What amazes me is that it wasn't the outcome. Here in Mexico in far less sensitive power installations but still related to national security the detachment in charge will fill the body of pranksters with lead, and that was before the security situation became as bad it is now. So if the French are not able to secure nuclear sites, then at least they should drop the security theater in airports, since is clear that they don't care about security.
In deaths and dissapeared we in Mexico have lost 100,000 in the last 5 years, but people in the USA barely blink for that despite they are the victims of a war fought on USA's behalf. The ATF provided thousands of weapons to drug cartels and we are still waiting when the americans will put at least behind bars the ones responsible. Latin America is littered with mass graves of the victims of US's aligned dictators that make Castro a saint in comparison. I don't have issue with americans in general, all the ones I have personally met are really nice people and even when I had to dealt with customs and TSA personnel they were nice and respectful. But people really need to press the brake pedal in their armed forces, the USA can't and shouldn't be trying to fix the world with bombs and bullets.
About the saudi assassination plot it was a complete fabrication that no sane person at this time believes, here in Mexico it became a source of jokes only. The main difference between USA and Iran is that the americans do most of their atrocities outside their borders and still have second thoughts against doing those atrocities against their own citizens, but the iranians don't have the same limitation, but at least they don't have their armed forces around the world.
This sucks because USA is a great place that could be far better if american citizens didn't let warmongers get their way every time they want to start a war.
The current president of Mexico like the 5 assats before him puts American interests before the interests of the Mexican state. The bloodly Mexican drug war is fought on behalf of the American government that supplies weapons to both sides, so yes, any claim of moral high ground by the Americans is hollow. On the other side, I must recognize that all the wars fought by the American armed forces in the last decades, except the last Iraq war have been drivend by realpolitik, the sugar coat of democracy and freedom is for comsuption of the American public.
Still, the rich will have their kids at risk by choice. Despite the fact that the rich will always have better health care than the poor, if a rich kid gets a disease like polio -for example- he will be screwed for the rest of his life, and, because poor people are far numerous than rich people, if the poor are properly immunized everyone gets herd immunity.
I don't know, the stupid son of a bitch, catholic extremist of Felipe Calderón in México receives praise and weapons from USA despite heading the most bloodthirsty government in Latin America in decades. But well, he played along the USA with the incredibly ridiculous story of the narco-iranian plot to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to USA. The US government takes good care of their puppets.
Considering that the only condition of surrender was that Japan keep their Emperor and that was rejected, but after their unconditional surrender the petition was granted indicating that that was a irrelevant point for Allied powers, then, it is clear that the atomic bombs have been used only like experiments and not as a mean of reduce casualties in either side.
You're applying cold war logic to a nation headed by religious fanatics many of whom believe they will be rewarded in death for killing non-believers and believers who don't believe the strict interpretation.
Well, didn't Rumsfeld sent all the orders to the US troops with Bible quotes? Didn't God ordered Bush Jr. to go to war to Iraq? Didn't the USAF and US Army used more bombs in the Vietnam war than all the belligerents in WW II, killing scores of civilian buddists? Didn't candidate Perry said that God ordered him to try to be POTUS? On the opposite side, when Amedinajahad (sp?) denied the Jewish Holocaust, the religious supreme leader of Iran corrected him saying that the killing of even a single jew was still murder and a crime. About which religious extremist government are you talking about?
You guys don't need mass transit in your cities or keep good maintenance of your bridges so they don't fall down, you don't need a well educated youth, you don't need a well paid labor force to build up a strong internal market but you guys have the most deadly and widely deployed military in the story of humanity so, yes, it appears that the USA's leadership does have their priorities straight.
That's because the USA and their allied dictators saw any moderate leftist social democrat as sons of Fidel Castro and Stalin born in hell, and the ones not allied to the USA applied the same methods; any natural leader except for the religious leaders was killed by the secret services of arab dictators, so they don't have union leaders, members of professional associations or a free press that could be a pool of new moderate leaders.
If I have made any more mistakes in my writing, corrections are welcome.
That's because the USA and their allied dictators saw any moderate leftist social democrat as sons of Fidel Castro and Stalin born in hell, and the ones not allied to the USA applied the same methods; any natural leader except for the religious leaders was killed by the secret services of arab dictators, so they don't have union leaders, members of professional associations or a free press that could be pool of new moderate leaders.
We have had 50k deaths and at least 10k disappeared in Mexico in the last 5 years in a phony drug war by a government that came from a stolen election but, since the killing is made on USA's behalf no many people there will raise their voice.
Well, I'm from Mexico and we are in a more rotten condition of the corporate welfare state, but for comparison, in my last paycheck I had the equivalent to US$293 deducted in income tax, in any given year, Walmart of Mexico pays around US$6, give or take, and I can't get tax credits or bailouts like big corporations do.
