If the insurgents would wait we'd already be out of Iraq and they could be dealing with the local, underpowered government.
What do you believe, a politicians words or the 100 billion dollar permanent bases they are building ? Bases in Iraq are about the only strategic reason for the war that makes any sense, even though it's an evil reason that in the long run probably cannot work.
Mostly the consent is forced. There's not a local government in the world that wouldn't be overthrown by united effort of the people, but even if they did, the people of weaker countries like Iran and Pakistan live in practice under the governments of the great powers. The people can't give nor take away their consent to be governed by the foreign powers.
Iranian democracy was destroyed in the Cold War by the CIA.
I immediately thought of the miles of copper wire that China never laid. OTOH, the bulk of our experienced nuclear engineers are dying fast, so we need to hurry.
Finally giving the UN's 1441 "serious consequences" Bark a little bit of Bite.
So Saddam complies with a resolution then America invades. That's undermining the resolution, not supporting it, and Invading without Security Council approval undermines the whole UN.
Libya sees the business end of the "Big Stick", and decides to give up it's WMD without a single foreign military boot on their soil.
Getting rid of your WMDs to keep America from invading is the exact opposite of the lesson the world has learned from Iraq. So maybe Gadaffi is an idiot and you can ignore that he'd been steadily moving towards reconciliation ever since the Lockerby trial.
My favorite one that you left out is that the Republicans pushed up the vote on Iraq after learning that North Korea was going to announce that they'd built a nuke.
The first siege of Fallujah was lifted when a mix of Sunni and Shia civilians drove a convoy through American lines to relieve the Sunni fighters. The civil war which broke out shortly after is the only reason America is still able to remain in Iraq.
Not by itelsef, but if you could create some sort of reservoir of coolness, perhaps with a refrigerator or heat pump, you could run a sterling engine with the temperature difference.
"...which had no idea China's fast-growing submarine fleet had reached such a level of sophistication."
Way to go, CIA. Maybe if you'd tortured a few more Arabs you would have found this out in time.
KGB ran circles around US intelligence during the cold war, the CIA was counterproductive in Vietnam, it totally missed the fall of the USSR, and totally missed 9/11 even though they knew at least some of the terrorists were in country, and buckled under to Bush before Iraq.
The CIA has never done anything worthwhile. Its only successes have been deposing various elected and unelected leaders so they can put in corrupt, pliable strongmen, the long term effect of which is to make America more and more hated by oppressed peoples all over the globe.
There's a dos version, no idea if it runs in Dos Box or other emulators.
I had a few problems with Sim Life.
First off, it was slow. I know there was a lot of processing to do, but even the plants would cause a slowdown. Anything bigger than a tiny map would bog down if the plant population approached saturation, or if the animals multiplied to more than a few hundred individuals.
That leads directly to another problem: if you run a small or tiny map, it's way too small to support any kind of interesting eco system. You can maybe have a couple of plant species, an herbivore, but not much else without guaranteeing complete collapse in short order.
The game also had little in the way of niche differentiation. Generalist species always seemed superior to specialist, and only by turning of evolution completely could two species coexist in related niches, such as seed eaters and plant eaters.
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3 million dollars? Compare that to the Iraq war. If we'd directed that money towards, SETI, we could have discovered 100,000 times as many alien civilizations as we have.
The point is the Aibo sold well in a land of gadget-o-philes where population density is too high for a real dog, and didn't in another place. Also, different populations have different ideas about what robots ought look like.
And the president doesn't need to know any military strategy, doesn't need to know anything about those strange foreigners, doesn't need to know anything about finance, doesn't need to know anything about the law, doesn't need to know anything about diplomacy doesn't need to know anything about policy.
Hmm. Seems like we've given your theory a try once or twice and it didn't work out.
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If the insurgents would wait we'd already be out of Iraq and they could be dealing with the local, underpowered government.
What do you believe, a politicians words or the 100 billion dollar permanent bases they are building ? Bases in Iraq are about the only strategic reason for the war that makes any sense, even though it's an evil reason that in the long run probably cannot work.
I agree in general, but your bad spelling and grammar probably did yo in.
Mostly the consent is forced. There's not a local government in the world that wouldn't be overthrown by united effort of the people, but even if they did, the people of weaker countries like Iran and Pakistan live in practice under the governments of the great powers. The people can't give nor take away their consent to be governed by the foreign powers.
