I strongly suspect that if a mosque were built within shooting distance of ground zero, it would fall down pretty quickly. I don't even hate or despise Islam like many other Americans do - but I don't want any mosque sitting within sight of ground zero, in effect proclaiming "victory".
That's almost funny. It looks like a little bit of "What goes around, comes around." I would say "Karma", but no Moslem believes in that, does he? Have you applied for a permit to build a Christian church anywhere in Islam recently? A Jewish synagogue? How about a House of Wicca? I just can't help chuckling at your protest, Shakrai.
Actually, Hassan's attack could have and should have been stopped. The man got moral support from people overseas, and worse, he repeatedly made statements to the effect that a good Moslem should actively resist the goals of the United States Army. Hassan was far less the "lone wolf" than the Anthrax research guy. If his fellow officers weren't such weenies, afraid to challenge him directly, Hassan would have been booted out of the army years ago.
You give the kid a pretty patch, he admires the picture, slaps it on his arm, falls asleep, and you can spend the next 10, 20, or 30 minutes poking and prodding. Problem solved, right?
Errr - maybe not. The little brat will tell all his friends at daycare about the patch that made him sleepy, and the next batch of brats will cry when you offer them a patch.
Why do people keep having kids, anyway? They are such great pains! *
* Disclaimer - I have three little brats of my own, and I STILL want to know why people keep having kids!;^)
Yeah, I went to boot camp in 1975. We spent uncounted hours in line to get inoculations. A number of them were done with those jet injectors, but many were done with needles. That "A" shot was the killer. It had to go into a buttock, it had to go in deep, and they used a HUGE frigging needle. And, after they injected the stuff, you had to work out, to get the gob of stuff to circulate, or it would just stay right there, and make your lower body stiffen up.
At least that's the story they told us. I think it was just an excuse to torture a captive audience. Or, to weed out the weenies. Whatever. That damned shot HURT!!!
As Skuld-Chan points out - speeds in the US are the speeds that the ISP's CLAIM that you MIGHT GET on a good day. Our European friends all seem to agree, in Europe, if you're paying for 1 MB or 100 MB, then that's about what you're going to get. They seem to live with caps that we don't have to live with, and in fact, some of my friends seem to have ridiculously low caps. But, they have the SPEED.
As for the attitude that rural areas don't matter - I'd like to slap Mossberg around a couple times. 1 MB "broadband" just plain sucks on old, antiquated telephone lines. And, that is as good as it gets for much of America. If copper wire is to expensive to push out that last mile, and if fiber costs even more, then start pushing wireless nationwide. Out here, you don't need to worry about overlapping channels and stuff like that - just put the freaking towers up, and give us 10MB and better!
Oh. Cost again. City people seem to get great bargains, 20, 30, maybe 40 dollars for 5 MB and faster. Out in the sticks, it's ~$100 for that crappy 1MB connection. Sucks, I tell you.
Wierd - TI's history doesn't jive with my memory. I had SOMETHING that resembled that SR-50 - but I certainly didn't pay the price listed on that page!! No way could I afford ~$150 for a calc!
I graduated high school in '74. I can't recall the model number, but I had a TI. If I recall correctly, I paid ~$36 for it. Programmable? Hell no. Maybe it was "hackable", but there was no internet where a guy could investigate the idea. Just a plain old scientific calculator. I can't even recall exactly how many functions it had. But, it was "NOT ALLOWED" at test time. The slide rule was the only computer permitted, and that was that.
It's perfectly alright for CORPORATE America to spend millions every morning, pitching their poisonous wares to impressionable young minds. But, let "da gubbermint" get in on the act, and lo and behold, it's an evil scheme!
"Eat an apple instead of that Ding Dong, Susie, it will make you healthier!"
Mommy screams, "Don't listen to that television, Susie! It's all GOVERNMENT LIES!! You can't believe ANYTHING the government tells you!"
