What is the count...lets seee...90,000 dead from the current war and 1,500,000 dead (1/2 million infants) from US/UK led sanctions. According to your figures, the Iraqi people should be quite happy! Assuming these numbers are accurate, 1.5m people died during ~12 years because of Saddam's rule, at a rate of 125,000 per year. Compare this to 15,000 per year since the American occupation.
Of course you probably know that blaming the US/UK for the deaths during the sanctions is utter bullocks. Only one person in the world had the power to supply food and medicine to the Iraqi people: Saddam Hussein. Even your own article points this out:
(regarding oil-for-food) If the government of Iraq had accepted the program when it was first proposed, much of the suffering that occurred in the intervening years could have been avoided. But it goes on...
Production has risen to approximately 2.6 million barrels per day, levels approaching those before the Gulf War. Oil revenues during the last six months of 2000 reached nearly $10 billion... Funds are still controlled through the UN escrow account, with a nearly 30 percent deduction for war reparations and UN costs, but Baghdad has more than sufficient money to address continuing humanitarian needs. Said Secretary General Kofi Annan in his latest report, "With the improved funding level for the programme, the Government of Iraq is indeed in a position to address the nutritional and health concerns of the Iraqi people."
The tens of thousands of excess deaths in the south-center, compared to the similarly sanctioned but UN-administered north, are also the result of Baghdad's failure to accept and properly manage the UN humanitarian relief effort.
Despite the evidence of Baghdad's shared responsibility for the ongoing crisis, sanctions opponents have continued to direct their ire exclusively at the United States and Britain. Next time, try linking to a site that DOESN'T shoot your weak argument out of the water.
As long as it wasn't on duty, it's his business until it causes legal or performance problems. If he shows up drunk on station that would be time for rehab. While I agree in spirit, it's only half true. If his commander feels he has an alcohol/substance abuse/mental/medical problem, he can order his troop to report to his local substance abuse people for screening.
It obviously varies between bases and commanders, but the focus now appears to be on prevention and intervention before it leads to problems at work, especially when you're talking about people working on billion dollar aircraft.
The weakest link in any security system is the end user. I work with users that have the hardest time with computers. I have this guy call every week because he forgot his password and I have to take 10 min training him how to change his password. (why every week? he only works on Thursdays).
Now you will have to make a new password is has to have... blah... blah... Have you ever considered that your passwords might be too complex for the average user? I worked for an organization that had very stringent password rules: 2 lower case, 2 upper case, 2 special character, 2 numbers, numbers cannot repeat, letters can't be next to each other on the keyboard, and password must be changed every 60 days, and that was just for my network login. There were more for internal company websites, databases, and custom programs that all had to have similar (but different) passwords.
I consider myself fairly intelligent, but I had a heck of a time remembering the passwords and was embarrassed by needing regular password resets after long weekends.
To make matters worse, password management programs like KeePass were not allowed on the network and any unauthorized software could get you in trouble. Because of this I ended up having to do things like writing half my password on a post-it and the other half on a card in my wallet. I devised all sorts of incredibly insecure systems to store the myriad complex passwords I was required to maintain.
I want to know a percentage of people that fell for it! Hello friend,
I'm Sherman Tecumseh. You may have heard of me from the recent news articles about my program under the Freedom Of Information Act to give out valuable data to intelligent people such as yourself.
I am writing to inform you that you have been hand-picked to be the first to receive this data, but I need more of your information to be able to send it to. As you probably know, this information is highly sensitive, so we need your social security number, mother's maiden name, and all your previous addresses to complete the background check.
Because I am writing from a friend's account, please write me at GenCoolFish@example.com with the above information. Thank you and God Bless.
Didn't you watch "When Harry Met Sally" we want to bang the ugly ones too. You should really read The Ladder Theory for a comical look at this. My favorite part is the [heterosexual] man's rating system:
1. Would actively like to fuck 2. Would fuck drunk and admit to it 3. Would fuck drunk and not admit to it
Many people are going to cry "foul" or claim to be above it, but I think it's fairly accurate. Perhaps some religions prohibit alcohol consumption to protect men from the embarrassing situation of being caught bedding an unattractive woman?