Iranian democracy was destroyed in the Cold War by the CIA.
It's the same in America, you just have to download 24 hours a day at the fastest speed in order to get all your bits.
I immediately thought of the miles of copper wire that China never laid. OTOH, the bulk of our experienced nuclear engineers are dying fast, so we need to hurry.
"The terrorists are everywhere, and as a result smoke and anti-aircraft tracers light the sky."
Thanks. I was wondering whether the terrorists were using tracers everywhere or flying ground support.
Finally giving the UN's 1441 "serious consequences" Bark a little bit of Bite.
So Saddam complies with a resolution then America invades. That's undermining the resolution, not supporting it, and Invading without Security Council approval undermines the whole UN.
Libya sees the business end of the "Big Stick", and decides to give up it's WMD without a single foreign military boot on their soil.
Getting rid of your WMDs to keep America from invading is the exact opposite of the lesson the world has learned from Iraq. So maybe Gadaffi is an idiot and you can ignore that he'd been steadily moving towards reconciliation ever since the Lockerby trial.
My favorite one that you left out is that the Republicans pushed up the vote on Iraq after learning that North Korea was going to announce that they'd built a nuke.
The first siege of Fallujah was lifted when a mix of Sunni and Shia civilians drove a convoy through American lines to relieve the Sunni fighters. The civil war which broke out shortly after is the only reason America is still able to remain in Iraq.
"and are actually put in front a tribunal". I welcome that day, though I hope we don't need to lose another war to bring it about.
Not by itelsef, but if you could create some sort of reservoir of coolness, perhaps with a refrigerator or heat pump, you could run a sterling engine with the temperature difference.
"...which had no idea China's fast-growing submarine fleet had reached such a level of sophistication."
Way to go, CIA. Maybe if you'd tortured a few more Arabs you would have found this out in time.
KGB ran circles around US intelligence during the cold war, the CIA was counterproductive in Vietnam, it totally missed the fall of the USSR, and totally missed 9/11 even though they knew at least some of the terrorists were in country, and buckled under to Bush before Iraq.
The CIA has never done anything worthwhile. Its only successes have been deposing various elected and unelected leaders so they can put in corrupt, pliable strongmen, the long term effect of which is to make America more and more hated by oppressed peoples all over the globe.
You mean that one off comment with no evidence or argument? You're right, such an excellently made point deserves a solid rebuke.
Keep working at it, you'll get it.
So you think people that give their lives to protect the constitution are idiots, or what?
They won't throw out the constitution, they will give it the same lip service that the Emperors gave the Roman Senate.
There's a dos version, no idea if it runs in Dos Box or other emulators.
I had a few problems with Sim Life.
First off, it was slow. I know there was a lot of processing to do, but even the plants would cause a slowdown. Anything bigger than a tiny map would bog down if the plant population approached saturation, or if the animals multiplied to more than a few hundred individuals.
That leads directly to another problem: if you run a small or tiny map, it's way too small to support any kind of interesting eco system. You can maybe have a couple of plant species, an herbivore, but not much else without guaranteeing complete collapse in short order.
The game also had little in the way of niche differentiation. Generalist species always seemed superior to specialist, and only by turning of evolution completely could two species coexist in related niches, such as seed eaters and plant eaters.
Bullshit
3 million dollars? Compare that to the Iraq war. If we'd directed that money towards, SETI, we could have discovered 100,000 times as many alien civilizations as we have.
You got to love a front page post on Slashdot making light of mass executions.
The point is the Aibo sold well in a land of gadget-o-philes where population density is too high for a real dog, and didn't in another place. Also, different populations have different ideas about what robots ought look like.
Didn't David Brin's Earth use the same idea?
The stories that came out of UO are still by far the most interesting of any MMORPG
Yeah, but the Fourier transform is done by the inner ear, not the brain.
And the president doesn't need to know any military strategy,
doesn't need to know anything about those strange foreigners,
doesn't need to know anything about finance,
doesn't need to know anything about the law,
doesn't need to know anything about diplomacy
doesn't need to know anything about policy.
Hmm. Seems like we've given your theory a try once or twice and it didn't work out.
No they are not.