Better to live in fear, than to get out and face life? I'm not so sure. Isn't that how prey animals live in the wild? Look at the cute little bunny - a shadow passes over him, and he huddles, frozen in fear, until the big cat/dog/bird snatches him up, and eats him.
I'd say that if life in the ghetto is as bad as people say, then parents need to teach their kids how to cope with that life, instead of hiding in their basements.
Putting aesthetics ahead of function is just stupid, no matter how rich, famous, or influential a man might be.
From TFA: In general, antenna performance of a mobile device/phone may be affected with a tight grip, depending on how the device is held. That's why Nokia designs our phones to ensure acceptable performance in all real life cases, for example when the phone is held in either hand. Nokia has invested thousands of man hours in studying how people hold their phones and allows for this in designs, for example by having antennas both at the top and bottom of the phone and by careful selection of materials and their use in the mechanical design.
"Hello, NASA? I'd like to reserve space on your next available rocket to Mars. I'll be needing a lot of room - There will be my own person, a lot of equipment for producing oxygen and other gases from the rocks, a lot of glass sheets for making a greenhouse, seeds, etc. I'll send you a complete list by email or fax, whichever you prefer."
"I know what your point is: the US invaded Iraq to get access to more, cheap oil."
No. That wasn't my statement, and it only approximates my point, in a simplified way.
STRATEGY.
The people in Washington, and the corporate heads all agreed that Saddam and company were taking the world and the world's oil supply in a direction that they didn't like. We meddled and mucked about, hoping to change things more to our liking. We did not get the whole pie, but we got a slice of the pie.
BUT - I think that Washington and the corporate heads were full of shit, to start with. For instance, Al Queda and Saddam were never buddy-buddy. Washington's fears were bogus, or at least the crap the publicized about those fears were so much bullshit.
Anyway - oil is, and always has been, a strategic resource, ever since ships were converted from burning coal, to burning oil. And, aircraft certainly never did burn coal. The oil in Iraq is now at least partially controlled by interests freindly to the US and the UK, and that's what it was all about.
Very much so. I see stories in the various newspapers, about a mother who leaves her kids with a husband, or a new boyfreind, sometimes even a casual acquaintance. Total idiots.
I'm a guy, with all of a guy's insensitivities - but I NEVER left my kids with anyone, unless BOTH the wife and I knew them well, and trusted them. When you've lost your kids, all that's left is bullshit.
And, I have to emphasize the "make it themselves" part.
Gangs in New York City were making their own guns, albeit, cheap, shoddy pieces of shit that were as likely to kill the guy shooting it, as the target, back in the '80's. (wow - what a sentence - but someone has to feed the grammar nazis)
I've given a little thought to what it would take to make a good, solid revolver. I could do it with my own tools, in a few days. With the tools available at work, I could even produce a pretty high quality revolver. I work with men who could probably produce a Colt.45 in a couple days, as good as anything that Colt produced themselves. If the twelve men at work were to set up shop, and produce handguns, we could probably ship a hundred weapons every week. More, once we ironed out the kinks, and got things automated.
Firearms aren't hard to produce, in case anyone was wondering. Quality is a bit tough, unless you have strict quality control. But, crooks have never been concerned about quality.
Somehow, I don't think I'm making my point. Strategy.
Iraq is producing nearly as much oil today as their peak in 2000 - 2.36 vs 2.57. And, there is every reason to believe that production will increase over time.
Prices? Maybe I flubbed on that - but I'm not paying $3.00 either. I filled yesterday for 2.59/gal.
But, in the strategy game, what would oil prices be if Saddam were still in charge? I can't say, and neither can you. I SUSPECT they might be higher, now.
Anyway - sometimes you need to look past the details, to get the big picture. The United States wanted Iraq's oil made available to the world, and they were hoping to get control of a large part of it. China messed up the control part. Remember when BP and the other big oil companies refused to take Iraq's offer? Pump the oil out of the ground, it remains the property of Iraq, and Iraq pays $2.00 / barrel. No one wanted any of that, UNTIL China started taking the contracts.