I knew it was a typo, but this is Slashdot, so take it like a man^H^H^H geek. Mistakes like that will get you called, that's the deal here.
You've typed two spaces between "man" and "geek". Actually, he typed two spaces between "a" and "geek". But who's counting?
The vast, vasr majority of scientists, the only people really QUALIFIED to look at the data and analyze it are in a great consensus. If you want to say they are wrong, and you don't need science to prove it... Then I really don't want you deciding what goes on a class specifically ABOUT science. I'm glad you finally see his point. Right now, only a small portion of the population is actually able to argue intelligently on behalf of evolution, but this number has been growing ever since people were allowed to teach evolution. In order to reverse this trend, religious fanatics need to make sure that the next generation of scientists believes that either a) evolution is false or b) "evolution is true, but God did it!" This requires a change in the science curriculum.
I hope you now understand why these curriculum changes are necessary. Please pick up the 2008 Voting Guide at your local church. Ballot stubs may be redeemed for free cookies at mass.
Killing someone's family is not theft either, dumbass.
Thank you. I was wondering when the analogy police would come along to take that idiot's life...
Wait, is taking someone's life the "theft of life"? Maybe he's right! I'll try to use it as a defense next time. Perhaps it only applies if I KEEP his life instead of just destroying it...?
Its like social security - a REAL patriot will die on their 65th birthday!
It might (or not) be helpful to remember that when Social Security began, average life expectancy was slightly under 65. so fewer than half those who paid into it collected, and most of those who did collect died shortly after they began collecting.
Social Security's financial woes are entirely a result of the increasing life expectancy of Americans....
Don't worry, we're working around the clock to correct this problem.
Also, you're oversimplifying life expectancy. I believe the life expectancy you're referencing was that of a newborn child. If a person manages to survive childhood, their life expectancy goes up. If they manage to survive to adulthood, their life expectancy goes up again. If a person manages to survive everything from adulthood to retirement, their life expectancy is even higher. I can't find the exact numbers right now, but although the current "life expectancy" is in the mid-70s for a male in the US, a male in the US who lives to 65 is likely to live until he is in his mid 80s. For a quick example, imagine a society with a 55% infant mortality rate where everyone else lived between 100 and 105 years. The average "life expectancy" would be 48-49 years.
For purposes of social security system planning, the numbers that SHOULD be used are of those of ~18-65 years of age. Of course fixing the social security system would require fixing the government, and it might just be easier to reduce the life expectancy of adults who depended on decent medical care.
But that still doesn't explain how the UK murder rate is so high given how few guns they have. Let me explain it then. Guns don't cause murder. Guns aren't the only way to kill people... they're not even usually the first choice. Aside from knives, poisons, explosives, rope/cord, blunt objects and electricity, people can also use their hands to kill other people. As such, not having a gun really isn't such a big deal. If somebody wants to kill another human, they'll find a way to do it. Personally, I'd rather be shot to death than die by any of the other methods I listed, but I guess if gun control makes people FEEL safer...
It's a strange turn of events when you have to be warned about an event which you supposedly are trying to bring about. My poptarts may be hot? Damn straight! They'd better be hot, that's the reason I put them in the toaster! Perhaps... but if the toaster is broken, the pop-tarts may not be hot when you remove them. This could lead to hunger, starvation, depression, or even suicide. I smell a warning label!
Many people have said that FF slows their system down, and honestly I have not experienced this on Windows, Linux, or Mac (OSX)... in far over a year.
The fact is that these supposed 'memory leaks' are more a factor with prior incompatibilities with Windows inconsistencies than being due to Firefox itself. Next time, please consider that anecdotal evidence isn't indicative of anything significant. You admit that "many users" are reporting memory leaks, but you dismiss them because you have not? You should know by now that individual usage patterns may vary. In about an hour, I can show you how moderate-heavy browsing on Firefox, with many tabs open, leads to ~450MB memory usage on any of my systems... in Linux or Windows. If you read the previous posts, you'd probably know that this is a known, widely-reported issue, and it has to do with some of Firefox's features. You can cry "incompatibilities" all you'd like, but you just sound like the average Tier III tech support drone when you say it.
