http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_mortality_before_and_after_the_2003_invasion_of_Iraq#Criticisms_and_countercriticisms_2
In a Democracy Now! interview , study co-author Les Roberts defended the methodology by noting that the method is the standard used in poor countries. He also said that the same method was used by the US government following wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan. Roberts also said that the US government's Smart Initiative program is spending millions of dollars per year teaching NGOs and UN workers how to use the same cluster method for estimating mortality rates.[66]
The article's authors defended their research, claiming that their work was the only active study of the death toll, and that this is more accurate than passively counting reported deaths.[26] They cited a number of factors that could lead to smaller figures from other sources; for example, the Islamic requirement that bodies be buried within 24 hours of death. They claim that the sources of bias in their study push the figure down.
An Oct. 11, 2006 Washington Post article[4] reports:
Ronald Waldman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University who worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for many years, called the survey method "tried and true," and added that "this is the best estimate of mortality we have."
ORB survey compared with Lancet studies See also: ORB survey of casualties of the Iraq War On September 14, 2007, ORB (Opinion Research Business), an independent UK based polling agency, published an estimate of the total casualties of the Iraq war. The figure suggested by ORB, which was based on survey responses from 1,499 adults, stands at 1,220,580 deaths, with a margin of error of 2.5%. This estimate, although conducted independently, and using a different polling methodology, is consistent with the Lancet findings.
That Mr. Hitler sure makes the trains run on time - and that's just good, plain business sense. It certainly has been boon for I.G. Farben, AG, and for Krupps! I can't imagine that those new garden tractors will ever be used as a panzerkampfwagen to invade Czechoslovakia or Poland.
Apparently these drones launch off a catapult, and are captured mid flight without needing a runway.
...Oh, good readers, you SO have to read this story out of Houston about police doing a secret test/demonstration of those unmanned military spy drones for use in civilian policing. Not only did the Houston Police Department try to keep the media from finding out about the big shindig, but they surrounded the test areas with cop cars; and when they realized that a news team was filming the whole thing from a helicopter, they even lied through their teeth that the FAA had restricted the flight area. (Knowingly misrepresenting a federal rule is, by the way, not only stupid, it's unlawful; so here we have a police department of a major American city willfully breaking federal law.)
...Just read the article. By the end, you'll see the Houston police representatives dancing all around, doing everything they can to avoid admitting to what this latest militarization of civilian law enforcement is all about. And once you've finished reading the article, ask yourself which candidates for local, state, and/or national office are promising that they'll stop this whole, Orwellian madness right in its tracks. (PREDICTION: I'll bet you end up saying, "None that I can recall.")
What the gullible Houston police probably didn't realize is that Insitu, Inc., the company that makes the drones, likely regards all the publicity as a plus.
This is the basic problem with all the DARPA-bankrolled projects: even top secret technologies are marketable for the companies that develop them.
...Insitu's people and products bring unique capabilities and benefits to our customers:
Experience--Over 60,000 ScanEagle(TM)UAV flight hours in theater since 2004
Service--Our growing team is experienced, seasoned, innovative, and responsive like no other
Endurance--Over 20 hours possible per flight, day & night
Low Cost--Economical operations and systems permit selective expendability
Persistence--Insitu's inertially stabilized camera turret, plus endurance, plus Insitu's ObjectTracker target tracking technology, keep objects of interest in view
Weather--Wide envelope. Reliable operations in winds over 35 knots, through significant precipitation, and beneath clouds
Crosswind--Good. Operates in crosswinds that ground other UAVs, needs no runway
Runway--None. Unprepared terrain or shipboard operations made easy with Insitu's SuperWedge(TM) Launcher and SkyHook(TM) Retrieval System
Stealthy--Nearly impossible to hear or see an Insitu UAV even at close range
Modular--Modular design means components are easily replaced in the field
Lean--Small, light weight UAV, compact ground support equipment, no runway, and autonomous operations mean low personnel requirements and very small footprint
Expandable--Avionics bay has available slot for easy integration of new UAV payloads...
The bloody Kinks oughta sue the Romantics, in such a world! "What I Like About You" is pretty much an early Kinks pastiche. Fits right in with "'Till the End of the Day", "All Day and All of the Night", "You Really Got Me" and "Stop Your Sobbin'".
Maybe what's left of the Yardbirds can get in the act, too! That "Hey!" in the song comes right out of "Over, Under, Sideways, Down".
Come to think of it, that last song is just "Rock Around the Clock" with some awesome guitar work by Jeff Beck. Oh!
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TASERMAN!
I am not an atheist.
I am writing satire.
Nothing means anything at all, except for God.
I don't apologize for the killing of innocents - and God is love!
