Ah, but when were you last in Iran so that you could meet smart and capable Persian engineers that DO live in Iran though?
As for the ones that live elsewhere, they live where? The US, which helped egg Saddam on to start a war which killed getting on for a million? And the US was complicit in the Iraqi use of weapons of mass destruction (gas)?
Don't get me wrong. The place appears to be run by self serving nut cases. But to be honest is that really much different from most other countries?
Here in Australia I heard a story about being able to buy fake Catapillar mining gear off the Chinese. Apparently you can't even tell from the serial numbers of the parts.
A couple of years back a mob got in the way of a shipment of chip card bank teller equipment from China to the UK, and inserted a few extra electronics, including WIFI. Then re-shrunk wrapped them and sent them on their way.
There is nothing that can't be reverse engineered/hijacked if it is important enough. And on the importance scale this would be right up there for both China and Iran.
Logic doesn't come to any such conclusion unless there is already bias in the observer, which with your use of the words "panicked narratives" would indicate that you are.
The way I see it, they appear to have an undamaged US drone (and I tend to associate crash and aircraft as resulting in lots of bits), which the US by claiming it back seems to have verified. Beyond that everything is speculation because politics and propaganda gets involved.
As I heard it they got the Russians and Chinese to take a look when they first acquired it. It would make sense to collaborate with them to try to reverse engineer it.
I want my flying car. Now! It was promised ages ago.
Given the amount of money that our civilisation wastes in all sorts of ways there is no real reason why we can't do both. It is all politics.
I doubt very much if we would even know about our impending climatic and ecosystem breakdown if it wasn't for them there sat-e-lites that go a whizzing around the planet.
I would have thought that the value of any ores would be maximised if they left them in space. Bring the 500 ton asteroid back and start manufacturing stuff for space stations or space flight. Don't waste that gravity well.
Or wait until a space elevator is built and use it as ballast.
Actually all you need to do to change things is not support them financially. Appeals to the lazy in everyone! If no-one watched or turned up the whole thing would go away and we could all save our tax dollars for something more useful to humanity.
I have never understood the appeal of watching someone who has spent their life dedicated to being 0.01 of a second faster than everyone else. But then I would always rather participate than watch, in whatever field of endeavor.
Mediation makes no sense when there is a right and a wrong.
Imagine that instead of being abolished, slavery had been allowed to continue on cane farms because otherwise the cane couldn't be cut economically.
Or the minimum wage only applies to people with a college education.
You could imagine both being compromise outcomes. And sometimes the compromise is the worst of all outcomes because it stops you from doing what should be done from the outset.
Actually, at least in Australia every time there is an election both side scramble to say how tough on law and order they are going to be. But it is still almost impossible to get police to be interested in minor crime.
Not that this is surprising. The police are largely there to keep order so that the rich can stay rich. There are plenty of examples of the police being used to keep down the common man, the most recent of which was the way they broke up the 'occupy' movement.
How much is the the two year contract extension worth to you carrier? And how much did they pay Apple for that 4? I am betting it is more than $75 in both cases...
Mozambique IS because of the great powers that carved up Africa at the end of the nineteenth century chose it to be.
African countries have at least three problems, two of them internal and one external. The internal problems are that they were given (or in some cases took independence) without any significant attempts to create an educated elite, and that their boundaries are not based on culture. For examples of the latter, look at Nigeria with its Christian coastal dwellers and Islamic folk inland, or the current problems in Mali with the Toureg in the north fighting for independence. Also note how Sudan and Ethiopia have both had civil war and been split in the last decade or so, both along religious or ethic lines.
The external problem is that both political and commerical interests benefit from African states being badly run. There was much jostling over the African states during the cold war, and it is much easier to deal with a dictator or bribe a government when you are after the many resources Africa has to offer rather than have to deal with the vagaries of public opinion.
And let's not forget that some of these nations have had independence for less than 50 years (1974 in the case of Mozambique).
Anyone interested in reading up on the carving up of Africa might want to take a look at Thomas Pakenham - The Scramble for Africa.
This luddite, like a lot of luddites in this country is clinging on to analog TV because we do not and will not have a digital broadcast in our area. We are going to have to go to satellite if we want to continue to receive free-to-air.
I am not sure why Telstra is responsible for the frequencies used to broadcast analog TV, but am happy to be enlightened.
As an aside I can't really claim to be clinging on to analog - I have a TV aerial I set up for the Australian Open or football championships, but otherwise I am happy streaming video via mobile, which works quite nicely thanks very much.
Only a problem if you think patents are worth respecting.
Another approach would be to buy the panels (and anything else produced at subsidised prices) and focus on other areas. Once they put the prices up, you steal their tech and make them yourselves.
Of course if you have shut down your rare earth mining facility because your tiny capitalist minds said it was cheaper to get them from China, well I guess there is some benefits to a planned economy after all.
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Ah, but when were you last in Iran so that you could meet smart and capable Persian engineers that DO live in Iran though?
As for the ones that live elsewhere, they live where? The US, which helped egg Saddam on to start a war which killed getting on for a million? And the US was complicit in the Iraqi use of weapons of mass destruction (gas)?
Don't get me wrong. The place appears to be run by self serving nut cases. But to be honest is that really much different from most other countries?
Here in Australia I heard a story about being able to buy fake Catapillar mining gear off the Chinese. Apparently you can't even tell from the serial numbers of the parts.