Personally, I hate IE on many levels, and I can only hope that the fine folks who work on this project will be able to fix these issues, or make it easier for me to disable the features that cause them.
* Side note, I realize that I am also pointing to my own anecdotal evidence, but there are probably 100 other posts in this thread saying the same thing.
A back of the envelope calculation shows that 1 kW average would correspond to over 20,000 calories (food calories, so actually kilocalories), over a 24 hour period. 100 watts seems more reasonable. Just for accuracy's sake, "Calories" is used in the states to refer to kilocaries. "calories" denotes a normal calorie. Yes, it's stupid, but it's what is used.
I'm not talking about the US. Have you ever traveled to a country with a low standard of living? Yes. Let's focus on finding cheaper ways to provide potable water so we can bump diarrhea from its position as the leading cause of death. Then we can worry about providing cheaper electricity.
From my understanding, Apple owns Firewire. It's proprietary and manufacturers have to pay a royalty to Apple. Supposedly, this is the reason I can't find a decent motherboard with IEEE 1394b.
Although it is a superior technology, restricting its use in PCs gives Apple a competitive advantage in the video editing/imaging markets.
Anywhere in Europe or Asia ought to work. No "divesting of shoes" anywhere I've traveled outside the USA. Scotland. The only other country I know of that requires you to take off shoes, and I travel quite a bit.
I say we skip the current terrorist threat and jump straight to the next one. Christians are obviously going to be the next problem (look at them, how they congregate every Sunday, beady shifting eyes, you KNOW they're up to SOMETHING).
UP AGAINST THE WALL TERRORIST! NOW! Typical whack against Christians. (Its not like you WONT find such things on/. I'm willing to bet you would NEVER say such a thing about muslims. Perhaps for one of two reasons. 1)Its politically Incorrect or 2)You'd get your head cut off.
Or maybe let's celebrate our diversity and not use knee-jerk reactions as policy, eh? Ahh.. Another worshiper of 'diversity'. Listen.. Diversity is a RESULT. Not a GOAL. I'd ask you to think about this concept, but I doubt you could handle it. Ahhh... Another 'christian without a sense of humor'. Move along folks, nothing intelligent to see here.
Obviously you don't know what happens to broadcast TV stations who show nudity or say one of the seven dirty words.
Yes, they get fined. If it happens during one of the periodic morality frenzies it could be a substantial fine announced with great publicity to demonstrate to the public just how tough the FCC can be. No one ever loses their license.
It'll happen soon enough, don't worry. Just wait until some liberal media station shows two nipples in one week or something like that.
Hell, even Fox News has been clamoring for an increase in standards for broadcast television!
Oh, are they done defending Christmas from the heathens now?
Yes, the xmas-defending season is over now, but Easter is just around the corner!
Anyways, I must apologize for excluding the tongue-in-cheek tag on my previous post. Hopefully you now understand where I was coming from...
I agree with Binford, although I think it's quite funny that "Binford2k" was the name of a product on Tool Time, but maybe he's just into archeology... About four years ago I went TV-less. I no longer own a television, and get all of my news from other sources, although I still download the occasional south park episode.
How has it affected me? I'm more productive, have more time for slashdot and other forms of entertainment, and feel much less politically biased. The downside is that I have no idea who the latest pregnant crack whore pop star is. I really don't know how many kids Britney Paris Spears has, or whether she's married. I don't know the exact death toll of the Iraq War, but I have a pretty good understanding of most of the arguments surrounding the war.
In short, I wish more people would give up television entirely. It's a dangerous addiction and it's helping people waste their lives away.
...They used to held to a standard where they would be audited for such things every three years. Now they literally send in a license renewal by postcard once every 8 years and no one ever loses their license. Obviously you don't know what happens to broadcast TV stations who show nudity or say one of the seven dirty words. Hell, even Fox News has been clamoring for an increase in standards for broadcast television!