They don't need to, what they want is to keep control of the street, something that they manage to do by terror. They don't want to have secure communications, they want to leave people isolated. For example they cut the fibers of the phone exchange in the small town of my wife's grandparents. People was without phone service for 3 weeks, the phone company crew was unable to restore service until a Army's detachment went to the town and guarded them.
I use my iPad to IM and write emails and post to/. frequently. The virtual keyboard is not that hard to use, and, if you use it to write in japanese, for example, is actually faster than writing in a common computer since the targets of predictive text are larger and easy to reach in the iPad.
I'm with John Gruber in respect to this history. Is really hard to believe that they have been ever close to release a product when even the internal teams were not aware of any of the design and software constraints by the others. If they were talking about a Microsoft branded PC or any other device with of the self components sure, it can be true, but with a device that requires such a level of miniaturization and custom parts is unbelievable. Aside from that, they would have used much of the Courier OS's technology in the last release of Windows Phone. How similar is Windows Phone OS to the capabilities of Courier?
The problem comes from the risk of falsely claiming that a innocent is a member of the drug cartels. That means a death sentence for an innocent man, probably, for his family too. I doubt that a honest fighter for justice will want to have innocent blood in his hands.
We have around 50 k casualties, ignoring the injured, around 9% of that are confirmed civilian killed in the crossfire, from that, at least 5% killed by trigger happy soldiers and police, 40 k disappeared, with a strong suspicion that a large but unquantifiable number of those disappearances done by government forces. The Zetas are the bogeyman of the moment, but they are fighting against -in not particular order- Templarios (Templar) Cartel, Sinaloa's Cartel, Jalisco's New Generation Cartel, Gulf Cartel, regular units of the Army and Navy and Navy's Death squads. Most of the gruesome deaths in the news in the last 3 months are of Zeta's members or unlucky poor guys mistaken for Zetas. Ex-president Vicente Fox is an admirer of spanish dictator Francisco Franco like the current governor of Veracruz state, and by deed, our current US puppet president is and admirer of Franco too. They are too lame and stupid to try to be a villain of the big leagues.
Being hung from a overpass means that your head is still attached to your body. My brother in law had one of his practices of legal medicine in the dismembered body of a guy that was abandoned in front of a school door, the guy had been cut in 9 or 15 pieces, I don't remember if it appeared to be tortured or not, but it was a gruesome spectacle even for the teachers.
Well, I studied in a UNESCO funded high school, at the time UNESCO was barely involved in the operations, but thanks to that me, like many thousands of young mexicans afforded a good technical education. This school was one of the main reasons that made my city, Guadalajara, become the "Mexican Silicon Valley"*, almost all the large american IT corporations have or had a large presence here, mostly in manufacturing, but also in design and services. Of all UN agencies, UNESCO is the most profitable for the US in strict economical terms.
Few international institutions have helped more to further US interests more than UN and UNESCO, in strictly political and economical terms. If they want to surrender one of the best tools of US soft power to the chinese, I'm sure they will happily accept that gift.
I find TEPCO specially to blame, since the Nuclear Power Plants from Tohoku Electric and Japan Atomic Power survived similar or worst conditions than Fukushima Daiichi or Fukushima Daini. TEPCO informed the government that the sea wall would not protect Fukushima Daiichi since they expected a tsunami up to 10 m, more than double of the height of the sea wall. They did know that since 2008 and informed of their study to the government 7th march 2011, maybe 3 years late.
The story is very convoluted, Madero was killed in a coup planed in the US embassy. Madero was a honest but naive man that sent the army that put him in power to their homes ASAP, and failed to see that the revolutionaries wanted not only a restoration of legal order, but a new, more just economic and social order. Despite all his mistakes, the Constitucionalist under Carranza incorporated many of the key demands of their rivals Zapata and Villa, and thanks to the pressure of the Axis powers, president Lázaro Cárdenas had a chance to truly modernize the country, and make it a good place for the europeans that looked for refugee from fascism. We benefited greatly from this migration, the people in general prospered, and had the Mexican Miracle in the 1950's and early 1960's, that made people turn a blind eye to the autoritarian, single party regime of PRI. It was in those years when Mexico had many great, world class artists.
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What amazes me is that it wasn't the outcome. Here in Mexico in far less sensitive power installations but still related to national security the detachment in charge will fill the body of pranksters with lead, and that was before the security situation became as bad it is now. So if the French are not able to secure nuclear sites, then at least they should drop the security theater in airports, since is clear that they don't care about security.
