Isn't that what's been done? The US can now be modeled in function as a series of concentric rings of incarceration, with Guantanamo as the extreme axial center, and TSA operating the guarded outer perimeter...
There's an assumed level of literacy despite being highly illustrated in the Enid Blyton stories. Noddy! Also our Beatrix Poter and AA Milne stuff.
I still bear tremendous affection for Jeremy Fisher, and wonder how the little girl must have cried over her broken toys, after Hunca-Munca finished with them...
You are probably right. I suspect a spectrum of reading materials is best - without overweighting on one kind of favourite.
The boy here likes super heroes. They haven't made material accessible for 3-year-olds in the genre since I was a tyke! So the request in the Ask Slashdot is actually quite understandable.
"Captain Marvel" You know, "Shazaam!" That was good, kid stuff...
Wahabbism, had you ever made a proper study of it - or any of the topics you gloss - had no significant impact, following or currency until the late 20th century. The doctrines were anathema to most Muslim cultures (plural), until reaction to post-colonial conditions (politics not ideology) and the utility it provided for the Saudi despotism established and supported by the UK and later US.
Your worldview is built on misinformation and the self-seeking rationalizations of post-colonial era empires.
The towers were crashed by Saudis, inspired by a former CIA asset, funded by royals, who were and still are under sponsorship of your own government. No Afghans were even peripherally or logistically involved. They offered a host country after Sudan ejected a few dozen zealots
The Taliban were not tremendously happy with the Arabs and were eager to rid themselves of them PRIOR to 911. They actually wanted to extradite Bin Laden to international justice before Sept.- but were turned down by the US. The US ALSO rejected such an offer AFTER 911!
It's very convenient to claim an authoritative view of a people's character, intentions and meaning - when one can only receive this knowledge through intermediaries with an antagonistic agenda.
The saddest thing is that you will wake up, crying in the middle of the night, for the rest of your life. And the institutions that fed you this shit and pointed you to the kill won't have time for your troubles. They'll be too busy burning though more screws like yourself, in some other trillionaire's adventure - while they make the States resemble a gulag evermore closely by the day.
If you didn't invade his country, he'd be no threat at all. Ideology never leads to sustained conflict, but can be twisted to devise support for other political and economic ends.
You are a merc. You just don't know it. The flag you support has been sold to the highest bidder - in the case of Afghanistan that means, largely, Unocal.
Talibani's were our Mujahedeen, before. They have never had the imagination, desire or capability to project any threat beyond their natural boundaries. The radicalization exhibited is something cultivated by Saudi influence money and tutalage,
Nobody is fighting for "a way of life". Just ownership of Pipelineistan.
So, you can justify all you want. Like the Wehrmacht in the Sudetenland, you are a foreign invading occupier, forcing a way for brutal resource extraction from a people who stand in no way to benefit. And, your presence kills their families, weekly.
And the 3, that were common before Mk IX. The Mk VIII had four, but cam later - as the IX began with a modification of existing Vc on the production line at Castle Bromwich.
The XIV marque - like other Gryphon Spits - had an elongated cowl, which interrupted the series of broad, elliptical shapes that made up a Spitfire, and gave it an extraordinary, sculptural quality.
Additionally, there was an enormous , five-bladed airscrew, behind a pointier spinner. The tiny cross section where the fuselage tapers toward the tali was "beefed up" and a much broader and taller tail/rudder structure again, change the elegant line of the aircraft. I suppose, as late as these models are, that Burma mk XIV's also have... Horror! The cut-down and bubble-top, instead of the more familiar hood and sloping airframe, behind the pilot.
Even in Merlin-engined Spitfires, you begin to see the transformation hinted with the Mk VIIIs that served in Australia and Asia, with clipped wingtips and pointed tops on their rudders. But these were gentler adaptations, and lent an interesting variant on the form of the aircraft that wasn't displeasing.
Altogether, so seriously altered, the Spitfire may well have been able to maintain itself against the equally radical adaptations made in BF109s and FW190s. However in doing so, the Spit looked more derived from Hawker's Tempest fighters, albeit with a nip at the chin, and less like the supple, equine aircraft that Reg Mitchell derived from Thompson Trophy racing winners of the 1930s.
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I'll have to zip up my pants... ;-)
Unless fake-cops are allowed to finger-fuck our babies, then the terrorists win.
Isn't that what's been done? The US can now be modeled in function as a series of concentric rings of incarceration, with Guantanamo as the extreme axial center, and TSA operating the guarded outer perimeter...
"I hid under the porch....
Because I LOVE you!"
Inaccurate story.
Fukushima 4 may be "offline" but can't be "shutdown"...
Declare US a no-fly zone.
What does this translate into, in real terms? You know, contracts for Halliburton, Bechtel and the gang?
MAFIAA Fire!!!
A FireFox plugin to defeat blocking of PirateBay and other trackers.
It's ONLY DNS, after all... Save all your cryin' for the Queen.
Due process and transparency?
This is borderline "coverup" activity.
There's an assumed level of literacy despite being highly illustrated in the Enid Blyton stories. Noddy! Also our Beatrix Poter and AA Milne stuff.
I still bear tremendous affection for Jeremy Fisher, and wonder how the little girl must have cried over her broken toys, after Hunca-Munca finished with them...
