You are assuming that you do not have access to the obscure info you are being taught. You do. You can go to libraries, the internet, primary sources, etc. in order to prove, disprove or change the things you were, or are, being taught.
By defintion, top secret means that information is not available nor under indepedent scrutiny. Maybe obscuring it is not bogus per se, but it certainly does fly in the face of how we are taught that information is supposed to behave.
National security takes precedent over the "invisible hand".
According to people like Richard Perle and Wolfowitz, economic power is national security. Since the US believes in amoral "free" market capitalism, therefore economic power can only be wielded by amoral free market capitalists thereby guaranteeing national security. Actually, severe ideologues of the worst order among the neocons/neolibs would like to remove/privatize all classic notions of the state and (administration, education, public commons such as transportation, etc) and only keep the ideological trappings of the nation (freedom, unity, The Flag!, etc). The remains of the state are agency to disburse any public funds to private concerns and, of course, the means of national control, the police, and economic control, the military. Both will be privatized as much as possible (most non-combat services to the US military are provided by contractors who do things like cook and such and the movement to privatize prisons in the US is a locl example). This guarantees profit but also that only the most ideologically (see the trappings above) suspect will participate in the project.
As for getting their money back, remeber Iraq directly owes $20 million to Dick Cheney himself. It's a fact. You can look it up in the Congressional Record. But since this is a free market world, therefore people owed their money must be paid or the market will punish those in default with lack of credit etc. Econ 101, my friend.
Orwell was a socialist. Under his real name, Eric Blair, he organized Welsh miners during the 30s. Not the sort of person a good capitalist like yourself should cite. Besides, as a leftist, I am channeling Arendt or Nabokov not Orwell....
Yep. It's true. The head of the chemical weapons program went to Missouri for her graduate work.
Other things that are as true as God in Heaven: We also put Saddam on the CIA payroll (that means personal cash to him from American taxpayers) in 1980. So he murdered and tortured his people, then snoozed in a palace built with your money. Then Ronald Reagan (not unlike George "Sleep til 9" Bush) slept in while Ollie North dealt arms to Iran while our ALLY Iraq was fighting Iran. Mistake: Arabs hate duplicity (it's called 'honor'). America exports duplicity. Arabs hate America. It's got nothing to do with freedom. What Americans call freedom is not freedom at all (in any classical sense), it is more a will not to be governed. This is an entirely different thing.
BTW, You and Andrew Sullivan can keep trolling through Indymedia for 'lies' and watching FauxNews and the blonde with the blowjob lips. I'll read books. J.B. Kelly, "The Gulf, Arabs, and the West" is a good source on Saddam and America's little love affair. No, Kelly is not a liberal. He's a Thatcherite. Remember them?
I assume no one is foolish enough to think that an Iranian victory would have been a good thing?
Tsk. Tsk. There is a famous picture of a Iraqi soldier taking ammo from an dead Iranian. Unfotunately, the US couldn't suppress it fast enough because the ammo was.222 caliber used in the mutually owned M-14s. It is OK to show the AK-47s, but heaven forbid would you show such a sight as two enemies killing each other with the iconic M-14. It ran in Time.
Point is this: the US is the largest arms dealer in the world. While the US sold only sold to Iraq one percent of its arms, we heavily financed the purchase of their weapons. We sold them the chemical weapons, laboratory equipment and trained their scientists to make and, more importantly, implement mustard gas, VX and sarin. Everyone is complicit in Saddam's evil.
amoral Then there should be no problem. I think you mean immoral. They don't let morality enter into their market decisions. You are good American, aren't you? You do beleive in the invisible hand, don't you? If not, then report to the re-education center or tune to FoxNews -- it's the same thing! -- you need to get back on the team for the big score! Hooaaah!
If it doesn't involve nonsense like orcs, mithril armor and little twerps playing 'witch' games, then no Slashdotter will read it.
I suggest Keegan's "The First World War" to dispell any Merikin foolishness about how cowardly the French are in wars. The US showed up in the Great War well after the shit went down. Also, according to cca 1941 GOP policy, WWII was "Roosevelt's War." Godless unpatriotic queers!
What's the rush? You know it will be out WAAAAAAAAAY before Longhorn. Anyhoodles, I read the perl6 list and still fail to see any benefit of the eventual switch.
