A competitor to second life, finally. Maybe this will expand awareness of SL and drive demand in virtual world development. I hope Google pushes this hard.
Seriously. In the mind of Joe Sixpack (who shops at Best Buy for his computer gear), software that costs more than Vista should be better than Vista. I'm sure there would be people who would buy it, and it might even raise more awareness with the higher price. There are plenty of examples of when higher prices drove demand up. In the absence of other knowledge, consumers will assume something that costs more is worth more.
I wasn't quoting Laurie here. But since you bring her up, she happens to have done far more research into the connections between Iraq and the 93 WTC bombing that anyone else, and I have to see any refutation of her claims (that would include you). I'll give you one example. Abdul Rahman Yasin admitted to FBI agents he helped mix the chemicals for the bomb used in the 93 WTC attack. He then talked his way out of custody (he was a real smooth 007 character, as you would like to put it), then fled to Iraq with Iraq's assistance using his Iraqi passport. He is still wanted for the 93 WTC attack, and his most wanted poster lists the Iraqi passort number he used to escape. He was since seen in Iraq at a hospital dedicated to Iraqi government employees. And after the invasion, we found documents showing he was on the Iraqi payroll from 1993 to 2003. Dick Cheney revealed those papers on NPR and it quickly died after that, because as everyone "knows", Iraq has no ties to terrorism.
But what's really ironic is how you will blow off my other statements and say how I haven't supported them (which I believe I have, at length), then blow off Laurie Mylorie's claims as "baloney" without even a single attempt at a factual statement to back it up. I think this shows me how much you are dedicated to having beliefs supported by facts: not at all. I've wasted enough of my time with you. Goodbye.
And how many billions does it cost for those murders? 9/11 may have "only" killed 3,000 people, but it cost us several billion in clean-up, insurance, legal costs et al and sent our economy into a tailspin. All these pathetic analogies to deaths from bee-stings or bath-tub accidents or homicide ignore the devastating economic costs of terrorist attacks.
Have you no reading comprehension skills? I did not say that the number of attacks was 1/10 of 1%. I said that what you see in the news is 1/10 of 1% of what is happening. I hope you are capable of at least seeing the difference between these two statements. There is much much more going on in the world than what CNN or NPR is reporting.
The Bojinka plot shows what is going on quite well, I think. The masterminds behind it were Khalied Shaykh Mohammed and his nephew Ramzi Yousef. KSM was an AQ senior member as well as having received funding from Iraq. Ramzi Yousef pulled off the 93 WTC attack and was an agent working for Iraq (perhaps as a freelancer, but there's no doubt Iraq supported him in the 93 WTC attack). He was caught only by accident when a fire broke out in his apt. He later almost certainly met Terry Nichols when he visited the Philipines. It is these types of professionals that are behind most major terrorist attacks, leaving behind the ameteur dupes to take the fall. It took years of planning after the Bojinka plot and the 93 WTC, but they did it. They have the patience, resources, training, and determination to pull off any kind of attack they want.
And now they are planning on blowing up Washigton D.C. with an atomic weapon. Big freaking deal? I think that might throw off your average number of deaths due to terrorism a little, saying nothing about the economical impact terrorst events like this or 9/11 incur.
Fine, don't live in fear. But my main point in the original post was that the threat was not exagerrated. And I stand by that.
technology as the/. article a few months ago? I seem to remember a govt prototype or some such device that was trying to do the same thing. In any case, I hope this spurs the development of professionally made tin foil hats. The crude home-made variety aren't going to cut it anymore.
Yeah, I'm not thrilled with Sony, but I'm hard pressed to find anything like the micro pc that I like. The memory duo whatever card slot is useless, as everything else I have uses SD. It came with a lot of junk I had to uninstall, but other than that I love it. Hopefully they'll get their act together and actually adopt a standard everyone else uses for once instead of making their own.