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Of course you probably know that blaming the US/UK for the deaths during the sanctions is utter bullocks. Only one person in the world had the power to supply food and medicine to the Iraqi people: Saddam Hussein. Even your own article points this out: (regarding oil-for-food) If the government of Iraq had accepted the program when it was first proposed, much of the suffering that occurred in the intervening years could have been avoided. But it goes on... Production has risen to approximately 2.6 million barrels per day, levels approaching those before the Gulf War. Oil revenues during the last six months of 2000 reached nearly $10 billion... Funds are still controlled through the UN escrow account, with a nearly 30 percent deduction for war reparations and UN costs, but Baghdad has more than sufficient money to address continuing humanitarian needs. Said Secretary General Kofi Annan in his latest report, "With the improved funding level for the programme, the Government of Iraq is indeed in a position to address the nutritional and health concerns of the Iraqi people." The tens of thousands of excess deaths in the south-center, compared to the similarly sanctioned but UN-administered north, are also the result of Baghdad's failure to accept and properly manage the UN humanitarian relief effort.
Despite the evidence of Baghdad's shared responsibility for the ongoing crisis, sanctions opponents have continued to direct their ire exclusively at the United States and Britain. Next time, try linking to a site that DOESN'T shoot your weak argument out of the water.
More weed planted = more carbon sinking. Add the savings from canceling the multibillion dollar "drug war" budget, and I think we have a clear winner.
It obviously varies between bases and commanders, but the focus now appears to be on prevention and intervention before it leads to problems at work, especially when you're talking about people working on billion dollar aircraft.
Now you will have to make a new password is has to have
I consider myself fairly intelligent, but I had a heck of a time remembering the passwords and was embarrassed by needing regular password resets after long weekends.
To make matters worse, password management programs like KeePass were not allowed on the network and any unauthorized software could get you in trouble. Because of this I ended up having to do things like writing half my password on a post-it and the other half on a card in my wallet. I devised all sorts of incredibly insecure systems to store the myriad complex passwords I was required to maintain.
I'm Sherman Tecumseh. You may have heard of me from the recent news articles about my program under the Freedom Of Information Act to give out valuable data to intelligent people such as yourself.
I am writing to inform you that you have been hand-picked to be the first to receive this data, but I need more of your information to be able to send it to. As you probably know, this information is highly sensitive, so we need your social security number, mother's maiden name, and all your previous addresses to complete the background check.
Because I am writing from a friend's account, please write me at GenCoolFish@example.com with the above information. Thank you and God Bless.
1. Publish glowing book review on site read by millions of nerds/geeks
2. Include link to Amazon with a referrer tag
3. Profit!
Thanks for helping me figure out step 2! Is this Slashdot's doing or the submitters?
1. Would actively like to fuck
2. Would fuck drunk and admit to it
3. Would fuck drunk and not admit to it
Many people are going to cry "foul" or claim to be above it, but I think it's fairly accurate. Perhaps some religions prohibit alcohol consumption to protect men from the embarrassing situation of being caught bedding an unattractive woman?
I hope you now understand why these curriculum changes are necessary. Please pick up the 2008 Voting Guide at your local church. Ballot stubs may be redeemed for free cookies at mass.
Killing someone's family is not theft either, dumbass.
Thank you. I was wondering when the analogy police would come along to take that idiot's life...Wait, is taking someone's life the "theft of life"? Maybe he's right! I'll try to use it as a defense next time. Perhaps it only applies if I KEEP his life instead of just destroying it...?
It might (or not) be helpful to remember that when Social Security began, average life expectancy was slightly under 65. so fewer than half those who paid into it collected, and most of those who did collect died shortly after they began collecting.
Social Security's financial woes are entirely a result of the increasing life expectancy of Americans....
Don't worry, we're working around the clock to correct this problem.Also, you're oversimplifying life expectancy. I believe the life expectancy you're referencing was that of a newborn child. If a person manages to survive childhood, their life expectancy goes up. If they manage to survive to adulthood, their life expectancy goes up again. If a person manages to survive everything from adulthood to retirement, their life expectancy is even higher. I can't find the exact numbers right now, but although the current "life expectancy" is in the mid-70s for a male in the US, a male in the US who lives to 65 is likely to live until he is in his mid 80s. For a quick example, imagine a society with a 55% infant mortality rate where everyone else lived between 100 and 105 years. The average "life expectancy" would be 48-49 years.