Capturing Saddam does shit little for finding WMDs now does it? If they couldn't get it out of the guy who was responsible for them ("Chemical Ali") then what good does ole Saddam do for them? Bump in the polls and flag waving.
Tough as nails camera with all the bells and whistles. It has full auto-to-manual exposure/f stop control but not the crutch of auto focus. you can get them on EBay for ~250USD with a lens all day long. There is a lot of aftermarket glass for the X-700 series as well, most of it good Sigma stuff.
Wal-Mart is currently ratcheting up their Asian presence and they certainly have an eye on the Chinese (People Republic of) market for their big box stores. My Chinese office mate was just hired by Wal-Mart to manage information systems for store opening teams in China. Given that China is a open-source (kinda) advocacy place, Wal-Mart might be thinking globally with the Java Desktop.
Anyhoo, I refuse to shop at the fucking place. Shitty products made by the exploited poor of the third world for the exploited poor of America.
1. Set up 5 accounts back in 1998 to 1999. 2. Hold long conversations with yourself 3. ???? 4. Find Anonymous Cowards who know you to post feeble shit like the above. 5. Profit, er, just pass time between classes.
As placing microphones on every building in London or Paris to measure noise was not practical, data on the amount of traffic carried by roads and the noise levels was fed into computers to generate a model of noise levels across the city
And an introductory remote sensing/GIS class would tell you that unless you have a Big Laser In Space(tm) you just take sample in accessible places that reflect both the landscape in general and prominent landscape features after that it is all overlay functions, baby. I am kriging as we speak!
Only cebids would use Emacs and callatrichids would use vi. We Apes would use vile! The rest of the Old world monkeys are our chattel so who cares what they use! Back to work, you filthy macaque!
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This means you own SCOX in the first place? What gives?
You are assuming that you do not have access to the obscure info you are being taught. You do. You can go to libraries, the internet, primary sources, etc. in order to prove, disprove or change the things you were, or are, being taught.
By defintion, top secret means that information is not available nor under indepedent scrutiny. Maybe obscuring it is not bogus per se, but it certainly does fly in the face of how we are taught that information is supposed to behave.
National security takes precedent over the "invisible hand".
According to people like Richard Perle and Wolfowitz, economic power is national security. Since the US believes in amoral "free" market capitalism, therefore economic power can only be wielded by amoral free market capitalists thereby guaranteeing national security. Actually, severe ideologues of the worst order among the neocons/neolibs would like to remove/privatize all classic notions of the state and (administration, education, public commons such as transportation, etc) and only keep the ideological trappings of the nation (freedom, unity, The Flag!, etc). The remains of the state are agency to disburse any public funds to private concerns and, of course, the means of national control, the police, and economic control, the military. Both will be privatized as much as possible (most non-combat services to the US military are provided by contractors who do things like cook and such and the movement to privatize prisons in the US is a locl example). This guarantees profit but also that only the most ideologically (see the trappings above) suspect will participate in the project.
As for getting their money back, remeber Iraq directly owes $20 million to Dick Cheney himself. It's a fact. You can look it up in the Congressional Record. But since this is a free market world, therefore people owed their money must be paid or the market will punish those in default with lack of credit etc. Econ 101, my friend.
Orwell was a socialist. Under his real name, Eric Blair, he organized Welsh miners during the 30s. Not the sort of person a good capitalist like yourself should cite. Besides, as a leftist, I am channeling Arendt or Nabokov not Orwell....
Yep. It's true. The head of the chemical weapons program went to Missouri for her graduate work.
Other things that are as true as God in Heaven: We also put Saddam on the CIA payroll (that means personal cash to him from American taxpayers) in 1980. So he murdered and tortured his people, then snoozed in a palace built with your money.
Then Ronald Reagan (not unlike George "Sleep til 9" Bush) slept in while Ollie North dealt arms to Iran while our ALLY Iraq was fighting Iran. Mistake: Arabs hate duplicity (it's called 'honor'). America exports duplicity. Arabs hate America. It's got nothing to do with freedom. What Americans call freedom is not freedom at all (in any classical sense), it is more a will not to be governed. This is an entirely different thing.
BTW, You and Andrew Sullivan can keep trolling through Indymedia for 'lies' and watching FauxNews and the blonde with the blowjob lips. I'll read books. J.B. Kelly, "The Gulf, Arabs, and the West" is a good source on Saddam and America's little love affair. No, Kelly is not a liberal. He's a Thatcherite. Remember them?