A couple of years back a mob got in the way of a shipment of chip card bank teller equipment from China to the UK, and inserted a few extra electronics, including WIFI. Then re-shrunk wrapped them and sent them on their way.
There is nothing that can't be reverse engineered/hijacked if it is important enough. And on the importance scale this would be right up there for both China and Iran.
Logic doesn't come to any such conclusion unless there is already bias in the observer, which with your use of the words "panicked narratives" would indicate that you are.
The way I see it, they appear to have an undamaged US drone (and I tend to associate crash and aircraft as resulting in lots of bits), which the US by claiming it back seems to have verified. Beyond that everything is speculation because politics and propaganda gets involved.
As I heard it they got the Russians and Chinese to take a look when they first acquired it. It would make sense to collaborate with them to try to reverse engineer it.
Not to mention Israel
I want my flying car. Now! It was promised ages ago.
Given the amount of money that our civilisation wastes in all sorts of ways there is no real reason why we can't do both. It is all politics.
I doubt very much if we would even know about our impending climatic and ecosystem breakdown if it wasn't for them there sat-e-lites that go a whizzing around the planet.
Well put that man. Just a shame I used my mod points up yesterday.
I would have thought that the value of any ores would be maximised if they left them in space. Bring the 500 ton asteroid back and start manufacturing stuff for space stations or space flight. Don't waste that gravity well.
Or wait until a space elevator is built and use it as ballast.
The guy uses the word "Memorialize" rather than "document" in its verb form. I would fire him just for that :o)
Actually all you need to do to change things is not support them financially. Appeals to the lazy in everyone! If no-one watched or turned up the whole thing would go away and we could all save our tax dollars for something more useful to humanity.
I have never understood the appeal of watching someone who has spent their life dedicated to being 0.01 of a second faster than everyone else. But then I would always rather participate than watch, in whatever field of endeavor.
Mediation makes no sense when there is a right and a wrong.
Imagine that instead of being abolished, slavery had been allowed to continue on cane farms because otherwise the cane couldn't be cut economically.
Or the minimum wage only applies to people with a college education.
You could imagine both being compromise outcomes. And sometimes the compromise is the worst of all outcomes because it stops you from doing what should be done from the outset.
Hey keep your stalkers and pedos for yourself. We have plenty of our own here...
You bloody trade unionist bastard!
With an average death rate compared with other states, the Castle Doctrine doesn't appear to be making much of difference.
Nice law though - invite someone into your home, and blow their head off. Claim they had broken in. Profit!
Actually, at least in Australia every time there is an election both side scramble to say how tough on law and order they are going to be. But it is still almost impossible to get police to be interested in minor crime.
Not that this is surprising. The police are largely there to keep order so that the rich can stay rich. There are plenty of examples of the police being used to keep down the common man, the most recent of which was the way they broke up the 'occupy' movement.
Ethical Solution: Everyone sits discussing the relative worth per kilo of the various passengers. All drown.
How much is the the two year contract extension worth to you carrier? And how much did they pay Apple for that 4? I am betting it is more than $75 in both cases...
Not just want a mini tablet experience - maybe their eyesight is such that they need a bigger screen.
I am a gamer, and as an Aussie help fund CSIRO in the great work they do. But quite frankly, without WIFI I would have a better ping.
WIFI has its uses. Gaming isn't one of them.
Of course they can cut CSIRO funding by an equivalent amount, which amounts to the same thing.
Mozambique IS because of the great powers that carved up Africa at the end of the nineteenth century chose it to be.
African countries have at least three problems, two of them internal and one external. The internal problems are that they were given (or in some cases took independence) without any significant attempts to create an educated elite, and that their boundaries are not based on culture. For examples of the latter, look at Nigeria with its Christian coastal dwellers and Islamic folk inland, or the current problems in Mali with the Toureg in the north fighting for independence. Also note how Sudan and Ethiopia have both had civil war and been split in the last decade or so, both along religious or ethic lines.
The external problem is that both political and commerical interests benefit from African states being badly run. There was much jostling over the African states during the cold war, and it is much easier to deal with a dictator or bribe a government when you are after the many resources Africa has to offer rather than have to deal with the vagaries of public opinion.
And let's not forget that some of these nations have had independence for less than 50 years (1974 in the case of Mozambique).
Anyone interested in reading up on the carving up of Africa might want to take a look at Thomas Pakenham - The Scramble for Africa.
They have a monthly magazine. How do they turn the pages?
Typical bloody city dweller.
This luddite, like a lot of luddites in this country is clinging on to analog TV because we do not and will not have a digital broadcast in our area. We are going to have to go to satellite if we want to continue to receive free-to-air.
I am not sure why Telstra is responsible for the frequencies used to broadcast analog TV, but am happy to be enlightened.
As an aside I can't really claim to be clinging on to analog - I have a TV aerial I set up for the Australian Open or football championships, but otherwise I am happy streaming video via mobile, which works quite nicely thanks very much.
Only a problem if you think patents are worth respecting.
Another approach would be to buy the panels (and anything else produced at subsidised prices) and focus on other areas. Once they put the prices up, you steal their tech and make them yourselves.
Of course if you have shut down your rare earth mining facility because your tiny capitalist minds said it was cheaper to get them from China, well I guess there is some benefits to a planned economy after all.
I bloody well would. I often leave my car unlocked. I don't pay my bloody taxes to have them give me a score out of ten for how paranoid I am.
If they did their bloody jobs properly no-one would need to lock their cars.