Religion is a crutch for people who can't handle God.
KILL! KILL! KILL!
I am good man! God loves the kill! Baby guts!
JESUS! Help me KILL more people FASTER!!!
This is the answer to my prayer! KILL MORE! Kill FAST!
God, this give me a boner! Thank you, Jesus, for my fast, fast, fast killing machines!
This is the American f*cking dream! I can SMELL the baby corpses this thing makes FASTER than EVER! I worship this killing SPEED machine!
JESUS! Help me KILL more people FASTER!!!
This is the answer to my prayer! KILL MORE! Kill FAST!
God, this give me a boner! Thank you, Jesus, for my fast, fast, fast killing machines!
This is the American f*cking dream! I can SMELL the baby corpses this thing makes FASTER than EVER! I worship this killing SPEED machine!
The article's authors defended their research, claiming that their work was the only active study of the death toll, and that this is more accurate than passively counting reported deaths.[26] They cited a number of factors that could lead to smaller figures from other sources; for example, the Islamic requirement that bodies be buried within 24 hours of death. They claim that the sources of bias in their study push the figure down.
An Oct. 11, 2006 Washington Post article[4] reports:
Ronald Waldman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University who worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for many years, called the survey method "tried and true," and added that "this is the best estimate of mortality we have." ORB survey compared with Lancet studies
See also: ORB survey of casualties of the Iraq War
On September 14, 2007, ORB (Opinion Research Business), an independent UK based polling agency, published an estimate of the total casualties of the Iraq war. The figure suggested by ORB, which was based on survey responses from 1,499 adults, stands at 1,220,580 deaths, with a margin of error of 2.5%. This estimate, although conducted independently, and using a different polling methodology, is consistent with the Lancet findings.
So much as the arm growing out of your forehead.
Seriously - liars can figure - and these liars are out to sell you "limited nuclear war" and "cheap nuclear power". File this with "cakewalk in Iraq".
Look what the radiation and chemical toxicity effects are from even "depleted" Uranium:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs257/en/
Remember: Uranium is named for Uranus - don't play with stuff that comes out of Uranus!
At least it's not protein... More than one could swallow, really.
I don't need anyone / Don't need no mom and dad
Don't need no pretty face / Don't need no human race
I got some news for you / Don't even need you too
I got my time machine / Got my electronic dream
Sonic reducer / Ain't no loser
I'm a sonic reducer / Ain't no loser
Who new they were such slimy, corporate quislings.
Hi, kids!
That Mr. Hitler sure makes the trains run on time - and that's just good, plain business sense. It certainly has been boon for I.G. Farben, AG, and for Krupps! I can't imagine that those new garden tractors will ever be used as a panzerkampfwagen to invade Czechoslovakia or Poland.
P.S. Godwin was a quisling.
Apparently these drones launch off a catapult, and are captured mid flight without needing a runway.
Video here
What the gullible Houston police probably didn't realize is that Insitu, Inc., the company that makes the drones, likely regards all the publicity as a plus.
This is the basic problem with all the DARPA-bankrolled projects: even top secret technologies are marketable for the companies that develop them.
And eager to market they are. Here's what they say on their own site:
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Ramones == US Garage Kinks
What makes "Gloria" - and all the aforementioned 3-Chorders so great, is the delivery and presence of their presentation.
Van Morrison in '64? Geez! How could this Belfast leprechaun do that?
HE was sued by his old producer - who claimed he plagiarized himself!!!
And less auspiciously: the same was claimed of Nickleback...
The bloody Kinks oughta sue the Romantics, in such a world! "What I Like About You" is pretty much an early Kinks pastiche. Fits right in with "'Till the End of the Day", "All Day and All of the Night", "You Really Got Me" and "Stop Your Sobbin'".
Maybe what's left of the Yardbirds can get in the act, too! That "Hey!" in the song comes right out of "Over, Under, Sideways, Down".
Come to think of it, that last song is just "Rock Around the Clock" with some awesome guitar work by Jeff Beck. Oh!
Fuggeddiboutit.
Kill it. Now.
and sourceforge, too?
The earth is warming! The only way to solve this is one world government!
Cause he said it again, twice.
Why is this cocksucker in new SCIENTIST? If this is the way things are going, I want the Mother Fucking OLD SCIENTIST back!
Is it another sign of the decline -faith-based, pseudo-science- under the rule of Caligula Bush?
The Thomas Friedman "worst, most boring kind of middlebrow horseshit" seems to have completely sucked the last gasp of life out of any significant intellectual effort in the public arena.
LIFE of the MIND!
You just post this drivel to distract people from looking into the facts behind my analysis of the "numbers stations".