Funny how our "most favored trading partner" threw a monkey wrench into those works, huh?
The US didn't gain as much as it was hoping to gain, but there is a net gain, strategically speaking. And, if you throw the bogeyman, aka, Al Queda into the mix, the US gained even more. Presuming, of course, that Washington actually believed all that bullshit about Saddam and Al Queda being allied.
Yes, the stories are out there. But, like yourself, most liberals, and even some moderates, discount all the accounts of self defense. "Oh, big deal, granny killed a rapist. Some moron killed his son last month!" Like - you're keeping score, and one accidental death negates 100 successful self defenses.
I don't know about the law where you are from - but where I live, kids can own their own weapons with parental approval. The parent is ultimately responsible, of course, but the weapon belongs to the kid. I bought my first rifle when I was twelve, bought my first NEW rifle when I was 16. The salesman only asked that I bring an adult to the store, so that he knew I was allowed to buy the rifle. He might have raised an eyebrow, had I been purchasing a pistol - or not.
The price is less important than the fact that the oil is flowing. Before the war, little oil was flowing. Today, oil flows freely. Much of it is flowing in the direction of China, but it is flowing all the same. And, the flow of oil to China benefits us indirectly, because China has less of a need to cut into our other supplies, elsewhere in the world.
Prices may have gone up and down, due to fears about the war, but ultimately, the prices have come down. At least for awhile. The war in Iraq was just part of an overall strategy.
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I strongly suspect that if a mosque were built within shooting distance of ground zero, it would fall down pretty quickly. I don't even hate or despise Islam like many other Americans do - but I don't want any mosque sitting within sight of ground zero, in effect proclaiming "victory".
That's almost funny. It looks like a little bit of "What goes around, comes around." I would say "Karma", but no Moslem believes in that, does he? Have you applied for a permit to build a Christian church anywhere in Islam recently? A Jewish synagogue? How about a House of Wicca? I just can't help chuckling at your protest, Shakrai.
Actually, Hassan's attack could have and should have been stopped. The man got moral support from people overseas, and worse, he repeatedly made statements to the effect that a good Moslem should actively resist the goals of the United States Army. Hassan was far less the "lone wolf" than the Anthrax research guy. If his fellow officers weren't such weenies, afraid to challenge him directly, Hassan would have been booted out of the army years ago.
You give the kid a pretty patch, he admires the picture, slaps it on his arm, falls asleep, and you can spend the next 10, 20, or 30 minutes poking and prodding. Problem solved, right?
Errr - maybe not. The little brat will tell all his friends at daycare about the patch that made him sleepy, and the next batch of brats will cry when you offer them a patch.
Why do people keep having kids, anyway? They are such great pains! *
* Disclaimer - I have three little brats of my own, and I STILL want to know why people keep having kids! ;^)
Yeah, I went to boot camp in 1975. We spent uncounted hours in line to get inoculations. A number of them were done with those jet injectors, but many were done with needles. That "A" shot was the killer. It had to go into a buttock, it had to go in deep, and they used a HUGE frigging needle. And, after they injected the stuff, you had to work out, to get the gob of stuff to circulate, or it would just stay right there, and make your lower body stiffen up.
At least that's the story they told us. I think it was just an excuse to torture a captive audience. Or, to weed out the weenies. Whatever. That damned shot HURT!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkIVvjZc9Y
As Skuld-Chan points out - speeds in the US are the speeds that the ISP's CLAIM that you MIGHT GET on a good day. Our European friends all seem to agree, in Europe, if you're paying for 1 MB or 100 MB, then that's about what you're going to get. They seem to live with caps that we don't have to live with, and in fact, some of my friends seem to have ridiculously low caps. But, they have the SPEED.