For purposes of social security system planning, the numbers that SHOULD be used are of those of ~18-65 years of age. Of course fixing the social security system would require fixing the government, and it might just be easier to reduce the life expectancy of adults who depended on decent medical care.
The fact is that these supposed 'memory leaks' are more a factor with prior incompatibilities with Windows inconsistencies than being due to Firefox itself. Next time, please consider that anecdotal evidence isn't indicative of anything significant. You admit that "many users" are reporting memory leaks, but you dismiss them because you have not? You should know by now that individual usage patterns may vary. In about an hour, I can show you how moderate-heavy browsing on Firefox, with many tabs open, leads to ~450MB memory usage on any of my systems... in Linux or Windows. If you read the previous posts, you'd probably know that this is a known, widely-reported issue, and it has to do with some of Firefox's features. You can cry "incompatibilities" all you'd like, but you just sound like the average Tier III tech support drone when you say it.
Personally, I hate IE on many levels, and I can only hope that the fine folks who work on this project will be able to fix these issues, or make it easier for me to disable the features that cause them.
* Side note, I realize that I am also pointing to my own anecdotal evidence, but there are probably 100 other posts in this thread saying the same thing.
From my understanding, Apple owns Firewire. It's proprietary and manufacturers have to pay a royalty to Apple. Supposedly, this is the reason I can't find a decent motherboard with IEEE 1394b.
Although it is a superior technology, restricting its use in PCs gives Apple a competitive advantage in the video editing/imaging markets.
UP AGAINST THE WALL TERRORIST! NOW! Typical whack against Christians. (Its not like you WONT find such things on
I'm willing to bet you would NEVER say such a thing about muslims.
Perhaps for one of two reasons. 1)Its politically Incorrect or 2)You'd get your head cut off. Or maybe let's celebrate our diversity and not use knee-jerk reactions as policy, eh? Ahh.. Another worshiper of 'diversity'.
Listen.. Diversity is a RESULT. Not a GOAL. I'd ask you to think about this concept, but I doubt you could handle it. Ahhh... Another 'christian without a sense of humor'. Move along folks, nothing intelligent to see here.
Congratulations, but... Does she have a sister?
Obviously you don't know what happens to broadcast TV stations who show nudity or say one of the seven dirty words.
Yes, they get fined. If it happens during one of the periodic morality frenzies it could be a substantial fine announced with great publicity to demonstrate to the public just how tough the FCC can be. No one ever loses their license.
It'll happen soon enough, don't worry. Just wait until some liberal media station shows two nipples in one week or something like that.Hell, even Fox News has been clamoring for an increase in standards for broadcast television!
Oh, are they done defending Christmas from the heathens now?
Yes, the xmas-defending season is over now, but Easter is just around the corner!Anyways, I must apologize for excluding the tongue-in-cheek tag on my previous post. Hopefully you now understand where I was coming from...
It's people like you, and your crazy, irrational fears, which end up forcing the rest of us to take our shoes off at the airport.
I agree with Binford, although I think it's quite funny that "Binford2k" was the name of a product on Tool Time, but maybe he's just into archeology... About four years ago I went TV-less. I no longer own a television, and get all of my news from other sources, although I still download the occasional south park episode.
How has it affected me? I'm more productive, have more time for slashdot and other forms of entertainment, and feel much less politically biased. The downside is that I have no idea who the latest pregnant crack whore pop star is. I really don't know how many kids Britney Paris Spears has, or whether she's married. I don't know the exact death toll of the Iraq War, but I have a pretty good understanding of most of the arguments surrounding the war.
In short, I wish more people would give up television entirely. It's a dangerous addiction and it's helping people waste their lives away.
...They used to held to a standard where they would be audited for such things every three years. Now they literally send in a license renewal by postcard once every 8 years and no one ever loses their license. Obviously you don't know what happens to broadcast TV stations who show nudity or say one of the seven dirty words. Hell, even Fox News has been clamoring for an increase in standards for broadcast television!