I have a Sony Vaio 280p Micro PC. I bought it in 2007, though it came out in 2005. It's small enough to fit in a jacket pocket and I can walk and browse at the same time. It's got wi-fi, bluetooth, 2 cameras, a USB port, a fingerprint reader, et al. Granted, it still has XP on it, but I'm going to put Ubuntu on it one of these days. I'm not about to go back to a full-size laptop, no matter how much cooler it looks.
A nutjob in the backwoods can say anything. Don't expect us to take it seriously.
Al Qaeda warned us before every attack. They have declared their intentions. They have warned us they will attack us with atomic weapons They have at least tried to acquire weapons-grade Uranium and have perhaps already acquired enough. I'm going to take that seriously even if you're not.
If even the threat was even 1% of what you suggest, we would see daily attacks on US soil.
Al Qaeda's MO is to take years of meticulous planning before launching a spectacular attack, with planning for multiple different attacks running simultaneously, not launch small ones every day. The planning for 9/11 started as early as 92 and was first put together in the 94 Bojinka plot. It took years to come to fruition. They think in longer time frames, and they are perfectly content in destroying us in a century if not tomorrow. There is much more going on than the few arrests here or thwarted attacks there. You can believe what you want to believe, but what you see on the news is only 1/10 of 1% of what is going on.
I tried posting something the other day and it got lost. So here goes again.
First, the "terrorist special olympics" as you call them are usually just the dupes left behind by the pros. Iraq was well-known to go to great lengths to avoild being implicated in terrorist attacks, going so far as to use the explosives from stolen Iranian landmines to through off forensic examinations. Iraq left behind dupes in the 93 WTC attack (see Laurie Mylroie's War Against America) and the 95 OKC bombing (see Jayna Davis' The Third Terrorist) among other attacks. It was their MO for the 20+ years they were on the state sponsored terrorism list. Other counries have done much the same. You can thank your media for the lack of research and reporting on these events.
Second, we will never know how much our eforts have thwarted terrorist attacks. Just like you will never know how many burglaries you've thwarted by locking your doors.
Third, counter-drug, by and large, IS counter terrorism. Al Qaeda and other Middle Eastern terrorist groups run drugs in South America to raise funds, not to mention the opium trade in AFG. The FARC and ELN in Colombia are terrorist groups that run drugs. Counter-drug analysts in DOD frequently do counter-terrorism because they track the same groups and the same techniques. You can't do one without the other.
Does anyone have another link? This one is blocked at work because blog is in the url, and I don't have any access to the internet other than work here in Iraq. And I'd really like to see the article!:(
If I'm not mistaken, the correlation between piracy and global warming shows a decrease in piracy. This definition of piracy seems to be based on the cutlass-wielding, rum-quaffing, sea-faring type rather than the mock light saber-wielding, Red Bull-quaffing, never-see-light-of-day type, especialy as the latter type is at a much higher level than in previous times. But just to be on the safe side, Let's go bother Prophet Bobby with this. I'm sure he loves this stuff.
I guess we'll never know. And I never said everybody, I just used the collective you. Now they have said in numerous protests and on their websites that they will not stop until "the flag of Islam flies over the White House." They've told us what they plan to do, if you just listen.
But if you remember back to the Clinton years when we did pretty much nothing, we had terrorist attacks every year, each worse than the year before. Bin Laden himself complained that Americans never listened, so he had to use larger and larger attacks, until 9/11 when we finally listened. They've warned us before every attack, as they are required to do according to their version of Islam. They've been very straightfoward and honest in that regard. And they've warned us they will attack us with atomic weapons. I'm really not interested in doing nothing to see how many people would die. I'd rather do what we can, legally, and not know how many people would have died.
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A competitor to second life, finally. Maybe this will expand awareness of SL and drive demand in virtual world development. I hope Google pushes this hard.
Seriously. In the mind of Joe Sixpack (who shops at Best Buy for his computer gear), software that costs more than Vista should be better than Vista. I'm sure there would be people who would buy it, and it might even raise more awareness with the higher price. There are plenty of examples of when higher prices drove demand up. In the absence of other knowledge, consumers will assume something that costs more is worth more.