As for the attitude that rural areas don't matter - I'd like to slap Mossberg around a couple times. 1 MB "broadband" just plain sucks on old, antiquated telephone lines. And, that is as good as it gets for much of America. If copper wire is to expensive to push out that last mile, and if fiber costs even more, then start pushing wireless nationwide. Out here, you don't need to worry about overlapping channels and stuff like that - just put the freaking towers up, and give us 10MB and better!
Oh. Cost again. City people seem to get great bargains, 20, 30, maybe 40 dollars for 5 MB and faster. Out in the sticks, it's ~$100 for that crappy 1MB connection. Sucks, I tell you.
Responding to myself? Ehhh - whatever.
http://www.thocp.net/hardware/ti_calculators.htm
Wierd - TI's history doesn't jive with my memory. I had SOMETHING that resembled that SR-50 - but I certainly didn't pay the price listed on that page!! No way could I afford ~$150 for a calc!
I graduated high school in '74. I can't recall the model number, but I had a TI. If I recall correctly, I paid ~$36 for it. Programmable? Hell no. Maybe it was "hackable", but there was no internet where a guy could investigate the idea. Just a plain old scientific calculator. I can't even recall exactly how many functions it had. But, it was "NOT ALLOWED" at test time. The slide rule was the only computer permitted, and that was that.
So, you had to convert from dactylonomy to what? Phalangonomy?
"Do they think kids are that stupid?"
They are obese little bastards, right?
MOD PARENT ^ PLEASE
It's perfectly alright for CORPORATE America to spend millions every morning, pitching their poisonous wares to impressionable young minds. But, let "da gubbermint" get in on the act, and lo and behold, it's an evil scheme!
"Eat an apple instead of that Ding Dong, Susie, it will make you healthier!"
Mommy screams, "Don't listen to that television, Susie! It's all GOVERNMENT LIES!! You can't believe ANYTHING the government tells you!"
Better to live in fear, than to get out and face life? I'm not so sure. Isn't that how prey animals live in the wild? Look at the cute little bunny - a shadow passes over him, and he huddles, frozen in fear, until the big cat/dog/bird snatches him up, and eats him.
I'd say that if life in the ghetto is as bad as people say, then parents need to teach their kids how to cope with that life, instead of hiding in their basements.
"Jobs wanted it that way. The man has form!"
Putting aesthetics ahead of function is just stupid, no matter how rich, famous, or influential a man might be.
From TFA:
In general, antenna performance of a mobile device/phone may be affected with a tight grip, depending on how the device is held. That's why Nokia designs our phones to ensure acceptable performance in all real life cases, for example when the phone is held in either hand. Nokia has invested thousands of man hours in studying how people hold their phones and allows for this in designs, for example by having antennas both at the top and bottom of the phone and by careful selection of materials and their use in the mechanical design.
Ha. Didn't I read that Microsoft had extended support for XP to 2020? Don't NEED no steenking new Windows!! ;^)
"Hello, NASA? I'd like to reserve space on your next available rocket to Mars. I'll be needing a lot of room - There will be my own person, a lot of equipment for producing oxygen and other gases from the rocks, a lot of glass sheets for making a greenhouse, seeds, etc. I'll send you a complete list by email or fax, whichever you prefer."
"I know what your point is: the US invaded Iraq to get access to more, cheap oil."
No. That wasn't my statement, and it only approximates my point, in a simplified way.
STRATEGY.
The people in Washington, and the corporate heads all agreed that Saddam and company were taking the world and the world's oil supply in a direction that they didn't like. We meddled and mucked about, hoping to change things more to our liking. We did not get the whole pie, but we got a slice of the pie.
BUT - I think that Washington and the corporate heads were full of shit, to start with. For instance, Al Queda and Saddam were never buddy-buddy. Washington's fears were bogus, or at least the crap the publicized about those fears were so much bullshit.