In deaths and dissapeared we in Mexico have lost 100,000 in the last 5 years, but people in the USA barely blink for that despite they are the victims of a war fought on USA's behalf. The ATF provided thousands of weapons to drug cartels and we are still waiting when the americans will put at least behind bars the ones responsible. Latin America is littered with mass graves of the victims of US's aligned dictators that make Castro a saint in comparison. I don't have issue with americans in general, all the ones I have personally met are really nice people and even when I had to dealt with customs and TSA personnel they were nice and respectful. But people really need to press the brake pedal in their armed forces, the USA can't and shouldn't be trying to fix the world with bombs and bullets.
About the saudi assassination plot it was a complete fabrication that no sane person at this time believes, here in Mexico it became a source of jokes only. The main difference between USA and Iran is that the americans do most of their atrocities outside their borders and still have second thoughts against doing those atrocities against their own citizens, but the iranians don't have the same limitation, but at least they don't have their armed forces around the world.
This sucks because USA is a great place that could be far better if american citizens didn't let warmongers get their way every time they want to start a war.
The current president of Mexico like the 5 assats before him puts American interests before the interests of the Mexican state. The bloodly Mexican drug war is fought on behalf of the American government that supplies weapons to both sides, so yes, any claim of moral high ground by the Americans is hollow. On the other side, I must recognize that all the wars fought by the American armed forces in the last decades, except the last Iraq war have been drivend by realpolitik, the sugar coat of democracy and freedom is for comsuption of the American public.
There should be a way to block all the accounts of this troll or to report him to /. editors, apparently he created a thousand of these accounts.
Still, the rich will have their kids at risk by choice. Despite the fact that the rich will always have better health care than the poor, if a rich kid gets a disease like polio -for example- he will be screwed for the rest of his life, and, because poor people are far numerous than rich people, if the poor are properly immunized everyone gets herd immunity.
I don't know, the stupid son of a bitch, catholic extremist of Felipe Calderón in México receives praise and weapons from USA despite heading the most bloodthirsty government in Latin America in decades. But well, he played along the USA with the incredibly ridiculous story of the narco-iranian plot to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to USA. The US government takes good care of their puppets.
Considering that the only condition of surrender was that Japan keep their Emperor and that was rejected, but after their unconditional surrender the petition was granted indicating that that was a irrelevant point for Allied powers, then, it is clear that the atomic bombs have been used only like experiments and not as a mean of reduce casualties in either side.
You're applying cold war logic to a nation headed by religious fanatics many of whom believe they will be rewarded in death for killing non-believers and believers who don't believe the strict interpretation.
Well, didn't Rumsfeld sent all the orders to the US troops with Bible quotes? Didn't God ordered Bush Jr. to go to war to Iraq? Didn't the USAF and US Army used more bombs in the Vietnam war than all the belligerents in WW II, killing scores of civilian buddists? Didn't candidate Perry said that God ordered him to try to be POTUS? On the opposite side, when Amedinajahad (sp?) denied the Jewish Holocaust, the religious supreme leader of Iran corrected him saying that the killing of even a single jew was still murder and a crime. About which religious extremist government are you talking about?
You guys don't need mass transit in your cities or keep good maintenance of your bridges so they don't fall down, you don't need a well educated youth, you don't need a well paid labor force to build up a strong internal market but you guys have the most deadly and widely deployed military in the story of humanity so, yes, it appears that the USA's leadership does have their priorities straight.
The vietnamese were not humans in the eyes of the US's generals at the time, therefore, they were not collateral damage.
That's because the USA and their allied dictators saw any moderate leftist social democrat as sons of Fidel Castro and Stalin born in hell, and the ones not allied to the USA applied the same methods; any natural leader except for the religious leaders was killed by the secret services of arab dictators, so they don't have union leaders, members of professional associations or a free press that could be a pool of new moderate leaders.
If I have made any more mistakes in my writing, corrections are welcome.
That's because the USA and their allied dictators saw any moderate leftist social democrat as sons of Fidel Castro and Stalin born in hell, and the ones not allied to the USA applied the same methods; any natural leader except for the religious leaders was killed by the secret services of arab dictators, so they don't have union leaders, members of professional associations or a free press that could be pool of new moderate leaders.
We have had 50k deaths and at least 10k disappeared in Mexico in the last 5 years in a phony drug war by a government that came from a stolen election but, since the killing is made on USA's behalf no many people there will raise their voice.
Well, I'm from Mexico and we are in a more rotten condition of the corporate welfare state, but for comparison, in my last paycheck I had the equivalent to US$293 deducted in income tax, in any given year, Walmart of Mexico pays around US$6, give or take, and I can't get tax credits or bailouts like big corporations do.