They said they were going non-gasoline, not non-petroleum. All the trucks could go deisel, which is not gasoline.
I don't see any reason to embiggen the dictionary.
Oh please, Laurie Mylorie's claims are baloney.
I wasn't quoting Laurie here. But since you bring her up, she happens to have done far more research into the connections between Iraq and the 93 WTC bombing that anyone else, and I have to see any refutation of her claims (that would include you). I'll give you one example. Abdul Rahman Yasin admitted to FBI agents he helped mix the chemicals for the bomb used in the 93 WTC attack. He then talked his way out of custody (he was a real smooth 007 character, as you would like to put it), then fled to Iraq with Iraq's assistance using his Iraqi passport. He is still wanted for the 93 WTC attack, and his most wanted poster lists the Iraqi passort number he used to escape. He was since seen in Iraq at a hospital dedicated to Iraqi government employees. And after the invasion, we found documents showing he was on the Iraqi payroll from 1993 to 2003. Dick Cheney revealed those papers on NPR and it quickly died after that, because as everyone "knows", Iraq has no ties to terrorism.
But what's really ironic is how you will blow off my other statements and say how I haven't supported them (which I believe I have, at length), then blow off Laurie Mylorie's claims as "baloney" without even a single attempt at a factual statement to back it up. I think this shows me how much you are dedicated to having beliefs supported by facts: not at all. I've wasted enough of my time with you. Goodbye.
And how many billions does it cost for those murders? 9/11 may have "only" killed 3,000 people, but it cost us several billion in clean-up, insurance, legal costs et al and sent our economy into a tailspin. All these pathetic analogies to deaths from bee-stings or bath-tub accidents or homicide ignore the devastating economic costs of terrorist attacks.
That's what SHE said.
If all the undersea fiber optic cable were laid end to end...I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
I have three CDs from The Offspring, you insensitive clod!
Have you no reading comprehension skills? I did not say that the number of attacks was 1/10 of 1%. I said that what you see in the news is 1/10 of 1% of what is happening. I hope you are capable of at least seeing the difference between these two statements. There is much much more going on in the world than what CNN or NPR is reporting.
The Bojinka plot shows what is going on quite well, I think. The masterminds behind it were Khalied Shaykh Mohammed and his nephew Ramzi Yousef. KSM was an AQ senior member as well as having received funding from Iraq. Ramzi Yousef pulled off the 93 WTC attack and was an agent working for Iraq (perhaps as a freelancer, but there's no doubt Iraq supported him in the 93 WTC attack). He was caught only by accident when a fire broke out in his apt. He later almost certainly met Terry Nichols when he visited the Philipines. It is these types of professionals that are behind most major terrorist attacks, leaving behind the ameteur dupes to take the fall. It took years of planning after the Bojinka plot and the 93 WTC, but they did it. They have the patience, resources, training, and determination to pull off any kind of attack they want.
And now they are planning on blowing up Washigton D.C. with an atomic weapon. Big freaking deal? I think that might throw off your average number of deaths due to terrorism a little, saying nothing about the economical impact terrorst events like this or 9/11 incur.
Fine, don't live in fear. But my main point in the original post was that the threat was not exagerrated. And I stand by that.
Am I allowed to imagine a beowulf cluster of Jeri Ryans?
technology as the /. article a few months ago? I seem to remember a govt prototype or some such device that was trying to do the same thing. In any case, I hope this spurs the development of professionally made tin foil hats. The crude home-made variety aren't going to cut it anymore.
Yeah, I'm not thrilled with Sony, but I'm hard pressed to find anything like the micro pc that I like. The memory duo whatever card slot is useless, as everything else I have uses SD. It came with a lot of junk I had to uninstall, but other than that I love it. Hopefully they'll get their act together and actually adopt a standard everyone else uses for once instead of making their own.
One is a webcam pointed at you. The other is higher quality on the other side for taking pics/video.