Anyway - oil is, and always has been, a strategic resource, ever since ships were converted from burning coal, to burning oil. And, aircraft certainly never did burn coal. The oil in Iraq is now at least partially controlled by interests freindly to the US and the UK, and that's what it was all about.
Very much so. I see stories in the various newspapers, about a mother who leaves her kids with a husband, or a new boyfreind, sometimes even a casual acquaintance. Total idiots.
I'm a guy, with all of a guy's insensitivities - but I NEVER left my kids with anyone, unless BOTH the wife and I knew them well, and trusted them. When you've lost your kids, all that's left is bullshit.
And, I have to emphasize the "make it themselves" part.
Gangs in New York City were making their own guns, albeit, cheap, shoddy pieces of shit that were as likely to kill the guy shooting it, as the target, back in the '80's. (wow - what a sentence - but someone has to feed the grammar nazis)
I've given a little thought to what it would take to make a good, solid revolver. I could do it with my own tools, in a few days. With the tools available at work, I could even produce a pretty high quality revolver. I work with men who could probably produce a Colt .45 in a couple days, as good as anything that Colt produced themselves. If the twelve men at work were to set up shop, and produce handguns, we could probably ship a hundred weapons every week. More, once we ironed out the kinks, and got things automated.
Firearms aren't hard to produce, in case anyone was wondering. Quality is a bit tough, unless you have strict quality control. But, crooks have never been concerned about quality.
Somehow, I don't think I'm making my point. Strategy.
Iraq is producing nearly as much oil today as their peak in 2000 - 2.36 vs 2.57. And, there is every reason to believe that production will increase over time.
Prices? Maybe I flubbed on that - but I'm not paying $3.00 either. I filled yesterday for 2.59/gal.
But, in the strategy game, what would oil prices be if Saddam were still in charge? I can't say, and neither can you. I SUSPECT they might be higher, now.
Anyway - sometimes you need to look past the details, to get the big picture. The United States wanted Iraq's oil made available to the world, and they were hoping to get control of a large part of it. China messed up the control part. Remember when BP and the other big oil companies refused to take Iraq's offer? Pump the oil out of the ground, it remains the property of Iraq, and Iraq pays $2.00 / barrel. No one wanted any of that, UNTIL China started taking the contracts.
Funny how our "most favored trading partner" threw a monkey wrench into those works, huh?
The US didn't gain as much as it was hoping to gain, but there is a net gain, strategically speaking. And, if you throw the bogeyman, aka, Al Queda into the mix, the US gained even more. Presuming, of course, that Washington actually believed all that bullshit about Saddam and Al Queda being allied.
I was taught that steak sauce was invented to disguise the bad taste of a 30 year old bull. I wouldn't know, because I avoid 30 year old bull meat.
Yes, the stories are out there. But, like yourself, most liberals, and even some moderates, discount all the accounts of self defense. "Oh, big deal, granny killed a rapist. Some moron killed his son last month!" Like - you're keeping score, and one accidental death negates 100 successful self defenses.
I don't know about the law where you are from - but where I live, kids can own their own weapons with parental approval. The parent is ultimately responsible, of course, but the weapon belongs to the kid. I bought my first rifle when I was twelve, bought my first NEW rifle when I was 16. The salesman only asked that I bring an adult to the store, so that he knew I was allowed to buy the rifle. He might have raised an eyebrow, had I been purchasing a pistol - or not.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Hahahaha! Hahahahaha! LOL! FUCK MURDOCH!!!
FTFY
Actually, fuck him again. Not with my penis though.
The price is less important than the fact that the oil is flowing. Before the war, little oil was flowing. Today, oil flows freely. Much of it is flowing in the direction of China, but it is flowing all the same. And, the flow of oil to China benefits us indirectly, because China has less of a need to cut into our other supplies, elsewhere in the world.
Prices may have gone up and down, due to fears about the war, but ultimately, the prices have come down. At least for awhile. The war in Iraq was just part of an overall strategy.