They don't need to, what they want is to keep control of the street, something that they manage to do by terror. They don't want to have secure communications, they want to leave people isolated. For example they cut the fibers of the phone exchange in the small town of my wife's grandparents. People was without phone service for 3 weeks, the phone company crew was unable to restore service until a Army's detachment went to the town and guarded them.
I use my iPad to IM and write emails and post to /. frequently. The virtual keyboard is not that hard to use, and, if you use it to write in japanese, for example, is actually faster than writing in a common computer since the targets of predictive text are larger and easy to reach in the iPad.
I'm with John Gruber in respect to this history. Is really hard to believe that they have been ever close to release a product when even the internal teams were not aware of any of the design and software constraints by the others. If they were talking about a Microsoft branded PC or any other device with of the self components sure, it can be true, but with a device that requires such a level of miniaturization and custom parts is unbelievable. Aside from that, they would have used much of the Courier OS's technology in the last release of Windows Phone. How similar is Windows Phone OS to the capabilities of Courier?
The problem comes from the risk of falsely claiming that a innocent is a member of the drug cartels. That means a death sentence for an innocent man, probably, for his family too. I doubt that a honest fighter for justice will want to have innocent blood in his hands.
We have around 50 k casualties, ignoring the injured, around 9% of that are confirmed civilian killed in the crossfire, from that, at least 5% killed by trigger happy soldiers and police, 40 k disappeared, with a strong suspicion that a large but unquantifiable number of those disappearances done by government forces. The Zetas are the bogeyman of the moment, but they are fighting against -in not particular order- Templarios (Templar) Cartel, Sinaloa's Cartel, Jalisco's New Generation Cartel, Gulf Cartel, regular units of the Army and Navy and Navy's Death squads. Most of the gruesome deaths in the news in the last 3 months are of Zeta's members or unlucky poor guys mistaken for Zetas. Ex-president Vicente Fox is an admirer of spanish dictator Francisco Franco like the current governor of Veracruz state, and by deed, our current US puppet president is and admirer of Franco too. They are too lame and stupid to try to be a villain of the big leagues.
Being hung from a overpass means that your head is still attached to your body. My brother in law had one of his practices of legal medicine in the dismembered body of a guy that was abandoned in front of a school door, the guy had been cut in 9 or 15 pieces, I don't remember if it appeared to be tortured or not, but it was a gruesome spectacle even for the teachers.
The good training in Fort Benign put in practice.
Well, I studied in a UNESCO funded high school, at the time UNESCO was barely involved in the operations, but thanks to that me, like many thousands of young mexicans afforded a good technical education. This school was one of the main reasons that made my city, Guadalajara, become the "Mexican Silicon Valley"*, almost all the large american IT corporations have or had a large presence here, mostly in manufacturing, but also in design and services. Of all UN agencies, UNESCO is the most profitable for the US in strict economical terms.
*very overrated, but I use it to make a point.
Few international institutions have helped more to further US interests more than UN and UNESCO, in strictly political and economical terms. If they want to surrender one of the best tools of US soft power to the chinese, I'm sure they will happily accept that gift.
Meanwhile, starting next week workers at Fukushima Daiichi will stop the use of face masks except in the work areas around the crippled units:
Change to the Rules of Wearing Full Face Masks at the Site of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
Still it didn't stop people to post stupid things in this CNNgo article: Journeys to the edge: Tourism in Fukushima makes more sense now
Being worried about radioactive iodine from Fukushima Daiichi makes the same sense of being worried about wild siberian tigers in New York City.
I find TEPCO specially to blame, since the Nuclear Power Plants from Tohoku Electric and Japan Atomic Power survived similar or worst conditions than Fukushima Daiichi or Fukushima Daini. TEPCO informed the government that the sea wall would not protect Fukushima Daiichi since they expected a tsunami up to 10 m, more than double of the height of the sea wall. They did know that since 2008 and informed of their study to the government 7th march 2011, maybe 3 years late.
The story is very convoluted, Madero was killed in a coup planed in the US embassy. Madero was a honest but naive man that sent the army that put him in power to their homes ASAP, and failed to see that the revolutionaries wanted not only a restoration of legal order, but a new, more just economic and social order. Despite all his mistakes, the Constitucionalist under Carranza incorporated many of the key demands of their rivals Zapata and Villa, and thanks to the pressure of the Axis powers, president Lázaro Cárdenas had a chance to truly modernize the country, and make it a good place for the europeans that looked for refugee from fascism. We benefited greatly from this migration, the people in general prospered, and had the Mexican Miracle in the 1950's and early 1960's, that made people turn a blind eye to the autoritarian, single party regime of PRI. It was in those years when Mexico had many great, world class artists.