What's that in African male elephants?
I have a Sony Vaio 280p Micro PC. I bought it in 2007, though it came out in 2005. It's small enough to fit in a jacket pocket and I can walk and browse at the same time. It's got wi-fi, bluetooth, 2 cameras, a USB port, a fingerprint reader, et al. Granted, it still has XP on it, but I'm going to put Ubuntu on it one of these days. I'm not about to go back to a full-size laptop, no matter how much cooler it looks.
A nutjob in the backwoods can say anything. Don't expect us to take it seriously.
Al Qaeda warned us before every attack. They have declared their intentions. They have warned us they will attack us with atomic weapons They have at least tried to acquire weapons-grade Uranium and have perhaps already acquired enough. I'm going to take that seriously even if you're not.
If even the threat was even 1% of what you suggest, we would see daily attacks on US soil.
Al Qaeda's MO is to take years of meticulous planning before launching a spectacular attack, with planning for multiple different attacks running simultaneously, not launch small ones every day. The planning for 9/11 started as early as 92 and was first put together in the 94 Bojinka plot. It took years to come to fruition. They think in longer time frames, and they are perfectly content in destroying us in a century if not tomorrow. There is much more going on than the few arrests here or thwarted attacks there. You can believe what you want to believe, but what you see on the news is only 1/10 of 1% of what is going on.
I tried posting something the other day and it got lost. So here goes again.
First, the "terrorist special olympics" as you call them are usually just the dupes left behind by the pros. Iraq was well-known to go to great lengths to avoild being implicated in terrorist attacks, going so far as to use the explosives from stolen Iranian landmines to through off forensic examinations. Iraq left behind dupes in the 93 WTC attack (see Laurie Mylroie's War Against America) and the 95 OKC bombing (see Jayna Davis' The Third Terrorist) among other attacks. It was their MO for the 20+ years they were on the state sponsored terrorism list. Other counries have done much the same. You can thank your media for the lack of research and reporting on these events.
Second, we will never know how much our eforts have thwarted terrorist attacks. Just like you will never know how many burglaries you've thwarted by locking your doors.
Third, counter-drug, by and large, IS counter terrorism. Al Qaeda and other Middle Eastern terrorist groups run drugs in South America to raise funds, not to mention the opium trade in AFG. The FARC and ELN in Colombia are terrorist groups that run drugs. Counter-drug analysts in DOD frequently do counter-terrorism because they track the same groups and the same techniques. You can't do one without the other.
and I can't wait to watch it.
You're a wonderful human being.
Does anyone have another link? This one is blocked at work because blog is in the url, and I don't have any access to the internet other than work here in Iraq. And I'd really like to see the article! :(
Where do you get 1/5? It clearly says 62% both in TFS and TFA.
If I'm not mistaken, the correlation between piracy and global warming shows a decrease in piracy. This definition of piracy seems to be based on the cutlass-wielding, rum-quaffing, sea-faring type rather than the mock light saber-wielding, Red Bull-quaffing, never-see-light-of-day type, especialy as the latter type is at a much higher level than in previous times. But just to be on the safe side, Let's go bother Prophet Bobby with this. I'm sure he loves this stuff.
would I want to rent an office in Redmond? I live in Virginia, you insensitive clods!
I guess we'll never know. And I never said everybody, I just used the collective you. Now they have said in numerous protests and on their websites that they will not stop until "the flag of Islam flies over the White House." They've told us what they plan to do, if you just listen.
But if you remember back to the Clinton years when we did pretty much nothing, we had terrorist attacks every year, each worse than the year before. Bin Laden himself complained that Americans never listened, so he had to use larger and larger attacks, until 9/11 when we finally listened. They've warned us before every attack, as they are required to do according to their version of Islam. They've been very straightfoward and honest in that regard. And they've warned us they will attack us with atomic weapons. I'm really not interested in doing nothing to see how many people would die. I'd rather do what we can, legally, and not know how many people would have died.