract and order for the government.
So, I'll stand by it, the US Defense Industry is mostly (95%) beholden to the US Military and Intelligence agencies.
Companies that are more diversified, like Boeing, wouldn't have military sections if the US government didn't have a strategic need for it.
What nationwide passenger train company or agency is there in the US other than Amtrak? What company is allowed to deliver mail in the US other than the USPS?
"Article I, section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution grants Congress the power to establish post offices and post roads. The Federal Government has interpreted this clause as granting a de facto Congressional monopoly over the delivery of mail. According to the government, no other system for delivering mail - public or private - can be established, absent Congress's consent.
FedEx and United Parcel Service (UPS) directly compete with USPS express mail and package delivery services, making nationwide deliveries of urgent letters and packages. Due to the postal monopoly, they are not allowed to deliver non-urgent letters and may not use U.S. Mail boxes at residential and commercial destinations"
That is generally a right-wing attitude, the "I love my country, but I fear my government", many vehicles that have that slogan as a sticker also have something about right to bear arms.
The Defense Industry. Over four million workers outside of the DoD's 2.1 million employees. Everything is orchestrated by and for the US military or Foreign Military Sales.
That and it's offshoots NASA and the Aerospace Industry are as close to completely socialized sectors of the economy as you'll get.
Oh, two that are government controlled - AMTRAK and US Postal Service.
No, you said "They get some new goal, spend millions/billions on a project, cancel it, and have nothing to show for it. And they repeat this cycle over and over and over." That would include recent missions, like the rovers, Hubble maintenance, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Hubble and the Hubble maintenance missions are failures in your eyes? Those are all manned.
What about NASA aerospace research programs? Those all failures too?
But by 1960 the "gap" was closed. Minuteman came online with a technology completely different than what was used for manned flight, same with Polaris. Both used advanced guidance and were solid fueled, throw weight didn't matter anymore because the US had achieved breakthroughs in guidance and miniaturization to get a fission-fusion bomb into either Minuteman or Polaris.
Mars rovers were canceled? Cassini?
Because I was at a small conference and in Alaska, there weren't many IT people there and I wasn't about to run around asking anyone I saw if they had a cable.
If it had been an issue I could have gotten one, ATT store was a five minute walk away.
Of course you didn't read the context of my message where it said "at a conference so not *really* working".
Since some venders are already pushing accessibility features, it's going to be something that just comes with it and doesn't cost anything extra.
New iPod Nano has a ton of accessibility for it's price and size, but isn't more expensive because of it.
A website isn't going to be harder to read or more expensive just for adhering to a standard. OK it will be at first, then in a X.0 release of something like Wordpress it'll just work with accessibility tools and no one will spend extra money to develop for it.
Sounds like Congress is ;)
Roughly 0.3% of the population being legally blind, so the percentages are way off from the percentage of GLBT.
Unlike homosexuals, blind, deaf, deaf/blind, MD, TBI and other disabilities need accommodations and damn it if the US Congress, local, state and Federal Courts don't all agree.
If someone is gay can they get on Slashdot and read a story? Yep.
If someone is blind can they get on Slashdot and access the same information without technology or accommodation? Nope.
So what the hell does homosexuality have to do with being blind?
I was at ACCESS in Anchorage
http://www.alaskachd.org/
We had alot of people stop by asking about iOS connectivity and disability.
I use an iPhone 4 at work. Today I don't have a recharging cable, have sent about 50 emails and played alot of Angry Birds (at a conference so not *really* working). Battery is at 68% after 5 hours and 20 minutes of use.
I'm at a conference about accessibility right now and I was just looking at the giant display of the history of disability, so I'm getting a kick out of your post.
Seriously, without legislative mandates pushing this kind of thing, the disabled will just continue to be overlooked by the big vendors and ripped off by small vendors. We are doing things with iOS 4 and iPad for $4-600 that a year ago we had to spend $5000-7500 on.
With a law forcing this, the tech will get cheaper and better.
Lynching was most often used in the American West were often carried out against accused criminals in custody. Lynching did not so much substitute for an absent legal system as to provide an alternative system that favored a particular social class or racial group.
Johnson County War, San Francisco Vigilance Movement and the lynching of over 160 Mexicans in California tend to differ from your description of lynching as a rustler/thief punishment
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2005/is_2_37/ai_111897839/pg_9/
"Contrary to the popular understanding, early territorial lynching did not flow from an absence or distance of law enforcement but rather from the social instability of early communities and their contest for property, status, and the definition of social order."
Michael J. Pfeifer, Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947.
The Tuskegee Institute has recorded 3,446 lynchings of Blacks and 1,297 lynchings of whites between 1882 and 1968 in the South.
That'd work really well in Alaska, Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine.
You know states where it is cold enough for months every winter that it kills you.
Same thing is true for many other states, hell two thirds of the US has those conditions for months out of the year.
You realize that the primary use of lynch mobs were to kill minorities or lower class people who the middle class thought were encroaching.
So a lack of lynch mobs has lead to "stupid social problems", like blacks voting, fencing of property and minorities being able to move wherever they want.