You are probably right. I suspect a spectrum of reading materials is best - without overweighting on one kind of favourite.
The boy here likes super heroes. They haven't made material accessible for 3-year-olds in the genre since I was a tyke! So the request in the Ask Slashdot is actually quite understandable.
"Captain Marvel" You know, "Shazaam!" That was good, kid stuff...
"There's plenty more where they came from, Sir..."
And this tripe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panty_%26_Stocking_with_Garterbelt
"Comics. I still like 'em, so let's pretend they're literacy."
Classic Fritz the Cat, and maybe some of the S. Clay Wilson stuff with motorcycles.
OK. Wait until he's 7.
Seriously? Read real books with him. The comics will come on his own, without encouragement.
See you there in 2 weeks. The trade-show vortex begins its inevitable, slow rotation.
That laser can burn a hole through a gnats brain from an altitude of 30,000 feet.
This fact was demonstrated on one of the Pentagon's top generals.
A: "Not at these prices, pal."
I think the whole idea of building this ship as a namesake evokes the definitive description of "tragedy at sea", is an incredible proposition.
One wonders: will they stage MacBeth on the shipboard theatre?
And how will anyone top this? I propose a replica Hindenburg - replete with swastikas.
Wahabbism, had you ever made a proper study of it - or any of the topics you gloss - had no significant impact, following or currency until the late 20th century. The doctrines were anathema to most Muslim cultures (plural), until reaction to post-colonial conditions (politics not ideology) and the utility it provided for the Saudi despotism established and supported by the UK and later US.
Your worldview is built on misinformation and the self-seeking rationalizations of post-colonial era empires.
The towers were crashed by Saudis, inspired by a former CIA asset, funded by royals, who were and still are under sponsorship of your own government. No Afghans were even peripherally or logistically involved. They offered a host country after Sudan ejected a few dozen zealots
The Taliban were not tremendously happy with the Arabs and were eager to rid themselves of them PRIOR to 911. They actually wanted to extradite Bin Laden to international justice before Sept.- but were turned down by the US. The US ALSO rejected such an offer AFTER 911!
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/09/20119115334167663.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5
By the way, do you SPEAK Pashtun or Dari?
Ke suhma chereh nagoo, kharajee?
It's very convenient to claim an authoritative view of a people's character, intentions and meaning - when one can only receive this knowledge through intermediaries with an antagonistic agenda.
The saddest thing is that you will wake up, crying in the middle of the night, for the rest of your life. And the institutions that fed you this shit and pointed you to the kill won't have time for your troubles. They'll be too busy burning though more screws like yourself, in some other trillionaire's adventure - while they make the States resemble a gulag evermore closely by the day.
You are crazy.
If you didn't invade his country, he'd be no threat at all. Ideology never leads to sustained conflict, but can be twisted to devise support for other political and economic ends.
You are a merc. You just don't know it. The flag you support has been sold to the highest bidder - in the case of Afghanistan that means, largely, Unocal.
Talibani's were our Mujahedeen, before. They have never had the imagination, desire or capability to project any threat beyond their natural boundaries. The radicalization exhibited is something cultivated by Saudi influence money and tutalage,
Nobody is fighting for "a way of life". Just ownership of Pipelineistan.
So, you can justify all you want. Like the Wehrmacht in the Sudetenland, you are a foreign invading occupier, forcing a way for brutal resource extraction from a people who stand in no way to benefit. And, your presence kills their families, weekly.
I feel sorry that you put yourself into such a situation, and consider that the decision of a moral being.
And the 3, that were common before Mk IX. The Mk VIII had four, but cam later - as the IX began with a modification of existing Vc on the production line at Castle Bromwich.
Yes.
Pity it's just us, in the apartment block, that will hear the approaching buzz....
Nobel Prize for Drone Warfare? :-)
"Drone Warfare is Peace!"
I think it a bit of pity that these are 1945 Spits, with Gryphon engines and the modified airframes.
If you care to see what these XIVs might look like, see this:
http://www.spitfireperformance.com/spit14v109.html
The XIV marque - like other Gryphon Spits - had an elongated cowl, which interrupted the series of broad, elliptical shapes that made up a Spitfire, and gave it an extraordinary, sculptural quality.
Additionally, there was an enormous , five-bladed airscrew, behind a pointier spinner. The tiny cross section where the fuselage tapers toward the tali was "beefed up" and a much broader and taller tail/rudder structure again, change the elegant line of the aircraft. I suppose, as late as these models are, that Burma mk XIV's also have... Horror! The cut-down and bubble-top, instead of the more familiar hood and sloping airframe, behind the pilot.
Even in Merlin-engined Spitfires, you begin to see the transformation hinted with the Mk VIIIs that served in Australia and Asia, with clipped wingtips and pointed tops on their rudders. But these were gentler adaptations, and lent an interesting variant on the form of the aircraft that wasn't displeasing.
Altogether, so seriously altered, the Spitfire may well have been able to maintain itself against the equally radical adaptations made in BF109s and FW190s. However in doing so, the Spit looked more derived from Hawker's Tempest fighters, albeit with a nip at the chin, and less like the supple, equine aircraft that Reg Mitchell derived from Thompson Trophy racing winners of the 1930s.