I assume no one is foolish enough to think that an Iranian victory would have been a good thing?
.222 caliber used in the mutually owned M-14s. It is OK to show the AK-47s, but heaven forbid would you show such a sight as two enemies killing each other with the iconic M-14. It ran in Time.
Tsk. Tsk. There is a famous picture of a Iraqi soldier taking ammo from an dead Iranian. Unfotunately, the US couldn't suppress it fast enough because the ammo was
Point is this: the US is the largest arms dealer in the world. While the US sold only sold to Iraq one percent of its arms, we heavily financed the purchase of their weapons. We sold them the chemical weapons, laboratory equipment and trained their scientists to make and, more importantly, implement mustard gas, VX and sarin. Everyone is complicit in Saddam's evil.
amoral
Then there should be no problem. I think you mean immoral. They don't let morality enter into their market decisions. You are good American, aren't you? You do beleive in the invisible hand, don't you? If not, then report to the re-education center or tune to FoxNews -- it's the same thing! -- you need to get back on the team for the big score! Hooaaah!
I urge slashdotters to read some european history
If it doesn't involve nonsense like orcs, mithril armor and little twerps playing 'witch' games, then no Slashdotter will read it.
I suggest Keegan's "The First World War" to dispell any Merikin foolishness about how cowardly the French are in wars. The US showed up in the Great War well after the shit went down. Also, according to cca 1941 GOP policy, WWII was "Roosevelt's War." Godless unpatriotic queers!
What's the rush? You know it will be out WAAAAAAAAAY before Longhorn. Anyhoodles, I read the perl6 list and still fail to see any benefit of the eventual switch.
Yes, I am sure you are posting this from the banks of the Tigris. Hoo-aah!
Capturing Saddam does shit little for finding WMDs now does it? If they couldn't get it out of the guy who was responsible for them ("Chemical Ali") then what good does ole Saddam do for them? Bump in the polls and flag waving.
Weapons of Mass Destruction anyone? I await the flames with my OvGloves.
Everyone knows she is really a dude, so it is some sort of weird cross-dresser on DMT ranting motif, not bitchy per se.
That sound you hear is ten of thousands of 35-year-old men padding off to "be alone" for a bit.
Remember, a Server can feel the Slashdotting flowing through him.
Want to know who gets killed in the first ten minutes of the movie?
That would be httpd, Bob.
Tough as nails camera with all the bells and whistles. It has full auto-to-manual exposure/f stop control but not the crutch of auto focus. you can get them on EBay for ~250USD with a lens all day long. There is a lot of aftermarket glass for the X-700 series as well, most of it good Sigma stuff.
Wow! This highly original AC comment gets .... Oh this is fucking boring.
I can play this game too! It is here and it's called FreeBSD.
Wal-Mart is currently ratcheting up their Asian presence and they certainly have an eye on the Chinese (People Republic of) market for their big box stores. My Chinese office mate was just hired by Wal-Mart to manage information systems for store opening teams in China. Given that China is a open-source (kinda) advocacy place, Wal-Mart might be thinking globally with the Java Desktop.
Anyhoo, I refuse to shop at the fucking place. Shitty products made by the exploited poor of the third world for the exploited poor of America.
disadventaged
It is called karma whoring and trolling. I win!
1. Set up 5 accounts back in 1998 to 1999.
2. Hold long conversations with yourself
3. ????
4. Find Anonymous Cowards who know you to post feeble shit like the above.
5. Profit, er, just pass time between classes.
As placing microphones on every building in London or Paris to measure noise was not practical, data on the amount of traffic carried by roads and the noise levels was fed into computers to generate a model of noise levels across the city
And an introductory remote sensing/GIS class would tell you that unless you have a Big Laser In Space(tm) you just take sample in accessible places that reflect both the landscape in general and prominent landscape features after that it is all overlay functions, baby. I am kriging as we speak!
I admire the consist usage of the non-alliterative form. What Ho!
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
It's been a long time. That felt great!
the straw man attack
When The Leader of The Party does the same to whole cultures, what's stopping some fuck with a lawyer from stealing our love? Heh.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Your momma.
Only cebids would use Emacs and callatrichids would use vi. We Apes would use vile! The rest of the Old world monkeys are our chattel so who cares what they use! Back to work, you filthy macaque!